Deuteronomy (Chapters 27-28)

Deuteronomy 27–28 records the covenant blessings for obedience and the curses for disobedience. Israel was commanded to affirm God’s law, and obedience would bring blessing in their land, families, work, and security. Disobedience would bring judgment, including disease, defeat, famine, and exile among the nations. These chapters show that Israel’s life in the land depended on covenant faithfulness and obedience to the Lord’s commands.

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Why Deuteronomy 27–32 Matters

SPEAKER_02 0:26

Hey everybody, welcome back to Teach Me the Bible Podcast. We are in the book of Deuteronomy. And today we move into sort of a new movement, new section in the book, uh talking about the blessings and the curses of the covenant, some of which we've already seen in uh Leviticus 26 in Torah. But um like we said last episode, these few chapters here are going to be absolutely essential in understanding the rest of the Old Testament and New Testament and how this story plays out. And so uh as always, I have Dr. David Klingler here with me. He's gonna be our guide through the text. And so let's just pick it up in chapter 27. Um, maybe orient us a little bit to how to think about these chapters, and then we can we can dive in.

Dr. David Klingler 1:15

So yeah, I want to um state for us how important chapters 27 through 32 of the book of Deuteronomy are. I remember when I was in seminary, I think I've told the, I'm sure I've told this story before in the podcast, but um, but um, you know, uh Charlie Bayless was uh one of my professors. He was guiding us through Torah, uh, and he reflected upon when he took the course from Dr. Pentecost. Um, what a great name. Dr. Pentecost had been teaching at the seminary for, I don't know, 60 years or something crazy. Uh but uh but Dr. Pentecost said that Deuteronomy 28 and 30, the this section of Deuteronomy is the most important uh section in the Bible to understand the Bible. And of course, as a new seminary student, I'd never I couldn't have picked, you know, I couldn't have told you a single verse out of the whole book of Deuteronomy. Um it was not one I had read. Pretty normal for for people who study the Bible or or you know, average Christian, you know, they you know, they have all these great plans and desires. I'm gonna read the Bible this year, you know, and you off you go and rarely make it to do. Yeah, and you make it to Genesis. You're like, oh that wasn't, you know, terrible. And you go to Exodus and hey, I remember this. I watched this movie with you know uh Ten Commandments and Charlton Heston or whatever, and at least my generation, and and then you get about to to you know chapters 24, 25, there where they start to build the tabernacle, and it just gets horrible, at least for the you know, the young reader of the Bible. This is this is just mindless detail. Who cares? And long, and you flip to Leviticus and it doesn't any better, and numbers, and it seems like the same. And in Deuteronomy, like I'm I'm I'm out, I'm going back to I can't understand this, just it seems like a bunch of old stories, and I I don't know what to do with it. Well, uh, so you go to New Testament and you just read about Jesus stories, and I like Jesus, and he does neat tricks, and he does miracles, and he saved me from my sin, and that's about as deep as it goes. Um, if you want to know the Bible, these are the passages that you have to understand. You have to understand Torah, you have to understand the story, um, and what God has been doing in history. Uh, and these passages make all the difference, they really do. And um uh gosh, I you know set these passages apart, highlight them, underline them, you know, put tabs on the I mean that this is this should be absolutely worn out section of your Bible.

SPEAKER_02 4:09

Yeah, and I like that you said 27 through 32, because again, that we're gonna get into some curses, but that's gonna be resolved sort of as you go through the rest of these chapters. So we're gonna handle them in in chopped up sections for the sake of time because there's there's a lot to be said here. Yep.

Dr. David Klingler 4:25

27 is curses, 28 is blessings and curses summarized, 29. We're gonna get into, and Moses is gonna say, and I know how y'all are, you ain't gonna do it. Chapter 30, he's gonna say, But after you've suffered the judgment and you repent in return, then the Lord will restore you. And this isn't too hard for you, right? Yeah. Chapter 31, 32, 32, we get the song of Moses, where Moses is going to tell the history of the world in one chapter. Yeah, right. That's good. Uh, and so how important is that, right? So uh Moses says, All right, and here's how it's all gonna go down. And so this is kind of where we're heading.

