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Deceived child of Jacob stated: “When Judaism changed the name YAHWEH & YAHUSHUA, most people follow, but when Shabbat is insisted, only few follow.”
Christian rebuttal,
Jesus is Messiah, Jesus is Elohim, and He knows His Name in 7100-languages throughout the Earth and Judaism is a religion of hopelessness as it touts self-righteousness through law-keeping while the adherents to Judaism perish daily in their sin and ultimately Hell due to unbelief (Galatians 2:16; John 8:24).
The Sabbath edict, provided Israel by Elohim in Exodus 16, enslaves those deceived by the Law Covenant as a path to righteousness; this too is a spiritual illness in spiritual ignorance and arrogance.
Yeshua as Messiah coupled with sincere repentance is the ONLY Way to life via New Covenant relationship with the Father (John 14:6). The Jew and Israelite and Hebrew Roots fanatics will believe this truism and live or they’ll continue in religious nihilism and perish in Hell in their sin (John 8:24).
30 What shall we say, then That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; 31 but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. 32 Why Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, 33 as it is.
Salvation was ordained to be of the Jews (John 4:22) as Messiah came to them specifically to proselytize them in the New Covenant’s Gospel and ordain them as ministers of the Great Commission (Matthew 15:24) but the Jews and Israelite’s rejected their Messiah, rejected the Gospel, rejected their ordination as ministers of the “Good News” of Elohim’s plan of redemption by grace through faith in Yeshua; instead, Israel conspired with Rome to murder their Messiah and demanded that His blood be upon them and their children (Matthew 27:25); therefore, Israel is under Judgment, they are blind, deaf, spiritually dead, and only a remnant will escape the second death in Hell due their rejection of Messiah to this very day (Romans 11:25; Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27). Israel failed Elohim; Israel failed Yeshua their Messiah; Israel failed the Holy Spirit and their only Hope is repentance and faith in Yeshua as Messiah.
Concerning the stubbornness, blindness, deception, of the Jew, the Israelite, the Hebrew Roots fanatic, the legalist, who incessantly insists that “commandment keeping” is the path to life and covenant…
YES, Jesus did say that if you love Him you will keep HIS commandments, but who keeps those commandments and how is this accomplished, through self-righteousness or obedience to the Holy Spirit? (John 14:15).
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Simply put, you don’t understand the working of the New Covenant and how obedience to the Father’s will is manifest NOT through law keeping but obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 2:16; Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 3:20; Romans 7:6).
You refuse to see the eternal superiority of the Gospel of Grace through Faith, the Gospel’s work through the redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) as opposed to the written code given Israel as Sinai, a written code that demanded obedience from an unredeemed sin-nature doomed to failure (Romans 8:1-11).
Unfortunately, and partially due the judgment on the House of Israel for unbelief and rejection of Messiah’s Gospel (Romans 11:25), you will not listen, you will not think, you will not consider anything outside the box of Sinai and Moses and self-righteousness through law.
Law of the Spirit of Life, His superiority in all things…
Those redeemed by faith in Jesus Christ as their Messiah who died for them and was resurrected for their justification leading to enteral life, these are “not under Law but under grace” (Romans 6:14). This means that the redeemed in Jesus who have approached the Father by faith-trust-belief in the Son are made “positionally right” NOT by works of the Law but by “GRACE” (a gift of imputed righteousness) through faith in Messiah’s righteousness earned for us at Golgotha (2 Corinthians 5:21). Subsequent this covenant relationship with the Father having been established by GRACE through FAITH, the indwelling Holy Spirit, given as a Guarantor of that covenant (Ephesians 1:13-14), begins a work of righteousness in the inner man of the redeemed; this work by the Spirit is done solely through the redeemed conscience; that is, the “new creation” in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17) where the emphasis is NOT the written code or conformity to same but the emphasis is the producing of “fruit” and against this “fruit of the Spirit” there is no LAW or written code as all law, the Father’s perfect will, is fulfilled completely and eternally by this “fruit” in one’s life (Galatians 5; Matthew 7:15-20).
