The non-doable parts of the Law today can't
be explained as still applying to me with "exile-provisions"...
...because I'm not in "exile".
My ancestors never came from Judaea!
If I, being ethnically non-Jewish, are to keep the Torah as if in exile, it means Gentiles were grafted into exile - great!
If I, being ethnically non-Jewish, are to keep the Torah as if in exile, it means Gentiles were grafted into exile - great!
And even believers who are Israeli are "strangers
and pilgrims", according to the New Testament, by virtue of their faith in
Christ - even though they live in the State of Israel.
So "exile provisions" can't
explain the fact that the Torah-system isn't literally do-able in its entirety.
A better explanation is that the system is
over.
Not that the Divine nature has changed - or
that no ethics, morals and spiritual principles exist any more. Of course
godliness still exists.
But righteousness is received and expressed
through a new and living way now.
We're grafted into the promised blessing - into God.
We're grafted into the promised blessing - into God.
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