“The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband to them,”
declares the Lord.
“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”
– Exodus 31:31-34
Here is what I think is the most important part of this prophecy and what it says about the new covenant in the Old Testament: God does everything. He removes the barrier between us and Him by forgiving our sins; He puts the law in our minds and writes it on our hearts; we don’t even have to teach each other to know the Lord because we all already know Him.
John Fischer The Catch 