Excerpts from Deuteronomy 7-9:
(7:9-11 LB) Understand, therefore, that the Lord your God is the faithful God who for a thousand generations keeps His promises and constantly loves those who love Him and who obey His commandments. But those who hate Him shall be punished publicly and destroyed. He will deal with them personally. Therefore, obey all these commandments I am giving you today.
(8:3 LB) Yes, He humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna...He did it to help you realize that food isn't everything, and that real life comes by obeying every command of God.
(8:10-14 LB) When you have eaten your fill, bless the Lord your God for the good land He has given you. But that is the time to be careful! Beware that in your plenty you don't forget the Lord your God and begin to disobey Him. For when you have become full and prosperous and have built fine homes to live in...and your silver and gold have multiplied, that is the time to watch out that you don't become proud, and forget the Lord your God...
(9:4-6 LB) Then, when the Lord has [delivered you from your enemies] don't say to yourselves, 'The Lord has helped us because we are so good!'...It is not at all because you are such fine, upright people...it is only because of the wickedness of the other nations, and because of His promises to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He will do it. I say it yet again: Jehovah your God is not giving you this good land because you are good, for you are not - you are a wicked, stubborn people.
Now, think about the United States of America.
Scary, huh?
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