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ORIGINAL: Dragonnie

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Lately I have jumping into the Law of Moses, and it really opened ny eyes to alot of things, especially in the way I view the laws of my nation the USA.
The law of Moses is Just and right without flaw. It can be no other way, because it was handed down by God, and in the Lord there is no fault at all. In addition to this Jesus said that all the scriptures testify of Jesus, this would included all the Law, which is what the Jews call the Torah. So in effect the Torah is the Jesus's standard of right and wrong.
The Law is severly distorted if we look at it in terms of just rules and regulations. The foundation of the Law is rooted in the love of God. We all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God, and because of it all men had nothing but, death coming to them, because of sin. The law strongly exposes the sin of man, and the right judgement of God towards sin.
However does not stop there it also give the way to be free from the penalty of sin, the purification through the blood of messiah. The sacrifial system in the law pointed to the comming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the work of the Cross. None of the animal sacrifices in the Torah removed sin, no one was ever saved through the sacrifice of sheep and oxen year after year, the writer of the book of Hebrews pointed it out clearly.
Jesus is the Lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world. The only things that existed before the foundation of the world were in eternity. This takes the work of the Cross out of temporal time, and place it in the realm of eternity. Eternal things are never changing. They are the same yesterday today and forever.
The way of salvation has always been by faith in the atoning work of the Messiah, who Christians know to be Jesus Christ. For the Record Christ is not Jesus's family name it is his office before God. The word Christ is the greek equivilent to the Hebrew word Messiah, and means the anointed one.
The Message of the Law is that God's standard for life was beyond man's ability to reach on his own, and becuase of this all men were sentenced to death, but God in his mercy would send hid anointed one to come live perfect before God and lay down his life for all, and in so doing would justify all who would have faith in him. If the Jews of the Old testement believed this they would be saved through faith in what messiah was about to do. The only salvation gained under the Law was based in faith in Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever if you understand this, then you have the key understanding all of the old testament. The Law is actually the Gospel of the coming Messiah.
One of the biggest fallacies in modern day teaching is an idea that the God of the old testament and the Jesus Christ act differently, because of the Cross of Jesus Christ. This is not true at all. God is eternal and his nature is never changes. Jesus in the new testament is the same person as the God of the old testament.
The Cross transforms the believer, so that he may have fellowship with God, but it does not change God. If you are covered by his blood you are reciever the mercy of Jesus. However if you have not accepted the work of the Cross you are facing the wrath of Jehova as declared under the law, there is no third option.

you are exactly right! hey people, look it up in the bible before you consult your own brain.
start in Genesis and read the books in the order in which G d gave them ~~~~`i'm posting this in my blog.