From Shadow to Song — God's Witness

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s. — Colossians 2:16

For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near. — Hebrews 10:1

who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.” — Hebrews 8:5

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation, — Revelation 5:9

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands. — Revelation 7:9

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ; — 1 Peter 1:18

then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, — Hebrews 10:9

In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away. — Hebrews 8:13

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. — Matthew 5:17

which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s. — Colossians 2:17