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Christ's birth, life, ministry, His death and resurection were literal. This was an historical event that came to pass. It was during this period of time that the Jews did "Finish the transgression." The fulfillment is found as Jesus spoke these words to the Jews.
"Fill ye then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore, behold. I sent you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation." {Matthew 23:32-35}
Yes! The Jews did "finish" the transgression during this period of time!
The fulfillment is found in these scriptures. "And she shall bring forth a son,and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins." {Matthew 1:21}
This truth is confirmed throughout the scriptures of the New Testament. This is why Christ entered into the world! The Hebrew writer affirms this truth as he wrote, "But this man {speaking of Christ} after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God...For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified."
{Hebrews 10:12-14}
The entire sixth chapter of Romans confirms that Christ made an end to the power of sin in true believers. Paul writes that "Sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Again he writes: "But now being made free from sin, and become servants of God, ye have your fruit unto righteousness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." He goes on to write, "For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death."
Yes! Christ made an end to sins!
The fulfillment is found in these scriptures. "But God comendendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, while we were yet enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life."
{Romans 5:8-10}
"And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath commited unto us the word of reconciliation."
{2 Corinthians 5:18-19}
"And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself.
{Colossians 1:20}
Yes! Christ brought reconciliation to mankind!
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The fulfillment is affirmed In the scriptures. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinfil flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." {Romans 8:1-4}
"But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever" a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom." {Hebrews 1:8}
"For he hath made him {Jesus} to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." {2 Corinthians 5:21}
Yes! Christ did bring in everlasting righteousness to lost humanity!
God has "sealed" all His children. "Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ; and hath anointed us, is God; Who hath sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts."
{2 Corinthians 1:21-22)
"In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, and the gospel of your salvation: in whom after that ye believed,ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise." {Ephesians 1:13)
The prophecy was concerning the "New Covenant" that God would make with ALL mankind. Thus it is affirmed..."For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will out my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for ALL shall know me from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away." {Hebews 8:10-13}
Yes! Christ fulfilled the New Covenant through his obedience and sealed the vison and prophecy!
Christ came to fulfill ALL that was written of Him by the prophets! The very name of "Christ" means "Anointed." He thus spoke..."The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind. to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears."
{Luke 4:18-21}
Yes! Our Lord Jesus Christ was and is, the Holy One, the Anointed of God!
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