THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - The Preterist Archive

CHAPTER X
THE NEW COVENANT
It has been pointed out in a previous chapter that,
in God's covenants with Israel, both the covenant of
Horeb (Deut. 5:2, 3) and the substitute therefor made
in the land of Moab (Deut. 29 :1) all the promises were
expressly made to
depend upon conditions to be fulfilled
by the Israelites, which conditions however they
utterly failed to perform. From which it follows that
the Jewish people inherit under those covenants, not
blessings, but curses only. How immensely important
therefore to them (as well as to the Gentiles) is that
"new covenant," also called "the everlasting covenant,"
whereof God gave promise through Jeremiah! I hope
that every reader of this volume will be aroused as to
the vast importance of the truth concerning that new
and everlasting covenant, whereof Jesus Christ is the
"Surety" (Heb. 7 :22) ,
the "Mediator" (Heb. 9:15; 12:
24) and the "Covenant Victim" (translated in Heb.
9:16, 17 by the word "testator," which, however, has
a very different meaning in modern English).
These are God's words through Jeremiah :
"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that 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 in .the
day that I took them by the hand to bring
them out of the land of Egypt; which My covenant they brake,
although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord.
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with
the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord,
I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it in their
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