Deuteronomy 23:4-9 – For they did not come to meet you with
bread and water on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired
Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaim to pronounce a curse on you. However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but
turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you. Do not seek a treaty of friendship with them as long as you
live. Do not despise an Edomite, for the Edomites are related to you. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you
resided as foreigners in their country. The third generation of
children born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord. When you are encamped against
your enemies, keep away from everything impure.
Deuteronomy
4:37-38 – Because
he loved your ancestors and chose their descendants
after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength, to drive out
before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you into their
land to give it to you for your inheritance, as it is today.
Numbers
24:17 – “I see him,
but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come
out of Jacob; a scepter will rise out of Israel. He will
crush the foreheads of Moab, the skulls of all the people of Sheth.
Leviticus
15:31 – “‘You must keep the
Israelites separate from things that make them unclean, so they will not die in
their uncleanness for defiling my dwelling place, which is among them.’”
Application:
- · God loves His people. The corollary truth is that His people should love Him.
- · Israel’s future Deliverer will be like a star; he will wield a royal scepter and bring victory over the enemies of his people.
- · Sin separates all people from a holy God and results in their death unless atonement is made.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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