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Deuteronomy Chapter 29 "Review
of Wanderings, Plus Horeb (Sinai) [1-17]." This
Bible Study is written by Roger Christopherson, and it's
transcription/ location God gave the law to Moses as it is written in Leviticus and directed to the priests, and here in the book of Deuteronomy that Word was repeated to all the people. This chapter is a summarization, as Moses is bringing this final set of instructions to a close. Moses will give us advice in this chapter that is good for you and I living in these end times. Deuteronomy 29:1 "These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which He made with them in Horeb." "The words" is the meaning of the word "Deuteronomy", and these words are the covenant that God gave to Moses for all the people to live by. This "covenant" that God gave to Moses is a contract that God made between Himself and all the children of Israel for all generations. It is direct to you, just as much as it was for those ancient men and women standing there in the wilderness receiving these "words" from Moses. Whether you become part of that contract is up to you, for when you follow the instructions within that covenant, there are blessings to be given you, and if you chose not to than the curses of God will be felt. This covenant was given in parts at two different times. The first was at Horeb, which is mount Sinai, and the second time was in the land of Moab. This message that Moses gave as a reminder to the Israelites, was given at Mount Nebo, which is to the east of the dead sea, in the land of Reuben. There is map on page thirty six that shows where these tribes were gathered for this message. The Israelites at the time of this message were about to enter into the promise land and take it from the enemies of God. However, Moses was not allowed to enter into that land. As Moses was giving these words, he was within a few days of his death. So the remainder of this book of Deuteronomy will be his final message to the people. Deuteronomy 29:2 "And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, "Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;" It is important that you note that this address is given to "all Israel". The tribes are gathered together as one nation. The Israelite nation has not split into two separate houses or nations at this time. The Word of the Lord is for the house of Israel as well as the house of Judah. They were all one unit, one nation and from one family that came out of the land of Egypt, and they were one unit in their travels through the wilderness. So this word is for all the tribes even to our generation. Moses was reminding the people that they witnessed the many great acts and plagues that God brought down on Egypt and upon the Pharaoh and his household. God brought them to pass for the sake of showing us how He can protect His people. That protection was there even when the plagues covered the land and on the rest of the people. The big worry in the churches today is over the great tribulation. The churches are teaching that this end time tribulation is a physical destruction that is going to cover the earth. They lack the faith that God can take care of His own during the great deception, for many of them have taken up a tradition that states they will fly them away from the earth before Satan comes for the great deception.. They actually think that God is going to fly them out of here and go against what His prophets and apostles have given in detail in God's Word. They spend all their time focusing on this fairy-tale, and they take their eyes off the promise that God is making to them here in Deuteronomy. God is telling us to look back on Egypt and the protection that He gave to our forefathers. God said, I protected them then when I brought those plagues down on Egypt, and I can protect you where ever you are. Yes, even to our generation. The destruction that is coming on the earth by Satan very shortly is not a physical destruction, but a spiritual destruction. As we read in Deuteronomy 28:52-58, even the richest men and women will not be able to buy the truth, and free themselves once Satan has arrived. God is going to turn those that are not sealed in their minds over to that Satanic earthly one world system. If you are one of God's elect and sealed in your mind with the truth, you will see those events for what they are, a deception by Satan. That time of the sealing with the truth will be prior to the sounding of the sixth trumpet, for at the sixth trumpet all truth is taken from the earth, except in the hearts [minds] of God's sealed elect. The famine in the end times is not for bread to eat, nor for water to drink, but for the hearing of the Word of God. If you are studying God's Word and have the spiritual armor of God on and in place, you don't have to worry about where you are, for God will protect you just as He protected those three young men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego in the firey furnace. Though the flames of spiritual warfare are going all around you, they won't harm one hair on your head. The battle of the end times is a spiritual warfare, and the battle ground will be in the minds of all the people on the face of the earth. It is not fought with guns, but with words, and false doctrine. The bullets are ideas and precepts in which many come right from the Bible. Satan will take God's Word and twisted just enough to make it a lie, and that is why it becomes important to be able to check it out for yourself. Jesus Christ commanded that we remain in the field working until His return at the seventh trumpet. If you leave the field prior to the seventh trumpet it means that you have been taken at the sixth trumpet out of season. So Moses is reminding the people that they were witnesses to the power of God. Deuteronomy 29:3 "The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:" Deuteronomy 29:4 "Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day." Even