Covenant Faith…
- White Stone
- 12 hours ago
- 17 min read
Please allow me to peak your inquiry into what we read, and may I begin
with this, hoping that you feel no shock or disdain in this day and age of
political correctness…God made a racial choice in His forming man and He
made a divine choice concerning the exclusivity of God’s covenant with His
people. God shows His people their own particularity that they may affirm
God. God began with man being created with the privilege of bearing His
image, not His color, for no amount of intelligence can determine what, are
even if, God has color seeing as how God is a Spirit. The mention of
physical differential appears with Isaac and Rebekah’s sons. All were to
share their mental and spiritual faculties with God. This is why we must
understand the covenant that we may better understand the word of God.
God created man that confirms that God is God. And life is to confirm His
righteousness. It is for a certainty that Adam and Eve were ethnically
generic and in God’s wisdom and in God’s time He would do that which
serves His purposes for the creation that gives Him pleasure. If we only
knew what God has in store for us. I pray that our consciences are clear
with God not allowing any human prejudices to depreciate the power to
love as Jesus loves. But our conversation around the covenant of God
must be inclusionary of all diversity resulting from the ministry of Jesus
Christ who died for all. Do not allow shades to move us away from the
ultimate mission assigned. Not all will conform to the will of God to receive
of the benefit. It is in our faith in God’s covenant promises that all injustice
is repaired. Jesus’ presence is power and we pray that our descriptor is
that we are one with him. God’s covenant does not make us like a new
Adam…it is designed to make us like the last Adam, transformed by the
word of God. What is that like…the new covenant finds its fulfillment in
Jesus Christ who is the true seed of Abraham, the true Son of God. The
new covenant promise of forgiveness of sins is fulfilled in Jesus himself,
and thus he pours out his Spirit on his people so that they are enabled to
do God’s will.
God’s covenant addresses the two greatest measures of life in our day;
SIN and racial conflict. God in His unsurpassed and infinite wisdom
resolves both measures in the divine purpose we learn from the twin births
of Esau and Jacob. In God’s wisdom His people find great courage and
comfort. God’s wisdom knows ALL things and He foreknew ALL things
before there was ever anything. The covenant sharpens our definition of
God’s wisdom and shows its relevance in our lives today. Everything must
be considered in the wisdom of God. God could have created a “tree of
wisdom” instead of the ”tree of the knowledge of good and evil”. We learn
from God’s word that wisdom is not “knowing good and evil, wisdom is
knowing good from evil”. It is disobedience that causes us to know evil. And
what was evil became good in their eyes. Then, after experiencing through
disobedience what was thought good became evil. Nakedness was good
until disobedience. Walking with God was good until disobedience and
hiding from Him was sought. They were tempted to be like God, knowing
good and evil. Their sin became like Satan’s…trying to be like God. Sinning
can never by any way make man like God. The tree was created because
God wanted Adam and Eve to be wise concerning what is good and aware
of what is evil. Creation was to be the lesson book for God’s people.
Wisdom is a “tree of life”. God’s covenant, when obeyed, gives life.
God’s wisdom is revealed through His covenant of faith with Israel. God
promised Abraham that in him, in his seed, all the nations of the earth
would be blessed. It seems this would have taken place through the entire
world, but history makes it clear the world will not be subject to God and will
persistently resist and rebel against God. It was not through the plural seed
of Abraham that God brought about the blessing of the world, but through
the seed singular of Abraham - Jesus Christ. This is why we are in awe of
the covenant of God. God brings about what He has promised in ways we
could never imagine or even believe if we were told in advance. God’s
wisdom is seen in His dealings with Israel as demonstrated in two manner
of people. God’s wisdom is realized in Christ. God’s purpose was a
mystery. Christ’s first coming resolved the mystery of the seed. And God’s
eternal purpose is to reveal His wisdom to the celestial beings as well as to
His people on earth. God is still accomplishing His purpose, which will
culminate in the establishing His covenant in His people and the second
coming of His Son. When this purpose and program is completed, the full
scope of God’s wisdom will have been revealed, and this wisdom will be
revealed as so great it will provide the fuel for the praise of God throughout
all eternity. God promised to bring salvation and blessing not only to the
chosen people but also to the Gentiles who believe. He promised a Savior
who was a man, the seed of Eve and of Abraham and of David, but also
One who was the divine Son of God. It is this lengthy mystery that will
assure that sin will never again come to be. It is the privilege of the
covenant that effectuates the marvel of the wisdom of God in saving us.
