I believe you are thinking of Leviticus. Without considering the rest of Moses, David, Yeshua and his disciples. The law never had the power in and of itself, by carnally following the law in the flesh, to forgive anyone's sins. The law sanctified them through 'faith'ful observance. It was a prototype of, by faith in, the acts the Messiah alone will and has accomplished to forgive the sins of the world. The only reason a person was found righteous in God's sight by observing the Torah was because of the faith they applied in following it. Habakkuk 2:4 Psalms 40:6-8 Romans 3:25 Hebrews 9:9-10 Hebrews 9:12 Hebrews 9:14
There are a whole lot more commandments than the Ten. Sadly, it appears your message contains the classic 'Israel abrogated' replacement theology theme. Why are you not arguing for observing the building of the tabernacle and all it's items? Or for establishing a nation of people. IF you can see these things fulfilled through Jesus why can't you see the rest of the law in this way?
Not according to Romans 3:21 You are mixing covenants. The new covenant does not require allegiance to keep the old. It's not a renewed covenant, it's new. 'The Law' of God is ministered in a completely different manner and way in the new than the old. Jeremiah 31:32
The sins committed under the old covenant were never forgiven by the acts of following the Torah. Romans 3:25 They were forgiven by faith in the Grace of God who would in the future atone for all the sin of mankind in one sacrifice.
I agree with you without retracting what I have said. The Law is a device, when God speaks the Law, God is the authority. When the Law is projected ahead of God then the authority is delegated; Moses had delegated authority to implement the Law. All authority concerning the Kingdom of God is delegated to Christ, and I assume the delegator could withdraw that delegation if the covenant was broken beyond repair, such as another war in heaven.
Habakkuk 2:3-5 (NKJV)
3 For the vision
is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.
4 "Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him;
But the just shall live by his faith.
5 "Indeed, because he transgresses by wine,
He is a proud man, And he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his desire as hell, And he
is like death, and cannot be satisfied, He gathers to himself all nations And heaps up for himself all peoples.
This is loaded with assumption. What is faith? In this case FAITH is the waiting for something to happen; having a conviction that the something will happen that is the covenant will be confirmed, brought to fruition. And the covenant is: God will provide the kingdom, and the King for those who keep the commandments. If a person's faith and convictions were in a lie, such as the commandments are superseded, or abrogated, then the saying would be, ”
The unjust shall die by his faith”. The same applies to Jn 3:16.; “believes”, means to keep the covenant.
Psalm 40:6-8 (NKJV)
6 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; My ears You have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.
7 Then I said, "Behold, I come; In the scroll of the book
it is written of me.
8 I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law
is within my heart."
As I understand the point you are making, I do not believe this scripture makes your point. Is God mad, did God say burnt offerings and sin offerings are required and then moments later say they are not required; did the unchangeable God change.
First we have David the greatest sinner, who becomes the prodigal son; and the psalm says, “You did not require sin offering”; David refers to a one off event, had he said, “You do not require sin offerings”, then Christ's sacrifice would be in vane. God detests offerings that are not sincere nor relatively significant.
Luckily for me I have heard of replacement theology before, or to say it another way, replacement science of God. I am normally naive regarding theology and its Jargon and my opinion is that theology is the most Godless thing I have encountered. I don't see Israel abrogated any more than anyone else being abrogated. The new Jerusalem has only 12 gates one for each of the twelve tribes. Those of the first resurrection are called Israel and will occupy the new Jerusalem.
Why the descendants of Israel were chosen to be a light unto the nations is a mystery the solution of which I believe has something to do antiquity preceding Adam. Israel's role as light unto the world probably ended or completed with the arrival of Christ; that light is still in scripture and available for all to see. The covenant was renewed with the lost sheep of Israel by Christ and extended to Gentiles at Pentecost. Most of the inherited blessings ended up with the descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh who today number the sands of the sea.
The Ten Commandments written on stone are a foundation and an abstract that can be expanded to cover and be applied to, the infinite range of the behaviour of mankind.
It is God who is building the house and it is composed of people, everyone who enters into the new Jerusalem is represented as a masonry component.
I am not mixing covenants; there is only one covenant that provides the Kingdom of God, the king of the kingdom and eternal life and it stretches from Moses to the end of time but the time of the end is where the covenant is fully confirmed or bought to fruition. What you call the new covenant and what others call the old covenant are two halves of one thing and the two halves are in agreement, complementary not contrary to each other. I see the contract called the Law or the covenant like this; God provides the kingdom, the King and eternal life for those who keep the commandments; would you articulate the new covenant like this, God provides the Kingdom, the King, and eternal life for those who do not keep the commandments. On the side are you one who throws the seventieth week down to the time of the end and have Satan confirm the covenant.
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Words fail me; I do not disagree with what Paul has said; I myself would never use Paul as an authority. You seem to think that the Sanctuary with God in the box, services were in vain.