Alan Dale Gross
Active Member
"For if He were on Earth, He should not be a Priest."
The Old Covenant Promises to Israel were Fulfilled in New Covenant Israel.
"The Old Testament (as understood by Premillennialists) is Israel-centered rather than God centered.
"But the New Testament reveals that the History, Ordinances, and indeed the very nation of Israel itself
were types and shadows of Spiritual Realities that would come in Christ;
Colossians 2:17; "Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ."
Hebrews 8:1-5; "Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum:
We have such an High Priest, Who is Set on the Right Hand of the Throne of the Majesty in the Heavens;
2; "A Minister of the Sanctuary, and of the True Tabernacle, which the Lord Pitched, and not man.
3; "For every High Priest is Ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this Man have somewhat also to Offer.
4; "For if He were on Earth, He should not be a Priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the Law:
5; "Who serve unto the example and shadow of Heavenly things, as Moses was Admonished of God
when he was about to make the Tabernacle: for, See, saith He, that thou make all things according to the Pattern Shewed to thee in the Mount."
Hebrews 10:1; "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things,
can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect."
1 Corinthians 10:18; "Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?"
"Not fully understanding this most basic of Biblical Principles is at the root of most of the millennial errors of theologians.
"When God says something is Fulfilled, then it is Fulfilled.
"The types of Old Testament Israel
(Prophets, Jerusalem, Feasts, Priests, the Law, Kingdom, Land, Sacrificial System, Temple, Deliverance, etc.)
were all Fulfilled in Christ, in Luke 24:27;
24:27; "And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He Expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself."
"The problem is that many people, whether consciously or unconsciously, refuse to accept the fact that these types were actually fulfilled in Christ.
They may give lip service to understanding it, but in practice they deny it.
In point of fact, the Scriptures are devastating to such an unfulfilled approach to the Old Testament Prophesy,
because it would prolong what God has Once and For All Abolished by the Cross.
"Namely, the Institutions and Shadows that were of the Nation Israel. These "types" were Fulfilled.
Luke 24:44-45;
"It's not insignificant that National Israel rejected Christ for the very same reasons that some theologians today reject Amillennialism.
"They just refused to believe God's Truth that "He" was the Fulfillment of Old Testament Scripture that Prophesied of a Messiah
Who would Come and Establish His Government, Rule and Righteousness in the Kingdom of Israel.
"Because their Judaic traditions put forth the idea that the Prophecy was of a Earthly Government, Ruler, and a Kingdom,
and that didn't fit what Jesus Came to Do. That wasn't the Kingdom that the "True" Christ Came to Establish.
"Premillennialism, and in a sense Postmillennialism, looks for the very same Worldly (carnal) or Earthly Fulfillment in Prophesy.
"They do not discern or understand that this is the "very same" error that National Israel made.
"In fact, Premillennialism is 'nothing less' than the old Judaic law bound Earthly expectations.
"It is the age-old Judaic tradition that Christ's Kingdom is an earthly Kingdom taking a form just like the World's Kingdoms.
"In other words, Christ Coming to a Geographical Political Nation on Earth, to a Earthly City,
Sitting on an Physical Literal Earthly Throne, in a Literal Temple.
"None of this was Prophesied, and none of it is True.
Acts 7:48
"These Old Testament realities were "figures" or types pointing to Christ, their Fulfillment.
"The prophecy concerning rebuilding the Temple and the Reigning of Christ in Israel were not to be interpreted
as the world defines terms, but as God defined them.
"What are some of the basic Biblical foundations of Amillennialism?
"If the promises made to Israel were to the Lord's Churches, Israel, rather than the Middle Eastern Political Nation or people,
then we should see the Fulfillment of them clearly delineated in Scripture.
"And if we do, then these worldly Doctrines are found wanting, and once again Amillennialism triumphs Biblically.
The Old Covenant Promises to Israel were Fulfilled in New Covenant Israel.
"The Old Testament (as understood by Premillennialists) is Israel-centered rather than God centered.
