Covenant 2

Throughout God's glorious creation and the mess man has made of it, God has committed Himself to His people through His covenants. He commits Himself to Noah, Abraham, and Moses. His people were to image God among the nations. As Adam was God's man in Eden, so also Israel is God's people in Numbers. As Adam failed and was expelled, so also Israel fails to even enter the promised land. After their deaths in the desert, God sends their children into the promised land, where they fail again. Another spectacular failure is when Israel asks for a king so that they can be just like the other nations. This is in the face of God's deliberate efforts to make it clear to them that they, out of all of the nations, were different. Yet even then, God again covenants Himself to David. Then, a long string of godless kings ensues in Israel, finally bringing the exile upon them. Yet, as we have seen before, God is not yet finished with His people. Messiah must come.