Post by Lee on Aug 2, 2014 12:40:54 GMT
Exert taking from Bro Sulley's "The Temple of Ezekiel's prophecy"
Does not Jeremiah affirm that the name of your Messiah “shall be The Lord our righteousness?”—(Jer. 23:6). Question: In what way is your Messiah to become your righteousness? Why not search and look for the answer in the records? Yea, let us also reason together a little. If a man is himself righteous, he does not require another to be his righteousness. If a nation is itself righteous, there is no necessity for a Messiah to deliver him from sin, desolation, and death. Now a Jew witnesseth that “there is not a man that sinneth not”—(1 Kings 8:46). Therefore, there is neither individual nor national righteousness for thee, O Israel! unless ye partake of the righteousness of another. And since your law (which is given to you by the Creator of all things) permits a woman to be a partaker of the privileges which come through the circumcision of her father, though not herself circumcised, why may not a Jew partake of benefits which come through the righteousness of another? Search and look! Then the question arises, in what way is such a righteous medium of blessing to be provided? Listen. Isaiah testifies, chapter 49:8, that Messiah shall be given for a covenant בְּרִגע of the people. How understandest thou him? Do not the records of thy fathers show, that when two or more parties enter into a covenant, that a third something is required, by which the transaction is sealed and made sure? Now, between God and man this something is a sacrifice, else what is the meaning of all the beasts on Jewish altars slain? To give Messiah, then, for a covenant, is to give him as a sacrifice. Turn not from us in disgust, and say, “Ye are Gentile dogs,” and “know not the law.” Remember that your father Abraham was called of God when yet a Gentile, before circumcision was commanded. And, if dogs do partake of the crumbs which fall from the children’s table (Matt. 15:26–27), remember that the neck of the children has been long under Gentile heel; and learn the lesson which the Father teaches thereby?
1881 Christadelphian: Volume 18. 2001 (electronic ed.) (p 28–29). Birmingham: Christadelphian Magazine & Publishing Association.
Does not Jeremiah affirm that the name of your Messiah “shall be The Lord our righteousness?”—(Jer. 23:6). Question: In what way is your Messiah to become your righteousness? Why not search and look for the answer in the records? Yea, let us also reason together a little. If a man is himself righteous, he does not require another to be his righteousness. If a nation is itself righteous, there is no necessity for a Messiah to deliver him from sin, desolation, and death. Now a Jew witnesseth that “there is not a man that sinneth not”—(1 Kings 8:46). Therefore, there is neither individual nor national righteousness for thee, O Israel! unless ye partake of the righteousness of another. And since your law (which is given to you by the Creator of all things) permits a woman to be a partaker of the privileges which come through the circumcision of her father, though not herself circumcised, why may not a Jew partake of benefits which come through the righteousness of another? Search and look! Then the question arises, in what way is such a righteous medium of blessing to be provided? Listen. Isaiah testifies, chapter 49:8, that Messiah shall be given for a covenant בְּרִגע of the people. How understandest thou him? Do not the records of thy fathers show, that when two or more parties enter into a covenant, that a third something is required, by which the transaction is sealed and made sure? Now, between God and man this something is a sacrifice, else what is the meaning of all the beasts on Jewish altars slain? To give Messiah, then, for a covenant, is to give him as a sacrifice. Turn not from us in disgust, and say, “Ye are Gentile dogs,” and “know not the law.” Remember that your father Abraham was called of God when yet a Gentile, before circumcision was commanded. And, if dogs do partake of the crumbs which fall from the children’s table (Matt. 15:26–27), remember that the neck of the children has been long under Gentile heel; and learn the lesson which the Father teaches thereby?
1881 Christadelphian: Volume 18. 2001 (electronic ed.) (p 28–29). Birmingham: Christadelphian Magazine & Publishing Association.