VETERANS AND COVENANTS
Friday – November 11, 2016
Greeting and blessings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ for the glory of God. The quaint little church pictured is Amyrna Methodist Church in Searcy, Arkansas. This is the day that we pause for a bit and pray for the Church in America and be sure that we are pure before the Lord abhorring, forsaking, and repenting of all wickedness in our lives. Today is Veterans Day, a day for us to remember and honor all who are serving or have ever served in the United States 
Armed forces. Memorial Day on the other hand honors those who not only served but died in that service. I salute all who have served honorably in our armed forces and thank you with a grateful heart for your service.
I also want to take a little space and talk about Covenant today. Our God is a covenant God and we are a covenant people. As a people and as a nation there are two covenant nations in the earth. The first was Israel whom God sought out and made covenant through Abraham. The second is the United States of America who approached God and made covenant. A covenant is a contract or agreement between two persons. We Americans have a covenant with those who serve in the Armed forces and their families. Through Christ Jesus you and I enter into the Abrahamic Covenant between Abraham and God the Father. This is otherwise known as The Blood Covenant which Jesus ratified forever at Calvary. There was two major components of this Covenant, that which dealt with Israel specifically and that which dealt with all mankind, the Redemptive plan.
Gods Covenant with Israel and His Covenant with America is eternal since that is the nature of a Blood Covenant and God is eternal. Jesus sealed this Blood Covenant restoring eternal life for all persons who declare Him as Lord. God will honor His Covenant with an individual forever and to the seed of that individual who loves Him for one thousand generations.
Deuteronomy 7:9 (KJV)
9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
You may say “America does not love God and keep His commandments today therefore the Covenant is void.” That is not how God operates, so long as the one who made the Covenant loved Him and kept His commandments He will honor that for a thousand generations which could be as long as ten thousand years.
Three hundred and ninety-five (396) years ago today (November 11, 1620) The Mayflower Compact was signed which said in part:
“In the name of God, Amen, whose names are underwritten … having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith…”
Covenant making with God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the founding era was usual, common, and continued throughout the formation of this nation. We see this in our Declaration of Independence, which is a part of the Constitution of these United States, with the following words:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
As each State entered the Union known as the United States of America they recognized Almighty God as their source of freedom. This recognition of God is generally contained in the Preamble to the Constitution which we can think of as the introduction. I will now
share two examples. First, Texas, the Preamble reads as follows: “Humbly invoking the blessings of Almighty God, the people of the State of Texas, do ordain and establish this Constitution.” Next the State of Maine Preamble reads as follows: “Objects of government. We the people of Maine, in order to establish justice, insure tranquility, provide for our mutual defense, promote our common welfare, and secure to ourselves and our posterity the blessings of liberty, acknowledging with grateful 
hearts the goodness of the Sovereign Ruler of the Universe in affording us an opportunity, so favorable to the design; and, imploring God’s aid and direction in its accomplishment, do agree to form ourselves into a free and independent State, by the style and title of the State of Maine and do ordain and establish the following.”
I think you get the idea, we are a Covenant nation. God has not forgotten the Covenant between us, I have not forgotten, and I pray you have not forgotten so let us pray for our nation. God’s people must repent, and tear down the high places which are the ideas and imaginations that exalt themselves over God.
Lord willing, next Monday, I will return to our study of Ephesians.
By: Dr. David Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
