Then you should remember that the Lord [Yahweh] your God is the one who is giving you the supernatural power to produce wealth, so that he may implement his covenant which he promised on oath to your fathers which still stands today.

There are three things that God has always promised to His covenant people.

1. They will always walk in good health

2. They will have favor with others

3. They will walk in abundant wealth

How a Blood Covenant Worked

In those days when two people entered into a Blood Covenant, each person immediately became entitled to everything that the other person owned. If I were in Blood Covenant with you, what is mine now becomes yours, and what is yours now becomes mine.

We are told that Abraham entered into a Blood Covenant with God, and as a result, he was blessed with abundance. He didn't have to work for this in order to deserve it.

His descendants also became partakers of the same blessing. That is why today the Jewish people who are descended from Abraham have always been blessed financially.

So where does that leave us Gentiles? Well, the Jews are not actually the only descendants of Abraham. You see because the Scripture says that through faith, we become partakers of the promise and spiritual heirs of Abraham. So we as believers have a right to the exact same blessings.

But the covenant of Abraham was not God's final covenant. There is a better covenant now than what Abraham had. Jesus, as a man on our behalf, entered into a new covenant with God. He shed His own blood as part of the Blood Covenant sacrifice.

And now we can become His descendants and we can enjoy all the benefits of that Covenant. That means that we today as believers have even more than what was offered to the nation of Israel.

To try and understand this, I want you to first look at what actually was offered to the nation of Israel. People often think that because this was offered to Israel, and we are not Jewish, we don't have a right to claim this.

Some people even think that they still have to become Jews in order to experience this blessing of the Lord. And there is often a movement back to the Old Covenant, the laws, and doing things the Jewish way.

But when Jesus hung on the cross and said, "It is finished," He ended that Old Covenant, and He created a new one. We don't have to go back to the old Jewish way of doing things. We also don't have to learn Hebrew, because contrary to what many people believe, Hebrew is not the language God speaks.

Some people think if you want to talk to God you have to learn Hebrew because that is the language He speaks.

It is so foolish, but we have a greater covenant; a New Covenant. And the writer of the Hebrews goes through many different arguments to prove this to us.

Blessings of the First Covenant

Let's look then at the blessings of the First Covenant. You will find them listed mostly in the book of Deuteronomy because they were given by Moses to the people before he went up the mountain to die, and before they moved into the Promised Land.

Blessing Through Obedience

The first thing we notice about this covenant is that the blessings came by obeying the terms of the covenant.

You can read the first section of Deuteronomy 28 and you will see everything that I am sharing. I will quote one or two verses in this section, but I am not going to read the whole passage. You can go and study it and you will see what I am sharing here now.

To get the blessings of the covenant, you had to do what was commanded in it. This applied only to the nation of Israel, and God promised that He would make them higher than all the other nations.

Not only that, but God promised that if they did this, it would cause the blessing to be attracted to them until it reached them. It would be like a magnet that would just be drawing and pulling the blessing until eventually it came and hit them.

Let me show this to you in Deuteronomy 28:2. It says,

And all these blessings will be attracted to you until they reach you if you will listen attentively to the voice of the Lord [Yahweh] your God.

There was a condition to obey His voice. So these blessings would apply in the following situations. No matter where they were, in the city or the country, God said they would be blessed.

Everything that could reproduce, whether it be human, animal, or plant, whatever reproduction took place would be blessed by the Lord and would be carried out efficiently without any problems.

Every activity; everything they did and touched with their hands and worked on would be blessed. They would be blessed even while they were moving about, traveling, and going in and out. Wherever they were or whatever they did, the blessing would follow them.

The Lord also promised He would help them to overcome enemies who attacked them. He said in Deuteronomy 28:7,

The LORD [Yahweh] will cause the enemies that rise up against you to be defeated right in front of you: they will come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

I kind of like that picture don't you? Here comes an enemy running at you, and you just go 'pow' and they scatter in all directions. That is the promise God gave to the nation of Israel.

Results of Blessing

Let's look now at what some of the results of that blessing are.

Firstly their storehouses, or to make them a bit more modern, their bank accounts would be blessed. How blessed is your bank account with its overdraft?

The Lord said people would be afraid of that. People would see them and know that they were blessed by God and would be afraid of them. They would say,

"Keep away from those Jews. Those guys have God fighting for them."

God said He would pour out the blessing of rain from the heavens. They never had droughts, and He said they would always have more than enough. This meant they would always be able to lend to others and they would never need to borrow.

He gave a beautiful illustration of this. He said,

"I will make you the head and not the tail."

You see the head controls things, but the tail is controlled.

We are the head and not the tail. That is what God promised to the nation of Israel. But how would all of this come about? As a result of God's power.

