Galatians

To: assemblies of Galatia

Our perception is after the scales fell from Paul's eyes, he went out teaching the Good News. We also have an unconscious mindset about timing of the Second Writings //New Testament//. But check out Galatians:

• I did not immediately consult with any human.
• I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who were emissaries before me, either.
• I went away to Arabia and returned again to Damascus.
• Then THREE YEARS later I went to Jerusalem to visit with Peter
• I stayed with him FIFTEEN DAYS
• I saw no other emissaries except Jacob //James//, the Lord’s brother.
• Then I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
• Then after FOURTEEN years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me.

Galatians is believed to be one of Paul's earliest writings. But Paul didn't even write Galatians until AT LEAST 15 years after his transformation. Galatians was written more than 15 years after Jesus's ascension. The new believers didn't have Galatians as part of their "Bible Study." It wasn't something suggested to be read by a new Christian.

Galatians 1

• General questions as they pop up and answers if found.
  • What was the “other good news?” Acts 15:1
  • Who was troubling them? Acts 13:50; Acts 14:2; Acts 15:5
  • What was the good nes they claimed? Acts 13:32
• General observations about the law(s) and covenant(s) in the text
  • “My father’s deliverance = included the Oral law (traditions)
    • Who is/was it given to? The Pahrisees
    • Who is/was to observe it? A Jew who believed in both the Written and the Oral Torah
    • Why is/was it given? To govern daily life
    • What is/was the blessing for keeping/consequence of breaking it? They believed in reward and punishment after death.
    • What replaces it? They believed in the Messiah and when the Temple was destoryed, they adapted the application of the written and oral torah’s.
• Note any Old Testament scripture alluded to or directly quoted. Why was it referenced? How does it fit with what is being discussed?
  • Isaiah 49
  • Isaiah 55
  • Joshua 6
  • Psalms 2
• Note anything that seems to contradict what Jesus said (Matthew 5:17-20)
  • none

Galatians 2

• General questions as they pop up and answers if found.
• General observations about the law(s) and covenant(s) in the text
  • Abrahamic covenant - Law of Circumcision
  • Torah - not clear on if it is the first five books, or the entire old testament
    • The Torah never declared righteousness through works.
  • Chumra - a prohibition or obligation in Jewish practice that exceeds the bare requirements of Halakha (Jewish law)
  • Oral law
• Note any Old Testament scripture alluded to or directly quoted. Why was it referenced? How does it fit with what is being discussed?
  • Ecclesiastes 7
  • Isaiah 49
  • Psalms 14
  • Psalms 53
  • Psalms 143
  • Romans 7
• Note anything that seems to contradict what Jesus said (Matthew 5:17-20)
  • “died to the law”

Galatians 3

• General questions as they pop up and answers if found.
• General observations about the law(s) and covenant(s) in the text
  • Abrahamic covenant - Promise of the seed Law of Circumcision
  • Torah - not clear if it is the first five books or the entire old testatent
  • Mosaic Covenant
• Note any Old Testament scripture alluded to or directly quoted. Why was it referenced? How does it fit with what is being discussed?
  • Deuteronomy 21
  • Deuteronomy 28
  • Genesis 12
  • Genesis 15
  • Genesis 17
  • Genesis 18
  • Genesis 26
  • Habakkuk 2
  • Leviticus 18
• Note anything that seems to contradict what Jesus said (Matthew 5:17-20)
  • for as many as are of works of law //Torah// are under a curse, for it hath been written //Old Testament// , `Cursed [is] every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,' Deuteronomy 27 :26
  • And before the coming of the faith, under law //Mosaic covenent // we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed, so that the law //Mosaic covenent// became our child-conductor

Galatians 4

• General questions as they pop up and answers if found.
• General observations about the law(s) and covenant(s) in the text
  • Abrahamic covenant - Promise of the seed Law of Circumcision
  • Torah - not clear if it is the first five books or the entire old testatent
  • Mosaic Covenant
  • Pagan laws - of other gods
• Note any Old Testament scripture alluded to or directly quoted. Why was it referenced? How does it fit with what is being discussed?
  • Isaiah 43
• Note anything that seems to contradict what Jesus said (Matthew 5:17-20)
  • Allegorized Hagar as Mosaic Covenant - persecutes, cast forth, we are not a maid-servant’s child

Galatians 5

• General questions as they pop up and answers if found.
• General observations about the law(s) and covenant(s) in the text
  • Abrahamic covenant - Promise of the seed Law of Circumcision
  • Torah - the entire old testatent
  • Chumra - a prohibition or obligation in Jewish practice that exceeds the bare requirements of Halakha (Jewish law)
• Note any Old Testament scripture alluded to or directly quoted. Why was it referenced? How does it fit with what is being discussed?
• Note anything that seems to contradict what Jesus said (Matthew 5:17-20)
  • he is a debtor to the whole law

Galatians 6

• General questions as they pop up and answers if found.
• General observations about the law(s) and covenant(s) in the text
  • Law of Christ
  • Law of Circumcision
• Note any Old Testament scripture alluded to or directly quoted. Why was it referenced? How does it fit with what is being discussed?
• Note anything that seems to contradict what Jesus said (Matthew 5:17-20)