Why Should I Follow His Torah?
- Zach Jordan
- Feb 27, 2023
- 54 min read
Updated: Mar 19, 2023
1 John 5:1-4
1 Whosoever believeth that Yeshua the Messiah is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
Those that love Him keep His Commandments.
-Throughout the years we have altered everything from the clothes that are in style, to what foods are in a healthy diet. Going back in to history we can see that everyone has done this they have radically changed their minds over the years. I will do my best to stay inside the King James bible, I have many issues with this version of text. The translators had a plan and it has duped the whole world, but I'm sure most of you will be coming from this bible so I will use these verses and when I need to. I will include a better translation when the point is incorrectly captured. Please I beg you do research and learn about what you classify as your authority over His Word. Research Aramaic, the language our Messiah spoke, and the Brenton's Septuagint. I hope you finish this with the understanding of The One who does not change.
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
James 1:17
(Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.) (KJV)
Aramaic Bible in Plain English James 1:17
{Every good and perfect gift descends from above, from The Father of lights with whom there is no change nor a shadow of variation.}
-I'm going to break this Study down into 4 Categories
Life Before The Written Torah
Life Before The Messiah
Life Before Revelation
Life After
-First lets research something particularly important.
Righteousness
Webster's Dictionary
-Christianity.com's biblical definition of righteousness- In its deeper spiritual meaning, righteousness is the quality of being right in the eyes of God, including character (nature), conscience (attitude), conduct (action), and command (word). Righteousness is, therefore, based upon God's standard because He is the ultimate Lawgiver Isaiah 33:22
-Now let’s address that second part Websters brought up free from guilt or sin.
1 John 3:4
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
-So if your committing sin your breaking the law, which means to not sin is to follow the Torah (law). I mean honestly, we can stop this study right here and end it. We all know that sin separates us from The Most High and the wage of sin is death, literally we are paid with death when we sin. John thought it was so important to just write this out as clear as possible. I can tell you go read through 1 John and then look me in the face honestly and tell me that you can sin freely because you have the blood of The Messiah or your under His Covering. Google this and I know you'll find some teacher or paster online who will explain away this part of scripture, but we should be reasoning with scripture not reasoning the scripture. Here is a quick summary.
Righteousness צֶדֶק= One who follows The Torah (Law)
-Now that we have that covered let’s move on, don't forget who what the author of James says about The Most High- there is no change, nor shadow of variation.
-I will not be covering every single instance just enough for you to see how important His Torah is.
Life Before The Written Torah
Adam
-He had commands that were given to him by The Father and he failed to keep them which means he sinned, and he fell. Remember sin is the transgression of the Torah (law), no law no sin. Here we see Adam breaking the Torah and receiving a consequence, thus the fall of man.
Cain
-Cain has sin waiting for him at his door, we know that Cain ends up sinning by murdering his brother Abel.
Genesis 4:7
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou does not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Enoch
-Enoch was Righteous in the eyes of The Most High and was Translated aka taken up to Heaven not having to taste death.
Genesis 5:23-24
23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: 24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Amplified Bible Genesis 5:23-24
And [in reverent fear and obedience] Enoch walked with God; and he was not [found among men], because God took him [away to be home with Him].
Noah
Genesis 6:8-9
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. 9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
-Here we start to really see some interesting words used. Noah’s given the title just. Let us go back to Websters
Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Just צַדִיק In a moral sense, upright; honest; having principles of rectitude; or conforming exactly to the laws, and to principles of rectitude in social conduct; equitable in the distribution of justice; as a just judge. 11 Equitable; due; merited; as a just recompense or reward.
-Do you see what I have underlined and made bold here? Someone who is just, conforms exactly to the law. This word has can be interchanged with the world Righteousness, we can easily see this in the Hebrew spelling of this and Righteousness.
-Noah follows the Torah exactly. How do I know this well besides the bible telling me he does here's this other verse which should make you raise an eyebrow.
Genesis 7:1-5
1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. 2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. 3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. 4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. 5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
-Did you catch the that? Noah is given the title righteous and is told to take 7 of the CLEAN animals, how can he know what animals are clean and unclean when we don't see this laid out for His people until Leviticus 11? How could he have known this if he had not received instruction from The Most High about His Torah? The answer is Noah was instructed about His Torah we just don't see the instructions until it written down and taught by Moses.
Abraham
Galatians 3:29
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English Galatians 3:29
And if you are of The Messiah, you are therefore the seed of Abraham and heirs by The Promise.
-The Father of The Promise, now this can move into a multitude of studies but for time we will focus on who Abraham was. I highly suggest you read the book of Jasher, I won't be going into it, but you should. Life Before the Father of the Eternal Covenant found in Genesis 15 and confirmed in Genesis 17. We can see from these two Chapters a few notable things one Abraham is asleep when the Promise is first given and it says this.
Genesis 15:6-18
6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. 7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. 11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. 12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. 17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. 18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
-Here the title of righteousness given again. This is a reoccurring event you will see littered throughout all His Word. Look at this and let us apply some logical reasoning since Abraham is asleep, The Most High basically entered into Covenant with himself, think about it. If this the case then this Covenant is essentially one sided and can never be broken since The Father doesn't lie.
