The Passing Away Of Decayed Covenant
Written by: Delbert Magusara Haim
February 25, 2013
Do you believe in fulfillment?
There are texts in the New Testament book that prophesy a certain thing to be destroyed in the future. Yet until today many are still waiting the said prophecy to happen and that they may see the New one to come. They believed that this prophecy is not yet been fulfilled since it was prophesied for almost 2,000 years ago for a reason that Christ is not yet come. But as for me, their concept is not new in this world because even the ancient Israelites believed that their Messiah would come, and when it came in the person of Jesus they won't accept him as the Messiah/Christ neither believe he was the Son of God. It is because they were expecting to see a high fashion prince, rich, and like a powerful conqueror with many armies. The same with the issue of the thing that must be destroyed, when it happened in first century still there are people won't believe it because they were expecting the whole planet earth to be burned. You see? Many interpreters won't believe in fulfillment; it might be that they misunderstood the texts or they have just devoted their leader's ideas to be followed.
Now, concerning the truth of a certain thing that will vanished in the future as I have mentioned above, it is about the Old and New Covenant of God with the nation Israel. Reading the Hebrew texts, God says;
To relate the origin of this writing, the book of Hebrew was written near before the King Herod's Temple demolished. This was the time when the Christians are hiding themselves from the Antichrists who seek their death at around 40-65 AD, first century. A time that can be called as pre-tribulation period of Israelites.
In chapter ten, the writer gives us a perfect clue of time that the book was written prior for the preparation of the coming final doom of their kind as the writer intentionally stated the phrase "as you see the day approaching", the term "approaching" in Greek is "eng-id'-zo" - means to come near and absolutely, this is not a thousand years. The writer told the audience to be ready all the time because the perilous day is approaching and shortly will come. The same warning that the writer of Revelation had wrote, he says; that John the apostle have received information about the things that must shortly come to pass.
Obviously, the writer of Hebrew and of Revelation have a perfect match of timing. And this is the period of the passing away of the Old and decayed Covenant ranging not more than forty years. And when that period has ended, the Old Covenant was finally vanished away together with the buildings of the Temple. Thus God says;
After those days, saith the Lord;
And in that day, all things are done. To clearly understand how it was fulfilled, here are my explanations.
A] "I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts"
The putting of laws into the mind is the transforming of written words into spiritual understanding. God will not write anymore his words in a book as he did in the ancient times through many prophets and apostles but he will give understanding to all minds what are written and done.
The spirit that dwelt in the inner man of every believer serves as the ink of God who will directly write laws in the hearts and to be come a judge as well. There is no need for a high priest or a minister to judge and condemn members but we are all now the judge of all things even the angels.
According to God's promise, through Christ we become all kings and priests in this world and have dominion forever.
This gift was fully adhere by many when the New Covenant finally proclaimed in first century during the destruction of the Old Temple. And eternally inherited by the generations until this time. So God today won't ever appear visibly to any man anymore just to say any words but he will guide every heart through knowledge and judgment by the spirit. He will not rule anymore by the rod of iron, in dreams, or in any signs that people can see but by words that proceeded out from His mouth through the Bible. The natural process of adhering God's will is now obsolete and becomes spiritual. It is clear in the epistle of apostle Paul that in their future all things will become spiritual.
B] "And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest".
The "they" in this passage is referring to God's chosen messengers in their particular period of time. It says, God someday will never send anymore gifted messengers, teachers, and prophets that people may understand and know the Lord because His words that written in a book are sufficient to give knowledge in the new generations. The words are complete and enough to explain what he has done. In this process, the words of God alone will govern the people's mind more than the power of his few apostles. The process is like an incurable disease that transported in all places through the people itself, carried by the winds from the four corners of the earth, and many will hear and understand his voice through the million copies provided daily. This is how all people know Him, from the least to the greatest. Thus people today know God not from his chosen prophets, minister, pastor, teacher and bishops teaching but according to their individual understanding and efforts. Some will hear and learn, and some will discover and understand.
C] "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more".
I recommend you to read the full view about this topic in my other article in titled : Do we still sin? open the link; http://delbertstudies.weebly.com/60-do-we-still-sin.html, here you can see why is God so merciful to our unrighteousness and why He forgets man's iniquities.
All of these promises in the future are actually happening for almost 2000 years today. Their future becomes present in us, and if the future is eternal then we are living in eternal life. The fact is, all prophecies written in the Bible are fulfilled. As they see the perilous day approaching, at around forty years later it happened in the form of Jewish and Roman war. The Old Covenant was then finally vanished together with the Temple that was destroyed and burned. This is the perfect timing of when the decayed covenant had passed away, and the New Covenant then fully declared. From that time, the scriptures were compiled and preserved prior for the never ending generation of God's people. The copies are multiplied a million times as his way of spreading information by Himself. It was God who preserved the scriptures through our bodies, the unstoppable way of preserving as we see today the Bible becomes popular than any books, million of copies produced in any places and in the internet. At anytime, anyone can hear the voice of our Lord. There are no more chosen apostles, prophets and teachers but God himself is working in every believers to tell what He wants, to educate, and to give power in judging. No one is obliged to introduce God in this world but the spirit that dwells in the inner man. Their future is what we have lived today. So there is no more future events to come but it's already been received and becomes eternal to us.
The proverbs says;
February 25, 2013
Do you believe in fulfillment?
