‘Do This in Remembrance of Me’ (Part Seven)

   In the past months I have discussed from the Scriptures the relevance of the Old Covenant (“I will be your God”) to meet all your needs. He, being faithful to do so, in keeping with all that He had promised.  The promise to either bless or curse us according to Deuteronomy chapter 28, according to our choice to walk by faith in His every Word (Matthew 4:4), or after the many gods of this world.
   
   As it was with Israel in Hosea 13:9-12, we are no different!  “O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in Me is thine help.  I will be thy King: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities?  And thy judges of whom thou saidist, Give me a King and Princes (Samuel 8)?  I give thee a king in Mine anger, and took him away in My wrath (I Kings 11:1-43).  The iniquity (perverted thinking) of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid,” but not from the God of covenant who not only said “I will be your God” but also “I will be thy king”.  (Hosea 13:10).

   Continuing in Hosea 13:12-13, the Lord describes their consequences.  “The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son (where perverted thinking rules); for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.”  The prophet Micah adds to this example of the pain and labor of a woman in travail in Micah 4:9- ...