The law works in multiple ways and on multiple levels as you grow in understanding of the spiritual. The first use of the law is to give order to disorder. The second use of the law is to provide stability to established order. The third use of the law is to drive the lawless to conspiracy, madness, and consolidation of power until the law itself becomes a chain around the law-abiding. The fourth use of the law comes only when law itself has become a mockery of itself after its third iteration, which is to reveal the truth which men at this stage have hidden from themselves due to their former prosperity: MAN IS HOPELESSLY CORRUPT AND SINFUL. Only the Grace of God can save us. Law will not save us. It exists, ultimately, only to prove our GUILT before God. Think about it. The law does not exist to exonerate you, or find you innocent. It exists to prove guilt, or NOT guilt. Guilt is its focus, not innocence. God gave us law to prove our guilt because he knew we would hide it from ourselves, deny it, and try to build some imaginary Utopia that can never, EVER exist due to man's corrupt nature. He then gave his son to facilitate our forgiveness from our guilt. We are now in the third iteration of the law and its purpose. The men in power are above the law. It only exists for 'little people' in a two-tier justice system. That means that we are about to see a societal collapse. The social contract of law and man is broken into a million pieces, and collapse will follow swiftly after. Men will revise laws, create new compacts and covenants, only to see the cycle repeat. Grace is the only real 'law' and it is given out by God alone to whomsoever he choses.