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Deuteronomy Chapter Eight
As you read ask yourself, how might this apply to
modern day America?
- Deuteronomy 8:1-20
All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do,
that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the
LORD sware unto your fathers.
- And thou shalt remember all the way
which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to
humble thee, [and] to prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether
thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
- And he humbled thee, and suffered
thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did
thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by
bread only, but by every [word] that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD
doth man live.
- Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee,
neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
- Thou shalt also consider in thine
heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God chasteneth
thee.
- Therefore thou shalt keep the
commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
- For the LORD thy God bringeth thee
into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that
spring out of valleys and hills; (Palestine then,
America now.)
- A land of wheat, and barley, and
vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
- A land wherein thou shalt eat bread
without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any [thing] in it; a land whose
stones [are] iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
- When thou hast eaten and art full,
then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given
thee.
- Beware that thou forget not the LORD
thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his
statutes, which I command thee this day:
- Lest [when] thou hast eaten and art
full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt [therein];
- And [when] thy herds and thy flocks
multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast
is multiplied;
- Then thine heart be lifted up, and
thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of
Egypt, from the house of bondage;
- Who led thee through that great and
terrible wilderness, [wherein were] fiery serpents, and scorpions, and
drought, where [there was] no water; who brought thee forth water out of the
rock of flint;
- Who fed thee in the wilderness with
manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he
might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
- And thou say in thine heart, My
power and the might of [mine] hand hath gotten me this wealth.
- But thou shalt remember the LORD thy
God: for [it is] he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may
establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as [it is] this day.
- And it shall be, if thou do at all
forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and
worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
- As the nations which the LORD
destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be
obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.
In the past there were many enemy
nations. Fortunately we won each war. Past enemies were Germany, Italy and Japan
World War 2, , The War in Korea, The Viet Nam War, The Cold War (Russia). We
might have a new enemy on the rise. (China).
Deuteronomy 28:15,49 But it
shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God,
to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this
day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 49
The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the
earth, [as swift] as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
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