The New Covenant-Soon to be Implemented

The “New Covenant”—Soon to be Implemented!

Chapter 25 Part 2 Preview: What is the “New Covenant”? Is the New Covenant already in effect? What are the terms of the Covenant (or contract). Who did God intend to make this Covenant with? The knee jerk response to this question is usually—it’s for the Church (off site). But try to prove it! Is it possible that God promised this Covenant to another group of people to begin at a later date? There is a great deal of misinformation concerning what this Covenant really is that has been taught in the churches for centuries. The implementation of the prophesied New Covenant is the very center of Bible prophecy! Read on, and consider the earth shattering truth about the “emancipation proclamation” of the “age to come”.

Part 2: The Old Covenant Finally Fulfilled

After Israel went into exile, Jeremiah still represented God as saying that the First Covenant needed to be observed by the remnant of Israel (until the New Covenant is enacted).

Jeremiah 11:1-10 The word that came to Jeremiah from [Yehovah], saying, 2 Hear the words of this Covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; 3 and say to them, Thus says [Yehovah], the God of Israel: Cursed is the man who doesn’t hear the words of this Covenant, 4 which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey My voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so you shall be My people, and I will be your God; 5 that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I, and said, Amen, [Yehovah]. 6 [Yehovah] said to me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear the words of this Covenant, and do them. 7 For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey My voice. 8 Yet they didn’t obey, nor turn their ear, but walked everyone in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought on them all the words of this Covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn’t do them. 9 [Yehovah] said to me, a conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear My words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers. WEB

Daniel, in describing the end of this age, mentioned the Latter Temple’s sacrifices that are to be reestablished in the end time. The temple is functioning for three and a half years prior to when the Beast stops the sacrificing—breaking his covenant. The timing is from Daniel’s Seventy Weeks Prophecy where a day represents a year:

Daniel 9:27 Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week [seven years]; but in the middle of the week [after three & a half years] he shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, even until the consummation, which is determined, is poured out on the desolate. NKJV

Matthew, in what is commonly called the Olivet Prophecy, also stressed the significance the Beast’s or the “Abominator’s” presence in the Holy Place when he will personally pollute the Latter Temple and force an end to the daily sacrifices.

Matthew 24:15-22 When you see the sign of the abominable desolation that was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place; then let the reader consider; 16 and then let those who are in Judaea, flee to a mountain{1}; 17 and let him who is on the roof, not come down to take what is in his house; 18 and let him who is in the field, not return to get his cloths. 19 But woe to those with child, and to nursing mothers, in those days. 20 Pray that your flight isn’t during *stormy or rainy weather*[5494], or on the Sabbath. 21 For there will then be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world, until now, nor ever again. 22 Unless those days should be curtailed, no flesh would remain alive. But, for the elect’s sake, those days will be curtailed. NMT

[This will be the new Third Temple. The “Holy Place” is mentioned 56 times in the Hebrew Scriptures in reference to the Temple.]

Daniel mentioned this event three other times so that you wouldn’t miss it!

Daniel 8:11 He even exalted himself as high as the Prince of the host; and by him the daily sacrifices were taken away, and the place of His sanctuary was cast down. NKJV

The Beast will not throw Judaism to the ground when he sets foot in the Holy Place, he will throw the “TRUTH down to the Ground”.

Daniel 8:12-13 Because of transgression, an army was given over to the ‘horn’ [False Prophet] to oppose the daily sacrifices; and he cast TRUTH down to the ground. He did all this and prospered 13 Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who was speaking, ‘How long will the vision be, concerning the daily sacrifices and the transgression of desolation, the giving of both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled under foot? NKJV

We have not seen the last of God’s First “Holy Covenant”. Don’t assume that the Romans put an end to it. As soon as the Third Temple is constructed the “Holy Covenant” will kick in again—complete with “the continual burnt offering”!

Daniel 11:28-35 Then shall he [the Beast] return into his land with [a great army]; and his heart shall be against the Holy Covenant; and he shall do his pleasure, and return to his own land. 29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come into the south; but it shall not be in the latter time as it was in the former. 30 For ships of Kittim shall come against him; therefore he shall be grieved, and shall return, and have indignation against the Holy Covenant, and shall do his pleasure: he shall even return, and have regard to those who forsake the Holy Covenant. 31 Forces shall stand on his part, and they shall [defile] THE SANCTUARY, even the fortress, and shall take away the continual burnt offering, and they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate. 32 Such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he pervert by flatteries; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. 33 Those who are wise among the people shall instruct many; yet they shall fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by spoil, many days. 34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves to them [due to promises of plunder]. 35 Some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed. WEB

The First Covenant is valid “until the TIME OF REFORMATION”!

Hebrews 9:6-10 Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services, 7 but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people. 8 The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing; 9 which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect; 10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until the TIME OF REFORMATION. WEB

New—Renewed—Everlasting Covenant

Ezekiel also spoke about the New Covenant and tho he did not use the word “New” as Jeremiah did, it is nonetheless the same covenant. What other covenant could this possibly refer to? In fact the term “Everlasting” is a better description of what God has in mind. God contrasted the coming “Everlasting Covenant” with the covenant that Israel broke “in the days of your youth”.

Ezekiel 16:59-63 For thus says the Lord [Yehovah]: I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the [First] covenant. 60 Nevertheless I will remember My Covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an Everlasting Covenant. 61 Then you shall remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant. 62 I will establish My Covenant with you; and you shall know that I am [Yehovah]; 63 that you may remember, and be [ashamed, 0954], and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the Lord [Yehovah]. WEB

The Everlasting Covenant was begun with Abraham and was never meant to be anything but everlasting. When the Covenant is reNEWed [See “Addendum”], by force, it will become exactly what it was originally meant to be.

