Outdated Factors to New
I’d say that the 2 elementary issues that we have to do is first acknowledge after which discover. We have to acknowledge that the one God who spoke within the Outdated Testomony additionally speaks within the New Testomony. We must always count on, then, that he knew what he was doing all alongside, and he knew what he was going to say when he was giving his earlier revelation.
As a result of all Scripture is God-breathed and since the God who spoke within the prophets to the fathers additionally speaks to us within the Son, we may be assured that issues within the Outdated Testomony do correspond to and do level to the issues within the New. We are able to ensure that it’s a attainable venture, that studying the Outdated and the New collectively isn’t going again in time in a manner that’s inappropriate, however is certainly what we have been designed to do.
Songs of the Son examines 9 psalms highlighted in Hebrews to disclose the preincarnate glory of Christ within the Outdated Testomony.
Second, we have to discover. For this I’m going to say we have to discover each parallels and resonances. We’d like to have the ability to see the place the phrases of the Outdated Testomony are used within the New Testomony. This isn’t an accident or one thing that occurs by likelihood, somewhat the New Testomony authors, guided by God, have been fastidiously studying and decoding the Outdated Testomony Scriptures.
Each time we’re utilizing their phrases, we should always cease and ask Why? and How? What level is that this quotation getting used to make? In what methods are these themes being developed on this new setting within the New Testomony books? What context is introduced in that we wouldn’t count on or that we would? After which past the precise precise phrases of the Outdated and the New, we should always see resonances. Search for methods through which issues within the Outdated Testomony appear like issues within the New Testomony.
God structured historical past and impressed the Outdated Testomony to level ahead to better realities within the New.
Within the guide of Hebrews, it’s generally known as shadows or sorts—issues in the way in which that God structured historical past and impressed the Outdated Testomony that time ahead to better realities within the New. So we will see the tabernacle and see the methods through which that factors to the place the place Jesus ministers in heaven earlier than the presence of God for us.
We are able to see the Levitical priesthood and the sacrifices on the day of atonement, and we will use that resonance to see the way in which that Jesus presents himself as soon as and for all to atone for the individuals.
So if we have now this stuff in thoughts—the one God who spoke previously nonetheless speaks in all of his phrase, and if we see how the phrases are used once more and the themes correspond—we will learn the Outdated and the New alongside each other for our good.
Daniel Stevens is the creator of Songs of the Son: Reading the Psalms with the Author of Hebrews.
