Davidic Covenant Research Paper

A covenant is an agreement, commitment, or promise between two people. Since the Hebrew people are known as the Covenant people, they had multiple covenants with God. I will touch base on a few main Covenants such as The Abrahamic Covenant, The Mosaic Covenant, and The Davidic Covenant.

The Abrahamic Covenant is supposed to be a covenant of promise and grace. It was when God promised to Abraham and his future family that they would be blessed. The promise was land and constant blessings. He will make him the “Father of many nations and kings will come” from his descendants. Abraham was supposed to hold up God’s requests in order for this promise to be upheld. Abraham didn’t do anything special to earn these promises. All the other covenants

after were based on this original covenant. God made these promises to sinners and people who were undeserving and these promises could only be kept by having faith in their Lord.
On God’s terms, in order for Abraham to receive these promises, all of Abrahams offspring must be circumcised. If all the males were circumcised, it would show they were a part of God’s physical blessing in the world. Any descendants of Abraham who refused circumcision was declaring themselves to be outside of God’s covenant.
The next major Covenant is the Mosaic Covenant. Moses goes up the first time into Mount Sinai, and God announces to him the general terms of the covenant, that Israel will be a holy nation and God will defend Israel from all its enemies, and that god will be merciful and forgiving. Moses must obey God and keep his covenant and then he will be a kingdom of priests with a holy nation. God instructs Moses to declare the place sacred to the people. In three days they are supposed to approach the mountain. In the next three days the Lord comes down as fire and the mountain becomes completely smokey. God calls Moses to the top and sends him down again with the warning to the people not to break through and perish. Then God gives the ten commandments. The people are very afraid so they beg Moses to save them.
The Mosaic Covenant itself could not save people. It is not that there was any problem with the Law itself since the Law is perfect and was given by God himself, but the Law had no power to give people new life, and the people were not able to obey the Law as God exactly requested.
The final Covenant I will cover, is the Davidic Covenant.

The Davidic Covenant shows God’s promises to David, which contained several blessings: A land for Israel, a Davidic kingdom, a Davidic house, a Davidic throne forever, and an eternal covenant.

On behalf of Israel, God assured David that the people would be happy with his as their leader. God would be the Protector and Provider of His people, guaranteeing their future blessings.

The foundation for the Davidic Covenant consults with the prophet, Nathan, about building a resting place or the ark. David’s intention to make such a structure is over-ruled. God extends help to David. These promises provided for more blessings far in the future.

These covenants play a huge role in individual's relationship with the Lord. God chooses these specific people to fulfil his requests which is what set these Hebrew people apart from everyday people.

Since the beginning of the world, God’s relationship to the people has been made by specific requirements and promises. God tells people how he wants them to act and also makes promises about how he will act toward them in various circumstances. The Bible contains several summaries of these, like I covered before, that define the different relationships between God and man in Scripture, which are normally called the

Covenants.
Understanding the covenants and how people obeyed, or disobeyed God, are just another way we can continue to learn and get a better understanding of the Scripture. Hearing how other people fulfill God’s promises may cause us to figure out our destiny and God’s callings to us.