BP: The Seven Covenants of Jehovah/Yeshua

In this chapter, we’ll review the third of four important sevens pertaining to the salvation/exaltation of man, which is the Seven Covenants of Yehovah-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.  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.  

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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 can be associated with our spiritual categories of Humanity that we see in mortality.​

Spiritual Categories and Covenants in Mortality

Perdition -- Mahan -- Sodom/ Gomorrah -- Babylon	Jacob	Israel	Zion/ ​Jerusalem	Sons/ ​Daughters	Angels
No Covenants	Covenants of Redemption	Covenants of Redemption and Sanctification	Covenants of Redemption and Sanctification Born Again	Covenants of Redemption, Sanctification and Exaltation. Proxy-Saviors	Covenants of Redemption, Sanctification and Exaltation. Obtains God’s Power

​A system of covenants forms 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’s change in status before God. In the Torah, Yehovah 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 as it was, it lacked the correct principal concepts of perfection and a connection with the Davidic covenant.  Christian believers are at a disadvantage of understanding God’s covenants because the foundation of His covenants are established in the Old Testament. Yeshua’s testimony did not replace these covenants but expanded them in the New Testament.
 
Dr. Gileadi,
“We may sometimes wonder why God acts in certain ways, or why he doesn’t act. The answer isn’t as veiled in mystery as we may think. The truth is God always acts within the context of covenants he makes with his people or with individuals. Even when he intervenes dramatically in a situation, it is according to existing covenantal agreements. Understanding the workings of these covenants, therefore, gives us power with God to bring about change for good. God’s saving influence under every kind of circumstance—from daily spiritual guidance to miraculous deliverance from death—can be traced to a covenant God made somewhere with someone.”


Biblical Covenants
When we look at the whole of the Bible, we see five covenants that are well defined, understood and identifiable.  Those covenants include: the Abrahamic, Priesthood (Levitical), Sinai (collective), Davidic and Messianic covenants. But these five 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 or fullness and we don’t see the change in the priesthood in the Law to the Melchizedek Priesthood.​

Biblical Covenants

Messianic

Abrahamic

Priesthood (Levitical)

Sinai (collective)

Davidic

Dr. Gileadi,
“Earthly models of God’s covenants are primarily three: (1) with Israel—the Sinai Covenant; (2) with King David—the Davidic Covenant; and (3) with Abraham—the Abrahamic Covenant. Extending backwards and forward in time, almost all of God’s covenants follow these models. As no covenant God makes is temporary in nature, all endure to this day.”
 
“When the Israelites make a golden calf at Mount Sinai and worship it, the tribe of Levi rallies to God’s side and avenges him of the evildoers (Exodus 32:19–28). Later, when the Israelites fornicate with the daughters of Midian, Aaron’s grandson Phinehas avenges God of the evil (Numbers 25:1–18). Because of their righteous zeal God chooses the tribe of Levi to be his priests and teachers to the rest of Israel’s tribes. The Levites are consecrated to God’s service to minister in the Tabernacle during Israel’s wandering in the wilderness, and later in Solomon’s temple at Jerusalem (Numbers 1:50–53; 8:6–26; Deuteronomy 18:1–7; 1 Chronicles 9:14–34).
The special relationship the Levites have with Israel’s God crystallizes into a covenant of life and peace:”
 
“Israel’s God acts as a spiritual proxy savior on the highest level. We observe this in Isaiah 53:1–10, which combines the proxy role of a Davidic king with the proxy role of a sacrificial lamb. Answering for the transgressions or disloyalties of his people, he pays “the price of our peace” or salvation. Going “like a lamb to the slaughter,” he “makes his life an offering for guilt.” We know that Jehovah is the subject of this passage from a literary structure in Isaiah 14 and 52–53, which contrasts—verse by verse—the King of Babylon in Isaiah 14 with the King of Zion in Isaiah 52–53, thereby identifying the subject of Isaiah 53:1–10 as Jehovah, King of Zion.”


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 Yehovah with the father of each household applying symbolically the blood of Israel’s Savior-God to their thresholds.
 
Clay Trumbal, The Threshold Covenant,
“Man’s first dwelling-place was the cave, or the tent, or the hut, in which he made a home with his family. The threshold and hearth of that dwelling-place was the boundary of his earthly possessions. It was the sacred border or limit of the portion of the earth’s surface over which he claimed control, and where he and his were under the special protection of the deity with whom he was in covenant.”

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. Yehovah declares later that, before Israel sinned with the golden calf, He would establish a “holy nation, a kingdom of priests” – Exodus 19:6, which we see repeated at 1 Peter 2:9. But as we will see later, Yeshua restored the Melchizedek Priesthood and changed it in the Law because it is the everlasting priesthood, whereas the Levitical Priesthood is an earthly priesthood and will become inactive.  This concept is set out in the ninth chapter of the Book of Hebrews.
 
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.  We also see this sealing power with God’s Endtime Servant who seals the 144,000 Endtime saviors -  Rev. 7:3. We might call this power to seal the Enochic Covenant because Enoch is the first person we see in the Bible that was taken and bound with Heaven. 

Now our summary looks like this:​​​

Biblical Covenants

Messianic

Abrahamic

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Priesthood (Levitical)

Sinai

Davidic

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Seven Covenants

Messianic

Abrahamic

Threshold

Priesthood (Melchizedek)

Sinai

Davidic

Enochic

​Covenant Signs
Covenant Signs are ongoing witnesses that we are actively living a covenant. For instance, the Sabbath is the sign of the Sinai Covenant. We observe this covenant by resting and worshipping God on the seventh day.
 

From Conditional to Unconditional
Covenants are first entered into God on a conditional and temporary basis. Once our loyalty to God is tested, our covenants with Him are made unconditional and everlasting. We see this concept with Abraham and the Abrahamic Covenant.
 
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Summary
We can summarize these concepts in the following table.

Spiritual Categories and Covenants in Mortality

Perdition -- Mahan -- Sodom/ Gomorrah -- Babylon	Jacob	Israel	Zion/ ​Jerusalem	Sons/ Daughters	Angels
No Covenants	Covenants of Redemption	Covenants of Redemption and Sanctification	Covenants of Redemption and Sanctification Born Again	Covenants of Redemption, Sanctification and Exaltation. Proxy-Saviors	Covenants of Redemption, Sanctification and Exaltation. Obtains God’s Power
	Messianic (Sign: Nail Prints)	Messianic (Sign: Nail Prints) Abrahamic (Sign: Circumcision) Threshold (Sign: Name of God) Priesthood (Levitical) Sinai (Sign: Seventh-day Sabbath	Messianic (Sign: Nail Prints) Abrahamic (Sign: Circumcision) Threshold (Sign: Name of God) Priesthood (Melchizedek) (Priests) (Sign: Altar) ​ ​Sinai (Sign: Seventh-day Sabbath)	Messianic (Sign: Nail Prints) Abrahamic (Sign: Circumcision) Threshold (Sign: Name of God) Priesthood (Melchizedek) (Priests) (Sign: Altar) ​ ​Sinai (Sign: Seventh-day Sabbath) Davidic (High Priests) ​(Sign: White Robe)	Messianic (Sign: Nail Prints) Abrahamic (Sign: Circumcision) Threshold (Sign: Name of God) Priesthood (Melchizedek) (Priests) ​(Sign: Altar) ​Sinai (Sign: Seventh-day Sabbath) Davidic (High Priests) (Sign: White Robe) Enochic (Sign: Tabernacle/ Temple