The law was given as a temporary schoolmaster until Christ and the time of reformation.
Who taught you this obvious
LIE?
The Law can only be a schoolmaster to someone if they are awake, paying attention in class and learning the lessons they are being taught. And the
ONLY Way for that to happen is for everyone to read, study, keep and apply The Law in their every day lives.
The only part of The Law that was temporary was the ordinances carried out by the Levitical priesthood, e.g. the animal sacrifices. And even in those cases, neither of those things were actually abolished. The Levitical priesthood was simply reduced from many to
ONE High Priest, after the order of Melchizedek (The King of Righteousness and King of Peace) and the animal being sacrificed merely became the human animal instead of cattle and sheep. Substitute animal sacrifice foreshadowed "self" sacrifice, in much the same way that Abraham offering up his miracle son Isaac foreshadowed Father offering up His Miracle Son Christ, to be sacrificed.
The
informal reduction of the priesthood from many to one High Priest took place roughly 600 years BEFORE Jesus, as recorded in
Jeremiah 23:1-6 and
Ezekiel 34:1-10,
23. The
formal reduction of the priesthood from many to one High Priest took place when the Temple Veil rent in two. A very obvious and recorded event that was well-documented.
The reformation, which took place in the 16th century AD, had absolutely nothing to do with either of these events, other than to sadly serve as the next chapter in ignoring God's Commands and Christ's True Teachings and Sacrifice.
Just as the Levitical priesthood ignored God's
COMMANDS to cease and desist c. 600 B.C., and again during the lifetime of Jesus, even after His Crucifixion and Resurrection and everything they witnessed, the Roman Catholic priesthood ignored that Command as well, exactly as Christ prophesied and warned about (see
Matt. 23:8-10). They were followed centuries later by the Protestant priests, pastors, ministers, etc., who have all done exactly the same thing. Why?
BECAUSE NONE OF THEM DO AS THEY ARE COMMANDED BY GOD AND BY HIS CHRIST TO DO, PROVING THEY DO NOT WORK FOR GOD.
It is those same Protestant pastors/preachers, etc. who have taught their unwitting(?) victims to ignore Christ's
COMMANDS and trUE Teachings by seeking refuge in their
MISINTERPRETATIONS of the letters of Paul, just as you are doing now.
IF you are truly interested in understanding the letters of Paul, then you MUST read, study both The Law and the Gospel, and ask God
ALONE for HIS Guidance, in preference to any so-called Christian priest, pastor, minister, etc. (by whatever names they wish to call themselves).
The Law is found in the first five books of the Bible, namely
Genesis,
Exodus,
Leviticus,
Numbers and
Deuteronomy.
The Gospel accounts are found in
Matthew,
Mark,
Luke,
John and
Thomas.
IF you read and study these, you will see that it is
impossible for The Law to
ever pass away, exactly as Christ told us while He was here in the body of Jesus.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but my words shall NOT pass away.
If you didn't already know this, it was Christ Who met with Abraham as Melchizedek (
Gen. 14:18-20; Koks -
John 8:47-49, KJV - John 8:56-58).
If you didn't already know this, it was Christ Who met with Moses in the burning bush (
Exod. 3:1-3) and gave Moses The Law before leading Moses and the Israelites through the wilderness of Sin (
Exod. 23:20-23).
If you didn't already know this, it was Christ Who brought down fire from heaven (
Matt. 3:11,
Luke 3:16) as Elijah (
1 kings 18:17-40;
2 kings 1:8-12), to prove the priests of that time were satanic and to destroy them and the evil soldiers that Ahab sent.
If you didn't already know this, it was Christ Who incarnated Jesus 2000 years ago, at which time He plainly explained that The Law God gave us, and that
ALL of the Prophets taught and warned us to return to, would
NEVER pass away (
Matt. 5:17-20).
This is why Christ is referred to throughout both the Old Covenant and the New Covenant as
THE WORD.
It was also given specifically to the nation of Israel.
Who taught you this obvious
LIE?
