Monday, June 17, 2013

A True an Accurate Meaning of Passover part 9

When when He stood before the high priest, when that priest tore or rent his clothes (to cause separation from one to an other, to sever, division, schism) he passed to Christ his authority as high priest. All the Law and Prophets at that point were part of Christ as they pointed toward Christ, all the feast days were Christ, as was the Temple with all of its utensils and the veil as His flesh and expressed in imagery or shadow of Him that was to come. (Col. 2:16-17, Heb. 8:4-6, 9:9-10, 10:1-4)

Then there's the outer court (gentiles court, Christ flesh), inner court (Israel's place of materialism and nationalism) and the inner most court (the seat where mercy was in propitiation) or heart of the Temple (the heart of God and mankind). These are all revelations which we are required to master while in our first estate just as Israel was to have done but failed. As they like so many others have done since, taken all things quite literally and through they're reasoning's of these things have missed God as does the worlds churches by in large.

At the cross, of execution, man kinds redemption was inaugurated and all things were changed. The BC was on the left in the renegade and murderer, who refused the offered kingdom. On right side was the AD, the one who asked forgiveness received the offered kingdom. In the Lord's Body was the sum of all the Law, all Commandments, Prophets and Covenants therein contained and now consummated in propitiation in Him, by death. With the death of them, and us within His body, our propitiation then became our burial, resurrection and ascension. Which were witnessed by mans eyes and bore proof of that change.

He then gave to man the gift and infilling of His Holy Spirit as a means of bearing witness to this and other facts. For out of the mouth of two or three witnesses are all things to be established. With man this is impossible but with God all things are possible. All of what the Lord did was a beginning of a change from an external ministration (of death as contained in the literalness of mans religion of reason) under the law of commandment spoken directly to man-Adam, the Law, Psalms and Prophets and Covenants, to a totally spiritual ministration (of Life) in the principle of LIFE. The Eternal, under a Spiritual being, which is Christ in us the hope of glory. For Christ was the promised redeemer and seed of woman of Genesis 3:15 and as redeemer we are all through Him redeemed.

Sorry I got ahead of myself a bit.

The Hebrews had broken His body (the Covenants and the Law and had killed the prophets) because they had turned to reasoning in religious arguements ( which is spiritual idolatry and fornication in place of the true knowledge of God) long before He made His appointed appearance as the Son of Man (at the end of times or of the age as the for ever, last days, everlasting one). That is why He could say, “this is my body broken for you,” it could be said, this is My body that has been broken BY you. It was first broken by Adam and woman when they eat of the fruit. It was as the Everlasting Covenant that He took the Law and the Prophets to their appointed end, in consummation (as man-kinds, not just Israel's propitiation, which was symbolically the seat of mercy with the two cherubim in the heart of man), as mans redeemer in completion and fulfillment, in His death. And being in mans flesh as the God-child He could condemn sin in the flesh as the Son of man. And so He nailed them all to the tree or cross in accord of scriptures.

In His resurrection and ascension we find that we're also raised into Eternal Life and seated IN Christ and Christ is hid in God on the throne. That we are members of His Body the assembly of many parts.

Galatians 3:25
"But after that faith (the way) is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster."
Again we're going to ask you to mentally put the word "way" after faith and Law after schoolmaster. Being saved by faith + nothing in what God has said. Once we come to that place in God's economy in this progressive revelation. The Hebrews are no longer under a schoolmaster, in the corral or under a tutor: as the Law was pictured For we have all been "given right to become" through the Holy Spirit as our teacher, given guidance, as the example of the statutes and ordinances were. 

This is also our first estate and we're to come out from under His redemptive covering. Allow us to explain schoolmaster here. The schoolmaster that Paul refers to is not in the Jewish economy, but rather the Greek and the Roman. And what the Greeks and Romans would do is hire a slave or a trustworthy servant [to train the heir apparent as a child in likeness], and that servant/slave was under the demands of the father to raise that child and tutor that child so that at some designated point out in the future, somewhere probably between the ages of 16 - 30 years of age, the tutor would be able to say, "Master this young man is now ready to come in and work right alone side of you in your business. He's got everything that he needs to know. He's been well-tutored, and is prepared." This was all in place when Christ came on the scene for He was its completion and operated in compliance with and to the Law, Psalms and the Prophets. He operated in full compliance of and to the requirements of the Law, Psalms and the Prophets. Remember He told John the Baptist that they were to fulfill all righteousness, this they did and He continues on to do. As Christ.

Now when that father has agreed that indeed the son is ready, then an adoption was instituted. It was not like we think of an adoption of taking a child from some other union, and legally bring him into another. That's not what the Scripture word adoption means. It meant to be placed as a son in full operation of the fathers business, on an equal basis with him in responsibility, and function and every other way. Now that's the term “schoolmaster” that Paul is using here and what it means. This servant who had been hired to bring this child to the place where he could step right in and work with the father. The early church used baptism as a means of adoption, to make that one a child, now get this; a God-child. All right do you get the picture? That's all the Law was intended to do for Israel. But they refused many times over and thereby failed, as Acts bears witness too.

It was to prepare them and bring them to the place that when the Messiah would come they were ready. And in faith they could have said, "Yes," and a few of them did, but for the most part the nation rejected their Messiah, their King, the God-child. They had that opportunity to believe everything that Christ was, had they been ready for Him, but they were not. They wanted to remain in their slavery of religion not knowing what they were bring upon themselves by and through this action of divorcement, the turning of their backs toward God. And so now it comes into our Gentile economy or “Church Age” for us and it's still a valid concept, that the law was given to prepare everything for the coming of the Messiah, the Redeemer, that He could fulfill the work of the Cross, as a God-child. Yes, He had to die, and He had to be buried, He had to be raised from the dead for our sanctification and justification through which we're called righteous.

For the way of God's adopting us as His God-child. But now we see the Law has been satisfied, it has been completely paid in full through the work of the Cross, in the water and blood that flowed, it had been judged as idolatrous and the Jewish religion as insufficient and we now enter in by faith + nothing. The Law, the Covenants, the Promises, Psalms and Prophets have done their job, it's done, it's been crucified, consummated in death and set off the scene. Rolled up as an old blanket or a book placed on the shelf. Isn't that beautiful? YES! it is. And all in the per-determinate counsel of God. Those who come into this faith relationship have in fact become God-children. This by way of Last Supper, garden cup, the cross of Christ and on until His ascension. And our being sealed by the Holy Spirit. This we find in Ephesians chapter 1 verses 5-6 and 11-13. But before we get there we need to look at two other scriptures that may shed some more light to what we've said so far. They are Deuteronomy 30:6 and Ezekiel 11:19-20, 36:26-27, then with these we should also look at Jeremiah 31:31-34 and Ezekiel 37:26-28 and they read as follows:

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