Radical Biblical Politics – 1.3 “A New Covenant.”
Jer31:31“The time is coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 32It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD. 33″This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,” declares the LORD. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34No longer will anyone teach their sibling, or their neighbor, saying, `Know the LORD,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the LORD.
God longs for a day when he will be able to re-establish his kingdom on earth. A kingdom characterised by acceptance, respect, and reciprocity. Where the rules are no longer external, but internal, ‘written on people’s hearts’ and everyone, ‘from the least to the greatest’ (note the order), has access to power.


