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Deuteronomy 29
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.
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;
3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great
miracles:
4 Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and
ears to hear, unto this day.
5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen
old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
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.
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:
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.
9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in
all that ye do.
10 Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your captains of your
tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
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:
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:
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.
14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
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:
16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through
the nations which ye passed by;
17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver
and gold, which were among them:)
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;
19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words 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:
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.
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:
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;
23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it
is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of
Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger,
and in his wrath:
24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land?
what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
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:
26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew
not, and whom he had not given unto them:
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:
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.
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.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
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