The Seven Holy Covenants

[Enoch365]

According to the long and living Ethiopian Tradition, there are Seven Covenants,
as enshrined in the Scriptures, that God made with humanity ever since Creation.
The first of these Covenants is signified and eternalized by the Matrimony of
Adam and Eve (Gen. 2/21-25, Mt. 19/4-6); the second, by the Rainbow of Noah (Gen.
9/8-17); the third, by the Bread and Wine Offering of Melchizedek (Gen. 14/18-20);
the fourth, by the Circumcision of Abraham (Gen. 17/1-14); the fifth, by the Ark of
Moses (Deut. 5); the sixth, by the Throne of David (2Sam. 7/8-16); the seventh and the
last, by the Crucified Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin Mary (Mt.
26/26-29).
The Covenants, as described above and each symbolized by real signs, are
personified by humble individuals who pleased God with their true love for Him. These
persons became unique and parties of their respective Covenants with God following
their singular triumphs over great trials of various physical and spiritual dimensions.
And these trials were meant to test the truthfulness of their love for God before each one
of them actually won His favor to be chosen as a representative party for the specific
Divine Covenant.
These Seven Holy Covenants constitute ETHIOPIA or THE ETHIOPIAN. In
other words, Ethiopia or the Ethiopian is these Seven Covenants, and these Seven
Covenants are Ethiopia or the Ethiopian. Devoid of them, or outside the context and
realm of these Seven Covenants, there is no Ethiopia nor the Ethiopian.
As a matter of fact, the Biblical Testimony or the Truth of the Old and the New
Testaments endorses and identifies Ethiopia conclusively as the True Israel, and the
Ethiopians as the True Israelites. Hence, the existence of Ethiopia and the life of the
Ethiopian are both based on and intertwined by these Seven Covenants. Not only do the
religious, the cultural and the social fabrics of the Ethiopians’ lives, but also their
educational, economic and political principles emanate from these Covenants. This is
ETHIOPIANHOOD.
The above testimony is spelled out in the book entitled Ethiopia: The Classic
Case in greater detail and summarized in the following Testimonials.

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[Joe_Kelley]

Note that Scott Hahn uses the same covenants, except for the third, Melchizedek, as the framework for his book** A Father Who Keeps His Promise**s.

 

[Enoch365]

Do you really know who is Melchizedek?

 

[bmullins]

Do you really know who is Melchizedek?

Well some hold that Melchizedek was actually Christ, others that he was Shem. Either way he was a shadow of Christ to come, and represented the other covenant as well. At least that’s my understanding of it.

 

[MorningSong51]

According to the long and living Ethiopian Tradition, there are Seven Covenants,
as enshrined in the Scriptures, that God made with humanity ever since Creation.
The first of these Covenants is signified and eternalized by the Matrimony of
Adam and Eve (Gen. 2/21-25, Mt. 19/4-6); the second, by the Rainbow of Noah (Gen.
9/8-17); the third, by the Bread and Wine Offering of Melchizedek (Gen. 14/18-20);
the fourth, by the Circumcision of Abraham (Gen. 17/1-14); the fifth, by the Ark of
Moses (Deut. 5); the sixth, by the Throne of David (2Sam. 7/8-16); the seventh and the
last, by the Crucified Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin Mary (Mt.
26/26-29).
The Covenants, as described above and each symbolized by real signs, are
personified by humble individuals who pleased God with their true love for Him. These
persons became unique and parties of their respective Covenants with God following
their singular triumphs over great trials of various physical and spiritual dimensions.
And these trials were meant to test the truthfulness of their love for God before each one
of them actually won His favor to be chosen as a representative party for the specific
Divine Covenant.
These Seven Holy Covenants constitute ETHIOPIA or THE ETHIOPIAN. In
other words, Ethiopia or the Ethiopian is these Seven Covenants, and these Seven
Covenants are Ethiopia or the Ethiopian. Devoid of them, or outside the context and
realm of these Seven Covenants, there is no Ethiopia nor the Ethiopian.
As a matter of fact, the Biblical Testimony or the Truth of the Old and the New
Testaments endorses and identifies Ethiopia conclusively as the True Israel, and the
Ethiopians as the True Israelites. Hence, the existence of Ethiopia and the life of the
Ethiopian are both based on and intertwined by these Seven Covenants. Not only do the
religious, the cultural and the social fabrics of the Ethiopians’ lives, but also their
educational, economic and political principles emanate from these Covenants. This is
ETHIOPIANHOOD.
The above testimony is spelled out in the book entitled Ethiopia: The Classic
Case in greater detail and summarized in the following Testimonials.

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1 Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn out its seven pillars. 2 She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table. 3 She has sent out her maids,and she calls from the highest point of the city. 4 “Let all who are simple come in here!” she says to those who lack judgment. 5 “Come, eat my food and drink the wine I have mixed. 6 Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.

There are only three pillars (from what I understood) that we’ve have reached - and pillars, from what I understood (also) is something that supports, Isaiah 28:16 So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who trusts will never be dismayed.

Also,“the menorah was only the central shaft of the whole structure. From the shaft there came forth kanim, branches on both sides, three pairs, or altogether six branches. According to tradition these branches rose to the height of the central shaft, so that on top seven lights all burned in a straight line.”

Out of each patriarch - comes the ideas of the pillars, those who are supporting and those who had walked blamelessly before God. There are many biblical verses to support this. However, there is also a main shaft that upholds the main prophets and all are connected. We, also, read this from Romans and in John:

1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

Romans 11:16, If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Again, Christ - is the one who supports them all. See 1 Timothy 3:15,The word rendered “ground” - ἑδραίωμα hedraiōma - means, properly, a basis, or foundation. The figure here is evidently taken from architecture, as the use of the word pillar is. The proper meaning of the one expression would be, that truth is supported by the church. as an edifice is by a pillar; of the other, that the truth rests “on” the church, as a house does on its foundation. It is that which makes it fixed, stable, permanent; that on which it securely stands amidst storms and tempests; that which renders it firm when systems of error are swept away as a house that is built on the sand; compare notes on Matthew 7:24-27.

P.S (5) “'Ammud,” the word which occurs most frequently in this sense, is used of the pillars or columns which support a house or the roof of a house (Judges xvi. 25-29)

Reference:

Beautifully written:

THE MENORAH
Components and Workmanship

S. R. Hirsch, Collected Writings, pp. 209-235