but why haven't you proceeded to accept His Gracious offer of the new Covenant He promised?
since the Old one was broken by the people, and has since vanished away - which is why there is no levitical priesthood; temple or sacrifices?
Jeremiah 31
A New Covenant
31"Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," declares the LORD. 33"But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, "I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
Where in this new covenant is it written that the Torah will be abolished or diminished from or that it has anything to do with the anointed king? Look at it again.
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the House of Israel; I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God and they shall be my people. This quotation shows that the Almighty had not intended to issue a new law, but to impress His ancient divine law on their hearts, that it never should be forgotten throughout all time. Forgive me if Im wrong but are but are you taking those seven words you highlighted out of context to support entirely different meaning to this?
Almighty God has said: You shall keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days upon the land, which the Lord your God gives you,
forever. Does Christianity have another definition of
forever the rest of the world is unaware of?
Even Jesus agrees with Jeremiah and God by expressing himself in various places, that he did not come to abolish the law of Moses, but to uphold it. "Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill: for verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle, shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." "And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail." Yet you persist in believing that the Mosaic dispensation is no longer in force and or vanishing away and or superseded by that of Jesus? Jesus, thought everlasting bliss depended on the obedience to the holy laws of God, for when asked by the rich man, what he was to do in order to earn in life everlasting, Jesus answered "If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. The rich man said unto him, which commandment? Jesus answered, Thou shalt do no murder; thou shalt not commit adultery; thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not bear false witness; honour thy father and thy mother; and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." Yet you persist by contradicting Jeremiah, Jesus and God by adding, that the sole condition on which life eternal depends, is the belief in Jesus as the Savior of the soul? Why?
Aren't the words of God sufficient? Ask for forgiveness and He will forgive, no sacrifice human or otherwise are needed or required.
Hebrews 8
1Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, 2a minister in the holy places, in the true tenta that the Lord set up, not man. 3For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. 4Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law. 5They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.” 6But as it is, Christb has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. 7For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.
8For he finds fault with them when he says:
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord,
when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah,
9 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers
on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
For they did not continue in my covenant,
and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws into their minds,
and write them on their hearts,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor
and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
for they shall all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
and I will remember their sins no more.”
13In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
God restored the Tabernacle of DAVID that had fallen....2000 years ago.
the early Israelites knew it...they entered and received that New Covenant He promised, the everlasting covenant.
Well to be honest I don't get why so many quick to put their faith in this? I must admit it is a bold move on their part, especially since nobody has any idea who the author is and a vast number of your church fathers looked upon or thought of the book to the Hebrews as apochraphal. But when I read it I don't get because it seems the author appears to agree with the entirety of Jeremiah 31, then goes on to contradicts himself, Jeremiah, Jesus and God by writing Torah/Mosaic covenant will vanish away.
Jeremiah 23
David's Righteous Branch
5"Behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; And He will reign as king and act wisely And do justice and righteousness in the land. 6"In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell securely; And this is His name by which He will be called, 'The LORD our righteousness.'
Who do you say was that Righteous Branch?
I say it will be the anointed king who will come and restore Israel. However, nobody has yet to ever fulfill the prophesied office of that prophesied anointed king to come. Those that claimed to be that king or those whom others have lifted up as that king have all died before ever having the chance to fulfill that office. Israel is still besieged on all sides and the remnant scattered abroad. Though I must admit there does seem to be a resurgence in people following Torah and his people are gathering.
I find it hard to believe Jesus is that anointed king namely because of his very own words he denied being that anointed king. Jesus said:
Think not that I am come to make peace on earth; I came not to send peace but the sword, and to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. On the other hand, I find Scripture says of the true and expected Messiah, in Zechariah 9:10, ''And he shall speak peace unto the heathen," etc. Jesus says he came in order "to send the sword on earth,"
The list goes on as to why king messiah was not Jesus. Because...
