When was the End of the Old Covenant and the Beginning of the New Covenant?

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"For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes." Romans 10:4

Colossians 2:13,14,16 " ... He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having cancelled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross."
Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink (clean or unclean food) or in respect to an (annual) festival or a (monthly) new moon, or a (weekly) Sabbath day - ..."

So even though the Law of Moses was "nailed to the cross", Paul said that all men have the law of Moses "written in their hearts". However, when we come to Christ, we are no longer under the Law of Moses - now we are under the law of Christ.

Romans 2:14-16 "For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus."

1 Corinthians 9:21 " ... though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, ..."

There seems to be a specific time in history, however, when the Old Covenant was no longer in effect, and the New Covenant began.

Mark 1:1 "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God."

Luke 16:16 "The Law and the Prophets (were) until John; since that time the gospel of the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it."

John 1:17 "For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ."

The Old Covenant is also called "the law and the prophets", or just "law", or "the Law of Moses."
The New Covenant is also called "the kingdom of God", or "the law of Christ", or "the gospel".
 
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"For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes." Romans 10:4

Colossians 2:13,14,16 " ... He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having cancelled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross."
Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink (clean or unclean food) or in respect to an (annual) festival or a (monthly) new moon, or a (weekly) Sabbath day - ..."

So even though the Law of Moses was "nailed to the cross", Paul said that all men have the law of Moses "written in their hearts". However, when we come to Christ, we are no longer under the Law of Moses - now we are under the law of Christ.

Romans 2:14-16 "For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus."

1 Corinthians 9:21 " ... though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, ..."

There seems to be a specific time in history, however, when the Old Covenant was no longer in effect, and the New Covenant began.

Mark 1:1 "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God."

Luke 16:16 "The Law and the Prophets (were) until John; since that time the gospel of the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it."

John 1:17 "For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ."

The Old Covenant is also called "the law and the prophets", or just "law", or "the Law of Moses."
The New Covenant is also called "the kingdom of God", or "the law of Christ", or "the gospel".
To the Jews who were born-again the Law took on a deeper meaning for them. And they remained obedient to the Law as did Saul.
Yes, the Law was nailed to the cross. But as Jesus was resurrected, so, too was the Law resurrected for the Jews to obey in the newness of life.
You cannot separate the Hebrew people from their Law given by God for their doctrine, for their reproof, for their correction, and for their instruction in righteousness.
The Law is their justification, and the Law is their sanctification.
In the bible the Law was type and shadow of the Holy Spirit.
The 'letter of the Law killeth' because men were flesh and the Law was spiritual. But when natural Olive tree Israel became spiritual Olive tree Israel the Law could not kill anymore. The Law, the Psalms, and the Prophets (writings) became alive to the born-again Jew. They were even zealous in keeping the Law after they were born-again, and God was pleased.

Now, pay attention:

17 And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly.
18 And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were present.
19 And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.
20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:

And not only that, but:

21 And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.
22 What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.
23 Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;
24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.
Acts 21:16–24.

Saul kept the Law?

Yes, he did. And the people saw his obedience and glorified God for him.

So, no, the Law was not abolished or obsolete. Not to the Jews and definitely not to the born-again Jew.
 
"For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes." Romans 10:4

Colossians 2:13,14,16 " ... He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having cancelled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross."
Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink (clean or unclean food) or in respect to an (annual) festival or a (monthly) new moon, or a (weekly) Sabbath day - ..."

So even though the Law of Moses was "nailed to the cross", Paul said that all men have the law of Moses "written in their hearts". However, when we come to Christ, we are no longer under the Law of Moses - now we are under the law of Christ.
What does it mean "nailed to the cross"?
Romans 2:14-16 "For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus."

1 Corinthians 9:21 " ... though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, ..."

There seems to be a specific time in history, however, when the Old Covenant was no longer in effect, and the New Covenant began.

Mark 1:1 "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God."

Luke 16:16 "The Law and the Prophets (were) until John; since that time the gospel of the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it."

John 1:17 "For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ."

The Old Covenant is also called "the law and the prophets", or just "law", or "the Law of Moses."
The New Covenant is also called "the kingdom of God", or "the law of Christ", or "the gospel".
The New Covenant is ONLY the Mosaic Covenant fulfilled by Christ.

What does it mean "the law of Christ"?
 
"For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes." Romans 10:4

Colossians 2:13,14,16 " ... He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having cancelled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross."
Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink (clean or unclean food) or in respect to an (annual) festival or a (monthly) new moon, or a (weekly) Sabbath day - ..."

So even though the Law of Moses was "nailed to the cross", Paul said that all men have the law of Moses "written in their hearts". However, when we come to Christ, we are no longer under the Law of Moses - now we are under the law of Christ.

Romans 2:14-16 "For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus."

1 Corinthians 9:21 " ... though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, ..."

There seems to be a specific time in history, however, when the Old Covenant was no longer in effect, and the New Covenant began.

Mark 1:1 "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God."

Luke 16:16 "The Law and the Prophets (were) until John; since that time the gospel of the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it."

John 1:17 "For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ."

The Old Covenant is also called "the law and the prophets", or just "law", or "the Law of Moses."
The New Covenant is also called "the kingdom of God", or "the law of Christ", or "the gospel".
All the covenants in the Tanakh are still enforce and they do no have an expiration date. The Messianic Jewish Bibles do not have a partition between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant. It is one continuous book.
Shalom
 
The Cross.

In that He says, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete.
Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. (Heb. 8:13 NKJ)

And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death (Heb. 9:15 NKJ)
 
This is a bad translation. I'm not a fan of any KJV.
Messianic Jews ✡️ (Hebrews) 8:13
By using the term "new," he has made the first covenant "old" ; and something made old, something in the process of aging, is on its way to vanishing altogether.
Rabbinic commentary:
By using the term, "new" he has made the first covenant "old." Is one to infer that the Jewish ✡️ holidays, Shabbat, kashrut, civil laws, and moral laws of the Mosaic Covenant are on the verge of vanishing altogether?
NO! The Mosaic Covenant presents itself as eternal. The "old" Torah continues, and continues to have its same purpose, but there is now a new High Priesthood introduced.
Shalom
 
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes (Rom. 10:4 NKJ)

...food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,
which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. (Col. 2:16-17 NKJ)
 
The Cross.

In that He says, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete.
Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. (Heb. 8:13 NKJ)

And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death (Heb. 9:15
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes (Rom. 10:4 NKJ)

...food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,
which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. (Col. 2:16-17 NKJ)

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes (Rom. 10:4 NKJ)

...food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,
which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. (Col. 2:16-17 NKJ)
Again another bad translation
Romans 10:4 Complete Jewish ✡️ Bible
For the goal at which the Torah aims is the Messiah, who offers righteousness to everyone who trusts.

Mattityahu (Matthew) 5:17
Don't think that I have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish, but to complete.
Shalom
 
Mattityahu (Matthew) 5:17
Don't think that I have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish, but to complete.
Shalom

Yes, Jesus did complete the Law on the Cross, when he cried "It is completed/finished."

Now, your special little Jewish translations are going to downplay every Scripture that instructs on the end of the Law and Old Covenant, and I don't have much respect for that, and find it dishonest.

10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse;
for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."
11 But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for "the just shall live by faith."
12 Yet the law is not of faith, but "the man who does them shall live by them."
13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree "),
14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus,
that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (Gal. 3:10-14 NKJ)


We do not want to put ourselves back under a legal system of rituals and obligations but understand the freedom of Grace.
 
Yes, Jesus did complete the Law on the Cross, when he cried "It is completed/finished."

Now, your special little Jewish translations are going to downplay every Scripture that instructs on the end of the Law and Old Covenant, and I don't have much respect for that, and find it dishonest.

