[Always Right]

“Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.”

[joebuck]

“You praise me with your lips but your hearts are far from me. You have traded the precepts of God for the commandments of men.”

[wideawake]

If we believe that the Law and the Prophets were preparation for the Messiah, and that the Messiah fulfilled the Law and the Prophets, then it does not make sense to claim - as Hagee apparently does - that the Law and the Prophets continue on as if they had never been fulfilled by the Messiah.

Christians like to point to the completed work of Christ ("It is finished") - what work did Christ complete? He fulfilled the Law and the Prophets. That is why the veil of the Temple became torn at His death - to show that the Temple in Jerusalem was no longer the site of the Presence.

The Temple and its sacrifices had been fulfilled by Jesus' perfect and eternal sacrifice.

The Epistle To The Hebrews is essentially a lengthy disquisition on this doctrine.

To assert - as Hagee seems to - that Jesus' perfect and eternal sacrifice does not really apply to the Jews at the moment - undermines Scriptural doctrine.