Spoken Word no. 223
“Hebrews
6 and Economic Destruction”
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
January
30th, 2011
This
morning we will continue in our series from the Spoken word is the Original
Seed, and this will be number 223 in our series. It was 3 years ago on January
13th, 2008 that we began examining this sermon of Brother Branham’s
and we are up to paragraph 144, but we skipped through quite a bit between
paragraphs 110 through 140 so there are some things that we kind of rushed past
that I would like to cover more thoroughly for you beginning this morning. To
do so let’s open our Bibles for our text from Hebrews chapter 6. Before I read
however, I want you to remember, we have a promise from God, and he is here to
protect us. BUT so you understand God’s Word calls for Blessings and Cursing.
Blessing is you hearken to (which means to pay attention to) the voice of the
Lord God and cursing if you do not pay attention to it. Therefore, I am going to present some things
which are hard for you to hear, but always remember, if you are His, He is here
to save you from the wrath of man.
Hebrews 6: 1 Therefore
leaving the principles of the doctrine
of Christ, let us go on unto perfection;
Now,
first of all he did not say that we leave the doctrine of Christ to go on to
perfection, because John tells us in 2 John 9 that if we do not have the
doctrine of Christ we do not have God.
2 John: 8 Look
to you, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we
receive a full reward. 9 Whosoever transgresseth,(now, the word transgress means to go beyond the
,limits. So John is saying, whosoever goes beyond the limits) and abideth not (that
means does not remain) in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. (Now, we know
the word hath means to have possession, you do not possess God. And Who is God?
He is the Holy Ghost. So to not have the Doctrine of Christ means you do not
have the Holy Spirit.) He that abideth in (He that remains in)the doctrine of
Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. (Now, this does not say you have two Gods, it says
you do not have the Father who is God, and His Son Jesus Christ, Who Himself
was not God as a man, But God dwelt in Him making one mediator between God and
man the man Jesus, or as Paul said, God was IN Christ, making intercession for
our confession.) Now, verse 10 If there come any
unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither
bid him God speed:11 For he that biddeth him God
speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
Now,
those are very hard words by the Apostle John here but we just don’t have time
this morning get into them, so and since you are all aware of what it is to
have the doctrine of Christ and you know what it is and what the Scripture
teaches concerning it, we will proceed ahead. But for those of you who are not
sure, just ask me for the booklets on it after the service and we can get them
for you.
Now,
in getting back to Hebrews 6 he told us: Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto
perfection; So you see he is not saying we must leave the doctrine
of Christ but the principles of the doctrine of Christ. And what is a principle
thing? It is the first or rudimentary thing. In other words, once you have
entered into the door keep going all the way into perfection. The principles
are the beginning thing. We also use the word primary, like in primary school.
1 grade etc.
So
he says, laying aside the elementary things, or as Paul said, not laying again the
foundation (and we know a
foundation is the first thing you put down in building a building. So again in
his terminology he is saying let us not go back to the beginning if we are to
go on to perfection, but let us go deeper and deeper into the Doctrine of
Christ.) not laying again (not
starting all over again on) the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, 2 Of
the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. (these
are all the rudimentary or foundation entry level doctrines to get us into the
doctrine of Christ, and not having to go over and over them, let us go on to
perfection or maturity.)
Notice he says, 3 And this will we do, if God permit. 4 For it
is impossible for those who were once enlightened, (the actual translation is “Once for all Enlightened”
and that has to be in this hour when God Himself has come down with A Shout,
Voice and Trump. That’s 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 for those taking notes. So he
is talking to those who have come up to this Message) and have tasted of the heavenly gift, (What
is that Heavenly gift? It is the Holy Ghost Himself) and were made partakers (or
companions) of
the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, (That’s the totally
revealed Word of God) and the powers of the
world to come, (That is that Millennial power like when brother
Branham spoke to the bees and they turned away, and the raging killer bull
turned aside and laid down, or like the possum who came to his home for prayer,
or the squirrels that were spoken into existence. Those are millennial powers
brothers and sisters. And these people that Hebrews 6 is speaking of here are
those who have partaken of this or have witnessed this and then to turn back
away from the Word of God that has been vindicated, it says,)
6 If
they shall fall away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance;
seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open
shame.
