Chapter 16: BOS: The New Covenant

​In the last chapter, we saw Yeshua establish a new covenant. He said that he was not abolishing the Law but declares he will make the Law full and complete – Matthew 5:17. So then the Law in the Old Testament – Tanach – is our starting point.

​Covenants in the Old Law
When we review covenant theology in the Tanach as it relates to a relationship with Yehovah, we see the following -

Covenant	Type of Relationship	Covenant Sign
Abrahamic Covenant	Chosen People	Circumcision
Threshold Covenant	Sovereigns over house and home – Fathers of families as kings.	Name of God over front door
Sinai Covenant	Covenant People - Zion	Seventh-day Sabbath
Levitical Covenant	Priests of an earthly priesthood	Altar
Davidic Covenant	Davidic Kings over communities	White Robe

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​THE NEW COVENANT

Yeshua Makes the Law Full
When Yeshua declared that he would make the Law full and complete, what He really meant is that He would connect the covenants in the Tanach with heaven and eternity through a change in the priesthood and His testimony of becoming reborn and recreated. In other words, through Yeshua’s redemption – a function of the Melchizedek Priesthood – Yeshua extends the Old Testament covenants that have been made unconditional and everlasting into heaven and eternity.

Extending Our Relationship with God into Eternity >>>

Old Testament Covenants initiated and are conditional and temporary

Process of being reborn/recreated. Trial of Faith

Covenants become unconditional and everlasting

Yeshua’s redemption – the Messianic Covenant

Heaven/Eternity

The Messianic Covenant
We have already reviewed the Messianic Covenant with the section of being Born of the Blood. Here, we see that the covenants made in the Old Testment are extended into eternity through Yeshua’s redemption from eternal death because of Adam and Eve’s transgression and fall. We execute the Messianic Covenant when we take on Yeshua’s Name as the redeemer of all humanity
 
 
Being Reborn and Recreated
In the New Testament, we see three processes of rebirth and ascension – Born Again, Going Onto Perfection and Obtaining God’s Power.
 
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Born Again
The process of being Born Again is to become a new creation of the Holy Spirit. Those who are Born Again will usually experience being persecuted as their test of faith. The covenants that we can associate with being reborn include - 

Born Again	Going Onto Perfection	Obtaining God's Power
Persecution
Abrahamic Covenant Threshold Covenant Priesthood Covenant Sinai Covenant

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Going Onto Perfection
The process of Going Onto Perfection is to become a new creation of the Son as a proxy savior, which is associated with the Davidic Covenant. These will suffer near death as their test of faith.

Born Again	Going Onto Perfection	Obtaining God's Power
Persecution	Suffers Near Death
Abrahamic Covenant Threshold Covenant Priesthood Covenant Sinai Covenant	Davdic Covenant

Obtaining God’s Power
Those who obtain God’s power do the work and will of the Father, are tried in all things, and receive the power to bind and seal with heaven.

Born Again	Going Onto Perfection	Obtaining God's Power
Persecution	Suffers Near Death	Tried in All Things
Abrahamic Covenant Threshold Covenant Priesthood Covenant Sinai Covenant	Davdic Covenant	Power to bind and seal with heaven  ​(Enochic Covenant)

Ascension is Cumulative
Ascending to God is a cumulative path. We first must be Born Again to Go Onto Perfection. Then to Obtain God’s Power, we must have Gone Onto Perfection