How come when I click on that scriptural reference of yours, it does not give me the scripture? is that feature at this site down now or what? Anyway,... looking it up, I see this.
Exodus 19:5 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: 6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
#1. How do you not know this is about the Old Covenant when the emphasis was on Israel as in man to keep? You want to see the difference for the New Covenant? Okay then.. New Covenant is about what God will do; not man.
Hebrews 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Now what happens when someone is saved but no longer follows Him? This has been prophesied of what God will do for why God will judge His House first at the pre great trib rapture event when the Bridegroom comes.
Psalm 89:27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. 28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. 29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. 30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; 31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; 32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. 34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. 35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. 36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. 37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
That's OSAS right there, brother. That is why when Jesus warned His disciples in Luke 12:40-49 KJV that those cut off to have their portions with unbelievers are still called His servants as they get stripes per the measure for what they knew in not getting ready and fewer stripes for not knowing what they needed in getting ready for the Bridegroom . That is why God is coming to judge His House first because not every one is heeding that call to depart from iniquity which is the same thing as running that race by looking to the author & finisher of our faith to help us lays aide every weight & sin for the high prize of our calling to be received by the Bridegroom as a vessel unto honor in His House.