At the time of the king Messiah there is to be only one kingdom and one king, namely, the true king Messiah. But the other empires and their rulers shall cease at that period, as we read in Daniel 2:44, "
And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever." Whereas, we now actually see that many empires, different in their laws and habits, are still in existence; and that in each empire a different king is ruling; consequently the Messiah is not yet come.
At the time of the king Messiah, there is to be in the world but one creed and one religion, and that is the religion of Israel, as is proved by Isaiah (52:1),
"Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean." And further (chapter 66:17), "
Who sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the gardens, behind one in the midst of them who eat the flesh of the swine, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together saith the Lord." "
And (verse 23) it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come and worship before me, saith the Lord." Moreover, it is written in Zechariah (14:16),
"And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles." In the same book (chapter 8:23) we read, "
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men of nations of diverse languages shall take hold, even shall take hold of the skirt of a Jew saying, We will go with you; for we have heard that God is with you."
At the time of the Messiah, the idolatrous images and their memorial, as also the false prophets and the spirit of profanity are to vanish from the earth, as may be seen in Zechariah 13:
2, "And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols from the earth, and they shall no more be remembered, also I will cause the prophets and the spirit of uncleanliness to pass away from the earth." So also it is written in Isaiah 2:18, "
And the idols he shall utterly abolish." So it is also said in Zephaniah 2:11,
"The Lord will be terrible unto them, for he will cause all the gods of the earth to waste away, and men shall worship Him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen."
At the time of the Messiah, there will be no sins and iniquities in the world, particularly not among the Israelitish nation. Thus we find in the law (Deuteronomy 30:6), "
And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live." Again, in Zephaniah 3:13,
"The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth." Again, in Jeremiah 3:17, "
At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord, and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem, neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart." Again, in Ezekiel 36:25, "
And I will sprinkle clean water upon you: from all your impurity, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. And I will give unto you a new heart, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them." Moreover, see Ezekiel 37:23, "
Neither shall they defile themselves any more with the idols nor with their abominations, nor with their transgressions, and I will save them out of all their dwelling-places wherein they have sinned, and I will cleanse them, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, and David my servant shall be king over them, and they shall have one shepherd, and they shall walk in my judgments and observe my statutes and do them."
At the time of the king Messiah and after the war with Gog and Magog there will be peace and tranquility throughout the world, and men will no longer require any weapons of war. So it is written in Isaiah 2:
4, "And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
At the time of the anointed king there will be no troubles, cares, and anxieties, among the restored Israelites, who will then be blessed with a prolonged and more happy life, as is foretold in the following passages of Isaiah (65:16). "
He who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth, and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth, because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes. (Verse 19) "
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people, and the voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying." (Verse 20) "
There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days, for the child shall die a hundred years old, but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed." (Verse 21) "
And they shall build houses and inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them." (Verse 22) "
They shall not build and another inhabit, they shall not plant and another eat, for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands."
At the time of the Messiah the Shechinah shall return to Israel as in former days, and the people of Israel increase in prophecy, wisdom, and knowledge, as may be seen by the following quotations from the prophets. (Ezekiel 37:
26) "Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will establish and multiply them, and set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore." (Verse 27) "
My residence also shall be among them. Yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people."
The list goes on and on concerning what king messiah will do and what it will be like when he is here. None of which have been fulfilled. Therefore it is my belief king messiah has not come.
Isaiah 9:7
Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.
yep king messiah not fulfilled. Primarily because Jesus never once sat on the throne of David.
Isaiah 11:1
A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.
i feel like a broken record
Acts 13:23
"From this man's [DAVID] descendants God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as he promised.
Well, whoever wrote acts apparently wasn't aware of the instruction given by God how the children were to be counted. They are to be accounted for according to their fathers house. You say God is Jesus father well according to God's own instruction that in itself proves he is not of the line of David, therefore further proof he cannot be the anointed king.
And Yehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they came out from the land of Egypt, saying, Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of names, every male by their polls;
