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Psalm 119:89
⁸⁹For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

In 1999 I first traveled to Israel and came to more fully understand that our creator is not double-minded.  How could there be any contradiction between the “old” testament and the “new?”

In Malachi 3:6 Yahweh declares his unchanging nature

⁶For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

In Hebrews 13:8 Paul affirms the same about Yeshua

⁸Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

What then is this “new” covenant?  We can often learn a great deal by simply looking to the bible and finding where the word, or in this case phrase, is first used.

Jeremiah 31:31-33

³¹Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

 ³²Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

 ³³But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

 At this point, the only thing that appears to be “new” is the intimacy of writing his law on their “inward parts” and in their “hearts.” (Know ye not that ye are the temple of God… 1^st Cor:3:16) rather than on tables of stone in the inward parts of the tabernacle.

David prophesied about Yeshua in Psalms 40:7,8

⁷Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

 ⁸I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

 We know from 1^st Samuel 13:14 that Yahweh chose David, a man after his own heart, to replace Saul because Saul had not kept that which Yahweh commanded.

¹⁴But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.

And David delighted in the law

Psalm 119:92
⁹²Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

And he loved the law and meditated upon it all the day

Psalm 119:97
⁹⁷O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. 

At this point it certainly doesn’t seem like the “new” covenant is doing away with the law. Could the real “new” part be the blood Yeshua shed?

Mark 14:24

²⁴And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.

Possibly, but take a look at Revelation 13:8

⁸And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Even the amazing wonder of Yeshua’s shed blood doesn’t seem so “new.”

I think we are going to have to take a look at the word “new.”

The word “new” in Jeremiah is the same contextually as the word “new” that is used in verses that talk about the “new” moon.  Obviously the moon is not destroyed monthly and replaced.  It’s meaning is to be renewed and fresh, as used in

1^st Samuel 11:14

¹⁴Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.

Therefore the “new” covenant is really the perpetual covenant between an unchangeable creator and his creatures.  As the wisest man on earth so artfully observed in Ecclesiastes 1:9

⁹The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

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