Covenant – divine ordinance with signs or pledges
CHAPTER 32
Genesis 31:3 Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you.”
24 But God had come to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, “Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.”
43 And Laban answered and said to Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and this flock is my flock; all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne?
44 Now therefore, come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between you and me.”
“I see the holiness of this covenant with You, LORD; and the solemn promise between a father, who gave away two daughters and his son-in-law who served and waited seven years for each (if I may say before the Law that Jacob is Son-in-Law to Laban).”
48 And Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore its name was called Galeed, 49 also Mizpah, because he said, “May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent one from another. 50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us—see, God is witness between you and me!”
A BOND OF FAMILY IS FORMED BY THE MAN AND THE WOMAN JOINED AS ONE.
BY MY VOW I WILL NOT BREAK THIS BOND OF MARRIAGE AND WITNESS TO ME. I AM THE LORD.
Mark 10: 7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
To be continued…
A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,
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