Tuesday, June 23, 2015

The Inseparable Covenants

Why are the Original Covenant (Tanach aka The Old Testament) and Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament) inseparable from each other?

The key to understanding why these two covenants are inseparable comes from understanding the purposes for which the two covenants was written.

Moses began writing the Original Covenant to preserve the entire record of events leading up the the covenant that the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) made with the descendants of Israel in the wilderness (Exodus 24:6-8).  The Original Covenant was first written so that the descendants of Abraham (Abram) could love the Father of Truth with all their being by obeying what was written in it (Deuteronomy 30:10-14).  The Original Covenant was first written so the Father of Truth could bring upon the descendents of Israel all that He had promised to Abraham, Isaac (Yitzakh) and Jacob (Ya'acob aka Israel) (Deuteronomy 30:15-20).

After Moses, at various times, other Prophets of Truth, starting with Joshua, wrote the rest of the Original Covenant to record the efforts of the Father of Truth to bring about all that He promised and the refusal of the descendants of Israel to keep the covenant that their ancestors made in the wilderness so He could bring it to pass at that time (Joshua 24:19-26).  These events continued to be recorded in the Original Covenant by the Prophets of Truth to show the efforts of the Father of Truth to do good to the descendants of Israel and the refusal of the descendents of Israel to keep the covenant made through Moses until it was certain that the descendents of Israel would be completely cast out of the Promised Land for refusing to do what they had agreed to do (2 Chronicles 34:19-25).  These events continued to be recorded in the Original Covenant by the Prophets of Truth until after the descendants of Israel were once again back in the Promised Land so they could have the joy that came from knowing that the Father of Truth would bring about all that He promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob one day - despite their unfaithfulness that had caused them to be previously cast out of the Promised Land (Nehemiah 8:9-12).  So after the descendant of Israel returned to the Promised Land then the Original Covenant contained the entire history of the efforts of the Father of Truth to bring about what He had promised Abraham from the time of the creation of the world to the return of the descendants of Israel to the Promised Land (Nehemiah 9:6-37).

However, the Original Covenant did not just record the efforts of the Father of Truth to bring upon the descendants of Israel all that He had promised Abraham up to the time of their return to the Promised Land but it also laid out a road map of how the Father of Truth would bring about all that He had promised to Abraham long after that time.

In the covenant that came through Moses there was promised that another Prophet of Truth like unto Moses would come so that the descendants of Israel could be perfect before the Father of Truth (Deuteronomy 18:13-15).  This Prophet of Truth would be given to the descendants of Israel as they asked (Deuteronomy 18:16-17).  This Prophet of Truth would speak only what the Father of Truth told him to say so that anyone who did not do what he said to do would have to answer to the Father of Truth (Deuteronomy 18:18-19).

The Father of Truth revealed that the day would come when He would bring the descendants of Israel back to the Promised Land and circumcise their hearts so they could keep His commandments in order to fulfill all that He had promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Deuteronomy 30:4-6).  He then spoke through the Prophets of Truth in the Original Covenant that He was going to make the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament) with the descendants of Israel where He would write His Laws on their hearts so they could keep those commandments and live in the Promised Land as He had promised to Abraham (Jeremiah 31:31-33).

The Father of Truth revealed in the Original Covenant that the Prophet of Truth like Moses would redeem the descendants of Israel through this Renewed Covenant by putting the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) in them (Isaiah 59:20-21).  The Father of Truth revealed through the Prophets of Truth that He was going to put the Spirit of Truth in them so they could keep His commandments to fulfill the covenant that came through Moses (Ezekiel 11:19-20).  The Father of Truth revealed that He was going to put the Spirit of Truth within them to make them able to obey Him so that He could fulfill the promises He gave to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob for the descendants of Israel to live forever in the Promised Land (Ezekiel 36:26-28).

