Deuteronomy 28
IN chapter 27 we saw man, as a sinner, under the curse of a broken law, ruined and hopeless. Chapter 28 opens a new theme. The rule of God in earthly government is here the subject, dealing with the circumstances of His people. The blessings named in verses 3 to 14 are not those which were to have been pronounced from Mount Gerizim (chapter 27:12); they have their corresponding curses later in the chapter. Here we find what befell this people, in but a few centuries after they entered the land of God’s providing. Obedience offered its rich consequences of blessing beyond measure; disobedience, forsaking God, involved the loss of everything, for a time at least. And of this the sad condition of the nation of Israel is a constant reminder to our own selves.
Say you, I’m a Gentile, and the troubles of the Jews do not concern me? Turn then to the Acts, chapter 17:30,31 and learn that God “now commandeth all men everywhere to repent, because He hath appointed a day in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man (Christ) whom He hath ordained, whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead.”
Judgment is coming on the Gentile World, more severe than that which fell upon the Jew.
ML 03/08/1925