So close but so far away from the truth.
John Piper "When Jerusalem fell to the Romans in A. D. 70, and the Temple was burned, and the sacrifices stopped being offered in Judaism, and the Levitical priesthood came to an end, God was saying with his power and providence: Christ was the goal of it all. Christ was the Reality; the rest was shadows. Christianity is a faith woven into history. It is not a mere set of ideas. It is about a person, Jesus, who came into history and died and rose again. And it is about a God who intervenes in history to bear witness to the reality of his Son, Jesus Christ.
And look around today. Is it not astonishing that God has preserved the Jewish people to this day. And there is yet a future for them in Christ according to Scripture. But what do we see? Are they meeting at the Temple? Are they offering animal sacrifices? Do they look to the Levitical priesthood for their mediation with God? No. Why? Because Jesus said, "they did not recognize the time of their visitation" (Luke 19:44). The existence of the Jewish people today and the transformed version of Judaism that they follow is a constant witness to the world that the first covenant is vanishing away. (But that covenant of flesh did not pass away in 70AD or 30AD. The temple, animal sacrifices, priesthood, and Israel was a visible shadow pointing to the invisible things in Christ. People still live in the Old just as much as Christians live in the New. Saying the old passes or vanishes in history IS Universalism. If the old vanishes, why should men be born again. The old man is captured completely in the picture that the old covenant portrays. And that old man is not conquered until Christ takes away that which is growing old, which is our flesh). That the Messiah, Jesus Christ, has come. (AND IS TO COME. John 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. See also Rev. 1:4 Him who is and who was and who is to come. The fact is Christ does continue to come to those who love him and keep his word. Does Christ continue to come according to John 14:23? YES!!!) That he has inaugurated the new covenant. That the shadows have been replaced by Reality. And that the Spirit has written the will of God on our hearts."
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