The Covenant of Works and its republication as the Mosaic Covenant on Sinai, simply clearing up the confusion

The Covenant of Works and its republication as the Mosaic Covenant on Sinai...

This subject is made much too complicated by people who don't yet grasp the subject matter.

Jesus came to fulfill what Adam in the Garden failed to fulfill.

So there is a correlation between the command God gave to Adam in the Garden and the law Jesus was *born under*, the law given on Sinai. The law given on Sinai was the law God gave to Adam in the Garden, only it was republished on Sinai in obviously elaborated form.

People who write: "People who say the law given on Sinai (the Mosaic Covenant) is the Covenant of Works from the Garden republished are Pharisees who think their own works can save them, and I'll stand to my dying day and confront them by God!!!" are people who don't yet have understanding of the doctrinal matter and are being fervently silly.

Here is how to see it...

National Israel is a *unique player* in God's plan of redemption. (First misunderstanding that has to be cleared up: this doesn't mean individual Israelites were saved in any other way than having faith in the *coming* Messiah, just as we are saved by having faith in the already come Messiah. No, individual Israelites were saved by faith alone in Christ alone by grace alone just as we are. For them it was looking forward, for us it is looking back.)

So, national Israel is a unique player in God's plan of redemption. As unique as pre-fall Adam and as unique as Jesus Christ Himself. How is national Israel unique in God's plan of redemption? National Israel was unique in three ways:

1. National Israel was a type for the coming Messiah, Jesus Christ.

2. National Israel was the very *substance* of the written word of God. Their very history - actual lived history - is what communicates God's revelation to us in His word.

3. National Israel had responsibilities put on it by God namely to keep the Royal bloodline pure from Adam to Jesus Christ; to keep separate from all the filthy and violent idol worshiping nations they were surrounded by; and to keep together as a national, political, family unity.

These three aspects that make national Israel unique in God's plan of redemption *give them a unique relationship to the law.* A relationship that we as fallen human beings and who are not national Israel do not have. (National Israel becoming defunct after the resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ.)

So, the law given on Sinai to Moses (the Mosaic Covenant) was a republication, in elaborated form, of the Covenant of Works in the Garden, and it's relationship to *us* (fallen man) is different from its relationship to national Israel.

To us the law is still a curse. After the fall there was no salvation by works possible. Original sin alone shuts that door, not that fallen man could live perfectly from birth without original sin because sin - and active sinning - is of the nature of fallen man.

Having said the above, it is *important* to realize that there is *one* way to be saved: *works.* Yes. Works. Either our own (good luck with that), or Jesus Christ's (His fulfilling of all the law), appropriated by faith in Him. The latter route to salvation is the Covenant of Grace. It only requires faith alone, in Christ alone, by grace alone. Though the internal *revolution* that happens in a fallen human being who comes to faith is much bigger and real than the mere words 'faith alone' suggest, which is why faith alone is 'foolishness' to unregenerate, fallen man.

So, in effect, the law given on Sinai, the republished Covenant of Works, is 'works' for Jesus, and 'grace' for us. Jesus had to fulfill it. And only He *could* fulfill it. Of all born to woman after the Fall only Jesus was born without original sin. And only Jesus - the God-man - could live a perfectly sinless life. I.e. only Jesus could fulfill the law for salvation. He then, of course, also voluntarily died on the cross to pay the penalty of death for all the elect (the penalty Adam incurred by not fulfilling the law was death for himself and all under his federal headship, which is all humanity after the Fall). Jesus could stand in for all the elect and die for them *because* Jesus is the *federal head* of all the elect, just as Adam is the federal head of all humanity until an individual is regenerated by the word and the Spirit and comes under the federal head of King Jesus Christ.

This is why the Bible calls Jesus the second Adam. He fulfilled what the first Adam failed to fulfill. The two Adams are the spine of Federal Theology.

So that's what the law given on Sinai (the Mosaic Covenant which is the Covenant of Works republished) is to us.

What that law is to national Israel is, as mentioned above, different. Again, it's not different regarding individual salvation of Israelites. They were saved by faith in the coming Messiah just as we are saved by faith in the already come Messiah. But it was different in the other ways having to do with the unique aspects of national Israel as a unique player in God's plan of redemption (the three numbered aspects above).

