communicating the knowledge of God under the old covenant. Now, in Christ, the old distinctions are nullified. Now all of the Lord’s people possess the knowledge of God formerly experienced only by the prophets. This was exactly what Moses himself had longed for, although it could never have been experienced under the Mosaic economy: ‘I wish that all the LORD’S people were prophets and that the LORD would put his Spirit on them’ (Nu. 11:29). Now it was a reality. When viewed within this old/new covenantal
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