A recent drug raid in Chicago exposed a cockroach-infested apartment with 19 abused children sleeping on the cold, squalid floor. The six drug-addict adult “parents” were arrested. The irate judge cast them from his presence into prison. The angry landlord evicted them from his building.

When a tenant under a lease violates the Apartment Rental Agreement with his Landlord, allowing unsanitary conditions, fire-hazards, etc, he becomes a covenant-breaker and must suffer the penalty. Israel discovered the hazards of breaking a covenant. But even before this nation paid the eviction penalty in the Jeremiah 25:11 Babylonian Exile, the prophet Jeremiah was sent to warn them.

Let’s talk about covenants. Avraham Avinu was promised HaAretz (The Land, see Jer 16:15 and 23:3-8 and Ezek 11:17 and 34:13 and 36:24 and 36:28 and 39:25-29 and Hos 1:10-11 and Joel 3:17-21 and Am 9:11-15 and Mic 4:4-7 and Zeph 3:14-20 and Zech 8:4-8).

Avraham Avinu was promised Zera (Seed of Dovid, i.e., Moshiach, see Ps 89:3(4)-4(5) and Ps 89:34(35)-36(37) and Isa 9:6-7 and Jer 23:5-6 and 30:8-9 and 33:14-17 and 33:20-21 and Ezek 37:24-25 and Hos 3:4-5 and Am 9:11 and Zech 14:3-9).

Avraham Avinu was promised Berakhot (Blessings, including the Brit Chadasha where the Torah would be written on the heart, not just on tablets of stone, see Jer 31:31 and also verses 32-34 and Ezek 11:19-20 and 16:60-62 and 36:24-28 and 37:26-28 and Isa 59:21 and 61:8-9).

Look at Gn 12:1-4 and 13:14-18 and 15:1-21 and 17:1-21. This promise of Land, Seed, and Blessings was enhanced by the covenant made with Dovid HaMelech. Look at 2Sm 7:12-17 and 23:5 and Ps 89:3(4) and 89:27(28)-37(38) and 89:49(50) and Ps 132:11-12.

The Sinai Covenant was in charge of the Jews to bring them to faith in Moshiach, but not so that they would look at themselves and at their mitzvahs and boast in their own righteousness and in what they had done as tzaddikim but so that they would look to Hashem and see what He had done in His Chen v’Chesed mercy for them and for the Yeshuos Elokeinu. When we try to find a way to justify ourselves before Hashem, we are going our own way and not the Derech Hashem, which is the Derech Moshiach. Will you also resist the Word of Hashem given through the prophet Jeremiah and suffer the eviction of Gehinnom rather than turn in faith to allow the Torah to be written on your heart (Jeremiah 31:31-34). Moshiach, the hope of glory, knocks at the door of your heart right now, ready to put the dahm of the Seh on your heart’s doorposts, making possible your salvation from the Nega and your Exodus to Chayei Olam. Moshiach will not take away anything in Scripture that defines your identity as a Jew. Moshiach came not to destroy the Torah or the mitzvahs but to fulfill them. But how will you convince yourself you are fulfilling a mitzvah by stubbornly turning in unbelief from Moshiach ben Dovid You don't believe he was Moshiach Ben Dovid? Do you love the praise of men more than the praise of G-d?

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