GOD’S BLESSINGS FLOW DOWN

 

 

Deut 8:11-20

11            Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:

12            Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

13            And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

14            Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

15            Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

16            Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

17            And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.

18            But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

19            And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

20            As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God. (KJV)

 

God’s blessings flow down!  God has established this principle!  This is the very nature of God and one of His purposes, to bless His people.  He wants to bless us so that He might establish His covenant with us, as a person, as a nation, as a world.  He made us to bless us!  We read this purpose in:

 

Deut 8:18  But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.  (KJV)

 

We also see, however, in Deut 8:11-14, that we are to obey Him and not forget Him and that it is He that has blessed us and not we ourselves who have gotten our wealth and blessings by our own strength.  We would not have them except through Him and His purpose!  His purpose is to establish His covenant upon the earth, which is to bless us as we obey Him and we in turn are to be a blessing!

 

Deut 8:11-14

11            Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:

12            Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

13            And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

14            Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

 

 

God calls a people to Himself and then He leads them aside and gives them His laws of sowing and increase as well as the laws of how they are to govern their nation—for he does intend for them to become a nation even as He did Israel—and He promises to bless them.  If they listen, then they are established in the earth as a people and are then blessed by God and grow and increase as He planned.  This is His purpose and it is carried out!  We see this throughout history—according to their legends, from the red man to the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Israelis, down to the USA.

 

We believe, every bit as much as Israel, that God called us and set us aside and built us a house that was based upon His laws as a great Christian nation.  We believe that He blessed us and established us and made us a great people in these latter days, even as He has so many nations before us.  Each has arisen and took their place among the nations and been great as long as they followed the laws that God set up for them.  When they disobeyed and forgot Him, then they began to decrease and finally were reduced into slavery or at least lost their preeminence in the earth.   

 

We, in America, should take this warning and return to God who established us and to His laws, which He gave us, laws that came directly from His word.  We have grown rich and increased and now feel that we have done this by our own power.  This is not true!  We have forgotten that it was God who gave us the power to gain wealth—to establish His covenant in the earth! 

 

Just what is God’s purpose?  Why does He establish a people and make them great?  For what reason?  Lets look as some of God’s promises to us.

 

God created man to serve Him and obey His laws and as he did, God blessed him as He did in the Garden of Eden.  But when man refused to obey God’s law—not eat of the forbidden tree—God put him outside of that place of comfort and blessings that He had made for him and caused him to come back to God through repentance and forgiveness.  However, man has not yet been restored to that place from which he has fallen and awaits the coming of God to dwell with us again even as in the Garden.  This is our hope and destiny.  This is what we long for and await hopefully to see that working out of God’s final purpose for man—the restoration of all things!  The scriptures below tell the story of the creation and the fall and the restoration which we await!

 

Gen 2:7-9

7              And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

8              And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

9              And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

(KJV)

 

Gen 2:21-24

21            And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

22            And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

23            And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

24                Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. (KJV)

 

Gen 3:1-5

1              Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

2              And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

3              But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

4              And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

5              For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

 (KJV)

 

But the penalty of Adam and Eve forgetting God and not obeying His laws was:

 

Gen 3:6-24

 

6              And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

7              And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

8              And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

9              And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

10            And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

11            And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

12            And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

13            And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

14            And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

15            And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

16            Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

17            And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

18            Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

19            In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

20            And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

21            Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

22            And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

23                Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

24            So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. (KJV)

 

So, men began to multiply upon the earth and call upon the Name of God.  But like Cain, their hearts were not to obey God and His laws but to do what was right in their own eyes and violence filled all the earth.

 

Gen 6:6-8

6              And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

7              And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

8              But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. (KJV)

 

Gen 6:11-13

11            The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

12            And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

13            And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. (KJV)

 

 

 

Gen 6:18

18            But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. (KJV)

 

Gen 7:1

1              And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. (KJV)

 

Gen 8:1

1              And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; (KJV)

 

 

God not only remember Noah and his family but caused them to survive and multiply and blessed them and made a covenant with Noah and all the earth and sealed it with the rainbow to remind Him of His promise to us—

 

 

Gen 8:15-19

15            And God spake unto Noah, saying,

16            Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

17            Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

18            And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:

19            Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. (KJV)

 

 

Gen 8:20-22

20            And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21            And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

22            While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. (KJV)

 

Gen 9:9-11

9              And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

10            And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

11            And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. (KJV)

 

 

So man again multiplied upon the earth and again God called a man to come aside and He would make a great nation of him and establish His covenant with him—God called Abram.

