WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.840 Nancy: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.920 --> 00:00:04.260 Day 100 and 51 00:00:04.622 --> 00:00:08.912 when the Lord your God brings you into the land you are about to enter and occupy, 00:00:09.452 --> 00:00:16.022 he will clear away many nations ahead of you, the Hittites, Gsites, Amorites, 00:00:16.382 --> 00:00:19.622 Canaanites, parasites, HIEs, and Jebus. 00:00:21.062 --> 00:00:24.062 These seven nations are greater and more numerous than you. 00:00:24.947 --> 00:00:28.967 When the Lord your God hands these nations over to you and you conquer 00:00:28.967 --> 00:00:31.817 them, you must completely destroy them. 00:00:32.417 --> 00:00:35.057 Make no treaties with them and show them no mercy. 00:00:35.717 --> 00:00:37.367 You must not intermarry with them. 00:00:37.907 --> 00:00:41.897 Do not let your daughters and sons marry their sons and daughters for 00:00:41.897 --> 00:00:45.467 they will lead your children away from me to worship other gods. 00:00:46.247 --> 00:00:49.457 Then the anger of the Lord will burn against you and 00:00:49.457 --> 00:00:50.807 he will quickly destroy you. 00:00:51.527 --> 00:00:52.997 This is what you must do. 00:00:53.852 --> 00:00:59.522 You must break down their pagan altars and shatter their sacred pillars, cut down 00:00:59.522 --> 00:01:02.402 their asherah poles and burn their idols. 00:01:03.182 --> 00:01:07.232 For you are a holy people who belong to the Lord your God 00:01:08.012 --> 00:01:09.242 of all the people on earth. 00:01:09.512 --> 00:01:13.742 The Lord your God has chosen you to be his own special treasure. 00:01:15.272 --> 00:01:18.602 The Lord did not set his heart on you and choose you because you were 00:01:18.602 --> 00:01:20.342 more en, numerous than other nations. 00:01:21.017 --> 00:01:23.267 For you we're the smallest of all nations. 00:01:23.897 --> 00:01:27.887 Rather, it was simply that the Lord loves you and he was keeping the 00:01:27.887 --> 00:01:29.897 oath he had sworn to your ancestors. 00:01:30.947 --> 00:01:34.097 That is why the Lord rescued you with such a strong hand from your 00:01:34.102 --> 00:01:38.087 slavery and from the oppressive hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. 00:01:38.957 --> 00:01:43.397 Understand therefore, that the Lord your God is indeed God. 00:01:43.967 --> 00:01:48.227 He is the faithful God who keeps his covenant for a thousand generations. 00:01:48.887 --> 00:01:52.367 And lavish is his unveiling love on those who love him and obey his 00:01:52.367 --> 00:01:58.007 commands, but he does not hesitate to punish and destroy those who reject him. 00:01:58.697 --> 00:02:02.807 Therefore, you must obey all these commands, decrees, and 00:02:02.807 --> 00:02:04.727 regulations I am giving you today. 00:02:04.947 --> 00:02:10.607 If you listen to these regulations and faithfully obey them, the Lord, 00:02:10.607 --> 00:02:14.627 your God will keep his covenant of unfailing love with you as he promised 00:02:14.632 --> 00:02:16.217 with an oath to your ancestors. 00:02:16.967 --> 00:02:20.987 He will love you and bless you, and he will give you many children. 00:02:21.737 --> 00:02:24.467 He will give fertility to your land and your animals. 00:02:25.397 --> 00:02:28.367 When you arrive in the land he swore to give your ancestors. 00:02:28.877 --> 00:02:34.547 You will have large harvests of grain, new wine and olive oil, and great 00:02:34.547 --> 00:02:37.187 herds of cattle, sheep, and goats. 00:02:37.877 --> 00:02:40.787 You will be blessed above all the nations of the earth. 00:02:41.327 --> 00:02:43.787 None of your men or women will be childless. 00:02:44.297 --> 00:02:47.777 And all your livestock will bear young, and the Lord will 00:02:47.777 --> 00:02:49.427 protect you from all sickness. 00:02:50.147 --> 00:02:54.137 He will not let you suffer from the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but 00:02:54.137 --> 00:02:56.567 he will inflict them on all your enemies. 00:02:58.097 --> 00:03:02.177 You must destroy all the nations, the Lord your God, hands over to you. 00:03:02.957 --> 00:03:07.697 Show them no mercy and do not worship their gods, or they will trap you. 00:03:08.672 --> 00:03:13.292 Perhaps you will think to yourselves, how can we ever conquer these nations that 00:03:13.292 --> 00:03:15.212 are so much more powerful than we are? 00:03:15.842 --> 00:03:17.402 But don't be afraid of them. 00:03:18.242 --> 00:03:22.922 Just remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all the land of Egypt. 