What did God promise Israel in Exodus 19 if they obeyed His voice and kept His covenant?
God promised that if Israel obeyed His voice and kept His covenant, they would be a peculiar treasure unto Him above all people. This covenant relationship would lift them out of humanity's mainstream and make them His favored, chosen people.
Les explains that in Exodus chapter 19 the children of Israel were encamped at the base of the mountain while Moses talked with God. God was about to give them the Law, the priesthood, and the whole system of sacrificial worship to make them aware of His holiness and sovereignty and to prepare them for a future role amid the pagan idolatry around them. The promise was conditional: if they obeyed His voice and kept His covenant, they would be a peculiar treasure to Him above all people. That lifts Israel out of the mainstream of humanity into covenant relationship as God's favored, chosen people.
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
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What does God call Israel in Exodus 19?
In Exodus 19, God calls Israel a treasure unto Him above all people.