- Do YOU, (children) claiming God as your Father and Jesus Christ as YOUR Lord know this one?
11:1 וְאָהַבְתָּ אֵת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וְשָׁמַרְתָּ מִשְׁמַרְתּוֹ וְחֻקֹּתָיו וּמִשְׁפָּטָיו וּמִצְוֺתָיו כָּל־הַיָּמִֽים׃
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11 :: Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC)
Keep in mind that I am not talking now to your children, who have never experienced the discipline of the LORD your God or seen his greatness and his strong hand and powerful arm.
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11:2
What is the difference between Discipline of the LORD & the Punishment of God?
Water covers the earth!
The LORD GOD wipes the slate clean! No more creatures on earth EXCEPT Noah.
And that was not even punishment, but pure judgment of the created men and women, fallen deeply into sin.
God’s created world may have had a flood or two in this past year of our Lord, BUT not like the first flood.
Covenant of our Forefathers
After the LORD cleanses creation, He makes a covenant with Abraham and gives His LAW through Moses.
Moses also makes a covenant with the LORD on behalf of Israel:
24:3 וַיָּבֹא מֹשֶׁה וַיְסַפֵּר לָעָם אֵת כָּל־דִּבְרֵי יְהוָה וְאֵת כָּל־הַמִּשְׁפָּטִים וַיַּעַן כָּל־הָעָם קוֹל אֶחָד וַיֹּאמְרוּ כָּל־הַדְּבָרִים אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּר יְהוָה נַעֲשֶֽׂה׃
Exodus 24:3b KJV – .. and all the people answered with one voice, and said, ‘All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.’.
פָּקַד pâqad, paw-kad’; a primitive root; to visit (with friendly or hostile intent)
- to attend to, muster, number, reckon, visit, punish, appoint, look after, care for
“But go now, lead the people where I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you; nevertheless on the day when I punish H6485, I will punish H6485 them for their sin.”
Then the LORD struck the people with a plague, because of what they did with the calf which Aaron had made.
Exodus 32:34-35 NASB20 – Strong’s H6485 = number (119x), visit (59x), punish (31x),
This is punishment: that the Lord attends to His own and that our reckoning will be by the hand of our Creator and Heavenly Father, who must punish His children who break our promises and violate our covenant.
Discipline of the LORD – יָסַר
- to chasten, discipline, instruct, admonish
“Out of the heavens He let you hear His voice to discipline H3256 you; and on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire. – Deuteronomy 4:36
“So you are to know in your heart that the LORD your God was disciplining H3256 you just as a man disciplines H3256 his son. – Deuteronomy 8:5
“.. but your own eyes have seen all the great work of the LORD which He did.
“You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today..
Deuteronomy 11:8a
Punishment of God – פָּקַד
- visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children..
- עָוֹן — ʿāôn – perversity, depravity, iniquity, guilt or punishment of iniquity
‘You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, inflicting H6485 the punishment of the fathers on the children, even on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Beware that your hearts are not easily deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods, and worship them.
“Otherwise, the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the sky so that there will be no rain, and the ground will not yield its produce; then you will quickly perish from the good land which the LORD is giving you.
Deuteronomy 11:17 [11:16 quoted above]
‘You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, inflicting the punishment of the fathers on the children, even on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me..
Deuteronomy 5:9
Will you receive the Discipline of the LORD our Father OR Punishment for your Sins?
דברים 11
מוּסָר:: From יָסַר (H3256)
“Know this day that I am not speaking with your sons who have not known and who have not seen the discipline H4148 of the LORD your God—His greatness, His mighty hand, His outstretched arm.. but your own eyes have seen all the great work of the Lord which He did.
Deuteronomy 11:2,7 on the discipline of the LORD. – NASB
What is your Short Take on these Scriptures about Discipline and Punishment? Please add your COMMENT at the bottom of this post. - RH