In other words, it is too late an hour for the people
to do what they did in Moses day when they came up to the land and then wanted
to go back.
Jezebel religion 61-0319 P:61 Then
what happened after that? Listen. After that attack, his voice became quiet,
nobody heard him no more. God called him off the scene, said, "Elijah, you've done made your message known
to all of
Now, that sermon was preached just a few miles west of
us over in
7 For
the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom
it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: 8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto
cursing; whose end is to be burned.
And we are all aware of what is happening to this
country. If you want to know the details just open your Bibles to Deuteronomy
chapter 28 and read it for yourself. There’s going to be wars, and plagues, and
depression, and famine and starvation, because that is what God said would
happen to those who did not hearken which means pay attention to the Voice of
the Lord God.
I put together a study of the end-time judgments over
12 years ago that I said would come on this country and the world because they
turned down this Message. And we had people who mocked what I said, but they
didn’t mock me, they mocked God because I just said what God said would take
place. This that are right in the Bible and things William Branham said 50 or
more years ago, and we are seeing them right now before our very eyes taking
place.
Notice Paul said, hose end is to be burned. And that
is what is in store for this nation and the world for that matter.
Notice in 1961 brother Branham said in his
sermon, Gabriel's instruct to Daniel 61-0730M P:61 I understand that in the last days there'll come a famine; the churches will be so organized and so set and everything, that in the last days there'll come a famine,
and it will not be for bread and water only,
but for hearing the true Word of God.
And people will go from the east, from the west, from the north and the south
seeking to hear the true Word of God. But the
churches will be so organized and tightened up that they'll fail to hear It.
I understand that by books. But in that day, oh God, there'll be a Branch rise up from David. I understand that He'll send Elijah before that day comes at the end
time, and he'll have a Message that'll turn the hearts of the children back to
the fathers, turn them back to the original: go back again to the end and start.
I understand that that'll take place
just before the Spirit leaves the Gentile church to return to the Jews.
And we have already seen the famine for the Word of
God. The churches think we are a cult because we follow a vindicated prophet of
God, but they will have to pay and are already paying. When is the last time
you actually heard the Word of God preached in a pulpit outside this Message
that had any True Word of God in it? It’s all social Gospel, feel good Gospel,
but nothing to save your soul or your body from what is coming upon this earth.
Back in April of 1998 I preached a series on the End-Time Judgments, and spoke from the
Bible and Brother Branham what is coming down on this nation and all the
nations that turned down the Word for this Hour, and I quoted from PP. 100 of the Message JEZEBEL
RELIGION 61-0319, brother
Branham said, When God sends forth
a message and tells the people, and they don't receive it, then He withdraws
His servant and sends His plagues: famine, death, spiritually speaking,
physically also. You watch for a
depression, brother. You think
you've seen something; you just wait after while. You haven't seen nothing. You
think you're dying for a good spiritual revival; you wait till after a bit. You
just wait, long and cry to hear the Word of God. The Bible said so. "There'll be a famine in the last days,"
said the prophet, "and not for bread and water alone, but for hearing the true Word of God." But that
voice will be quiet in the wilderness somewhere, hid away. He ordained the
ravens, His servants. Bless them birds, His servants that kept the voice of
Elijah alive during the time of his isolation from the church.
Now, I do not know if there will be a famine
because there is no food available or because it will cost so much that the
people will not be able to afford it. I have an article from USAGOLD.com that I
would like to read.
“After Word War 1
during the Weimar Republic of Germany borrowed heavily to pay its war debt. This led
to high inflation. By 1923 prices began doubling within hours. The runs on the
banks, and goods developed into street long lines. By late 1923 it took 200
billion marks to buy a loaf of bread.
