The prior post presents verses about Christ as the NT reality replacing all the OT symbols. John 14:6, “Jesus said to him, I am the way and the reality and the life.” He is not merely the “truth,” as the correct fact, but He is the realness of every positive thing in the Bible.
Colossians 2:16-17 tells us that OT feasts, new moons, and Sabbaths “are a shadow of the things to come, but the body is of Christ.” Christ is the reality, “the body” which casts the shadows.
Examples of shadows of Jesus Christ as the reality:
• John 6:31-51, Jesus as the bread of life is the reality of the manna that Israel ate.
• Romans 5:14, Adam is “a type of Him [Christ] who was to come.”
• 1 Corinthians 5:7-8, “our Passover, Christ” replaced the OT passover.
• 1 Corinthians 10:4 proclaims Christ as the spiritual Rock, the reality of that rock which followed Israel in the wilderness and supplied them with water.
• Hebrews 7 describes Christ as the eternal High Priest, replacing all the OT high priests.
• Hebrews 11:19 says that the offering of Isaac was a picture of resurrection.
God’s New Testament way is that we hold Christ as everything. He is “our way, our reality, and our life.” Let us “lay hold on the eternal life” (1 Tim. 6:12) which is our Lord Himself.
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