10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse;
for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."

11 But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for "the just shall live by faith."
12 Yet the law is not of faith, but "the man who does them shall live by them."
13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree "),
14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus,
that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (Gal. 3:10-14 NKJ)


We do not want to put ourselves back under a legal system of rituals and obligations but understand the freedom of Grace.
No it's the KJV that is dishonest. I would never own a KJV. The KJV strips the Jewishness from the Gospel. I also use my Jewish ✡️ Didache as a guide. Who in the hell is King James? His mother was Mary Queen of Scots a devout Catholic. That in and of itself tells you all you need to know about the KJV. Their bad translations take you down a particular theological path you may not want to be on. The Tree of Life Bible is a good Messianic translation.
Shalom
 
Yes, Jesus did complete the Law on the Cross, when he cried "It is completed/finished."

Now, your special little Jewish translations are going to downplay every Scripture that instructs on the end of the Law and Old Covenant, and I don't have much respect for that, and find it dishonest.

10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse;
for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."

11 But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for "the just shall live by faith."
12 Yet the law is not of faith, but "the man who does them shall live by them."
13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree "),
14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus,
that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (Gal. 3:10-14 NKJ)


We do not want to put ourselves back under a legal system of rituals and obligations but understand the freedom of Grace.
For your information the word Law is another bad translation. It should be the word Torah. I thought Christians were all about a legal system called legalism? Martin Luther was the biggest antisemitic religious person in the history of Christianity.
Shalom
 
No it's the KJV that is dishonest. I would never own a KJV. The KJV strips the Jewishness from the Gospel. I also use my Jewish ✡️ Didache as a guide. Who in the hell is King James? His mother was Mary Queen of Scots a devout Catholic. That in and of itself tells you all you need to know about the KJV. Their bad translations take you down a particular theological path you may not want to be on. The Tree of Life Bible is a good Messianic translation.
Shalom

I'm no fan of King James, all he did was authorize the translation, he literally zero actual work in it. Also the NKJV is not really that slavish to the KJV, it's definitely it's own translation, and it's team is not affiliated with the original.

But this idea of lessening the "Jewishness" is just foisted by people who don't even understand what Jewishness is to begin with. It has been made into a culture and ritual and terminology that never was a part of the pure Tanach itself, it is all accretion.

I'm perfectly comfortable going to the original languages or some other translations I think are quite good.

For your information the word Law is another bad translation. It should be the word Torah. I thought Christians were all about a legal system called legalism? Martin Luther was the biggest antisemitic religious person in the history of Christianity.
Shalom

Nomos is not Torah, I don't know where you are getting that idea from, but it's badly mistaken. Nomos is used very similarly to law in English and for secular laws or even just principles or regularities, like the law of sin or the law of death. Christians are not at all about legal systems, Christ has delivered us from the curse of the Law—all the Law does is show us we don't meet it's perfect standard and bring out our desire to break it, while puffing us up with secret pride where we think we keep it. I recommend reading through Romans 7 for a better understanding.

I'm no fan of Luther, nor does he stand for Christianity, so you are barking up the wrong tree there. ToL is an okay translation, not exceptional.
 
I'm no fan of King James, all he did was authorize the translation, he literally zero actual work in it. Also the NKJV is not really that slavish to the KJV, it's definitely it's own translation, and it's team is not affiliated with the original.

But this idea of lessening the "Jewishness" is just foisted by people who don't even understand what Jewishness is to begin with. It has been made into a culture and ritual and terminology that never was a part of the pure Tanach itself, it is all accretion.

I'm perfectly comfortable going to the original languages or some other translations I think are quite good.



Nomos is not Torah, I don't know where you are getting that idea from, but it's badly mistaken. Nomos is used very similarly to law in English and for secular laws or even just principles or regularities, like the law of sin or the law of death. Christians are not at all about legal systems, Christ has delivered us from the curse of the Law—all the Law does is show us we don't meet it's perfect standard and bring out our desire to break it, while puffing us up with secret pride where we think we keep it. I recommend reading through Romans 7 for a better understanding.