though you have witnessed the power of God, God still hasn't allowed your mind perceive what your eyes have seen and ears have heard. What this is saying is that you can become sensitized to those things that are going on around you, when you see miracle after miracle taking place right before your eyes. This group of Israelites had been exposed to so many miracle in their lives from the time back in Egypt, to all the protection that God gave to them in the wilderness. Moses is warning the people to pay attention to those thing, and know that the protection that you have is directly from God. Don't allow yourself to take God's protection for granted. Naturally they could not understand all that was going on at that time, because most of those plagues and the miracles that were preformed were types of what would happen in the end times. Those historical events happened to give you and I a sample to see how it will be in the latter days. Just as Moses was a type of deliverer, so also Messiah would come and be our deliverer. The plagues that happened in Egypt are closely related to the vials that are going to be released, and are spoken of in the book of Revelation. The thing that we are to remember is that those things that happened once in the distant past in Egypt, happened for signs and wonders as to what we are going to see in our generation. There was absolutely no threat to the Israelite's firstborn in Egypt, as long as the blood of the Lamb was on the door post of the home. When the blood of the lamb was on the entrance of the home, death angel must pass over that home. As long as you have Christ, the Lamb of God in you, and His blood on the doorpost of your heart and mind, Satan and his evil spirits must pass by. As long as you have taken the spiritual meat of the Word and you have the spiritual armor on and in place, Satan the death angel and his evil spirits of end times must pass over you. That is God's promise to you when you trust in Him. Again, the point to be made here is that we do not become callused to the events that are happening around us that are prophesied in is Word. Those events are going to happen exactly when they are suppose to happen, and let those things support your faith in God and His Word. When those miracles took place, they were exciting to those that lived in those days, and we are to look forward with the same degree of excitement as the events of our day come to pass. Today many of those events of the end time prophecy are in the history books, for Russia has come to it's full power and fell, the Jews [Judah with the Kenites] have return to their land in Palestine to become a nation, and the one world system is in power with all the nations of the world chartered to its causes. The events of our lifetime can be read out of the bible, if you learn to study with the proper study tools. Deuteronomy 29:5 "And I have led your forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy food." Deuteronomy 29:6 "Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the Lord your God." This is not saying that the old pairs of shoes lasted for the forty years, but God provided for them in such a manner that the children of Israel were never in need for a pair of shoes. They had the animals, and the skins for making their clothing and God provide the things that were necessary. They always had their cloths, shoes and provisions for their needs. Remember that this is a type for us living in these latter days. God provided for them in the wilderness, and He will provide for in our time in this spiritual wilderness of the latter days, God's elect will also have the provisions to fill their needs. In the wilderness God provided the pillar of fire for the night to give them warmth and direct their ways, and by day, He provided the cloud to protect them from the scourging heat of the desert. He fed them and protected them from their enemies. These were all miracles preformed by God, and they are types for us in the latter days. There is a condition to these promises, and that is, "If you into that covenant with God, and learn His word, and follow the Commandments, and statutes of the law." Even though there will be a time or two where some trouble will come, He will see you through those times and bless you out of them. When you are fully armed with the sword of the Lord, with all your spiritual armor on and in place, then a little battle from time to time is real good for you. It sharpens you up, and makes you a good soldier. When the world pushes you one way, you have the strength to get back up and keep focused on the spiritual battle. Deuteronomy 29:7 "And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:" Remember that the people of Heshbon and Bashan, the people under kings Sihon and Og were part of the remnant of the fallen angels. They were part of a mixture of the giants that possessed the promised land. When they came out to do battle with the children of Israel, God gave the victory to the Israelites, and they smote the heathen to the last man, woman and child. God cleaned the land out for them, to see that there would be no problems in the future, and to protect the lineage of the Messiah that would come. Deuteronomy 29:8 "And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh." God gave the land to them. Look back on page thirty six and see on the map where these three tribes are located, for that is the former land of Heshbon and Bashan. The enemy was given over into the hand of the Israel, and removed completely from the land. God gave them the victory, and that promise and victory is just as sure today as it was then. He will also give you the victory if you are in the covenant personally. So what does it matter if there is a little hardship along the way. If you know you will have the victory it keeps you on your toes and alert. Deuteronomy 29:9 "Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do." This is instruction to us as much as it was to those Israelites in the wilderness. There