SPEAKER_02 4:57

Very good.

Dr. David Klingler 4:58

And then everything that happens after Deuteronomy, you are to understand in light of Moses' words in Deuteronomy.

SPEAKER_03 5:06

Yeah.

Mounts Of Blessing And Curse

The Curses Read Aloud

Dr. David Klingler 5:06

Uh, and uh, and no exceptions here. And so when we get to chapter 21, or I'm sorry, 27, uh, then Moses and all the elders of Israel charged the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you today. Now, you say, Well, I don't remember all those, I skimmed them. Well, once you read this section, you're gonna want to go back and learn them. Yeah. Um, because how it's how important it is. It shall be that on the day that when you cross the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you shall you shall set up for yourself large stones and coat them with lime, and you shall write all the words of this law when you cross over, so that you may enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord your God, the God of your fathers, has promised you. And it shall be that when you cross the Jordan, you shall set up on Mount Ebel these stones as I commanded you today, and you shall coat them with lime. Moreover, you shall build there an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones, uh which have not wielded an iron tool upon them. You shall build the altar of the Lord your God of uncut stones, and you shall offer burnt offerings to the Lord your God. You shall sacrifice peace offerings and eat there and rejoice before the Lord your God, and you shall write on the stones all the words of this law. They translate it very distinctly in verse eight. It's actually uh making clear the good, or something like that, maybe a better way to uh to say it. Uh then Moses and the Levitical priests uh spoke to all of Israel, saying, Be silent and listen, O Israel. This day you have become a people for the Lord your God. You shall therefore obey the Lord your God to do his commandments and his statutes, which I am commanding you today. And Moses also charged the people on that day, saying, When you cross the Jordan, you shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. For the curses, these shall stand on Mount Ebal. So Mount Gerizim, the blessings, Mount Ebal, the curses, Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, Naphtali. And the Levites then shall answer and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice, voice, Cursed is the man who makes an iron uh idol or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret, and all the people shall answer. Amen. All right, so you heard it. Okay, good. Cursed is the man who dishonors his mother and father, and all the people shall say Amen. Why dishonors his father and mother? Because they're the ones who are to teach you these words, teach you the story, teach of the law. Um, cursed is the man who moves his neighbor's boundary marker. It's interesting that you think of all of the list. What's the most important things? Really? That's it? Yes, that that's that's one. Um why? Because you care for your brother, you uh the your mother and father, these are the ones who are to teach you the law. All the people will say, Amen. Blessed is or accursed is the man who misleads a blind man on the road. You know, you're to look out for you know others, and uh and all the people shall say amen. Cursed is the one who distorts the justice to an alien, an orphan, or a widow. This is going to be repeated throughout uh the the prophets. The justice of the Lord, you're to look out for those who can do nothing for you. Justice is to be blind, uh, and um and it's to be executed uh for the orphan, the widow, and the alien. And we talked about this about this back in Deuteronomy chapter 10. And all the people shall say amen. Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, uh, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. There's a passage we're talking about, you know, that just kind of you're you're hearing these old stories of the patriarchs, and all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed is the man who lies with an animal, and all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed is the man who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or his mother, and all the people shall say amen. And cursed is the one who lies with his mother in law, and all the people shall say amen. Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret, and all the people shall say amen. And cursed is he who accepts a bribe to strike down an innocent person, and all the people shall say amen. Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them. And all the people shall say amen. Um other words, they were required to do all of these uh these laws. So it shall be, if you diligently obey the Lord your God, chapter 28, verse 1. So 28, 1 through 15 is blessings, and uh or 1 through uh 14 is uh blessings, and 15 through the end of the chapter, 68 I believe, is is curses. If you obey the Lord your God to do uh carefully keep all his commandments which I am commanding you today, then the Lord will set you high above the nations of the earth, and all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you obey the Lord your God. Blessed will you be in the city, and blessed will you be in the country. Blessed will the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your beasts, and the increase of your herd and of your young flock. Blessed will be your basket and your kneading bowl. Why? Because you know, diseases won't be in you, the rains will fall, the crops will grow, all of it. Uh blessed will be when you come in and when you go out. The Lord shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will come out against you one way and they will flee seven ways. The Lord will command the blessing upon you and your barns and all that your hand does, and he will bless you in the land which the Lord gives you. The Lord will establish you to be a holy people to himself, as he has swore to you, if you keep the commandment of the Lord your God to walk in all of his ways. And so all the people of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will fear you. They will be afraid of you. Uh, you're gonna see this play out repeatedly everywhere Israel goes, Israel's being disobedient, and the nations are going, yeah, we've heard about the Lord your God.

