Chapter 29 ends with an interesting statement - God has secrets that no one knows, but they are not accountable to what they don't know. They are only accountable to what has been revealed to them. Could this be the first implicit reference to Christ or the Trinity (aside from the "let us create" from Genesis)...I think so. Plus it is also means there is far more about God than we can possibly imagine.
Chapter 30 outlines that they will have a chance to return to God should they be exiled and banished. Looking forward into history, is this a reference to returning from the Babylonian captivity? Or the "Lost 10 Tribes" of Israel? It has elements of the former. It also has elements of Christianity going to the Gentiles, and in essence, reclaiming the "Lost 10".
What struck me while reading the promises of fortune is that Christianity helped preserve Western European culture during the Middle Ages. Within a relatively short span, Christianity was spread worldwide through the colonial empires of the Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch, Belgian, and English. Likewise, in Eastern Europe, Christianity spread through Eurasia and the Caucuses, and the Russians took it across northern Asia.
Now, Europeans fought brutal wars amongst themselves all that time and were harsh on the natives the encountered. But it seems that God used these messy Europeans to fulfill a lot of these promises in Deuteronomy.
Just something that occurred to me. I see parallels in Deuteronomy to what happened in history.
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