Ezekiel 34:25

The Lord also promised to make a covenant of peace (i.e., resulting in peace) with Israel (cf. Ezekiel 16:60; Ezekiel 37:26-28; Ezekiel 38:11-13; Ezekiel 39:25-29; Isaiah 54:10). This is probably a reference to the New Covenant that God promised to make with Israel in the future (Jeremiah 31:31-34).

Some commentators believed that this covenant is not the same as the New Covenant. [Note: E.g., Block, The Book . . . 48, p. 301; and Alexander, "Ezekiel," p. 914.] Alexander believed that the Jews would enter into the covenant of peace when Israel accepts the New Covenant. [Note: Ibid.] My view, and that of others, is that the New Covenant was inaugurated at the Cross and now governs all believers. When Israel repents as a nation, she will enter into the benefits of this covenant that God has specified for Israel, including dwelling in peace in her land. [Note: Cf. Dyer, in The Old . . ., p. 688.]

"The word peace [Heb. shalom] is used to describe the harmony that exists when covenant obligations are being fulfilled and the relationship is sound. It is not a negative concept, implying absence of conflict or worry or noise, as we use it, but a thoroughly positive state in which all is functioning well." [Note: Taylor, p. 224.]

The provisions of this covenant that Ezekiel mentioned here included, first, removing threats to the Israelites’ safety from the land so they could even live at peace in its formerly dangerous parts, for example, the wilderness and woods (cf. John 10:27-29).