How New is the New Covenant? - Part 2 (Hebrews 8:6-13)
In Part 2 of this two-part series, we continue to go through Hebrews 8:6-13 verse by verse. To do so, we turn back to Jeremiah 31 to study the passage Paul quotes from. In the process, we discover who the parties of the New Covenant are and how gentiles fit in; the distinction between the "House of Israel" and the "House of Judah; the significance of the metaphor of God's marriage to Israel; what it means when God says He will write his law on believers' hearts; how it can be that all Israel will one day know Yehovah; and finally, the promise of complete and total forgiveness of sins through the Messiah. Then, returning to Hebrews 8, we learn what Paul is really trying to say in verse 13 in context--and it's not that the Mosaic Covenant vanishes away. And in the end, we find the true reason why the New Covenant is “new”, and how it all applies to us today.