hooglventures.blogg.se - Mosaic covenant

In Deuteronomy 28:1-16, we read:ġ If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. Let’s read some of the fine print in this man-God contract. Blessings and Penalties of the Mosaic Covenant Israel had to be obedient to God’s requirements in order to receive His blessings. The key point: The “if-then” statement in these verses reveals that the contract was conditional. If you listen to these commands and obey them faithfully, then the Lord your God will continue to keep his covenant with you and will show you his constant love, as he promised your ancestors. The people all responded together, “We will do everything the Lord has said.” So Moses brought their answer back to the Lord. So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all the words the Lord had commanded him to speak. Although the whole earth is Mine, you will be for Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

Now if you obey Me fully and keep My covenant, then out of all nations you will be My treasured possession. Moses was instructed to spell out God’s covenant to the Israelites.

Most importantly, Israel was to “give birth” to a male child who would reconcile man to God (Isa 9:6-7, 53:4-6, Rev 12:13). That’s why the Bible often refers to “the God of Israel”. They were to teach the world about God by their example.

Their mission was to be God’s witness and servant in the world and to glorify God (Isa 43:10, 49:3,6). They were to follow the statutes of holy living by adhering to some 613 laws and instructions, including the observation of mandated Holy Feasts at their appointed time. It is found in detail in Exodus chapters 19-34. God made this covenant with Israel at Mount Sinai via His servant Moses, link.

New Covenant: Found in both Old and New Testaments, this promises all mankind (Jew and Gentile) complete reconciliation with God through the Jewish Messiah.

He will be a royal descendant of Abraham through David via the tribe of Judah

Davidic: Identifies more precisely the lineage of the “offspring” who will be a blessing to all mankind (as in Christ).

As a kingdom of priests and a unique people, they were to be God’s witness and servant in the world

Mosaic: Focus on how Israel must conduct themselves within the promised land in order to receive His blessings.

Abrahamic: Promise of a great nation (the tribes of Israel), their own land (Canaan), and a blessing upon all mankind (through the Jewish Messiah).

Noahic: God’s promise that the natural order of creation will never again be disrupted (reference to the Flood).

Each covenant provides further divine assurance that God will realize his purpose for creation in general and humanity in particular by fully establishing his kingdom on earth (in the Millennial age). All support and advance God’s redemptive goal for His creation. The major divine-human covenants are Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic, and the New Covenant, link. That said, God has not given up on Israel. This led to much suffering, as in the holocaust. But over hundreds of years Israel repeatedly broke the covenant and the penalties eventually kicked-in. In the time of Moses God made a contract (the Bible calls it a “covenant”) with the people or nation of Israel, and initially they agreed to abide by it. It is an agreement with promises of delivery, but also with stipulations and penalty clauses. “You will not see 25 years from today!” Ī “contract” is an agreement between two parties which obliges each party to do or not to do a certain thing.