The Old Testament tells us about the people of Israel, the chosen people of God. God made a covenant with this people: they would be faithful to God and God would never abandon them. By behaving badly, the people of Israel broke this covenant. God forgave his people and gave the Ten Commandments as a new covenant. Unfortunately, the people continued to sin, but God forgave them again and again, and always entered into a new covenant with them.
God wanted man to be happy forever: he wanted to erase the sin of the first human beings and all who came after them. This is God’s plan of salvation, and the path he walks with us is called salvation history. Through Jesus’ self-sacrifice on the cross, God made a new and definitive covenant with his people. From that moment on, it was possible for people to go to heaven and live forever with God.
