To Covenant or not

Covenanting can by definition only be moraly obliging to those who have made the covenant, there is no obligation to those who are outside of the embrace of the stipulations and promises. Indeed I may suggest that a covenant is by nature quite exclusive. The purpose for making a covenant is to protect the interests of the individuals or parties involved is it not? Covenanting was a duty under the covenant that God made with the decendants of Israel at Mt Sinai. The first Covenant ended in less than fourty days, Moses had to make new tablets Ex 34:1 and go up the mountain again, because the terms of the covenant had been broken. God said Ex 34:9 ‘I make a covenant – all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD – Observe what I command you this day’. Ever notice that God did not require the people to make the same promise that they had made in Ex 19:7-8; this time it was just "observe to do!" God Himself undertook to make the covenant last untill its terms and conditions were fulfilled Ex 33:12-14. Why did Moses put a veil on his face? So that the people could not see that his face was shining? No! So that they could not see it fade away 11Cor 3:13 ! ! One purpose of the covenant that God made with the people was to vividly show them that new life is not possible without death first ! The law said ‘the soul that sins dies’. The end of the law is death for that all have sinned. That the covenant ended is without question, Heb 8:7,13 "if the first covenant had been faultless no place would have been sought for a second - In that He says, ‘A new covenant,’ He has made the first obsolete." Heb 9:15 "Christ is the mediator of a NEW covenant" not just a new administration of an already exixting covenant. When the covenant ended is open to discussion. When Babylon took the ark of the covenant? There is evidence that it never was in the temple built in Ezra’s time. Josephus sais that the High Priest sprinkled the blood of the sacrifice on the Day of Atonment on a rock in the Holy of Holies. Without the ark was there a covenant? Did it end the day Jesus was born, the day that He died? Did it end when Titus sacked Jersulam? It did end. Its terms and purposes had been fulfilled. All of them ! What ever term or purpose or stipulation or obligation or promise you can think of - it was fulfilled in and by Jesus ! When does a covenant end? Isn’t it when all its purpose has been acomplished? That was done in the life and death of one Jesus of Nazareth. Now the New Testament in Christs blood has its force not in His life and or death but in His resurection. The New Testament was forged in the furnace of His life and death , true, but they are not part of it. Till the bride to be stands with her intended, Rev 19:7 there are NO covenants mandated, Jesus himself is our defendant and the Holy Spirit our surity. When Jesus said ‘it is finished’ He had in mind all sorts of things – everything! there is Nothing left for us but Faith.