What kind of slavery will strike human beings during the end times?
Once we reach Feast of Unleavened Bread, we should have in mind the end of Hebrew slavery in Egypt under the cruel and criminal power of the pharaonic regime at the time.
The feast of Passover is the summit of Yehoah’s (Yaweh in most bibles) intervention to put an end to the destructive power of Pharaoh by striking as a kind of sacrifice what is the most dear throughout Egypt:
The death of all the first-born.
The Hebrew also made a sacrifice but a voluntary one required to escape this last plague. This sacrifice consisted in a lamb of one year without blemish whose blood was to be put on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. They had to eat this lamb completely during the same night. None should go out of the door of his house until morning.
This sacrifice prefigured that of our lamb, Yeshuah, our Savior, whose shed blood is the sign that will spiritually save all believers from the coming wounds and destructions that will strike the kingdom of the beast whose people will try to submit to slavery so many innocent people who will constitute a large crowd.
Bricks and straw as a mark of slavery imposed by Pharaoh!
Pharaoh imposed the Hebrews to produce an important daily quantities of bricks for the construction of cities and monuments as described in Exodus 1: 8-14:
"8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9 And he said to his people, “Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we; 10 come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.” 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel. 13 So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor. 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage—in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor."
Once Moses arrived to ask for permission for the people to go and worship Yehoah in the desert, Pharaoh hardened the conditions of slavery even more by imposing not only the production of a minimum number of bricks but also to go in the fields and cut the straw necessary for their manufacture as it is written in Exodus 5: 1-14:
“ 1Afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, “Thus says Yehoah Elohim of Israel: ‘Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’ ”
2 And Pharaoh said, “Who is Yehoah, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know Yehoah, nor will I let Israel go.”
3 So they said, “Elohim of the Hebrews has met with us. Please, let us go three days’ journey into the desert and sacrifice to Yehoah our Elohim, lest He fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”
4 Then the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people from their work? Get back to your labor.” 5 And Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are many now, and you make them rest from their labor!”
6 So the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying, 7 “You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8 And you shall lay on them the quota of bricks which they made before. You shall not reduce it. For they are idle; therefore they cry out, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our Elohim.’ 9 Let more work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it, and let them not regard false words.”
10 And the taskmasters of the people and their officers went out and spoke to the people, saying, “Thus says Pharaoh: ‘I will not give you straw. 11 Go, get yourselves straw where you can find it; yet none of your work will be reduced.’ ” 12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw. 13 And the taskmasters forced them to hurry, saying, “Fulfill your work, your daily quota, as when there was straw.” 14 Also the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and today, as before? ”
Let's make a big step back in time. In fact, since the sacrifice of our Father's first-born Son, are we not in a way preparing ourselves to enter under the protection of our Creator if we bear upon ourselves the agreed signs symbolizing the blood and the body of our Lamb without blemish and if we stay inside the spiritual house of our Father having in mind that the body of Christ is part of it?
If we show the world a good example by not allowing ourselves to be tempted by Satan and his demons or by our carnal nature, we will attract a great crowd to Christ.
We will also see clearly and understand what kind of slavery the Beast and his false prophet will impose to the world, a slavery that will replace the manufacture of bricks and the harvest of straw needed for their production!
But by what will the Beast replace straw and bricks?
Let's open the book of Revelation in chapter 13 and see how the second beast that is coming up from the earth will force people to worship the first beast that has risen from the sea, that beast that will be incarnated or possessed by Satan and will have an absolute power on earth during 42 months, in other words, 42 lunations. Let's read verses 11 to 18:
"11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. 12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. 15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has [g]the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666."
It is written that it will be impossible to sell or buy without a sign of allegiance to or worship of the Beast.
People will not be able to get money or to buy and sell goods if they don’t submit to the power of the Beast! It means that money and wealth will be at the base of the slavery that will be imposed on the nations by the Beast at the end times.
