This is a long article and it comes from Triumph Prophetic Ministries,
Moses, was the one whom God used to lead the Israelites out of
Egyptian bondage. He was a type of Christ, who delivered us from sin. After crossing the Red Sea in awesome glory, the Israelites came to the Arabian desert, and the hot sweltering sun.
They began to murmur and complain, bellyache and grumble. It was not long before men openly
began complaining and plotting rebellion against Moses, and against God (Exo.16:2-8). They
were riled up, and in a flagrantly sinful attitude of mind!
What does God say? Notice!
"And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my
laws?" (verse 28).
Notice! This was weeks before they came to Mount Sinai! This was almost immediately
after they crossed the Red Sea! Yet, already, plainly, God's laws were in force -- and the
Israelites were found disobedient and rebellious.
Consequently, God did two things. He reiterated the basic spiritual Laws He had given
mankind -- the Ten Commandments, and statutes and judgments (Gen.26:5). Then He added an
entirely NEW Law -- a law involving the Levitical Priesthood, which He brought into service,
and laws concerning rituals, sacrifices, washings, and ordinances involving the Sanctuary or
Temple. This law was added because of DISOBEDIENCE to God�s spiritual Law � it was
added to TEACH them the habit of OBEDIENCE, and LESSONS regarding the enormity of sin,
and its forgiveness.
The entire body of Law was called "the Law of Moses," because God used Moses as His
mediator with Israel. The whole body or corpus of Law came through Moses. However, it was
divided into two distinct parts -- one consisting of statutes and civil laws for the community,
based on the Ten Commandments. The other was the ceremonial laws involving the Levitical
priesthood, sacrifices offerings, and rituals. Thus there were TWO LAWS given at Mount Sinai
-- the Ethical Law, or Moral Law, governing man's relationship with God and his neighbor -- and
the Sacrificial Law!
The sacrificial law consisted of ceremonial washings, various laws of offerings and
sacrifices, and carnal, physical ordinances enjoined upon the people and the Levitical Priesthood.
It was not a spiritual law. It could save no one.
Then why was it given to ancient Israel?
Let the apostle Paul give us the answer! [What purpose did the ritual law serve?] "It was
added because of transgressions, till the seed [Christ] should come to whom the promise was
made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator" (Galatians 3:19).
Did you catch that? The "law " that was added -- the Levitical Priesthood with all the
sacrifices and rituals -- was added -- why? "BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSIONS"!
For one law to be "added" becuase of "transgressions," then there had to be another Law
which was being transgressed, broken, by the Israelites! What Law?
Remember, God had said, "How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my
laws?" (Exodus 16.28). They had been breaking God's eternal spiritual law, the Ten
Commandments -- as well as all those Laws which are based on and derived from the Ten
Commandments!
Because Israel had been breaking God's Law, He added another special law -- the laws
involving the whole Levitical Priesthood, sacrifices and offerings! WHY? -- to teach them the
lesson of repentance and of obedience! To teach them to acknowledge their sins, He gave them
certain ceremonial washings, offerings, and commanded sacrifices, and carnal ordinances, as a
foreshadow of things to come. What things? The coming of the true sacrifice for our sins, Christ
Jesus Himself! And the Holy Spirit which cleans us up spiritually within. These duties,
sacrifices, washings, taught them their need for a coming Savior and Gods Holy Spirit.
As Paul tells us in Hebrews, this new law "stood only in meats and drinks [meal and
drink offerings], and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them UNTIL THE
TIME OF REFORMATION" (Hebrews 9:10). These rituals, ceremonies, and sacrifices were "a
FIGURE for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not
make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience" (Heb.9:9).
Paul also wrote of this sacrificial law, "For the law having a shadow of good things to
come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered
year by year make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not cease to be offered?
because that the worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. For in
those sacrifices there is a REMEMBRANCE again made of SINS every year" (Hebrews 10:1-3).
The sacrificial law did not atone for sin -- but it REMINDED THE PEOPLE of their sins,
and their need for proper, true atonement! With the coming of Christ,The true atonement!
I think overall your article was as close to being right as you will find in this day and age.
About 4 or 5 years ago, I was given a copy of A Purpose Driven Life.
I never finished it, but gave it to some brothers who were doing a study in it, but the very first words really impressed me. When you opened the book, you were confronted by these words.........
IT IS NOT ABOUT YOU!!!
Now please do not be offended, I was not directing anything at you or anyone in particular.
What I am trying to say is, if you think anything you do has anything to do with your salvation, you may need to spend some time on your knees with Jesus.
