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Sabbath School Today | with the 1888 Message Dynamic

A yoke was used in ancient times to control a slave. The hands and neck were placed in a stock resting upon the shoulders. Thus restricted, the poor prisoner was led about by the master.
 
The “yoke of bondage” is the old covenant. “The liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free” is the new covenant (Gal. 5:1).

Sabbath School Today | with the 1888 Message Dynamics

"Some questions arise: Is it possible for any church in any age of history, anywhere in the world, to be “lukewarm” and at the same time be living under the New Covenant? Is this what Christ died to accomplish—to raise up a professed Christian church that is apathetic in its devotion to its Savior and thankfulness for His sacrifice on the cross?"  -Carol Kawamoto
 

Numbers 13, 14 | Verse-by-Verse

"The people of God at Mt. Sinai rejected the glorious new covenant God wanted them to appreciate (Ex. 19:4-6), and fastened upon themselves the bondage of the old covenant (vs. 8). It marked their history ever after."  Paul E. Penno

Salvation by Beholding

Robert J. Wieland
 
Worthy and unworthy people were treated alike: there’s no record that the “good” were immune. The snake on the pole was for “all men.” 

Too Much New Covenant?

Robert J. Wieland

If you have picked up the Old Covenant in school or in church (and you probably have), the idea of “following the Lamb whithersoever He goeth” frightens you. And Old Covenant ideas are subtle, a virus that burrows “bondage” deep in your soul (Gal. 4:24). Those ideas get lodged and as long as you harbor them you find it hard to understand or believe New Covenant ideas.

The Message of the Loud Cry and the Latter Rain

 Robert Wieland

The difference between the New Covenant and the Old is simply the difference between salvation by faith and salvation by works. 

Confused About the Old and New Covenants?

Robert Wieland

To be confused between the Old and New Covenants is not necessary. The New is God's one-sided promise to write His holy law on human hearts. The Old, the vain promise of the people at Mt. Sinai to obey perfectly.