I know I have covered this verse before, but I thought it would be good for this series. Most churches use this verse to teach that the Law has been accomplished. In other words, abolished.
"Oh, no! We don't say it is abolished. We don't believe that at all!" Yet, mechanically, the interpretation that is taken with the meaning of 'fulfill' here means the same as abolished.
According to Merriam Webster:
abolished: to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something)
Now take that with how most people interpret fulfill, meaning to complete so that it no longer needs to be completed again. In other words, "end the observance".
IF Yeshua was saying "I am not going to end the observance of the Law, but end the observance through my completing it", do you not think the Jews of the time would have stoned Him right then and there?
Many, many verses in the Law, God states that they are laws forever. Not until the Messiah comes. Not until the Temple is destroyed a second time (because that first time didn't count in some theologies?). Not until some other arbitrary time that was slowly revealed to Paul. FOR-EV-ER. The Jews knew this. They still know this. The Psalms even repeat it several times over.

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