Covenants

¹⁸But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.(KJV)

⁹And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

¹⁰And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

¹¹And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

¹²And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

¹³I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

¹⁴And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

¹⁵And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

¹⁶And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

¹⁷And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.(KJV)

¹⁷And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

¹⁸In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: (KJV)

²And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.(KJV)

³And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.

⁴And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.(KJV)

⁷And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.

⁸And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.(KJV)

²⁷And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

²⁸And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.(KJV)

²⁰And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:(KJV)

¹³And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.(KJV)

¹⁹All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.

²⁰And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

²¹And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.(KJV)

¹²Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:(KJV)

¹³"And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel." (KJV)

⁹When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:(KJV)

¹¹And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. (KJV)

²And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.(KJV)

¹"And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you." (KJV)

¹Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee. (KJV)

⁹There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. (KJV)

¹⁰And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. (KJV)

³⁴And Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away. (KJV)

⁴'The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.' (KJV)

⁵'The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.' (KJV)

'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: '(KJV)

'³²"Not 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: '(KJV)

'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. '(KJV)

'³⁴And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. (KJV)

⁴⁰"And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me." (KJV)

¹⁸"For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel; " (KJV)

²⁰"Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;" (KJV)

²¹"Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers." (KJV)

'⁵They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten. '(KJV)

'⁶⁰Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.'(KJV)

'⁶¹Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.'(KJV)

'⁶²And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:'(KJV)

'²⁶Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.'(KJV)

"²⁴And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD." (KJV)

⁷'But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.' (KJV)

⁷'But like Adam they transgressed the covenant. There they acted treacherously against Me.' (The ISR Scriptures)

⁷'But like Ahdahm they have transgressed the brit: there have they dealt treacherously against Me.' (The Restoration Scriptures)

¹"Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law." (KJV)

²"Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee." (The ISR Scriptures)

³"Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him." (The Restoration Scriptures)

⁴"They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off." (The Restoration Scriptures)

⁴They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.(The Restoration Scriptures)

'³⁴My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.' (KJV)

⁵'He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.' (KJV)

⁹'He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.' (KJV)

⁵"Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?" (KJV)

³⁴'Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: '

'²⁸For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. '

"⁴⁹For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt." (KJV)

⁸"And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs."

I think a closer look at the book of Hebrews chapter 8 is appropriate. While verses 6 & 7 can appear to be placing the fault on the covenant, verse 8 makes it crystal clear where the fault lies. The FAULT in the first covenant was THEM and NOT the covenant.

The Berean - Hebrews 8

A covenant such as our Heavenly Father made with man is permanent and everlasting. Everything God Almighty does is perfect. WE are the ones that disobeyed HIS instructions, there was/is nothing wrong with the Word of God Almighty.

In many regards, a covenant is very much like a modern business contract.

If I have a permanent contract with someone I could decide to add an annual performance bonus to the lifelong contract. I would draft a NEW contract with the bonus language added in and then ask the partner or partners of the contract to see and approve. Once approved we would have a NEW contract and the OLD contract would be done away with and no longer legally binding. Even though they are the same in every way but the performance bonus, the contract would be considered legally NEW and does away with the OLD contract that is the same in every other regard.

The same would be true if I were to remove a penalty clause. If I were to remove the $25 fee for overdraft checks received, I would draft up an identical contract with the service fee removed. If the contract is approved by all parties the NEW contract will have done away with the OLD contract even though they are the same except for one sentence.

The 'bonus clauses' that God Almighty added and the 'penalty clauses' HE removed are clearly delineated in the Scriptures. Near as I can tell, all the rest is pretty much the same.

"Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law." - 1 John 3:4

¹⁶This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;(KJV)

²⁰'Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,' (KJV)

¹²'And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.'

¹³'Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:'

¹⁴'That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.'

¹⁵'Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.'

¹⁶'Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.'

¹⁷'And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.'

¹⁸'For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.'

¹⁹'Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.'

"⁶Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man." (KJV)