When a mediator is involved, that means there’s more than one party to an agreement. But God didn’t use a mediator when he made his promise to Abraham.
That’s why Christ is the mediator of a new covenant. Now the people that God has called to himself can receive the eternal gift he promised. They can receive it because Christ has died to pay the price and set them free from the sins they committed under the first covenant.
But Jesus has been given a greater work to do for God. He’s the mediator of a new covenant. It’s better than the old one, because it’s based on better promises. Jesus’ work is greater than the work of the earthly priests, just as much as the new covenant is better than the old one.
You’ve come to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks better things than the blood of Abel, which cried out from the ground for revenge.
Here’s what I mean: The law was introduced 430 years after the covenant God made with Abraham. It can’t cancel their agreement or get rid of the promise.
He’d been quarreling with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They depended on the king’s country to supply them with food, so they got together and asked for a meeting with him. They gained the support of Blastus, a trusted personal servant of the king, and through him asked for peace.