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 and Israel’s failures…

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.

Torah Law – “the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:2)…an explanation for the self-righteous legalist that frequents these forums…

Anyone who seeks Torah for eternal life will perish in sin because Torah is nothing more than a tutor, a road map, to Messiah and eternal life through faith (Galatians 3:24). Torah defines sin, explains man’s need for an Intercessor but provides no atonement which is essential to initiating eternal covenant with the Father (Romans 3:20; Leviticus 17:11; Galatians 2:16).

Torah’s limitations,

Torah mandates absolute perfection in word and deed if one is to initiate covenant with the Father thorough observant works (James 2:10) but human kind is under the Adamic curse (Romans 5:12); human kind is sinful by nature (Romans 3:23); therefore, anyone who seeks eternal covenant with the Father as a pardon from death in Hell via Torah Law, this person is “cursed” (Galatians 3:10) and lest they repent and trust fully in the pardon offered only by faith in Yeshua as Messiah (John 3; John 14:6), they will surely perish in their sin (John 8:24) and ultimately the Lake of Fire subsequent Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15).

You and millions like you who are rebellious and arrogant toward Messiah will suffer the second death in Hell lest you humble yourself and approach the Father in sincere repentance (Luke 13:3) and sincere faith-trust in Messiah Yeshua as your Lord and Savior who shed His innocent blood to pay your sin-debt for you (John 3)… a debt that Torah only defines but lack the ability to provide restitution (Romans 3:20).

Obedience that eternally pleases the Father,

The only human obedience that eternally honors the Father is the production of righteous fruit that is manifest through sanctification via the anointing of the indwelling Holy Spirit who is given as Guarantor of New Covenant with the Father by faith in Yeshua as Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14; Galatians 5). This production of righteous fruit manifests through a redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) that is arbitrated by the spiritual law written upon the heart (Romans 2:14-15) and methodically applied in the life of the redeemed during sanctification (Galatians 5:16). Works of Torah Law performed with the motive of initiating righteousness with the Father is equated to a “filthy garment” or “bloody menstrual cloth” in the literal Hebrew (Isaiah 64:6).

Torah – Quran – Yeshua,

Your self-righteous mindset through Torah is why only a “remnant” of Israel’s children and those deceived by the religions of Judaism and Islam (the Quran – a plagiarized Torah) will escape the second death in the Lake of Fire (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27); that is, unbelief, rejection, of Messiah Yeshua as atonement for your sin and Yeshua as the ONLY Path to imputed-gifted righteousness with the Father by faith, alone (2 Corinthians 5:21; Acts 4:12). Yeshua as Messiah by faith is the ONLY Way to life with the Father (John 14:6).

Elohim’s priority – Law or Relationship?

Many who frequent these religious forums possess a warped understanding of the Father’s passion relevant to His New Covenant, His eschatological desire for humanity going forward. Jews-Israelite’s-Hebrew Roots-SDA-factions of Pentecostalism-other cults and sects and religions possess a legalistic passion for “do this” and “do that” and “don’t do that” and “keep this” and “observe that” while those passions would be better focused and eternally more profitable by proselytizing the spiritually lost, the spiritually ignorant, the soul headed to death in Hell, and showing them the Way to establish New Covenant relationship with the Father through faith in the Son and then allow the indwelling Holy Spirit to take care of obedience through sanctification where the Spirit produces fruits of righteousness via a redeemed conscience, fruits, obedience, against which there is no Law (Galatians 5).

Law or Grace through Faith?

Man does not require more “law” but man desperately needs intimacy with his Creator and a redeemed heart, a new heart, that desires the things of Elohim and not the desires of the flesh (2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 5:16). True divine intimacy with Elohim is only possible by grace (unmerited favor) through faith in Jesus as Messiah which initiates New Covenant relationship with the Father via imputed-gifted righteousness and daily sanctification via the indwelling Holy Spirit (John 3; Ephesians 1:13-14; Galatians 5:16).

If Jesus is Elohim, Deity, why does He purport to not know the day or the hour of His 2nd-Advent but only the Father is privileged with this information? Matthew 24:36

Free will remains extant among human kind, the angels, as well as within the triune Deity, Elohim. Messiah Jesus, the Son, will not return to Mount Olivet to initiate His Millennial Reign until a specific number of redeemed via the Gospel of Grace have been readied for the Kingdom by faith. The Father has chosen to allow free will, volition, among human kind, to determine the initiation of the Tribulation Era and the encroaching nuclear horror that permeates and finalizes the Tribulation and the 2nd-Advent; in other words, “that Day” is fluid as men and women are choosing the Kingdom of Elohim by faith or choosing the kingdom of Satan via self-righteousness.

