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And the brothers and sisters in the Church in Galatia to whom he addressed the letter. And by extension, all the Christians who read and believe the Bible is God’s Word today.
You can suggest that I assume too much all you want. I am just reading what the Scripture says. The Old Covenant was a schoolmaster/guardian, and that guardian is no longer relevant to any Christian today. We do not need a guardian, because we have access directly to the Father.
I have seen no evidence in Scripture to support such a thing.
No, read it again. Jerusalem from above is Christ, figuratively the child of Sarah. Hagar is Mt. Sinai and the covenant that came from it.
It says clearly in the text that the Old Covenant is Hagar, the slave mother of slaves. The new Covenant in Christ is Sarah, the free mother of freemen.
Galatians 4:22-23 KJV
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
One born of the flesh: the other through the promise. The one born of the flesh is Yishmael. The one born through the promise is obviously Yitzhak.
Galatians 4:24 KJV
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
This concerns an allegory of the two covenants. The one from mount Sinai, which is "of below" engenders bondage because all who see and hear the Torah according to the natural eyes and mind of the flesh put themselves into bondage trying to keep the Torah according to the flesh. This is represented in the allegory by Hagar, an Egyptian, and as the scripture speaks about in many places concerning the allegory, Egypt represents the flesh.
Galatians 4:25 KJV
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
Hagar being likened to mount Sinai in Arabia answers to Yerushalem "which now is", meaning that this concerns Yerushalem "of below", the natural physical city of below. At the time, what Paul says here was true: Yerushalem of below was in bondage with her children, for her "children" misunderstood the Torah because they understood everything according the natural mind of the natural man, seeing all things according to the natural eyes and mind of the carnal minded man.
Galatians 4:26 KJV
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Yerushalem of above is free, and is the mother of all those who understand the very same Torah and Word of Elohim according to the Spirit, and especially in this time in which Paul writes this, those who understood the Torah according to the Testimony of the Messiah who had come by the time Paul writes this.
Sarah is Yerushalem of above in this allegory.
Galatians 4:27 KJV
27 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 which hath an husband.
Fully explained by reading the background context, as already posted previously: Yerushalem above is likened to the Mishkan-Tabernacle of the Torah. This means that, just as the Master says to Nikodemos, Amen, amen, you are required to go back into the womb of your mother and relearn everything because your entire physical minded understanding of the Torah is no different from the first century Pharisees: the only real difference is that you reject it instead of trying to walk in it.
Galatians 4:28 KJV
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
Children of the promise walk in the Word of Elohim according to the Spirit and the Testimony of the Messiah in the Gospel accounts. They do not claim that the Word of Elohim is cancelled or abolished: those are the children of Hagar because they are not capable of understanding the Torah, and are repulsed by it because they only walk according to the eyes and mind of the natural man who sees all things according to the flesh.
Galatians 4:28 KJV
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
And that is the thrust of the argument: the Flesh vs the Spirit, as always, and the natural minded man cannot please Elohim just as Paul likewise says.
Sarah -vs- Hagar (Egypt, great of flesh, Eze 16:26)
Horeb (of above) -vs- Sinai (of below)
Yerushalem (of above) -vs- Yerushalem (of below)
Yitzhak -vs- Yishmael
The Spirit -vs- the Flesh
And the fleshwalkers are always persecuting those born of the Spirit.
Exodus 33:4-6
4 And when the people heard this bad word, they mourned, and no one put his headgear upon him:
5 for YHWH had said to Mosheh, Say unto bnei Yisrael, You are a stiff-necked people: I will come up into the midst of you in the wink of an eye and consume you! therefore now put off your headgear from you, and I will show you what I will do with you.
6 And bnei Yisrael plucked off their headgear from mount Horeb.
Their headgear was literally on mount Horeb, and that's a strictly literal reading of the text which you will not find in your favorite translation because the natural minded modern scribe can neither see nor accept such things. The mountain of Elohim, mount Horeb, is of above and of the mind: and the Torah is spiritual, supernal, internal, and of the heart and mind. You can claim it is cancelled all you want but your righteousness will never exceed that of the Pharisees and Scribes because you view the Torah the same way they did and do: according to the flesh, the natural, and the physical.
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