"But the New Testament reveals that the History, Ordinances, and indeed the very nation of Israel itself
were types and shadows of Spiritual Realities that would come in Christ;
Colossians 2:17; "Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ."
Hebrews 8:1-5; "Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum:
We have such an High Priest, Who is Set on the Right Hand of the Throne of the Majesty in the Heavens;
2; "A Minister of the Sanctuary, and of the True Tabernacle, which the Lord Pitched, and not man.
3; "For every High Priest is Ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this Man have somewhat also to Offer.
4; "For if He were on Earth, He should not be a Priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the Law:
5; "Who serve unto the example and shadow of Heavenly things, as Moses was Admonished of God
when he was about to make the Tabernacle: for, See, saith He, that thou make all things according to the Pattern Shewed to thee in the Mount."
Hebrews 10:1; "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things,
can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect."
1 Corinthians 10:18; "Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?"
"Not fully understanding this most basic of Biblical Principles is at the root of most of the millennial errors of theologians.
"When God says something is Fulfilled, then it is Fulfilled.
"The types of Old Testament Israel
(Prophets, Jerusalem, Feasts, Priests, the Law, Kingdom, Land, Sacrificial System, Temple, Deliverance, etc.)
were all Fulfilled in Christ, in Luke 24:27;
24:27; "And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He Expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself."
"The problem is that many people, whether consciously or unconsciously, refuse to accept the fact that these types were actually fulfilled in Christ.
They may give lip service to understanding it, but in practice they deny it.
In point of fact, the Scriptures are devastating to such an unfulfilled approach to the Old Testament Prophesy,
because it would prolong what God has Once and For All Abolished by the Cross.
"Namely, the Institutions and Shadows that were of the Nation Israel. These "types" were Fulfilled.
Luke 24:44-45;
- "And He said to them, these are the Words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you,
- that All Things Must be Fulfilled, which were Written in the Law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning Me."
"It's not insignificant that National Israel rejected Christ for the very same reasons that some theologians today reject Amillennialism.
"They just refused to believe God's Truth that "He" was the Fulfillment of Old Testament Scripture that Prophesied of a Messiah
Who would Come and Establish His Government, Rule and Righteousness in the Kingdom of Israel.
"Because their Judaic traditions put forth the idea that the Prophecy was of a Earthly Government, Ruler, and a Kingdom,
and that didn't fit what Jesus Came to Do. That wasn't the Kingdom that the "True" Christ Came to Establish.
"Premillennialism, and in a sense Postmillennialism, looks for the very same Worldly (carnal) or Earthly Fulfillment in Prophesy.
"They do not discern or understand that this is the "very same" error that National Israel made.
"In fact, Premillennialism is 'nothing less' than the old Judaic law bound Earthly expectations.
"It is the age-old Judaic tradition that Christ's Kingdom is an earthly Kingdom taking a form just like the World's Kingdoms.
"In other words, Christ Coming to a Geographical Political Nation on Earth, to a Earthly City,
Sitting on an Physical Literal Earthly Throne, in a Literal Temple.
"None of this was Prophesied, and none of it is True.
Acts 7:48
- "Howbeit the most High Dwelleth not in Temples made with hands; as saith the Prophet,"
- "But Christ being Come an High Priest of Good Things to Come,
- by a Greater and more Perfect Tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;"
- "For Christ is not Entered into the Holy Places made with hands, which are the figures of the True;
- but into Heaven itself, now to Appear in the Presence of God for us:"
"These Old Testament realities were "figures" or types pointing to Christ, their Fulfillment.
"The prophecy concerning rebuilding the Temple and the Reigning of Christ in Israel were not to be interpreted
as the world defines terms, but as God defined them.
"What are some of the basic Biblical foundations of Amillennialism?
"If the promises made to Israel were to the Lord's Churches, Israel, rather than the Middle Eastern Political Nation or people,
then we should see the Fulfillment of them clearly delineated in Scripture.
"And if we do, then these worldly Doctrines are found wanting, and once again Amillennialism triumphs Biblically.