CrossLinks Topical Index - CO


co-regency : chronology - kings - interregnum
co-regency - kings - chronology : chronology - kings - interregnum
coals : coals - seraphim and cherubim; fire - coals on head
coals - fire on head : fire - coals on head
coals - seraphim and cherubim : Isa. 6:6; Eze. 1:13
coarse jesting : coarse jesting - saints not to
coarse jesting - saints not to : Eph. 5:4
Codex Alexandrinus : manuscript - Aleph and Beta - disagreement ; manuscript - Sinaitic Codex vs. Alexandrian Codex
Codex Alexandrinus - background : manuscript - Aleph and Beta - disagreement
Codex Alexandrinus - vs. Codex Sinaiticus : manuscript - Sinaitic Codex vs. Alexandrian Codex
Codex Ephraemi : manuscript - Ephraem Codex
Codex Ephraemi - background : manuscript - Ephraem Codex
Codex Sinaiticus : manuscript - earliest complete New Testament ; manuscript - Sinaitic Codex ; manuscript - Sinaitic Codex vs. Alexandrian Codex
Codex Sinaiticus - background : manuscript - Sinaitic Codex
Codex Sinaiticus - date : manuscript - earliest complete New Testament
Codex Sinaiticus - vs. Codex Alexandrinus : manuscript - Sinaitic Codex vs. Alexandrian Codex
Codex Vaticanus : manuscript - earliest complete New Testament ; manuscript - Vatican Codex
Codex Vaticanus - background : manuscript - Vatican Codex
Codex Vaticanus - date : manuscript - earliest complete New Testament
cognate : languages - cognate
cognate - languages : languages - cognate
cohabitation : marriage - cohabitation not equivalent
cohabitation - not equivalent to marriage : marriage - cohabitation not equivalent
coin : fish - coin in mouth
coin - in fish's mouth : fish - coin in mouth
coins : Ai - coins from ; money - coins
coins - from Ai : Ai - coins from
coins - money : money - coins
Col. 1:1 : Colossians - written to ; index - bible books; Paul - letters - order ; prison - epistles ; Ref-1132 ; Timothy - disciple
Col. 1:12 : inheritance - believers from God
Col. 1:13 : darkness - power of ; kingdom - of God - stages ; kingdom - present ; kingdoms - only two ; unbelievers - God's view of
Col. 1:13-14 : demonic influence - responding to
Col. 1:14 (redeeming) : blood - characteristics of Christ's
Col. 1:15 : firstborn - a position; image - God's formless; incarnation - revelation
Col. 1:15-17 : held together - by God
Col. 1:16 : created - Trinity initiated; deity - Jesus creator; evolution - theistic - AGAINST ; principalities - demonic; Satan - created by Christ
Col. 1:16-17 : present - session
Col. 1:17 : deity - Jesus eternal ; science - natural law superintended
Col. 1:18 : begotten - first of dead; body of Christ - head; church - body of Christ; firstborn - a position; resurrection - first
Col. 1:19 : deity - Jesus fullness of God
Col. 1:20 : atonement - unlimited ; blood - characteristics of Christ's; reconciliation - by Christ
Col. 1:22-23 : eternal security - AGAINST - Scriptures used
Col. 1:23 : apostasy - failure to abide ; faith - examine; faith - falling from; faith - straying from; gospel - preached all nations
Col. 1:24 : body of Christ - formation ; body of Christ - head
Col. 1:24-27 : church - beginning ; church - mystery - relationship of Jews and Gentiles
Col. 1:25 : dispensation
Col. 1:26 : hidden - gospel was; mystery - secret
Col. 1:26-27 : Christ - believers indwelt by
Col. 1:27 : Christ - believer - union
Col. 2:2 : deity - Jesus equal with God ; mystery - secret ; Trinity
Col. 2:3 : counsel - scripture superior to human wisdom
Col. 2:3-8 : apologetics - presuppositional
Col. 2:8 : philosophy - vain ; traditions - of men
Col. 2:9 : incarnation - revelation ; man - God as likeness
Col. 2:9-19 : deity - Jesus fullness of God
Col. 2:10 : faith - sufficiency; principalities - demonic
Col. 2:11 : circumcision - heart
Col. 2:11 (circumcision without hands) : hands - made without
Col. 2:12 : baptism - into Christ; baptism - symbolism of; Christ - believer - union ; resurrection - of Jesus; resurrection - spiritual
Col. 2:13 : dead - spiritually ; forgiven - believers
Col. 2:14 : covenant - Mosaic ; finished - work of Christ
Col. 2:14 (blotting) : blood - characteristics of Christ's
Col. 2:15 (triumphing) : blood - characteristics of Christ's
Col. 2:16 : law - summary ; liberty - observance of days; Sabbath - no longer required ; unclean - no food is
Col. 2:17 : typology - shadow of things
Col. 2:18 : angel - worship; rewards - as incentive; worship - anything but God prohibited
Col. 2:19 : body of Christ - formation ; body of Christ - nurturing; head - Christ of church
Col. 2:22-23 : traditions - of men
Col. 2:23 : asceticism; legalism - AGAINST; religion - self imposed
Col. 3:1 : present - session ; resurrection - spiritual; right hand - Jesus of Throne
Col. 3:4 : rapture - vs. second coming, rapture ; saints - with Jesus at second coming ; wedding - Jewish
Col. 3:9 : man - old
Col. 3:10 : image - conformed to Christ; image - man in God's ; image - of new man is according to God; man - new
Col. 3:11 : distinctions - none in Christ; Jew - vs. Greek; separation - wall of
Col. 3:13 : forgive - others
Col. 3:14 : love - preeminence
Col. 3:14 (?) : love - covers sin
Col. 3:15 : peace - of God
Col. 3:16 : songs; songs - spiritual; women - teaching
Col. 3:18 : wife - toward husband
Col. 3:19 : husband - toward wife
Col. 3:20 : children - toward parents
Col. 3:21 : children - fathers toward
Col. 3:23 : unto - the Lord
Col. 3:24 : inheritance - believers from God; rewards - as incentive
Col. 4:1 : slaves - masters toward
Col. 4:3 : mystery - secret
Col. 4:5 : spiritual gifts - vs. responsibilities ; unbelievers - believers toward; wisdom - believers to use
Col. 4:6 : salt - believers as
Col. 4:10 : John Mark; John Mark - cousin of Barnabas; Paul - disagreement with Barnabas ; Paul - disagreement with John Mark
Col. 4:11 : kingdom - of God
Col. 4:11 (cf. Col. 4:14) : Luke - Gentile or Jew?
Col. 4:14 : Luke - death ; Luke - mentioned ; Luke - physician
Col. 4:15 : house - church
Col. 4:16 : Colossians - written to
Col. 4:17 : ministry - fulfill
Col. 4:18 : Paul - infirmity ; Paul - signed epistles
Colacci, Mario, The Doctrinal Conflict Between Roman Catholic and Protestant Christianity : Ref-1202
Colacci, Mario, The Doctrinal Conflict Between Roman Catholic and Protestant Christianity - The Doctrinal Conflict Between Roman Catholic and Protestant Christianity, Mario Colacci : Ref-1202
Colossians : Colossians - written to
Colossians - written to : Col. 1:1; Col. 4:16

"the status of this ‘letter from Laodicea’ is not quite clear to the reader today. . . Was it a letter originating from Laodicea, or was it a letter sent by Paul to the Laodicean church, which the Colassians were to procure ‘from Laodicea’? The latter is more probable. If the reference is to a letter composed by Paul, have we any other information about it? From time to time it has been identified with what we know as the epistle to the Ephesians (the oldest form of which seems to contain no indication of the addressees’ whereabouts or identity)." Ref-0073, pp. 237-238


colt : messianic prophecy - on a donkey
colt - messianic prophecy : messianic prophecy - on a donkey
Combs, James O. Mysteries of the Book of Daniel. Springfield: Tribune Publishers. 1994 : Ref-0049
Combs, James O. Mysteries of the Book of Daniel. Springfield: Tribune Publishers. 1994 - Mysteries of the Book of Daniel : Ref-0049
Combs, James O. Rainbows From Revelation. Springfield: Tribune Publishers. 1994 : Ref-0040
Combs, James O. Rainbows From Revelation. Springfield: Tribune Publishers. 1994 - Rainbows From Revelation : Ref-0040
Come Quickly, Lord Jesus : Ref-0079
Come Quickly, Lord Jesus - Ryrie, Charles C. Come Quickly, Lord Jesus : Ref-0079
come up : Rev. 4:1; Rev. 11:12
Come Ye Children, Spurgeon : Ref-1065
Come Ye Children, Spurgeon - Cross-0136 - Spurgeon, Come Ye Children : Ref-1065
Come Ye Children, Spurgeon - Spurgeon, Come Ye Children : Ref-1065
Come, Let Us Reason: An Introduction to Logical Thinking, Norman L. Geisler : Ref-1087
Come, Let Us Reason: An Introduction to Logical Thinking, Norman L. Geisler - Geisler, Norman L., Come, Let Us Reason: An Introduction to Logical Thinking : Ref-1087
Come, Let Us Reason: An Introduction to Logical Thinking, Norman L. Geisler - Geisler, Norman L., Come, Let Us Reason: An Introduction to Logical Thinking - Logos-0559 : Ref-1087
comfort : comfort - those in trouble
comfort - those in trouble : Job 6:14; Job 16:1; Job 26:2; Job 30:25; 2Cor. 1:3-4
Comfort, P. W. (1991). The complete guide to Bible versions. Wheaton, Ill.: Living Books. : Ref-0353
Comfort, P. W. (1991). The complete guide to Bible versions. Wheaton, Ill.: Living Books. - Logos-0113 : Ref-0353
Comfort, P. W., & Barrett, D. P. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts : Ref-0694
Comfort, P. W., & Barrett, D. P. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts - Logos-0447 : Ref-0694
Comfort, P. W., & Barrett, D. P. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts - Logos-0447 - The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, P. W. Comfort and D. P. Barrett : Ref-0694
Comfort, P. W., & Barrett, D. P. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts - The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, P. W. Comfort and D. P. Barrett : Ref-0694
comforter : Holy Spirit - paraclete; Holy Spirit - promised
comforter - Holy Spirit : Holy Spirit - paraclete
comforter - Holy Spirit promised : Holy Spirit - promised
coming : coming - Jesus comes two times; coming - of Christ can mean judgment; wilderness - coming from
coming - Jesus comes two times : Heb. 9:28
coming - of Christ can mean judgment : Rev. 3:3
coming - wilderness : wilderness - coming from
Coming Last Days Temple, The : Ref-0146
Coming Last Days Temple, The - Price, Randall. The Coming Last Days Temple : Ref-0146
Coming Last Days Temple, The - Price, Randall. The Coming Last Days Temple - The Coming Last Days Temple : Ref-0146
Coming Last Days Temple, The - The Coming Last Days Temple : Ref-0146
Coming Prince, The : Ref-0043
Coming Prince, The - Anderson, Sir Robert. The Coming Prince - The Coming Prince : Ref-0043
Coming Prince, The - The Coming Prince : Ref-0043
commander : commander - of God's army
commander - of God's army : Jos. 5:14; Rev. 19:14
commandments : commandments - of Jesus; commandments - statutes - judgments; commandments - ten - NT references; commandments - ten - spoken; commandments - ten given ; commandments - ten in NT ; commandments - ten passing away; commandments - two; law - delight in; law - keep; obedience - love - demonstrated ; Tsitsith ; two commandments - first; two commandments - second
commandments - 613 : Tsitsith
commandments - delight in : law - delight in
commandments - greatest - first : two commandments - first
commandments - greatest - second : two commandments - second
commandments - keep : law - keep
commandments - obedience - demonstrates love : obedience - love - demonstrated
commandments - of Jesus : Deu. 6:5; Lev. 19:18; Mat. 22:40; John 13:34; John 14:12; John 14:21
commandments - statutes - judgments : 1K. 8:58; 1K. 8:61; 1K. 9:4
commandments - ten - NT references : Eph. 6:1-3
commandments - ten - spoken : Ex. 19:9; Ex. 19:17; Deu. 4:12-13; Deu. 5:22-26; Deu. 9:10; Deu. 9:16; Deu. 10:4
commandments - ten given : Ex. 20:3-17; Lev. 19:1-18; Deu. 5:6-22

✪ For a parallel between Lev. 19:1-18 and Ex. 20:3-17, see Ref-0137, pp. 98-99. "the Samaritans, who had built their hated rival temple upon Mount Gerizim, and had with abhorrent effrontery dared to add an eleventh commandment to the law: “Thou shalt build an altar on Mount Gerizim, and there only shalt thou worship!” " Ref-1126, p. 21.


commandments - ten in NT : Mat. 5:21 (sixth); Mat. 5:28 (seventh and tenth); Mat. 5:34 (third); Mat. 12:34-37 (ninth); Mat. 15:4-6 (fifth); Mat. 15:19 (eighth); Mat. 19:9 (seventh); Mat. 19:18 (seventh); Mat. 19:19 (fifth); Mat. 22:37 (first); Mark 2:27 (fourth); Mark 7:10 (fifth); Luke 13:14-16 (fourth); John 4:24 (second)

