Journal Through the Bible: Week 29 Saturday

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Deuteronomy 28:15-68

This prophecy of Moses that was given to warn them of future woes if they did not follow the LORD, and Moses had made it clear that he already knew that they wouldn't, must have been as difficult for him to write as it is for us to read. Sadder still is the fact that we can look back into history and know that these curses came true. Verses 49-57 foretell the reprehensible things that happened in Israel and Judah during the Assyrian and Babylonian sieges.

Does God issue any commands in this passage?

• They were to obey the LORD.

Does God make any promises in this passage?

• If they did not obey God they would be cursed in the city, in the fields, in their storage and storehouses, in their pregnancies, in their produce and flocks, whenever or wherever they went, and in everything they did so that they would perish quickly from the land. They would be sick and die too young. There would be very little rain. They would be defeated by their enemies. They would be afflicted with the incurable diseases of Egypt. They would experience madness, blindness, and panic. They would be robbed and oppressed. They would leave young widows with houses that they themselves did not live in very long and crops that they did not get to eat. Their livestock would be stolen by enemies and their children would be taken into slavery by other nations. They would be removed into foreign lands where they would be required to worship false gods. And everyone who heard the tale would laugh at them. There would be sparse crops because of drought and insect infestation. They would be in debt to other nations. They would eventually be conquered by faraway nations and would eat their own children due to starvation. Fear would be with them constantly. Some of them would even be taken back into Egypt.

Does this passage teach anything about Jesus?

• Not that I found.

Does this passage teach anything about yet-future events?

• Not that I found.