Introduction:
This brief NEW series is about God and the LORD’s own relationship to man. It follows a pilgrimage from which many turn away.
These human failings by some from the Bible serve as cautions to those journeying toward the eternal place where the Lord welcomes those who do not refuse to follow.
:וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֖ים
And God said:
There’s something about God [‘ĕlōhîm – אֱלֹהִים] you need to understand from the beginning. When God said, it is; that is, God’s word given to man is always a promise.
By contrast and by our tendency to turn from God, men (and women) break our promises, violate our vows and void our covenants with our Creator, even as as we do with our ‘fellow man.’
We are familiar with God as Creator, the One breathing life into men of dust, the One creating a living soul within living and breathing beings. ONLY GOD can do this!
וַיִּיצֶר֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֶת־הָֽאָדָ֗ם עָפָר֙ מִן־הָ֣אֲדָמָ֔ה וַיִּפַּ֥ח בְּאַפָּ֖יו נִשְׁמַ֣ת חַיִּ֑ים וַֽיְהִ֥י הָֽאָדָ֖ם לְנֶ֥פֶשׁ חַיָּֽה׃
בראשית 2:7 WLC
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 2:7 KJB
The LORD speaks it, it is.
IN THE BEGINNING, GOD creates; but once He makes man [‘āḏām], a relationship between God and man begins.
Moses’ refers to this relationship, here is ‘the Lord God.’ [yᵊhōvâ ‘ĕlōhîm]. God’s chosen should speak of their relationship with the LORD God, the existing One, WHO IS HOLY or separated.
The LORD is G_d and man is not.
Deceit, sin and turning from the Lord God began in the paradise of our creation. We hid from God and man still tries to hide from God.
Covenant
Man was created with complete freedom — freedom to believe God in righteousness. Yet man violated a simple command. We just ‘had to know.’
Mankind wants to have our personal and unique knowledge of what is good and what is evil. I want to judge for myself what and who is good and choose to do evil IF it pleases me.
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 6:5 NASB
What follows in Genesis, yet precedes the saving of one faithful man Noah, is sad indeed.
As a father or mother grieves for their child who turns away from the loving parental relationship, so does the LORD, Father of all mankind, sorrow for the souls of men.
Roger @ talk of Jesus {dot}.com – on Genesis 6:6
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Genesis 6:6 KJV
Consequently after the DESTRUCTION of ALL MANKIND by water the LORD enters into a covenant a contract between God and man.
“I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
Genesis 9:11
Evil men may appropriate the symbolism of God’s seal in the sky to include all sin into the pantheon of earth worship.
Promise of the End
The LORD’s covenant with man not to destroy by flood provides no promise that the end will not come; and yes, a judgment of all flesh will follow. Do not be impatient for justice or the day of the end.
Men will no longer worship mother nature, but bow down to Christ Jesus, our only Redeemer of sinful flesh.
No covenant of man or offering to an environment of air breathed through masks can prevent the end which the Word has revealed through the Prophets, a new heaven and earth for the resurrection bodies of the chosen faithful. We have just examined part of this mystery revealed through Christ to John in Apocalypse 10 + Gospel of the Seventh Seal.
- Will you have life after death?
- Yes! But to what end?
The Lord will judge the unrepentant in the fire and judge His own creation at the end of days!
Covenant between God and Abram
The Lord God begins again on a cleansed earth by fathering a people and making several covenants with Abraham.
In this brief series we cannot blaze a trail of a history of covenants between God and man; but understand that broken covenants, including those of Abraham, Israel (Jacob) and Moses, are broken NOT by God, but by many descendants of the promise.
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Exodus 2:24 KJV
Descendants of the OATHS of their FATHERS remain BOUND to the same AGEEMENTS between the LORD God and a mortal man.
Those covenants prescribed penalty for breaking our word with the Lord God.
The Road Ahead
- Lot’s Wife
- Death in the Wilderness
- Only Two
The Lord God will redeem His people at a time of His own choosing. It is NOT a time of our choosing.
And the cleansing of sin, judgment of souls and refining of faith occurs by the Holy Spirit through His Word and only Son of our righteousness, who IS the Messiah Jesus.
Sinful man in every generation, before the incarnation of the Son of God and until this day, breaks covenant with God time and time again, turning away from the Lord our God, our only hope.
Even by Christ’s new covenant of redemption for our sins, followers of Jesus Christ must heed the warnings of scripture.
Read how those who turned from God to their own ways, as is our own tendency even in this year of our Lord 2021, were rightfully judged. Note the warnings from this brief look at just a few of mankind’s many moments of faithlessness.
I pray that you may once again turn toward the Light of Life and eternal life after inevitable death of the flesh and final judgment of the world.
To be continued...
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