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What Do You Mean\u2026. New Covenant?<\/strong>
\nBy<\/strong>
\nJames Scott Trimm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of us have missed an important truth. The New \nCovenant has been in the Torah all along! And this amazing truth is a \nmajor key in understanding the writings of Paul. There are in fact two \ncovenants in the Torah and two Mosaic Covenants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first Mosaic Covenant was made at Mt. Sinai at Horev.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Second Mosaic Covenant was made at Mt. Nebo at Mo\u2019av.\n This was a second covenant which YHWH made with the people of Israel \nthrough Moses which was made shortly before the death of Moses and the \nentry of Israel into the Land. This covenant was made near the end of \nthe Torah:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThese are the words of the covenant which YHWH
commanded Moshe to make with the children of Yisra\u2019el in the land of
Mo\u2019av, beside the covenant which He made with them in Horev.\u201d<\/em>

(Deuteronomy 28:69 \/ 29:1)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Note that this Covenant at Mo\u2019av was made besides the Covenant made at Sinai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rashi makes an important comment about the significance of this word \u201cbesides\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cBesides the covenant [Namely,] the curses [which appear] in Lev. (26: 14-39), which were proclaimed at [Mount] Sinai.\u201d<\/em>

(Rashi on Deuteronomy 28:69)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Rashi sees that these are two different covenants and \nthat the word besides is intended to distinguish the Covenant at Sinai, \ncharacterized by \u201cthe curses\u201d with this new Covenant made at Mo\u2019av which\n is characterized not just by curses (Deuteronomy 29:16-29) but by \nblessings as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This covenant was centered around repentance (30:2, 8) \nand its rewards included a promise of a regathering of Israel from among\n the nations (30:3-4) a circumcised heart (30:2, 6) Israel would be his \npeople and He would be their Elohim (29:13); a promise of land (30:5) \nand life (30:6, 15, 19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Covenant also includes Torah observance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIf you shall hearken to the voice of YHWH your
Elohim, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in
this Book of the Torah; if you turn unto YHWH your Elohim with all your
heart, and with all your soul.\u201d<\/em>

(Deuteronomy 30:10)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Jeremiah and the New Covenant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Jeremiah 11, the prophet Jeremiah was sent by YHWH to the people of Israel saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHear you the words of this covenant, and speak unto
the men of Y\u2019hudah, and to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim: and say you
unto them: Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019el: Cursed be the man
that hears not the words of this covenant, which I commanded your
fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt\u2026\u201d<\/em>

(Jeremiah 11:2-4a)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Here Jeremiah is quoting from the Torah (Deut. 27:26) and\n to the curse that was upon those who would fails to give heed to the \ncovenant given at Sinai. He is warning the people of Judah that this \ncurse is about to come upon them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately Jeremiah prophesied to Israel that this curse \nwould come upon them in the form of the seventy year Babylonian \ncaptivity:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201d \u2018Behold, I will send and take all the families of
the north,\u2019 says YHWH, \u2018and I will send unto N\u2019vukhadretzar the king of
Bavel, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against
the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I
will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a
hissing, and perpetual desolations. \u2026And this whole land shall be a
desolation, and a waste; and these nations shall serve the king of Bavel
seventy years. And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are
accomplished, that I will punish the king of Bavel, and that nation,\u2019
says YHWH, \u201cfor their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I
will make it perpetual desolations.\u2019 \u201c<\/em>

(Jeremiah 25:9, 11-12)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThen will I make this house like Shiloh, and will
make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth. So the cohanim
and the prophets and all the people heard Yirmeyah speaking these words
in the House of YHWH.\u201d<\/em>

(Jeremiah 26:6-7)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

But Jeremiah also prophesied to the people that at the end of this seventy year curse, he would bring them back into the land:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFor thus says YHWH: \u2018After seventy years are
accomplished for Bavel, I will remember you, and perform My good word
toward you, in causing you to return to this place.\u201d<\/em>

