Deuteronomy 32:34
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What does Deuteronomy 32:34 mean?
[Is] not this laid up in store with me
The fruit of the degenerate vine, its bitter clusters of grapes,
and poisonous wine; meaning the evil principles and practices of
the apostate church, well known to God, taken notice of by him,
and laid up in his mind and memory; for both she and her sins
will come in remembrance before God, and will be brought to open
view, and appear to have been laid up by him, in order to be
exposed at a proper time; see ( Revelation
16:19 ) ( 18:5 ) ;
and so the Targums interpret it of evil works: or this may be
understood of the punishment of the evil doctrines and practices
of the antichristian church, the sentence of which God had
secretly passed in his eternal mind, and which he had in reserve,
and in due time would execute; it was drawn and signed by him,
and, as he says,
[and] sealed up among my treasures;
his treasures of wrath, denoting the secrecy of it, and the sure
and certain performance of it, and the authority of Christ to
execute it; to whom this sealed diploma is given, and all
judgment committed; and particularly this to judge the whore of
Rome; and who, is able to open the sealed book of God's purposes
and decrees, and to accomplish them; and among the rest those
which relate to the utter ruin of antichrist, and the
antichristian states: so the Targum of Jerusalem, interprets it
of the vengeance of the Lord, laid up for the wicked;
``is not the cup of the judgment of vengeance mixed and prepared for the ungodly sealed up among my treasures, to the day of the great judgment?''it is true of the cup of the wine of the fierceness of the wrath of God, or of the wine of the wrath of God poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation, which he will make great Babylon, and all the worshippers of the beast, drink of, ( Revelation 14:9 Revelation 14:10 ) ( 16:19 ) .
