WWUTT 2280 Q&A Can a Husband Tell His Wife How to Vote, Do We Have an Obligation to Vote, Praying for This Election

Election, Marriage, and Voting Conscience

Can a husband tell his wife who to vote for? How should we be thinking about this election in the United States coming up next week? And let's be reminded of who's really in charge and seated on his throne when we understand the text.

This is When We Understand the Text, a daily Bible commentary that God's word may be a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. Be sure to tell your friends about our ministry at www .wutt .com. And once again, it's Pastor Gabe.

Thank you, Becky. You're welcome. You sound a little tired. Do I? Yeah.

I'm trying to sound chipper. That wasn't a slam. That was I am trying. To make light of the fact we've been pretty busy. Yes. But I am thrilled to get you for at least half an hour.

I'm excited to be here for half an hour. Of this broadcast today.

Yeah. We're gonna be talking election stuff. Oh. Now she's not all that excited anymore. Nevermind.

I think I'm busy.

I do have sleep I need to be getting right now. You know. Could be something like that. It's good. This is the last broadcast that we have before the election on Tuesday. Something else to be praying about, our house in Texas closes on Wednesday.

Lord willing. Hopefully the result of the election won't make our buyers change their mind. Oh my goodness. Let's hope not. It was like, can we move it up a couple of days? Monday, we can close Monday, right?

Monday sounds great. That'll be all right. So be praying for us. Yeah, right. Be praying for us. After a year that house has been on the market. We've been here It's been so long. We're coming up just in the next few days we will have been here in Arizona for a year.

Yeah. It has been wonderful being a part of Providence Reform Baptist Church. It has. Here in Casa Grande. It's been a It's been a lovely church. It's been a terrific year. And we're now about to jump into the book of Romans.

Yeah. That's what we've got coming up here. Exciting. In November. This is November. It's November the 1st today. Yes. It's very exciting. Where did October go? Fast. It's a combination. It's kind of weird.

It's a combination of fast and at the same time, you know, I'm thinking back on I'm thinking back on things that happened at the beginning of the month. It was like, good grief. That feels like two months ago.

It does.

It very much does. How did And yet all of a sudden we're like, November. I think it's more of the fact that November is so much closer to the end of the year that, you know, November just feels like, wow, this whole year.

You know, that's when you start reminiscing about everything that you didn't do and all of your, like, New Year's resolutions that you still didn't get very far on and, you know.

I'm gonna lose this 20 pounds. Right?

I got two months. I'm gonna lose this now 30 pounds because it's the end of the year instead of losing 20.

I've lost 10 pounds in a month before. I can do this. You have. 20 pounds before the end of the year. I can do it. You have.

No more snacks though. I gotta stop. I keep buying snacks though because the kids and you go through them so fast.

I'm like, guys. No, the majority of what I eat is the food the kids leave out at night. Which is snacks. And I don't, it's not snacks. It's not. It's not. It's the leftover food we ate for supper. Oh, that's right.

Cause they inhale the snacks. Oh my goodness. And then I eat the leftover food.

Knock out the snacks and make them eat their food.

Whoa, what a revolutionary idea. Whoa. How about that? We've got a couple that I think get into that pantry and sneak some food. I know, right? Yeah.

Occasionally I will find candy wrappers inside the candy bag and I'm like, hmm, who was this?

And now we got a bunch of Harvest Festival candy. Yes. So we had that question last week about, you know as Christians, do we participate in Halloween? What about Harvest Festivals or Reformation Day parties?

Yeah, we totally did a Harvest Festival that a local church was doing. Kids loved it. Yes, they did. And it like beat trick-or-treating times five. Oh really? Oh yeah, they had a blast. I wasn't able to go.

I was with our older daughter. Yeah. Who then got injured. Who sprained her ankle. But I'm glad I was there, yeah. Yep. Well, babe, we got to get into our scripture. I tried to jump into the scripture first but we're just chatting away.

We are, sorry. Cause we haven't seen each other all week. I know, hello. Yeah. So this is Proverbs chapter six, verses six through 11. As we pick up on our study in Proverbs. Go to the aunt, oh sluggard.

Consider her ways and be wise without having any chief officer or ruler. She prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. How long will you lie there, oh sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest and poverty will come upon you like a robber and want like an armed man. I don't think that's our problem right now because of how busy we are.