"In Matthew 19:18, the Lord omitted Commandment X in order to convince His questioner, who said ‘ALL these have I kept.’ Upon which the Lord's command in [Mat. 19:21] convicted him of its breach, as shown by the man's sorrow in [Mat. 19:22]." Ref-0121, Appendix 39


commandments - ten passing away : 2Cor. 3:7
commandments - two : Luke 10:27
commentary : commentary - on OT
commentary - on OT : Acts 7; Acts 13
Commentary on 1 Corinthians, A, Hodge : Ref-1018
Commentary on 1 Corinthians, A, Hodge - Cross-0089 - Hodge, Commentary on 1 Corinthians, A : Ref-1018
Commentary on 1 Corinthians, A, Hodge - Hodge, Commentary on 1 Corinthians, A : Ref-1018
Commentary on 2 Corinthians, A, Hodge : Ref-1019
Commentary on 2 Corinthians, A, Hodge - Cross-0090 - Hodge, Commentary on 2 Corinthians, A : Ref-1019
Commentary on 2 Corinthians, A, Hodge - Hodge, Commentary on 2 Corinthians, A : Ref-1019
Commentary on Daniel, Clarence Larkin : Ref-1523
Commentary on Daniel, Clarence Larkin - Larkin, Clarence, Commentary on Daniel : Ref-1523
Commentary on Daniel, Clarence Larkin - Larkin, Clarence, Commentary on Daniel - SS-0082 : Ref-1523
Commentary on Ephesians, A, Hodge : Ref-1020
Commentary on Ephesians, A, Hodge - Cross-0091 - Hodge, Commentary on Ephesians, A : Ref-1020
Commentary on Ephesians, A, Hodge - Hodge, Commentary on Ephesians, A : Ref-1020
Commentary on Epistle to the Romans, Hodge : Ref-1021
Commentary on Epistle to the Romans, Hodge - Cross-0092 - Hodge, Commentary on Epistle to the Romans : Ref-1021
Commentary on Epistle to the Romans, Hodge - Hodge, Commentary on Epistle to the Romans : Ref-1021
Commentary on Matthew and Mark, McGarvey : Ref-1035
Commentary on Matthew and Mark, McGarvey - Cross-0106 - McGarvey, Commentary on Matthew and Mark : Ref-1035
Commentary on Matthew and Mark, McGarvey - McGarvey, Commentary on Matthew and Mark : Ref-1035
Commentary on Revelation : Ref-0214
Commentary on Revelation - E. W. Bullinger : Ref-0214
Commentary on Revelation, Bullinger : Ref-0976
Commentary on Revelation, Bullinger - Bullinger, Commentary on Revelation : Ref-0976
Commentary on Revelation, Bullinger - Bullinger, Commentary on Revelation - Cross-0047 : Ref-0976
Commentary on Revelation, E. W. Bullinger : Ref-0907
Commentary on Revelation, E. W. Bullinger - Bullinger, E. W., Commentary on Revelation : Ref-0907
Commentary on Revelation, E. W. Bullinger - Bullinger, E. W., Commentary on Revelation - SS-0024 : Ref-0907
Commentary on Romans : Ref-0234
Commentary on Romans - Martin Luther : Ref-0234
Commentary On The Epistle To The Ephesians, Charles Hodge : Ref-0158
Commentary On The Epistle To The Ephesians, Charles Hodge - Hodge, Charles. Commentary On The Epistle To The Ephesians : Ref-0158
Commentary on The Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia : Ref-0212
Commentary on The Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia - Richard Trench : Ref-0212
Commentary on the Old Testament, C. F. Keil, F. Delitzsch : Ref-1373
Commentary on the Old Testament, C. F. Keil, F. Delitzsch - Delitzsch, F., Commentary on the Old Testament : Ref-1373
Commentary on the Old Testament, C. F. Keil, F. Delitzsch - Delitzsch, F., Commentary on the Old Testament - Keil, C. F., Commentary on the Old Testament : Ref-1373
Commentary on the Old Testament, Keil, Carl Friedrich, and Franz Delitzsch. : Ref-0175
Commentary on the Old Testament, Keil, Carl Friedrich, and Franz Delitzsch. - Keil, Carl Friedrich, and Franz Delitzsch. Commentary on the Old Testament : Ref-0175
Commentary on the Psalms: Vol. 1, E. W. Hengstenberg : Ref-1213
Commentary on the Psalms: Vol. 1, E. W. Hengstenberg - Hengstenberg, E. W., Commentary on the Psalms: Vol. 1 : Ref-1213
Commentary on the Psalms: Vol. 1, E. W. Hengstenberg - Hengstenberg, E. W., Commentary on the Psalms: Vol. 1 - Logos-0645 : Ref-1213
Commentary on the Psalms: Vol. 2, E. W. Hengstenberg : Ref-1214
Commentary on the Psalms: Vol. 2, E. W. Hengstenberg - Hengstenberg, E. W., Commentary on the Psalms: Vol. 2 : Ref-1214
Commentary on the Psalms: Vol. 2, E. W. Hengstenberg - Hengstenberg, E. W., Commentary on the Psalms: Vol. 2 - Logos-0645 : Ref-1214
Commentary on the Psalms: Vol. 3, E. W. Hengstenberg : Ref-1215
Commentary on the Psalms: Vol. 3, E. W. Hengstenberg - Hengstenberg, E. W., Commentary on the Psalms: Vol. 3 : Ref-1215
Commentary on the Psalms: Vol. 3, E. W. Hengstenberg - Hengstenberg, E. W., Commentary on the Psalms: Vol. 3 - Logos-0645 : Ref-1215
Commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith, A. A. Hodge : Ref-0871
Commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith, A. A. Hodge - Cross-0021 - Hodge, A. A., Commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith : Ref-0871
Commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith, A. A. Hodge - Hodge, A. A., Commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith : Ref-0871
commerce : measure - just
commerce - honest : measure - just
commercialism : covetousness - consumerism; gospel - free
commercialism - covetousness : covetousness - consumerism
commercialism - gospel - AGAINST : gospel - free
commercializing : gospel - selling
commercializing - gospel : gospel - selling
commission : great - commission
commission - great : great - commission
commissions : commissions - two distinct
commissions - two distinct : Mat. 10:5-6; Mat. 28:18-20; Mark 16:15

"Christ gave ttwo distinct commissions to His disciples. When He gave them the first gospel, He commissioned them to go to ‘the lost sheep of the house of Israel’ but not to the Gentiles and Samaritans (Mat. 10:5-6). Later, in conjunction with the second gospel, He comissioned them to preached to all creatures (Mark 16:15) and to make disciples of all nations (Mat. 28:18-20)." Ref-0072, p. 4.


Commodianus : millennial kingdom - Commodianus
Commodianus - millennial kingdom : millennial kingdom - Commodianus
common : holy - vs. unholy
common - vs. holy : holy - vs. unholy
common grace : grace - common
communion : communion - cups ; communion - Matzo ; Luther - Catechism ; moon - communion on ; sickness - communion; X0112 - communion ; Gen. 14:18; Gen. 40:10; Gen. 40:17; Pr. 9:5; Dan. 10:3 (?); Luke 7:33; Mat. 26:26; Mark 14:22; Luke 22:14; John 6:53-56; Acts 2:42-46; Acts 20:7; 1Cor. 10:16; 1Cor. 11:23; Heb. 13:10 (?); Jude 1:12

✪ See moon - communion on. "And Ralph Erskine had reported in a letter to Whitefield: “Sabbath, June 10, 1737. I preached at half past seven in the morning. The tables began to be served at little before nine, and continued till about twelve at night, there being between four and five thousand communicants.” " Ref-1310, p. 85. Questionable: Dan. 10:3 (?); Heb. 13:10 (?);


communion - cups : Mat. 26:30; Luke 22:14-18

✪ According to Arnold Fruchtenbaum there are four cups used during the Passover: (1) a cup of thanksgiving (Luke 22:17); (2) a cup from which 10 drops are spilled in commemoration of the plagues; (3) a cup commemorating the redemption of the firstborn (Luke 22:20); (4) a cup of praise (Ps. 113-118; Mat. 26:30).


communion - Luther's Catechism : Luther - Catechism
communion - Matzo : Ps. 22:16; Isa. 53:5; Zec. 12:10; Mat. 27:59; Mark 15:46; Luke 23:53; Rev. 1:7

✪ Matzo has several characteristics which bear similarities to the body of Christ: it is unleavened (sinless), striped (Isa. 53:5), pierced (Ps. 22:16; Zec. 12:10; Rev. 1:7), the middle of 3 pieces is wrapped in a cloth like a burial cloth (Mat. 27:59; Mark 15:46; Luke 23:53).


communion - on moon : moon - communion on
communion - scriptures to use for : X0112 - communion
communion - sickness by : sickness - communion
communism : property - private
communism - AGAINST : property - private
companion : companion - as help
companion - as help : Ecc. 4:10-12
Companion Bible, The : Ref-0121
Companion Bible, The - Bullinger, E. W. The Companion Bible. - The Companion Bible : Ref-0121
Companion Bible, The - The Companion Bible : Ref-0121
company : company - evil corrupts good; evil - corrupts good
company - bad corrupts good : evil - corrupts good
company - evil corrupts good : Ex. 23:33; Ps. 50:18; Pr. 1:10; Pr. 9:6; Pr. 12:11; Pr. 13:20; Pr. 20:19; Pr. 22:24-25; Pr. 23:20-21; Pr. 28:19; 1Cor. 5:6; 1Cor. 5:11; 1Cor. 15:33; 2Ti. 2:16-17; 2Pe. 2:2; 2Pe. 3:17
compassion : compassion - full of ; preaching - compassion
compassion - full of : Job 30:25; Ps. 112:4

"In times when epidemics rage, when death seems to haunt every city home, who are the devoted ones to risk their lives in caring for the sick and paying the last offices to the dead? Surely as the vision of this rises in your mind you see the presence and form of those whose faith is in the Man of Galilee." Ref-1275, [loc. 534].


compassion - preaching : preaching - compassion
compelled : burden - compelled to carry
compelled - carry burden : burden - compelled to carry
complain : prayer - complaint
complain - prayer : prayer - complaint
complaining : elders - complaining against; Ex. 16:2; Ex. 16:7-12; Ex. 17:3; Ex. 17:7; Num. 11:1; Num. 20:1-5; Num. 21:5-7; Deu. 1:27; Deu. 9:7-8; 1Chr. 16:22; Ps. 106:25; 1Cor. 10:5; Php. 2:14; Jude 1:16-19
complaining - against elders : elders - complaining against
complete : finish - what you begin
complete - what you start : finish - what you begin
Complete Book of Everyday Christianity, The, Banks and Stevens : Ref-0972
Complete Book of Everyday Christianity, The, Banks and Stevens - Banks and Stevens, Complete Book of Everyday Christianity, The : Ref-0972
Complete Book of Everyday Christianity, The, Banks and Stevens - Banks and Stevens, Complete Book of Everyday Christianity, The - Cross-0043 : Ref-0972
Complete Book of Everyday Christianity, The, Stevens and Banks : Ref-0973
Complete Book of Everyday Christianity, The, Stevens and Banks - Cross-0044 - Stevens and Banks, Complete Book of Everyday Christianity, The : Ref-0973
Complete Book of Everyday Christianity, The, Stevens and Banks - Stevens and Banks, Complete Book of Everyday Christianity, The : Ref-0973
Complete Dead Sea Scrolls, The : Ref-0071
Complete Dead Sea Scrolls, The - The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls : Ref-0071
Complete Dead Sea Scrolls, The - The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls - Vermes, Geza. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls : Ref-0071
Complete Works of E. M. Bounds, The, Bounds : Ref-0975
Complete Works of E. M. Bounds, The, Bounds - Bounds, Complete Works of E. M. Bounds, The : Ref-0975
Complete Works of E. M. Bounds, The, Bounds - Bounds, Complete Works of E. M. Bounds, The - Cross-0046 : Ref-0975
Complete Works of Flavius Josephus, Josephus Flavius and William Whiston : Ref-1198
Complete Works of Flavius Josephus, Josephus Flavius and William Whiston - Flavius, Josephus, Complete Works of Flavius Josephus - Whiston, William, Complete Works of Flavius Josephus : Ref-1198
Complete Works of Flavius Josephus, Josephus Flavius and William Whiston - Whiston, William, Complete Works of Flavius Josephus : Ref-1198
Complete Works of Josephus, Josephus : Ref-1027
Complete Works of Josephus, Josephus - Cross-0098 - Josephus, Complete Works of Josephus : Ref-1027
Complete Works of Josephus, Josephus - Josephus, Complete Works of Josephus : Ref-1027
completed : finished - work of Christ
completed - work of Christ : finished - work of Christ
complexity : evolution - irreducible complexity
complexity - irreducible - evolution : evolution - irreducible complexity
compromise : compromise - AGAINST ; world - compromise with
compromise - AGAINST : Jos. 14:14

"But what have you and I to do with maintaining our influence and position at the expense of truth? It is never right to do a little wrong to obtain the greatest possible good . . . Your duty is to do the right: consequences are with God. [Spurgeon]" Ref-1324, p. 170. "It is the devil’s logic which says, ‘You see I cannot come out and avow the truth because I have a sphere of usefulness which I hold by temporizing with what I fear may be false.’ O sirs, what have we to do with consequences? Let the heavens fall, but let the good man be obedient to his Master, and loyal to his truth. [Spurgeon]" Ref-1324, p. 219. ". . . this is how a lot of Christians would reason; we're so filled with pragmatism: gee, what wonderful things I could do for God and for my people if I was the third ruler of the empire [Dan. 5]; just think, I could free everybody, I could send everybody home, I could just step in and solve all the problems on my own. There's a temptation there to take advantage of that as sort of an end justifies the means mentality. Too often that's what characterizes too much of Christian; it characterizes church growth, it characterizes evangelism, it characterizes all kinds of gimmicks and programs that church get involved in and the focus is well, it's going to produce certain good results so isn't it worth doing. Remember, a right thing done in a wrong way is always wrong . . ." Ref-1368, 22.274. "Consequentialism bases moral judgments on the consequences that accrue to human actions. No human action is inherently good or evil in this theory, only its consequences. Thus one must not pronounce judgment on human actions, only on the consequences that flow from those actions. The New Testament teaches us to approach ethical issues not by asking ‘What will happen if I do x?’ but rather by asking ‘What is the will of God?’”" Denny Burk, Suppressing the Truth in Unrighteousness: Matthew Vines Takes on the New Testament, in Ref-1493, 44-57, pp. 44-45.


compromise - with world : world - compromise with
computer : evolution - computer analogy
computer - analogy - evolution : evolution - computer analogy
Conant, J. E., How to Get Decisions in Personal Work : Ref-0712
Conant, J. E., How to Get Decisions in Personal Work - How to Get Decisions in Personal Work, J. E. Conant : Ref-0712
Conant, J. E., How to Get Decisions in Personal Work - How to Get Decisions in Personal Work, J. E. Conant - Logos-0463 : Ref-0712
Conant, J. E., How to Get Decisions in Personal Work - Logos-0463 : Ref-0712
Conaway, J. P. Gems, Jewels and Precious Stones of the Bible : Ref-0680
Conaway, J. P. Gems, Jewels and Precious Stones of the Bible - Logos-0438 : Ref-0680
concealed : hidden - by God
concealed - by God : hidden - by God
conceived : sin - conceived
conceived - sin : sin - conceived
conception : conception - by God
conception - by God : 1S. 1:19-20; 1S. 2:21
condemnation : condemnation - believers free of
condemnation - believers free of : John 3:18; John 5:24
Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia, Ashley S. Johnson : Ref-0830
Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia, Ashley S. Johnson - Johnson, Ashley S., Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia : Ref-0830
Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia, Ashley S. Johnson - Johnson, Ashley S., Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - SS-0005 : Ref-0830
conditional : prophecy - conditional
conditional - prophecy : prophecy - conditional
condoning : evil - condoning
condoning - evil : evil - condoning
Cone, Christopher, Practical Aspects of Pastoral Authority, 1st ed. : Ref-1217
Cone, Christopher, Practical Aspects of Pastoral Authority, 1st ed. - Practical Aspects of Pastoral Authority, 1st ed., Christopher Cone : Ref-1217
confess : confess - Christ before men; sin - confess; sin - confess to one another ; sin - confessing ancestor's
confess - Christ before men : Mat. 10:32; Luke 12:8; Rev. 3:5
confess - father’s sin : sin - confessing ancestor's
confess - sin : sin - confess
confess - sin to one another : sin - confess to one another
confessing : denying - Christ
confessing - Christ : denying - Christ
confession : confession - creed - comparison ; confession - false; Lev. 5:5; Num. 5:7; Ps. 32:5; Ps. 38:18; Eze. 10:11; Dan. 9:5
confession - creed - comparison :