(Jeremiah 29:10)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In connection with this return Jeremiah speaks of a New Covenant:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201d \u2018Behold, the days come,\u2019 says YHWH, \u2018that I will
make a renewed covenant with the House of Yisra\u2019el, and with the House
of Y\u2019hudah; not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land
of Egypt; forasmuch as they broke My covenant, although I was a husband
over them,\u2019 says YHWH. \u2018But this is the covenant that I will make with
the House of Yisra\u2019el after those days,\u2019 says YHWH, \u2018I will put My Torah
in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will
be their Elohim, and they shall be My people; and they shall teach no
more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying: \u201cKnow
YHWH\u201d; for they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the
greatest of them,\u2019 says YHWH; \u2018for I will forgive their iniquity, and
their sin will I remember no more.\u201d<\/em>

(Jeremiah 31:31)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

(Throughout this article I will refer to this covenant as\n the \u201cNew Covenant\u201d as it is commonly called, however the Hebrew is \nbetter understood as I have translated it above, as \u201crenewed covenant\u201d.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But one important thing that many of us have missed is \nthat this \u201cNew Covenant\u201d is the Covenant made at Mo\u2019av. As we have \nalready seen, there are two Mosaic Covenants in the Torah. The first \nCovenant was made at Sinai but there is also a second \u201cnew\u201d covenant in \nthe Torah which was mad at Mo\u2019av. When we compare these two covenants it\n is clear that the Covenant at Mo\u2019av is the New Covenant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Covenant at Mo\u2019av Compared to the New Covenant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThese are the words of the covenant which YHWH
commanded Moshe to make with the children of Yisra\u2019el in the land of
Mo\u2019av, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horev.\u201d<\/em>

(Deuteronomy 28:69 \/ 29:1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201d \u2018Behold, the days come,\u2019 says YHWH, \u2018that I will
make a renewed covenant with the House of Yisrael, and the House of
Y\u2019hudah; not according to the covenant that I made with their father in
the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of
Egypt; forasmuch as they broke My covenant, although I was a husband
over them,\u2019 says YHWH.\u201d<\/em>

(Jeremiah 31:31-32)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd shall return unto YHWH your Elohim, and hearken
to His voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your
children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;\u2026And YHWH your
Elohim will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love
YHWH your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you
may live.\u201d<\/em>

(Deuteronomy 30:2, 6)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut this is the covenant that I will make with the
House of Yisra\u2019el after those days, says YHWH, I will put My Torah in
their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it;\u2026 \u201c<\/em>

(Jeremiah 31:22a)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026and I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me.\u201d<\/em>

(Jeremiah 32:40b)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026that He may establish you this day unto Himself for a
people, and that He may be unto you a Elohim, as He spoke unto you, and
as He swore unto your fathers, to Avraham, to Yitz\u2019chak and to
Ya\u2019akov.\u201d<\/em>

(Deuteronomy 29:12 \/ 29:13)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be My people;\u201d<\/em>

(Jeremiah 31:33b)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026and they shall be My people, and will be their Elohim;\u201d<\/em>

(Jeremiah 32:38)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026that then YHWH your Elohim will turn your captivity,
and have compassion upon you, and will return and gather you from all
the peoples, where YHWH your Elohim has scattered you. If any of you
that are dispersed be in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there will
YHWH your Elohim gather you, and from there will He fetch you.\u201d<\/em>

(Deuteronomy 30:3-4)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBehold, I will gather them out of all the countries,
where I have driven them in My anger, and in My fury, and in great
wrath;\u2026\u201d<\/em>

(Jeremiah 32:37a)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd YHWH your Elohim will bring you into the land
which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will do
you good, and multiply you above your fathers.\u201d<\/em>

(Deuteronomy 30:5)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026and I will bring them back unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely;\u2026\u201d<\/em>