God's power would cause these things to be attracted to them like a magnet, but they had to use that power to obtain it. The fact that the blessing was coming to them didn't mean they just got it without any effort.

God was bringing the opportunity to them until it stood right in front of them. It was now there for them to reach out and take it.

It was not automatic. Although God provided the blessing and caused it to be attracted and to come to them, they had to do something after that to lay hold of that blessing.

How God Blessed the Nation of Israel

The Old Testament is full of accounts of how God did this.

They Had to Take the Land

Firstly, they went into the Promised Land before they could obtain the blessing. Then they had to drive out the enemies that were controlling the Promised Land before they could have that blessing. They had to take possession of the land before they could enjoy the blessing.

God worked supernaturally with them to make it happen. You know the story of the very first event when they crossed the River Jordan into the Promised Land. They came against the city of Jericho with its fortified walls, and it took the power of God to bring those walls down.

They didn't just walk in and say,

"Hey Jericho, God has given you to us, so out you go!"

No, they had to do a lot more than that. And they didn't do it with natural power. They did it with supernatural power. As they walked around the walls and began to praise God, God caused the walls to come down.

They still had to do something. They had to take God's power and use it before they obtained what God had already given them.

Providing Their Needs

While they were going from Egypt to the Promised Land, they were in a very different situation. As they were journeying in transition in the Wilderness and in the long journey before they crossed the River Jordan into the Promised Land, God provided for their needs continuously.

When they needed meat, God brought quails down. He sent a wind and just brought them all in and provided their needs.

Can you imagine having enough meat there for you to stock up for the next few months, assuming your deep freeze was big enough?

But there were no deep freezers in the desert. So you could keep that quail as long as it took before it went rotten which, was about a day. You had to eat it right away.

They were so greedy they ate until they were sick, but there was none left over for the next day.

God also fed them daily with manna that came down from heaven. The manna was the same. You couldn't say,

"I don't feel like going out and gathering manna every day. Let's gather enough for the week and put it in the pantry."

No, whatever you gathered, tomorrow it turned rotten. It only lasted for one day.

God provided them with water right there in the desert. Well, there wasn't like a permanent dam that they could just tap into at all times. God provided the water when they needed it.

You see there was nothing they could do to accumulate wealth. It was impossible for them to become wealthy. They weren't allowed to save the manna and they had to rely on God for their needs.

Wealth in the Promised Land

At this point, God gave them no promise of wealth. But the Promised Land changed all of this, didn't it?

The moment they stepped into the Promised Land the manna stopped. Now they could obtain more than what they needed. They could start to accumulate wealth.

But again nothing was automatic. They had to do something to get it. They had to fight for it. They had to reach out to God to ask Him to help them and work on their behalf.

All of these are the blessings that God gave to Israel. But how many believers today are walking in those blessings? Sad to say, not many. And yet the New Covenant brought better things than what the Jews had under the Old Covenant.

Changes in the New Covenant

Let's look at some of the changes in the New Covenant.

Blessing for Everyone

Firstly, all nations could now enjoy the blessings. All that was needed was for you to become a believer in Jesus and to accept Him as your Savior.

Now the supply was to every nation, every race, every gender; every kind of person in this world without exception.

Before they had the blessings of God, they had to enter into the Covenant of Israel. If you weren't born a Jew you had to become a Jew, which is a process known as becoming a proselyte.

If you see the term proselyte in the Scriptures, it means people who became Jews who weren't born to be Jews. So they could get the benefits of the Covenant because they entered into the Covenant by joining the Jews.

How then do you become God's favorite today? You just accept Jesus as your personal Savior. It is quite simple. If you accept Jesus as your Savior, you have become God's favorite.

You don't have to be born a Jew anymore. The Jews are no longer God's favorite nation. God's favorite nation now is known as the church, which contains Jews, Gentiles, and every kind of person.

By Faith

Here is one thing that changed drastically in the Covenant. The Old Covenant was based on your obedience to the laws that God gave. But you see Jesus, when He entered into the Covenant, obeyed all the laws. He never broke one.

And now the only requirement for us is faith in Jesus and what He did on Calvary. That is all that is required for us to enter into the blessings of the New Covenant.

Greater Power

God offered His supernatural power to the nation of Israel, and He worked mighty signs and wonders as they entered their Promised Land. But under the New Covenant, God gave more power. He gave additional things which the Israelites did not have.

There is a new kind of power that is available now to us as God's chosen people.

Firstly, there is a power that you receive when you are born again. And then there is an additional power that you receive afterward which increases your ability.

We call these the two anointings. We have covered this in detail in some of our other teachings, in case you are not familiar with these terms.

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