BP: The Seven Covenants of Jehovah/Yeshua

Thoughts on Davidic Kingship.​

This week we’ll continue in our discussion of a Fullness of Knowledge and look at the Seven Covenants of Jehovah/Yeshua. Covenants define the type of relationship a person can have with God, which set out the terms or the rights and responsibilities of that relationship.  In the Bible, some covenants are obvious and well defined like the Abrahamic covenant.  While others are not and require inspiration from the Spirit to realize.  Moreover, when we look at the whole of the Bible, God has revealed a complete and unified covenant theology, which we will see that follows the rule of seven.  Then we see how these seven covenants correlate to the Theme of Threes.

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​The Process of Perfection
Our Process of Perfection looks like this:

                                                                     Individual Salvation
                                                                             Born Again
​            ​                                           (Redemption / Sanctification)
     Born of the Blood / Born of the Water > Keeps the Commandments > Born of God/Spirit

                                                                       Married Exaltation
                                                                    Going Onto Perfection
                       Becoming Perfect > Reaches the Full Stature of Messiah > Sees God the Son

Covenant Theology
Covenants define the type of relationship we have with God and a system of covenants form a covenant theology. All kinds of schemes have been suggested by religionists to explain the covenant theology that God has revealed in the Bible. When I was younger, I was taught that there is a “baptismal covenant”, which now I know that baptism is not a covenant, but a ceremonial washing that symbolizes a person changing their life. In the Torah, Jehovah revealed to Israel a well defined collective covenant  that created a nation under God and covenant people, but in the Christian faith of my youth a collective covenant for a community of believers was not clear or well defined. I was also taught that exaltation included being married but as important it lacked the correct principal concepts of perfection, reaching the full stature of the Messiah and a connection with the Davidic covenant.  Without looking at the whole of the Bible and receiving knowledge from the Spirit, God’s covenant theology is incomplete and imperfect.


Biblical Covenants
When we look at the whole of the Bible, we see a few covenants that are well defined, understood and identifiable.  Those covenants include: the Abrahamic, Sinai (collective), Davidic and Messianic covenants. But these four covenants don’t provide us with a complete biblical covenant theology, because as we have seen it does not satisfy the rule of seven signifying a state of completion.​

Biblical Covenants

Messianic

Abrahamic

Sinai (Mosaic) (collective)

Davidic

Growing in Truth and Spirit
When we live these four covenants and their covenant laws, which are His truth, we receive  a portion of God’s Spirit. To receive a fullness of God’s covenants that fulfill the rule of seven, we have to receive inspiration/revelation through God’s Spirit. ​

Our Four Covenants  >>

Truth Received through the Spirit >>

Seven Covenants

And by living more of God’s covenants and commandments, we receive more of His Spirit.


Seven Covenants
So what are these three other covenants?  When God renewed His relationship with Israel, He employed the Threshold Covenant with Israel that we see in the Passover/Pesach.  Passover is much more than remembering Israel’s release from bondage.  It is Israel coming out of apostasy and renewing her relationship with Jehovah with the father of each household applying symbolically the blood of Israel’s Savior-God to their thresholds.

Moreover, the action of each father of each household sacrificing an unblemished male lamb at the Passover is essentially a priesthood function, which is the same priesthood that we see in the Book of Genesis with Melchizedek.  But up to this point the function of the priesthood is not well defined. So a Priesthood Covenant is also missing from our list.

Our last and final covenant is related to the Apostle Peter’s power to Seal - Matt. 18:18. As the Head Apostle, Yeshua gave Peter this power to seal on earth, which would be sealed in Heaven.  Closely allied with the sealing power is Israel’s tabernacle/temple because the tabernacle/temple is a model of Heaven.  We might call this power to seal the Enochic Covenant because Enoch is the first person we see in the Bible that was taken to Heaven, who was bound with Heaven.  We’ll look at this more in detail later.

Now our summary looks like this:​

Biblical Covenants

Messianic

Abrahamic

-

-

Sinai

Davidi

-

Inspiration/Revelation from the Spirit.

