Sunday Prepper Bible Study- Blessings and Curses
Sunday Prepper Bible Study- Blessings and Curses Deuteronomy 28
The Bible tells us precisely what we can expect from God when we chose to obey or disobey his Word. God promises blessings for obedience to The Bible as well as curse when we chose to do things our own way. Here are a few of the blessings and curses. Deuteronomy 28 is a very long chapter of The Bible, so I am only posting a few excerpts. If you take the time to read the whole chapter, you will get a better feel for God’s heart.
The Bible’s Blessings for Obedience
“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:
3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.
6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
7 The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.
8 The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.
9 The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the Lord your God and walk in obedience to him. 10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will fear you. 11 The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.
12 The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none…..”
God made all of these promises to Israel if they would obey Him. If they would put Him first, he promised that they would be prosperous and that they would lend to other nations and barrow from none. He also promised that none of their enemies would be able to defeat them. America was once blessed like this. We put God first, The Bible was considered part of the curriculum in our schools. Children were taught the 10 Commandments and to love thy neighbor. Using God’s name as a curse word on Television was unheard of and babies were safe in their mother’s womb.
America was a shining example of morality and prosperity to the rest of the world. We were truly blessed in the city and blessed in the country. We decisively won all of our military conflicts and we were proud to be one nation, under God.
The Bible’s 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:
16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
20 The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him. 21 The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. 22 The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish. 23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. 24 The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed….
43 The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. 44 They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.”
In contrast with the America of yesterday, we are now the number one exporter of pornography in the world. We have lost the blessing of verse 12,”You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none…..”. We are now the largest debtor nation in the entire history of the world. The decline of our prosperity has been in lock step with our moral decay. It is just as God promised in the Bible. Now, the number of abortions since Roe vs. Wade has risen to nearly 55,000,000 (yes! 55 millions). The Bible is no longer welcome in schools, and children are taught that we just happened. With no sense of moral absolute, since there is no God, they are free to create their own morality.
“49 The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. 51 They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.”
We have been in a military conflict with a rag tag bunch of rabble rousers for over a decade with no end in site. We spend over $1,000,000,000,000.00 ( one trillion) annually on our combined military budgets. Surely this will eventually devour the young of our livestock and the crops of our land. Our enemies fund their armies trough our dependance on heroin and oil. We have tried to teach them a better way, but they look on in disgust at our immoral, pornographic society. Why should they follow the ways of a nation that treats the name of it’s own God with such contempt as to use it as a curse word?
“45 All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. 46 They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever. 47 Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,48 therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.”
I see no change in the downward spiral of America’s morality. I see no repentance in the sins of our country. Our latest elections told a story of an America that is finished with God. We have decided when a child is to be born and not Him. We have decided what constitutes a family and not Him. We have taken The Bible from our classrooms and God’s ways from our lives.
I also see no change in God’s faithfulness. His promises in the Bible are timeless, both for the blessings and the curses. Since we have passed the tipping point in rejecting God and the Bible, it would be foolish to not expect God’s promised curse to fall on our adulterous land. Now more than ever, I believe Christians should be preppers. The Bible promises that things will get worse and worse as we move further away from God.
Despite all of these curses that are assured for our nation, we can individually choose to obey God. I believe he can bless us as individuals even as our nation reaps it’s rewards for disobedience. Obeying God’s Word starts with knowing it. I pray you will take time to read the Bible every day, then do what it says; you’ll be glad you did!
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