What is the "Covenant of Death" referred to in Isaiah 28:14?
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The southern kingdom of Judah was imitating the northern kindgom of Ephraim, who had been in rebellion, drunkeness and selfishness. Ephraim was to be "trampled underfoot." because of this... now the leaders of Jersualem would not listen to the prophesies of Isaiah about the correction they needed also. \n\nThe leaders, rather than hearing the word of God, preferred to join with Egypt and other foreign "friendly" powers for any deliverance needs. They preferred the help of their enemies, against other enemies, over the help of God.\n\n This was the covenant of death, since Israel was only supposed to look to God as their ultimate help....They had made "lies their refuge," because it was a lie that these other countries would really help them.\n\nThis is a tendency for not just modern Israel, but for all countries, to run after the lies of men for peace and safety, rather than putting their trust for deliverance in only God.  People will think the UN will keep peace when it is obvious the UN has never prevented a war. They make agreements with dishonest countires, deceiving themselves that it will be a profit to them.. ...then they get betrayed....it is an age-old probem of putting your trust in the wrong things and people..\n\nwhen someone is obviously your enemy, you should just forget trusting them for anything.... if you are foolish ,and do so anyway, then you have made a covenant with death.
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EDITED:\n\nI am unsure of what is meant by "deuteronomic spiral" and the best I can come up with is to tell you which parts that I see which seem to have anything to do with the Deuteronomic View - which was in a nutshell the teaching that one must worship ONLY God, and worship ONLY in Jerusalem (not to build shrines in other places or to offer sacrifices anywhere else).\n\nOk, for convenience, \nCov = covenant\nDel = deliverance\nR = rebellion\nCons = Consequences\nDeut = Deuteronomic.\nP = Prophetic Understanding of History\n\nPsalm 105:\nVerse 6 - "his chosen ones" is a reference to Cov with Abraham's descendants regarding the land.\nVs 8 - "ever mindful of His covenant" (Cov).  God never forgets the covenant with Israel.\nThe reference to "for a thousand generations" is a metaphor meaning forever, and this is indicated by the fact that in vs. 10, it calls the covenant "eternal."\n11 - (Cov).  Giving of the land of Canaan (this is the specific nature of the Covenant).\n12 - 15:  (Del).  There were few, but God protected them.  This is sort of a reference to both deliverance and covenant.\nIt is because of the covenant that they "do not touch my anointed ones" or harm the prophets.  (This is a slight reference to prophetic view because obviously without prophets, there would be no prophecy).\nVs 16 - God calls down a famine in the land of Canaan, so that the people sojourn to Egypt.  This is (P) Prophetic view of history, because it is interpreting everything as part of the broad plan of God.  Today, we would just say, "there's a famine."  We do not usually interpret it as the fulfillment of prophecy or as the fulfillment of a particular plan of God.  But here, everything is seen as a part of the Master Plan.\n16-23:  The story of Israel in Egypt.  Again, this is all seen as Divinely-guided history.  All the events have a very specific purpose for the Covenant people.\n28:  (Cons)  - Egypt suffers the consequences of its treatment of Israel.\nBut the Covenant people are protected, and eventually Delivered.\n\n_________\nPsalm 106:\nVs 3:  Good consequences for those act justly and are righteous.\n5:  "prosperity of your chosen ones."  (Cov)\n6:  (R).  "we have sinned... we have gone astray."\n8:  (Del).  Yet God saves them.  He delivers them anyway, because of the Covenant.\n10:  (Del) and (Cons).  (consequences of sin was being given to the foe, and the theme of deliverance is shown in that God redeemed them from the foe).\n12:  (Cov).  Believed God's promise (or covenant).\n13:  (R).  They forgot God's deeds of goodness.\n15:  (Cons).  They were wasting away.\n17:  (Cons).  Earth swallowed up Dathan, etc.\n18, 19:  (Cons.)\n23:  (Cov) and (Del).\n24:  (R)\n26:  (Cons)\n29:  (R) and (Cons)\n33:  (R)\n34:  (Deut).  