The Law has a shadow of the good things to come (Hebrews 10:1)

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Yomelijah

3 min readJun 18, 2024

Even though Christ is the end of the Law, the fact remains that at present it continues to have a prophetic value that enables us to understand the mind of God (through Jesus Christ) about the future: “Indeed, since the Law possesses a shadow of good things to come, but not the substance of things “(Hebrews 10: 1; 1 Corinthians 2:16). It is Jesus Christ who will make these “good things” come true: “Those things are a shadow of the things to come, but the reality belongs to the Christ” (Colossians 2:17).

Let it be the statements of Christ, such as those of the apostle Paul, the Law given by God to Moses, for the people of Israel, has a prophetic significance. A good understanding of its symbolism allows one to understand a very detailed description of the future of all of humanity. This understanding enables one to discern the prophetic riddles of the book of Ezekiel, Zechariah of Revelation, and other biblical prophetic books. As an example, consider two brief statements made by Christ. He shows that the nation of Israel and its administration were the prefiguration of the governance of the Kingdom of God on earth: “Jesus said to them: “Truly I say to you, in the re-creation, when the Son of man sits down on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will sit on 12 thrones, judging the 12 tribes of Israel”” (Matthew 19:28). “However, you are the ones who have stuck with me in my trials; and I make a covenant with you, just as my Father has made a covenant with me, for a kingdom, so that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom, and sit on thrones to judge the 12 tribes of Israel” (Luke 22:28–30).

In two statements above, Jesus Christ shows that the nation of Israel and its people, under the administration of the Law given to Moses, were the prototype or prophetic model of the future humanity in the earthly paradise, composed of the Great Crowd, of humanity who will have survived the Great Tribulation (Revelation 7:9–17) and of the righteous and unrighteous resurrected ones (John 5:28,29). In the same way, the apostle Paul showed that the Law, which was the constitution given by God to the nation of Israel, was a foreshadowing of the reality of the administration of the Kingdom of God on earth: “For since the Law has a shadow of the good things to come, but not the very substance of the things” (Hebrews 10:1). “Those things are a shadow of the things to come, but the reality belongs to the Christ” (Colossians 2:17). Of course, it should be remembered that Christians are no longer under the authority of the Law given to Israel, because Christ has been the end of the Law (Romans 10:4). However, the Law has in no way lost its prophetic value: “Remember the Law of my servant Moses, the regulations and judgments that I commanded at Horeb for all Israel to obey” (Malachi 4:4).

(We are no longer under the authority of the Law given by God to Moses, but this Law has a prophetic value that is fulfilled in Christ, in the Christian congregation, and will be fulfilled in the future earthly paradise, according to Hebrews 10: 1, Colossians 2:17 and Ezekiel 40–48)

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