The Two Marriage Covenants of Pentecost (Part 8 continued)

How can the Jewish people be released from their marriage covenant of the Law that they entered into at Sinai?

Paul answers this question in Romans 7:1-6.

"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? [The law applies only while a person is living, not after he is dead.] 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. [The laws of marriage no longer apply to her.] 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. [But if her husband dies, she is free from that law and does not commit adultery when she remarries.]" - Romans 7:1-3 KJV

The only way that the Jewish people could be released from their marriage covenant of the Law with God was for God to die. Therefore, God robed Himself in flesh, and His flesh died on the cross. By the death of God’s flesh, the Jewish people were set free from their Sinai marriage covenant with God of the Law.

The Jew becomes dead to the Law and His first marriage covenant with God by repentance and burial with Christ in baptism in Jesus name.

"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. [He then becomes the Bride of Christ who is risen from the dead, bringing fruit unto God acceptable to Him.] 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. [Controlled by our old nature, sinful desires aroused by the Law were at work within us, producing fruit of sinful deeds resulting in 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. [Released from the Law, for we died to it, no longer captive to its power, we serve the new way of living in the Spirit, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the Law]" - Romans 7:4-6 KJV

"Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." - Romans 6:3-4 KJV

On the day of Pentecost, Peter gave the message of the New Covenant that set the Jews free from the marriage covenant of the Law to become the Bride of Christ. (John 3:29, 2 Corinthians 11:2).

"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. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." - Acts 2:38-39 KJV

That day, the Day of Pentecost, there were added into the New Covenant and the Bride of Christ about three thousand souls. (Acts 2:41). And that was just the beginning. (Acts 2:47).