Sentences with phrase «of covenant»

People have been doing all kinds of religions, christianity, and islam for over 2000 years, praying to strange gods, not known to Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob, all from the first generation of Adam, and of the covenant of the 10 commandments, and statues, ordinances, and judgments that are perpetual by YHWH, and the world has not gotten any better, since before the 8th century, this has happened, and at some point one must realize that this religion thing obviously is not working for us, the reality check is to «awaken'to the truth, and righteousness, of YHWH Our Righteousness, in Jeremiah 23:1 - 8, and not pagan religions, man - made, and all controlled for selfish gain.

The keeping of the law is man's covenant obligation; and while the records pointedly represent Israel's acceptance of covenant as voluntary, they make it equally clear that the nation's redemption — Yahweh's covenant duty — is to be gained in no other way.

Yahweh, Author of the covenant, the Holy One of Israel, visits historical judgment upon human pride and perversity.

45 Eichrodt utilized provocative but undeveloped phrasing to identify this union, writing of Hosea's «vision of love as the ultimate and decisive power» 46 and insisting that «Love is the effective power in the saving stipulations of the covenant.»

If Isaiah does not say, as a creed of the Christian church puts it, The end of man is to glorify God, he does say with his sharp existential reference to Judah that it is the sole end of covenant man to glorify Yahweh!

Isaiah eschews the term; but he renders the prophetic understanding of the covenant unforgettable in all that he says, and most eloquently, in the Song of the Vineyard (5:1 - 7) The covenant between Yahweh and Israel is likened to the relationship between a man and his vineyard.

Why, when the concept of covenant is crucial to all they say, do they apparently deliberately avoid the term?

The exchanges are wide «ranging and candid in acknowledging both agreements and disagreements on questions such as the God of Israel and the Trinity, Christian responsibility for the Shoah, the meaning of covenant and election, differing views of redemption, and the relationship between the Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian Bible.

21 (12, 15 - 17), 22 (19 f.), and 31 (15b) but thought to be an original and ancient unit, in which series the death penalty is assigned when comparable offenses in other codes are less drastically punished.13 But the death penalty in these cases serves generally to underline the moral and religious seriousness of the covenant community, and in the Israelite scale it in no wise conflicts with the pattern of law which places human life above all other values save two: the sacredness of family and the integrity of Yahweh.

Bonnie, The «end is nigh» nonsense is actually the Jewish answer to the failure of their covenant belief.

We have seen something of the covenant faith of Israel as it is expressed in Old Testament myth, legend and history.

Although rooted for Israel in the experience of covenant, God's love flows out from there into the whole of God's cosmic realm.

In the popular understanding of the covenant, Israel is unqualifiedly guaranteed a happy and speedy issue out of all her difficulties.

And in the final word, of course no one is exempt from covenant definition, not even the king.30 The influence of the covenant concept upon the ideal structure of the community is illustrated in the Decalogue, which rests upon and is unified by the covenant principle: its negatives are an effort to guarantee with a minimum a community in which the man - man relationship and the man - God relationship conform to Yahweh's will.

In Israel's understanding of the David - Zion covenant it was essential to celebrate and renew the meaning of this covenant in the great autumnal festival of New Year and Enthronement in the temple in Jerusalem.

We are forced to conclude that, as in Solomon's day, Yahwists believed that the power, prestige, wealth and apparent security of the crown and the nation were bought at a price too dear — widening economic disparity between rich and poor, the ruthless exploitation of society's weaker members, a deepening acquisitiveness and an inevitably accompanying disregard of the justice and righteousness of Yahweh, the meaning of covenant, and the true practice of the Yahweh cult.

«This power is the power of the God of the covenant.»

This is what is taught in the truth of the book of reembrance in the prophecies of Daniel 7, and in Daniel 11:39 - 45, and in Deuteronomy 32:17, of Moses, of the strange gods that are not known to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the fathers of the covenant, of the law of righteousness, the 10 commandments.

He saw that Hosea lifts up admirably «the quite irrational power of love as the ultimate basis of the covenant relationship.»

