Discovering the New Covenant by Greg Taylor - exAdventist Outreach

THE SABBATH IN THE OTHER EPISTLES
In that He says, “a New Covenant,” He has made the
first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and
growing old is ready to vanish away. Heb. 8:13
And for this reason He is the Mediator of the New
Covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the
transgressions under the first covenant, that those who
are called may receive the promise of eternal
inheritance. Heb. 9:15
For the law, having a shadow of the good things to
come, and not the very image of the things, can never
with these same sacrifices, which they offer
continually year by year, make those who approach
perfect. Heb. 10:1
. . . He takes away the first that He may establish the
second. Heb. 10:9
The more I read the book of Hebrews, the more I
started to see the “Magic Eye” picture I had missed before.
Suddenly passages that I had never understood before
became clear to me. I was seeing through new glasses. I
had always studied the Scriptures with Old Covenant
glasses on. Now that I was reading it with New Covenant
glasses, I was seeing a whole new picture. I began to feel
embarrassed that I had never seen it before. It was as if a
veil had fallen from my eyes. I discovered at my next stop
that this is precisely what had happened. Notice II
Corinthians 3 with me, starting with the last phrase of verse
five.
. . .our sufficiency is from God, who also made us
sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the
letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills but the Spirit
gives life. But if the ministry of death, written and
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