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1 | What is iniquity in Matthew 7:23? | Matt 7:23 | John Reformed | 74982 | ||
Greg, I'm at work but I have an article which explains my position. I will copy a portion of it on this post. The apostle Paul was clear on this point: “Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions . . . until the seed should come to whom the promise had been made” (Gal. 3:19). The law, in other words, was temporal; it had a fixed life span. In 2 Cor. 3, Paul contrasts the tablets of stone (v. 3) with the “new covenant” (v. 6). Here, it is the former, the “letters engraved on stones” (v. 7), which was idenditifed with “that which fades away” (v.11). Again, we wouldn’t speak this way of something which was eternal, but only of that which is temporal. Finally, according to the author of Hebrews, “When He said, ‘A new covenant,’ He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear” (Heb. 8:13). So contrary to many, the old covenant, the letters engraved on stones, was only a temporal covenant. And that which is temporal cannot be perpetually binding. So what exactly was made obsolete? Is there any indication that this covenant was somehow parceled out into civil, ceremonial, and moral divisions, with only the ceremonial (according to the reconstructionists) or only the ceremonial and civil (according to the rest) being made obsolete? None whatsoever! No such division of the covenant is ever made. The whole was made “obsolete.” The whole disappeared with the destruction of the temple, the altar, and the priesthood under Titus Vespasian in a.d. 70. The laws regarding clothing (Deut. 22:11, “You shall not wear a material mixed of wool and linen together”), food, and cleanliness, as well as the sowing of one’s field, the trimming of the beard, the menstrous woman, the breeding of cattle, the tithes, and the sabbaths have all been removed insofar as the covenant has been removed. The fact that the New Testament saints gathered on the first day of the week (as opposed to the Sabbath) clearly indicates that even in their day they saw the obsolescence of the old covenant (the tablets of stone, the ten commandments). In this sense, Christ truly was “the end of the law” (Rom. 10:4). You see, there was a problem with that first covenant (Heb. 8:7, “if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second”). Though the law itself was holy (Rom. 7:12, “the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good”), on account of the weakness of the flesh (Heb. 8:8, “finding fault with them”), no one could attain to the promises contained within (Ex. 19:5, “If you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples . . . and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation”). It proved to be, therefore, only a ministry of death and condemnation (2 Cor. 3:7,9). As a result, Paul could say, “as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, to perform them” (Gal. 3:10). So the covenant had to be removed, lest the promises made 430 years earlier were to remain only a pipe dream. And removed it was, through fulfillment. Through the obedience of the One. By His obedience (“even to the point of death”—thereby bearing the curse of that covenant), those who belong to Christ (Gal. 3:29, “Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise”) now come into all the promises of God (2 Cor. 1:20, “For as many as may be the promises of God, in Him [i.e., in Christ] they are yes”). “For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did” (Rom. 8:3). In this way, God has created in Christ “one new man” (Eph. 2:15), a fruitful nation (Matt. 21:43), “a people for God’s own possession” (1 Pet. 1:9). You may read it in it's entirety at: http://www.solochristo.com/theology/nct/TwoCovenantsOldandNew.htm John |
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2 | What is iniquity in Matthew 7:23? | Matt 7:23 | gjboone | 75463 | ||
John, Before starting a long exegesis a couple of points: Revelation 20:5-6 “But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall REIGN WITH HIM a thousand years.” So we want to be a part of the 1st resurrection because the 2nd resurrection is for those subject to the 2nd death. What happens during the millennium? Isaiah 2:3 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and HE WILL TEACH US OF HIS WAYS, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law (Torah), and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. The correct way is shown to the remnant House of Israel (Lost Tribes) Ezekiel 43:10 “Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. 11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.” “The whole was made “obsolete.” The whole disappeared with the destruction of the temple, the altar, and the priesthood under Titus Vespasian in a.d. 70.” Has he really done his homework? Ezekiel 45:17 “And it shall be the prince's part to give BURNT OFFERINGS, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the FEASTS, and in the NEW MOONS, and in the SABBATHS, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the SIN OFFERING, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel." Somebody is missing something somewhere. Those who are alive now are the saints that “keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus” (Revelation 14:12). Why are there feasts, Sabbaths, sin offerings etc. during the millennium. Zechariah 14:16,19 “And it shall come to pass (during the millennium after the tribulation), that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to KEEP THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and THE PUNISHMENTof all nations that COME NOT UP to keep the feast of tabernacles.” Jeremiah 3:17 "At that(during the millennium) time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the IMAGINATION OF THEIR EVIL HEART." No more “lawlessness”. Romans 10:4 “For Christ is the end (Strongs 5056, telos) of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” “Telos” is from a primary “tello” (to set out for a definite point or goal). The idea is that Messiah is the goal/aim of the law, not the abolishment of it. More to come, Greg Boone PS- I find that most people have never actually seen the 613 commandments that have been “done away with” before deciding that they are a burden. You will see them categorized in sections such as Property Rights, Business Practices, Family, Criminal Law, etc. Everyone says, “What would Jesus do?” This is exactly what He did: http://www.jewfaq.org/613.htm |
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