New Covenant Details and Transformed Hearts

And then here we go with the new covenant, everybody. "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord. Right after the time of Jacob's trouble, Jeremiah 30-31, 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 lead them out of the land of Egypt. My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my Torah in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, saying, 'Every man know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more." Amen. "For thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the ordinance of the moon and the stars for a light by night." (Genesis 1:14). "Who disturbs the sea and its waves roar. The Lord of hosts is His name. If those ordinances, the sun and the moon, depart from me, says the Lord, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before me forever. Thus says the Lord, if heaven above can be measured, and the fountains of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off the seed of Israel for all they have done, says the Lord. Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that the city shall be built for the Lord, from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. The surveyor's line shall again extend straight forward over the hill of Gibeath. Then it shall turn towards Goath. And the whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all of the fields as far as the brook Kidron, the Kidron Valley to the corner of the Horse Gate towards the east, shall be holy to the Lord. It shall not be plucked up or thrown down anymore forever." My friends, this is obviously second coming events, millennial kingdom language. "It shall not be plucked up or thrown down anymore forever. It will be concluded no more." So, the new covenant is from the time of Jacob's trouble. We are all saved by the new covenant through Yeshua, but until the Jewish people receive Him as their Savior and the Torah is on their minds and in their hearts, we will not be literally living in the new covenant. Ladies and gentlemen, we need the Jewish remnant to come in to the new covenant, which is through Yeshua, but also the Torah. Please understand that, my Christian friends. It's not just the blood of the Messiah; it's the blood of the Messiah and His commandments.

"Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, two houses, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them out of Egypt. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, one house, after those days, says the Lord. I will put in their minds and write it on their tables of their hearts, the Torah, the law, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." Only then, my friends, only then. So, my Christian friends, if this is the way with the Jewish people, God is consistent. He is not two-sided, not schizophrenic or bipolar. One way. That's it. Yeshua, commandments, Holy Spirit. That's it. That's the way, the truth, and the life. And that's what King David said about the Torah: the way, the truth, and the life. Yeshua is the living Torah, everybody. That's what John chapter 1 says. "In the beginning was Yeshua, the Word. The Word, or Yeshua, was with God the Father. And Yeshua, or the Word, is God." Please understand that.

Jeremiah 30-31 is beautiful if we read it accordingly. The time of Jacob's trouble, Jeremiah 30, but he will be saved out of it. At the same time, the new covenant with the Jewish people. "I will make a new covenant with them, the house of Israel and Judah, two houses." And then He consolidates it into one house. "But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, the commonwealth of Israel, the kingdom of Israel." When will You, Yeshua, restore the kingdom back to Israel? At His second coming events, the millennial kingdom. That is the new covenant, right after we get out of the time of Jacob's trouble. So, we just need to understand that Jeremiah said to read it at the same time. The new covenant will be right after the time of Jacob's trouble, or the last seven years of the age, or the seven-year tribulation period. This is very beautiful. We have to understand this from a chronological standpoint of Jeremiah 30-31. Take out the chapter breaks, read the prophecy within itself. It's very beautiful about the restoration of the kingdom of Israel.

In King Zedekiah's reign, he not only pronounced judgment, and judgment did occur during Zedekiah's reign of 18 years, but the main understanding is the restoration and the redemption. Jeremiah chapters 29, 30, and 31. We will read 32 and 33 later because they are not in order right after this. But my friends, this is beautiful. Most people think that Jeremiah is just the weeping prophet of judgment and all these things, but he got the new covenant, everybody. Jeremiah did, and Isaiah did as well. He got a beautiful understanding of the new covenant that really helps us to understand the end of the age timeline with the seven years, then redemption for the Jewish people, the remnant, and then the one new body and the one new man in the new covenant and the millennial kingdom. It's really beautiful where He will establish and fulfill everything that He has not fulfilled during the first coming events and the second coming events. He will get it done during the millennial kingdom, send the Torah out to the nations, etc.

Jeremiah 31 is very beautiful. As we continue, he challenges everyone who believes that he has done away with Israel, because that would be calling God a liar to say that He is done with the Jewish people, as that would break the covenants He made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He challenges everyone right here with the sun and the moon (Genesis 1:14), remember they are called the two faithful witnesses in the sky. In Psalm 89, he says, "If though if the sun and the moon depart from me, says the Lord, which they will never, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before me." And then he challenges everyone again: "If heaven above can be measured, which no one can, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, again, no one can, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all they have done, says the Lord." This is very beautiful. He makes the promises and then confirms them with the two faithful witnesses in the sky and with common logic that no one can search out the heavens above or the earth beneath, only He can do that. The theme of the new covenant is perhaps the greatest chapter in Jeremiah: the new covenant in Jeremiah 31. The total restoration at the end of the age of the Jewish people and also the believers on the Gentiles, the remnant of the Gentiles. This is, in my opinion, the greatest chapter in Jeremiah. The restoration of Jeremiah chapter 31. Also, 32 and 33 go into that as well. The major points are: God promises a covenant unlike Sinai. His law will be written upon the heart, and Israel will again become His people. Right now, they are not His people because they do not believe in Yeshua. And again, at the end of the age, they will be His people, and He will be their God. They will receive Yeshua, the blessed Holy Spirit. What does Ezekiel 36 say? "I will give you a new heart and a new spirit." Ezekiel 36 is the new covenant in Ezekiel's prophecy. We have to understand these things. Right now, His law is not written upon their hearts. Israel will again become His people when they repent and turn to Yeshua the Messiah.

A teaching point: The solution to Judah's problem is not a better king, but a transformed heart. My friends, all throughout Moses, go read the Torah. Moses, especially where we are right now in the Torah portions, the book of Deuteronomy, these are the words. Again, go read what he says. It's all about the heart, the heart, the heart, the heart. Moses told the people, the heart, the heart, the heart. The people do not listen to him. And then Jeremiah is reminding the people again, the heart, the heart, the heart. And then there will be a generation, and I believe it is this generation, that will repent and return, the remnant will, and return to Yeshua the Messiah, at the very end. I believe we are in that time frame.