Skies of Bronze
Deuteronomy 28:19-29
Synopsis Deuteronomy 28:18-29 3/19/2018
Moses delineated the curses that would come upon the people if they failed their covenant with God. Moses’ list is long and provocatively detailed. It included both personal curses and curses upon the nation.
Skies of Bronze
No one would willingly chose any of it: The pain and suffering, the financial collapse, cursed soil, cursed offspring, and anxiety of every kind. But the worst of it is the “skies of bronze” – The knowledge that the prayers of the people were no longer making it to God’s throne in heaven. Prayers bouncing off an impenetrable sky and returning unheard. Separated and cutoff from God, life would be desperate.
How horrible a thought for these Israelites. They had grown up in the presence of God with the great prophet Moses available to interpret God’s commands. They knew the presence of God. Their entire adult lives, the Tent of Meeting was always within eyesight wherever they had gone.
They could not imagine the nation falling into such depravity. And yet, the nation of Israel would experience every single one of these promised curses over the next thousand years of history.
Nothing Going My Way
“I have my guru. I have my agenda. I know what I want to get done. I’m focused and determined. I am confident and relentless. And still things don’t seem to go my way. It’s the curses. I am cursed. Nothing ever goes my way.”
If nothing is going my way, maybe I need to find a new way to go.
But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming. John 16:13
