One thing we know from examining other ancient treaties discovered in the Middle East is that many nations used the exact same structure and format we find here in Deuteronomy. In other words, a series of threats were laid out of what a colonized city or state could expect if they violated the treaty and […]

We are continuing to plow our way through Deuteronomy Chapter 29. This chapter is all about Moses summarizing the curses and the blessings of the Law in front of all of Israel including those foreigners who left with the Hebrews during the exodus. One of the main points Moses communicates is that… …the very horrors […]

“Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it.  The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It […]

“When such a person hears the words of this oath and they invoke a blessing on themselves, thinking, “I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way,”they will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.  The Lord will never be willing to forgive them; his wrath and zeal […]

“But I am not making this covenant and this oath only with you.  Rather, I am making it both with him who is standing here with us today before Adonai our God and also with him who is not here with us today.”-Deuteronomy 29:14-15 The Lord declares something quite interesting and profound in Deuteronomy verses […]