H. Richard
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The New Covenant mentioned is the one that Jesus will make with the house of Israel when Jesus sets up His kingdom for the Jews when He returns.The Barrd said:By the same token, the New Covenant was not promised to Gentiles, but to Jews:
Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Jer 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
And again:
Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Heb 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Heb 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Heb 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Kinda gets you right here, doesn't it?
We are not under the Abrahamic covenant nor are we to be under the New Covenant to be made to the Jews. It is an assumption that the Gentiles will be in either one.
The whole world is now under God's grace just as Paul taught it.
When a Jew broke the law of Moses the penalty was stoning to death. How much greater will be the penalty for those that refused to accept Jesus' shed blood as payment for their sins.
Heb 10:28-29
28 Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
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When Jesus shed His blood on the cross He fulfilled the Law of Moses covenant requirement that a perfect blood sacrifice was necessary to pay for mankind's sins. His blood paid for the sins of the whole world. To say that it didn't will bring about the condemnation in verse 29 above.
Kinda gets you right here, doesn't it? Ha! Ha!
written by H. Richard