Within the gospel, a covenant means a sacred agreement or mutual promise between God and a person or a group of people. In making a covenant, God promises a blessing for obedience to particular commandments.
Four covenants are specifically for Israel: Abrahamic, Palestinian, Mosaic (Moses), and Davidic. God made the other three covenants with mankind in general: Adamic, Noahic, and New. Each has a unique purpose in God's plan of redemption.
Every covenant has four elements—promises, terms, blood, and a seal.
There are several covenants in the Bible, but five covenants are crucial for understanding the story of the Bible and God's redemptive plan: the Noahic Covenant, the Abrahamic Covenant, The Mosaic Covenant, the Davidic Covenant and the New Covenant.
Isa ). That covenant affirms God's commitment to creation after the flood. However, while the concept of a covenant may not appear until after the flood, the major divine-human covenants (Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic, and the new covenant) all support and advance God's creative (and redemptive) goal.
He promises to make an everlasting covenant with his people in which he will write his law on their hearts, bring complete forgiveness of sin, put his Spirit in them to empower them to love and obey his commands, raise up a faithful Davidic king to rule over them, bring them back into the land to reunify them into one ...
The Story of the Covenants CovenantMain Scripture Texts The Covenant with Abraham Genesis 12, 15, and 17 The Covenant at Sinai Exodus b–8; 20–24 The Covenant with David 2 Samuel 7; Psalm 89 The New Covenant Jeremiah 31–34; Ezekiel –2 more rows •
A proper “covenant relationship” with God requires five major experiences: 1) Faith, faith in Jehovah God and Jesus Christ. 2) Repentance of sins. 3) Confession of sins. 4) Baptism and 5) Obedience, effective operation of all of these means genuine conversion.
Baptism and Confirmation When we are baptized, we covenant to take upon ourselves the name of Jesus Christ, to always remember Him, and to keep His commandments. We also promise “to serve him to the end” (D&C ; see also Mosiah –10).
This passage refers to one specific practice of Bible times. In order to confirm a covenant, two parties would a calf and cut it into two pieces. Then, they would pass together between the two parts of the dead animal as a solemn sign of both parties that they fully agreed to the terms of the covenant.