Living Words
"Living Words" is a weekly podcast that explores the transformative power of scripture across a diverse range of Biblical books, guided by insightful devotionals from the author's own works. Each episode seeks to deepen faith and understanding, connecting listeners with the enduring wisdom and relevance of the Bible in their daily lives.
Living Words
The Three Covenants of Promise: Abraham, Sinai (Before the Breach), and the New Covenant
Have you ever been awakened in the early hours with an undeniable sense of divine urgency? That's exactly what happened to Charles this morning, leading him to articulate the foundational beliefs that guide his teaching and biblical research.
Charles takes us on a fascinating journey through what he calls "the covenants of promise" - a divine three-movement composition flowing from Abraham through Sinai to the New Covenant. With remarkable clarity, he reveals the consistent pattern embedded in each covenant: God's proposal, human acceptance, blood ratification, and a confirming meal in divine presence. It's essentially a wedding ceremony woven throughout salvation history!
We're treated to vivid biblical scenes - from Abraham's deep sleep as God alone passes between sacrificial pieces (promising to fulfill both sides of the covenant) to the elders of Israel dining with God on heaven's sapphire floor after the Sinai covenant. Charles draws connecting lines to Yeshua's Last Supper declaration and looks forward to the ultimate covenant fulfillment at the wedding feast of the Lamb.
Perhaps most provocatively, Charles makes a compelling case for Wednesday crucifixion based on Yeshua's own authentication sign - three full days and nights in the earth. This perspective challenges traditional timelines while restoring biblical accuracy and removing pagan influences that have clouded our understanding of Messiah's sacrifice and resurrection.
Whether you're a seasoned Torah student or simply curious about deeper biblical patterns, this episode offers fresh insights into how covenant understanding illuminates our identity as God's children, heirs, servants, and collectively His bride. Visit tenwordspress.com to explore more resources, including Charles' books available with personalized inscriptions.
Good morning. This is Charles. Ten words press. So I was up early this morning. That's how it goes. Sometimes, you know, I get woke up at 3 am and sometimes I go back to sleep and sometimes I get up the urgency of the need. Now the spirit is pressing on my heart. This morning it was just had a definite need to get up so I did, and I went ahead and did some things on the website this morning. So I added a little bit of language at the top, fixed a couple things, put a new home button on the center, but, more importantly, I've added some doctrinal statements and you know I'm I'm one of those that I'm loathe to use the word, you know, doctrine, because doctrine is the thing that has so impeded and affected my own walk and prevented me from seeing the truth of the light of the gospel, the true gospel.
Speaker 1:I say that because of the doctrines of men and essentially any doctrine that we make would be a doctrine of men, right. But I also think you need to fight fire with fire and some people need that. They want to know what's your doctrinal statement and they don't have evil intent. They don't have, you know the no. I don't think anybody has the deliberate, evil intent to put out false doctrine. I I think that when they put doctrine out they think it's true, they believe it's true and that's why it's so important that your doctrinal statement reflect deep study and multiple witness of scripture as much as possible. You want it all to harmonize because it's just all one gospel. So I I put out a doctrinal statement because I want people to know what I believe and what I'm teaching and what I'm presenting as truth. And, as you know, if you've spent any time at all or read any of my stuff, you know that I use a language model and all this is a computer program that allows me to research, do deep research, to study patterns, to compare witnesses. It assists me in my writing process. It's like an editor that never sleeps and that's the process I use. And so it's important when you're using an intelligence model that you have your foundational beliefs chartered. You can go on to Grok or Claude or whatever language model of your choice and start making your requests and doing your research, but you're kind of at the mercy of whatever the natural biases are of that product.
Speaker 1:Now, some products, like you know, chatgpt has a commercial version that you a plus, where you have a memory, so you get a certain amount of space where you can put in things that you want to be used as a basis. You're, you're hard coding your your, you know you want to shape your own, especially when you're dealing with the word of God. It's important that you have hard coded truths, a declaration, god. It's important that you have hard-coded truths, a declaration, a doctrinal statement of sorts, but what it's called is a charter. So I created this charter and this doctrinal statement that I have on the website now is a product of that charter, and the charter is what. Each time before I sit down before the language model to do any work, we load up the charter, and what goes along with that is that anything that's produced, anything that's brought up, has to have passed through the filter of the covenant lens, and the covenant lens then is in the form of that charter and it has things in there like this is what I believe.
Speaker 1:You know covenants of promise as simple as capitalize it, new covenant. Capitalize it Because these are things you're speaking of the Holy One, these are his words, but more than that, it describes what I believe. The covenants of promise are that they start with Abraham, that they go through Sinai and that they become the new covenant. It's the three covenants of promise in the Bible. It's one movement or one composition, but three movements, and out of that came a pattern, a pattern for a covenant of promise that is a proposal initiated by God, an acceptance, a blood ratification, a covenant meal affirming the agreement of the covenant in the presence of God, a fellowship meal in the presence of God. And we see it clearly in Sinai, clearly in Exodus 19, 5 through 24, 11, where you know the words are spoken. God speaks the words, the wedding bows to his bride on the mountain in the midst of the smoke and the fire, and they accept all that you say we will do, and it's ratified. Moses sprinkles blood on the book, he sprinkles blood on the people. This is before the stones were engraved, but that ratified it by blood. And then the elders and Moses and Aaron and his sons Nadab and Abihu went up on the sapphire floor to have a meal with God To confirm the covenant that had been made, to confirm the wedding vows. Again, it was the Hebrew wedding feast, the Hebrew wedding process, and that is very clear. So when you take that pattern then, and you apply it frontwards, backwards, everywhere this pattern exists, is a covenant of promise. Well, how many times does it occur? And where else does it occur? Well, we find it only occurs two other times, backward to Abraham.
