THE COVENANTS: AN OVERVIEW

The Everlasting Covenant:

Between God and mankind. Began with creation of the earth - will continue thru eternity.

      Includes the 7^th Day Sabbath.

ISAIAH 24:5-6 “The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.”

This covenant says, “Trust and obey God or death will be the result.”

Why is the everlasting covenant ratified (guaranteed) with blood?

HEBREWS13:20-21 “Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.”

NOTE: God knew, before He created any being with free will, that one day there would be a rebellion. He knew that rescue of His entire creation would require the death of His only begotten Son. The Son of God was begotten for this express purpose. He was the anointed “before the foundation of the world” to carry out this very task of salvation. This is why the everlasting covenant was ratified with blood. It was the covenant between the Father and His Son pledging the life of entire creation promising a way out, should rebellion arise. 

The covenant with Noah:

GENESIS 9:12-17 “And God said: ‘This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations. I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting [perpetual] covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.’ And God said to Noah, ‘This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.’”

The covenant with Abraham:

GENESIS 17:7-19 Between God and Abrahams descendants thru Isaac. An everlasting covenant. Promise of the land which then belonged to the descendants of Canaan (symbolic of the earth), for an “everlasting possession.” Circumcision to be the “sign of the covenant” (symbolic of transformation at the second coming). Sarah to be the mother of many nations. Promise of a son, to be named Isaac. With Isaac and his descendants, God would establish His covenant for an everlasting [perpetual] covenant.

The covenant with Isaac:

The covenant with Jacob:

The covenant with Israel:

I Chronicles 16:14-18 David remembers the perpetual (everlasting) covenant made with Abraham, and Isaac, confirmed also to Jacob and Israel. Promise of the land of Canaan. (Psalm 105:10).

Numbers 25:10-13 Perpetual covenant with the tribe of Levi, appointed as the priesthood.

The New Covenant with Israel:

Jeremiah 32:40 “Behold, I will gather them out of all countries where I have driven them in My anger, in My fury, and in great wrath; I will bring them back to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely. They shall be My people, and I will be their God; then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever...”

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