(Jeremiah 32:37b)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Now if the Covenant at Mo\u2019av is the New Covenant, then \nthe Covenant at Sinai is an \u201cOld Covenant\u201d. Both the Old Covenant and \nthe New Covenant are in the Torah. But this \u201cNew Covenant\u201d is Torah \nbased, as the Covenant itself states \u201c\u2026you shall hearken to the voice of\n YHWH your Elohim, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are \nwritten in this Book of the Torah\u2026\u201d (Deut. 30:10). This New Covenant is \nan \u201ceverlasting covenant\u201d (Jeremiah 32:40) which gives us \u201clife\u201d \n(Deuteronomy 30:6, 15, 19). An everlasting covenant which gives life, \nmust by implication, give \u201ceverlasting life\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel and the New Covenant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of this seventy year curse we reach the time \nof Daniel chapter nine. Here Daniel has been studying these prophecies \nof Jeremiah and he knew the seventy years were over:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIn the first year of his reign I Daniel meditated in
the books, over the number of the years, whereof the word of YHWH came
to Yirmeyah the prophet, that He would accomplish for the desolations of
Yerushalayim seventy years.\u201d<\/em>

(Daniel 9:2)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Daniel knew that the curses mentioned in the Torah had come upon Israel:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAs it is written in the Torah of Moshe, all this evil
is come upon us; yet have we not entreated the favour of YHWH our
Elohim, that we might turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in
Your truth.\u201d<\/em>

(Daniel 9:13) (see Leviticus 26:14; Deuteronomy 28:15)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Daniel also knew that the Torah tells us that if after \nthese curses come upon us, we still do not repent, Elohim would punish \nus seven times more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAnd if you will not yet for these things hearken unto Me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.\u201d<\/em>

(Leviticus 26:18, see also verses 21, 24, 28)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In Daniel 9 Daniel prays for mercy for Israel, because he\n knows Israel has failed to repent, and he knows that seven times \nseventy is 490 years, and he does not want Israel to now fall under a \n490 year curse. Unfortunately Gavri\u2019el (El is Severe) comes with \nElohim\u2019s reply. Israel would indeed fall into a 490 year curse:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cSeventy weeks are decreed upon your people and upon
your set-apart city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of
sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in
everlasting righteousness, and to seal vision and prophecy, and to
anoint the most Set-apart. Know therefore and discern, that from the
going forth of the word to restore and to build Yerushalayim unto
Messiah, a prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks,
it shall be built again, with broad place and moat, but in troublous
times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but
not for himself; and the people of a prince that shall come shall
destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a
flood; and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he
shall make a firm covenant with many for one week; and in the midst of
the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and
upon the wing of detestable things shall be that which causes appalment;
and that until the extermination wholly determined be poured out upon
that which causes appalment.\u201d<\/em>

(Daniel 9:24-27)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This 490 year curse was made up of seventy \u201cweeks\u201d. The \nHebrew word here for \u201cweeks\u201d actually only refers to \u201ca period of seven\u201d\n and does not have to refer to seven days, in fact here it refers to \nblocks of seven year periods. These are not just any seven year periods,\n these are seven year cycles of the Sabbath of the land. It was the \nfailure to keep these Sabbaths of the land each seventh year that was \nthe final straw resulting in the seventy year curse:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cTo fulfil the word of YHWH by the mouth of Yirmeyah,
until the land had been paid her sabbaths; for as long as she lay
desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.\u201d<\/em>

(2 Chronicles 36:21)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

483 years into this 490 years the Messiah comes along and is \u201ccut off, but not for himself\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cAnd after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be
cut off, but not for himself; and the people of a prince that shall come
shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be
with a flood; and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.\u201d<\/em>

