A Series on Covenants of God and how all men are affected
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. ( Luke 19:27).
This passage follows the parable of the "talents" and is slightly different than the parallel account in Matthew 25 where the servant that buries his talent is cast out of God's presence. Here there is loss of reward; and then a focus on those who rejected Christ as Master or King over them; which would infer unbelieving Israel specifically; and more broadly all those who would fight Him at Armageddon.
God's original covenant was; as with all others instigated by God Himself in the institution of marriage; so maligned today. One could say that man's original design to take care of the Garden of Eden by Adam and later by he and his wife also was as a covenant. Thorns and thistles would mar the once perfect environment there; and the contentious behavior and jealousy to compete with the headship of Adam over Eve was also a negative effect of original sin on their part.
Our Lord; of course is always one step ahead in His love for humanity in general and for His chosen people in particular. This is; of course brought out in the prophecy of the seed of the woman in Genesis 3:15 which is pronounced on the serpent after God dealt with Adam and Eve.
One could only surmise as to any like covenant arrangement by Lucifer and God before the fall. The auspicious worship and music leadership detailed in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 show the role of authority granted to Lucifer which apparently went to his head. It is interetsing to contemplate on the fact that enjoying the role God gives also disappears when we don't keep God in His place and it becomes more burdensome approaching God with the weight of sin. Thus; in general the wicked and unregenerate can no longer enjoy the presence of the Lord without submitting to the TERMS of reconciliation. We were all enemies ( Rom. 5:10)
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. ( Luke 19:27).
This passage follows the parable of the "talents" and is slightly different than the parallel account in Matthew 25 where the servant that buries his talent is cast out of God's presence. Here there is loss of reward; and then a focus on those who rejected Christ as Master or King over them; which would infer unbelieving Israel specifically; and more broadly all those who would fight Him at Armageddon.
God's original covenant was; as with all others instigated by God Himself in the institution of marriage; so maligned today. One could say that man's original design to take care of the Garden of Eden by Adam and later by he and his wife also was as a covenant. Thorns and thistles would mar the once perfect environment there; and the contentious behavior and jealousy to compete with the headship of Adam over Eve was also a negative effect of original sin on their part.
Our Lord; of course is always one step ahead in His love for humanity in general and for His chosen people in particular. This is; of course brought out in the prophecy of the seed of the woman in Genesis 3:15 which is pronounced on the serpent after God dealt with Adam and Eve.
One could only surmise as to any like covenant arrangement by Lucifer and God before the fall. The auspicious worship and music leadership detailed in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 show the role of authority granted to Lucifer which apparently went to his head. It is interetsing to contemplate on the fact that enjoying the role God gives also disappears when we don't keep God in His place and it becomes more burdensome approaching God with the weight of sin. Thus; in general the wicked and unregenerate can no longer enjoy the presence of the Lord without submitting to the TERMS of reconciliation. We were all enemies ( Rom. 5:10)
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