Originally posted by Ironside:But note this. The new covenanat is exactly the same as the old. It is where the covenant is written that is different.
Heb 8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
Heb 8:8 Because finding fault with them, He says: "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant [b]with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah--
Heb 8:9 "not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD.
Heb 8:10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people
Heb 8:13 In that He says, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.<----------it did vanish away years later when God allowed the Temple which the Old Covenant was so closely related to be destroyed.
Those verses above will be fulfilled when Christ returns to reign for a thousand years. All the glorious prophecies concerning Israel will be fulfilled to the letter when the Glorified KIng comes.
Ro 9:4 who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises;
In the sovereign plan of God, in the interim period, God has called out a people for His name to constitute the body of Christ--- the Church<---------they are now the beneficiaries of the spiritual blessings of that New Covenant.
When the fullness of the Gentiles has come in to constitute the Chuch, teh Savior will come and saved Israel:
Ro 11:25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
Ro 11:26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
Ro 11:27 For this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins."
Remember: the only covenant delineated in the Bible that has a remission of sins clause in it is the New Covenant. It was ratified at Christ's death, it will be enacted at His Coming in the Melinium.
NOte: The blood of Christ shed on the cross is not the New Covenant. It was the blood necesarry to ratify thta New covenant.
Mt 26:28 "For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
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I'm not sure whether this is splitting hairs or what.Originally posted by Ironside:The Old Testament word for "atone" with regards to the blood of animale sacrifices means to "COVER" not "TAKE AWAY".
It does not take away sins. It covers sins on credit for the future sacrifice of Christ but it does not take away sins. The Lamb of God when He came takes it away.