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God wanted to bless Israel beyond measure. As they waited to enter the Promised Land for the first time, God enumerated all of His planned blessings – more than any other nation could ever hope for! They included not only prosperity, but also His hedge of protection.
Yet God left no middle ground. 100% obedience would bring about those incredible blessings. Anything less than 100% obedience would result in the exact opposite. They wouldn’t simply revert to “normal living”. They’d be cursed with abnormal conditions.
It’s uncanny hearing all of this information from this side of time. Those proud Israelites probably couldn’t imagine all of this ever happening (the curses), even as they stood there with Egyptian idols in their pockets! Yet Moses’ words would exactly describe the later fall of their nation. God knew, because He is outside of time, and He is not bound by it.
In the middle of the curses, I read, “The Lord will give you madness, blindness, and a confused mind … You will fail in everything you do.” I think we as a nation are coming to that point right now. Our individual and national sins have led us to the point of having confused minds, to the point that we can no longer rightly decide the correct thing to do.
Verse 47 should be cast in bronze and installed in the entrance foyers to the House and Senate buildings in Washington, DC: “You have plenty of everything, but you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a pure heart.”
It didn’t use to be that way. And if we need someone to blame, we can blame ourselves for letting it all happen. I just began to read a book call The Harbinger, and it is eerie hearing the same message from a fiction book.
Father, this must be important enough that You’re doubling up on the message. I hate to think that we might be headed down the same path that Israel was forced to take for its disobedience. Turn our nation around, Father. Bring us back to You.
Your Brother In Christ,
Gary Ford
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