July 29, 2025 4:00 am
The book of Hebrews emphasizes the significance of God's everlasting covenant, which is also called the New Testament or better covenant. This covenant is mediated by Christ, who has been raised from the dead to make intercession for those who come to God through him. The inheritance promised by this covenant is eternal, as it is based on the infinitely precious blood of Christ.
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Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. The Everlasting Covenant.
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant. Hebrews thirteen twenty.
Okay. This is the only verse in the book of Hebrews that refers specifically to Christ's resurrection from the dead. It occurs at the climactic conclusion of the book, which had previously referred at least 17 times to the atoning death of Christ and is associated with God's everlasting covenant with his people. The covenant theme is strong in Hebrews. The Greek word diave, which is also frequently translated testament, occurs more in Hebrews than in all the rest of the New Testament or the New Covenant put together.
The word basically means a contract, especially one for disposition of an inheritance. A number of God's divine covenants are mentioned in Scripture, but the writer of Hebrews is especially concerned with God's new covenant or New Testament. It is surely the most significant of all covenants. This new covenant is also called a better covenant. It is best defined in Hebrews 8, 10 through 12, quoting Jeremiah 31, 33 through 34.
I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. Christ is the mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the First Testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Hebrews 9:15. The inheritance is eternal because the covenant is everlasting. The blood of the covenant is the infinitely precious blood of Christ, whom God has raised from the dead, and now he ever liveth to make intercession for all those who come unto God by him.
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