Most people seem to be very confused about God’s covenants, and do not even seem to know what covenants are. Most know almost nothing about the Abrahamic Covenant (c. 2000 BC), the Old Covenant (c. 1450 BC in actual time, not according to the timeline devised by Egyptologists), the New Covenant (AD 28) or the other covenants of God. First of all, a covenant, in biblical terms, is a formal promise or array of promises made by either one or by both parties named in the covenant. And a covenant can be either oral or written, formal or informal. The promises of a covenant are made to maintain some kind of relationship between the two parties, to prevent the breakdown of that relationship. An example is a marriage covenant, which is made by the spirits of two spouses before the face of God’s Spirit, where both of the parties named in the covenant willingly obligate their own bodies and spirits to keep the promises that God requires each to keep, promises regarding the other spouse and God Himself. So a marriage covenant is a conditional covenant, since all three parties—God, the husband and the wife—must keep the promises of that covenant. And, if one of the three parties does not keep the promises, the marriage relationship may end for all three parties.
But there are covenants in which only one party named in the covenant will make a promise or promises. Only one party will declare that he will do or not do something, to maintain a relationship with the other party or parties named in the covenant. But the other party or parties do not make any promises at all. If one party promises the other party or parties that he will do certain actions, or will not allow himself to do other actions, in order to maintain the relationship with the other named party or parties of the covenant, it is called an unconditional covenant. Of course, in this kind of covenant, there are always specified conditions for the party making the promise, conditions which that one places on himself. But he does not obligate the other party or parties to do anything in return. No conditions must be met by them to maintain that relationship. This kind of covenant may be made by a party who feels obligated to the other party, either as their protector or as one who offended the other parties at one time. In order to enter a land and maintain a relationship its people, a criminal may make a covenant with those people, promising to not commit any crimes against them. And, since this covenant does not place any conditions on the people, it is unconditional. Or a king may conquer a land and, in order to create and maintain a relationship with its people, he may promise to rebuild their land, and a promise to not kill those people nor further destroy their land, although they once fought against him and his people. And, if he does not implicitly or explicitly require those people to do anything in return, this too would be called an unconditional covenant.
So a covenant may be either conditional or unconditional. A conditional covenant may be as simple as an oral promise to feed someone if that one will do some chores, quid pro quo. Or it may be something like a king’s formal and written covenant with his people, his promise to lead them and allow them to live in his land, but only if they fulfill their promise to obey his laws, where those laws are conditional obligations placed on his people. But kings also made unconditional covenants or promises, through grace or love for the people to whom their promises were made, where the king promised to do something with no strings attached, requiring no reciprocation. A king might promise to spare a person or a people through his compassion alone. Individuals often make unconditional promises in the same way. A neighbour might make an oral covenant with an old widow, a promise to mow her lawns, keep her yard orderly, take out her trash and do other chores, all without her doing anything for him in return, purely through grace and compassion alone. And this kind of unconditional covenant, through grace, is the kind of covenant our loving God often makes with us, and the kind of covenant He expects His elect children to make with others who need their help.
The three main covenants that God made with His children, the elect, are the Abrahamic, Old and New Covenants; where one is a conditional covenant and other two are unconditional covenants. All three were initiated by God, and all the terms in each were set by God, since He is the Owner, King and Father of all. God also judges and enforces all the conditions or obligations, either directly or through an agent. And none of His property, subjects or little children have any right to initiate any kind of covenant with Him or anyone else, except through His express permission or command, or according to His laws, since He is the Creator, Owner, King and Father of all. Therefore, all three of these covenants—the Abrahamic Covenant, the Old Covenant and the New Covenant—originate from and belong to God alone. And we must remember that He created these three covenants solely for the elect who will be His priesthood, the church. He did not make them with anyone else at all.