(Daniel 9:26)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Why does the Messiah come seven years before the end of the 490 year curse?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because the Land must have its seventh year Sabbath (2 Chronicles 36:21).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order for the curse to end, the people of Israel would\n have to repent and turn back to Torah. Since the decisive issue had \nbeen the Sabbath of the Land, this repentance would need to manifest \nitself by the keeping of the Sabbath of the Land, but in order to do \nthis, the people would need a seven year head start, they would have to \nstart keeping a complete Sabbath of the Land cycle 483 years into the \n490 year curse if they were to enter the New Covenant at the end of the \n490 years. Thus YHWH in his infinite mercy was to send Messiah after 483\n years to call the people to repentance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramban: Messiah and the New Covenant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramban (Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman) (1194-1270 C.E.) wrote \none of the most authoritative Torah commentaries in Rabbinic Judaism. \nHis comments connecting the Covenant of Mo\u2019av with the \u201cNew Covenant\u201d of\n Jeremiah 31 and connecting these with the \u201cdays of the Messiah\u201d that I \nam giving his lengthy comments on Deuteronomy 30:6 in totol, along with \nsome interspersed comments of my own:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAnd YHWH your Elohim will circumcise your heart
(Deuteronomy 30:6) It is this which the Rabbis have said, \u201cIf someone
comes to purify himself, they assist him\u201d [from on High]. The verse
assures you that you will return to Him with all your heart and He will
help you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis following subject is very apparent from
Scripture: Since the time of Creation, man has had the power to do as he
pleased, to be righteous or wicked. This [grant of free will] applies
likewise to the entire Torah period, so that people can gain merit upon
choosing the good and punishment for preferring evil. But in the days of
the Messiah, the choice of their [genuine] good will be natural; the
heart will not desire the improper and it will have no craving whatever
for it. This is the \u201ccircumcision\u201d mentioned here, for lust and desire
are the \u201cforeskin\u201d of the heart, and circumcision of the heart means
that it will not covet or desire evil.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Note that Ramban sees the ultimate fulfillment of the Covenant at Mo\u2019av as taking place \u201cin the days of the Messiah\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cMan will return at that time to what he was before
the sin of Adam, when by his nature he did what should properly be done,
and there were no conflicting desires in his will, as I have explained
in Seder Bereshit.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This recalls to mind the words of Paul \u201cFor if because of\n the error of one [Adam], death reigned, much more those who receive the\n abundance of favor and of the gift and of righteousness will rein in \nlife by way of one, Yeshua the Messiah.\u201d (see Romans 5:14-19; 1 \nCorinthians 15:22, 45).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt is this which Scripture states in [the Book of]
Jeremiah 31:30], \u2018Behold, the days come,\u2019 says YHWH, \u2018that I will make a
new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah; not
according to the covenant that I made with their fathers ..etc. But
this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after
those days, says the Eternal, I will put my Law in their inward parts,
and in their heart will I write it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Here Ramban identifies the Covenant of Mo\u2019av with Jeremiah\u2019s \u201cNew Covenant\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cThis is a reference to the annulment of the evil
instinct and to the natural performance by the heart of its proper
function. Therefore Jeremiah said further, and I will be their Elohim,
and they shall be My People; and they shall teach no more every man his
neighbor, and every man his brother, saying: \u2018Know YHWH; \u2018for they shall
all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, it is known that the imagination of man\u2019s heart
is evil from his youth and it is necessary to instruct them, but at that
time it will not be necessary to instruct them [to avoid evil] for
their evil instinct will then be completely abolished. And so it is
declared by Ezekiel, \u2018A new heart will I also give you, and a new spirit
will I put within you; and I will cause you to walk in My statutes.\u2019 \u201d
(Ezekiel 36:26)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Here Ramban ties the New Covenant to the gift of the Ruach HaKodesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe new heart alludes to man\u2019s nature, and the [new]
spirit to the desire and will. It is this which our Rabbis have said :
\u201cAnd the years draw nigh, when you shall say: I have no pleasure in
them; these are the days of the Messiah, as they will offer opportunity
neither for merit nor for guilt,\u201d for in the days of the Messiah there
will be no [evil] desire in man but he will naturally perform the proper
deeds and therefore there will be neither merit nor guilt in them, for
merit and guilt are dependent upon desire.\u201d<\/em>