I actually, this was one of the memory verses that I had the kids memorize. So at least the first portion, I didn't make them do the full thing, but.

I remember them doing go to the aunt, oh sluggard. Yeah. I remember that.

It was to encourage them to be good workers. Yeah. So that was our theme of memory verses.

Of having the want to, as my dad used to say. You gotta have the want to. I love what's said here in verse seven, without having any chief officer or ruler, she prepares her bread in the summer. So nobody has to tell her to do it.

Right. She is self-sufficient in the sense that I know that I've got work I need to get done. Yep. And nobody has to be barking orders at me. Although, you know, it can be helpful to have a trainer or somebody.

Yeah, motivating you. Somebody that's there that's motivating you to get. Reminding you. Yep. Sometimes we're doing that for each other. Yes.

Babe, why are you on your phone? Yeah. You got this to do. Yes. You're right. And then also, I utilize my phone and I set alarms. I need to remember to do this. I need to remember to do this. Have that alarm go off at those times.

And keep us moving. Keep us doing the things that we need to do. Yes. It is, what's the old adage? This isn't from the Bible, of course, but the idle hands are the devil's playthings. Oh, yes. Yeah. Doing nothing, well, the devil's accomplishing something.

Yeah. Or it could be the sort of thing where you're not investing your hands into doing something constructive. And so then you end up doing something destructive. Yeah. Could be the way that goes. I remember a friend of mine, or teacher friend of mine years ago in my youth, say something like, what are the first two letters of God?

Go. What are the first three letters of Satan? Sat. Yeah. Yeah. He was just doing that to try to get me motivated. Yeah. So go, go do it. Something to remember. That's right. It's not like there's necessarily a truth in that somewhere.

Yeah. Anyway, it was enough to get me moving. Ah, it did the trick. That's right. All right, well, today we've got questions from the listeners. You can send questions to whenweunderstandthetext at gmail .com.

Remind me that I've got a poll question. You have a poll question. That I have to get to before the end of this segment as well. You're welcome. Now, we're mostly responding to comments that we got on a couple of different messages.

We'll see how far we get in this first segment. And then if you're not able to stay with us through the full hour, know that this first segment is a half hour. This airs on some Christian radio stations that air this program for us.

Yeah. And then if you're listening to the podcast, you get a full hour of the Q &A. That's right. So some of these comments will just continue on into that next half hour. And plus I've got some video clips and things like that we're gonna play.

But first of all, this comes back to an ad that Kamala Harris was running. Kamala had an ad in which she was encouraging wives to be dishonest with their husbands. This is the way The Hill reported on this ad.

A new Harris-Waltz campaign ad voiced by actress Julia Roberts encourages women to vote for Vice President Harris in the presidential election, even if their husbands are backing former President Trump.

I thought that was Julia Roberts' voice in that ad. Okay. It sounded like her and this confirms it. The Roberts ad put out by this agency also alludes to abortion rights, which is seen as a pivotal issue in a race that has seen Trump with big polling leads among male voters and Harris with a large lead among female voters.

In one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want and no one will ever know, Roberts says in the ad, as a woman on screen meets up with her husband after casting her ballot for Harris.

So just to kind of cut to the chase here, if you haven't seen this ad, the husband asked the wife, so did you vote or something like that? And she goes, I sure did, honey. Or did you pick the right candidate?

I think is what he says. She goes, I sure did. And she winks at another woman who they were both like conspiring with each other. Our husbands expect us to vote for Trump, but we're gonna vote for Harris.

So the ad actually encourages wives to lie. You don't have to tell your husband who you really voted for. So I kind of spoofed this ad on X and I said, Kamala to married women, you still have a right to choose.

You can vote any way you want. He doesn't have to know. And then I put my wife to me. All right, babe, tell me who I'm voting for. That's true. So here's some of the comments that I got to that. Megan Basham actually responded.

She said, when I was nine, I asked my mom who she was voting for without an ounce of irony or being cute. She said, whoever your father tells me to vote for. I laugh thinking about that now. Jean from Montana said, the missus to me.

Why are we voting for slash against him slash her slash that? Right? Yeah. Jacob from California. This is exactly our voting scenario. My wife trusts me to do my homework and simply asks how she needs to fill out her ballot.