was a condition for being prosperous and receiving the blessings of God. If you are going to "Keep the words of this covenant, and do them", you first must study to know what covenant is. We are to be a doer of the Word and not just a listener. How are you doing now in all that you do? God is telling you that there is a way to assure your prosperity. When you do your best to understand the covenant, all of the covenant, the Old and the New Testament alike, and you try to be obedient to our Father and His Word, you will be prosperous. Our heavenly Father own everything and it is His to give to whom He desires. But you have to be a doer of the Word first. Deuteronomy 29:10 "Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your captians of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel," Moses is commanding us even today, to stand and accept this covenant that the Lord has made with each of us. This is just as true today as then, you must make the stand now at the time that you come to realize that the covenant of God is for you. God is making a promise to you, and binding it with this covenant, but it requires action on your part. Not tomorrow, but right now. For these captains and elders, their decision was as they were standing on Mount Nebo listening to Moses talk, but for you it is as you are reading Moses command for us today. Deuteronomy 29:11 "Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:" This same command to become a doer of the Word, to obey the commandments and statutes of God, goes the same for the children, the wives and even those strangers that live and stay in your community. The man of the household cuts the wood for the fire, while the woman draws the water. That obedience even applies when you are at work or in the home, and that covenant is to be taught the children from their earliest ages. Every living being is invited to share in blessing that come from being a doer of the covenant. Moses has recalled to these people's memory all the miracles that God gave them from the time of Egypt to that moment when they were standing before him. Most of their eyes had witnessed these things happening. Amongst the millions of people that were here and saw those things that happened, was there one person that objected to those miracles that took place? Of course not. They knew it, they saw it, they came to expected the miracles, and God's miracles were part of their lives. There was not one soul that objected to those miracles of protection when they were happening. So Moses is telling them, don't become so familiar with the miracles that God is given you that your mind becomes insensitive to them. After all remember that when they go in to take the promise land, they will see many more miracles taking place before they are settled in their lands. God is going to make their enemies flee before their eyes, walls to crumble at the sound of the trumpet, and people to scatter in hearing noises that are of a different dimension. Those things are going to happen and when they do, don't forget the reason that it is happening. Deuteronomy 29:12 "That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into His oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day:" If there is a covenant made, there has to be an oath that goes right along with the covenant. The oath then would be, "Father, I accept your covenant." The old covenant is the Old Testament that governed our people prior to the time of Christ. Now that Jesus has gone to the cross to be the sacrifice for our sins, we are under a New Covenant, which is called the New Testament. Is the Old Testament done away with? Absolutely not. However the parts of the old covenant that dealt with blood sacrificing and offerings have been fulfilled in the blood of Christ. Both of the covenants are the same for there is only one covenant, for our heavenly Father is the same yesterday as He is today, and will be throughout all eternity. Jesus told us what this new covenant which is the New Testament is when He took the cup and the bread on the night before His crucifixion. Lets go back and review this "new testament" that is given for you and I. Matthew 26:26 "And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is My body." " Jesus held up the bread and blessed it, and the bread became the symbol for the body of Christ. Matthew 26:27 "And He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, "Drink ye all of it;" " The cup of wine became the symbol of the blood of Christ that would be shed on the next day. Matthew 26:28 "For this is My blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sin." " Christ blood fulfilled that part of the Old Covenant that required the shed blood of animals. When Jesus Christ went to the cross and shed His blood, that became the New Testament or Covenant between God and man. Moses gave us the Old Testament, and promises of a New Covenant, and Jesus fulfilled that promise. The purpose for the New Covenant or Testament was for the remission of sin of all those that would accept that New Testament, which is the blood of Jesus Christ. Let me repeat that so it is clear; The blood of Jesus Christ is the New Testament. It fulfilled all the requirements demanded under the Old Covenant of Moses for blood sacrifices of animals. Jesus became that perfect sacrifice for your and my sins, and when we take the cup and the broken bread a Communion time, we are accepting that perfect sacrifice of the blood of Christ for the remission of our sins individually. It must be a personal commitment by you, for you, with your faith and belief in Christ accepting that sacrifice. Matthew 26:29 "But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforeth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father;s kingdom." Jesus and His disciples sang songs, and went out into the night where Jesus would be betrayed by Judas, and crucified. We are to continue to take the Communion as long as we are here on earth in the flesh bodies, until