The Law and The Prophets

 " For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." (John 1:17).

The Law (i mean the Jewish Law) is the commandment of God to Moses to the nation Israel, which also entails the responsibility of the people,  the Jews, toward the High priest. So the Law fully prescribe the duty of men towards the high priest and do's and don'ts toward one another. So obvious that God was leading the Israelite as a holy nation. He set laws for them to help them become the best or first fruits among other nations. But these law couldn't be fulfilled because of the lack of knowledge as being highlighted in Hosea 4:6  "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." Israel couldn't keep the laws, because of lack of knowledge of  their leaders who seek their own will. Probably everyone is under one law or the other. Now What is a law?

From my own definition, a law is a force (which can be person, spirit or objects etc) that allows a function or stops a function through statements, or experience of facts as in scientific theories or principles. That mightn't be the exact definition of a law but i'm just trying to make the point that laws goes beyond words or order given, to order with power to compel. So under the law the people were strictly under the Jewish high priest, and no one can oppose their ignorance except the chosen ones- THE PROPHETS.

The Prophets are Holy men that God has given the full interpretation of the law through His message. The Prophets hears from God directly, and works with God. God is always happy with His Prophets being His messenger. In Amos 3:7 the word of God said:  "Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets." The prophets speaks from the mouth of God:
"But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah." (Jeremiah 37:2). For one to be a prophet one must have an holy birth, or be baptized by the Spirit. Holy birth means to be baptized from your mother's womb, like Jesus, John the Baptist; Samson etc. Holy means clean and selected from your mother's womb and ordained by God to be a prophet or an Apostle unto the nations:

" Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.  Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. "  (Jeremiah 1:5-6).

Also,

 "But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace." (Galatians 1:15).
The law seek for one thing, and that's A Better Sacrifice That Can Put Away Sin Once and for all. Read Hebrews chapter 7, 8 and 9.
   The Prophets seek for a better high priest who can offer that sacrifice to put away sin once and for all. That was why the Prophets were always at conflict with the priests.

 "For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

 "Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

 "For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore." (Hebrew 3:26, 27, 28).


Jesus came to fulfill the law and the prophets:

 "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." (Matthew 5:17),

" For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled."  (Matthew 5:18) - He has fulfilled all of them.


This article was written by Jeremiah Ogedegbe, tweets

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