The list of problems of life under Satan in our time is getting stinkier and longer and deeper into the realm of “I just can’t take it anymore.” Having, almost universally, in the church and out of it, decided that God’s Law is the last thing we could want in our lives, God is granting our wish and letting our will be done. As eagerly as preachers dish-out pap against “the Old Testament’s rules and regulations,” so have congregants lapped up the idea that Jesus came to save us from God’s Law – except, you know, the moral laws, that is those parts of the Old Testament we all agree are moral, as long as we can place limits on them (“so don’t label me an anti-nomian!”).
What awaits these escapees from the God’s Law are the curses outlined in the last two thirds’s of Deuteronomy 28.
For those of us who love God’s Law and see it as a manifestation of His character, it is a wonderful gift and the key to all the blessings of God that we were made to enjoy. With Christ having fulfilled the Law we are never condemned by it because He has put us on the right side of the Law and it is now our friend, our delight, and the object of our study all day long.
Certainly, we have not “arrived” at full mature obedience, but we are always working on learning, and understanding God’s Law more and more and changing our thoughts, words, and actions to conform to it. As we become more mature, however many generations that takes, we will at last reap fully the promises written about in Zechariah and Isaiah, and the abundant blessings of first third Deuteronomy 28.
So, while those who despise God’s Law, in part or in whole, are focusing their energies trying to escape the inevitable curses of God as they overtake them and pursue them, continually bursting their bubble-fantasy world of rebellion against the God who made reality, we will be pursuing His will, His definition of right and wrong, and His values, all the while being more and more pursued and overtaken by His blessings, health, peace, and salvation. Biblical patriarchal polygyny is just a part of it.