But this does not exhaust the Covenants that God makes with Israel, either in the past or in the future, for there is a Covenant that enters into prophecy, connected with the future restoration of Israel to the land and connected with the wilderness of the Peoples, in bondage to which they are to be brought before they Enter into the land. And there is yet another Covenant to follow after their entry, known as the Covenant of peace (Ezek. 34:25 and 37:26) which is not the New Covenant.
But there is yet another Covenant that has been passed over by students and expositors, not that much has been written concerning it, but there has been failure to realise that at Sinai there were TWO Covenants. In regard to the basic commandments they were identical, but in their conditions there was a vast difference.
At Sinai God made two distinct Covenants with Israel. The first was broken when Israel worshipped the golden calf, and was symbolised by the tables of stone cast down and broken by Moses. These had been wrought and written on by the finger of God. The second Covenant was symbolized by the tables of stone hewn by Moses and then written by God and placed in the ark of the Covenant under the covering of the mercy seat.
J.G.H. Steedman