Before God begins this talk with us let us place our hearts and souls where
we know we are now in God's perfect timing. It is His timing that grows our
faith as we are obliged to wait and trust in God and His timing makes
certain that He, and He alone, gets the glory and praise for pulling us
through the time that we may be fashioned without sin.
Psalms 31:15
God’s covenant was very explicit in stating the promise to Abraham that
God would have a visible people made forever perfect through
sanctification and is made able to enter into the holiest by the blood of
Jesus. And the bible sanctions this promise.
Hebrews 10:14-19
Revelation 7:3, 4
These are not the total number of Abraham’s descendants, but are a very
elect group from among that number who will in the latter times have a
special mission to fulfil.
Revelation 12:17
Revelation 14:1, 4, 5
Let’s move to the light that the shadows be not seen. This “better”
covenant…
Isaiah 42:1, 6, 7
The “new covenant” is not just a promise waiting to be fulfilled but a person
who embodies its fulfillment. God’s covenant word is the Word made flesh.
Thus, from Adam through Noah, from Abraham through Moses, and from
David to Christ, to his elect, God’s people are being defined, united, and
shaped through an ever renewing and developing covenant bond. God’s
covenant promises have been unveiling since He clothed Adam and Eve.
Genesis 3:21
Notwithstanding their sin, God cares. These coats of skin had a
significancy. The beasts whose skins they were must be slain, slain before
their eyes, to show them what sin cost, to show them what death is. It was
as though they were slain for sacrifice, to typify the great sacrifice, which, in
the latter end of the world, should be offered once for all. Their admonition
for having committed sin: the first thing that died was a sacrifice, or Christ
in a figure, who is therefore said to be the Lamb slain from the foundation
of the world. The sacrifice did no wrong, but clothed the sinner. They put on
the Lord Jesus.
The New Covenant comes into focus whenever the Lamb and his blood are
mentioned in the bible, and it speaks to a new relationship with God.
According to Revelation, God will be faithful in fulfilling His promises to
Israel. God’s word offers priority of clear texts over private interpretation
and priority of spiritual illumination over obscure conjecture. Why say
this…let’s reason brothers and sisters…we accept the truth that the 144000
are of Israel as biblically stated. Now read in Galatians…
Galatians 3:26-29
The descendants of Abraham; Ishmael, Isaac, Keturah’s offspring and their
bearing, Esau’s descendants, Jacob and all his bearing, and where there
was faith in Christ that proceeded Abraham – Adam, Abel, Noah, and the
other faithfuls, these are that innumerable great multitude. Everyone
represented by Jesus, the ideal king and Israelite, is considered part of true
Israel and therefore shares in the blessings promised to Abraham. Yet not
all of Abraham’s physical seed belonged to his spiritual seed. Some
became the synagogue of Satan.
Revelation 7:9
The identification is evident…count the stars.
Revelation 2:9; 3:9
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Hear the complete fulfillment of the new covenant. For none to need being
taught implies that such a condition as this can only exist after the binding
of Satan. Does the new covenant bind to Revelation? The new covenant is
stated prophetically as the ongoing relationship between true believers and
God that will be in full fruition in the end of days. The connection between
the blood of Christ and the new covenant is the power of that mediation
that Jesus is finishing in the heavenly sanctuary. There will be the occasion
when Jesus finds no fault with them.