Genesis 18:16-33
16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. 17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; 18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. 20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; 21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. 22 And the men turned their faces from thence and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. 23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? 24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? 26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. 27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: 28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. 29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake. 30 And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. 31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake. 32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. 33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
-Abraham is questioning The Most High in regards to the Righteous in Sodom. He not only asks to save them but to save everyone on the account of 10 Righteous. This should show you how few Righteous people there were then and there are now.
Life Before The Messiah
Moses
The separation of His people and the writing down of His Torah
Exodus 24:12
And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
-Now we enter a time when we all can agree His Torah is clearly defined and is able to be followed by all the people but chosen not to. I've heard the argument multiple times, it was too hard to follow and we can't keep it therefore we need The Messiah. If that's your reason for needing The Messiah I'm sorry but you've missed the mark. You have left His Torah behind and don't know The Messiah. I say this out of love, not hatred, rejection or lack of understanding, but for self-reflection and growth in the truth. You need to understand His Torah (law) to understand sin. That is the only way you can avoid it. Without The Fathers perfect ways, you’re on the wide path His Son told us to avoid. The one we see over and over again the people of this world choose to walk. I do not want to go into Moses too much I think we all know his connection with the Torah (Law), but I will add this for the naysayers.
Deuteronomy 30:11-14
11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
It is not far from you, it is not across the ocean or in Heaven. It’s in your Heart and your Mouth, its near you. Remember what John said His Torah is not grievous or to hard to follow.
Judges
It got so bad that His People needed to be constantly saved and reminded about His Torah. There are twelve Judges שׁוֹפְטִים: Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Deborah, Gideon, Tola, Jair, Jephthah, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon, and Samson. You can read though this book and see how His Chosen People didn't choose Him. But the one thing that remained was The Father calling out to His People to come out of her, does that sound familiar.
Judges 21:25
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
This verse explains the time of the Judges, His Torah didn't matter to the people until they were in a time of need then they returned to his ways.
Kings & Prophets
-If you read about the times of the Kings and the Prophets, we see many evil men who did right in their own eyes. I really want to expand more on this section but due to amount of reading I’m going to move past this pretty quickly because I’m sure most of you came here with knowledge that from Moses to The Messiah people who believed followed the Torah. I want to be cover a lot in The Messiah's timeframe and after so I’m not going to give this part its justice I’m sorry. Something tells me you didn't come here for this you came to see how I’ll use the writings of Paul to claim the Torah is still relevant. We will get there do not worry.
The Lord render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the Lord delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the Lord's anointed.
Therefore the Lord hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
Psalm 119:1-3
1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. 2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. 3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
Life Before Revelation
-We have arrived the part everyone I’m sure was waiting for. Enter our King and Savior, The Elect One, the Son of Adam, The Healer of the World, The Messiah. Let's take a moment to pray before we enter this section.
Father, I ask that your Ruach is here with us today and removes the scales from our eyes and guides us to The Truth. Not this made-up truth we have been fed all these years or this personal truth we have created through years of altered doctrine. Guide us Father, give us the eyes to see and ears to hear what the Ruach has to say. Please allow us to come together to be one body in The Messiah, please show us the way to righteousness through Your Word. So we do not use our own opinions in vain and apply our own reasoning or understanding to Your Word. Show us Father, Lead us Yeshua and fill us Ruach Ha Kodesh so we can be clean in Your Eyes and please You Yahuah. I pray in Your Son’s name Yeshua Ha Mashiach Amein Amein.
-One more definition id really like you to see because I promise you have never looked at this word in this context.
1: having or showing undue or excessive pride in one's appearance or achievements : CONCEITED2: marked by futility or ineffectualness : UNSUCCESSFUL, USELESS vain efforts to escape3: having no real value : IDLE, WORTHLESS vain pretensions4 archaic : FOOLISH, SILLY
-Lets skate past the first definition I'm sure everyone once they hear or read this word they automatically use this meaning without question. lets look at the other words used. Useless, Worthless, Foolish, Ineffectualness, these are strong words that can replace the word vain. Next time you read through Scripture replace this world with the word worthless and see how different the Scriptures read.
Matthew 5:17-18
17 Think not that I am come to destroy The Torah (law), or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
-Let's dissect these two verses to start this section. Yeshua did not come to destroy the Torah, He says it clear as day He came to fulfill. Now if you thinking yeah He fulfilled it that is why I don't have to worry about it. Then I'll ask you to reread that verse and tell me how can you read this and walk away with that understanding? He even says nothing shall be removed, a jot and tittle are punctuation marks essentially. So how when reading this can you get the understanding that you no longer have to follow the Torah (law), He came to be an example on how to walk in The Fathers Torah, among many other things. He even gives us a timeframe connected to his statement, till Heaven and earth pass away. Well you might ask when does this happen?
Revelation 21: 1-8
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. 5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. 6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
-Here at the end of Revelation that's when the Heaven and the earth pass away. So why would Our Messiah say this, if it wasn't true? Why would he mislead us? Why would he tell us that His Father's Torah will not be altered in the slightest until Heaven and earth pass away? Then He finishes His statement with verse 18 saying, "Till all is Fulfilled". Look around you has all been fulfilled? I feel these verses provided should really be all you need to in order to understand the importance of obeying The Father. Leading you to repent and return to His Perfect Law of Liberty, His Torah.
