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Fulfilled is All That Moses Told in Sure Prophetic Song of Old

What the Prophet Moses once saw from afar, from the cleft of the Rock on Mt. Sinai and from the heights of Mt. Nebo outside the Promised Land, he has rejoiced to see fulfilled in the One of whom he wrote and testified. On the Mountain of Transfiguration he spoke with Him concerning that great Exodus which the Lord Jesus was about to undergo and accomplish in Jerusalem. [So has He] opened the way through death into life. He has opened the Kingdom of heaven to all who believe and are baptized into Him.

As Moses carefully constructed the Tabernacle according to the sacred pattern that the Lord God showed to him, so has the true Image and Likeness of God been manifested in the Incarnate Son, Christ Jesus, who is the radiance of His Father’s Glory and the exact representation of His Nature, who upholds all things by the Word of His power. In Him, who has become Flesh and tabernacles with us, all the fullness of God dwells bodily.

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