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Seven Covenants

Messianic

Abrahamic

Threshold

Priesthood

Sinai

Davidic

Enochic

Messianic
This is the most well known covenant in the Bible - the Messianic Covenant. The Messianic Covenant is Yeshua’s redemption of Humanity from the Fall of Adam and Eve. Those who accept Yeshua as the Savior of Humanity are redeemed from Universal Sin. The Covenant Sign are the nail prints in Yeshua’s hands and feet.


Abrahamic
Another easily identifiable biblical covenant is the Abrahamic covenant.  Because of Abraham’s righteousness, his posterity would receive God’s covenants, His Law and through Abraham would the Redeemer of Humanity come, which would bless the nations of the earth. Those so covenanted are known as God’s Chosen People and the Covenant Sign is Circumcision.


Threshold
We have already introduced this covenant above.  Anciently, the door threshold is where the father of the household would enter into a compact with the deity who he recognized as his god, which symbolized the coming together of two sovereigns - the father as king over his home and family and Jehovah as the king over the whole world.  We saw that the covenant blessing was Israel’s salvation from their bondage to Egypt.  Today, we can post the Name of God to our doors as the Covenant Sign.


Priesthood
We also saw at Passover that the fathers of each home sacrificed an unblemished male lamb which represented Israel’s Savior God and which also represented a priesthood function.  Before Israel’s sin with the Golden Calf, each father in Israel was a priest to their families, which was the Melchizedek priesthood that we see in the Book of Genesis.  God revoked the Melchizedek priesthood from Israel and set in its place the Levitical priesthood and gave Israel the system of sacrifices.  Under Yeshua, the Melchizedek priesthood was restored to fathers with the firstborn to be dedicated for temple service.  Moreover, we can see elements in the Levitical priesthood that define functions for the Melchizedek priesthood - keeping oneself pure, teaching the law, being accountable for the sin of others and administering ordinances.  The covenant blessings are life and peace and the Covenant Sign is the Altar.

Some may wonder what happened to the Levitical priesthood.  The Levitical priesthood will continue to be administered by Religious Jews until the return of the Messiah, which will usher in the Millennium and cease the slaughtering of animals.


Sinai
The Sinai covenant is also easily identifiable.  It might also be called the Mosaic Covenant, which is a collective covenant to be lived by a community. The covenant blessings are an inheritance of land, posterity, and protection.  The Covenant Sign is the Sabbath.  In eternity, these live in the presence of the Son.


Davidic
The Davidic Covenant is also an easily identifiable covenant. Its functions include: Establishing God’s law, administering judgment, and executing judgement, which can be in a family organization or a group of unrelated believers.  The blessings of this covenant is the right to rule for oneself, for posterity and to live eternally in the presence of the Father.  The Covenant Sign is a white robe.

Closely allied with the Davidic Covenant is being a High Priest.  Those who receive the Davidic covenant are also High Priests.  Their functions are similar to those with the Priesthood covenant but the scope of their responsibility is greater extending to organizations.


Enochic
Our last covenant is the Enochic Covenant, which we have already introduced.  Those who are God’s Angelic Emmissaries and receive God’s power also receive the power to seal their actions with Heaven and can have an everlasting effect.  These actions execute God’s plan to save and exalt His children on a global scale.  In the Endtimes, we see God’s Servant seal up the 144,000 to execute the Endtime gathering of Israel who receive God’s protection and power to carry out this gathering.  The covenant blessing is to live eternally in the presence of the Father as a Joint Heir with the Messiah.  The Covenant Sign is the tabernacle/temple, which represents and is a model of Heaven.​


The Theme of Threes
We can now associate these covenants with our Theme of Threes.

Redemption	Sanctification	Exaltation
Messianic	Abrahamic	Davidic
-	Threshold	Enochic
-	Priesthood	-
-	Sinai	-

The New and Everlasting Covenant
The New and Everlasting Covenant is an umbrella title for all of the other covenants.  It is a new covenant, because God renews His covenants with a new people.  It is everlasting, because all of God's covenants are eternal and have an everlasting effect.  So it looks like this:

The New and Everlasting Covenant

Messianic

Abrahamic

Threshold

Priesthood

Sinai

Davidic

Enochic