Matthew 12:46-50
46 While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. 47 Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee. 48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? 49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! 50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
-Multiple times we see The Messiah claiming it’s not His Will but The Will of His Father in Heaven. Yeshua came to show us how to really live out The Torah. We were all taught from a young age that His people are given the gift of grace. Yes we are, we are gifted way to enter and return back into Covenant with The Father, not a hall pass to sin. That's what grace gets us, it gives us a second chance.
-This is a verse I commonly hear people use to excuse all of the Torah, Acts 10 Peter's dream/vision. Let us get one thing straight if you don't place Scripture into context, you’re going to twist His Word, and your going to create confusion. So lets put acts 10 into a little more context and read the next chapter.
Acts 11: 1-18
And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. 2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him, 3 Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them. 4 But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying, 5 I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me: 6 Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. 7 And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat. 8 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth. 9 But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. 10 And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven. 11 And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me. 12 And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house: 13 And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter; 14 Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved. 15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning. 16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. 17 Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on Adonai Yeshua Ha Mashiach; what was I, that I could withstand God? 18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
-Here Peter explains his vision, it has nothing to do with eating unclean food and let’s not forget that this happens after his time spent with The Messiah. Peter still has yet to defile himself with unclean food. This vision has to do with letting Gentiles hear The Word and no longer be referred to as unclean by man. The oral law (talmud) said a Jewish person cannot enter the home of a non-Jewish person and vice versa. This is the law The Messiah came to rebuke, and open spoke against.
-A Gentile is someone who is not in Covenant with The Father. They are of the nations, not a part of the nation of Israel. Now remember the people that Yah saved from Egypt were mixed, they were from all different nations yet when he saved them and went into Covenant they became a part of His Nation, they became His People.
Numbers 15:13-16
14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord; as ye do, so he shall do. 15 One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord. 16 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
-We can see here in Numbers that anyone who comes and calls on The Father is in. They are no longer a Gentile a Goyim, they are not an Israelite. just like today they were grafted in.
Romans 11:11-31
11 So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. 12 Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion[a] mean! 13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry 14 in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. 15 For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? 16 If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root[b] of the olive tree, 18 do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. 19 Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” 20 That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. 22 Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off. 23 And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree. 25 Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”; 27 “and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.” 28 As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 30 For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience, 31 so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now receive mercy.
2 Peter 3:14-18
15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; 16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness. 18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Adonai and Saviour Yeshua Ha Mashiach. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen.
-Do not let the unlearned and unstable take Scripture and twist them to their own destruction taking others down with them. You can't sit there and say that we can willingly be disobedient our entire life and still receive the reward. This is the warning were given not to twist scripture to fit our ideas reminds me of something The Messiah said.
Mark 7:6-13
6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 7 Howbeit in vain(worthlessness) do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. 8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. 9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. 10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: 11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. 12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; 13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
-Your lips honor The Messiah but your Heart doesn't know Him. Your traditions make The Word of The Father to No effect. You reject the teachings and instruction of Scripture and lean on the understanding and teachings of men. Let this soak in and say another prayer before advancing to Paul.
Writings of Paul & The New Testament Authors
-Do Paul and the other New Testament authors really tell us that we no longer have to follow The Torah? Initially if you go to any mainstream teaching of Christianity or any Messiah based religion, then the answer you'll get is yes. They say we don't need the law because we have The Messiah. I want to ask you how? Remember I am asking YOU, not the pastor who taught you, the book you picked up at some Christian store, the great bestselling bible study book you just finished, the older guy who has read the bible a thousand times who sits behind you in church, or YouTube. I am asking you. I want to know why you believe what you believe, because the simple truth is that none of those people can save you. No one else can strengthen your relationship with The Father and The Son. That is something you and only you alone can do. Going to church faithfully means nothing I'm not sorry if your offended, but you should be because our Creator is offended, His Son is offended. That the thought of something as trivial as a person dedicating a few hours a week to an idea and the rest of the week ignore almost all of His Instructions to life, His needs, His Will and expect a reward. That is crazy and will lead you to the wide path. I love you and care about you. Yes you random person reading this, you’re the reason I typed this all out so your eyes may be opened and the scales removed just like our Brother Paul.
Acts 9:18
And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
Let us remove those scales.
Before we advance lets go back to the final prophet before the coming of The Messiah.
Malachi 4:4
4 Remember the law of my servant Moses, accordingly as I charged him with it in Choreb for all Israel, even the commandments and ordinances.
-We are to remember the Torah as instructed to Moses in Choreb. Not how the Pharisees or men of the world instructed, but as The Father instructed. Do you think Paul would be doing them as taught by Moses or man?
Acts 24:14-16
14 And yet I confess this, that in the same doctrine of which they speak, I serve The God of my fathers, as I believe all things which are written in The Written Law and in The Prophets.” 15 “And while I have hope in God, which they also do, they preach these things: There is going to be a resurrection from the dead, of the righteous and of the evil.” 16 “Because of this, I also labor that my conscience may always be pure before God and before all people.”
-Paul Clearly speaks openly to the people that he obeys The Torah. This is after his life changing moments on the road to Damascus. This is after he has seen and spoke with Yeshua. Here he is many years after Yeshua's time on earth still following The Torah, why would he claim this? If he followed the Torah and told everyone not to he would be a Hypocrite. Think about this why would he instruct everyone to go left knowing you had to go right? Maybe our forefathers got this wrong. Maybe they didn't understand Paul and took his words mixed them with a lack of understanding and knowledge, just like so many did before them. I want you to ask yourself, have we just taken Paul of out context and twisted his words like 2 Peter 3:14-18 warned us?
