This posting deals with Israel’s relationship with the two Laws of God: The eternal, moral Ten Commandment Law as voiced and recorded in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5, and “the law that was added because of transgressions” (refusal to keep the Ten Commandments–sin) as noted in Galatians 3:19. The honest God-seeker will believe what Moses wrote in Deuteronomy 5:22. Moses, who was present with God on Mt. Sinai when He spoke His moral Law and wrote it in stone, said that at that time the Lord “added no more” to it. However, the Truth-seeker will notice that in Galatians 3 we find the Apostle Paul writing about “the law that was added.” This is a blatant contradiction, nay-sayers declare. But note that the added sacrificial, ritual law stood alone–it was not added to the Ten Commandments. Therefore when the “handwriting of ordinances” was “nailed to the cross” at the time of Jesus’ death, His moral Law was not affected. This fact is brought out by Paul’s description of the Ten Commandment Law as “holy, just and good” (Rom. 7:12), a Truth that has been rejected by the Institutional Church for some 1700 years. See God’s Royal Law. Without this knowledge man has no God-given restraints on his behavior, which allows him to formulate his own concepts of right and wrong. This is the power Adam and Eve sought and took to themselves when they obeyed Satan in the Garden of Eden. Religious man, including ancient Israel and the church, has been walking in their spiritual footsteps ever since. Satan has so deceived the world (Rev. 12:9) that its peoples, including the church, believe him to this day, even though God repeatedly warns against his religious doctrines throughout the Scriptures. Over time Satan’s religious doctrines became “God’s truth” within ancient Israel. Due to profound ignorance of church people who have a long history of choosing Satan’s word over God’s Word, the devil’s truths reign supreme within professing Christendom.

In Galatians 3:19 we are told by Paul, who received spiritual Truth directly by revelation from Jesus Christ Himself (Gal. 1:12), that the sacrificial law was given to Israel in order to keep their eyes on Him (Jesus–see the God of the Old Testament) until He returned to offer Himself as the final and perfect blood sacrifice. We must understand that the sacrificial law was laid upon Israel as a curse for disobedience. This is brought out in Galatians 3:13 and 4:4,5 where we are told that Jesus came to free Israel “from the curse of the law” and to “redeem them that were under the (added) law.”

It is vitally important that the reader understand and believe what God has to say about the two laws, that they are in no way connected to each other, and that only one was done away with during the Last Supper and nailed to the cross later that day, which began at sundown. For hundreds of years Satan has deceived the church into believing that the two laws were one in the same, that when one was done away with, both were declared null and void. Satan’s church, having done away with God’s standard of morality, lives in sin by breaking His Law. Being blinded by Satan, her parishioners (myself included in the past) walk in sin, oblivious to 1 John 3:4 which states: “To transgress (break) the Law is sin, for sin is the transgression of the Law.” God said that “Where there is no Law, there is no transgression” (Rom. 4:15). By doing away with the Law, religious man did away with sin, thereby empowering himself to create his own sin, then measure himself against his own rules of good and evil. The first instance of this heresy took place in the Garden of Eden. Currently we find it being displayed within the world’s heathen religions, Catholicism/Protestantism being the most popular example . L.J.

Israel part 5