Jeremiah 31:31-33 "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah-- "not according to the
covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand
to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I
was a husband to them, says the LORD. "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 minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they
shall be My people.
Matt 26:28 "For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the
remission of sins.
Heb 8:13 In that He says, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. Now what
is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
- The Lord made a clear promise in the Old Testament of a New Covenant
(Testament).
- When he says "the days are coming" it refers to the day of the Lord and when
he says "after those days" he is speaking of the end of days.
- Jeremiah was known as "the weeping prophet" and was comforted with this
promise.
- The old covenant was written on stone, the new one is written on the heart.
- The Lord reveals that the New Covenant would be for the house of Israel and
Judah, not like the old covenant but "after those days" He would write the Law
inside them.
- The writer of Hebrews reveals that this Scripture in Jeremiah is pointing to
the new covenant that was poured out upon the Church at Pentecost, and also
upon the nation of Israel during the time of the Second Coming of Christ and of
the Millennium.
- The Jews celebrated the pouring out of the Holy Spirit during the kingdom
during the feast of Tabernacles on the "great day" when they poured water on the
Temple pavement.
- Hebrew 8-10 speak in detail of the old covenant laws and rituals that were
passing away.
- In the old covenant when the law was broken there was a sacrifice that would
be given on behalf of the guilty sinner, under the new covenant the one
sacrifice, Jesus, cleanses all men of all sins to those who put their trust in Him.
- Under the old covenant the law was a curse, and its power was death. Under
the new covenant the law is written on the inside and the power of sin and death
are broken.
Shahar - Jeremiah 31:31-33 - Audio (right click and choose "save target as")