Romans 7:7-25
7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. 9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. 10 The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. 11 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. 13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Yeshua Ha Mashiach! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Romans 8:1-4
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Yeshua Ha Mashiach. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Yeshua Ha Mashiach from the law of sin and death. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin. He condemned sin in the flesh,4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
-Obeying the Torah alone will not and cannot save you, without His Blood we have nothing. Here we clearly see that a sinful mind does not submit to The Fathers Torah and therefore it cannot please Him. Which means we need the Torah it should be our guide to obedience not an anchor that pulls us under the waves. His Torah is the lamp and the light that illuminated the path as we traverse this crazy world. Our Acceptance of His Son, Faith in His Word, Repentance of our sin and Immersion in the name of The Messiah frees us from a particular part of the Torah that we all fall under.
Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp, And the law a light; Reproofs of instruction are the way of life
Deuteronomy 24:1-4
1 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,2 and if she goes and becomes another man's wife,3 and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife,4 then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.
Acts 13:38-39
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: 39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Galatians 3:13
13 Messiah hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree
Deuteronomy 11:26-28
26 “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:27 the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today,28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.
-The Law of Sin and Death this subject is a very long study and I'm trying to do my best to sum up years of research into a few words so forgive me for not going into the weeds with this subject, you should. The blessings and curses is the main foundation to The Law of Sin and Death that Paul speaks of. Looking at this we can see Obedience through love brings life, Disobedience whether through love or not brings Death. This is the curse which The Messiah justifies for us that the Torah cannot. The Messiah freed us from the Curse stated in Deuteronomy 24. That a man can never take back his first wife if she has been with another. We left The Father and went to worship strange gods. We have become adulterers, and without the Blood of Yeshua cannot return into Covenant with Our Father. There is no sacrifice for a woman to return to her first husband after he has given her a bill of divorce and she goes with another man. So according to The Torah she is forever cursed, and can't return to her first husband. This is the importance of knowing the beginning of Scripture and understanding it. So when you enter into His Son's Wisdom you don't fall short and miss the mark. His Torah Brings life not death. There is no way for them to return back into covenant with The Father. Which means we now fall under that Law of Sin and Death Paul spoke of because we have Sinned we have gained our wages of Sin and paid in Death.
-But wait that never happened Yah did not divorce his people. Right?
Jeremiah 3:6-11
6 The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. 7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. 9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. 10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord. 11 And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
-So we can clearly see that Israel has been divorced and that Judah is next up on the chopping block. I wish I had more time to get into this subject but Yeshua took a cup that was not his. That cup was Judas.
Numbers 5:11-31
11And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 12Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, 13And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner; 14And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: 15Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. 16And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: 17And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water: 18And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse: 19And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse: 20But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband: 21Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell; 22And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. 23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: 24And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter. 25Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar: 26And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water. 27And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people. 28And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed. 29This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled; 30Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law. 31Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
-That cup was Judah's cup to drink the cup of a jealous husband.
Luke 22:42 Aramaic
42And he said, “Father, if you are willing, let this cup pass from me; however not my will, but yours be done.”
Matthew 26:39 Aramaic
39And he withdrew a little and he fell upon his face and he prayed and he said, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass by me, however not as I will, but as you will.”
Mark 14:35-36 Aramaic
35And he approached a little and he fell on the ground, and he prayed that if it were possible, the hour would pass from him. 36And he said, “Father, my Father, you can do everything; let this cup pass from me, yet not my own will, but yours.”
John 18:1-11 Aramaic
1Yeshua said these things and went forth with his disciples to the crossing of the torrent of Qedrown; The place was a garden, where he and his disciples entered. 2But Yehuda the traitor had also known that place, because Yeshua had met there many times with his disciples. 3Therefore Yehuda led a company also from the presence of the Chief Priests and the Pharisees. He led the guards and came there with torches and lamps and weapons. 4But Yeshua, because he knew all these things had come upon him, went out and said to them, “Whom are you seeking?” 5They were saying to him, “Yeshua the Nazarene.” Yeshua said to them, “I AM THE LIVING GOD.” But Yehuda the traitor was also standing with them. 6And when Yeshua said to them, “I AM THE LIVING GOD”, they went backward and fell to the ground. 7Yeshua said again, “Whom are you seeking?” But they said, “Yeshua the Nazarene.” 8Yeshua said to them, “I have told you that I AM THE LIVING GOD, and if you are seeking me, let these men go”, 9So that the saying might be fulfilled: “Of Those whom you have given me, I have not lost one.” 10But Shimeon Kaypha had a sword on him and he drew it and struck the servant of The High Priest and took off his right ear, and the name of the servant was Malka. 11Yeshua said, “Kaypha, put the sword in its sheath. The cup that The Father has given me, shall I not drink it?”
-Yeshua was given that cup by The Father and He was destined to drink its contents. Like I stated earlier this goes into a much deeper study. I have given you a few verses you can read through and study on your own just always take it back to The Torah.