We multiply our voting power, not cancel each other out. We are two votes, but we are one. That's a great way to put that. And honestly, if you're voting for different people, I think there's some strife in your marriage there.

I can't think of a scenario in which two people in a marriage would be voting for two different people and there's actually not some sort of household conflict. How do you get past that? Because you look at the conflict that exists.

I mean, you can't even go and have Thanksgiving meals with your extended family and talk politics. You just can't. That's right.

You can't do it anymore. That's the old joke. Don't talk religion or politics at the Thanksgiving table. And then here's me pulling my RC Sproul blackboard out and I'm all drawing all over it. Yeah, that's me at the Thanksgiving table.

Yeah, that's kind of concerning when you're voting two different ways in a marriage. I love that we are, I mean, we're of the same mind about it. You're asking me who we're voting for because that's where your heart would be anyway.

Right, yeah. And you know, I'm keeping up on the issues.

And you also explained to me some of the issues that the other person has or that this person has or whatever and what this proposition means and so on and so forth. So I'm like, well, yeah, of course we would do that.

I mean, what's the other answer, you know?

This time four years ago, we had already voted. We had tried to do that this week, but yeah, like we said. No, life happens. Busy. Yes. It's the way it's been. Lynn from California, I have always followed politics and my husband trusts the way I vote and just copies my voter card.

Now I went to her page and looked and she's a pretty conservative voter. So she has the interest in the politics. Her husband's probably watching sports. Maybe. Or whatever, whatever he's doing. He could be really busy with his job.

He could, yes. And so just ask her, so what's your research turned up?

Trust her. Trust the person who does the best research. Yeah. I see that being all right.

It's trust and marriage. That's exactly right. Lorene says, this is why it's important to be equally yoked. That's a great comment. Ben from Montana, so sad. So sad. That's it, yeah. Oh, okay.

I don't know which part is so sad, but okay.

It's apparently sad that you asked me who we're voting for. Oh, okay. Okay. I can't wait until two years from now and then I get three votes in our house because our oldest daughter will be old enough to vote.

That's true. Christina, I mean, if my hubby told me to vote for Kamala, I'd be questioning a lot of things, but he's not a liberal, so I'm good. Kathleen from Ohio, especially the amendment stuff. I need my husband.

I do know to always vote no to levies. Okay. So he's coached her well there.

It just gets confusing. It does, it really does. Like the wording, I'm like, just tell me what it means. What are we voting for? So I walked out of the mall, I don't know, months ago, and there was a guy standing there with a petition and he's like, so do you support women's votes or women's rights or something like that?

And I had no idea. I mean, we're still new here. This was like that long ago, right? And I didn't realize that Arizona already had a law in place against abortion.

Yes, it did, right, at that time. And I asked him

That's changed since then. Yes, it has. But I asked the guy who was standing there asking for signatures, and I said, so this means that you're asking for someone to vote for or against abortion? And he's like, well, yeah.

And I was like, oh, well, of course. And I went and signed the petition because I didn't know everything, which is why I have my husband do all the details because it just makes sense to him. It does not make sense to me at all.

It's interesting that I've had more people here in Arizona approach me about signing some sort of petition. Yeah. Politically. Right. It always has to do with something political. I've had that happen more in Arizona than

Anywhere. Anywhere else I've lived. Right.

And this is my fifth state. I mean, I kind of remember them coming by when I was little to our house in Kansas, but it wasn't often like it is here.

This is a lot. I've had that occasionally, absolutely. But it's almost like I've been asked more this year than any of the other states in all the years that I've lived there, yeah. Yeah. It's interesting how much petitions go around here.

I don't know if that's changed since all the stuff that happened with Maricopa County four years ago. Maybe. I don't know if that's the reason for it or not. Maybe. Molly says, if my husband is willing to give up his life for me, and he is, I can trust him to do what's best for me.

And to that extension, the country. I'm happy to have him tell me how to vote. Amen. That is a great way to put it, Molly. Oh, I know something else I was gonna mention to what you were saying before about like,.

How do you understand these amendments? Yeah, no, it's all Greek.

A friend of mine made the joke earlier this week that sometimes the amendments wording is like, vote yes to vote no to vote yes. Yes, thank you.

