So,according to your philosophyGod gave the people his laws but they were not ever able to obey them. Which resulted in physical death for disobeying certain of the laws. So at that death those transgressors either went to Abraham's bossom or Hell. Until many generations later God The Word arrived in the flesh as Yeshua,Jesus,so to redeem a whole generation of different people and give them that new nature so they could obey his laws that he gave the past generation centuries before.
Is that right?
Not quite.
Death came through Adam. Adam did not do what God told him to do. Adam disobeyed the commandment of God,
"Don't eat of a certain tree." This was a commandment given by the Father to His son.
From then on, a Savior was needed. But, because God knows the end from the beginning,
"the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world". So, it did not surprise God that Adam sinned.
A while later, God blessed Abraham and his seed. God chose Abraham because
"He believed God".
Paul tells us that the blessing was to Abraham and the Seed (singular) even though the word for "seed" can be singular or plural. It is like that way in the English language, too. We can plant a field of seed or we can plant a field of seeds. This Seed was Christ.
So, because God promised to bless the Seed of Abraham, who was Christ, God obligated Himself to protect the lineage of Abraham: if Abe's line died the Seed could not appear and God could not keep His promises.
So, and I am skipping a lot here, God leads His people out of Egypt. He brings them to Sinai to make them a nation. You can take the slave out of Egypt, but you must deal with the mindset of slavery in the people.
God sets up a means by which the people could come into His presence. If they do that, again, if they obey God's unwritten voice, Spirit to spirit, just as Abraham received direction from God, they would receive this promise:
"Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”
This is NOT forbearance. He's
not saying "If you keep the covenant I am about to give you". The covenant at work at that moment was the same one that attended Abraham: God speaks, you obey".
BUT
The people did not obey God at the mountain. They were to come close to Moses and God while God addressed Moses. Instead "
they stood afar off".
So, instead of giving the people the promises stated above He gave them the law and the 10 Commandments. Instead of becoming a nation of priests, only one tribe was set aside for priesthood. This is what it means when it is written
"The law was added because of transgressions".
So, because the people were not changed by coming into the presence of God, God had to give them written rules for life: the people would not receive what was spoken so He had to give them what was written. By these rules God set boundaries around the limits of sin. Why? So the people through whom the Seed would come would be preserved!
The goal was always to bring Christ through the line of Abraham (physically and spiritually). The law at Sinai and the 10 Commandments restrained the punishments for sin so that the people could survive.
So, Jesus was born. He was then revealed as the Christ, a many-membered being. All people who come to Him in faith can be included in Him.
"For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body..."
In Christ, we then have direct access to God again. The veil of separation is torn in two.
We can come into His presence and be changed just as God intended to do with those at Sinai, before the people refused to come into His presence.
All who receive God as their Father receive the Sabbath rest of God that states "
man shall rest from his own work". This means that in each moment of our lives we do as our Father is doing. "
The son can do only what he sees his Father doing". This is not about robotic obedience, this is about resting in Him for all direction of our lives.