Thanks for your comment.
1. The verses in Jeremiah speak about the end of days, when all mankind believe in god. We know this because god describes these days as days when everybody knows the goodness of god (which wasn't the case 2000 years ago and isn't the case now). "And they shall teach no more"- christians still make an effort to teach and spread, so the days of this new covenant are yet to come. When it comes, I'm not sure it is going to "erase" the old one.
2. If this new covenant is between god and the israelites, it implies it should be kept only by them like the torah.
3. Jeremiah's prophecy speaks about something that is to happen. God said he will give a new covenant- did he? Many scholars and prophets wrote scrtiptures, but what makes the new testament the new covenant? God didn't give us the new testament; the people who wrote it, after god's miracles, did; unlike the Torah and the Quran who are attributed to God and were recited to his prophets.
You are correct "
after those days" refers to the fulfillment of all the Lord told the Jews would befall them after the abomination of desolation was set up and destruction of Jerusalem....which Jesus also confirmed would be after the tribulation of "those days" referring to the time of Jacobs trouble. This time would also be complete when the
fullness of the Gentiles would come in, and as Paul said then would
ungodliness be removed from Jacob...fulfilling that prophecy in Jeremiah.
But Jesus Christ (the Messiah) was the one who brought in the N
ew covenant, even though many of the Jews still reject Him as Messiah.
Matthew 26:28
For this is my
blood of the
new testament, which is shed for many for the
remission of sins.
Jesus Christ is the only way to have your sins forgiven...no other faith has this promise.
Hebrews 9:11-28[SUP]
11 [/SUP]But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
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12 [/SUP]Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by
his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained
eternal redemption for us.
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13 [/SUP]For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
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14 [/SUP]How much more shall
the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
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15 [/SUP]And for this cause he is the mediator of the
new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of
eternal inheritance.
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16 [/SUP]For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be
the death of the testator.
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17 [/SUP]For a
testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
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18 [/SUP]Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated
without blood.
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19 [/SUP]For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
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20 [/SUP]Saying, This is
the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
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21 [/SUP]Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
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22 [/SUP]And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is
no remission.
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23 [/SUP]It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
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24 [/SUP]For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
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25 [/SUP]Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
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26 [/SUP]For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared
to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
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27 [/SUP]And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
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28 [/SUP]So Christ was once offered
to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
