A Better Covenant
8: 1-13
Now we will deal with the New Covenant exclusively. The author will prove the priesthood of Jesus is superior to the Levitical priesthood by the use of five contrasts. The third contrast shows us that the new priesthood is based on a better Covenant. The Torah isn’t bad, but the New Covenant is better; the First Covenant was temporary, while the B’rit Chadashah is eternal. Here we come to the main point, or the primary thrust, of what the author has been saying so far in his letter. It’s as if he was saying, “This is what I have been emphasizing from the beginning: the high priesthood of Jesus Christ.” A great deal of things have been said or explained, but they all relate, directly or indirectly, to Messiah’s high priesthood.
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