THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - The Preterist Archive

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Hope of Israel: What Is It? 41
The subsequent history of the Israelites shows that
they broke this substituted covenant also; and not in
one particular only, but in every particular, thereby
forfeiting irretrievably all the stipulated blessings, and
incurring all the curses thereof. That covenant having
been finally annulled ("done away," 2 Cor. 3:11;
Heb. 10:9, etc.,), there remains now, of all the covenants
ever made by God with a people in this world,
none but "the everlasting covenant," or "new covenant,"
whereof Jesus Christ is the Guarantor ("Surety,"
Heb. 7:22), who fulfils all the conditions of perfect
obedience, even "unto death"; and is also the
Mediator (Heb. 9:15; 12:24); which covenant was,
as we have seen, sealed with His own blood.
Therefore, as regards God's covenants with that
earthly people, "Israel after the flesh," the matter
stands thus : the conditional promises thereof were all
nullified by their breach of covenant; whereas the unconditional
promises were all fulfilled to them, to the
last detail, through Moses and Joshua; and God, moreover
has caused that fact to be plainly recorded, as
we shall presently see.
Let us now notice briefly some of the records made
by Moses concerning the covenant under which the
Israelites entered into possession of the land that God
had sworn to their fathers to give them:
A very comprehensive prophecy is found in Numbers
33 :55, 56, where God plainly says, through Moses,
that in case they should fail to drive out the inhabitants
of the land, as He had repeatedly commanded them to
do, then as a first consequence, those that were permitted
to remain should become pricks in their eyes
and thorns in their sides ;
and "Moreover, it shall come