From curses to blessings

This is Jericho.  It is the oldest city ever found in the world.  Yet, it was cursed by God and never to be built on again after the children of Israel came into the promised land and took over.  Amazingly, the ruins here bear testimony of the truth of the Bible.

However, what is steps away from this hill top is life.  A natural spring feeds the Jordan river valley and since Israel became a state in 1947, it is once again becoming the fertile place we read about.

Obedience brings blessings and disobedience brings curses.  There is no way around it and nobody changed it.  Deut. 30 says:

15 See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. 16 For I command you today to love YHVH your God, to walk in obedience to Him, and to keep His commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and YHVH your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

17 But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods (anyone teaching anything contrary to these words) and worship them, 18 I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

19 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love YHVH your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him. For YHVH is your life, and He will give you many years in the land He swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Moving westward from the Jordan river and Jericho is the wilderness and then Jerusalem.  When we cross over our own Jordan leaving behind our life of sin to be in covenant with God, we make a decision to follow Him and what He says.  The wilderness before us is a picture of our life with all the trials and tribulations.  Only those who make it through this wilderness by their FAITHFULNESS to obey YHVH will enter the dwelling place of our King, the New Jerusalem.  So before you face your next trial or even your next decision of whether or not to disobey our King, remember the words of Yeshua when He was tempted in this same wilderness.

Matt 4: 3 The tempter came to Him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

4  Yeshua answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’

What is "every word that comes from the mouth of God" that we live on?  What is the ONLY WORD that Yeshua could be referencing?  Dare we tell anyone that Word has been abolished or changed in any way and Yeshua is a liar when He says they are our LIFE?  Instead, we had better ask YHVH for His perspective of the scriptures so that we may stop defaming His name and distorting His gospel.