People are really confused about the old covenant.
What the old covenant is.
It isn't the same as the old testament. Covenants were made with Abraham and Noah and they are all the same thing.
A covenant by definition is an agreement or a contract by two parties.
The covenant made with Israel at Sinia was clearly the one that is made old.
In Heb 8:6-10 it is explained.
1. He obtained a more excellent ministry, ....
JESUS'S ministry in heaven is more excellent then the blood of bulls and goats, more excellent then the earthly ministry done by priests.
2. was established upon better promises. .....
The promises of a heavenly kingdom are better then a Earthly kingdom, and the promises Jesus gave us are better.
3. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. .....
As the next point will show the fault wasn't with God or the promises of God or the Law of God. The fault was with the way the people tried to obey, the way it was kept, the way it was forgotten.
4. For finding fault with them, .....The fault was not God or His perfect moral law it was with the people.
5. I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: ....
New! not because it is a different way of being saved. Salvation by faith is the means of savation from the start. The blood of Jesus was what made this covenant new. He didn't change the conditions of salvation. It has always been faith in God's grace.
6. 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. ....
They didn't keep there side of the agreement. They were faulty in their agreement.
7. For this is the covenant that I will make.....
God makes it clear in following verses
8. with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; ....
We are grafted into the house of israel.
9. 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:...
God will estabish His laws in us and write them in our hearts and minds.
The old testament is not the old covenant.. the new covenant is not the new testament.. the new covenant is Jesus writing His laws on our hearts and minds. Because we fail to write them on hearts by our efforts like Israel of old did.
What the old covenant is.
It isn't the same as the old testament. Covenants were made with Abraham and Noah and they are all the same thing.
A covenant by definition is an agreement or a contract by two parties.
The covenant made with Israel at Sinia was clearly the one that is made old.
In Heb 8:6-10 it is explained.
1. He obtained a more excellent ministry, ....
JESUS'S ministry in heaven is more excellent then the blood of bulls and goats, more excellent then the earthly ministry done by priests.
2. was established upon better promises. .....
The promises of a heavenly kingdom are better then a Earthly kingdom, and the promises Jesus gave us are better.
3. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. .....
As the next point will show the fault wasn't with God or the promises of God or the Law of God. The fault was with the way the people tried to obey, the way it was kept, the way it was forgotten.
4. For finding fault with them, .....The fault was not God or His perfect moral law it was with the people.
5. I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: ....
New! not because it is a different way of being saved. Salvation by faith is the means of savation from the start. The blood of Jesus was what made this covenant new. He didn't change the conditions of salvation. It has always been faith in God's grace.
6. 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. ....
They didn't keep there side of the agreement. They were faulty in their agreement.
7. For this is the covenant that I will make.....
God makes it clear in following verses
8. with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; ....
We are grafted into the house of israel.
9. 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:...
God will estabish His laws in us and write them in our hearts and minds.
The old testament is not the old covenant.. the new covenant is not the new testament.. the new covenant is Jesus writing His laws on our hearts and minds. Because we fail to write them on hearts by our efforts like Israel of old did.
5. I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: ....
New! not because it is a different way of being saved. Salvation by faith is the means of savation from the start. The blood of Jesus was what made this covenant new. He didn't change the conditions of salvation. It has always been faith in God's grace.
Actually, we are saved because we believe in the name of Jesus Christ, His death and resurrection.
No one in the Old Testament could ever be saved apart from Jesus.
The old covenant was not by grace and was not based on that faith in Jesus.
The old covenant was based on obedience to the book of law, i.e. the ten commandments.
The old covenant was a covenant of legal works, 100's of them.
There is no other name under heaven by which anyone may be saved.