The Curse of the Law and Grace

The Bible needs the context of Jesus to understand. Without faith in Christ, we all deserve death and are in slavery to sin. So, if you don’t have Jesus, the Old Testament puts every person to death, and sentences you to hard bondage in sin.

So, there’s that, and the Prophets reinforce that, showing what hell will take form—and also heaven—if you do or don’t put your faith in Jesus.

As there’s a running theme throughout the whole Old Testament, of salvation through the Messiah, and the beautiful thing about it is that all who call upon the name of the LORD will be saved from the judgment of the Law, and its curse. As Ezekiel says, “I gave you statutes which were not right, and judgments which were not good to live by.” Because judgment had to be taken away from mankind, and given to God to purify the Earth.

As you see the Curse of the Law in Deuteronomy, and also the Prophets, and then the redemption through Jesus Christ, and the condemnation of God’s enemies, and those who harm the saints.

So, all those verses in Deuteronomy and Leviticus are what condemn you. They are the convictions against sin, which is the sentence of death and hard bondage. And Christ is your redeemer, abolishing the entire written code of commandments against you, giving you a religion of conscience and freedom, and obedience through love, rather than blind oblations and obedience through dead ritual.

As it says “With a change of priesthood comes of necessity also a change of law.” And Jesus is the priesthood, which changed from the Levitical priesthood.