Written fir our Admonition 1 Corinthians 10:11

[SabbathBlessing]

Heb 4:4 For He (God) has spoken in a certain place (Mt Sinai Exo 20:1) of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”;

To enter into Christ rest we are to follow Christ because we are made in His image and rest on the seventh day just as He did.

Heb 4:10 For he who has entered His rest(Christ rest) has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. on the seventh day Heb 4:4 Exo 20:11 Gen 2:1-3


Why the Sabbath rest remains for God's people Heb 4:9

The rest in this verse literally translates into Sabbath-keeping because God's people keep God's commandments- His version, not mans.

sabbatismos: Sabbath rest
Original Word: σαββατισμός
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: sabbatismos
Pronunciation: sab-bat-is-mos'
Phonetic Spelling: (sab-bat-is-mos')
Definition: Sabbath rest
Meaning: a keeping of the Sabbath, a Sabbath rest.

In God's rest there is no rebellion to Him or His commandments. The Sabbath is a commandment of God, thus saith the Lord.

Isa 48:18 Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

The weekly Sabbath could never be a shadow of anything because God said, it started at Creation Exo 20:11 Gen 2:1-3 when there were no shadows, just the substance which is God. The Sabbath was and is always part of God's perfect plan for His children to bless Isa 56:2 and sanctify Eze 20:12 because we can't sanctify ourselves Isa 66:17 we need to depend on God for everything. Why the Sabbath was included in God's perfect law converting the soul Psa 19:7 written personally by the God of the universe, which there is no greater Authority than God. God blessed man cannot reverse Num 23:20

 

[ChristRoseFromTheDead]

Saying the lord's day is exactly the same thing as saying the day of the lord, eg, the lord's people = the people of the lord. Nowhere is the 7th day of the week called the lord's day; it is called a sabbath TO the lord (Exodus 20:10).

However, the phrase the day of the lord is used numerous times in scripture to refer to God's times of judgment, which is what the Revelation is about. So IMO it's really a stretch to insist that the lord's day means Saturday, and actually kind of bordering on unbelief to ignore the expression the day of the lord in a book about the day of the lord..

 

[Magenta]

This does not speak of hearing His audible voice because that rarely happens.

You are substituting what you believe over what the Bible actually says. So the topic is about
accepting what the revealed written Word of God actually says, without substituting what we
think or feel OVER what God has said in the Bible. Then the OP does that very thing, and so do you.

 

[Dino246]

I never said this was referring to the Sabbath.

"Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also: On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come. And when I come, whomever you approve by your letters I will send to bear your gift to Jerusalem."

Here, Paul is suggesting that believers set aside a gift for the needy brethren. There’s no meeting inferred here. He’s simply asking them to store up a donation at home to be turned in at a later date. No changing the Sabbath mentioned or a new day of worship. That would undermined God and Paul is a servant Rom 1:1 and a servant is not greater than their master. Mat 10:24

No, you didn't, but you keep bleating about the Sabbath in a thread that you didn't start. You're hijacking the thread. Just stop.

 

[keepingthingsreal]

Nowhere is the 7th day of the week called the lord's day; it is called a sabbath TO the lord (Exodus 20:10).

Isa 58:13
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

However, the phrase the day of the lord is used numerous times in scripture to refer to God's times of judgment, which is what the Revelation is about. So IMO it's really a stretch to insist that the lord's day means Saturday, and actually kind of bordering on unbelief to ignore the expression the day of the lord in a book about the day of the lord..

First of all, John did not say the day of the Lord. Instead, he said the Lord's day.

Rev 1:10
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

Also, according to Peter, the day of the Lord, when used to speak of a future day, is not a literal 24 hour day, but rather a period of 1000 years.

2Pe 3:8
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2Pe 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2Pe 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Although Peter admonished his readers not to be ignorant of the fact that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day (Psalm 90:4) in relation to the coming day of the Lord, multitudes of believers are seemingly totally ignorant of this truth, and this is one reason why so many people have erroneous end-times beliefs. The book of Revelation does a very good job of breaking this 1000 year day of the Lord down for us, or it does a very good job of explaining the chronological order of events which will begin to transpire when Christ returns to usher in his millennial reign.