(Ramban on Deuteronomy 29:6)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Yeshua and the New Covenant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the 483 year period mentioned in Daniel begins with \n\u201cthe word to restore to build Yerushalayim\u201d (Dan. 9:25) which was the \nArtaxerxes decree (Ezra 7:11-16) given in 457 B.C.E.. The 483 year \nperiod ends with the appearance of Messiah on the scene (Daniel 9:25). \nIf we add 483 years to 457 B.C.E. we come to 27 C.E. (although 457 + 27 =\n 484 one must subtract a year whenever crossing the line between BCE and\n CE on the timeline, since there is no zero point year on the calendar.)\n Now there is good evidence that Yeshua was born, not in 1 C.E. but in 3\n B.C.E.. At the age of thirty (in 27 C.E.) Yeshua first began his \nministry (Luke 3:23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly after Yeshua began his ministry he returned to \nhis home synagogue in Nazareth where he did the haftorah reading (Luke \n4:16-20). He stood and read from Isaiah 61:1-2:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cThe spirit of the Adonai YHWH is upon me; because
YHWH has anointed me to bring good tidings unto the humble; He has sent
me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the eyes to them that are bound; To proclaim the year
of YHWH\u2019s good pleasure, and the day of vengeance of our Elohim; to
comfort all that mourn;\u201d<\/em>

(Isaiah 61:1-2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThen Yeshua proclaimed \u2018Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your ears.\u2019 \u201c<\/em>

(Luke 4:21)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cyear of YHWH\u2019s good pleasure\u201d in which the captives \nhave liberty proclaimed to them is the seventh year Sabbath of the Land.\n The Anointed one is the Messiah as depicted in Daniel 9:24-27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover the haftorah readings were originally instituted\n at a time when it was illegal to read the Torah in public. As a result \nthe weekly Torah readings were substituted by readings from the Prophets\n which were intended to bring to mind the corresponding Torah readings. \nAfter it became legal again to read the Torah in public, the haftorah \nreadings were retained. The Torah reading which this haftorah reading is\n supposed to call to mind is Nitzavim (Deuteronomy 29:9-30:20) which is \nthe Covenant of Mo\u2019av.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeshua was telling the synagogue that these passages were being fulfilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isaiah 60:22 tells us that YHWH will either \u201chasten\u201d the \nrestoration of the Kingdom of Israel, or let it come about \u201cin its [due]\n time\u201d, all depending on the New Covenant requirement of repentance \n(Deuteronomy 30:1-6.) This offer to repent began in the days of Yochanan\n the immerser (John the Baptist), as we read in Matthew 11:12:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cOnly from the days of Yochanan the immerser until now the Kingdom of Heaven is constricted and the forceful despoil it.\u201d<\/em>

(Matthew 11:12 from the DuTillet Hebrew ms.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And in Luke 16:16 we read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cThe Torah and the prophets were until Yochanan
henceforth the Kingdom of Eloah is announced but everyone treats it with
violence.\u201d<\/em>

