A list of things of things which it was written were to remain ordinances forever in Israel:
The feast of unleavened bread for seven days;
Offering sweet incense, the continual shewbread, and burnt offerings morning and evening;
Offering a blood-sacrifice on the Day of Atonement on the seventh month every year;
A functioning Levitical priesthood with a serving high priest, priests and garments;
Ceremonial washings in the tabernacle;
Priests blowing trumpets every time Israel went to war;
Special washing ceremonies and sacrifices after every visit to a grave; and
Candles lighting-up the court on the other side of the curtain in the tabernacle.
Each of those things were to be "an ordinance forever unto Israel".
So if someone is going to insist that the term "forever" means we today should still be observing one particular ordinance of the Law, then shouldn't they also be observing every other ordinance of the Law where the same term "forever" applied? We're discussing the intended scope of the term "forever".
It evidently didn't literally mean forever, but for as long as the Old Covenant would stand. And the Law included its own sunset clause.
Also the ordinances were to be "unto Israel" - not unto Gentile believers in Jesus, as the Council at Jerusalem determined.
And after the destruction of the Temple and of Jerusalem around AD70, it forever became impossible even for Jews to keep those ordinances in the way which the Law strictly demanded. The Law forbade alternative ways of keeping the Law.
Christ is the fulfilment of the shadow. Christ is everything. Just being in Him makes a person complete. And He is in all who only believe - irrespective .
The feast of unleavened bread for seven days;
Offering sweet incense, the continual shewbread, and burnt offerings morning and evening;
Offering a blood-sacrifice on the Day of Atonement on the seventh month every year;
A functioning Levitical priesthood with a serving high priest, priests and garments;
Ceremonial washings in the tabernacle;
Priests blowing trumpets every time Israel went to war;
Special washing ceremonies and sacrifices after every visit to a grave; and
Candles lighting-up the court on the other side of the curtain in the tabernacle.
Each of those things were to be "an ordinance forever unto Israel".
So if someone is going to insist that the term "forever" means we today should still be observing one particular ordinance of the Law, then shouldn't they also be observing every other ordinance of the Law where the same term "forever" applied? We're discussing the intended scope of the term "forever".
It evidently didn't literally mean forever, but for as long as the Old Covenant would stand. And the Law included its own sunset clause.
Also the ordinances were to be "unto Israel" - not unto Gentile believers in Jesus, as the Council at Jerusalem determined.
And after the destruction of the Temple and of Jerusalem around AD70, it forever became impossible even for Jews to keep those ordinances in the way which the Law strictly demanded. The Law forbade alternative ways of keeping the Law.
Christ is the fulfilment of the shadow. Christ is everything. Just being in Him makes a person complete. And He is in all who only believe - irrespective .
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