“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” Thus says the Lord, Who gives the sun for light by day And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The Lord of hosts is His name: “If this fixed order depart from before Me,” declares the Lord, “Then the offspring of Israel also will cease From being a nation before Me forever.” (Jeremiah 31:31-36, NASB)
In the passage above, God, through His Prophet Jeremiah, announces a New Covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. This New Covenant will not be like the covenant in place then, which Israel continually broke.
This New Covenant would have the following characteristics: “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it”; God promises that He will be their God, and they shall be His people; there’ll be no need to teach about God because everyone in heaven will know all about Him; and God “will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” Further, God declares that if the sun doesn’t appear by day, and the moon and the stars by night, and the sea doesn’t churn, then Israel shall cease to be.
The New Covenant will not only be for Israel, but for all peoples everywhere! This covenant would also not be based on the Law of Moses, but on the redemptive power of the blood of Jesus. Bible scholars have counted 613 commandments in the Torah. No human being could ever abide in accordance with them. We’re all sinners, every one of us. God knows this, He created us. Yet He wants to have a relationship with us. That’s why He sent His Son Jesus to the earth. Jesus became sin for us, and took the punishment and execution we deserve for our sins. The provisions of the New Covenant are that we humans get to choose where we spend eternity, either in heaven or hell. If we choose Jesus, we’ll spend eternity with God in His heavenly kingdom. Which do you choose?