Before There Was a Sinai...
The True Origin of God's Law and Its Reach Across Every Age
Here’s something worth sitting with before the day gets away from you.
When did God’s law begin?
Most people, if they’re honest about the picture in their heads, would say Sinai. Moses. The tablets. The fire and smoke on the mountain. That’s the origin story most of us absorbed, and it shapes the way we think about the law’s authority more than we realize. If the law started at Sinai, it started in a specific historical moment, given to a specific people, under specific circumstances. And if it started there, then the question of whether it still applies becomes at least a debatable one. Things that begin in history can end in history. Things that emerge at a particular moment in time can be superseded by a later moment.
But what if that picture is simply wrong? Not incomplete. Not slightly off. What if it’s wrong about the most fundamental thing, which is where the law actually came from?
Psalm 119:152 says, “Concerning Your testimonies, I have known of old that You have founded them forever.” The Hebrew word is olam. It carries the sense of indefinite time extending in both directions without a visible horizon in either direction. God founded His testimonies for olam. Not from Sinai forward. Not from creation forward. Forever. That’s not the language you use to describe a temporary regulatory framework issued to a specific nation at a specific moment in history.
And then consider this: the angels were governed by it. That single observation is more theologically decisive than it might first appear. When Lucifer fell, what did he violate? Not a statute issued to Israel at Sinai. Not a commandment delivered through Moses. He violated a moral order that existed in heaven before this world was created. The indictment in Isaiah 14 is pride, self-exaltation, the attempt to place his own will above God’s. That is a moral violation. And it happened before there was a human being, before there was a garden, before there was an earth. The law that governs moral reality is older than the soil it was eventually written in stone upon.
This means something that reshapes the entire conversation. The law was not designed for the Jews. It was not designed for Israel. It was not designed for any ethnic or national group in any particular century. It was adapted at Sinai for communication to human beings who needed its principles expressed in specific, concrete, livable terms. But the principles themselves didn’t originate at Sinai. They are expressions of what God is. And what God is doesn’t change with the calendar.
Malachi 3:6. “For I am the LORD, I do not change.” The character of God is not subject to revision. It doesn’t adapt to cultural preferences or theological trends or the comfort levels of any particular generation. And because God’s law is a transcript of His character, because it describes what love and justice and truth and holiness actually look like expressed in the terms of a life, it carries the same immutability He does. You cannot change the law without changing the God it comes from. And you cannot declare the law obsolete without implicitly declaring something about God’s character that the rest of Scripture will not allow.
This is why the abolishment teaching is not merely a theological adjustment. It is a misrepresentation of God Himself. When a teacher says the moral law was temporary, what they are saying, whether they intend to or not, is that what God called righteous then is not necessarily righteous now. That His standard of right and wrong is subject to revision based on historical context. That His character has chapters in it rather than being the single consistent reality the whole of Scripture describes.
Jesus said in Matthew 5:18 that not one jot, not one tittle would pass from the law until heaven and earth pass away. Heaven and earth are still here. The law is still standing. Not as a burden. Not as a threat to the believer covered by grace. But as the clearest available picture of what the God who made you actually looks like, expressed in terms a person can understand and a life can embody.
And here’s what settles quietly into place when you hold all of that. A law this old, this foundational, this woven into the fabric of what God is, was never going to be satisfied with a partial response. A standard that predates creation and governs the angels was never going to be fully met by simply avoiding the obvious failures. A law that reflects the character of a God who is actively, generatively good was always going to ask what you’re producing, not just what you’re refraining from.
The two things belong together. And once you see that they do, the whole picture of what a life under God’s standard actually looks like begins to sharpen into something you can almost reach out and touch.
Focus Verse: “Concerning Your testimonies, I have known of old that You have founded them forever.” — Psalm 119:152 (NKJV)
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