How can the non-Messianic Rabbis follow the law without a physical temple? They don't know about both circumcision and the temple made without hands.
The law given to Moses is Spiritual for us today. We can be subject to the law with the Spiritual mind we have received through Christ. Being subject to the law is listening to it with great respect. (fearing the Lord) This doesn't mean that we are sinless and have ceased in fighting with the fleshly desires. Even in the Old Covenant, the law made stipulation for people that transgressed, same as we have in Christ Jesus today. Because they (Israel during Moses' day) believed in the atonement for sins, through the shedding of blood, the priesthood and God's promises, they would be forgiven if they trusted in God's promises/word.
Today we have a temple made without hands, and a High Priest to offer us as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God which is our reasonable service. Now instead of just covering our sinfulness when we error, through Christ, our sins are in remission, not just covered by making sacrifice after sacrifice with animals. We still have a temple with the same principles as the old, and a final sacrifice with a High Priest who will never die, unlike the old having to have an heir to the priesthood to take his place generation after generation. Instead of God's spirit sitting on a physical mercy seat, He dwells within us because we are now the temple, and our High Priest is Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come , by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say , not of this building;
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy ; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
If it wasn't for the law, we would never know these things in relation to the New Covenant of Jesus Christ. We would have nothing to compare the New Covenant with or know what it was all about if we didn't have this parable of the Old Covenant i.e. "shadow of things to come". If you cannot see the relationship of this you are only seeing it in the physical and carnal mindset.
Romans 8:5-7
5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be .
The law given to Moses is Spiritual for us today. We can be subject to the law with the Spiritual mind we have received through Christ. Being subject to the law is listening to it with great respect. (fearing the Lord) This doesn't mean that we are sinless and have ceased in fighting with the fleshly desires. Even in the Old Covenant, the law made stipulation for people that transgressed, same as we have in Christ Jesus today. Because they (Israel during Moses' day) believed in the atonement for sins, through the shedding of blood, the priesthood and God's promises, they would be forgiven if they trusted in God's promises/word.
Today we have a temple made without hands, and a High Priest to offer us as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God which is our reasonable service. Now instead of just covering our sinfulness when we error, through Christ, our sins are in remission, not just covered by making sacrifice after sacrifice with animals. We still have a temple with the same principles as the old, and a final sacrifice with a High Priest who will never die, unlike the old having to have an heir to the priesthood to take his place generation after generation. Instead of God's spirit sitting on a physical mercy seat, He dwells within us because we are now the temple, and our High Priest is Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come , by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say , not of this building;
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy ; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
If it wasn't for the law, we would never know these things in relation to the New Covenant of Jesus Christ. We would have nothing to compare the New Covenant with or know what it was all about if we didn't have this parable of the Old Covenant i.e. "shadow of things to come". If you cannot see the relationship of this you are only seeing it in the physical and carnal mindset.
Romans 8:5-7
5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be .
[SUP]21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it---22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
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