While the first covenant never guaranteed eternal life, the new does because it was sealed with costly blood through a perfect sacrifice offered once and for all.

When we are baptized, we are baptized into the life of the Holy Trinity. Through the waters of baptism and the gift of the Holy Spirit, we become one with God. We belong to God, and by His gift, God belongs to us.

The first-century Jews would have caught the connection between Jesus being raised up on a cloud and what had happened in past events in Jewish history. They would have remembered the stories about Moses and his encounters with God in the desert.