The Blood covenant, entering into a relationship of servitude, wherein we must learn obedience. Next is the salt covenant, that explains the perpetual covenant of friendship.....cannot be broken... then the sandal covenant, also called the covenant of inheritance, and they explain the ancient Hebrew custom of using sandals to define boundaries..... This equivalized in human parenting where if a parent does a good job of training a child in obedience (blood covenant), the child will become a friend (salt covenant).. a son or daughter who matures and becomes a responsible adult eventually qualifies for an inheritance (sandal covenant). As with the covenants we make with Elohim, progressing to the salt and sandal covenant is a major goal of parenting, but neither one is where effective parenting begins. If you start by being a child's friend instead of training him or her in obedience, you have the whole thing backwards. Likewise in our evolving covenants with Elohim. The relationship offered by each of the preceding covenants makes the next covenant possible. And all of this leads into a major point: As we enter into each new or "renewed" covenant with Elohim we do not leave behind the responsibilities - or the benefits - of the preceding one. all of this points to the final covenant, the one of betrothal. The most intimate relationship we can have with Elohim.......
YHWH started with His instructions from the begining. In the Garden of Eden He walked (Gen 3:8) with Adam and spoke Torah to Adam. Noah walked with Elohim (Gen 5:9). Later He met face to face with Abraham (Gen 17:1, 18:1). To Moses He gave His Torah from Exodus to Deuteronomy for the children of Israel. A continual and gradually progressive revelation of His instructions. To Adam, Noah, Abraham and Moses, we have seen how gradually they increase in responsabilities but also the revelation. The model is easy to recognize once again. We add rules and boundaries to our children as they grow and their responsabilities grow as they get older. Society has everything backwards. They raise a child without rules and boundaries and as they grow, in their teens the parents free them from those rules and give them less responsabilities. When we establish covenants in the relationship with our children we are both agreeing to keep our part of the covenant. The father keeps their covenant with YHWH and the child keeps the covenant with the father. If we have a relationship with our children similar to our relationship with YHWH then they will be used to when it is time for them to walk on their own in the footsteps of our Mashiach Yahshua.
There is a conceptual relationship to establish the ways of raising children and YHWH asks us not to spare the rod. Proverbs 13:24 He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him, seeks him with discipline. We know that today "PC" western world would erase this verse and many others from scripture. In scripture there is enough written that our children should understand and fear YHWH and the way He corrects those who He loves. Deut 8:5, Proverbs 3:12, 19:18, 29:15, 29:17, Hebrews 12:7, ect.
YHWH delights when His children walk in righteousness which is more than just morally good according to the world standards. Today we have very few young men and women that can stand and run for office without having a troubled past of unrighteousness. The system has undermined the foundations of YHWH's Truth and our children believe that different people have different truths and that there is a different standards for different people. We are commanded to teach Torah in the Shema (Deut 6:4-9) that we repeat and as Israel we should "Listen" . If we can not follow through with this we can not say the Shema and we can not teach our children the way they should go. Hear oh, Israel! Teach and impress diligently to your children so that they walk in righteousness in the right path. Deut 6:25 And it is righteousness for us to do all this commandments before YHWH our Elohim, as HE has commanded us". As our children understand the relationship we have more and more oportunities to build them up Spiritually as they receive Yahshua HaMashiach and establish a relationship of their own. It's a commandment given to the Father and not the Assembly, not the School and very much less for them to learn by themselves. We inherited lies from our fathers. Let's Teshuvah in this role Abba has given us as we follow our fathers command to be "fruitful and multiply". If we as fathers do not keep our side of the covenant with YHWH how can we expect our children to keep our rules.
Shalom!