Yes, Deuteronomy 30 is significant because it prophesies Israel's dispersion among the nations and then promises God will regather them.
Les Feldick identifies this passage as the Palestinian covenant, given before Israel's scattering happened. It tells Israel they will be driven out because of unbelief, but after they return to the Lord, God will turn their captivity and bring them back from all nations.
Deuteronomy 30:1-3 — This is the passage Les cites to show God predicting Israel's scattering and promising to turn their captivity and regather them.
Moses told Israel that when the blessings and curses have come upon them, and they call these things to mind among the nations where the LORD has driven them, they are to return to the LORD with all their heart and soul. Then the LORD will turn their captivity, have compassion, and gather them from all the nations where He scattered them. The Bible explicitly states that Israel would be dispersed and then restored.
Les calls Deuteronomy 30 the Palestinian covenant, a covenant God made through Moses with Israel. He points out that God told Israel before it ever happened that because of their disobedience and unbelief they would be scattered from one end of the earth to the other. Then, after Israel has gone through all the blessings and curses, God will remember them, turn their captivity, and bring them back from every nation. Les applies this to today: after 1,900 and some years of dispersion, Israel has come back in our generation, and God is fulfilling His Word by restoring them to the land. He insists no one will drive them into the sea because God has promised to fulfill these covenant promises.
Les says Deuteronomy 30 describes the Palestinian covenant. It was given through Moses to the nation of Israel, and God told them before it ever happened that because of disobedience and unbelief they would be scattered from one end of the earth to the other. When Israel has gone through all the blessings and curses, God says He will turn their captivity and have compassion on them.
Les says Israel was dispersed after the Temple was destroyed in 70 A.D., and the land was emptied of them. He says Palestine has always been the homeland of the Jew, even though the world treats the Jew as an imposter. This dispersion is exactly what God predicted in Deuteronomy 30 before it happened.
Les points out that Israel was in a dispersion for 1,900 and some years and has now come back in our generation. Since the early 1900s they have returned to the land, and in 1948 they became a sovereign state. Les says this is God fulfilling His Word, bringing them back because the book says they are there for good.
Les teaches that Israel is at the very core of the whole human experience and that they are God's covenant people. He references Deuteronomy 32:8, where God set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. God made covenant promises to Abraham concerning a specific land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, often called the Holy Land. Everything else, Les says, falls into place as it begins with Israel.
Les says everything is being set for the day when God will once again pick up where He left off with Israel. He teaches that the world is rushing to an end-time scenario and Israel is being squeezed tighter and tighter. But it is not going to happen that Israel ceases to be a nation, because God has promised to fulfill these covenant promises with His covenant people.
The Context of Deuteronomy 30 in the Covenants
Les shows that Deuteronomy 30 follows the Abrahamic covenant and the covenant of the Law, setting the stage for Israel's prophetic future.
The Palestinian Covenant
Les identifies Deuteronomy 30 as the Palestinian covenant, explaining that God predicted Israel's scattering and promised to turn their captivity and regather them from all nations.
God Fulfilling His Word Today
Les says God is fulfilling His Word in our time by bringing Israel back from dispersion, and no one will drive them into the sea because the book says they are there for good.
Israel's 70 A.D. Dispersion and Homeland
Les explains that after 70 A.D. the nation was dispersed and the land emptied, but Palestine has always been the homeland of the Jew.
Israel's Return in Our Generation
Les states that after 1,900 years of dispersion, Israel has come back in our generation and everything is getting set for God to continue with His covenant people.
From Dispersion to the 1948 State
Les says Israel came back to the land since the early 1900s and became a sovereign state in 1948, setting the stage for the fulfillment of prophetic Word.
Israel at the Core of Human Experience
Les teaches that Israel is at the very core of human history because God set the boundaries of the nations according to the number of the children of Israel.
The Land Promised to Israel
Les describes the Abrahamic covenant promise of a specific land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan, where God had His finger on that piece of real estate.
Deuteronomy 30:1: And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
This verse sets the time when Israel is scattered and remembers the blessings and curses.
Deuteronomy 30:2: And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
This is the condition that Israel must return to the Lord wholeheartedly.
Deuteronomy 30:3: That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
This is the central promise of Israel's regathering from all nations.
Les Feldick calls Deuteronomy 30 the Palestinian covenant. It is God's promise that Israel would be scattered among the nations for disobedience, but after they return to the Lord, He will turn their captivity and gather them back to the land.
Les says Israel was in a dispersion for about 1,900 years, and then came back in our generation. He also notes they returned since the early 1900s and became a sovereign state in 1948.
Les says it is not going to happen. God has promised that He will fulfill the covenant promises with His covenant people Israel, and the Bible says they are there for good.
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