Covenant Curses – Deuteronomy E7

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In the final movement of Deuteronomy, there’s a pretty lengthy list of curses that will fall upon Israel if they break their covenant with Yahweh. But what exactly is a curse? Why are there so many of them, and what do they have to do with Israel’s covenant with Yahweh? In this episode, Tim and Jon talk about blessings and curses, ancient Near Eastern law code, and the choice all humans have between death or life.

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0:00.0	The Torah, that is the first five books of the Bible, are one masterful piece of divine,
0:09.9	literary arts.
0:10.9	The Torah was written on five separate scrolls, each scroll having its own structured themes,
0:15.6	but together they talk to each other.
0:18.3	For example, Genesis, the first scroll, and Deuteronomy, the last, work as bookendings,
0:22.8	mirroring each other in significant ways.
0:24.6	And today, we're going to look at the last movement of Deuteronomy, and we're going to
0:28.1	see key words and ideas that began in the first movements of Genesis.
0:33.5	If you have a little Genesis 1 through 11 meter, it just starts.
0:37.4	Like, you know, the needles go off the scale.
0:40.2	So specifically, the last literary movement of Deuteronomy has been coordinated and hyperlinked
0:46.0	to the first literary movement of Genesis, and they occupy the precise opposite locations
0:52.6	on the Torah, the beginning and the end.
0:55.1	The two words that dominate this section of Deuteronomy are blessing and curse.
1:00.3	Moses reads a long list of blessings, for those who keep the covenant laws, and these blessings
1:06.5	are amazing.
1:07.8	But then there's a long list of curses, and these can feel really intense.
1:14.1	Like Moses, we get it already.
1:16.5	Bad stuff's going to happen.
1:18.0	And it makes you wonder, is God going a little bit far?
1:21.2	Just choose to live outside the terms of God's blessing.
1:25.7	It's by definition to embrace my own decoration.
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