But don’t we see already today how much the ground is being prepared for this coming time? Money and wealth are becoming more and more the only motivation for the actions of the world in which we live. Everything is measured by its value in money.
Soon, there will be no alternative to people: For money or the acquisition of goods with money, they will have no choice but to become a slave of the Beast who, as Daniel writes in chapter 11, verses 40-45, will eventually destroy multitudes:
“40 At the time of the end the king of the South shall attack him; and the king of the North shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter the countries, overwhelm them, and pass through. 41 He shall also enter the Glorious Land, and many countries shall be overthrown; but these shall escape from his hand: Edom, Moab, and the prominent people of Ammon. 42 He shall stretch out his hand against the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape. 43 He shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; also the Libyans and Ethiopians shall follow at his heels. 44 But news from the east and the north shall trouble him; therefore he shall go out with great fury to destroy and annihilate many. 45 And he shall plant the tents of his palace between the seas and the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and no one will help him."
No one can serve Elohim and Mammon together!
Yeshuah warned us against the dangers of falling into the slavery of money and wealth as we read in Matthew 6: 19-34:
"19 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve Elohim and mammon.
25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if Elohim so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of Elohim and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
Our life must not in any case push us to amass treasures on earth. Let's read again in Isaiah 5, verses 8-30 and see why believers must flee the search for earthly riches:
" 8 Woe to those who [e]join house to house; They add field to field, Till there is no place where they may dwell alone in the midst of the land!
9 In my hearing Yehoah of hosts said, “Truly, many houses shall be desolate, Great and beautiful ones, without inhabitant. 10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield one ephah.”
11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may follow intoxicating drink; who continue until night, till wine inflames them! 12 The harp and the strings, the tambourine and flute, and wine are in their feasts; but they do not regard the work of Yehoah, nor consider the operation of His hands.
13 Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge; their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself and opened its mouth beyond measure; their glory and their multitude and their pomp, and he who is jubilant, shall descend into it. 15 People shall be brought down, each man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled. 16 But Yehoah of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and Elohim who is holy shall be hallowed in righteousness. 17 Then the lambs shall feed in their pasture, and in the waste places of the fat ones strangers shall eat.
18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as if with a cart rope; 19 That say, “Let Him make speed and hasten His work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it.”
20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 22 Woe to men mighty at drinking wine, woe to men valiant for mixing intoxicating drink,
23 who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away justice from the righteous man! 24 Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom will ascend like dust; because they have rejected the law of Yehoah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 25 Therefore the anger of Yehoah is aroused against His people; He has stretched out His hand against them and stricken them, and the hills trembled. Their carcasses were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
26 He will lift up a banner to the nations from afar, and will whistle to them from the end of the earth; surely they shall come with speed, swiftly. 27 No one will be weary or stumble among them, no one will slumber or sleep; nor will the belt on their loins be loosed, nor the strap of their sandals be broken; 28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses’ hooves will seem like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.
29 Their roaring will be like a lion, they will roar like young lions; yes, they will roar and lay hold of the prey; they will carry it away safely, and no one will deliver.
30 In that day they will roar against them like the roaring of the sea. and if one looks to the land, behold, darkness and sorrow; and the light is darkened by the clouds."
If your main goal in life is to increase your riches, you should expect to become so blind to the point that you will no longer see the ongoing plan of Yehoah. His actions are nevertheless taking place dramatically before our eyes. The search for riches pushes us to let ourselves become slaves of our carnal nature, with jealousy, excess of drinks and why not theft! In short, the search for wealth will contribute to our enslavement with our self-destruction at the end of the day. Indeed all the riches of this world will be destroyed with the fall of Babylon the Great and the establishment of a world of slaves under the cruel domination of the Beast during its 8th and last rebirth!
Let's read that in Revelation 18: 9-16:
" 9 The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will weep and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning, 10 standing at a distance for fear of her torment, saying, ‘Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come.’
