In several recent conversations, the words "it's been fulfilled" have popped up. These conversations are referring to the Law of Moses and saying that Jesus/Yeshua fulfilled it, giving indication that because it has been fulfilled, it is no longer needed to be done.

However, we see Yeshua stating (Matt. 5:17) He did not come to abolish (cause it to no longer need be done), but to fulfill. If we hold to the definition held by most it seems, Yeshua is contradicting himself. If abolishing the Law would cause us to not need to do it, and fulfilling the Law would cause is not to need to do it, then the statement contradicts itself. When we look at the context of the whole chapter, we see He isn't abolishing it, or fulfilling it in the sense most say He is.

Instead, if we look at the word for fulfill from a different light, such as one of a marriage, He IS fulfilling it, just as WE should as well. As I show in the comic, just because you loved your spouse on your wedding day, that doesn't fulfill your marriage vows to never be done again. You can't go on and find someone new and forget all about your vows. You fulfill your vows everyday for the rest of your life.

We are called the Bride of Christ, because that is the relationship we have. I spoke a little about the Hebraic Marriage parallels in Scripture and this concept of our relationship being a marriage in CvB #63 (https://thestraightandnarrow.cfw.me/comics/471).

Another witness to the fact that He wasn't saying fulfill in the sense of we won't have to do it is found just 2 verses later.

Matt. 5:19 - Therefore, whoever shall break one of these least commandments and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

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