No, He came to do God's will by taking away the old covenant so He could establish the New Covenant as mentioned in the Book of Hebrews. Jesus lived His life never violating not even one of the OT commandments and through that He fulfilled the old covenant laws. There was finally a man (Jesus) that kept the entire OT law with perfection.
Now, there is a new house, the Body of Jesus Christ! Under the New Covenant that the Lord said would come forth, we see Jesus Christ as the High Priest. The old covenant with it’s laws and regulations have been taken away because thru Jesus Christ a new and better covenant has come in to place.
Hebrews 10:9 - Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Hebrews 8:6 - But now hath Jesus obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also Jesus is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
And with the changing of the priesthood, God’s Word tells us there is also a change of the law.
Hebrews 7:12 - For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
The death of Christ Jesus was the necessary prerequisite to enable the successful launch of the New Covenant.
Both for the mystery Church of THIS age. AND to make the New Covenant available to the Nation Israel.
Indeed, the death of the High Priest is the absolutely necessary precondition for the inevitable redemption of the Sons of Jacob so that they might become viable candidates for the Restoration of the Kingdom to Israel.
The legal paradox surrounding Gomer (Israel), the Law of Moses, and her ultimate redemption centers on
Romans 7:1–6, combined with Old Testament prophecy from Hosea and Deuteronomy.
This principle shows how God uses the death of the husband in the New Testament to solve an otherwise legally impossible situation created under the Mosaic Covenant.
1. The Divine Problem: Israel, God, and the Law of Divorce
To understand Paul's argument in Romans 7, you first have to look at the Old Testament marital crisis:
* Israel as the Wife of Jehovah: In Old Testament typology (specifically Hosea 1–3 and Jeremiah 3), Israel is depicted as the wife of Yahweh.
* The Spiritual Adultery (Gomer): Gomer’s unfaithfulness to Hosea mirrors Israel’s idolatry and spiritual adultery against God.
* The Bill of Divorce: Because of her persistent adulteries, God issued Israel a "certificate of divorce" (Jeremiah 3:8, Hosea 2:2).
* The Legal Dilemma (
Deuteronomy 24:1–4): Under the Law of Moses, if a man divorces his wife and she goes and belongs to another man, her first husband cannot legally take her back as his wife again after she has been defiled. Doing so was an abomination under the Law.
The Paradox: God promised in the prophets that He would one day remarry Israel in a New Covenant (
Hosea 2:19–20,
Jeremiah 31:31–34). However, God’s own Law in Deuteronomy 24 forbade Him from taking back His divorced, defiled wife. How could God remain perfectly righteous under His own Law while fulfilling His promise to fully redeem and remarry Israel?
2. Paul’s Legal Solution: The Law of the Husband (Romans 7:1–6)
Paul addresses this exact legal mechanic in
Romans 7:1–4:
> "For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband... Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead..."
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According to Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum’s commentary on Romans 7 (The Believer and the Law of the Husband):
* Death Breaks the Contract: Marriage contracts under Mosaic Law are binding only until death. The death of either spouse legally dissolves the marital covenant and nullifies the prohibitions attached to it.
* The Husband Dies in Christ: Jesus Christ is Jehovah incarnate.
By dying on the cross, the "Husband" of the original covenant legally died.
* The Wife Dies in Christ: Furthermore, Israel (and believers collectively) died positional deaths in Christ.
* Legal Release: Because death occurred, the Mosaic Law’s prohibition in Deuteronomy 24 no longer applies. The old marriage covenant was officially rendered null and void by death.
3. The Full and Final Redemption
Because the former legal relationship was terminated by death, God is no longer violating Deuteronomy 24 when He restores Israel:
* Resurrection Means a New Husband: When Christ rose from the dead, He did so in resurrection life as a "New Husband" (or the resurrected Messiah).
* A New Marriage / New Covenant: Israel—reborn through faith in her resurrected Messiah—is now legally free to enter into a New Covenant marriage with Him without violating the Mosaic Law.
In Hosea 3, Hosea buys Gomer back from the slave block—a picture of price paid for redemption. In Paul's NT doctrine, that redemption is legally codified: Christ didn't just pay a ransom price; He fulfilled and terminated the strict legal constraints of the Law of Moses that kept the divorced wife bound.
