Former Rain (Law) was NOT sufficient.
Former + Latter Rains also insufficient.
Only Latter Rain of Twain is: sufficient.

I've probably studied the Holy Bible containing Old & New Testaments more than most peers. I also like to prove all things I study therein, make full proof, get ample evidence to make it evident, obvious, plain, with irrefutable clarity... I love the clarity of Perfect Love(God) is not blind nor ignorant; the clarity of God(Love) sees "good" only (not "both good + evil") six times, "very good" (better) the seventh time in Genesis 1. We are now in the seventh time (The Third Day); Which progresses from "very good" ("better" of good/better) to what's best for all.


I like to prove things. As such I do some strange things, like drive around with no seat belt, license (tag), driver's license, or insurance, give no place to such laws, to see if how the Merlin movie ends actually works. It did. After a year of honking and waving at police cars I met, I finally got stopped by a rookie cop who noticed I had my seat belt dragging on the ground to make it obvious. I was nice to him, but steadfast in my experiment. After finding I also had no license (tag had expired), no driver's license (I also let it expire) and no insurance, he went back to his car, sat there a long time, then simply drove off. I heard his version later since my daughter worked night shift at police phones. He told her of a man that freaked him out, and let him go since the paper work on such would've been unbearable. My daughter fell off her chair laughing, knowing he'd described me, told him he did the right thing (he'd lose in court, where they still have the Holy Bible, which flat out states law has expired, been abolished).


As for allegoric rain, former and latter rain, I've also experienced both, and found only latter rain of twain to be sufficient, kinda like only the second and better "blessed" (of twain blesseds) in Romans 4:7,8 (from Ps 32:1,2) is sufficient. In my testimony, as founder of Godshew.org, I tell of how everywhere I move lately it rains a lot, to the point of previous droughts becoming lakes full in less than a year. So I got to thinking about rain, the allegory of former rain (law) being insufficient, also latter + former rain mixture of grace + law being insufficient, but latter rain by itself (pure grace) being sufficient... to the point I've proved it, with weather and media reports from last three places I lived.


"Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest"... Jeremiah 5:24

"Then shall we know, [if, after two days he raises us up] we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain unto the earth"... Hosea 6:3

"Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first"... Joel 2:23

Before sharing about the latter and former rain mixture being an oxymoron, let me first share that it is notable latter rain is said to be "in the first" (Joel 2:23). Indeed the New Testament is located in the Old Testament as one of twain. If you cut out references and quotes of the old from the new it would be a shredded mess of confusion. So as food for thought, let us consider that even though the new finds fault with the old, such is not for blame nor condemnation, but rather for awareness only. For since the new is contained in the old, as the latter is contained "in the first" (mixture of latter and former rain), then to condemn the first, is to condemn the second contained therein. Selah (read it again, think on it till it comes clear: it is important we do not condemn[law] ourselves).

                Latter Rain: My Grace is Sufficient: Adequate by It Self
                Former Rain: Law was Insufficient when added to Grace
                Former and Latter Rain: Law and Grace was Insufficient
                Latter and Former Rain: Grace and Law was a Dead End

Hence there is "therefore" now no condemnation (law), not even to them which are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1), even though them and their [Lord] Christ Jesus are mirrorly the reverse of us and our [Lord] Jesus Christ (for the shew required an adversary, to make it challenging, via debate and much controversy, till there was clearly one winner take all [law or grace] of such a Johnny law vs His grace shewdown)... the Christ of our Lord Jesus -> Christ being "the end of the law".


And hence that God did not impute their trespasses unto them, no, not even to them who were as opposed as if anti-Christ: anti-"the end of the law". For they did serve their purpose. Let us see two Gods are opposed about "them": One God (Law) concludes "them" all in unbelief, sinners all, so kill them all; And the other One God (Grace) does not law impute sin nor death unto any of them. So we find two "them"s in Hebrews 10:39, one drawing back to perdition (law) and one going on to perfection (grace). For the narrow way can get as narrow and sharp as a razor's edge, forcing all them vs them to draw back or go on, go on to becoming one of "us" since the Lord is l-o-n-g-suffering to "us-ward" is neither of two thems, as "above a servant" is neither of two servants, and as becoming more excellent is neither broadmindead nor narrowmindead. Selah.

