'Detestable Last 30 years'
Lev 23:34,41 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the Lord.... You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
As long as there is an Israelite alive, he will be able to observe the law, keep the feasts and offer sacrifices in the temple of God since this is His everlasting ordinance with the Israelites.
Recently many Christians sacrificed much in celebrating the Sukkot in Israel and zealous Christians also celebrated Sukkot in cell groups and churches.
Are the sacrifices of these zealous Christians (Judaizers) acceptable to our Lord?
Jews Rejected the Messiah
Mat 27:23, 25 Then the governor said, "Why, what evil has He done?" But they cried out all the more, saying, "Let Him be crucified!" ...And all the people answered and said, "His blood be on us and on our children."
1. The faithless and wicked Jewish leaders convinced the Jews to reject and crucify Jesus for masquerading as the Messiah.
2. All the Jews were willing to accept damnation for themselves and their descendants in shedding the innocent blood of Jesus.
So our righteous God had no other choice but to terminate His covenant with these rebellious Jews. At the death of Jesus, God left the temple of God thereby obsoleting the old covenant.
Why did Jesus fulfill the Law and not destroy it?
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."
Since Jesus the Son of God had fulfilled the Law and the Prophet, then all the Israelites (Jews), who have believed and accepted Him as their Messiah and Saviour, have not broken the Law for they too in Christ Jesus have kept the Law, which is their everlasting ordinance.
Sins of the Judaizers
Gal 5:4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.
Any Christian who still keeps any part of the Law has not believed that Jesus had fulfilled the Law and the Prophets and thereby reduced our Lord Jesus to be a liar and a sinner.
If Jesus is a sinner, then our sins cannot be cleansed by His blood and the gospel of His grace is reduced to a lie.
Keeping of Law Forbidden
Act 15:1 And certain men came down from Judea and taught the brethren, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."
God called Paul (Saul) of Tarsus, a Pharisee and a devout Jew to be the Apostle to the Gentiles. He was bold, fearless and faithful to God's words. He showed extreme zeal in his mission to arrest Christians, whom the Jewish leadership considered as deviant or heretic.
Having known that salvation is by grace for both Jews and Gentiles, he stood firm on the word of God. He rejected the unbiblical commands of some leaders to circumcise the new Gentile converts.
Condemnation of Judaizers
Acts 15:28-29 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
Note - the above is the Noahic covenant (Gen 9:3-4)
The Council of elders in Jerusalem forbade new converts to observe the Jewish laws, feasts, beliefs, culture, practices, etc. which our Lord Jesus had fulfilled at His death and resurrection otherwise they will fall from His grace and await damnation.
Today, Judaizers are practiced in the Hebrew Roots Movement. They have rebelled against the words of God and the Jerusalem Council's command from God. Unless these Judaizers repent, damnation awaits them.
