Jeremiah 31:27

Jeremiah 31:27 says, Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.  God said that the day was coming when he would reestablish the kingdom of Judah and of Israel.  The people may have divided into two kingdoms physically, but they were still all God's chosen people.  Verse twenty-eight adds, And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.  God said that He had watched over them while they were being destroyed, because of their own rebellion, and that He would watch over them while they were restored, after they turned to Him in faith again.  If we are being destroyed in the world today, as long as we remain faithful to God, He will one day restore us, even if it isn't in this lifetime.  Verse twenty-nine states,. In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.  God said that there was coming a day when people would no longer say that children were being punished for the sins of their fathers. Verse thirty adds, But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.  God told them and tells us that each individual is responsible for his or her own sins and not for those of any other.  Verse thirty-one declares, Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:  This promised new covenant was made with the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  It would apply not only to the people of Judah and Israel but to all who would believe.  Verse thirty-two adds, Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:  God said it would not be the same as the old covenant that they broke.  We are not under the covenant of the Law, but of grace.  Verse thirty-three declares, But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.  God said that instead of being written on stone tablets that the new covenant would be written in the hearts of the people.  We, like the people then, fail to live up to all of God's law, but if we have accepted Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord, then we are saved forever.  Verse thirty-four adds, And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.  Before, the people had relied on the priests and prophets to know God's word, but under the new covenant every person would be able to know God's will for them self.  We do not have to go to anyone else to know God and what He would have us to do in life.  In fact, we must go individually and establish a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.  Verse thirty-five states, Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:  God said that He was the Creator and Sustainer of all creation, and we must acknowledge Him as such.  Verse thirty-six adds, If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.  God said that if those seed, the ones who had established a personal relationship with Him departed, then the nation of Israel would cease to exist forever.  Verse thirty-seven declares, Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.  God said that the vastness of the universe could not be measured, and that He as Creator would cast off the people of Israel if they failed to live up to the new covenant.  Verse thirty-eight says, Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.  Verse thirty-nine adds, And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.  Then verse forty concludes, And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.  These verses spoke of the physical rebuilding of Jerusalem, but the real promise is not of a physical city, but of a spiritual relationship with God that can never be plucked up or thrown down if we have accepted Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord.