And in the Davidic covenant, God makes a covenant with David. In 2 Samuel 7 you have the Davidic covenant. Then you have the Davidic covenant in there. And so that law becomes a school master as Galatians 3 says, to shut us up until faith in Messiah comes, until faith in Jeshua, until faith in Jesus the Christ, the Messiah comes. Blessings and cursings, you obey you get blessed, you disobey you get cursed, you get judgment.

God walks through the pieces, Abraham doesn't. That covenant is a covenant that has to be kept on both sides. Then Galatians says 430 years later, he makes another covenant. You can think of like an eight where there's no end. And then God came down in a smoking oven and a flaming torch and he passed between the pieces. And he says, 'You know one born in my house, my servant, could be like a son he could be my heir.' God says, 'No, come here.' And he takes him out and he says, 'Count the stars if you are able.' And he says, 'So shall your seed be.' Singular, not plural.Ībraham says, 'How am I going to know?' And he says, 'You get these animals, you bring them, you kill them, you cut them in half, you lay them each opposite one another. Well if you're going to make of him a great nation, he has to have a child. And this is where God has told Abraham in Genesis 12, that he's going to make of him a great nation. The first time that you actually see the cutting of covenant is in Genesis 15. But you go through the whole bible and you see that he made a covenant, Abraham made a covenant, others made covenants. So you go through the whole bible which I've done because I've written a book on covenant and the covenants. And it is made by passing through pieces of flesh. Now, what is a covenant?Ī covenant is a solemn binding agreement. So he is the God of covenants, he is the sovereign administrator of covenants. And when you take the bible, it's divided into two parts, the Old Testament or the Old Covenant and the New Testament or the New Covenant. God does all of these things.Įverything that God does is based on covenant. In this covenant, God promises to make Abraham a great nation (Israel), give him the Promised Land, and make Abraham’s name great. That means God takes on the covenant twofold, including the curses involved if he doesn’t uphold his end of the deal. And interestingly enough, God puts Abraham in a deep sleep and passes through the pieces by himself. This involves slicing animals in half ( Genesis 12). Second, we see a covenant between God and Abraham. He also instructs Noah, as He had with Adam and Eve, to be fruitful and multiply. He also gives all of creation into mankind’s hands to subdue. He sets a rainbow in the sky and promises never to flood the whole world again. In Genesis 9, God makes a promise to all of Creation. Arguably, there are more than what’s listed below, but most scholars agree on these four main covenants throughout Scripture.įirst, Noah receives a covenant after God sent a worldwide Flood. We find several covenants in the Bible, most between God and a group or individual.

( Genesis 21:31) A sign or witness of the covenant was sometimes framed, such as a gift ( Genesis 21:30) or a pillar or heap of stones erected. In making such a covenant, God was solemnly invoked as a witness ( Genesis 31:50), and an oath was sworn. Covenant between man and man, i.e., a solemn compact or agreement, either between tribes or nations ( Joshua 9:6 Joshua 9:15 1 Samuel 11:1) or between individuals ( Genesis 31:44) by which each party bound himself to fulfill certain conditions and was assured of receiving certain advantages. The second is called the New Covenant, or New Testament.Ģ. The first is called the Old Covenant, from which we name the first part of the bible the Old Testament, the Latin rendering of the word covenant. The principal covenants are the covenant of works -God promising to save and bless men on condition of perfect obedience -and the covenant of grace, or God's promise to save men on condition of their believing in Christ and receiving him as their Master and Saviour. It is not precisely like a covenant between men but was a promise or agreement by God. Of a covenant between God and man e.g., God covenanted with Noah after the flood that a like judgment should not be repeated.

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