Prophecies Concerning Israel From
Pre-Canaan to the Millennium

"In this incredible sermon, Moses would look far into the future and make a prophecy about the future of the Israelite people.  His prediction was based on God's covenant with Abraham.  It included ten statements that accurately describe the past, present, and future of God's people.  It was a sweeping declaration of God's plan for Israel.

Explain what the Jews did to break the covenant through Moses and the results of their actions.

The first commandment that God gave the Israelites was "You are to have no other gods before me." Exodus 20:3 God says, "You are not to make for yourselves a carved image or any kind of representation of anything in heaven above, on the earth beneath or in the water below the shoreline." In Exodus 20:4, God told the Hebrew children they were not to bow down to any of these images.

God gave the Israelites instructions to destroy all idols in the nations that were in the Promise Land. The problem was that Israel came out of Egypt, but they brought Egypt with them.

After Joshua and the elders died, the people began to worship idols and accept the customs and practices of the people that God told them to destroy lest the Israelites be tempted to stray from God’s commandments.

The Israelites were finally split into the northern kingdom (House of Israel) and the southern kingdom (House of Judah). The two houses have not come back into one nation---yet.

Because Israel and Judah broke God’s covenant,

    1. they were driven from the land,

    2. they lost their sovereignty as a nation, and

    3. they were spiritually blinded and deafened by their sins so that they did not recognize Yahshua as their Messiah.

God used the Gentile nations to carry out His judgment against all the nation of Israel.

God’s covenant with Abraham is unconditional and unbreakable. However, the blessings connected to the covenant are dependent on obedience.

Ten points that Moses gave in his sermon from Deuteronomy 4:23-31 and Deuteronomy 30:1-6.

1. The Israelites will break the covenant. "Watch out for yourselves, so that you won’t forget the covenant of ADONAI your God, which He made with you, and make yourself a carved image, a representation of everything forbidden to you by ADONAI your God."  Deuteronomy 4:23

2. God will drive the Israelites from their land. "I call on the sky and the earth to witness against you today that you will quickly disappear from the land that you are crossing the Yarden to possess. You will not prolong your days there but will be completely destroyed."  Deuteronomy 4:26

3. God will scatter the Israelites among the nations. "ADONAI will scatter you among the peoples; and among the nations to which ADONAI will lead you away." Deuteronomy 4:27 a

4. The Jews will be few in number among the nations. "…you will be left few in number." Deuteronomy 4:27 b

5. The Jews will serve other gods. "There you will serve gods which are the products of human hands, made of wood and stone, which you can’t see, hear, eat, or smell." Deuteronomy 4:28

6. God will preserve a remnant of the Jews throughout history for the latter days. "For ADONAI your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, destroy you, or forget the covenant with your ancestors which He swore to them." Deuteronomy 4:31

7. God will bring the Jews along with the rest of Israel back to their land. "At that point, ADONAI your God will reverse your exile and show you mercy; He will return and gather you from all the peoples to which ADONAI your God scattered you. If one of yours was scattered to the far end of the sky, ADONAI your God will gather you even from there; He will go there and get you." Deuteronomy 30:3-4

8. The Jews will go through tribulation. "In your distress, when all these things come upon you, in the acharit-hayamim (latter days), you will return to ADONAI your God and listen to what He says." Deuteronomy 4:30

9. The Israelites will return to God. "When the time arrives when all these things have come upon you, both the blessing and the curse which I have presented to you; and you are there among the nations to which ADONAI your God has driven you; then, at last, you will start thinking about what has happened to you, and you will return to ADONAI your God and pay attention to what He has said, which will be exactly what I am ordering you to do today---you and your children, with all your heart and all your being." Deuteronomy 30:1-2 (Also Deuteronomy 4:30)

10. God will remember His covenant. "For ADONAI your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, destroy you, or forget the covenant with your ancestors which He swore to them." Deuteronomy 4:31

Jeremiah 31:31-34 NASB "Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," declares the LORD. "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, "I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the LORD, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."

The Gospel:   Galatians 3:27-29 NASB For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, heirs according to promise.

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