Christians don’t live their daily life pursuing a written code of laws-ordinances-mandates as given Israel but they listen attentively to the indwelling Holy Spirit working through their redeemed conscience via the “law of conscience” written upon their heart (Romans 2:14-15); this law of conscience is arbitrated by the Spirit working through the redeemed conscience and is therefore attentive to the moral decisions of the redeemed, instantaneously provides divine wisdom and guidance in EVERY MORAL DECISION MADE EVERY SECOND OF THE DAY AND NIGHT, FOREVER.
It is the instantaneous, divine intercession of the Holy Spirit working through the conscience that makes the Law of the Spirit of Life infinitely superior to the Law of Sin and Death (Romans 8:1-3) as the Law of Sin and Death is subject to a seared conscience; subject to obfuscation and compromise via the sin-nature but the Law of the Spirit works with the redeemed conscience producing fruit that actually pleases the Father, eternally.
Christians who understand their place in the Kingdom of God through covenant, a covenant established by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, weary of your constant and unrelenting insistence that the law of ordinances you worship is the path to the Father’s heart when that law is your condemnation and it will ultimately curse you to death in Hell (Romans 3:20; Galatians 3:10; James 2:10; 1 Timothy 1:9; Galatians 2:16).
Your only hope for life in the Kingdom of God is faith in Yeshua, Jesus Christ, as your Messiah (John 14:6).
Keep in Step with the Spirit
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Galatians 5:16-24 (ESV)
If human kind is saved from death in Hell by “faith,” why Jesus?
Jacob’s children, many of whom frequent these forums to express their disdain and loathing for the New Testament and Jesus as Messiah in the New Covenant, will cite Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zechariah, Amos, Hosea and Ezekiel suggesting that Elohim, working through these prophets by divine inspiration, declares that He will save the Israelite who repents from wickedness and that Elohim’s chosen people, Israel, “all of Israel will be saved” (Isaiah 45:17; Romans 11:26).
First of all,
The promises of Elohim to Israel’s children relevant to the one who repents and turns from his wicked ways shall be saved are the very same parameters every human being has been subject to from Adam forward. When a man or woman in the Old Testament expressed sorrow for their sin, a contrite spirit toward behavior that condemned their conscience, and that man or woman expressed “faith” in Elohim as Creator, Provider, Sustainer, they entered into a covenant of righteousness (a right standing) with the Father (Hebrews 11).
When the individual Israelite or Jew under the Law Covenant expressed sorrow for sin and honored Yahweh by faith through believing in Him as Elohim, our Creator who is True, Holy, Faithful, that Israelite or Jew was saved from death in Hell by their “faith,” not Torah Law, not self-righteousness, not through a Rabbi or Priest or animal blood or diet or days.
Second,
There exists no special salvation dispensation in Scripture based upon one’s genetics or affiliations. Every Old Testament Israelite, every Jew, every Gentile, must come to the Father by “faith” in order to establish a covenant of righteousness (a right standing) with Elohim.
Why Jesus?
Where the Jew and Israelite err and ultimately find them self in Hades-Sheol/Torments subsequent death of the body is their spiritual lack of knowledge, their stubbornness and refusal to believe that Yeshua is Messiah and that His blood shed for them at Golgotha is the only atonement the Father will accept as payment for sin (John 3; John 14:6; 1 Peter 1:19).
Though Old Testament men and women initiated a righteous relationship with Elohim via faith, their sin had not received the mandated atonement first pictured in Genesis 3:21 and codified in Leviticus 17:11 and reiterated in Hebrews 9:22; that is, without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin.
Yes, these Old Testament saints honored Elohim through repentance and faith but the primary requisite for entrance into the Kingdom subsequent death of the body in Time is forgiveness of sin via blood atonement, NOT just any blood (Hebrews 10:4) but the blood of the Spotless Lamb of Elohim who entered Time specifically “to destroy the works of the Devil” (death, Hell, the grave) via blood atonement provided at Golgotha and confirmed by Messiah with the words “It is finished” (1 John 3:8b; 1 Peter 1:19; John 19:30).
