What exactly does the new covenant consist of according to Jeremiah 31:33?
According to Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant consists of God putting His law in their inward parts and writing it in their hearts. God says, 'I will be their God, and they shall be My people.' This is God's doing, not Israel's choice, and it becomes reality when Christ returns and sets up His Kingdom.
Les explains that this New Covenant is contrasted with the covenant God made with the fathers when He brought them out of Egypt, which they broke over and over again, although He was a husband unto them. The New Covenant is not according to that old covenant. God says He will put His law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts, and He will be their God, and they shall be His people. Les emphasizes this will not be Israel's choice; that company of Jews will not suddenly decide to follow God. Instead, when Christ returns and sets up His Kingdom, the remnant of Jews kept through the tribulation will see Him coming in the clouds of glory and believe in a moment. The nation will be born in a moment, born in a day spiritually, and then this New Covenant becomes a reality as God puts His Word and commandments in their heart.
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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What is the New Covenant described in Jeremiah 31:33?
The covenant Jeremiah describes — God putting His law in their inward parts and writing it in their hearts, so He will be their God and they shall be His people — is the New Covenant.
Does Jeremiah 31's new covenant match Zechariah's prophecy about the surviving remnant?
The Jeremiah 31 promise of the remnant knowing God matches Zechariah's prophecy that the surviving one-third will realize Jehovah is their God and recognize Jesus of Nazareth as their Messiah.