by Valerie Williams

Created on: March 02, 2009

In order to understand the mission of the Messiah, one first has to understand the Most High God, and what he desired for mankind. In order to do this, we must first travel back to the Old Testament, and in short, see what transpired between the Most High and his creation to bring clarity into understanding the Messiah's mission and how this mission was a fulfillment and nullification of one of the laws established by the Most High God on Mt. Sinai.

The Most High God is a God of laws, statutes, commandments, judgments. What does he require of us? In one word: obedience. One of the very first laws or commandments he instituted was in the Garden of Eden, when he commanded Adam and Eve that, though they could eat from every tree in the Garden of Eden, they were not permitted to partake of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This was a commandment. Eve broke this law when she was enticed by the serpent, and Adam also broke this law when he was persuaded by Eve, thus allowing sin to enter into the world. With sin, came the penalty of death.

The Most High God, however, in his love for his creation, provided a way for man to be able to make restitution for his sins. In Leviticus chapter 8, verses 37 and 38, we see a summation of the sacrifices established by the Most High God as a way for man to atone for his sins; more clearly, we see that this was a law; a law established by the Most High on Mt. Sinai. This law, however, could not do one thing, the most important thing to the Most High. It did nothing to change a man's conscience regarding his sin. If a man had enough bulls and goats, it was all he needed to atone for his sins; however, it simply became a rote gesture. It's why the Most High says in the book of Isaiah chapter 1 verse 11: "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Most High God: I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bulls or of lambs, or of he goats". In verse 13 he says: "Bring no more vain oblations..." Man's sacrifices had become simply that - vain, with no thought to the sin itself but simply a way to atone for the sin without affecting the person's conscience and bringing about change. The apostle Paul clarifies this further in the book of Hebrews, chapter 10 where he states: "For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins". Further in this chapter, verse 9, Paul also says: "He takes away the first that he may establish

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