Anyhow, back to John. John was not in this yet future 1000 year day of the Lord when he penned the book of Revelation. In fact, he was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, a literal 24 hour day, before he encountered either Jesus or the angel in relation to that revelation. In other words, he was not somehow magically transported to a future time before either Jesus or the angel encountered him.

People need to stop trying to make the Bible say what they want it to say, and instead just believe what it actually says.

 

[keepingthingsreal]

The weekly Sabbath could never be a shadow of anything because God said, it started at Creation Exo 20:11 Gen 2:1-3 when there were no shadows, just the substance which is God.

I totally disagree with you on this point.

Col 2:16
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Col 2:17
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

The sabbath is distinct from the holy days, and it is a shadow of things to come.

Isa 46:9
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
Isa 46:10
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

God said that he declares the end from the beginning, and that is precisely what he has done with the Sabbath. In other words, seeing how a day with the Lord is as a thousand years at times in a prophetic sense, when God rested from his works after six literal days, he was prophetically foretelling that man's time to labor for him on this earth would be 6000 years, and then would come a time of rest for the redeemed, or then would come the time of Christ's Millennial Reign.

Heb 4:1
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Heb 4:2
For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Heb 4:3
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Heb 4:4
For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
Heb 4:5
And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
Heb 4:6
Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
Heb 4:7
Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Heb 4:8
For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
Heb 4:9
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

According to this, there not only remains a future rest for Christians to enter into, but we ought to fear lest any of us fall short of that promised rest. Furthermore, this rest is directly related to the rest that God spoke of in the creation account. Again, God worked six literal days, and then he rested on the seventh literal day. Prophetically, seeing how a day can equal 1000 years in prophecy, man's time to labor for God is 6000 years, and then those who truly belong to him will enter into a seventh 1000 year period of rest during Christ's coming Millennial Reign. This is what the weekly Sabbath foreshadows.

 

[Beckworth]

There is nothing wrong with what you did. We can hear God's voice by reading that which is written in his word.

Rev 1:3
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

Thank you.

 

[ChristRoseFromTheDead]

People need to stop trying to make the Bible say what they want it to say, and instead just believe what it actually says.

Yes let's stop trying to make the text say what it doesn't say. Isaiah 58:13 doesn't say "the day of the lord"; it says sabbaths are "a day of my holiness". That's it. Stop reading into the text what is not there.

Anyhow, back to John. John was not in this yet future 1000 year day of the Lord when he penned the book of Revelation. In fact, he was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, a literal 24 hour day, before he encountered either Jesus or the angel in relation to that revelation. In other words, he was not somehow magically transported to a future time before either Jesus or the angel encountered him.

John was in spirit where there is no time and was brought in spirit into heaven where there is no time to be shown what happens on the lord's day, ie, day of the lord.

 

[SabbathBlessing]

I totally disagree with you on this point.

Col 2:16
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Col 2:17
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

The sabbath is distinct from the holy days, and it is a shadow of things to come.

Isa 46:9
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
Isa 46:10
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

God said that he declares the end from the beginning, and that is precisely what he has done with the Sabbath. In other words, seeing how a day with the Lord is as a thousand years at times in a prophetic sense, when God rested from his works after six literal days, he was prophetically foretelling that man's time to labor for him on this earth would be 6000 years, and then would come a time of rest for the redeemed, or then would come the time of Christ's Millennial Reign.

Heb 4:1
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Heb 4:2
For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Heb 4:3
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Heb 4:4
For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
Heb 4:5
And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
Heb 4:6
Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
Heb 4:7
Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Heb 4:8
For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
Heb 4:9
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

According to this, there not only remains a future rest for Christians to enter into, but we ought to fear lest any of us fall short of that promised rest. Furthermore, this rest is directly related to the rest that God spoke of in the creation account. Again, God worked six literal days, and then he rested on the seventh literal day. Prophetically, seeing how a day can equal 1000 years in prophecy, man's time to labor for God is 6000 years, and then those who truly belong to him will enter into a seventh 1000 year period of rest during Christ's coming Millennial Reign. This is what the weekly Sabbath foreshadows.

