Hebrews 10:1 “For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.”
The Old Testament system was not “just as good” as this age of grace. Sacrifices given in those days were a mere example of things to come.
We are privileged to live in an exciting day, when things foretold have come to pass.
When we read Old Testament scripture, which points us forward to the Savior, we must realize that the writer lived with hope for the future, while we rest in the peace of the present.
Passages that clearly reveal Jesus Christ to us today are informed by our New Testament understanding. Old Testament saints looked forward in hope.
We see a glimpse of their kind of hope when we think about heaven. Christ’s return and our communion with Him forever are the most anticipated prophecies of our day.
What a joy to understand the blessing of prophecy fulfilled and the longing for things to come.
Hebrews 10:1 “For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.”