The
Mickelson's definition of the Greek word for shadow in these next verses
is: "Shade" or a shadow (darkness of error or an adumbration.)
The first three definitions of adumbration means to 1. To give a
sketchy outline of. 2. To prefigure indistinctly; foreshadow. 3. To
disclose partially or guardedly.
Hebrews 8:15 Who serve unto the example and shadow of
heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to
make the tabernacle: for, See, says he, that you make all things
according to the pattern shown to you in the mount. The context
of this verse in
this and following chapters matches the dictionary
definition of the word shadow as foreshadow precisely. The same is
true of this verse: Hebrews 10:1 For
the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very
image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered
year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or
in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days: 17
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Colossians 2 says the rites and rituals of the Mosaic law were a
foreshadow of what was to come in the Messiah. In other words it was
symbolic of realities that were to come and not the very realities
themselves.
Galatians 4:21 Tell
me, you that desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? 22 For
it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a female slave, the
other by a free woman. 23 But he who was of the female slave was born
after the flesh; but he of the free woman was by promise. 24 Which
things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from
the mount Sinai, which engenders to bondage, which is Hagar. 25 For this
Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is,
and is in bondage with her children. 26 But Jerusalem which is above is
free, which is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written, Rejoice, you
barren that bore not; break forth and cry, you that travail not: for the
desolate has many more children than she which has an husband. 28 Now
we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. In
these verses the land of Israel, the city or Jerusalem in the Middle
East was symbolic of the realities of what were to come and not the
realities themselves.
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