First God created His priesthood, the church, through the unconditional Abrahamic Covenant. Later, in the unconditional New Covenant, God more clearly specified how He would fulfill His promises made in the Abrahamic Covenant. Then He fulfilled both of these unconditional covenants through Jesus. But, between these two related unconditional covenants, God made a conditional covenant. In the Old Covenant, God promised to do certain works for His church, but only on the condition that His people would first obey all the laws that He obligated them to fulfill in that covenant. So this was definitely a conditional covenant. God promised to keep the church of Israel physically safe and sound, but only if His people kept the demands He made of them in His covenant, the “laws” He stipulated and made them promise to keep. And all these demands were revealed through His agent, the prophet called Moses. So the people of the church, the priesthood of Israel, promised to live by the laws which God established in the Old Covenant, all the 613 laws revealed over a period of about 40 years. And all these 613 laws are summarized and represented by the Ten Commandments.
When God established the Old Covenant, He did it in the way every conditional covenant had to be made. First God made His promises. Then God asked the people if they too would promise to obey the laws of this covenant, as summarized by the Ten Commandments. For, in a conditional covenant, the parties on both sides must agree to and promise to fulfill the conditions of the covenant. If God simply commanded His property to obey Him, and did not ask them to promise to obey, then it would not be a covenant, but simply a command. So, in the Old Covenant, both God and His people made promises. If His priesthood, the church of Israel, fulfilled their promise to obey all God’s laws, He promised to bless them with peace and physical well-being. But, if an individual broke one’s own promises of that covenant, by failing to fulfill even one of these 613 laws or obligations, God would judge their motives and intentions for breaking that particular law, and could justly curse or kill that individual. Or if the whole of the priesthood refused to fulfill all their obligations of this covenant, and broke any one of God’s laws, God could justly subject them all to droughts and famines, to pestilence and disease, allowing enemies to kill many and take others captive after destroying their homes and cities. However, as His children, God would never entirely eliminate them from the earth.
The clearly and obviously highly conditional Old Covenant bore extremely physical consequences for those who did not physically keep all their promises in this covenant. And this was the only conditional and physically oriented covenant God made with His church. It was not the first nor the last covenant He made with His church. Also, in spite of its blatant physicality, the demands of this Old Covenant, the laws of this covenant, were actually spiritual. All its laws related entirely to the love that a human spirit should bear for God, for God’s people and for God’s creations. So this Old Covenant was purposely disguising a spiritual reality in its physical obligations and physical threats from God. Therefore, the real purpose of this Old Covenant must have been spiritual, not physical.
In reality, God clearly did not intend that the Old Covenant would perpetually force His people, His church, to regulate every aspect of their physical lives according to the physical demands of His laws through their physical strength worked according to their intelligence, emotions and wills of flesh. Rather, God really wanted the spirits of His people to love in the same way He loved, and even more than Abraham’s spirit loved, so all their words and deeds would become spontaneous acts of their loving spirits. When we realize this, it becomes clear that God merely made the Old Covenant laws to prove to a very carnal and proud people that they were utterly incapable of doing His will through their own wills of their own minds of flesh. God wanted to prove that their flesh could not even be forced to obey Him, would not be able to do His loving will even by being threatened with extreme physical loss, pain or death whenever they disobeyed. This Old Covenant proved, beyond any doubt, that it is utterly impossible for human beings to make themselves holy and good in the eyes of God. If they did not physically keep all their promises of that covenant, their flesh would die. Yet their flesh remained utterly foolish and incapable of saving itself. None of their minds of flesh were ever far-sighted enough to realize that remaining faithful to God would be extremely beneficial for them and for all others. Their flesh broke God’s Law even though it knew this would cause its own death.
