Jesus echoes the language of 3 Nephi 13:17 where he had also indicated that he had come to fulfill, not destroy, the law. He now links that promise to the concept that old things have passed away—a transformation rather than a destruction. Jesus explains that he is fulfilling and transforming that which had been “spoken concerning things which are to come.” Living the law of Moses affected how a person would face God at the end. That ultimate judgment has not changed. Indeed, the Messiah’s gospel enhances our ability to stand transformed, or fulfilled, before God at that last day.