What is the Bible about? If you were speed reading, you'd notice that one of the more unusual and most repeated words is the word covenant.

It's a translation of the Hebrew word berith, and it appears more than 300 times in scripture.

You can make a good case that the central spine of the Bible can be

described in that single word covenant. In fact, when we say that the Bible is made up of the

Old Testament and the New Testament, it would be more accurate to translate it the Old Covenant

and the New Covenant covenant covenant covenant is a word

that describes an agreement a pledge a vow a good example of a covenant is marriage one person enters

into a binding relationship with another and they make solemn promises to one another.

And that's what we see happening again and again in scripture. The promise on God's side

was that he would protect and provide for and bless his people. For their part, God's people

promised to trust God, to obey him, and to repent

when they disobeyed him. And actually, there are a series of promises or covenants between God and

his people in the Bible. First, there's the so-called Adamic covenant that he makes with Adam.

Then there's the Noahic covenant with Noah, the Abrahamic covenant with Abraham,

the Mosaic covenant with Moses, and the Davidic covenant with David.

But as Old Testament history shows, God's people sinned terribly and repeatedly.

As a whole, they persisted in their evil and refused to repent and trust in the Lord alone for forgiveness.

And in so doing, they broke God's covenant with them, thus bringing about God's judgment

and forfeiting the promised blessings. But there's a glimmer of hope. The Old Testament looks

forward to a new covenant, a final covenant, that would fulfill and surpass in glory the covenants that came

before it. In Jeremiah chapter 31, we read,

Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the

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