I'm no fan of Luther, nor does he stand for Christianity, so you are barking up the wrong tree there. ToL is an okay translation, not exceptional.
I will try and educate you on biblical languages.
In Mattityahu (Matthew) 5:17 Don't think that I have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete, to make their meaning full. The Hebrew word Torah, literally "teaching, doctrine" is rendered in both the Septuagint and the
New Testament by the Greek word nomos, which means "law." Greek has had a more direct and pervasive influence on English and other
modern languages than Hebrew has, and this is why in most languages one speaks of the "law" of Moses rather than the "teaching" of
Moses. It is also part of the reason why the Torah has mistakenly come to be thought of by Christians as legalistic in character (see Romans 3:20)
For in his sight no one alive will be considered righteous on the ground of legalistic observance of Torah commands, because what Torah really does is show people how sinful they are. (CJB)
Gal 3:23-24 Now before the time for this trusting faithfulness came, we were imprisoned in subjection to the system which results from perferting the Torah into legalism, kept under guard until this yet-to-come trusting faithfulness would be revealed. Accordingly, the Torah functioned as a custodian until the Messiah came, so that we might be declared righteous on the ground of trusting and being faithful. (CJB)

In Judaism the word Torah may mean:
(1) Chumash (the Pentateuch , the five books of Moses, or
(2) that plus the Prophets and the Writings,
(3) that plus the Oral Torah, which includes the Talmud and other legal materials, or
(4) that plus all religious instruction from the Rabbis, including ethical and aggadic (homiletical) materials.

The Anglican Christian writer Brigid Younghughes supports this understanding of this passage in these words;
"...I came not to destroy, but to fulfill.' And surely 'to fulfill' means to complete, in the sense of bringing to perfection,
not, as Christians have all too often interpreted it, to render obsolete; to fulfill in such a way as to perfect a foundation
on which to build further." (Christianity's Jewish Heritage, West Sussex: Angel Press, 1988, p8)

Blessings in Messiah B'rakhot ba-Mashiach ברכות במשיח
 
I will try and educate you on biblical languages.

Thanks. I'm actually fairly well studied. Matthew was most likely not originally written in Hebrew, although there is some very slight debate. I do not think Hebrew primacy arguments hold up well here, but I won't completely rule it out.

"...I came not to destroy, but to fulfill.' And surely 'to fulfill' means to complete, in the sense of bringing to perfection,

There's a lot of misunderstanding about what grace means. The Law is not "abolished" cosmically as if it doesn't exist anymore. We are loosed from the Law's demands of moral perfection and obligation to love God perfectly because it will always condemn us to hell. You see, for the Law to be "completed" for any sinner, means the wrath of God against all ungodliness, as forgiveness only comes with atoning blood and a burnt offering, that symbolizing the sin is dealt with by wrath and death.

We are not arguing the Law was unfulfilled or unimportant, it is not "Jesus saves us from the big bad Law." Wrong idea altogether. It is that the Law will put a man in hell, because our own righteousness is menstrual rags and inadequate for a thrice-holy God—as all have sinned and fall short of his glory. The fulfillment of the Law, if we really loved and honored it so much, would be you and me burning in hell in God's wrath for our sins, and that is what the Law prescribes for sinners without atonement.

So in actual fact, grace upholds the Law as far, far more holy and serious and in higher a place than someone who wants to throw themselves back under legalism while constantly failing perfection and thus breaking the whole Law, as James 2 very plainly tells us, that he who breaks one law breaks it all. Jesus upheld the Law better than our pitiful attempted Law-keeping could ever even hope to achieve on our best day, by him living a perfect life and dying the perfect death that we deserve as Law-breakers, being full of pride and idolatry and lust, and above all, with hypocritical self-righteousness on top of it.

