Deuteronomy 4:27

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25 “When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, and ^ado evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger,

26 ^aI call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not¹ prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed.

27 And the Lord ^awill scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.

28 And ^athere you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, ^bwhich neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

29 ^aBut from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

30 When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the ^alatter days, when you ^bturn to the Lord your God and obey His voice

31 (for the Lord your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor ^adestroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.

32 “For ^aask now concerning the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask ^bfrom one end of heaven to the other, whether any great thing like this has happened, or anything like it has been heard.

Commentaries:

No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Deuteronomy 4:27.

Deuteronomy 4:27-30

In the end time, in the last days, Israel is prophesied to go into slavery—nationally. But God warns us ahead of time, in Deuteronomy 4.

So God promises this to Israel. This is the way out of slavery in the end times—by hearkening to the voice of God. In Jeremiah 2, Jeremiah summarizes his charges like a lawyer would in a courtroom. Judah's sin was compounded by rejection of truth and reception of error. The pagan nations had committed the sin of idolatry, often exchanging one superstition for another. But Judah had exceeded them in disobedience in renouncing her own real God to serve nobodies. And you will find that in Jeremiah 2:11-19. For sake of time, we will just read verse 13.

Excerpted from Entanglement with the Yoke of Bondage by Martin G. Collins

Deuteronomy 4:24-31

God is teaching us there what defragments our mind. It is seeking Him with passionate desire to be like Him which defragments our mind and makes it one with Him.

Excerpted from Knowing God by John W. Ritenbaugh

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