God's plan of redemption is marked by a significant shift from the old order to a new one, as foretold by the prophet Jeremiah. In Jeremiah 31:31-34, a new covenant is promised, one that will be written on the hearts of God's people, replacing the old covenant that was broken. The book of Hebrews, particularly in chapters 8 and 9, explains how Jesus' sacrifice has established this new covenant, as referenced in Luke 22:20, where Jesus institutes the Lord's Supper, symbolizing the new covenant in His blood. Through this new covenant, believers are reconciled to God, and the old covenant is rendered obsolete, as stated in Hebrews 8:13.
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Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt— a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them, ” declares the LORD. “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people. No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you.
By speaking of a new covenant, He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.
Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.
And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
For if that first covenant had been without fault, no place would have been sought for a second. But God found fault with the people and said: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.