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Brother, that verse says absolutely nothing about heaven and Earth passing. He's talking about taking his seat at the right hand of YHWH.
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For the Son of man is about to come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Verily I say unto you, There are some of those standing here, who in no wise shall taste of death, until they have seen the Son of man coming in his kingdom."
Mt 16:27
Heaven and earth should pass when He comes in His kingdom, you know.Brother, that verse says absolutely nothing about heaven and Earth passing. He's talking about taking his seat at the right hand of YHWH.
Heaven and earth should pass when He comes in His kingdom, you know.
If you want to believe that some peope from the first century are still alive today... your call.Oh Brother, that doesn't happen until after the Millennial Reign.
The sabbath is part of the old law that was nailed to the cross. If you go back and keep any of that law, you have to keep all of it. And after the destruction of Jerusalem, and especially the temple where the sacrifices were offered to atone for sin, there is not a way to keep the law even if you wanted to do so.
Besides which, going back to the old law causes one to fall from grace.
5 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. 2 Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. 3 And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. 4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.
Jesus gave us new commandments. Thou shalt not murder became love your brother because hating him is murder. Thou shalt not commit adultery became don't even lust after a woman when you are married to another.
And the new Sabbath is "the Lord's Day" when all of the church is supposed to meet, give their alms and worship God in truth and spirit.
In Greece, their word for Sunday is still the word meaning "The Lord's Day." The first day of the week. It is we who seek to enter into his rest by obeying the new covenant's commands and realizing that Christ completed the old covenant and nailed it to the cross.
If you want to believe that some peope from the first century are still alive today... your call.
I prefer theology that is innerly consistent.
I do not base my theology on the symbolic book of Revelation that has as many explanations as there are people.He took his seat at the right hand of YHWH at the ascension. That was a completely different time period from the Millennial Reign which is to come.
Read Revelation Chapters 20 and 21. They're short chapters, so it shouldn't take you long to understand this.
do not base my theology on the symbolic book of Revelation that has as many explanations as there are people.
"heaven and earth" ended in the first century.
Lol, okRubbish
Good luck with that. If you want to be justified by obeying the law, you put yourself outside of grace. Grace is what saves us. No one is advocating a continuation of a sinful lifestyle. Legalism demands that people obey the law but does not have a clue as to how. The stupidity of legalism is that it is far less demanding than the requirements laid down by Lord Jesus. The commandment says to love your neighbour as you love yourself. Lord Jesus requires that we love one another as He loves us. That's a whole level higher. I'd enlighten you as to how we can live as Christ requires us to live but it is pointless. You won't listen.The law leads us to Christ because everything in it teaches us about who he is, how to walk as he walked, and how to grow in a relationship with him, but does not lead us to Christ so that we can reject his law and go back to living in sin. In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the law, so obedience to it has always been about trusting God to guide us in how to rightly live and has never been about what we can accomplish through our own efforts. If God's law were His instructions for how to become self-righteous, and God does not want us to become self-righteous, then it follows that God therefore does not want to be obeyed, which is absurd, especially considering that all throughout the Bible, God wanted His people to repent and to return to obedience to His law, therefore it was not given as instructions for how to become self-righteous, but as instructions for how to express God's righteousness. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, and that is a life lived in obedience to the Mosaic Law, which is the same way (Jeremiah 6:16-19), truth (Psalms 119:142), and life (Matthew 19:17).
Jesus set a sinless example of how to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law, so he would have still taught full obedience to it by example even if he had said nothing, and as his followers we are told to follow his example (1 Peter 2:21-22). Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent from our sins for the Kingdom of God is at hand (Matthew 4:17-23) and the Mosaic Law was how his audience knew what sin is, so repenting from our disobedience to it is an integral part of the Gospel of of the Kingdom and of what we need to do to enter it. Every kingdom has laws that govern the conduct of its citizens and God's law is straightforwardly the law of God's Kingdom. In Deuteronomy 4:2, it is a sin to add to or subtract from the law, and Jesus was sinless, therefore he didn't do that, but rather the sum of everything that he taught by word and by example was how to obey the Mosaic Law.
Gee, you are the only one who knows what the Law is about. "But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone." I looked it up in the Greek. Everyone means everyone.You really do not understand the Law at all, but you are excused, because all are deceived. It is true all have sinned but Jesus has not substituted His Blood for all, only those who have repented and continue to repent and have purposely entered into the covenant, and retrospectively He was the Lamb from the foundation. There is more to the crucifixion than the shedding of blood, required by the Law, there was also the price of redemption paid to Satan, and so the need to mourn Him.
Your reasoning requires that God doesn't know what God is doing. I have not ever heard anyone claim that one can be justified by the Law except as a function of the High Priest who is responsible for justification.
I do not use Paul, Jesus is my teacher and I do not need an intermediator between Christ and myself. The issue of keeping the Law or not, is as old as the hills; people who argue for the Law also use Paul to prove their case. The Catholic Church claims that there is no change to the Law except for the change they have made and that they are the only one authorised to make the changes, and they did not exist when Paul wrote. Jesus did not Change the Law, He made the way straight, how it should always have been.
Good luck with that. If you want to be justified by obeying the law, you put yourself outside of grace. Grace is what saves us. No one is advocating a continuation of a sinful lifestyle. Legalism demands that people obey the law but does not have a clue as to how. The stupidity of legalism is that it is far less demanding than the requirements laid down by Lord Jesus. The commandment says to love your neighbour as you love yourself. Lord Jesus requires that we love one another as He loves us. That's a whole level higher. I'd enlighten you as to how we can live as Christ requires us to live but it is pointless. You won't listen.
I didn't say a word about wanting to be justified by obeying the law - that was never the purpose for which it was given. In Psalms 119:29, David wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law.
Paul cannot be thrown out. Paul was inspired by the Holy Spirit to write what he wrote. His words had Jesus' approval.
We're to keep the law, the law of Christ, which abolished animal sacrifice
When the law was given, it was in fact so that those who obeyed it could be justified. The reason Paul taught that there was no justification under the old law was because it was no longer in effect, not that it never justified anyone.
We know the law justified those who followed it because of passages such as this one:
Luke 1
5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abijah. His wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
David's Psalm tells us that God's commands are themselves grace. So people who divorce grace from God's commands are misreading scripture.
Grace is favor or gift, and commands are given - the very definition of grace.
Then why did Paul keep the feasts?
Obedience to any set of instructions that are said to be for our own good is about putting our faith in the one who gave them to rightly guide us, which is why Jesus said in Matthew 23:23, that faith is one of the weightier matters of the law, so God giving or teaching His law should be considered to be by grace and obedience to it should be considered to be acting through faith.
All of God's righteous laws are eternal (Psalms 119:160) and eternal instructions for how to act in accordance with God's eternal righteousness can't be ended without first ending God's eternal righteousness. Even before God made any covenants with man, there still existed a way to act in accordance with His righteousness, so the way to do that is not based on any particular covenant. For example, it will always be in accordance with God's righteousness to help the poor no matter how many covenants God makes and if God were to ever make a covenant where it was righteous to take advantage of the poor, then His righteousness would not be eternal. So God's law reveals what has always been and will always be the way to do what is righteous and will therefore always be in effect.
He didn't.
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