the time that Jesus returns at the seventh trumpet. This is another sign of the coming of Christ, for as long as we are in our flesh bodies, Christ has not returned. There is a time coming very shortly when most of the Christians in the World will cease taking the communion for they will be deceived into thinking Christ has returned when He has not. The prophet Daniel spoke of this time in Daniel 9:27. Daniel 9:27 "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." The week spoken of here is the seven years of the time called Jacob's trouble, or the great tribulation [deception]. Satan shall return at the sixth trumpet, and that shall start "the midst of the week" spoken of here. The "Sacrifice and the oblation" that stops is the Communion for all Christians that are not sealed in their minds with the truth from God's entire Word will think that Satan is Jesus Christ returned. They will stop taking Communion because Jesus said to take it in remembrance of His blood until He comes. They stop taking Communion because Satan is going to tell them that He is Jesus Christ and they will believe it. That is why the rapture doctrine is so terrible for it allows Christians to put their trust and hope in the very trap that will bring them to Satan. This "overspreading of abominations that shall make it desolate", is what Jesus called the "abomination of desolation" in Matthew 25:15; "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand;)" Satan will stand in Jerusalem in the holy place, on the side of the north, and declare himself to be God. The desolation of spiritual truth takes place because the Christian world will believe Satan to be Jesus and will worship him, all that is except God's sealed elect. Of course if they believe Jesus has come, they will not be taking communion to Jesus anymore, but to Satan himself. Those that worship Satan at this time are the five virgins that did not have enough oil for their lamps, which is the truth from God's Word to know the difference between the two comings. They were taken from the field first, at the sixth trumpet, and did not labor in the field and wait for the true Messiah Jesus Christ at the seventh trumpet. So when Christ, the only Begotten Son of God became a better covenant to follow than when was required the blood of animals. Jesus Christ paid the price for our sins when we repent and believe on His name. Moses is inviting all of the people here to enter into this first covenant [the Old Covenant or Testament], and that invitation is dateless. Jesus Christ fulfilled that old Covenant and brought in the New Testament and it is just as important now, as it was then. Deuteronomy 29:13 "That He may establish thee to day for a people unto Himself, and that He may be unto thee a God, as He hath said unto thee, and as He hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." God is binding Himself to you and I under the same oath of commitment that He made to our father Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but it is your choice whether you will accept those promises or reject them. God has told us that He wants to be our God, to care for us and bless us under that sworn oath of the covenant, but it is each of us individually that must accept or reject God's offer. When God makes you His child, you come under the inheritance that He has to offer you under that covenant. However just like all inheritances, though it is there, you still have to accept it. It is the one that has the wealth that determines where that wealth is to go, and he has to make that inheritance public in writing, and that is exactly what we have in the Word of God. Deuteronomy 29:14 "Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;" Your are the one that makes the oath of this covenant before the Father. You tell Him that you love Him, and that you love and accept His Son. If don't take you blessings for granted and I am not insensitive to your dealing in my life. Talk to the Father like you would to your closest friend, and come into His covenant and be a winner. It is not just with those Israelites that stood before Moses, but this covenant is for all generation and people that would understand this covenant and commit to it. Deuteronomy 29:15 "But with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:" It is given also to the many generations that have not been born yet. This promised covenant is to the final generation, and it means even to you and I living today. Deuteronomy 29:16 "(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;" You know what we went through when we were there and how hard our people were worked and treated. You were there and witnessed our leaving and the hardships we have had for the past forty years. Deuteronomy 29:17 "And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them." As we passed by those heathen nations, you saw their forms of abominations, their idols that they worshipped. All of those people that we saw are God's children, only many of them are practicing the apostasy of their false religions. Their "idols" in the Hebrew is "galal", which is "dung, rotten, and detestable things". Deuteronomy 29:18 "Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;" The heart is your mind, and it is within your mind that causes you to turn away from the Lord God. "Gall" as stated here is "Rosh", and we know this to be those of Esau, or Russia of today. Their "wormwood" is not necessarily poison, but bitterness in the negative sense that it become a poison to you. It is a poison for a worshiper of the true God to turn to apostasy, or falling away from the true God. You fall away when you pick up on the traditions of men and false teachings, and all them to become part of your life. Moses is warning us that this will happen when you take up with the abominations of those heathen around you. This warning of the wormwood, of the falling away to false teaching happens at the sounding of the third trumpet of the book of Revelations. Revelation 