Title: The Covenants, Grace and Law (Part 24) 

Subject: Galatians (A)
Summary: In this twenty fourth installment in the Covenant, Grace and Law series, John Ritenbaugh reiterates that the days, months, and times referred to in Galatians 4:10 do not refer to Jewish Holy Days or the law of God, but to Pagan Gnostic rites connected with the worship of demons. To refer to the liberating law of God as weak and beggarly constitutes rank blasphemy. To use Galatians as an antinomian tract denigrating God's holy and righteous law creates a hypocritical dichotomy- in which Paul, while keeping the law, allegedly urged the people not to keep it. Paul, as a light to the Gentiles, kept the Sabbath and the rest of God's law in the middle of gentile territory (Acts 18:11, 13:44) indicating that neither the Sabbath nor any other aspect of God's law had been done away. The target of Paul's wrath was Gnostic asceticism, which was syncretized with both extra- biblical Judaistic and Pagan elements.

Keywords: Anti-law bias Areopagus Asceticism Authority of Apostle Baby with bathwater Blasphemy Bondage Classroom Corinth Days Demons Elements of the world Feast of Tabernacles Gentiles Gnosticism Gospels of men Grace of God Holy Day Hypocritical dichotomy Judaism Light to Gentiles National religion Months Pharisees Philippi Protestantism Revelation Sacrificing children Scribes and Pharisees Self mutilation Times Traditions of fathers Yoke of bondage Weak and beggarly elements Works Years