THE LAW AND THE TESTIMONY

The law  is given as God's principle of living and justice; while testimony is the evidence or proof of the power and the authority of the law. Testimony is a written or unwritten events of what the Lord has done and is still doing in the life of His redeemed people. It is a record of events told by those who were eye witnesses, heard and known by them, and which will not be hidden from their children and generations to come. The testimony is about the praise worthy acts of the Lord.

 The primacy of God's testimony is stated in Ps. 78:5. In the history of God's dealing with the children of Israel, He began to build His testimony when He separated Abraham from his family, kindred and country-Gen. 12:1-7, to the land of Canaan where he lived all his life as a pilgrim. This testimony continued through Isaac and was finally established in Jacob. This fact accounts for the reason why the Hebrew nation is called after his names- Jacob and Israel.

It was the transformed life and record f Jacob that produced the testimony of God's saving grace in his life and in the nation that bear the name - Israel