Daniel 9:27
This new covenant is designed to break the curse of sin from that first
brought through Adam…for the judgment proceedings will be complete
before Christ returns…it is purposed to return us to the image of God. This
spiritual Israel is based on the faith of the patriarch Abraham even before
he was circumcised who was ministered by the Melchizedek priesthood,
which is understood to be the type of the believers’ faith in Jesus Christ. As
there is no precedence to Melchizedek, there is no precedence to Christ,
and neither will there be precedence to God’s final living people. They are
people of the promise. These have salvific knowledge of the word and have
no need to be taught of the ways of the Lord, they lack need for exhortation
regarding reconciliation with God. These will show there to be no
abrogation of the law. These will evidence by emphatic declaration of the
immutability of the covenant. These are now reckoning with sin. These
show the new covenant to be present reality.
Abraham, Sarah, Ishmael, Isaac, Rebekah, Esau, Jacob…these players
and their characters are all in place in God’s plan. And as it is the covenant
of God that establishes His people, the question is where are we? Let’s
look at the covenant particulars with Abraham and with Jacob.
Genesis 12:1-3
Genesis 28:13-15
There is not only the land promise and the promise of numerous
descendants, but also the promise that God will be with Jacob wherever he
goes. This is God’s presence that is the final fruit of the covenant
relationship. This is God’s presence with the scattered of Judah.
Because God has undertaken to be our God, He will do that for us which
will answer the compass and vast extent of our engagement as He orders
and disposes what is best fitted for our deliverance. Whether God
lengthens or shortens, embitters or sweetens, as He pleases, our
confidence must be according to the counsel of His determination, His will.
The highly controverted discourse of Esau and Jacob was prophetic in its
consequential revealing of the purpose of God’s covenant. Throughout the
bible, God relates to His people through His covenant. It is through this
covenant relationship, which serves as the foundation for God's promise to
bring redemption to His people, that we can understand the advancement
of His kingdom. As passions of violence have been released upon God’s
scattered people, against humanity, our most powerful response must be to
counter with a passionate revolution of purpose, with greater passion and
drive than that which the wicked wages against us. The covenant, if
believed in, and adhered to, will purpose us with the will of God, as is the
truth of God, through the spiritual faith that is of Christ. Spiritual faith
involves the recognition of a belief that there is something greater than
ourselves, something more to being human than mere sensory experience,
and that the greater whole of which we are part is divine in nature…and the
opening of the heart is an essential aspect of true spiritual faith. And so, our
brothers, sisters, and friends to the east, even Edom, and Moab, and the
chief of the children of Ammon will be brought into the covenanted faith in
Jesus Christ. In this covenant faith is found forgiveness, God making us
perfect in Jesus, God’s will done in us, our inward journey, our unique and
distinct purpose, our reward.
God’s covenant is not brought forth to coerce or manipulate, but to be
freely received with the faith of reason. And this faith is centered in love for
God, so it strives to act as God wills and is, therefore, manifested in more
than just words but also in our respondent actions. And because the enemy
of all righteousness accuses us, the function of our faith must be related to
the covenant of God. The covenant discussed is our commitment of
believing God's promises, trusting in His faithfulness, and relying on God's
character and faithfulness to act. All the while accepting, receiving, and
resting upon Christ alone for justification, sanctification, and eternal life. The
purpose of this covenant is to authenticate our change in character and
conduct based on the person of Jesus and his work of atonement
accomplished through his death on the cross and his work in the most holy.
What does this display to every observer? That our works alone do not
have any value for obtaining a positive final judgment, but that a positive
final judgment depends on faith alone in what Christ will conclude
according to the origin of things in God.
