Is JUDAISM the Law of Moses? - Part 14 - Ernest L Martin - March 1962

Ernest L Martin

This fourteenth and final installment reveals why the Jews knew the Old Testament was not to be all of Scripture - and why the Jews rejected Jesus as the Christ when they knew better! Synopsis: IN THE last installment we discovered that Christ recognized the authority of the Scribes and Pharisees when they sat in "Moses' Seat" - and that "Moses' Seat" represented the authority that God vested in Moses. After Moses, God exercised His authority in the Old Testament Church through judges, then high priests and finally the Sopherim, under Ezra and Nehemiah. By the time of Christ, the authority in the Old Testament Church had been usurped by the Pharisees and scribes - who were mostly laymen, not priests. The priests, of course, performed the temple rituals, but the authority in the Church was exercised by others. Even though God did not choose the laymen to exercise the authority of His government over the people, He nevertheless allowed them to remain in office. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library