New Covenant - Hebrews 8

For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. Hebrews 8:7

"The time is coming," declares the LORD, 
"when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Jeremiah 31:31

As Jesus completed his last Passover meal with his disciples, he took the final cup and said, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you" Luke 22:10

I’ll throw this out there for you….there is a group called Millennialists…and they have this perspective that Jesus death WAS NOT the fulfillment of the NEW covenant that Jeremiah wrote about.

Read all you want to about Millennialism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennialism or http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Millennialism

I believe this perspective to be both wrong and dangerous. Here is why, if Jesus was merely the Gospel of grace to the Gentiles…..and not the fulfillment of the Jeremiah prophecy….and without the shedding of blood there can be no forgiveness of sin…..who is gonna die for the Jews?

…..the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. Hebrews 9:22

I believe Jesus death burial and resurrection to be the fulfillment of God’s promise to Jeremiah, the Gospel of Grace and the only way and final means of living under a new covenant. I believe this not blindly, but because Jesus called his blood the “New Covenant” and he also said “ I am the way….no man comes to the Father but through me.”

This is good news.