Deuteronomy 11:18 ¶
Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul,
and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between
your eyes. 19 And ye shall teach them
your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou
walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts
of thine house, and upon thy gates: 21 That
your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which
the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the
earth. 22 For if ye shall diligently
keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD
your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; 23 Then will the LORD drive out all these
nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than
yourselves. 24 Every place whereon the
soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon,
from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your
coast be. 25 There shall no man be able
to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and
the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto
you.
A frontlet was a container that could carry bits of scripture or
prayers and carried on the forehead. The point is that the Israelites were to
always have the words of God present to remind them of who He is and who they
were and of His commands and righteous expectations of them.
That they failed in this has been made clear previously.
Judges 2:8 And Joshua the
son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. 9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance
in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash. 10 And also all that generation were gathered
unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew
not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
This was Israel’s curse on themselves to not pass on their
knowledge of God to their children and grandchildren. This history was vital to
the Israelites’ success and they failed to transmit it. It is also the curse of
many Christians in America today whose children were not taught their faith. They
did not attend church as a family, prayer was not done with their children in
the home, and the Bible was not read in the home. The children of many self-identified
Christians lead lives of debauched decadence and atheism which can be directly
attributed to seeing no evidence of a living faith in their parents or being
taught anything spiritual by them. The fact that these “Christian parents” complain
when things go awry is astounding when they have no one to blame but
themselves.
If they obeyed God promised that it would be He who would drive
out the nations before them.
Exodus 23:27 I will send my
fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and
I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. :28 And I will send hornets before thee, which
shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. 29 I will not drive them out from before thee in
one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply
against thee. 30 By little and little I
will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the
land.
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