There are texts in the New Testament book that prophesy a certain thing to be destroyed in the future. Yet until today many are still waiting the said prophecy to happen and that they may see the New one to come. They believed that this prophecy is not yet been fulfilled since it was prophesied for almost 2,000 years ago for a reason that Christ is not yet come. But as for me, their concept is not new in this world because even the ancient Israelites believed that their Messiah would come, and when it came in the person of Jesus they won't accept him as the Messiah/Christ neither believe he was the Son of God. It is because they were expecting to see a high fashion prince, rich, and like a powerful conqueror with many armies. The same with the issue of the thing that must be destroyed, when it happened in first century still there are people won't believe it because they were expecting the whole planet earth to be burned. You see? Many interpreters won't believe in fulfillment; it might be that they misunderstood the texts or they have just devoted their leader's ideas to be followed.
Now, concerning the truth of a certain thing that will vanished in the future as I have mentioned above, it is about the Old and New Covenant of God with the nation Israel. Reading the Hebrew texts, God says;
- Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
To relate the origin of this writing, the book of Hebrew was written near before the King Herod's Temple demolished. This was the time when the Christians are hiding themselves from the Antichrists who seek their death at around 40-65 AD, first century. A time that can be called as pre-tribulation period of Israelites.
- Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
In chapter ten, the writer gives us a perfect clue of time that the book was written prior for the preparation of the coming final doom of their kind as the writer intentionally stated the phrase "as you see the day approaching", the term "approaching" in Greek is "eng-id'-zo" - means to come near and absolutely, this is not a thousand years. The writer told the audience to be ready all the time because the perilous day is approaching and shortly will come. The same warning that the writer of Revelation had wrote, he says; that John the apostle have received information about the things that must shortly come to pass.
- Rev 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Obviously, the writer of Hebrew and of Revelation have a perfect match of timing. And this is the period of the passing away of the Old and decayed Covenant ranging not more than forty years. And when that period has ended, the Old Covenant was finally vanished away together with the buildings of the Temple. Thus God says;
After those days, saith the Lord;
- I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts
- And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
- For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
And in that day, all things are done. To clearly understand how it was fulfilled, here are my explanations.
A] "I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts"
The putting of laws into the mind is the transforming of written words into spiritual understanding. God will not write anymore his words in a book as he did in the ancient times through many prophets and apostles but he will give understanding to all minds what are written and done.
- 2 Corinthians 3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
The spirit that dwelt in the inner man of every believer serves as the ink of God who will directly write laws in the hearts and to be come a judge as well. There is no need for a high priest or a minister to judge and condemn members but we are all now the judge of all things even the angels.
- 1 Corinthians 6:2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
According to God's promise, through Christ we become all kings and priests in this world and have dominion forever.
- Revelation 1:6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
This gift was fully adhere by many when the New Covenant finally proclaimed in first century during the destruction of the Old Temple. And eternally inherited by the generations until this time. So God today won't ever appear visibly to any man anymore just to say any words but he will guide every heart through knowledge and judgment by the spirit. He will not rule anymore by the rod of iron, in dreams, or in any signs that people can see but by words that proceeded out from His mouth through the Bible. The natural process of adhering God's will is now obsolete and becomes spiritual. It is clear in the epistle of apostle Paul that in their future all things will become spiritual.
- 1 Corinthians 15:46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
B] "And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest".
The "they" in this passage is referring to God's chosen messengers in their particular period of time. It says, God someday will never send anymore gifted messengers, teachers, and prophets that people may understand and know the Lord because His words that written in a book are sufficient to give knowledge in the new generations. The words are complete and enough to explain what he has done. In this process, the words of God alone will govern the people's mind more than the power of his few apostles. The process is like an incurable disease that transported in all places through the people itself, carried by the winds from the four corners of the earth, and many will hear and understand his voice through the million copies provided daily. This is how all people know Him, from the least to the greatest. Thus people today know God not from his chosen prophets, minister, pastor, teacher and bishops teaching but according to their individual understanding and efforts. Some will hear and learn, and some will discover and understand.
C] "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more".
I recommend you to read the full view about this topic in my other article in titled : Do we still sin? open the link; http://delbertstudies.weebly.com/60-do-we-still-sin.html, here you can see why is God so merciful to our unrighteousness and why He forgets man's iniquities.
All of these promises in the future are actually happening for almost 2000 years today. Their future becomes present in us, and if the future is eternal then we are living in eternal life. The fact is, all prophecies written in the Bible are fulfilled. As they see the perilous day approaching, at around forty years later it happened in the form of Jewish and Roman war. The Old Covenant was then finally vanished together with the Temple that was destroyed and burned. This is the perfect timing of when the decayed covenant had passed away, and the New Covenant then fully declared. From that time, the scriptures were compiled and preserved prior for the never ending generation of God's people. The copies are multiplied a million times as his way of spreading information by Himself. It was God who preserved the scriptures through our bodies, the unstoppable way of preserving as we see today the Bible becomes popular than any books, million of copies produced in any places and in the internet. At anytime, anyone can hear the voice of our Lord. There are no more chosen apostles, prophets and teachers but God himself is working in every believers to tell what He wants, to educate, and to give power in judging. No one is obliged to introduce God in this world but the spirit that dwells in the inner man. Their future is what we have lived today. So there is no more future events to come but it's already been received and becomes eternal to us.
The proverbs says;
- Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12
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