>..Exactly Jack, God is NOT a liar,and the OT is Not dead....
God forbid!
Some self appointed experts make the fatal mistake of wiping out in one swoop the promises that God made to the House of Israel and the Hosuse of Jacob by declaring that The OT and promises therin are dead.!
While it is true that the blood sacrifices of the OT, for the forgivness of sin is no longer Accepted since we have a more perfect sacrifice in our Lord Jesus, this is not to be confused with the covenant that God made with Abraham Or the National Covenant made at Mt. Sinai.
The Abrahamic Covenant was Unconditiona,l Unalterable and Unchangeable. It did not depend on what the descendants of Abraham did or did not do.....The Covenant stands forever on the oath of God.
God later renamed Jacob and called him Israel, so his descendants who were the inheritors of the covenant were hereafter known as Israel.
At Mount Sinai, God gave His people a code of laws, Statutes, judgments, commandments and ordinances (the latter ceased with the crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ) by which His kingdom on earth would be administered.
The people of Mt. Sinai entered into a solemn convenant with their God and King, for they said."All that the Lord has spoken we will do" (Ex.24:7-8)..That is the First National Covenant and must not be confused with the Abrahamic Covenant!
Here God has laid before His people the conditions of this national covenant.If they keep His laws blessed would they be in all their undertakings, blessed in the city and blessed in the field, and so on and so on...
But if they did not keep those laws then the opposite would be the result....All their undertakings would be cursed, their crops would fail,disease in the cattle and in their own bodies, poverty and sickness would overtake them and their enemies would overtake them in battle....Deut.28 And Lev.26
Here God warned Israel that if they persisted in breaking His laws, not only would curses come upon them He would punish them for seven times, ( a time being 360 yrs., seven times would be 2520 yrs.) AND wouldbanish them among the heathens (like lost sheep) Lev.26:28-46
For many years all went well, but soon they began to tire and wanted to be like other peoples. First they wanted an earthly king and God said that although in doing so, they had rejected Him, He would give them permission (1 Sam. 8:7-22) Saul was then appointed as Israel's first earthly king.
He was removed sometime later because of sin, and God Himself appointed David (of the tribe of Judah) to be king over all Israel. God then established the Throne of David FOREVER...(2 Sam.7:11-17 and Psalm 89:3-4) making an everlasting Covenant with David that his throne and his house would Mendure forever and that there would always be one of David's seed of lineage to reign upon that throne over the House of Israel for Ever. (Jer> 33:17-26)...The throne would endure as long as the sun and the moon endured in the heavens.(Ps.89:29-37)
So we have:
1. The everlasting Covenant made with Israel forever, through their forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who is now called Israel.
2.The Kingdom of Israel established for ever.
3. The throne of the House of david established as the Monarchical system over the House of Israel forever.
So the House of Isreal, the throne of David, and the Everlasting Covenant must be in existence TODAY.
The throne of David was also the throne of our Lord. (1 Chron.29:23), and will yet be occupied by the risen Christ, the King of Israel."For the Lord shall give unto Him the Throne of His Father David, and He sahll reign over the house of Jacob forever" (Luke 1:32-33)...Remember He has not yet occupied that throne.
Will continue this ASAP
Have a blessed day all
Shalom...><>
BTW Jack , don't be silly, no need at all to ask for my forgiveness, I consider it a compliment to be thought of as among the "Gentle gender"...Smile... |
