Saturday, October 12th, 2024.
Next weekend (Oct 19-20th) is our Ambassadors Seminar about New Covenant Confusion.
https://graceambassadors.com/seminar24
One reason New Covenant confusion exists is because the covenant parties stated by God are either ignored or changed.
A covenant is a legal agreement between parties. It is important to get the parties correct, or else the words of the covenant are not valid. So, who are the stated parties to the New Covenant?
The Scriptures could not be clearer about this:
“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:” – Jeremiah 31:31 and Hebrews 8:8
Four times in the Bible it is stated that the LORD makes the New Covenant with “the house of Israel” (Jer 31:31; Jer 31:33; Heb 8:8; Heb 8:10).
The New Covenant is called the second because it is made with the same people whose fathers were delivered from Egypt that were party to the first: Israel (Heb 8:9).
Nowhere does the Bible claim that the New Covenant is made with Gentiles.
John Darby was correct in saying, “The first covenant was made with Israel; the second must be so likewise” (Synopsis of the Bible, Hebrews 8).
Dispensationalist Sir Robert Anderson concluded, “Scripture knows nothing of a covenant with Gentiles” (Types in Hebrews).
Since the covenant is with Jews and not Gentiles, it would be doubly wrong to think that the New Covenant is made with the church, the Body of Christ, where there is “neither Jew nor Greek” (Col 3:11).
Gentiles can benefit tremendously from what God has agreed to do with Israel (see Rev 21:24), but the New Covenant was never made with Gentiles.
The covenants belong to Israel and will all be fulfilled by God with them (Rom 9:4; Rom 11:27). Learn more about this subject at our seminar next week. See you there!
For Your Edification,
Justin “not my party” Johnson