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Today's reading was Deuteronomy 30–31. What immediately caught my attention was how Moses concluded his summary of the law. There’s not only the blessings and curses of obedience and disobedience, but here we find a prophetic look into a future that is yet to be experienced.

Moses opens chapter 30 with the hard message for his people: they will ultimately disobey the Lord. As a result, they’ll be scattered across the globe (or maybe even a colony on the moon or Mars, see verse 4). Even so, he follows that up with a promise: there will come a day when their descendants return to the Lord and the land, and He will restore their fortunes—blessing them beyond anything their ancestors experienced.

“And the Lord your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. And he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.”
—Deuteronomy 30:5

This stood out to me because this level of restoration has not yet happened. After the Assyrian and Babylonian exiles, Israel never fully regained its former glory—let alone surpassed it.

That brought to mind several other prophetic passages I’ve been thinking about from past years of reading through the Bible; passages that seem to point to a future still to come.

In Zechariah 12:10, we read,

“…they will look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child…”

This implies a future moment of a Jewish national repentance and recognition of Jesus as Messiah.

In Hosea 6:2 I’ve underlined in my Bible,

“After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.”

I’ve often thought, if one day is like a thousand years to the Lord (2 Peter 3:8) perhaps we’re living in that “third day” now, and Jesus will soon return.

And then there’s Romans 11:25–26, where Paul writes:

“Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And in this way all Israel will be saved…”

Moses understood that Israel's disobedience would bring about consequences, but he also saw a future of transformation. God would change the hearts of these stiff-necked people so they could love Him fully and live the abundant life He always intended for them to live.

Takeaway: The story God is writing isn’t ultimately about us. Yes, He loves us deeply and invites us into His plan, but that plan includes the people of Israel in ways we cannot ignore or resist. In a time when antisemitism is on the rise, let’s be a people who align ourselves with God’s heart. Let’s pray for Israel, honor their place in His unfolding story, and humbly submit to the bigger picture God is writing. Being on the right side of biblical history begins with surrendering to God’s plan.