"A confession designates what people do believe; a creed what they must believe. A confession is voluntary and serves to inform, educate, and inspire; a creed is required and serves to discipline and exclude. A confession offers guidelines under the authority of Scripture; a creed tends to become binding authority, in subtle ways displaying the Bible." Kenneth Dowlen, Challenges to Biblical Authority in Baptist Life, Ref-0785, Vol. 16 No. 48 August 2012, 55-67, p. 63.


confession - false : Jer. 12:2
Confessions of St. Augustine, Augustine : Ref-0970
Confessions of St. Augustine, Augustine - Augustine, Confessions of St. Augustine : Ref-0970
Confessions of St. Augustine, Augustine - Augustine, Confessions of St. Augustine - Cross-0041 : Ref-0970
confidence : confidence - hold; perseverance - encouraged
confidence - hold : Heb. 3:6; Heb. 3:14
confidence - hold fast : perseverance - encouraged
confirmed : promises - confirmed by Jesus
confirmed - promises by Jesus : promises - confirmed by Jesus
conflict : argument - cause; reign - by conflict
conflict - cause : argument - cause
conflict - to reign : reign - by conflict
conform : conform - pressure to
conform - pressure to : 1K. 22:13
conformed : image - conformed to Christ
conformed - to Christ image : image - conformed to Christ
confounded : wisdom - foolish
confounded - wisdom : wisdom - foolish
confused : confused - enemies by God
confused - enemies by God : Ex. 23:27; 1S. 7:10
confusion : confusion - from God; confusion - God not author
confusion - from God : Deu. 28:20; Deu. 28:28-29; Isa. 66:4; Jer. 13:13-14; 2Th. 2:11
confusion - God not author : 1Cor. 14:32-33; 1Cor. 14:40
congregation : hands - laying on - congregation; preaching - authority
congregation - laying hands on : hands - laying on - congregation
congregation - limits preaching - AGAINST : preaching - authority
congregationalism : elders - lead
congregationalism - AGAINST : elders - lead
Coniah : curse - on Messianic line
Coniah - curse on : curse - on Messianic line
Connolly, W. Kenneth. The Indestructible Book : Ref-0020
Connolly, W. Kenneth. The Indestructible Book - Indestructible Book, The - The Indestructible Book : Ref-0020
Connolly, W. Kenneth. The Indestructible Book - The Indestructible Book : Ref-0020
conscience : conscience - defiled; conscience - freedom - prohibited; conscience - meaning ; conscience - seared ; conscience - sinning against; Holy Spirit - conscience and; idolatry - death penalty ; law - conscience; law - found on heart
conscience - and Holy Spirit : Holy Spirit - conscience and
conscience - defiled : Tit. 1:15
conscience - freedom - prohibited : Deu. 17:2-7
conscience - freedom of - denied : idolatry - death penalty
conscience - law : law - conscience
conscience - meaning :

"The conscience is that faculty of the soul, engaged in moral judgment, that deals with issues of right and wrong, good and bad. The English word is derived from the Latin conscientiae, meaning a knowledge (scienttia) held jointly with (con) another, namely, God." Ref-0108, p. 30.


conscience - natural revelation : law - found on heart
conscience - seared : Rom. 1:28; Eph. 4:18-19; 1Ti. 4:2

"Rabelais wrote that ‘Science without conscience is the ruin of the world,’ . . ." Ref-1296, p. 574.


conscience - sinning against : Rom. 14:20-23
consciousness : death - and consciousness
consciousness - and death : death - and consciousness
conservative : giving - conservative vs. liberal
conservative - giving vs. liberal : giving - conservative vs. liberal
Conservative Theological Journal, The : Ref-0055
Conservative Theological Journal, The - Couch, Mal. O., ed. The Conservative Theological Journal - The Conservative Theological Journal : Ref-0055
Conservative Theological Journal, The - The Conservative Theological Journal : Ref-0055
conspiracy : conspiracy - do not fear
conspiracy - do not fear : Isa. 8:12
Constantine : chronology - A.D. 0321 - edict of Constantine
Constantine - edict of : chronology - A.D. 0321 - edict of Constantine
Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, James Carroll : Ref-1295
Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, James Carroll - Carroll, James, Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews : Ref-1295
Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, James Carroll - Carroll, James, Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews - Kindle-0008 : Ref-1295
Constantinople : city renamed - Istanbul
Constantinople - renamed : city renamed - Istanbul
constructing : idols - construction
constructing - idols : idols - construction
consume : eat - before morning
consume - before morning : eat - before morning
consumed : sin - consumed
consumed - sin : sin - consumed
consumerism : covetousness - consumerism
consumerism - covetousness : covetousness - consumerism
consuming : fire - consuming
consuming - fire : fire - consuming
contemplation : meditation - vs. contemplation
contemplation - AGAINST : meditation - vs. contemplation
contentious : contentious - woman
contentious - woman : Pr. 19:13; Pr. 21:9; Pr. 21:19; Pr. 25:24; Pr. 27:15-16
context : preaching - context
context - preaching : preaching - context
continual : fear - day and night; worship - continual
continual - fear : fear - day and night
continual - worship : worship - continual
Continuity And Discontinuity, Feinberg, John S., ed. : Ref-0199
Continuity And Discontinuity, Feinberg, John S., ed. - Feinberg, John S., ed., Continuity And Discontinuity : Ref-0199
continuous : prayer - without ceasing
continuous - prayer : prayer - without ceasing
contra textum : Masoretic Text - contra textum
contra textum - Masoretic Text : Masoretic Text - contra textum
contradictions : logic - contradictions, apparent
contradictions - apparent : logic - contradictions, apparent
contrasts : believer - contrasts
contrasts - believer : believer - contrasts
control : self - control
control - self : self - control
controlled : nations - God controls
controlled - nations by God : nations - God controls
conversion : false - conversion ; Israel - salvation of ; proselyte - to Judaism ; regeneration - vs. conversion ; Wesley - John - conversion
conversion - false : false - conversion
conversion - Israel : Israel - salvation of
conversion - John Wesley : Wesley - John - conversion
conversion - to Judaism : proselyte - to Judaism
conversion - vs. regeneration : regeneration - vs. conversion
conviction : conviction - examples; Holy Spirit - convicts of sin
conviction - examples : Acts 24:15
conviction - sin : Holy Spirit - convicts of sin
Conybeare, W. J. and J. S. Howson, The Life and Epistles of St. Paul : Ref-0739
Conybeare, W. J. and J. S. Howson, The Life and Epistles of St. Paul - Logos-0476 : Ref-0739
Conybeare, W. J. and J. S. Howson, The Life and Epistles of St. Paul - Logos-0476 - The Life and Epistles of St. Paul, W. J. Conybeare and J. S. Howson : Ref-0739
Conybeare, W. J. and J. S. Howson, The Life and Epistles of St. Paul - The Life and Epistles of St. Paul, W. J. Conybeare and J. S. Howson : Ref-0739
Cook : Ref-1557
Cook - captain : Ref-1557
Cook - captain - pacific : Ref-1557
Cook - Pacific Exploration: Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook's Endeavor to the Beagle, Nigel Rigby, Pieter van der Merwe, Glyn Williams : Ref-1557
Cook - Pacific Exploration: Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook's Endeavor to the Beagle, Nigel Rigby, Pieter van der Merwe, Glyn Williams - captain : Ref-1557
Cook - Pacific Exploration: Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook's Endeavor to the Beagle, Nigel Rigby, Pieter van der Merwe, Glyn Williams - Williams, Glyn, Pacific Exploration: Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook's Endeavor to the Beagle : Ref-1557
Cook, H. N. [. o. c. (1995, c1842). The Scripture alphabet of animals. Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc. : Ref-0354
Cook, H. N. [. o. c. (1995, c1842). The Scripture alphabet of animals. Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc. - Logos-0114 : Ref-0354
Cooper, David L., The 70 Weeks of Daniel : Ref-0848
Cooper, David L., The 70 Weeks of Daniel - The 70 Weeks of Daniel, David L. Cooper : Ref-0848
cooperating : cooperating - with God
cooperating - with God : Jdg. 13:12; 1Chr. 17:23; Mat. 8:2; Luke 1:38
Copernicus : science - geocentric system
Copernicus - vs. Ptolemy : science - geocentric system
copied : scripture - copied
copied - scripture : scripture - copied
coregencies : chronology - coregencies - dual dating
coregencies - dual dating - chronology : chronology - coregencies - dual dating
coregency : Hezekiah - Ahaz - coregency
coregency - Hezekiah - Ahaz : Hezekiah - Ahaz - coregency
Corinth : Paul - visits Corinth
Corinth - Paul visits : Paul - visits Corinth
Corinthian : Corinthian - epistle
Corinthian - epistle : 1Cor. 5:9

"There are two possibilities for identifying the book to which Paul refers with an existing book of the Bible. First, he may be referring to part of the present 2 Corinthians (e.g., chapters 10-13), which was put together with another part of his Corinthian correspondence at a later time. Second Corinthians chapters 1-9 is definitely different in tone from the rest of the present book (chapters 10-13)., which could indicate that it was originally written on a different occasion. Second, there is also the possibility that Paul is referring to the present 1 Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 5:9, that is, to the very book he was then writing. It is true that he uses the aorist tense here, which could be translated ‘I wrote,’ thus identifying some previous letter. But the aorist tense could refer to the book at hand. Such a devices is called an ‘epistolary aorist,’ because it refers to the very epistle in which it is being used. . . Hence, Paul could be saying something like this: ‘I am now decisively writing to you.’" Ref-0075, pp. 215-216


Corinthians : Corinthians - carnal
Corinthians - carnal : 1Cor. 1:1; 2Cor. 1:1

"The Church in Corinth was one of the most carnal churches of the first century world of which we have record. In this Church, there existed Christians following men instead of Christ (1 Corinthians 1:10-17), wordly wisdom (1:18-2:16), divisions (chapter 3), sexual immorality (chapters 6), incest (chapter 5), lawsuits among believers (chapter 6), drunkenness at the Lord's table (chatper 11), misuse of spiritual gifts (chapters 12-14) and false doctrine that included a denial of the resurrection (chapter 15)." Andy Woods, "The Significance of Systematic Theology", Ref-0055, Vol. 8 No. 25, December 2004, p. 311.


Cornelius : chronology - A.D. 0039 - Cornelius saved - Steinmann
Cornelius - saved - date - Steinmann : chronology - A.D. 0039 - Cornelius saved - Steinmann
Cornelius Van Til: An Analysis of His Thought, John M. Frame : Ref-1344
Cornelius Van Til: An Analysis of His Thought, John M. Frame - Frame, John M., Cornelius Van Til: An Analysis of His Thought : Ref-1344
cornerstone : messianic prophecy - stumbling block
cornerstone - stone : messianic prophecy - stumbling block
coronation : temple - coronation in
coronation - in temple : temple - coronation in
corrected : Israel - chastened
corrected - Israel : Israel - chastened
correction : correction - by God; correction - doctrinal; correction - rejected by nonbelievers; fear - corrective; heresy - reject ; teaching - receive; teaching - refused
correction - accept : teaching - receive
correction - by God : Job 5:17; Ps. 69:26; Ps. 119:75; Pr. 3:11; Jer. 2:30; Heb. 12:7; Rev. 3:9
correction - doctrinal : Rom. 16:17; Gal. 1:8; 1Ti. 1:3-7; 1Ti. 4:7; 1Ti. 5:20; 2Ti. 3:16; Tit. 1:9; Tit. 1:13; 2Jn. 1:10; 3Jn. 1:10
correction - from fear : fear - corrective
correction - limit to : heresy - reject
correction - refused : teaching - refused
correction - rejected by nonbelievers : Gen. 19:9
corruption : creation - corrupted ; messianic prophecy - resurrection
corruption - creation : creation - corrupted
corruption - Holy One avoids : messianic prophecy - resurrection
cosmetics : beauty - FOR
cosmetics - FOR : beauty - FOR
cosmology : science - cosmology
cosmology - science : science - cosmology
Cosner, Lita, Gay marriage: right or wrong? : Ref-1351
Cosner, Lita, Gay marriage: right or wrong? - Bates, Gary, Gay marriage: right or wrong? : Ref-1351
Cosner, Lita, Gay marriage: right or wrong? - Bates, Gary, Gay marriage: right or wrong? - Gay marriage: right or wrong?, Gary Bates, Lita Cosner : Ref-1351
Cosner, Lita, Gay marriage: right or wrong? - Gay marriage: right or wrong?, Gary Bates, Lita Cosner : Ref-1351
cost : discipleship - cost ; redemption - costly
cost - of redemption : redemption - costly
cost - to follow : discipleship - cost
Cotton, John, The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven : Ref-0870
Cotton, John, The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven - Cross-0020 : Ref-0870
Cotton, John, The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven - Cross-0020 - The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, John Cotton : Ref-0870
Cotton, John, The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven - The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, John Cotton : Ref-0870
Couch, Lacy. Introduction to Biblical Counseling (CO-101), Tyndale Theological Seminary. Introduction to Biblical Counseling (CO-101) : Ref-0106
Couch, Lacy. Introduction to Biblical Counseling (CO-101), Tyndale Theological Seminary. Introduction to Biblical Counseling (CO-101) - Introduction to Biblical Counseling (CO-101) : Ref-0106
Couch, Lacy. Introduction to Biblical Counseling (CO-101), Tyndale Theological Seminary. Introduction to Biblical Counseling (CO-101) - Introduction to Biblical Counseling (CO-101) - Tyndale Theological Seminary. Introduction to Biblical Counseling (CO-101), Lacy Couch : Ref-0106
Couch, Lacy. Introduction to Biblical Counseling (CO-101), Tyndale Theological Seminary. Introduction to Biblical Counseling (CO-101) - Tyndale Theological Seminary. Introduction to Biblical Counseling (CO-101), Lacy Couch : Ref-0106
Couch, Mal, An Introduction to Classical Evangelical Hermeneutics : Ref-0218
Couch, Mal, ed. Dictionary of Premillennial Theology. : Ref-0114
Couch, Mal, ed. Dictionary of Premillennial Theology. - Dictionary of Premillennial Theology : Ref-0114
Couch, Mal, ed., A Pastor's Manual on Doing Church : Ref-1292
Couch, Mal, ed., A Pastor's Manual on Doing Church - A Pastor's Manual on Doing Church, Mal Couch ed. : Ref-1292
Couch, Mal, Premillennial Dictionary of Theology : Ref-0216
Couch, Mal. A Bible Handbook to Revelation : Ref-0123
Couch, Mal. A Bible Handbook to Revelation - A Bible Handbook to Revelation - Bible Handbook to Revelation, A : Ref-0123
Couch, Mal. A Bible Handbook to Revelation - Bible Handbook to Revelation, A : Ref-0123
Couch, Mal. A Bible Handbook to the Acts of the Apostles : Ref-0105
Couch, Mal. A Bible Handbook to the Acts of the Apostles - A Bible Handbook to the Acts of the Apostles - Bible Handbook to the Acts of the Apostles, A : Ref-0105
Couch, Mal. A Bible Handbook to the Acts of the Apostles - Bible Handbook to the Acts of the Apostles, A : Ref-0105
Couch, Mal. Church History 1 (CH-201), Tyndale Theological Seminary. Church History 1 (CH-201) : Ref-0058
Couch, Mal. Church History 1 (CH-201), Tyndale Theological Seminary. Church History 1 (CH-201) - Church History 1 (CH-201) : Ref-0058
Couch, Mal. Church History 1 (CH-201), Tyndale Theological Seminary. Church History 1 (CH-201) - Church History 1 (CH-201) - Tyndale Theological Seminary. Church History 1 (CH-201), Mal Couch : Ref-0058
Couch, Mal. Church History 1 (CH-201), Tyndale Theological Seminary. Church History 1 (CH-201) - Tyndale Theological Seminary. Church History 1 (CH-201), Mal Couch : Ref-0058
Couch, Mal. Introductory Thoughts On Revelation : Ref-0013
Couch, Mal. Introductory Thoughts On Revelation - Introductory Thoughts On Revelation : Ref-0013
Couch, Mal. O., ed. The Conservative Theological Journal : Ref-0055
Couch, Mal. O., ed. The Conservative Theological Journal - Conservative Theological Journal, The - The Conservative Theological Journal : Ref-0055
Couch, Mal. O., ed. The Conservative Theological Journal - The Conservative Theological Journal : Ref-0055
Couch, Mal. Revelation Commentary : Ref-0022
Couch, Mal. Revelation Commentary - Revelation Commentary, Mal Couch : Ref-0022
Couch, Mal. Revelation Commentary - Revelation Commentary, Mal Couch - Tyndale Theological Seminary. Revelation Commentary, Mal Couch : Ref-0022
Couch, Mal. Revelation Commentary - Tyndale Theological Seminary. Revelation Commentary, Mal Couch : Ref-0022
Couch, Mal. The Biblical Doctrine of The Holy Spirit : Ref-0018
Couch, Mal. The Biblical Doctrine of The Holy Spirit - Biblical Doctrine of The Holy Spirit, The - The Biblical Doctrine of The Holy Spirit : Ref-0018
Couch, Mal. The Biblical Doctrine of The Holy Spirit - The Biblical Doctrine of The Holy Spirit : Ref-0018
council : Jerusalem - council
council - Jerusalem : Jerusalem - council
counsel : angel - reject ungodly counsel of ; counsel - bad; counsel - believer vs. unbeliever ; counsel - both sides; counsel - by Scripture ; counsel - example; counsel - recommended; counsel - rejected; counsel - scripture sufficient; counsel - scripture superior to human wisdom; counsel - ungodly - avoid; counsel - youthful - lacks wisdom; decisions - made without God; motivation - for Christian living ; sovereign - God
counsel - angel - ungodly : angel - reject ungodly counsel of
counsel - bad : 1K. 12:10; 1Chr. 19:3; 2Chr. 10:10; 2Chr. 22:4
counsel - believer vs. unbeliever :

