seekeroftruth
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Deuteronomy 28:64 Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known. 65 Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. 66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. 67 In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see. 68 The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.
The people who were about to move into Canaan were looking at a terrifying enemy with no real history to stand on. These men were not there when God destroyed Sodom. These men were not there when God destroyed the world with flood in Noah's day. These people weren't there when two of their descendants conned a whole city into circumcision so they could murder them all in revenge of one young girl. These people weren't there when a brother was sold into slavery. These people weren't there when a famine happened that drove them to the protection of that same brother in Egypt. These people weren't there during the centuries of slavery. These people weren't there when the Egyptians suffered plagues because their pharaoh thought he was God's match. These people weren't among those who left Egypt as part of an army of over 2 million people under God's protection. When God brought the Israelites across the river on dry land, these people were babies or not born yet. These people had been depending on God for everything for 40 years. These people only had the history of their people to depend on. God had always been with them. All they had to do was follow the rules and God would have kept them safe.
This is from Studylight.org.
The fifth view shows Israel deprived of all the benefits she had formerly enjoyed. This section deals with disease and disasters in the land ( Deuteronomy 28:58-63) and deportation from the land ( Deuteronomy 28:64-68). Both parts picture a reversal of Exodus blessings.
In the later history of Israel the punishments God predicted here took place very literally when the people disobeyed His law. What Moses described in Deuteronomy 28:32-36 happened in the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities. Deuteronomy 28:52-57 found fulfillment then as well as in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and Israel in A.D70. Deuteronomy 28:64-68 have taken place during the Roman invasion of A.D70 , in the Middle Ages, the Russian pogroms, Nazi Germany, and the present day.
God designed these blessings and curses to persuade His people to obey His covenant with them. Stronger proof of the blessing of obedience and the blasting of disobedience is hardly imaginable. God"s will was, and Isaiah , very clear and simple: obey His Word.
This section of Deuteronomy (chs27-28) is one of the most important ones in Scripture because it records the two options open to Israel as she entered the Promised Land. Obedience to the revealed Word of God would result in blessing, but disobedience would result in blasting. Scholars who do not believe in supernatural prophecy have said that it would have been impossible for Moses to have written these words. They say the subsequent history of Israel so accurately fulfilled these warnings that someone must have written them much later, perhaps after the Babylonian captivity. The books of Joshua ,, Judges , Samuel, and Kings take pains to point out how God fulfilled what Moses said here in Israel"s later history. [Note: See George Harton, "Fulfillment of Deuteronomy 28-30 in History and in Eschatology" (Th.D. dissertation, Dallas Theological Seminary, 1981).] Martin Noth advanced the theory that one man or a group of men later in Israel"s history edited Joshua ,, Judges , Samuel, and Kings to validate what the writer of Deuteronomy predicted. [Note: Martin Noth, The Deuteronomistic History.] Internal evidence as well as Jewish tradition, however, suggest that these books had separate writers, and their writers composed them earlier than Noth proposed.
In the later history of Israel the punishments God predicted here took place very literally when the people disobeyed His law. What Moses described in Deuteronomy 28:32-36 happened in the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities. Deuteronomy 28:52-57 found fulfillment then as well as in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and Israel in A.D70. Deuteronomy 28:64-68 have taken place during the Roman invasion of A.D70 , in the Middle Ages, the Russian pogroms, Nazi Germany, and the present day.
God designed these blessings and curses to persuade His people to obey His covenant with them. Stronger proof of the blessing of obedience and the blasting of disobedience is hardly imaginable. God"s will was, and Isaiah , very clear and simple: obey His Word.
This section of Deuteronomy (chs27-28) is one of the most important ones in Scripture because it records the two options open to Israel as she entered the Promised Land. Obedience to the revealed Word of God would result in blessing, but disobedience would result in blasting. Scholars who do not believe in supernatural prophecy have said that it would have been impossible for Moses to have written these words. They say the subsequent history of Israel so accurately fulfilled these warnings that someone must have written them much later, perhaps after the Babylonian captivity. The books of Joshua ,, Judges , Samuel, and Kings take pains to point out how God fulfilled what Moses said here in Israel"s later history. [Note: See George Harton, "Fulfillment of Deuteronomy 28-30 in History and in Eschatology" (Th.D. dissertation, Dallas Theological Seminary, 1981).] Martin Noth advanced the theory that one man or a group of men later in Israel"s history edited Joshua ,, Judges , Samuel, and Kings to validate what the writer of Deuteronomy predicted. [Note: Martin Noth, The Deuteronomistic History.] Internal evidence as well as Jewish tradition, however, suggest that these books had separate writers, and their writers composed them earlier than Noth proposed.
