(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
Deuteronomy 32:7–14, “Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. For the LORD’S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.”
It is always important to check a person’s record before we decide to trust them. Israel was called up to check on the Lord’s record. Everyone is invited to ask their parents and the old people with the longest memories and see what the Lord has done. Ever since the Lord divided the people into different nations and tribes He gave everyone a place to live. The Lord’s didn’t forget Israel. By rights, Israel should have been ignored because they were strangers wandering in the desert but the Lord chose them to be His favourite people. When the Lord says that He kept Israel as the apple of His eye He meant that He kept the close and made them His most precious people. He was as protective of Israel as an eagle is of her young. The eagle prepares a nest of her young, she makes the nest soft and keeps it protected. Even though the nest is high on the side of the cliff for protection, when the young eagle is learning to fly the older eagle spreads out her wings and flies underneath the fledgling so that it will not fall but be carried up if it cannot fly. The Lord did this alone and He required no help for anyone else, after all, there is only One God. He brought Israel to rich and fertile Land so that they could live well.
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