God’s Covenant promise that we should keep

Before I came to Shincheonji I was a believer who really believed in God….but didn’t actually know much about him at all! I couldn’t doubt that God existed and that I wanted to live out a life of faith, but I didn’t read the Bible much, and certainly couldn’t explain the Bible to anyone!

When I learnt the purpose of the Bible and the reason why God gave it to us, it really turned my life of faith around and gave me so much more confidence and clarity too! It also helped me to understand the promise God had made to me, and how I could receive the blessing of that promise too!

 

I would like to take some time to explain to you the reason why God gave us the Bible – that it is God’s Covenant promise that we must keep!

 

🔹What is a Covenant?

Definition of Covenant: a formal agreement between two parties to do something specified in order to achieve a mutually beneficial result.

 

In the Old Testament, God makes a Covenant with the Israelites.

In the New Testament, God and Jesus make a New Covenant with the Christians.

 

🔹What is the reason God makes a Covenant with his people?

When God created the world, everything was made good so God could dwell there. However, when Adam sinned, evil came into the world - so God had to leave. God who is spirit, was only left to dwell in heaven (spiritual realm) – he was separated from the earth due to sin (Gen 6:3).

 

However, God has given us the Word (Bible) so that we can know him and how to be reconnected with him.

 

Word = God (John 1:1) = Words/voice of the Holy Spirit (2 Tim 3:16, John 6:63)

 

God’s Covenant is about him making a way to reconnect with and dwell with his creation on the earth again. God wants to restore the world back to how it was at the beginning! In Revelation it speaks about how God will complete the NT covenant:

 

Rev 21:2-4
I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

 

🔹What are the two Covenant’s?

🔸1. Old Testament (Old Covenant)

Through Moses, God established his Covenant law with the Israelites in the Old Testament.

The faith the Israelites needed to have was to keep their side of the Covenant so that God’s promised blessings could fulfil to them.

 

Ex 19:5-6
Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”

 

Also, through the OT prophets, God promised Jesus, the saviour and the one to be king over the holy nation of God (Israel)

 

Is 9:7 (Zech 9:9)
…He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing it and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.

 

The hope of the Old Testament Covenant:

That the 12 Tribes of Israelites would keep Moses’ law and believe the Old Testament prophecies and become God’s kingdom and priests, His holy nation. Jesus would come as King, and this would be the Kingdom of Heaven on earth that would heal the whole world of sin and restore it back to God.

 

Did the Old Testament Covenant fulfil?

Through King Solomon, the Old Testament covenant was broken and all the Israelites fell away from God (1 Kings 11:9-11). That is why even when Jesus appeared as the hope of the Old Testament covenant, the Jews rejected and killed him. That was the evidence that they did not keep the covenant – therefore God had to make a new plan.


Heb 8:7-8
For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. But God found fault with the people and said…



 

🔸2. New Testament (New Covenant):

Through Jesus, the New Testament law was spoken (Jesus’ instructions he spoke on the Mt of Olives in Matt 5-7).

 

On the night of Passover, Jesus declared the new covenant would be made in his blood. He promised them that that when the kingdom of God fulfils, he will eat/drink with them again.

 

Luke 22:19-20
And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
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.

 

And through Jesus and his apostles, the promises of Jesus return were prophesied too.

Revelation chapter 7 speaks about a new “12 Tribes of Israel” and the great multitude in white

 

The hope of the New Testament Covenant:

That the new 12 Tribes of Israel would keep Jesus’ law and the New Testament prophecies and become God’s new kingdom and priests (Rev 5:9-10), His holy nation. Jesus would reign as King, and this would be the Kingdom of Heaven on earth that would heal the world of sin and restore it back to God.

 

Does the New Testament Covenant fulfil? Who does it fulfil to?

God always fulfils his promises (Is 14:24, Rev 21:6), but it is up to us weather it will fulfil to us or not.

In Luke 18:8 Jesus did wonder if the believers at his 2nd coming would have the proper faith in the covenant, unlike the at his 1st coming. Let me show you some verses and have the Word speak for itself:

 

Rev 1:3
Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.

 

Rev 22:7
“Look, I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy written in this scroll.”

 

Rev 22:18-19
I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this scroll. 19 And if anyone takes words away from this scroll of prophecy, God will take away from that person any share in the tree of life and in the Holy City, which are described in this scroll.

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It is important to know about the proper meaning of the Bible – that it is God’s Covenant to us that we must know and keep. If we know and keep it well, we will be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, meet Jesus there, and receive all of the Bible’s promised blessings!

 

- Christine xx





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