Fireinfolding
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Seems to me that 2 Cor 3 is very clear about the law being done away, having its end in Christ. And since it mentions specifically that which was "engraved in stone" as that which was "done away" (its glory having been "excelled" by the law which is now written on our hearts) I sure can't see how it talking about anything other than that which was "engraved in stone" which was the ten commandments - not some other portion of the law.
And I certainly don't see how having the law of Moses "done away" in Christ means that now people can go about killing each other and committing adultery, etc, etc when Jesus said: "You have heard it said... BUT I SAY UNTO YOU".
The fact is that it is much easier to keep "the letter" of the law than it is to keep "the spirit" of the law.
Maybe that's why so many want to hang on so tightly to "the letter"? So they can say to themselves" "I've never killed anyone, so I am not a murderer", "I've never cheated on my wife, so I am not an adulterer"?
No one who is walking in the spirit, walking in the doctrine of Christ, having the mind of Christ (loving God and loving his neighbor as himself) is going to be in violation of the law; LOVE is the FULFILLMENT of the law, according to Christ.
And the only law that might seem to be 'outside' of this same 'scope' (of being fulfilled by love) is the law of the Sabbath. But if there is a spiritual fulfillment of all of the other laws, found in loving God and each other, then what would make us think that there is not a spiritual aspect to this law as well and one that addresses a spiritual rest, rather than a physical one?
This is something that seems to me to be addressed very clearly in Heb 4 which says God spoke "in a certain place" of the seventh day (obviously, to Israel) BUT "again, he limiteth a certain day" (said to be "another day") when he said unto David "TODAY" (when you hear my voice and harden not your heart).
It is WHILE IT IS CALLED TODAY that we are to exhort one another!
This is why Jesus said to the thief on the cross: "TODAY shalt thou be with me in paradise".
This is why TODAY = THE DAY of the Lord (and the darkness/night - when it is PAST - is as YESTERDAY).
We need to hear what THE SPIRIT is saying unto the churches... and there remains A REST unto the people of God... but it is not on "the seventh day" but "TODAY".
Which again is fulfilled when we LOVE God and LOVE one another, as this is when we enter into HIS REST, into "the promised land", the "third heaven", "the paradise of God" wherein grows THE TREE OF LIFE!!
Not trying to make this about the Sabbath, but about how THE WHOLE LAW is fulfilled by LOVE... loving God and loving each other. It's not about the letter but about the spirit. It's not fulfilled in outward/physical observances and ceremonies but in the heart of "the inward man", whose workings is of the Lord.
Kool stuff Angelmom
I was looking at the same thing as it pertains to the thousand years AS yesterday even as Jesus is the SAME "Yesterday, Today, and For ever" who declared it ((TODAY)) wherein the DEAD shall HEAR the voice of the Son of God and LIVE. I was coming in on it from a different angle the first few verses I posted earlier but I sat here adding to them2Peter 1:13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
Prov 20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD
Psalm 18:28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
Mat 5:15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
Mat 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Job 21:17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
Rev 2:5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Job 18:6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
Job 38:19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof
John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
John 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Psalm 112:4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
2Cr 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 42:16... I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
Rev 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Mat 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Rev 21:25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night *there*.
1Thes 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Ephes 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
John 11:9 If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
John 11:10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
John 11:9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
Covenant with the night and Day
Jerm 33:20 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season
Even a thousand years is compared with a "watch in the night"
Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
God called the darkness "night" (past is shown above and below)
1John 2:8Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
1Thes 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Covenant with the night and the day, twelve hours in the day but evening and morning is as one day
2Peter 3:8But, 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.
Romans 13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
1Thes 5:7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
Ephes 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Being dead, or death, sleeping, darkness and night are used interchangeably
Romans 5:12 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
The "reigns" interchange between death and life. Night/darkness/death verses day/light/life. The reign is also used in connection to the "thousand years" as YESTERDAY as well... "they LIVED and reigned for a thousand years"
I never see anything on this verse pulled into any of the thousand year conversations
Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
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