The book of Exodus provides more
insight into the strength of the covenant
through what took place among
the Israelites in Egypt and then during
their wanderings in the wilderness.
Exodus 2:23-25 says, “And the children
of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage,
and they cried, and their cry came
up unto God by reason of the bondage.
And God heard their groaning, and God
remembered his covenant with Abraham,
with Isaac, and with Jacob. And
God looked upon the children of Israel,
and God had respect unto them.”

God remembered His covenant
with Abraham and in behalf of that
covenant found a man named Moses
herding sheep on the backside of the
desert. God called him to lead the
Israelites out of Egypt.

After the Israelites were set free and
journeyed into the wilderness, we find
another situation so critical that Moses
went on his face before God for forty
days without food or water. This is the
only fast in the entire Bible where a
man goes without drink. It had to be a
supernatural existence because Moses
would have died without liquid. But
he just refused to let go of God. Exodus
32:9-10, “And the Lord said unto
Moses, I have seen this people, and,
behold, it is a stiffnecked people: Now
therefore let me alone, that my wrath
may wax hot against them, and that I
may consume them: and I will make
of thee a great nation.” God wanted to
destroy Israel and start a new race with
Moses as He had with Noah after the
Flood. In verses 11-14 it says:

Moses besought the Lord his God,
and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath
wax hot against thy people, which
thou hast brought forth out of the
land of Egypt with great power, and
with a mighty hand?…Turn from thy
fierce wrath, and repent of this evil
against thy people. Remember Abraham,
Isaac, and Israel, thy servants,
to whom thou swarest by thine own
self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply
your seed as the stars of heaven,
and all this land that I have spoken of
will I give unto your seed, and they
shall inherit it for ever. And the Lord
repented of the evil which he thought
to do unto his people.

God repented! Why? Because of the
covenant He had made with Abraham
so many years before.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries