Oracles of Yah

What is the New Covenant?

Have you ever thought about what the Bible says about the New Covenant? Did you know that the Bible tells us exactly what is the New Covenant? A covenant in the Bible is an agreement between two parties. In the sense that we are speaking about the agreement is between YHVH God and us, his people (Christian Israelites). Some covenants are conditional. Such as the one made at Mount Sinai.

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."

Some agreements are not conditional and were made by YHVH God to his people which he is still keeping today.

Genesis 35:11 "And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins".

This agreement was made between YHVH God and Abraham and it's continuation is not dependant upon anyone's behavior. It was a physical promise kept physically down through the years. True physical Israel is now made up of "a nation and a company of nations" and they are a blessing to the whole world.

YHVH God gave His moral Law to Abraham. Abraham kept His law and did so voluntarily.

Genesis 26:5 "Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

Exodus 19:5 above represents YHVH's marriage contract with Israel and the beginning of the Mosaic "forced compliance" covenant that included the added Levitical priesthood, blood sacrifices and blood ordinances. However, there was a promise of better things to come, a return to voluntary compliance.

Jeremiah 31:31 "Behold, the days come, saith YHVH, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith YHVH: 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith YHVH, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people."

This promise is repeated in Hebrews 8:8-10. It is also referred to again in

Hebrews 10:16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith YHVH, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them."

Now here is the New Covenant; it is YHVH's Laws, His moral Law put into our hearts and written in our minds! You see only the laws that were added 430 years after the promises were nailed to the cross. Galatians 3:17, 19 and Colossians 2:14.

Galatians 3:17 "And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect."

Galatians 3:19 "Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator."

Colossians 2:14 "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross."

There is more to this of course and there are other articles at this site dealing with parts of this subject. So if you are not convinced, but are a studier then hopefully one of the Law related articles will help.