It was clear from the first that Moses law was temporary. It was only to last until the Great Prophet, the Messiah, the Christ, had come. The seed of the woman still had to come and crush the seed of the serpent, Gen 3:15. Further, it was known from Jacob’s time that the Messiah would be of the house of Judah.
“The scepter will not depart from Judah,
Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
Until he comes to whom it belongs.
To him will the obedience of the peoples be. ”
Gen 49:10
What “peoples”? Those of all the earth!
Moses the Law Giver, said it plainly.
“Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you shall listen;”
Deut 18:15
If this prophet like Moses was to be of Judah, then He would most certainly be “from the midst of you, of your brothers.” If He is like Moses, would certainly also be a lawgiver, and one whom all would have to listen to.
“18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. 19 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.”
Deut 18:18-19
So God will require ALL to obey Him. There is more to tell, but this will do.
Also this prophet will be rejected by Leaders of the Jews!
“22 The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.
23 This is Yahweh’s doing.
It is marvelous in our eyes.”
Psa 118:22-23
It says plainly that this is God’s doing.
But the Christ was not only to be rejected, but
murdered … by the Jews.
A judicial murder is outlined by the prophet Isaiah.
“7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn’t open his mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; …”
Isa 53:7-8a
For what purpose?
“he was cut off out of the land of the living for the disobedience of my people to whom the stroke was due?”
Isa 53:8c
He was to be murdered by the leaders, and the Jewish people, … yet survive to live forever.
He was to pierced, Isa 53:5. Psalm 22 tells us His hands and His feet would be pierced, Psa 22:16. Who is that murders Him? It is the “builders” of the Jews, Psa 118:22. It is lions, it is dogs, it is “bulls … of Bashan,” Psa 22:12. It is the Jews who murdered their own savior! Yet,
“He is the ruler over the nations.”
Psa 22:28b
“All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him,”
Psa 22:29b
Scriptures are from the World English Bible WEB, a copyright free revision
of the original ASV American Standard Version 1901.