"Someone comes into your room, into your vestry, and wants to consult you about a problem. The first thing you have to do is to discover the nature of the problem. You have to discover whether this person is a Christian or whether he is not a Christian, because that will determine what you are going to do. If a man is not a Christian you cannot give him spiritual help. If he is not a Christian the first thing you have to do is to help him to become a Christian. That is essential first; and it is only then that you can apply your spiritual teaching to the particular problem. If he is not a Christian it is idle for you to try to apply spiritual teaching. You are wasting your time as a minister of the Gospel in dealing with such a man's particular problems and difficulties." Ref-1369, p. 36.


counsel - both sides : Pr. 18:17
counsel - by Scripture : Ex. 18:16

"He [Lloyd-Jones] views this confusion of spiritual with psychological as serious because the psychological and the biblical approach towards helping an individual are fundamentally different. Psychology teaches a person how to look within and how to analyse one's mind and motives. It assumes that the primary need is to possess a knowledge of oneself. According to Scripture this is entirely ineffective in dealing with spiritual problems because the starting point has to be knowledge about God. The only practical way to provide help for the individual is, therefore, by means of teaching or doctrine, and because that teaching is the same for all he regarded the whole idea that every person needs a spiritual advisor as entirely fallacious." Ref-0935, pp. 403-404.


counsel - example : 2S. 19:5
counsel - God seeks none : sovereign - God
counsel - God's not sought : decisions - made without God
counsel - motivation : motivation - for Christian living
counsel - recommended : Pr. 11:14; Pr. 13:10; Pr. 12:15; Pr. 13:10; Pr. 15:22; Pr. 19:20; Pr. 20:5; Pr. 20:18; Pr. 24:6; Pr. 27:9
counsel - rejected : 2S. 24:2-4
counsel - scripture sufficient : 2Ti. 3:16-17; 2Pe. 1:3
counsel - scripture superior to human wisdom : Job 12:17-25; Ps. 1:1; 1Cor. 3:19; Eph. 5:18-19; Col. 2:3; Heb. 4:12
counsel - ungodly - avoid : Ps. 1:1
counsel - youthful - lacks wisdom : 1K. 12:6-11
courage : prophet - courage
courage - prophet : prophet - courage
court : elders - 24 as court; sue - brothers
court - 24 elders : elders - 24 as court
court - taking brothers to : sue - brothers
court of Gentiles : temple - soreg
court of Gentiles - fence : temple - soreg
covenant : animals - peaceful ; Antichrist - covenant made ; blood - covenant; book - of covenant; chronology - B.C. 0975 - Davidic covenant - Steinmann ; chronology - B.C. 1850 - Abrahamic Covenant ; chronology - B.C. 2055 - Abraham - covenant - Anderson ; covenant - Aaronic; covenant - Abraham and Abimelech; covenant - Abrahamic; covenant - Abrahamic - circumcision; covenant - Abrahamic - distinct from Mosaic ; covenant - Abrahamic - Gentiles participate; covenant - Abrahamic - witnesses; covenant - Abrahamic unconditional ; covenant - animals cut in two; covenant - broken ; covenant - Davidic ; covenant - Davidic - occupation conditional; covenant - Davidic - salt; covenant - Davidic - unconditional; covenant - Davidic house built by God; covenant - Hezekiah; covenant - immutable; covenant - Isaac with Philistines; covenant - Jacob and Laban; covenant - Jehoiada; covenant - Jonathan and David; covenant - Joshua; covenant - Josiah; covenant - keeper - God; covenant - land ; covenant - land - borders ; covenant - land - dispossessed ; covenant - land - dispossessed - profanes God's name; covenant - land - Gentile origin; covenant - land - heavenly? ; covenant - land - inheritance; covenant - land - land owned by God ; covenant - land - new covenant relationship ; covenant - land - new testament ; covenant - land - occupation conditional ; covenant - land - unfulfilled ; covenant - Messiah as; covenant - Mosaic ; covenant - Mosaic - blessings upon obedience; covenant - Mosaic - broken; covenant - Mosaic - conditional; covenant - Mosaic - curses upon disobedience; covenant - Mosaic - renewed; covenant - Mosaic - spans generations; covenant - Mosaic - to Israel; covenant - Mosaic - vengeance of; covenant - new ; covenant - new - church ; covenant - new - distinct from Mosaic law ; covenant - new - everlasting ; covenant - new - ministers of; covenant - new - passages - Henebury ; covenant - new - provisions ; covenant - new - sin forgiven; covenant - new - two - old view ; covenant - new - unconditional; covenant - new - with Israel ; covenant - Noahic; covenant - peace; covenant - peace with animals; covenant - peace with nations ; covenant - priestly ; covenant - prince of ; covenant - prohibited with enemies; covenant - remembered ; covenant - responsibility to keep; covenant - salt; covenant - signs of; covenant - unconditional ; covenant - with death; covenant theology - origin ; Gibeonites - covenant with ; marriage - covenant
covenant - Aaronic : Num. 18:19
covenant - Abraham - date - Anderson : chronology - B.C. 2055 - Abraham - covenant - Anderson
covenant - Abraham and Abimelech : Gen. 21:27
covenant - Abrahamic : Gen. 12:1-3; Gen. 13:14-17; Gen. 15:1-21; Gen. 17:1-21; Gen. 22:15-18; Gen. 26:3-5; Gen. 28:13; Gen. 50:24; Ex. 2:24; Ex. 6:3-8; Ex. 32:13; Lev. 26:42-44; Deu. 1:8; Deu. 9:27; Num. 32:11; Deu. 4:31; Deu. 9:5; Deu. 29:13; Deu. 34:4; Jdg. 2:1; 2K. 13:23; 1Chr. 16:15-22; 2Chr. 20:7; Ne. 9:8; Ps. 105:8-15; Mic. 7:20; Mat. 22:32; Luke 1:55-56; Luke 1:72-73; Acts 3:25; Acts 26:6-7; Rom. 4:2-3; Rom. 4:9-22; Rom. 9:4; Rom. 9:7-13; Gal. 3:6-9; Gal. 3:14-19; Gal. 3:29; Gal. 4:28; Eph. 2:12; Heb. 6:13-18
covenant - Abrahamic - circumcision : Gen. 17:10
covenant - Abrahamic - date : chronology - B.C. 1850 - Abrahamic Covenant
covenant - Abrahamic - distinct from Mosaic : Deu. 5:2-3; Rom. 4:13-16; Gal. 3:17-19

"The Mosaic covenant reaches its summit in the Crucifixion (Gal. 2:19-20; 3:13), the Abrahamic covenant in the Resurrection (Heb. 11:19; Rom. 4:17,19,23-25). But they both belong together. For the sinner is to be redeemed, and to this end renewal and new birth are needful. But the new birth has man's conversion as a presupposition, and conversion is twofold; a turning from and a turning to, a NO to oneself, and a YES to God, or, as the New Testament puts it, Repentance and Faith." Ref-0197, p. 122. In Deuteronomy 5:2, Moses distinguishes the covenant at Sinai (“made with us”) from the Abrahamic covenant (“made with our fathers”).


covenant - Abrahamic - Gentiles participate : Gal. 3:24
covenant - Abrahamic - witnesses : Gen. 15:17; Heb. 6:18
covenant - Abrahamic unconditional : Gen. 17:7; Gen. 17:13; Gen. 17:19; Lev. 26:42-45; 1Chr. 16:16-17; Ps. 105:9-10; Gal. 3:15; Gal. 3:20

✪ Paul contrasts the unconditional Abrahamic covenant with man-made covenants in Gal. 3:15 placing it in a different category. In Gal. 3:20 Paul appears to be emphasizing the contrast between a man-made covenant (which mediates between two parties) and the Abrahamic covenant which Abraham did not participate in. Unlike the giving of the Mosaic Law where Moses mediated between God and the Israelites, with the Abrahamic covenant God was both the promise-giver and the mediator.


covenant - animals cut in two : Gen. 15:10; Jer. 34:18; Mat. 24:51
covenant - Antichrist makes : Antichrist - covenant made
covenant - blood : blood - covenant
covenant - book of : book - of covenant
covenant - broken : Deu. 31:16; Deu. 31:20; Jdg. 2:20; Jos. 23:16; 1K. 16:10 (?); Ps. 55:20; Ps. 78:10; Ps. 78:37; Isa. 28:18; Isa. 33:8; Jer. 31:32; Dan. 9:27; Dan. 11:22 (?); Zec. 11:10-11

✪ Questionable: 1K. 16:10 (?); Dan. 11:22 (?);


covenant - Davidic : 2S. 7:8-17; 2S. 7:19; 2S. 23:5; 1K. 11:36; 1K. 8:25; 1K. 15:4; 2K. 8:19; 2K. 19:34; 2K. 20:6; 1Chr. 17:9-16; 1Chr. 17:27; 1Chr. 22:10; 2Chr. 6:15-17; 2Chr. 7:18; 2Chr. 13:5; 2Chr. 21:7; Ps. 2:6-8 (?); Ps. 78:70-72; Ps. 89:3-4; Ps. 89:19-51; Ps. 132:10-12; Isa. 9:7; Isa. 11:1; Isa. 37:35; Isa. 55:3; Jer. 22:30; Jer. 23:5-6; Jer. 30:9; Jer. 33:14-17; Jer. 33:19-26; Jer. 36:30; Eze. 37:24-25; Hos. 3:4-5; Amos 9:11-12; Luke 1:32-33; Luke 1:69-70; Acts 2:29-32; Acts 13:22-23; Acts 13:32-37; Acts 15:16-17; Rom. 9:4

✪ Questionable: Ps. 2:6-8 (?);


covenant - Davidic - date - Steinmann : chronology - B.C. 0975 - Davidic covenant - Steinmann
covenant - Davidic - occupation conditional : 1K. 2:4; 1K. 6:12; 2Chr. 7:17; Ps. 132:12; 1Chr. 28:7; Jer. 3:19; Jer. 22:30; Jer. 17:24-25; Jer. 36:30
covenant - Davidic - salt : 2Chr. 13:5
covenant - Davidic - unconditional : 2S. 7:13; 2S. 7:16; 2S. 7:19; 2S. 23:5; 2K. 8:19; 1Chr. 17:12; 1Chr. 22:10; 2Chr. 21:7; Ps. 89:19-20; Ps. 89:26-37; Isa. 55:3; Eze. 37:25
covenant - Davidic house built by God : 1Chr. 17:10
covenant - grace - origin : covenant theology - origin
covenant - Hezekiah : 2Chr. 29:3; 2Chr. 29:10
covenant - immutable : Heb. 6:13; Heb. 6:16-18
covenant - Isaac with Philistines : Gen. 26:28
covenant - Jacob and Laban : Gen. 31:44
covenant - Jehoiada : 2K. 11:17
covenant - Jonathan and David : 1S. 18:3; 1S. 20:8; 1S. 20:16; 1S. 23:18; 2S. 21:7
covenant - Joshua : Jos. 24:25
covenant - Josiah : 2Chr. 34:29
covenant - keeper - God : Ne. 1:5
covenant - land : Gen. 12:1; Gen. 12:6-7; Gen. 13:14; Gen. 15:7; Gen. 15:18; Gen. 24:7; Gen. 26:4; Gen. 28:4; Gen. 28:13; Gen. 35:12; Gen. 48:4; Ex. 3:8; Ex. 3:17; Ex. 6:4; Ex. 6:8; Ex. 12:25; Ex. 13:5; Ex. 13:11; Ex. 32:13; Ex. 33:1; Lev. 20:24; Num. 15:2; Deu. 1:8; Deu. 4:38; Deu. 5:31; Deu. 6:1; Deu. 6:18; Deu. 6:23; Deu. 7:1; Deu. 9:5; Deu. 10:11; Deu. 11:22; Deu. 15:4; Deu. 29:1; Deu. 29:9; Deu. 29:12; Deu. 30:1-5; Deu. 30:16-20; Deu. 31:7; Deu. 31:20-23; Deu. 32:52; Deu. 34:4; Jos. 21:43; Jos. 23:5; 1Chr. 16:18; 1Chr. 17:9; Ne. 9:8; Ps. 80:8-9; Ps. 105:11; Isa. 14:1; Isa. 60:21; Jer. 11:5; Jer. 16:15; Jer. 32:41; Eze. 37:14; Eze. 37:25; Amos 9:15; Acts 7:5