And this is why righteousness comes by faith instead of law, by trust instead of trying, by believing instead of achieving, by finding rest instead of giving God your best, by knowing that when Jesus said "It is Finished!" he wasn't joking, and thus he fulfilled the Scripture that said not one jot or tittle would be broken, the jots and the tittles that you and I break every day when we fail to honor God perfectly. And Jesus completed the Law on that Cross on our behalf better than our stinking and pitiful efforts at play-acting perfection could ever hope to achieve.

Blessings in Messiah B'rakhot ba-Mashiach ברכות במשיח

Blessings indeed, and I hope you find freedom in grace, and I recommend to you my own rendition of Galatians here:

 
So Luke 16:16 is incorrect? "The Law and the Prophets were until John; since that time the gospel of the kingdom of God has been preached, "
And Mark 1:1 is incorrect? "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God."
And was it incorrect to put the four gospels in the New Testament vs. the Old Testament?
 
Jeremiah1five
What church or religious group do you attend, or are a part of?
I am a Biblical Christian who holds to the Hebrew Scripture. This includes the New Covenant writings of Matthew to Revelation which was authored by Jews/Jewish Christians to and for Jews and other Jewish Christians.

I do not belong to any organized fellowship for such organized fellowship at present do not hold to Biblical Christianity which is found in Scripture. The beginning of God removing Israel's blindness has already begun and God will add to voices like mine who point to the truths I espouse as found in Scripture.

The one overriding question which cannot be answered by anyone especially supposed non-Hebrew Gentiles is proving non-Hebrew Gentiles are included in the Abrahamic Covenant in the passages in Genesis where Moses recorded the covenant that bears his name (Genesis 12, 15, and 17.)

The bottom line is God has made no covenant with non-Hebrew, non-Abrahamic Gentiles. It is upon this truth from which I proceed.
 
Thanks. I'm actually fairly well studied. Matthew was most likely not originally written in Hebrew, although there is some very slight debate. I do not think Hebrew primacy arguments hold up well here, but I won't completely rule it out.



There's a lot of misunderstanding about what grace means. The Law is not "abolished" cosmically as if it doesn't exist anymore. We are loosed from the Law's demands of moral perfection and obligation to love God perfectly because it will always condemn us to hell. You see, for the Law to be "completed" for any sinner, means the wrath of God against all ungodliness, as forgiveness only comes with atoning blood and a burnt offering, that symbolizing the sin is dealt with by wrath and death.

We are not arguing the Law was unfulfilled or unimportant, it is not "Jesus saves us from the big bad Law." Wrong idea altogether. It is that the Law will put a man in hell, because our own righteousness is menstrual rags and inadequate for a thrice-holy God—as all have sinned and fall short of his glory. The fulfillment of the Law, if we really loved and honored it so much, would be you and me burning in hell in God's wrath for our sins, and that is what the Law prescribes for sinners without atonement.

So in actual fact, grace upholds the Law as far, far more holy and serious and in higher a place than someone who wants to throw themselves back under legalism while constantly failing perfection and thus breaking the whole Law, as James 2 very plainly tells us, that he who breaks one law breaks it all. Jesus upheld the Law better than our pitiful attempted Law-keeping could ever even hope to achieve on our best day, by him living a perfect life and dying the perfect death that we deserve as Law-breakers, being full of pride and idolatry and lust, and above all, with hypocritical self-righteousness on top of it.

And this is why righteousness comes by faith instead of law, by trust instead of trying, by believing instead of achieving, by finding rest instead of giving God your best, by knowing that when Jesus said "It is Finished!" he wasn't joking, and thus he fulfilled the Scripture that said not one jot or tittle would be broken, the jots and the tittles that you and I break every day when we fail to honor God perfectly. And Jesus completed the Law on that Cross on our behalf better than our stinking and pitiful efforts at play-acting perfection could ever hope to achieve.



Blessings indeed, and I hope you find freedom in grace, and I recommend to you my own rendition of Galatians here:

No Thank you. I have my Jewish ✡️ Didache, which is the 12 Messianic Apostles /disciples instructions to the Gentiles in the early Church.
Shalom
 
"For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes." Romans 10:4
In Romans 9:30-10:4, the Israelites had a zeal for God, but it was not based on knowing Him, so they failed to attain righteousness because they misunderstood the goal of the law by pursuing it as though righteousness were earned as the result of their works instead of pursuing it as through righteousness were by faith in Christ, for knowing Christ is the goal of the law for righteousness for everyone who has faith. In Romans 10:5-10, this faith references Deuteronomy 30 as the word of faith that we proclaim in regard to proclaiming that the Mosaic Law is not too difficult for us to obey, that obedience to it brings life and a blessing, in regard to what we are agreeing to obey by confessing that Jesus is Lord, and in regard to the way to believe that God raised him from the dead for salvation. So nothing in this passage has anything to do with Christ being the end of God's law and it doesn't even make sense to think that God's word made flesh is the end of God's word, but rather knowing Christ is the goal of the law and knowing God's word made flesh is the goal of God's word.

Colossians 2:13,14,16 " ... He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having cancelled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross."
The purpose of the barbarity of crucifixion was to act as deterrent, so the Romans made sure that everyone knew the charges that were against them by nailed a handwritten sign to their cross, such as in Matthew 27:37, they nailed a handwritten sign to Christ's cross that announced the charge against him that he was the King of the Jews. This fits perfectly with the concept of the charges that were against us being nailed to Christ's cross and with him dying in our place to pay the penalty of our sins, but has nothing to do with nailing any laws to the cross. In Titus 2:14, it doesn't say that Jesus gave himself to redeem us from the Mosaic Law, but in order to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to the Mosaic Law is the way to believe in what Jesus accomplished through the cross (Acts 21:20).

Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink (clean or unclean food) or in respect to an (annual) festival or a (monthly) new moon, or a (weekly) Sabbath day - ..."
In Colossians 2:16-23, Paul described the people who were judging the Colossians as promoting human traditions and precepts, self-made religion, asceticism, and severity to the body, which means that they were being judged by pagans because they were keeping God's feasts and that Paul was encouraging them not to let anyone prevent them from obeying God. Those promoting asceticism and severity to the body would have been judging people for celebrating feasts, not for refraining from doing that.

So even though the Law of Moses was "nailed to the cross", Paul said that all men have the law of Moses "written in their hearts". However, when we come to Christ, we are no longer under the Law of Moses - now we are under the law of Christ.
In Matthew 4:15-23, Christ began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, which was a light to the Gentiles, and the Mosaic Law was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel of the Kingdom. Christ also set a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law, and as his followers we are told to follow his example (1 Peter 2:21-22) and that those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way that he walked (1 John 2:6). So Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Mosaic Law by word and by example and I don't see any reason to think that the Law of Christ is something other than or contrary to anything that Christ taught.

Romans 2:14-16 "For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus."
Indeed, believing Gentiles will by nature be a doer of the Mosaic Law.

1 Corinthians 9:21 " ... though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, ..."
That is using a parallel statement to equate the Law of God with the Law of Christ and the Law of Moses is the Law of God.

Luke 16:16 "The Law and the Prophets (were) until John; since that time the gospel of the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it."
Neither John nor Jesus spread the message to stop repenting because the Mosaic Law has ended, but just the opposite, the Gospel of the Kingdom still being preached means that they were continuing to call for our obedience to the Mosaic Law. In Luke 16:17, Jesus said that it would be easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least part to disappear from the Mosaic Law, so he did not think that it had already ended. Moreover, in Luke 16:18, Jesus continued to teach obedience to the Mosaic Law.

John 1:17 "For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ."
In Psalms 119:29, he wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the Mosaic Law, and in Psalms 119:142, the Mosaic Law is truth, so grace and truth came through Jesus because he spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Mosaic Law by word and by example.
 
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