So about four hundred years after the last page of the Original Covenant had been written by the Prophets of Truth, the Father of Truth sent the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) to Israel to begin putting into motion the plan to fulfill His promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that the Prophets of Truth had written about in the Original Covenant (Luke 1:68-75).  After the Man of Truth had died for the sins of Israel and rose again to bring out cleansing from sin, then he said that he would send the Spirit of Truth as the Father of Truth had promised in the Original Covenant (Luke 24:46-49).  The Man of Truth was that Prophet of Truth who Moses said that people must listen to and who the Prophets of Truth said was coming throughout the Original Covenant (Acts 3:22-24).  The Man of Truth was raised from the dead to confirm that the Father of Truth would cause the descendants of Israel to live in the Promised Land forever as He had promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Acts 13:31-33).

The Spirit of Truth was given as the means for the Father of Truth to circumcise the hearts of the descendants of Israel as He had promised in the Original Covenant (Romans 2:28-29).  The Man of Truth was the minister of the circumcision of the heart to confirm that the promises given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob concerning the descendants of Israel would be fulfilled (Romans 15:8).  The Man of Truth used the Spirit of Truth to write the words that He received from His Father on their hearts as promised in the Original Covenant (2 Corinthians 3:3).

The Man of Truth is the mediator of a better covenant than the one mediated by Moses (Hebrews 8:5-6).  The Original Covenant had to be replaced with the Renewed Covenant because the descendants of Israel were at fault for not keeping the Original Covenant even though the Father of Truth had lead them by the hand (Hebrews 8:7-9).  In this Renewed Covenant, that had been written about in the Original Covenant, the Father of Truth wrote the same laws that were in Original Covenant upon their hearts so that all of them could be cleansed from sin and know Him (Hebrews 8:10-12).  This Renewed Covenant is the plan of the Father of Truth to bring about all that He promised to Abraham by writing His laws on their hearts so they can keep those laws (Hebrews 10:15-17).  This Renewed Covenant can do what the Original Covenant could not do because is mediated by the Man of Truth who is greater than Moses (Hebrews 12:18-24).

In the Renewed Covenant, the Man of Truth did not come to do away with what was promised and required in the Original Covenant, but rather came to bring about the fulfillment of everything promised and required in the Original Covenant by making it possible for people to do everything required in the Original Covenant so that everything promised could come to pass (Matthew 5:17-19).  The plan to bring the descendants of Israel into all that the Father of Truth had promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that began with the arrival of the Man of Truth, will be completed when all of Israel accepts the Man of Truth as their deliverer (Romans 11:25-27).

The Renewed Covenant in no manner changed The Unchanging Law that existed before Moses was given its commandments on Mount Sinai.  The Renewed Covenant is a continuation of the Original Covenant because the Man of Truth is first and foremost the Messiah of Israel.

The Apostles of Truth recorded in the Renewed Covenant the work of the Father of Truth to put into motion the plan that the Prophets of Truth had recorded in the Original Covenant which centered on the Man of Truth (Ephesians 2:20).  The Apostles of Truth understood that they were recording these actions and the rest of the details of the plan in the Renewed Covenant just like the Prophets of Truth had recorded the plan in the Original Covenant (2 Peter 3:13-16).  The Renewed Covenant told the end of the story that was began in the Original Covenant (Revelation 22:18-20).

The Original Covenant did not just contain a covenant given through Moses to the descendants of Israel to fulfill the promises given to Abraham concerning them but it also contains promises given for the entire human race.  About two thousand years before Abraham was born, the Father of Truth had already made a promise to Eve that a Deliverer for the entire human race would come from her (Genesis 3:13-15).  So the very first promise that the Father of Truth made to Abraham was that the entire human race would be blessed through the Seed that would come from him (Genesis 12:1-3).  The Father of Truth promised to save the entire human race through the Seed of Jacob when He promised to give the descendants of Israel the Promised Land (Genesis 28:13-15).  The Father of Truth even made provision in the covenant that came through Moses for those whose ancestors were not even at Mount Sinai because that covenant was part of the plan to bring about all that had been promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Deuteronomy 29:12-15).  The Prophets of Truth said that the the Gentiles would seek after the Root of Jesse (Isaiah 11:10).  The Prophets of Truth said that this Deliverer would bring judgment to the Gentiles (Isaiah 42:1-3).  The Prophets of Truth said that this Deliver would bring light to the Gentiles through the covenant that he would mediate with Israel (Isaiah 42:4-6).  The Prophets of Truth said that even though most of the descendants of Israel would initially reject the Holy One of Israel that it did not matter because his work of salvation was too great to save just Israel but was intended to save the entire human race (Isaiah 49:4-7).  The Prophets of Truth said that this Savior would cause the Gentiles to abandon idolatry and seek after the Father of Truth instead (Jeremiah 16:19).  The Prophets of Truth said that this Savior would make the name of the Father of Truth great among the Gentiles who had not known Him (Malachi 1:11).

