Charlie Kirl gave a 3000 year hack to make yourself happier and less anxious -
"I would argue that the more radical you are about the Sabbath the more you're going to get out of it"
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What a wonderful catch! A text without a context is a pretext, after all. So let us do a little more detailed study of the Bible in order to trace and analyze the covenant and show that the "New Covenant" is not different from the "Old Covenant", but is rather where the shadows of the "Old" are confirmed and affirmed in the substance of the "New". After all, the New Testament unlocks the Old Testament, then the Old Testament locks the New Testament rigidly into place.
The "Old Covenant" and the association with being a kingdom of priests, a holy nation, is no different than the description of those "as part of the New Covenant" as written by Peter:
The context is right this time! Now here is the very beginning of the covenant:
Then repeated (see: re-instated) through Noah:
Then repeated (see: re-instated) through Abraham:
And the condition of the covenant was neither nation nor creed nor lineage, but faith and obedience as outflows of love:
Now Abraham was visited again, and the covenant was again repeated to him in his old age:
And the condition was no different, for there is no once saved always saved, there is no once covenanted always covenanted. There is a work to do on behalf of the one who appropriates the signature of Christ.
Because while man has a desperately wicked and deceitful heart (Jeremiah 17:9), the Lord changes not. If the covenant, which is based on a law, could change, then the law could be changed.
And if the law could be changed, either in the time of the "Old Covenant" or the "New Covenant", then there would be no need for death. This is even ratified in the Sabbath:
The bold part contains the signature of God which is found in the Sabbath. The promise which precedes it is no different than the "Old Covenant" promise continued through Abraham. Interestingly enough, even the Sabbath was instituted in Eden, re-affirmed in the wilderness with the manna (Exodus 16), then re-affirmed again as Jesus rested, momentarily, in the grave (Mark 15:42; 16:1).
Now the seed which the promise was made for meets its substance in Jesus.
And Jesus changes not. Now the reason why the Jewish picked up stones afterwards, in John 8:59, was because Jesus said that He was God:
The "I am" is the same as the "I Am That I Am", Hฤyรข 'ฤลกer Hฤyรข, or "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh" (ืึถืึฐืึถื ืึฒืฉึถืืจ ืึถืึฐืึถื). This is a name of God, of Jesus, which in the Hebrew is YHWH, and in the Greek is referenced as the Tetragrammaton.
The covenant has always been conditional on Jesus, the same Jesus found in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. As Jesus changes not, neither would His covenant of faith, trust, and obedience as outflows of love.
The word for "stand fast" is "aman", meaning "to be confirmed, to be verified, to be established". The covenant is not made new with Jesus Christ, it is confirmed, verified, and established through Jesus Christ. The covenant promises are made available only through the faith of Jesus (1 Corinthians 15:20), or else Enoch would not have been translated (Genesis 5:24), Elijah would not have been translated (2 Kings 2:11), and Moses would not have been resurrected (Jude 1:9) before the events recorded in the New Testament: the covenant promise of life and relationship begins and ends with Jesus, whether as written in the Old Testament, or in the New Testament.
Now the word for "determined" is "hatak", meaning "to divide, to be marked out". This prophecy is the confirmation of, and its fulfillment is the affirmation of, Jesus as Messiah.
When the "cutting off" was not for Himself, it is because He is in no need of His own salvation: rather, it is His signature that each person has to appropriate by faith, and show the fruits thereof in out-flowing works of grace, in the signing of the same covenant decreed from everlasting to everlasting.
Now the word for "cut off" is "karat", meaning "to cut" or "to make a new covenant, to make an alliance". Wow! This part you are especially going to love! What comes right after this word? "but not for Himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary". Who were the ones to destroy the city and the sanctuary? Pagan Rome! With an alliance with who? Simon Maegus, the Sadducees, and the Pharisees! The "New Covenant" theology, from this Verse alone, is verily Roman. A covenant will always be bound by a set of laws, and any system or teaching that has done away with the Moral Law has no problem teaching that the covenant has changed.
Now the Biblical covenant as explained in the New Testament is not different than, but is better than, the covenant as explained in the Old Testament. This is because the time had come for Jesus Christ to verify His signature on the covenant that was to be directly given to the whole world. All of the earthly promises as contained in the Sanctuary message had become heavenly promises directly available to all of the creation, just as the covenant had began in Adam and Eve in whom all creation were first begat.
The word "new" here is "neos", meaning "youthful, regenerated, fresh". In harmony with Hebrews 8:6, it is not speaking of a different covenant, but of a covenant regenerated, re-instated, re-confirmed, re-affirmed, from the time of Eden.
Because all of the shadows written into the earthly Sanctuary were given to lead the mind to the substance of the work that Jesus is doing right now in the Heavenly Sanctuary.
Now directing the everlasting covenant in truth is directing the work according to the law (Psalm 119:142), the Word (John 17:17), and Jesus (John 14:6).
And "in the beginning" is an indefinite article, so therefore the Word, being Jesus who changes not, is from everlasting to everlasting just as His covenant.
And the covenant promises will always be an unchanging and everlasting expression of love.
For remember, the covenant was to be "a God unto thee". These conditions have never changed, as God never changes.
For Jesus is both the Author and the Signer of eternal salvation, and the unchanging conditions of an unchanging covenant authored by an unchanging God are, well, unchanging. You already know this, but they are to have His imputed and imparted Signature on that covenant document through the appropriation of His faith and the sanctification through His grace.