As a type for the coming Messiah national Israel had a works relationship to the law, just as the future incarnated Messiah, Jesus Christ, did. Because national Israel is merely a type for the coming Messiah that works relationship to the law is not a direct parallel to Jesus' relationship to it. Because salvation was not possible for individual Israelites through law-keeping their typical relationship to the law took on other meaning. Staying in the land, for instance. This for some reason confuses people endlessly. Follow my law, God says, and stay in the Promised Land. Cease to follow my law and get kicked out of the Promised Land. Because salvation is not at stake this becomes similar to the experience of the Israelites wandering in the desert for 40 years. They waxed and waned on following God's law too, and they were punished and rewarded for it as well. In the very same manner, really. So it shouldn't be confusing to see the same thing regarding national Israel in the Promised Land.

As the substance of the word of God (their history communicated God's revelation in His revealed word) national Israel became an example to all of how the law doesn't save because fallen man can't fulfill the law perfectly. All of national Israel's history is an object lesson to fallen man via the revealed word of God regarding the need for grace. But national Israel *had* to have some kind of - some degree of - binding relationship to that law to make it an effective object lesson.

Finally, national Israel carried within its collective womb, so to speak, the future incarnate Messiah. For this reason the laws given on Sinai, the judicial laws, the moral laws, the ceremonial laws, played a real role in national Israel bringing this about. The ceremonial laws pointed to the coming Messiah which is how individual Israelites could have faith in the coming Messiah. To just know about the coming Messiah they needed the ceremonial laws as types pointing to Him and His work of salvation. They may have also had other direct special revelation in their day. Prophets, etc. They also needed the harsh judicial laws to keep themselves together, and to keep their bloodline pure - at least in the Royal line from Adam to Christ - while being surrounded by idol worshiping nations that were continually tempting them. The moral laws - the Ten Commandments - were the same for them as they are for us. They are for all generations.

Also, the issue of memory and how in just one generation all that God taught them could be lost (this is really the Devil's biggest advantage in this world) required God to give them the law as He did after the fall and to have them write it down and teach it continually to each generation.

For all the above reasons this is why it is said the Covenant of Works in the Garden was republished on Sinai (the Mosaic Covenant).

This doctrine must be held to because it is biblical and because it is part and parcel of 'seeing' the Covenant of Works to begin with. False teachers mainly want to keep people in bondage to the Beast system of works righteousness (of one stripe or another), and false teachers always have to attack justification by faith alone and eventually attack the very existence of the Covenant of Works in the Garden (that is confusing to people who are beginners in doctrinal matters). So, ironically, people who are yet naive to these issues attack republication thinking they are *defending* justification by faith alone when they are naively *doing the opposite* and falling into the very hands of the false teachers who hate the biblical fact of justification by faith alone.

I know that is confusing to them (the false teachers grin at how easy it is to fool and confuse, but God's elect won't be fooled, not for long anyway, and none of them are lost, and the Devil and his children can only play for time, i.e. the false teachers can annoy God's plan, but they can't defeat God's plan), but if you can understand all that is written in this post then you can understand this last point.

They want you to feel shame that you hold to the Received Text

A mark of regeneration is a high valuation for the word of God. Not the word of man, the word of God. Not what a priesthood of scholars - most of them self-professed atheists at that - determine the word of God to be, but the actual word of God.

When you are in an environment where showing preference for the Received Text and the Authorized - King James - Version makes you suspect you are going to be banned (or scolded, or mocked) then you are in an environment where the unregenerate are exercising power and authority and it is no place for a follower of Christ to be.

Fearing God alone means not fearing man; and part of not fearing man is not being in environments where man demands fear from you. The word of God is the foundation of the faith because it is, with the Spirit, what regenerates when regeneration happens. This is why the Roman Catholic Church called people to be baptized and attend their Mass all day and all night but kept the word of God away from people at penalty of torture and death. The Devil knows what regenerates, and it's not ritual or church buildings or clerics, it is the living word of God. This same Satanic spirit is at work in Protestant environments when you see anger and mocking towards the Received Text. They are no different than the Beast clerics of the Romanist domain. They hate the word of God that has the authority of God in it - rather than the authority of scholars - and that regenerates. They hate it like Cain hated Abel and like the Devil hates Jesus Christ and His elect.

Disgusting

Some Christian forums on the internet are perfect little microcosms of 'church' in the world today, and of how churchians behave in 'churches.'

The PuritanBoard is about as disgusting a display of modern day churchians you can find.

You would think they'd show some shame and humility regarding all the people who have left their little stench-filled 'church' forum. But no. They have the hatred Cain had for Abel regarding Christians and the word of God.

