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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....

sixteen times in the whole of the New Testament outside the book of Hebrews, while the term appears seventeen times in Hebrews itself.1 As a consequence, Hebrews has fittingly been called, ‘The Epistle of the Diatheke,’2 marking it off as a distinctive work in the New Testament. Yet this statistical evidence cannot give the complete picture. The whole central section of the epistle, from Hebrews 7:1 to Hebrews 10:18, concentrates on the distinction between the old and new covenants.3 The covenant-idea
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