And I'm like, wait, wait, how many, what? And I'm usually starving by then, by the time you actually get in to vote. And I'm like, I'm just ready to go home and tired. And so I'm not thinking straight anyway.

And every, nah, anyway.

This gal, Ashley, who says she's a graduate from Notre Dame, she said, ew. Ew? That's it. That's an odd response. Because you asked me who to vote for, she said, ew. I looked at her profile page. That's still an odd response.

Her profile has a picture of her and her husband and their baby from what it looks like. And I guess her husband doesn't tell her who to vote for. And she's a Notre Dame grad. That's a pretty traditional school, isn't it?

I don't know. I don't keep up with Notre Dame except when they get completely overrated in the football polls. That's the only time I ever really care about what's going on with Notre Dame. Jack from Orlando.

I run the household. I provide income and protection. I'm a Christian husband and father. Of course, my wife and the kids who live under my roof vote like I do. Exactly like I do. Not because they are forced, but because they know I'd die for them.

They honor me. Amen. That's kind of like the other side of Molly's comment from earlier. Barbara, wow, that's nothing to brag about. I don't know, was I bragging about it? I don't think so. I just thought it was funny.

It didn't sound like a brag to me. This anonymous troll said, remember this fictional story, apparently saying that this exchange has never happened between us.

Oh, right. Because I'm going to be one of those Kamala people. Yeah, exactly.

Remember this fictional story when she divorces you in two years. Oh my goodness. Yep, and there's another one that's like that too. Almost the exact same wording. Steven from Montana, also Gabriel in two years.

I can't believe she left me. What's with two years? Who knows? Were people collaborating on that? Gabe's going to be alone in two years.

Maybe that's the average of marriage,.

How long marriage lasts anymore. We're well beyond average at this point.

Oh, I know we are, I'm saying the two years.

Maybe that's the average. So the average after I tell you who to vote for.

Is that you stay for two years. No, I said, oh my goodness. The average length of marriage, is it two years now? Oh, I think it's five. Is it five? Yeah, I think five is the average. Okay, so maybe they figure that we're married for three years already, who knows?

We go through one election cycle. And then once you've had to vote like I tell you to, yeah, right. Christy from Clearwater, Florida. Hi, Gabe, her vote is not your business and tell her so. If you love her, tell her you trust her.

Tell her. Oh my goodness, they don't know me.

That her vote is her private activity. That's your wife, respect her.

You remember whenever I asked you not to put it on Facebook that we were engaged? Yes, I remember that. Because I didn't want all the girls hounding me about it and stuff and being rude. You're married, bad guy.

You got all the heat for them saying, that's so unfair to your fiancee,.

You should tell the world. Yes, I did, oh yes. Do you remember that?

I remember that now, yeah. This is like cycling around again.

So we did not put anything on Facebook that we were dating or that we were engaged. And this was in a time when it was like everybody's. Facebook was the thing. Exactly, it was like your relationship status is official when it's on Facebook.

Yes. That was kind of the common. Joke. Yeah, amongst everyone. But not a joke, it was a real thing. And then I didn't put it on there. And so many people were like, I can't believe you would do that to her.

She has no security.

Yeah, yes, yes. That was it.

I remember them saying that. You're not committed, you could leave her.

Oh my goodness, are you kidding me? I was like, wow, because Facebook.

I was just not expecting that kind of pushback. That was really bizarre. So then as a joke in our wedding. Yes. As soon as we said our I do's, there were.

We pretended to update our Facebook accounts.

There were a couple of ushers who came up with laptops and we updated our marriage status on Facebook. The people who knew the controversy, that was going on, got a real kick out of that. It was funny.

Did we ever actually?

No. I think we did later. We did later. Because it was like they weren't connected to the internet or something.

Oh, that's right. I think we were gonna do it for real. We were, yeah. But the internet was buggy that day, so we just mimed that we were doing it. Yeah, now that I remember. Last comment here, Avery from Louisiana.

Real question, what if the husband is voting for Harris? Should a Christian woman vote as her husband then? I think you know the answer to that. Yeah.

No. And maybe talk to him as to why he's voting for Harris. Yeah, right. And what things he supports or he thinks that he's supporting. Because maybe he's convinced that he's on your side. Yeah. And then you guys can have that heart to heart and explain why it's really not on your side.

