Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Hebrews 8:1-8
by: Dale Rood.
It is important to recognize that God builds on whatever has gone before. The New Covenant does not render the Old Covenant null and void, but rather builds on it and fulfills it. What would be the meaning of Jesus’ blood shed for us if the Old Testament sacrificial system had not been in place already? Yes, the Old is but a copy of the New, but from it we obtain a fuller picture of the work of God in our lives. What was incomplete in the Old Testament is now fulfilled in the New. This is what Paul was talking about when he spoke of the mystery of the Gospel being revealed (Ephesians 1:9-10; Colossians 1:26-27).