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Rev. Heys is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches.

Rev. Heys is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. That wonderful covenant which God eternally decreed, and in time made known to those whom He chose in Christ to be citizens in the kingdom of heaven and to be members of the body of Christ, was presented three times in this department called The Day of Shadows. This was possible because it pleased God to make that covenant known to us in the Old Testament and New Testament, which are rightly called Holy Writ. It was sometimes spoken directly by God, but also presented through a man to...

Rev. Heys is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. Are you aware of the fact that the two main sections of our Bible, which are called the Old Testament and the New Testament, can also be called the Old Covenant and the New Covenant? Did you ever notice that even though we call the first 39 books in our Bible the Old Testament, we cannot in the King James Version of our Bibles find the word testament even once? Given the privilege recently of speaking on the subject “Preaching From the Old Testament,” at a conference in our...

Rev. Heys is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. With everything in a statement which presents the difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament we cannot and may not agree. That statement, speaking about the Old Testament and the New Testament, says, “The Old is in the New explained; the New is in the Old contained: the Old is in the New revealed; the New is in the Old concealed.” Yes, the Old Testament does contain types and shadows which are explained in the New Testament. It is true therefore that the Old is in the...