Why the Jews are not in 'exile' today, as
far as keeping the Law goes.
When the Jews went into 'exile' (in
Babylon):
The law and prophets predicted it exactly.
The prophets even said how long it would
last (70 years).
The Jews were told in advance exactly how
to act while in captivity.
Then when they returned, they were able to
resume keeping the Law-system because the required genealogies were all still
in tact, plus the old Law-system was in fact still in force anyway, because the
exile itself had been a function of the Law.
But that's not the case today. If the Jews
are still under the same Law-system only in 'exile' today:
It is an exile which wasn't predicted.
No-one knows how long it's going to last.
They have no authoritative instructions on
how to behave in the mean-time.
And it won't be possible nor relevant for
them to resume keeping the Law once the exile ends - because the required
genealogies have been lost, and because the 'new covenant' is already in place
now, no longer the old one.
So a better explanation is that God allowed
the old Law-system to fade away, because He has already introduced the 'New
Covenant.'
Precisely as prophesied.
And in the precise timeframe that was
prophesied (See Daniel's 70 'weeks').
The current situation has come to pass in
exact accordance with the predictions contained in the Law and Prophets, just
like their 'exile' (to Babylon) had come to pass exactly as predicted.
His own Son declared and procured the New
Covenant, by His cross.
He explained it all from the Old Testament
Scriptures.
And we have Apostolic instructions telling
us how we should now live, this side of Christ's resurrection.
They described this exact scenario and the
reasons for it.
Otherwise, if that's not the case, then the
Jews have been left abandoned, high and dry, up the creek without a paddle,
without a word, been given the silent-treatment, and are left to themselves to
figure out how to apply a Law which can't literally apply anymore - and can't
again in future!
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