But, in all the Old Covenant declarations of God, we never saw Him call it an eternal covenant, not once. Yes, the spiritual principles of love revealed by the laws of the Old Covenant are eternal, but not the Old Covenant itself. God only called His other two major covenants with His priesthood of His church eternal. Only His first and the last covenants with His church of Israel—which were not like the Old Covenant, since both of the other two were completely unconditional—were declared to be promises that God would forever fulfill. And that makes sense, because only God is eternal and able to eternally fulfill His promises, in unconditional covenants where He only obligates Himself to fulfill the promises of those covenants. But the flesh of man is not eternal, and cannot promise to fulfill its physical obligations in a conditional covenant. In the first covenant, in the Abrahamic Covenant, where God established the priesthood of the church of Israel, God promised that He Himself would eternally maintain a priesthood through Abraham, a people whom He would lovingly serve as their caring God, and cause those people to love and worship Him as their God in return. And, since God made this covenant long before He made the Old Covenant, and made it with these same people, the Old Covenant did not and could not nullify this unconditional and eternal covenant made with Abraham. Then it was about five hundred years later that God made the conditional Old Covenant with Israel. And it was a millennium and a half after that when God ratified the New Covenant through the sacrificial blood of Jesus shed on the cross. And this New Covenant fulfilled both the Abrahamic and Old Covenants, but it also entirely replaced the conditional Old Covenant.
The two eternal and unconditional covenants placed all the conditions or promises of the relationship between God and His priesthood upon only one party, upon only God Himself. In both the first Abrahamic Covenant and the last New Covenant, God did not place any conditions upon His church of Israel. Of course, in the Abrahamic Covenant, God required the males in His priesthood to take up a “sign” of this covenant, the “sign” of circumcision, so the men, as the heads and priests of their households, would remember how God would someday fulfill His promise to cut away their fleshy thinking and make their spirits faithful to Him. But that was not a condition, merely a reminder a “sign.” And it was no longer necessary after our God Jesus actually came and fulfilled His promises of the Abrahamic Covenant, through His New Covenant works for our salvation. Other than this “sign” of circumcision, God did not require His chosen people, the priesthood of His church, to promise to do anything in return for what He promised to do. God simply led and cared for Abraham and Abraham’s chosen descendants, who multiplied and prospered, becoming the church of Israel.
So these two eternal and unconditional covenants are covenants of God’s unmerited, unearned grace. There was no quid pro quo involved with either of these two covenants, none at all. In both, God promised to do His works for His people and inside His people, His priesthood, the church of Israel. But His people were not required to do anything to receive God’s promises. God clearly declared that He would do everything necessary, through His love, through His grace, through His power.
Now keep in mind, whatever God promises to do for His church in an unconditional covenant will effectively affect those people. God causes all people to become everything they will become. All honest souls must admit this, and we must not pay attention to any lies about how we are saved by our “free will,” when we decide to physically obey God’s Law or to take physical “sacraments” or to recite a “Sinner’s Prayer” with a mouth of flesh through emotions of the flesh. For the only reason that most people believe these lies is because all flesh tends to be idiocentric. Their flesh causes them to delude themselves into thinking they caused themselves become all that they became. Most tend to forget just how much their thoughts, desires and wills actually originated from many sources that were totally beyond their control, sources that God alone ordained and controlled. Their minds of flesh are too vain and dishonest to admit that literally all their thoughts of the flesh are simply the products of genetics, upbringing, cultural influences, education, circumstances and so on, as well as influenced by the flesh’s interaction with their own spirits and other spirits within their souls. Then they forget that the minds of their spirits are often far too ignorant, infantile and dull to realize that infinitely stronger and more mature spirits, either God or Satan, created all their spirits with inherent propensities that cause to think in the ways they think, then shaped those spirits to think as they do.
But, once one sees and humbly admits all these facts, one can also admit that God’s promises in His unconditional Abrahamic and New Covenants are what we truly need. God can fulfill them. God can be our God and God can cause us to love and worship Him as our only God, to rightly serve Him through our spirits’ love for Him. God’s own personal works inside us are all we require for our salvation. We realize that we need God to change us into loving and just souls, to shape the inherent propensities that He created in our spirits. And only He possesses the power to do that. We do not possess the knowledge, wisdom, power or strength of will to change and save ourselves, to make ourselves truly pleasing to God and fit to enter heaven. We cannot even make ourselves good enough to justly and wisely act in the ways that are best for the people we already love, much less in utterly holy and wise ways that actually please our utterly holy God. So we do not need any more delusions about how a “free will” can make us good and just, since “free will” has never existed in any created being that has ever walked upon the earth. We cannot save ourselves, by making ourselves righteous through physical obedience to God’s Law, nor through any other works governed by our own minds.
Through experience, we know the works of God fulfill His promises, produce strong and lasting effects in our spirits, and in the spirits of His whole family of elect souls collectively. So we place our faith and hope in God, in Jesus, not in ourselves. And it is a good thing that God does not force us to promise to do anything in order to receive the saving works He promised to do for us, since our spirits have no power to change themselves, no knowledge or source of knowledge to educate themselves enough to correctly interpret His Word, nor anything else necessary for the procuring of salvation. Thus, we do not even try to earn or merit salvation. Instead, we look to Jesus for His free gifts to save us, entirely through His love and grace. We focus entirely on Him, trust only Him to do what He promised to do, in the very same way Abraham’s spirit trusted in Him, when God’s Spirit spoke directly to his spirit. Our spirits seek and wait for His Spirit to speak His words to our spirits. Then we submit to God’s works in our hearts and lives, more each day, so we can freely receive the effects of His works, the effects that cause our spirits to spontaneously desire and do good works for Him and His creation through our flesh, which He also rules and sanctifies. Loving righteousness must be done through us as an effect of God’s works in us, not through the thoughts of our corrupt and amoral minds of flesh, nor even through thoughts originating merely from our infantile spirits.
But remember, these two unconditional covenants contain God’s promises for only one particular party, for only one people. The only ones named in these covenants are the people of God’s true Israel. Therefore, the only ones who will ever receive the fulfillment of these promises are the elect, the true spiritual “children” of Abraham, those with spirits possessing the same innate, inherent traits that Abraham’s elect spirit did. Only the potential or current members of the true and real priesthood of God, the church of Israel, are named in these two covenants. So only these people can receive the promises of the Abrahamic and New Covenants. If one does not belong to the people with whom these two covenants are made, or if one is not destined to become one of these people in the future, these two covenants do not hold any promises for that one. Clearly, both the Abrahamic and New Covenants have been made with Israel alone, and neither are made with everyone in the world. Nor can anyone choose to belong to Israel. No man can cause God to choose him, or force God to make an eternal and unconditional covenant promise to him. God chooses His own priests for His own church. God decides if and when He will make a promise to someone. God’s promises of His New Covenant salvation in Jesus the Messiah, which fulfill all of His principal promises made in His first Abrahamic Covenant, were given only to the people of Israel and Judah alone, not to anyone else.
However, being a physical descendant of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob does not make one into a true priest in the church of Israel either. Only if God chooses to create a spirit for Himself, if God decides to be the Father of one’s spirit, if one is granted an elect spirit like Abraham’s spirit, can one be a member of the priesthood of Israel, as a true heir of the promises God made to the descendants of Abraham. Since Abraham was indeed a true priest of God, and all the elect will eventually be priests of God too, and since all the elect are of the same family with the same heavenly Father, all the elect are Abraham’s true descendants, and heirs of God’s promises made in the Abrahamic Covenant. But God is a Spirit, and a priest of God serves God in his spirit, not merely through his flesh alone. So it was not just because Abraham’s spirit was one of God’s elect children that he became the first priest in the priesthood or church of Israel, the “father” or founder of God’s one and only church. God chose Abraham because Abraham’s elect spirit actively served God. Then consider how God chose only one son of Abraham, only Isaac, not any of Abraham’s other physical sons, to be a priest in the second generation of His church. Thus, God must have also awakened Isaac’s elect spirit and caused Isaac to serve Him. Likewise, the same must be true regarding Jacob and all twelve of Jacob’s sons.
