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Instead of this two things occur. The first of these activities is choosing to come
under the Law. What Man does is to try and establish his own righteousness, by the
flesh, in the flesh (Gen 1:29, 2:9, 17, Jer 17:5, Rom 1:18-22, 10:3, Phil 3:9). This
is tantamount to acting as if one were God and practising self-worship which is the
basic natural instinct of the flesh (Gen 2:17, 3:22, Rom 1:25). This is the essence
of the Son of Perdition and all unsaved men are indeed sons of perdition (Gen
2:17, 2 Thes 2:3-4, Rev 20:15).

Coming under the Law causes sin (Rom 3:20, 4:15). The Law assumes and is
predicated upon Man’s sinfulness (Mat 19:8, Mark 10:5, Rom 4:15) and then sets
up a way to righteousness based on Man’s sinfulness being counter-acted by his
works (Gal 3:19) which happens to be impossible, which is sinful i.e. without
excuse, to achieve (Rom 3:20, Gal 3:21). Much of the Law is therefore barbaric
because Man is barbaric, it was God showing Man what he had to do to prosper in
this world and live well (Deut 28:1, 15, 30:19) and be righteous by his own works,
on his own, in his flesh (Gen 2:17). It therefore requires such things as genocide
and ethnic cleansing (Num 31:15-18, 33:53, Deut 7:2-3, 13:15, Josh 6:21, 10:40,
23:5, 24:13, 1 Sam 15:3, 19-22, 23:2). God is as cruel as He has to be in
accordance with the Prime Principle (Isaiah 13:9, 48:10). The Law even allowed
David to kill 200 Philistines and use 100 of their foreskins as trophies in order to
impress Saul and thereby receive Saul’s daughter Michal as his wife (1 Sam 18:27,
2 Sam 3:14). God killed 42 children in response to Elisha’s curse (2 Kings 2:23-
24). A scorched earth and pollution policy was commanded by God under the Law
(2 Kings 3:19, 25). Pollution or ecological disaster also results from iniquity under
the Law (Isaiah 24:5, Jer 12:4).

The Law is not God’s primary will for Man (Gen 2:17, John 1:17) as Man can not
be God and it applies to Man as in-the-spirit-and-the-flesh once he is under it
(Isaiah 29:24, Rom 3:20). It also became a commandment as to how the flesh
should live in order that it should prosper in this life (Neh 9:29). The Law and the
Prophets are both part of the Law (Psalm 89:30-31, Mat 5:17, 7:12, Rev 22:18-19)
so injunctions by God in certain circumstances of war to perform genocide or
‘ethnic cleansing’ (Num 33:53, Deut 3:3, 6, 20:16, Josh 10:40, 24:13, 1 Sam 15:3)
for example, are part of the Law. Some ethnic cleansing involved theft of land
(Josh 24:13, 1 Sam 27:8) and forcible expropriation (1 Sam 27:9) which itself
breaks the Law (Ex 20:15). The Law is one whole unit as with the Word (Deut
30:11, 33:4, Neh 8:8, Rev 22:18-19). When Jesus says that Moses gave the Law
(John 1:17, 7:19), this is correct but not the whole story as the Law commenced
with Adam (Man) and includes the Law and the prophets (Deut 28:58, John 1:1,
14, Rev 22:18-19). Moses ‘giving’ the law does not establish the start and end of a