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The popular CCM worship tune "Better is One Day" can help us understand the NT idea of fulfillment of the OT.
The song takes a psalm about the worship system in the old covenant and uses that picture to make the Christian's life more desired.
"One thing I ask, and I would seek, to see your beauty,
That I would dwell within your gates forever...
Better is one day in your house, better is one day in your courts,
than a thousand elsewhere...
My soul cries out to you, your Spirit's water to my soul
come once again to me..."
We are told various places, especially Eph 2B and I Pet 1, that we are now, in the Gospel and the new covenant, in this building, and that now the building itself is living. What the thing stood for in the past (called by the NT the 'shadow' or the 'picture') is now fulfilled in Christ the reality.
We do see the beauty of God in the glory of the Gospel of Christ.
We do drink of the Spirit because of the river of water of life.
We are supposed to be ambassadors of a message that is so powerful it is unconstrained by time and place; that Christ is lord and reigns, that he has been declared to be such, not by crumbling documents of old, but by the most controverting event: the resurrection (Rom 1:4); that God was in Christ settling the problem of the debt of sin, which is the case.
What does a restored Judaic worship system have to do with any of that?
It is very disturbing to think that we might have people telling us that the previous edition is better; that we should be excited to hear about all the shadow-picture versions being restored is something better than what is in Christ. What confusion!
The song takes a psalm about the worship system in the old covenant and uses that picture to make the Christian's life more desired.
"One thing I ask, and I would seek, to see your beauty,
That I would dwell within your gates forever...
Better is one day in your house, better is one day in your courts,
than a thousand elsewhere...
My soul cries out to you, your Spirit's water to my soul
come once again to me..."
We are told various places, especially Eph 2B and I Pet 1, that we are now, in the Gospel and the new covenant, in this building, and that now the building itself is living. What the thing stood for in the past (called by the NT the 'shadow' or the 'picture') is now fulfilled in Christ the reality.
We do see the beauty of God in the glory of the Gospel of Christ.
We do drink of the Spirit because of the river of water of life.
We are supposed to be ambassadors of a message that is so powerful it is unconstrained by time and place; that Christ is lord and reigns, that he has been declared to be such, not by crumbling documents of old, but by the most controverting event: the resurrection (Rom 1:4); that God was in Christ settling the problem of the debt of sin, which is the case.
What does a restored Judaic worship system have to do with any of that?
It is very disturbing to think that we might have people telling us that the previous edition is better; that we should be excited to hear about all the shadow-picture versions being restored is something better than what is in Christ. What confusion!
