Τhe old has passed away; behold, the new has come

Τhe old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Writter: Evangelos D. Kepenes (September 16, 2025, 12:10 p.m)

When a person has a pre-installed religious faith, he cannot realize that the stupor he has undergone is at a red-line level. He interprets the words of the New Testament not as the fulfillment of prophetic sayings through Jesus, "Christ is the end of the law," “The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” but as an eternal expectation of future events.

Twenty centuries are not enough for the religiously stupefied to understand the immediacy, in relation to the time of fulfillment, that Jesus’s words had when he said to his Jewish audience:

"Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation." (Matthew 23:36)

And again: "So also you (the contemporaries of Jesus), when you see these things happening, know that it is near, at the doors. Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened." (Mark 13:29-30)

And again, James says to his contemporaries: “be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the lord is at hand. Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the judge is standing at the door.” (James 5:7-9)

Such people also do not understand the immediacy of the fulfillment of the Apostles' sayings, who, just before the imminent judgment of the "Lamb" upon the ungodly among the Jews and the destruction of the finite earthly Temple—events that sealed the "end (completion) of the Law"—exhorted as follows:

"This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods, and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. for the present form of this world is passing away.” (1 Cor. 7:29-31)

Furthermore, lost in the abyss of their self-deception, they boast and characterize the simple understanding of the Gospel as a "hymn to human reason," ignoring that they are referring to 'philosophy' which has brought many evils to the pure, clear message of the "Jewish heresy." The fact that they are prey of the Hellenization of Christianity by the philosophical fathers, whose only concern was the preservation of Hellenism, does not concern them at all.

The fact that such people are mocked by the religious systems that have developed the theory of the delay of the Lord's Coming, turning the "behold, I am coming quickly" that Jesus said to his contemporaries in the first century into an equivocation statement from "someone who leads the crowd astray," is a matter of indifference to them, even though the Apostles insisted on preaching: "for yet a very little while, he that cometh shall come, and shall not tarry.” (Heb. 10:37)

Let such people know that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is eternal, simple, and gives wisdom to the simple of heart; it gives wisdom to those who search and rejoice in His truth. Return then to the simplicity of the word and understand what was written about the last days of ritualistic Judaism and the end of the ministry of death. We live in the unending age of grace and the gift of immortality for those who receive Jesus, the true God and eternal life.

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation the old has passed away; behold, the new has come." (2 Cor. 5:17)

Flee from religions, sects, and their statutes. Religions and sects evolve. "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."

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