00:03:23.702 --> 00:03:27.152 Remember the great terrors, the Lord your God sent against them. 00:03:27.542 --> 00:03:29.492 You saw it all with your own eyes. 00:03:30.122 --> 00:03:34.052 And remember the miraculous signs and wonders and the strong 00:03:34.052 --> 00:03:37.562 hand and powerful arm with which he brought you out of Egypt. 00:03:38.372 --> 00:03:42.752 The Lord your God will use this same power against all the people you 00:03:42.752 --> 00:03:47.462 fear, and then the Lord your God will send terror to drive out the 00:03:47.462 --> 00:03:49.442 few survivors still hiding from you. 00:03:50.492 --> 00:03:53.432 No, do not be afraid of those nations. 00:03:53.882 --> 00:03:58.622 For the Lord, your God is among you and he's a great and awesome God. 00:03:59.492 --> 00:04:03.542 The Lord your God will drive those nations out ahead of you little by little. 00:04:04.382 --> 00:04:06.542 You will not clear them away all at once. 00:04:06.902 --> 00:04:10.082 Otherwise, the wild animals would multiply too quickly for you. 00:04:11.132 --> 00:04:13.412 But the Lord your God will hand them over to you. 00:04:14.132 --> 00:04:18.062 He will throw them into complete confusion until they are destroyed. 00:04:18.752 --> 00:04:22.442 He will put their kings in your power and you will erase their 00:04:22.447 --> 00:04:24.002 names from the face of the earth. 00:04:25.112 --> 00:04:29.042 No one will be able to stand against you and you will destroy them all. 00:04:30.302 --> 00:04:33.812 You must burn their idols in fire and you must not covet the 00:04:33.812 --> 00:04:35.612 silver or gold that covers them. 00:04:36.242 --> 00:04:38.912 You must not take it or it'll become a trap to you. 00:04:39.332 --> 00:04:41.732 For it is detestable to the Lord your God. 00:04:42.542 --> 00:04:46.532 Do not bring any detestable objects into your home for then you will 00:04:46.532 --> 00:04:48.482 be destroyed just like them. 00:04:49.292 --> 00:04:54.512 You must utterly detest such things for they are set apart for destruction. 00:04:56.207 --> 00:04:59.537 Be careful to obey all the commands I am giving you today. 00:05:00.227 --> 00:05:04.427 Then you will live and multiply, and you will enter and occupy the land 00:05:04.432 --> 00:05:06.497 the Lord swore to give your ancestors. 00:05:07.577 --> 00:05:12.017 Remember how the Lord your God led you through the wilderness for these 40 years, 00:05:12.647 --> 00:05:17.507 humbling you and testing you to prove your character and to find out whether 00:05:17.507 --> 00:05:19.097 or not you would obey his commands. 00:05:20.567 --> 00:05:21.167 Yes. 00:05:21.467 --> 00:05:25.427 He humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna. 00:05:25.847 --> 00:05:28.907 A food previously unknown to you and your ancestors. 00:05:29.807 --> 00:05:33.017 He did it to teach you that people do not live by bread alone. 00:05:33.737 --> 00:05:37.847 Rather, we live by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. 00:05:38.897 --> 00:05:43.337 For all these 40 years, your clothes didn't wear out and your 00:05:43.337 --> 00:05:45.287 feet didn't blister or swell. 00:05:46.247 --> 00:05:49.637 Think about it just as a parent, disciplines a child. 00:05:50.087 --> 00:05:53.447 The Lord your God disciplines you for your own good. 00:05:54.617 --> 00:05:59.177 So obey the commands of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and fearing 00:05:59.177 --> 00:06:04.727 him for the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land of flowing streams and 00:06:04.727 --> 00:06:10.037 pools of water with fountains and springs that gush out in the valleys and hills. 00:06:10.847 --> 00:06:15.497 It is a land of wheat and barley of grapevines, fig trees and 00:06:15.497 --> 00:06:18.347 pomegranates of olive oil and honey. 00:06:19.127 --> 00:06:22.877 It is a land where food is plentiful and nothing is lacking. 00:06:23.927 --> 00:06:28.517 It is a land where iron is as common as stone and copper is abundant in the 00:06:28.547 --> 00:06:34.217 hills When you have eaten your fill, be sure to praise the Lord your God 00:06:34.577 --> 00:06:36.377 for the good land he has given you. 00:06:37.487 --> 00:06:39.197 But that is the time to be careful. 00:06:39.977 --> 00:06:44.837 Beware that in your plenty you do not forget the Lord your God and disobey 00:06:44.837 --> 00:06:49.997 his commands, regulations, and decrees that I am giving you today for when 00:06:49.997 --> 00:06:54.437 you have become full and prosperous and have built fine homes to live in. 00:06:55.037 --> 00:06:59.387 And when your flocks and herds have become very large and your silver and gold have 00:06:59.387 --> 00:07:01.367 multiplied along with everything else. 00:07:01.997 --> 00:07:02.927 Be careful. 