Shadow laws were after the fall of man and was for a plan of salvation. The weekly Sabbath started at Creation Gen 2:1-3 Exo 20:11 when there was no sin and no fall of man, everything was made according to God's perfect will. Shadow laws came after the fall and pointed to Christ.


You need to bring the context in from Col 2:14 as there is more than one Sabbath in the scriptures. Paul was very careful to explain the sabbath(s) he was referring to. Not the Sabbath of Creation, that God wrote and God spoke at Mt Sinai that is a commandment written by GOD.

Col 2:14 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

2 Chro 33: and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers—only if they are careful to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.” points to Deut 31:24-26 not Exo 20:11 Gen 2:1-3

Was the Sabbath commandment written by the hand of Moses? Moses handwrote in a book placed outside the ark Deut 31:24-26

God wrote the Ten Commandments which included the Sabbath written by the finger of God

Exo 31:18 And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.

Was the weekly Sabbath contrary and against? What did God say

It was blessed and hallowed by God, not the definition of contrary or against.

Exo 20: 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.


This is what Paul is referring to the annual feast days that some were also called sabbath(s) that were ordinances that had to do with food, drink offerings the context of this passage that points to Heb 9:10 Heb 10:1-22 all the feast day offerings and animal sacrifices that pointed to Christ that was fulfilled in Christ. Not God's holy and eternal law that not a dot or tittle can pass that defines sin 1 John 3:4 Rom 7:7 James 2:10-12

So no the weekly Sabbath is not a shadow law, it started at Creation and is part of God's will and His perfect plan for mankind. Hebrews 4 speaks of two rests not one. We do not enter into Christ rest by being disobedient to God's commandments the point of Hebrews 3 and Hebrews 4, why the Sabbath rest (keeping) remains for God's people, because God's people keep God's commandments- His version, not what was changed by man that most follow.

 

[posthuman]

Jesus said He is Lord of the Sabbath Mark 2:28 i.e. the Creator, not a commandment or the seventh day. He gives rest, He is not rest, the creation.

if a ritual gave you rest, you wouldn't need to repeat it next week.

 

[keepingthingsreal]

Yes let's stop trying to make the text say what it doesn't say. Isaiah 58:13 doesn't say "the day of the lord"; it says sabbaths are "a day of my holiness". That's it. Stop reading into the text what is not there.

The text says the sabbath...my holy day...and the my, in context, is the LORD, so it is the Lord's day.

 

[SabbathBlessing]

if a ritual gave you rest, you wouldn't need to repeat it next week.

God knows we have to do work and labors in order to survive- to pay bills and feed ourselves that why He gives us 6 days to get those things done Exo 20:9 and only asks for one day off from physical work to keep the Sabbath day holy Exo 20:8 doing the ways of the Lord Isa 58:13 so He can bless Isa 56:2 and sanctify us Eze 20:12 because we can't sanctify ourselves Isa 66:17 we need God.

 

[keepingthingsreal]

Hebrews 4, why the Sabbath rest (keeping) remains for God's people, because God's people keep God's commandments- His version, not what was changed by man that most follow.

That is not what it is talking about. In context, Jesus/Joshua, their names read the same in the Greek, did not give the promised rest when he led the children of Israel into the promised land. If he had, then David would not have prophesied of a future rest after that historical event. The rest of Hebrews chapter 4 is the rest associated with Christ's Millennial Reign that we all should be laboring to enter into, and the creation account is quoted within this context.

Anyhow, I am not one to belabor a point. People can read the scriptures for themselves, and they can draw their own conclusions (hopefully with the aid of the Holy Spirit).

 

[ChristRoseFromTheDead]

The text says the sabbath...my holy day...and the my, in context, is the LORD, so it is the Lord's day.

That's what that particular English translation says. The Hebrew says what I previously quoted, ie. a day of my holiness. It's a stretch to go from that to the lord's day, or day of the lord.

 

[Wansvic]

You are substituting what you believe over what the Bible actually says. So the topic is about
accepting what the revealed written Word of God actually says, without substituting what we
think or feel OVER what God has said in the Bible. Then the OP does that very thing, and so do you.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1)

 

[Magenta]

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1)

What kind of dodge is that?

