Two Covenants – Two Divergent Applications of Law

Unfortunately, souls are daily entering Hades-Torments awaiting Judgment in spiritual ignorance as mass confusion exists relevant to the divergent application of law existing between the Covenant of Law relevant to Israel’s ancient theocracy initiated at Mt. Sinai and the New Covenant of Grace initiated through the blood of Jesus our Messiah at Mt. Golgotha (Calvary) (Matthew 26:28).

Torah Law, that which governed Israel’s relationship with Yahweh, the moral aspects of that written code, are rooted in, finds their genesis in, the Spiritual Law defined as the “Law of the Spirit of life” (Romans 8:2; Romans 2:14-15). Torah Law was provided Israel in a written format – codification, 10-Decalogue or Commandments etched in stone at Sinai, 603-Civil-Ceremonial edicts scratched upon parchment by the Hebrew prophet, Moses.

Purpose for Torah Law and Eschatology,

Torah Law was provided Israel as a bulwark against the failures of the Adamic and Noahic generations as these generations compromised themselves with the demonic via unconscionable violence and sexual perversion (Genesis 6); therefore, Elohim refused to introduce His Messiah through these demonically defiled, genomically compromised, men and women.

Elohim’s primary eschatological objective relevant to the creation of the Realm of Time, physics, matter, the human genome, is the destruction of Satan’s works, Satan’s rebellion, Satan’s defilement of the Kingdom of Elohim (1 John 3:8b); therefore, Elohim commissioned the Son (John 3:35; John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1) to employ elements from the unseen Spiritual Realm (Hebrews 11:3) to create our temporary Universe as a repository for the great Kingdom War and that Spiritual War is currently playing-out in the presence of humanity for the benefit of the faithful angelic creation as this spiritual battle is partially constrained by Time and physics – a Spiritual War that manifests around us and through us, daily (Ephesians 6).

Torah Law was given Israel as Israel’s children were sanctified, set apart, specifically for Elohim’s eschatological objective of destroying the works of Satan via the Messiah via a battle strategy to be introduced as “The Gospel of Grace,” a battle strategy that was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10). Elohim’s critical eschatological plan concerning His Messiah’s introduction into the Realm of Time mandated that Israel’s children be holy as Elohim is Holy (Leviticus 19-20; 1 Peter 1:15-17). Israel’s covenants with Elohim were overwhelmingly predicated upon strict obedience to every jot and every tittle of Torah Law (Deuteronomy 28) as Messiah’s primary function in Time would be “to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b).

Torah Law – A National standard of compliance,

Torah Law was never given as a pathway to personal righteousness or personal covenant relationship with Elohim but Torah Law governed Israel’s relationship with Elohim as a Theocracy, a Nation, and blessing and cursing at a National level was contingent upon Israel’s compliance to Torah Law, compliance in the strictness sense of the word (Deuteronomy 28).

Personal covenant relationship with Elohim concerning the individual Israelite was predicated upon “faith” in Elohim as the One true Deity, faith-belief that Elohim existed, that Elohim was Creator and Elohim was Holy and trustworthy. This abiding “faith” being the very same prerequisite to righteousness (a right standing) with Elohim relevant to both the Adamic and Noahic generations.

Again, with emphasis, Torah Law was NEVER instituted as a path to personal relationship with Elohim but Torah Law regulated the Nation of Israel’s covenant status with Elohim while “faith,” “trust,” “belief,” in Elohim as Creator engendered “personal” covenant relationship with Elohim, NOT Law.

Blood sacrifices and Torah,

Furthermore, Israel’s “blood sacrifices” mandated by Torah Law were not instituted as a path to personal righteousness with Elohim but provided a temporary “cleansing” of national sin and disobedience; a cleansing of the Temple. It is most relevant to note that individual sin-offerings by the children of Israel DID engender righteousness with Elohim, NOT in response to the blood or the animal being offered (Hebrews 10:4) but due the “faith” of the one offering the blood as this individual “trusted,” “believed,” that Elohim would forgive their sin as He had promised; again, it is the “faith” of the one offering the sacrificial animal that engendered righteousness with Elohim, not the animal or animal blood (Hebrews 10).

Torah Law and Righteousness with Elohim,

Torah Law, if one sought Torah as a path to covenant relationship with Elohim, mandated absolute perfection in observance, obedience (James 2:10), but the individual Israelite was encumbered by a sin-nature from the Adamic curse (Romans 5:12); therefore, those who sought righteousness through Torah Law lived under a curse (Galatians 3:10) in self-righteousness as Torah Law only defined the individual’s sin but provided no form of lasting atonement (Romans 3:20); therefore, Torah Law has been defined by the Holy Spirit as “the Law of sin and death” (Romans 8:2).

The New Covenant and the Gospel of Grace

With the eschatological intent of Torah Law fulfilled in combination with 400-years of virtual silence from Elohim and the addition of spurious apocryphal writings, Messiah entered the Realm of Time via the seed (ovum) of the woman (Genesis 3:15) and Messiah introduced, revealed, the Father’s New Covenant Gospel that was ordained “before Time began” as the chosen battle strategy “to destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8b).

Elohim’s New Covenant of Grace was NOT to be a reformed or reconstituted Old Law Covenant or a new reiteration of Torah Law but the New Covenant would be eternally unique, different, as Elohim would bring to fruition His prophecies foretold in Genesis 3:15 and Genesis 3:21 as the Messiah born of the seed of the woman would do battle with the Serpent/Satan and the strategy for victory would be Elohim, Himself, shedding innocent blood to provide sinful humanity an imputed robe of righteousness while denying the work of humanity to cover, conceal, atone, for sin; ultimately, victory would be Elohim’s alone at Golgotha yet Elohim would share the fruits of that victory with sinful humanity via the catalyst known as “grace” that would be actuated by the age-old initiator of divine covenant with the Father, “faith.” The Father’s unfathomable love and the Son’s unfathomable sacrifice for a sinful, rebellious, human kind in order to defeat death, Hell, the grave (the works of Satan), will be honored and celebrated by the faithful angelic creation eternally.