It is the overarching context within which the merely temporary consequences of God's righteous wrath are experienced.39 In contrast to the behavior of the covenant people, it is love that is not fickle or transient.

jesus was also equated with Horus, and Isis the sun - gods, and they used the Amen Rah, and Amen Sirapus, for other pagan gods, not of the covenant of Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob, that is taught, and prophesied in Daniel 11:39 of christianity, and in Deut.32: 17, of Moses.

And yet the specific Hebrew term for covenant, berith (as in B'nai B'rith = «children of the covenant») is not once employed in a passage of undisputed authenticity for the covenant between Yahweh and Israel («Israel» now in the sense in which Isaiah commonly uses it, for the total covenant community)

Israel's sense of nationhood, and of being a chosen people with a great destiny, begins with the establishment of the covenant.

It is the mystery of a covenant.»

You shall be circ.u.mcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

We don't pour or sprinkle, so we lose the imagery of anointing with the Spirit, of having him poured over us, of being sprinkled with the blood of the covenant.

WLGM is an evangelistic ministry comprising a group of covenant people that have given their lives for the preaching of the cross.it works in conjunction with community housing, human development agency and social help.

How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?

Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he handed it to them saying, «Drink from this all of you, for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Both counsels were uttered in the context of covenant love.

Nevertheless, the people did not keep their side of the covenant.

Yet, shortly there after he commands them to construct the ark, which contained two images of angels on the ark of the covenant.

From time to time God would send someone to collect the fruits of Israel's faithfulness — that is, God would inspire some sort of covenant renewal with Israel — but each time, the overlords» oppression became stronger; they beat and treated shamefully those in covenant relationship with God.

Since circumcision was the outward sign of the covenant with God, the Jews considered any uncircumcised male to be outside of God's blessing and purpose.

[2:40] O Children of Israel, remember My favor, which I bestowed upon you, and fulfill your part of the covenant, that I fulfill My part of the covenant, and reverence Me.

Moreover, whereas Judaism spoke of its covenant with God as established through Abraham and Moses, the Church spoke of its covenant made in the life - death resurrection of Jesus.

The Jews were proud of this outward sign of the covenant, and they despised anyone who was not circumcised.

In the Davidic monarchy under the Covenant Code the reign is legitimated on the basis of the covenant code.

In this situation the Sovereign rule of God is expressed in the form of the covenant code, especially in the Sabbath laws (Exodus 21:1 - 33:33).

When we thus argue for involvement of love in the search for justice we are only transposing into a more general framework the Hebraic conception of the covenant.

God humbled himself in Christ, taking the form of a Pharisaic Jew, teaching an exciting renewal of the covenant between God and his bride, his vineyard Israel.

Those who offer a contextual Christian ethic in our own day seem to be so far in accord with the biblical view that justice is to be sought as the expression of the life of the covenant community as it undertakes in the spirit of agape to bring reconciliation among men.

The purpose of Christ's death, according to Mark, is «to give his life a ransom for many»; (Mark 10:45) his blood is the «blood of the covenant which is shed for many»; (Mark 14:24) yet Mark does not elaborate the principle or explain how it was that «the many» were to benefit by Christ's death.

We are familiar with this term also, since it is used in Jewish circles as B'nai B'rith — sons of the covenant.

It speaks of face - to - face judgment in the wilderness (vs. 35 - 36); of the bond of the covenant (v. 37); of rebels who will not be permitted to enter the land (v. 38).

Perhaps this was possible because God is in all Jewish flesh, because it is the flesh of the covenant, the flesh of a people to whom God has attached himself, by whose name he is known in the world as the God of Israel.

Hesed is often an attribute of covenant, either the Yahweh - Israel covenant or a family covenantal relationship such as husband - wife or father - son.

Even the central symbol of God's presence among people, «the ark of covenant,» was carried into the battlefield to assure victory against the adversaries (Num.

The prophets may have deliberately avoided using the term because of the widespread popular misunderstanding which made the idea of covenant the food for a narrow, prideful, exclusive nationalism.

Jesus, as one «signatory» of the covenant used himself to seal the covenant.