The Millenium Temple

[Guest shiloh357]

What we are witnessing is Shiloh

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Being one in Christ does not mean all distinctives are lost. Unity is not the absence of diversity. Paul says that we are one in Christ. He does not say we are the same in Christ. Unfortunately, when we say the Jew and Gentile are one in Christ, it is often interpreted to mean that Jews must live according to Gentile pattern. Which Gentile pattern, though? There are different kinds of Gentile believers and all of them has cultural and ethnic distinctives. Many Gentile believers of different races are allowed to hold to their cultural distinctions. This is true whether they be Native American, African, East Asian, Hispanic, and so on. The only people who are not allowed to maintain their cultural identity AFTER coming to Christ are the Jews. The Jews are expected to give up anything that looks Jewish. A similar demand is made of no other ethnicity within the body of Christ.

And this is the crux, is it not?

[George]

I believe the point of contention is this: Why would God reinstitute the Mosaic Law system once again -- if Jesus was the final sacrifice?

The problem is that God is not reinstituting the Mosaic law! I did an entire thread on the Ezekiel Temple and the very first post contains this statement --

First of all, you have to remember when Christ returns it will not be a return to the Mosaic covenant -- or to the laws of Moses, so the sacrifical ordinances of the Torah do not apply in this age.

Perhaps reading the entire thread will enlighten those who have misunderstood what I believe will come to pass.

Please feel free to read the entire thread on this issue. Ezekiel 40-48

Your brother in Christ with much agape love,

George

[billie]

One must not confuse the millennium with the New Heavens and New Earth. The New Heavens and New Earth are mentioned starting with Reveleation 21. The New Heavens and New Earth comes after the Millennium. It is characterized by an earth whose topography has is significantly different that the current one, in that there are not oceans. Also there is no sun or moon. Time as we understand it does not exist in this recreated Earth and Heaven. This is when the New Jerusalem will descend out of Heaven and will descend upon the New Earth, and God Himself will the Temple.

Ezekiel's Temple exists in the 1000 years prior, when Christ will rule the current earth from Jerusalem.

Thanks, Shiloh.

[Guest shiloh357]

The Mosaic system was not nailed to the cross and it never needed to be. The New Testament does not teach such a thing.

And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; (Colossians 2:13-14)

Of course 2000 years of Christian orthodoxy and scholarship teaches the exact opposite of what it claimed above. Paul is affirming that the

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Horizon -

Are you claiming that the Mellenial reign of Christ began after His resurrection?

Rev. 20:6 - Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

If so - shouldn't it have ended 1000 years ago?

[billie]

I think you're very polite, Shiloh!

[Guest shiloh357]

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It is not written in metphorical or figurative language no matter what a "scholar" says. Fortuntely, I can read the Bible for myself and do not have rely on a scholar just becaue I am too lazy to do my own exegesis. There is no exegesis that can provide any figurative or metaphorical references from this passage. Just like the rest of Ezekiel 40 - 48, the verbiage defies a non-literal interpretation.

That

[Guest shiloh357]

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The fact remains as I said earlier that to claim that this, "handwriting contained in ordinances which was against us," is the law of Moses, is nothing but assumption. It is assumed to be so because of the knee-jerk anti-law mentality of much of the "Orthodox" Church. It maintains an anti-law stigma that the Bible simply does not support.

The Bible by the authority of Jesus Christ plainly teaches the Mosaic System was done away with when Jesus was nailed to the cross. You can

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I was just reminded of a joke I heard.

To the tune of "On Christ the Solid Rock I Stand," beginning of verse.

My hope is built on nothing less

Than Scofield's notes and Scripture press