If you don't understand theses verses below
Shows the difference between the Old covenant established on Mount Sinai (ten comandments and all established by Moses) & the New Covenant established by Jesus....,., you won't agree with anything I have to say on the topic. Just a heads up.
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Galatians 4
21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, 24 which things are symbolic. For these are the[d] two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar— 25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children— 26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.
What I have learned, that is not taught in Christianity today, much to my despair, is the Biblical fact that the Jews continued to further their version of the Levitical Priesthood sacrificial, ceremonial "works of the Law" for remission of sins throughout the NT. This Priesthood was the Old Covenant God "ADDED" the His Covenant with Abraham.
Gen. 26:
4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
Jesus, before becoming a man, "ADDED" this Priesthood to the Laws Abraham kept as Paul tells us in Gal. 3:19.
Ex. 2:
23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died:
and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by
reason of the bondage.
24 And God heard their groaning,
and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
This "ADDED" covenant was a temporary covenant and was to lead folks to Christ and His Sacrifice until He (The Seed) should come. It was a carnal commandment.
Heb. 7:
14 For
it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda;
of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.
15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec
there ariseth another priest,
16 Who is made,
not after the law of a carnal commandment, (Appointed by fleshy men of a certain bloodline, Levites)but after the power of an endless life. (God became a man)
These Jews we still trying to "Bewitch" the Galatians by trying to get them to follow their religious traditions which included their version of the Levitical Priesthood "Law of Works" for the remission of sins.
But Abraham didn't have the Levitical Priesthood, Levi wasn't even born yet. But he was still forgiven his sins. How? He was justified by Faith (obedience to the Father) not by the fleshy Levitical Priesthood "Works of the Law" which they had corrupted.
Abraham obeyed the "Law of faith" which was Spiritual. "Free woman". But the Jews were still holding on to their version of the other covenant, Bond Woman, which was carnal, fleshy. The promise of the New Priesthood, the New Covenant is foretold in the life of Abraham. Even in Ex. 34;
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone
like unto the first: and I will write upon
these tables
the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
The New Covenant was never a change in the Law of Faith that Abraham was blessed for keeping. There is nothing wrong with God's Instructions. Because of rebellion God ADDED" a carnal Priesthood until the "SEED should come". This changed Priesthood is the New Covenant. Nothing else has changed.
Because the Jews had corrupted God's Word for so long, Jesus had to clear the air. It was never against God's Sabbath Commandment to walk in fellowship with Christ and eat a strawberry or help a brother in need. It was against the religious traditions of the Jews who Jesus said "Taught for doctrines the Commandments on men, not from God.
They had been deceiving folks for a long time and Jesus spent a great deal of time correcting their doctrines.
Matt. 5:
20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed
the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
21 Ye have heard that it was said
by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
22 But I say unto you,
That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Lev. 19:
17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
The Pharisees were teaching some things about God, but omitting others. Jesus clears the air on their teaching in Matt. 5. and Matt. 23.
23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin,
and have omitted the weightier matters of the law,
judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
I know these things are not taught in MC, but if you open your mind and look into it in faith, you will see what I mean by this post.
