To Correspondents

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 8, 1872

To Correspondents.

W. J. HAYNES: The covenant mentioned in Dan. 9:27, we take to be the new covenant which the Lord promised to make with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. Jer. 31:31-34. That Christ came to introduce or confirm this covenant, is evident from Paul's argument in Heb. 8; for he brings up the promise of this covenant as proof that there has been a change from the priesthood of Aaron to that of Christ. Our Lord himself, during the three years and a half of his public ministry, before he caused the sacrifice and oblation to cease by his death on the cross, confirmed in his own person this covenant. After his death it was confirmed by the apostles, Heb. 2:3, in the same manner the Lord had confirmed it, by giving all necessary instruction concerning.

W. P.: God's covenant with Noah was that he would no more destroy the earth, or cut off all flesh, by the waters of a flood. See Gen. 9:9-17. This covenant is simply an unconditional promise.