The covenant is everlasting because the Word was with God from the beginning. ( Jn 1.1-2; Ps.119.89)When God sent his Son the word becoming flesh was his Sign. Thus the voice from the heaven in each case testified 'this is my beloved Son.' The voice coming as Jesus arose from water has its significance. Similarly at the mount of transfiguration. These symbols we shall discuss in subsequent posts. The everlasting covenant has seven days with which God blesses whosoever enters into the Fellowship of God with Man. Why seven? It is the Law or the Word. On the day Four the symbols of greater light and lesser light are set up to rule the day and the night. God named both so the fulness of God in Jesus Christ established the day is for fulfilling the will which applies to every believer. " I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work." ( Jn 9.4) The command number Four designates the word of Jesus Christ as part of the Covenant is in force. Jesus himself prepared for 40 days,('And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights,'). The Covenant came in force at even so we have 'And the evening and the morning were the fourth day."(Gen.1.16-19) When God judged Sodom he sent two witnesses (to the Covenant), "And there came two angels to Sodom at even." Significance of this we shall come anon. When Noah sent the dove, "And the dove came in to him in the evening,"God's Will concerning the body of Christ, the church' is thus revealed as being part of the Covenant. "And he stayed yet other seven days."(Gen.8.11-12) Seven tells us that the will of the Father intends Jesus Christ as the Man component of the Covenant. At the holy mount,"and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him."(Mt.17.5) God's judgment on Sodom came "The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar./Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah."
The covenant is everlasting because the Word was with God from the beginning. ( Jn 1.1-2; Ps.119.89)When God sent his Son the word becoming flesh was his Sign. Thus the voice from the heaven in each case testified 'this is my beloved Son.' The voice coming as Jesus arose from water has its significance. Similarly at the mount of transfiguration. These symbols we shall discuss in subsequent posts. The everlasting covenant has seven days with which God blesses whosoever enters into the Fellowship of God with Man. Why seven? It is the Law or the Word. On the day Four the symbols of greater light and lesser light are set up to rule the day and the night. God named both so the fulness of God in Jesus Christ established the day is for fulfilling the will which applies to every believer. " I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work." ( Jn 9.4) The command number Four designates the word of Jesus Christ as part of the Covenant is in force. Jesus himself prepared for 40 days,('And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights,'). The Covenant came in force at even so we have 'And the evening and the morning were the fourth day."(Gen.1.16-19) When God judged Sodom he sent two witnesses (to the Covenant), "And there came two angels to Sodom at even." Significance of this we shall come anon. When Noah sent the dove, "And the dove came in to him in the evening,"God's Will concerning the body of Christ, the church' is thus revealed as being part of the Covenant. "And he stayed yet other seven days."(Gen.8.11-12) Seven tells us that the will of the Father intends Jesus Christ as the Man component of the Covenant. At the holy mount,"and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him."(Mt.17.5) God's judgment on Sodom came "The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar./Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah."
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