The Law of Moses was a unit - a package deal. If a person ignored one point of the Law, then he wasn't keeping the Law.
No-one today can keep Moses' Law as the unit that it was - therefore in that sense no-one today is keeping Moses' Law.
The Holy Spirit leads us - but He doesn't lead us to obey Moses' Law as the package deal that it was. Because if He was, then we should be keeping every point of Moses' Law - but that's impossible today. Therefore we can say that the Holy Spirit is not leading us to keep Moses' Law.
But He does lead us in such a way that we fulfil all of the ethics which the Law foreshadowed. But that doesn't mean we must observe the Feasts, or that we will resume animal sacrifices at any time in the future.
The only verse mentioning a thousand year reign, mentions nothing at all about an altar, priesthood, sacrifices, temple, feasts, Jerusalem, Israel or Jews.
God's ultimate program for Israel was the Gospel - and still is.
No-one today can keep Moses' Law as the unit that it was - therefore in that sense no-one today is keeping Moses' Law.
The Holy Spirit leads us - but He doesn't lead us to obey Moses' Law as the package deal that it was. Because if He was, then we should be keeping every point of Moses' Law - but that's impossible today. Therefore we can say that the Holy Spirit is not leading us to keep Moses' Law.
But He does lead us in such a way that we fulfil all of the ethics which the Law foreshadowed. But that doesn't mean we must observe the Feasts, or that we will resume animal sacrifices at any time in the future.
The only verse mentioning a thousand year reign, mentions nothing at all about an altar, priesthood, sacrifices, temple, feasts, Jerusalem, Israel or Jews.
God's ultimate program for Israel was the Gospel - and still is.
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