Think on the incredible implications of this question…
Luke 18:8
What responsibilities do God’s covenant people have to the nations of the
world? Faith gone from earth! If not for God’s covenant promises…for it is
the covenant of God that moves us from human faith to the faith of Jesus
Christ. What precisely is this human faith to the faith of Jesus? Human faith
is that demonstrated in the courtyard. It is our expression of belief that
leads to imputed righteousness. But all to often this belief falters and we
must again return to the courtyard to again confess that which we have not
totally forsaken. But the faith of Jesus is just that, as his righteousness is
imparted unto us and our spirit is commended unto God, our faith is now in
what God can and will do for us; heal us, answers to our prayer, we receive
of His blessings, deliverance in a trial, guidance in a difficult decision, and,
most importantly, receiving salvation. Obedience to the law of God is
purposed in the covenant and yet covenant faith reaches beyond the law.
The purpose of the law has never been to forgive sin or bring justification,
no law could do this. This is what the covenant blood of Christ is for, and it
is why mankind needs a Savior. The two-fold purpose of the law is to point
out sin that we might know the wrong and then to point us to Jesus Christ
that we might do the right.
Establish this thought in your mind; it is covenantal carelessness that
brought forth hatred between the two manner of people, a very unusual
birth, a birth that was so different that Isaac favored the oddity, and God
determined this would bring forth some very ungodly actions, and where we
are embarrassed to think of these people as our spiritual ancestors.
Although the texts about Jacob and Esau are ostensibly speaking about
individuals, each brother represents an ethnic group. Let’s better reason
with God concerning the 2520.
Leviticus 26:40
The iniquity of our fathers??? How are we accountable? Isaac must have
trembled violently with great force as reality dawned upon him. As covenant
head and father, he gave the blessing, so full and rich, to someone not his
firstborn son, Esau. The deed is done; the word had been spoken, and that
oral contact was now legally binding by covenant. No turning back now.
Isaac tells Esau concerning Jacob, his brother - “I blessed him…and
indeed he will be blessed.” This is God’s reality. How the truth is handled
establishes our standing with God.
Proverbs 19:21
The enormity of our faithlessness in the covenant promises of God is
reflected in this pathetic scene. Reason with the word of God.
Hebrews 12:16, 17
We are to reject all ungodliness…all ungodliness…all ungodliness! Esau
and his descendants would prove to be the prime example of this. He sold
his birthright, despising it, rejecting his high calling, privilege, but also his
important responsibility. Yet he wanted the material prosperity. In other
words, he wanted all the benefits of God’s kingdom but none of the serious
effort. Does this sound familiar in our day as well? Esau had forfeited his
claims to the blessing, but he retained a strong sense of entitlement. Here
is where covenantal faith will always place us in the presence of God.
Please hear this; Esau could have enjoyed God’s blessing if he had
submitted to God’s will. Jacob has the great patriarchal blessing. If Esau
had submitted to Jacob, thanked the Lord for His guiding hand, and lived in
obedience to God’s will from then on, he could have enjoyed the Lord’s
goodness in the ascendancy of Jacob. In God allowing Isaac to bestow a
blessing upon Esau, Isaac uses many phrases from his earlier blessing to
Jacob, but now they have a slightly different nuance. The land of Edom
would not be as fertile as Canaan would be. The Edomites would be forced
to submit to the Israelites, but they would fight back, often revolting against
Israel and living in the utmost hatred toward the Israelites. This “blessing”
indicates that the Edomites, Esau’s children, would not be a weak nation,
but in the end, they would always be a restless nation. What began in the
conflict of Esau and Jacob continues…bitterness, disappointment powered
by hatred can grow roots that sink into the soul. Weeds are easy to uproot
when they first appear, but if weeds are neglected and are allowed to grow,
the roots sink deeper into the soil, and weeds become more difficult to
uproot. The same is true with the roots of hatred.
