stuart lawrence
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Yep, under the old covenant an official law of righteousness was in place.Let's read it in context, shall we?
Isaiah 28
14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scornful men, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
15 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”
16 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; whoever believes will not act hastily.
17 Also I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plummet; the hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
And the waters will overflow the hiding place.
18 Your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand;
This is not a covenant with God! Scornful men made this covenant with death and Sheol. These men are liars who have hidden themselves from the overflowing scourge when it passes through.
Notice God says YOUR COVENANT WITH DEATH will be annulled, YOUR agreement WITH Sheol will not stand. This DOES NOT SAY a covenant OF death, and God does not say MY covenant!
If you say the old covenant is a covenant of death, then you have to say it is an agreement with Sheol also.
Do you know what a covenant is and its conditions and requirements?
The problem is you see, to be TRULY righteous before God under the law requires perfect obedience of it ( gal3::10&11, james2:10, rom4:14&15)
Many who go to church believe there is in effect a pass mark of obedience to make you righteous before God under the law, but they cannot tell you what that pass mark is
Pure folly such thinking of course, but so many, in reality want to earn their way to heaven by their own personal goodness
And as you know, according to Jesus, when he spoke to Nicodemus. No one but he had ever entered heaven( john3:13)
So of course the old covenant was an agreement with sheol, where do you think those went who died under that covenant went when they left this earth?
But the covenant of death was shortly to be annulled you see, or we can say made obselete
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