The Soul and Sheol,
Every Old Testament saint that died in body having established a relationship of righteousness with Elohim, the soul of that saint was relegated to Sheol-Paradise awaiting Messiah’s blood atonement.
Messiah, while His body of flesh lie in the tomb for three-days, Messiah entered the region of Sheol (“Hades” in the Greek text) and preached liberty to the captive saints there and escorted them in disembodied spiritual form into the Kingdom “where nothing impure is permitted to exist” (Ephesians 4:7-10; 1 Peter 3:19; Luke 16:19-31; Revelation 21:27).
The Soul subsequent Messiah’s blood atonement,
Today, subsequent Messiah’s blood atonement and resurrection, every Christian that dies in body is immediately translated into the presence of our Lord awaiting the resurrection of the righteous (2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 3:21; Acts 24:15; Luke 14:14).
Every man or woman who has died in body from Adam forward having rejected relationship with Elohim by faith and those born in the Age of Grace who have rejected Messiah Jesus for the forgiveness of sin, these unrighteous dead are interned in Sheol-Hades/Torments to this very day awaiting the Judgment of the Condemned that will manifest immediately subsequent Messiah’s Millennial Reign (Revelation 20:11-15). Sheol-Paradise is currently vacated.
In conclusion,
There has never existed a Path to the Kingdom of Elohim subsequent death of the body in Time other than through Jesus Christ our Messiah by faith (John 14:6).
“The New Covenant” – A proud child of Jacob boasted: “Remember that the New Covenant belongs to Israel” Jeremiah 31:31-34; Ezekiel 36:24-28; Hebrews 8:6-13 What is the Truth of the matter?
Yes, Messiah came directly to the children of Israel to prepare them for the New Covenant’s Gospel (Matthew 15:24). The children of Israel were foreordained to be proselytized in the New Covenant’s Gospel and thereby become Elohim’s ministers of the Great Commission (Matthew 28) but Israel failed Elohim and their Messiah. Israel blasphemed the Holy Spirit. Israel blasphemed their Messiah and falsely accused Him of paganism – blasphemy violations of the Greatest Commandment. Israel’s children conspired with Rome and had their Messiah scourged nearly to death then demanded that Messiah be murdered, suffocated, upon a tree while demanding that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children.
Elohim’s eschatological plan relevant to “destroying the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8b) via Messiah via the Gospel “ordained before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:9-10) would not be thwarted by the unfaithfulness of Israel’s children; therefore, Elohim relented and ordained the Gentiles as custodians of the New Covenant, the Gospel, the Great Commission and the Gentiles will remain in custody and in authority over these eschatological mandates until the “fullness of the Gentiles have entered the Kingdom of Elohim” (Romans 11:35).
Israel FAILED; therefore, Israel’s children are under judgment, their covenants with Elohim predicated upon obedience nullified (Deuteronomy 28) and only a “remnant” of Israel’s children will escape the “second death” in Hell due their arrogance, self-righteousness, in rejection of Messiah Yeshua, a blind rejection of Truth and Life, a divine judgment relevant to this very day (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27).
Is the physical World controlled by the Spiritual?
The physical World is in the midst of an unfathomable spiritual war initiated by a rebellious cherub angel, a war that manifest in the Kingdom of Elohim and is causation for the creation of Time and physics and the human genome as a repository for rebellion that is not permitted in the Kingdom (Revelation 21:27).
Due Adam’s compromise with evil in direct rejection of Elohim’s precepts relevant to Covenant Relationship, Satan has been granted temporary dominion over the Earth; therefore, this fallen World is controlled by (1) the free will of human kind, (2) the wicked desires of Satan and (3) the necessary restraint of the Holy Spirit to prevent humanity from imploding in unrestrained narcissism in conjunction with guiding and directing Time toward a specific eschatological purpose (2 Corinthians 4:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:7).
