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Some people in the past have cast aside their eternal life. They are headed straight toward the lake of fire! Read this article and avoid the frightening mistakes they have made.

      Most false pagan churches teach that the Old Covenant was made by a harsh, stern deity that created harsh laws to simply punish the people. Whereas they teach the New Covenant was established by a kind, loving Son of Elohim who came to abolish the harsh, cruel laws created by His Father.

      Nothing could be any further from the truth. So, what is the purpose of the New Covenant and why was there even a need for the New Covenant to begin with?

      I believe to answer this questions that first we need to even define what a covenant is, and then look at the first covenant (the word “first” better represents the meaning than “old”) and see what parameters contained within the agreement would constitute the making of another agreement.

      The definition of a “covenant” is a sacred agreement, which is wholly binding on both parties in which each party, according to the agreement, has a particular task to perform. Once ratified, only death can break a biblical covenant. So, what were the parameters of the First covenant?

First of all, in any biblical covenant there are three things that never change:

• The people being Israel
• The promised or covenant land being the land of Israel
• The Torah or law of Yahweh, which is part of His character and abides forever (Psalm 111:5-10)

You can search the entire Bible, both Testaments and you will see that any biblical covenant always is with the physical nation of Israel and the Israelite people, and the land covenant promises are only to the physical land of Israel, and the Torah of Yahweh never changes.

Heb 8:6 But now, Yahshua the Messiah hath received a ministry which is greater than that: also by so much more, He is a Mediator of a better covenant, and so are the promises greater than the first covenant.

Heb 8:7 For if that first was faultless, there would have been no need for a second.

Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them, He said to them, “Behold, days are coming, says YAHWEH, and I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah;

Heb 8:9 not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day of My taking hold of their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I rejected them, says YAHWEH.

Heb 8:10 Because this is the covenant which I will covenant with the house of Israel after those days, says YAHWEH, I will give My Laws into their mind, and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.”

Heb 8:11 And they shall no more teach each one their neighbor, and each one his brother, saying, Know YAHWEH; because all shall know Me, from the least of them to their great ones.

Heb 8:12 For I will be   merciful to their unrighteousness, and I will not at all remember their sins and their lawless deeds.” (Jer 31:31-34)

Heb 8:13 In the saying, New, He has made the first old. And the thing being made old and obsolete is near disappearing.

Clearly, we see from this verse in Hebrews the 8th chapter, which is taken from Jeremiah 31:31-34, that the people, the land and the Torah stay the same. However, it does also clearly state that Yahshua is the mediator of a different covenant than the first one made at Mount Sinai, and that due to some fault there had to be a New Covenant made. It also clearly states that this New Covenant would not be like the first covenant, but would be different in some way nullifying the weakness of the first covenant. What was this weakness? The answer lies in verse 8, “For finding fault with them” The weakness was not with the Torah (law) itself, but with the inability of the people to keep the Torah. Paul tells us in

Rom 7:12 So indeed the Torah is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good

However, he also states:

Rom 7:14 For we know that the Torah is spiritual, but I am fleshly, having been sold under sin. Paul fully realized that although the Torah of Yahweh is perfect, converting the soul (Psalm 19:7), that in the flesh with his human nature that he is an evil sinner sold under sin.

And this is the problem with the first covenant given at Mount Sinai. The Torah that Yahweh gave Moses was perfect, reflecting the very character and nature of Yahweh, but without the Holy Spirit to open the mind to fully understand the righteous intent of the Torah, evil wicked humans with their fleshly human nature would simply not be able to keep the righteous demand of the Torah and would have no desire to do so.

Gal 3:21 Then is the (Levitical) Law against the promises of YAHWEH? Elohim forbid! For if a law had been given which had been able to make alive, indeed righteousness would have been out of Law.

Gal 3:22 But the Scripture locked up all under sin, that the promise by faith of Yahshua Messiah might be given to the ones believing.

The weakness of the Torah is actually not the Torah itself, which is perfect, but the inability in and of itself to change the heart. The Torah is a lamp to your feet (Psalm 119:105) to guide and lead you to what is right and what is wrong. However, without the Ruach H Chodesh (Holy Spirit) to change your heart and human nature from the spirit of being fleshly and selfish to the Spirit of Yahweh, which is outgoing and loving, then the Torah is limited of its impact in one’s life.

