The Everlasting Gospel and the Blood of the Covenant
There are truths to which a believer returns again and again, because these are the truths that keep the heart steady in faith when everything around us is filled with anxiety, pain, and uncertainty. One of these truths is the everlasting Gospel and the Blood of the Covenant – not as a religious formula, not as familiar words, but as the foundation upon which God established our salvation and upon which human hope still rests.
When Scripture speaks of the Lamb, it reveals not only the event of Golgotha, but also the purpose of God that existed before time itself. In the book of Revelation we read: “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 13:8). This means that redemption was not God’s emergency “Plan B” after the fall of man. God was not caught off guard by Adam’s sin. He knew from the beginning what He would do, and from the beginning He prepared the way of salvation.
That is why the Gospel is not merely good news for a certain moment in history, but an eternal message. It was revealed to us in time when Yeshua came, yet in the purpose of God it had been established before the foundation of the world. The apostle Paul writes: “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons” (Galatians 4:4-5). The fullness of time speaks not of accident, but of the precision of God’s action.
All biblical history before the coming of the Messiah moved through the system of sacrifice and blood. This was not a human religious invention – it was an order established by God, pointing forward to the perfect Sacrifice to come. Scripture states it plainly: “and without shedding of blood is no remission” (Hebrews 9:22). Therefore, when John the Baptist saw Yeshua, he spoke words that unveil the meaning of the entire story: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29).
Here the heart of the message is revealed: God created the world with the Blood of the Lamb already in His purpose as the foundation of redemption. This is a depth that stretches the human mind, yet it is precisely this truth that gives rest to faith. God does not merely see the beginning and the end – He prepared mercy beforehand. Therefore, the believer leans not on personal merit, not on personal stability, not on personal “goodness,” but on what God has already accomplished in Christ.
When a person does not trust the power of the Blood, he inevitably returns to self-righteousness, fear, and self-condemnation. But the Blood of the Messiah does what no human effort can ever do – it cleanses, reconciles, and grants new access to God. Scripture leaves us no uncertainty; it speaks with clarity: “Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh” (Hebrews 10:19-20). This is not an image reserved for a select few – it is a gift for all who believe.
That is why it is so important to stop living with our eyes fixed on a forgiven past, as though Christ’s sacrifice were somehow insufficient. If God has forgiven, yet a person continues to cling to guilt as though it were his “truth,” then he is not merely arguing with himself – he is resisting the word of God. The power of the Blood does not merely “cover” sin – it opens a future with God, where a person can live free from bondage to the past. This is the freedom of the Covenant: not the denial of who we were, but the new reality of who we have become in Christ.
Yeshua said: “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad” (John 8:56). There is astonishing depth in these words. Abraham did not simply believe in God in a general sense – he saw God’s day, God’s way of salvation, and it filled him with joy. Where a person sees the Sacrifice provided by God, what is born is not despair but the joy of faith. Not because life no longer contains trials, but because the foundation remains unshaken.
In this light, the words of the prophet Isaiah concerning good tidings and God’s restoration sound with particular force: “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek… to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord” (Isaiah 61:1-2), and further: “To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness” (Isaiah 61:3). This is not poetic exaggeration – it is the working of the Gospel in the life of the one who has entrusted himself to God’s redemption.
This is why faith in the everlasting Gospel concerns not only the eternity to come, but also the way we live today. Many know the right words, pray, and gather with believers, yet inwardly continue to live in expectation of disaster and under constant inner strain. The apostle Peter speaks precisely to such hearts: “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you” (1 Peter 5:6-7). To cast our cares upon Him is not merely to “calm down,” but to acknowledge that God truly cares, because the price of our redemption has already been paid.
There is yet another vital dimension to this message – walking in the light. The apostle John writes: “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5), and then: “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:7). The light here is not an abstract feeling, but the word of God, as it is written: “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” (Psalm 119:105). When people stand upon the foundation of the Gospel, genuine fellowship is born among them, because the center is no longer their own rightness, but Christ.
Therefore, the central question for every believer today is not only, “What do I say I believe?” but, “What is my life actually standing on?” Yeshua said: “This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent” (John 6:29). The heart of faith is not self-pity, not spiritual strain, and not the attempt to earn God’s favor, but trusting in what the Lamb has accomplished. The everlasting Gospel and the Blood of the Covenant are not a theme for one day, nor an experience reserved only for a gathering. They are the foundation on which we can live every day, enter God’s rest, preserve our joy, and walk through any circumstance without losing our hope in the Lord.
Pastor Oren Lev Ari