11 “And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise anymore: 12 merchandise of gold and silver, precious stones and pearls, fine linen and purple, silk and scarlet, every kind of citron wood, every kind of object of ivory, every kind of object of most precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble; 13 and cinnamon and incense, fragrant oil and frankincense, wine and oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and bodies and souls of men. 14 The fruit that your soul longed for has gone from you, and all the things which are rich and splendid have [g]gone from you, and you shall find them no more at all. 15 The merchants of these things, who became rich by her, will stand at a distance for fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, 16 and saying, ‘Alas, alas, that great city that was clothed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls! "
But what we have read in the Revelation of John was already written a long time ago with the warnings of Yehoah in the book of Ezekiel showing that all riches of this world are doomed to destruction. Let's read Ezekiel 7: 1-2 and 15-27:
" 1 Moreover the word of Yehoah came to me, saying, 2 “And you, son of man, thus says Yehoah Elohim to the land of Israel: ‘An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.... 15 The sword is outside, and the pestilence and famine within. Whoever is in the field will die by the sword; and whoever is in the city,
Famine and pestilence will devour him. 16 ‘Those who survive will escape and be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, each for his iniquity. 17 Every hand will be feeble, and every knee will be as weak as water.
18 They will also be girded with sackcloth; horror will cover them; shame will be on every face, baldness on all their heads. 19 ‘They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be like refuse; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yehoah; they will not satisfy their souls, nor fill their stomachs, because it became their stumbling block of iniquity.
20 ‘As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it in majesty; but they made from it the images of their abominations— their detestable things; therefore I have made it like refuse to them. 21 I will give it as plunder into the hands of strangers, and to the wicked of the earth as spoil; and they shall defile it.
22 I will turn My face from them, and they will defile My secret place; for robbers shall enter it and defile it. 23 ‘Make a chain, for the land is filled with crimes of blood, and the city is full of violence. 24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, and they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease, and their holy places shall be defiled.
25 Destruction comes; they will seek peace, but there shall be none. 26 Disaster will come upon disaster, and rumor will be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet; but the law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
27 ‘The king will mourn, The prince will be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the common people will tremble. I will do to them according to their way, and according to what they deserve I will judge them; then they shall know that I am Yehoah!"
Note that the worst of the Gentiles will be those who will execute the wish of the Beast and Satan.
James also warns us against the search for riches as the only motivation in life, and he explains why in James 5: 1-6:
" 1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. 4 Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of Yehoah of Sabaoth. 5 You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts has in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.”
Amass riches in heaven
The Passover that we celebrate under the new covenant has nothing to do with the perishable riches of the world but on the contrary with those imperishable in the heavens. Let's read that in I Peter 1: 17-25:
" 17 And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; 18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. 20 He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you 21 who through Him believe in Elohim, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in Elohim.
22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, 23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of Elohim which lives and abides forever, 24 because “All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, 25 But the word of Yehoah endures forever.”
A long time ago, Job also invited us to seek true riches, those given by wisdom and not found in this world, Job 28: 12-28:
" 12 But where can wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?
13 Man does not know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.
14 The deep says, ‘It is not in me’; and the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’
15 It cannot be purchased for gold, nor can silver be weighed for its price.
16 It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
17 Neither gold nor crystal can equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewelry of fine gold. 18 No mention shall be made of coral or quartz, for the price of wisdom is above rubies. 19 The topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it, nor can it be valued in pure gold. 20 “From where then does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding? 21 It is hidden from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the birds of the air. 22 Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a report about it with our ears.’ 23 Elohim understands its way, and He knows its place.
24 For He looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heavens,
25 To establish a weight for the wind, and apportion the waters by measure.
26 When He made a law for the rain, and a path for the thunderbolt,
27 Then He saw wisdom and declared it; He prepared it, indeed, He searched it out. 28 And to man He said, ‘Behold, the fear of Yehoah, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding."