The people of Israel did not destroy the idolatrous nations, and instead mingled with them and were influenced by their ways.  This was against the covenant of Deuteronomy.  This is also (R)\n41:  (P)  This is a Prophetic view of nature because the consequences of rebelling against the covenant was that the people would be handed over to the nations and would be oppressed.  The Psalmist is seeing history as the work of the Divine fulfillment of prophecy.\n43:  (Del), (R)\n45:  (Cov)\n46:  (Del).\n\nThis whole Psalm repeats again and again how God was seen to work in Israelite history.  There was a Covenant that God always kept.  But the people did not always keep their end of it.  They Rebelled.  When they rebelled, they suffered Consequences that had been Prophesied.  Then they would cry out to the Lord, and the Lord would Deliver them.\n\nSo there is Covenant - Rebellion - Consequences - crying out - Deliverance.  This would repeat again and again.  (Maybe that is what is meant by "spiral" - in that it cycles again and again.  They are delivered, then they get comfortable in a way with the way thin
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"My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,' says the Lord.\n'For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways,\nAnd My thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9\n\nI don't know if we'll ever be able to answer why God does what He does and chooses not to do certain things. There is evil in the world, and we don't have to "just accept it," we can fight to defeat it. But, until His return, the world is not perfect or even good. \n\n"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. No sorrow or travail of any kind shall ever enter within the walls of the city. The cry of anguish shall never be uttered, hearts shall never be broken, no tear shall ever dim the eye, and, most glorious of all, death shall be unknown. Death began his sway when man was expelled from Paradise; he ends it when the final judgment condemns Satan, death and hades to enter the lake of fire. The new Jerusalem will be painless, tearless, deathless, because it will be a sinless city. The former things have passed away." Revelation 21:4
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ISAIAH BELIEVES THE DEAD WILL ARISE FROM THE DUST:\nIsa.26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.\nTHE APOSTLE PAUL BELIEVES IN THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD: \nActs 17:31; 25:15; There will be a resurrection of the dead, both the just and the unjust. Heb.9:27 the judgement of all men, 1Cor.15:22-28,51-53 The made alive of the heavenly for the new heavens, the earthly for the new earth all to see it done.\n2Cor.5:10 All stand before the judgement seat of Christ Philip.2:5,9-12; Matt.19:28 and Eze.37:12-14 if the 12 tribes are known and their own land is known, ALL KNOW ALL.\nDAVID WAS A PROPHET THAT BELIEVED IN THE RESURRECTION:\nPsm.7:2; 49:14; 104:29,30; 115:15-17; 146:3,4; Acts 2:27-35 [ Matt.22:42-44 and that the enemies Satan and his angels would be cast down below the feet of Jesus and his apostles Rom.16:20 ]; \nJESUS BELIEVED IN THE RESURRECTION:\nJohn 5:20,22,26-29; ALL SHALL HEAR THE VOICE OF JESUS AND COME FORTH.\nJESUS BELIEVED IN THE FIRST RESURRECTED:\nJohn 6:39,40,44; AT THE LAST DAY; Rev.1-6 [ They are with him ], they resurrect 12,13;\nMICHAEL BELIEVED IN THE RESURRECTION:\nThe heavenly down to the end 1Thes.4:15-17; The earthly Dan.12:2 after he stands against Satan and cast him down under the feet of Jesus and his Rev.12:3,4,6-12;\nDan.12:1-13 Michael on the scene John 14:3 [ Satan down ends Empire #7, a place is prepared for the heavenly ], of end times from 2500 to 2670 [ onto at the last day of John 6:39,40,44 ]; after Babylon Empire #3. 2Chr.36:20-23 Promised Land kings end.\nTHERE WILL BE NO KING UNTIL KING JESUS AT HIS SECOND COMING.\n\nI HAVE TO BELIEVE IN THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH AND ALL MADE ALIVE AGAIN AND AS PERFECT AS WAS MEANT TO BE BEFORE EDEN:\nHeb.11:1-40; 12:1,2 As all the bible people believed, especially after the earth was lost Gen.6:13; and dying man was saved, there had to be one that qualified to be SAVIOR\nJohn 3:16; iSA.42:5; 45:18; 65:17; 66:1,22,23; 2Pet.3:13; Rev.21:1-5 All is made new and verse 8 is the second death and Rev.20:7-10 is the final cleansing after the Rev.1-6 1000 years judgement day.
