Jerry Shugart
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But then, Jerry, you'd be stuck with one isolated (English) reference to testament when the whole letter there is about us being in the new covenant, which is actually eternal, though 'new' to us. If there is a testament/will part to it, it is that Christ is to be explained all over the world, in remembrance.
All I need to prove my point that the New Covenant promised to the house of Israel and the house of Judah remains in the future is this prophecy:
"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 hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more" (Jer.31:31-34).
In this passage we can see that the "fathers" of both the house of Israel and the house of Judah are the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Their "fathers" broke the LORD's covenant and it was the physical descendants of Jacob who did that. So therefore, in the future those who will make up both houses will be the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Since there has never been a time when all of the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob of both houses have had their sins forgiven we can know that the fulfillment of the New Covenant promised to both of those houses remain in the FUTURE!
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