Deuteronomy 30

The Promise of Restoration// Nehemiah 1:1–11

¹“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which Yahweh your God has banished you, ²and when you and your children return to Yahweh your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today, ³then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which Yahweh your God has scattered you. ⁴Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there.

• DT 30:1[PROPHECY]Yahweh will gather you again from all the nations where He has scattered you; if any are driven to the farthest parts under heaven, He will bring you back → EZR 1:1-5; NEH 1:8-9. Many Christians see a further fulfillment in the modern State of Israel since 1948; others read it differently.MEDIUM

⁵And Yahweh your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it. He will cause you to prosper and multiply more than your fathers. ⁶Yahweh your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

• DT 30:6[PROPHECY]God would circumcise the hearts of His people so they would love Him → ROM 2:29; COL 2:11MEDIUM

⁷Then Yahweh your God will put all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you. ⁸And you will again obey the voice of Yahweh and follow all His commandments I am giving you today. ⁹So Yahweh your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, Yahweh will again delight in your prosperity, as He delighted in that of your fathers, ¹⁰if you obey Yahweh your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

The Choice of Life or Death

¹¹For this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. ¹²It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’ ¹³And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’ ¹⁴But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it.

• DT 30:12[FORESHADOW]The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart → ROM 10:6-8MEDIUM
• DT 30:12[QUOTED]Quoted in the New Testament → ROM 10:6-8
• DT 30:14[HEART]The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so you can obey it.

¹⁵See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, as well as death and disaster. ¹⁶For I am commanding you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and Yahweh your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.

¹⁷But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, ¹⁸I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

• DT 30:17[DEMONIC]If you bow to other gods you will surely perish

¹⁹I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live, ²⁰and that you may love Yahweh your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that Yahweh swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

• DT 30:19[DEMONIC]I set before you life and death, blessing and curse