 Take a look at the ring I got when I was in Israel. Now I'm not married, but if I were, this ring could represent something really important. In the scripture it says, man shall leave his father and his mother and become one flesh with his wife. The ring to a lot of people represents this marriage covenant, this promise, this partnership, this agreement. But did you know that God was heavily involved in making covenants in the Old Testament? Most of them revolved around this concept that God would set apart a specific people that they would obey his laws and that they would testify to other nations that he is the only God and that God would bless them and be present with them. But if you spent five minutes in the first five books of the Old Testament, you will realize that the Israelites did not always obey God. And in response to this broken covenant, God said that he would send a Messiah that would deliver a new covenant. This Messiah would be faithful where the Israelites were not. He would die to take the transgressions of mankind on himself as was prophesied in Isaiah 53. Jesus was this Messiah and his promise was that if you put your faith in him, you would not perish, but rather have eternal life. This wasn't just a covenant of blessings now like in the Old Testament, but rather a covenant of life eternal.