All right, let's begin, shall we, with a word of prayer? Father, we just are grateful to be here tonight to, again, open Your Word, to study it, to try and understand the things that You had for the people of Israel, and a bunch of these things that relate to us as well later on. And we just pray for wisdom and understanding as we go through that, and for a good recall for myself, Lord. Thank you for your love for us and for your scriptures, which we know we can trust. Pray this now in Jesus' name, amen. Okay, chapter 29 and 30 tonight of Deuteronomy. Last week we finished chapter 28, and that ended Moses' second address. There's three addresses that he makes to the people. Remember, we're still on the east side of the Jordan River. It's not until we get to Joshua that we cross in and go into the land. We're getting down here to the very end of Moses' life. He's 120 years old. And that's all about to take place. But we're camped out on the east side of the Jordan, and Moses is giving these different addresses to the people. And this is his third address. Again, kind of our theme is trust and obey. It would seem that every commentary I looked at had a different take on this third address, okay? Which was, Disappointing, I guess, but some start it here at chapter 29. Some start it back in 28. Also, the ends are discussed. And even the intent or the main subject of the address can vary depending on who you read. Okay? So that's all right. We'll just do our best. Remember, this is the new generation. These guys were like 20 years old when they left Egypt, or younger. Okay, and all the older people have died off and Moses is kind of re-going back over things and preparing them to go in and take the land, possess the land. This is sometimes called the Palestinian covenant. Okay. All right. We're just going to work verse by verse through this, starting in 29 verse 1. These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab," on the east side of the Jordan there, besides the covenant that He made with them at Horeb, or Mount Sinai, which is south of there. So clearly two different covenants, now and then, okay? Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, you have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land. The great trials that your eyes saw and the signs and those great wonders." Okay? So he's just telling them to remember, you young people essentially, what all the things you've seen down through this 40 years that you were traveling around. So what, that would make some of them 60 years old, right? And younger. Seems pretty old for a young group. All right, so they saw the manna from heaven, the water from the rock, the rebellion of Korah, Got swallowed up, remember, in the ground? Fire on the mountain, the Lord speaking to him. The parting of the Red Sea. Maybe some of them looked at the serpent and lived right the serpent that Moses put on the pole Which is our little symbol for our EMTs today Okay, he reminds him of those types of things We saw that back in the second one verse four, but to this day The Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear Okay Now, again, about 1405 BC is pretty close to where we're at, before they cross the river to possess the land. Why is it that the Lord had not given them a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear? I don't know, but I'll take you to the last verse in the chapter, okay? 2929, which gets quoted now and then. 2929, the secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever that we may do all the words of this law. There's just some things the Lord has not revealed to us, and we don't know why He has not opened their eyes to date. Okay? That's the best answer I have for that question. That doesn't seem like a good answer, does it? But that's the one I have, okay? What I do know, and this is from Deuteronomy 7-7, it was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were fewest of all people. But it is because the Lord loves you, and we can apply this to ourselves, he says again the second time that he loves them, and is keeping the oath that he swore to his father, he's a promise keeper, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and has redeemed you from the house of slavery, has the idea of buying back. You pawn your wife's wedding ring down at the pawn shop. You have to go buy it back before the end of the month, or they'll sell it. Redeemed you, okay? Bought with a price. Redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, okay? We think of that song, Redeemed, how I love to proclaim it. Redeemed by the blood of the lamb, redeemed by his infinite mercy, his child and forever I am. And you think about that, they were redeemed out of Egypt, And how are they redeemed? By the blood of the lamb that was put over the doorposts and the destroyer Passed over them and that's why we call it the Passover Okay, but that applies to us too. We're redeemed by the blood of the lamb our Savior when Jesus and John were down there at the Jordan he said behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world and He's the Lamb, just like the Passover. It's all picture for us to see here. Redeemed from the house of slavery. Egypt is a picture of slavery to sin. Romans 6, 17 says, but thanks be to God that though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. We used to be slaves to sin, but we've been bought with a price, and He's chosen us, and He loves us. That's a nice thing to know. Okay, 29.5, Moses goes on, he says, I have led you 40 years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet. You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink. that you may know that I am the Lord your God." This is God's provision for the people. And it's interesting here that they don't need things that are most often made by man, okay? They don't need clothes or sandals. This would be big things for those guys, especially when you're wandering in the wilderness and your shoes wear out, right? They don't need bread. They have manna. They don't need wine, they have water from the rock. God provided for them for 40 years. Verse seven, and when you came to this place, Shinnon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle and we defeated them. That's God's protection. Enemies came against them and they defeated them. Verse eight, and we took their land and gave it to the inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh. And I guess I could have had a picture for that, but we've seen it numerous times. Remember, those two and a half tribes took land on the east side of the river, okay? Again, God's provision. Also, it's a bit of a first fruits. They haven't yet gone in to possess the land on the other side of the Jordan, on the west side, okay? But they've seen how the Lord has taken care of them in battle, okay? And they won, and they now have acquired this land for two and a half tribes. Remember the bad report, and I'll just read it to you. Remember there were giants in the promised land, numbers 1332, and they spread among the Israelites a bad report when those 12 came back, right? 