20 But the Lord has taken you and abrought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be bHis people, an inheritance, as you are this day.
21 Furthermore athe Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that bI would not cross over the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
22 But aI must die in this land, bI must not cross over the Jordan; but you shall cross over and1 possess cthat good land.
23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, aand make for yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the Lord your God has forbidden you.
24 For athe Lord your God is a consuming fire, ba jealous God.
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There is heat in God's relationship with His people. Right in the Ten Commandments, in the second commandment, He says, "For the LORD your God is a jealous God." Do you know what jealousy is? Look it up in the dictionary. It is a passionate intolerance, even a hostility, against a rival. It is also defined as being vigilant in guarding a possession.
Here God is having a passionate reaction against a rival. That rival is idolatry. And God will not permit idolatry without reacting because idolatry promotes divided loyalties. We are His, and He does not choose to share us with anybody or anything else.
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