The Law and Grace are often viewed as enemies; the former coming before Jesus. But Jesus isn’t absent in the Law. Yes, even the Law points to Jesus! How can the God of the Old Testament who condoned wholesale killing of other nations be the God of the New Testament where His love and grace are on full display? Why give such a strict set of rules that did not have the power to save? We need to be reminded that the Law came from God. Man used it as ‘works’ to gain righteousness; he used it as his task master and even his god. This was an import and application never in the plans or motives of God when giving His Law to His people. The Old and New are not competing covenants but rather complementary.