10 of them did. And they said, the land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are great in size. We saw the Nephilim there, the descendants of Anak, come from the Nephilim. And we seem like grasshoppers in their eyes, and we look the same to them. Og, the king of Bashan, was also a giant. Okay. So again, a little bit of first fruits of conquering giants. Okay. And the Lord said, I'm going to take care of you when you go into the land, if you follow me. All right. Verse nine, therefore, keep the words of this covenant and do them that you may prosper in all that you do. You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God, the heads of your tribes, your elders and your officers and all the men of Israel, your little ones and your wives, and the sojourner who is in your camp. from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water." There'll be some servants there. Slaves, whatever you're gonna call them. Verse 12, so that you may enter into the sworn covenant of the Lord your God, which the Lord your God is making with you today, that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, It is not with you alone that I'm making this sworn covenant. That's interesting. 15, but with whoever is standing here with us today before the Lord our God, and with whoever is not here with us today. He's talking about the future descendants, that this covenant is for them and future, their future descendants, okay? The people of Israel would all, The future descents of the people of israel are all included in this covenant. All right Verse 16, you know how we lived in the land of egypt and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed And you have seen their detestable things their idols of wood and stone and of silver And gold which were among them beware lest there be among you a man or a woman or a clan or a tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord your God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit. So Moses speaks directly to that man or woman who would serve a false god here, okay? 19, one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself, or he has peace in his heart, saying, I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart. This will lead to the sweeping away of the moist and the dry alike. Not many people talk about that sentence, but some do. So he may have an immediate sense of peace at the moment. He's fooling himself, okay? It's a blind peace. It's a peace of the ignorant, okay? He cannot see the peril of the coming judgment of the Lord, because the Lord knows our hearts totally, and he knows that this guy is planning on worshiping false gods, okay? Even though he's being instructed not to. Then he says this. This will lead to the sweeping away of the moist and the dry alike. Some innocent people would be affected by the eventual judgment that would be poured out on a nation that turns from the true and living God to idols. They're swept away, the dry ends up being swept away, and with them, they take the moist. Now, some of you may have a little different translation there, but you can see the same idea. Bible knowledge commentary puts it this way. This idolatrous root, however, would flower into a general apostasy that would bring forth God's judgment. All Israelites would suffer in the judgment. This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry land, okay? Now you say, wait a minute, this is talking about just one person, not all Israel, okay? And it continues that way, just let's go on, okay? But first I want you to remember this, Deuteronomy 13.6 says, If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or your wife you embrace, or your friend who is your own soul entices you secretly saying, let us go and serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known. And it goes on and it says, but you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death and afterward the hand of all the peoples. Okay, so the Lord, you know, was very tough on those who would go after foreign gods. And if it was proven, and again, it was after two or three witnesses, they were to stone them to death. They were to kill them, to get that out of the land, to protect the people. And so we talked about that as a deterrent last week as well. Remember this also, Galatians 5.9, a little leaven leavens the whole lump. If you let a little creep in, This is the same way with our lives. We let a little sin in over here, it's just going to leaven the whole lump. So we've got to guard against that. So the Lord promised to bring the people into a well-watered land, Deuteronomy 8, 7, for the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains, of springs flowing out of the valleys and the hills. And that relates to what we're talking about, sweeping away the moist. Now, remember the curses in chapter 28 last week, and I'll just, here's a little compilation of the curses All the crops of your land will be cursed, scorching heat and drought with blight and mildew. The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder. You will sow much seed in the field, but you will harvest little because the locusts will devour it. You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink the wine. or gather the grapes because the worms will eat them, swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land." Okay? Now that's just a compilation of those curses for not following the Lord, but this is what happens when the dry sweeps away the wet. They're promised a well-watered land, But when sin gets in, it just takes it all away. And it does the same in our lives as well. It affects the whole land. