Jesus came to fulfill the prophecies and the law to bring salvation for His chosen people. He came to establish His Kingdom to fulfill a promise that His spiritual descendants would be as many as the stars in the heavens and sand on the seashore.
He came as an innocent babe to divorce white-washed tombs who never knew Him and marry a new bride who was always His.
The old covenant may have been part of God’s plan, but its purpose was to expose the need for resurrection and bring in the new.
Salvation is a deep intimate relationship that is founded on and connected with Christ through the gospel. It’s a divorce from sin and a marriage to Christ. On the other hand, a worldly white-washed tomb relationship that is void of salvation may appear righteous, but is full of lawlessness and death.
God doesn’t abandon His own, but He divorces the unrepentant in this life and in eternity. The Savior can resurrect and redeem any repentant soul and any situation, but only He knows His divine will and which vessels will repent and which ravagers will continue to destroy. Only He knows which situations are a lesson and which are a life sentence, but one thing will always be true according to His Word. Every saved saint will be sanctified.
Many wolves in sheep’s clothing highlight only one path away from evil toward redemption, but that is a deception. When a chosen vessel is set for repentance and reconciliation, God brings endurance and when a chosen vessel is set for destruction, He brings deliverance.
The purpose is not earthly marital status; the purpose is sanctification and glorifying God.
The thief wants you to succumb to the false belief that divorce is always the division of the devil, so you will become discouraged while trying to survive in the shadows, but it was always God’s plan to separate darkness from His light.
When Jesus came into the world, He came with duality. He came to expose darkness, so people would see His light. He came to divorce from sin, He came to deliver from sin, and He came to defeat sin. Without the death, there’s no resurrection. Without the divorce, there’s no deliverance, redemption, freedom, or victory.
Just as Jesus can’t mix with belial, a delivered soul can’t mix with a divorced one. Regardless of what the devil tries to teach, divorcing a worldly covenant with a white-washed tomb and marrying in Christ overcomes the darkness and represents the true eternal hope and bond-breaking freedom of the gospel.
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. – Jeremiah 31:31-34
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness. – Matthew 23:27
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ – Matthew 7:21-23
Jesus answered, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.’ – John 3:5-6
To all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. – John 1:12-13
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. – Hebrews 12:22-24
