The New Covenant

I want to talk to you about the Covenant. See we as born again believers look at our covenant with the Lord, the times that we are living in today, and read the news about Israel, and see that all attention of the worlds is upon this tiny state, which is the Apple of God’s eyes. Yet I want to remind you that God made a covenant with His people Israel through His prophet Jeremiah

Jeremiah:31:31-34: Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah  not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."   

 When we read Ezekiel, we see how he describes this promise God made with His children Israel: (Ezekiel 36:21-28)

But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations wherever they went. "Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord God: "I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went. And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord," says the Lord God, "when I am hallowed in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.

I want you to see that this New Covenant was not promised to Christians, but to Gods own people, the house of Israel, and that God specifically states that this New Covenant (with Israel!) would supersede the Old Covenant He made with Israel when He took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt.

God’s promise through Jeremiah is a New Covenant with a new reality. He promises that the day will come when He will put His law in their minds and write it on their hearts. 

I believe this will happen soon, I believe the eyes of their understanding is about to be opened. They are going to come to know Him personally. See Israel is God’s covenanted people.

In Gen17:7, it says "And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you." (Genesis 17:7)"

And who is like Your people, like Israel, the one nation on the earth whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make for Himself a name-- and to do for Yourself great and awesome deeds for Your land... For You have made Your people Israel Your very own people forever; and You, LORD, have become their God. (2 Sam 7:23-24 NKJ)

The Bible tells us that the LORD God looked down from heaven and chose a man through whom He would bring a special people into the world. This people, in turn, would be the channel through which His light and blessing would be established for all mankind. Because He is God, the LORD could have simply declared His intention to Abraham and that would have been that. In His infinite wisdom, however, because He knows the end of everything from the beginning, and because He knew who He was dealing with (His stiff-necked creation), God went "out of His way" to bind Himself to this decision by entering into a covenant with Abraham, with his descendants, and with Himself.

This covenant, affirmed to Isaac and then to Jacob (and not to Ishmael or Esau), made a special people out of the children of Israel, a people God called His special treasure, the apple of His eye.

Many Christian believe that since Israel rejected the Lord, that God switched His favor to the gentile church, and that His convent is no longer with His people, who are the apple of His eyes. We, because of His grace, were en-grafted into His covenant, but the original Covenant was with His people. (Israel)

The Bible, of course, makes it clear that this covenant is unchangeable: we read in Jeremiah 31:35-36

“Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who disturbs the sea, and its waves roar (The LORD of hosts is His name): "If those ordinances depart from before Me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before Me forever."

Israel was, is, and will always remain God's chosen, special people. Many are trying to come against it right now, It is time for the church (His en-grafted ones) to stand up and pray for Israel as never before. We need to pray protection and strengthen for its leaders to stand for the Truth. And that God’s covenant with His people is fulfilled. "God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good? (Numbers 23:19)

Let this be your prayer for Israel. “My soul finds rest in God alone, my salvation comes from him.” Ps 62:1

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