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God’s People in the Wilderness: The Church in Hebrews is unavailable, but you can change that!

What is the Church? If we want to minister to today’s broken world we need to understand what Scripture means by the Church. New Testament writes about the body of Christ and the Kingdom of God. For the writer to the Hebrews, the Church of today finds its most proper definition in terms of the historical experience of the old covenant people of God “in the wilderness” during the days of Moses....

tension of potential curse or blessing, of possible reward or punishment. Hebrews 3:6b–4:13 present the tension involved in the Christian life as clearly as any passage of the epistle. Most striking is the permeating use of Israel’s wilderness tradition throughout these verses. The entire passage rests on the assumption that the people of the new covenant are in a situation that compares closely with the experience of Israel in the wilderness. The promises and threats experienced by the one parallel
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