1 marzo 33 anni - KINGDOM COVENANT

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PARTIES: Jesus and spiritual Israel

PURPOSE: It legally joins anointed Christians with Christ to rule as kings and serve as priests in heaven

After instituting the Lord’s Evening Meal, Jesus made a covenant with his faithful disciples called the Kingdom covenant. (Read Luke 22:28-30.) Unlike the other covenants, Jehovah is not included in this covenant. Instead, this is a personal covenant between Jesus and the anointed. When Jesus said “just as my Father has made a covenant with me,” he may have been referring to the covenant that Jehovah made with him to be “a priest forever in the manner of Melchizedek.”​—Hebrews 5:5, 6.

The 11 faithful apostles remained loyal to Jesus during all his trials. The Kingdom covenant guaranteed that the apostles would sit on thrones and rule as kings and serve as priests with Jesus in heaven. But those 11 would not be the only ones to have that privilege. Jesus appeared to the apostle John in a vision and said: “To the one who conquers I will grant to sit down with me on my throne, just as I conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.” (Revelation 3:21) So the Kingdom covenant is made with the 144,000 anointed Christians. (Revelation 5:9, 10; 7:4) This covenant is the legal basis for the anointed to rule with Jesus in heaven. This is similar to a bride who is chosen to marry a king. Once the two are married, it is possible for the bride to rule with the king. In fact, the Bible refers to the anointed as “the bride” of Christ, “a chaste virgin” promised in marriage to the Christ.​—Revelation 19:7, 8; 21:9; 2 Corinthians 11:2.

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