Page 12 - Laying Down the Law

must be brought down for the paradisaical city to rise.

The Explanation

The great man of vision is God. He has developed a master plan of immense
glory. He will transform the barren and lifeless heart of man into a garden of glory
and abundant life. Yahweh appoints a time for a Son to arise who will fulfill His
vision. The time is yet far off when the plan is established. The heart of man must be
safeguarded until the work is to be accomplished. The Law is therefore given, and a
people assigned as ministers of the Law, until the time of reformation, when the
heart of man will be re-formed.
If the ministers of the Law ever perceived the true plan of Yahweh for
transforming barren souls into oases of life and beauty, they have lost the
understanding. The Law has become all important to them. Indeed, it is a thing they
have come to worship. When the time arrived for the Son to accomplish the vision of
the Father, the guardians of the Law resisted Him. In their actions they revealed that
they cared more for their position than for the vision of the God who had chosen them
as ministers.
People of God, because spiritual vision is at ebb tide in this late hour, there are
few who perceive the greater scope of the Father’s plan. It is not taught in the
churches of this hour. Consequently, Christians today, like the Jews before them, do
not perceive that the Law was given for a specific time and purpose. Its divine role
was only one part of a larger plan. The Law was truly divinely inspired; its function
very important, but it must give way to greater things.

The Limits of the Law

It is revealed through numerous Scriptures that the Law has a role of limited
duration. It was not intended to hold sway over man forever. Those who look too
narrowly at God’s work are hindered from perceiving the end of the Law. They are
unable to perceive it in the larger scope of Yahweh’s master plan. Many Christians are
returning to an observance of feast days, new moons, sabbath days, and dietary
regulations. They are seeking to become more “Jewish,” believing that this constitutes
a return to authentic Christianity. Concomitant with adopting Jewish culture is a
return to the rule of the Law. This does not lead to authentic Christianity, but rather
away from Christ.

Galatians 5:4
You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law;
you have fallen from grace.

The following Scriptures proclaim the Law’s limited duration.