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The document outlines five key biblical covenants: 1) The Noahic Covenant promised to preserve humanity and restrain evil after the flood. 2) The Abrahamic Covenant promised Abraham land, descendants, and blessing that would extend to all peoples. 3) The Mosaic Covenant established Law for Israel at Mt. Sinai and defined blessings and curses for obedience. 4) The Davidic Covenant promised a descendant of David to reign as king over God's people. 5) The New Covenant, promised in Jeremiah, was inaugurated by Jesus and brought forgiveness of sins and renewal of hearts. These covenants provide context for understanding God's promises and their fulfillment

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CE Covenant

The document outlines five key biblical covenants: 1) The Noahic Covenant promised to preserve humanity and restrain evil after the flood. 2) The Abrahamic Covenant promised Abraham land, descendants, and blessing that would extend to all peoples. 3) The Mosaic Covenant established Law for Israel at Mt. Sinai and defined blessings and curses for obedience. 4) The Davidic Covenant promised a descendant of David to reign as king over God's people. 5) The New Covenant, promised in Jeremiah, was inaugurated by Jesus and brought forgiveness of sins and renewal of hearts. These covenants provide context for understanding God's promises and their fulfillment

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The Biblical Covenants

There are several covenants in the Bible, but five covenants are
crucial for understanding the story of the Bible and God’s redemptive
plan: the Noahic Covenant, the Abrahamic Covenant, The Mosaic
Covenant, the Davidic Covenant and the New Covenant.

The Noahic Covenant


From Genesis 9, this is a covenant God establishes with Noah after
the flood in which he resets and renews the blessings of creation,
reaffirming God’s image in humanity and the work of dominion. This
covenant promises the preservation of humanity and provides for the
restraint of human evil and violence.

The Abrahamic Covenant


See Genesis 12 and 15. This is the most central to the biblical story.
In it, God promises Abraham a land, descendants and blessing. This
blessing promised to Abraham would extend through him to all the
peoples of the earth. Understanding the Abrahamic Covenant is
paramount to understanding theological concepts like a Promised
Land, election, the people of God, inheritance and so on. It provides
context for understanding practices like circumcision, conflicts with
surrounding nations and divisions between Jews and Gentiles.

The Mosaic Covenant


See Exodus 19 and 24. This is the covenant God establishes with
the people of Israel at Mt. Sinai after he led them out of Egyptian
slavery. With it, God supplies the Law that is meant to govern and
shape the people of Israel in the Promised Land. This Law was not a
means of salvation but would distinguish the people from the
surrounding nations as a special kingdom of priests (Exodus 19:1-7).
This covenant was conditional and defined blessings and curses
based on obedience or disobedience (see Deuteronomy 28-29).
Understanding the Mosaic Covenant is foundational to understanding
the cycles of blessing and curse in the Old Testament, the exiles of
Israel and Judah, the disputes between Jesus and the
Pharisees and Paul’s pastoral teachings about law and grace.

The Davidic Covenant


See 2 Samuel 7. This is the covenant where God promises a
descendant of David to reign on the throne over the people of God. It
is a continuation of the earlier covenants in that it promises a
Davidic king as the figure through whom God would secure the
promises of land, descendants, and blessing. This covenant
becomes the basis for hope of a Messiah and makes sense of the
Gospels’ concern to show Jesus was the rightful King of the Jews.

The New Covenant


See Jeremiah 31:31-34 and Luke 22:14-23. This is language first
used in Jeremiah’s promise of rescue and renewal of the exiled
people of God in Babylon. It promises a coming day when God would
make a new covenant unlike the one which Israel had broken. This
coming day would bring forgiveness of sin, internal renewal of the
heart, and intimate knowledge of God. On the night of Jesus’s Last
Supper, Jesus takes the cup and declares that his death would be
the inauguration of this new covenant.

These five covenants provide the skeletal framework and context for
practically every page of the Bible. They are fundamental to
understanding the Bible rightly. The Old Testament covenants
establish promises that look forward to fulfillment. Much of the New
Testament is concerned to show how Jesus Christ fulfills these
covenant promises and what life should look like for a people living
in the New Covenant inaugurated by his death and resurrection.

Hopefully, this brief explanation of the biblical covenants will be a


starting point to help you move toward greater understanding of the
Bible as it did for me.

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