Genesis 27:41
Esau hates Jacob. Notice that Esau does not identify Jacob as “my
enemy”, but he calls him “my brother.” We clearly hear an echo of the Cain
and Abel story and even an echo of Ishmael and Isaac’s conflict. In
Genesis chapter 4, we read that two brothers are divided by God’s
righteous favor as well as unrighteous jealousy and hatred against the
other. Cain killed righteous Abel in cold blood. Esau prepares to do the
same to Jacob, the man whom God loves in His covenant. God loves
Jacob, not on the basis of Jacob’s actions, but on God’s own sovereign
choice, His own mercy.
With covenant faith must come the reasoning with what God reveals. God
had shown to both Isaac and Rebekah the early rising of the faithlessness
of Esau.
Genesis 26:34, 35
And even yet did Esau show contempt for the rites of the covenant.
Genesis 28:6-9
Esau’s descending character has left his people so “spiritually stunted” that
the fostered hatred exists in ways yesterday and today that show direct
conflict with God’s truths. Jesus descended from Jacob. Who sought to kill
him? Is Herod descended from Esau’s lineage?
Obadiah 10
Esau himself never knew that his descendants would claim to be the
superior race over all humanity, and in the name of white supremacy would
commit such inhumane atrocities. The book of Obadiah explains in detail
the fate of Edom, and how he will eventually pay for his sins, pride and
atrocities against humanity but especially against his brother Jacob, the
chosen one, to whom he is a servant.
Numbers 24:14-24
Amalek was the leader among Esau’s princes. This is talking about the
Byzantine Empire. It controlled the Mediterranean Sea. Chittim is plural.
God is trying to point to all of the Islands on the Mediterranean Sea and
their coastlines. God is describing the Byzantine Empire, the ancient name
for Cyprus.
Lamentations 4:21, 22
THE LAND OF UZ is Armenia.
Genesis 32:3; 36:8, 9, 21
Esau is the ancestor of the Edomites who live on Mount Seir, southwest of
Judah.
Ezekiel 35:15
Present day Esau, which is Edom, which is Idumea.
Genesis 14:6: 36:21
Now let’s follow the word and see what we resolve…
God has declared this about His name.
Psalms 138:2
How very careful then should we be to give diligent heed to His written
word. It is, therefore, of the utmost importance that we become acquainted
with the genealogy of the Gentiles, who are Esau, or Edom.
What does God declare?
Obadiah 9, 18
God confirms this…
Genesis 36:9, 12
Numbers 24:20
Amalek was son of Eliphaz, and grandson to Edom or Esau.
If these words of God be true we cannot, and should not, spare any pains,
however great, in order to ascertain who Esau, or Edom, is.
The Spirit of God identifies Edom with Babylon.
Psalms 137:7, 8
We will see this verse again. It means to make bare or destroy the Temple.
Chaldea, or Babylon, was re-established by Assyria.
Isaiah 23:13
Ezekiel 12:13
Ezra 5:12
The Assyrian empire embraced the country on both sides of the Tigris.
Babel, was founded by Nimrod.
Genesis 10:9, 10
The Assyrians descended from the Caucasus, conquered and destroyed
Jerusalem.
II Kings 17:1-6; 18:9-11
The bible tells us that Babylon conquered Assyria and Medo-Persia
conquered Babylon and Greece conquered Medo-Persia. And plucking
from Greece history identifies a “little horn” becoming the Roman Empire.
Could Rome be “Mystery Babylon” Mother of Harlots?
Revelation 17:3-6
Luke 3:1
From the east Rome, peopled all the west; first Italy, France, Germany,
England and America. Christianity became the established religion, under
Constantine; hence Babylon, Edom, Rome, and Christianity are
synonymous.
Remember, the Edomites sided with the Babylonians.
Psalms 137:1, 7-9
Because of these bearings Esau is historically typed as the ancestor of
Rome. Thus, we can begin to reason with the “new covenant”. We can see
how this relevancy makes the most powerful nation in the world (Rome)
into one that fears, or at least respects, the God of Israel. Moreover, the
“real” battle in this world is one between Rome and Judah, i.e., between
Esau and Jacob. Oh how wonderful is the covenant power of God to
reverse the hatred of Esau for Jacob to reconciliation and the final
gathering unto God by us in the last day.
