To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (10583 ) 1/5/1998 1:13:00 PM From: Emile Vidrine Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 39621
Greetings Bob, You are correct, and it is not a small point, but a fundamental point. I have frequently stated this fact in my posts. It is truly at Calvary that the Old Covenant died, but the external rubrics lived on for almost 40 years. I meant to say that the destruction of the Temple in 70A.D was the end of the visible elements of Old Testament Judaism. The new antichrist Judaism that would grow out of these ashes would be a completely new and different religion based upon the Babylonian Talmud--the rejection of Jesus--,and not on the God-ordained Old Testament Judaism with its Priesthood, Davidic throne, Ark of the Covenant, etc. When the Old Covenant ended at Calvary, God provided approx. 40 years of transitional time to allow the Old Covenant faithful to accept the Jesus--New Covenant before totally destroying the rubrics of the Old Covenant--the Temple, the genealogies, the Ark of the Covenant, etc. This was one of the most difficult and tragic periods of all religious history. Not only had God come among us as the God-man and been crucified by His own people, who were representing all of sinful mankind, but then He rose from the Grave and confirmed His divinity and Messiaship. The Old Covenant believers were now faced with the difficult decision of seemingly rejecting what had been for centuries the God ordained Old Covenant order and leadership for a New Covenant and religious order. The very God who they worshipped had come amongst them and established the Kingdom of God that the Old Covenant had promised. The High Pries, the scribes and the other civil and religious leaders rejecting Jesus' Kingdom and had Jesus crucified. The ancient Israelites were now faced with the difficult and heart wrenching decision of disobeying their once God-ordained leaders and leaving the familiar forms and leadership of the Old Covenant and moving into the spiritual man of the New Covenant. As St. Paul clearly demonstrates by his life and words, this decisions could not be made with the intellect and mind along. The ancient Jewish people had to have a revelation from God and a Born Again experience in order to make this transition. This was the most diffiuclt cultural, social and spiritual transition that any poeple were ever called upon to make. During the special period of grace between the New and the Old, we find the Apostles and disciples filled with the Holy Spirit and still praying, preaching Jesus and worshipping in the Temple. In 70A.D., God closed this special period of transitional grace that had allowed all of the true Israelites to enter the New Covenant, and then destroyed the external rubrics of the Old Covenant--the Temple, the genealogies, the Priesthood, the ARk of the Covenant, etc. Gods' promises to the ancient Jews had been fulfilled. He had redeemed true Israel from their sins and established their eternal Kingdom with Jesus sitting on the throne of David. God had also established Jesus as the eternal Melchizedek High Priest to minister to Hi people Israel. The antichrist Jews did not like this Kingdom that Jesus had established and set about establishing their own dark and evil kingdom--they began writing the bible of modern antichrist Judaism--the Babylonian Talmud. This is the origin of the modern antichirst Judaism that mankind is faced with today.