Deuteronomy 27

And again, for time's sake, we don't have, we don't, for time's sake, we don't, we don't look at them.

No, we don't have too much time, but you have in Deuteronomy 27 and 28.

Okay.

So kind of preceding chapters leading up to this, these blessings and curses.

And God could say, hold on a minute.

Let's bring out this song of Moses from Deuteronomy 31 and let's see.

Or let's bring out the blessings and curses from Deuteronomy 27 and 28 and let's see.

See, God is very strategic here.

The law demanded absolute perfection.

Remember Deuteronomy 27 verse 26, cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them.

Not some of the words.

all of the words of the law.

And this is what the 12 big stones will make up.

They're going to make up this altar, right? So these are the 12 stones that eventually become, and the same stones that Moses commanded in Deuteronomy 27, 2 to 8 verses 2 to verses 8 if we look at chapter 27 moses tells back then to joshua back then he says when you go across the jordan you're going to take 12 stones and you're going to write on them the whole torah in 70 languages you wash wash these stones and they're big enough they can write on the whole torah in 70 languages now what joshua did afterward this was nations were punished Joshua called the nations and he said, I want a translator for your own native tongue.

And someone knows the holy tongue, the native tongue.

And we'll have in each of the seven lessons.

So they fulfilled Moses' command to build an altar on top of Mount Ebal near Shechem.

Now we talk about that chapter 27 of Deuteronomy, verses 2 to 8 once again, and the stones in 70 languages to write the Torah.

So this commandment in Deuteronomy 27 is finally manifest now here in Joshua chapter 4.

Okay, so we continue on to verse 6.

One more, one more.

Deuteronomy 27.

Deuteronomy 27.

Let me turn there.

okay this this gets a little bit messy uh uh so i gotta be careful not to dive too deep because jerome 27 starts talking about the blessings and the curses um and if you read it in isolation it's horrible because uh the picture is as as as the people are preparing to go into the promised land moses is instructed to take the tribes and to split them up based on their lineage so um the wives of Rachel and Leah, who were the two pure wives, you could say, of Jacob, and then the other tribes that were the descendants of the slaves' wives that he took.

Now, this is the people.

So the main point for this episode is this, that the people are saying, yes, amen, we agree with God's truth, and we agree that we will align ourselves with the covenant and the fruit of the covenant, which is either blessing or curse.

Now, remember, this is pre-Jesus, right? But what I've just got out of this, a personal revelation, just going, oh, wow, while I was turning the page to Deuteronomy 27 and reading the context of it, is that the people were creating the accountability for alignment with God's truth.

Compromise, Proverbs 24.24. Inconsideration of others, Proverbs 27.14. Failure to help the poor, Proverbs 28.27.

Allowing an abomination in your home, Deuteronomy 7.26. Disrespect for your parents, Deuteronomy 27.16. Thievery...

Is that a word? Theft.

Deuteronomy 27, 17.

Taking advantage of the handicapped man.

Deuteronomy 27, 18.

Taking advantage of the widow or the fatherless or the stranger.

Deuteronomy 27, 19.

There could have been sexual perversion.

There could have been violence, dishonor, a range of things the Bible describes in Deuteronomy 27 that could be openers for the devil to come in.

Jesus said, Paul wrote in Ephesians 4, 27, don't open the door to the devil.

Don't do things that would give possibility or legal rights for spirits to enter you.

So even if it's not nice, you are still blessed.

Even curses in Deuteronomy 27 says, Cursed be he that removes his neighbor's landmark and all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed be he who dishonors his father.

Every man shall say, Amen.

And you're like, hmm, haven't spent a lot of time in that passage.

And he's teaching about this place at the end of Deuteronomy 27, where it says, if a man has sex with a woman who's not his wife, and they are found.

And in their culture, in that Semitic culture, the woman and the man were liable to be stoned.

And it says that the man who violated her, the word in that rape passage is actually not a violent rape.