- How could the Old
Covenant spoken into existence by God Himself be nullified?
- My mom use to tell
me, GOD
- God said He would
make a
- The tabernacle on
earth was but a shadow of a better Tabernacle in Heaven that is to
come. The ritual of SIN
Sacrifices was offered in the Tabernacle over and over again. - The
sacrifice of Christ was ONCE and forever. He Himself was a better SIN Sacrifice.
- The Old Covenant eligibility for “THE PROMISE” was determined by
your birth; you had to be descendent of Abraham whose seed gave us the
“Levitical Priesthood”. – The New Covenant that was extended to the
Gentiles (everybody) gave us a better Promise.
CHANGE IN THE PRIESTHOOD
·
Jesus was not from the tribe of Levi therefore He could not be
a Levitical Priest.
·
A
change occurred when Jesus was made a Priest after the Order of Melchizedek, a Higher an Older order
than that of the Levitical Priesthood. – A better
High Priest.
- When there is a
change in the Priesthood there MUST
be a change in the Law. There
must be a New Covenant. - It’s in the book, Heb
- Jesus Christ is the
mediator of a better Covenant;
we have a better Sacrifice, a better Priesthood, better Promises, and a better Tabernacle.
THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT
- The Synagogue was different from
the
- Jesus
went into the Synagogue and was handed the book of Isaiah the Prophet to read; STANDING he read - "The
Spirit of the Lord is on me, because He has anointed me to preach
good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for
the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release
the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." --
He told them, that TODAY
this prophecy has been FULFILLED.
- He closed the book and
- Old
Covenant:
The law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified
by FAITH. Now that FAITH has come, we
are no longer under the supervision of the law.
- New Covenant: Jesus said he did not come to do away with
the law of the Old Covenant, but to FULFILL IT. – It is finished – It has
been COMPLETED
Heb 8:7 – Man found wrong
– could not keep the Old Covenant.
7 For if there had been nothing wrong with
that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. NIV
Heb 8:8-9 – Prophecy – God
will make a new covenant with Israel
8 But God found fault with the people and said:
"The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel Judah
9 It will not be like the covenant I made with
their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt
Jer 31:31-33 – It will be
written on their hearts and mind
31 "The time is coming," declares the
LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel Judah
32 It will not be like the covenant I made
with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt
33 "This is the covenant I will make with the
house of Israel
Heb 6:20 - Jesus was a
Priest after the order of Melchizedek
20 where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on
our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of
Melchizedek. NIV
Heb 7:12 – Change in Priesthood – Change in Law
12 For when there is a change of the priesthood,
there must also be a change of the law. NIV
Heb 9:15 - Christ is the mediator of a new covenant
15 For this reason Christ is the mediator of a
new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal
inheritance-now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins
committed under the first covenant. NIV
Heb 7:21-22 – A better
covenant
21 But he became a priest with an oath when God
said to him: "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: `You are a
priest forever.'" Because of this
oath,
22 Jesus has become the guarantee of a
better covenant. NIV
Heb 8:10 – New Covenant in their minds and hearts.
10 This is the covenant I will make with
the house of Israel
1 Some of the elders of Israel
Matt 5:17 – Jesus fulfilled and completed the Old Covenant
17 "Do not think that I have come to abolish
the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to FULFIL them
NIV
Luke 4:16-21 – Jesus
FULFILLED the prophecy of Isaiah
16 He went to Nazareth
17 The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed
to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
18 "The
Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good
news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed,
19 to
proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."
20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it
back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the
synagogue were fastened on him, 21 and he began by saying to them, "Today
this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing." NIV
Rom 10:4 – Christ IS the
end of the Law
4 Christ is the end of the law so that
there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. NIV
In the multitude of counselors,
there is wisdom.
Prov 11:14
I am grateful for those that went before me providing concepts, ideas, historical information, and scripture verses. Because of them I can stand on their shoulders and see further than I otherwise ever could have.
Annotated Reference Bible – Dake
Apocrypha; The – Edgar J. Goodspeed
Bible Almanac; The – Packer Tenny White
Bible Dictionary – Harper & Row
God without Religion - Andrew Farley
Illustrated Bible Dictionary – Nelson’s
Illustrated Bible Dictionary; The – Tyndale
Naked Gospel; The – Andrew Farley
New International Dictionary of the Bible; The – Douglas - Tenney
Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible; The – Zondervan
Thru The Bible Commentary – J. Vernon
Victor Journey through the Bible; The – V. Gilbert Beers
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