Elohim is not honored by Torah observance in the New Covenant but by faith in Jesus as one’s Messiah (John 6:29). Jesus entered the Realm of Time under Law…He came to those under Law to proselytize them in the Gospel of Grace as per a New Covenant based on faith, not codified laws, not Torah (Galatians 4:4-5).
If you desire to devote your time and efforts to a bygone covenant or the elements of that covenant, that is your business and there is absolutely nothing “wrong” with Hebrew Roots motives as long as you’re fully aware that it is by faith, not works of the law, that one establishes New Covenant promises with the Father and receives eternal life through the forgiveness of sin via the shed blood of Jesus at Golgotha; this, by faith in Jesus as your Messiah, NOT Torah observance (Galatians 2:16; Romans 3:2-21).
If Christians are not obligated to Sinai-the Law Covenant (Romans 6:14; 2 Corinthians 3), is it permissible to murder in the New Covenant?
Discussion,
No…murder has been prohibited from Day-6 of Creation forward concerning humanity; this, via the spiritual law written upon the heart by Elohim (Romans 2:14-15; 8:2) as humanity is created in the spiritual image of Elohim possessing certain divine communicable attributes of Elohim; this, for His eschatological purposes going forward (Genesis 1:26-28). The spiritual law written upon the heart has been an arbiter of free will subsequent the creation of the angels and Jesus reiterated murder as prohibited conduct in His New Covenant ministry and Jesus added mens rea (the thought life) as enhanced culpability (Matthew 5:21-22).
Sinai is nothing but a fragmented reiteration of the comprehensive spiritual law and Sinai was given specifically to Israel’s children for sanctification and eschatological purposes going forward; primarily, to thwart Israel’s compromise with Baal and Molech which would have stymied Israel’s ordination as progenitors of the Messiah, the Gospel, the Great Commission; Sinai was Elohim’s attempt to prevent a repeat of the failures of the Adamic/Noahic generations who rejected their divine ordination via a compromise with the demonic (Genesis 6:5).
Sinai, Torah, Moses, are elements of a bygone covenant that Israel broke, rejected, failed (Hebrews 8:7).
Christians are NOT under the old Law Covenant (Romans 6:14) but they live by the Spirit and the Spirit produces divine fruit through them via daily sanctification; divine fruit that fulfills all law as the Father is glorified by that fruit (Galatians 5:16-23; John 15:9). Different covenants, vastly different implementation of law and obedience. It’s past time that Christians understand their place in the New Covenant and STOP compromising their faith by an alliance with the old (2 Corinthians 3:6).
The Spiritual Law (Romans 2:14-15; Romans 8:2) has been written upon the human heart subsequent Day-6 as Human Kind is created in the spiritual image of Elohim (Genesis 1:26-28) possessing certain divine communicable attributes of Elohim, one such attribute being the Spiritual Law which acts as a bulwark against unrestrained narcissism that would culminate in societal implosion.
Torah Law is but a fragmented, segmented, portion of the comprehensive Spiritual Law and Torah Law was given specifically to Israel for sanctification and eschatological purposes concerning thwarting Israel’s compromise with Baal and Molech which would have negated their eschatological purpose concerning the Messiah, the Gospel, the Great Commission, going forward.
Torah is a bygone covenant of no true relevance in the New Covenant (Hebrews 8:7); with that said, Torah does offers me historical and eschatological knowledge that is very profitable in my walk with the Holy Spirit but other than that, Torah demonstrates through Israel’s failures what NOT TO DO concerning the establishment of righteousness with Elohim (Romans 9-10).
Subjugating the flesh, Adam’s sin nature,
The Christian walks by the Spirit (Galatians 5:16) and the flesh is brought under control through obedience to the Spirit and the production of divine fruit (Galatians 5:2-23), NOT TORAH LAW!
Why does mankind imagine a vain thing via their attempts to discredit Elohim’s Canon of Scripture?
I believe in the sovereignty and omnipotence of my Lord, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit who Authored the Scriptures. I believe with all my heart that the words before me in the Canon of Scripture are the exact words, the exact message, that He desires I have so that I can know Him personally; love Him intimately; live with Him eternally.
I am not concerned about what you or anyone else considers “changes” to the Canon as the message, the theme, is immutable and consistent and Truth. You can obfuscate, you can deny, you can scoff, you can insult, but the eternal message of the Scriptures will not change; you are a sinner in need of an Intercessor; therefore, if you desire eternal life once your body of decaying flesh dies away, Jesus Christ is the only Way to find forgiveness of sin through His blood atonement provided you at Golgotha some 2000-years ago. If you deny Jesus, He will deny you and you will die the “second death” in Hell “without excuse.”
Alien Life (UFO’s) or Spiritual Interaction within the Realm of Time in preparation for Messiah’s 2nd-Advent?