"A critic of Israel once asked a Jew, “Why couldn't you Jews just accept a country like Uganda? Why do you have to go back only to Israel? Equal to the question, the Jew replied, “Why do I go all the way across the country to see my grandmother, when there are plenty of old ladies nearby?”" Ref-1356, p. 1.


covenant - land - borders : Gen. 13:15; Gen. 15:18-21; Gen. 17:8; Ex. 23:31; Num. 34:2-12; Deu. 1:7; Deu. 3:27-28; Deu. 11:24; Deu. 34:1-4; Jos. 1:4; Jos. 13:1; Jos. 13:7-8; 2S. 8:3; 1Chr. 5:9; 1Chr. 18:3; 2Chr. 9:26; Ps. 105:11; Eze. 20:42; Eze. 37:25; Eze. 47:13-28

"A biblical and Talmudic scholar, [Rabbi Israel] Ariel is a researcher whose published writings include an Atlas of the Land of Israel: Its Boundaries According to the Sources, the first of a projected four-volume work which argues that the original boundaries of the land promised to Abraham extend west to east from a point near the Suez Canal to the Persian Gulf, and north to south from northern Syria along the Euphrates River to a boundary line running from Eliat on the Red Sea to the border with Persia. Within these boundaries today fall the countries of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and portions of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. According to Ariel, when the Temple is rebuilt and all those outside the land of Israel return, these lands will provide the necessary room for the increased population." Ref-0144, pp. 105-106. Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Mannaseh received land east of the Jordan (Num. 32:33; Deu. 3:12-17; Jos. 13:7-8; 22:4) east of the borders given in Numbers 34:2. Many verses (Deu. 30:5; Eze. 36:28; 37:25) indicate the promised land is a literal region on earth (‘where your fathers dwelt’) and not a hazy spiritual notion of redemption. For a map of the millennial boundaries of the promised land, see Ref-1356, p. 32. Moses is instructed to ascend Mt. Pisgah and look in all four cardinal directions: all the land he sees is part of the inheritance, including land eastward (Deu. 3:27-28). "The idea that the national home might be founded elsewhere than in Palestine, mooted more than once, was finally rejected in Basel at the Seventh [Zionist] Congress in 1905. Here the tentative offer made two years earlier by the British government, under which the Zionist organization was provisionally to be granted 6,000 square miles of East Africa, was firmly turned down." Ref-1505, p. 375.


covenant - land - dispossessed : Deu. 4:38; Deu. 6:10-11; Deu. 7:22-24; Deu. 9:1-6; Deu. 12:29-31; Ps. 125:3; Eze. 36:20-23

"Land for peace. Remember? Well, during the past decade, Israel gave the land--evacuating South Lebanon in 2000 and Gaza in 2005. What did it get? An intensification of belligerency, heavy militarization of the enemy side, multiple kidnappings, cross-border attacks and, from Gaza, years of unrelenting rocket attack. . . . Israel gave up land without peace in South Lebanon in 2000 and, in return, received war--the Lebanon war of 2006--and 50,000 Hezbollah missiles now targeted on the Israeli homeland. In 2005, Israel gave up land without peace in Gaza, and again was rewarded with war--and constant rocket attack from an openly genocidal Palestinian mini-state." Ref-1414, pp. 242-243,247.


covenant - land - dispossessed - profanes God's name : Num. 14:15-16; Isa. 52:5; Eze. 36:20-23; Rom. 2:24
covenant - land - Gentile origin : Ps. 105:44; Ps. 135:10; Ps. 136:17
covenant - land - heavenly? :

"Also consider Calvin’s explanation of the Lord’s promise in Jer. 32:37-41 of an “everlasting covenant” with those whom He would “gather . . . from all the lands where I have banished them” and “plant them faithfully in this land”; . . . God plants us now in the holy land, when he grafts us into the body of Christ. [J. Calvin, The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah (Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1854), 220-21]" Ref-1263, p. 7. ". . . Chapman, Wright, Sizer, and Robertson wrongly identify the land with the shadowy nature of the Mosaic covenant, they also ignore the fact that Jeremiah 31, where the new covenant supersedes the old, is further described in Jeremiah 32. Here it is an "everlasting covenant" (v. 40) including God's promise that He "will plant them [Israel] faithfully in this land with all my mind and heart" (v. 41) "because I will restore their fortunes" (v. 44). Plainly, the land is part of the inheritance of the new covenant (see Ezek 36:24-28; 37:1-14)." Ref-1263, pp. 97-98 "Paul's point is exactly the same in Rom 4:13–22—Abraham's justification was not by law, but by faith in God's promise of innumerable descendants. Thus, the phrase “that he would be heir of the world” should be related to the promises quoted in Rom 4:17–18. In Romans 4, Paul makes clear that Abraham's justification was based on his faith in two promises: the promise that he would be the “father of many nations” (v. 17, where Paul quotes Gen 17:5) and the promise that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars (v. 18, where Paul quotes Gen 15:5). These promises were made to Abraham in the OT, so they give Abraham concrete revealed truth to believe—and because Abraham believed these promises (vv. 20–21), he was justified by faith (v. 22, where Paul quotes Gen 15:6). Therefore the main problem with the expansion of the land view is that it makes no sense for Abraham to be justified through faith in a promise never revealed to him. The expansion of the land view leaves Abraham with no concrete revealed truth to have believed since God did not reveal to him that he would inherit the entire physical territory of the world." -- Nelson S. Hsieh, Abraham as 'Heir of the World': Does Romans_4:13 Expand the Old Testament Abrahamic Land Promises?, 2015061701.pdf, p. 107.


covenant - land - inheritance : Gen. 15:7-8; Ex. 32:13; Num. 33:53-54; Num. 34:2; Deu. 4:38; Deu. 15:4; Deu. 31:7; Jos. 11:23; Jos. 13:6-7; Jos. 23:4; 1Chr. 16:18; Ps. 105:11; Ps. 135:12; Ps. 136:21-22; Isa. 49:8; Isa. 60:21; Jer. 12:14; Jer. 31:17; Acts 7:5; Heb. 11:8
covenant - land - land owned by God : Lev. 25:23; Ex. 19:5; 2Chr. 7:20; Ps. 83:12; Ps. 135:12; Ps. 136:21-22; Isa. 14:2; Isa. 45:13; Jer. 2:7; Jer. 16:18; Eze. 36:5; Eze. 38:16; Eze. 48:14; Hos. 9:3; Joel 1:6; Joel 2:18; Joel 3:2

"Since God was the ultimate owner of the land of Israel, since He had given tenant possession of the land to the people of Israel forever (Gen. 13:15; 2Chr. 10:7), and since the Israelites were only the tenant administrators of God's land, they were forbidden to sell the land forever [Lev. 25:23]. . . If . . . an Israelite became so poverty-stricken that he was forced to sell the portion of land that was his tenant possession, he did not sell the ownership of the land. Instead, he sold the tenant possession or administration of the portion of the land for a temporary period of time (Lev. 25:16-16, 25-27). . . . God required that a sold tenant possession be returned to the original tenant or his heir in the year of jubilee (Lev. 25:10, 13, 28; 27:24)." Ref-0220, pp. 78-79.


covenant - land - new covenant relationship : Jer. 31:27-40; Eze. 11:14-21; Eze. 36:22-38; Eze. 37:1-23

". . . unlike the structure of the Mosaic economy, the land is perpetuated as a vital element of the new covenant (Jer. 31:27-40; Ezek 11:14-21; 36:22-37:23). In other words, it is important to understand that the Abrahamic covenant finds its fulfillment in the new covenant, notwithstanding the intervening, temporal Mosaic covenant. The Abrahamic covenant promised the land, and the intervening Mosaic covenant involved temporal association with the land, yet the new covenant declares consummate fulfillment of that promise to Abraham with its specific references to the land, and not some extrapolated abstract universalism. In particular, the new covenant describes Israel's return to the land from dispersion as "the land that I gave to your forefathers" (Jer. 31:38-40; Ezek 11:17; 36:24,28)." Ref-1263, p. 226


covenant - land - new testament :

✪ Regarding the oft-heard remark that the NT does not restate the land promise: "The New Testament does not, as far as I am aware, mention the fact that God will never again bring a great flood to destroy the earth. It doesn't have to, as the stipulations in the Noahic Covenant are clear enough and we can, on that basis, expect no future global deluge like that in Noah's day." Paul Henebury, Covenants: Clarity, Ambiguity And Faith (2), Dr. Reluctant Blog [http://drreluctant.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/covenants-clarity-ambiguity-and-faith-2/] accessed 20140719.


covenant - land - occupation conditional : Deu. 4:1; Deu. 4:26-27; Deu. 5:33; Deu. 6:18; Deu. 8:1; Deu. 11:8-9; Deu. 16:20; Deu. 19:8-10; Deu. 28:63; Deu. 29:24-28; Deu. 30:1-5; Deu. 30:17-20; 1K. 8:33-34; 1K. 8:46-49; 1K. 9:7-8; 1K. 14:15; 2K. 21:8; 1Chr. 28:8; 2Chr. 7:17-19; 2Chr. 33:8; Ne. 1:8; Isa. 57:13; Jer. 7:3-7; Jer. 35:15; Jer. 45:4; Eze. 20:15; Eze. 33:24-29

"The Abrahamic Covenant gives the ownership of the Land, unconditionally, to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This ownership is irrevocable and forever, as long as this earth stands. Israel does not have to do anything to obtain ownership of the Land. They already have it. However, ownership of the Land is different from possession of the Land. The Mosaic Covenant spells out how Israel can earn the right to possess the Land which they already own by divine grant." Thomas S. McCall, "Who Owns the Land?", Ref-0055, Vol. 8 No. 24 August 2004, 156:164, p. 162.


covenant - land - unfulfilled : Gen. 13:15; Gen. 17:8; Ex. 32:13; Num. 33:55-56; Jos. 11:23; Jos. 13:1-7; Jos. 18:2; Jos. 21:41-45; Jos. 23:5; Jdg. 1:3; Jdg. 2:21-23; Jdg. 18:1; 1S. 27:8; 2S. 7:10; 1K. 4:21; 1K. 4:24; 1K. 8:56; 1K. 9:20-21; 1Chr. 16:17; 1Chr. 17:9; Ne. 9:21-25; Ps. 80:11; Ps. 105:10; Isa. 14:1; Isa. 60:21; Jer. 3:16-18; Jer. 7:7; Eze. 28:25-26; Eze. 34:27-28; Eze. 36:8-15; Eze. 37:21-25; Eze. 47:14; Amos 9:15; Acts 3:25; Acts 7:5; Acts 10:37-39; Heb. 4:8; Heb. 11:8-10; Rom. 15:8

