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In Jeremiah 31, God declares he will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. How we understand that covenant has tremendous importance for every area of theology. An Introduction to the New Covenant examines the covenant to discover who are the recipients of the promised blessings and concludes that the New Covenant is intended exclusively for Israel and Judah. While...

different stance. Pettegrew writes, “After His ascension, Christ inaugurated the New Covenant by pouring out the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. The New Testament thus becomes a New Covenant document … All the teaching about the Holy Spirit in the New Testament (especially about the ‘promise of the Spirit’; (Eph 1:13; Gal 3:14) is evidence that the New Covenant has been inaugurated.”11 Still Pettegrew sees more to come: “The church participates in the New Covenant, but the New Covenant will
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