The law did not end with the crucifixion of Jesus. I challenge any and all partial preterists/futurists to show how the curses of Deuteronomy, chapter 28 and of Leviticus, chapter 26 were fulfulled at the cross. If that were the case, then Jerusalem and its temple would have been destroyed at the cross. The Last Days saw the overlap of two covenants. This crucial concept is expressed as a type in 2 Samuel 3:1: Now there was long war between the house of SAUL (meaning demanded and referring to the demands of the law) and the house of DAVID (meaning beloved and referring to the Person of Jesus Christ): but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker. (KJV-Lite) Before the events of A. D. 70, Christians were dead to the law (Romans 7:1-6), but the law itself was not quite dead. It was DYING, and there is a profound difference. To borrow an excellent illustration by Don K. Preston, if you defected from Berlin for the West in 1988, you became dead to the law of communist Germany. Nevertheless, the death of the law of communist Germany was still about a year away. Hebrews 8:8-13 and many other New Testament eschatological passages employ transitional language.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 06:31:19 +0000
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