SPEAKER_03 11:55

Yeah, yeah.

Blessings For Obedience Summarized

Dr. David Klingler 11:56

Uh the Lord will make you uh uh verse uh 11. The the the uh let me scroll down here. The Lord will make you, and they're translating uh abundant uh in a prosperity. Um really it's uh uh you know the the Lord will uh make you abound in good in the offspring of your body, in the offspring of your beasts, and the produce of the ground, of the land, which the Lord your God swore to your fathers. And the Lord will open for you his good storehouse from heaven, he will give you the rain of the land in its seasons to bless all the work of your hand, uh that you may lend to the nations, and you shall not borrow. The Lord will make you a head and not a tail, you will be above and not underneath, if you listen to the commandment of the Lord your God, which I charge you today to do them, to observe them, to keep them or guard them carefully. And do not turn aside from the words which I am commanding you to the right or to the left, to go after other gods and to serve them.

unknown 13:05

Yeah. Right?

Dr. David Klingler 13:05

So pretty clear here. You're not to depart from the law to the right or to the left, and this is going to be what Joshua's told. And why would you depart from the right or left, and then go serve other gods? And then if you do that, this is what's coming. Yeah, if you want a terrifying passage in the Bible, this is it. The rest of this chapter is and this is what uh lays in wait for Israel if and when they rebel against the Lord and go after other gods.

SPEAKER_02 13:31

Yeah, and it's exactly opposite of what we've already read in 28. If they're gonna be blessed in the city, they're gonna be cursed in the city. It's it's kind of a one-to-one.

Dr. David Klingler 13:40

And it's going to uh it's gonna be explicit.

SPEAKER_02 13:43

Yes.

The Terrifying Curses Unfold

Dr. David Klingler 13:44

Uh, and uh we're going to see these curses play out in the prophets. They're gonna be pronounced, and you know, Isaiah, Jeremiah, they're gonna say, All right, here's you've violated the law, you've turned away, you've gone after other gods, you haven't kept the law, you haven't pled the case for the orphan, the widow, and the alien. You've uh here it comes. All right, here come the curses, right? Uh it shall come about that if you do not obey the Lord your God to observe all of his commandments, which I am uh charging you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you. Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the country, cursed will your basket and your kneading bowl, the offspring of your body, the produce of your field, the increase of your herd and of your flock. Cursed will be when you come out, uh come in and when you go out. Um, well, that's okay, we got it. No, no, keep going. Right. Let's keep going for a while. The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, rebuke, and all that you undertake until you are destroyed, until you quickly perish. Um it reminds me of uh Jesus' words to uh to his disciples in Matthew 10. Do not go to the Gentiles, do not go to the Samaritans, go only to the perishing sheep of the house of Israel. They translate a lost sheep. It's the perishing sheep. Why are they perishing? Because they went after foreign gods, and their curses are hitting them. Yes, exactly. And they are being called to repent and to return. We're going to get to that next time when we get into chapters 29 and then 30. But he will cause you to perish on account of the evil or wickedness of the deeds, because you have forsaken me. Then the Lord will make pestilence cling to you until you are consumed from the land which you are entering to possess it. The Lord will smite you with consumption, with fever. Um Peter's mother-in-law suffering from fever, fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, with mildew, uh, and they will pursue you until you perish. Uh many of these curses, Christ is going to come and show that he is able to reverse them if they repent.