 

 

Gen 12:1-5

1              Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

2              And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

3              And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

4              So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

5              And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. (KJV)

 

Gen 12:7-8

7              And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

8              And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD. (KJV)

 

 

Gen 15:1-7

1              After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

2              And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

3              And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

4              And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

5              And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

6              And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

7              And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. (KJV)

 

Gen 15:18-21

18            In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

19            The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

20            And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

21            And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. (KJV)

 

Gen 17:1-9

1              And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

2              And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

3              And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

4              As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

5              Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

6              And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

7              And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

8              And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

9              And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations. (KJV)

 

 

Gen 17:19-21

19            And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

20            And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

21            But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. (KJV)

 

So, God blessed Abram and changed his name to Abraham for indeed he did become the father of many nations.  God established His covenant which He made with Abraham with his son and grandson, Isaac and Jacob who became Israel.  Israel went down to Egypt in the famine and was preserved there for 430 years.  But then a king arose who knew not Joseph and made them slaves.  As slaves in Egypt they called out to God and He remembered His promise to Israel when he went down to Egypt to bring them forth a mighty nation. 

 

God sent Moses to bring them out with a mighty arm through signs and wonders, providing for them in the desert and feeding them with angel’s food and supplying water from the Rock, going before them and conquering their enemies on every side.  He gave them His law in Horeb and commanded them to obey Him and serve Him and He would make of them a great nation and they would never be uprooted.  As long as they served Him with a whole heart, they were blessed and satisfied with the Lord’s bounty.

 

 

Exod 2:23-25

23            And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

24            And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

25            And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them. (KJV)

 

Exod 6:3-8

3              And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.

4              And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.

5              And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.

6                Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:

7              And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

8              And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD. (KJV)

 

Exod 19:5-6

5              Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

6              And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. (KJV)

 

Lev 26:3-12

3              If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

4              Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

5              And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

6              And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

7              And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

8              And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

9              For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

10            And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

11            And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.

12            And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. (KJV)

 

Deut 4:13-14

13            And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

14            And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. (KJV)

 

Deut 7:9-15

9              Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

10            And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

11            Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

12                Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:

13            And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

14            Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

15            And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. (KJV)

 

 

Deut 8:1-10

1              All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.

2              And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

3              And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

4              Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

5              Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

6                Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

7              For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;

8              A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;

9              A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

10            When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. (KJV)

 

Deut 8:11-20

11            Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:

12            Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

13            And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

14            Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

15            Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

16            Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

17            And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.

18            But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

19            And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

20            As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God. (KJV)

 

Deut 29:9-18

9              Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

10            Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,

11            Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

12            That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:

13            That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

14            Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

15            But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:

16            (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

17            And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

18            Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; (KJV)

 

Deut 31:9-13

9              And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.

10            And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

11            When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

12            Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

13            And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. (KJV)

 

But, if they would not listen and obey the words of His laws, then they would be punished and finally destroyed as a people if they refused to return to Him and obey Him.

 

Lev 26:14-39

14            But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;

15            And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

16            I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

17            And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

18            And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

19            And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

20            And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

21            And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

22            I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate.

23            And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;

24            Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

25            And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

26            And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

27            And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;

28            Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

29            And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

30            And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

31            And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

32            And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

33            And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

34            Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

35            As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

36            And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

37            And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

38            And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

39            And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. (KJV)

 

Deut 8:19-20

19            And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

20            As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God. (KJV)

 

Deut 29:18-29

18            Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

19            And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

20            The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

21            And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:

22            So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;

23            And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

24            Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

25            Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:

26            For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:

27            And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

28            And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.

29            The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. (KJV)

 

 

But if, in their misery, they remembered their God and repented; then God would remember His promise to them and bless them and not utterly destroy them as a people and if they repented, He would bring them back to their land and bless them and walk with them as in days of old.

 

Lev 26:40-45

40            If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

41            And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:

42            Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

43            The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

44            And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

45                   But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD. (KJV)

 

This is as true for us today as it was for Israel in her day. The Lord caused her to be dispersed into all the nations and she was persued there with the sword and then He passed her trough the fire even as He prophecied in the Prophets because of her sin, as we see with all the persecution that she has had to endure throughout Europe and then to Hitler, because she sacrificed her children unto Baal by casting them into the fire. She has been punished and punished but even there, the Lord remembered her and His promise to her to leave her a remnant. This He did even from the arch-enemy Hitler, himself! Of the 10 million jews he only destroyed six million. God preserved her a remnant!   As the Lord has re-established Israel as a nation and has blessed her and fought for her; so He will for us as well.  If we rebel and turn against His laws that He has established with us, then will He chasten us, even as He did Israel, until we repent and return to Him? If we sacrifice our children to the Godess of Love through abortion, will He not see as well and punish us even as He did Israel? If we persist in rebelling against Him, then will He also cause us to cease as a nation until we also repent? May the Lord help us to judge ourselves so He will not need to judge us!  Still, we continue to repeat the sins of Israel—not obeying His laws, serving other gods, killing our babies and calling good evil and evil good!  Oh, May we call upon Him while there is time and repent in “sackcloth and ashes” and turn from our rebellious ways and learn to serve Him as He has instructed us in His word!

 

AMERICA,  WAKE UP BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE AND THE LORD PLACES OVER US THOSE WHO WILL PUT US INTO BONDAGE UNTIL WE, LIKE ISRAEL, REPENT AND CALL UPON HIM FOR RELIEF AND DETERMAINE TO OBEY HIS WILL!