John 17: 1-19 Aramaic
1These things spoke Yeshua and lifted his eyes unto Heaven and he said: “My Father, the hour has come; Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.” 2“Just as you have given him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to them, because you have given all things whatsoever unto him.” 3“But these things are eternal life: 'They shall know you, for you alone are The God of Truth, and Yeshua The Messiah whom you have sent.' “ 4“I have glorified you in the earth; I have accomplished the work that you have given me to do.” 5“Now, glorify me, my Father, in union with yourself, in that glory which I had in union with you before the universe was.” 6“I have revealed your Name to the children of men, those whom you have given me from the world; yours they were, and you have given them to me, and they have kept your word.” 7“Now I know that everything whatsoever you have given me is from your Presence.” 8“For the words that you gave me I have given them, and they have received them and known truly that I have proceeded from unity with you.” 9“I pray over them; I was not praying over the world, but I was praying for those whom you have given me, for they are yours, and they have believed that you have sent me.” 10“And everything that is mine is yours, and yours is mine, and I am glorified in them.” 11“From now on, I do not dwell in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to join you. Holy Father, keep them in your Name- that Name which you have given me, so that they shall be one, just as we are.” 12“When I was with them in the world, I kept them in your Name; I have kept those whom you gave me, and no man among them has perished, except The Son of Destruction, that the scripture should be fulfilled.” 13“But now I come to you, and I am speaking these things in the world, that my joy shall be complete in them.” 14“And I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not from the world, even as I am not from the world.” 15“It is not that I am praying you would take them from the world, but that you would preserve them from The Evil One.” 16“For they are not from the world, even as I am not from the world.” 17“Father, sanctify them by your truth, because your word is truth.” 18“Just as you have sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.” 19“And I sanctify myself for them, that they shall be sanctified in the truth.
-Yeshua made The Father's name known to His people and gave them the Words His Father gave to Him. Let these words sink into your brain and process them. Would The Father who in Him there is no shadow of variation or change, instruct His Son to alter His Words, or preach a new law?
-All that said don't forget The Messiah is The Door.
John 10:7-10
7 Then said Yeshua unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. 9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. 10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Revelation 4:1
After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”
-John sees Yeshua who is the door that is open in Heaven, for us to Teshuva (return) to The Father in Heaven. This is what the Torah (law) could not do, it didn't allow a way for us to return into His Covenant. Remember Yeshua said himself he was sent only for the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 15:24
24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
-His Disciples are going after the lost sheep. When you read the writings of Paul or anything that is attributed to him, use Aramaic because the Masoretic text is confusing and unclear. Paul spoke Aramaic, it was the common tongue for that area and that time. It is a mixture of Hebrew and Persian which gets created in Daniel's time period during the Babylonian captivity. Babylonians spoke Persian His Remnant spoke Hebrew the blending of the two births Aramaic. I hope this super quick summary of the language is helpful and a starting point for you to help in your studies. With a small amount of research you would learn that our messiah and His Disciples spoke Aramaic, Yeshua and some of His Disciples specifically spoke northern dialect Aramaic. They get called out multiple times for being from Galilee because the way they speak. Imagine translating a joke from Spanish to English I guarantee words don't correlate and the joke is either not that funny or confusing due to language barrier. Now tell me that we don't have the same issue with Paleo Hebrew to Hebrew to Aramaic to Greek to old English where the letter J didn't exist to 1800's English to modern English. Hahaha yes your version is free of error. I laugh but I honestly feel sorry for everyone who gets duped by the adversary in his works to turn our face from The Father.
Hebrews 12:1-17
1 Therefore, we also, who have all of these witnesses who surround us like clouds, let us throw off from us all the weights of the sin which is always ready for us, and let us run with patience this race that is set for us. 2 And let us gaze at Yeshua, him who is The Author and The Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was his, endured the stake (cross) and ignored the shame, and he sits upon the right side of the throne of Elohim. 3 Behold, therefore, how much he endured from sinners, those who were themselves opponents to their own souls, so that you do not become careless in yourselves, neither weaken your souls. 4 For you have not yet come as far as to blood in the struggle against sin. 5 And you have strayed from the teaching which speaks to you as to sons: “My son, turn not away from the course of Yahuah, neither neglect your soul when you are rebuked by him.” 6 “For whomever Yahuah loves, He instructs, and draws aside His Children with whom He is pleased.” 7 Therefore endure the discipline, because Elohim deals with you as with children; for who is the son whom his father does not discipline? 8 And if you are without the discipline by which every person is disciplined, you are strangers and not children. 9 And if our fathers who are in the flesh have disciplined us and we did revere them, how much more ought we submit to The Father of Spirits and live? 10 For they, for that short time, disciplined us as they pleased, but Elohim, for our benefit, that we may share in his holiness. 11 But no discipline in its time seems to be joyful, but it is sorrowful; but in the end it yields the fruit of peace and of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 12 Therefore strengthen your hands and set your shaky knees firmly. 13 Make straight paths for your feet, that the lame member may not fail, but that it may be healed. 14 Run after peace with every man, and after holiness, without which no one shall see Yahuah 15 And be watchful, lest anyone among you be found lacking the grace of Elohim, or lest the root of bitterness produce vines and harm you, and many be defiled by it, 16 Or lest a man be found among you as a fornicator, or debauched, like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright. 17For you know that afterward he desired to inherit the blessing and was rejected, for he found no place of restoration, while he sought it in tears.
