The New Marriage Covenant - The Bride of Christ

On the very first Pentecost (Shavuot/Festival of Weeks), God made a covenant of the Law between God and the Jewish people. It was a marriage covenant. God became their husband. (Exodus 19:5-8, Jeremiah 31:31-34, Jeremiah 3:14, Isaiah 54:5).

The Apostle Paul explained how God made a way of escape for His people the Jews out of their binding covenant of the Law, which brought death. (Romans 8:2).

"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 would release His people from the binding covenant of the Law was for Him to die. But how could God die?? God robed Himself in flesh, born of a woman, and died on the cross. God released His people from their marriage covenant with Him by His death, burial, and resurrection.

Paul explained,

“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. (Acts 20:28, Ephesians 5:25-27, 31-32).

The Jewish people become God’s new wife through His new covenant, which also began on the Day of Pentecost. (Shavuot). God released the Jewish people from the Law so they could enter into His new covenant by repentance, baptism in Jesus name for the remission of sins, and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost. (Acts 2:38-39, John 3:29-30, 2Corinthians 11:2).

"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

The Jewish people became free to enter the New Covenant of grace by marriage to their very own husband that now brought them grace, Jesus Christ - God manifest in the flesh - that rose from the dead. (John 1:17)