You've subtly twisted the meaning of this passage. It's not the "veil taken from Moses' face" that reveals a greater glory, it is the surpassing glory of the Ministry of the Spirit.. that Surpasses the fading glory of the ministry of death. So, out of the gate you've misrepresented the word.
Not at all, Paul is quoting OT.
Exo 34:29 Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony
were in Moses’ hand when he came down from the mountain),
that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him. 30 So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold,
the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. 31 Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses talked with them. 32 Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them as commandments all that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. 33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them,
he put a veil on his face. 34
But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he would take the veil off until he came out; and he would come out and speak to the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded. 35 And whenever the children of Israel
saw the face of Moses,
that the skin of Moses’ face shone, then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him.
Whose face is now in the New Covenant? Jesus. There is no veil on Jesus we can go directly to Him as He is our High Priest and Mediator of the New Covenant.
Heb 9:15 And for this reason
He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
1 Tim 2:For
there is one God, and
one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
I've heard this case over and over, yet it doesn't stand..
"We know that what the Law says, it says to those under the Law..." and yet:
"For when the Gentiles, which have Not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having Not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law Written In Their Hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;.."
Also, "It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts."
"It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God."
"Then all your sons will be taught by the LORD.."
"For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.."
It clearly isn't the old "tutor" teaching Believers.
You are not staying in the context of this passage. I can see why you want to move away from the context of the passage we were discussing because it doesn't say what you want it to.
But if you want to go here thats fine..
The phase "under the law" means under the condemnation of the law, the wages of sin is death, again obeying God and His Law is not what is bad, sadly the other spirit has done a good job of twisting this. Breaking God's law is sin 1 John 3:4 and under condemnation Rom 6:23
Rom 3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says
to those who are under the law, that
every mouth may be stopped,
and all the world may become [
a]guilty before God.
We are all under the condemnation of the law unless, we are keeping it through the power of the Holy Spirit John 14:15-18
1 John 3:24
Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us,
by the Spirit whom He has given us.
Rom 8:1 8
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,
who[a] do not walk according to the flesh, (sin) but according to the Spirit.
Sin is breaking God’s law 1 John 3:4 Rom 7:7 James 2:11-12
If we are not ministering through the Spirit and keeping God's law, than our master is someone other than God, sadly many don't even realize this. It’s the deceitfulness of sin Heb 3:13 that many have harden their heart to and won't allow God to define sin or His law which He does. What the Holy Spirit is calling us out of if we hear Him Heb 3:7-19
Rom 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
We don't need to "read" a letter that kills to know not to murder. You are conflating that which is clearly a dead ministry with a Living Ministry. Dead to sin, Alive to Christ.
According to Paul he needed the law to know what sin is. Are we really more wise than he was?
Rom 7:7 What shall we say then?
Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
The issue is people want to go based on what feels right to them, and depend on their own version of right and wrong (righteousness) instead of God's Psa 119:172 Isa 56:1-2. Our version is filthy rags and our heart deceitful Jer 17:9
James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24
for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25
But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
James 2:11
For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. 12
So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.
Rev 22:14 Blessed
are those who
do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.