You went back to Moses, let's keep going to where this all started, the garden. Adam and Eve were placed there and told not to mess with that tree in the middle of the garden. Go ahead and eat (Partake) of all the others, but of the tree of the fruit of good and evil, do not partake. Is that right? Was that what God wanted to save us from? Doing evil? No! We were to not partake of the tree of the KNOWLEDGE of good and evil.
God wanted to save us from the knowledge of good and evil. We were never to know if we were doing wrong, that was not God's intent. I know, it almost sounds like blasphemy, but bear with me and you will see I am right.
Now, most of us have raised children. If your 6 month old gets his clothes off and goes #2 all over the kitchen table, would you beat him for it? Of course not, he didn't know any better. But if it was your 16 year old son, he wouldn't be leaving the house untill well after graduation. LOL. But that is as it should be, he knew better.
God was not ready for us to be accountable for our sins. He finally sent Jesus to bear our sins for us to relieve us of the law of sin and death.
So, if you want to talk about God's law, do it right. It did not start with Moses, it started with God, in the garden.
It must be understood that Adam did not break God's law, because there was no law, but God was holding Adam accountable for his transgression.
Adam disboeyed and broke the Adamic and Edenic covenant. There was no specific law Adam was to obey. In that, he disobayed God's instructions directives not to eat of the tree, there was no established law, only insturctions were disobedyed.
When Adam fail under the Edenic covenant this is what resulted in his expulsion from the graden, and the fall of the race of human race of being innocent of sin, and now born in sin. Because of Adam's sin of disobedience, Adam's conscience should have lead him to obey God's spoken word and instructions, which should be the case in your illustraton of the child and older son who should know better for consceious sake.
The purpose of the law was to bring conviction and prove and the guilt of sin. What God told Adam was not a law, but a directive/instruction, so we cant confuse this...
God gave Moses His laws which were written by Moses on paper in a book this is why they are called Mose's law, which were temparay and on paper. But when God gave Moses His Laws that were wrttten on stone, these were meant to be premanant, these last the Ten Commandments are forever and are to be observed.
The written laws of God started with Moses and the children of Israel. As Paul writes about in Romans chapter 3-8. Yes, sin started with Adam's disobedience, and this is when sin was in the world, BEFORE God's written law. But as it is written, Sin is not charged to man if there is no written law by which to judge however, man must take responsibility of their behavior according to God's insturctions/directives for consceoius sake. Where there is God's wrtten law, man will be judged according to the written law. Where there is no written law, man will be judge according to God's own righteousness and character.
Sin is not known unless there is a law, and the law reveals the power of sin. We are set free and obligated to now obey God's laws. And setfree from Moses' laws, the ceremonial, ritual laws, but not the Ten Commandment laws which establishes our sins, as Paul points out in Galations chapters 2-6.
The God's law wasn't given until Moses. How would one know they are in sin without the law. Hebrews chapters 1-10 also does wonderfully in explaining why the law of Moses are in no effect for the believer, as Christ amde the one for all sacrifice, and why the Mossaic sytem (Moses Laws) no longer works...
Great post Beefcake of Moses' law and explaining what it all means.:applause:
Sorry, about all the typos, and misspelled words... one day soon and very soon, my fingers will catch up with my thoughts:waving:
Been over two years now, and CDFF still hasn't made any changes in the forum's board. Its now 2010, and we're posting in 2004 time zone, no way to edit or make cahnges to our posts... aren't we in the 21 century time zone, c'mon CDFF get a move on ya! :ROFL:
I mostly agree with you. The point I was trying to make is, once we become aware of a law, knowledge of good and evil, we are expected to follow it. Just as Cain was scared he would be killed for his crime, they were not under thee law as their covenant as Moses was, but they had effectively placed themselves under it, just by their knowledge of it.
Paul tells us that if we walk in the spirit, we are no longer under the law. Why? Because we don't need a written law, we have the spirit to convict us.
Jesus changed the standard because we still did not get the purpose of the law. The law was to teach us to love, but of course we made it all about us. Look at me, I follow the law, I know every verse, etc. It is not about us.
Satan broke this law: Exo 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
This scripture is related to the vow of marriage. When a woman is married to a man she takes his name. (it has nothing to do with your vocabulary) God is telling his people that they are not to claim to be His and then behave as if they are not. Much like a woman takes a man's name in marriage and then would live as if she were not married to him at all. Satan broke this commandment because he was an angel of heaven and a servant of God. His position was one of great authority and honor among the angels but his behavior was that of one not given to his God. He thought he could be better than God but God is the Most High. Psa 47:2 For Jehovah Most High is awesome, a great King over all the earth.
