Blessings for following God, for doing his work and following His will.
Blessings for Obedience
28 If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2 All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God:
I like How God just puts all these before Israel. He went these are your options, now select the path that you want to go.
I cant imagine that Israel still want to go against God. Like how is that even logical. But are we not like that? We are like that after all. What difference is there?
Curses for Disobedience
15 However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:
Then God laid out all the curses that will be upon Israel if Israel walk away from God. There is no third way. It is either for or against. There is no "neutral" or "on the fence".
A random thought: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael
Remember Ishmael the son of Abraham? The son that Abraham and Hagaar bore? Yes. Muslims are from Him! Yes. You can check out the Quran and know that it is true. Muhammad was from his linage. So Jews and Muslims share the same origin but diverged in believes, why?
This was the part that Abraham had to die and Israel was preparing to go into the promise land. Now they renewed their covenant and after which Abraham died and that was it. They are in the promise land and the new leader Joshua was chosen. Joshua was chosen and His first major task was to take down Jericho using God's strength and because of that he became exceedingly famous and gained the recognition from His people and the enemies. It was because God used Him so mightily.
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