(Luke 16:16 from Old Syriac & Peshitta Aramaic)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Yochanan had been announcing, \u201cRepent you of your lives, \nfor the Kingdom of Heaven is near to come\u201d (Matthew 3:2 DuTillet.) And \nas soon as his work began, Yeshua proclaimed, \u201cTurn you, turn you, in \nrepentance: for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.\u201d (Matthew 4:17 DuTillet =\n Mark 1:14-15) Now the word for \u201cnear\u201d here in the DuTillet and ShemTob \nHebrew versions is karavah, in the Aramaic of the Old Syriac and \nPeshitta the Aramaic equivalent appears. The phrase \u201cKingdom of Elohim\u201d \nis a variation of the phrase in the Tanak \u201cKingdom of YHWH\u201d (1 \nChronicles 28:5; 2 Chronicles 13:8) a term used to describe the Kingdom \nof Israel. After studying the \u201cKingdom of Elohim\u201d with the Messiah for \nforty days (Acts 1:3) the emissaries wanted to know if the Kingdom would\n be restored to Israel \u201cat this time\u201d, Yeshua answers that it is not for\n them to know the time (Acts 1:6-7). The truth is that the Kingdom of \nElohim is the restored Kingdom of Israel (see Jeremiah 23:5-6; Isaiah \n9:6-7; 11 with 1 Chronicles 28:5; 2 Chronicles 13:8). The Hebrew text of\n Matthew 3:2 & 4:17 = Mark 1:14-15 does indicate that the Kingdom \nwas right there, available, if they would just repent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeshua continued to proclaim this offer throughout his \ncareer (Matthew 12:28 = Luke 11:20; Mark 12:34; Luke 10:9, 11; 17:21) \neven sending out his emissaries with the same proclamation (Matthew \n10:7.) This is the meaning of the passage, \u201c\u2026if you are willing to \nreceive it (the New Covenant), he (Yochanan) is Elijah who is to come.\u201d \n(Matthew 11:14, see 11:12).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the fact that the New Covenent was being offered \nas early as the service of Yochanan (John) the immerser, repentance was \nrequired for it to be realized (Matthew 3:2-3; Mt.4:17 = Mark 1:14-15; \nDeuteronomy 30:1-6). However, from the time of Yochanan forward, the \nKingdom was being rejected, \u201cplundered\u201d and \u201ctreated with violence\u201d \n(Matthew 11:12 DuTillet; Luke 16:16 Old Syriac & Peshitta.) Yeshua \ncompared this rejection to those who would not dance for flute players \n(Matthew 11:12, 16-19.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Yeshua\u2019s so-called \u201cLast Supper\u201d which was a Passover \nSader, Yeshua holds up the third cup of the Passover Sader known as the \n\u201ccup of redemption\u201d and said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cDrink you all of it, for this is my blood of the New
Covenant, which is shed for many to atone for sinners. And I tell you,
hereafter I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when
I drink it with you in the Kingdom of my Father which is in heaven.\u201d<\/em>

(Matthew 26:27-29)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Here Yeshua tells us that the \u201ccup of redemption\u201d which \nrepresents the blood of the Passover lamb, represents his own blood \nwhich will be the ratifying blood of the New Covenant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Covenant Offer Extended<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would seem that the New Covenant offer was extended \nbeyond the crucifixion. In his discourse at the Temple in Acts 3:12-26 \nKefa repeated the Kingdom offer saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cRepent therefore, and be restored so that your sins
be blotted out and times of rest come to you from the presence of YHWH,
And he send to you him who was prepared for you, Yeshua the Messiah, Who
it is required for heaven to receive until the fullness of the times of
all those things that Eloah spoke by the mouth of his set-apart
prophets of old.\u201d<\/em>

(Acts 3:19-21)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Thus it would appear that if the people of Israel had \nentered a national repentance, even then, the Messiah would have \nreturned to restore the Kingdom to Israel right then and there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Kingdom offer seems to have continued throughout the\n entire Acts period, until it expired at the end of the Book of Acts. In\n Acts 28 \u201cPaul called the leaders of the Jews together\u2026 to whom he \nexplained and solemnly testified of the Kingdom of Eloah, persuading \nthem concerning Yeshua\u2026\u201d (Acts 28:17, 23). once again a corporate \nrepentance did not occur \u201c\u2026 some disbelieved. So they did not agree \namong themselves.\u201d (Acts 28:24b-25a). At this time Paul made known that \nthe Kingdom offer had ended saying \u201c\u2026the salvation of Eloah has been \nsent to the Gentiles, and they will hear it!\u201d (Acts. 28:28)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul and the New Covenant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new understanding of the nature of the New Covenant \nsheds new light on the teachings of Paul which so many have \nmisunderstood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Romans 2:27-29 Paul contrasts those with the \n\u201ccircumcision of the heart by the spirit\u201d with those who have a \ncircumcision \u201cin the flesh [alone] \u2026 by the letter [only]\u201d. Of course \nthe \u201ccircumcision of the heart by the spirit\u201d is an element of the New \nCovenant of Moab. Paul is contrasting this with the Siniatic Covenant \nalone which is \u201cin the flesh [alone]\u2026\u201d and \u201c\u2026by the letter [only]\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Romans 7:6 Paul contrasts \u201cthe renewal of the spirit\u201d \nof the New Covenant\u201d with the \u201coldness of the writing\u201d of the Sianiatic \nCovenant alone. In this section of Romans (Romans 7-8) Paul contrasts \nthe two Mosaic Covenants. He calls the Covenant of Mo\u2019av the \u201cTorah of \nEloah\u201d which he contrasts with the \u201claw of sin\u201d (7:25) He calls walking \nby the Siniatic Covenant alone as \u201cof the flesh\u201d but the New Covenant as\n \u201cof the spirit\u201d (8:4-5) He associates the Siniatic Covenant alone with \n\u201cdeath\u201d but the Covenent of Mo\u2019av with \u201clife\u201d (8:6) just as the Torah \nalso does (Deuteronomy 30:6, 15, 19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Romans 10:4-8 Paul contrasts the \u201crighteousness that \nis by the Torah\u201d (10:5) which he characterizes by quoting Lev. 18:5 with\n the \u201crighteousness that is by faith\u201d (10:6-8) which he characterizes by\n quoting from the Covenant at Mo\u2019av:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cAnd the righteousness that is by faith, [he] thus
says: Do not say in your heart: who has ascended to heaven and brought
down the Messiah? And who has descended to the depth of She\u2019ol and
brought up the Messiah from among the dead? But what does it say? The
answer is near to you, to your mouth and to your heart, which is the
word of faith that we proclaim.\u201d<\/em>

