The word covenant meaning is very simple it is an agreement between two people or companies or even countries. Yet, it is very formal, solemn, and sometimes even scary.
However, their meaning in the Bible is much stronger than what we know. Because it is an agreement between God and his people in which God makes promises to his people and usually requires certain conduct from them as well.

When I got familiar with the word covenant after I read the book, "The Covenant" novel written by James Michener who is an American author who wrote Hawaii, Texas, Sayonara, Alaska, Chesapeake, Poland, and many more.  
The Covenant novel is a story about beautiful African land, an epic tale of adventures, scoundrels, and ministers the best and worst of two continents who carve an empire out of vast wilderness. The story of land from the early settlements by the Dutch, through the expansion of it by English immigrants and others to South Africa during the Apartheid age shortly before it was eliminated.

Now, when I read the first reading last week, God said to Noah and his sons with him "As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you '-----(Genesis 9, 8-15) that gives me a chance to look into that word.
In the Old Testament God made several covenants, the Noahic Covenant, the Abraham Covenant, the Mosaic Covenant, the Davidic Covenant and the New Covenant that is Christians view the New Covenant as a new relationship by Jesus upon the sincere declaration that one believes in Jesus Christ as Lord and God with each Covenant are four elements like promises, terms, blood, and a seal.
 

Especially the first 4 Covenants in the Bible are made by God, yet, the last New Covenant was inaugurated by Jesus.
We have to be drawn to Jesus through repentance and faith, be reconciled to God, forgiven of our sins.
The New Covenant is the promise that God makes to mankind that He will forgive sin and restore communion with those whose hearts believe in His son, Jesus.

I read the whole book of the Bible during COVID-19 times, yet, I did not fully understand that time, about the Covenant, now, all I can say is the most important thing I learned this time of Lent, the New Covenant is the most important I could keep for myself with God.

I never studied the Bible solely, yet, just reading the Bible got me to write this article, I hope a lot of information on this the article is proper, meantime, some of the information was from a Google search.

It is a beautiful morning that is God's blessing for this world.

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