JonHawk said:
44 Then He said to them, “These
are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and
the Prophets and
the Psalms concerning Me.” Luke 24
That all may see what
is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ; 10 to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly
places, 11 according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, 12 in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him. Eph 3
That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel; Eph 3:6
To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you; Col 1:27
Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified. 2 Cor 13:5
Trying to get a simple answer to a simple question, but it doesn't seem to be working. Jews break the Hebrew Bible, our Old Testament, into three parts: the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Writings. The Law is the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. The Prophets is the Nibiim, which consists of Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekial, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. Finally, there are the Writings, or Kethubim, which are Psalms, Job, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom, Sirach, Proverbs, Song of Songs, Tobit, Judith, Esther, Ruth, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1 and 2 Maccabees, and Baruch, and also Lamentations again.
What Jesus meant when he said he did not come to abolish the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfill them was that he did not come to abolish the Hebrew Bible or, to us, the Old Testament, but to fulfill it. The entire Old Testament is meant to point forward to Jesus. It is all about our Savior. It is the tutor that is no longer necessary, it is the shadow that points toward the substance that is Christ. It need not be cast aside, but it does need to be used correctly.