 

[SabbathBlessing]

That is not what it is talking about. In context, Jesus/Joshua, their names read the same in the Greek, did not give the promised rest when he led the children of Israel into the promised land. If he had, then David would not have prophesied of a future rest after that historical event. The rest of Hebrews chapter 4 is the rest associated with Christ's Millennial Reign that we all should be laboring to enter into, and the creation account is quoted within this context.

Anyhow, I am not one to belabor a point. People can read the scriptures for themselves, and they can draw their own conclusions (hopefully with the aid of the Holy Spirit).

We need to understand the OT references in Hebrews 4.

Yes, the Greek name for Jesus is Joshua, but it was not Jesus that is being referred to it is Joshua.

The Israelites wondered in the wilderness for 40 years because of their disobedience. They would have entered their rest which was Canaan much sooner and many did not enter due to disobedience in particular the Sabbath Eze 20:13 Eze 20:21

Its why Joshua spoke of another day to enter and what happened before the Israelites did enter into their promised rest into Canaan, before they entered Moses repeated the Ten Commandments including the Sabbath commandment to diligently keep and teach their children to keep and their children's children to keep, so no change in the Sabbath.

The rest that is being spoke of was available from the foundation of the earth

Hebrews 4:3 although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

We enter Christ rest though faith Heb 4:2 and why David said TODAY- do not harden your hearts in rebellion which Heb 4 is quoting from Heb 3 and Psalms 95

Heb 3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:

“Today, if you will hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”

Psa 95:7
Today, if you will hear His voice:
8 “Do not harden your hearts, as in the [c]rebellion,
As in the day of [d]trial in the wilderness,
9 When your fathers tested Me;
They tried Me, though they saw My work.
10 For forty years I was [e]grieved with that generation,
And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts,
And they do not know My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”


He is quoting David and David is referring to the rebellion of the Israelites that we are told not to follow their path of disobedience Heb 4:11

Its so important not to harden our hearts in rebellion to God He repeats himself

Heb 3: 3 but [b]exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15 while it is said:

“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”


What did the Israelites disobey in the wilderness that we are not to follow?

Eze 20: 13 Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they despised My judgments, ‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them’; and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

We can still enter into Christ rest through faith, it is still available today if we do not harden our hearts like the Israelites


Why the Sabbath rest remains for God's people Heb 4:9

The rest in this verse literally translates into Sabbath-keeping because God's people keep God's commandments- His version, not mans.

sabbatismos: Sabbath rest
Original Word: σαββατισμός
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: sabbatismos
Pronunciation: sab-bat-is-mos'
Phonetic Spelling: (sab-bat-is-mos')
Definition: Sabbath rest
Meaning: a keeping of the Sabbath, a Sabbath rest.


Heb 4:4 For He (God) has spoken in a certain place (Mt Sinai Exo 20:1) of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”;

To enter into Christ rest we are to follow Christ because we are made in His image and rest on the seventh day just as He did.

Heb 4:10 For he who has entered His rest(Christ rest) has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. on the seventh day Heb 4:4 Exo 20:11 Gen 2:1-3

I pray this helps.

 

[Wansvic]

You are substituting what you believe over what the Bible actually says. So the topic is about
accepting what the revealed written Word of God actually says, without substituting what we
think or feel OVER what God has said in the Bible. Then the OP does that very thing, and so do you.

Maybe the following will help you see the point: Jesus said, "It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." (Matthew 4) Jesus cast down Satan's lies using what God "says," It is written. We "hear" the voice of God through the written word.

 

[Magenta]

Maybe the following will help you see the point: Jesus said, "It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Matthew 4

The point of this OP and thread was not to substitute what you think God said over what was actually said.

Many believe in their own ideas, or “feelings” OVER what God has said in the Bible.

Then the OP does that very thing, as do you.

 

[Beckworth]

Heb 4:4 For He (God) has spoken in a certain place (Mt Sinai Exo 20:1) of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”;

To enter into Christ rest we are to follow Christ because we are made in His image and rest on the seventh day just as He did.