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. And that's why he's so set on if you see your wife even going after a false god, she needs to be stoned to death. It's a very, very serious matter. Or your son, or your husband, or whatever. Could be your husband. All right. Continuing on, Deuteronomy 29, 20. The Lord was not willing to forgive him, this person who had in his mind that he could worship a false God, okay? But rather, the anger of the Lord and his jealousy will smote against that man, very specific, that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him. And the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven. And the Lord will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity. In accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law, okay, which is deuteronomy 28 curses So the lord's still pointing out the one who said in his heart. I shall be safe though. I walk in the stubbornness of my heart Romans 14 tells us it's not good to eat meat or to drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble And this person, in being an idolater in the land, would cause his brothers to stumble. Just like allowing a little bit of sin in our own lives causes us to stumble. Verses 22 through 28 now are speaking in a future tense. Moses is anticipating, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, their failure to keep the covenant. Okay, and now you're gonna see this is gonna switch from just a single man that he's been talking about to the whole group, okay? So, verse 29, 22. And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, will say, when they see the afflictions of that land, and the sickness with which the Lord has made it sick, The whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing. where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeblon, I don't know how you say it, Zeboim, Zeboim, two towns that were nearby Sodom and Gomorrah, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and wrath. And all the nations will say, why has the Lord done this to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger? Then the people will say, It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, their God, of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them. That's a little interesting phrase there, whom he had not allotted to them, gods he had not allotted to them. More on that next week, okay? 27, therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, bringing upon it all the curses written in this book. And the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and in fury and in great wrath and cast them into another land as they are this day. Now remember I said this was future tense. He's looking ahead saying this is what's gonna happen. Rot's going to get in your land. People are going to say in their heart, well, I can serve other gods. And that leaven's going to leaven the whole lump. And that's what happens in 721 BC, when the Assyrians come down, and later in 486 BC, when the Babylonians come and take them away. 70 AD, when the Romans wipe them out and destroy the temple. And still to this day, they're in another land, largely. There's Israel, they're there, 1948, they're back in the land, more on that. All right, and then we wind up with this last verse. The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that way ye may do all the words of this law. We don't know everything, we only know what he's given us. Our responsibility, is to trust and obey, okay? We're to remember that a little leaven leavens a whole lump, whether it's a nation or a person like myself, okay? James 4, 17 says, so whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin, okay? Good verse to remember. All right, chapter 30, this is what we call It's often called the Palestine Covenant, continued, okay? And you might see it labeled at the top of your chapter, Repentance and Forgiveness. It's still future, okay? We're still looking ahead. All right, verse one. When all these things come upon you, Moses is still speaking, he's still carrying on with this third address. When all these things come upon you, the blessings and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you, look into the future, and return Now, here is the repentance. That word return is shub in the Hebrew, and it's often a picture of repentance, okay? When you return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice and all that I command you today with all your heart and with all your soul. Then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes. There's the forgiveness. Remember this chapter's titled Repentance and Forgiveness. You see, return to the Lord and the Lord will restore you. Restore your fortunes from captivity. And have mercy on you and he will gather you again from all the peoples or all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. Gathered you where? Where's he gonna gather them? Okay, let's jump ahead and look at verse five. And the Lord your God will bring you into the land that your father's possessed, that you may possess it. Okay, so back to Israel. Okay, that was just jumping ahead looking at five. Where is he going to gather them? All right, back to verse four. If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will take you. Now the next question to ask is, when? Is it this big gathering that is gonna get him from everywhere? Let's turn over to Matthew 24. So this is the Olivet Discourse. This is Jesus gonna get crucified the next day? Maybe the day after the next day. Right there at the end, okay? And he's talking, he's up on the Mount of Olives talking to the disciples, okay? Matthew 24, 29. And they've asked him some questions and he says this, immediately after the tribulation of those days, we're gonna take that to mean the seven year tribulation, okay? The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light. And the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken." Okay? Matthew 24, 30 now. So we're at the end of the seven-year tribulation when this is taking place. Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man. Who knows what the sign is? I'll tell you what, everyone says we don't know what the sign of the Son of Man is. I mean, there's people who have ideas, and a lot of things are suggested. I've got my own ideas. We won't go into that. If you want to talk about it later, we can talk about it. Actually, I found some fascinating things today that I'd never seen before. There will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man. We're not entirely sure what that is, okay? But it has to do, I believe, with the advent of Christ at the second coming, okay? What the sign is, I don't know. But it's the second coming of Christ, okay? Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds. There it tells you distinctly that it's Him coming. Matthew 24, 30. Then will appear in the heaven the sign of the Son of Man. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other. Okay? And these are all the people that are saved and still alive at the end of the tribulation. Okay. And then another place we can go is Zechariah 12, 10. Right there at the very end of the Old Testament, back, what, it's like the third from the end? Is that about right? Fourth, no, second from the end. Zechariah, Malachi, that's right. So go to the, Matthew and back to books. It's not far. Zechariah 1210. They're going to see him coming in power, as we just read. And I believe this is when this takes place. Zechariah 12, 10, I will pour out on the house of David, the Israelites, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, a spirit of grace and please for mercy so that when they look on me, on him who may have pierced, on the cross, right? They shall mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him as one weeps over a firstborn. This is a recognition of their rejection of their Messiah. They're gonna realize this is Jesus. And I think they get a big hint when the rapture takes place. that those Christians were right. Those Protestants, those people that kept coming over to their land in droves and visiting, you know, to see all the signs of Jesus and walk all the paths of Jesus, they rejected them. They say, no, our rabbis know what they're doing. They know what they're talking about. Jesus wasn't the Messiah. And they've been saying that, you know. for years, and when the rapture takes place and all those people are gone, there's going to be an aha moment, I believe, and we know 144,000 are saved right away of Jews out of Revelation 7 and 14, and they're going to be, as near as we can tell, witnessing, and I think a lot of Jews are going to get saved at that moment, and Gentiles as well. But many, many die in the tribulation. I've got a list of six or seven verses of all the places that talk about Christians being persecuted to death. When you finish reading all those verses, you say, how could anyone be alive, is the feeling you get. But we know some come through. We know the 144,000 have a mark, they're sealed by the Holy Spirit, they can't die. That'd be a good deal. Except they had to go through tribulation. Anyway, maybe that's not a good deal, but they're saved. Okay, so here we see this, the Lord is gonna gather them back into the land, this Romans 11 again, all Israel will be saved. All right, back to Deuteronomy 30 verse five. And the Lord your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. And he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers. Now, remember I said last week, The Jews, the Jewish population is still smaller than it was in 1939 before the Holocaust. They still have not recovered from the Holocaust, okay? Their population, world population, okay? But I believe what he's talking about here is the millennial reign. They will be prosperous and numerous, okay? And yeah, I know here says future at the end of the tribulation and the start of the millennium Israel will get the title to the land back right what we call this Palestinian Covenant, okay? because it's He says, I'm going to bring you into the land that you may possess it. And we've been seeing this through much of Deuteronomy. I've pointed out how the Lord keeps saying, when you possess the land, when you're going to go possess the land, what Moses is saying is the Lord's telling him to say it. You're going to possess the land. He keeps encouraging him to go possess the land. And here, that's going to be the final possession. No Palestinian authority, no Hamas, just Jews. Verse six. And then the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul that you may live. Now, backing up to chapter 29 where we started, verse one, the start of Moses' third address, and the covenant that they made with Moab, okay? MacArthur has this to say. He says, this third covenant is viewed by some interpreters as the Palestinian covenant, which gave Israel the title to the land. And that's how I've taught it. Go possess the land, okay? And we just read this Deuteronomy 30 verse five, you know, the land that your father's gonna possess. MacArthur goes on, he says, however, the emphasis of these two chapters is not on the land. Remember I said every commentator had a different idea about this? Here's MacArthur's take. He says it's not on the land, but on the change of Israel's heart. And then he says, see the contrast between Deuteronomy 29.4 and Deuteronomy 36. So let's look at Deuteronomy 29.4, and that was the one I said, I don't have a very good answer for this. Okay, which is, but on this day, the Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear. And I just said, I don't know why the secret things belong to the Lord. Okay. Other than the Messianic Jews, the rest of Israel is close to the Lord, okay? They're close to the Gospel. They did not see their Messiah. And now, still future, Deuteronomy 30, verse 6 says this, okay? We looked at 29.4. The Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear, and 36 says, 30 verse six, the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul that you may live. Now MacArthur says this is the heart of these two chapters, 28 and 29. It's not about the land, he says. That's not the main emphasis. it's about their heart being circumcised, okay? Who's to argue with MacArthur, the Protestant Pope? Okay. So this is a change of heart which the later prophets would term the New Covenant, okay? So let's turn over to Jeremiah 31, 31. Jeremiah 31, 31. Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, being the north, okay? Remember, Israel got a divided kingdom, and you had Israel in the north, the 10 tribes, and the two tribes in the south, okay? I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, the north, and the house of Judah, that'd be the south. Verse 32, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of Egypt, that would be the Sinai covenant, My covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord, for this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put my law within them. I will write it on their hearts. Before he wrote it on stones, the 10 commandments on the tablets. Now he's gonna write it on their hearts. And I will be their God and they shall be my people. Is this true of Israel today? Other than Messianic Jews, you can't say that, can you? It's yet future. That's Delaware today when Israel acknowledged her sin and turned to their Messiah for forgiveness, okay? Jeremiah 31, 34 now. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and his brother, saying, know the Lord, for they shall all know me. No one's gonna try and witness to one person to the other, you know, or show them, they're all gonna know the Lord, okay? From the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity, or I will forgive their sin, right? And I will remember their sin no more. So Jeremiah here, by the inspiration again of the Holy Spirit, saw a time when I will forgive their inequity and remember their sin no more. Their sin was paid by Christ in the future, future ahead of that, okay? Actually, when it actually takes place, which it would be in the past, because this isn't going to happen until towards the end of the tribulation, when they see their Messiah and their hearts break for him, and they know it's the one they pierced. They'll look back at Christ, okay? And they've probably been looking back at him ever since the rapture, honestly, going, we missed it. We followed our rabbis. We followed the oral traditions. which they're really big on, and they're stubborn. Remember I played you a clip from So Be It of Jeff and a Jewish guy, and he talked about how stubborn he was? Just having to watch that last night with my brothers, my brother from Alaska's down, and we watched that clip, and I forgot this, but at the very end of that clip, and it's pretty long, probably 20-minute discussion, very good discussion, That kid he says I am proud of my stubbornness, but it because it keeps outside influence from coming in You know it protects us but They're totally relying and he went over and over and over in that video of relying on the oral tradition which you Isn't biblical. That's something the Matt rabbis made up. It's just These traditions they have and what they believe and they've it's sad, but they've just missed their Messiah. I Also, Isaiah 53 says this, surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted, but he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities, upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed, okay? And then Acts 3.19, repent therefore and turn back that your sins may be blotted out. Again, a picture of repentance and turning back. Okay. Turn over to Ezekiel 36.26. It's just another change of heart verse, I guess we'd call it. Okay. He's going to change their hearts. Ezekiel 36.26. He says, and I will give you a new heart and a new spirit, and I will put within you. And I will remove your heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I'll put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. So in the upper room, Jesus announced that the new covenant was to be inaugurated through the shedding of his blood, right? And they had communion up there, the first communion, right? Shed blood, broken body, which we celebrate today in remembrance of him, what he's done for us. And so in that upper room, in Luke 22, 20, he said, and likewise, the cup after they had eaten, saying, this cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood. Okay. Luke 22, 20, where the Lord, our Lord Jesus speaks about that new covenant in my blood. Okay. And so we see that, and, you know, it'd be a whole nother study, but how the church is brought into the new covenant, not replacing Israel, but we are part of that new covenant picture. Okay. In response to Israel's certain failure under the provisions of the Sinaitic Covenant, Moses anticipated a new covenant under which Israel would be obedient to the Lord and finally reap His blessings. With respect to MacArthur, It's about the land, but it's also about a change of heart. He's right, the change of heart is a very big part of these two chapters. But we've seen all through Deuteronomy that the land is very important. And what's fascinating is that they're in the land and they're not obedient. Okay, which to me just says that since 1948 God has began the time clock on winding things down to his return. That's how I view it. I can't find good verses. I did some looking on this this weekend. I cannot find good verses that speak of bringing him into the land without him being obedient. I don't know if there's one one guy i was reading he said well these verses say that and i read them and it's kind of like maybe sort of i don't know you know um and i haven't done a lot of looking on that but everywhere about bringing you back into the land it's when you are obedient okay are we still in ezekiel uh we can be Ezekiel 36. Okay. There you go. That's yeah. No, this is not it. No. Yeah, I'm going to act. I'm going to do something here. Right. For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands, and bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and a new spirit within you. He's acting in their still-rebellion scene, brings them in, and the second cause is, now I'm going