SPEAKER_02 15:52

Yeah, if they return healing are absolutely tied to healing.

Dr. David Klingler 15:56

Yep. Um so the removal of the curses and restoration of the blessing is tied to repentance, as you said. And uh, and you're gonna see this. You know, remember the story of their uh they get the lame man and they're they're dropping him down through the roof, and uh he says, uh, your sins are forgiven. And the Pharisees take issue with this. You know, no one has the ability or the can forgive sins except God Himself. And um, you know, and he ties the get up and walk with your sins are forgiven. That's exactly what we're what we're saying here. Uh the the heaven which is over you, uh over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you iron. The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, and from heaven it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed. The Lord shall cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and you will flee seven before them, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. Your carcasses will be food to all the birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away. I'm reminded of the David Goliath story, where this is Goliath's taunt, you know, uh the birds will eat your carcasses, and David says, Nope, uh you got you're on the wrong side of this one. Yeah. Uh the Lord will smite you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the uh scabs, with the itch, um, which cannot be healed. Um, you know, I'm reminded of the the Ark of the Covenant. Israel loses the Ark of the Covenant, and uh the Philistines start hauling it around all their cities, and they're getting struck with tumors, and you know, it's wiping out all their gods, and they say, send this thing back, you know. But but if Israel's so if Israel is obedient, they'll be blessed, but if they're disobedient, they'll be cursed. The Lord will splite uh smite you with madness, with blindness, with uh bewilderment of heart, and you will grope at noon as the blind man gropes in darkness, uh, and you will not prosper in your ways, but you shall be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will save you. Uh remember the man uh you know the the the good Samaritan story, you know, going down the road and he's beaten and from head to toe with no one uh there to deliver him. Uh you shall betroth a wife, and another shall violate her. You shall build a house, you will not live in it, you will plant a vineyard, but you will not use its fruit. Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, and you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be torn away from you, and it will not not be returned to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and no one will be there to save you. Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them continually, but there will be nothing that you can do, except repent, you know, return. A people to whom you do not know shall eat the produce of your ground and of all your labors, and you will uh never be uh you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed continually. You shall be driven mad uh by the sight of what you see. The Lord your God will strike on your knees and on your legs sore boils, uh which you cannot be healed, and the sole of your foot and the crown of your head, the Lord will bring you and your king, whom you have set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will serve gods of wood and stone, and you will be a whore in a proverb. This is gonna play out in the story.

SPEAKER_02 19:33

Yeah, this reminds me of of Isaiah 1, where he says, You're where else can I strike you? You've been struck everywhere. Yep. The only thing now is to essentially send them out to do this.

