MSJ 10:2 (Fall 99) p. 254 festivals.”8 “The whole point of these verses,” writes H. D. Potter, “is that they are a deliberate contrast to Deuteronomy, not a complement to it, or a restatement of it.”9 The new covenant is also desirable because it is everlasting and irrevocable. The Mosaic Covenant depended on the ability of the people to keep their part of the contract. They had sworn, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!” (Exod 24:7). As