There are people that are voting for the Democrat ticket that I'm sure they think that they are making the right decision. I think just about anybody that votes Democrat. They're not voting Democrat to burn the world down.

Right. There's probably some that think that.

Yeah, some, some. I would agree with that.

So their intentions are good. Yes. But it's, yeah, you can't hold to Christian principles and vote for the Democrat ticket. Right. We addressed that last week. You can go to last week's episode and hear some of that.

Praying for the Election and God's Sovereignty

That was in the second half, wasn't it? Second half of the episode last week. So a couple of poll questions that I did. Yes. On X. I still want to call it Twitter. Every time I have to like, it hits a roadblock in my brain.

It's Twitter, no, it's X. Anyway, it sounds weird to say I'm on X. These were polls.

And I Xed. On X now. Like, like instead of posted. I Xed. Or tweeted, you Xed.

No, officially they've said whenever you post something on X, it's a post. You posted, it's a post. Honestly, I think it's. It marks the spot? I think it's better than, than tweet. That's silly. You've always hated that word.

The whole, the whole thing with Twitter sounded so cartoony. I'm on Twitter. And I tweeted. Well, you're a twit. That's, that's just what that comes down to. Oh dear. Okay, so your poll question. Here's the poll questions.

So I did, I did two at the same time. They were both posted. In fact, the polls are still going on, but I don't think the numbers are going to adjust that much before we get to the end of this. So the first question was, can a vote for Trump be loving to your neighbor and honoring to the Lord?

Okay. And the second question is, can a vote for Kamala be loving to your neighbor and honoring of the Lord? Okay. Now a vast majority of the followers that we have on X of course are going to be Christians.

There's going to be some that will chime in that or not, but the majority of these responses are coming from the Christian followers of the What account on X. So first of all, with the Trump question, because this actually had the least amount of response.

Okay. The Trump question did not have as much interaction as the Kamala question. Can a vote for Trump be loving to your neighbor and honoring to the Lord? Here are the four options. Yes, absolutely. No, there's no way.

Neutral, it's just a vote. And then I don't know. And then some people could leave some comments as well. So 76 .6 came out saying yes, absolutely. Oh, interesting. By the way, as the poll stands right now, there's 342 votes, twice as many votes on the other poll.

Okay. But this one with over 300 votes, yes, absolutely, a Christian can vote for Trump in a way that is loving to their neighbor and is honoring of the Lord. 8 .5 said no, there's no way. Okay. It's not possible for a Christian to vote for Trump and be loving of neighbor and honoring of God.

7 .9 said neutral, it's just a vote. No, a vote is not neutral. I was gonna say. A vote is binary in this case. You're either voting for one or the other. Yeah. And then last of all, I don't know. That was 7 of the response.

Now I did get a couple of comments to this one. Ben said, I responded, yes, absolutely. But if Ron DeSantis was on the ticket, I would have voted more confidently. Ah, fair enough. Ben, I'm with you on that.

He was by far the better candidate. But Trump just has the popularity. Ben, by the way, is chiming in from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. So thank you for your comment, Ben. Oh, and now I closed my poll. Oh, no.

Hang on, let me bring it back up. Okay. All right, the second question now. Can a vote for Kamala be loving to your neighbor and honoring of the Lord? 2 .5 said yes, absolutely.

I assume that your answers are all the same.

Yeah, all the same as the previous question, right. Okay. So 2 .5 said yes, absolutely. Out of 690 votes, as it stands right now. 92 .8 said, nope, there's no way. How much was that? 92 .8%, greater than nine out of 10 people.

Yep. That's... Said there's no way you can vote for Kamala and have that vote be loving to your neighbor and honoring of God. That's a lot of people. 2 .3 said neutral and 2 .5 said, I don't know.

This fellow named Kyle said, yes, there's lots of policies. She's much better on than Trump. But of course, Kyle doesn't mention any of those policies. And this is common among Kamala voters. I was watching a video earlier yesterday where a guy on the street who was a, he was wearing a Kamala Walls shirt.

Okay. So he was a Kamala voter. And he's going around to different people and asking them, what do you like about Kamala? And he's asking them like, what policies do you like? And they can't name anything.