The Father, as Administrator of the Triune Elohim, knows the “number” of redeemed that will replenish the Kingdom which is now partially void as one-third of the Kingdom’s servants followed Satan in the great rebellion. It’s interesting to theorize that just as our physical Earth deplores a void, a vacuum, in its atmosphere, so does our Creator deplore the void left by Satan’s rebellion in the Kingdom; therefore, it is reasonable, plausible, to believe that until the number of redeemed in Jesus corresponds to the number of fallen angels who were extricated from the Kingdom due to rebellion and unfaithfulness, the Realm of Time will continue and the “age of grace” will endure until that specific number of redeemed has entered the Kingdom through the Gospel of Grace.

Father – Administrator

Son – Creator, Warrior, Messiah, Judge

Holy Spirit – Logistics

Relevance of the 4th-Commandment for the Christian in the Age of Grace and relevance of the Sabbath honored in the Millennial Kingdom? What about the Genesis Sabbath as well?

The 4th-Commandment was given solely to Israel’s children and sojourners with them for sanctification purposes beginning in Exodus 16 (Ezekiel 20:12). The Sabbath edict, the Torah Law, will be re-instituted in-part during the Millennial Kingdom; this, not to glorify Israel but as a historical example of what Elohim has done to provided humanity a Path to righteousness through the Gospel, a Gospel of grace through faith that is foreshadowed throughout the Torah and ultimately fulfilled in Messiah Jesus.

For the Christian who seeks wisdom through the Spirit, the Sabbath foreshadowed Messiah’s rest from an arduous and demanding Law Covenant that could never provide a covenant of peace with the Father through righteousness as the Law Covenant demanded absolute perfection in word and deed in order to attain righteousness through it (James 2:10), but the “law of sin and death” (Torah Law, Romans 8:2) only cursed the one who sought covenant with the Father via obedience (Galatians 3:10); this, due to the Adamic sin-nature (Romans 3:23; Isaiah 64:6) as Torah Law defines sin but provides no form of acceptable atonement (Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16); therefore, concerning the Christian, Messiah Jesus IS our Sabbath’s rest, both the Genesis Sabbath and the Sabbath edict given Israel beginning in Exodus 16.

Christianity and the Sabbath,

When one honors Jesus by faith, they honor all that the Sabbath edict given Israel and the Sabbath Day of Rest in the Genesis foreshadowed (Colossians 2:16; Matthew 11:28-30); therefore, when the Christian honors Jesus as Messiah by faith, they honor the 4th-Commandment and they honor Elohim’s example of “rest” on Day-7.

Torah Law – Relevant for the Christian?

God’s Law (Romans 2:14-15), the Law of the Spirit of Life (Romans 8:2), is eternal and has been relevant subsequent the creation of the angles as God’s Spiritual Law is the arbiter of free will in both Eternity and within the Realm of Time.

On the other hand,

Torah Law, much like the code of Hammurabi, is nothing new or novel but simply a codification of the eternal spiritual law etched in stone and given to a people group who were to be sanctified (set apart and made holy) for Elohim’s eschatological purposes. Torah Law was provided Israel’s children in hopes of negating a repeat of the failures of the Adamic/Noahic generations who had compromised with the demonic and negated their ability to produce the Messiah, a Messiah who was to enter Time and “destroy the works of the Devil” (Genesis 3:15; 1 John 3:8b) via a battle strategy known as “The Gospel,” a battle strategy which was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10; Genesis 3:21); therefore, Elohim etched nine-relevant moral edicts of the Spiritual Law (Romans 2:14-15) into stone (1-ceremonial law/the 4th) and commissioned Moses to scratch 603-ceremonial-civil laws on parchment in hopes of deterring Israel’s children from compromise with pagan tribes serving pagan gods that inundated the lands through which Israel’s children would travel; a demonic-paganized people who relentlessly sought Israel’s compromise with Baal and Molech.

Torah Law in the New Covenant,

Torah Law was given specifically to Israel’s children and sojourners with them seeking the protective benefits of that Theocracy. Torah Law has very little relevance in the New Covenant other than acting as a Tutor for wayward Jews and Israelite’s (Galatians 3:24) as the New Covenant is rooted in the eternal spiritual law which is enlivened by the indwelling Holy Spirit in the life of the redeemed in Jesus and the Spirit simultaneously employs both the redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) and the spiritual law written upon the heart of humanity on Day-6; the Holy Spirit, employing both the spiritual law and the redeemed conscience, walks the redeemed in Jesus in the daily process of sanctification and methodically guides the redeemed conscience to produce fruits of righteousness, fruit that honors the Father, fruit…against which there is no Law (Galatians 5); hence, Christians are not enslaved by Torah Law but serve the Father through the Spirit via a redeemed conscience and are therefore “free” and in “peace” with our Creator. Jesus proclaimed that you would know them by their “fruit” (Matthew 7:15-20). Christians are not under Torah Law but under grace through faith (Romans 6:14).