Why do you call it the "Way of Righteousness"? Does it help to give it another name? Personally, I'm content to call it "the Law of Moses" or simply "the Law." To each his own.Yes, the Way of Righteousness (aka Torah/Law) of YHWH was given only to Israel through Moses.
It's not that I don't like your other comments, but I wanted to concentrate on this one. An interesting view of God you have here, that of struggling with God to obtain "blessings." Certainly there is that one story of how Jacob struggled. However, you may be missing a vital point if all you glean from it is that we should, as the "Supplanter" (Jacob) did, struggle likewise to get what we want from God (YHWH). Due to his striving, he was impacted with a limp, the result of the loving touch from God. God will not in His love allow the striving struggling Self of the believer who would walk with Him to go un-crucified. The real message, to me, is that God always wounds the flesh, the Self, in order to heal and bring forth the New Self, created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.Gentiles must struggle with YHWH for His blessing like Jacob, who then became Israel.
But I rather like this passage, which doesn't speak of striving and struggling:
"I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost."
and therefore, our response called for
"And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost. " - Revelation 21:6; 22:17
Scripture encourages us to strive to enter the rest of Christ. Our striving should be concentrated on coming to an end of ourSelves rather than to "get blessings", don't you think?
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