How could the heavens and the earth be witnesses? (Deuteronomy 30:19)
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Asked January 25 2019
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Jack Gutknecht
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Tim Maas
In my opinion, the terms "heaven" and "earth" are meant in this verse -- as they also are in other instances in the Bible -- to encompass or denote all the inhabitants of heaven (spirit beings) and earth (people), whom Moses was calling on to be witnesses of the promises that had been made. Other passages in which similar language is used include Deuteronomy 4:26 (an earlier occasion when Moses used the same terminology as he later did in Deuteronomy 30:19); Joshua 24:27 (where Joshua called on an inanimate object (a stone) to be a witness of words spoken by God); and Isaiah 1:2 (where Isaiah called on the heavens and earth to hear what God had spoken to him in a prophetic vision).
Meshack Gachago
Yes, there are three witnesses in heaven, Father Son Spirit, and there are three on earth Spirit, water and blood. 1Jn 2. The temple was also where God and men met. It was a witness between the heavenly and the earth. The ark was placed in a tent of witness. The divine and the earthly met. JESUS WAS A FAITHFUL WITNESS BECAUSE IN HIM MAN AND GOD MET.
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