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July 30, 2012—SnyderTalk Editorial: Yahweh’s Covenants and Promises

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Yahweh’s Covenants and Promises

Yahweh tied His covenants and promises to His Name, and He will never do anything that contradicts His Word because it would defile His Name.  The New Covenant is Yahweh’s most important promise.  It points to the Messiah and the completion of Yahweh’s plan for His creation.  It also demonstrates His deep and abiding love for us.

Yahweh Promises to Deal with Adam’s Sin

Yahweh’s first promise is found in Genesis 3: 14-15:

“Because you (the serpent) have done this, cursed are you more than all the cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the days of your life; and I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise Him on the heel.”[i]

This promise is a foretelling of the battle Yahweh will wage with Satan to deal with the consequences of our sin.  The battle between Yahweh and Satan over the redemption and salvation of His people is illustrated in every book in the Bible.

Although Yahweh promised to redeem and save His people, men and women are destined to suffer the physical consequences of sin.  Yahweh told Eve,

“I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, in pain you shall bring forth children; yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”[ii]

And to Adam God said,

“Cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life.  Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field; by the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”[iii]

Sin upset the natural order Yahweh established in the beginning for men and women.  He had intended for men and women to be associates and equals.  But since Adam and Eve sinned, women have possessed a vain longing to rule their husbands, and men have struggled against a hostile environment to provide food for their families.  Additionally, since that time both men and women have experienced sickness and physical death—something Yahweh mercifully permitted so we would not have to live eternally in a fallen state.[iv]

By far, the most significant consequence of Adam’s and Eve’s sin was the immediate loss of intimacy with Yahweh.  To restore what was lost, God had to become our Redeemer and Savior.  Although Adam and Eve created a wide separation between God and the human race, man is incapable of bridging the gap.  Yahweh had to do that Himself.

This is an excerpt from His Name is Yahweh.  It explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important.  It’s a book that you need to read and share.  It’s available in eBook format and in paperback.

[i] Genesis 3: 14-15.  The parentheses are mine.

[ii] Genesis 3: 16.

[iii] Genesis 3: 17-19.

[iv] The New Jerusalem Bible, Doubleday, New York, 1985, p. 21.

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Ezekiel 11: 14-21

Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, “Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, your fellow exiles and the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far from Yahweh; this land has been given us as a possession.’ Therefore say, “Thus says Adonai Yahweh, though I had removed them far away among the nations and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary for them a little while in the countries where they had gone.” Therefore say, ‘Thus says Adonai Yahweh, “I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it. And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God. But as for those whose hearts go after their detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down on their heads,”’”’” declares Adonai Yahweh.

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His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important.  It’s available in eBook format and in paperback.

  • God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15)
  • “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
  • “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land.  In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘Yahweh our righteousness.’” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)

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Hosea 4: 6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

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