"If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues and great and prolonged plagues and serious and prolonged sicknesses." Deuteronomy 28:58,59
Have you noticed that there are more curses than blessings? God is serious about His people being obedient to His word! The Jews are examples for us today that we may not be rebellious and stiff-necked like they were and receive the judgment that God sent on them!
The exodus from Egypt and their travels in the wilderness are all for us to observe and learn from their mistakes! A two-week journey in the desert took 40 years, and their leader, Moses didn't even make the promised land! They couldn't make 40 days much less 40 years because when Moses went up on the mountain to receive the Ten Commandments, they got impatient and made an idol with their gold and committed gross immorality and rebellion against the Most High.
The Jews are still missing the mark by not believing in their Messiah who has already come to them! Jesus came and died and was resurrected to ascend into the heavens to ever make intersession for us all! Praise God!
Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, (expression of disapproval) upon whom the ends of the ages have come. I Corinthians 10:11
Your servant in Christ, Timothy Laughlin
Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