Initially, God chose the elect spirit of Abraham, from among many elect Gentiles, to be the first member of a people whom He would call His κυριακοί, His church, a people belonging to Him alone, a sanctified or set-apart people dedicated to serving Him as His priests, representing Him before all the other souls in the world and bringing the needs of the other souls before Him in prayer. Yet God created many elect spirits among the Gentiles of that generation, just as He now creates many elect spirits among the Gentiles living today. Therefore, God did not choose Abraham simply because Abraham was one of His elect. God did not randomly pick Abraham’s name out of a hat. Rather, when God intentionally created the spirit of Abraham for this purpose. When God created the elect spirit of Abraham, He added all the attributes that would be needed by a priest serving Him on the earth. Then, through the teachings God whispered into the ears of Abraham’s spirit, and by all events of life that God caused Abraham to experience, God shaped and developed those inherent attributes which He created in Abraham’s spirit, until Abraham did serve Him as a reasonably good priest, although Abraham still sinned through his flesh. Likewise, when God chose only Isaac and Jacob as the only heirs of the promises He made to Abraham, it was not because all the other sons of Abraham or Isaac were not the elect. Actually, most of those sons whom God rejected as heirs of this covenant likely were God’s elect children too. But only Isaac, Jacob and Jacob’s twelve sons were elect spirits who were also granted the inherent abilities to serve God as His priests on earth. And, in our day, the same is true. Not all the elect were born to serve God as His priests in His church of Israel on earth, although literally all the elect will serve as His priests in His heavenly and eternal church. All the elect will be saved into heaven, descend upon the heavenly Jerusalem, and serve Him as His priests who minister to all the other creatures in heaven, even as priests ministering to angels.
Therefore, just as God did with the Gentile Abraham, God has always joined many elect Gentiles to His people, to the church of Israel, to the people of God’s priesthood that He created through one Gentile, through His unconditional covenant with Abraham. The Abrahamic covenant established His people of His church. Then God allowed only some of Abraham’s descendants to be brought into this covenant, only one of his sons, Isaac, then only one of Isaac’s sons, Jacob, whom God later renamed Israel. After this, all twelve of Jacob’s sons were brought into the Abrahamic Covenant, and the church bore his God-given name, Israel. For all twelve of those sons were created with elect spirits bearing the attributes required to serve God as His priests, as well as some of the physical attributes required by a priest, such a minds of flesh that are able to submit to their spirits when their spirits submit to God’s Spirit. But all those twelve chosen sons soon married Gentiles. Furthermore, during the time of Moses, very many Gentiles joined Israel in their Exodus from Egypt, even whole tribes, like the tribe of Caleb, and the Gentile Caleb himself had been acknowledged and accepted as an elder in the tribe of Judah. Before and after the Exodus, many other Gentiles joined Israel as well. Then, after the Messiah Jesus ratified the New Covenant by sending His Holy Spirit to His church of Israel, countless Gentiles joined that New Covenant branch of the church of Israel. Of course, only a couple generations after the true New Covenant church was formed through Jesus the Christ, God then scattered and hid that one, true, New Covenant church of Israel, so there would be almost no visible manifestation of it until the appointed time of the sixth seal’s revival, to begin the end times.
The point is that not all the elect on earth must belong to the church to be saved. Also, not all who claim to be Israel are the true Israel, and not all Gentiles who claim to be members of Christ’s household of the New Covenant church of Israel have actually been brought into that church by Jesus. Many who claim to be Israel, and many who claim to be “Christians,” are actually excluded from these two unconditional covenants of God, and will not receive any of God’s promises for His church. For no soul is able to join oneself to Israel by one’s own choice of its own will, since God alone made these covenants, and God alone chooses those to whom He will make His promises.
Still, all the elect whom God has already chosen and awakened to serve as His priests in the New Covenant branch of His one, true church of Israel are heirs of the promises of both eternal and unconditional covenants, both the Abrahamic and New Covenants. All these are the “children” of Abraham, sons of the promise, heirs of the founding elect priest. God, who cannot fail in any of His works shall fulfill His promises. God will save all of them into heaven, as perfected and completed souls. Likewise, there are also countless other sleeping elect spirits as well, spirits whom He will someday awaken, if not during this life on earth, then on the judgment day in heaven. And God has already named all these as members of His eternal true church of Israel, though many of them will only begin to serve as members of that church in heaven, after they die. Therefore, God shall fulfill His promises of these two covenants of salvation for them too, entirely through His grace alone. God did not make any conditions for the church of His New Covenant Israel to fulfill, to earn salvation. God did not make the Abrahamic Covenant conditional when He first created and established this priesthood of Israel, the very same people with whom He also made the New Covenant. And His New Covenant was made to fulfill His Abrahamic Covenant. God never stipulated how a soul could become one of His chosen people in His true church. God did not require one to first choose Him as their God, and love Him, before He would accept that one as a member of His church. Instead, God first created and chose all the people of His true church. Then God made these covenants for them.