Millions lost
everything and their life’s savings would not even buy a postage stamp. They
were penniless. The average mortgage in
When World War 1 broke
out the Reichsbank which is the Central Bank of
July 1914 |
1.0 |
Jan 1919 |
2.6 |
July 1919 |
3.4 |
Jan 1920 |
12.6 |
Jan 1921 |
14.4 |
July 1921 |
14.3 |
Jan 1922 |
36.7 |
July 1922 |
100.6 |
Jan 1923 |
2,785.0 |
July 1923 |
194,000.0 |
Nov 1923 |
726,000,000,000.0 |
Hebrews Chapter 3 57-0901M P:2 “
Now, just so you have the other side of the
Word, the Blessings side, he also said in the sermon, “When their eyes were opened 56-0420 P:32” He's been with you in so many things. When the barrel was empty during the
depression, the children had no clothes, you never knew where the next meal was
coming from, somehow you made it. You
didn't realize it was Him. See? How you've been blessed. If you only knew
that's Him that you love, that's with you.
But we can all see what is happening to the economy,
and before this year is up we could se the devaluation of the dollar to the
point that there will be food in the stores but you won’t be able to pay for
it. And with gasoline due to rise to $5 dollars a gallon, the prices on
everything, food included will be so high that you will become like the third
world countries where they have very little to eat.
Listen to what Brother Branham said about the economy
way back in 1962. In his sermon
STATURE
OF A PERFECT MAN 62-1014M 57-1 this present
government now is spending money for what? For
tax money that they'll be collecting forty years from now. She's done.
That's "Life Line"
right out of
And
isn’t that exactly how Barack Obama was elected. How many million votes did
Acorn muster up for him? Was it 5 million something? And how many more votes
did he get that McCain? 4 and a half million? And notice he came in by
promising the world, to the simple minded people, and has given them nothing.
But he’s given away the store to Wall street and the bankers hasn’t he? Did you
know that just a few months ago the Federal Reserve gave away 13-14 trillion
dollars to the foreign banks and companies, and to countries like
So you see what is happening to this nation and to the world. Brother
Branham said, in the Seven Church Age book preached in 1960 and written in
1964, Philadelphian
Church Age CA Book 313-2 "I will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try
them that dwell upon the earth." This verse is not a declaration that
the true church will go into and through the tribulation. If it meant that it
would have said that. But it said, "I will keep thee from the hour of temptation." This temptation is exactly like the temptation in
As this pressure increases,
and it will, it will be harder to resist, for to resist is to lose privilege.
And so many will be tempted to go along,
for they will feel it is better to serve God publicly in the framework of this
organization than not to serve God at all publicly. But they err. To
believe the devil's lie is to serve Satan, even though you may want to call him
Jehovah. But the elect will not be
deceived. Furthermore, the elect
will not only be kept, but as this move becomes the "Inage erected to
the beast," the saints will be gone
in the rapture. And this little delightful, winsome movement that started
out in fellowship at
Now, that is already in the talking stages. I have a
video from the British House of Lords taken November 1, 2010 and the transcript
of that presentation where Lord James of Blackheath is speaking to the House of
Lords, which is the equivalent to our United States Senate, and he says, …
Lord James of
Blackheath's transcribed comments are courtesy of the UK's Hansard online: November
1, 2010 Baron
James of Blackheath: For the
past 20 weeks I have been engaged in a very strange dialogue with the two noble Lords, in the course of
which I have been trying to bring to their attention the willing availability
of a strange organization which wishes to make a great deal of money
available to assist the recovery of the economy in this country. For want of
a better name, I shall call it foundation X. That is not its real name, but
it will do for the moment. Foundation X was introduced to me 20 weeks ago last week by an eminent City firm, which is FSA
controlled. Its chairman came to me and said, "We have this
extraordinary request to assist in a major financial reconstruction. It is
megabucks, but we need your help to assist us in understanding whether this
business is legitimate". I had the biggest put down of my life from my
noble friend Lord Strathclyde when
I told him this story. He said, "Why you? You're not important enough to
