Why did God put on a human body of flesh and dwell among His creation? Part 2 of 2

A second reason that God put on human flesh is to end His covenant of the Law with His people and to bring them His new covenant of Grace.

"For the law was given by Moses, but grace [merciful kindness] and truth [the truth which is the gospel or which the gospel presents] came by Jesus Christ." - John 1:17 KJV

"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." - Romans 8:2 KJV

God considered the Jewish people His wife because of their covenant of the Law on Mount Sinai. The only way the Jewish people could be free of their marriage covenant of the Law is for their husband (God) to die. God is an eternal Spirit that cannot die. So, He put on human flesh and died.

"Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." - Acts 20:28 KJV

The covenant of the Law was finished. In His resurrection, He made a new covenant of Grace – the Gospel – with His people. Those that obeyed the Gospel (Acts 2:38) became God’s wife.

Peter declared the gospel on the Day of Pentecost – Shavuot – the same day as when the Jews made their covenant of the Law on Mount Sinai many years earlier.

"Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." - Acts 2:38 KJV

Paul addressed this change of covenants that was made possible through the death of Christ and the gospel.

"Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." - Romans 7:1-6 KJV

Jeremiah had prophesied of this new covenant:

"Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." - Jeremiah 31:31-34 KJV

The Jewish people were made free to covenant, once again, with God as their husband as Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 5:25-27, John 3:29, 2Corinthians 11:2)