How can the Jewish people be released from their binding covenant of the Law? God and the Jewish people look at their covenant of the Law that took place at Mount Sinai as a marriage covenant. God became their husband and the Jewish people became God’s wife. (Exodus 19:5-8) [see post: The Gift]

"For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called." - Isaiah 54:5 KJV

"Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:" - Jeremiah 3:14 KJV

The Apostle Paul made reference to this covenant in Romans 7:1-6 He explained how, according to the Law, God made a way of escape for His people the Jews from their marriage with their binding contract to the Law.

"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." - Romans 7:1-2 KJV

The way that God, as their husband, would release His people from the binding covenant of the Law was to die. But how could God die? God robed Himself in flesh, born of a woman, and the human body He inhabited died on the cross. God released His people from their marriage contract of the Law by His death, burial, and resurrection. (Acts 20:28, John 1:1,14)

"To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them..." - 2 Corinthians 5:19 KJV

"Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." - Hebrews 2:14-15 KJV

“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." - Romans 7:1-3 KJV

Jesus, God manifest in flesh, came to die for His wife. (Ephesians 5:25-32)

The church is God’s wife through His new covenant.

John the Baptist spoke of Christ as the bridegroom, when Jesus was baptizing people into His new covenant. (John 3:29-31) Apostle Paul spoke of Christ as our husband and the church as the bride of Christ through the new covenant. (2Corinthians 11:2)

The Jews enter into marriage with Christ – God manifest in flesh – by Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, and by their repentance, baptism in Jesus name, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost (God’s Spirit).

"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:" - Jeremiah 31:31-32 KJV

By the gospel, the Jewish people are now free to enter the New Covenant of grace by marriage to their very own husband that has now brought them grace, Jesus Christ - God manifest in the flesh.

"For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." - John 1:17 KJV

"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 31:33-34 KJV

Jeremiah’s prophecy was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost. When the Jewish people were in Jerusalem celebrating the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, the disciples were in the upper room awaiting the promise of the infilling of the Spirit. God would write His law in their hearts. They had already been baptized in Jesus name, and by Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, their sins were now washed away. God had forgiven their iniquity and would remember their sin no more. They were about to experience the next part of Jeremiah’s prophecy – ‘they shall all know me.” Jesus had told His disciples He was with them, but would be in them. They would all know God when they were filled with His Spirit.

"Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." - John 14:17 KJV

By the death of their husband, the Jewish people were free from their marriage covenant of the Law. They are able to marry a new husband, which is God, who brought them a new marriage of grace. Just as their husband – God – died, when they repent, and are baptized in Jesus name, they also become dead to the law by the body of Christ. They are released to marry another – Christ – and through the union of the Spirit, bring forth fruit unto God.

"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." - Romans 7:4 KJV

"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 7:5-6 KJV

"For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church." - Ephesians 5:30-32 KJV