ralliann
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Yes, I think so. Many pagans practiced sexual immorality in their worship. Child sacrifice etc.This is what is retained:Kind of covers false Gods and idol worship don't you think?
Jesus answered,
I agree. My read is a little different however. There seems me, they suffer the curses and do not escape them apart from Messiah. So I see it more of an escape from the wrath which is prophesied (punishment) foretold in the law. John's baptism seems to concern this very thing. John was preaching salvation from the wrath which was coming. Just like the prophets of old did."I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Even those who keep the law if they reject Jesus they have nothing.
From what I read Israel had a problem keeping the law and the curses of the law were about to overtake them.
Mt 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
The remnant escaped it.
So, I am not sure they have nothing. I think the promises still remain, but the law requires/prophesied wrath first. And salvation/forgiveness of sin was the way of escape.
Lu 3:7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
But the law says...or prophecies concerning the punishment of their sin. And concerning the covenant made with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (circumcision)
Lev 26:43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
It seems to me a matter of timing in the law. The time of the Gentiles, and time of the Jews. So as long as the circumcision remains under law, these things times continue as well. What I mean is this
Deut 30:1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
I disagree with a renewal of covenant, because...…….God remained faithful to His promises and gave victory over disobedience of the law He gave through Jesus as He found fault with the peoples hearts and so He renewed His covenant and made Jesus the new terms and conditions for entrance.
John 11:50
You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish."
We are not free to sin and Paul found a great deal of sin among the pagan nations. But by the grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord many repented and came to the faith in Jesus just as we have.
I think God is faithful to perform his promises made to Abraham as he always has.
The Passover is a memorial sacrifice and the feast of unleavened bread a memorial to the fulfillment of the promises made to their fathers. So no renewal need be, as those promises never grow old or become obsolete.
In the fulfilment of promise in Christ we all enter into the promises made to our father Abraham.
We are to keep the festival of that in memorial as well.
We all also escape the wrath which the law prophesied against both Jew and Gentile as well.
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