What covenant is Luke 1:73 talking about?
Luke 1:73 refers to the Abrahamic covenant—the oath God swore to Abraham. That covenant promised Abraham and Sarah would produce a nation, that nation would receive a geographical land, and God would one day come as their government, epitomized in the Messiah-King.
Les explains that the covenant in Luke 1:73 is the oath God swore to Abraham, which he identifies as the Abrahamic covenant. He points back to Genesis 12, where God promised that Abraham and Sarah would become a nation, that He would put them in a geographical area of land—the promised land—and that at some future day He would come and be their government, with that government epitomized in the King, the Messiah. Les calls this the Abrahamic covenant brought down into a nutshell. In the surrounding verses, the promise includes being saved from enemies and from the hand of all who hate them.
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On what covenant is Jesus’s entire earthly ministry based?
Jesus’s entire earthly ministry is based on the covenant God swore to Abraham—the Abrahamic covenant. Luke 1 connects the promised mercy to the oath made to the fathers, going back to Abraham, and Matthew 1 likewise traces the line to Abraham. Everything Jesus does in His earthly ministry rests on that covenant.
Is Luke 1:73 in the New Testament or the Old Testament?
Luke 1:73 is in the New Testament. The context identifies this passage as New Testament, not Old Testament, and specifically cites verse 73, the oath God swore to Abraham, as being in the New Testament. It is therefore not an Old Testament verse.
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What covenant is Zacharias referring to in Luke 1:72?
The 'holy covenant' in Luke 1:72 is the oath that God swore to Abraham, which is specified in Luke 1:73.