A covenant is a binding agreement between parties, and to ensure that the terms of these agreement is kept there are certain things that are set in place in order to administer the covenant. In the Mosaic covenant there are the priests and more importantly the book of the covenant. The five books written by Mosaic which constitute the Torah is the book of the covenant. We see how this book contains everything about the covenant.
It contains both God's role and the people role, since a covenant is an agreement. The book went into details like a modern business contract normally does. We see in the book everything down from the blessings offered by God, the commandments that the people must obey, the law they must keep, the rite and ritual that should be carried out and totally every other thing concerned with the covenant.
The people must follow down to the details everything in this book, they must not add or remove anything, they must not argue or disagree with any part of this book, for the book is totally infallible as it is not only inspired by God but every word there is dictated by God Himself, in fact some part of it is written by God's own hand. Torah is also known as the Law, in the scripture whenever we see that word, "the Law", it is probably referring to the Torah. The Torah is not the only book the Jews have, they also have the Nevi'im ("Prophets") and Ketuvim ("Writings"). So when Jesus said the Law and the Prophet speaks of him, he was referring to the Torah and the Nevi'im. The Nevi'im is considered a very important book, even more important than the Ketuvim, yet it is not in the same class with the Torah, the book of the covenant.
The reason why I am going through all this elementary stuff is because we have put the Torah, Neivim and Ketuvim inside the same class and call it the Old Testament. The word "Testament" means covenant, and to call a book the Old Testament we are hereby implying that it is the book of the covenant. Therefore we have adopted and pass the idea that the book of the Old Covenant is what we now have as our Old Testament Bible. Such distortion of what the book of a covenant is has made it difficult for us Christians to understand how covenant works and what exactly is the real definition of the book of a covenant. The book of the covenant is also called the Law, a written document of the terms and conditions of the covenant agreement.
“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 hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.” (Jer 31:33).
The word "Law" in this scripture is referring to the book of the covenant. God is speaking through the mouth of the prophet Jeremiah, and He is saying that He will make a new covenant, but this new covenant will not have a book as the book of the covenant, and rather than taking a man, like Moses, and instructing him to pen down the book of the covenant, He would write the book of the new covenant, not in tablet, not in scrolls, not in letters, and not through men, but He would write it Himself, He would write it in the heart of the new covenant people. God is saying that the new covenant will not have a letter-written covenant book, it will not have a physical book that you can point to and say, "hey, this is the new testament (testament is another word for covenant) book".
"Who also hath made us able, ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit:" (2Cor 3:6).
Paul understood the prophecy of Jeremiah, and that's why he made this statement. He didn't made the statement simple for the sake of argument, but he is echoing Jeremiah prophecy that the new covenant will not have a letter-written new testament book. Christians are not to have a book called the new testament, a book that will become the covenant book of the new testament people. Not only Paul, but all of the apostles understood this fact, the early Christians lived by this understanding for decades, until the apostles died and then rose the gentile church, a people who do not understand how covenant works, a people who have not gotten a revelation of the new covenant. This people set up a temple (church buildings), a priestly system (the bishops and pastoral system) and a religious book (the bible), all out of ignorance.
This was during the time of Constantine, a time were all kinds of corruption and paganism entered into the Christian community. These immature gentile Christians with the lack of a proper understanding of God's heart opened the door for all kinds of perversion to come into God's Ecclesia. They wanted to stop the problem of heresy so they decided to do something totally contrary to Jeremiah's prophecy and the apostles teachings. They did something that the apostles carefully avoided. Heresy didn't start during their time, when the apostles were alive they had to deal with the problem of heresy, but none of them suggested that Christians should be given an official book that will govern all things doctrinal (a book of the covenant).
John was the last of the apostles to die, and he also fought against the problem of heresy. He didn't gather all the letters and books written by the apostles, he didn't constituted a new testament book. But rather, when he was to deal with the issue of heresy here were his words;
"But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth... These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you. But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him." (1John 2:20-21, 26-27).
