Christ - A Better Mediator, with a New Covenant, Based Upon Better Promises

Hebrews 8 and 9

 

10 For this is the Covenant that I will make with the House of Israel (refers as stated to the “New Covenant”) after those days (refers to the Old Covenant having run its course, which it did at the time of the Cross), saith the Lord; I will put My Laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts (proclaims in abbreviated detail the glorious fact of what the New Covenant would do because the sin debt was paid by Christ on the Cross, which made it possible for the Holy Spirit to abide forever in the hearts and lives of Believers [Jn. 14:16–17]): and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people (refers to relationship under the New Covenant that was not possible under the Old Covenant [Zech. 8:8]):
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord (refers to the complicated process of the Old Covenant): for all shall know Me, from the least to the greatest. (This presents the fact that the Holy Spirit will teach every Believer, as He does, and which Jesus also said would be [Jn. 16:13–15]).
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness (the Cross made this possible), and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. (Due to the Cross, sins and iniquities no longer exist, at least for those who trust Christ.)
13 In that He said (Jer. 31:31), A New Covenant (all in Christ and what He did at the Cross), He (God) has made the first old (it was designed to be temporary). Now that which decays and waxes old is ready to vanish away. (Since the Cross, which introduced the New Covenant, there is no more need for the Old, which is vastly inferior.)

Swaggart, J. (2005). The Expositor’s Study Bible (p. 2130). Jimmy Swaggart Ministries.