Important Bible email

In a few minutes I pass the halfway point of the Bible, which is Psalm 118. So the longest psalm, 119, marks the beginning of the second half of a complete reading. You bring up a theme I'm am tracking, so to speak, though in the context of spiritual Israel rather than just Jews. That is the theme of what is asked of us regarding the overall covenant with God that the Israelites kept violating. I'm interested in this complete reading to keep that in mind as I go into the prophets and then the entire New Testament. Theologians will say the covenant becomes individual rather than corporate. Then they'll go into faith and the sacraments and church things. Yet they don't talk about what Jesus says. Basically, be awake and love your enemy. I see the two conscious shocks in that. If I didn't know the Work what would I make of 'be awake' and 'love your enemy'? The former would just be a hazy thing, be awake. The latter I would probably take in a moralistic sense (maybe? if in any way at all?). Yet Jesus meant it as a tactic of war on the spiritual battlefield. Once in the Covenant of Grace by regeneration and faith we are in it, but to be actively in it perhaps it's the two conscious shocks that are called for. I also see baptism and the Lord's Supper as the two conscious shocks. Wayne Grudem sees baptism as a continuing thing, literally a taking in of energy. And I see the Lord's Supper as literally eating your suffering as in conscious suffering (loving your enemy) in communion with Christ and the Spirit of Christ who lived out conscious suffering, especially on the cross, and we are to emulate Him. We experience what He, our Forerunner experienced. Also, we are prophets, priests, and kings. As prophets we're to know the word of God. As priests we're to make ourselves a living sacrifice, we being a living temple of the Holy Spirit. As kings we are to rule our inner domain. All that has Work teaching in it through and through. This is like a super high level understanding of what it means to be actively in covenant. One last thing: now that I've been in the wisdom books of the Bible I can see that all those history books prior are the main sort of unit of teaching. This may be why Chronicles recaps them all... for emphasis. Because after those history books the wisdom books comment on that history, and then the prophets messages are woven intricately with the substance of those history books. So my point is it will - in this context - be interesting to track that into the Gospels and see just what the analogue us for spiritual Israel - Christians - to all that psychology and covenant keeping we see in the history books. Another big theme is the spiritual warfare it all entails. Idol worship as well.