- The gospel is called "the everlasting gospel".
The gospel isn't just something inserted temporarily for now until an old program resumes in future and then some new and different program will begin.
No, the gospel is here to inform the shape of the future forever! - Christ is said to have been made "a priest forever" after an Order which superseded the Levitical Order.
Christ's present style of priesthood is "forever" - not just until some old style of priesthood resumes or some new style of priesthood begins in future.
The present-style of worship is the forever style! - Jesus said "the time is coming" (that points to the future) "and now is" (that means the present) when it will not be a requirement to go to Jerusalem to worship.
The new order of worship wasn't only for the present but not for the future - it's for the future as well as for the present.
Therefore it won't be a requirement in future to make pilgrimages to Jerusalem to offer animal sacrifices.
Christ's "once-for-all" sacrifice means that both the present and the future will forever be Christ-centred and gospel-shaped, not material temple-centred and Old Testament-shaped.
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