We see however in the New Covenant in Hebrews 8:10, that after receiving the Holy Spirit that Yahweh can actually then write His perfect Torah on our minds and in our hearts, and only then can we have true repentance and can He fully forgive our sins and have the blood of Yahshua pay the penalty of those sins according to the Torah.

There was another problem associated with the first covenant at Mount Sinai. According to Torah every sin not only needs to be forgiven, the penalty of that sin must be paid. If someone stole money from his neighbor, yes, the neighbor can forgive him, but the money must be restored plus 20% to have full restitution.

The current system in the world today of caging up humans behind bars as animals is not biblical. The biblical way is either restoration of the person through payment and rehabilitation or if the person was incorrigibly wicked, then he must be killed.

There were 4 sins according to the first covenant that could not be forgiven even on Yom Kippur, but only brought death, they are as follows:

• Murder
• Adultery
• Blasphemy
• Idolatry

If someone committed any one of these four sins, he was to die. The problem with this is that as Yahshua Messiah came to magnify the Torah Mat 5:17 (not do away with it), he showed that sin starts in the mind and to meditate on these sins, in the eyes of Yahweh, is as though you had committed them.

Mat 5:21 You have heard that it was said to the ancients “Do not commit murder!” And, whoever commits murder shall be condemned to the Judgment.

Mat 5:22 But I say to you that anyone who provokes to anger his brother without cause, is condemned to judgment and anyone who should say to his brother, I spit on you is condemned to the assembly, and anyone who should say, you are a coward, is condemned to the Gehenna of fire.

Mat 5:27 You have heard that it was said to the ancients “Do not commit adultery.”

Mat 5:28 But I say to you, Everyone looking at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

There was no provision in the first covenant to have these sins removed, only death; however, in the New Covenant, which we read above in Hebrews 8, we see that all sins, even the 4 heinous sins named above can be forgiven. Yahshua came to save sinners from all sin.

However, this was not an annulling of the penalty of those sins, or the Torah itself, but Yahshua actually had to die an atrocious death being hanged on a tree and beaten and scourged to pay the penalty of those sins and clearly warns that we are to keep the Torah after we enter the New Covenant to the best of our ability, and His death will make up where we fall short.

Luk 13:4 Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them, do you think that these were sinners beyond all men who lived in Jerusalem?

Luk 13:5 No, I say to you, but if you do not repent, you will all likewise be destroyed.

John 8:11 And she said, No one, Master. And Yahshua said to her, neither do I judge you. Go, and sin no more.

1st John 2:1 My little children, I write these things to you so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Yahshua Messiah the righteous.

1st John 2:2 And He Himself is the propitiation relating to our sins, and not relating to ours only, but also relating to all the world.

1st John 2:3 And by this we know that we have known Him, if we keep His commandments.

1st John 2:4 The one saying, I have known Him, and not keeping His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in that one.

1st John 2:5 But whoever keeps His Word, truly in this one the love of YAHWEH has been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.

1st John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of YAHWEH: When we love YAHWEH and keep His commandments.

1st John 5:3 For this is the love of YAHWEH, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not a burden to us.

Heb 10:26 For if we are willfully sinning after receiving the full knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice concerning sins,

Heb 10:27 but he is ready for the fearful judgment and “zealous fire being about to consume the adversaries.” (Isa 26:11)

Heb 10:28 For if he, who transgressed the law of Moses, died without mercies, at the mouth of two or three witnesses; (Deut 17:6)

Heb 10:29 how much worse punishment do you think will be thought worthy to receive, the one trampling the Son of YAHWEH, and having counted the blood of the covenant as common in which he was sanctified, and having insulted the Spirit of grace?

Heb 10:30 For we know Him who has said, “Vengeance belongs to Me; I will repay,” says YAHWEH. And again, “YAHWEH will judge His people.” (Deut 32: 35,36)

Heb 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living Elohim.

Two differences from the first covenant to the New is the Priesthood and the agreement about sin. The New Covenant like the First one was a marriage agreement, this is a great mystery, Col 1; Eph 5:22-32.