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​God knew from before the beginning of creation that a time would come when He would incarnate Himself within it as the flesh of Jesus of Nazareth.

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For God, Who is utterly perfect, to live among us, who are fallen and flawed, He had to have explicitly defined boundaries within a hedge of righteousness in which to operate. A quarantined 'bubble' of potential perfection that would allow Him who cannot look upon sin to be inundated among a sinful creation. God never intended for the Jewish nation to successfully live out every jot and tittle of His Law given at Mt. Sinai.  His intention was to set apart a race of people in which to cultivate a lineage into which He could incarnate Himself and live out His purpose in the flesh of Jesus, yet not compromise His righteousness and perfection.

 

Because God is perfect and just, He operates according to His own law, a law in which the Enemy is all too aware. Thus the Enemy could not fathom that it would somehow be possible for God, Who exists in perfection, to ever redeem His fallen creation, which operates in corruption, through HIMSELF!

In His glorious and infinite wisdom He set apart a race of His created image to orchestrate the conditions required for Him to incarnate among us, yet also uphold His perfection according to His laws, to whom all are accountable-- even HIMSELF, because He is perfectly and wholly just.  We will never hear our mighty God to say, "Do as I say, not as I do."

Once setting apart this people unto Himself, He then had to begin purposing them as a sanctified nation, refining and shaping them according to His Kingdom standards but in a world under Enemy control.  Starting from scratch, God gave the nation of Israel the defined boundaries and conditions in which to become His unique nation of people that would create a culture that would make it possible for Him to exist in the flesh among sin.

His set-apart race suffered much refinement in trials and travailed much sifting through errors as they established themselves as the unique nation of ancient Israel.  With a special and unique hedge of righteousness in which only they possessed, as the stated by the beloved Apostle Paul, "the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God," the conditions were finally met for God's ultimate redemption of mankind. A redemption planned since the before the beginning of time, and prophesied by God Himself at the time of man's fall and expulsion from the Garden.  At this perfect and most opportune time in history, appointed since the dawn of creation, God was finally able to incarnate Himself into a spotless genetic line which possessed the requirements for righteousness to transcend from heaven to dwell on earth. 

Once born in the flesh in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, He could then be raised among a line of humanity, the sole nation of all mankind, in which He had cultivated and established His own standard of potential perfection. The potential of something is not the manifestation of it.  Just as God said His creation was "Good", yet it contained the potential for the manifestation and fulfillment of corruption, so was the Law of Moses unto the Jewish nation.  Their Law, given to them by God Himself, were all the requirements necessary to meet His potential standard of perfection of fulfilling righteousness in a fallen and sinful creation. For God to uphold righteousness, that righteousness had to be defined and the potential circumstances to accomplish it had to be realized.

Since our inception, the penalty for sin is death.  Two choices were given in the Garden:  the Tree of Life or the Tree of Death (insomuch as the realization of Corruption--understanding righteousness by the introduction and manifestation of wrong).  Because the balance of perfection was undone through choosing death, death would necessarily be the only way to fill the void required to balance the debt.

From the moment of His own birth, into His OWN CREATION, God's incarnate manifestation in the flesh of Jesus was justified through a life of total obedience to His own standard of POTENTIAL perfection-- The Law at Sinai.
At the moment of Jesus' mortal death, that standard of potential perfection was fulfilled from potential to realization because His existence in flesh had been carried out without fail, in utter perfection, in subjection to His self-appointed accountability to His own law of righteousness.

God's Law of righteousness still stands, it has not passed away, it pertains to and applies to this existence, yet only Christ could have ever met the requirements to fulfill it because all men are sinners, "everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard."

Judgment for sin in the Garden had been rendered--- death.  The only possible way for mankind to redeem itself other than death, was total righteousness--- The Law at Sinai. For God to redeem His beloved creation, the one in which He gave His very own image, He would have to:

1.  become a man

2.  carry out the sentence of total righteousness to fulfill the judgment. 

A human incurred the punishment, therefore only a human could pay the price. 
The only way to pay the price was by death or to uphold a Law of righteousness that was utterly impossible for anyone but God to accomplish.

Therefore, Jesus of Nazareth was absolutely God and absolutely human.  He was wholly both, therefore He met all the requirements necessary to reconcile creation from corruption and death, back unto righteousness and perfection within Himself. Therefore, in the laborious task of shepherding an entire nation set-apart unto Himself, we see literally that "salvation is from the Jews."

God wishes that no man perish and all have eternal life, therefore it was His plan from the beginning for all of mankind to be redeemed, “But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." 

It was His plan all along to unite us in Christ, "there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all."

 

 

 

 

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