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[Shelly Duffy]

WASN’T THE OLD COVENANT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? PART 1
May 24, 2021 

Average reading time is about 5 minutes


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The question of the covenants has been greatly distorted and misunderstood. Let’s begin by noticing what the old covenant was not. It was not the Ten Commandments. Why? Because God’s eternal law did not grow old and vanish away (verse 13). They did not have poor promises (v. 6), and they were not faulty (v. 7). 

Then what was the old covenant, and how was it ratified? It was an agreement between God and Israel. When Moses shared the covenant with Israel, they replied, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do” (Exodus 19:8). The people promised to keep the Ten Commandments. It was ratified by the sprinkled blood of an ox (Exodus 24:7, 8). The promises of the people failed because they tried to obey in their human strength alone. 

In comparison, the new covenant was instituted and ratified by the blood of Jesus at His death (Hebrews 12:24; 13:20; Matthew 26:28). It went into effect when He died. “For a testament (covenant) is in force after men are dead, since it had no power at all while the testator lives” (Hebrews 9:17). 

In speaking of the new covenant, the apostle Paul writes: “Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it” (Galatians 3:15). This means that after the death of Christ, nothing could be added to or taken away from the new covenant. Jesus introduced the Lord’s Supper on Thursday night before He died, so it came under the new covenant (Matthew 26:28). 

Here’s a question worth asking: “When did Sunday-keeping begin?” Everyone answers, “After the resurrection.” If that is the case, then it cannot be part of the new covenant since it took place after the death of Jesus. Can anything be “added” after the death of Jesus, the testator? 



KEY BIBLE TEXTS 
"For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second."
"For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:"
Hebrews 8:7-8





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Shelley Duffy