The impotence of animal blood – the eternal relevance of Messiah’s blood (Leviticus 17:11)

As mentioned earlier, Torah Law, Noahide Laws, the Code of Hammurabi, the Spiritual Law, none of these possessed the ability to initiate eternal covenant with the Father but only sincere “faith” in Elohim as Creator and Divine Provider moved the Father’s heart toward reconciliation (Hebrews 11). Elohim’s grace through faith via blood atonement, though pictured first in Genesis 3:21, also established a precedent for the forgiveness of sin via the written code as per Leviticus 17:11 stating that without the shedding of blood there is no atonement for sin but we know that the blood of animals could never take-away sin (Hebrews 10:4) though the animal for a sin-sacrifice was expected to be perfect, spotless, the best of the flock or the cream of the crop; of course, those of us with the privilege of historical evidence know that Leviticus 17:11, the animal sacrifices, the festivals, the Sabbaths, these all foreshadowed the spotless Lamb of the Father, Messiah Jesus, who would take away the sin of the World (1 Peter 1:19-20; John 1:29).

Law of the Spirit of Life,

In the New Covenant, Elohim has placed emphasis on the “law of the Spirit of life” (Romans 2:14-15; Romans 8:2) the Spiritual Law extant as an arbiter of free will subsequent the creation of the angels. The elements of Elohim’s New Covenant are “grace” (unmerited favor unattainable through human effort); “repentance:” a turning away from, a sincere sorrow for disobedience, sin; “faith-trust” in Messiah as the One who shed His innocent blood for the sins of all humanity.

Those who place their sincere faith in Jesus as Messiah are gifted-imputed the sinless perfection of Jesus over their life and consequently declared “not guilty” by the Father, forever (2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 8:12); additionally, the redeemed in Jesus are gifted the indwelling Holy Spirit who takes-up residence within the faithful (Ephesians 1:13-14) and it is the Spirit that accomplishes within the redeemed that which Torah could never accomplish as Torah Law demanded perfection from the sin-nature of man, a sin-nature that could never comply in acceptable perfection (James 2:10; Galatians 3:10; Romans 5:12; Romans 3:23).

Application of “law” in the New Covenant,

In the New Covenant, a “written code” likened to that of Torah, plays a diminutive, almost irrelevant, role, as the redeemed in Jesus Christ by faith are not under the Law Covenant, a written code, the letter of law (Romans 6:14) but the Christian is methodically guided in the ways of obedience to the Father’s will via a redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) as the Holy Spirit employs both the redeemed conscience and the “law of the Spirit of life” written upon the heart at conception; the Spirit enlivens the Spiritual Law, makes that law applicable to every moral decision a Christian confronts in daily life as the Spirit motivates the production of righteous “fruit” (Galatians 5), fruit against which there is no Law (Galatians 5:22-24). Jesus did say that “you will know them by their fruit” (Matthew 7:15-20).

It is the “fruit of the Spirit” that validates one’s faith as true, legitimate, soul saving, authentic. It is faith in Messiah Jesus and sanctification through the Holy Spirit that brings peace with the Father in the New Covenant (Romans 5:1).

In conclusion,

Torah Law, its primary objectives, are eschatological in nature as Torah, the written code, was given specifically to Israel’s children and sojourner’s with them to act as a bulwark against the failures of the Adamic and Noahic generations as Elohim prepared Israel’s children as examples of blessing for obedience, cursing for disobedience (Deuteronomy 28); this, while Elohim’s eschatological objective for Messiah’s introduction into the Realm of Time would manifest in accordance with divine prophecy and order; this, “to destroy the works the of the Devil” via the chosen battle strategy “The Gospel of Grace” ordained “before Time began” (1 John 3:8b; 2 Timothy 1:8-10).

Also, Torah Law was to spiritually prepare Israel’s children as ministers of the Gospel via the “Great Commission” (Matthew 28) as Messiah would come directly to Israel’s children (Matthew 15:24) with the objective of proselytizing Israel’s children in the theological elements of “repentance, grace and faith” i.e. the “Good News” of the Father’s redemptive plan as Israel was to go into all the World and provide the lost, the blind, the hopeless, with eternal Truth and the Father’s plan of redemption through faith in His Son (John 3:16-17).

Torah Law was never a strategy for personal redemption but was National in scope and for eschatological purposes concerning Messiah and the Gospel and the Great Commission.

The New Covenant is NOT arbitrated by Torah Law or a written code but the New Covenant is arbitrated by the Father via the Holy Spirit via the theological elements of grace, repentance, faith in the Messiah as blood atonement for sin.

Torah Law, a written code, was weakened by the sin-nature and therefore subject to rationalization, obfuscation, spurious interpretation, in pursuit of narcissism but the New Covenant provides an enlivened “Spiritual Law” that works through the redeemed conscience; both the Spiritual Law written upon the heart and the redeemed conscience are arbitrated, divinely controlled, by the indwelling Holy Spirit; therefore, every moral decision, every aspect of discernment, in the Christian life is methodically addressed by the Holy Spirit’s influence and divine urging to choose holiness and righteousness via the daily process of sanctification; therefore, the Spiritual Law is eternally and internally superior to any written code or devices of men coercing obedience from the sin-nature; therefore, choose Jesus as your Messiah by faith and LIVE!