Building on the Foundation

There is one very important question that all those who believe God the Son’s law was done away with at His death on the cross must ask themselves. Why? Why would Christ abolish something that He had earlier given to be a delight, and what did He replace it with? As we saw in my last post on the subject, numerous old and new testament authors called God’s law the delight of their hearts. They viewed His law as a blessing and a delight, so why then would Christ have done away with it? It can’t be because it was oppressive and a heavy burden. The Bible clearly shows that the view of its authors was quite to the contrary. It was only oppressive to those who broke it. If the law Christ gave in the old testament was indeed a delight and a blessing, something good and helpful, why did He come back to die to get rid of it? Or is that what He got rid of with His death? I seem to remember Him saying that He was wiping away our sins, not the law. What, then, is the reason that Christ would do...

  This is Part 7, the final part of this series on the tabernacle. That doesn’t mean we’ve learned all there is to know about it, mind you; there’s always much more to learn from God’s Word! We frail humans could never plumb the full depth of God’s mind and His Word, not in ten thousand lifetimes! But this wraps up our current study of the tabernacle in relation to the Holy Days, the days of Creation, and the ten commandments. Last time , we saw that, on the Day of Atonement, Jesus Christ returns to the earth with His 144,000 saints, slays the Beast and his armies, and casts Satan into the bottomless pit. He will return from the heavens, the Holy of Holies, and stand on the Mount of Olives where He was crucified. Under the Old Covenant, this was foreshadowed each year when, on the Day of Atonement, the high priest returned from the Holy of Holies to the altar of burnt offering and sprinkled it with blood. Jesus Christ’s thousand-year reign, then, also begins on this same day, the D...

  Last time, we began to see how the tabernacle God commissioned the Israelites to build in the wilderness formed a 3D model not only of God’s heavenly tabernacle, but also of His plan for mankind. We examined the altar, the laver, and peered inside the Holy Place, but have not yet examined anything within the Holy Place. Before we move on, I’d like to spend a little more time on the altar, the laver, and entering the Holy Place. You see, God used this tabernacle pattern at Creation, He used it in delivering the Israelites from slavery, and He used it in giving the ten commandments. As King David exclaimed, “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork” (Psa. 19:1). We’ll soon see another facet of God’s creation declaring His glory! Let’s get started. Light, Passover, the Altar, and “I am the LORD ” In Gen. 1, on the first day of Creation, we read, “Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and...

It is widely accepted that the universe is governed by a set of what are called “scientific laws.”   These include: the laws of motion, electromagnetism, attraction, thermodynamics, energy, entropy, and so on.  Our understanding of these laws is not concrete, but their existence is. A scientific law does not explain why an action takes place, but only that it does take place.  It also does not describe the result of the action, as that can vary depending on circumstances.   If a man jumps off of the Empire State Building without a parachute, the law of gravity predicts his accelerated motion and velocity upon impact with the ground. The law of energy describes the amount of potential energy that he possesses as he stands on the edge, and the amount of energy imparted to the concrete below when his adventure concludes. This leaves our imagination to describe his exaggerated surface area and the trauma caused to the onlookers.  If the man believes that gravity doe...