The New Covenant
Mar 8, 2016 12:55:51 GMT -8
Post by Michael on Mar 8, 2016 12:55:51 GMT -8
Genesis 17:13
Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant.
The covenant of circumcision was to be continual, but because that covenant was revoked, that put an end to covenant circumcision.
Jeremiah 31:31
“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.
Israel the nation, and Judah the faithful.
Jeremiah 31:32
It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord.
Zechariah 11:10
Then I took my staff called Favor and broke it, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.
Zechariah 2:11
“Many nations will be joined with the Lord in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you.
Luke 22:20
In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
1 Corinthians 11:25
In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
2 Corinthians 3:6
He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Hebrews 8:1
[ The High Priest of a New Covenant ] Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,
Hebrews 8:6
But in fact the ministry Yahshua has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises.
Hebrews 8:8
But God found fault with the people and said: “The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.
Hebrews 8:13
By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.
Hebrews 9:15
For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
Hebrews 12:24
to Yahshua the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
The New Covenant With Nations
Ecclesiastes 3:18
I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. (people)
Israel's descendents were mixed among the gentiles, or as stated, "seed of men mixed with the seed of beasts"...
Jeremiah 31:27
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
God pronounced that His Covenant to Israel would be also with the beasts. (Nations)
Hosea 2:18
And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
This is how it is that the word "beast-s" is often used as a parable to mean nation-s.