Or if they do name something, it was only, oh, because she's pro-abortion. That wasn't the term they use, of course. Well, she's for women's rights. Healthcare. Right, healthcare. Yeah. So that was what, that was all, and you could tell he was frustrated.

Like, you don't know any of her policies and he's a Kamala voter. Right. And he's talking to people who did not even know any of Kamala's policies. The best they could come up with was,.

Well, she was pro-abortion. Well, I mean, think of the way that she answers the questions in most of those interviews that get picked clean. Yeah. Usually. It's, she doesn't answer any questions, really.

She gives the runaround and then she changes the subject. Oh, she's terrible.

Yeah. And horrible at answering questions. Well, in Daniel chapter two, we read that it is God who sets up kings and tears down kings. So regardless of what happens this coming Tuesday, well, like what's going on right now, I guess, since people are even voting early.

Yes. God is sovereign. He is in control. And we continue to trust in him. Christ reigns. Amen. We encourage you to get out and vote if you're an American citizen. Yes, we do.

If you're not, there are states that will still let you vote anyway. Okay, that's not what you're supposed to say. That's a joke.

I'm not telling you to come in and vote. I'm just saying there's states that'll let you do that anyway. But be in prayer for America. Yes, please. Pray for us anyway. We need to be out there spreading the gospel and we can't wait for an election result to do that.

Amen. So continue to proclaim Christ and him crucified because it's only by the spread of the gospel that America will repent, that the hearts of Americans will change and that God will bless this nation.

Amen. Only if we are worshiping the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, who is coming soon to judge the living and the dead, continue to trust in him. This ends this first half hour. Don't forget, you can catch the rest of the program on our website, www .utt .com.

God bless. 1 Timothy 2 begins. First of all then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, and hang on now.

Prayers and thanksgivings for kings and all who are in high positions? So presidents, prime ministers, dictators, governors, chiefs of state, cabinet members, Congress, we're supposed to pray for them and thank God for them?

Yes, well, that's what the Bible says. Not just because it's good for us, but especially because it pleases God. In Jeremiah 29, Israel had been exiled to the Babylonians because of their sin. But through the prophet Jeremiah, God assured them that he would not annihilate them.

Rather, they needed to pray for the welfare of their captors, work the land and be successful, be fruitful and multiply their families, and watch out for false teachers in the meantime who would not be spared judgment.

God would indeed deliver his people as he promised he would do. The Apostle Paul, writing to his servant Timothy, says that same thing still applies. We are exiles in this world. Pray for those who are of this world, especially rulers, realizing that everyone needs to hear the saving message of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

We too must watch out for false teachers who will not escape the wrath of God, nor will those who follow them. And just like he did in Israel, God will save all whom he means to save and lead them to a knowledge of the truth.

Not one of his people will be lost when we understand the text. You are perhaps familiar with Deuteronomy 30. The children of Israel are about to inherit the promised land which was going to be given to the descendants of Abraham.

And Moses is delivering to them, and what is essentially his farewell sermon? The book of Deuteronomy is a re-giving of the law, which is why it has that name. Deuteronomy means second law. So it's the summation of everything that had been given in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, said again to the children of Israel, but also saying to them that they need to keep these laws and these statutes.

Don't be led astray by the false gods of the people of the land that you are going to inherit. You must drive them out. But Moses also makes a point to say to them, but you're not gonna do it. You won't succeed in driving them out of the land, and you are going to fall away.

You will turn from God to these false gods and worship them, and God will punish you, and is listed there toward the end of Deuteronomy, the blessings and the curses. If you are faithful to God and you keep his statutes and you do all that he has commanded, here's the blessings that God is going to give to you.

But if you are not faithful to God and you turn to these false gods, then here are the curses that will come upon you. Now, Moses was not going to inherit the promised land with them because he had sinned against God, and so he would see it, but then he would die, and God would put his body somewhere and take care of his burial.

That was God who did that with Moses. Joshua was going to be Moses' successor and would lead Israel into the promised land. So the people of Israel, they know that this is Moses' last time to address them.

And here's what we have at the end of Deuteronomy, chapter 30, beginning in verse 11. For this commandment that I command you today is not hard for you, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven that you should say, who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us that we may hear it and do it.