I intentionally let the EGW quote speak for what it may instruct spiritually. What do you think it means? When I come across a quote from her including a Bible text, she usually ties it to her subject before or after she quotes it. This is how I know to interpret what she is saying. The subject is "the Jewish economy" from beginning to end. The text is "one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, til all be fulfilled." Matt 5:18. I suppose this text could be read, "until each aspect of the law is fulfilled." -- but, to me she is definitely tying the whole Jewish economy to Matt 5:18.
I guess maybe I did not present my thoughts clear enough, so I will share again what we have been told she means:
In His sermon on the mount, Jesus did not dwell on the specifications of the law, but He did not leave His hearers to conclude that He had come to set aside its requirements. He knew that spies stood ready to seize upon every word that might be wrested to serve their purpose. He knew the prejudice that existed in the minds of many of His hearers, and He said nothing to unsettle their faith in the religion and institutions that had been committed to them through Moses. Christ Himself had given both the moral and the ceremonial law. He did not come to destroy confidence in His own instruction. It was because of His great reverence for the law and the prophets, that He sought to break through the wall of traditional requirements which hemmed in the Jews. While He set aside their false interpretations of the law, He carefully guarded His disciples against yielding up the vital truths committed to the Hebrews.
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If there are other questions, dear brother, that you feel I have not responded to, I am sorry. Point them out and I will respond.
Daniel: It has been sometime since I have read anything here and find this subject quite fascinating. I hope y'all don't mind if I throw my two cents into this mix. First off I am not sure if anyone has posted this comment or not for the SOP.
Precepts Given to Guard Decalogue. - In consequence of continual transgression, the moral law was repeated in awful grandeur from Sinai. Christ gave to Moses religious precepts, which were to govern everyday life. These statutes were explicitly given to guard the Ten Commandments.
THEY WERE NOT SHADOWY TYPES TO PASS AWAY WITH THE DEATH OF CHRIST. They were to be binding upon men in every age as long as time should last. These commands were enforced by the power of the moral law, and they clearly and definitely explained that law (ST April 15, 1875). Ellen G. White Comments - Exodus 20:3 pg 1104 SDA Commentaries Vol. 1
Secondly we find God speaking through Malachi:
“1 ¶ For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do [this], saith the LORD of hosts. 4 ¶ Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel
, WITH the statutes and judgments.” (Malachi 4:1-4)
Through Isaiah God tells us WHY this earth will be destroyed with plagues:
“1 ¶ Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. 4 The earth mourneth [and] fadeth away, the world languisheth [and] fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. 5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;
because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.” (Isaiah 24:1-6)
We find in Daniel exactly what would be "nailed to the cross" other than Christ Himself:
“And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week
he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.” (Daniel 9:27)
Mrs. White confirms this completely. When one does a "word study" on what she meant by "ceremonial laws" that were nailed to the cross one finds she says the exact same thing Daniel said.
I do believe God is calling His people back, asking as to remember His statutes and judgments as admonished in Malachi 4. Early on in this discussion or in another re feast days someone posted it was impossible to know when the fall feast could or should take place. I do believe God honors our best efforts to honor Him, even if we are ignorant of when.