00:07:03.647 --> 00:07:08.297 Do not become proud at that time and forget the Lord your God, who rescued 00:07:08.297 --> 00:07:10.307 you from slavery in the land of Egypt. 00:07:11.297 --> 00:07:15.197 Do not forget that he led you through the great and terrifying wilderness 00:07:15.202 --> 00:07:19.667 with its poisonous snakes and scorpions where it was so hot and dry. 00:07:20.387 --> 00:07:25.007 He gave you water from the rock he fed you with manna and the wilderness 00:07:25.367 --> 00:07:27.407 of food, unknown to your ancestors. 00:07:28.067 --> 00:07:31.307 He did this to humble you and test you for your own good. 00:07:32.087 --> 00:07:36.227 He did all this so you would never say to yourself, I have achieved this 00:07:36.227 --> 00:07:38.747 wealth with my own strength and energy. 00:07:40.007 --> 00:07:45.017 Remember the Lord your God, he's the one who gives you power to be successful 00:07:45.527 --> 00:07:47.027 in order to fulfill the covenant. 00:07:47.027 --> 00:07:51.647 He confirmed to your ancestors with an oath, but I assure you of this. 00:07:52.547 --> 00:07:56.387 If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other Gods 00:07:56.717 --> 00:08:00.977 worshiping and bowing down to them, you will certainly be destroyed. 00:08:01.697 --> 00:08:06.107 Just as the Lord has destroyed other nations in your path, you also will be 00:08:06.112 --> 00:08:13.937 destroyed If you refuse to obey the Lord your God, listen O Israel today, you 00:08:13.937 --> 00:08:18.257 are about to cross the Jordan River, to take over the land belonging to nations 00:08:18.257 --> 00:08:20.507 much greater and more powerful than you. 00:08:21.527 --> 00:08:24.707 They live in cities with walls that reach to the sky. 00:08:25.247 --> 00:08:27.287 The people are strong and tall. 00:08:27.527 --> 00:08:33.197 Descendants of the famous Anite giants, you've heard the saying who can stand 00:08:33.197 --> 00:08:38.087 up to the an kites, but recognize today that the Lord your God is the 00:08:38.087 --> 00:08:42.587 one who will cross over ahead of you like a devouring fire to destroy them. 00:08:43.187 --> 00:08:47.057 He will subdue them so that you will quickly conquer them and drive them 00:08:47.057 --> 00:08:49.607 out just as the Lord has promised. 00:08:51.032 --> 00:08:53.492 After the Lord, your God has done this for you. 00:08:53.762 --> 00:08:57.392 Don't say in your hearts the Lord has given us this land 00:08:57.392 --> 00:08:59.372 because we are such good people. 00:09:00.182 --> 00:09:04.442 No, it is because of the wickedness of the other nations that he's 00:09:04.442 --> 00:09:05.822 pushing them out of your way. 00:09:06.422 --> 00:09:10.832 It is not because you are so good or have such integrity that you 00:09:10.832 --> 00:09:12.542 are about to occupy their land. 00:09:13.352 --> 00:09:16.442 The Lord your God will drive these nations out ahead of you 00:09:16.742 --> 00:09:18.212 only because of their wickedness. 00:09:18.917 --> 00:09:23.867 And to fulfill the oath he swore to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, 00:09:24.707 --> 00:09:28.577 you must recognize that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land 00:09:28.817 --> 00:09:31.847 because you are good for you are not. 00:09:32.717 --> 00:09:34.277 You are a stubborn people. 00:09:35.627 --> 00:09:39.437 Remember and never forget how angry you made the Lord your God out in 00:09:39.437 --> 00:09:44.057 the wilderness from the day you left Egypt until now, you have been 00:09:44.057 --> 00:09:46.127 constantly rebelling against him. 00:09:47.042 --> 00:09:51.602 Even at Mount Sinai, you made the Lord so angry he was ready to destroy you. 00:09:52.052 --> 00:09:54.842 This happened when I was on the mountain receiving the tablets of 00:09:54.847 --> 00:09:58.922 stone inscribed with the words of the covenant that the Lord had made with you. 00:09:59.942 --> 00:10:02.492 I was there for 40 days and 40 nights. 00:10:03.002 --> 00:10:06.002 At all that time, I ate no food and drank no water. 00:10:06.812 --> 00:10:10.592 The Lord gave me the two tablets on which God had written with his own 00:10:10.592 --> 00:10:14.432 finger, all the words he had spoken to you from the heart of the fire. 00:10:14.867 --> 00:10:19.277 When you were assembled at the mountain, at the end of the 40 days and nights, 00:10:19.607 --> 00:10:23.657 the Lord handed me the two stone tablets inscribed with the words of the covenant. 