People like to reappropriate this and similar passages to proclaim a prophecy specific to Jews and excluding all others…  or elsewise to spiritualize the whole subject, so as to say that all these Scriptures are spoken foreshadowing the Christian church…

But when we do not rewrite our history, what do we find?…

We discover that our Heavenly Father spoke these words over an entire nation of which the people who would much later become Jews (generations later) were only but a tiny fraction.

YHWH promised incredible blessing for obedience and equal and even surpassing cursing for disobedience…

And again He was not only talking to the Jew…

He was talking to you.

He was talking to all those who were going to be exiled from Israel, both those who would be brought back as the remnant and those who would be dissolved into the nations.

This is not our interpretation… This is not even anyone’s interpretation. It is merely the plain reading of what is written on the page. “ I will not cast them away…”

YHWH spoke this in His NAME… and the Jews were only a portion of the people He spoke of.

You don’t obey because you’re Jewish.

You obey because YHWH promised your ancestors that He would remember His covenant with you for their sakes…if you obey.

YHWH cast out the 10 northern tribes of Israel and never yet brought them back. He dissolved them into the nations and did not destroy them utterly.

To this day, one cannot definitively point to any person on the Earth and determine with any degree of certainty what northern tribe they belong to…but it doesn’t matter.

YHWH remembers who your fathers were, and He remembers His covenant with you for their sakes.

At this point, none of us know who our ancestors were in relation to Israel, but we do know that the descendants of the northern tribes of Israel are everywhere in the world and we very well might belong to one of them.

But whether we do or not, we may choose to and should, because if we are of that blood and of that lineage then we are the ones who are being spoken of in this passage. And all who choose to obey YHWH become part of that people anyway.

“Choose this day Whom you will serve”

YHWH is served only one way - His Way.

Your ancestors refused to obey. What will you do?

#questioneverything

#getbiblical

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