Eyes 2 Jesus

The Law After Jesus Comes Back

It has already been shown in this series, via the Scriptures, that the purpose of the law is to bring the sinner to Christ. We recognize that we cannot keep the law, and not keeping the law is sin. The law shows us that we need to be saved, and that's where Jesus Christ steps in. The law requires blood to be spilled to pay for sin. The wages of sin is death. Jesus is God in the flesh. Jesus paid that death penalty for us, so that whosover believeth on him hath everlasting life.

Once one is covered in the blood of Jesus, they have been born again. They are saved. As we've seen in the Scriptures, when one becomes born again/saved, they have died to the law, and are no longer bound by it. The Christian is a new creature, who lives to please the Lord, enjoying their freedom from the law. They are adopted as sons and daughters of the King.

What place does the law hold after Jesus' second coming? The complete and final fulfillment of the law:

"And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life." -Revelation 21:22-27

It has been considered that there will again be animal sacrifices, because of the content described in Ezekiel chapters 40-48. Perhaps animal sacrifices will be reinstated to be done in remembrance of Christ's sacrifice on the cross. I believed this to be a real possibiliy. However notice in the above Scripture, it says "And I saw no temple therein." Therefore I have changed my view. After Christ comes back, the curse of Genesis chapter 3 will be lifted. Did Adam and Eve have to sacrifice animals before the fall? No.

Jesus Christ is the "Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." Revelation 13:8b

It is our destiny to be saved, but God gave us free will. Those who choose to follow their destiny will turn to the "Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."

"Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will" -Ephesians 1:5

"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." -Romans 8:1-4

The above quote from Revelation 21 said that those who are saved will walk in the light. Those who are not saved will be damned, for their names are not "written in the Lamb's book of life."

Would you like to be saved? The Bible tells us how, and it is very simple:

How to be saved

"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed." -Romans 10:9-11

Next in this series - "A Tour Through Galatians"

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