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Robert J. Brown wrote:
 
> If you are so sure when the church age dispensation, or dispensation
> of grace, ends, then are you also as sure when the old testament
> dispensation, or dispensation of law, ends?  I would like to know what
> you think on the time the OT dispensation ended, and when the new
> testament church age began.  I feel comfortable saying that the church
> age began on the dat of Penteccost, but I do not feel comfortable
> saying that is when the OT dispensation ended, else we would have to
> say that Jesus broke the Mosiac law on a few occasions, yet he said he
> came to fulfill that law.

Fulfill does not mean that one cannot surfacely break the 
Law.  If the SABBATH foreshadowed REST in Christ, as I beleive
it most certainly does, and Christ ADMITTED the disciples
profaned the Sabbath in Matth 12 by comparing their act of plucking and
eating corn on te sabbath with the priests PROFANING the sabbath,
then Christ SEEMED to break the sabbath, but actually did not.  He 
fulfilled it.  TO fulfill it means to do what the TYPE of the sabbath
merely foreshadowed.  

THe transition from OT to NT took place between John the Baptist and
the day of Pentecost.  In that period He touched the gentiles,
whcih was against law, and abode by law at times.

Since Pentecost, LAW IS GONE!  The schoolmaster has fulfilled his purpose
and we are now OUT of the elementary period of Law of Moses.  God will
never again revert to it.

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In Christ,
Mike Blume
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