have the answer to a question like that". He is quite right, I am not
important enough, but the answer to the next question was, "You haven't
got the experience for it". Yes I do. I have had one of the biggest
experiences in the laundering of terrorist money and funny money that anyone
has had in the City. I have handled billions of pounds of terrorist money. Baroness Hollis of Heigham: Where did it go to? Baron James of Blackheath: Not into my pocket. My
biggest terrorist client was the IRA and I am pleased to say that I managed
to write off more than £1 billion of its money. I have also had extensive
connections with north African terrorists, but that was of a far nastier
nature, and I do not want to talk about that because it is still a security
issue. I hasten to add that it is no good getting the police in, because I
shall immediately call the Bank of England as my defence witness, given that
it put me in to deal with these problems. The point is that when I was in the course of doing
this strange activity, I had an interesting set of phone numbers and
references that I could go to for help when I needed it. So people in the
City have known that if they want to check out anything that looks at all
odd, they can come to me and I can press a few phone numbers to obtain a
reference. The City firm came to
me and asked whether I could get a reference and a clearance on foundation X.
For 20 weeks, I have been endeavouring to do that. I have come to the
absolute conclusion that foundation X
is completely genuine and sincere and
that it directly wishes to make the United Kingdom one of the principal
points that it will use to disseminate its extraordinarily great wealth into
the world at this present moment, as part of an attempt to seek the recovery
of the global economy. I made the phone call to my noble friend Lord
Strathclyde on a Sunday afternoon-I think he was sitting on his lawn, poor
man-and he did the quickest ball pass that I have ever witnessed. If I found myself between a rock and a hard place that
were totally paranoid about each other,
because the foundation X people have an amazing obsession with
their own security. They expect to
be contacted only by someone equal to head of state status or someone with an
international security rating equal to the top six people in the world.
This is a strange situation. My noble friends Lord Sassoon and Lord
Strathclyde both came up with what should have been an absolute killer
argument as to why this could not be true and that we should forget it. My
noble friend Lord Sassoon's argument was that these people claimed to have
evidence that last year they had lodged £5 billion with British banks. They
gave transfer dates and the details of these transfers. As my noble friend
Lord Sassoon, said, if that were true it would stick out like a sore thumb.
You could not have £5 billion popping out of a bank account without it
disrupting the balance sheet completely. But I remember that at about the
same time as those transfers were being made the noble Lord, Lord Myners, was
indulging in his game of rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic of the
British banking community. If he had three banks at that time, which had had,
say, a deficiency of £1.5 billion each, then you would pretty well have
absorbed the entire £5 billion, and you would not have had the sore thumb
stick out at that time; you would have taken £1.5 billion into each of three
banks and you would have absorbed the lot. That would be a logical
explanation-I do not know. My noble friend Lord Strathclyde came up
with a very different argument. He said that this cannot be right because these people said at the meeting with him
that they were still effectively on the gold standard from back in the 1920s
and that their entire currency
holdings throughout the world, which were very large, were backed by bullion.
My noble friend Lord Strathclyde came back and said to me that he had an
analyst working on it and that this had to be stuff and nonsense. He said
that they had come up with a figure for the amount of bullion that would be
needed to cover their currency reserves, as claimed, which would be more than the entire value of bullion that had ever been
mined in the history of the world. I am sorry but my noble friend Lord
Strathclyde is wrong; his analysts are wrong. He had tapped into the sources
that are available and there is only one definitive source for the amount of
bullion that has ever been taken from the earth's crust. That was a National
Geographic magazine article 12 years ago. Whatever figure it was that was
quoted was then quoted again on six other sites on the internet-on Google.
