The Kingdom & the New Covenant
When Jesus appeared on the scene nearly 2,000 years ago, He came on a mission from His Father to introduce a new covenant as prophesied by Jeremiah in Jeremiah 31:31-32: “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord . The people had not kept the old covenant, and it was time to change the covenant's dynamics to give the people an opportunity to succeed. The people could not obey the entire law and consistently slipped into idolatry. Jesus would introduce a spiritual kingdom. From that time, Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand " (Matthew 4:17). When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down, His disciples ca...