Thank you Petro.I would like to discuss the New Covenant.Did the New Covenant Start at the last supper?Also i would like to look at the name of Jesus as spoke of in Philippians 2:9-11
9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] under the earth;11 And [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
jabez,
I'll have to look at the passage, later.
But the exaltation came when God raised Him from the grave and showed Him openly.
Blessings,
Petro
Petro what did you think?Did you have a chance to look yet?
jabez,
Sorry I guess I just forgot to come back to this and add to it.
Both Ralph and Sower have given good factual information.
After reading that can we conclude that the name of Jesus is authority,powerful?
I will add just a couple of things here, the OT was ratified in blood (Heb 9:18-22), just as the NT was;
Now consider what Heb 9 continues to say to us, speaking of the ratification of the NT;
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but
the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.24
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
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And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:28
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.Unlike the Old Covenant (Testament);
The NT Covenant was to Abraham, while he slept, after preparing the sacrifices, Abraham fell asleep, and God ratified this Covenenat with Himself while he slept (read Gen 15:9-18, carefully, and Gen 22:16-18), way back in Gen 15:1:21,
Abraham slept, and God, accepted Abraham's sacrifice, evidenced by what happened at verse 17, and what He said to him when LORD
called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,in the NT, this is what is said about that;
Heb 6
12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
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For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
17 Wherein God,
willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:18
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:19
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;20
Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.It is very important to understand this, the veil which is being spoken of is, the veil in the temple which was torn in half, which divided the Holy Place from the most Holy Place or another word for it was the Holy of Holies, within the temple, this was where the High Priest went into offer up, a blood offering for the sins of the people once every year, (Heb 9:1-8)
But all this was a shadow of the real tabernacle in the heavenlies, which was not made with human hands, and Jesus is our Hign Priest who ministers there on our behalf, where He offered once and foerever the more perfect sacrifce Heb 8:1-10.
All this was previously spoken of by Moses, to the Nation at Levicutus while laying the Law down, note :
Lev 17
11
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is
the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.God himself was to make the blood offering for
"atonement for the soul", NOTE:
"upon the alter".
So Jesus is not only the
Sacrifiacl Lamb of God, but also our High Priest, who made and offered up His own blood at the altar not made with human hands, in the heavenlies, at the
true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. Heb 8:2
How this was done is a mystery to me?? Since it is clear that nothing cursed can come into heaven, and by this sacriifce that blood because it was human, was cursed..
So, Then,
Heb 9
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by
a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by
his own blood he
entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall
the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15 And for this cause
He is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.This is why, His name is above every name.
The angel appeared to Joseph, and said:
"thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins." Mat 1:21.
"Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name
Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.This is practically incomprehensible...
I read it, and its almost as if its a story, written for children, but I know its true.
The name of Jesus in the NT, is the same name Yeshua of the OT, and by Him were all things created, this is why His name has preminence above all other names.
We believe it..........
God Bless,
Petro
