SID: So we’re two nice Jewish people that were madly in love with the one who it was said above his execution stake, “King of the Jews,” Yeshua or Jesus. Now most believers do not understand the Hebraic understanding of covenant and in particular the covenant that God has with the Jewish people. Would you explain this a little, Sandy?
SANDY: In the scriptures, a covenant can be either conditional or unconditional. A conditional covenant is made between parties, each of whom has a legal responsibility or a responsibility before God to do certain things, to perform certain acts before that covenant can be fulfilled. In an unconditional covenant, not every party necessarily is committed to do certain things or perform certain acts before the covenant is fulfilled. In Abraham’s day, the way the covenants were cut is that animals were literally slaughtered and cut. The pieces of their bodies were cut up and laid up on the ground and the covenanting parties would then walk in between the pieces. And in effect, they were saying, as has been done to these animals, it should be done unto me if I do not fulfill my covenant towards you.
SID: Covenants were really sacred.
SANDY: Very sacred. They had almost a life of their own, as they should still today. In the case of Abraham’s covenant with God, God put Abraham into a spirit-induced sleep and then God himself as fire walked between those pieces. In doing so, God was stating as clearly as possible, He was executing a spiritual reality that His covenant with Abraham was dependent only upon the actions of God Himself alone on the character, on the mercy and grace of God. And God affirms that covenant with Abraham later on in the scriptures, and then specifically He states that Isaac, and not Ishmael inherits it. Although Ishmael is blessed, he doesn’t inherit the Abrahamic covenant.
SID: The blessing for Ishmael, the head of the Arabs, but not the land. Go ahead.
SANDY: Not the land. And then God goes on to say that his covenant will be inherited specifically by Jacob and specifically not by Esau. And then that covenant is reaffirmed throughout the Hebrew Scriptures, Psalm 105, which speaks about the covenant lasting forever, a thousand generations and including the land. And then it’s been reaffirmed in the New Covenant, that sometimes people don’t notice.
SID: Give me in the example in the New Covenant.
SANDY: Well perfect example is Romans 9 through 11. In Romans 9 through 11, the Apostle Paul repeats over and over again, not just once, not just twice, but several times he repeats that God’s covenants and promises to Israel are still Israel’s. Romans, Chapter 9, he says that the covenants and promises are still Israel’s. He uses the word “is”. The promise IS still Israel’s. And in Greek, “is” means what it means in English. It’s a present ongoing tense. It still is. In Romans, Chapter 11, Paul writes, Verse 1, “Has God rejected His people? No God forbid,” he says. “God has not rejected His people.” Later on in the same chapter, he goes on to say that the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.
SID: If you were an attorney, would you like to take God’s case that this is an unconditional and not a conditional covenant, and based on the Land of Israel?
SANDY: I think it’s a pretty good case.
SID: I do, too. How about you audience, would you like to hear God’s case? Look, God, in you, a majority. Okay. Sandy, tell me about, I heard this by a wise man once, who’s now in Heaven. He says, “God uses Israel to judge the nations, but He judges Israel for her sin Himself.” I guess it’s founded in Genesis 12:3. Explain that.
SANDY: Genesis 12:3 is the covenant that God makes with Abraham, before he has this procedure with the animals, in which He tells Abraham to leave his father’s land, go to a land that God will show him and through that Abraham, all families of the earth will be blessed. And then God goes on to say that those that bless you I will bless; that those that curse you, I will curse.
SID: How about Matthew 25:40?
SANDY: Matthew 25:40 is key and it’s critical to the days that we’re in. Those that fed Israel, those that visited the Jewish people in prison, those that gave a cup of cold water to the Jewish people, Jesus says, “As you have done to the least of these brothers of mine, you’ve done it to me.” How a people treats the Jewish people reflects how that people would treat Jesus himself.
SID: Okay. Genesis 12:3, Matthew 25:40, all says you have a choice. Your nation can be a goat nation, a goat has a mind of its own, or a sheep nation, a sheep follows the shepherd. And you as an individual, you can either bless the nation Israel and the Jewish people and be blessed by God, according to Genesis 12:3, or you can curse the Jewish people and the nation Israel and be flattened by God. Be right back.
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Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth