Deuteronomy 30 Prosperity

seekeroftruth

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Deuteronomy 30:1 When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations, 2 and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, 3 then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes[a] and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. 4 Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back. 5 He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors. 6 The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. 7 The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. 8 You will again obey the Lord and follow all his commands I am giving you today. 9 Then the Lord your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The Lord will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your ancestors, 10 if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul​
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a. Deuteronomy 30:3 Or will bring you back from captivity

This is from the blueletterbible.org commentary.

The hopes of the Hebrew people are ardently directed to this promise, and they confidently expect that God, commiserating their forlorn and fallen condition, will yet rescue them from all the evils of their long dispersion. They do not consider the promise as fulfilled by their restoration from the captivity in Babylon, for Israel was not then scattered in the manner here described--"among all the nations," "unto the utmost parts of heaven" ( Deu 30:4 ). When God recalled them from that bondage, all the Israelites were not brought back. They were not multiplied above their fathers ( Deu 30:5 ), nor were their hearts and those of their children circumcised to love the Lord ( Deu 30:6 ). It is not, therefore, of the Babylonish captivity that Moses was speaking in this passage; it must be of the dispersed state to which they have been doomed for eighteen hundred years. This prediction may have been partially accomplished on the return of the Israelites from Babylon; for, according to the structure and design of Scripture prophecy, it may have pointed to several similar eras in their national history; and this view is sanctioned by the prayer of Nehemiah ( Neh 1:8, 9 ). But undoubtedly it will receive its full and complete accomplishment in the conversion of the Jews to the Gospel of Christ. At the restoration from the Babylonish captivity, that people were changed in many respects for the better. They were completely weaned from idolatry; and this outward reformation was a prelude to the higher attainments they are destined to reach in the age of Messiah, "when the Lord God will circumcise their hearts and the hearts of their seed to love the Lord." The course pointed out seems clearly to be this: that the hearts of the Hebrew people shall be circumcised ( Col 2:2 ); in other words, by the combined influences of the Word and spirit of God, their hearts will be touched and purified from all their superstition and unbelief. They will be converted to the faith of Jesus Christ as their Messiah--a spiritual deliverer, and the effect of their conversion will be that they will return and obey the voice (the Gospel, the evangelical law) of the Lord. The words may be interpreted either wholly in a spiritual sense ( Jhn 11:51, 52 ), or, as many think, in a literal sense also ( Rom 11:1-36 ). They will be recalled from all places of the dispersion to their own land and enjoy the highest prosperity. The mercies and favors of a bountiful Providence will not then be abused as formerly ( Deu 31:20 32:15 ). They will be received in a better spirit and employed to nobler purposes. They will be happy, "for the Lord will again rejoice over them for good, as He rejoiced over their fathers."

So... I think what I'm reading is.... even though God and Moses know that these stupid humans are doomed to go back to those shiny objects and idols... God has a plan to bring them all back to Him. I feel like God is forever forgiving.

God controls time. He can see and manipulate [if need be] everything or anything that stupid dysfunctional humans think, do, or say. God already knew that the stupid humans were going to be captured and moved to Babylon. God already knew that the stupid humans were going reject Jesus. No doubt Jesus and God had long discussions about what Jesus would have to endure on earth. No doubt Jesus knew how stupid humans would fight Him. No doubt they knew about the "Balfour Declaration" that was going to happen in 1917. Britain would declare its intent to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. God knew it would take years for the Nation of Israel to have a home to go to.

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God knew....

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