Jon Collins
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You'll become numerous, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the land that you're going.
Sounds like the Garden of Eden.
Later on in paragraph, verse 19, he says, I bring forward as a witness against y'all today the skies and the land.
I have set before you life and death and
Blessing and curse choose life so that you can have life, you and your offspring, by loving Yahweh and listening to your voice, clinging to Him, this is rad, because He is your life.
Such a great way to summarize that.
God is life, which rings true to the seven-day creation narrative and the Eden story.
And so what God's commands will always, even if they don't feel like it or seem like it in the moment, point God's people towards embracing even more life than you're currently experiencing and avoiding the diminishment of your life.
Now jumping right into the 10 commands.
I am Yahweh, your Elohim, the one who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
There will not be for you any other Elohim left.