GOD'S COVENANT GOODNESS

GOD’S COVENANT GOODNESS  ( As reflected in Psalms chapter 34)

                We have been studying about God’s goodness this week and we have looked at it from several different angles. He is our good Creator and provider. He is our protector. He is the indwelling presence in our lives through His Holy Spirit, a covenant blessing that came to us at the price of Jesus life and death. There are also the two sides of the coin, wherein if one is to be truly good, then he must also take a stand against that which is not good. Therefore our good God becomes the ultimate Judge who will bring all that is evil and destructive and hateful and proud to an end.

                If we think of a mother grizzly bear protecting her cubs, we can picture her fearful defense of her cubs as an act of love and protection for her own children. And so in like manner, our Father God is going to have all He can take at some point and that point will come when earth’s great tyrant, the antichrist begins to slaughter His children.

                It is as though God finally goes on a rampage destroying the massive armies arrayed against His chosen People in Israel and His remnant people around the world. He grabs up the Beast and the False Prophet and casts them into the Lake of Fire. He decimates the great armies at Armageddon and He pours out His wrath upon the antichrist kingdom until there is not one wall left standing. WOW!

                We can be quite sure that when His wrath is poured out upon the world, His chosen Christian remnant people will either be protected in some way, or more than likely in heaven enjoying the marriage super of the Lamb, for Revelation 19:14-21 shows Him returning with His saints and 1Thess 3:13 and 1 Thess. 4:14 and Zechariah 14:5 verify this. (For starters) So all arguments about the timing of the rapture aside, we can agree that at the very least we will not be here when God pours out His wrath upon the kingdom of Satan and His globalist leaders. This is promised in many places and many Scriptures.

                Again we can see the mother bear pushing her cubs into the cave and then going out with a vengeance to slash and destroy those that have threatened her own offspring.

                Paul speaks of this in Romans 11:22 saying: “Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God’s kindness if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.” WE must remain in the covenant for there is no salvation outside of it.

                God’s kindness is a covenant term called “lovingkindness.” It is based upon God’s inalterable Word which He spoke to Abraham when Melchizedek met him with bread and wine… the very emblems of our New Covenant in Christ. And it is into that covenant that we Christians are called… where Jesus has become our high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. We have not been called into the Old Covenant for we were born under the old covenant quite naturally. As children of the first Adam we were born into Satan’s kingdom and there is no escape from that kingdom except through the cross.

                At the cross we die to the Law in order to live unto Christ and this is that greatest of all transitions that we often refer to in Galatians 2:19-21. The Law under which we were first born can only take us as far as the cross. There it condemns us to death and we are given a free will choice between dying for our own sins, or receiving by faith, Jesus’ death in our place. And if we receive His death in our place we also enter into His kingdom, complete with His New Covenant, now to live by His power and not our own.

                This then is the wonderful intimacy of God’s Covenant love… that Jesus comes to live in our hearts by His Holy Spirit and thus empowers us to do what the Law could never produce… God’s love and His character reproduced in those who live by faith in Jesus Christ. Romans 8:29

                This then is a picture of God’s covenant love. It is a covenant of redemption and salvation in which God has chosen us to live with Him for eternity and He was willing to come into this earth and to die a horrible death at our hands in order to secure that eternal destiny for us. Hallelujah!