Prayer: Father, I like being called by Your name. I am Yours, bought and paid for with the blood of Yeshua. Amen.
Reading: Hosea 2 key: vs. 1-3 “Yet the number of Bnei-Yisrael will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. Instead of ‘You are not My people’ being said to them, they will be called ‘Children of the living God.’ Then the descendants of Judah and descendants of Israel will be gathered together. They will appoint themselves one head and they will go up from the land. For the day of Jezreel will be great. Say you to your brothers, ‘Ammi’ and to your sisters, ‘Ruhamah’.” TLV
Attention: Interesting declaration by Adonai to Ezekiel, “Yet the number of Bnei-Yisreal will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted.”
Years earlier, Adonia told Abraham, “I will richly bless you and bountifully multiply your seed like the stars of heaven, and like the sand that is on the seashore, and your seed will possess the gate of his enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth will be blessed—because you obeyed My voice (Genesis 22:17-28).”
The first declaration to Ezekiel (1:2b) For the land is an unfaithful prostitute, far from following after Adonai.” Adonai’s declaration in chapter two is re-establishing His covenant with Israel, established with Abraham. God is not only a covenant making God, but He is a covenant faithful God.
We must understand that a covenant is an “Oath bound promise where by one party solemnly pledges to bless or serve another party in some specified way (source: Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary pg. 355). The Holman Illustrated Dictionary also defines a Divine Covenant as type of covenant which “provide a unifying principle for understanding the whole of Scripture and define the relationship between God and man. The heart of that relationship is found in the phrase “I will be their God and they shall be My people (Ezekiel 37:27).”
The covenant we find in Ezekiel is a Divine Covenant, established by Adonai to Israel, and fulfilling the former covenant made with Abraham. Notice that by the end of chapter 2, Adonai declares, “I will say to Lo-ammi, ‘You are My people!’ and they will say, ‘My God! (2:25b)’”
The apostle Luke tells us that early followers of Yeshua, “it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called “Christianoi (Acts 11:26b).” The early followers took on the name of Christ as a “Christiano” (English Christian), an identifier as a follower of Yeshua.
Action: I embrace the New Covenant which Yeshua established with His apostles as the two greatest commandments (Mark 12:28-31).”
Yield: I choose to submit to the New Commandment of Yeshua.
Engage: I choose to engage with the New Commandment of Yeshua as a lifestyle.
Relationship: I choose to live in intimate, obedient relationship with Adonai.
Prayer: Father, thank You for the instruction which I find in Your word. Your Word is life to me and guidance (wisdom) in living. Amen.
Memory Verse: Mark 12:28-31 “One of the Torah scholars came and heard them debating. Seeing that Yeshua had answered them well, he asked Him, “Which commandment is first of all?” Yeshua answered, “The first is, ‘Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. And you shall love Adonai your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” TLV
Music Video: Lincoln Brewster—Love the Lord https://youtu.be/EAbeFfsqLdc?si=4P3h85oM75O0b3_B
Remember, “Abide in Yeshua, today!”