Peter had been a fully devoted, lifelong adherent of the Mosaic Law, and even he pointed out that he and all of the other Jews (who had also been fully devoted, lifelong adherents of the Mosaic Law) who were alive at that time, and all of their Jewish forefathers before them (who had also been fully devoted, lifelong adherents of the Mosaic Law), had FAILED to keep the Mosaic Law. He said it was a yoke on their necks that NONE of them had been able to bear. And then he (Peter) clearly said that Jews and non-Jews were saved through the GRACE of the Jesus. Period.
Do proponents of adherence to the Mosaic Law nowadays really think that they are better at, and more capable of, keeping the Law than ALL of those who came before them...including Jesus’ own Apostles themselves...?
The Mosaic covenant was not about salvation. It was a civil covenant. The Abrahamic covenant was and remains the covenant of salvation. The covenants can’t be intermingled. The misunderstanding is probably the biggest impediment to proper understanding of OT text and keeps people from seeing what Christ meant when He said that the law and prophets were about Him.
The Abrahamic covenant predated the Mosiac covenant and it for sure foretold Jesus. Study that one, the divided animals, the blood, God himself waking between the halves. Ever wonder why the dove and the pigeon were NOT divided? The Dove represented the Holy Spirit, the pigeon, the Word of God, neither of which is divisible.
The Mosaic Covenant was the Law which man could not keep, thus the need for Jesus and redemption from the curse of the law. So it was more than just a civil code, although civil order was outlined. Except, no one could keep the letter of the law, which was all or nothing.
Judaism reportedly holds the Mosaic Covenant as more important than the Abrahamic Convenant, probably because of the rules which they seem to cherish. The Mosaic Covenant, a thousand years after the Abrahamic Covenant, was more of a codification and extension of the original than a separate agreement.
The entire OT points to the Cross.
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