Moriah's Song
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'after those days'. That phrase is used to indicate AFTER Jesus returns to earth and sets up His Kingdom ON EARTH.
"AFTER THOSE DAYS"
Deuteronomy 30:6 "And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring,
so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live."
so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live."
It was Abraham's "circumcision of the heart" of which justification took place long before he was circumcised so that he couldn't depend on the rite of circumcision to save him. The 'sign of circumcision' was given to Abraham as 'a seal' (or token) of the (justifying) righteousness which he had before he was circumcised. This God did in order that Abraham might become the father of every believer in all ages. Abraham was to be the model man of justification by faith whether they be Jew or Gentile, who should thereafter obtain life everlasting at the end of the ages.
In Jeremiah's "after those days", it most definitely is referring to the fulfillment on the Day of Pentecost as I said previously about the "tribal leaders" being present at that major event..
Jer 31:33 - But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
The Old Testament promises were mainly of earthly, the New Testament promises, of heavenly blessings: the exact fulfillment of the earthly promises was a pledge of the fulfillment of the heavenly.
Heb 8:10 - This IS the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. (Note the present tense "Is" --- and therefore confirmation the New Covenant is a "now and evelasting" covenant.)
Here the term "the days will come" [a future time] mean the same as "after those days" because the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost occurred AFTER the ascension of Christ.
Heb 8:7,8 - For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second [covenants]. For he finds fault with them when he says: "The days will come, says the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
This is another confirmation that Jeremiah's prophecy did happen in the NT as foretold.
Heb 10:16 - "This is the covenant that I will make with them "after those days," says the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,"
A similar phrase like "after those days" is used in several different ways in reference to his second coming at the end of the ages:
Mat 24:29 - "Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
Mar 13:24 - "But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light,
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