Reading Time: 2 minutes
How would the story from the Israelites’ wandering in the desert help the New Testament church not turn away from God?
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Oct. 31 | Both Priest and Sacrifice
Reading Time: 4 minutes
Under the Old Covenant, priests would bring animals to the tabernacle and sacrifice them. By contrast, the Messiah not only administers the sacrifice, he is the sacrifice.
Oct. 31 | Application
Reading Time: 3 minutes
God puts together some unexpected combinations. Lions and lambs, for example. And what about Jesus Christ, who is both sacrifice and sacrificer, the gift and the giver?
Oct. 31 | Discovery
Reading Time: 2 minutes
What is the difference between being made “outwardly clean” and having our consciences cleansed?
Oct. 24 | High Priest in a New Covenant
Reading Time: 4 minutes
This text (Hebrews 8:1–9:10) is at the heart of the writer’s argument about how the high priesthood of Jesus interfaces with the old and New Covenants.
Oct. 24 | Application
Reading Time: 3 minutes
David Faust writes, “Today we face a dizzying array of cultural changes—with shifts occurring not only in technology and style, but in substantive matters like worldviews, ethics, and how to understand the Bible . . .”
Oct. 24 | Discovery
Reading Time: 2 minutes
In what ways is the New Covenant more personal, internal, and relational than the Old?
Oct. 17 | High Priest in the Order of Melchizedek
Reading Time: 4 minutes
As the writer moved his argument along about Jesus’ priesthood and New Covenant, Melchizedek became the perfect type of Christ in the Old Testament to connect some interpretative dots between Jesus and his non-Aaronic tribe.
Oct. 17 | Application
Reading Time: 3 minutes
Jesus Christ didn’t come from the bloodline of the priestly tribe of Levi, but like Melchizedek, he derived his priestly credentials from a higher source.