"To wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and hath given us the word of reconciliation" (2Corinthians 5:19). That God now commandeth all men to repent (change), allegorically speaks to twain: them vs them to become one: us, for God hath given us the victory: no law = no dead end, and so none perish, not even them. Last Adam (us) is salvation to 1st Adam (them).

Now, back to my talk on latter rain (grace) and former rain (law), latter and former rain being an oxyMORON with a BAD ending such as Life + Death. I've proven with ample biblical and historical evidence, current events, that grace + law is as life + death = a dead end; So also is latter and former rain (allegory: grace + law). So unless we learn from such law law (former rain, notably "early" in James 5:7), then the dead end judgment is: sinners all = all surely die. Rather let law be dead testator of the New Testament, wherein the testimony of Jesus Christ is "the spirit"(not letter, nor spirit + letter) of prophecy. However comparing spiritual things with spiritual, laws with grace, we find law can be both good and evil, both natural and spiritual. It gets tricky: as if a virtue-all reality game of life or death, the level of potential deceit increases as one goes on, unless we "leave the priniciples" to "go on unto perfection".

In other words, mine, let's look at both sides: law and grace, then make an informative and decisive conclusion to let the oxymoron mixture grace + law be "all vanity and vexation of spirit" as Solomon said it was, so often in his Ecclesiastes, which ends with an oxymoron (fear God) just to make his point.

For Romans 15:4 says scriptures were written aforetime "for our learning", and Galatians 4:24 says such things are an allegory with a moral: the over-all more-all being God's grace is sufficient (meaneth no law at all is required); For law is not sufficient: insufficient, nor is grace + law sufficient as a dead end leads to extinction: perdition: desolation, by the abomination of desolation: law.


The script-u-are of scriptures(plural: scripture vs scripture) saith "cast out the bondwoman and her son" (allegory: cast out the law and result of the law: sin and death). All scripture(singular) is given by inspiration of God, and profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness (2Timothy 3:16) to the point there is no more lefteousness (none left behind) at all. God's righteousness (grace) is not right of left/right law/law on high, but above such law law. For being right to make others wrong is evidently a blame game that inducts all players  (them vs them) into a hall of shame where it's noted these "all died" and "received not the promise". So God provided some better thing for "us". Selah.

That is the purpose of the God shew, to first shew the twain, see one is good, but another one is better; Then "go on unto perfection" (Heb 6:1) by "leave the principles" (not the doctrine of Christ: the end of the law) of law and grace being good and better for some only; As moving on to what's best for "all". So we're talking leave (Good/Better) for Best; leave (Great/Greater) for Greatest; which is to say leave (Law/Law) for Grace is neither of two laws in Mt 22 & Rom 8.

Such is how Hebrews, a mini bible itself, doth end; also how Revelation, the final exam of the Holy Bible containing Old & New Testaments doth end. Yet such an open book exam many have failed, for they stumbled even with the author of Revelation, which is not John, evident in the very first verse and confirmed in the last verse of Revelation (Uncovering). Albeit such is called The Revelation Of St John The Divine, but two revelations (uncoverings) are mentioned therein the title and first verse, but only one is God given: The Revelation of Jesus Christ (made known in the gospels and the epistles).

Speaking of made known, the mystery of God's will is made known unto "us": Ephesians 1:9. For clarity there's two things God our Saviour will have in 1Timothy 2: 3,4: all men to be saved "and" aware what they're saved from; which is foretold by Paul in Romans 7: 6 "we are delivered from the law".

Now let us, who are converted and raised up in the third day, strengthen our brethren, since "a little leaven leaveneth the whole" and "there is no respect of persons with God". Such revelatory info, wisdom from above, is NOT for any condemnation (sin imputation) to any, rather only for y(our) learning and understanding. Let us make man (kind) of child/man, for the child-ish sort are those who sit in Moses' seat: law, called the "child of hell" (Mt 23), proselyte thereof called "more the child of hell" (they impute sin for the hell of it).

Let us not play their childish blame game, for it only inducts all into the hALL of shame, as it did Noah, Moses, all those named in Hebrews 11 all died and received not the promises nor the promise. Why? God had some "better" thing for "us" than blind faith in the law, seeing faith: the faith of the Son of God. That Light shineth into the darkness, till there is "no darkness at all". Understanding "much more" abounds till there is no miss-understanding at all.
 

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

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