THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 421

There are two covenants. One covenant was issued from Sinai being a law and known as ‘the law of sin and death.’ This law in actuality is the tree of Knowledge of good and evil, which was the same tree that Adam and Eve partook of. It is also referred to as the covenant of the bondwoman in the book of Galatians. This was a covenant between God and man which laid out the pros and cons for humankind. For instance, if an individual did such and such then God would respond favourably. However, if the same person failed to uphold their end of the covenant, then God also would allow the punishments decreed within the covenant to come to pass. Kind of like a set of instructions.

Unfortunately, this roller coaster covenant gradually dissolved into people saying or professing one thing and doing another. So God walked out of this covenant relationship. God foreclosed on the covenant between the two parties because the human race had essentially failed miserably. This Sinai covenant being delivered to a people called Jews who resided in Jerusalem. Read the book of Galatians for more information.

However, there is another covenant spoken of in Genesis chapter 1 which was given to Abraham which precluded the Sinai covenant by 430 years. Galatians chapters 2 and 3 elaborates further on this point.

In this latter covenant, a particular SEED is spoken of. Indeed, it is in this SEED that all the nations of the earth will be blessed. Note: this covenant spoken of to Abraham is completely apart from the Sinai covenant. There is no crossover in any form. The Sinai covenant is spoken of as a covenant temporarily added with time limits applied. That is, only UNTIL the promised SEED of blessing should be manifest.

In Galatians, we read about the SEED of the freewoman Sarah, who naturally was incapable of childbearing until God opened her womb at the age of 90. At the same time, God resurrected Abraham's natural capabilities when he was 100 years old.

Note here that the SEED of promise given to Eve now resided in Sarah. Yes, God implanted into Abraham a new SEED, occurring at the same time as God resurrected Abraham's natural seed.

Thereafter, Sarah and Abraham brought forth Isaac from their natural seed. However, unbeknownst to them, the two other SEEDS of promise also passed into Isaac. The SEED continued passing from one generation to the next UNTIL the appointed time that the two SEEDS of promise being the SEEDS of a New Blood line would be brought together in the womb of a Jewish girl who was to become the willing surrogate mother to the Life of the Holy Spirit SEEDS. In her womb, the child of the Holy Spirit was to be clothed in sin prone flesh.

The child inside her womb who was fathered by the Holy Spirit was not a Jew for the SEED of God is not a Jew. However, the child bore the natural features of a Jew for the body was clothed in flesh within a Jewish surrogate mother. This child was the SEED of promise in which all the nations of the earth would be blessed. The child was GIVEN a name from God and the name GIVEN was JESUS. One cannot change a given name although today, the Jews are endeavouring to apply a Jewish name. But confident in the scriptures, we can ignore their stubborn unbelief. Why? Because the Name is JESUS!

This is the other covenant - the covenant in which God covenanted with Himself!