Discussion,
There are no “aliens” as human kind defines them or believes them to be. All that mankind sees and declares as a UFO or an “alien” is the interaction between the Spiritual Realm and the Physical Realm and these interactions will increase in frequency and in intensity as we approach the 2nd-Advent of Messiah to Mount Olivet and the initiation of His Millennial Kingdom. Human kind catches glimpses of the demonic world and the faithful angelic world as the spiritual war between good and evil rages on around us and through us, daily (Ephesians 6:10-20).
Such “alien” manifestations are well documented in Genesis 3 with Eve’s interaction with Satan (Ezekiel 28:11+) and Ezekiel’s vision in Ezekiel 1. Abraham’s interaction with Elohim in Genesis 22 and Jacob’s encounter in Genesis 32-33; Sodom and Gomorrah and the angelic presence there; The Mount of Transfiguration (Matthew 17).
We are explicitly warned by the Holy Spirit to NOT deny kindness and hospitality to strangers as some have entertained angels unaware.
English Standard Version
“Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” Hebrews 13:2
Jesus explains that His Kingdom is NOT of this Realm…. but there exists around us, through us, a Realm that is more tangible, REAL, interactive, infinitely superior, to this present finite Realm of Time.
“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.” Jeremiah 31:33
“For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.” Hebrews 8:10
It is historically tragic but Israel rejected the New Covenant (Matthew 23:37); Israel rejected their Messiah sent to them specifically to proselytize them in the New Covenant as ministers of the Gospel and the Great Commission (Matthew 15:24); therefore, the Gentile has received the Commission – Ordination to preach the Gospel (Romans 11:25; Acts 13:46) but what “law” is now extant in the New Covenant subsequent the Law Covenant given Israel at Sinai through Moses?
Law in the New Covenant,
The free will/volition of the Gentile has always been arbitrated by the spiritual law written upon the human heart at conception (Romans 2:14-15; 8:2; 7;6), infused within the human genome on Day-6 of Creation as human kind is created in the spiritual image of Elohim (Genesis 1:26-28) and possesses certain divine communicable attributes of Elohim; one such divine attribute is the spiritual law essential relevant to Elohim’s eschatological purposes going forward as the spiritual law also acts as a bulwark against unrestrained narcissism that would inevitably culminate in societal implosion thus thwarting Messiah’s primary mission concerning “the destruction of the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8b; Genesis 3:15).
I find it interesting that Elohim employs that same spiritual law, written upon the heart, in His New Covenant (Hebrews 10:16; 8:10; Jeremiah 31:33) except that it has been enlivened/made applicable in the life of the Christian through the redeemed conscience/the “new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17) and it is the Holy Spirit who employs the spiritual law and the redeemed conscience to produce divine “fruit” (Galatians 5:22-23) in the life of the Christian during daily sanctification and this divine fruit (Galatians 5:16-23) fulfills all law; after all, Jesus did say, “You will know them by their fruit” (Matthew 7:15-20).
Prayers of the Christian don’t negate the Adamic curse concerning the natural body and its destiny in decay, degradation, death of the flesh (1 Corinthians 15:22)…the prayers of the Christian are intimacy with our Creator who died for us that we can live eternally with Him (John 3:16; John 11:25)…not in this body of decay and sin and suffering but in a resurrected body fashioned like His glorified body (Philippians 3:21); therefore, death for the Christian, irrespective of causation, is freedom from the encumbrance of sin, disease, pain, sorrow…death is swallowed up in victory (1 Corinthians 15:54).
Jews, Israelite’s, have no special salvation dispensation as they too, like every Gentile, must pass through the blood of Jesus in order to find righteousness (right standing) with the Father. If you deny Jesus as your blood atonement for sin by faith in Him as your Messiah (Leviticus 17:11; Matthew 26:28; 1 Peter 1:18-19) you will die the “second death” in Hell irrespective of race, ethnicity, skin color, religious affiliation (Rev 20:11-15).
Why is Jesus the only Way to the Father and eternal life? (John 14:6)
Jesus is the only Way to the Father because this Path to eternal life for humanity, the defeat of Satan, the restoration of order and holiness to the Kingdom, the maintenance of volitional love between the Father and the faithful angelic creation, was ordained “before Time began” via a Gospel, a divine battle strategy (2 Timothy 1:8-10; Genesis 3:21); this, as Jesus entered the Realm of Time “to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b; Genesis 3:15) which is the eschatological foundation for the creation of Time and physics, this temporary Earth, as a repository for a Kingdom War that was removed from the Kingdom and placed partially within the constraints of Time and physics as were the participants of that war (Luke 10:18; Rev. 12); this, while Messiah Jesus is the KEY to victory over death, Hell, the grave and Satan in this Spiritual War.