(Deuteronomy 30:11-14)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Paul goes on to say that this same covenant is the \u201cword \nof faith that we proclaim\u201d (10:8). Paul goes on to identify this \ncovenant at Mo\u2019av with the covenant of Messiah by which we are saved:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cAnd if you confess with your mouth our Adon Yeshua,
and you believe in your heart that Eloah raised him from the dead, you
will have life. For the heart that believes in him is made
righteousness, and the mouth that confesses him has life. For the
scripture has said that anyone who believes in him will not be
humiliated. And in this it does not discriminate, either against Jews or
against Aramaeans, for YHWH of all of them is one who is rich with all
who call on him. For all who will call on the name of YHWH have life.\u201d<\/em>

(Romans 10:9-13)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In 2 Corinthians 3:3-6 Paul refers to the \u201cNew Covenant\u201d \n(3:6) when he contrasts the \u201cletter\u201d of the Torah which is \u201cwritten on \ntablets of stone\u201d with the \u201cspirit\u201d of the Torah which is written \u201con \ntablets of the heart of flesh\u201d. Paul says \u201cthe letter kills but the \nspirit gives life\u201d. Here again Paul is comparing the Siniatic Covenant \nalone with the New Covenant of Mo\u2019av.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Galatians 3 Paul alludes to the two Covenants. He \ntells us that Messiah redeemed us from the \u201ccurse of the law\u201d (3:10-13) \njust as we noted earlier that Rashi tells us that the word \u201cbesides\u201d in \nDeuteronomy 28:69 distinguishes the Covenant of Mo\u2019av from the \u201ccurse\u201d \nof the Law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Galatians 4:21-31 Paul plainly compares the two \ncovenants of Torah saying \u201cfor these are the two covenants, one from \nMount Sinai genders bondage\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hebrews is filled with references to these two covenants as well. The author of Hebrews (whom I believe to be Paul) tells us that chapter 8:1f begins \u201cthe main point of what we are saying\u201d and then quotes all of Jeremiah 31:30-33 (31:31-34) regarding the \u201cNew Covenant\u201d in Hebrews 8:8-11. Throughout this book Paul compares \u201cthe first covenant\u201d with the second (covenant) (8:6, 7, 13; 9:1, 15; 10:9). Paul points out that this second covenant differed from the first covenant. While the first covenant had been ratified by the blood of bulls, the second ovenant was actually ratified by the blood of Messiah. Moreover while the Greek text of Hebrews states: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cFor the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.\u201d<\/em>

