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God's Master Plan

The God family currently consists of the Father and the Son, but will eventually include the Bride of Christ and the children of God. Christ will return to rule on earth with His saints for 1,000 years while Satan is bound. After the 1,000 years, Satan will be released again, the dead will be raised, and Satan will once more attempt to deceive the world. Whoever rejects Christ will face the second death. The earth will then be replaced with a new heaven and a new earth, and God the Father will come down to live on earth with mankind.

John 1:1-3, 10-12

1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2) The same was in the beginning with God.

3) All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.

10) He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.

11) He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.

12) But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name.

Two Gods: The Father and the Son

Genesis 1:26

26) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.Matthew 3:1717 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Matthew 20:23

23) And He saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of My cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on My right hand, and on My left, is not Mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of My Father.

Ephesians 5:25-27

25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it;

26) That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

27) That He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Matthew 9:15

15) And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

Matthew 22:8-14

8) Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.

9) Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

10) So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

11) And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:

12) And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.

13) Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14) For many are called, but few are chosen.

Revelation 20:4-15

4) And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

5) But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

6) Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

7) And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

8) And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

9) And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

10) And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

11) And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was no place for them.

12) And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

13) And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

14) And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

15) And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21:1-5

1) And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

2) And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

3) And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.

4) And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

5) And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

The Holy Scriptures

We believe that the scriptures in both the Old and New Testament are God's revelations to mankind, and that we are not to add nor diminish from them (Deuteronomy 12:32). Jesus Christ is the Authority having jurisdiction, that mankind does not have the authority to change dates, alter Sabbaths nor Holy Days, bind and unbind marriages (Matthew 19:5-6 and Romans 7:1-3). Church authority and doctrines should follow Christ's teachings under the Faith Once Delivered (Jude 1:3) or being accursed as Paul spoke of in his letter to the Galatians (Galatians 1:6-9). We also believe that God expressly forbids us to worship him the way the pagans do their gods (Deuteronomy 12:1-32).

We do not observe any 8th month harvest festival because God had set his Feast of Tabernacles beginning on the 15th day of the 7th month, and we do not want to be associated with the "sins of Jeroboam" (1 Kings 12:32-33).

Deuteronomy 12:32

32) What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

Matthew 19:5-6

5) And said, For his cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: And they twain shall be one flesh?

6) Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Roman's 7:1-3

1) Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them who know the law), how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

2) For the wo,and which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Jude 1:3

3) Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhirt you that ye should earnestly conte d for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

Galatians 1:6-9

6) I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

7) Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

8) But though we, or any angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

9) As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel to you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

1 Kings 12:32-33

32) And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: And he placed in Bethel the priests of the highways places which he had made.

33) So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: And he offered upon the altar burnt incense.

The Sabbath and Holy Days

The first 6 days of the week are for us to do our own tasks, but the 7th day God has sanctified as his Sabbath of rest (Genesis 2:2-3 and Leviticus 23). God commands us to observe his Holy Days, and he gives veery specific dates on when they are to be observed. We cannot add nor diminish from these days (Deuteronomy 12:32).

-14th day of the 1st month, at even is the Passover

-15th day of the 1st month is the first Day of Unleavened Bread, 21st day of the 1st month is the last Day of Unleavened Bread (7 days total).

-From the 1st day of the week within the Days of Unleavened Bread, that is Wave Sheaf. Begin counting 7 Sabbaths (49 days) for a full inclusive count of 50 days, and the following day is Pentecost, the 2nd day of the week.

-1st day of the 7th month is Trumpets (God does not allow postponements).

-10th day of the 7th month is Atonement-15th day of the 7th month begins the Feast of Tabernacles. The 22nd day of the 7th month (7 days of the Feast, then the 8th day of the Feast...) is the Last Great Day.

Genesis 2:2-3

2) And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3) And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made

Leviticus 23

2) Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. 3) Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

4) These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. 5) In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.

6) And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.

7) In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

8) But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

9) And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

10) Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:

11) And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.

12) And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.

13) And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.

14) And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 1

15) And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete.

16) Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.

17) Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.

18) And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.

19) Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.

20) And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.

21) And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

22) And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

23) And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

24) Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.

25) Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

26) And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

27) Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

28) And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.

29) For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.

30) And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.

31) Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

32) It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

33) And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

34) Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.

35) On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

36) Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.

37) These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:

38) Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.

39) Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.

40) And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.

41) And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

42) Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: 43) That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

44) And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

The laws governing marriage

Paul tells the Corinthians that they should not be unequally yoked with unbelievers in 2 Corinthians 6:14-18. In his previous letter he said to flee fornication 1 Corinthians 6:18. God also tells In Exodus 22:16-17 that if a man entices a maid, he is to marry her. If her father refuses to give her to him, Numbers 30:3-5 God gives the Father of the maid authority to revoke her vow that she binds her soul with, but if he holds his peace, her vows is established. In Paul's letter to the Romans 7:1-3, he states that there is a law of marriage that dictates the death of a spouse is the only thing that allows for remarriage. This is what Christ was speaking of in Matthew 19:4-12. If one of the spouses had fornication, then they had been previously bound to another, therefore the marriage could not be valid since it would be considered adulterous.

2 Corinthians 6:14-18

14) Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15) And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

16) And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

17) Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

18) And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
1 Corinthians 6:18

18) Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Exodus 22:16-17

16) And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

17) If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

Numbers 30:3-5

3) If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;

4) And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

5) But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
Romans 7:1-3

1 )Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

2) For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

3) So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Matthew 19:4-12
4) And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

5) And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

6) Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

7) They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

8) He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

9) And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

10) His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

11) But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. 12) For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

The difference between the Old and the New Testament

Hebrews 8:1-13

1) Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

2) A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

3) For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.

4) For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

5) Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

6) But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

7) For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

8) 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:

9) Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

10) For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

11) And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

12) For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

13) 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.

Hebrew 9:1-28

1) Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

2) For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.

3) And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;

4) Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

5) And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

6) Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.

7) But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:

8) The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:

9) Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

10) Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

11) But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

12) Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

13) For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

14) How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

15) And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

16) For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

17) For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

18) Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

19) For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

20) Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.

21) Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.

22) And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

23) It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

24) For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

25) Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;

26) For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

27) And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

28) So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

What Israel (wayward wife) did to God (her husband)

Ezekiel 16:1-63

1) Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

2) Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

3) And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

4) And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

5) None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.

6) And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.

7) I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.

8) Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.

9) Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.

10) I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.

11) I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.

12) And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.

13) Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.

14) And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.

15) But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.

16) And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

17) Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,

18) And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.

19) My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.

20) Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,

21) That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

22) And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

23) And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)

24) That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.

25) Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.

26) Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

27) Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.

28)Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.

29) Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.

30) How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;

31In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

32) But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

33) They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.

34) And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

35) Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

36) Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;

37) Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

38) And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

39) And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.

40) They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

41) And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.

42) So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

43) Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.

44) Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

45) Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

46) And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

47) Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

48) As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.

49) Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

50) And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

51) Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.

52) Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

53) When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:

54) That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.

55) When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.

56) For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,

57) Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.

58) Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.

59) For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

60) Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

61) Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

62) And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:

63) That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

The Old Covenant:

Deuteronomy 26:16-19

16) This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

17) Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:

18) And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;

19) And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken

The New Covenant:

Hebrews 8:6-13