"If. . . promises regarding the land were fulfilled in Joshua's time or in Solomon's, why do the Scriptures which were written later still appeal to the hope of future possession of the land? Practically every one of the Major and Minor prophets mention in some form the hope of future possession of the land. All of them were written after Solomon's day. . . The original promises of the land involved (1) possession of the land, (2) permanent possession, (3) and occupying the land. Even in Solomon's day at the height of his kingdom the land was not all possessed. At best it was placed under tribute as. . . [1K. 4:21] indicates. Certainly all must agree that possession was not permanent. Further at no time was all the land actually occupied by Israel." Ref-0081, pp. 178-179. An example which ignores this obvious problem and asserts fulfillment is: "Joshua 21:43-45 explicitly declares that all the land that God promised Israel was given to them. . . God fulfilled the promises He made to Abraham." Ref-0189, p. 27. Some have interpreted ‘permanent occupation’ of the land to be fulfilled by the bones of the Patriarch's which are buried there -- which hardly does justice to the character of God. Also -- if the promiser were fulfilled during Solomon's reign as some suppose, then why do post-Solomonic prophets expound it to be yet future? "several of these restoration passages speak of a restoration in which the ten tribes of the north are reunited with the two tribes of the south (Ia. 11:12; Jer. 3:18; 23:5-8; 31:27; Eze. 37:15-23; Hos. 1:11; Zec. 10:6), and this did not happen under the three previous returns from exile (Kaiser 1992: 105-07; idem 1998: 2016; Jelinek 1998: 242)." Ref-0697, p. 107. See especially Ref-0697, pp. 107-109. Hebrews 4:8 implies that promises associated with the land were not fulfilled in the days of Joshua. "Additionally, Kaiser brings a formidable challenge: ‘While the sheer multiplicity of texts from almost every one of the prophets is staggering, a few evangelicals insist that this pledge to restore Israel to her land was fulfilled when Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah led their respective returns from the Babylonian Exile. But if the postexilic returns to the land fulfilled this promised restoration predicted by the prophets, why then did Zechariah continue to announce a still future return (Zec. 10:8-12) in words that were peppered with the phrases and formulas of such prophecies as Isaiah 11:11 and Jeremiah 50:19?’" Dennis M. Swanson, "Expansion of Jerusalem in Jer 31:38-40: Never, Already, or Not Yet", Ref-0167 Volume 17 Number 1, Spring 2006, 17:34, p. 30. "Genesis 15:21 mentions the Canaanites and the Jebusites among the peoples whose lands the Israelites would possess. According to the OT, the Israelites did not fully possess the lands of the Canaaanites and Jebusites during the lifetime of Joshua. Joshua himself interpreted the Genesis 15 promise as requiring the driving out of all these inhabitants (Josh 3:10). Judges 1:21 reveals that such did not happen prior to Joshua's death. Indeed, the Israelites continued to live in the midst of all the peoples God listed in Genesis 15 (see Judg 3:5). It wasn't until the time of David that the Jebusites were finally evicted from their stronghold at Zion (2 Sam 5:7-9). Though the Levites and Ezra in Heh. 9:8 seem to state that God had fulfilled the promise made to Abraham in Gen. 15:18-21, the context and the remainder of Scripture must be brought to bear on that statement." William D. Barrick, "New Covenant Theology and the Old Testament Covenants", Ref-0164, Volume 18 Number 2 Fall 2007, 165:180, p. 172. "There are four different attitudes toward these prophetic announcements concerning the return of Israel to Palestine. One is that these prophecies were all fulfilled in the return of the Jews under Ezra and subsequent decades. This, however, is contradicted by three facts: The Jews that returned under Ezra, and later leaders, did not come from the four quarters of the earth an from all the nations of the earth, but only from Babylon and Persia. Isaiah 11:11 speaks clearly of a return that is designated as a second one, and there has been no second one up to this century. Finally, the passages we have been discussing which predict a return insist that when this takes place, Israel will be planted in the land forever. She was not so planted with the return under Ezra. Another theory proposed is that God is through with Israel and that in her rejection of Christ she forfeited all expectations of being specially dealt with by the Lord at any future time. The answer to this is that Israel’s apostasy and disobedience are foreseen by the very prophets who also speak of a time to come when Israel will turn from disobedience and accept her Messiah. A third theory is that these prophecies are fulfilled in the history of the church. This principle of interpretation is called spiritualizing and leads to a chaotic, confused suggestion as to what these phrases mean when they speak of the land and Jerusalem and agricultural richness, and especially the reign of David their king over Jerusalem. The church is not a body of people originally belonging to God and now being brought back to him, but is made up of lost sinners. They never knew God and are brought out of their spiritual death to newness of life. This newness of life can never be identified with a migration to Palestine." Ref-1163, pp. 38-39. "I believe that the sons of Abraham are to re-inherit Palestine, and that the forfeited fertility will yet return to that land; that the wilderness and the solitary places shall be glad for them, and the desert will rejoice and blossom as the rose. [H. Bonar, “The Jew,” The Quarterly Journal of Prophecy (July, 1870): 211]" Ref-1263, p. 10. "That the land of Israel has distinct eschatological importance is indicated by [Jonathan] Edwards' consideration of its strategic location: . . . "And it is the more evident, that the Jews will return to their own land again, because they never have yet possessed one quarter of that land, which was so often promised them, from the Red Sea to the river Euphrates (Exod. 23:31; Gen. 15:18; Deut. 11:24; Josh. 1:4). Indeed, it was partly fulfilled in Solomon's time, when he governed all within those bounds for a short time; but so short, that it is not to be thought that this is all the fulfillment of the promise that is to be. And besides, that was not a fulfillment of the promise, because they did not possess it, though they made the nations of it tributary."" Ref-1263, p. 336 "The overwhelming majority of Old Testament scholars hold that the restoration promises were fulfilled in the past with the return of the Jewish remnant from Babylon to reestablish a Jewish community in the Land, rebuild the Temple, and increase its population and agricultural production. Walt Kaiser has observed: But despite this overwhelming array of texts to the contrary from almost every one of the prophets, many still insist on saying that this promise to restore Israel to her promised land was fulfilled when Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah led their respective returns from Babylon back to the old land of Canaan. However, there is a serious deficiency to this line of reasoning. How then shall we explain the prophecy in Zechariah 10:8-12 that announces in 518 B.C. a still future return, which would not only emanate from Babylon, but from around the world?" Ref-1356, pp. 8-9. "There was also a failure to possess the promised boundaries with the return of a Jewish remnant from Babylon to Judah in 538 B.C. First, a paltry return of less than 50,000 from one place, though noble and a evidence of faith in God's promised deliverance through the Persians at the conclusion of the 70 year exile, cannot seriously merit the scale of regathering from the four points of the compass predicted for the new Covenant return (Isa. 11:12; 56:8; Eze. 36:22; Zep. 3:10; Zec. 8:7; 10:8-12). Second, “the enemies,” the “people of the land” (Samaritans) possessed the boundaries of Samaria (Ezra 4:2-5) and the Persians had hegemony over the entire country (Ezra 4:6, 12-13, 16, 20-22; 5:3). This was followed by a succession of foreign occupiers and rulers from the Greeks to the Romans, in fulfillment of Daniel's vision of Gentile domination (Dan. 2:37-43) from the time of the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem until the advent of Messiah and the establishment of the messianic kingdom (Dan. 2:44-45; 7:13, 26-27; 8:19-25)." Ref-1356, p. 12. "in order to fully fulfill this promised provision of the Land Covenant, it will be necessary for National Israel to live in the Land as a righteous Nation with no fear of future interruption of rest from its own actions or that of enemies. The New Covenant with national Israel promises such fulfillment. War will be abolished and all possibility of waging war removed (by the destruction of weapons of war), Isaiah 2:4. Israel will be unable to repeat its act of national disobedience because the entire Nation will experience spiritual regeneration and be enabled to fulfill their Chosen status as a holy people (Isa. 61:6; Jer. 31:33-34; 33:8; Eze. 36:25-29a; 37:14). Moreover, there will be no enemies for Israel (Eze. 39:26), for all of the nations that once threatened the capital of Jerusalem with war will now come to Jerusalem for worship (Isa. 2:3; 27:13; 60:3, 7, 14; 62:2, 7-9; 65:25; 66:18-22; Jer. 33:9-11,16; Zec. 14:16). These conditions have no correspondence, even by analogy, in the Church Age, for under this phase of the New Covenant its people have reason to be disciplined (1Pe. 4:15-17) and have enemies on every side (2Cor. 12:10; Eph. 6:10-12; 1Pe. 4:12-14; 5:8-10; 5:9), even from among the Jews (Rom. 11:28)." Ref-1356, p. 13. "This time of fulfillment awaited the New Covenant (Eze. 37:25). That the fulfillment is in this eschatological period can be seen from the fact that the tribal divisions in Ezekiel are different from that in the past (Joshua 11:23; 13:7-33; 14:1-19:51; 22:1-34; 23:4; cf. Judges 18:1-31), although the boundaries of the Millennial Land of Israel (Eze. 47:15-20) generally follow the boundaries as originally given in the Abrahamic Covenant (see map below)." Ref-1356, p. 31. "S. Lewis Johnson, Jr. makes this point when he writes: What about the land promises? They are not mentioned in the NT. Are they, therefore, canceled?” In my opinion the apostles and the early church would have regarded the question as singularly strange, if not perverse. To them the Scriptures consisted of our OT, and they considered the Scriptures to be living and valid as they wrote and transmitted the NT literature. The apostles used the Scriptures as if they were living, vital oracles of the living God, applicable to them in their time. And these same Scriptures were filled with promises regarding the land and an earthly kingdom. On what basis should the Abrahamic promises be divided into those to be fulfilled and those to remain unfulfilled? Finally, there is no need to repeat what is copiously spread over the pages of the Scriptures. There seems to be lurking behind the demand a false principle, namely, that we should not give heed to the OT unless its content is repeated in the New." Ref-1356, p. 43. "Immediately after he identifies all those who believe in Christ to be Abraham's sons (3:7), Paul links the gospel of justification by faith alone to the Abrahamic Covenant. He says, “The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, ‘All the nations will be blessed in you'” (3:8). What is extraordinarily significant about this is that the one Abrahamic promise Paul mentions in connection with the Gentiles becoming sons of Abraham by faith is the universal spiritual blessing that would come upon all nations, not the physical, political, or territorial blessings promised to the nation Israel." Michael Riccardi, The Seed of Abraham: A Theological Analysis of Galatians 3 and Its Implications for Israel, Ref-0164, Vol. 25 No. 1 Spring 2004, 51-64, p. 62. "There will be a native government again; there will again be the form of a body politic; a state shall be incorporated, and a king shall reign. Israel has now become alienated from her own land. Her sons, though they can never forget the sacred dust of Palestine, yet die at a hopeless distance from her consecrated shores. But it shall not be so for ever, for her sons shall again rejoice in her: her land shall be called Beulah, for as a young man marrieth a virgin so shall her sons marry her. "I will place you in your own land," is God's promise to them. . . They are to have a national prosperity which shall make them famous; nay, so glorious shall they be that Egypt, and Tyre, and Greece, and Rome, shall all forget their glory in the greater splendour of the throne of David. . . I there be anything clear and plain, the literal sense and meaning of this passage [Ezekiel 37:1-10] —a meaning not to be spirited or spiritualized away— must be evident that both the two and the ten tribes of Israel are to be restored to their own land, and that a king is to rule over them." -- Dennis Swanson, Charles H. Spurgeon and Eschatology: Did He Have a Discernible millennial Position?, p. 32. [http://www.spurgeon.org/eschat.php]. See 20161124144019.pdf. "Spurgeon expressed the belief in a literal and physical return of Christ, the resurrection of the righteous and the wicked separated by a 1,000 year period of Christ's rule on earth known as the millennium. On some other issues he believed in both the national (or racial) conversion of the Jews and their restoration to the land of Palestine (a remarkable belief in his day, and about 75 years before it would actually happen!)." -- Dennis Swanson, Charles H. Spurgeon and Eschatology: Did He Have a Discernible millennial Position?, pp. 40-41. [http://www.spurgeon.org/eschat.php]. See 20161124144019.pdf. "Love of Jews and an expectation of their return to reestablish the nation of Israel is a primary element in Dispensational theology. Anti - dispensationalists deny any future eschatological role for the Jews, and the most vocal anti - dispensationalists of late are so - called Reformed theologians. How surprised they would be to discover that many of the seventeenth century Puritan theologians whom they admire had a similar expectation of the return of the Jews to the land promised to Abraham and his descendants four thousand years ago." Ref-1573, p. 56.


covenant - marriage : marriage - covenant
covenant - Messiah as : Isa. 42:6; Isa. 49:8; Mal. 3:1
covenant - Mosaic : Ex. 19:5-6; Ex. 20:1-26; Ex. 24:1-11; Ex. 34:10-35; Lev. 26:1-46; Deu. 4:13; Deu. 4:23; Deu. 5:1-33; Deu. 9:9-11; Deu. 29:1; Deu. 29:25; Deu. 31:16; Deu. 31:20; Deu. 31:26; Jos. 23:6; 1K. 8:9; 1K. 8:21; 2K. 17:35-38; 2K. 23:21; 2Chr. 5:10; 2Chr. 6:11; 2Chr. 33:8; Isa. 24:5; Isa. 33:8; Isa. 56:4-6; Jer. 11:2-10; Jer. 14:21; Jer. 22:9; Jer. 31:32; Jer. 34:13; Eze. 16:8; Eze. 16:59-61; Eze. 44:7; Hos. 6:7; Hos. 8:1; Hag. 2:5; Mal. 2:10; Mal. 4:4; John 1:17; Acts 13:39; Rom. 3:19; Rom. 6:14; Rom. 7:7; Rom. 9:4; Rom. 10:4; 2Cor. 3:7-15; Gal. 3:2-29; Gal. 4:1-31; Gal. 5:18; Col. 2:14; 1Ti. 1:7-10; Heb. 8:7-13; Heb. 9:15; Heb. 9:20; Heb. 10:9

✪ The covenant was ratified by blood in Ex. 24:1-11.


covenant - Mosaic - blessings upon obedience : Lev. 26:3-13; Lev. 26:44-45; Deu. 28:1-14; 2K. 23:2-3; 2K. 23:25
covenant - Mosaic - broken : Deu. 29:25; Deu. 31:16; Deu. 31:20; Isa. 24:5; Isa. 33:8; Jer. 11:10; Jer. 22:9; Jer. 31:32; Eze. 16:59; Eze. 44:7; Hos. 6:7; Hos. 8:1; Heb. 8:9
covenant - Mosaic - conditional : Ex. 15:26; Ex. 19:5; Lev. 26:15; Deu. 7:13; Jer. 31:32
covenant - Mosaic - curses upon disobedience : Lev. 26:14-43; Deu. 28:15-68; 2K. 22:16-17; Jer. 11:8
covenant - Mosaic - renewed : Deu. 29:1; Deu. 29:9; Deu. 29:12; Deu. 29:14; Deu. 31:16; Deu. 31:20; 2K. 23:1-3; Ne. 9:38; Ne. 10:29
covenant - Mosaic - spans generations : Deu. 5:3
covenant - Mosaic - to Israel : Deu. 4:8; Ps. 147:20; Jer. 31:32; Mal. 4:4; Rom. 9:4
covenant - Mosaic - vengeance of : Lev. 26:25
covenant - new : Deu. 30:6; Ps. 50:5; Isa. 42:6; Isa. 49:8; Isa. 55:3; Isa. 54:10; Isa. 59:20-21; Isa. 61:8-9; Jer. 31:31-40; Jer. 32:40; Jer. 50:5; Eze. 16:60-62; Eze. 20:37 (?); Eze. 34:25-31; Eze. 36:24-27; Eze. 36:33; Eze. 37:14; Eze. 37:26; Zec. 9:11; Mal. 3:1; Mat. 26:28; Mark 14:24; Luke 22:14-20; John 3:5; John 3:10; John 7:37-39 (?); Rom. 11:26; 1Cor. 11:25; 2Cor. 3:6; Heb. 7:22; Heb. 8:6-13; Heb. 9:15; Heb. 10:9; Heb. 10:16; Heb. 10:29; Heb. 12:24; Heb. 13:20

"The covenant referred to here [Rom. 11:26-27] must of necessity be the new covenant, for that is the only covenant expressly dealing with the removal of sins. And it is said to be actual after the coming of the Deliverer." Ref-0050, pp. 120-121 It appears Deu. 30:6 hints at the new covenant in the circumcision of the heart initiated by God and the resulting obedient walk. "There are several provisions to be found in the New Covenant. First, Israel will be regathered. Second, Israel will be one nation ruled by one king. Third, Israel will no longer be idolatrous. Fourth, Israel will be cleansed and forgiven. Fifth, God will tabernacle among Israel in a visible way. Sixth, the Covenant promises the fullness of the Holy Spirit, the universal knowledge of God, an obedient heart on the part of the nation, and the establishment of a new city that will be characterized by holiness and immovability. The present age reveals that Israel is not experiencing these provisions nor have they ever experienced them. Furthermore, they are not being blessed by God in a covenant sense, they are not recognized as the people of God, and God is not visibly dwelling in their midst. Moreover, the sequence of events stated by Jeremiah in his New Covenant text (Jer. 31) revolve around the nation being regathered and restored to the land and then experiencing blessings. There has never been such a historical sequence. Therefore, it is concluded that the New Covenant has not been fulfilled by the nation but will be during the kingdom age envisioned in Ezekiel 40-48." Jerry M. Hullinger, The Compatibility of the New Covenant and Future Animal Sacrifice, Ref-0785 Vol. 17 No. 15 (Spring 2013), 47-66, p. r8. "The New Covenant is here called both a “covenant of peace” (cf. Isaiah 54:10) and an “everlasting covenant” (cf. Isaiah 55:3; 61:8; Jeremiah 32:40; Ezekiel 16:60-63). The term “everlasting covenant” was used of the Noahic Covenant (Genesis 9:12-16), the Abrahamic Covenant (Genesis 17:7, 13, 19; 1 Chronicles 16:17; Psalm 105:10), and the Davidic Covenant (2 Samuel 23:5; cf. Psalm 89:34-37; Jeremiah 33:21, 26) and the Sabbath and priestly service (Exodus 31:16; Leviticus 24:8; Numbers 18:19; cf. Jeremiah 33:17-26)." Ref-1356, p. 40. Questionable: Eze. 20:37 (?); John 7:37-39 (?);


covenant - new - church : Isa. 52:15; Mat. 26:28; Mark 14:24; Luke 22:20; 1Cor. 11:25; 2Cor. 3:6; Heb. 8:8; Heb. 9:15; Heb. 10:29; Heb. 12:24