Speaker 1:So we know that the covenant of promise that was established at Sinai was a continuation of the covenant that was made with Abraham, which started out as an oath, an unconditional oath, in Genesis 12. And then Genesis 15, when Abraham needed assurance, the death penalty was applied and the pieces were cut. The Ciceron-Basil Treaty was cut. That was the Near Eastern Treaty, where the pieces are filleted and the participants walk between the pieces. And may it be done unto you as done unto this beast, if you break this covenant. But we see something amazing happen. We see that the smoking pot and the burning torch pass between the pieces while Abraham is put into a deep sleep, signifying that God himself, yahweh, is going to fulfill both sides of the bargain. And then later in Sinai, when the two tablets are cut. That's a Cicero and Basil treaty. Those are not four on one and five on the other, that's two complete sets, your copy and my copy. That's two complete sets, your copy and my copy. And he put both of the copies in the ark to signify that he was going to keep them both. And then what happened? The breach. The breach happened. So that's all in my charter.
Speaker 1:The covenants of promise. So the third covenant of promise then. So Abraham is the first, sinai is second New covenant, the new covenant. And it's very unique because the new covenant is in the process of being fulfilled. It hasn't been totally fulfilled yet. We're still waiting for a final movement at the end of the age with the wedding feast of the Lamb. So you have the new covenant in the blood of Messiah Yeshua. At the last supper, he raises his cup and he said this have the new covenant in the blood of Messiah Yeshua. At the last supper, he raises his cup and he said this is the new covenant in my blood, and those that lifted the cup with him entered that covenant. And then the next day, at Passover, he offered up his body as a sacrifice to ratify that covenant.
Speaker 1:And then we're now. We're looking forward to the fellowship meal in heaven, in the presence of God, at the wedding feast of the lamb. In the meantime we're into the betrothal period, so we're waiting for the groom to return. And now he says in revelation. Any man, I stand at the door and knock. If any man answers the door, I'll come in and dine with him. Well, there's a confirmation meal again, bread and wine, the body and blood of Messiah. Meal Again, bread and wine, the body and blood of Messiah. So every time we drink the cup and eat the bread, we do so to proclaim his coming, his death, burial and resurrection, and to the wedding feast of the Lamb, to a future fulfillment. So that covenant of promise is still open. And those are all in my charter, that's all part of my doctrine.
Speaker 1:And there are other aspects, very important, critical points Wednesday crucifixion and some people say well, why would that be a part of your doctrine? Because Wednesday crucifixion rejects a Friday crucifixion made to Dagon and then it brings in Ishtar and Sol Invictus. That was all Roman paganism. That clouds who Messiah is, that he was crucified on a Wednesday, three days and three nights in the ground. And you cannot get the sign of Jonah, the sign of his authenticity, the very sign that he said. This is what proves I am, who I say I am is three days and three nights. Friday to Sunday will not get you there Ever.
Speaker 1:But a Wednesday crucifixion at sunset, in the pattern of the Hebrew day, genesis 1-5, evening and the morning of the first day, evening is, sunset is the beginning of the day. There you go Wednesday, thursday, friday, wednesday night or Thursday night, friday night, wednesday or Thursday night, friday night, wednesday night, thursday night, friday night, all day. Saturday. Raised on Saturday, saturday night, live. He resurrects Saturday evening between the dawns and then the eighth day, that Sunday, becomes the day of resurrection. But he's already resurrected. He got up the night before.
Speaker 1:And those are all elements of what I'm teaching and those are elements that are important enough to me to put into a declaration of doctrine. And then from there we go on to the preamble of the kingdom constitution that we are his children, we're his heirs, but we're also his bond servants. We have been set free, but yet we remain and we're the bride. Communally. We remain and we're the bride Communally. We're all part of the bride the remnant of Judah, the house of Israel and the sojourners All into that one bride. And I have the allegiance, the ten articles of that. And then I talk about myself. But anyway, that's what's on my heart this morning, that's what I got up to do and I also did a devotion.
Speaker 1:The devotional this morning is on. What is the devotional on? Take a look Covenant, fellowship Meal, betrothal of the Bride, and the imagery is the elders with Moses, aaron, his sons, on the sapphire floor of God in the throne room, confirming the covenant, the covenant of promise. And so that's really all I have this morning and I hope you enjoy it. Take a look at some of these um devotionals. Take a look at some of the studies.
Speaker 1:Um, there's books there, the books on the website. If you purchase them from me there, they have a space for you. You know, if you want an author's copy with a signature, a personal message, and they're probably slightly less. They're a little cheaper, a little better cost, a little better price than what you get on Amazon. But there's a link there also to Amazon. If you want the book right away, don't want to wait because it takes a few weeks to get it done and get it out If you want it right away, just go to Amazon.
Speaker 1:But I do appreciate everybody that's listening and reading and may God bless you and God bless your, your walk and your journey as we all work on our salvation and fear and trembling. I'm going to end it with a prayer Yeshua, god, thank you for your mercy and goodness to us. We pray for your victory. We thank you for giving us the victory. We pray that we look forward to seeing you at the wedding feast of the Lamb and raising the cup, and you raise the cup with us. You said you wouldn't drink again until you were in heaven, at the wedding feast, and that's where we'll see you and we look forward to that day. And until then, we proclaim your coming every time we break bread and lift the cup. In Yeshua's name, amen.
