Wednesday | 27 May 2026
The Law that was given at Mount Sinai was the marriage covenant between the Son of God and the children of Israel, whom Stephen described as ‘the church in the wilderness’. Act 7:38. Noting this covenant, the Lord, through the prophet Jeremiah, remarked, ‘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.’ Jer 31:31‑32.
This was an unhappy marriage, for the Son’s bride was continually unfaithful. For those who lived by faith, the Law should have been a tutor to bring them to Christ. However, the majority of the people forsook faith. Deu 32:20. They had no desire for relationship with God. Deu 32:15‑18. They misappropriated the Law in pursuit of their own life and expression, and repeatedly went after idols.
The substance of faith was promised to Abraham, in Christ, on Mount Moriah, which was named, in the days of Christ, ‘Mount Calvary’. The Lord said to Abraham, ‘In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.’ Gen 22:18. This was an Everlasting Covenant that the Lord made with Abraham. This Covenant was given to mankind, as the substance of faith, in the new birth, following Christ’s resurrection from the dead.
The first response that belongs to receiving the blessing of the Everlasting Covenant is to become bankrupt in spirit. As Jesus Himself said, ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.’ Mat 5:3.
Further Study:
Hosea 1
References:
Act 7:38
This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one who received the living oracles to give to us.
Jer 31:31-32
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.
Deu 32:20
And He said, ‘I will hide My face from them. I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faith.’
Deu 32:15-18
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; you grew fat; you grew thick; you are obese! Then he forsook God who made him, and scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation. They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; with abominations, they provoked Him to anger. They sacrificed to demons, not to God; to gods they did not know; to new gods, new arrivals that your fathers did not fear. Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, and have forgotten the God who fathered you.
Gen 22:18
In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.
Mat 5:3
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.