Re: Existence without an enemy ... a concept many, deceived by many, can't fathom
Existence without an enemy, what a concept.
Many still say awake the king, the kingdom is under attack from a phantom menace... how childish, to perceive such a "shadow" of death, such a dark version of things to come, is the very(true) things to come (not in Heb 10). The Psalmist said: Yeah though I walk "through" the valley of the "shadow" of death, I will fear no evil (allegory: fear no law).
The Bible speaks of the "last enemy" (the grace enemy): "the last enemy shall be destroyed death" in 1Cor 15, which also speaks of law being the strength of sin, and the sting thereof death.
So the last enemy, which imputes sin (Rom 5:13) is law, and it imputes sin to all, not some only. So the only way any can be free of sin is die to the law rather than by such a ministration of death as law, from a bad case of life + death (grace + law)...
Rather let law be the dead testator of the NT (Heb 9), so grace may be of force to all. For if there is no respect of persons with God, then it's all or none at all, and the end suggests it is all.
The "you all" of "the end" in Rev 22:21 begins with "you"; so it behooves you to die to the law, to become alive unto God (allegory: alive unto His Grace). Thereby ye(plural) becomes perfected you(one) as the before/after scenario of ye/you in 1Peter 5:10, and such is by "the God of all grace" (no law).
Existence without an enemy speaks of exitence without law (for law worketh wrath: Rom 4:15; is a ministration of death: 1Cor 3; the accuser of the brethren: Jn 5;45; also a ministration of condemnation: 1Cor 3; and the strength of sin: 1Cor 15:56 which has a deadly sting to all, not some only).
No law, no dead end:
http://www.godshew.org/NoLawNoDeadEnd.htm
As shocking as it may be to some, that is the gospel.