This confluence of evil (demonic & human) partially constrained by the Holy Spirit is the Father’s eschatological will as the previous six-thousand-years of World history are a display, an example, to the faithful angelic creation of the horrors of disobedience and rejection of the Father’s will and His wisdom and love; the previous 6000-years of horror, death, suffering, perversion, unconscionable filth, will soon be countered by 1000-years of absolute peace manifesting during Messiah’s Millennial Reign; this, while Satan and his spiritual servants are confined and prevented from human interaction (Revelation 20:2).
The Millennial Kingdom, the holiness and peace that is present there, will provide the faithful angelic creation an undeniable, unmistakable, comparison/contrast between life lived in obedience to the Father’s will and life lived in disobedience at the behest of Satan; ultimately, at the conclusion of Messiah’s Millennial Kingdom, Satan will be released and he will be successful in deceiving the Nations and humanity will turn against Elohim in war but Elohim will destroy His enemies with fire and vengeance and the faithful angelic creation will wholeheartedly agree with the Father that their former boss, Satan, does indeed deserve eternal punishment in Hell, forever (Revelation 20:10). Through all of this unconscionable horror, horror resulting from disobedience, Elohim will have successfully maintained volitional love and intimacy with His cherished angelic creation that He loves more than the human mind can comprehend.
The 6000-years of horror, the 1000-years of peace while Satan is restrained, the instantaneous corruption of humanity the moment Satan is released from captivity, these millennia, in combination, will provided a bulwark against a repeat of Satan’s rebellion in the Kingdom as the faithful angelic creation will witness the unfathomable love and compassion of their Creator who suffered and gave Himself as a blood sacrifice for a wicked, vile, vulgar, defiled, human kind as Elohim destroyed the works of Satan via selfless love displayed at Golgotha (1 John 3:8b) via a Gospel ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10). These things the angels observe with awe (1 Peter 1:12).
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!
The New Covenant is initiated by grace – repentance – faith; does this mean the Christian is not required to submit to Elohim’s Law; that is, Torah?
People DON’T submit to God’s law…if they did, our World would not be fallen and Jesus would not have needed to suffer and die in your place. What I AM SAYING is this; if a man or woman truly desires a relationship with Elohim; they are sorry for the way they’ve lived; they desire forgiveness and intimacy with their Creator, to know Him and love Him and serve Him; the divine truth is that intimacy with the Father is ONLY POSSIBLE through faith in Jesus as Messiah (John 14:6).
The KEY to LIFE and PEACE with the Father,
The Father is only approachable through His Son (1 John 2:23)…this is the divine “Standard” that the Father has ordained through the New Covenant’s Gospel, a Gospel of Grace that was ordained-enacted “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10) and this Gospel was first pictured/demonstrated in Genesis 3:21.
God’s will, His “spiritual law” that is eternal (Romans 2:14-15), that spiritual law of the Spirit of life (Romans 8:2) is made alive-applicable-livable-doable-when one enters into life-intimacy-relationship with the Father by faith in the Son…THIS IS THE FATHER’S WILL (John 6:29; John 3:16-17). Once intimacy is established through New Covenant relationship with the Father, the Holy Spirit indwells, literally takes-up residence within the redeemed (Ephesians 1:13-14) and does the work of obedience by employing the spiritual law written upon the heart…NOT LETTERS etched in stone or scratched upon parchment as in Torah but the spiritual law infused within the heart of humanity at conception and infused within the human genome on Day-6 of Creation.
Christians and Torah?
Christians don’t pursue Torah Law, Sinai, Ordinances, Diets, Days, as these things only foreshadowed our Messiah, but the Christian walks in peace with the Father through faith in the Son, Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1), and the Christian walks in obedience to the Holy Spirit who methodically guides the redeemed conscience in obedience to the Father’s will (2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 5:16). This form of divine obedience is eternally superior to the coerced obedience of Torah Law which seeks perfection from the sin-nature, a condemned sin-nature that can never comply sufficiently (Romans 8:1-4; Romans 3:20; James 2:10; Galatians 3:10; Galatians 2:16).
