Deuteronomy 31:29

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Summary

For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

Corrupt yourselves

And evil

The latter days

General references

Deuteronomy 30:18

Bible References

Corrupt yourselves

His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children -- this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.

When a leader died, the next generation would again act more wickedly than the previous one. They would follow after other gods, worshiping them and bowing down to them. They did not give up their practices or their stubborn ways.

The sinful nation is as good as dead, the people weighed down by evil deeds. They are offspring who do wrong, children who do wicked things. They have abandoned the Lord, and rejected the Holy One of Israel. They are alienated from him.

They have sunk deep into corruption as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their wrongdoing. He will repay them for their sins.

Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

But understand this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

since I know that my tabernacle will soon be removed, because our Lord Jesus Christ revealed this to me.

But false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. These false teachers will infiltrate your midst with destructive heresies, even to the point of denying the Master who bought them. As a result, they will bring swift destruction on themselves.

And evil

"But if you ignore the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:

Beware that the heart of no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you turns away from the Lord our God today to pursue and serve the gods of those nations; beware that there is among you no root producing poisonous and bitter fruit.

"'If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments --

"This is what the Lord says: 'I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, the details of which are recorded in the scroll which they read before the king of Judah.

saying, "If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away as captives among all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

The latter days

In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, if you return to the Lord your God and obey him

Jacob called for his sons and said, "Gather together so I can tell you what will happen to you in the future.

As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth.

After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come to a land restored from the ravages of war, with many peoples gathered on the mountains of Israel that had long been in ruins. Its people were brought out from the peoples, and all of them will be living securely.

Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings,

But understand this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

in these last days he has spoken to us in a son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he created the world.

Above all, understand this: In the last days blatant scoffers will come, being propelled by their own evil urges

General references

I declare to you this very day that you will certainly perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.