Prophets, Exile, And Fulfillment

Dr. David Klingler 19:44

Yep, and we're gonna see this play out in Deuteronomy 32 in the story. You know, so so they're being warned, these are the curses. Um, you need to repent if these curses have hit hit you, Deuteronomy chapter 30. Uh, but now in Deuteronomy 32, the song of Moses, and uh Moses is gonna say, okay, this is how it's gonna play out, right? And this is exactly what's gonna do. Yep. You shall become a whore, uh a proverb, a taunt to all the peoples where the Lord your God drives you. Uh you shall bring out much seed to the field, and you shall gather little, for the locusts will consume it. I think of the book of Joel, right? Uh you shall plant and cultivate vineyards, uh, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather uh for the worm will devour them. Uh uh the worm that uh grows and uh or comes and devours the the vine over Jonah in the book of Jonah. Wow. Uh you shall have olive trees throughout your territory, but uh you will not anoint yourself with oil, for the olives will drop off. You shall have sons and daughters, but uh but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity. The cricket shall possess your trees and the produce of your ground. The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher, and you will go lower and lower. He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. Uh one of the passages that we uh demonstrate how the law functions is uh is Luke chapter uh 15 in the parable of the lost son. Um and you know, this son disregards his father, regards him as dead, he's exiled from the land, he's goes to a foreign land, he's under the authority of a gentile, he's going lower and lower, and the gentiles higher and higher, and he's eating the pig slop, and you know, he's getting hit with all the curses, and he comes to his senses and he returns, and his father restores him. This is Deuteronomy twenty eight, uh twenty nine and thirty. This is the story. Absolutely. Um so uh he shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him, he shall be the head, you shall be the tail. So all these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping. His commandment and his statutes, which he commanded you. Now, probably time to go back and read those then, right? If you're Israel, you're saying, Oh, we need to go pay attention to those. They shall become a sign and a wonder to you and to your seed or your descendants forever. Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a glad heart for the abundance of things. Therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you in hunger, and thirst, in nakedness, and lack of things, until he has put an iron yoke upon your neck and has destroyed you. That ought to ring a bell, the iron yoke. Um, when uh course these judgments are going to come, the Lord is going to send the yoke of the Gentiles, and we're gonna read this here more in just a minute. Uh, but I'm reminded of this future hope. So the Lord's going to send a yoke upon uh Israel, the the yoke of the Gentiles, a foreign nation. Uh but uh Isaiah looks towards a time when one will come who will remove the yoke.

SPEAKER_03 23:06

Isaiah nine.

Dr. David Klingler 23:07

Uh Isaiah chapter nine. A people who walk in darkness will see a great light. Those who live in a dark land, a light will shine upon them, and uh and they will, you know, you, the Christ, will multiply the nation, you will increase their gladness, they will be glad in your presence, as the gladness of the harvest, as men rejoice when they divide div uh divide the spoil. For you shall break the yoke of their burden, the staff on their shoulders, the rod of the oppressor. Come to me all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Wow. Take my yoke. We're gonna uh that's good talk about this uh even more as we go down this uh this trail of uh of Deuteronomy chapter 28, because the the the no rest is going to tie right in here.

SPEAKER_02 23:51

There's a there's a yoke either way that that's something that's striking to me, that they're either the servant of the Lord or they're gonna serve the nations. Yeah, one is better than the other.

Dr. David Klingler 23:59

Oh, yeah. Much better. Well, so yeah, the Lord is for you, or the the Lord uh is uh is against you. Um uh and here is the yoke that he's going to send upon you. This is in verse 49. The Lord shall bring a nation from afar uh against you as the uh uh from the end of the earth as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you do not understand. Uh the the whole eagle language is interesting through here that uh that um the Lord has gathered them on his wings and uh the wings of the eagle and he's taken them to the land. Uh, but if they rebel against him, then uh he's gonna gather up a nation. Yeah. Um uh and they'll be dispersed, they'll be kicked out of the land, they'll be left blind so that they cannot see what's good in the eyes of the Lord, deaf so that they cannot hear the word of the Lord, lame so that they cannot return. Wow. Um, and there they will die, there they will perish. But if they repent, if they return to the Lord, they will mount up on eagles' wings eagle's wings, they will walk and not grow weary and run and not be faint. Well, where are they walking to? Where are they running to? They're running back to the land.

SPEAKER_02 25:12

Because they've been scattered.

