The contrast between the two laws is stark. The obvious symbology in the entire process was also clear and evident.
Hi brakelite,
If the separation between the Law and the law, if you will, depends on one "just being able to see it", then where is the authority?
When I find symbols in Scripture, if symbols these be, I look for Scripture to define those symbols. Otherwise, I can pick anything and say, This is a symbol! But actually it is not. That is, unless Scripture tells me so.
Gal. 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Now of course everything Paul wrote above is true and correct. But then elsewhere he wrote:
Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law....and
7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Is he really speaking of the same law...the same whole entire Torah? One a curse, the other holy just and good? One that cannot justify, and one that we establish through faith?
The Law is not a curse, the Law is good if one uses it lawfully. But the Law curses you for not keeping it. We don't keep it, no one does, so all are condemned by it. We are under it's curse, though the Law itself is not a curse.
The Law is not of faith, but the Just shall live by Faith.
Much love!
Mark