Heb 4:10 For he who has entered His rest(Christ rest) has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. on the seventh day Heb 4:4 Exo 20:11 Gen 2:1-3


Why the Sabbath rest remains for God's people Heb 4:9

The rest in this verse literally translates into Sabbath-keeping because God's people keep God's commandments- His version, not mans.

sabbatismos: Sabbath rest
Original Word: σαββατισμός
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: sabbatismos
Pronunciation: sab-bat-is-mos'
Phonetic Spelling: (sab-bat-is-mos')
Definition: Sabbath rest
Meaning: a keeping of the Sabbath, a Sabbath rest.

In God's rest there is no rebellion to Him or His commandments. The Sabbath is a commandment of God, thus saith the Lord.

Isa 48:18 Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

The weekly Sabbath could never be a shadow of anything because God said, it started at Creation Exo 20:11 Gen 2:1-3 when there were no shadows, just the substance which is God. The Sabbath was and is always part of God's perfect plan for His children to bless Isa 56:2 and sanctify Eze 20:12 because we can't sanctify ourselves Isa 66:17 we need to depend on God for everything. Why the Sabbath was included in God's perfect law converting the soul Psa 19:7 written personally by the God of the universe, which there is no greater Authority than God. God blessed man cannot reverse Num 23:20

You are right—man cannot reverse what GOD has done, BUT GOD CAN—and did . Hebrews 7 says GOD (not man) changed the law; and not just about Priest, He changed all of the law from Judaism to The law of Christ. Even in Matthew 5-7 Jesus was changing the law. The old law taught “you shall not murder”, but Jesus said, “But I SAY, you can’t even hate your brother…”. The OLD law said, “Do not commit adultery” but JESUS SAYS, “Do not even lust for a woman..” and (new law) if you lust, you have committed adultery in your heart. That wasn’t Old Testament teaching, that is the new law of Christ. The old Jewish law permitted divorce for various reason, but Christ changed the law, and under the new law of Christ there is only one reason why a person can divorce their spouse and that is for sexual immorality. The old law said “you shall not swear falsely, but I SAY do not swear at all…” The old Jewish law said, “An eye for an eye” but JESUS SAYS do not resist…be meek, be giving. The old Jewish law said, “ Love your neighbor and hate your enemy”, but I SAY love your enemies. That’s just the beginning. Colossians tells us that feast days, new moons, dietary laws concerning meat and drink, SABBATH days, all no longer are bound on us—we are not required to keep those any more, so don’t let anyone judge you for not keeping those old laws nor let them tell you you must keep them. Col. 2:14-16. Circumcision is another old law that has been done away. Galations 5:6 “In Christ-meaning in the new law of Christ—neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything.” He says, “ You observe days, and months and seasons and years, I am afraid of you lest I have labored for you in VAIN.””

So in Hebrews 7 when he said THE LAW HAD TO BE CHANGED, what was changed was much more than just the laws concerning priests. The Jewish laws about murder, adultery, swearing, an eye for an eye, divorce, vengeance, and hating your enemy; feast days, sabbath days, new moons, festivals, dietary laws, days, months, seasons and years and —a major one—circumcision, just to name a few! The whole Jewish law was changed. Hebrews says it was OBSOLETE AND VANISHING AWAY. Colossians says Jesus TOOK IT OUT OF THE WAY AND NAILED IT TO HIS CROSS.

Jesus said in Matthew 5 that it would only last UNTIL He had fulfilled it. (Verse 18) There were many prophecies about Him in the Old Testament and all of those had to be fulfilled before His new law came into effect. We know Isaiah 53 is a messianic chapter about the death of Jesus and the events surrounding His death. That must be fulfilled before the old law vanished away. Once He died on the cross all things were fulfilled about Him. Jesus said with His dying words, “It is finished.” This harmonizes with Hebrews 9:16-17 that says before someone’s “will” can come into effect, that person must be dead. We live on this side of the cross. The old Jewish law has been “taken away” and we are now living under the New Law of Jesus Christ. Ignatius, a second century writer was right. “ Judaism prohibits “grace.”