COVENANT JUDGMENT

Bill Fitzhenry's Thoughts For Today…

Understanding important truths from the Bible…. 

COVENANT JUDGMENT                

Deuteronomy 28:64-64 WITH CHAPTER 27-28 NKJV

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.

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. 

The Bible teaches God’s judgment on the nations.  The first occurrence of this was “the flood”.  Another illustration is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.  The destruction of Egypt and the overthrow of the nation in Canaan are also lessons of the consistency of this judgment. 

There appears to be a gradation in depravity before God exercises judgment.  There is first the condition of little or no civilization.  This is the condition that prevailed before and at the time of “the flood”.  Judgment was slow in coming and there was ample warning but destruction was complete. 

Again there is the condition of civilization.  Sodom and Gomorrah were organized and civilized entities.  They had the leadership and trappings of an organized society.  When judgment came it was swift and thorough.  There was no preaching in Sodom and no time for repentance. 

There is a third grade of judgment.  That is when it applies to those in Covenant with God.  Israel qualified for this.  It is necessary to realize no catastrophe has happened to Israel that they have not had ample forewarning. 

Moses states plainly to Israel that they have the rich blessing of God by being in covenant with him.  Along with the promised blessings come the uncompromised curses that will result from disobedience to the Covenant which they entered at Horeb. 

There are no other statements so overwhelming in their graphic description of the judgment Israel will face for departure from Covenant obedience as that in Deuteronomy 27-28.  They are so overwhelming they are difficult to read.  They are so true to the experience of Israel that liberal Bible scholars claim they were written around 200 BC.  But that doesn’t help answer for their accuracy.  These curses continue on Israel to the present day. 

A careful study of Jewish history Post-AD should convince the Bible student of the judgment pronounced by Moses on this people.  This judgment they cannot escape. 

Political correctness cannot exonerate them or provide relief for their misery.  The only hope for relief for a Jew is repentance and faith in Christ, not as the Savior of Israel, but as the only Savior of poor lost sinners. 

Application:

1. We are no better than they.
2. What a great judgment is due a Gospel-enlightened western civilization.