The days prophesied are here.

Hebrews 8:8 For finding fault with them, He says, "Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will effect a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; The author quoted God speaking through Jeremiah the prophet (Jer. 31:31), “Behold the days are coming, says the Lord.” Well, the days are here! God found fault with Israel and Judah. Notice he said, “finding fault with them.” He certainly couldn’t mean that God found fault with the first and second covenants. Furthermore, the problem with the first covenant wasn’t on God’s part, as we noted yesterday in Romans 8:3. “For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh.” The fault God found with the houses of Israel and Judah was that they could not keep their side of the covenant of Law. The flesh is not only too weak, but it is actually hostile to God and not able to obey God’s commands. Paul wrote in Romans 8:6-8, “For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.”  We should be encouraged that we live in the days of which Jeremiah prophesied. God effected a new covenant, of which the author speaks in the following verses. All who believe in Jesus are beneficiaries of the new covenant with which God finds no fault. If you have not believed and trusted in Jesus Christ as your savior, mediator, and high priest in the heavenlies, then may I encourage you to enter into this new covenant which God established through Jesus Christ, His Son? To do so, you’ll have to repent of thinking that you are going to enter heaven because you are a good person or not as bad a person as others you know. The first covenant of Law was based on the goodness of people, and the problem was that there wasn’t anyone good enough to keep the Law flawlessly and enter heaven. Approximately 1313 years passed before God brought in the new covenant through Jesus—plenty of time for God’s judgment to be proven right. “By the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight” (Rom. 3:20).  We may rejoice today if we have come to believe in Jesus as the Son of God and the only one by whom we may be justified before God. Every time we partake of communion, or what is called the Lord’s Supper, we celebrate God’s gracious provision of a new covenant in His body and His blood—the sacrifice Jesus offered to God in fulfillment of the new covenant. This covenant is sealed by the Holy Spirit who has been given to us, and the only way we know we are in this new covenant is that we have faith to abide in Jesus so we can love with Him and bring glory to God. Living to love with Jesus is a sign that we are partakers of God’s new covenant in Christ. May we walk today in the reality that we are at peace with God and that we are testimonies of God’s faithfulness.