So how long can you remain before you become a stranger in The Father's house?
-Can you stay under The Fathers roof if you chose not to follow His Will and receive and accept His discipline. Applying this mentality is crucial to understanding where your home is. Are you of this world or just in it. This is something you must ask yourself.
James 1:25
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
James 2:12-17
12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. 13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment. 14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
-I can go on and on with James I have a full verse by verse breakdown of this book on my website and my YouTube channel below is the link. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYuRTDzyAJC-EdQLrRuUqVA
-1 John, This book is something everyone should study out, not just read but study. There is also a full verse by verse breakdown study done by a friend Kenny Tapley on my website as well. So I don't want to get too much into it but this book will show you that John teaches that His Torah still applies to us today. The problem is not His Word, it's how we read it and how we want it to be read. We tend to hear in the language we want to hear in as opposed to hearing The Word as it is. This is why so many times the Messiah says for those with ears to hear let them hear what the Ruach has to say. This I will also cover quickly.
Luke 10:25-37 Aramaic
25 And behold, a scribe arose to test him, and he said, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 But Yeshua said to him, “How is it written in the law? How do you read it?” 27 He answered and he said to him, “You shall love THE LORD JEHOVAH your God from all your heart and from all your soul and from all your strength and from all your mind and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 Yeshua said to him, “You have said correctly; do this and you shall live.” 29 But as he wanted to justify himself, he said to him, “And who is my neighbor?” 30 Yeshua said to him, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and robbers fell upon him, and they plundered and beat him and left him when little life remained in him and they departed.” 31 “And it happened a certain priest was going down that road and he saw him and passed by.” 32 “And so also a Levite coming arrived at that place and he saw him and he passed by.” 33 “But a Samaritan man as he traveled came where he was and he saw him and he took pity on him.” 34 “And he came and bound his wounds and poured wine and oil on them and set him on his donkey and he took him to an inn and cared for him.” 35 “And at the break of day, he produced two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper and he said to him, 'Take care of him and if you spend anything more, whenever I return I will give it to you.' “ 36 “Who therefore of these three appears to you to have been a neighbor to him who fell into the hands of the robbers?” 37 But he said, “He who took pity on him.” Yeshua said to him, “You go and do likewise.”
-What is in the Torah and how do you read it? That is the question Yeshua asked. He replied to Yeshua with what Moses said in Deuteronomy. The Messiah turns to him and tells him you have said correctly do this and you shall live. He dent tell him to do anything differently then before. Read this and tell me what changed.
Deuteronomy 6: 5-6
5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy mind, and with all thy soul, and all thy strength. 6 And these words, all that I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart and in thy soul.
1 John 2:1-7
1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Yeshua Ha Mashiach the righteous: 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not His Commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoso keepeth His Word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in Him. 6 He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. 7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
-Whoever keeps His Commandments is loved and we know Yah is with him. Whoever doesn't keep his commands is a liar. This isn't some new age revolutionary thinking or prosperity gospel, this is the same message that was bought to our forefathers. John spoke in simple terms for a majority of his writings but when we read them today we put on the "too hard to understand" glasses and blind ourselves into submission. We submit to the teachings and doctrine of men. Listen to Our Messiah and put on the eyes of a child?
1 John 3:18-24 Aramaic
18 Children, let us not love one another with words and with speech, but in deeds and in truth. 19 And by this we are made known that we are from the truth, and we assure our hearts before he comes. 20 For if our heart condemns us, how much greater is God than our heart? And he knows all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have boldness before God. 22 And we shall receive all the things that we ask from him, because we keep his commandments and we do good before him. 23 And this is his commandment: that we believe in The Name of his Son, Yeshua The Messiah, and we should love one another, as he commanded us. 24 And whoever keeps his commandments is kept by him and he dwells in him, and by this we perceive that he lodges in us, from his Spirit, that one whom he has given to us.
1 John 5:1-4 Aramaic
1 Everyone who believes that Yeshua is The Messiah is born from God, and everyone who loves him who begot, loves also the one who is begotten of him. 2 And by this we know that we love the children of God, whenever we love God and we do his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God: to keep his commandments; and his commandments are not burdensome. 4 Because everyone who is born from God conquers the world and this is the victory that conquers the world - our faith.
When we love Yahuah We Follow His Commandments
Life After
Jeremiah 31:31-34
31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Isaiah 2:2-5
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light (Torah- Proverbs 6) of the Lord.
Micah 4: 1-5
1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. 2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it. 5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
-These verses are a small few but if you read through the Minor Prophets alone you'll see a large amount of chapters that tells us how the end will look. It looks just like the rest of Scripture. Before Adam, before Moses, before The Messiah, before His return and after The Final Judgement. His Word remains, His Torah remains and His Ways are Righteous and True.
Revelation 12:17
And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and the testimony of Yeshua Ha Mashiach
Revelation 14:12
Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Yeshua.
Revelation 22:14
Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.