(Hebrews 7:12 KJV)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

However the Torah cannot be changed (see Deuteronomy 4:2;\n 12:32 & Matthew 5:17). The Hebrew text of Hebrews, however, \nactually reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cIt is saying that according to which there is a
repetition of the office of the priesthood of necessity, it is saying
there is a repetition of the Torah.\u201d<\/em>

(Hebrews 7:12 HRV)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Torah was not \u201cchanged\u201d by the New Covenant of Mo\u2019av,\n but it was repeated with better promises. The fact that the \u201csecond\u201d or\n \u201cnew\u201d covenant of Hebrews is the Covenant made at Mo\u2019av is further \nreinforced by the fact that Paul draws a strong parallel in Hebrews \n3:7-4:10 between the \u201crest\u201d we enter into and the entry into the Land \nwhich took place at the death of Moses at the end of the forty years \nimmediately after the making of the Covenant of Mo\u2019av.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is beyond the scope of this article to fully explore \nall of the ramifications of this important truth to the writings of \nPaul. Nearly every word that Paul writes becomes pregnant with deeper \nmeaning when we read them in light of this truth. We find that amazingly\n Paul is saying much the same things that Rashi and Ramban were saying \nabout the curse of the law and the new covenant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It all Comes Back to Mo\u2019av<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally we find an amazing prophecy found, not in the \ncanon, but in one of the books known as the \u201cApocrypha\u201d. In 2 Maccabees \n2:1-8 we read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cOne finds in the records that Jeremiah the prophet
ordered those who were being deported to take some of the fire, as has
been told, and that the prophet after giving them the law instructed
those who were being deported not to forget the commandments of the
Lord, nor to be led astray in their thoughts upon seeing the gold and
silver statues and their adornment. And with other similar words he
exhorted them that the law should not depart from their hearts. It was
also in the writing that the prophet, having received an oracle, ordered
that the tent and the ark should follow with him, and that he went out
to the mountain where Moses had gone up and had seen the inheritance of
God. And Jeremiah came and found a cave, and he brought there the tent
and the ark and the altar of incense, and he sealed up the entrance.
Some of those who followed him came up to mark the way, but could not
find it. When Jeremiah learned of it, he rebuked them and declared: \u201cThe
place shall be unknown until God gathers his people together again and
shows his mercy. And then the Lord will disclose these things, and the
glory of the Lord and the cloud will appear, as they were shown in the
case of Moses, and as Solomon asked that the place should be specially
consecrated.\u201d<\/em>

(2 Maccabees 2:1-8 RSV)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Here there is an allusion to Jeremiah and the new \ncovenant which places the Torah in our hearts. This becomes tied again \nto Mo\u2019av where Moshe had made the Covenant of Mo\u2019av just before his \ndeath on Mount Nebo. According to this book the Tabernacle, the alter of\n incense and the Ark of the Covenant are all hidden inside Mount Nebo at\n Mo\u2019av and at the time of the regathering (another allusion to the New \nCovenant of Mo\u2019av) they will reveal their own position to the world. All\n of this will end where it began, we will finally enter the New Covenant\n Kingdom right there at Mo\u2019av!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are two covenants in the Torah, and the Torah is very much a part of both of them. Both Rashi and Paul tell us that the covenant of Mo\u2019av or \u201cnew covenant\u201d is distinguished from the \u201ccurse\u201d of the first covenant. Both Ramban and Paul tell us that the New Covenant is tied to the work of Messiah, involves a change of a persons heart and inner desires and involves the implanting of the Spirit of YHWH to guide us in an inner desire to observe Torah. This Covenant has been offered to Israel collectively on at least three occasions: upon entering the Land (Deuteronomy 29-30); upon returning to the Land (Jeremiah 29:10; 31:30f) and at the first coming of Messiah (Matthew 26:27-29). While Israel may not collectively enter this covenant until Messiah returns, we as individuals may enter it early, becoming citizens of a Kingdom not yet established. This profound understanding of the nature of the New Covenant will radically improve our understanding of Scripture. This article is not the end of that process, it is only intended to serve as a modest beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n

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