Christ is revealed throughout the fullness of the Old Testament more correctly the Covenant of promise because He swore by none greater than Himself, and He Himself is Christ though called by many titles in the Old Testament. He through them as expressions of His character and the office or administration of that office is administered. When we begin to understand the fullness and see the spiritual side of what Jesus did as "The Last Supper" and then up through all that then took place. His message begins to have a life of its own, for it says that man is not to live for the flesh alone but rather for the spirit. When He said, while hanging on the cross, "IT IS FINISHED". What did He mean? But this, all the Covenants He as God had established between Himself and Himself though they had a man, in them, all were His from beginning to end, He as God ended them IN HIMSELF, as CHRIST. While still partaking of the meal He started a New and much much better ONE sealed with and by His own BLOOD, that which had been impossible before. The Blood of CHRIST is now the bases of BETTER promises. HIS doing all in all. For HIS good pleasure. Man failed but God can never fail. “For God is not a man that He should lie. For God is Spirit. For with God all things are possible. He alone works through Love unspeakable and full of Glory for all.” In the New Covenant, God promises to be and do what man could not be nor do and that is to obey His Word, Will and Law which are but one. God in the person of the Holy Spirit indwells us and then begins the work of revealing Christ both to us and in us. Because just as when a man and a woman come together there is not love at first but after spending time together they begin to know each other and by knowing each other they fall in love with each other. Only after gaining a knowledge of someone do we find ourselves loving that person and this is why the Lord in Matthew 11 tells us to learn of Him. As He is the person of both the Old and the promised New Covenant with this one difference in the New He ties Himself to us through both the "Marriage Feast" as the Lamb of God. But also a New and living Covenant in which is found the principle of an Endless Life through a death of all our self will, the silencing of the voice of the flesh. Known as sin, which causes death, eternal separation from God. Through the revelation of God we now have eternal union with Him who is Love. We therefore love all our neighbors, more than self, the others of what ever nation, kinder, or ethnicity.
Romans 11:17-19
“And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree (Abraham the root and Christ Jesus the fatness of Life); Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bears not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”
Remember that the root and the vine is Christ and Abraham in type. Just as Moses was a type of Christ in kind. For Moses' (Egyptian) and Jesus' (Greek) name means salvation through water by immersion in or through. That is why Moses said that God would come as a prophet like to himself. (Deuteronomy 18:15, 18)
Romans 11:22-25
“Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. For if thou were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness* of the Gentiles be come in.”
If we choose to live by the flesh, only hearing its voice we are cutting ourselves off as Israel cut itself off. And remains cut off to this day because they choose to listen to the voice of the flesh not the Spirit though the Spirit is speaking to them and indeed to us all the time through the Son. The Religion of Israel and indeed mans as it copies Israels though called "Christians" is nothing for all religion is but false as mans government is false for each seek to regulate mans morality through self regulation in fear and strife. Though religion proclaims love it is but mans love of self at its base and this is the religion of Satan's doing and making.
*Remember Peters fishing net that received an overflowing abundance after he was told by the risen Lord to cast it in on the other side of his boat. It was a type of Israel and the Gentiles who would fill the net of God by faith and obedience to His revelation through Love. God's perfect plain for mans reaching salvation through obedience of death, death to self, pride and the prince of the power of the air or the spirit of the world housed in mans flesh, known as the voice of the flesh. All of which Jesus did and more on the cross as we've just shared. (John 21: 3-4, 6)
John
21:3-4, 6
“Simon Peter saith
unto them, “I go a fishing.” They say unto him, “We also go
with thee.” They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately;
and that night they caught nothing. But when the morning was now
come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it
was Jesus..... And he said unto them, 'Cast the net on the right side
of the ship, and ye shall find.' They cast therefore, and now they
were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.”
This again is a type of our being the fishers of men and it all starts by our being obedient to the Holy Spirit and praying for all men everywhere, for we are now the temple. For by so doing we are the house of prayer for all nations (Isaiah 56:7; Malachi 1:11; Matthew 21:13; 1 Timothy 2:8) we walk or live a life of Love towards all in spirit and in Truth.
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