The Two Marriage Covenants of Pentecost (Part 8)

The Jews made a covenant with God at Mount Sinai in which they agreed to keep all of His Law. The Old Testament calls this day feast of weeks. (Deuteronomy 16:16). The New Testament calls this day Pentecost. The Jews call this day Shavuot (the Hebrew word for weeks).

The Jews look at the day they entered their covenant of the Law with God as the day they became married to Him. Just as a bride says, “I do,” the Jewish people said, “We do.” This day was Pentecost.

"And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do." - Exodus 24:3 KJV

God also recognizes the Day of Pentecost as the day He became married to the Jewish people. In Jeremiah 31:31-32, God refers to Himself as their husband.

"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

God speaks here of making a new covenant with the Jewish people. God ordained a new and better covenant, a marriage covenant of mercy. God said, “I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more”.

Also, in this new covenant there would be a closer relationship between God and His people. Because He was forgiving their iniquity, God could fill them with His Holy Spirit. It is by God filling us with His Spirit that we know Him.

"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

There is one issue, however. How can God and the Jewish people be released from their marriage covenant of the Law that they entered into at Sinai?

To be continued…