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There's a passage I got memorized,\n                       seems appropriate for this\n                       situation: Ezekiel 25:17. "The path\n                       of the righteous man is beset on\n                       all sides by the inequities of the\n                       selfish and the tyranny of evil\n                       men.  Blessed is he who, in the\n                       name of charity and good will,\n                       shepherds the weak through the\n                       valley of darkness, for he is truly\n                       his brother's keeper and the finder\n                       of lost children.  And I will\n                       strike down upon thee with great\n                       vengeance and furious anger those\n                       who attempt to poison and destroy\n                       my brothers.  And you will know my\n                       name is the Lord when I lay my\n                       vengeance upon you."\n\nAlthough its a very inaccurate quote if you actually check that passage in a bible.
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God does not have any pleasure in the death of the wicked. God is known for His tender mercies and compassions. God states that the soul that sins, dies. God's law is love and His Gospel is peace. In Ezekiel 18:21-23 states that if a person who was previously sinning and decides to give up their evil ways and turn wholeheartedly to God, God promises that person full salvation from their sins no matter how bad or deeply rooted in the heart. Because of Christ and His shed blood, the sin of a sinner is no longer imputed or held against that person and God no longer remembers them. Deuteronomy was written before Christ's arrival so there was not an abundance of the mercies of God back then that we now experience through Christ's grace now. It was pretty much the "eye for an eye" sort of thing going on. Christ on Calvary made the Old Testament and its antiquated laws null and void by the power of His shed blood.
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OK, I get it:\n\nRev 21:8:\nBut for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death." \n\nThe second death refers to hell, so all those who go to hell will be in the second death.
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The Old Testament is the Old Covenant of life under the Law. When Christ came, He established justification through grace, not the law--hence the New Covenant.\n\n"In that He says, “A new covenant,”  He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away." Hebrews 8:13
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St Paul wrote in his second letter to the Corinthians [2 Cor 5:17], "So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come."\n\n"A new creation": Rabbis used this expression to describe the effect of the entrance of a proselyte or convert into Judaism or of the remission of sins on the Day of Atonement. The new order created in Christ is the new covenant.\n\n"Not that of ourselves we are qualified to take credit for anything as coming from us; rather, our qualification comes from God, who has indeed qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit; for the letter brings death, but the Spirit gives life." [2 Cor 3:5-6]
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I can't help responding because we are sons of God, His children.\n\nHeb.2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; \n\nNow does that say children? This is the first verse I could think of, there are probably more.
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According to Jacob’s deathbed prophecy, the tribe of Judah was to produce the permanent royal heir, Shiloh (meaning “He Whose It Is; He To Whom It Belongs”). (Genesis 49:10) Appropriately, therefore, before the overthrow of the kingdom of Judah, Jehovah, through Ezekiel, directed these words to Zedekiah: “Remove the turban, and lift off the crown. This will not be the same. Put on high even what is low, and bring low even the high one. A ruin, a ruin, a ruin I shall make it. As for this also, it will certainly become no one’s until he comes who has the legal right, and I must give it to him.” (Ezekiel 21:26, 27) The one having the legal right, as indicated by the angel Gabriel’s announcement to the virgin Jewess Mary some 600 years later, is none other than Jesus, the Son of God. (Luke 1:31-33) It is, therefore, fitting that Jesus Christ bears the title “the Lion that is of the tribe of Judah.”—Revelation 5:5.\n\nAlso, if you refer to Matther chapter 1, you will find the geneology of Jesus. Verse 2 speaks of the line of Judah and the following verses go on with the line wherein you will be able to see where Jesus comes into it.
