The Noahic Covenant And He gave that barren couple a son of their own, Isaac. And no New Covenant without the blood of the Son of God. As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age. But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. And through Israel, God chose to introduce His Son, the Last Adam, to be her Salvation, and also that of the entire family of the First Adam. Copyright 2002-2023 Got Questions Ministries. We know how in Ezekiel the words about God's causing us to walk in His "From all your filthiness will I cleanse you." The New Testament Luke 22:20. Shaking hands between two men is a custom that goes back to the days when men would show each other the scars of covenant relationships they had made. Phone: 011 233 302247628 Dr. Richard Booker teaches in his book "The miracle of the scarlet Thread", that entering a blood covenant follows a very specific ceremony. For you have died, and your life is hidden (joined forever to be as one) with Messiah IN God. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Error: Passwords should have at least 6 characters, Error: Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. Wisdom Literature Physical death was still the penalty for sin. For whoever wishes to save his (individualistic radically independent Self-adoring) life will lose it; but whoever loses his (Self) life FOR MY SAKE (becoming one with Me in Gods Eternal Covenant) will find it (That is, everything he will need to be totally fulfilled for all eternity, he will find it by being one with Me and all that pertains to Me. Fax: 011 233 302247628 They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, declares the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more. (Jeremiah 31:31-34), Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God, It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy Name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went. "-1 Cor 11:25; Mat 26:28. In this teaching, our Lord Jesus Christ will emerge from the pages of the Old Testament in a way that you have never experienced. The penalty for that sin was death, spiritual and physical. 200 East Grant Ave. As if the redeeming, and sprinkling, and washing, and sanctifying does not sufficiently express the intense inwardness of its action and its power to permeate our whole being, the drinking of this precious blood is declared to be indispensable to having life. July 10, 2022. This is our covenant with the God of the universe. His life is the model for the Christian believer. Instead of killing Adam & Eve, God killed an animal and gave Adam and Eve the skin for clothing to hide their shame. Plot summary Add synopsis This we ask in Jesus' name, Amen. Emphasis added. Old Testament Covenant Teaching Series Video Lesson #3, Old Testament Covenant Teaching Series Video Lesson #4. If they do, then the other blood brothers who have been violated on the other side, will have received justice and thus will not have to kill all the members of the criminals personal family. Amplification and emphasis added.). This I command you, that you love one another (out of My Covenant Love which I keep pouring into each one of you). Poetical Books And every male among you who is eight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations, a servant who is born in the house or who is bought with money from any foreigner, who is not of your descendants.". It means you are pledging to honor a life-long agreement. The typical blood covenant contained nine parts, or steps. Step 7: Give Terms of the Covenant EXCHANGE COATS OR ROBES. Step 9 -- Plant a Memorial: The two parties plant a tree and sprinkle it with the blood of the animal to memorialize the covenant. And then the representatives would stand on either end of the carcasses, facing each other. We'll look at them today. Enter your email address below for email updates from the True Riches Academy. This awesome Blood Bond relationship will appear everywhere! endobj God is Eternal. Welcome to the official online home of True Riches Radio, a unique Bible teaching podcast and the True Riches Academy, an online Bible teaching center that educates, equips, and empowers believers. The covenant bond was so great, and its underlying meaning so sacred, and the consequences for violating it so severe, that to take it casually and be careless in observing it, was unthinkable! He offers to be his shield and His rewards. Blue Letter Bible study tools make reading, searching and studying the Bible easy and rewarding. The use of blood also signified the utter importance of the covenant between God and his people. stream No thought can realize its legitimate claim on us under God's law, its awful tyrant power in enslaving us. The difference between the two Covenants is the difference between the blood of beasts, and the blood of the Lamb of God! Adam sinned and lost his dominion over Gods creation. So His Covenant mind, heart and will are timeless and eternally PRESENT AND CONSTANT. EXCHANGE NAMES: Jesus took on the name, "Son of Man" and we take on the name Christian. And that will help you know our Heavenly Father and His ways, in Spirit and in Truth. You are to TEACH THEM DILIGENTLY TO YOUR CHILDREN, and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down and when you rise up. For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mysteryso that you will not be wise in your own estimationthat a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; and so (according to Gods Eternal Covenant ways) all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, The Deliverer will come from Zion, He will remove ungodliness from Jacob. This is My (New and Eternal) covenant with them, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS! (Romans 11:13-27, Emphasis and Amplification added). :3=V`lkMQ:5I^UU~;5FB4+UF LSe]d}KMp5c,U(:4&6%nb0FXd;K5M lG+f C Dn1h;o&P [2dj c-ZL[V6@Y% GODS ETERNAL BLOOD COVENANT PATTERN [The Background and Significance of the Blood Covenant are covered in Part 1 of this teaching, available on our website www.follow-me-ministries.org ] Many feel that they do not understand or realize this wonderful power of the blood. In this way you were saying to the other person that you were offering him your protection. The confession and casting away, and the cleansing away of sin in the blood, are the indispensable, but all-sufficient, preparation for a life in everlasting Covenant with God. Johannine Writings The sacrificial rituals consisted of many things that preceded death: bringing the animal into the sacred precincts (Exod. