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In this final volume of a four-volume series, Michael Horton explores the origin, mission, and destiny of the church through the lens of covenantal theology. Arguing that the history of Israel and the covenant of grace provide the proper context for New Testament ecclesiology, Horton then shows how the church is constituted through the ascension of Christ, the Pentecost, and the Parousia and how...

The writer then goes on to declare the superiority, finality, and unrepeatable character of Christ’s sacrifice. In this light, Paul develops his sacramental theology in 1 Corinthians 10 and 11. Baptized into Christ just as they were “baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea” (1 Cor. 10:1), the exodus generation only enters the true promised land together with us, foreshadowed when they “all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual
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