'Rightly Dividing the Word'
Everlasting Ordinances
Exo 40:15 You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to Me as priests; for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations."
God made a covenant with the Israelites that He will be their God and they will become His people. After the Exodus from Egypt, God made the covenant that the Levites would be His everlasting priesthood, and the Israelites must also keep the law and Jewish feasts as their everlasting ordinances.
Exo 12:14 'So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.
Fulfilled Law and Prophets
Mat 5:17-18 "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill."
Since God gave the Israelites these everlasting ordinances in the law, and obsoleted the law at the death of Jesus, so during Jesus first advent, He must fulfil the law and the Prophets before His death.
Since Jesus is the everlasting God, the Alpha and Omega, and if He had fulfilled the law and the Prophets, then any Israelite who believes and abides in Him and His words will also have kept or fulfilled the law and the Prophets
Israeli Christians
Mat 7:12 Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
At the death of Jesus, God left the temple of God by tearing the temple veil into two thereby terminating the Old Covenant with the Israelites.
All worships, sacrifices and offerings in the temple of God but abandoned by God were meaningless. God kept the temple standing, so that devout Jews coming back for the feasts would find salvation (as found in Acts 2).
For an Israeli Christian to fulfil the everlasting ordinances of the law, he must obey Jesus word:- 'whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them' which is another way of saying 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself'.
Gal 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
A New Commandment
John 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
Our Lord Jesus commanded us to love one another as He had loved us. Since Jesus laid down His life for the salvation of all men, Christians are to lay down their lives for one another. This new commandment fulfills all previous commandments including Mosaic law.
I John 3:16 By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Note: For an Israeli Christian to keep and fulfil the everlasting ordinances of the law and the Prophets, he only needs to love one another as Jesus had loved all men. No more circumcision, unclean food, animal sacrifices and observing Jewish feasts.
