Living Peri-Law

No. Peri is not a person. Peri-Law means during the law. I have before discussed that with respect to the Law, there were three periods. Pre-Law, Post-Law and Peri Law. Though many would have us believe that mankind was always under the Law, the Bible shows differently. Mankind was always under a Law. But not the Law as was given by Moses. These scriptures support this:

Rom. 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to those who are under the law.

Rom. 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law.

Rom. 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law?

1 Cor. 9:20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law that I might gain them that are under the law.

1 Cor. 9:21 To them that are without law, as without law.

Gal. 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the Law.

Gal. 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law to redeem them that were under the law.

Gal. 4:21 Tell me ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law.

Gal. 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

Heb. 7:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law)

We can slice it and dice it in different ways but it is obvious that there is a state called "under the law" and "without the law". The people who lived pre-Sinai were not under the law. Note I said they were not under "the law" but I did mot say they were law-less.

Rom. 2:34. For when the Gentiles which have not the Law do by nature the things contained in the Law, these having not the law are a law unto themselves. So even if one is not under the law, it does not mean they are law-less. Paul makes it clear in Rom. 9:21 that even though the Gentiles are without the law they are not without law to God, they are under law to Christ. That is they are still under God's law which is Christ's law.

To understand the Law one has to understand the covenant. For there can be no covenant without a Law. A covenant has two parts. 1) What is promised under the covenant and 2) The terms and conditions or simply put what must obtain to satisfy the promise of the covenant. The Old Covenant or the First covenant or the Sinaitic Covenant promised life and righteousness and the conditions were the Ten Commandments.

Ex. 14:23 And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did niether eat bread or drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. The Israelites had to keep the Ten Commandments in order to live.

Deuteronomy 8:1

All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers.

This was the essence of the Old Covenant. Keep the commandments and live. Living under the Law was living under these conditions. So there are many people who perished as a result of contravening the Law of God. Achan, Korah Datan and Abiram, Zimri and Cozbi, Nadab and Abihu, The Sticks gatherer, these men perished under the Law.

But there were men who did worse things than these and perished not. They lived before the Law, when the Law was slacked, when the Judges ruled or under Law and Grace. Here are a few: Reuben, Judah, Rachel and Leah, The Sons of Jacob, The Gang Rapists in Judges, Absalom, The Corinthian Reuben or the Woman taken in Adultery.

Peri Law were hard time. That's when the offence abounded. But now the Grace of God hath appeared unto all men. God said, I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities, I will remember them no more. Than God for his Grace and His mercy.