The OT saints had not received the new wine until Christ. First-fruit offerings had first to be accepted by God before being renewed for a year. Christ’s first fruit offering, accepted, was for all time, past present and future.
Luke 1:
5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Why did Zacharias and Simeon know the Christ when HE came, but the High Priest of his time didn't? What did Zacharias or Caleb lack? Did they not know the Gospel of Christ?
67 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,
68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
How is it Caleb and Zacharias and Simeon, and Anna, and the wise men all know the Christ when HE came, and all had the Holy Spirit, but the Pharisees did not know Him? Maybe Peter's Word's answer this question.
Acts 5:
32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
Obeyed His Voice to not sacrifice another, He would provide. . . but now a better Voice is to be obeyed, your reasoning is the greater sacrifice Romans 12:1-3. It’s not about the flesh any more, the NT is according to the mind of Christ. That doesn’t even bring it to the level of spiritual yet, which is also in effect.
Jesus HIMSELF said ALL His Word's came from HIS Father, all HIS Power came from HIS Father. HE Himself said HE came to bring HIS Father's Voice, not a new and or better voice.
John 14:
28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
John 5:
45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
They were shown the Gospel of Christ, they just didn't believe/have Faith in it. At least according to the Holy Scriptures.
Oh I don’t know, mostly appeasements to men’s beastly traits. Divorce which even God took advantage of, and Persian law gaining NT access when men became heads of the homes according to the book of Esther. Paul took complete advantage of that writing to form his analogies from of what Christ and the church look like.
Or, instead of just making stuff up, we could "hear" the Scriptures. God gave His Laws, Commandments, Statutes and Judgments to Abraham, as well as to Abraham's Children.
So then the Levitical Priesthood was ADDED to God's Laws, Commandments, Statutes, and Judgments 430 years after Abraham obeyed them.
Exactly. That was done away with at Shiloh. Levitical is done away with at the book of Hebrews, predating to Christ’s death. Temporary ritualistic cleansing.
Yes, the Covenant God made with Levi on Mt. Sinai, on Israel's behalf, because of Transgressions, (Golden calf) became old and has vanished away as prophesied in Jer. 31.. Replaced by a New Priesthood in which Levi is no longer the performer of the "Works" of temporary cleansing rituals for justification, nor the sole authority regarding the administration of God's Instructions. The Christ Himself atones for our sins, and administer's God's Word's for us, as HE promises.
Jer. 31:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will (No more exclusive duty of the Levite Priest) put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, ( No more temporary atonement "works of the Law" performed exclusively by Levite Priests) and I will remember their sin no more.
And here we are, with the Oracles of God in our own homes, in our own mind, and not isolated in the Ark where only a Levite could even tough.
So now we have the mediator in the heavenlies that places all others obsolete, and forgiveness can be found no where else.
Agree 100%. But the definition of Sin that needs to be forgiven, has not changed. The only thing that changed, according to Bible, is the manner in which God's Law is administered, and the manner in which transgression of this Law is atoned for.
That is what was in the loins of Abraham as he stood opposite Melchezedec, to Whom all believers now have access with Him, seated with Him. All those other things are passed away.
If by "other things" you are saying God's Instructions, that is a popular doctrine to be sure, but one the Bible doesn't support.
At-one-ment. Not much use for the shadow when the substance is present.
Ready to? Long overdue.
Righteousness is the breastplate, His righteousness. Be sure to not neglect the rest of the armour, the belt of truth, the gospel message of shoes that bring good news, His helmet of salvation ( very important because it contains the mind of Christ) the sword of the word of God, can’t forget that since it’s the only weapon that Christians have and that satan wants to rob from.
A good way to understand Paul is to ask “is this pointing to law or grace” because Paul only uses shadows to express the light.
Modern religious man does not separate the Levitical Priesthood from the Commandments, Statutes and Laws of God that Abraham was blessed for obeying. Paul did. This deception of combining God's Instruction with the Temporary Atonement Laws as one "LAW" and then preaching this Law is gone is widespread to be sure, but is a horrible falsehood that infects and corrupts Paul's message.
This is why I asked the question that you deflected from. Paul places qualifiers on this "ADDED" LAW that the Jews were trying to convince the Galatians to follow.
Paul's message is corrupted by implying that the Jews were trying to get the Galatians to "Love God" and Love their Neighbor, and Paul taught against God's Law. But the Jews never obeyed God, rather, they omitted the Weightier matters of the Law, like the Law of Faith, the Law of Mercy, and the Law of judgment. Jesus said they paid tithes according to the Levitical Priesthood tithing laws, but omitted much of God's instructions. HE said they "taught for doctrines the Commandments of men".
Since the Jews didn't believe Jesus was their New High Priest, they were still promoting the "temporary sacrificial "Works" of the Law for cleansing sin off folks, making them clean, righteous.
Gal. 3:
1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
IOW's, did God give you the Holy Spirit because some Levite Priest sprinkled the Blood of a goat on the alter? Or did you "repent" from your lawless ways and "Yield yourself" servants to God?
Rom. 6:
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
I know I'm bucking centuries of religious philosophy here, but I feel obligated to share this understanding.