The Law of Moses Superseded by God's Undeserved Kindness Expressed Through Jesus Christ Our Lord

The following presentation is difficult for ethnic Jews and for adherents to Messianic Judaism to accept. But it is in accordance with what Jesus said, and in accordance with what God-inspired writers of the Scriptures in the first century recorded. 

What Jesus accomplished through his death and resurrection is the guarantee that all sorts of men ever born into the world of Adam's sin-inheriting descendants (see Acts 17:31) may eventually obtain that “everlasting salvation” that is salvation for “all those obeying [Jesus]” (Hebrews 5:9), for salvation is only through faith in and obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ (cf. Acts 4:12). Thus eventually there will also occur fulfillment of God's original purpose to give mankind everlasting life here on earth, for that is what Adam lost so that he could not pass it on to us his sin-inheriting descendants. No, Adam never had a hope  for everlasting life in Heaven. In accordance with God's original purpose, however, there will be an earthly society of perfected (sinless) children of God, a society that will become reality in fulfillment of Jesus' mission to which he referred when he stated "The Son of man came to seek and to save what was lost" (Luke 19:10). What Adam lost for himself and for us his sinful descendants was everlasting life here on earth. Restoration of it would require God's undeserved kindness expressed through an arrangement authored by him, this for mankind’s redemption through Jesus Christ. Speaking proleptically, then, we can say that Jesus as the Son of Man has become the foretold “eternal Father” (see Isaiah 9:6) that Adam never became for mankind; Jesus has become our sinless next of kin, as it were, for redeeming us. Jesus qualified to become the ransoming sacrifice, the one “who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29), this, then, with eternal benefit for mankind. We are here really echoing what our beloved brother Paul was inspired to record about the subject when he wrote this: “the creation itself will also be set free from enslavement to corruption and have the glorious freedom of the children of God” (Romans 8:21). 

Such blessings could never become reality by means of the Law of Moses for any of Adam’s sinful offspring; however, that Law was ended so that a remnant of Jews descended from Abraham might be the first (see Acts 3:26; 13:46) to obtain a prized possession—and really that remnant began to so obtain it from 33 C.E. onward. And what did they obtain?  They obtained justification (declaration to righteousness) by God for eternal life in the heavens before arrival of “the last day” (John 11:24).  Such justification is one of the blessings made possible by a replacement covenant that features a better priesthood than what Jews had in the Levitical priesthood (see Hebrews 8:6-13). After the beginning of the appearance in the first century of a remnant of fleshly Jews having prospect of eternal life in the heavens, there next came addition of more of the circumcised into the new covenant, namely, the believing Samaritans for their obtainment of the same hope, and who were then followed by uncircumcised believers beginning in 36 C.E. for their obtainment of the same status as that owned by circumcised believers, so that they, too, are “fellow citizens of the holy ones and are members of the household of God" (Ephesians 1:11-20.)

As stated earlier, this subject is difficult matter both for ethnic Jews and for adherents to Messianic Judaism to accept. It is supersessionism, rightly understood in the light of the Scriptures, and it is subject matter hidden in all its glory (cf. 2 Corinthians 4:3-6) from the eyes of all those who unrepentantly continue to show that they are not “rightly disposed for everlasting life” (Acts 13:48), and thus are not helped “through God’s undeserved kindness . . . [to] become believers” (Acts18:27).