Mosaic Covenant and Prophecy

The Mosaic covenant was an agreement between God and the children of Israel. Breaking this covenant brought trouble on the promised land.

Who is wise enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the LORD and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no one can cross?

The LORD said, “It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law. Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts; they have followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them” (Jer 9:12-14).

When the people rejected the law, they lost that protection and the spiritual powers of evil were able to work their harm and make the land desolate.

God has not made a similar covenant with the nations, so the consequences of disobedience described in Deuteronomy 28 do not apply to them. However, the people of the world are engaged in the same spiritual battle as the children of Israel. The spiritual powers of evil are not very creative, so they used the same methods to attack them as they used against the children of Israel. If the people of nations do not have the spiritual protection provided by the cross, they will vulnerable to evil, just like Israelites when they rejected t law. They can expect the same types of troubles and plagues as the OT prophets announced for Israel.

Jeremiah confirmed this when he warned that the uncircumcised nations—Egypt, Edom, Ammon, Moab—can experience the same destructive events as disobedient Israel, whenever the spiritual powers of evil choose to inflict them (Jer 9:25-26).