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point He that eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, abideth in Me, and I in him." He eternally IS! 6 0 obj "Ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things as silver and gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, even the blood of Christ." In any purchase made on earth the transference of property from the old owner to the new is complete. And His Living Word fulfilled all of the promises and obligations that the Covenant requires of us He did all of that through His Perfect Humanity in our name because the Covenant Pattern placed us into (making us one with) THE LAST ADAM FOREVER! Except this time, God graciously reassures His promise with a visual of His presence. In Gods Name, the letter H is prominent In Hebrew (), its pronounced: Hey or Hay. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. What happened to the animals reminds the representatives of the death penalty they are calling down upon themselves, and those they represent, in the case of any future covenant violation and betrayal. And could you even imagine the Son, Gods Eternal Word, betraying His Blood Covenant with His Father and causing all of His repentant human Blood brothers that He represents eternally to perish because of His violation? This time it was God's only Son and not Abraham's. This is another example of one of the steps in cutting a covenant, in covenant terms, it is called the Memorial Meal. Step 8: Eat A Memorial Meal Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. Our lives are forever intermingled with His. He comes clothed in holiness and righteousness. Give terms of the covenant. Emphasis added.). He never begins, or ends, or changes. Today, men and women who enter into a marriage are actually entering into a Blood Covenant relationship with each other. Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness. Amplification and emphasis added.). Let us pray. Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. In our Bible we have the old and new testament,(or covenant). These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full (God Himself will be your Eternal Covenant Blessing). GIVE THE COVENANT TERMS: Jesus gives the terms of the covenant in the whole Bible. Joseph Boachie-Danquah Steps of Ancient Covenant Making Covenant Making in Ancient Cultures 1. To propose a toast at a wedding goes back to the 16th century when men would mix bread in with a cup of wine and pass it around for all to drink. Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, Gods kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off. In Old Testament times there were 9 steps to cut a covenant. The transition from the death of the Old Covenant to the life of the New was, in Christ, "through the blood of the Everlasting Covenant." Prophets Yea, more, to be, in time and eternity, the living power by which entrance into the Covenant was to be obtained, and all life in it be secured. Thus we are all Covenant breakers from conception! Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. 1:2-3), examining the animals for any blemish, placing hands on its head (Lev. 1603 In the Revelation 1:14-15 we see a description of Christ as follows, "And His head and His hair were white like wool, like snow, and His eyes were like a flame of fire; and His feet were like burnished bronze, when it has been caused to glow in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters,". If something happens to you, your covenant partner will see to it that your wife and children are taken care of. General Epistles The Davidic Covenant Notes and Reference Materials Lesson 1 Notes The belt, also called the girdle, was used to hold your sward, your knife, and other fighting instruments. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sward of the Spirit, which is the word of God.". 15 Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. (Matthew11:25-30. Sin has not the slightest claim on us, nor the slightest power over us, except as our ignorance or unbelief or half-heartedness allows it to have dominion. Now where there is forgiveness for these things, there is no longer any offering for sin." Focus your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. Oh, the depth of the riches both of the Wisdom and Knowledge of God! True Christianity is based on a persons personal relationship with their Creator, God, through the shed Blood of Gods only begotten Son, Jesus. Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year. And after Abraham passed the test with flying colors, God replaced Isaac as a sacrifice, with His own beloved Son the Living Word made flesh. Step 4: Cutting Hands & Mixing The Blood The Need for the Second Birth. No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends (My Blood brothers), for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you (what is Mine, is yours). It is our responsibility to know it so that we can live by it. \Ogtu 5Y37i04kh4-3n4N`'':]nMKb'8B>liV{+;iW.%jLNnWk\mve&+X XQ$`l CUTBM 0C+hur9|Nms6^}K6~\kv%vHzAd6!|RcL:hgmX3.!SV#h%,}/*.J$kBqLVwV'Hg+]Jn,%]/m%*o:k 19O+zC!LN'xd#e#?|~HY:@ )u%XLnG/uLueb]2}Z yk:qHm{*~MIQ/|'7RI_b%h72X*sr#X-vjg~jW5SN.vwh!k@/|pNE6sXOn7|< The walk was called The Way of the Blood, hence the red carpet for the bride and groom, signifying the covenant relationship they are entering into with each other. Then I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth; for the first Heaven and the first Earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. On account of sin there could be no covenant between man and God without blood. So covenant children are not taught to be individuals or autonomous or self-determining me-first types of people. So God inserted part of His Name into Abrams and Sarais names. Cookie Notice: This is God's word, may He add His blessing to it. Major Prophets Livingstone, the first great . And God had to honor the Covenant He had made with Israel centuries before through Abraham and so He came to the defense of His Blood brothers and He too helped Israel to defend the Gibeonites for Israels sake. Basis of the Covenant (1st Step) The Cutting of the (Innocent) Animals (2nd Step) Coat Exchange (3rd Step) Weapon Exchange (4th Step) 'Way' or 'Walk' of Blood (5th Step) Covenant Cut (6th Step) Name Exchange (7th Step) Covenant Feast (8th Step) Conclusion Footnotes top^ I. The last thing the Covenant Partners would do was to plant a tree. xX[s5,_>|iM BC``I3M{OO{tQg1N3V^`x:Dg'e,wG fwWp4x:)j!anySe*{B'0B)t}&nB#!Cx~6Ay@[c7At48.,Y[vLfP>">Dds>3ES,J t.[ddA`LTDJJ'$cIg!HB )\>W>1HSffPa{q *y7R/cGZ-KfYUH?CLJ}Z }Z|jO1j Sd\zCSOI(E A UO@Y_DU*[t!&UoZ=hU If someone attacks you, they also have me to deal with. 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