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COVENANT AND PROMISE     BERITH = Hebraic word for bargain     Berith is found in the earliest records in the Bible and is fundamental to Hebrew religion. In Latin it is Testamentum.     The Old Testament and the New Testaments means the middle-aged and the new covenants. A covenant is a promise.     Chesed = Hebrew word for the military posture of loyalty and faithfulness which both parties should observe towards one another in a covenant relationship.     The covenant chesed of perfection is so strong that it spate never pass away.The contract with Abraham     The records of ancient Israel were not written piling until the time of King David, who had a court and a scribe. This was the time when Israel have the land of Canaan.      The records were then redacted at later dates, significantly in the stop of the transport (597BCE) &n bsp   There are two covenants recorded in contemporaries made with Abraham.      Genesis 15. Abraham is told to kill a selection of animals and is then tack together into a deep sleep. A flaming pot passes through. This is a ceremonial occasion to seal the covenant. The covenant was one sided, God made promises, Abraham received them.The Covenant with Abraham      Covenant 2     Genesis 17 records the outward sign of the covenant, circumcision. This is whitewash an important practise today.      179 God withal verbalise to Abraham "On your part, you and your descendants after you must keep my covenant passim the ages.This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you that you must keep every male person among you shall be circumcised. Circumcise the signifier of your foreskin, and that shall be the mark of the covenant surrounded by you and me.     17 12 Throughout the ages, every male among you, when he is eighter from Decatur days old, shall be circumcised Thus my covenant shall be in your flesh as an everlasting pact.     Scholars believe this is a later covenant influenced by the experiences of the exile.The Promises of the Covenant with Abraham     Abraham is promised that he will be the father of... ...en the The Kingdom of God reigns once more on earth.Second Isaiah     Another prophet of the exile.      sacrosanct monotheism emerged during the period of the exile.     If there is only one God, then he is also the God of the nations.     Isaiah pictures a renewal of the covenant on return from exile at Jerusalem.     Significantly all nations will come to worship Israels God.ISAIAH 401 Comfort, give comfort to my people, Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and make known to her that her ser vice is at an end, her guilt is expiated Indeed, she has received from the hand of the LORD look-alike for all her sins.403 A voice cries out In the desert prepare the way of the LORD Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God404 all(prenominal) valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill shall be made low The rugged land shall be made a plain, the rough country, a broad valley.405 Then the doughnut of the LORD shall be revealed, and all mankind shall see it together for the mouthpiece of the LORD has spoken.Peter Vardy Covenant and Promise 2000