-Interesting… Three times we see it clearly stated in Revelation. The same two qualifiers those who have The Father and The Son. Those who guard and protect and obey The Word of Yahuah and His Torah and those who accept and believe in His Son Yeshua Ha Mashiach. I am not telling you these things The Creators Word is telling you these things. For this write up I have stayed inside the canonized Scripture, I can intelligently use scripture to prove that the 66-book cannon is an incomplete collection of scriptures and lacks many books. That's another study all together and you should really look into this subject with unbiased eyes and lean on the understanding of The Most High not man. I pray this finds you well and that you gave this an honest read. I pray you present this to your pastor or teacher and question why you believe what you believe. If you’re already in this walk, I hope this helps your confidence in this subject and you can use this to share with your loved ones. This is just scratching the surface and requires a far more in-depth study than a simple write up like this. Use this information and the verses I've listed above and research on your own.
-This list was put together by a man named Christopher Walter Fredrickson and I thought I would pass it along.
1.) Is.2 [The Torah will be taught in the Millennial Kingdom]
2.) Is.8:20 [Those who are against the Torah have no light in them]
3.) Is.42:4 [The coastlands will wait for YHWH's Torah]
4.) Is.42:21 [YHWH will exalt the Torah and make it honorable]
5.) Is.51:7 [The Torah mentioned to be on people's hearts before Jer.31:33]
6.) Jer.31:33 [The Torah will be on our hearts during the Millennial Kingdom]
7.) Micah 4:2 [Nations will come to learn the Torah in the Millennial Kingdom]
8.) Zech.14:16-19 [The Feast of Tabernacles will be kept in the Millennial Kingdom (Lev.23)]
9.) Lam 2:9 [Jeremiah lamented that the Torah is no more. Why lament if it will be done away with?]
10.) Psalm 119 [David exalted the Torah]
-The Gospels-
*Matthew:
11.) Matt.4:4-10 [Yeshua used the Torah to rebuke the adversary (Deut 8:3; 6:16; 6:13)]
12.) Matt.5:17-19 [Those who teach against Torah will be least in the Kingdom of Heaven]
13.) Matt.7:12 [The Golden Rule (Midrash on Torah)]
14.) Matt.9:20 [Yeshua wore Tzitziot (Num.15:38)]
15.) Matt.11:13 [Yeshua used the Torah & the Prophets to prove John the Baptist valid]
16.) Matt.12:5 [Yeshua interpreted the Sabbath]
17.) Matt.14:36 [Yeshua wore Tzitziot (Num.15:38)]
18.) Matt.22:36-40 [Yeshua taught the greatest commandments from the Torah USING the Torah]
19.) Matt.23:23 [Yeshua emphasized the weightier matters of the Torah USING the Torah]
*Mark:
20.) Mark 3:4 [Yeshua interpreted the Sabbath]
21.) Mark 6:18 [John the Baptist used Torah to rebuke Herod (Lev.20:21)]
22.) Mark 6:56 [Yeshua wore Tzitziot (Num.15:38)]
23.) Mark 10:5-12 [Yeshua taught on divorce using the creation account]
*Luke:
24.) Luke 2:21 [Yeshua circumcised on the eighth day (Lev.12:2-3)]
25.) Luke 2:22-39 [Yeshua was presented before YHWH as the first born (Ex.34:19)]
26.) Luke 2:24 [An offering was made for Yeshua being the first born (Lev.12:6)]
27.) Luke 4:16 [Yeshua's custom was to attend Synagogue on the Sabbath day not Sunday]
28.) Luke 6:3-9 [Yeshua is Master of the Sabbath]
29.) Luke 10:26-28 [Yeshua encouraged Torah observance by elevating the weightier commandments]
30.) Luke 10:30-37 [Yeshua gave a parable of the good Samaritan/love your neighbor]
31.) Luke 14:5 [Yeshua preserved life on the Sabbath]
32.) Luke 16:16 [Yeshua used Torah and the Prophets to prove John the Baptist is valid]
33.) Luke 16:17 [It is easier for heaven & earth to pass away than for Torah to do so]
34.) Luke 24:44 [Suffering Servant Prophecy fulfilled]
*John:
35.) John 1:17 [Through the Torah, Messiah's Grace was manifested] *
36.) John 1:45 [Phillip used the Torah & the Prophets to convince Nathaniel about Yeshua being Messiah]
37.) John 5:8 [Yeshua healed a lame man on the Sabbath]
38.) John 7:19 [Yeshua used the Torah to defend Himself]
39.) John 7:22-23 [Yeshua interpreted the Sabbath]
40.) John 7:24 [Yeshua taught to judge righteously (Lev.19:15)]
41.) John 7:49 [Yeshua said those who do not know Torah are accursed]
42.) John 7:51 [Nicodemus used the Torah to prove Yeshua innocent]
43.) John 8:5-12 [Yeshua won the challenge concerning the woman in "adultery" (Lev.20:10)]
*Acts-
44.) Acts 2 [The disciples celebrated Shavuot (Pentecost)]
45.) Acts 6:13 [False witnesses accused the disciples of teaching against the Torah]
46.) Acts 13:14 [Paul went to Synagogue on Sabbath]
47.) Acts 13:15 [Paul attended Synagogue on Sabbath]
48.) Acts 13:39 [Paul taught the Torah and the Prophets in Synagogue]
49.) Acts 13:42 [Gentiles wanted to hear more about Torah and Messiah next Sabbath]
50.) Acts 13:44 [Almost the whole city came the next Sabbath and wanted to learn]
51.) Acts 13:46 [Paul and Barnabas decided to teach Torah/Prophets to the Gentiles (Is.49:6)] 52.) Acts 13:48 [Gentiles were filled with gladness because they get to learn about Yeshua & Torah]
53.) Acts 13:49 [Torah and the Prophets were spread throughout all the region of Antioch]
54.) Acts 15:21 [Moses was taught in all the cities in Synagogues on the Sabbath Day]
55.) Acts 15:28-29 [New gentile converts were to keep the simple laws of Torah before learning the rest of it] [Foods offered to idols/eating blood/eating things strangled/sexual immorality] [(Ex.20:3/Lev.7:26;17:12; 22:8/Deut.14:21)]
56.) Acts 16:13 [Prayer was customarily made on the Sabbath Day]
57.) Acts 17:2-4 [Paul taught Yeshua and Torah for THREE Sabbaths not three Sundays!]