This is why the Holy Spirit explains in Paul’s letter to the Church at Rome that what the Law (Torah) was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sin-nature, the Father did by sending His Son as a blood sacrifice for our sin and through faith in the Son, we can receive the Son’s perfection, righteousness, “gifted” – imputed over our life and receive complete forgiveness for sin by New Covenant promise (Romans 8; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 8:12). This is why the “law of the Spirit of life” is eternally superior to “the law of sin and death” (Torah Law) (Romans 8:2).
In conclusion,
As the Christian walks in the Father’s forgiveness and peace, the Christian is methodically guided, daily, by the indwelling Spirit and produces fruit (Galatians 5) that Torah could never achieve; this, as the Spirit methodically prepares the redeemed in Jesus for service in the New Jerusalem.
Torah Law was given to Israel and sojourners with them seeking the protective benefits of that theocracy. Only those under the Law Covenant were subject to Torah Law, Gentiles have always been under the spiritual law infused within the human genome on Day-6 (Romans 8:2; Romans 2:14-15).
Torah Law’ specific function was to act as a bulwark against a repeat of the failures of the Adamic and Noahic generations as their compromise with the demonic thwarted their ability to produce the Messiah but Elohim began anew with Noah, Shem and through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Elohim sanctified a people group through whom He would bring forth Messiah through Judah; in order for this eschatological mandate to manifest, Israel would have to be sanctified, made holy as Elohim is Holy and set-apart from the paganism that surrounded the Tribes and continuously sought Israel’s compromise with Baal and Molech; therefore, Torah Law and Israel’s covenants were overwhelmingly based upon strict obedience to the “letter” as per Deuteronomy 28; unfortunately, Israel ultimately failed Elohim, Israel failed their Messiah and their ordination as ministers of the Gospel via the Great Commission; therefore, the Gentiles were given custody of the Gospel and the Great Commission until the fullness of the Gentiles have entered the Kingdom via faith in Jesus as Messiah (Romans 11:25).
A warning to Israel’s children,
Israel’s children, to this very day, falsely believe their heritage and divine promises of forgiveness via covenants, covenants predicated upon obedience, shelter them from their need for blood atonement as per Leviticus 17:11 and from the ramifications of sin and Israel’s children falsely believe their self-righteousness through Torah negates their need for Messiah. Israel’s ONLY HOPE is Yeshua and New Covenant relationship with the Father granted only by faith in Yeshua as Messiah, a personal relationship with Elohim initiated by faith, alone.
Without Torah Law, how does humanity differentiate between good v. evil, righteousness v. iniquity?
How was sin judged in the Kingdom? How was Satan judged of covetousness that initiated his extrication from the Kingdom (Luke 10:18; John 8:44)? How were the Adamic and the Noahic generations judged of demonically inspired defilement worthy of extinction by water save eight (Genesis 6)?
“Where there is no law there is no sin” (Romans 4:15; 5:13); therefore, the Spiritual Law or “the Law of the Spirit of Life” (Romans 2:14-15; Romans 8:2) was actively working within the Eternal Realm and upon the Earth, thousand of years prior to Sinai, judging the thoughts and intent of man’s heart. Sinai’s laws were nothing new or novel but simply a codification of the Spiritual Law written upon the heart of humanity on Day-6 as Elohim created human kind in His spiritual image and imparted certain divine communicable attributes into human kind for the Father’s eschatological purposes going forward.
Torah Law was given exclusively to Israel’s children and sojourners with them as a bulwark against the failures of the Adamic/Noahic generations and their compromise with evil which thwarted their viability as progenitors of the Messiah who would enter the Realm of Time specifically “to destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8b) via a battle strategy now known as “the Gospel” which was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10; Genesis 3:21). In the New Covenant, the Spiritual Law is used almost exclusively by the indwelling Holy Spirit via a redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) to produce fruits of righteousness (Galatians 5) through the redeemed that honors the Father and furthers His eschatological work going forward.
Torah plays very little, if any, significant role in the work of the Spirit in the New Covenant as the Spiritual Law of the Spirit of Life (Romans 8:2) takes precedent and will continue to take precedent as Elohim’s arbiter of free will throughout Eternity as free will remains extant in Eternity by necessity.
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