The Everlasting Covenant

Chapter 20 - Bread from Heaven

It is with singing that the ransomed of the Lord will return and come to Zion. The song of victory is an evidence of faith, by which the just shall live. The exhortation is, “Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.” ¹ “We are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end.” ² EVCO 219.1

The Israelites had started well. “By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land.” ³ On the other shore they had sung the song of victory. True, they were still in the wilderness; but faith is “the victory that hath overcome the world,” ⁴ and they had just received the most wonderful evidence of the power of God to carry them safely through. Had they but gone on singing that song of victory, they would speedily have come to Zion. EVCO 219.2