Messiahs***

THE END OF THE LAW
Messiahs represents an end to the world of religion and the beginning of a world without religion. More accurately, we can say they are messenger whose job is to teach Old/First Covenant religionists that religion is sin.

The following verses tell us that Messiahs are the end of the law:

Romans 10:1-9: Brethren, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation. 2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge. 3 For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

COMMENTARY: Religious zealots are ignorant of God’s standards for righteousness. Therefore, they use human knowledge, not Godly knowledge, to create religious laws. Their righteousness in their faithfulness to obey religious laws made by men — not God’s spiritual laws.

4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

COMMENTARY: Followers of christ (i.e. any anointed messiah — not a human named Jesus) teach the end of obedience to religious laws and the beginning of obedience to spiritual laws. Religious  people who believe that the words spoken by a messiah will cease practicing religion and cease being self-righteous because of their religious practices. Instead, their righteousness will be based on the condition of their heart.

It is the words that a messiah speaks that give them new life. There is nothing about the messiah, including Jesus, that has any power to give eternal life. The only thing about the messiah that has any power is the anointing that empowers them to speak God’s words. When people choose to believe the words spoken by a messiah God gives them a new, clean, pure heart a miracle happens and they are born again. 

5 For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness.

COMMENTARY: Religious people live according to religious laws. They are self-righteous because of their faithfulness to obey Old/First Covenant religion.

The life that they have is a religious life. This righteousness is fake faith. It is  not a spiritual life of intimacy with God.

6 But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, ‘WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN ?’ (that is, to bring Christ down ), 7 or ‘WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THE ABYSS?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”

COMMENTARY: This is an exhortation to people who call themselves “Christian”. It warns against trying to gain access to heaven and Christ for themselves or others through religious means. It also warns against using religious means to raise themselves or other religious people from death after they die physically.

8 But what does it say ? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, in your mouth and in your heart “-that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,

COMMENTARY: This verse gives the righteous alternative to people who follow religious laws. It makes very clear that what they should be seeking is the New Covenant in which they will hear God’s spoken voice (i.e. word). Essentially it says that neither they nor anyone else needs to go somewhere to learn about God. All they need to do is open their spiritual eyes and ears so they can hear God’s spoken voice.

9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;

COMMENTARY: These verses give the righteous alternative to people who follow religious laws.

Confession that Jesus is Lord means acknowledging that, as an anointed messiah, and as a prophet sent by God, Jesus spoke for God. To say that Jesus is Lord does not mean the same thing as Jesus is God. Jesus never equated himself with God.

Romans 7:1-4: Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law ), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives ? 2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living ; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband. 3 So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress ; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man. 4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
COMMENTARY: The body of christ is not the body of Jesus. ***
Galatians 3:24: Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.
COMMENTARY: It is worth noting that this verse does not say that the law leads us to Jesus. That would be meaningless because Jesus was only a man. Thus this verse could be rightly translated this way:
The law is a tutor to lead us to anointed ones, messiahs, who can teach about true faith.
Galatians 4:1-5: Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from a slave although he is owner of everything, 2 but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by the father. 3 So also we, while we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental things of the world. 4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, 5 so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
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