✪ See covenant - new - with Israel. "Personally speaking, I don’t see why dispensationalists have pulled their hair out over the New Covenant. To me at least, the language of Luke 22:20, made as it was with those who were to become “foundations” of the church (see Eph. 2:20), and repeated imperturbably by Paul in 1 Corinthians 11:25; when taken with the argument in Hebrews, decisively shows that Jesus, “the Mediator of the New Covenant”, made the New Covenant with the Church! If one is expecting to find that truth in Jeremiah or Ezekiel then one is not a dispensationalist. Those prophets did not envisage “the Body of Christ” so they did not write about the relationship of the New Covenant to the Church. Does this necessitate two separate new covenants? No indeed! It means only that the same new covenant was given to the Church as shall be given to Israel. The New Covenant promises to Israel are not the New Covenant promises to the Church. . . . That the Church does bear a relationship to the Abrahamic Covenant is certain. Paul, in fact, shows this by quoting Genesis 12:3 (“in you [Abram] all the families of the earth will be blessed”) in Galatians 3:8, using it as a basis for his doctrine of our justification! But if the Church is related to the Abrahamic Covenant (at least via Gen. 12:3), how does the Church gain access to this promise? There is no mechanism within the Abrahamic Covenant that can deliver its provisions to the rightful recipients, whether Israel or the Church. And that is where the New Covenant comes in! . . . We ought not to speak of the New Covenant as revealed in the OT as possessing discrete blessings which are absent from the Abrahamic Covenant. There simply is no way into those blessings without the New Covenant. And it is the same for the Church. The same New Covenant is needed for the Church to enter into its blessings (e.g. Gal. 3:6-9)." Paul Henebury, More Thoughts About Biblical Covenants, Vox Veritatus, November 2010, Issue 11. "While the Church partakes of the spiritual blessings of the New Covenant only national Israel possesses the covenant and fulfills it (Jer. 31:31). For this reason, the experience of the indwelling Spirit in the Church Age (Acts 2:4; 15:8-9) is not a replacement of Israel by the Church, but the token of promise made to the Jewish Remnant within the Church (Romans 11:1-5; cf. John 3:3-10 with Eze. 36:25-28; 37:11-14) alongside Gentiles who would be blessed “in Israel” (Genesis 12:3; cf. Amos 9:11-12; Acts 15:16-18) and are in Israel's Messiah (and therefore share the spiritual aspects of the Abrahamic Covenant, Romans 4:16; 11:17-18; Galatians 3:7-9, 29)." Ref-1356, p. 22. Geopfrich is typical of those who fail to account for progressive revelation in relation to the Church’s participation in the New Covenant: "Those who would like the New Covenant to apply to the church must have already included the church into Israel in their ecclesiology prior to examining this text [Jer. 31:31-34]. There is no way to read this passage literally and find reference to the church. . . . even though individual salvation is made available in the church age through Jesus' blood, even the New Covenant was made solely with Israel." Daniel Geopfrich, The Nature of the Coming Messianic Kingdom as Found in its Covenants, Ref-0785, Volume 18, Number 55 (Winter 2014), 209-224, pp. 220,222. See 20170517163958.pdf. "Many worthy expositors combine the present offers of salvation, as being the outworking of the New Covenant made in Christ's blood (Matt. 26:28), with the long-predicted New Covenant yet to be made with Israel (Jer. 31:31-40; Heb. 8:8-13; 10:16-17), and on the ground that the term new covenant is used of both and because it is believed that the term is broad enough to include all that God accomplishes directly through the blood of Christ. However, there are such important differences between that which God is doing for the heavenly people over against that which He will yet do for Israel and the Gentiles on the earth in the kingdom age, that the two, even though they might be parts of one grand whole, should be considered separately." Ref-1518, p. 80. "When we recall the blessing of the Abrahamic covenant in Genesis 22:18 we should not be surprised at this. But wouldn’t it be odd for these blessings to be part of one covenant (the Abrahamic) but not be brought about by means of another covenant – the covenant that is Jesus? If “the iniquity of us all” was laid on Him (Isa. 53:6), what kind of theological alchemy is it that claims that some of the blood was New covenant blood applied to Israel, while the rest of it was just blood that wrought salvation for the rest of us? . . . Isaiah 52:15 declares “So shall He sprinkle many nations.” The verb translated “sprinkle” here is nazah, which bears an expiatory meaning. Christ will “sprinkle”the nations with what? With His blood (Col. 1:14, 20). His blood is “the blood of the New covenant” according to Jesus Himself (Mk. 14:24). There is no other blood that saves! It’s the blood of the New covenant or it’s damnation. This is why Paul transfers the whole phrase over to his address to the Gentiles in Corinth without blinking an eye (1 Cor. 11:25)." -- Paul Henebury, My Take on the New Covenant (Part 5), [https://drreluctant.wordpress.com/2020/02/12/my-take-on-the-new-covenant-pt-5/].


covenant - new - distinct from Mosaic law : Jer. 31:32; Heb. 7:22; Heb. 8:5-13; Heb. 10:9

"The church father, Justin Martyr, in his Dialogue with Trypho the Jew, argues that Christians “do not trust through Moses or through the law. . . . Now, law placed against law has abrogated that which is before it, and a covenant which comes after in like manner has put an end to the previous one, and an eternal and final law -- namely, Christa -- has been given to us, and the covenant is trustworthy, after which there shall be no law, no commandment, nor ordinance.” . . . Other fathers who also proclaim the newness of the New Covenant include Irenaeus, Tertullian, and Augustine. In the Reformation, Martin Luther insisted that the New Covenant was not the Old Covenant redone and that the entire Mosaic Covenant had passed away, not just the ceremonial law." Larry D. Pettegrew, "The New Covenant and New Covenant Theology", Ref-0164, Volume 18 Number 2 Fall 2007, 181:199, p. 193.


covenant - new - everlasting : Isa. 55:3; Isa. 59:21; Isa. 61:8; Jer. 32:40; Jer. 50:5; Eze. 16:60; Eze. 37:27

"Of the five covenants called eternal/everlasting in the OT, the New Covenant is mentioned in more separate texts than any of the other four (Isa. 55:3; 59:21; 61:8; Jer. 32:40; 50:5; Eze. 16:60; 37:26). Therefore, the New Covenant should be the interpretative option-of-choice in Heb. 13:20, especially if further evidence strengthens the likelihood of that probability." Richard L. Mayhue, "Editorial", Ref-0164, Volume 18 Number 2 Fall 2007, 143:148, p. 146.


covenant - new - land relationship : covenant - land - new covenant relationship
covenant - new - ministers of : 2Cor. 3:6
covenant - new - passages - Henebury : Deu. 30:1-6; Isa. 32:9-20; Isa. 42:1-7; Isa. 49:1-13; Isa. 52:10-15; Isa. 53:1-12; Isa. 55:3; Isa. 59:15-21; Isa. 61:8; Jer. 31:33; Jer. 32:36 (:44); Eze. 16:53-63; Eze. 36:22-38; Eze. 37:21-28; Hos. 2:18-20; Joel 2:28 (- 3:8); Mic. 7:18-20; Zec. 9:10; Zec. 12:6-14; Zec. 59:15-21

"Jeremiah 31 is not to be thought about as definitive of the New Covenant. There are many other passages which, although they don't name the covenant as the NC, are rightly considered as important OT New Covenant passages (e.g. Deut. 30:1-6; Isa. 32:9-20; 42:1-7; 49:1-13; 52:10-53:12; 55:3; 59:15b-21; 61:8; Jer. 32:36:44; Ezek. 16:53-63; 36:22-38; 37:21-28; Hos. 2:18-20; Joel 2:28–3:8; Mic. 7:18-20; Zech. 9:10; 12:6-14.; 59:15-21)." Paul Henebury, My Take on the New Covenant (Pt. 10): In Summary, [https://drreluctant.wordpress.com/2020/04/03/my-take-on-the-new-covenant-pt-10-in-summary/].


covenant - new - provisions : Jer. 31:33; Jer. 33:8; Eze. 11:19-20; Eze. 36:27

"The provisions of the New Covenant include a new heart (Eze. 11:19-20); permanent forgiveness of sins (Jer. 33:8); the permanent indwelling of the Holy Spirit in all believers (Eze. 36:27); the law inside of a believer (Jer. 31:33); a consummation of Israel's relationship with God (Jer. 31:33); physical blessings on Israel consisting of gathering of the scattered Israelites to the land, rebuilding of the cities, productivity of the land, increase in herds and flocks, rest, peace, and expressions of joy." Larry D. Pettegrew, "The New Covenant and New Covenant Theology", Ref-0164, Volume 18 Number 2 Fall 2007, 181:199, p. 185.


covenant - new - sin forgiven : Jer. 31:31-34; Eze. 16:60-63; Eze. 36:24-27; Eze. 36:33; Mat. 26:28; Mark 14:24; Luke 22:20; Rom. 11:25; Heb. 9:15; Heb. 12:24; 2Pe. 1:9
covenant - new - two - old view :

"It is interesting to read Ryrie's belabored effort in The Basis of the Premillennial Faith to defend this view. It is doubtful that anyone could have done a better job. However, it is really a defenseless position, and both Ryrie and Walvoord eventually surrendered it. This writer knows of no dispensational scholar who holds it today." Craig A. Blaising, "Developing Dispensationalism, Part 2: Development of Dispensationalism by Contemporary Dispensationalists," Ref-0200, Volume 145, Vol. 145 (1988): 254.


covenant - new - unconditional : Isa. 24:5; Isa. 61:8; Jer. 32:40; Jer. 50:5; Heb. 13:20
covenant - new - with Israel : Gen. 12:3; Jer. 31:31; 2Cor. 3:6

✪ See covenant - new - church. "To say that “Church saints have a covenantal relationship with God” by way of the new covenant demands either that one identify a passage in which God directly made a new covenant (and consequently an old one) with the church or that one relinquishes the superiority of consistency in applying literal grammatical-historical hermeneutics . . ." Christopher Cone, Hermeneutical Ramifications of Applying the New Covenant to the Church: An Appeal to Consistency, Ref-0785, 5:24, p. 9. "While it is wholly appropriate to say that the church partakes of spiritual blessings, why the need to connect the spiritual blessings to the new covenant? The Abrahamic covenant promises blessing for those who are not Abraham’s physical descendants (Gen. 12:3). Likewise, the ministry of the Holy Spirit to Gentiles is promised outside the context of the new covenant (Gen. 12:3; Isa. 11:10; cf. Gen. 15:6 and John 3:5; Isa. 42:7; 49:6, etc.). It should also be noted that the regeneration stated in Jeremiah 31 is not only related to forgiveness of sins, but also to the planting of Israel in the land (v. 33), the writing of God’s law on the heart (v. 33), and the needlessness of any further teaching about God (v. 34). None of these things are ever said to accompany the regeneration of church age believers. Additionally, the sins to be forgiven in the new covenant are “their” sins (note in v. 34, the third person plural pronominal suffix; la'avonam. Following standard rules of grammar one must look for the antecedent to which the third person plural refers. It is they who also broke the old covenant: the house of Israel and the house of Judah." Christopher Cone, Hermeneutical Ramifications of Applying the New Covenant to the Church: An Appeal to Consistency, Ref-0785, 5:24, pp. 11-12. "The church bearing a relationship to the Mediator has strong exegetical support, but the church participating in any aspects of God’s new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah can only be defended by abandonment of the literal grammatical-historical hermeneutic in favor of the complementary hermeneutic and the “already not yet” device so eagerly embraced by progressive dispensationalism." Christopher Cone, Hermeneutical Ramifications of Applying the New Covenant to the Church: An Appeal to Consistency, Ref-0785, 5:24, p. 16. Φίε ˊιεως οφ τηε χηυρχη’ς ρελατιονσηιπ το τηε νεω χόεναντ μαψ βε δεφινεδ. 1) Ρεπλαχεμεντ Τηεολογψ: <ΪΡεπλαχεμεντ<ιΪ - Τηε χηυρχη ις εντιρελψ φυλφιλλινγ τηε νεω χόεναντ. Νατιοναλ Ισραελ ηας βεεν συπερσεδεδ βψ τηε χηυρχη, τηε τρυε, ορ σπιριτυαλ, Ισραελ. Τηε χηυρχη’ς μινιστερσ, βψ φυλφιλλινγ τηε Γρεατ Χομμισσιον, φυνχτιον ας μινιστερς οφ τηε νεω χόεναντ. 2) Δισπενσατιοναλ ˊιεω ˊ1: <ΪΠαρτιαλ Φυλφιλλμεντ<ιΪ - Τηε χηυρχη, βψ φυλφιλλινγ τηε Γρεατ Χομμισσιον, ις αχχομπλισηινγ α παρτιαλ φυλφιλλμεντ οφ τηε νεω χόεναντ, βυτ χομπλετε φυλφιλλμεντ αωαιτς τηε σπιριτυαλ ρενεωαλ οφ νατιοναλ Ισραελ ιν τηε μιλλεννιυμ. 3) Δισπενσατιοναλ ˊιεω ˊ2: <ΪΠαρτιχιπατιον<ιΪ - Τηε χηυρχη, βψ φυλφιλλινγ τηε Γρεατ Χομμισσιον, δοες νοτ παρτιαλλψ φυλφιλλ τηε νεω χόεναντ, βυτ δοες παρτιχιπατε ιν σομε οφ τηε βλεσσινγς οφ τηε νεω χόεναντ. 4) Δισπενσατιοναλ ˊιεω ˊ3: <ΪΤωο Νεω Χόεναντσ<ιΪ - Τηε χηυρχη ηας ιτς οων “νεω χόεναντ” ωιτη Γοδ τηατ ις διστινχτ ανδ σεπαρατε φρομ Ισραελ’ς νεω χόεναντ οφ ʽερεμιαη 31. 5) Δισπενσατιοναλ ˊιεω ˊ4: <ΪΝο Ρελατιονσηιπ<ιΪ - Τηε χηυρχη ις νοτ διρεχτλψ ρελατεδ το τηε νεω χόεναντ ιν ανψ ωαψ. Τηε χηυρχη ις ρελατεδ το τηε Μεδιατορ οφ τηε νεω χόεναντ ανδ το τηε βλοοδ οφ τηατ χόεναντ, βυτ ις νοτ α παρτιχιπαντ ιν τηε χόεναντ ιτσελφ. George Gunn, Second Corinthians 3:6 and the Church’s Relationship to the New Covenant, Ref-0785, 25:46, pp. 26-27. "With reference to the new covenant, 2 Corinthians 3:6 may be viewed in two possible ways. The expression “new covenant” expresses either the content of Paul’s message, or it expresses the manner in which Paul conducted his ministry. Having examined various exegetical/hermeneutical issues, the studied opinion may be that Paul was not describing the content of his message, but rather the manner in which he conducted his ministry. Ultimately, the chief exegetical/hermeneutical issue questions whether the expression διακόνους καινη’ς διαθήκης represents an objective genitive or a genitive of description. A consideration of the referent of ἠμα’ς, the context of the statement, the use/non-use of the article, the theological viewpoint of the author and recipients and the way in which Paul referred to the Old Testament lead, it seems, to the conclusion that Paul’s point was that his ministry is a “new-covenant-like ministry,” not that he was administering the new covenant. Reference was to the style of his ministry, rather than to the doctrinal content of the new covenant. Thus, this verse does not support any kind of realized eschatology, or church participation in the new covenant." George Gunn, Second Corinthians 3:6 and the Church’s Relationship to the New Covenant, Ref-0785, 25:46, p. 45. "There are several views among scholars as to who participates in the New Covenant. First, some feel that the New Covenant is simply a restated Mosaic Covenant [examples follow] . . . The first view fails to see several distinctions between the Mosaic and New Covenants: one is “new” and the other is “old;” one is conditional and the other is unconditional; one is everlasting while one is not; one is external and the other is internal . . . Second, others have affirmed that the New Covenant applies to Israel alone with no participation by the church. [Darby, ISBE, and other examples follow] . . . The second view is weakened by its avoidance of important New Testament texts such as 2 Corinthians 3 and Hebrews 8. Third, the classic amillennialist position teaches that the church alone participates in the blessings by virtue of its replacement of Israel [Murray, Allis, Boettner, and other examples follow]. The third view removes Israel from a national future which contradicts the prophets and the book of Romans, and the fulfillment in the church age does not do justice to the provisions of the covenant. Fourth, some “older” dispensationalists (at one time) suggested that there were two new covenants (Walvoord and Chafer). However, because of the textually tenuous data for this view it has been abandoned by present day dispensationalists. . . . A fifth view (and more satisfactory) is that future Israel will experience the fulfillment of the New Covenant, but the church will participate in some of the blessings in the future, and is now participating in the soteriological benefits. The fifth view protects the unconditional nature of the covenants, provides a future for Israel, and deals honestly with the New Testament data . . . Decker noted well that terminology like “partial fulfillment” is not necessary, and therefore it is better to speak of “participation” to speak of the present aspects." Jerry M. Hullinger, The Compatibility of the New Covenant and Future Animal Sacrifice, Ref-0785 Vol. 17 No. 15 (Spring 2013), 47-66, pp. 56-57n25. "The Nature of Israel’s New Covenant: (1) National Israel regathered to land (Isa. 11:11-12; Eze. 36:24; 37:21,25; Mat. 24:31); (2) Nation and land boundaries increased (Isa. 26:15; Eze. 36:37-38; 47:13-23; 48:1-34); (3) Twelve tribes reunited as one nation (Isa. 66:6; Eze. 37:19-22); (4) Rule by King Messiah, Davidic reign (Jer. 23:5-6; 33:17; Eze. 37:22a,24; Zec. 9:10; 14:9); (5) Idolatry, transgression, defilements removed (Eze. 36:25; 37:23); (6) National Israel spiritually regenerate (Jer. 31:33-34; Eze. 36:26-27; 37:14); (7) No war, covenant of peace (Isa. 2:4; Eze. 37:26; Zec. 9:10); (8) Curse removed (Zec. 14:11); (9) Renewal of nature and harmony within creation (Isa. 11:6-9; 27:6; 65:20-25; Zec. 8:12; Rom. 8:21); (10) Israel recognized by nations as blessed (Isa. 62:2; 66:18; Eze. 36:23,36; 37:28; Mal. 3:12); (11) Jerusalem re-sanctified, center of Earth (Isa. 2:3; 4:3-6; 65:18; Jer. 3:17; 33:9,16; Zec. 8:3-8); (12) Nations subservient to national Israel (Isa. 49:7; 60:5,10,12-16; 61:6; Zec. 8:22-23; Mic. 4:2); (13) Temple rebuilt and indwelt by Divine Presence (Isa. 2:2; 56:6; Eze. 37:26-28; 40-48; 43:1-7; 48:35); (14) Levitical priesthood and sacrificial system restored (Isa. 60:7; 66:20-21; Jer. 33:18,22; Eze. 44-45); (15) Eternal, five-fold repetition of "forever" (Isa. 24:5; 61:8; Jer. 31:36,40; 32:40; 50:5)." Ref-1356, p. 29.


