FROM ADAM TO MOSES
In Romans 5:12 to 14 we learn that Adam was a figure of Jesus Christ; and that death reigned from Adam to Moses; and that universal sin and death have resulted from Adam’s sin.
We also learn that “from Adam to Moses” there was no law. This is explained in Romans 5:20: “Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound.” The law that was “from Adam to Moses” was “the law of sin and death.” (John 1:17). Moses was on Mount Sinai receiving the ten commandments about 2500 years after Adam was driven from Eden under another law, “the law of sin and death.” The law (the ten commandments) was added, because of transgressions. (Galatians 3:19).
While it is true that, by Moses is the knowledge of sin (Romans 3:20) because sin is the transgression of the law (I John 3:4) and as Paul said, “I had not known lust except the law said, thou shalt not covet” (Romans 7:7), yet sin and death reigned from Adam to Moses, when there was no such law as was added at Sinai because of transgressions, (Galatians 3:19).
For 2500 years the descendants of Adam had neither the written revelation of God nor the law and religion given Israel at Sinai, but they had a law written in their hearts (conscience) (Romans 2:15) and they had the revelation of God in creation. (Romans 1:20).
So under “the law of sin and death” the human race was without excuse. (Romans 1:20).
If before God gave His program to Israel and without the Bible, the children of Adam were condemned (Romans 5:18) and without excuse, how about the condemned lost sinner of the twentieth century, nearly 2000 years since Christ came to earth and went back by the way of Calvary and sent the Holy Spirit and His apostles to give us the glorious gospel of grace and a complete written revelation and nineteen centuries of Christianity? We are surely without excuse and unbelievers are headed for an awful judgment as the result of the universal law of sin and death.
Note the spiritual state of Adam’s children: “ . . . who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.” Ephesians 2:1 to 3. Alienated from the life of God. (Ephesians 4:18).
The only hope of Adam’s children is Romans 8:2: “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” Romans 8:2.
Let us keep in mind that the Holy Spirit has very definitely marked in the Bible a period in the history of man, called, “From Adam to Moses”. (Romans 5:14).
That which God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai was later called the covenant made old, or “the Old Testament,” (Hebrews 8:7 to 13 - II Corinthians 3:7 to 17). “From Adam to Moses” covered a period of about 2500 years. During that period Adam lived and died, Abel, Seth, Noah, Shem, Eber, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Israel) and Israel’s twelve sons all lived and died. They all died before God added the “law” covenant at Sinai, later known as “the Old Testament”, so none of them were Old Testament characters. Moses was 80 years old when the “law” covenant was added.
Let us carefully compare Jeremiah 31:31 to 35 with Exodus 20 and learn just when Jehovah and Israel entered into the “law” covenant. That was 330 years after Abraham died, or 430 years after God made His “Promise” covenant with Abram. (Galatians 3:17 - Galatians 3:8 - Romans 4:7 to 12).
In Colossians 2:13 to 16 we learn what made the “law” covenant, “the old covenant.” There is not one line in the Book of Genesis concerning the “law” covenant (of Exodus 20) made “old” at Calvary. Therefore think of the great blunder Christians have been making for centuries calling the Book of Genesis part of the Old Testament. There was no Old Testament from Adam to Moses.
"God demonstrates His own love
toward us, in that
while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us." Romans 5:8.
Jesus Is JEHOVAH The
One True God
Posted By Cecil Spivey
cspivey1953@gmail.com
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