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Warning About Foreign Enemies

Text: Deuteronomy 28:48-57
17 September 2019

WARNING ABOUT FOREIGN ENEMIES

1. Israel will end up serving enemies   (Deuteronomy 28:48a)

2. The LORD will send these enemies   (Deuteronomy 28:48b)

3. Suffering under the enemies

a) Hunger
b) Thirst
c) Nakedness
d) In need of everything
e) A yoke of iron on the neck
f) Destruction of the nation   (Deuteronomy 28:48)

DESCRIPTION OF THE ENEMIES

1. They will come from afar   (Deuteronomy 28:49a)

2. They are as swift as eagles   (Deuteronomy 28:49b)

3. Speaking a foreign language   (Deuteronomy 28:49c)

4. A nation of fierce countenance   (Deuteronomy 28:50a)

5. Does not respect the elderly   (Deuteronomy 28:50b)

6. No favour to the young   (Deuteronomy 28:50c)

WHAT THEY WILL DO

1. They will consume:

a) The increase of the livestock   (Deuteronomy 28:51)
b) The produce of the land   (Deuteronomy 28:51)
c) Until destruction   (Deuteronomy 28:51)

2. Nothing left for Israel

a) No grain
b) No new wine
c) No oil
d) No increase of cattle
e) Or offspring of flocks
f) Until Destruction   (Deuteronomy 28:51)

WAR STRATEGY OF ENEMIES

1. Laying siege

2. High walls trusted by Israel would be brought down   (Deuteronomy 28:52)

EFFECTS ON ISRAEL

1. Children would be eaten   (Deuteronomy 28:53)

a) Sons
b) Daughters

2. Great distress   (Deuteronomy 28:53)

Desperate straits for everybody

3. The sensitive and very refined   (Deuteronomy 28:54-55)

a) Will become hostile to a brother
b) To wife
c) To children
d) He will not give his children for others to eat

4. The tender and delicate woman   (Deuteronomy 28:56-57)

a) She would refuse to share the placenta she has after giving birth
b) She will eat the placenta secretly because of the lack in the nation