“Days Are Coming: New Covenant”
“Days Are Coming: New Covenant”
Blessings folk!
Can you believe the amount of information the Lord has given us related to Melchizedek-Abram-priests?
There is more.
We pick up Hebrews 8…
Heb 8:6-9
But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.
For finding fault with them, He says,
“BEHOLD, DAYS ARE COMING, SAYS THE LORD,
WHEN I WILL EFFECT A NEW COVENANT
WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH;
NOT LIKE THE COVENANT WHICH I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS
ON THE DAY WHEN I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND
TO LEAD THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT;
FOR THEY DID NOT CONTINUE IN MY COVENANT,
AND I DID NOT CARE FOR THEM, SAYS THE LORD.
Jesus has obtained a more excellent ministry.
How?
He is the mediator of a better covenant.
This better covenant has been enacted on better promises.
What promises?
We will look at them…starting today.
Note how some of the above passage is “all-caps”.
This tells us that it is a quote from the Old Testament - the Old Covenant.
This passage is from Jeremiah 31.
The Lord had told His people that a day is coming where there will be a new covenant.
What do we learn of the new covenant?
- with the house of Israel and House Judah
- not like the covenant which God made with their father
- fathers that He led from the land of Egypt
- they did not continue in the covenant
- therefore God did not care for them.
The previous covenant is the old covenant.
The writer of Hebrews is giving a hint, at this point, of the fulfillment of Jeremiah 31 by quoting it here…to be continued…
Live the life of the New Covenant!