A new person comes on and writes a little one-line post displaying that he values the King James Version, then one of their shallow little 'pastors' calls him, bluntly, "weird." In the real world this piece of filth 'pastor' would get a real world lesson in how to behave in the world of men, but in a 'church' forum (or physical churchian 'church') these little creeps know they have protection from their father the devil. They know they can *tempt* Christians to harm them knowing it will harm the Christians in doing so.

I hate these people. I hate anybody who self-identifies as a Christian and acts in the way these churchians act. I actually hate them. I want to judge them personally at the final judgment. I want to escort their filthy souls down to hell, drop them off, no words, no gestures, just leave their wicked souls in darkness with no trace of their wicked, filthy existence to remain in the memory of God's elect.

When you mock and attack the Received Text the world *loves* you.

When you defend the Received Text the world *hates* you.

May the rest of your weak, shallow, obsequious members see the light and find the strength to leave your wicked, man-fearing, stench-filled environment, PuritanBoard.

Message in a bottle to the atheists of the future (current atheists seem to be already digested food for the devil)

Only God can make you a Christian; but your brain (your reason) can make you not be an atheist.

Brokenness

I was listening to a James White internet podcast, and in an aside he mentioned that at an event some guys came up to him after he finished talking and told him he didn't seem to demonstrate 'brokenness.'

Pretty direct to say that to someone, but that aside, it is something I harp on regarding him and others like him, but I've never used that evocative word 'brokenness.' I usually use shallow, asleep, giggly, ha... (Here's how you'll know when James White begins to experience some true brokenness of spirit: he'll accept the Received Text. He'll recognize the word of God as something that is above him, and as something that he needs more than it needs him.)

Once I kept seeing a woman asking for money at a certain street corner, so one day I parked and walked up to her to give her ten dollars (she had a lot of people giving her money). She had a graceful, slim body, and shocked me when I saw her up close as having no teeth (probably meth). But in the quick exchange of money and words I got the quick impression that she was just as vain and shallow as any woman her age. Her condition, her state, hadn't 'broken' her in the way that the Bible speaks of. Psa 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Maybe she was putting up a front, but that too is exposing the lack of development that a truly broken spirit evinces.

It's a good word to use to describe that difficult-to-describe boundary between the shallow, vain world and separation unto the Kingdom of God.

This is psychotic

Look at this letter from a pastor, C. J. Mahaney, who is stepping down (kind of like an actress steps down from movie-making to get 'treatment' after being caught stealing multi-thousand dollar trinkets).

Why is it psychotic? Look at the language. "Friends" he keeps repeating. That's a euphemism for "useful idiots."

If he were normal and had just a degree of real understanding (something God expects from those who teach in His name) he'd just say, "Hey, I'm a little decoy of a human being, got too big for my breeches, spewed a lot of Napoleonic-level indulging of power onto my subordinates, basically carried myself like a typical churchian with no self-awareness or seriousness about this whole faith thing that we're all suppose to be involved in here. I.e. I have as much development of being as the average doofus on the street, only I figured out how to get big in the church game. Now my behavior has all caught up with me, reached a tipping point, and the situation here is untenable. So I now have to say I'm stepping down to get treatment, because that is what all the zombies do in my general predicament. (Have they found out about the adultery...? No..?) And, no, I havn't done anything immoral. (Did the books reveal anything...? Not yet...?) Or financial."

C. J., slap your music director a few times for old time's sake, walk out the door, and actually get some balanced development. Some real maturity. Some real self-awareness and understanding. Become an actual man of God. Have something to impart. Then be a teacher of Christians. Hint: at this point you're probably not going to get this kind of development in this life, so for now just go into insurance or something. Oh, that would be hard on your vanity and worldly pride and self-will?

Yeah.

Coda on the sin isn't cool posts...

Coda on the public masturbation posts (not really posts about public masturbation, but using that subject to make Christians uncomfortable and to see how they are not cool and sin is not cool in God's eyes).

Coda is a musical term, for those who don't know it, look it up!

In my current 7th complete reading of the word of God I mentioned going through Leviticus and seeing the two leprosy chapters as being about sin. It's now occurred to me that there are similar parallel chapters about: bodily issues. I.e. fluids that issue out of human bodies.

See, the Holy Spirit in Leviticus is trying to communicate to you that sin is not cool. What's less cool than bodily issues? Not much. Maybe suspenders and shorts.