Yoke, Rest, And Messianic Hope

Dr. David Klingler 25:13

Yeah. Oh, how I wanted to gather you as a hen gathers her chicks. Wow. This is the imagery of Christmas. It's a bird of prey. Wow. Um a nation of fierce continents who have no respect for the old, show no favor for the young. Moreover, you shall eat the offspring, uh it shall eat the offspring of your herd, the produce of your ground, until you're destroyed. Uh and uh he leaves you no grain, no wine, no oil. Look for the grain to be replenished, the new wine to flow, uh, the oil to be restored. All of this is um this isn't uh petroleum oil. This is uh this is olive oil, right? This is the oil in the land. Nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until uh they have caused you to perish. There's our perish word again. Uh it shall see besiege you and all of your towns, uh, until your high and fortified walls in which you have trusted come down throughout your land. I'm thinking about Sennacherib, but he's not named, but you know, the the um here come the enemy, the Assyrians, and and they've taken the whole land and they've surrounded King Hezekiah in Jerusalem. And there he cries out to the Lord and gives uh uh gets a temporary kind of stay of execution. But then the Babylonians will come and they will haul off the king. As it's um as it's been uh been said. Uh then you shall eat the offspring of your own body. This is what's going to happen in lamentations in uh in the time of uh of the Babylonian uh uh siege. Uh the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you during the siege and the distress of your enemy, they will oppress you. Uh the man who is refined uh and the very delicate uh among you shall be hostile towards his brother and towards his wife, he cherishes and towards the rest of the people who remain. Uh so that he will not give uh be uh give even one of them any of the flesh of his children, which he will eat. This is horrible.

SPEAKER_03 27:25

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler 27:26

Uh since he has nothing else left during the siege uh and the distress by which your enemy shall oppress you and all of your towns, the refined and the delicate woman who would not venture to set a soul of foot on the ground for the delicateness and refinement shall be hostile towards her own husband she cherishes and towards her sons and daughters, towards the afterbirth which issues from between her legs, towards her children whom she bears, for she shall eat them secretly for lack of anything else. I can't think of anything more horrifying than this.

SPEAKER_03 28:01

Oh my gosh.

Dr. David Klingler 28:02

During the siege and the distress by which your enemies shall oppress you in your towns. If you are not careful to obey the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honored and awesome, fear-striking name of the Lord your God, then the Lord your God will bring extraordinary plagues on you and on your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, miserable and chronic sicknesses. He will bring you back uh back upon you the diseases of Egypt which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. Every sickness, every plague which are not written in this book of the law, the Lord will bring upon you until you are destroyed. Then, you know, everybody wants to talk about all the blessings, blessings, blessings. I never hear him say, Well, what about the curses? Right? Exactly. You know, everybody wants to talk about Old Testament blessings and claim the blessings, but no one's wanting to claim this, right? Well, what if you don't follow the word of the Lord? You signing up for this? I don't hear anybody quoting these verses. You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven. That was the promise. I will make you as the stars of heaven. But because you did not obey the Lord your God, it shall be that just as the Lord delighted over you to prosper you, to multiply you, uh, so the light the Lord will delight over you to make you perish until you are destroyed, and you will be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it. Moreover, the Lord your God will scatter you among all the peoples, from one end of the earth to the under end of the earth, and there you shall serve other gods, gods of wood and of stone, which you nor your fathers have not known. Uh you shall be scattered, dispersed. Diaspora is the word that we're going to um James is going to write to the twelve tribes dispersed, greetings. Now, some dispersed. Yeah, why are they dispersed? Uh to those dispersed about Pontius, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, you know, first Peter. Um, Israel is going to reject the Lord, reject the rock of his salvation. A remnant is going to believe, um, but that's going to play out in the story. So we're going to stay tuned to that. Deuteronomy chapter 32 is going to be central uh to the rest of the story. It is the playing out of the rest of the story. Among those nations, verse 65, uh, you shall find no rest. Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I'll give you rest. Are you are you tired of the Gentiles ruling over you? Uh Babylonians, Medes, Persians, Greeks, Romans, wave after wave, as Daniel said, Yeah, Messiah's here. You tired? The yoke of the Gentiles? Take my yoke. Uh, and they reject him. Wow. And they kill him, and they say you're from Satan.