Ezekiel 20:33-38 As I live, says the Lord [Yehovah], surely with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, will I be King over you: 34 and I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out; 35 and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face. 36 Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, says the Lord [Yehovah]. 37 I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the Covenant; 38 and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and those who disobey against Me; I will bring them forth out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I am [Yehovah]. WEB

Ezekiel 37:24-28 My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in My ordinances, and observe My statutes, and do them. 25 They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, in which your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children’s children, forever: and David My servant shall be their prince for ever. 26 Moreover I will make a Covenant of peace with them; it shall be an Everlasting Covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set My Sanctuary [New Jerusalem] in the midst of them forevermore. 27 My [Tabernacle] also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 28 The nations shall know that I am [Yehovah] who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore. WEB

In fact the Great Tribulation will devastate the land because we have been trampling God’s Laws and are still breaking the “Everlasting Covenant”!

Isaiah 24:3-6 The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for [Yehovah] has spoken this word. 4 The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish. 5 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the EVERLASTING COVENANT. 6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. WEB

Ezekiel chapters 40-48 is actually all about the time of the New [Renewed] Covenant. None of the prophecies in these nine chapters have ever even remotely been fulfilled.

Ezekiel 43:5-11 The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of [Yehovah] filled the house. 6 I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me. 7 He said to me, Son of man, this is the place of My throne, and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel shall no more defile My holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places; 8 in their setting of their threshold by My threshold, and their doorpost beside My doorpost, and there was but the wall between me and them; and they have defiled My holy name by their abominations which they have committed: therefore I have consumed them in My anger. 9 Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from Me; and I will dwell in the midst of them forever. 10 You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern. 11 If they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them. WEB

This nine chapter prophecy ends with the river of life cleansing the earth and trees of life bearing fruit each month.

Ezekiel 47:12 By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing. WEB

At this time the twelve tribes of Israel again take back their land—once again the “Holy Land” because God is there! (all of Ezekiel 48).

Zechariah 2:10-13 Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you,’ says [Yehovah]. 11 Many nations shall join themselves to [Yehovah] in that day, and shall be My people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that [Yehovah] of Armies has sent Me to you. 12 [Yehovah] will inherit Judah as His portion in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem. 13 Be silent, all flesh, before [Yehovah]; for He has roused Himself from His holy habitation!”

If you read these nine chapters you cannot help but ask why there is all of the emphasis on sacrifices. Indeed why is there any mention of sacrifices in the Everlasting Kingdom? Did Jesus Yeshua (off site) actually end the Levitical sacrificial system? Here is an entire website concerned with the issues of the Law and what happened to it after Yeshua was crucified: Paul, the Temple & New Covenant Sacrifices While the web host most likely has a traditional view of the New Covenant, he sees a big problem with what is taught about the Levitical Priesthood “having been abolished”. This too has been misrepresented by the Churches. Better still, find a copy of The Coming Last Days Temple. It is out of print but new and used copies are still available on Amazon.com and other web sources.

Mediation by Crucifixion

Is Yeshua presently acting as a mediator for the Saints? I was taught that “Jesus has to mediate for the Saints daily to the Father”, that is He has to continually remind the Father not to squash the mere humans, since, after all, only He could relate to what it is like being human. However, once we know what the New Covenant is, we should further understand that Yeshua completed the active mediation when He died! Three of the six references to “mediator” in the New Scriptures (NT) concern the time of the future New Covenant. Hebrews 9:15 says that the mediation was performed “by means of death”. So the role of mediator was performed by a physical Yeshua, not the resurrected One. When the New Covenant is actually fulfilled by the Lord and His Christ, no additional mediation will have been needed. The New Covenant was ratified with the blood of Yeshua and now awaits the end of this present evil age.

Notice the statement that Yeshua, the human Man (Greek: anthropos), was the mediator.

1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man [Yeshua the Messiah]... WEB

Yeshua “has [now] obtained a more excellent ministry”. The first definition used for “ministry” in the Online Bible Greek Lexicon is: “a public office which a citizen undertakes to administer at his own expense”. There could be no higher expense!

Hebrews 8:6 But now He [Yeshua] has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established [by His own shed blood] on better promises. NKJV

Hebrews 9:15 And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, BY MEANS OF DEATH, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. NKJV

Here again, the Mediation was accomplished by of Yeshua’s sacrifice.

Hebrews 12:24...to [Yeshua], the Mediator of a New Covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling [purification] that speaks better than that of Abel. WEB

To say that Yeshua must keep on mediating is tantamount to saying that He must keep on dying—a shameful concept!

Hebrews 6:4...seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put Him to open shame. WEB

So here is the New Covenant in a nutshell:

Isaiah 59:20-21 The Redeemer [Yeshua] will come [return] to Zion, and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob, says the LORD. 21 “As for Me,” says the LORD, “this is My Covenant with them: My Spirit [which] is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says the LORD, “from this time and forevermore.” NKJV

Paul also prophesied about the coming New Covenant and people are still “ignorant of this mystery”:

Romans 11:25-27 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the [Gentiles] has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written [above]: The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; 27 for this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins. NKJV

I also recommend reading WHAT DO YOU MEAN... A NEW COVENANT? It is a rather technical article that demonstrates from the Hebrew and the Greek what “New” really means! Interestingly, Frank believes that the New Covenant is already in effect.

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