The secret things belong unto Jehovah our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may live by every word from God
Jeremiah 11:1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Listen to the terms of this covenant and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem. 3 Tell them that this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Cursed is the one who does not obey the terms of this covenant— 4 the terms I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace.’ I said, ‘Obey me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God. 5 Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey’—the land you possess today.”
I answered, “Amen, Lord.”
So let's look again at this covenant in Deuteronomy 29. The previous chapter talked about a pagan practice of bringing an evergreen tree into the house and decking it with silver and gold for the winter solstice to celebrate the birth of some Babylonian God on December 25th. Following this we are told that Israel broke this covenant in Deuteronomy 29.
Deuteronomy 29:1 These are the words of the covenant which Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
This covenant is not the one made in Horeb.
2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; 3 the great trials which thine eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders: 4 but Jehovah hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. 5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxed old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxed old upon thy foot. 6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God. 7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: 8 and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites. 9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
If you make a covenant with someone you want to know that they can fulfill their end of the bargain. Today we call this a "credit check". So the "credit check" in this covenant is all the things we saw the Lord do to Pharaoh, and his army. For us this would be the gospels, the crucifixion and resurrection, and everything we saw during the age of the apostles. Also, all the various trials we saw in the wilderness, again for us that is the church age, and all of church history. Even after 2,000 years the glory of being clothed with Christ has not waxed old. We were sanctified, separated from the world so that we might not be befuddled by the wine of their fornication. We have defeated some giants, America was set up as a light on a hill, the New Jerusalem, defeating the superpower of the day. We have defeated both Britain at the time of our independence and Germany during WWI and WWII.
10 Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel, 11 your little ones, your wives, and thy sojourner that is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water; 12 that thou mayest enter into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah thy God maketh with thee this day; 13 that he may establish thee this day unto himself for a people, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he spake unto thee, and as he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Here we are, this day, in the vestibule of the millennial kingdom. We are about to enter and God is giving us a new covenant.
14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath, 15 but with him that standeth here with us this day before Jehovah our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day
This covenant is not simply with those at the time of Moses but applies today to us as well.
16 (for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which ye passed; 17 and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them); 18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; 19 and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry. 20 Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And Jehovah will set him apart unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.
For the last two thousand years we have seen the world and all their idols whether we are talking about money, or some sport team or rock star, or movie star. We have seen that those whose heart has turned away from the Lord as church attendance has dwindled. The attitude towards the Bible and Jesus has turned to gall and wormwood among the Hollywood elite. We have seen the stubbornness of men's hearts when we discuss idolatry. They embrace all their idols, the movies, the TV shows, their sports teams, and they have substituted the gospel for the "prosperity gospel". A "gospel" that says you can proclaim that you are blessed by God based on all the earthly possessions you have. It is a materialistic world that they have turned from God to, a world that worships the created things rather than the creator. A world that is cursed, it is unsustainable, it is on a train track that leads to destruction.
22 And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath made it sick; 23 and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 24 even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
Egypt used to be the great empire, then it was Babylon (Iraq), then Medo Persia (think Afghanistan and Iran) and then Greece. Look at these places now, they are brimstone, salt and burning. This is what the elites do when they rule a nation, they turn it into a wasteland. How many times do you have to see it to learn this lesson. This is what they will do to the US.
25 Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, 26 and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given unto them: 27 therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book; 28 and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day. 29 The secret things belong unto Jehovah our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Can anyone deny that the US was set up to be a city on a hill, the New Jerusalem based on the Mayflower compact? Yet today the US has forsaken that covenant that our fathers made, they serve other gods, they worship them, and these are gods that we did not know from the Bible and were not given to us in the NT. This is simply a fact. A Christmas tree is simply the ribbon that wraps up this nation of idol worship with a pretty little bow. We did not learn this from the Bible, it wasn't given to us by God, rather we have turned to the ways of the nations, it is a pagan practice, it has its roots in pagan worship and the universality of it demonstrates how widespread the idolatry has become in this nation.