Fell, falling, failing

If the best expression of divine grace is the ten commandments you are kissing off Yeshua. If the best expression of the kingdom of God law, statutements and judgments you have read Genesis with a hard and impenitent heart, and you destiny is tied up with angels, beings, who like prophets, principalities and powers, are known to foment rebellion. We are sure that Moses and Yeshua are not equals, and since one brought the instrument of condemnation and the other brought humanity grace andf truth. As much as I, or any sane human being, would want to identify with the people who do God’s will, passing myself off as compliant with certain parts of the law is evough false pride to fill all the oceans of planet earth. The poster boy for law and order is the kingdom of Judah, the late Roman province of Judea, and there is no evidence that all the study and debating that attends the Torah and the Mishnah is capable of producing a caring and exemplary nation. The fall from faith in Christ to wallow in Israelite idolatry is so tragic, complete and incredible that Paul asked the Galatians “Who bewitched you?”

Light is love, law was litigous

Three verbs in the perfect aspect inform us of Judah’s plight: rejected, kept, and walked. The direct relationship between Judah’s lies and her straying is established by the hiphil stem of lead astray. The grand annual day of atonement tells us about the ritual and ineffectiveness of the tabernacle service. Its terms also tell us that rebellion and offences contributed to the people’s uncleanness.

Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked. Amos 2:4

Thus he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleannesses of the people of Israel and because of their transgressions, all their sins. And so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses. Leviticus 16:16

Despite all the atoning sacrifices, all the executions of sinners, all the quarantining of unclean persons, and all the pledges to comply with the covenant the later prophets agree that the disease was incurable.

God brought Judah back from captivity, during which the people did not learn the lessons nor change their ways.

12) For thus saith the Lord, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous. 13) There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines. (Jeremiah 30:12-13, KJVA)

And after all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. (2 Chronicles 21:18, KJVA)