Jesus picks up on the language of 3 Nephi 13:17 where he indicated that he had not come to destroy the law, but rather to fulfill it. He now links that promise to not destroy the law to the concept that the old things have passed away.” This is not a destruction, but a transformation. As the one who gave the Law to Moses, Jesus understood the real import of the Law, and is able to make the Law even more effective for the purposes of the Father through the fulfillment of it. Specifically, Jesus notes that what he is fulfilling and transforming has to do with those things “which hath been spoken concerning things which are to come.” The Law of Moses had a future component in that living the Law was to affect the way the person would face his God at the end. That ultimate future of man before God does not change. Indeed, the Gospel of Christ enhances our ability to stand transformed or fulfilled in ourselves before God at that last day.