Jesus Christ is the covenant that God makes with us 

Ezekiel 34:25-26

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“I will make a covenant of peace with them, and cause wild beasts to cease from the land; and they will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.” Ezekiel 34:25

God made a covenant of peace with the Jewish people through Jesus Christ, which would have caused every single horrific event to cease from them as a Jewish nation. Through Jesus Christ, they would have lived safely, and the Holocaust would never have happened. Through Jesus Christ, none of the conflict, fighting, and hostilities would be facing the State of Israel today. If the Jewish people had accepted Jesus Christ as their Messiah, they would be Christian, and the Jewish people would not exist as a nation. They would not have suffered the Holocaust because they would have been Christians in all parts of the world and not a Jewish culture gathered within the culture of Nazi Germany. The Jewish State of Israel would not exist today because as Christians we do not have a nation on this earth to call our own, our home is the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth.

You will notice that there are no Heavenly rewards spoken about for the Jewish people in the New Testament, instead, Jesus Christ warns them about the eternal punishment coming to them because they reject Him. “See! Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’” Matthew 23:38-39

Whenever the Old Testament speaks of peace, safety, prosperity, etc. for Israel, we have to know that Christianity has inherited the blessings of Israel through Jesus Christ. “The older shall serve the younger.” As it is written, “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.” Romans 9:12-13 This refers to the Jewish people being the older child because they were here before the younger child of Christianity. The younger child ends up with the blessings of the older child.

In the New Testament, Christians are referred to as being the seed of Abraham, not the Jewish people, “For they are not all Israel who are of Israel, nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham;” Romans 9:6 -7 Romans chapter 9. “For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.” Romans 2:28-29

As followers of Jesus Christ, in this world, we know that there is no peace, safety, nor relief from the beasts that bring trials, afflictions, heartaches, and pain to us. As the Holy Spirit speaks through the Apostle Paul, “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” Romans 8:18 The covenant made with us is that God loves us and has sent His Son Jesus Christ that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. In that eternal life, in the New Jerusalem of the new heaven and earth, there is peace, safety, and no wild beasts at all, as quoted, “But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.” Revelation 21:27

For a beautiful description of the New Jerusalem, read Revelation 21, Revelation 22, Ezekiel chapters 40-48.

“I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing.” Ezekiel 34:26

In the Paradise of God, there will be showers of blessings every second of the day, and through Jesus Christ, He gives us showers of blessings through the Holy Spirit as our sin is put in remission.

There shall be showers of blessing:
  This is the promise of love;
There shall be seasons refreshing,
  Sent from the Savior above.

    Showers of blessing,
      Showers of blessing we need;
    Mercy-drops round us are falling,
        But for the showers we plead.

There shall be showers of blessing;
  O that today they might fall,
Now as to God we’re confessing,
  Now as on Jesus we call!

There shall be showers of blessing,
  If we but trust and obey;
There shall be seasons refreshing,
  If we let God have His way.
[Church Hymn]

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11