Thanks, Mimi, that was a revelation to me. "But in heaven, Service is not rendered in the spirit of legality."The angels had the law of love, the moral law, but some of the "10 commandments" do not apply to angels, do they? Such as the 5th? And, what about the Sabbath? Was it not created for man, not angels? And, as we measure the Sabbath from sunset to sunset, how could it be measured before the creation of this world, and the sun? Is there any Biblical evidence that it existed before earth was created?
I like this quote also: If man had kept the law of God, as given to Adam after his fall, preserved by Noah, and observed by Abraham, there would have been no necessity for the ordinance of circumcision. And if the descendants of Abraham had kept the covenant, of which circumcision was a sign, they would never have been seduced into idolatry, nor would it have been necessary for them to suffer a life of bondage in Egypt; they would have kept God's law in mind, and there would have been no necessity for it to be proclaimed from Sinai or engraved upon the tables of stone. And had the people practiced the principles of the Ten Commandments, there would have been no need of the additional directions given to Moses. {PP 364.2}