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5. "The law" was not
given till the time of Moses and Sinai.
The texts quoted prove this.
"The law was given by Moses" (John 1:17).
"Did not Moses give you the law?" (John 7:19).
"For until the law sin was in the world; but sin is
not imputed where there is no law. Nevertheless death
reigned from Adam to Moses" (Rom. 5:13, 14). The
entrance of the law is here located at Moses. Every
attempt to place it back of that time contradicts the
plain testimony of these texts. The Bible locates the law
under the Levitical priesthood. "If therefore
perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for under it
the people received the law" (Heb. 7:11). This drops
the bottom out of Sabbatarianism. So the giving of the law
is located "430 years after the covenant with
Abraham." "And this I say, that the covenant,
that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which
was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot
disannul" (Gal. 3:17). This brings us to the very
year the children of Israel came out of Egypt and arrived
at Sinai. "And it came to pass at the end of the four
hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to
pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the
land of Egypt" (Exod. 12:41). Beyond dispute, then,
what the Bible calls "the law" was not given
till Moses, 2,500 years after Adam, or nearly half the
history of the world.
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