SPEAKER_02 30:50

Well, there's a there's a lot said about those passages. Oh man. You'll hear a lot of people talking, and they're not talking about this. No, they're not talking about this.

Dr. David Klingler 30:59

They're talking about, you know, come to Jesus and he'll give you rest and comfort and all that stuff. Well, uh, didn't work out for Paul, did it? Right.

unknown 31:08

Wow.

Dr. David Klingler 31:08

Yeah. Paul had it a little better before he came to Christ. Yeah. He didn't go, oh man, I have rest now. Yeah. I have joy and peace now. Uh no, he was getting beaten 39 lashes five times. Passage we did the last time.

SPEAKER_03 31:23

Yeah.

Siege, Scattering, And Diaspora

Dr. David Klingler 31:23

Um, but among those nations you shall find no rest. There shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord your God will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, despair of soul. Wow. Your life shall hang in doubt before you. You will be in dread night and day, and will have no assurance of life. In the morning you will say, I wish that it was evening. In the evening, I wish that it was morning because of the dread of your heart which you dread, and uh the sight which your eyes will see. You're gonna see this. The Lord your God will bring you back to Egypt in ships uh by uh the way uh which I spoke to you, you will never see it again. And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, and there will be no buyer.

unknown 32:12

Wow.

Dr. David Klingler 32:14

Um Hosea is going to explain, you're going back to Egypt, but it's not Egypt, it's Assyria, and then Babylon, and Medes and Persians, and Greeks and Romans. So this is gonna be foundational. This blessings and curses is gonna be foundational to uh to how this story is gonna play out. If Israel is obedient, they're blessed in the land. Yeah, but if they're disobedient, they're going to be cursed and expelled from the land. And so we talk about the the exile, the exilic period, when they are exiled from the land, when they're uh kicked out of the land, dispersed among the nations. Uh, and this is gonna be the story. Uh, and um uh, you know, and and so there's uh prophets that are going to come before the exile, and they're gonna say, um, you know, heads up, what are you doing? You know, pay attention. You're judgment's coming. Let me remind you of Deuteronomy 28 and the curses. Um they're not going to repent, they're not going to return to the Lord. Next time we're going to be in 29 and and 30 and uh and going to talk about when you repent and you return. Uh chapter 28 sets up the cycles. Uh we call them the cycles of sin in Deuteronomy in uh the book of Judges. Israel rejects the Lord, goes after foreign gods, they're judged for it. Uh there, you know, they the curses hit them, they cry out, they return to the Lord, cry out, uh, he raises up a deliverer, uh, and uh and he restores them. And then they do it again.

SPEAKER_02 33:46

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler 33:46

You know, and finally, they're going to get themselves kicked out of the land for 70 years. They're not going to repent for that 70 years, and so 70 times seven is going to be decreed for them. All of this is just a plain reading of the Old Testament story, but you have to know Torah. Yeah. And specifically, you have to know Deuteronomy uh chapters nearly 28 through 32. Yeah. Very key section. Very important uh to uh to the understanding. So next time we'll pick it up in chapter 29.

SPEAKER_02 34:16

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler 34:17

Uh, and now we're getting into the real meat of understanding of not just the old testament, uh, but the person of Christ, what he came to do. Um what the end of this story is important. And why the gospel goes to the Gentiles, yes, and how the story ends. Yeah. And this is all Deuteronomy 29 through 32.

SPEAKER_02 34:39

Yeah. Because as as long and as fearful as these judgments are, um, they're not the end of the story. And so we're stopping here because it's a long chapter and we've spent a lot of time on it. Um, but it's not the end of the story. And next time we're gonna look at um once the curse has come upon them, then what? Uh and like I said, it's not the end. So keep watching, keep reading, and we're gonna gain a better understanding um of what happens next. And so we're gonna pick up in chapters 29 and 30 next time. Thank you for joining us. We'll see you then.

SPEAKER_00 35:16

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