Deuteronomy 29:9-15 plainly states that everyone on Earth is party to the Covenant, whether they acknowledge that fact or not. God does
NOT apply His Law unequally to one group of people but not another.
God gave His Law to the people Israel so that they could be a peculiar, demonstration people to the rest of the world (Deut. 14:2), showing everyone else the Blessings from God that await all those who keep His Law. That way, the neighbours would want to be a part of Israel, and would be allowed to do so as long as they kept The Law. The borders of Israel would then expand to include those neighbouring countries, and the entire process would repeat itself until the entire world would become Israel, i.e. the Kingdom of God here on Earth.
THAT was what the "grafting into Israel of the Gentiles" was meant to be.
Unfortunately, Israel ceased to be a demonstration people, and decided to replace God with an earthly king (see:
1 Sam. 8 - the saddest day in Israel's history), because they didn't keep The Law. It is interesting to note however, that even when they marginally kept The Law, e.g. under the reigns of king David and king Solomon, God blessed Israel by making them the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth at that time. Blessings which Solomon then squandered, choosing instead to multiply his own personal wealth and wives instead of keeping, administering and enforcing God's Law
ONLY (
Deut. 17:14-20), as he promised to do.
They were the only ones there when the covenant was being confirmed(through sprinkling of blood) and not the surrounding people's.
As above please.
Deuteronomy 29:9-15 and all of Paul's letters confirming The Law (see:
Rom. 11) prove you don't know what you're talking about, which is why you need to read and study The Law that Christ
COMMANDS us to keep.
Have you never heard of "the grafting into Israel of the Gentiles (foreigners)"? This literally began with and by The Law.
Deuteronomy 1:16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brethren, and judge
righteously between [every] man and his brother,
and the stranger [that is] with him.
Deuteronomy 5:14
But the seventh day (Saturday) [is] the Sabbath of the "I AM" thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Deuteronomy 10:18-19
10:18 He doth execute the Judgment of the fatherless and widow,
and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
10:19
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
There are dozens of references to "the strangers" (Gentiles) in The Law and in all cases they are to be treated justly and fairly in accordance with The Law, which they themselves are obligated to keep to be part of Israel.
That covenant ended 70AD.
No, it didn't. Who taught you that obvious
LIE?
It was the second version of Solomon's Temple (more widely known as Herod's Temple) that was
completely destroyed in 70 A.D., fulfilling Christ's Prophecy that there would not be so much as
"one stone upon another" (
Matt. 24:1-3). And yet most "Christians", instead of believing Christ, believe the counterfeit Jews of the synagogue of Satan and their oxymoronic "
Christian Zionism", who
falsely claim that the part of the temple now referred to as "the wailing wall" somehow survived.
By the way, here is Christ telling us in His Revelation to John that those who are with Him and therefore victorious (
Rev. 14:1-4), will be singing the "Song of Moses" up to and beyond Judgment Day.
Revelation 15:3 And they sing the "Song of Moses" (Old Covenant -
Deut. 31) the servant of God, AND the "Song of the Lamb" (New Covenant), saying, Great and marvellous [are] Thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true [are] Thy Ways, Thou King of the holy people.
It's not God's will to impose the old covenant law on the nations of the world. Christians are ministers of a 'new' covenant that is not of the letter.
Who taught you that obvious
LIE? And why don't you know better than to repeat it?
Matthew 6:9-13
6:9
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name.
6:10
Thy Kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH, as [it is] in heaven.
6:11
Give us this day our daily bread.
6:12
And forgive us our debts and trespasses (if we truly repent), as we forgive our debtors and those who trespass against us (if they truly repent).
6:13
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine is The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
How can any rationally-minded individual actually believe that doing God's Will somehow involves disobeying Him and His Law?
The terms and conditions of the Old Covenant and the New Covenant are exactly the same:
BOTH require us to obey God and His Law (
Heb. 8:7-12;
Rev. 15:3).
To be able to be ministers (servants) of the New Covenant, one must learn to obey it. And not one single "Christian" today obeys Christ's Commands, exactly as Christ prophesied (
Matt. 7:21-27).
John 14:15
If ye love me, KEEP my COMMANDments.