seekeroftruth
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Deuteronomy 28:30 You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. 33 A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days. 34 The sights you see will drive you mad. 35 The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
Oh this is horrible. Oh this is a nightmare.
I got this from the blueletterbible.org site.
A disobedient Israel would be cursed by simple, terrible injustices and tragedies. All of these tragedies would bring a terrible result: you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see.
This is the easy English commentary.
Their enemies will take the Israelites’ wives, their property and their children. They will not be able to stop their enemies. The worst thing will be that the enemies will take the Israelites out of their country. They will make the Israelites serve false gods. People make these false gods out of wood and stone. All that happened to Israel in 721 B.C. And it happened to Judah in 598 B.C.
When I was a Senior in High School, my boyfriend and I were in a car wreck. They say I went through the windshield and came back again. My face took most of the hit. I don't know. I don't remember. When things get too bad.... the brain allows us to forget. Just because I don't remember it.... doesn't mean it didn't happen.
That same boyfriend was a two time Vietnam War Vet [yep he was older] and from time to time he fought imaginary enemies. At times he was quite insane. He would be blind to where he was and who he was with. In his mind he was halfway around the world fighting someone he had already killed. Just because he was no longer there, doesn't mean his mind could immediately cope.
The mind will do whatever it takes to survive, even shut down.... go blind. It's a defense mechanism. Personally.... I think I'm better off not remembering the car wreck. My boyfriend went back to face his blindness. For him, the pressure was relieving itself....but not fast enough to have a normal life.....
It's a curse.