But access to these riches of heaven has one condition and Job knows it since he says in Job 27: 2-4:
" 2 As Elohim lives, who has taken away my justice, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter, 3 As long as my breath is in me, and the breath of Elohim in my nostrils, 4 My lips will not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit."
The words of Job are confirmed by Moses in Deuteronomy 28: 1-2 and 12-14:
" 1 Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of Yehoah your Elohim, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that Yehoah your Elohim will set you high above all nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of Yehoah your Elohim:...
12 Yehoah will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. 13 And Yehoah will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of Yehoah your Elohim, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them. 14 So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them."
But the rain mentioned by Moses has a double meaning, first of all the physical sense of the necessary rain contributing to the growing of crops that nourishes our body, but then there is also the spiritual rain that spreads the spiritual riches of wisdom. , the one that Job had mentioned and that Moses also mentioned in Deuteronomy 32: 1-2:
" 1 Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 2 Let my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, as raindrops on the tender herb, and as showers on the grass."
Let us read the rest of this chapter and use it as a warning to keep the way till the end (Deuteronomy 32: 3-47):
" 3 For I proclaim the name of Yehoah: Ascribe greatness to our Elohim.
4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, Elohim of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He. 5 “They have corrupted themselves; They are not His children, because of their blemish: A perverse and crooked generation. 6 Do you thus deal with Yehoah, O foolish and unwise people?
Is He not your Father, who bought you? Has He not made you and established you? 7 “Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations.
Ask your father, and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you:
8 When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel. 9 For Yehoah’s portion is His people; Jacob is the place of His inheritance. 10 “He found him in a desert land and in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye. 11 As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreading out its wings, taking them up, carrying them on its wings, 12 so Yehoah alone led him, and there was no foreign god with him. 13 “He made him ride in the heights of the earth, that he might eat the produce of the fields; He made him draw honey from the rock,
and oil from the flinty rock; 14 Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs; and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the choicest wheat; and you drank wine, the blood of the grapes. 15 “But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; You grew fat, you grew thick, you are obese! Then he forsook Elohim who made him, and scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation. 16 They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; with abominations they provoked Him to anger.
17 They sacrificed to demons, not to Elohim, to gods they did not know, to new gods, new arrivals that your fathers did not fear. 18 Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, and have forgotten Elohim who fathered you.
19 “And when Yehoah saw it, He spurned them, because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters. 20 And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faith. 21 They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not Elohim; They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.
22 For a fire is kindled in My anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 23 ‘I will heap disasters on them; I will spend My arrows on them.
24 They shall be wasted with hunger, devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction; I will also send against them the teeth of beasts, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 25 The sword shall destroy outside; There shall be terror within for the young man and virgin, the nursing child with the man of gray hairs. 26 I would have said, “I will dash them in pieces, I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,” 27 Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should misunderstand, lest they should say, “Our hand is high; and it is not Yehoah who has done all this.” 28 “For they are a nation void of counsel, nor is there any understanding in them. 29 Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yehoah had surrendered them? 31 For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter.
33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of cobras.
34 ‘Is this not laid up in store with Me, sealed up among My treasures?
35 Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; Their foot shall slip in due time; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things to come hasten upon them.’
36 “For Yehoah will judge His people and have compassion on His servants, when He sees that their power is gone, and there is no one remaining, bond or free.
37 He will say: ‘Where are their gods, the rock in which they sought refuge?
38 Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise and help you, and be your refuge. 39 ‘Now see that I, even I, am He, and there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand. 40 For I raise My hand to heaven,
and say, “As I live forever, 41 if I whet My glittering sword, and My hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to My enemies, and repay those who hate Me. 42 I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the heads of the leaders of the enemy.” 43 “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people; For He will avenge the blood of His servants, and render vengeance to His adversaries; He will provide atonement for His land and His people.”
44 So Moses came with Joshua the son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people. + Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel, 46 and he said to them: “Set your hearts on all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children to be careful to observe—all the words of this law. 47 For it is not a futile thing for you, because it is your life, and by this word you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess.”