A new situation have become a reality for Israel, Yahweh in the midst of his people. The holy creator, God lived among humans. He dwelt among them in the tabernacle, a portable tent designed for worship, the celebration of God's presence. How were people to live in this new situation? What guidelines should govern this new relationship? God called Moses Moses to a mountaintop and gave him a set of 10 Golden Rules Israel. These regulations called the 10 commandments became the foundation for the new bilateral covenant called the Mosaic Covenant. It was bilateral because the man's were put on both parties in the relationship Yahweh promised he would be their God, they would be His people and He would dwell in their midst. They were keep the law as expressed in the commandments beyond the 10 commandments. Other rules and regulations were written down to define how the Israelites should live and worship God in their midst as a legal covenant the Mosaic Covenant required man's obedience at its central feature. This was different from the Abrahamic covenant which had God's faithfulness to His promises its central feature. As usual, God kept His end of the agreement. He led the people to the edge of the land promised to Abraham Canaan, but when they arrived, they were afraid to take possession. of the land. This lack of trust in God sent them back into the desert to wander for 40 years. Only after that faithless generation had died off the dock way again, lead them to enter the Promised Land. After Moses death, Joshua became the leader of the people, you lead them to victory after victory until they took possession. of the land God had promised them following Joshua's death in the Promised Land a series of judges became leaders of the Israelites, men and women such as Gideon, Deborah and Sampson let Israel's armies and pass judgment on the people. This is sometimes considered the Dark Age of Hebrew history. Not only did the Israelites stop worshipping God, but several of the judges were active in worshiping idols. It was a dark day for the relationship between God and His people. But as before God put it into the misery of Israel. The time of the judges due to and in his Israel demanded a human king. They wanted to be like the other nations during the reign of their second king, King David, the Abrahamic covenant with His promise of ln blessing and peace for Israel came close to a complete fulfillment. David was Yes what jaquise answer to the desk destitution, caused by the period of judges. He was a man after God's own heart shepherd boy, whose greatest desire was to please God under David the kingdom grew to a Heather headrow Heather to unfunded can't say that word unknown size and greatness. God made Jerusalem the capital of Israel and sought to build Yaqui a temple. This task, however, fell in his son Solomon. Nevertheless, God was pleased with David's desire to build a temple for you always presence among us people. So extended the covenant promise to David God promised to make David's name great grant and eternal place for his people and establish a permanent dynasty in the Davidic line. This Davidic Covenant like the Abrahamic Covenant was a unilateral covenant with no conditions placed on humans for its fulfillment. It forms the basis for Israel's hope is later expressed by the prophets and most climatically understood in the genealogies of Jesus. Solomon who followed his father, David is king became world renowned for his wisdom and incredible wealth out of this well he built Yahweh a temple in Jerusalem. Upon its completion. The Bible explains how God filled the temple with its presence, however, follow him and disobeyed God and did not have the heart of his father, Solomon sin led to the split of the kingdom after his death. 10 tribes followed Jerome, a former general under Solomon, who established the kingdom of Israel in the north, to tribes stay with Rehoboam Solomon son to establish the Kingdom of Judah in the South. These two nations picked up where the judges left off and continue the destruction of their relationship with God, even priests replacing the worship of Galloway with the worship of Baal Canaanite God. The people seem intent on breaking the Mosaic Covenant. During this time, the eighth century before Christ, Prophet spoke out from the north and the south, warning the people of their imminent judgment of God. The prophetic message proclaim God's indictment on the people. God had vile God's people had violated the covenant by their adultery, their social injustice, their religious formalism, you have broken the covenant the prophets charge you must repent. If there's no repentance, judgment will come and judgment came. The Assyrians destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel and 721 BC and Babylon destroyed Judah and 586, forcing a large number of Hebrews into exile in Babylon. The people had broken their covenant, covenant total relationship with God. They now had to rely solely on the hope of restoration, which has always been part of the prophetic message. During the exile, the focus of the people had changed. Prophets such as Ezekiel like Jeremiah before him look forward to a time when God's Law no longer will be written on tablets of stone but on human hearts, a time when God's Spirit wouldn't drill every member of God's family to ensure an internal dwelling toward God's word and will. God will establish a new covenant with His people they proclaimed. Daniel, a devout young man from Judah who counseled the king of Babylon in exile saw a vision of someone like a son of man who possessed authority and would one day create an everlasting kingdom. People from all nations and all language would come to worship the Son of Man. It was a time of renewed hope. The Mosaic Covenant was shattered but the prophets were looking back to the unilateral covenant given Abraham and David, God would no longer limit his presence to a temple in Jerusalem. Zico shared a vision in which God's throne was on wheels moving in every direction in the days to come. God would move with his people, as in the days of old not just among them as with the tabernacle, but within them through His Spirit. The Glory had left the temple would be manifested through the people of the Spirit. When Persia conquered Babylon, the Persians allowed the people of Israel to return to the homeland. After seven years in exile, rebel led God's people back to the promised land to rebuild the temple. The restoration of the wall around Jerusalem and the reestablishment of the full worship of Yahweh came later on the leadership of Nehemiah and Ezra, these leaders of Israel make great efforts to bring Israel back to pre existing times, but it never happened. Yahweh did not return to fill the temple with his presence, and he had as he had done under Solomon, the nation of Israel did not become truly independent. The Mosaic covenant had been broken and it would not not be restored. The Law no longer defined the covenant relationship with God as people. It functions simply as a rigorous guideline for living. The period after the exile the so called post exhibit period function as an interim period between the judgment of the exile and the promise of the New Covenant restoration. It was a time in which God once again would be visible among his people. This new covenant with prophets like Jeremiah and Joe and others had prophesied was to be a covenant of the spirit. The people had broken the bilateral Mosaic Covenant but God remembered is covered with Abraham and with David, in the fullness of time some 400 years later, he sent his own son in the form of human, fulfill the promises of blessing the people and eternal Kingship of David's throne. The New Testament begins its story about placing the son in the lineage about David and Abraham All right, who wants to repeat that? Yeah yeah, this one's very well written. I can't talk like that. But yeah, this is like I said, this is probably been done a great job great editing to to try to get it succinct, you know, but we pick up tonight with the last part of the story. And honestly, I was I kept reading stuff and trying to deal with these post Zelich prophets, you know, and I think, you know, I almost kind of got lost in all of the, the things and all the details, you know, but uh, Daniel, so in our story for tonight, they're in exile. So basically, the prophets started prophesying like you guys judgments coming you've got to repent. There, you know, if not, it's gonna get bad but there is going to be a future. Well, that message was directed to the northern kingdom directly to the southern kingdom and eventually they do get shipped out to exile. Like last week. Well, this week it's what what did God do and say to them, and God set prophets to speak to them while they were in exile of how to live as exiles in Babylon. And then in the we have, so we have Daniel, Nehemiah, Haggai Malakal, there's also Zephaniah and a Esther that's kind of thrown in that your notes today so I know we don't have a ton of time. So that's why I kind of wanted to do this also, but what stood out to you in the readings for this week. The Bible or the chapter