Every Covenant in the Bible, Explained in Order: One Promise, Five Times
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Every Covenant in the Bible, Explained in Order: One Promise, Five Times
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What if the Bible was never two deals? Most of us were handed a Bible split in half, an Old Testament and a New one, as if God changed his terms partway through. But read the five great covenants in the order God made them and something else appears: one promise, said five different ways, to a smaller and smaller address, until the address is you.
The Hebrew word is berit, the word for a treaty between kings, and in Hebrew you do not make a covenant, you cut one. We read every place the Bible cuts one with a named party: Noah on a drowned world, with every living creature. Abram asleep while a torch passes between the halves of the animals, with one family. Israel three months out of Egypt, with one nation, the only covenant whose promise hangs on an if. David wanting to build God a house and being promised one instead, with one throne. And Jeremiah, to a nation watching Jerusalem fall, with one heart. Four of the five are called everlasting. Only one was ever called obsolete, and it is not the one you were told.
By the end you will be able to read Genesis 9, Genesis 15, Exodus 19, 2 Samuel 7 and Jeremiah 31 as one sentence God keeps repeating, hear it again in a cup at a Passover table, and know exactly which covenant Paul means when he says the law did not annul the promise. The Old Testament and the New Testament stop being two books. They become one address book, with your name on the last page.
📖 KEY VERSE
"But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days," says the LORD: "I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people." (Jeremiah 31:33 WEB)
IN THIS VIDEO
0:00 One promise, five times
1:03 Noah - every living creature
2:15 Abraham - one family
4:21 Israel - one nation
5:51 David - one throne
7:07 The new covenant - one heart
9:01 One promise
10:22 Share this study
📜 PASSAGES READ
Genesis 9:9–10, 16 · Genesis 12:2–3 · Genesis 15:2, 5, 10, 17 · Genesis 17:7 · Exodus 2:24 · Exodus 19:5–6 · Exodus 24:8 · Leviticus 26:12 · 2 Samuel 7:2, 5, 11, 14, 16 · Psalm 89:3 · Jeremiah 31:31–33 · Luke 22:20 · Hebrews 8:13 · Galatians 3:17, 29 · Revelation 21:3
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