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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