Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Hebrew or Aramaic.

Deuteronomy 11

• About the title: Wrong thoughts and actions create destruction. Right thoughts and actions create life.
  
• In this world, death and destruction are everywhere. Only God has the eyes to see where Satan plants his landmines.
  
• Look up, follow God’s instructions: Step here, not there.
  It only takes one wrong small step to find your spirit looking around for your body – so … step here, not there.
  

Love and Obedience Rewarded

Deuteronomy 11:¹ “Therefore you shall love the Lord your God (Yᵊhōvâ ‘ĕlōhîm), and keep His charge (safeguard/watchman – mišmereṯ), His statutes (prescribed rites- ḥuqqâ), His judgments (wisdom in deciding a court case – mišpāṭ), and His commandments (orders/laws – miṣvâ) always.

Deuteronomy 11:² Know today that I do not speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the chastening (discipline)of the Lord your God (Yᵊhōvâ ‘ĕlōhîm), His greatness and His mighty hand and His outstretched arm—

• The Father’s hand (and fingers) is the Holy Spirit and His outstretched arm is Jesus, the Son.
  
  • Genesis 49:24, Deuteronomy 4:34, Deuteronomy 5:15, Deuteronomy 7:19, Deuteronomy 9:29, Deuteronomy 26:8, II Chronicles 6:32, Psalm 89:10 (rahab is the leviathan, Satan), Psalm 89:13
    
  • The Fingers of God wrote the ten commandments on stone. The Fingers of God wrote on Babylon’s King Belshazzar’s wall when he gave a great feast. The Fingers of God wrote in the sand the names of sinners.
    
  • The Arm of God created the heavens and the earth. The Arm of God saves.
    
  • The Father is the head of the Godhead.
    
• The root meaning of an outstretched arm is a sower of seed in order to reap a harvest.
  
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Deuteronomy 11:³ His signs and His acts which He did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land;

• The Pharaoh of Egypt was Tutmoses II. See Topic: The Pharaoh of the Red Sea. Hatsheput was the queen.

Deuteronomy 11:⁴ what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their chariots: how He made the waters of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued you, and how the Lord (Yᵊhōvâ) has destroyed them to this day;

• Not one Egyptian was saved, not one Hebrew died.

Deuteronomy 11:⁵ what He did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place;

• Bread and pheasants rained down from heaven.

Deuteronomy 11:⁶ and what He did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, their households, their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession (at their feet), in the midst of all Israel—

• Falling into the hands of a Living God and His Judgment.

Deuteronomy 11:⁷ but your eyes have seen every great act (work) of the Lord (Yᵊhōvâ) which He did.

Deuteronomy 11:⁸ “Therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess,

Deuteronomy 11:⁹ and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord swore (promised)to give your fathers, to them and their descendants, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’

Deuteronomy 11:¹⁰ For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden;

• Like Egypt, Vegetables are of the ground and are symbolic of “worldliness”.
• Like the Promised Land, Fruits grow above the ground and are symbolic of spiritual fruit.

Deuteronomy 11:¹¹ but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain (H4325 – mayim) of heaven,

• Rain is symbolic of the Messiah since both come down from heaven. Jesus says He is the “Living Water”. Living water is moving water; unlike stagnant water, it is free of bacteria (sin), and gives life.

Deuteronomy 11:¹² a land for which the Lord your God (Yᵊhōvâ ‘ĕlōhîm) cares; the eyes of the Lord your God (Yᵊhōvâ ‘ĕlōhîm) are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.

Deuteronomy 11:¹³ ‘And it shall be that if you earnestly obey (Lit. listen to) My commandments which I command you today, to love the Lord your God (Yᵊhōvâ ‘ĕlōhîm) and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deuteronomy 11:¹⁴ then I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

• Rain is the Messiah: “In His season” means His first ministry on earth (the cross) and His second ministry when He returns to reign from Jerusalem (the throne). Both of which result in a harvest of resurrections:
  
• Psalm 72:6 He shall come down like rain upon the grass before mowing, Like showers that water the earth.
  
• Joel 2:23 Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in the Lord your God; For He has given you the former rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for you— The former rain, And the latter rain in the first (resurrections: harvests).
  
  Hosea 6:3 & 10:12 Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, Like the latter and former rain to the earth. Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the Lord, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.

