The Covenant what it means

[iwant2serve]

I have been saying for a while noe that the word Covenant means agreement and/ or contract. I have heard thins like the Bible is more that a contract and what covenant (goine back to all the covenants that God mad and man made). The big picture of the Bible is that it's a agreement/contract from God to his people no matter how many covenants are there. If you have any thoughts on this please give them.

My reason for saying this is God's original intent for earth was to be a colony of heaven or a colony of his kingdom. This will happen once Jesus returns and there will be a new heaven and earth along with a new Jeruselem.

 

[LEPIDUS]

diathéké: testament, will, covenant
Original Word: διαθήκη, ης, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: diathéké
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-ath-ay'-kay)
Short Definition: a covenant, will, testament
Definition: (a) a covenant between two parties, (b) (the ordinary, everyday sense [found a countless number of times in papyri]) a will, testament.


HELPS Word-studies
1242 diathḗkē (from 1223 /diá, "thoroughly," intensifying 5087 /títhēmi, "place, set") – properly, a set-agreement having complete terms determined by the initiating party, which also are fully affirmed by the one entering the agreement.

 

[4enlightment]

I have been saying for a while noe that the word Covenant means agreement and/ or contract. I have heard thins like the Bible is more that a contract and what covenant (goine back to all the covenants that God mad and man made). The big picture of the Bible is that it's a agreement/contract from God to his people no matter how many covenants are there. If you have any thoughts on this please give them.

My reason for saying this is God's original intent for earth was to be a colony of heaven or a colony of his kingdom. This will happen once Jesus returns and there will be a new heaven and earth along with a new Jeruselem.

Matthew 5:37 All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.

James 5:12 Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear—not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. All you need to say is a simple “Yes” or “No.” Otherwise you will be condemned.

Matthew 26:41 “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

In the beginning God was the only one that had made the covenant (the promises). God didn't made Adam and Eve promise not to eat from the tree because He had knew that they were weak. But since God had cast them away from His presence, the devil started them to make vows and which he knew that they can't keep and makes them become Liars like him. God had started a covenant with man but didn't had Abraham to make it with Him, but He had a part of Him to stand in for them and to show them what will happen to the ones that doesn't keep their vows. The people of the old covenant were examples to show that we are incapable of making any vows, eventhough some says that at least can keep the Sabbath, but still you have broken the others and which still makes us incapable of keeping our word. So now God just say to just say Yes or No if you can do it or not, but don't go beyond that. We can't predestined our future but only God can. So all that covenant making was just to show us how powerless we all are without God and His Kingdom. That is why He has given us the Holy spirit to train us.

 

[Gandalf]

Iwant2serve, I also always thought that God planned for one thing to happen but then Adam and Eve messed up and another thing happened. A rabbi then showed me something in Hebrew that changed my life forever. I know some people will not agree with this but for me it was awesome to see God revealing himself in this way.

Bereshit is the first word in the Hebrew Bible and we translate it as “in the beginning” Look at how awesome Abba reveals his plans for us in the first word in the Bible:

Bershit is spelled beyt, resh, aleph, shin, yud, tav
ב beyt – house/home
ר resh – head / head of
א aleph - all power / all strength
ש shin – divine protection / all-consuming fire
י yud – hand
ת tav – sign of a cross

Divide now the word into different Hebrew words and you find the following words:

בר bar in Daniel 3-25 translated is as Son
ברא berah meaning create, form of shape (second word in the Torah)
שי shayee in Psalms 68-29 translated as presents / gifts
שית sheet in Genesis 4-25 meaning appoint

Put it all together and you get “Elohim will build/create (berah) a house, He will appoint his son as the head of the house. He will have all power/ all strength is in his hands for divine protection. He will be an all-consuming fire / gift and his sign will be a cross.”

God’s plan was set in motion from the first second He started with His creation.
God bless

 

[Gandalf]

Sorry I see some afrikaans words still stuck in my explanation LOL

 

[Elin]

I have been saying for a while noe that the word Covenant means agreement and/ or contract. I have heard thins like the Bible is more that a contract and what covenant (goine back to all the covenants that God mad and man made). The big picture of the Bible is that it's a agreement/contract from God to his people no matter how many covenants are there. If you have any thoughts on this please give them.

My reason for saying this is God's original intent for earth was to be a colony of heaven or a colony of his kingdom. This will happen once Jesus returns and there will be a new heaven and earth along with a new Jeruselem.

Yes, a covenant is a contractual promise where the parties bind themselves by blood to comply with the covenant.

 

[iwant2serve]

Well I know the Lamb was slain before the foundation of the world that I fully understand.