When studying for He Is in the book of Hebrews, “The Everlasting Covenant”, it brought to mind the parable of the mustard seed.
Mark 4:30-32: [30] Yeshua also said, “With what can we compare the Kingdom of God? What illustration should we use to describe it? [31] It is like a mustard seed, which, when planted is the smallest of all the seeds in the field; [32] but after it has been planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all the plants, with such big branches that the birds flying about can build nests in its shade.”
The study for this post started as a small seed and has grown into a beautiful tree. It has taken me to Noah, Abraham, Moses and Yeshua. It has opened the eyes of my heart and brought me spiritually to my knees where I cry “Holy! Holy! Holy!” before His throne. I have said before that there is not a single word wasted within the covers of the Bible, even when I don’t see it. The more I seek, the more I see and the more I see, the more I love Him and His written Word, because He IS the Word. One thing is for sure, He is faithful to us, even when we do not remain faithful to Him. He is the Creator of the Everlasting Covenant, and when we open our hearts to seek what that truly means, our lives will be changed forever.
Webster’s Dictionary describes covenant as: An agreement; a compact, to promise by covenant.
29 years ago, this coming July, I signed a contract and made a covenant with my husband. In this covenant, I promised to love him, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part. Anyone who has been married has stated similar promises unto each other. How many people do we know that have become a casualty of divorce, or maybe you yourself have? Somewhere along the way, the covenant was broken, the promise of being together ended. Marriage is just one example. How many types of contracts are out there that end up in court due to breach of contract? Human beings as a whole struggle with upholding promises, contracts, and covenants, but God has shown us throughout His Word, that His contracts are everlasting, and His promises are forever.
The word covenant in Hebrew is Be-reet and means cutting up, contract, covenant, mediator of the covenant, token of the covenant, people of the covenant, agreement, feast. Be-reet consists of the Hebrew letters Bet, Reysh, Yud, and Tav. When we look at the individual meanings of each letter, we see that Bet means house, into, family. Reysh means a head, person, the highest. Together these two letters mean “Son”. The letter Yud means my and Tav means sign or cross. When we put all of this together, we find that the word covenant in Hebrew means, THE SIGN (CROSS) OF MY SON. Every covenant Adonai would make with His people was the sign of His Son, Yeshua.
Genesis 9:16: The rainbow will be in the cloud; so that when I look at it, I will remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of any kind on the earth.
We all know the story of Noah. When Adonai looked down upon His creation and saw the iniquity of mankind, He spoke to Noah and told him that He was going to destroy the earth by flood and to build an ark to save a remnant of animals and his family. This ark would be a hedge of protection for Noah. They were to come into the safety of the ark.
The word covenant has a numeric value of 612. Each of the letters in bold in that short telling of Noah’s story have a numeric value of 612 as well. With the fall came sin and iniquity, but God provided us a hedge of protection with His covenant. All we have to do is come to Him.
After the rain stopped God created a covenant with Noah. He gave a promise with a physical sign that He would never flood the earth again. Revelation 4:3 says, The One sitting there (on the throne) gleamed like diamonds and rubies, and a rainbow shining like emerald encircled the throne. Adonai brought heaven to earth when He took His rainbow FROM HIS THRONE and gave it to Noah as a promise. Rainbow in Hebrew is the word Qashath made up of the letters Qoph meaning final, Shin meaning to consume or destroy, and Tav meaning to seal or covenant. Rainbow literally means destruction made final by covenant. Just as He promised to Noah. Genesis 9:[14] Whenever I bring clouds over the earth, and the rainbow is seen in the cloud, [15} I will remember my covenant which is between myself and you and every living creature of any kind; and the water will never again become a flood to destroy all living beings.
God’s promises are everlasting, but what does He actually mean by that? Olam is Hebrew for everlasting, made up of the letters Ayin, Lamed, and Mem. When we take the individual meanings of these letters and put them together, it becomes “To know and have authority of chaos”. The Hebrew definition of everlasting is forever, eternity, from old, ancient, lasting, without beginning or end. The Ancient Hebrew Lexicon goes even further to say, “Beyond the field of vision of time or space”. Let’s look a bit deeper at the numeric. Everlasting has a value of 140.
140
· Deliver
· Comfort
· Yah Strengthens
· Sweet smell, fragrant
Everlasting to everlasting, Yah will strengthen us, and through the sweet smelling fragrant sacrifice of His Son, His covenant, He will always comfort us and has delivered us!
Noah brought nothing to the covenant, Adonai brought everything. He knew that even after the rains stopped, the flood waters receded, and they left the ark that mankind would still be a slave to sin. While mankind so easily forgot, Adonai never did. We are heading into storm season, when you see a rainbow in the sky this spring, remember the covenant Adonai made with Noah. The Bible says that Adonai said when “HE looks at the rainbows in the clouds, HE will remember the everlasting covenant”. His promises are Yes and Amen!
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