Saturday, October 14, 2023

D10 - Complete Fulfilment of the Law

  'Detestable Last 30 years'
 
Mat 5:17  "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill."
    Jesus Christ was sinless at birth for He was the Word made flesh. For Him to fulfil the Law, He must first of all be the perfect sacrifice.

1. Jesus the Perfect Sacrifice
a) Jesus was born in an animal shed meant for cattle, sheep, chicken and other animals
    Though Jesus was born a man, yet God wanted Him to be the perfect sacrificial animal (Lamb of God).
b) Covered in swaddling cloths
   All newly born clean animals suitable for sacrifices are wrapped with swaddling cloths to prevent them from blemishes.
    He was the perfect sacrifice for all clean animals and birds used for sacrifices.
c) In the manger
   The manger is used to hold the produce of the land (cereals, herbs and fruits) to feed the animals.
    He was the perfect vegetation (meat) offering (cereals, olive oil, myrrh, frankincense and bread) to God.

2. Jesus the Sinless Jew
    Jesus kept the Law and submitted to John the Baptist, the last OT prophet. He led a sinless life.

3. Fulfilled the Sabbath
   Jesus was the Lord of the Sabbath and in Him, the Sabbath is fulfilled.

4. Fulfilled the Feasts
A) Feast of Unleavened bread
i)  Jesus was killed on Day of Passover
  After sacrificing the Passover Lamb, all Jews must keep the Feast of the Unleavened bread for seven days.
ii) Jesus was the Bread of life (unleavened bread)

B) The Feast of Weeks
i) Jesus was the first-fruit of resurrection (first-fruit of the land)
ii) On the fiftieth day after His resurrection was Pentecost, where 3,000 devout Jews became Christians (harvest)

C) Seventh Month Feast
i) Jesus' birth was heralded with the angelic hosts blowing of trumpet (blowing of trumpet on the first day)
ii) Jesus was crucified on the cross for the atonement of their sins (Day of atonement on the tenth day)
iii) After Jesus' resurrection, He gave the Holy Spirit to dwell in the physical bodies of His disciples (Feast of Tabernacle starting on the 15th Day)
Note God dwelled in the tabernacle in the wilderness
  The physical body of every Christian is the new temple of God - replacing the cold solid Jewish Temple.
iv) Jesus was glorified into the new incorruptible glorious body (8th day of feast signifying the eighth Millennium - the beginning of the incorruptible and glorious New Heaven and the New Earth.

5. New Commandment
John 13:34  A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
    He replaced the Old commandments with a higher order of sacrificial love for one another - to love one's enemies instead of hating them.
Mat 5:43-44  "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,"

6. Everlasting Ordinances
Exo 12:14   'So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.'
    In the Old Covenant there were many sacrifices, feasts and Sabbaths with everlasting ordinances.
     Our eternal Lord Jesus Himself fulfilled this everlasting ordinances in the law so that every Jew converted to Christianity has not sinned for he too has fulfilled all these ordinances in Christ Jesus.
 
Brethren, Judaism was made obsolete two thousand years ago when our Lord God Almighty destroyed the temple when He left it (temple veil was torn in two). Without the temple of God, the Jews were no longer able to make sacrifices nor keep the feasts nor keep the Law. Anyone who tries to observe any part of the Law is cursed.
Gal 3:10  For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."
  Unfortunately, the Judaizers, trying to be 'holier than thou', are partially keeping the Law and they are not aware that damnation awaits them.