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"Exodus 33: 'evil tidings' from LORD? Moses talked face to face with LORD, but only saw 'back' parts of LORD?"\n\nAre you trying to reconcile Exodus 33 with the Kabbalistic concept of Qlippoth?\n\nWhile its quite normal in most mythological systems for deities to tell humans that they won't survive gazing upon the deity's awesome visage, Qlippoth does make an interesting question here.  Perhaps the suggestion would be that while we try to look YHVH in the face, we are unable to really conceive of it and can only glimpse the "back", the Qlippoth, ie the stuff we don't like so much.  Interesting how akin it is to the way children think of their parents when they're young. Maybe someday humans will mature and be able to see YHVH in a more wholistic fashion.\n\n"Could there be two LORDS to consider, sort out, if there's also mention of the LORD of 'LORDS'?"\n\nIn the translation I'm looking at right now, I don't see the phrase "Lord of Lords" used in Ex 33.  However, when it does come up its referring to one or both of two things: The supremacy of YHVH in the pre-Abrahamic Judaic pantheon (before Abraham made his covenant with YHVH, the Jews were polytheistic and YHVH was one deity among many), and/or the supremacy of YHVH as a heavenly Lord to earthly Lords.\n\n"Which 'things' are an 'allegory' and 'mystery'."\n\nThere's no allegory in this chapter.  And, for me at least, the Bible in its entirety can be understood as a Mystery if one chooses to see it that way.\n\n"Why did story of Noah's Ark mention God and LORD, who notably gave Noah contradicting commandments?"\n\nThe commands aren't really contradictory: They don't "undo" each other.  So its not like there are two entities here giving opposite commands to Noah and using him as a pawn in some secret hidden war.  God doesn't say "save the animals" only to have Lord come back and say "don't save the animals."  There's just a confusion over number, which I consider being a result of bad editing - something that's bound to happen when a text is scribed, re-scribed, redacted, translated, etc. ad nauseum over the course of roughly 6000 years.
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"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." Leviticus 20:13.\n\nuse that one if you dont believe paul
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well I like this potion in the bible Jeremaiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome. and also Rom 8:31-\n31What can we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32Since God did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't God, who gave us Christ, also give us everything else?\n    33Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? Will God? No! He is the one who has given us right standing with himself. 34Who then will condemn us? Will Christ Jesus? No, for he is the one who died for us and was raised to life for us and is sitting at the place of highest honor next to God, pleading for us.\n\n    35Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or are hungry or cold or in danger or threatened with death? 36(Even the Scriptures say, "For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep."[l]) 37No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.\n\n    38And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can't, and life can't. The angels can't, and the demons can't. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, and even the powers of hell can't keep God's love away. 39Whether we are high above the sky or in the deepest ocean, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.\n\nI love this passages it keeps me going knowing that the Lord has something good for me and He is always there for me also no matter what I am going thru be it as a result of my mistake or something I have to go thru, I know it that nothing can separet mew from The Love of God and I mean nothing
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Isaiah 45:7\nI form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.\n\nFrom your own Bible, Christians.\n\nI dare you to pull the "out of context" card on me.
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We are taught in our Torah that no one can die for the sins of another. In Deuteronomy 24:16 it specifically says this:\n\nDeuteronomy 24:16 The fathers shall not \nbe put to death for the children, neither \nshall the children be put to death for\nthe fathers: \nevery man shall be put to death for his \nown sin.(eesh b'chet-o yumatu)\n\nIn Exodus 32:30-35, Moses tries to offer himself to atone for the sins of the people. To be written out of Gd's book, means to be written out of the Book of Life, which means Moses was asking to die for the sins of the People. Gd's response is No, it does not work that way, each man dies for his own sin:\n\nExodus 32:30-35 And it came to pass on the \nmorrow, that Moses said unto the people, \nYe have sinned a great sin: and now I will \ngo up unto the Etrnl; perhaps I shall make \nan atonement for your sin. And Moses \nreturned unto the Etrnl, and said, Oh, \nthis people have sinned a great sin, and \nhave made them gods of gold. Yet now, if \nthou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, \nblot me, I pray thee, out of thy book \nwhich thou hast written. \nAnd the Etrnl said unto Moses, Whosoever \nhath sinned against me, him will I blot \nout of my book. \n\nThe whole of chapter 18 of the book of Ezekiel is about this idea, that no one can die for someone else's sin. Further, this chapter of Ezekiel teaches us that all we have to do for Gd's forgiveness is to stop doing the Bad and start doing the Good, and Gd will forgive us.\n\nEzekiel 18:4,20 Behold, all souls are mine; \nas the soul of the father, so also the soul \nof the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, \nit shall die. 20 The soul that sinneth, it \nshall die. The son shall not bear the \niniquity of the father, neither shall the \nfather bear the iniquity of the son: the \nrighteousness of the righteous shall be upon \nhim, and the wickedness of the wicked shall \nbe upon him. \n\nSo, the Bible is clear, no one can die for the sins of another, and this means that Jesus cannot die for anyone else's sins.
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7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. \n\n8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. \nRev. 21:7-8\n^_^