This spiritual strategic battle strategy is the Father’s will as the Father endeavors to maintain volitional love with His faithful angelic creation while dealing with a rebellious charismatic cherub angel and one-third of the angelic creation that allied with the Evil One (Ezekiel 28:11+); this is why Jesus has been given all authority over all things spiritual and physical and all things relevant to the defeat of Satan have been placed in Jesus’ hands as Creator, Warrior, Messiah, Judge (John 3:35; Matthew 28:18) and this is why Jesus is the ONLY Way to the Father because the Father’s eschatological will has ordained same…period!
Jesus is the KEY figure in Heaven and on Earth as Creator, Warrior, Messiah, Judge, King over the Millennial Kingdom and LORD over the New Jerusalem. Without Jesus as your Intercessor between you and the Father, you will die in Hell and NOT be permitted to enter the Kingdom because your alliance with Satan via your unbelief, rejection of Jesus as Messiah for the forgiveness of sin, will NOT be tolerated in the Kingdom once order and holiness has been fully resorted/restored; this, as “NOTHING IMPURE” will enter the Kingdom (Rev. 21:7); therefore, the imputed-gifted righteousness of Jesus over your life by faith in Him in exchange for your sin-debt owed the Father is absolutely MANDATED and critically NECESSARY if you desire eternal life in the New Jerusalem (2 Corinthians 5:21; John 3; Acts 4:12).
For all intents and purposes, you are a byproduct, a divinely ordained pawn, in a Kingdom War that rages around us and through us as human beings (Ephesians 6); therefore, it is critically important relevant to whom you serve during your brief existence within the temporary Realm of Time; Satan or Elohim…the free will choice is yours to make (Joshua 24:14-15).
Did Jesus’ death only atone for past sins or all sin, past-present-future? What law is relevant in the New Covenant defining sin and Elohim’s expectations concerning obedience?
Discussion,
Jesus died for all sin, past-present-future (Hebrews 8-10; 1 John 2:2); otherwise, Jesus would be subject to repeated crucifixion as the bygone Law Covenant required repetitive blood sacrifices for the sins of Israel’s children; this, because the blood of bulls and goats could never take away sin (Hebrews 10:1-4).
Concerning Sinai and Moses, their purposes and the temporary, inferior, nature of codification…
The Ten-Commandments are but a mere fraction of Elohim’s comprehensive spiritual law; therefore, Sinai and Moses are wholly inadequate sources concerning righteousness with the Father. Sinai and Moses were given specifically to Israel’s children for sanctification and eschatological purposes in order to thwart Israel’s compromise with paganism; specifically, compromise with Baal and Molech; this, as Elohim did not desire a repeat of the demonically based failures of the Adamic and Noahic generations, two-generations who were governed solely by the spiritual law written upon the human heart (Romans 2:14-15) void the Holy Spirit as a relevant arbiter, a spiritual law that was negated, made impotent, by a seared conscience of a people group sold into demonic slavery and defilement via spiritual compromise (Romans 1:18-32).
Sinai was not given the Gentile lest same sought inclusion into Israel’s theocracy. Sinai was fragmented, codified, temporal, instructions to a people group through whom Elohim would endeavor to introduce His Messiah and His Gospel into the World to fulfill His promise to Abraham relevant to “a blessing to every family of the Earth” (Genesis 12:3b). Sinai’s intent was sanctification (a setting apart) of Israel’s children for Elohim’s eschatological purposes (“you shall be holy as I AM holy”) and Sinai was temporary, inadequate, as a purveyor of true righteousness as neither Sinai or Moses as codified laws could adequately address the totality of moral deterrence concerning human and angelic behavior required for true holiness and righteousness; hence, the eternal superiority of the Spiritual Law arbitrated by the indwelling Holy Spirit via a New Covenant.
Therefore,
The New Covenant is NOT regulated by Sinai or Moses or Days or Diets or Traditions or codified laws, but the man or woman who trusts in Messiah Jesus as LORD is redeemed by an imputed-gifted righteousness not their own (2 Corinthians 5:21; Genesis 3:21); that is, a divinely gifted righteousness earned for us by Messiah Jesus and fulfilled at Golgotha via blood atonement (Matthew 26:28; 1 Peter 1:18-19); therefore, the Christian is not enslaved to letters, laws, diets, days, traditions of a bygone Covenant of Law (Romans 6:14; 7:6; Hebrews 8:7), but the Christian serves through the tutelage of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14; John 14:16; Galatians 5:16) and the enlivened Spiritual Law written upon the heart (Hebrews 10:16), a Spiritual Law which is arbitrated by a redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) producing fruits of righteousness (Galatians 5:22-23) against which there is no law as these divine fruits fulfill all law, both codified and spiritual (Galatians 5:16-23).
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