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Objection: The Law’s Curse Referred Only to Israel’s Corporate Exile

Israel had already gone into exile long before Paul ever wrote to the Galatians. Paul told the Galatians that Christ redeemed them (“us”) from the curse of the Law, having been made a curse for us. It would be senseless to say that we were redeemed from something that had already happened to other people and thus had been completed in the past.

But that’s okay, because the fact of the matter is that there is plenty else in the Law’s curse other than corporate exile! Poverty and sickness are included as well. These are things that could happen to us, so it makes sense that they are things from which Christ redeemed us.

Simply read Deuteronomy 28:15-68 and Leviticus 26:14-39 for yourself, and you can verify that there is plenty in there other than just being exiled out of your country.

The objector goes on to say that the Old Testament emphasis was on “the land” and what would happen to it, while we don’t see that carried forward into the New Testament. But there is a good reason that we don’t see curses on the land in the Church Age. We live in a different period where God’s wrath has been poured out upon Jesus for our sins, and the good news is that God purchased everyone’s reconciliation. People don’t have to earn it; they just have to receive it. God is not interested in cursing land because Jesus was already cursed so that we don’t have to be cursed. By redeeming us from the curse – the whole thing, not just part of it – Christ redeemed us from having to have horrible judgments on the land. These will not resume until the book of Revelation’s events come to pass, where God’s wrath will be poured out on those who shunned His free offer of eternal life and redemption from sin. But that is why we don’t have Old Testament-style doom-and-gloom prophets during the Church Age. We live in the age of grace.