Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

were to stop. It is this law that Christ "has taken ... out of the way,
having nailed it to the cross" (Colossians 2:14).
But speaking about the law of Ten Commandments the
psalmist wrote, "Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven"
(Psalm 119:89). And Christ Himself says, "Do not think that I came
to destroy the Law. ... For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and
earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the
law till all is fulfilled" (Matthew 5:17, 18). Here Jesus teaches that
the claims of God's law will last as long as the heavens and the earth
remain.
Concerning the law proclaimed from Sinai, Nehemiah says,
"You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from
heaven, and gave them just ordinances and true laws, good statutes
and commandments" (Nehemiah 9:13). And Paul, the "apostle to the
Gentiles," declares, "the law is holy, and the commandment holy
and just and good" (Romans 7:12).
While the Savior's death brought to an end the law of symbols
and shadows, it did not lessen the obligation of the moral law. The
very fact that Christ had to die in order to atone for the breaking of
that law proves it to be unchangeable.
Christ the Mediator of the New Covenant
Some people claim that Christ came to do away with the Old
Testament. They present the religion of the Hebrews as nothing but
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