Hebrews 12:6 FOR WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE CHASTENS, AND SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES.”
Hebrews 12:7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?
Hebrews 12:11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
In the first part Deuteronomy 28 we saw the blessings of promotion, victory, success, fruitfulness, prosperity and abundance that came with obedience to God.
What we also saw previously with the national blessings is that they would happen in the future, AFTER the return of Christ. With the cursings of a nation we will see that because mankind does not have the right heart, these cursings are already beginning to happen and will culminate BEFORE the return of Christ.
This is omething that happened historically and will happen again. It has happened in the past to the Israelites and now ALL OF THIS IS HAPPENING TODAY
There is something that the Pope admitted that he does not understand. If God is loving, why do bad things happen to people, in particular, the more innocent?
God wants a good relationship with us, but unconditional love does not mean that we will have a relationship with God no matter what we do. People use unconditional love as a way to say that no matter what they do, God will love and bless them unconditionally — as in God Bless America!
From the beginning there have been two ways, two sides to Deuteronomy 30:19. When we choose the wrong way, it is this sin that separates us from God — and His ability to blessing us. This will happen to us overall as a rule.
Not everything that is going to occur here will happen to every single person, but the nation as a whole will be affected greatly by these things.
Disobedience Leads to Punishment
Ancient Israel and Judah cursed: military attacks, when the Assyrians and the Babylonians besieged and conquered Samaria and Jerusalem and enslaved the two nations etc.
Deuteronomy 28:15 “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
Proverbs 26:2 Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, So a curse without cause shall not alight.
These are the things that God does to get our attention.
This is prophetic in this sense: God is telling the future of what is going to happen to this nation if it does not repent which is the main component of every prophetic message, God wants us to turn to Him.
Repentance is to stop going in the wrong direction and do a 180 degree turn to walk directly towards God.
Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Galatians 6:8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.
Deuteronomy 28:45 “Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.
Deuteronomy 28:46 And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever.
Deuteronomy 28:47 “Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything,
For modern day Israel (specifically the US and UK)
Laws and effects are set into motion.
:16-19 same as :3-6 just switching out Blessed for Cursed
Everywhere and in Everything
Deuteronomy 28:16 “Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.
No escaping even if you are a prepper. There will be no saving yourself
Deuteronomy 28:19 “Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
Deuteronomy 28:20 “The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion [vexation, trouble, destruction, tumult], and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me.
In all the activities of life – whatever you do and wherever you go, it will not be nice and easy and peaceful as it once was.
Sustenance
Deuteronomy 28:17 “Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
Deuteronomy 28:18 “Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
From the farms to your house, those growing food, will not produce the abundance that we have now
fruit of your body [children/family]
Deuteronomy 28:23 And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron.
Deuteronomy 28:24 The LORD will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
Weather patterns – God is in control of the weather.
Crop Plagues
Deuteronomy 28:38 “You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.
Deuteronomy 28:39 You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
Deuteronomy 28:40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.
Deuteronomy 28:41 You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.
Deuteronomy 28:42 Locusts shall consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
Foreigners
On the heels of the preceding verse this draws upon similar imagery in the way that they become a plague on us
Deuteronomy 28:43 “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.
QRIUS: Currently 30 million acres of American farmland is owned by foreign investors or fully 2.2 percent of all American farmland. For context, that’s an area roughly the size of Mississippi or Pennsylvania
Deuteronomy 28:44 He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
Health
In this life time we have weathered the storm — this is not going to be the case in the future
Deuteronomy 28:21 The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess.
Deuteronomy 28:22 The LORD will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, …
Example of Covid compared to Revelation 6
Death rate of .0655% vs 25% = 38180 times worse when the four horsemen come on the scene. Perhaps the improper mask wearing and social distancing fallacy will help facilitate this in the future.
Deuteronomy 28:27 The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
Deuteronomy 28:28 The LORD will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of heart.
Deuteronomy 28:29 And you shall grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no one shall save you.
Deuteronomy 28:35 The LORD will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which cannot be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
Deuteronomy 28:58 “If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD,
Deuteronomy 28:59 then the LORD will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and serious and prolonged sicknesses.
Deuteronomy 28:60 Moreover He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.
Deuteronomy 28:61 Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the LORD bring upon you until you are destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28:62 You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Exodus 15:26 and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
War
Deuteronomy 28:22 …with the sword, with scorching, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.
Deuteronomy 28:25 “The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth.
go out one way… similar to what we were talking about in :19 (when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.)
troublesome… what do you do with so many defeated people, it could be a burden to the economy
Deuteronomy 28:26 Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away.
Jeremiah 5:15 Behold, I will bring a nation against you from afar, O house of Israel,” says the LORD. “It is a mighty nation, It is an ancient nation, A nation whose language you do not know, Nor can you understand what they say.
This is for the future!
Captivity
It begins by subjugating the people in ways other than forcefully making them slaves.
Deuteronomy 28:30 “You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not gather its grapes.
Deuteronomy 28:31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from before you, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to rescue them.
Deuteronomy 28:32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be no strength in your hand.
Isaiah 11:11 It shall come to pass in that day That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time To recover the remnant of His people who are left, From Assyria and Egypt, From Pathros and Cush, From Elam and Shinar, From Hamath and the islands of the sea.
Isaiah 11:12 He will set up a banner for the nations, And will assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather together the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth.
Deuteronomy 28:33 A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and the produce of your labor, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually.
Deuteronomy 28:34 So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see.
Psychologically and emotionally painful
Example of the POW’s watching the fruit drop and rot on the other side of the fence while they were starving
Deuteronomy 28:36 “The LORD will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods—wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 28:37 And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations where the LORD will drive you.
Other nations will be in disbelief over what has happened to us as a great power
Deuteronomy 28:48 therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.
Deuteronomy 28:49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,
Deuteronomy 28:50 a nation of fierce countenance, which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young.
Deuteronomy 28:51 And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you.
Deuteronomy 28:52 “They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the LORD your God has given you.
Deuteronomy 28:53 You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you
Deuteronomy 28:54 The sensitive and very refined man among you will be hostile toward his brother, toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind,
Deuteronomy 28:55 so that he will not give any of them the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates.
Deuteronomy 28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and sensitivity, will refuse to the husband of her bosom, and to her son and her daughter,
Deuteronomy 28:57 her placenta which comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates.
Deuteronomy 28:63 And it shall be, that just as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess.
Deuteronomy 28:64 “Then the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known—wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 28:65 And among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; but there the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and anguish of soul.
Deuteronomy 28:66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life.
Deuteronomy 28:67 In the morning you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were morning!’ because of the fear which terrifies your heart, and because of the sight which your eyes see.
Deuteronomy 28:68 “And the LORD will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, ‘You shall never see it again.’ And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.“
2 Timothy 2:24 And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,
2 Timothy 2:25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth,
2 Timothy 2:26 and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.
Conclusion
All these things happen for a reason. Today nearly all people are not accepting blame for their part in it.
2 Timothy 3:1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:
2 Timothy 3:2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
2 Timothy 3:3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,
2 Timothy 3:4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
2 Timothy 3:5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!
2 Timothy 3:6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
2 Timothy 3:7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.