Mercy of Redemption

God has an agenda. “To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant (Luke 1:72).” The promises of end times must be fulfilled, wherefore God will perform the miraculous signs and wonders that will shake even the powers of heaven (Matthew 24:29). Great healings, as well as other tremendous signs took place in Jesus' day, but the signs and wonders which are prophesied for end times are likened to that of Moses’ days. In those days God revealed himself to Israel by sending great plagues upon Egypt, and he parted the Red Sea and brought his children safely through it, and then he allowed the sea to destroy their enemies. After Israel witnessed all of these miracles, God turned and wiped out those people among them that ungratefully refused to believe his prophet, and accept his word. However far removed these miracles may seem, they are relevant to end times. The historic portions of scripture are recorded for our edification, and they are patterns which help believers discern the future.

When Moses prophesied about the tribulation and the required obedience of end times, he encouraged Israel to prayerfully turn unto God, and think upon the steadfastness of God's mercy and forgiveness, as well as upon the promises that God gave unto the forefathers. “When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them (Deuteronomy 4:30-31)”

Moses prophesied that there would be day in which Israel would again see God taking a nation out of a nation by mighty signs and miracles, like the miracles that they saw in Egypt. When Israel saw these mighty signs and wonders, she was to perceive and know that God was speaking to her, and Moses encouraged her to follow the Lord's instructions. “Hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God; there is none else beside him. Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee (from Deuteronomy 4:34-36).” The people of Israel are to take heed and obey God's instructions after they see God's mighty signs, and after they witness the terrors, and the wars.  

God is going to bring about these mighty signs and wonders to establish the new covenant (Psalms 107:13). “In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and I will make them lie down safely. And I will even betroth thee unto me forever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving kindness, and in mercies. I will betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord (Hosea 2:18-20).”

“Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me (Matthew 11:29).” These words were spoken by Jesus Christ, and they are our new covenant. The new covenant was a mystery that was kept hidden for the latter days, however, evidence of its mysterious elusiveness was prophesied by a psalmist: “The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant (Psalms 25:14).” The new covenant works like a marriage covenant. Believers wishing to unite with the spirit of God must vow to learn of Jesus Christ, and if they that keep that vow, then the Holy Spirit of God will unite with their spirit, and the two of shall become one flesh. Christianity was unaware of its participation in this covenant, but all Christians who learned of Jesus, and who kept the commandments, were saved by it (Isaiah 42:6).

All of the old covenants are about to be dissolved. "In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away (Hebrews 8:13)." “If the first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah (Hebrews 8:7-8).” 

God's new covenant will crown Jesus Christ, the great High Priest over all believers (Psalm 110:4; Hebrews 5:10). Under the old covenants, ordained priests were required to offer a sacrifice for their own sins, and then afterwards they were required to offer sacrifices for the sins of the people (Hebrews 5:1-3). According to that law, Christ, who had no sin, would still be required to offer sacrifices for the sins of the people. "For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer (Hebrews 8:3)." The offering that Christ offers for the sins of the people, is the works of his body, the church, for his people preformed righteous works which were done in order to make God known to the nations (1Corinthians 12:13; Hebrews 10:5). Their sacrifices were acceptable, and they were well pleasing unto God (Philippians 4:18).

The laws of sacrifice are changing under the new covenant: God is taking away the need for priests to offer sacrifices for their own sins, as well as for the sins for the people. "For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law (Hebrews 7:12)." In other words, priests won't have to sacrifice their lives in order to cause believers to know the Lord. The new covenant will teach all believers how to receive the holy Spirit, and it will insure that all believers are being taught by the Lord. "They shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest (Hebrews 8:11)."

“He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and obligation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate (Daniel 9:27).” We are already in the midst of the week in which God is confirming the covenant message, therefore God has already caused the sacrifices and the obligations to cease. Now which ceased, is the works that righteous believers were doing in order to strengthen religion. According to the afore mentioned verse, God has already brought spiritual death upon congregations whose leaders ignored the covenant message, and have continued to uphold religion's traditional teachings: they are desolate. Desolation will remain upon them until the prophesied pestilence of correction is poured upon these priests (Revelation 14:10).

“O Lord... have respect for thy covenant: for the dark places of earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name (Psalms 74:20-21).” By orchestrating end times in this way, God made it possible for the faithful believers of every religion to come and learn of Jesus Christ, without shame. Mercy and grace will be lavished upon believers of every faith when they acknowledge that Jesus' blood established all of God's covenants (Hebrews 8:12; 10:29). “Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little (Psalms 2:12).”


“Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto (Galatians 3:15).” This verse is implying that although the new covenant is a prophesied message, it will be confirmed by the certainty of God's verification. God will protect all believers who help to forward the covenant message, and through their faith the new covenant will be established. “Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them (Jeremiah 10:2).” “He sent his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. Oh, that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing (Psalms 107:20-22).” The forthcoming signs and wonders are something to be praised, for they mark the end of religion's reign on earth, and the beginning of God's peace among the nations (Psalms 37:11).

Call upon God and ask him to give you understanding for end times, for our God is good, and he is powerful, and he is about to achieve the impossible! “We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned (Revelation 11:17).”