How about bodily issues in public? Yes? *That* is *really* uncool. Unless it's blood, maybe, which arguably can be cool, in some cases. So let's leave blood out of this. Oh, wait a minute, I was thinking of the guy who's just been in a fight, but I forgot the very charming prospect of public menstrual blood issue. Remember the movie Carrie? Definitely not cool.

So, hardly anything less cool than public bodily issue. And the Bible uses this example for sin. The *Bible* does it. We pass right over it.

The Bible is saying: odious skin infections, bodily issues...this is *you* after the fall of Adam. Yes!

Sin is *not cool.*

If you still have a cool or positive self-image, my fellow, fallen pilgrims, it hasn't even begun for you.

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Your father the Devil says you're cool

Let me spell it out clearer...

You see, churchians unconsciously divide sin and sinner into 'cool sin' and 'cool sinners' vs. 'uncool sin' and 'uncool sinners.' In all their ignorance of themselves, of God, of God's word, of sin, this is how churchians view it.

In other words, to the churchian adultery is cool sin. Public masturbation is uncool sin.

The point being made that they will never in their churchian lives grasp is: ALL SIN IS UNCOOL TO GOD. Again, *all* sin is public masturbation *uncool.*

Churchians will a) never see that because they compare themselves to other humans and the world rather than to God, and b) will never accept that because to accept it they have to see themselves, and that is painful. Yet if you havn't begun to truly see yourselves...if you still have a good or 'cool' self-image...the faith, Christianity, however you put it, hasn't even begun for you.

[Guaranteed some iMonk type (oh, God rest his soul) is going to write on some blog I appear on: "Aren't you the one who was writing about public masturbation on your blog?" And the owner of the blog will delete my comments and ban me. Then the churchians will grin and unconsciously think: "You can't get away with trying to awaken us. You're going against what our father the Devil wants."]

Real understanding of the faith is understanding borne of spiritual warfare

Real understanding of the faith is understanding borne of spiritual warfare.

Notice there is no 'church' in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress? Christian in that narrative is active. He is on the Way. Spiritual warfare is the environment he exists in.

Perhaps the closest depiction of 'church' in that work is the fools sitting before the Gates of Heaven, docile, obsequious, and afraid in the presence of the *man* at the table concerned with deciding their fate. That is 'church.' Then what happens? A knight in black armor arrives, shocking the little obsequious churchians, and not paying attention to the *man* at the table (being a knight of Christ who *fears God only*) he proceeds to assault the guards in front of the gate with his Sword, and to overpower them, and to enter the Gates of Heaven *by force*, accompanied by the *cheering* of the residents of heaven as he enters.

The churchians are left embarrassed and angry and no doubt apologizing to the *man* at the table for the *incorrect* behavior of the knight.

Bunyan had your measure, churchianity.

Bunyan knew spiritual warfare. His understanding of the faith was borne of spiritual warfare. He had real understanding.

In the three-front war of spiritual warfare - the battle against the world, the flesh, and the devil - you churchians represent the world, and also the devil as you have the devil's spirit up to your gills.

Special knowledge

One man's 'un-Christian special knowledge' is for another man the presence of the Holy Spirit in his being.

The mocker of special knowledge doesn't really care if the knowledge is on-the-mark or not, or if it can withstand the tribunal of Scripture; the mocker of special knowledge really is a mocker of the Holy Spirit Himself, and a mocker of any notion that individuals can have the Holy Spirit in their being.

To a Christian on the spiritual battlefield the mocker isn't even a distant voice in the darkness. The mockers of the end times accost Christians when Christians are not out on the Way. They don't even get close enough to the Way to be able to heckle and mock from the sidelines.

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth and Discernment. Joh 14:26 "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." Gill: "he shall teach you all things: this is the proper work and business of the Spirit, to teach, interpret, and explain all things which Christ had said to them; to make them more plain and easy to their understandings..."

How does the Spirit teach? The mocker will say: "So, like, is God talking to you? Really? Does he, like, speak English and everything so you can understand?" The mocker - who self-identifies as Christian - is a practical atheist. As shallow as an atheist, as angry as an atheist.

So how does the Spirit teach? If you've been taught by the Spirit, you know. And it's not a simple one sentence response. The Spirit leads and guides. The Spirit inspires. The Spirit gives discernment for things that are of a higher nature. Influences that are rare. The Spirit teaches in many ways, in all stages and through all activities of the learning process. General Revelation included, by the way. It's like regeneration though. You can't defend it in a court of law to people who haven't experienced it. Abel could no more explain regeneration to Cain than Jesus could impart the value of God's word to Satan. You only receive hatred or practiced dissimulation from the other side.

