Overview
The Covenant By Design
The great agreement between divinity and mankind whereby:
God agrees to do everything; man only agrees to believe God's
promises and follow his instructions. ~
How Ancient Scriptures Explain the Covenant — How Modern Scriptures Explain the Covenant
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EARTHLY VIEW |
COSMIC VIEW |
| Ancient scriptures do not provide an adequate description of this planetary epoch. |
1st Epochal Revelation Planetary Prince Covenant: Spiritual
Modern revelation explains prehistoric past by accessing formal cosmic records to compensate for our missing history. |
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Adam and Eve Covenant: Spiritual |
2nd Epochal Revelation The Age of Knowledge Adam and Eve Covenant: Spiritual + National |
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Melchizedek/Abraham
Covenant: Spiritual + National
Under the Babylonian and Medo-Persian Empires. |
3rd Epochal Revelation The Age of Counsel
Melchizedek/Abraham Covenant: Spiritual + National
Under the Babylonian and Medo-Persian Empires. |
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Yeshua (Jesus) Messianic Dispensation
Covenant: Spiritual
Under the Roman Empire. |
4th Epochal Revelation The Age of Worship
Yeshua (Jesus) Covenant: Spiritual
Under the Roman Empire. |
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End Times - Apocalypse Completion Dispensation
Covenant: Spiritual + National
Under the 60/40 Roman-British partnership. |
5th Epochal Revelation The Age of Wisdom End Times - Urantia Book
Covenant: Spiritual + National
Under the 60/40 Roman-British partnership. |
The Covenant Concepts
Sovereignty
The free will prerogative of living men and women reigns supreme over all other definable man made rights and responsibilities found on this planet.
People & Personas (persons, strawman)
People: Individuals, sovereign living real biological men and women.
Personas: Non-living entities, such as businesses, franchises, trusts, bank accounts, passports, birth certificates.
People are animate, alive — Personas (persons) are inanimate, dead.
Individual & Group
Individual: People, a single living man or woman with personality and free will.
Group: A system of 3 or more individuals functioning together beyond individuality.
Groups don't have free will. They operate by concensus.
Spirituality & Religion
Spirituality: Your personal private internal relationship with God. It involves only you and God. Spirituality is unique to each individual. It cannot be duplicated.
Religion: Your external public social relationship with man, and centered on God.
Covenant - Construct - Testament
Covenant: An accord, treaty, formal commitment between living personalities. A living free will sovereign agreement between God and man is a Covenant.
Construct: Something designed and built according to a plan or pattern. An organized religious framework within a Covenant foundation is a construct.
Testament: A written document containing directives, attestations, exhibits, evidence. An inanimate non living thing. A codex.
Creation Follows Patterns
A covenant is different from a construct or a testament in that living personalities are essential to any covenant, since covenants are "written on the hearts of men", they espouse the living Spirit of the law. Covenants require ongoing decision making and that requires an animate source of life. A covenant unattached to at least 2 living personalities is nothing.
On the other hand, constructs and testaments can be entirely and adequately written and preserved on paper, even stone or digital media. Living personalities are not required since constructs and testaments are institutions — not "written on the hearts of men". They are merely the Letter of the law.
Such constructs and testaments can be included within a greater covenant foundation, as a set of covenant tools for collective use. Such is the nature of religion as a framework within the Covenant. Religion alone is not the Covenant, but it functions within the collaborative and sovereign parameters of the Covenant. Just as a carpenter uses tools to build a house, so does the Covenant use the tools of religion to build ethical controls for wisely directing civilisation in accordance with the requirements of Creation.
THE FATHERHOOD OF GOD — THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN
| The Spiritual Covenant | The Religious Framework |
| The Covenant is rooted in living personality. |
Religion is societal, cultural and inanimate. |
| The Covenant is personal and individual and leads to personal salvation. |
Religion leads to unity and coordination among individuals and groups. |
| The Covenant is about personal free will: voluntary relationship, divine law, and familial stewardship. |
Religion is for society, with collective privileges and guidelines. |
| The Covenant is based on individual acceptance. |
Religion is based on collective performance. |
| The Covenant authority is sovereign, relational, accountable, and rooted in transcendence. | Religious authority is delegated, institutional, impersonal, and subordinate to the Covenant. |
Modern man is confronted with the task of making more readjustments of human values in one generation
than have been made in 2,000 years. And this all influences the social attitude toward religion, for religion is
a way of living as well as a technique of thinking.
The Times They Are a-Changin ~ Bob Dylan
We are entering a moment in mankind's history when the way we think about God, creation, and our view of reality itself can no longer remain what it was. Not because faith has failed — but because consciousness has evolved.
Mankind has worshiped, wondered, and warred under the banner of God. We built religions to understand the infinite and ended up arguing over translations and doctrine. We built sciences to explore the physical world and then denied the spiritual that breathes through it. These were never meant to be divided.
Now, the boundaries are dissolving. It is time to renew how we consider these things. Updating our understanding is what the wise do when given new information. It's not rebellion — it's renewal.
Language is not neutral. It shapes what the mind can perceive. Vocabulary determines cognitive possibility. If a culture lacks a word, it struggles to perceive the concept itself.
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