Faith & Reason Nexus

COVENANT FACTS:

• A covenant is a contract or agreement between two or more parties.
• God deals with man covenantally.
• In a covenant, the initiating party describes himself and what he has done, then there is a list of obligations between the two (or more) parties. This, God has done in His covenants with men.
• Since a covenant is an agreement, it is a promise made by God.
• The Bible is a covenant document.
• The Old and New Testaments are Old and New covenants.
• The word “Testament” is Latin for Covenant.
• In a Bible covenant, God states His part and His expectations of man’s part.
• Bible covenants were broken by man… Not God!
• God always fulfills His part of the covenants He has made.
• With covenant understood as a framework through which the Bible was written, we can better understand it, God’s dealings with us through it, and our responsibilities to God as well as His to us.

COVENANT: IN EDEN

1. REFERENCE: Genesis 3:15

• GOD’S PROMISE: Satan & mankind will be enemies
• SIGN: Pain of childbirth, work for bread

COVENANT: NOAH

2. REFERENCE: Genesis 9:8-17

• GOD’S PROMISE: God would never again destroy the earth with a flood
• SIGN: Rainbow

COVENANT: ABRAHAM

3. REFERENCE: Genesis 15:12-21; 17:1-14

• GOD’S PROMISE: Abraham’s descendants would become a great nation if they obeyed God. God would be their God.
• SIGN: Smoking firepot and flaming torch

COVENANT: AT MOUNT SINAI

4. REFERENCE: Exodus 19:5-6

• GOD’S PROMISE: Israel would be God’s special people, a holy nation. But they would have to keep their part of the covenant—obedience.
• SIGN: The Exodus

COVENANT: THE PRIESTHOOD

5. REFERENCE: Numbers 25:10-13

• GOD’S PROMISE: Aaron’s descendants would be priests forever
• SIGN: The Aaronic priesthood

COVENANT: DAVID

6. REFERENCE: 2 Samuel 7:13; 23:5

• GOD’S PROMISE: Salvation would come through David’s line through the Messiah
• SIGN: David’s line continued, and Christ was born as a descendant of David

COVENANT: NEW COVENANT

7. REFERENCE: Hebrews 8:6-13

• GOD’S PROMISE: Forgiveness and salvation are available in and through Christ
• SIGN: The resurrection of Christ