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This document has additional info that will be added in the understanding of covenants.
Alot of people take the Bible as words of truth. The topic in this web page will address the question, was the death of a man name Jesus nessesary, and what has the Old Testament have too say about a Covenant with death and a Pact with hell?
A Bad Thing That Is Said To Be Good.
Getting right to it, the Promise of Eternal life through
the blood, and body of the Son of God, and what the death of Jesus is said to do for an individual.
The Gospel, or Good News explains
that only by excepting Jesus as lord and saviour, and for some the God, will a person obtain
eternal life, and not burn in the fire.
There are many places in the New
Testament that informs the reader
of the covenant, and promise
through death.
The best example is from Hebrews.
New Testament
Hebrews 9:15
Therefore he (Jesus) is the mediator
of a new covenant, so that those
who are called may receive the
promised eternal inheritance,
since a death has occurred that
redeems them from the transgressions
committed under the first covenant.
A covenant with Death, and a pact with Sheol (hell, or grave)
seems to be what is being offered through, death, and faith in a man known as Jesus. Through the death of
a man, an individual can have all their sins (errors) forgiven, and a
person will never die having given them self to the man known as
Jesus. So by being one with Jesus, and with Jesus being raised from the dead,
a believer of Jesus believes too that they might walk in newness of life.
The Old Testament scripture informs the readers that such a covenant will do no good.
What could possible be wrong about entering a
Covenant, by which a death has occurred.
What did the ancestors, who were
spoken to, by The God in the past have to say about a Covenant with Death, and Pact with Hell?
Old Testament
Isaiah 28:15
15 For you have said,"We have made a covenant with Death,
Concluded a pact with Sheol.
When the sweeping flood passes through,
It shall not reach us;
For we have made falsehood our refuge,
Taken shelter in treachery."
If entering a Covenant with Death, and Pact with Hell
was discouraged in the past, how does the death
of a man accomplish anything. Yet in the
New Testament a person is said they can be
saved from the sweeping flood, like in
the days of Noah, through the baptizem in
jesus, and union with the church.
New Testament
1 Peter 3:20
20 because they formerly did not
obey, when God's patience waited
in the days of Noah, while the ark
was being prepared, in which a few,
that is, eight persons, were brought
safely through water.
21 Baptism, which corresponds to this,
now saves you, not as a removal of
dirt from the body but as an appeal
to God for a good conscience, through
the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Baptism : Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms)
a Christian religious rite consisting
of immersion in or sprinkling with water
as a sign that the subject is cleansed
from sin and constituted as a member of the Church
In entering the Covenant with Death, (which deals with a
binding agreement through Baptism) , and a Pact with Hell, the results
are claimed to do nothing, and will be dismissed.
Old Testament
Isaiah 28:17-18
17 But I will apply judgment as a measuring line
And retribution a as weights;
Hail shall sweep away the refuge of falsehood,
And flood- waters engulf your shelter.
18 Your covenant with Death shall be annulled,
Your pact with Sheol shall not endure;
When the sweeping flood passes through,
You shall be its victims.
With just sticking with the reading materials that are available to the public, the information of the Old Testament informs a reader that previous prophets discourage the people from the activity of making a covenant with death, and pact with Hell long before Jesus was born.
What is the deal, or pact made with Hell? Jesus gives one of two choices in order for people to keep from burning in the fire.
New Testament
In order for a person to enter into
a covenant with death, a person could
consider being baptized into Jesus,
and dying with him, as stated in Romans.
John 15:5
5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
6 If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
Jesus Is To Die For
New Testament
Romans 6:3
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
The Promise of the inheritance
New Testament
Ephesians 1
11 In him (Jesus) we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him (Jesus as a sacrifice) who works all things according to the counsel of his will, (Jesus)
12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his (Jesus) glory.
13 In him (Jesus) you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel (Good News) of your salvation, and believed in him (Jesus), were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. (Jesus)
It is believed Jesus, is God.
New Testament
Romans 9
4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the
adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving
of the law, the worship, and the promises.
5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from their
race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who
is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
Out with the Old Everlasting Covenant, in with the New.
New Testament
Hebrews 8:13
13 In speaking of a new covenant,
he makes the first one obsolete.
And what is becoming obsolete
and growing old is ready to
vanish away.
New Testament
1 Corrinthian 11
25 In the same way also he took
the cup, after supper, saying,
"This cup is the new covenant in
my blood. Do this, as often as
you drink it, in remembrance of me."
26 For as often as you eat this
bread and drink the cup, you
proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
New Testament
1 peter 3:18
For Christ also suffered once for sins,
the righteous for the unrighteous,
that he might bring us to God, being
put to death in the flesh but made
alive in the spirit
New Testament
Hebrews 2:9
But we see him who for a little while was
made lower than the angels, namely Jesus,
crowned with glory and honor because of
the suffering of death, so that by the
grace of God he might taste death for
everyone.
New Testament
1 Corinthians 15
54 When the perishable puts on
the imperishable, and the mortal
puts on immortality, then shall
come to pass the saying that
is written: "Death is swallowed
up in victory."
55 "O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?"
56 The sting of death is sin, and
the power of sin (error) is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, who
gives us the victory (over death)through
our Lord Jesus Christ.
Observation of line 56
The causes of suffering, and keenly in the mind or feelings
are an absolute manner or condition, with effectiveness in error,
which make up the laws.
Sting : To cause to suffer keenly in the mind or feelings
Death : an absolute manner or condition
Sin : miss the mark, error.
Power : Forcefulness; effectiveness
New Testament
1 Thessalonian 16
16 For the Lord himself will descend
from heaven with a cry of command,
with the voice of an archangel,
and with the sound of the trumpet
of God. And the dead in Christ will
rise first.