The Biblical Covenants from Eden to Eternity

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THE ETERNAL COVENANT…

In eternities past,

Before time ticked its primary moment –

When all that lived was the Three-in-One,

Within the counsel of the Godhead

The yearning heart of love

Cried for something even their all-sufficiency alone could not satisfy.

Among themselves an agreement was made –

An Everlasting Covenant

to encompass all that would follow –

Irrevocable contracts that would shape the answer to love’s desire –

A companion for the Son of the Father’s love,

Of equal standing, of like-character

A holy, anointed, blameless and beautiful bride.

THE EDENIC COVENANT…

“Let us make man in our image,

after our likeness – and his counterpart and helper,

a picture of the Bride to come,

who will stand alongside My Son, and rule throughout the ages.

“Fruitfulness and dominion” I grant them, “Life forevermore.”

Eden’s Declaration – the first Covenant in time.

THE ADAMIC COVENANT…

Then mankind, blinded by the king of pride,

The Tempter of angels and origin of sin –

Demanded a second Covenant

One with healing in its wings –

“I will crush the head of the enemy –

through a virgin’s untouched womb.”

A Saviour promised,

An innocent sacrifice,

Slain to clothe the guilty.

“This is my judgement, this is my mercy.”

THE NOAHIC COVENANT…

Still entranced by satan’s lies

Generations covered the earth with their rebellion,

The dam of grace holding back judgment burst forth, carrying Noah and his family into a new world.

Stepping from the ark that bore them,

An alter was made, offering the future to the one who holds it in His hands,

A Covenant of government,

Assurance and hope.

The promise of a seed dieing for a harvest.

THE ABRAMIC COVENANT…

The hand of love still forming

A Covenant nation called in a man

“Be blessed and be a blessing, Father Abraham,

from your seed as many as the stars,

I will form a bridal nation,

as was then so will be

A spotless many membered Bride, called, anointed, free.”

THE MOSIAC COVENANT…

And so the Hebrew nation,

Finds welcome in a foreign land

But Egypt feared the Hebrew people,

binding Jacob’s hand.

Remembering His Covenant, and hearing their sigh

Moses leads the children of Israel

Through baptism to the foot of Mount Sinai.

Here the perfect Law is given

A Holy Covenant

A picture of the Perfect One

A schoolteacher pointing to Messiah

A signpost for the generations, calling nations higher.

THE DAVIDIC COVENANT…

And then a king after God’s own heart

A lover of this law

Is raised

“To your descendents I will give a throne forever,

One who will rule the nations with truth and justice

Who will never see corruption.”

These Covenants were the instruments in the hand of the Master, used to shape the Perfect Partner.

THE NEW COVENANT…

Still there remained one more,

A final sacrifice

Fulfilling all that came before.

In disguise he arrived

In a stable for beasts

The All-Powerful, naked and vunerable

Wrapped in swaddling clothes.

Then naked again and stripped of dignity,

As a man he climbed the hill of Calvary

The Offerer and Offering as one

Laid bare on a painful tree.

None knew but the Godhead that through this sacrifice

Redemptions payment would be made,

And the foundations of a new creation

Would be forever and fully laid.

Encompassed in this awful moment

All ages past and future –

Through time, the hand of grace and judgement

Stretched to take hold of Adam in the garden –

Pulling him through millennia

And into the blood stained body on the cross

Now clothed again in the innocent slain

Adam was crucified

Adam’s race, every one

The fall and the folly of human pride.

Then like a flood

All governments poured into the Carpenter’s Body –

All powers

Principalities

All authority in heaven and in earth

Crucified in Christ

Ready for a new ruler

Whose dominion and government will be without end.

Stretching His hand then

To the temple,

And to the code of law and righteousness –

Religion itself with all its demands is nailed.

All law

All rule and ritual

All ordinance

Crucified on the cross of Christ the Lord,

Sinai engulfed in Zion’s glory.

Then from the far corners of the universe

Dragged screaming to the cross

The fallen and forsaken,

Rebellious angels and demon powers

Forced through time and space

And driven into the crucified one,

Nailed forever on Calvary’s hill

Stripped and crushed together with Him

Every self-proclaimed

evil prince and king.

In the silence that followed hells parade

Furious, boasting, unyielding

RighteouSness to sin was made

Iniquity himself driven deep into the King

Christ swallowing the garden’s lie

“Why have you forsaken me?”

the Saviour’s anguished cry

Finally even death himself, victorious so he thought

plunged into the prince of peace

Yet even death is brought to nought.

“Into your hands I commit My Spirit.”

And with that breath

The veil was torn and a red carpet poured down the aisle

Flowing from the Saviour’s side

A pathway for the Bride.

All ages, all powers, all in all

Swallowed in the Son of man, and buried in a tomb.

Then the very breath of life,

The same breath that breathed into Adam in the garden

Blew again to raise a new man,

The fullness of the Godhead

Lifted from the grave.

Yet though He rose

Others in the tomb remained;

Fall and folly

Human pride

The law, the ordinances,

Rule and religion

Demon legions and their leaders

Sin, hell and the grave,

and there among this army slain

one more whom the Father claimed

You were there

forever crucified in Him

Called, anointed, forever freed from death and sin.

From realm to realm the Bridegroom stretched,

Taking the hand of the blood bought Bride,

The church prepared

“Come live and love, walk wholly by My side”

From Everlasting to everlasting

The Covenant song is sung

“The Spirit and the Bride as One,

saying, “Come, Lord Jesus, Come.”