Come, let us reason together once more. Our sins will be the death of us. For eternity. That’s not a figure of speech brothers and sisters. It’s the truth. God spoke to us through the prophet Isaiah centuries ago and He said this:
Isaiah 1:18 (NKJV) "Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD, "Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.
Brothers and sisters, we need to answer a question. Is God good? Unquestionably! If God is good then why did He allow the October 7 massacre in Southern Israel to happen? I’ve given you some answers to this question already in two recent podcasts, but we need to dig deeper today. We need to look at the covenants that God made with Israel. What do God’s Covenants in the Hebrew Scriptures have to do with the modern state of Israel and with the events that happened there on October 7, 2023? I’m addressing this question to you whether you’re a rabbi, a religious Jew, a secular Jew, or even a Gentile. Now if you already know why the October 7 massacre in Southern Israel occurred, then I suggest that you stop listening now and use your time to do something more profitable. I’m looking for listeners that have ears to hear what the Scriptures have to say about this. If you’ve never read the Scriptures, then you probably don’t know about these covenants.
God made four unconditional covenants with Israel, and they remain in effect today. They were made thousands of years ago but they have not expired. God will fulfil these covenants regardless of anything that the Jewish people do or don’t do. That’s why they are called unconditional covenants. There is one other covenant, and it is conditional. How God fulfills that covenant definitely does depend on what the Jewish people do or don’t do.
Let me explain.
The first unconditional covenant is the Abrahamic Covenant.
The Abrahamic Covenant
God made a Covenant with Abraham and his descendants through Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob’s 12 sons. What were the terms of this covenant and what were the promises?
Genesis 12:1-3 NKJV
Now the LORD had said to Abram: "Get out of your country, From your family And from your father's house, To a land that I will show you. [2] I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. [3] I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
This Abrahamic Covenant was restated and amplified a number of times in the Torah. Abraham and his descendants were to have a land, the Land of Israel, they were to become a great nation with great and innumerable descendants that were to have God’s favor, and through Abraham all the families of the earth would be blessed. We learn later in the Scriptures that this blessing of all the families of the earth, both Jew and Gentile, would come through Israel’s Messiah.
Over time, God made three other unconditional covenants with the Jewish people: the Promised Land Covenant, the Davidic Covenant, and the New Covenant.
The Promised Land Covenant
God promised His people that although He would scatter them to every nation because of their disobedience, when they obeyed Him, He would gather them again back to the Land.
Deuteronomy 30:1-3,5-6,10 NKJV
"Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God drives you, [2] and you return to the LORD your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, [3] that the LORD your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the LORD your God has scattered you.
[5] Then the LORD your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. [6] And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
[10] if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
The Davidic Covenant
The next unconditional covenant that God made with His people is the Davidic Covenant, made through King David:
1 Chronicles 17:11-14 NKJV
And it shall be, when your days are fulfilled, when you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. [12] He shall build Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. [13] I will be his Father, and he shall be My son; and I will not take My mercy away from him, as I took it from him who was before you. [14] And I will establish him in My house and in My kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever."'"
This Davidic Covenant is a foreshadowing of the Messiah and the Messianic Kingdom. It came through David’s son Nathan and ultimately through David’s greater son, the Messiah.
The New Covenant
The final unconditional covenant that God made with the Jewish people is the New Covenant. It is not in the Torah, though it is definitely more than hinted at in Deuteronomy when Moses talks about circumcision of the heart. It is in the Book of the prophet Jeremiah:
Jeremiah 31:31-34 NKJV
"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- [32] 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. [33] 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. [34] No more shall every man teach his neighbor, 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.”
If you wondered how the Jewish people, as a Nation, would be able to completely obey God’s Law as mentioned in the Promised Land Covenant outlined above, the New Covenant explains how. The LORD will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more.
God also entered into one conditional covenant with the Jewish people: the Mosaic Covenant or the Covenant of the Law.
The Mosaic Covenant
This is the covenant of the Law - the 613 laws - given by God to the Nation of Israel through Moses. None of us have ever been able to keep or fully obey these laws. The blessings and the dreaded curses – a very long list of them – is found in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28. I beg you to read these two chapters. Here is just a tiny sample:
Leviticus 26:14-18 (NKJV) 'But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments, [15] and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant, [16] I also will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. [17] I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you. [18] 'And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
All of the 613 Laws which no one could or can keep is why God gave the Nation of Israel the promise of the New Covenant. That New Covenant was brought in and made active and real by the perfect blood of the Messiah of Israel, Yeshua. His one sacrifice on the cross with the shedding of His blood was enough to pay for the forgiveness of all sins permanently. Israel, as a Nation, has never accepted their Messiah.
Now, what do all these covenants have to do with the modern state of Israel and October 7?
My dear brothers and sisters in order to know the answer to that question, and it is a life and death question, you have to understand these five covenants. I’ve given you a head start in understanding these covenants.
But back to the question. What do these Covenants have to do with modern Israel and October 7?
The problem is the conditional covenant, written by Moses. There are 613 commandments. The Messiah came so that these commandments could be fulfilled. That’s what the New Covenant is all about. Without accepting the Messiah, Jesus who is also called Yeshua (which means salvation), you can’t enter into the New Covenant and you are still under the Laws of the Old Covenant. And the punishment for sins under those Laws is severe. One of those punishments was October 7.
God has made a way, through the sacrifice of Messiah Yeshua on the cross, for you and me to be guaranteed life in heaven with Him for eternity when we die. Eternity is a long time. Accept what Messiah Yeshua did for you and me. It’s a free gift! Choose life. And if you do this, you’ll even get an extra bonus, another free gift. You’ll be snatched up to heaven by the Messiah before the Time of Jacob’s Trouble (the second Holocaust) in something called the Rapture. Brothers and sisters, please don’t pass this up. Call upon the Name of Yeshua and ask Him to save you today. If you are sincere, He will not turn you down. God bless you!
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