Forget not God in Good or Bad Times
Below is the Message Audio followed by Typed Notes.
Moses preparing the people of Israel to enter the Promised Land after 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. Deuteronomy Ch. 8.
They are to remember God’s care and protection over the 40 years.
They are to remember God’s instruction and Commandments. vs.1 & 6.
How God led them in the way. vs. 2.
They hungered, and God provided manna. Their raiments and sandals pertsisted. vs. 3-4.
God’s plan for them.
He will bring them into a good land with brooks, springs, fruit and rich harvest and crops. vs. 7-17.
After being satisfied, they are to praise the Lord for what He has done for them. Let not your hearts become proud and do not forget the Lord, His commandments and what He has done for them.
They are to remember the Lord their God who has blessed them in many ways. vs. 18.
If they forget the Lord their God there will be bad Times with severe consequences.
If they follow and worship other gods they will suffer sever consequences. vs. 19.
They will be destroyed like the nations God had destroyed before them for not obeying the Lord their God. vs. 20.
The people that Moses was preparing to enter the Promised Land was the second generation. The first generation died while they were 40 years in the wilderness because they had rebelled against God.
After God led them out of servitude in Egypt where they had been for 430 years, they came to Mount Sinai where Moses went up the mountain to meet God and receive the 10 Commandments.
When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him. Exodus 32:1.
Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.” So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.” Exodus 32:2-4.
When Moses came down from the mountain and saw the Golden Calf, he became angry, he cast down and broke the 10 Commandment stones. He burned the Golden Calf in a fire, ground it to powder, scattered it on the water, and forced the Israelites to drink it. Exodus 32:19-20.
The Lord plagued the people because they made Aaron make the Golden calf for them. Exodus 32:35.
The people of Israel spend 40 years in the desert because they refused God’s order to enter the land of promise. Only the second generation would enter the land of promise. Numbers 14:22-23, 28-33.
God’s judgement on the nation of Israel after they possessed the Land of Promise.
The nation of Israel split into the Northern and Southern Kingdom because the Northern 10 tribes rebelled against God.
The Assyrian captivity of the Northern Kingdom. The prophet Isaiah warned Israel that if they did not repent, the Lord would use Assyria as “the rod of mine anger” Isaiah 10:5. This occurred around 725 B.C.
The Babylonian captivity occurred when the people of the Southern Kingdom were unfaithful to God by worshiping false idols, sometimes even sacrificing their children to these idols. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took them into captivity to Babylon (2 Kings 24). This occurred 586 B.C. The Babylonian army completely destroyed the temple and much of Jerusalem, and the Israelites spent seventy years living in Babylon. Acts 7:43.
God restored the remnant of the Babylonian captivity to the Land of Promise after 80 years to prepare for the coming of Jesus Christ to redeem sinful man.
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