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The people are then given the most clear and serious warning as to what will happen if they do forget the Lord, and bow down to worship other gods. It has often been said that when someone stops worshipping God, they don’t worship nothing, but will worship something else instead, maybe even worship anything. If they do do this, then God would destroy them. Obeying the gospel is not a matter of choice in the sense of choosing this or choosing that, rather it is a matter of choosing to obey or disobey the gospel, with the appropriate consequences. “I will testify against you”. In John 5:45 Jesus told them that it was Moses who accuses them.
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Israel received the good things as a gift of grace. However, there was no favouritism. If Israel rejected God, then she would suffer the same fate as the nations that she had displaced. As the Lord had destroyed them, so He would destroy Israel. And the history of Israel demonstrates that this was the case.
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