How can there be a new covenant when in gene:17:7 the covenant between God & Abraham was everlasting covenant

Question

In every language everlasting means forever am I right? Jesus/Yashu'a said I did not come to destroy the law,or the prophets: I am not come to destroy,but to fulfill Matthew 5:17.

Answer 1

Christians think that words in the Bible don't really mean what they say, they mean whatever a Christian wants them to mean. Thus, "everlasting" doesn't mean "forever," it means "for a really long time." And of course, Jesus never meant what he said or said what he meant--his words are always open to a wide variety of interpretations. So, when he said that he did NOT come to destroy the law, Christians say that he really meant that he DID come to destroy the law. They can never take the Bible at face value.

Answer 2

The old covenant was a shadow of the New Covenant.
Jesus said I came not to change the Law but to fulfill the law. The old covenant cannot be dissociated from the new, we cannot take one from the other. The old covenant is the root, the New Covenant is the fruit. In both Covenants everlasting life is offered to mankind by Christ who is the only mediator between God and man. The old covenant offer and prepared the promise the new covenant fulfilled and completed the promise; the old covenant is revealed in the new covenant;

Hebrews 8:6-10;
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
But finding fault with them he said, Behold the days come saith Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judea:

Not according to the covenant I made with their fathers in the days when I took them by the hand and lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not saith the Lord.

For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind; and write them in their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. And all shall know me from the least to the greatest.

The New Covenant was and is the better way through Christ Jesus for it is written in men's heart. (In their minds)
Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice whose blood out did the blood of animal sacrifiices that could not take away the sins of men for they where only temporary sacrifices that had to be done every year. But the blood of Jesus sealed the covenant of the old and new. That's why on the cross Jesus said "It is Finished." In other words He has completed it all. And to God be the Glory!

Answer 3

Yes, it's the same covenant realised. Long after Abraham died, the covenant that he would be the father of many nations is being realised. Through Jesus we now have children of Abraham, true children through faith from nations all around the world. It's amazing that God continues to keep his promise long after Abraham has passed on.

This new covenant is what the old covenant pointed to. The law showed us God's standard, and that we cannot reach it; grace thanks to Jesus means that the law's requirements are met and we fulfil the standard for heaven because Jesus paid the entry fee for us (a costly one at that). We only need to accept it and enter!

See the Old testament as a shadow of the New testament. All the symbolism and rituals they had, every word and story in the Old Testament, it all signified something and pointed towards the reality in Jesus. The laws and rituals were not the real thing, but people were being pointed to the real thing by them.

Anyone who is a child of faith is a chlid of Abraham. Read the book of Romans for a detailed read on this.

Answer 4

This is true. all covenants were not abolished by jesus. He made new covenant that extended beyond the Jews.

Abraham's covenant is everlasting, but that didn't stop God from making a covenant with Israel and then David later on.

Each covenent was meant for a purpose and built on the one previous

1st covenant) Adam - builds a covenant of marriage
2nd) Noah - builds a covenant of family
3) Abraham - builds a covenant of a people
4) Israel - covenant of a nation
5) David - covenant of a kingdom

Last) Jesus - covenant of a divine kingdom for all people

Jesus holds true and is typefied in each of these other covenants. Each progression would extend the reach of God's covenant with humans. Jesus was the fulfillment in the plan to reach the entire human race and make a covenant of divine kingship with Jesus Christ.

Answer 5

These scriptures are unconnected. I think you might be a little confused. You're talking about two separate and totally different matters that have nothing whatsoever to do with one another.

Genesis 17:7 addresses the Abrahamic covenant, which is everlasting.

Matthew 5:17 addresses the fulfillment of the Law of Moses (not Abraham).


The Abrahamic Covenant promised all kinds of good stuff to Abraham and his descendants forever.

The Law of Moses is a really long and exhaustive law given to ancient Israel regarding religious practices. Christians believe that Jesus Christ was the fulfillment of this law, and that he then established his gospel in its place. That's what he meant when he said he came not to destroy, but to fulfill.

I'm afraid your other answerers didn't actually look up the scriptures prior to answering. I hope this helps!

Answer 6

The covenant with Abraham – that he may be the daddy of many countries and the covenant would proceed by skill of Isaac, whom G-d defined as Abraham’s “purely son” even with Ishmael being Abraham’s son and the eldest. Abraham would prosper. Abraham replaced into to worship G-d and purely G-d. no longer G-d as a trinity nor different gods, which replaced into straightforward in the course of the international of that aspect. The signal of the covenant is the circumcision of all adult males in the Jewish faith (a symbolic blood drop if a circumcised male converts to Judaism). at the same time as a male toddler is circumcised, he's seen as having been extra into the covenant. further covenant, that the land in the middle East replaced into promised to Abraham and his descendants: “for your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt till the great river, the Euphrates river.”

Answer 7

The conditions of all of Gods covenants are simple; obey and live. But under the old covenant it required an animal saccrifice, and the law of God was written on tables of stone.

"But 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." (Jer 31:33)

Now God's law should be in our hearts.

BTW, Mat 5:17 is not making a reference t the law of Moses, it is talking of the law of God, the ten commandments.

The law of Moses involved the saccrificial system in which everything represented Jesus in some way. When Jesus died on the cross for us, there was no longer a need for animal saccrifices. However, we still need the law of God in our hearts.

"The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple." (Psa 19:7)

Answer 8

Matt.19:28[the 12 tribes of Isreael shall be judged on judgement day and returned to their own land Eze.37:12-14]; Matt.8:11[Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will be in the kingdom of Christ Jesus our Lord and savior];

Matt.22:37-40; Jesus tell us the great commandment. Rom.13:8-10; A;; adhere to it.

1Cor.15:22; As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

2Pet.3:13: Isa 65:17; 66:1,22; Rev.21:1-5; There will be the heavens and the earth made new as it was before Satan and Adam in Eden.

Answer 9

That's easy. The only difference between the Old and New Covenants was the method of ratification. The Old Covenenant was ratified with the blood of bulls and goats and the New Covenant was ratified with the blood of Christ. Therefore it follows that the Old and New Covenants are one and the same, the Abrahamic covenant. . . . i.e. Everlasting.

Mr. Answer . . . "Crush the head of the serpent."

Answer 10

you are right. Jesus came to FULFILL the covenant, not replace it.

Just because there is a NEW of something, doesn't mean you 1. get rid of the old or 2. that there is anything wrong or lacking in the old

When my 2nd child was born, he didn't replace my first! He was an addition, our family was greater with him, more love, more life.

The covenants exist together.