Everyone is quoting one original source; there is no other confirming
authority. But if you tap into the
Vatican accounts-of the Lord De Mauley: The noble Lord is into his fifteenth
minute. I wonder whether he can draw his remarks to a conclusion. Lord James of Blackheath: The total value of the Vatican bank reserves would claim to be more
than the entire value of gold ever mined in the history of the world. My
point on all of this is that we have not proven any of this. Foundation X is saying at this moment
that it is prepared to put up the entire £5 billion for the funding of the
three Is recreation; the British
Government can have the entire independent management and control of it-foundation X does not want anything
to do with it; there will be no
interest charged; and, by the way, if the British Government would like it as
well, if it will help, it will be prepared to put up money for funding
hospitals, schools, the building of Crossrail immediately with £17 billion
transfer by Christmas, if requested, and all these other things. These
things can be done, if wished, but a senior member of the Government has to
accept the invitation to a phone call to the chairman of foundation X-and then we can get into business. This
is too big an issue. I am just an ageing, obsessive old Peer and I am easily
dispensable, but getting to the truth is not. We need to know what really is
happening here. We must find out the truth of this situation. |
Now, what I just read to you that was an actual speech
in the House of Lords, in Great Britain last November 1, 2010 is exactly what
William Branham said would take place 50 years ago. He said the Jews have the paper
and
So how close are we when these talks have already
begun? Now, you might say what does this have to do
with Hebrews 6?
Simply put, Hebrews
6 explains the entire destruction, economically, physically, as well
as the famine and other disasters that are coming down the road. Take Hebrews 6
and Deuteronomy 28 together, and you have the economy, and all the plagues that
will bring on the global fire that will burn it all.
From paragraph 125
brother Branham said, And I was setting there and I thought, "Is there
something in there, Lord?" I thought, "Now, I believe in election,
yeah. 'They which were once enlightened, partakers of the Holy Ghost (See?),
and has tasted of the Word of God...'"
I said, "That's that borderline
believers that'll come right up almost to the real thing and then go back;
just like them was in the times of Joshua." (Joshua and Caleb went on
over, but these just stayed borderline, see, tasted and seen the good works of God, then refused it.) People set around the church all the time,
saying, "I believe that, Brother
Branham," but never make a move towards it. See, said, it's impossible for
them to ever go across. So then they come to that place, and you preach to
women with short hair; next year they got short hair, just the same. Preach to
men to do, they do just the same thing. You see? Never, see, borderline
believers. Just say, "Oh, yes, I
believe it's right."
126
I said, "Of course I believe that." But when it come to that place,
"But thistles and thorns which is nigh unto rejection, whose end is to be burned..."
I thought, "What does that mean? Can't get it." And I was set there a
little bit; I thought, "God, if
this is something You want me to know, I'm up here seeking a vision from You,
Lord, to know just what to do about a ministry down there, and I want You to
tell me, Father." And I looked
across the hollow going on up towards (Well, I was way in above
127
And I... Many of you people here are too
young to know this. You remember when we used to broadcast seeds with our, put
a great big bag on your side, and take your hand and throw it? Mr. Wood, you'll
remember that, broadcasting seeds like that. Take them in your hands and spray
them out like that. Let the wind blow them into the--the dirt. And I seen a man
dressed in white going across like that, sowing seeds. And I watched him go
plumb around the curvature of the earth. And I thought, "Wonder what that
means." And then I looked; just as soon as he got his back turned, here
come a real slicker, coming around, looking like that. He had a sack full and
he was sowing weeds behind him. He went around the earth; still looking,
sneaking you know, throwing them like this, and he went on around the earth.
128
Then I seen it come up, and up come wheat and up come weeds, stickers, thorns,
thistles. And they was both growing together. And there come a great drought,
and I seen that little wheat hold its little head over, went [Brother Branham
imitates a panting sound--Ed.] just dying for water. And I seen the little old
cocklebur with his head hanging over [Brother Branham imitates a panting
sound--Ed.] just dying for water. And everybody begin to pray for water; and
all at once the great rains come up in answer to prayer. And away went the
rains across the earth, and as soon as the water hit the earth, that little
wheat jumped up and said, "Glory. Glory. Glory. Glory." And up jumped
the little cocklebur and hollered, "Glory. Glory. Glory. glory." Well,
I thought, "Now, what's that?" And just then--"Well, that wheat
was a-shouting, I can see that; but what did that cocklebur meant?" Then
He said, "Read Hebrews 6."
