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NASB | Hebrews 11:40 because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 11:40 because God had us in mind and had something better for us, so that they [these men and women of authentic faith] would not be made perfect [that is, completed in Him] apart from us. |
Subject: Superior Hope |
Bible Note: Country Girl, I just want to address a small portion of your post, which may be off the main line of the thread. "That's why we as God's obedient children must give Christ the preiminence by worshiping Him on Sunday, the first day of the week and NOT any other day like the Sabbath. Although it's a tough thing for some people to do, in my opinion we should learn to give up our love affair with the OT and put its AUTHORITY on a shelf and move on with modern christianity as described in the NT." It is interesting that rarely is Zechariah 14 used to help Seventh Day Adventists understand why the Christian church worships on the first day. According to Zechariah 14;16-19, the worship of the New Jerusalem will center on "the feast of booths" which is the only festival mentioned during the "day of the Lord." While Old Testament Jews normally keep the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath, during the feast of booths they kept the first day of the week as the day of rest. (Lev 23:33-36) The feast of booths celebrated the Exodus from Egypt and the New Covenant. The New Covenant Exodus is spoken of in the first oracle of Zechariah as an Exodus "from Egypt.' (Zexch 10:11) Revelation also deals with this connection between the Old covenant Expodus celebrated in the feat of booths and the new Covenant Exodus from spiritual Egypt in 70 A.D. when Jerusalem and the Old Covenant system of animal sacrifice was was destroyed. Emmaus |