Deuteronomy 27-30
At the end of this section is the challenge: This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children might live! (Deuteronomy 30:19)
These four chapters describe the two very different paths God’s people may follow: the path of obedience, which leads to abundant blessings, and life (28:1-14), and the path of disobedience, which leads to many frightful curses, and death (28:15-68). The curses ultimately lead to defeat, destruction and exile!
This was so important that God, who knew the geography of the Promised Land that Moses had never seen, gave detailed instructions on a way to make all this very memorable. Call it a gigantic object lesson. Once they had secured the Promised Land, they were to find the twin mountains of the North: Ebal and Gerazim, close enough for there to be a huge echo chamber between them. The 12 tribes were divided in half. The 6 on Mt. Gerazim were to shout the blessings. The 6 on Mt. Ebal were to shouts the curses. Who would ever forget it?
Until tomorrow,
Pastor Gary
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