New Covenant and Renewed Creation Promises - Teacher (Standard) (print)

Teens (ages 13-17) · Jeremiah 31:31-34; Ezekiel 36:22-28; Isaiah 65:17-25; Hebrews 8:6-13; 2 Corinthians 3:2-6; Revelation 21:1-5 · Standard ·35 minutes

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Objective: Students explain how prophetic promises connect forgiveness, inner renewal, God's presence, and renewed creation.

Read: Jeremiah 31:31-34; Ezekiel 36:25-28; Isaiah 65:17-25; Hebrews 8:6-13

Opening: Ask: What would genuine restoration require beyond rebuilding a city or changing external rules?

Say:

Jeremiah promises a new covenant to Israel and Judah after covenant failure.
Ezekiel adds cleansing, a new heart, God's Spirit, obedience, land, and restored belonging.
Isaiah widens hope through poetic new-creation imagery of joy, work, life, and peace.
Hebrews explicitly applies Jeremiah's covenant promise to Jesus superior covenant, while interpreters still debate timing and the relation of Israel, church, and future fulfilment.

Ask:

What changes in Jeremiah?
What does Ezekiel add?
Which images shape Isaiah's hope?
What does Hebrews explicitly claim and what remains debated?

Do: Complete the Prophetic Hope Matrix: Problem, Promise, Original Audience, New Testament Use, Future Question.

Close: Pray for forgiveness, transformed hearts, the Spirits work, faithful present living, and the completion of God's renewal.

Materials: Bible; Prophetic Hope Matrix

Standard outline · 35 minutes

4 minConnect. Use the opening prompt and invite two or three brief responses.
4 minContext. Introduce the passage setting, speaker or main characters, and genre in age-appropriate language.
8 minRead and observe. Read the prophetic passages in original context, then Hebrews and Revelation as later canonical use, marking audience, problem, promised action, imagery, and fulfilment claim. Ask: What makes the covenant new in Jeremiah 31? What does Ezekiel's sequence reveal about restoration?
7 minDiscuss. Complete the matrix and classify explicit prophecy, New Testament quotation, canonical synthesis, framework position, and disputed models. Ask: How should Isaiah 65s imagery be read? What does Hebrews settle and what remains disputed?
8 minActivity. Complete the Prophetic Hope Matrix activity and review what it demonstrates. Activity: Prophetic Hope Matrix. Printable: T1-L14-P01-prophetic-hope-matrix.
4 minRespond. Review the objective, repeat the take-home line, and pray.

Activity details

Prophetic Hope Matrix · 10 min

Materials: Five-column matrix; Pens

Record each passages original audience and crisis.
Record promised divine action.
Record transformation and creation imagery.
Record explicit New Testament use.
Record one unresolved interpretive hinge.

Low-resource option: Build the matrix on a board.

Closing

Memory verse: Jeremiah 31:33-34

Prayer: Pray for forgiveness, inward renewal, Spirit-enabled faithfulness, and the completion of God's promised restoration.

Take-home line: Prophetic hope joins forgiveness, transformed people, God's presence, and renewed creation.