Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. The Bible tells one big story of redemption,

and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to

finish and exploring how all of it points to Jesus.

What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of a year in the Bible podcast with

the Daily Grace Company. My name is Kyra and I'm a writer on staff. I'm so happy to be here

with you all today. Today we are discussing Deuteronomy chapters 28 through 30. In these chapters, Moses

laid out the blessings and curses for obeying and disobeying the law. He began with giving

the extent of blessing the Israelites would receive. God would place Israel above all other

nations. He would give them an abundance of offspring, their crops, and their cattle

would flourish. The Israelites would become a holy people and all nations would witness

that Israel was God's possession. They would never experience famine or drought. They would

always have treasures to give instead of being borrowers. Their enemies would be defeated and Israel

would experience peace and canine. Then Moses listed the curses for disobedience. Like the curse

given to Adam and Eve and Genesis, the Israelites would experience the curse of death in every way.

They would lose the fullness of life in the presence of God. Instead, their sin would lead them

to confusion and destruction. Their ways would not prosper and there would be relational breakdown

within families. Fathers and mothers would turn from each other and from their children.

The people would suffer pestilence, disease, drought, and famine. Their enemies would defeat

them and oppress them. Their belongings would be stolen from them and they would be exiled,

carried away from the Promised Land to become servants and foreigners in a strange land.

They would be left to serve the gods of the pagan nations which ruled over them. These curses

would be a sign of their stubborn heart and of their sin. Moses prophesied that after settling

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