Tonight I want to talk about covenants, changing covenants and what happens when people do change covenants.

When we see G-d’s covenants depicted in movies or when we picture them in our mind’s eye, we see the tremendous epic power and “help G-d,” we end up with major problems.

We have the Edenic Covenant which was made in the Garden of Eden; the Adamic Covenant made with Adam; the Noahide Covenant made with Noah pertaining to the rainbow and the Seven Noahide Laws; the Abrahamic Covenant and the Mosaic Covenant. And, we have a covenant that Yeshua, Who is G-d, made with Himself with His own blood.

That’s an unbreakable covenant that we - the gentile - can become a partaker of.

When I say “we,” I speak as Paul did. I’m a Jew but I know Who Messiah is. It’s very difficult to not say “we” because while I never forget that I’m in the Abrahamic Covenant through my Jewish roots, and that we’re all in the Abrahamic Covenant through our roots, what I do forget sometimes is that I did not come into the Covenant as a gentile. I was born and raised Jewish and now I am exalted because G-d has placed me above those who don’t know Who He is and what he came for.

There was a reason for that too and I praise G-d for it. I believe the reason is to teach and that seems to be where He’s leading me. I’m not a kid anymore and He’s still leading me day by day.

Every covenant I mentioned is forever and all the other covenants of G-d are forever. They don’t change. G-d doesn’t say that one covenant is done away with so He can give us another one. Each covenant is absorbed into the next as we grow from one to the next. Some people never grow, they stay in the old.

Each covenant also stands alone. An example is: Do not seep the kid in his mother’s milk. That’s from the Mosaic Covenant but it’s rooted in the Edenic Covenant. There are, by the way, only two parts to the Edenic Covenant. One part was to tend and keep the Garden and the other was not to eat of the Tree.

G-d created the milk of the mother to nourish and keep the health of the kid, not to be used for its destruction. So if you do seep the kid in the mother’s milk, you are breaking G-d’s commandment.

G-d did not give laws that could not be kept. Every law He gave to Israel could be kept by anyone who wanted to keep it. The laws are not difficult to keep and G-d didn’t give them to punish. Remember, they were made to keep us from hurting ourselves because that if we did “X,” then “Z” would be the result. G-d says, “Do not do this, I offer you life and I offer you death and I suggest life.” But, because we have free will, we can do what we want to do. And when we do the things He tells us not to do, we end up creating tremendous havoc in our lives and the lives of those around us.

Now remember, G-d always vindicates His Torah, His Word, His Law. G-d is the vindication of His Torah. G-d and His Word are one. His Word came in the flesh and walked among us. Yeshua came to set the Word upright. The word that explains what Yeshua came to do can also be translated as “fill in” or “fill up” but “upright” is what it means. It means to make it right so the people would now understand the way it should be.

There had been so much rabbinical binding and loosing along the way that the Law was bent over and the new generation didn’t have a clue as to what the original had been. Yeshua walked the Torah for three and a half years. He said “Brit hadashah,” - I will renew the Covenant - not a new covenant. Nowhere in the original language is it called, referred to or pointed to as a “new covenant.” The Greek word is “deyathaka” and it means “the second attachment.” The Latin word is “codicil” and that means “an attachment to something”, and it can’t be attached to something dead.