00:10:24.797 --> 00:10:30.227 Then the Lord said to me, get up, go down immediately for the people you brought 00:10:30.227 --> 00:10:31.767 out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. 00:10:32.957 --> 00:10:36.797 How quickly they have turned away from the way I commanded them to live. 00:10:37.457 --> 00:10:40.667 They have melted gold and made an idol for themselves. 00:10:41.822 --> 00:10:46.232 The Lord also said to me, I have seen how stubborn and rebellious 00:10:46.237 --> 00:10:48.962 these people are, leave me alone. 00:10:48.962 --> 00:10:53.102 So I may destroy them and erase their name from under heaven. 00:10:53.822 --> 00:10:57.992 Then I will make a mighty nation of your descendants, a nation larger 00:10:58.082 --> 00:10:59.732 and more powerful than they are. 00:11:00.962 --> 00:11:05.702 So while the mountain was blazing with fire, I turned and came down holding 00:11:05.702 --> 00:11:09.962 in my hands the two stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant. 00:11:10.952 --> 00:11:13.952 There below me, I could see that you had sinned against the Lord 00:11:13.952 --> 00:11:19.172 your God, you had melted gold and made a calf idle for yourselves. 00:11:19.862 --> 00:11:23.882 How quickly you had turned away from the path the Lord had commanded you to follow. 00:11:24.752 --> 00:11:28.112 So I took the stone tablets and threw them to the ground, 00:11:28.322 --> 00:11:30.332 smashing them before your eyes. 00:11:31.112 --> 00:11:36.692 Then as before, I threw myself down before the Lord for 40 days and nights. 00:11:37.457 --> 00:11:41.207 I ate no bread and drank no water because of the great sin you had 00:11:41.207 --> 00:11:44.837 committed by doing what the Lord hated, provoking him to anger. 00:11:45.677 --> 00:11:49.637 I feared that the furious anger of the Lord, which turned him against 00:11:49.637 --> 00:11:51.947 you, would drive him to destroy you. 00:11:52.637 --> 00:11:54.227 But again, he listened to me. 00:11:54.947 --> 00:11:58.787 The Lord was so angry with Aaron that he wanted to destroy him too. 00:11:59.267 --> 00:12:02.327 But I prayed for Aaron and the Lord spared him. 00:12:02.882 --> 00:12:07.052 I took your sin, the calf you had made, and I melted it down in the 00:12:07.052 --> 00:12:09.452 fire and grounded into fine dust. 00:12:10.232 --> 00:12:13.652 Then I threw the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain. 00:12:14.642 --> 00:12:16.142 You also made the Lord angry. 00:12:16.232 --> 00:12:19.772 Attra Masa and Kra Eva. 00:12:20.372 --> 00:12:23.732 And at Kish Baria, the Lord sent you out with this command. 00:12:24.452 --> 00:12:25.922 Go up and take over the land. 00:12:25.922 --> 00:12:26.642 I have given you. 00:12:27.557 --> 00:12:31.427 But you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God, and refuse to 00:12:31.427 --> 00:12:33.557 put your trust in him or obey him. 00:12:34.367 --> 00:12:38.807 Yes, you have been rebelling against the Lord as long as I have known you. 00:12:40.037 --> 00:12:45.557 That is why I threw myself down before the Lord for 40 days and nights for 00:12:45.557 --> 00:12:47.267 the Lord said he would destroy you. 00:12:47.897 --> 00:12:53.297 I prayed to the Lord and said, oh, sovereign Lord, do not destroy them. 00:12:53.687 --> 00:12:55.157 They are your own people. 00:12:55.772 --> 00:12:59.702 They are your special possession whom you redeemed from Egypt by your 00:12:59.702 --> 00:13:05.462 mighty power and your strong hand, please overlook the stubbornness 00:13:05.492 --> 00:13:07.172 and the awful sin of these people. 00:13:07.562 --> 00:13:12.662 And remember, instead, your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, if you 00:13:12.662 --> 00:13:17.222 destroy these people, the Egyptians will say The Israelites died because 00:13:17.222 --> 00:13:20.522 the Lord wasn't able to bring them to the land he had promised to give them. 00:13:21.362 --> 00:13:24.842 Or they might say he destroyed them because he hated them. 00:13:25.112 --> 00:13:28.052 He deliberately took them into the wilderness to slaughter them. 00:13:29.282 --> 00:13:34.472 But they are your people and your special possession, whom you brought out of Egypt 00:13:34.472 --> 00:13:36.992 by your great strength and powerful arm. 00:13:38.612 --> 00:13:41.462 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:13:41.582 --> 00:13:42.512 Thank you for joining us.