You however seem to be making this about the Sinai covenant??
I am not making it about any Covenant. Bob is, you seem to be, but not me. It's about what is actually written in Scriptures. In the religious system of this world God placed you and I in, "who come in Christ's Name", it is taught that God's commandments and Ordinances relegated Faithful Gentiles as
without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But Paul isn't saying that at all and as you can SEE, God's Commandments teach no such thing.
That is what I'm making it about.
I see it by the Abrahamic covenant...Both covenats are a covenant of circumcision
But it was the Priesthood Covenant that God changed. There was no promise or prophesy to "Destroy" or "nail to the Cross" God's Laws in HIS definition of HIS New Covenant. You can read it for yourself. 2 things were prophesied to change.
#1. The manner in which God's Laws were received.
#2. The manner in which the remission of Sin is provided for.
Jesus said not to even "Think" HE came to destroy God's Laws. Clearly HE saw the "Many" deceivers who would "Come in His Name". shall i not believe Him?
De 30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Ephesians goes on to speak of jew and gentiles with regard to priesthood. Which under Moses law non levites were "strangers" from.
Where is your evidence of the underlined? It is true that the duties of the Temporary
Levitical Priesthood were to be partaken of by Levites only. Levites that were supposed to promote God's Laws to the people. Like the following.
Lev. 19:
33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. 34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you "as one born among you", and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
So if the "Levite Priests" had taught
God's Commandments,
instead of their own, there would have been no "Wall of Separation" between Faithful Jews and Faithful Gentiles. There would be a faithful people, and a Priesthood who provided for them, as they were commanded by God to do, while they waited for the Prophesied Priest of God "After the Order of Melchizedek" that Moses told them about.
But they didn't rallian. They, that is, the Rulers of the Temple in the city of David, corrupted the Priesthood Covenant of Levi, had departed out of the Way God instructed them to go, they led many astray, they caused "Many" to stumble at God's Laws, they created their own religion, their own high days, their own judgments and their own commandments
which relegated the Non-Jew as "
without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world". And they called their religion, "The Law of Moses".
Jesus Exposed these "children of the Devil" that professed to know God, HE "
spoiled the principalities and powers" that deceived so many people, he made a shew "of them" openly, triumphing "over them" in it.
As they declared, "WE have a Law, and by OUR Law, Jesus should be Killed". But His Father Raised Him from the Dead, causing HIM to "Triumph over them", exposing and Nailing to His Cross forever, the commandments of men they taught for doctrines. Which exposed to greatest religious sect of the world, in the time of Jesus and Paul, as children of the devil.
To believe Bob and the other "many" voices, who come in Christ's Name, in the world God placed me in, I would have to believe that it was God, whose Commandments relegated faithful Gentiles as "
without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world". I know this to be a lie, as I have read His Commandments, and I have challenged others to provide a commandment of God who relegated a faithful Non-Jew as "
without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world". And no one can provide one, because God's Commandments teach just the opposite.
I would have to believe the principality and Power that Jesus Spoiled, was the Power of God. I would have to believe that Jesus made a show "OF God and HIS Words" Openly on the Cross. I would have to believe that HE triumphed over "GOD and His instruction in righteousness that Jesus Lived By, and instructed me to Live By" in His Death and Resurrection.
Why would I do that, unless another voice in the garden God placed me in, had convinced me that God is a Liar. I used to believe men like Bob,
Wherein in time past I walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience".
But Jesus nailed the "coarse of this world" and the commandments of the prince of the power of the air, to His Cross.