Weekly Devotional - January 12th

And just as Isaiah foretold:

“If the Lord of armies had not left us descendants, We would have become like Sodom, and would have been like Gomorrah.”

Romans 9:29

We all know what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah—they were completely destroyed. This event is significant in understanding the continuity of God’s covenants throughout history. If God had not preserved the descendants of His people after judging their behavior so severely, the promise of the “seed of the woman” made in the Garden of Eden would have been meaningless. Each time God allowed a remnant to survive, additional covenants were established that provided further details about who that promised seed would be. These covenants continued throughout redemptive history, ultimately leading to the New Covenant when God came in the flesh to dwell among His people as Jesus Christ.