The Restoration Of Israel – Jeremiah – Part 6 – Chapter 31 (Part C) – The New Covenant With The House Of Israel And With The House Of Judah Series

THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL – JEREMIAH – PART 6 – Chapter 31 (Part C) – THE NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH

Jeremiah continues and we cover the prophecies of Chapter 31. This is the last Part of Chapter 31. These promises and great blessings for Israel is because the LORD loves His earthly people. Israel has had a checked history oscillating between sin and repentance and sin again. Let us continue:-

{{Jeremiah 31:31 Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH,

Jeremiah 31:32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.

VERSES 31-32. If we had to pick out the greatest single verse of restoration in Jeremiah, it would have to be this verse 31. “the days are coming” = to be enacted after the Second Coming. God will make a NEW COVENANT with His Jewish people. I may be wrong but I think the nation will be one, not have two identities known as “the house of Israel” and “the house of Judah”, for they are all descendants of Jacob. The question is, “What will this covenant be?”

Strong’s Concordance uses these words the most to define covenant: “treaty, pledge, alliance.” Verse 32 references the covenant made on exiting Egypt, the one we know as The Law of Moses. That will be the old covenant because a new one will be enacted. The Jews constantly broke that covenant because it was not within their fallen humanity to keep it. Christ was the only one to keep the Law and was declared righteous for doing so. The old covenant failed because man failed.

Scripture records a number of covenants. God made a covenant with Noah (the terminology is “I will establish My covenant”) and the details of that are in Genesis 9:9-17. Nothing in that covenant has been revoked including the death penalty. The next covenant was with Abram in Genesis 15:18 when God covenanted the land from the Nile to the Euphrates for his descendants forever. When Abraham was 99 years old God made a covenant with Him that promised increase of descendants, nations and the seal of circumcision. That is in Genesis 17, but one verse I wish to highlight – {{Genesis 17:19 but God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac and I will establish My covenant with him FOR AN EVERLASTING COVENANT FOR HIS DESCENDANTS after him,”}}

There is no stated record of God establishing a separate covenant with Isaac or Jacob, but they are covered in what God gave to Abraham, even though the Psalmist states it this way – {{Psalm 105:8-10 “HE HAS REMEMBERED HIS COVENANT FOREVER, the word which He commanded to a thousand generations; THE COVENANT WHICH HE MADE WITH ABRAHAM, and His oath to Isaac. Then He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant.”}} The Jeremiah verse talks about establishing a covenant with “him” (that is the whole of Israel) and it will be an EVERLASTING COVENANT. The Law was not an everlasting covenant. The Law had effect until Calvary. This covenant that Genesis 17 verse 19 speaks of, this everlasting covenant, is the very same one that is in Jeremiah 31:31, the new covenant with the house of Israel and Judah.

The opening chapters of Exodus contain these verses – {{Exodus 2:24 “so God heard their groaning, AND GOD REMEMBERED HIS COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM, Isaac, and Jacob.”}} {{Exodus 6:4-5 “I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they sojourned, and furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.”}}

Both Isaiah and Ezekiel speak of this very same covenant that we are looking at in Jeremiah 31:31 and these are their verses – {{Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that you may live and I will make an everlasting covenant with you according to the faithful mercies shown to David.}} {{Isaiah 59:21 “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD: “My Spirit which is upon you and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, . . . .”}}

{{Ezekiel 16:60 “Nevertheless, I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I WILL ESTABLISH AN EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH YOU.”}} {{Ezekiel 37:26 “I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will place them and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever.”}}