No the Messiah came to redeem the whole world. Not just Israel.
"Do you think Israel's purpose has been fulfilled yet?" Yes I do, the Messiah did come through Israel, through the tribe of Judah just like He said. I believe that the word became flesh, born of a virgin, not born of Adam fallen like all of us, born of the Spirit Jesus the God man was the living example of our purpose, what we were created to be. Jesus lived His life NEVER transgressing the will of the Father, spiritually connected in a way us fallen were cut off. Then He laid down His life to pay the penalty we deserve, but He didn't, the Father poured out the wrath that belongs to each one of us on His Son that day on the cross. Isaiah said that it pleased Him to do so. Jesus never having earned "the wages of death" by sinning, lay down His life and was killed by those He came to save for His glory and because He is good on a level we can barely comprehend, but man is it glorious. We can now be reconciled to our Creator, made whole the way we were created to, living to His glory now. I'm sorry man but saying that Jesus didn't do what He said He was going to do, when He said He was going to do it robs Him of glory. Now I say this of course knowing you are not trying to, nor think, you are doing anything but glorifying Jesus.
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17 "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
18 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.
19 Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."
Yet take Matthew 24
"33So also, when you see all these things, you will know that He is near, right at the door. 34Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened. 35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away "
and tell me it really means "A LONG, LONG, LONG time from now, generations and generations after this, I'm telling you falsely, but I say "this generation", because I want to trick you and leave you looking stupid trying to explain how my very clear words directed to YOU, my disciples in front of me, that I love and the ones I'm speaking to, don't really mean "your" generation, as I clearly said, I mean a VERY distant generation, that will have nothing at all to do with you, so acting like I'm saying this to you when I really mean it for a FAR FAR generation, not this one, is honestly deceptive, and a lie right to your face. Wait but I'm Jesus. I don't sin. Hmmm..... Guess I meant what I said and my judgement did fall on the covenant breakers in 70 AD, destroying the temple brick by brick, destroying all the priesthood genealogies and killing the priest, forever ending the age of sacrifice and the law, all in recorded history, just like I said."
You say "go to scripture", yet you don't listen to it here. What is your scriptural evidence that when Jesus said "this generation", He meant another generation they'd never see? Please let me know oh wise on with all the answers. I'm here to learn teacher. Teach.
"Do you think Israel's purpose has been fulfilled yet?" Yes I do, the Messiah did come through Israel, through the tribe of Judah just like He said. I believe that the word became flesh, born of a virgin, not born of Adam fallen like all of us, born of the Spirit Jesus the God man was the living example of our purpose, what we were created to be. Jesus lived His life NEVER transgressing the will of the Father, spiritually connected in a way us fallen were cut off. Then He laid down His life to pay the penalty we deserve, but He didn't, the Father poured out the wrath that belongs to each one of us on His Son that day on the cross. Isaiah said that it pleased Him to do so. Jesus never having earned "the wages of death" by sinning, lay down His life and was killed by those He came to save for His glory and because He is good on a level we can barely comprehend, but man is it glorious. We can now be reconciled to our Creator, made whole the way we were created to, living to His glory now. I'm sorry man but saying that Jesus didn't do what He said He was going to do, when He said He was going to do it robs Him of glory. Now I say this of course knowing you are not trying to, nor think, you are doing anything but glorifying Jesus.
You quote "
17 "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
18 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.
19 Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."
Yet take Matthew 24
"33So also, when you see all these things, you will know that He is near, right at the door. 34Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened. 35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away "
and tell me it really means "A LONG, LONG, LONG time from now, generations and generations after this, I'm telling you falsely, but I say "this generation", because I want to trick you and leave you looking stupid trying to explain how my very clear words directed to YOU, my disciples in front of me, that I love and the ones I'm speaking to, don't really mean "your" generation, as I clearly said, I mean a VERY distant generation, that will have nothing at all to do with you, so acting like I'm saying this to you when I really mean it for a FAR FAR generation, not this one, is honestly deceptive, and a lie right to your face. Wait but I'm Jesus. I don't sin. Hmmm..... Guess I meant what I said and my judgement did fall on the covenant breakers in 70 AD, destroying the temple brick by brick, destroying all the priesthood genealogies and killing the priest, forever ending the age of sacrifice and the law, all in recorded history, just like I said."
You say "go to scripture", yet you don't listen to it here. What is your scriptural evidence that when Jesus said "this generation", He meant another generation they'd never see? Please let me know oh wise on with all the answers. I'm here to learn teacher. Teach.
ARE YOU GETTING Senile EARLY ? ? ? Just kidding! This GENERATION is referring to the GENERATION that sees ALL THOSE THINGS HAPPENING. It is specific PROOF that the BIBLE was written for ALL generations INCLUDING THE END TIMES. You are reading that verse 180 degrees backwards.
Matthew 24:29-34 (YLT)
29 `And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;
30 and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in the heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth smite the breast, and they shall see the Son of Man coming upon the clouds of the heaven, with power and much glory;
31 and he shall send his messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens unto the ends thereof.
32 `And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: When already its branch may have become tender, and the leaves it may put forth, ye know that summer is nigh,
33 so also ye, when ye may see all these, ye know that it is nigh--at the doors.
34 Verily I say to you, this generation may not pass away till all these may come to pass
That I learned during the first year I was SAVED, that the JEWS do not write like us. They prefer to write like a GOOD Newspaper reporter. The give you the Most Important part of the story first, and THEN they go back in and fill in the DETAILS later in the Story. That is a PROPHECY about the END TIMES right after the TRIBULATION STARTS. The SUN and MOON not giving off their light could be a result of NUCLEAR WINTER, or Maybe just because JESUS CHRIST LET GO OF THE UNIVERSE:
Colossians 1:17 (NASB)
17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
Would not the UNIVERSE be Part of ALL THINGS that CHRIST HOLDS IT TOGETHER ? ? ?
WHAT IF HE LET'S GO ? ? ? WOULD IT LOOK FROM EARTH LIKE A GIANT METEOR SHOWER ? ? ?
IS THAT THE RAPTURE, or THE TRIBULATION SAINTS ? ? ? NOT SURE, but it is a PROPHECY ABOUT THE END TIMES.
ONE OTHER THING you should look at this verse, in reference to TIME with the LORD:
2 Peter 3:8-9 (ESV)
8 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
This Old HEAVEN (ASTMOSPHERE) and Old EARTH, will be REPLACED immediately after the JUDGEMENT DAY, which happens after the KINGDOM OF CHRIST that first 1000 years is over.