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APPENDIX ONE.
THRILLING “BERIT” O.T. COVENANT.
With all this teaching about our High Priest, let us examine an astonishing word that appears no less than twenty-two times in the book of Hebrews. It is the Greek word “DIATHEKE.”
This “diatheke” is a treaty between two parties, but it is binding on
only one, according to the terms fixed by the other. The Old Testament
word for this is “BERIT” meaning to “cut and divide.” See Gen. 15:10; Jer.
34:18,19. This “cutting” in the O.T. had to do with cutting sacrificial
animals. Between these bloody pieces of flesh the two parties of a BERIT
would walk. But, in the Genesis 15 account, Abraham was put to sleep by
the Lord God, and God walked through the bloody pieces alone! God showed
that the BERIT was unconditional by this act. This blood covenant was brought
out in Hebrews by the Greek above, “DIATHEKE.” It is always translated
by the word in English for “covenant” and “testament.” Here we see that
the “diatheke” has only One Who keeps it, and He walks through the bloody
pieces ALONE! Salvation through His Covenant is unconditional; we do not
have to do anything in order to keep the “BERIT” or “DIATHEKE.” Ask yourself,
are you making conditions for yourself which pour contempt on God’s unconditional
Covenant in Blood, the Blood of the Lamb of God? Are you saying you must
DO RIGHTEOUS WORKS in order to be saved? Romans 8:34 and Revelation 1 :18.
Abraham, way back in O.T. times, was a part of the unconditional Covenant
of God . He was a man of Grace, this is why he is mentioned in the N.T.
when God deals with Grace.
(An example is Romans chapter 4).
“Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,”
(11 Timothy 1:9).
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