please don't misunderstand me...i'm not saying the Lord Jesus replaced the Law.
i'm saying He fulfilled it for us.
He kept it perfectly in our place.
He did for us what we could never, ever do for ourselves.
does that make sense?
Here is my understanding of how Jesus "Fulfilled the Law".
Y'shua died for ignorant sin and therefore fulfilled all the offerings. All of them have to do with ignorance only. If you willfully sin, you need to repent as David did and stop doing the sin, period!
Now, some say that Y'shua didn't do away with the Torah. He did not come to "destroy/abolish" it, but "fulfilled" it. Let's look at this argument and see if it holds water.
There are 2 important words to look at in Matt 5:17; "abolish" and "fulfill".
Think not that I am come to destroy (abolish) the law, or the prophets; I am not come to destroy (abolish), but to fulfill.
The word "fulfill" is the Greek word pleroo and have various meanings:
1) to make full, to fill up, i.e. to fill to the full
2) to fill to the top; so that nothing shall be wanting, to full measure, to fill to the brim,
3) to fully preach.
Abolish means to do away with or to put an end to. Fulfill according to most Christians also means to do away with or to put and end to, exactly as Y'shua fulfilled the Law.
But looking carefully at Y'shua's words, He said He came to do the one (fulfill) and not the other (destroy/abolish), therefore they cannot mean the same thing.
What does destroy/abolish mean, and what does fulfill mean? Can they both end up having the same meaning and producing the same result?
Let's start at where else we find the Greek word pleroo ("Fulfill")"
Romans 15:19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have
fully preached (pleroo) the gospel of the Messiah.
If pleroo (fulfill) means to "stop doing", are we now to stop preaching the Gospel; as Paul has fully done it and need no further action? Can't be, right? The next verse...
Romans 15:13 Now the God of hope
fill (pleroo) you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
If YHWH has filled you with all joy in believing in Y'shua on a specific day, do you now stop having joy the next day and for the rest of your life? You see the argument from a Christian perspective; the Greco-western perspective is totally flawed. Let's now move on to what Y'shua actually said...
The words that Y'shua used: "Think not that I am come to destroy (abolish) the law, or the prophets; I am not come to destroy (abolish), but to fulfill" is a typical Hebrew idiom and can never be understood if you do not use the correct tools of interpretation, the "Hebrew tools".
It is interesting to note that Rabbis still use this idiom to this very day when they instruct their disciples. The Hebrew idiom is: "You must fulfill the Torah" or; "Do not destroy the Torah".
The Hebrew perspective, the correct tools for interpretation on Y'shua's words: "Do not destroy the Torah" literally means, "do not misinterpret/ misrepresent/teach to the Torah incorrectly". Wow! What a renewal of thought. Perhaps you can now see why Y'shua railed against the Pharisees and scribes and called them hypocrites who preferred the tradition and doctrines of men over the word of God through Torah and Y'shua.
Y'shua was hated by those scribes and Pharisees because he was preaching that they were mishandling the Torah by emphasizing their man-made rules.
Again, "You must fulfill the Torah", on the other hand literally means "to interpret/represent/teach the Torah correctly".
So here we can clearly see that abolish or fulfill didn't have anything remotely to do with destroying the Torah or not destroying it. It merely said that Y'shua came to interpret and represent His Father's Torah to us correctly; or even to fully preach it - perfectly tailored with pleroo.