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The premillennial view popularized by the Scofield Reference Bible3 regards the new covenant as having a twofold application, first to Israel fulfilled in the millennium, and, second, to the church in the present age. A better position is taken by Lewis Sperry Chafer who believes the new covenant in the Old Testament will be fulfilled only in the millennium, but finds also another new covenant revealed in the New Testament which has reference to the church in the present age. This conceives the sacrifice of Christ as making possible two covenants, a new covenant for Israel as well as a new covenant for the church.4 This view has the advantage of not complicating the promises given expressly to Israel with promises given to the church.

Christ is declared to be the Mediator of the new covenant (Heb 12:24). Whether the church of the present age or Israel is in view, the new covenant provides a basis in grace for forgiveness and blessing secured by the blood of Jesus Christ. On this all conservative theologians agree whether premillennial, amillennial, or postmillennial. The difference in point of view is occasioned by the question of whether the new covenant promised Israel is being fulfilled now, in the present interadvent age, as the amillenarians contend, or whether Israel’s new covenant will be fulfilled after the second coming of Christ in the millennial kingdom, as the premillenarians contend.

A better position is taken by Lewis Sperry Chafer who believes the new covenant in the Old Testament will be fulfilled only in the millennium, but finds also another new covenant revealed in the New Testament which has reference to the church in the present age. This conceives the sacrifice of Christ as making possible two covenants, a new covenant for Israel as well as a new covenant for the church.4

Another new covenant? Really?

Grover Gunn, a Dallas Seminary grad, has a book out on Dispensationalism. Monergism.com has it for a free download: Dispensationalism Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow. He has a chapter or two on all the various ways dispensationalists have attempted to deal with the new covenant. It might be worth your while to read it over.

Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Jer 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD:

One would think, or I would anyway, that this statement alone is completely contrary to:

Mat_24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Mar_16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

Now how weird is that...That verse in Jeremiah says NOT to go into all the world and preach the Gospel...That ought to be a major clue to everyone that the verses in Jeremiah are not referring to the Church Age...It says don't teach anyone anything about Jesus, or the Kingdom...Jesus taught the apostles and disciple just the opposite of that...

And then the rest of the verse tells us and Israel why we don't need to go into all the world and preach the Gospel...

for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

HuH??? This is crazy, unless one chooses not to believe Jeremiah...

No need to preach the Gospel, why???

FOR THEY SHALL ALL KNOW ME without hearing the Gospel...Every single one of them...

You have to stuff those pages into a trash burner and load it up with Kerosene and light it with a blowtorch to get rid of that truth...

Jeremiah is not referring to a Christian in any age in those passages...