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Covenant Theology In Outline Form 35; Matthew 7:40 - 50

  Shema  40  And Jesus answering said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he answered, “Say it, Teacher.” Historical Prologue  41  “A certain moneylender had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.  42  When they could not pay, he cancelled the debt of both. Now which of them will love him more?”  43  Simon answered, “The one, I suppose, for whom he cancelled the larger debt.”  General Stipulations  And he said to him, “You have judged rightly.”    Specific Stipulations  44  Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.  45  You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not ceased to kiss my feet.  46  You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.  Coven...

Covenant Theology In Outline Form 34 : Luke 7:36 - 50

  Shema One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and reclined at table.  Historical Prologue  37  And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment,  38  and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.  39  Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.” General Stipulations  40  And Jesus answering said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he answered, “Say it, Teacher.” Specific Stipulations  41  “A certain moneylender had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and th...

Covenant Theology In Outline Form 33: Epochs & Ages

With Yeshua, the Christ, as the Redeemer-Mediator whose Person & Work underwrites them all… Edenic     Theme: Creation  Age: Pre-Classical Prophetic, Priestly, & Prophetic Age of (Mutable) Liberty & Life, & Fellowship  Earthly Administrator: Adam  Adamic/Antediluvian  Theme: Toil & Sorrow/Preschool Age: Classical Prophetic Age of Conscience  Earthly Administrator: Adam  Noahic / Aegis  Theme: Aegis/Moral Government/ Age: Neo-Prophetic Age of Human Government  Earthly Administrator:    Noah  Abrahamic Theme: Promises & New Beginnings  Age: Monarchial Age of Promise  Earthly Administrator:    Abraham Mosaic Theme: Law & Conquest Age: Classical Monarchial Age (God is Monarch) Earthly Administrator: Moses  Davidic   Theme: Monarchy Age: Neo - Monarchial Age  Earthly Administrator: Samuel (He - not the Monarachs, exercises the power of the tripartite keys) Johannine...

Tackling Tradition 87: “The New Covenant”

The term “The New Covenant” is a title traditionally ascribed to a particular administration of the Covenant of Grace.  As a matter of biblical nomenclature, what does the Bible say?  Answer There is no text in the Bible that mandates we call the Johannine administration of the Covenant of Grace “The New Covenant,” & at no point does the Bible call it “The New Covenant” as a proper name/title.  Objection   The Bible itself calls it the new covenant (Luke 22:20; 1 Corinthians 11:25; Hebrews 8:8-13; Hebrews 9:15; Hebrews 12:24). 12:24.  Answer This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.  ( Luke 22:20 , ESV) Yeshua is using as descriptor & refers to its usage in the OT.  “I will make a new covenant…”   The text uses the article *the* in Luke to emphasize that the promise was being fulfilled in their sight.   He isn’t declaring the title of the covenant.   He is pointing out that the time ...

Tackling Tradition 86: 2 Different Legal Codes?

Some people think the thief on the cross & we ourselves are not under 2 different systems of law & that the New Testament itself was not in effect at that time.     First, this belief assumes that the Bible speaks of something called The New Covenant.      That’s not true.     The term “New Covenant” is confessional language drawn from Historical Theology that people read back into the text due to several centuries of Ecclesiastical Tradition.    In truth, the term “new” is an adjective that describes every covenant emanating from God when the covenants are considered in relation to one another.      Consider the Abrahamic Covenant & the Mosaic Covenant.    In relation to one another, the Abrahamic Covenant is the old covenant & the Mosaic Covenant is the new covenant. Likewise, in  relation to the Davidic Covenant the Mosaic Covenant is old & the Davidic is new.     The term ne...

The Problem With Particularism

If the Unjust are not redeemed, then what happens to them in the final Judgment?  1 Corinthians 15:42–49 (ESV): So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.  Ephemeral bodies are dishonorable, corr...