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But something was wrong with that covenant. Religionists gener
ally seem to blame the wrong on God. What was wrong was the flagrant
disobedience of the people.
The prophet Jeremiah summed it up: "Behold the days come, saith
the Eternal, that 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 ••• which my covenant they brake, although I
was an husband unto them, saith the Eternal. But this shall be the
covenant that I will make with the House of Israel; After those days,
saith the Eternal, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write
it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people"
(Jer. 31:31-33).
This prophecy was inspired by one of God's holy prophets, to
become part of the FOTTNDATION of the Church of God under the New
Testament. And so, in teaching the Church, this was quoted in Hebrews
8:6-10.
Most Protestant churches teach that the fault with the Old Cove
nant was God's Law, and that as the Old Covenant was made with Israel
the New will be made with GENTILES--and as the Old had Law, the New
abolishes God's Ten Commandments and is based wholly on PROMISES.
Our ministers need to know how to meet that erroneous teaching.
The New Covenant is made also with the House of Israel and the
House of Judah (Heb. 8:8). A Spirit-begotten Gentile becomes one
of Israel spiritually, of the Household of GOD (Eph. 2:19).
The New will remedy the fault of the Old (disobedience of the
pPople) and will be made with those in whose hearts is the spiritual
Law of God, as these scriptures say.
The Old Covenant was made with the carnal children of Israel,
and was a marriage contract in which Israel engaged in whoredom ex
ceeding individual human harlots.
The Old was made with a people on their PROMISE to obey. They
disobeyed. The New shall be made only with a Spirit-born Church,
a people who, in this mortal lifetime, through Christ and the Holy
Spirit, have OVERCOME Satan (as Jesus did, and as the first Adam failed
to do), have been begotten of the Holy Spirit, and have already PROVED
their obedience. The Old was made with sinning mortals. The New
will be made with righteous immortals!
Now, where are we, today?
Both
(actually
ran off.
Yet, even
wouldn't.
Israel and Judah violated their solemn agreement with God
the One who became Christ). As a wife, they spiritually
Finally God gave Israel a bill of divorce (Jer. 31:8).
after that He entreated Israel to return to Him--but she
To make that Old Testament marriage finally end, Christ, her
Husband, died, so that she might be cleansed of her sins, and become
party to the New Testament. In Romans 11 we read of how converted