The Spiritual is real (substantial), the physical (temporal) is not.
THE OLD TESTAMENT is The Shadow (physical) of the True Spiritual truth.
The Old Covenant is temporal, material, perishing.
“Let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food & drink (material matters), or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath (temporal traditions)…
These are a SHADOW of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ (Spirit).” Hebrew 10:1
“For THE LAW (physical) IS ONLY A SHADOW of the good things (Spiritual) to come, NOT THE REALITIES THEMSELVES.
Galatians 3:23
“Before faith came (Spiritual), we were held captive under the law (physical), imprisoned (in flesh) until the coming faith (Spiritual) would be revealed.”
Hebrews 8:5
“The place where they serve (operate) is a copy and shadow of what is in Heaven…
This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
Jesus IS the LIGHT OF THE WORLD
He will reveal ALL THINGS (spiritual), there will be no more shadow (physical), the light (Spirit) reveals the shadow (physical), making the shadow (old covenant/ physical), obsolete, discontinued, abandoned…”
Hebrews 8:10, 13
“I will put My laws (what was only understood as physical, revealed to be Spiritual) in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts”…
…”By speaking of a new covenant (bringing Spirit into human), He has made the first one obsolete (physical obsolete); and what is obsolete and aging will soon DISAPPEAR.”
The physical is not Real
It is an image, nothing more.
“So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. The “Shadow,” has no substance or sovereign existence, but illustrates only the outline of the True Contents. “
Hebrews 8:23
“He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”
2 Corinthians 3:6
“But their minds were closed, to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.”
2 Corinthians 3:14 ‡
SHADOW: Grk: 4639 – Skia; shadow, shade, thick darkness, an outline.
σκιά – the shadow of an imminent presence; a spiritual reality (good or bad) describing God’s Light or spiritual darkness.
-sketch, outline, adumbration cast by an object and representing the form of that object:
The Gospel Starts with Creation (physical) ends with Revelation (Spiritual).
Bringing in the PHYSICAL:
Genesis 1:1“In the beginning (before time) God created (by Spiritual power) the heavens & the earth”
John 1:1 ‡ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life, and that life was the light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it or did not comprehend the Light.
John 1:14 ‡ The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
We’ve gone from death to life, we need to really understand. He’s so good to His children.
