As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
For each of us, we hear words like Old Testament and New Testament, hear of Covenants, hear of Commuion, and we only have a rudimentary layman's understanding of what it is. For that matter say Old and New Testament to most people and the will say it is a book, the Bible and think they are right, but they are ignorant of what the true meaning is.
In the study of the Hebrews, in Chapter 9, St. Paul by the Holy Ghost Inpsiration, reveals something which is monumental, for what the word testament means really.
God chose the word TESTAMENT for meaning. While testament is close to COVENANT, there is something about TESTAMENT which is deeper, in you will recogrnize the phrase, "Last Will and Testament"
A covenant is a legal document which is unbreakable, and it is sealed in the blood of animals for the living. A testament is a legal document which is unbreakable, because of a testator, because while a covenant is an agreement between two people, a TESTAMENT is the will of one person, who is required to die, before the inheritors receive the property of that person.
This meaning is important, because the Old Covenant or Testament was of Law. It required the blood of animals once a year to wash the sins away from the people. With Christ, His death ,washed away the sins forever as it was a Spiritual Testament, and the inheritance was eternal Life through Him.
This has been an ignorance of those who are not Christians and those who are, because they do not understand that animals can not get you into Heaven, nor good works, nor Angels if they could die or no human, because Christ had to die as He made all, but because He was in Heaven and the Gift He was offering was eternal Life with God, and no one else could die as the Son of God, to open the legal doors of a Testament so any beleiver in Faith could inherit eternal Life.
This a monumental foundation of all Christian Faith and few know of it, but it is the legal document in almost every home, and they do not know it is the contract, the marriage, the covenant, the Testament which says that they inherit eternal Life. This is the most important document in the history of mankind, and so many are ignorant of it to point of being foolish.
9 1 That first plan contained directions for worship, and a specially designed place of worship. 2 A large outer tent was set up. The lampstand, the table, and "the bread of presence" were placed in it. This was called "the Holy Place." 3 Then a curtain was stretched, and behind it a smaller, inside tent set up. This was called "the Holy of Holies." 4 In it were placed the gold incense altar and the gold-covered ark of the covenant containing the gold urn of manna, Aaron's rod that budded, the covenant tablets, 5 and the angel-wing-shadowed mercy seat. But we don't have time to comment on these now. 6 After this was set up, the priests went about their duties in the large tent. 7 Only the high priest entered the smaller, inside tent, and then only once a year, offering a blood sacrifice for his own sins and the people's accumulated sins.
8 This was the Holy Spirit's way of showing with a visible parable that as long as the large tent stands, people can't just walk in on God. 9 Under this system, the gifts and sacrifices can't really get to the heart of the matter, can't assuage the conscience of the people, 10 but are limited to matters of ritual and behavior. It's essentially a temporary arrangement until a complete overhaul could be made. 11 But when the Messiah arrived, high priest of the superior things of this new covenant, he bypassed the old tent and its trappings in this created world and went straight into heaven's "tent" - the true Holy Place - once and for all. 12 He also bypassed the sacrifices consisting of goat and calf blood, instead using his own blood as the price to set us free once and for all. 13 If that animal blood and the other rituals of purification were effective in cleaning up certain matters of our religion and behavior, 14 think how much more the blood of Christ cleans up our whole lives, inside and out.
15 Through the Spirit, Christ offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice, freeing us from all those dead-end efforts to make ourselves respectable, so that we can live all out for God. 16 Like a will that takes effect when someone dies, the new covenant was put into action at Jesus' death. His death marked the transition from the old plan to the new one, canceling the old obligations and accompanying sins, and summoning the heirs to receive the eternal inheritance that was promised them. He brought together God and his people in this new way. 17 18 Even the first plan required a death to set it in motion. 19 After Moses had read out all the terms of the plan of the law - God's "will" - he took the blood of sacrificed animals and, in a solemn ritual, sprinkled the document and the people who were its beneficiaries. 20 And then he attested its validity with the words, "This is the blood of the covenant commanded by God." 21 He did the same thing with the place of worship and its furniture. 22 Moses said to the people, "This is the blood of the covenant God has established with you." Practically everything in a will hinges on a death. That's why blood, the evidence of death, is used so much in our tradition, especially regarding forgiveness of sins.
Sin Put Away by Christ's Sacrifice
23 That accounts for the prominence of blood and death in all these secondary practices that point to the realities of heaven. It also accounts for why, when the real thing takes place, these animal sacrifices aren't needed anymore, having served their purpose. 24 For Christ didn't enter the earthly version of the Holy Place; he entered the Place Itself, and offered himself to God as the sacrifice for our sins. 25 He doesn't do this every year as the high priests did under the old plan with blood that was not their own; 26 if that had been the case, he would have to sacrifice himself repeatedly throughout the course of history. But instead he sacrificed himself once and for all, summing up all the other sacrifices in this sacrifice of himself, the final solution of sin. 27 Everyone has to die once, then face the consequences. 28 Christ's death was also a one-time event, but it was a sacrifice that took care of sins forever. And so, when he next appears, the outcome for those eager to greet him is, precisely, salvation.
This New Testament in Christ is absolutely binding. He lived. He died. He took His Life up again, and in that death, there is His Last Will and Testament which legally promises eternal Life to those who inherit this will.
It is quite amazing, beautiful and remarkable. It has been covered up by satan's deception and people's laziness to not invest the time in the Holy Ghost.
Hebrews 9
16 Like a will that takes effect when someone dies, the new covenant was put into action at Jesus' death. His death marked the transition from the old plan to the new one, canceling the old obligations and accompanying sins, and summoning the heirs to receive the eternal inheritance that was promised them. He brought together God and his people in this new way.
Hebrews 9:16 is your legal Promise to inherit eternal Life.
Once again another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Nuff Said
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