to... That's good, yeah. I didn't spend a lot of time looking. You were just there, so that's great that you... And then in 37, of course, you have what Scott mentioned last week, which is the dry bones, where they're brought together That's fine. The next chapter, 37. Verse 4, He said to me, prophesy over these bones and say to the dry bones, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. And thus says Lord God to these bones, behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life. I will put sinew on you. That's the end goal, I think, is the breath. He starts with this, I will put sinew on you and make flesh grow back on you and cover you with skin and put breath in you. it may come alive, and you will know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as I was commanded, and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling, and bones came together, bone to its bone, and I looked, and behold, sinews were on them, and flesh grew, skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. And so if you think of bones coming together, flesh and sinew coming on all the way to skin, but no life, Like that almost is an example of them being brought together, but not the breath of life. Right. Be right there. Well, I mean, that's right. Look at verse nine, though. OK. He says, then he said to me, prophesy to the breath. So now he's going to put breath and prophesy to the Son of Man and say to the breath, thus says the Lord God, come from the four winds. And what was it I just read? I'm just looking back over my notes out of, wasn't it Matthew 24? I'm going to draw you from the four. Winds, is that what it says? Matthew 29, I will get his like from the four winds. There you go. Yeah, so in all the discourse 2431. He gathers elect from the four winds. And the breath doesn't come. I mean, he has to get the breath from the four winds, so it's at the same time he brings the bones in, but they don't have any breath until the very end. if you want to look at it that way. It started in 48 with the bones coming together and sinew and stuff, and the breath doesn't come until the end of the tribulation, seemingly. If you talk to, like, here we are supporting one for Israel. Right. That's unheard of to have a Jewish, what do they call it when you train pastors? Seminary. In Israel. In Israel, Jewish, in Israel, training Messianic Jews. And Arabs. And Arabs, anybody, but it's in that place. And they were talking, you know, years ago, we talked about how effective YouTube was. where they never had an outlet to ask spiritual questions, because the only place you could go was the rabbi. And now, I think that's starting to crack. I don't know this. Well, just by what Lucas showed us about the volume increase of the number of Bibles they're asking for was just like exponential, 800% increase. I think it was that one period of time. Oh, there's something going on. All right, where were we? We read Ezekiel 36. Let me start with that again, Ezekiel 36, 26. And I will give you a new heart and a new spirit that I'll put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I'll put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and to be careful to obey my rules. Yeah, we kind of did this. Then in the upper room discourse, I just mentioned when Jesus was speaking there, he spoke of the new covenant. was to be inaugurated through the shedding of his blood. And that's just something I read, but we then went to Luke 22 20 and talked about the cup. Okay. This cup being poured out for you is the new covenant, my blood. Okay. And I was clear down to here, uh, with respect to MacArthur, it's about the land, but it's also about the change of heart. Okay. It is about both. It really is. Uh, they're both in there. Um, And I suppose if some guys could draw many other things out of there as well. OK, Deuteronomy 31 through 10 is really tied to the change of Israel's heart. OK, and we've looked at the first six verses, so we're just going to finish up starting in 30 verse 7. And the Lord your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you. Has to be somewhere in the tribulation time. And you shall again obey the voice of the Lord and keep his commandments that I command you today. And the Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground. For the Lord again will take delight in prospering you as he took delight in your fathers. And when you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this book of the law, when you turn, and again, there's that word, that shub, has the idea of repentance. When you turn to the Lord, you're a God with all your heart and with all your soul. And again, we just, you know, this, Trusting in the Lord has the idea of, you know, repenting from the way we've always gone and turning to Him and trusting Him for what He says He's done for us, what we know He's done for us, and obeying Him. Trust and obey, okay? So with that, we'll end. Let's pray. Father, we're grateful for Your Word. We're grateful for the promises that You've made to Israel and that You're keeping. For the discipline that you laid out before them and where they've failed, you have indeed punched them as you said you would. You've kept your promise in that area. It's not a promise I would want, but you've honored that because they did disobey you and go their own way. We see over and over again that when you make a covenant with someone, you're going to keep it. You've made promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and you're keeping those. You've given them the land. They're going to get it. They're already beginning to move to bring them back. You're faithful, you're a promise keeper, and you love us, and you chose us if we're in you, and we're just grateful for those things. Thank you for this word. We thank you for men who study it and see different angles, and we can appreciate both those different perspectives that these different scholars have spotted. And I'm sure there's many more, but it's good to have good study tools. We have no excuse for not reading your Word and studying your Word. It's available to us. Help us to do those things, Lord. Bless us this week, I pray now, in Jesus' name, Amen.