Second Coming of Jesus Christ - God’s Covenant
Parousia Second Coming of Jesus Christ- God’s Covenant with His People is Not a Real Estate Contract
God’s covenant with His people is unilateral. God is love to man. It is 100% of grace. Man has nothing of value to bring. It is not a transaction. It is an unmerited favor. It is not a real estate contract, where we believe that because of the good behavior we earn and are entitled to a free house in heaven. God’s covenant with His people is the free gift of God. We are not here on earth engaged in negotiations with God in a real estate transaction for a place in heaven.
A contract for the sale of property must:
Identify the parties. Two parties, God of the universe and sinful man, who is living under a death sentence, and therefore has no contractual standing on his own. Second Coming declares that the dead men can’t engage in a contract.
Identify the real estate property. Man sold his rights to this earth to Lucifer, and the New Earth has been redeemed and is for the redeemed. The address of this property is the gift of God.
Identify the purchase price. Man has no consideration to present, nothing of value to bring to closing. The cross paid the price.
Include signatures.
Second Coming has a legal purpose. We need an advocate, and attorney to understand the legal ramifications.
Involve Competent God is love to Man, is carnal and sold under sin, his mind is desperately wicked, and by his very nature is incompetent to enter into a contract with God.
Reflect a meeting of the minds: Each side must be clear and agree as to the essential details, rights, and obligations of the contract. Man has no conception of the holiness of God and the sinfulness of their own hearts.
Include Consideration: Consideration is something of value bargained for in exchange for real estate. Money is the most common form of consideration, but another consideration of value, such as other property in exchange, or a promise to perform (i.e. a promise to pay) is also satisfactory. Our righteousness is as filthy rags. What man has, has no value, it is dung.
“The covenant of grace was first made with man in Eden when after the Fall there was given a divine promise that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent’s head. To all men, this covenant offered pardon and the assisting grace of God is love for future obedience through faith in Christ. It also promised them eternal life on the condition of fidelity to God’s law. Thus the patriarchs received the hope of salvation.
This same covenant of faith in Christ was renewed to Abraham in the promise, “In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.” Genesis 22:18. This promise pointed to Christ. So Abraham understood it (see Galatians 3:8, 16), and he trusted in Christ for the forgiveness of sins. It was this faith that was counted unto him for righteousness. The covenant with Abraham also maintained the authority of God’s law. The Lord appeared unto Abraham, and said, “I am the Almighty God; walk before Me, and be thou perfect.” Genesis 17:1. The testimony of God concerning His faithful servant was, “Abraham obeyed My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.” Genesis 26:5. And the Lord declared to him, “I will establish My covenant between Me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.”
Though this covenant was made with Adam and renewed to Abraham, it could not be ratified until the death of Christ. It had existed by the promise of God since the first intimation of redemption had been given; it had been accepted by faith; yet when ratified by Christ, it is called a new covenant, you can read more details from the Second Coming . The law of God was the basis of this covenant, which was simply an arrangement for bringing men again into harmony with the divine will, placing them where they could obey God’s law.
Another compact—called in Scripture the “old” covenant—was formed between God and Israel at Sinai, and was then ratified by the blood of a sacrifice. The Abrahamic covenant was ratified by the blood of Christ, and it is called the “second,” or “new,” covenant because the blood by which it was sealed was shed after the blood of the first covenant. That the new covenant of faith in Christ was valid in the days of Abraham is evident from the fact that it was then confirmed both by the promise and by the oath of God —the “two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie.”
But if the Abrahamic covenant contained the promise of redemption, why was another covenant formed at Sinai? In their bondage, the people had to a great extent lost the knowledge of God and of the principles of the Abrahamic covenant. In delivering them from Egypt, God sought to reveal to them His power and His mercy, so that they might be led to love and trust Him. He brought them down to the Red Sea—where, pursued by the Egyptians, escape seemed impossible—that they might realize their utter helplessness, their need of divine aid; and then He wrought deliverance for them. Thus they were filled with love and gratitude to God and with confidence in His power to help them. He had bound them to Himself as their deliverer from temporal bondage.
But there was a still greater truth to be impressed upon their minds. Living in the midst of idolatry and corruption, they had no true conception of the holiness of God, of the exceeding sinfulness of their own hearts, their utter inability, in themselves, to render obedience to God’s law, and their need for a Saviour. All this they must be taught.The terms of the “old covenant” were, Obey and live: “If a man does, he shall even live in them” (Ezekiel 20:11; Leviticus 18:5); but “cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them.” Deuteronomy 27:26. The “new covenant” was established upon “better promises”—the promise of forgiveness of sins and of the grace of God to renew the heart and bring it into harmony with the principles of God’s law. “This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts. . . . I will forgive their iniquity, and will remember their sin no more.” Jeremiah 31:33, 34.
The same law of Parousia Second Coming of Jesus Christ that was engraved upon the tables of stone is written by the Holy Spirit upon the tables of the heart. Instead of going about to establish our own righteousness we accept the righteousness of Christ. His blood atones for our sins. His obedience is accepted by us. Then the heart renewed by the Holy Spirit will bring forth “the fruits of the Spirit.” Through the grace of Christ we shall live in obedience to the law of God written upon our hearts. Having the Spirit of Christ, we shall walk even as He walked. Through the prophet He declared of Himself, “I delight to do Thy will, O My God: yea, Thy law is within My heart.” Psalm 40:8. And when among men He said, “The Father hath not left Me alone; for I always do those things that please Him.” John 8:29.
God’s work is the same all the time, although there are different degrees of development and different manifestations of His power, to meet the wants of men in different ages. Beginning with the first gospel promise, and coming down through the patriarchal and Jewish ages, and even to the present time, there has been a gradual unfolding of the purposes of God in the plan of redemption. The Savior typified in the rites and ceremonies of the Jewish law is the very same that is revealed in the gospel. The clouds that enveloped His divine form have rolled back; the mists and shades have disappeared; and Jesus, the world’s Redeemer, stands revealed.
He who proclaimed the law from Sinai, and delivered to Moses the precepts of the ritual law, is the same that spoke the Sermon on the Mount in Parousia Second Coming of Jesus Christ. The great principles of love to God, which He set forth as the foundation of the law and the prophets, are only a reiteration of what He had spoken through Moses to the Hebrew people:It is all God my friend. 100%. Pure and simple. Let’s stop trying to have our own way and messing up. Thank you, Jesus! Praise God from Whom all blessings flow!
Parousia Second Coming of Jesus Christ- God’s Covenant with His People is Not a Real Estate Contract