The document discusses the differences between the Old and New Covenants established by God. It argues that God framed two "worlds", referring to the families under the old and new covenants. It explores how God established the lineage from Abraham and the Israelites under the Old Covenant, and how Jesus established the New Covenant through his sacrifice and the "seed" being the Word of God rather than physical lineage. Faith allows believers to understand these two frameworks ordered by God.

1. THE TWO
WORLDS
By: Elder Don Ellis
"Through faith we understand that the worlds
were framed by the word of God, so that things
which are seen were not made ofthings which
do appear. " Hebrews 11:3

2. In Hebrews 11:1-3, "Now faith is the
substance of things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a
good report. Through faith we understand that
the worlds were framed by the word of God,
so that things which are seen were not made of
things which do appear."
God, in His great wisdom, has given us faith to
understand that He has framed (or brought to
good order or harmony) two worlds which I
believe is the old and new covenant families.
God is the author and fmisher of our faith, the
beginning and the end. In Acts, 15: 18 it is
written, "Known unto God are all his works
from the beginning ofthe world." Speaking of
the Old Covenant, 1 Corinthians 10: 11 reads,
"Now all these things happened unto them for
ensamples: and they are written for our
admonition, upon whom the ends ofthe world
are come." Hebrews 9:26 mentioned that
Jesus came once in the end of the world; he
appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of
himself. God began the Old Covenant by .
calling Abraham and hinl alone, as a seed to
bring about a great family who were finally
called Israelites. Romans 4: 17 states, "(As it is
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3. written, I have made thee a father of many
nations,) before him whom he believed, even
God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth
those things which be not as though they
were." In verse 19, "And being not weak in
faith, he considered not his own body now
dead, when he was about an hundred years old,
neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb."
Abraham and Sarah were only dead in the
sense that they were unable to procreate. God
gave them this life by faith, and in this sense,
this great family came from the dead.
Galatians 3: 16 reads, "Now to Abraham and
his seed were the promises made. He saith
not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one,
And to thy seed, which is Christ." Abraham
was the seed of the Israelites but not every
Israelite was the lineage of this seed. By
election it was not given to Ishmael but to
Isaac. And through Isaac, by election, it was
given to Jacob and not Esau that the purpose
of God might stand. Jacob's name was
changed to Israel after he wrestled with the
angel and prevailed. This great family,
through Israel (or Jacob), became the twelve
tribes of the Old Covenant. This seed of
Abraham fmally came to the seed that God has
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4. in mind, or let me say has in His book, and
that seed was Christ who is the beginning of
the New Covenant. Now the seed of Christ is
not human sperm, neither is it as according to
the election, made before the foundation of the
world (Romans 8:29-30), but it is brought
about by the quickening of the word of God,
Luke 8:10-11, "And he said, unto you it is
given to know the mysteries ofthe kingdom of
God; but to others in parables: that seeing
they might not see, and hearing they might not
understand. Now the parable is this; The seed
is the word of God." There is a great
misunderstanding as to the seed that brings
forth a life which is found in the New
Covenant. Jesus, in John 6:63, explains this to
his unbelieving disciples who are fmding it
difficult to understand that when he ascends up
to where he was before as the high priest, he
will make it plain to them that have the seed
(or word) of God sown in their hearts. He
explains that his words are spirit and they are
life.
In the Old Covenant, God wrote his
commandments on tables of stone and they
were copied into scrolls which were to be read
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5. and obeyed. In the New Covenant, God
explains in Hebrews 8:10-13 the workings of
the New Covenant. It is new in that he writes
his laws into their heart and mind. He will
become unto them a God and they shall be his
people. This is not teaching this is to be born
of the Spirit. This is a new and living way
(Hebrews 10:20); in this New Covenant, you
"no longer teach every man or neighbor to
know the Lord, for they shall all know him,
from the least to the greatest." We learn that
we are very great sinners and that God is holy
and righteous and that we need to be saved by
grace. Jesus is then revealed to us as having
been our Savior and that we are saved. This is
revealed by faith in his blood. Hebrews 9:14
reads, "How much more shall the blood of
Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered
himself, without spot to God, purge your
conscience from dead works to serve the living
God."
Now let us go to John 5:21, "For as the father
raises up the dead, and quickeneth them; even
so the Son quickeneth whom he will." The
dead the father quickened began at Abraham.
The word "quicken" in the Greek means to
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6. give life as well as to become lively. Some
examples of this are found in Psalms 119:40,
"Behold I have longed after thy precepts:
quicken me in thy righteousness." Also in
119:50, "This is my comfort in my afflictions:
for thy word hath quickened me." In rightly
dividing the truth, we know this is not a person
dead in sin, asking god to give him eternal life
or to be born again. Only God's covenant
people can understand this. This is God
turning over to Christ, as our High Priest, the
judgment and watch-care ofthe New Covenant
just as he was the King and Savior and Priest
ofthe Old Covenant. Israel did not need a
king because they already had one. They
didn't need a man to be a Savior; they already
had one. Jesus is now the Lord Jesus Christ of
the New Covenant Kingdom and can give the
kingdom to whomsoever he will just the same
as God could. He can also put out of his
kingdom evil doers and unbelievers the same
as God. They are equal in power and glory.
David saw this in a great vision which is
reflected in the saying, "The Lord said to my
Lord, sit thou at my right hand." This was said
in Hebrew in the Old Testament and in Greek
in the New Testament. Paul explains this in
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7. 2Corinthians 3:3-13, "For as much as ye,are
manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ
ministered by us, written not with ink, but with
the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of
stone, but in the fleshy tables of the heart.
And such trust have we through Christ to God­
ward: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves;
but our sufficiency is of God; who has also
made us able ministers of the new testament;
not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter
killeth, but the spirit giveth life. But if the
ministration of death, written and engraven in
stones, was glorious, so that the children of
Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of
Moses for the glory of his countenance; which
glory was to be done away: how shall not the
ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
For ifthe ministration of condemnation be
glory, much more doth the ministration of
righteousness exceed in glory. For even that
which was made glorious had no glory in this
respect, by reason of the glory which that
excelleth. For if that which is done away was
glorious, much more that which remaineth is
glorious.
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8. Seeing then that we have such hope, we use
great plainness of speech: and not as Moses
which put a veil over his face, that the children
of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of
that which is abolished ..."
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