Ezekiel 16:60

NEVERTHELESS, THE “EVERLASTING COVENANT” OF JEHOVAH STANDETH SURE,vv. 60-63.

60. An everlasting covenant The old covenant is broken, but Jehovah is ready to make a new and everlasting covenant (Ezekiel 36:26; Ezekiel 37:26; Isaiah 54:9-10; Isaiah 55:3; Jeremiah 31:34; Jeremiah 31:36; Jeremiah 32:40; Jeremiah 33:20-22). This covenant will include the despised nations, such as Sodom and Samaria, who in the new spirit of this new testament shall become spiritual (and political?) daughters of Israel (Ezekiel 16:61). What a lofty conception is this which, so many centuries before the breaking down of the wall of partition by the Son of David, could include the Gentile world in God’s best covenant of grace. Surely the prophet to whom Jehovah in such a distant age could reveal such new and splendid truth must have been a mighty spiritual seer!