THE GOSPEL IN YESHUA THE MESSIAH

d) The curse of the Law had to be broken. The unbending letter of the Law punishes every transgressionⁱ. And the one who dies by hanging from a tree is accursed⁶⁸. Hence Yeshua was condemned to the most cruel of punishments, crucifixion upon a wooden Roman cross.  

With His crucifixion the merciless legal demands of the letter of the Law, holding sway over Israel, were literally nailed  to the cross. Gentiles misinterpret Paul’s words as meaning all of the Law of Moses (Torah) being nailed to the cross as opposed to its bondage being nailed to the cross. This would have rendered Israel lawless, and Yeshua’s and the prophet’s words lies⁶⁹. But lawlessness is the sign of the evil one and the Man of Sin, not of Messiah. 

It was the unyielding legal demands of the Law, its iron-clad yoke and destructive curse which were nailed to the cross⁷⁰. Furtermore, this terrible curse was buried since it fastened to Messiah’s body when it hung from a tree. Securely attached to His body the curse followed Him into the belly of the earth, where it is held captive for every Jew Who comes to Messiah Yeshua in faith. 

This deliverance applies chiefly to the Jew, not the Gentiles, since they never were under the yoke and curse of the Law. The Jew has been freed from the fear of punishment and enabled to keep the Law with all his heart. What marvelous deliverance! 

e) He had to die unto sin⁷¹ to break its iron-clasp over mankind. He nullified the stranglehold of the “DNA“ of corruption by yielding His incorruptible life to death. 

 He broke the inescapable chain, replaced by the law of the Spirit of life in Messiah⁷². The “genetic pool” of the new Blood-of-G-d brought eternal life in the Image and Likeness of the Son of G-d Who came from heaven⁷³. 

Whoever is baptized into Him, is joined into His death and made to share in it⁷⁴, which pledges a new GENESIS⁷⁵. 

An exchange of nature takes place the moment a believer joins Messiah in His death on the cross. There is, as it were, an exchange of blood. Like the veins of embryos who have an incurable blood disease are wholly drained of the contaminated blood and reinfused with new, healthy blood, similarly our corrupted nature is done away with in Messiah's death and replaced with His incorruptible nature. The apostle Paul alludes to the Abrahamic Covenant saying that as the flesh is discarded in the circumcision, likewise is our mortal body and sinful nature cast off in the “circumcision” of baptism into Messiah Yeshua’s death⁷⁶.