covenant - Noahic : Gen. 6:18; Gen. 8:20; Gen. 9:9; Gen. 9:11; Ps. 104:9; Isa. 54:9
covenant - peace : Eze. 34:25; Eze. 37:26
covenant - peace with animals : Job 5:23; Eze. 34:25; Hos. 2:18-20
covenant - peace with nations : Zec. 11:10

"The covenant made by God with all nations refers, according to the context of this passage, to a treaty made with them by God in favour of His flock the nation of Israel, and is analogous to the treaty made by God with the beasts, according to Hos. 2:20, that they should not injure His people, and the treaty made with the stones and the beasts of the field (Job 5:23, cf. Eze. 34:25). This covenant consisted in the fact that God imposed upon the nations of the earth the obligation not to hurt Israel or destroy it, and was one consequence of the favour of Jehovah towards His people. Through the abrogation of this covenant Israel is delivered up to the nations, that they may be able to deal with Israel again in the manner depicted in v. 5." Keil, Carl Friedrich, and Franz Delitzsch. Commentary on the Old Testament., Zec. 11:8-11. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2002. "The covenant which is broken is not the Abrahamic covenant or any of Israel's unconditional covenants, but rather an indirect covenant with the nations of the earth that exists because of God's direct, unconditional covenants with Israel. The breaking of the staff, even Beauty indicates that in keeping Israel secure from every potential foe the grace of God will be suspended; and the nations will be permitted to come into the land to devastate and conquer Israel. During the time that Israel was in fellowship with Him, God restrained all the people so that none could do violence to Israel. The breaking of Beauty suspends that restraint, and now all the people may do whatever they will to Israel." KJV Bible Commentary, Zec. 11:10. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1997, c1994.


covenant - Philistines : covenant - Abraham and Abimelech
covenant - priestly : Ex. 18:8; Ex. 18:19; Ex. 29:9; Ex. 40:15; Num. 8:14-16; Num. 18:7; Num. 18:19; Num. 25:6-8; Num. 25:10-13; 1Chr. 6:1-8; 1Chr. 23:13; Ezra 7:1-5; Ne. 13:29; 1S. 2:30-36 (?); Ps. 106:30-31; Jer. 33:18-21; Jer. 35:18; Eze. 37:26-28; Eze. 40:46; Eze. 43:19; Eze. 44:15; Eze. 48:11; Zec. 14:21; Mal. 2:4-8; Mal. 3:3-4; Heb. 7:13-14

"During the intertestamental period the expectation of a Davidic kingly Messiah was rivaled by the hope, in certain circles, for a Messiah of the tribe of Levi. First Maccabees reflects this longing for a Levitic kingly Messiah. This idea probably grew among supporters of the Hasmonean dynasty. There was also the expectation that the Levitic Messiah would be a priest. The promise of an eternal priesthood for Phinehas because of his zeal for God (Num. 25:10-13 is couched in language similar to the promise to David on which the expectation of a Davidic Messiah is at least partly based (2S. 7; see also Sirach 45:23-26)." Ref-1200, p. 311. In support of Jesus being unqualified to fulfill the priestly covenant, see Heb. 7:13-14. David Baron assumes Christ can fulfill the Levitical covenant, but Jesus is not in the line of Levi. "The same Scriptures, which speak of the perpetuity of the Davidic seed and throne, speak also of the unceasing continuance of the priesthood. . . . The truth is that neither have God's promises in reference to the throne nor to the priesthood failed—for Christ is, in His blessed Person, the Prophet, Priest, and King. He is all this now at the right hand of God, for not only are all the essentials of the Aaronic priesthood fulfilled in Him, but He is "a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek"; and when He is manifested again on earth to take up His throne and reign, "He shall be a priest upon His throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both."" Ref-1367, loc. 953-960. If Jesus had to be in the line of Judah to qualify as Messiah, how can it be said he doesn’t have to be in the line of Levi to fulfill the similar promise to Levi? Questionable: 1S. 2:30-36 (?);


covenant - prince of : Dan. 11:22

"The reference to the ‘prince of the covenant’ prophesies the murder of the high priest Onias, which was ordered by Antiochus in 172 B.C. . . ." Ref-0005, p. 265.


covenant - prohibited with enemies : Ex. 23:32; Ex. 34:12-15; Deu. 7:2; Jos. 9:6; Jos. 9:15; Eze. 23:32
covenant - redemption - origin : covenant theology - origin
covenant - remembered : Gen. 9:15-16; Ex. 2:24; Ex. 6:5; Lev. 26:42; 1Chr. 16:15; Ne. 13:29; Ps. 103:18; Ps. 105:8; Ps. 106:45; Jer. 3:16; Jer. 14:21; Eze. 16:60; Luke 1:72

✪ Contrast with Jer. 3:16 where the ark of the covenant will be remembered no more.


covenant - responsibility to keep : Eze. 17:15
covenant - salt : covenant - salt; Lev. 2:13; Num. 18:19; 2Chr. 13:5; Eze. 43:24; Mark 14:20
covenant - signs of : Gen. 9:12 (7 rainbow); Gen. 9:1 (7 rainbow); Gen. 17:11 (circumcision); Ex. 31:13 (Sabbath)
covenant - unconditional : Gen. 15:17; Lev. 26:42-44; Deu. 4:31; Jdg. 2:1; 1Chr. 16:15; 1Chr. 17:22; 2Chr. 21:7; Ps. 89:34; Ps. 105:8; Ps. 105:10; Ps. 111:5; Ps. 111:9; Isa. 24:5 (?); Isa. 45:17; Isa. 54:9; Isa. 60:21; Jer. 30:11; Jer. 31:3; Jer. 31:35; Jer. 33:19; Jer. 46:28; Eze. 37:25; Amos 9:8-15; Zec. 10:6; Acts 26:7; Rom. 3:1-3; Rom. 9:4; Rom. 11; Heb. 6:17-18

"If the Abrahamic Covenant were conditional, then the coming of the Redeemer and the provision of salvation were dependent upon the obedience of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the people of Israel. Such an arrangement would have jeopardized the coming of Christ and the whole program of redemption." Ref-0072, p. 67. Note that after the Jews had rejected Messiah, Paul writes (Acts 26:7) that the twelve tribes are [still] due the promises made by God to "our fathers." In Amos 9:8-11, the text carefully distinguishes between Israel and the Gentiles who are called by my name. If Israel figuratively applies to the church, then who are the godly Gentiles? "Because of the fact that human obedience is indirectly related to some aspects of the unconditional divine covenants, confusion seems to exist in the minds of certain writers." Ref-1518, p. 73. Questionable: Isa. 24:5 (?);


covenant - with animals : animals - peaceful
covenant - with death : Isa. 28:15; Isa. 28:18
covenant - with Gibeonites : Gibeonites - covenant with
covenant - works - origin : covenant theology - origin
covenant theology : covenant theology - origin ; replacement theology - variations
covenant theology - origin :

"Although Calvin and Luther did not develop the idea of an eternal covenant with God to any great extent, their successors in the Reformed churches introduced what is known as covenant theology which holds that in eternity past God made a covenant of grace between Himself and the elect and a covenant of redemption between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in regard to the work of salvation." Ref-0104, p. 34. "After Calvin's death in 1564, Holland gradually became the center of Calvinistic theological activity. . . . Theological tension was high in Holland following the Synod of Dort (1619) . . . particularly against the teaching of double predestination (the decrees of election and reprobation). It was at this time that Cocceius advanced his theory concerning the Covenant of Grace and the Covenant of Works, in which he soft-pedaled the doctrine of predestination. . . . This teaching, of course, was rejected by the Reformed Church. . . . [Then] Witsiu introduced his idea of a third covenant (later known as the Covenant of Redemption) which concerned God's saving purpose before the foundation of the earth. The Reformed theologians were quick to see the possibility of reconciling the doctrine of the eternal decrees with this new idea set forth by Witsius [in 1695]. Therefore, the Reformed Church did an about face and embraced the theory of the covenant." Clarence E. Mason, Jr. "Eschatology" (Class notes, Philadelphia College of Bible, Philadelphia, 1970), p. 55 cited in Ref-0207, p. 242. "Kaspar Olevianus (1536-1587) and Zacharius Ursinus (1534-1583) are generally credited with first systematically organizing covenant theology in the Heidelberg catechism. The Westminster Confession includes further development of the doctrine." H. Wayne House, The Future of National Israel, Ref-0200 Volume 166 Number 664, October-December 2009, 463:481, pp. 464-465. "The term the Covenant of Grace implies that there is but one such covenant, whereas the Scriptures, as demonstrated above, present various, wholly independent, and diverse covenants which are both sovereign and gracious to the last conceivable degree. Grace on the part of the First Person, secured and made righteously possible by the Second Person, and administered by the Third Person, has been and must continue to be the attitude of the Triune God toward lost men until the divine purposes in grace are realized. If the term the Covenant of Grace refers to an agreement of the Three Persons of the Godhead between themselves concerning the part each would assume in the plan of redemption, as some contend, such an agreement is conceivable, but is not clearly revealed in the Scriptures." Ref-1518, p. 86.


covenant theology - variations : replacement theology - variations
covenants : covenants - blood; covenants - Gentiles were strangers to; covenants - keep; covenants - language - understandable; covenants - of promise; covenants - plural; covenants - to Israel ; covenants - types
covenants - blood : Gen. 17:12; Deu. 22:13; Acts 7:8
covenants - Gentiles were strangers to : Eph. 2:11-12
covenants - keep : Eze. 17:13-18
covenants - language - understandable : Ex. 34:27
covenants - of promise : Rom. 9:4; Eph. 2:12
covenants - plural : Deu. 5:2-3; Rom. 9:4; Eph. 2:11-12
covenants - to Israel : Rom. 9:4; Rom. 15:8; Eph. 2:11-12

"The Scriptures teem with promises and prophecies in favour of that nation, not a tithe of which have yet been realized. . . . The minds of most men are in bondage to the commonplace facts of their experience. The prophecies of a restored Israel seem to many as incredible as predictions of the present triumphs of electricity and steam would have appeared to our ancestors a century ago." Ref-0762, pp. 149-150.


covenants - types :

"There are three kinds of covenants in the Bible: 1) the Royal Grant Treaty, 2) the Suzerain -- Vassal Treaty, and 3) the Parity Treaty. They may be described as follows: The Royal Grand Treaty (unconditional) -- a promissary covenant that arose out of a king's desire to reward a loyal servant. Examples: The Abrahamic Covenant, The Davidic Covenant, The Palestinian Covenant. The Suzerain -- Vassal Treaty (conditional) -- bound an inferior vassal to a superior suzerain and was binding only on the one who swore. Examples: The Adamic Covenant, The Noahic Covenant, Chedorlaomer (Genesis 14), The Mosaic Covenant (book of Deuteronomy), Jabesh-Gilead serving Nahash (1 Sameuel 11:1). The Parity Treaty -- bound two equal parties in a relationship and provided conditions as stipulated by the participants. Examples: Abraham and Abimelech (Genesis 21:25-32), Jacob and Laban (Genesis 31:44-50), David and Jonathan (1 Samuel 18:1-4; cf. 2 Samuel 9:1-13)." Thomas Ice, "Why Futurism?", Ref-0209, pp. 401-402.


cover : head - covering
cover - head : head - covering
covered : heads - covered
covered - heads : heads - covered
coveting : coveting - AGAINST; wife - coveting neighbor's
coveting - AGAINST : Ex. 16:18; Ex. 20:17; Deu. 5:21; Jer. 22:17; Hab. 2:9
coveting - neighbor's wife : wife - coveting neighbor's
covetousness : covetousness - consumerism; covetousness - heart trained in; idolatry - covetousness is
covetousness - consumerism : Jas. 4:2
covetousness - heart trained in : 2Pe. 2:14
covetousness - is idolatry : idolatry - covetousness is
Cowman, Mrs. Charles E. Streams In The Desert. : Ref-0119
Cowman, Mrs. Charles E. Streams In The Desert. - Streams In The Desert : Ref-0119

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