129
The rain falls on the just and the unjust. That's what's the matter; that's what
we--why we didn't have a Bride ready for Christ now. We sowed denominational
seeds and instead of the Word. What has it done? brought some more
denominational children. That's right. But in among there is some wheat has
fallen. That's right. But look, the same Spirit that makes the real true
genuine believer speak with tongues, the real Spirit that makes the genuine
believer a Christian (See?, because It's irrigating a Word, a Seed), that same
Spirit makes something substitute to it, like Eve's hybrid, makes the hybrid
just as happy, just as much shouting, feel just as much joyful about it as the
rest of them. But what is the Truth of it? The seed's wrong to begin with.
130
So all your fleshly demonstrations don't mean nothing. "Though I speak
with tongue of men and Angels and have not charity, it profit me nothing.
Though I can move mountains and have not charity, it profit me nothing. Though
I give all my goods to feed the poor and have not charity, it profit me
nothing. If I speak with tongues like men and Angels, it becomes like sounding
brass and tinkling cymbals." See, it's nothing. Listen, church:
Pentecostals. Nothing... Why? It's a hybrid seed. It can't come to the Word.
131
Now, there you are. The body that gives birth to Christ's body again must
be--come from a virgin womb: the Word. That's right. That's why... Listen to
this. That's why she produced "a million more in '44." (That was a
Baptist slogan.) That's why the Pentecostal denominations that--could not give
spiritual birth to bring forth the manifestations and the Christ, because it
was only a sowing rain, and she's brought forth a denominational church, and
she's consolidated with the--with the great Evangelicals, and she's gone in
with the way of Korah. She's gone with the denominations; that's why.
Now, let me read just some of the economic curses that
this nation will or is now starting to go through according to Deuteronomy 28. Verse 15
However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all
his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on
you and overtake you: 16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed
in the country. 17 Your basket
and your kneading trough will be
cursed. 18 The fruit of
your womb will be cursed, and the crops
of your land, and the calves of your
herds and the lambs of your flocks.
19 You will be cursed when
you come in and cursed when you go
out. 20 The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in
everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you
have done in forsaking him. 21
The LORD will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land
you are entering to possess. 22 The LORD will strike you with wasting
disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with
blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish. 23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.24
The LORD will turn the rain of your
country into dust and powder; it
will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.25 The LORD will
cause you to be defeated before your
enemies. 31 Your cattle will
be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it.33 A
people that you do not know will eat
what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel
oppression all your days. 43 The foreigner who resides among you will rise above you higher and higher,
but you will go deeper and deeper into
the hole. 44 They will lend
to you, but you will not lend to them. They
will become the head, but you will become the tail. 45 All these
curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are
destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and observe the commands
and decrees he gave you. 46 They will be a sign and a wonder to you and
your descendants forever. 47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God
joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, 48 therefore in hunger
and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the LORD
sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed
you. 49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the
ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you
will not understand, 50 a fierce-looking nation without respect for the
old or pity for the young. 51 They will devour the young of your
livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave
you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of
your flocks until you are ruined. 52 They will lay siege to all the
cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust
fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the LORD your
God is giving you. 53 Because of the suffering that your enemy
will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the
flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you. 54 Even
the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own
brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, 55 and he will
not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It
will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you
during the siege of all your cities. 56 The most gentle and sensitive
woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the
ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her
own son or daughter 57 the afterbirth from her womb and the children she
bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the
suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.
58 If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which
are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the
LORD your God— 59 the LORD will send fearful plagues on you and your
descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses.
60 He will bring on you all the diseases of