OUR FATHER WHO PROMISED A NEW AND BETTER COVENANT AND JESUS WAS THEFULFILLMENT OF THAT PROMISE

The book Hebrews chapter 8 verses 7 - 13 gives the scriptural basis for the obsolesence of the old covenant when the new eternal covenant was revealed.  Pointing to the book of Jeremiah chapter 31 verses 31 - 34, the writer demontrates that the scriptures, having prescribed the old covenant, directly mentions a new covenant that would displace the old covenant that God made with His people.  The children of Israel had broken the first covenant and as such, a new covenant of a new type that involved the transformation of the hearts of men and that would provide grace for the integration of the race of men into the family of God.

This new covenant was a better covenant that made the old covenant obsolete and so the children of children are alerted that it was coming and would overide the covenant made with their fathers.

7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8 Because finding fault with them, He says: “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— 9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. 

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

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.

Amen.

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