When did the New Covenant go into effect?

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What’s Your Question? for May 19, 2010

When Moses received the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, he then sprinkled the book and the people (Ex. 24:4-8; Heb. 9:18-20). Animal blood dedicated the Old Covenant. The New Covenant was “first spoken by the Lord and then confirmed to us by those who heard Him” (Heb. 2:3). He took away the first and established the second Covenant (Heb. 10:9; Col. 2:14). The New Covenant became effective on the day of Pentecost (Lk. 24:46,47; Acts 2:36-38). It had been prophesied in the Old Testament but was revealed by the apostles (1 Pet. 1:9-12). The blood of Christ dedicated the New, not the Old Covenant. You may go on our website, to Sermons and God’s Greatest Gift Memorialized, and read and listen to a sermon I recently presented on this subject.