8:10; "And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;" This great star that is going to fall from heaven is Satan, Luke 10:18 "And I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven." Satan is called the morning star in Isaiah 14:12-16. The falling star is the devil, also called the "son of perdition". Satan reflects himself to be a illuminated lamp as his "illuminati", shines it's lies out to the world, and draws the world into its one world system. Can you see what is happening today? If you don't, your either blind, or in a convent. The news from all the media today covers only what is promoting the agenda of the United Nations, and then is it so distorted and full of lies it isn't worth the time to watch. "The rivers" are "waters" [nation], whereas the fountains are in reference to the fountains of living waters. They are the Christians, whose fountains of living waters flow from Jesus Christ. This burning is by Satan through his deception, and even the Christians will be deceived by Satan, and this is because they simply don't know the difference between the morning stars, Satan or Jesus Christ. All except God elect are going to be deceived. Revelation 8:11 "And the name of the star is called Wormwood, and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter." Satan may look like Christ and offer fountains of blessings, but his fountains will give only bitterness. You may think it is clean, fresh and pure water, but when you taste of that water it is bitter to the point of poison. When you drink that water of false doctrine into your mind and digest it, it becomes poison to your soul. This is why Satan is called Wormwood, and one third of the world that is Christians will become part of Satan's system and worship him. Many church denominations today are changing their doctrines to make place for the compromise with the new system of thought that is coming in. The chief shepherd of these Luciferian dogma is the "World Council of Churches". And it is bring all churches into line for the religious order that will replace the political system now in place. Just like the Israelites witnessed all those forms of idolatry, that were types of what we are facing today, Moses warned us that in their roots, Satan [Wormwood] was at the bottom of them all. Remember, Moses is talking about apostasy here, and the falling away from the truths of God's Word. The reason "gall", or Rosh who is Russia is named here is for what they had done. They were the Edomites in ancient times, and in current times Russia became part of another great apostasy when they allowed their nation to be swept away by the Godless society of communism. Moses is telling the Israelites that even though you have seen the miracles of God, don't forget the fallen state of those heathen nation you have walked through. Deuteronomy 29:19 "And it come to pass, when he heareth the word of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, `I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:' " This is as it is becoming today in the church houses today. Because someone says something and attaches God's name to it, they actually believe in their mind that God has to respect what they have declared. They convince themselves that God loves them, and because they are a child of God, it gives them the right to walk in what ever imagination that their minds can think up. They become so blind to their curses that they are in a drunken state, and like one drink leads the next drink to where they are in a stupor. Deuteronomy 29:20 "The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven." God's anger towards that person that would do such a thing, and play so loose with God's Word is great. If you think that you can play around with God's Word and create your own ways to worship God that go against His Word, you are in serious trouble. If you are stupid enough to think that you can please God by following the traditions and false doctrines of men, Moses is warning you that your name, and even the thought of you will be blotted our of all record in heaven and even in the minds of your loved ones that are in the eternity. There is only one way that we can please God and that is to study His Word to gain the knowledge of the Word, and then to be obedient to the commandments, statutes, and instructions that are given in His Word. With knowledge of God's ways we are to be doers of His Word. When you live your life in accordance with His Word, you can expect God blessings, and when you violate those commandments, expect the curses to come to correct you. God demands the respect of those that He blesses, and the reason for giving corrections is to cause you to return to Him. Idol worshippers are very religious people, and those that worship church systems are making that system their idol. Christ is the head of the church and He is the one to be worshipped. Deuteronomy 29:21 "And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law." If you insist on following forms of idolatry, God will chase you out of the blessing promised and the midst of the of the covenant and place you in under the curses that is written here in Deuteronomy. He will do this to get your attention, and teach you a lesson. He doesn't want others to follow your path to destruction. If you think that you can create your own salvation is your self-righteous acts, than God is going to shake your boat to get your attention. If you are going to study heathen religions, you do it to understand the people and how they think, however you don't study it to practice it. If you don't have the ability to discern what is of God and what is not of God, than you had better just stay away from it all together. God doesn't like it when you mix any of the heathen thought with what is in His Holy Word. Deuteronomy 29:22 "So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it;" Moses is talking here about us living today. Remember that the plagues were given for only one reason, as stated in verse 46 of the