Some mockers stop short of actual mocking and do the 'I have grave concerns' approach. Yes, anything that wakes Christians up establishment Christianity will have 'grave concerns' about, if not outright mockery.

The 'respectable Christian' who has 'grave concerns' and mockery for special knowledge is really on the same team as the shivering speakers in tongues and the snake handlers, because they both mock the Holy Spirit. They both need each other.

No, it hasn't even begun for you

The point is, you've got to see that you are odious in the sight of God.

Sin = cool in the minds of fallen human beings.

No. Sin is odious. I.e. you are odious.

"Well here's my sin, I give too much money away to people."

"My sin is I ride my motorcycle too much and don't spend enough time with my wife. I look cool on my motorcycle."

"I've been a sinner all my life. It's gotten me a lot of girls, but I know it's wrong, and I need to change my ways."

People don't know what sin is.

Again, if you are a Christian and you still have a good or cool image of yourself...it hasn't even begun for you. You're still dead asleep in the Kingdom of Satan.

You need to somehow see the reality which is that you are purely odious to God.

You're not bad boy cool. You are public masturbator uncool. Your original and active sin makes you uncool. Not cool. As uncool as the music teacher caught by the janitor masturbating in the stairwell. Yes. That guy. That is you in God's eyes. And the janitor goes to the administration and the music teacher ends up in a mug shot in the local newspaper. Ah oh. There's goes the positive self-image. Unless the music teacher descends into total self-deception fantasy land.

What does the music teacher have to face up to? The fact that he's a sinner. And that sin is odious. Not cool. Odious. Sin may not be odious to your fellow human beings ("Hey, he was having sex with that attractive married woman. Oh, yes, it's wrong, but, hey, he's a stud I guess!"), but it is public masturbation level odious in God's eyes.

I actually give up. These two posts were inspired by listening to two rather shallow and self-satisfied internet-famous pastor types; smug and totally un-self-aware. There really is no way to explain to such types how ridiculous they are and how asleep to their own situation they are.

I'll just repeat: if you are a Christian and you still have a rather positive or cool image of yourself...it hasn't even begun for you.

Christianity doesn't even start until you know you are a sinner

Christianity doesn't even start until you know you are a sinner.

Let's rephrase that in a way that doesn't protect our vanity...

Christianity doesn't even start until you know you are a pathetic, shameful, cowardly, zero self-aware, excrement-smeared monkey flashing his ass on the freeway.

And a sinner in all the ways we are sinners.

Yes, if you call yourself a Christian and you *still* have a rather *cool* self-image of yourself...guess what? It hasn't even begun for you.

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Let's keep up with the theme of flashing one's ass on the freeway...

Have you ever masturbated in public, Christian?

Answer: yes you have. You just don't remember. And if you do remember you are hiding behind the fact that you didn't *get caught.* Unlike the shameful losers who masturbate in public *and get caught.* Compared to those sad losers you are godlike, right, Christian? Of course you are.

Now, if you compare yourself to God and not to other public masturbators - which is what you're suppose to do *as a Christian* - you don't look so good, do you, Christian? No, you don't.

You're walking around proud that you havn't been caught masturbating in public. Think about that. You've got your pride in tact. You can grin and backslap in the company of the chosen few (who, uh, grin and backslap in your, uh, company) and know *you are good... and special...*

Only, you're a public masturbator.

But you've blacked it out.

Or you are invested in the difference that you didn't get caught.

No, Christianity hasn't even begun for you.

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Why did I choose public masturbation for the example in this post? It's pretty much the most pathetic thing I could think of. Think about it. Even the worst crimes involve at least two people. And the world says: Wherever there are at least two people doing something, it is at least cool for that reason. So, by that standard I couldn't even use child molestation as an example. But anyway most people have never molested a child. Needed something common. Anyway, I love how human beings talk about sex, or don't talk about it, as if it is sooo beneath them and their dignity and adulthood...usually just after they've been in full monkey ass sexual activity mode. Hey, if you're going to pretend to be above it, be celibate, stud. (Now do I think people should go around talking about sex? No, no more than they should go around talking about the last time they sat on a toilet. Just don't act like you're above it, when you're not. It's part of your lack of self-awareness. You're a public masturbator, for crying out loud. Take that self-image into your church next Sunday. Seriously. See how it changes you. Seriously.)