So, when the Babylonians were to destroy the temple, it was Esau/Edom
who took advantage of that fall, establishing the Roman Empire, and
chased away the remnant of Israel, who fled to West Africa in which was
the end of them being a nation. The Edomites, the Roman elite then
converted the Ottoman Turks, their fellow Edomites to Judaism, replacing
the vast black Hebrews with imposter Jews who hated Jesus. We are
aware that the Southern Tribes of Israel were in Africa in 1747 AD and the
historical maps prove the Tribe of Judah and Benjamin were in Africa. I
believe the word of God presents a case of mistaken identity today among
those who say they are Jews but are the Synagogue of Satan. Are Jacob’s
descendants not living in the United States of America today? Is there a
difference between African Hamites and Black Israelites? Why are there
historical maps, which prove the Transatlantic Slave Trade was responsible
for the scattering of the Southern Tribes of Israel?
It is in the covenant that God gives us the genesis of the revelation. This is
the continual covenantal truth of the faith of expectation. It is understood as
“confident expectation.” It is looking to the future with confidence because
God is a faithful provider of all that we need. There is motivational power in
one's expectations when the word of God shows itself to be all truth. God
isolates faith, which means “trust,” or “confidence,” as the single most
important element of relationship with Him.
How does covenant faith show Jesus in us…trust is best evidenced by the
life of Jesus Christ, who did all he did by way of his unflagging trust in his
heavenly Father.
Ephesians 4:22, 31, 32
Restorative justice, through sacred reconciliation on the part of Jacob in his
wrestling with God is our admonition in the last day…are we people of the
covenant by faith whereby our birthright comes directly from our God? God
chooses His people because He can…He is God…and God showcases
His sovereignty, His power, His love in fulfilling His promises how He so
determines. The full enfolding of the covenant will not be done in this
natural temporal domain, yet we are the people in this time, this place, and
this situation where God’s will can truly be accomplished...in earth as it is in
heaven. We must “faith the truth”. God’s truth supersedes worldly facts.
And faith-full actions can change the world. The time is nearing where
God’s people will have the courage to know the hopelessness of
circumstances and yet remain expectant that God will provide a way. Christ
knew he was to die on the cross and hope did not present his coming forth,
yet he expected his Father’s acceptance that had been given him.
SOP - Amid the awful darkness, apparently forsaken of God, Christ had
drained the last dregs in the cup of human woe. In those dreadful hours He
had relied upon the evidence of His Father’s acceptance heretofore given
Him. He was acquainted with the character of His Father; He understood
His justice, His mercy, and His great love. By faith He rested in Him whom
it had ever been His joy to obey. And as in submission He committed
Himself to God, the sense of the loss of His Father’s favor was withdrawn.
By faith, Christ was victor. {DA 756.3}
This covenant perspective thrills our hearts because we realize that we
have been caught up into Christ’s grand, ages-long project. It gives us a
sense of identity—we know our roots. It brings us a sense of stability.
Faith, is not a power in itself, nor of merit to us; it requires an object,
someone or something to trust in. Faith points us to God who is the object
of our faith, but to trust Him we must know something about Him, that is,
His character and His promises. It is in God’s covenant that we find the
transcript of His character as written in the law and it is in our obedience to
His commandments that we find the sureness of His promises. And Jesus
Christ is the all of God’s promises. That is why we must have the faith of
Jesus; he knows the way, he is the way. God’s words prove that He has
every resource necessary to do all that He promises. The new covenant
11fingered in the heart, in the mind, is struck by flint; faith with no
compromise, love with no compromise, obedience with no compromise.
God’s covenant signifies that Christ will never have to do it again.
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