Bob,
Who do you think dwells in the Temple in Heaven? Who was showing it to John? The Temple is Yeshuas dwelling place, He told the Pharisee; destroy this TEMPLE and I will rebuild it in 3 days. There are other things barely mentioned and people have created great theology on them and I think this is unwise also. I posted later to Jane on Jesus that the Ark of the Covenant represents the Holy Spirit to me in the OT. When the side of the Lord was torn I believe the access to Heaven was opened and not abolishing everything but completing it and making it available to all men. I wish I understood what verse you refer to when you say the scriptures were or old way was imferect. The verses I think you are referring to says the new one is superior to the old but both are from God and I see everything He does as perfect, the people involved were imperfect but the Law and the covenant God made were and are perfect but the completed covenant is superior to the first. The old saved the ones that were in the sacrifical system it was not permantent but I don't think Moses, Elijah, Daniel and others are in hell. At one point I was going to stop celebrating the feast but then I realized that there are very few people on earth that understand how He fulfilled them and it is right to celebrate the complete plan from the beginning for me. There is allot to learn through understanding the feast; like Pentecost= the Jewish feast was a celebration of the harvest and Moses coming down the mountain with the tablets, well 3,000 people died the day Moses brought the Law into the earth and 3,000 were saved the day the Holy Spirit came to the earth both happening on the same day,also, they read the book of Ruth which you can see clearly the foretelling of Ruth as the church and Naomi as Israel and Boaz as the Messiah, this is read at the time of harvest for Messiah is harvesting the Church and Naomi is waiting. This is also the only feast that God told them to use bread made with yeast and to have 2 loaves instead of 1. To me it was a foretelling that sin (represented by yeast) would be atoned for by a Boaz (Messiah) and there would be 2 sheep pens( Messiah said I have sheep from another pen). So I can go on and on as to how perfect you can see Gods plan in the OT. I have seen more burden put on keeping none Biblical Holidays like the worship of Ishtar (Easter) and Christmas,
So I celebrate His fulfillment of the Feast and He is the reason for the feast as Paul said in 1 Cor. 5 concerning Passover; let us celbrate the feast together and I can share many verses on the Apostles keeping the feast and I am sure they would be shocked at the attitude today about them. The issue in Romans 14 was with food sacrificed to idols causing your brother to stumble and when he was with a Jew he acted like a Jew. The Galatians 3:10 say those who rely on the Law. I rely on the Messiah and say that clearly to all and do not hid to celebrate what God has designed. I still think there is tremendous misunderstanding of the law. But that is OK and I take my faith as a personal relationship with Him and respect yours to be the same.
Nancy |