• Zechariah 10:1 Restoration of Judah and Israel – Ask the Lord for rain In the time of the latter rain. The Lord will make flashing clouds; He will give them showers of rain, Grass in the field for everyone.

Deuteronomy 11:¹⁵ And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat and be filled (satisfied).’

Deuteronomy 11:¹⁶ Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,

• Don’t step there …

Deuteronomy 11:¹⁷ lest the Lord’s (Yᵊhōvâ) anger be aroused against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and you perish quickly from the good land which the Lord (Yᵊhōvâ) is giving you.

• Droughts and Famines are of the Lord. See how Elijah prayed there would be no rain and it did not rain for 3-1/2 years. At the beginning of the future seven year tribulation two witnesses will hold back the rain for 3-1/2 years.

Deuteronomy 11:¹⁸ “Therefore you shall lay up (Lit. put) these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

Deuteronomy 11:¹⁹ You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

• Step here …

Deuteronomy 11:²⁰ And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,

Deuteronomy 11:²¹ that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord (Yᵊhōvâ) swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth.

• What are the days of “the heavens above the earth”? – A saying meaning “Forever”.

Deuteronomy 11:²² “For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do—to love the Lord your God (Yᵊhōvâ ‘ĕlōhîm), to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—

Deuteronomy 11:²³ then the Lord (Yᵊhōvâ) will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves.

Deuteronomy 11:²⁴ Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western (Mediterranean) Sea, shall be your territory.

• From the Euphrates to the Nile River when Jesus reigns on earth. (About the size of the New Jerusalem)

• On October 7, 2024 Hamas attacked Israel perhaps fulfilling the battle of Psalm 83. At the very least that attack was a type of the desire to annihilate Jews with the saying “Push them from the river to the sea”. According to God’s promise to the Jews, this is the future for the Jews – When Jesus reigns on earth His Jewish kingdom will be from the river to the sea and the Jews will be priests who serve Him and the Gentile nations. They will be exalted.

• Zechariah 8:23 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘In those days ten men from every language of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.” ’ ”

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Deuteronomy 11:²⁵ No man shall be able to stand against (before) you; the Lord your God (Yᵊhōvâ ‘ĕlōhîm) will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you.

Deuteronomy 11:²⁶ “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:

• This (a blessing) – or That (a curse), nothing in between.

Deuteronomy 11:²⁷ the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God (Yᵊhōvâ ‘ĕlōhîm) which I command you today;

Deuteronomy 11:²⁸ and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God (Yᵊhōvâ ‘ĕlōhîm), but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.

Deuteronomy 11:²⁹ Now it shall be, when the Lord your God (Yᵊhōvâ ‘ĕlōhîm) has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you shall put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

• Mount Gerizim is the blessing …
  Mount Ebal is the curse …
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• Deuteronomy 27:¹² “These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have crossed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin;
  Deuteronomy 27:¹³ These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

• The Ark of the covenant is place in the middle between the two mountains.

• Joshua 8:33 All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

• What a sight! Six Tribes on Mount Gerizim shouting across the valley to the Six Tribes on Mount Ebal each group facing the other, taking turns and shouting out the blessings as well as the curses, each ending with a shout by all twelve tribes “Amen!”

• “It has sometimes been questioned if the reading of the law could be heard by the people in the way described. The formation of the sides of the valley at the narrowest part, and the acoustics, which have been tested more than once, leave no reasonable doubt as to the possibility.” ~ W. Ewing

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Deuteronomy 11:³⁰ Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, toward the setting sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the plain opposite Gilgal, beside the terebinth trees of Moreh?

• The terebinth tree is mentioned over 25 times in the Bible. It has an association with sacred spaces and divine encounters. It is connected with the concept of a tithe and a remnant.

Deuteronomy 11:³¹ For you will cross over the Jordan and go in to possess the land which the Lord your God (Yᵊhōvâ ‘ĕlōhîm) is giving you, and you will possess it and dwell in it.

Deuteronomy 11:³² And you shall be careful to observe all the statutes and judgments which I set before you today.

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• Have you ever felt trapped between two mountains?
  Go to the Ark of the Covenant where Jesus dwells, He who separates the curses from the blessings.

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• Faith moves mountains.
  
  • Matthew 17:20
    So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

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• Mountains are moved one prayer at a time.