John didn't point to any book, but with an understanding of Jeremiah's prophecy, John pointed them to the Spirit, the inward part where God wrote the new testament. But all of a sudden, these immature gentile Christians felt they are wiser than all the apostles put together, they felt God has given them a revelation higher than the prophecy of Jeremiah, and they decided to give the Christian a book of the covenant. If such a book is in God's plan, the best person that God would have used is Jesus. Jesus was the one that introduced the covenant, he is the Apostle, the Prophet, and the Priest of the New Covenant. But rather than giving us a book Jesus said these words;
"However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth;" (John 16:13).
All of these are in perfect harmony with the prophecy of Jeremiah that say God will write the book of the covenant inwardly. Paul went further to explain this in one of his epistles;
"Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart." (2Cor 3:3).
Just as God through Moses, the Prophet of the Old Covenant, wrote the book of the old covenant, God has also decided to write the book of the New Covenant through Christ, the Prophet of the New Covenant. And in the above verse Paul is saying this Prophet of the New Covenant (Christ) is writing a covenant book, but this is not in ink or letters but by the Spirit, and that the covenant people are the epistles of this book of the covenant. Hence, when Jesus was about to leave he declared that he will send the Spirit through which he would write the covenant book in the heart of the people. This sounds very scary to the carnal man because he cannot read this book. He does not have the ability, the discernment, the faculties to read this book and be govern by it.
"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither, can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." (1Cor 2:14).
The carnal man needs something physical, a book written in inks and letters, and as a result he created a covenant book for himself and called it "The New Testament Bible". Let me make it clear to you that I am not against the letters and books of the apostles. Each one of them is very valuable to us today, the Spirit uses them and it is such a blessing to us. But "the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." (Heb 4:12).
The word of God reveals to us the works of the carnal man, and it is this carnal man that has given us the bible. The carnal man took advantage of the immaturity of the gentile Christians and decided to constitute an officially, authorized doctrinal book (the book of the law) for the new testament people. Formulating such unscriptural theologies that this book contains all the law of Christianity, that nothing can be added or removed from this book, that it is infallible, it is written by God etc. All of these are characteristics of the book of a covenant; it is the book of a covenant that is infallible, written by God, and is a binding document that all must conform to, a document that must not be added to neither can any of words be removed. The theology and the authority that we have given to the Bible belongs only to the book of the covenant, a book that God explicitly explained that he would write only in the heart of the people.
This is God's will, that the book of the covenant will be written in the heart of the people. That Christ, the Prophet of the covenant will write this book himself, not with inks and letters, but by the Spirit, making the people a living epistle of the New Testament. To go against this is to rebel against God's will, and sadly that is what we have done. In our own wisdom we have decided that the people must have a letter-written new testament book and we have constituted a book and given it that name, "The New Testament". We have gone against God's will, we have broken the Father's hearts and we have insisted on our own wisdom. The carnal man says God is foolish to not have given us a book, so he would create a book to govern God people, giving them false teaches that makes God's people detached from the real new testament written by the Spirit in their hearts, forcing them to live by their carnal faculties, trusting a letter-written book to govern them and guide them into all truths pertaining to the Christian life.
Repent Now! God will not continue to allow rebellion in his house. He has permitted it for a long time now, but He will not allow it anymore. I am not saying throw away your Bible and never read them anymore. Rather I am saying read the Bible, if you want to call them scripture, I do not see anything wrong with that, and concerning scripture Paul wrote;
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." (2Tim 3:16-17).
Yes they are very valuable and useful to us today but they are not the new testament. To call it new testament or to treat it as the book of the covenant, embracing the false theology that has given this book an authority that only belongs to Christ, the Christ that lives in us, the Christ that is the writing of God in our hearts, to elevate that book and give it a sit that only belongs to our Lord, Christ Jesus, is nothing but a rebellion, a rebellion that God will judgment mercilessly. To whom must is given, must is expected. You now have no excuse, you can no longer claim that you are ignorant of the truth, life and death has been placed before you, but if you choose the path of rebellion then be ready to face the judgement for such.
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