Santiago,
This argument about the OT has been going on for so long it is really a joke now. The truth has been posted many times and the people involved still just cling stubbornly to their own understanding. I may not have gotten your entire meaning from your post. The word clearly says that the Old Covenant has become obsolete and is passing away having been replaced by Jesus Christ, our New Covenant and perfect sacrifice. This will NEVER change, the old cannot be brought back because it was not perfect, it is not better than the new, so why would God bring it back? He wouldn't.
You said:
<<The old covenant has not been done away with; God has suspendid the old covenant
"temporarily" until He comes in Glory to rapture the Church from off of this old earth as
we take off the flesh and adorn ourselves with a body that will live forever in Heaven.>>
The Old Covenant is not suspended "temporarily" to be brought back later although you may mean something different than what I am getting here.
Hebrews 8:6-7
6 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.
8:13, "When He said, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear."
As you said the anti-christ is going to re-construct the Temple and re-institute the temple sacrifices but God is not doing that. It is not a re-institution of the Old Covenant. That cannot happen. The anti-christ is just playing to the Jewish desire to follow their roots back to that time, and the Jews as a nation reject Jesus again as they go back to the imperfect law that could save no one. The devils goal has always been since calvary to keep as many as possible from Jesus and the Jewish nation has given him a golden opportunity to deceive them again.
Why are you declining to discuss the rapture on the other thread? Do you have differing views than what you have read there so far?
In Jesus,
Bob |