About the fall of Satan:
Isa 14:12 -15 Oh shining star, son of the morning, how you have fallen from the heavens! You weakening the nations, you are cut down to the ground. For you have said In your heart, I will go up to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit in the mount of meeting, in the sides of the north. I will rise over the heights of the clouds; I will be compared to the Most High. Yet you shall go down to Sheol, to the sides of the Pit.
Rev 12:7-9 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Jesus speaking here: Luk 10:18 And He said to them, I saw Satan falling out of Heaven as lightning!
Cain followed the law of sin and death which was estabkished by his father Adam, and his mother Eve. Because he sinned just as his parents, Adam's sin, brought sin and death spirtually to all of us. God refused to allow anyone to kill Cain, only because He had not written the law which states Thou shall not kill... but Cain had to endure the punishment of his transgression of killing his brother.
Adam ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which means once he ate of this tree, the Edenic Covenant of innocence was broken, and they (as we) are no longer innocent of sin. In the beginning, they had no knowledge of sin in the garden. But the eating of the tree made them aware(conscience) of good and evil, it opened their eyes and they were aware they had done wrong, but were not aware of it as being sin until God pointed it out to them. And they died spiritually, because now we know, that the penalty of sin is death, whether its spiritually, physically, emotionally mentally, financially, and /or in some cases all the above.
This is why Adam hid himself from God, he knew (had knowledge ) that what he had done was wrong. Eating of the tree, Adam and Eve were no longer innocent, but there was no law by which God had given out that identified eating of the tree as sin, but as offense of disobedience. This brought forth our sinful nature, which Adam handed down to his children and to all of man kind. And God
Had Adam and Eve eaten of the tree of life, we would never die on earth, because this tree brought life. But since God knew the end of the beginning, He snet Jesus Christ to bring us this eternal life in spiritual body form. And His written word which is the Bible is now the tree of Knowdlege which shows us and makes us aware of good and evil.
Cain knew what he had done was evil whne he killed his brohter, but God stilll showed him grace and mercy, and judge him according to His own righteousness, because there was no law by which to judge him.
Cain's ppunishment was the curse God placed upon him for his sin, and he had to suffer the consequences, because he was guilty, but he denied his sin and refused to repent. But God still had to hold him responsible, just as he did Adam and Eve for their sin, but God did not ounish them according to their sins, becasue there was no law by which ot base.
As Paul write the law is holy and spiritual, the law is the Spirit of the living God and His character, and convict our hearts of our sins, just as the Holy Sprit does.
I must disagree with you in your statement that its not about us. The laws of God(Ten Commandments) are all about us in that, its for our good and was written not for God's good or because He had nothing better to do. But the law was written to lead us to Christ and repentance of our sins. This is why God provided for us the New Covenant through Jesus Christ, He changed the old Mossaic law, to the new Jesus Christ law of grace, because as the writer in Hebrews writes, Jesus was a better sacrifice who fulfill the ceremonial, and ritual laws of Moses because the Jews nor can we fulfill them, so God sent His Son.
James tells us if we fulfill the royal law (Ten Commandments) we do well, which can only be done through the power of the Holy Spirit of God.
Mark, I think you ask the question, what law did satan break? Well, satan broke the law of God's kingdom which demanded humility. satan fell because of his pride, becuse he wanted to take over God'S kingdom just as he is trying to do today. He is forever trying to defeat everything and anyone associated with God's divne plans of slavation and grace.
But PRAISE GOD JESUS CHRIST DEFEATED HIM ON THE CROSS, AND WHEN CHRIST RETURNS TO SET UP HIS EARTHLY KINGDOM, SATAN WILL BE DEFEATED ONCE AGAIN FOR THE LAST TIME.
LOL. I should have known better than to think I could give the short version with you around. I will post the long version later, and yes, I agree with what you have written. Good job, by the way. I would have worded part of it differently, but that is just me.
LOL... there's no need to stand corrected. My intend was not to correct you, I was only sharing what I gathered from the scriptures. Sometimes as we grow older (or should I say more mature..lol) we tend to forget those thing that we know that we know, and short cut what we have to say. I know you know these things, and since I'm more long winded than you, I just took it to the next level for the sake of the discussion...:yay:
Nice one thunder....it's nice to hear someone with the same view about the 3rd commandment:rocknroll:....it's a lot deeper than cuss words....has to do with our witness to the world.
