God is establishing His first covenant with the people of Israel on Mount Horeb.  God spoke there to His people face to face at the mountain in the form of a consuming fire.  However, God’s people were afraid and did not go up to the mountain.  God also speaks to us through Psalms 23 giving us a message that God is with us even during the darkest situations. Micah 5:2 says, “But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.” Jesus is the everlasting God and loves us deeply. We have both the Old Testament covenant by God and the New Testament covenant (the NT covenant was fulfilled through Christ’s sacrifice on the cross.).