prior chapter. "And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever." They were given to be a sign to the person that has the knowledge of God's Word. the curses are a sign to document to you a believer that God is real and His Word is truth. At times God will deal severely with people that choose to turn their back on Him. Deuteronomy 29:23 "And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not therein, sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sidom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger, and in His wrath:" God wiped out the people of those cities and lands once for the perversion that went on there. Moses is reminding them that God did it once and He can do it again if such a thing repeats itself. Deuteronomy 29:24 "Even all nations shall say, `Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this anger?' " Should this happen again, the nations of the earth will ask, "what is the meaning of God's great anger." When God loves our nation as much as He does, it hurts Him to see what is going on in our nation, such as went on there in Sodom and Gomorrah, and the other town. Don't think for one moment that our nation can fool around with Sodomy and come away without the curses of God on our nation. That time is coming. . Deuteronomy 29:25 "Then men shall say, `Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:" Deuteronomy 29:26 "For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom He had not given unto them:" It hurts your heavenly Father when you do stupid things and play around with the things of the Devil, and the traditions of men. Moses is again reminding the people of what happened there at Sinai when the Israelites turned to other gods and idols, and thousands of them were destroyed. Moses made them separate themselves from the wicked ones, and God made the earth to open up and swallow those in idolatry. Deuteronomy 29:27 "And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:" Lets put this is very simple terms. God is preparing a bride for His Son, Jesus Christ. Now if you had a bride and were gone for a while and came home unannounced, and your bride was over there in the sack with your enemy? You would be very angry and this is the same anger that God has for those of His bride that think no more of Him and His word. They will do this because they just don't know the difference between Christ and His enemy Satan. When Satan returns at the sixth trumpet, those of the bride of Christ that refuse to know their husband with understanding, are going to go whoring after God's enemy. They are going to tell God to go away, for they are happy playing the role of a whore. They are going to do this because their church, their preacher, and their family will lead them to Satan through their traditions and doctrines that go against God's Word. God is trying to show us here His inner emotions as to how He feels about you, if you allow this to happen to you. God is a jealous God, and aren't you interested in our Father's emotions for you, that you would study His Word and try to please Him? Deuteronomy 29:28 "And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.' " This is exactly as it happened way back in the land of Palestine when the tribes turned their back and Scattered them throughout the Word. Those things of idolatry and sodomy that angered God way back there are going on today, and God doesn't like it. Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law." Those "secret things" that have not been revealed to man yet by God, belong to our Father. When those thing are to be revealed, God's Spirit will bring the knowledge and understand to our minds. God will determine when the right time is for each of us to understand on the level of understanding that we are able to digest. Many or those things were sealed up until the time of the end, and when a so-called scholar from a hundred years puts his twist on those things dealing with our generation, it becomes nothing but a fairy tale. When the time is right, those that are living in that generation and in turn with God's Word will understand. We are entering into a time when the will be brought into a one world system, but like Judah entered under Babylon. The book of Revelation compares our times to that of Babylon of old, and Satan with king Nebuchadnezzar. We know that we are going under that system, because that is part of the plan of God. We will be in that system, for the whole world will be in it, but when it is in existence to fight against it is to fight against the plan of God. The point that is made here is that even when we are in that system, we are still to follow the commandments of God, as well as the statutes and instructions of our Lord. The Prophet of God was the second in command under Nebuchadnezzar, yet the entire time He would not violate the Word of God, nor stop worshipping God. In the generation that we are living in today, there are many thing that were not revealed to other generations for it would be beyond their understanding. The events of today are taking place for our observation, and they are signs for us living today. We are also to know and understand those things that pertained to Christ, and to the New Testament, for those things fulfilled the blood sacrifices of the old covenant. Our heavenly Father loves all of His children, and He wants our complete devotion to Him. The things that matter to you, He will reveal to you, and what He expects from you is the faithfulness of His virgin bride, waiting and true to Him at His second coming. God will accept on one that is not faithful to Him by repentance. When any nation turns to perversion, and those perversions are upheld by the highest courts of the land, the cursings are not far behind. The anger of the living God will come down hard on those people for their adulterous and idolatress ways. God loves His people and He is proud of them, and He expects us to be true to Him.
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