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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Where is the word "fulfilled" -- particularly regarding the Prophets??? Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." -- Matthew 5:17

Good -- You're getting warmer. He said that He came in order to fulfill the law and the prophets. He fulfilled the law -- but did He fulfill the prophets??? Are there any prophecies in the prophets that have not yet been fulfilled??? He is not finished --

530 posted on 11/09/2007 12:36:48 PM PST by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: Uncle Chip; topcat54; blue-duncan; Lord_Calvinus; 1000 silverlings; Lee N. Field; tabsternager; ...
He is not finished

Well, He said He it is finished and I believe Him. The offering for the sins of His flock has been accepted by God and the rest is just clean-up as Christ's sheep follow Him home.

EVERYTHING is fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

"For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist." -- Col. 1:16-17

And as if to underscore the point...

"For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell" -- Col. 1:19

Christ risen from the cross is the gauntlet thrown down to all creation. We are either with Him or against Him. Today.

As the word of God continues to be preached in truth and love, more and more of God's family will recognize their salvation by Jesus Christ alone. Then at some unknown time in the future all history will end and Christ will come in the blink of an eye to judge the world.

We will either be judged by our own righteousness (of which we have none) and thus condemned in our own sins; or we will be judged by the righteousness and obedience of Christ and therefore acquitted by Christ's one-time, perfect atonement of our sins.

All the rest of any unanswered prophecies comes under vanity. What does it matter?

"Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." -- Philippians 3:13-14


535 posted on 11/09/2007 1:20:44 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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