The Old Testament priesthood is over and done away with – God has begun the New Testament priesthood with the coming of John the Baptist! Even though John the Baptist was born in a priestly family, he didn’t continue “in his father’s footsteps” by serving and worshipping in the temple. Instead, he worked and lived […]
John the Baptist brought in the New Testament priesthood of the gospel – now all believers are priests!
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the old creation and the new creation as revealed in the Bible and in the book of Isaiah
The book of Isaiah is like a miniature of the entire Bible: it has 66 chapters (just as the Bible has 66 books), the first 39 chapters talk mainly about the old creation (and they correspond to the Old Testament, which has 39 books), the last 27 chapters talk about the new creation (corresponding to […]
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