Day 209-11

Isa 55:2  Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

What a thought provoking and convicting verse.  Why do I spend money on that which is not for bread?  If I have food to eat, clothes to wear and shelter, I am indeed rich.

Isa 55:3  Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. 

An everlasting covenant.  We are currently studying covenants in our Ladies 1st Peter Bible Study.  One of the nuggets that I gleaned and am meditating upon:

God's relationship with man is always mediated through one or more Biblical covenants.

Every single solitary person from Adam, until the last person is born, is in a covenant relationship with God.  There are several covenants mentioned in Scripture.  There are several which are alluded to by the nature of what and how a covenant establishes and maintains a relationship:

Basis ~ Governs ~ Mediates

The covenants mentioned in Scripture are:

Noahic ~ Abrahamic ~ Mosaic ~ Priestly ~ Land of Israel ~ Davidic ~ New

• Noah - But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.  (Genesis 6:18)
• Abraham - In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:  (Genesis 15:18)
• Moses - And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.  (Exodus 6:4)
• Priestly - And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.  (Numbers 25:13)
• Land of Israel - These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.  (Deuteronomy 29:1)
• David - And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.  (2 Samuel 7:12 - though the word 'covenant' is not specifically mentioned.)
• New -  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:  (Jeremiah 31:31)

This is NOT an exhaustive list, in any way, shape or form.  Please, please, spend time looking and researching all the other times the word covenant is used.  To whom the Lord is speaking, what the parameters are of the covenant, etc. etc.

So an everlasting covenant is mentioned now...in Isaiah.  What does that mean?  Everlasting.  Never to be broken.  BTW, God NEVER breaks HIS covenant.  Ever.

Sharing Gill:

And I will make an everlasting covenant with you; which is to be understood not of the covenant of works, nor of the covenant of circumcision, nor of the Sinai covenant; but of the covenant of grace, which is an "everlasting one"; it is from everlasting, being founded in the everlasting love of God, is according to his eternal purposes; Christ is the Mediator of it, who as such was set up from everlasting, and the promises and blessings of it were so early put into his hands; and it will continue to everlasting, sure, firm, unalterable, and immovable. This, properly speaking, was made with Christ from all eternity, and his people in him; it is made manifest to them at conversion, when they are shown it, and their interest in it; when God makes himself known to them as their covenant God, and Christ as the Mediator of it is revealed to them; when the Lord puts his Spirit into them, and makes them partakers of the grace of it; shows them their interest in the blessings of it, and opens and applies the promises of it unto them; and these are made manifest in the ministration of the Gospel, and in the administration of ordinances: even "the sure mercies of David"; that is, the Messiah, the son of David, and his antitype, whence he is often called by his name, Eze_34:23, and so Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and others (h), interpret it. The blessings of the covenant are called "mercies", because they spring from the mercy of God, as redemption, pardon of sin, regeneration, salvation, and eternal life; and they are the mercies of David, or of Christ, for the promises of them were made to him, and the things themselves put into his hands, and are ratified and confirmed by his blood, and through him come to his people: and these are "sure", firm, and steadfast, through the faithfulness and holiness of God, who has given them to Christ; through being in a covenant ordered in all things and sure; and also being in the hands of Christ, in whom the promises are yea and amen, and the blessings sure to all the seed; see Acts 13:34. 

God help Your people to fully understand and grasp the magnitude of Your covenants, who is in them, which ones apply to all of mankind, to just Your chosen people, to Israel.  Lord, help Your people, those redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb from the foundation of the World to be united in doctrine, in love and holiness to and for You.