Upon This Rock (13): Robbing Christ of His Honor (5)
Doezema examines the contrast between Old Testament sacrificial types and their New Testament antitype in Christ's redemptive work, focusing on how the blood of animals prefigured the precious blood of Christ. Through extensive Scripture quotations, the article demonstrates how believers under the old and new dispensations understood the efficacy of Christ's atoning sacrifice, emphasizing that the types had no power except as they displayed the reality of Christ's death and resurrection.
Previous article in this series: August 2013, p. 448. "But whose blood?" That was the question of Ophoff with which we ended our previous article. He asked the question from the perspective of the saints of old. Not, surely, from our perspective. In the clear light of the antitype, the saints of God in the new dispensation not only know the answer to that question but glory in it. "But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Gal. 6:14). "…being now...
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