The Renewed Covenant tells of how the Man of Truth came fulfill what was written concerning the Savior of the Gentiles that the Prophets of Truth had said would come in the Original Covenant (Matthew 12:17-21).  The Apostles of Truth recorded how this Savior came to be a light to the Gentiles as well as the glory of the descendants of Israel (Luke 2:30-32).  They recorded that even the Pharisees, who the Rabbis came from, understood that the mission of this Savior included teaching the Gentiles how to walk in the ways of the Father of Truth (John 7:32-35).  The Apostles of Truth declared that the Man of Truth had came to bring the Gentiles out of darkness as the Prophets of Truth had said he would so they could be saved (Acts 13:47).  Their message in the Renewed Covenant that the Man of Truth was the Savior of the Gentiles agreed with what the Prophets of Truth had written in the Original Covenant (Acts 15:15-17).  They recorded that the Man of Truth was the Root of Jesse that the Gentiles sought after (Romans 15:9-12).  They recorded how the Man of Truth caused the Gentiles to be turned from serving idols to seek after the Father of Truth as foretold by the Prophets of Truth (1 Thessalonians 1:8-10).  They recorded that the Gentiles were blessed through the Man of Truth just as the Father of Truth had promised Abraham (Galatians 3:7-9).  They recorded that the Gentiles were blessed and receive the Spirit of Truth as proof that the Father of Truth was fulfilling this promise to Abraham through the Seed of Abraham, the Man of Truth (Galatians 3:14).

So the Renewed Covenant records how the Father of Truth brought about everything He promised concerning the Gentiles in the Original Covenant.  It had always been part of the plan laid out in the Original Covenant to save the Gentiles as well as the Jews as shown in the Renewed Covenant because it has always been about the Gentiles.

So the Book of Truth (The Bible) that is composed of the Original Covenant that Moses started writing and ends with Renewed Covenant that John the Jew (Yochanon ben Zebedee aka The Apostle John) finished writing.  The Book of Truth starts with the story of the fall of the human race that caused it to lose the Tree of Life (Genesis 3:22-24).  The Book of Truth ends with the story of the restoration of the human race that will cause it to regain the Tree of Life (Revelation 22:12-14).

So the Book of Truth contains the entire story of the plan of the Father of Truth to save the human race through the Man of Truth.  This story revolves around The Eternal Covenant that the Father of Truth made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to give the Promised Land to the descendants of Israel and to bring about the salvation of the Gentiles.  Without the Original Covenant there is no record of this plan and there is no promise of the Renewed Covenant.  Without the Renewed Covenant there is no record of the only means to fulfill this plan and the promises of the Original Covenant can never be fulfilled.  So these two covenants are inseparable because they work with each other to bring about everything that the Father of Truth has promised just like it takes both a man and a woman to bring about a baby.  The Book of Truth is simply incomplete without both of the inseparable covenants.

So there is no other means to come into the House of Truth other than the Man of Truth who is the subject of the inseparable covenants (Acts 4:10-12).  You must surrender everything to the Man of Truth to come into the House of Truth because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead as told in both of the inseparable covenants (Romans 10:9).  You must surrender to the Man of Truth to come into the House of Truth because he remains the same throughout the inseparable covenants and will never change (Hebrews 13:8).

Come into the House of Truth!

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