have spoken afterward of another rest (4:8). If perfection had come through the levitical priesthood, Scripture would not have foretold another priest (7:11). If the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no promise of a second (8:7). Before Christ came, Israel’s history was something of an unfinished puzzle, an unsolved conundrum. Now, in Christ, God has fully revealed his purposes, and all history can be recognized as one great plan of salvation. Hebrews’ way of reading the Old