THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - The Preterist Archive

The Hope of Israel: What Is It? 55
which, like the first, was accompanied by the giving of
the law.
This additional (or substituted) covenant was made
with the next succeeding generation following that
which had broken the covenant of Horeb. It is very
different in its terms, particularly in that those great
promises "ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me,
. . . and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and
an holy nation" are entirely omitted. (Those wonderful
promises reappear in connection with God's new
covenant people, the true "Israel," the "holy nation," I
Pet. 2:9).
The covenant made at the end of the wilderness
journey is limited to a recital of the terms and conditions
upon which the children of Israel would be permitted
to occupy the land of Canaan, which God had
promised their fathers that He would give to their
children; and as has been already stated, the children
of Israel failed completely to keep the conditions of
this covenant, even as they had failed to keep those of
the other. Moreover, though the Lord God of their
fathers sent to them repeatedly by His messengers,
the prophets, to warn them, and to recall them to Himself,
"because He had compassion upon His people, and
on His dwelling place," yet "they mocked the messengers
of God, and despised His words, and misused His
prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against
His people, till there was no remedy" (2 Chr. 36 :
15,
16).
It is recorded that both Israel and Judah "kept not
the commandments of the Lord their God" ;
wherefore
"the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted
them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers,