Deuteronomy 29 & Isaiah 49

Deuteronomy 29
- This section tells God’s covenant with the people while they were in Moab in addition to the covenant He made with them at Horeb.
- Moses gathered the people and reminded them of all that the Lord did for them in Egypt
- But until now God hadn’t given them eyes and ears to see or hear.
- Moses simply led them 40 years in the wilderness.
- For 40 years their sandals hadn’t worn out, the hadn’t ate bread or drunk wine so that they’d know He is God.
- Moses reminds them how they defeated Sihon and Og in Heshbon and Bashan.
- They gave that land to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half tribe of Manassites.
- Moses tells them to keep their work they made then so they will prosper.
- Moses reminds them why EVERYONE is gathered (husbands, wives, kids, sojourners, elders, servants, etc…)
- They are there to make a sworn covenant with God that they might be His people as God promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
- God is making a covenant with everyone there today and with whomever is not there as well.
- Moses reminds them how the left Egypt and passed through many nations
- He reminds them of the detestable things and idols they saw
- God warns them to beware lest there be a root a poison and bitter fruit spring up.
- God warns the man who hears the words of the covenant and says he will be safe even though He walks in the “stubbornness” of His own heart.
- What does God mean when He says “this will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike?”
- God will not forgive that man but God’s anger will burn against him and the curses of Deuteronomy will settle against him.
- God will also blot out that man’s name.
- Moses refers to Deuteronomy as “The Book of the Law”
- Foreigners and that man’s children will see the sickness and affliction of that man’s land, like Sodom and Gomorrah, and wonder why God had done that.
- They will wonder what caused God’s anger to heat up so much.
- That man’s neighbors will tell people that it is like that because that man abandoned God’s covenant and served other gods.
- Serving other gods brought the curses of Deuteronomy upon the land.
- They kindled God’s wrath, fury, anger (3 words for the same thing in one sentence)
- “The secret things” belong to God, but things revealed in Deuteronomy belong to us and our children forever.



Isaiah 49
- It starts by says Ah Ariel, Ariel where David encamped
- Where is Ariel?
- God will distress her and make her an Ariel (which can also mean altar hearth, lion of God, or hero)
- God will lay siege to Ariel.
- They will be bowed down and speak from the dust
- The multitude of their foreign foes will be like small dust
- Is this a good or a bad thing?
- God will visit them quickly bringing earthquakes, whirlwinds, and fire
- Those fighting against Ariel will be like a dream like a hungry man dreaming of food and waking up hungry.
- Again is this a blessing or a curse?
- Ariel will be drunk and stagger but not with strong drink
- The Lord has poured a spirit of deep sleep upon them and closed their eyes (prophets) and their heads (the seers).
- It will be for them like giving a sealed book to a man who can read or an unsealed book to a man who cannot read.
- That is because the people draw near to God with words and their lips but keep their hearts far from God.
- Their fear of God is from a commandment taught by men.
- Therefore God will again do great wonders and the wisdom of the wise and discerning will perish.
- God speaks to people who think their “dark deeds” are hidden and no one sees them, but God does.
- They turn things upside down which is like the clay telling the potter he didn’t make them or have any understanding.
- Soon Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field (It was a great forest at this time)
- The fruitful field shall be like a forest
- The blind will see and the deaf hear
- The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord and the poor shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
- God will cut off all who do evil and the ruthless.
- The scoffer has been making wrong accusations against him who is right.
- God speaks directly to the house of Jacob and tells them that they shall no longer be ashamed
- They will again sanctify God’s name when they see their children working.
- They will again stand in awe of God.
- Those who go astray in spirit will again come to understanding and those who murmur will accept instruction