25“When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger, 26I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not [h]prolong yourdays in it, but will be utterly destroyed. 27And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you. 28And there you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
Witness
I call heaven and earth, creation to witness!
“God gave Israel the Promised Land, but not unconditionally. If they persisted in idol worship, God would remove them from the land and scatter them among the nations.” (Guzik)
The Lord predicts the scattering of Judah into the Babylonian empire some 550 years later and He will turn them over to their sinful desires of worshiping other gods!
Let this be a reminder to our sinful desires!
“Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay. –”
Blessings
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