God loved His chosen ones before the beginning, before He created them. For our omniscient God cannot imagine anything in part, only in whole. So it seems that He imagined the whole of physical existence in a moment, and it all came to pass in that very moment, immediately, all the past, present and future of this material space-time continuum. At the same time, God created all the spirits of all the living creatures with His spiritual power, directly, not by transforming His spiritual power into material energy. But He “breathed” elect human spirits into existence, creating each from His own substance, not simply through His power. Then He placed each human spirit in material space and time, in a body subject to the flow of material time, but temporarily, only for the purpose of training.
Thus, not one human being first loved God. All elect human spirits, and all the other created spirits destined for eternal life in heaven, were first loved by God, even while each was an idea forming in them mind of God’s Spirit. God clearly does not love and save any of His beloved children because they first chose, obeyed and loved Him. God does not have a conditional love. A psychopath will demand unquestioning loyalty and blind obedience before he or she will show favour to one. But a psychopath is a child of Satan, whose defective spirit was created without the attribute of love, and cannot think of anyone else more than it thinks of itself. But our God is the opposite of a psychopath and always loves, always thinks of others and considers their needs before His own. In fact, the only reason God created all the spirits that will live together with Him in heaven is because He desired to love and serve others. God made us because He did not want to be alone. Now we are just like Him.
A mature, sound-minded, spiritually awake elect parent does not hate one’s one’s child until that child proves to be loyal and obedient through physical deeds. An elect parent does not love one’s own child only on the condition that the child performs to a certain artificial standard set by the parent. And, once a child is loved by an elect parent, that parent will never stop loving one’s child just because that child starts acting disloyal and disobedient. Only psychopathic, thoroughly evil parents do those kinds of things! Yet the false churches have actually worship a god who is exactly like the most psychopathic of parents, a god who is formed in the image of Satan. Then those fake church have the audacity to claim that their fake, psychopathic gods are the real God. But the god of each fake church is either an invention from the mind of a human child of Satan or Satan himself.
In reality, every sane, elect parent learns to unconditionally love and care for one own child, and this love grows more each day. In turn, the spirit of every elect father or elect mother has learned to love, and continues to learn to love, from one’s own parents, especially from God, who is the Father of every elect parent’s spirit. God the Father, as well as elect human parents, first provide an example of love for their infant children to emulate. Then, once those children learn to understand their words, their Father God and their elect human parents will begin to continuously teach and train their children a greater and deeper understanding of just, pure love, and how to effectively apply this knowledge and wisdom in life. The parents will share all kinds of conversations, duties, works, experiences, sufferings, losses, shames, rebukes, comforting, weeping, laughter, pleasures, joys, gains, weaknesses and strengths with their children, throughout life, until death parts them. Then, in turn, the elect among those children pass on this knowledge and wisdom to their children, starting with the counsel their spirits received directly from God, their Father. For all must begin with Him.
These loving relationships between elect parents and their children are totally unconditional and irrevocable covenants made by their spirits, eternal promises that their spirits have resolved to fulfill to the utmost of their ability. Likewise, God has made totally unconditional covenants of salvation, through His unbreakable love and grace alone, for all His elect children who ever lived or will live in all history, without requiring any to love Him first, without requiring any of those elect children to prove their loyalty and obedience to Him. And God has never mistakenly made this covenant of love and salvation with any children of Satan, with any who are incapable of love, unable to become fit for heaven. Therefore, since God only makes His parental covenants of love and salvation with His own children, God will never need to nullify any of those covenants, never in all eternity. Now we all hear how the fake churches say that God could never unconditionally promise to love and save anyone because God must use the threat of eternal tortures in hell against everyone, as a deterrent. So those fake churche