[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for your reply!

Indeed, that is the beauty of Christ's Body, the Church. Every blessing that God's promised to His people has been fulfilled in Christ and is being poured out on the Church. And other theory is a denial in the sufficiency of Christ's promises to the Church.

The past tense is where you and I are in disagreement.

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. - Matthew 5:17-18

Truly Christ is reconciling everything - both in heaven and in earth - to Himself. (Colossians 1:20)

But the law is not yet fulfilled and won't be until there is a new heaven and a new earth. (Revelation 21 and 22)

[topcat54]

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. - Matthew 5:17-18

Truly Christ is reconciling everything - both in heaven and in earth - to Himself. (Colossians 1:20)

But the law is not yet fulfilled and won't be until there is a new heaven and a new earth. (Revelation 21 and 22)

Who said the law is not yet fulfilled? Certainly Christ fulfilled the law of bloddy animal sacrifices, since we don't kill lambs and sprinkle their blood anymore among the covenant people. The book of Hebrews makes it clear why.

And we also do not worship with a Levitical priesthood, or in a temple made with human hands because Christ is our greater High Priest after the order to Melchizedek, and we are the royal priesthood and temple of the Holy Spirit. Again, the book of Hebrews amkes it clear why we do not worship this way, and will never again worship this way. You don't run back to the shadowy type once the antitype to which it pointed has arrived.

If you read the verse you quoted in Matthew 5 very carefully, you'll see that it does not mean that law will remain unfulfilled until "heaven and earth pass away", but rather that the end will not come until all has been fulfilled. In fact all of the law has been fulfilled in Christ, since He is what it all pointed to.

"For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled."

The correct interpretation is determined by reading verse 18 in light of verse 17, where Jesus plainly says He came to fulfill the law (cf. Matt. 3:15).

"These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me." (Luke 24:44)

Thus, these verses do not support the contention that certain aspects of the law still wait a future time in order to be fulfilled. Christ has done it all.