PAUL'S ALLEGORY

Galatians chapter 4










Today we are walking in: Paul's Allegory










Exodus 16:4



Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law H2706, or no.





LAW





Today we look to the word LAW-- H2706-choq-- statute, ordinance, limit, something prescribed, due, prescribed task, prescribed portion, action prescribed (for oneself), resolve, prescribed due, prescribed limit, boundary, enactment, decree, ordinance, specific decree, law in general, enactments, statutes, conditions, enactments, decrees, civil enactments prescribed by Yah










The Torah testifies...............



Genesis 26:5




Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. H8451





Exodus 16:28




And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? H8451





Exodus 24:12



And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law H2706, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.









The prophets proclaim..................



Ezekiel 22:26




Her priests have violated my law H2706, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.





Hosea 8:1




Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. H8451





Micah 4:2




And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law H8451 shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.










The writings bear witness............




2 Chronicles 33:8




Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law H2706 and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.




Psalm 78:5




For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law H8451 in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:





Proverbs 29:18




Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, H8451 happy is he.













Grand Rising Fiveamprayer family! Happy Day 2! How can 2 walk together unless they be in agreement! Out of the mouth of two or three witnesses let it be established! Lets get back to the continuation of Paul's Allegory!! As as continue from Day 1, All of the subsequent verses in Paul's allegory shows how the intended offspring falls far short, if it is not endangered ( brought forth) by the proper woman. We now continue with the next verse. I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice: for I stand in doubt of you. Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? ( Galatians 4: 20-21). Here we see Paul addressing those Galatians who understand neither the Old covenant nor the New. It is here that Paul begins to reveal both Covenants, as each being a husband having dominion over a wife. Paul is addressing those who consider it important to be under the constraints of the Law ( Torah) but who are not able to obey it. Now let us proceed with Paul's example. For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free woman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after ( according to) the flesh: but of the free woman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two Covenants: one from Mount Sinai, which gendereth to ( bring forth ) bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is Mount Sinai in Ababia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is physical or natural city) and is in bondage with her children. ( Galatians 4: 22-25). Up to this point in the narrative, Paul has pictured the Old Covenant as the bondwoman, as a woman who gives birth to that which is according to the flesh, in attempting to bring forth obedience by self-effort-- just as we see in Hagar, who brought forth Ishmael as a result of Abraham's unbelief. Here also, in verse 24 we see the Old Covenant is pictured as Mount Sinai, representing the stone tablets, and the self-effort to obey the Law, reminding us of the Israelites who failed to enter in, and who illustrate the children or offspring of that Old Covenant. As New Covenant Believers, we now understand that the Law ( Torah) is like a looking- glass or mirror. The mirror can show us the imperfections, but it lacks the power to cleanse. The Israelites in that day were under the constraint of the Law, but they lacked the heart, and more importantly, lacked the Grace and Faith necessary to obey the Law ( Torah). The offspring is further described in verse 25 as the Jerusalem that now is, which corresponds to its inhabitants referred to as the Circumcision elsewhere in the New Testament. These represent all those who would try to be justified by self-effort to keep or obey the works of the Law ( Torah), but has not crossed over Hebraically and justified by the Blood of YAHUSHA!! Now let us notice of the two different contrast of the two different offspring: But Jerusalem which is above ( the New Jerusalem) is free ( not in bondage) which is the mother of us all. For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she that has a husband. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. But as then he that was born after the flesh ( physical, natural descendants) persecuted him that was born after the RUACH ( RUACH descendants), even so it is now. Nevertheless what saith the Scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heirs with with the son of the freewoman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free!! ( Galatians 4:26-31). In these passages, we see the result of the Old Covenant which( in this Allegory) pictures self-effort, simply because there is the absence of the New Covenant Provisions. Redemption by Blood, Righteousness by Faith, And the RUACH living within, to supply Grace to empower and enable!!! Here we see also in verse 28 and 29, that there is no inheritance to those offspring engendered by the flesh, by self-effort, but only to children of the freewoman--the children of Promise, just as Issac was the child of Promise. Paul tell us ( Romans 4:14, Galatians 3:29) that it is not through our effort of being obedient to Law ( Torah), but only through YAHUSHA that we become heirs according to the Promise!! We must caution, that many years of tradition based on misunderstanding of Paul's writings still climb to us as baggage. Because of this tradition, we can miss many important truths of how the various parts of the Law ( Torah, Or Father's House Rules) are to be considered, and how they are to be obeyed by His Redeemed children. Through all your getting get an UNDERSTANDING!! ALL PRAISES TO THE MOST HIGH YAH!! HalleluYah GLOOOORRY