58.) Acts 18:4 [Paul persuaded Jews and Greeks about Yeshua EVERY Sabbath!]
59.) Acts 18:13 [False witness accused Paul of teaching against Torah]
60.) Acts 18:18 [Paul takes a Nazirite vow and shaves his head (Num.6)]
61.) Acts 20:6 [Paul sails to Philippi AFTER Unleavened Bread. Why mention this if it’s done away with?]
62.) Acts 20:7-12 [Paul kept the Sabbath and taught for Havdallah until midnight]
63.) Acts 20:16 [Paul wanted to arrive in time at Jerusalem to keep Shavuot (Ex.34:22/Lev.23:15-22)]
64.) Acts 21:20 [New converts were ZEALOUS for the Torah!]
65.) Acts 21:24 [Paul showed that he keeps the Torah]
66.) Acts 21:28 [More false accusations saying that Paul taught against the Torah]
67.) Acts 22:12 [Paul used the Torah to say Ananias was a devout man]
68.) Acts 23:3 [Paul used the Torah to defend his position]
69.) Acts 23:4 [Paul quoted the Torah (Ex.22:28)]
70.) Acts 24:14 [Paul believed all things in the Torah and the Prophets]
71.) Acts 28:23 [Paul taught people the Torah and the Prophets] -Pauline Epistles-
*Romans:
72.) Rom.2:13 [Those who do the Torah and not just hear it are considered justified]
73.) Rom.3:31 [Faith does not make void Torah]
74.) Rom.6:15 [Grace is not permission to sin]
75.) Rom.7:2 [Paul taught the laws of marriage & divorce (Deut.24)]
76.) Rom.7:7 [The Torah is not sin]
77.) Rom.7:12 [The Torah is holy, just, and good]
78.) Rom.7:26 [The Torah is good]
79.) Rom.7:22 [Paul delighted in the Torah of YHWH]
80.) Rom.13:18 [Love fulfills the Torah]
81.) Rom.13:10 [Love fulfills the Torah]
*1 Corinthians:
82.) 1Cor.1:18 [Paul quoted Isaiah 29:14 for his doctrine]
83.) 1Cor.1:31 [Paul quoted Jeremiah 9:24]
84.) 1Cor.2:9 [Paul quoted Isaiah 64:4]
85.) 1Cor.2:16 [Paul quoted Isaiah 40:13]
86.) 1Cor.3:19 [Paul quoted Job 5:13]
87.) 1Cor.3:20 [Paul quoted Psalm 94:11]
88.) 1Cor.5:1 [Paul used Torah to rebuke sin (Lev.20:11)
89.) 1Cor.5:6-8 [Paul encouraged believers to keep Passover (Lev.23)]
90.) 1Cor.5:9-11 [Paul taught to not be yoked with the sexually immoral (Lev.20)]
91.) 1Cor.5:12-13 [Paul quoted Deut.17:7; 19:19; 22:21; 24:7]
92.) 1Cor.6:9-10 [Paul listed immoral actions defined by Torah (Lev.20)]
93.) 1Cor.6:16 [Paul quotes Gen.2:24]
94.) 1Cor.7:10-11 [Paul taught on marriage and divorce (Deut.24)]
95.) 1Cor.7:19 [Paul taught that keeping the Torah is more important than IMMEDIATE circumcision]*
96.) 1Cor.7:39 [Paul taught the laws of marriage and re-marriage]
97.) 1Cor.9:9-12 [Paul did a midrash on Deut.25:4]
98.) 1Cor.9:21 [Paul kept YHWH's Torah when ministering to those who didn't have the Torah]
99.) 1Cor.10:1-22 [Paul did a midrash on Ex.32:6]
100.) 1Cor.10:26 [Paul quoted Psalm 24:1]
101.) 1Cor.14:21 [Paul quoted Isaiah 28:11-12]
102.) 1Cor.15:27 [Paul quoted Psalm 8:6]
103.) 1Cor.15:32 [Paul quoted Isaiah 22:13]
104.) 1Cor.15:45 [Paul quoted Gen.2:7]
105.) 1Cor.15:54 [Paul quoted Isaiah 25:8]
106.) 1Cor.15:55 [Paul quoted Hosea 13:14]
*2 Corinthians:
107.) 2Cor.3:12-17 [Paul did a midrash on the veil of Moses (Ex.34:33-35)]
108.) 2Cor.4:13 [Paul quoted Psalm 116:10]
109.) 2Cor.6:2 [Paul quoted Isaiah 49:8]
110.) 2Cor.6:16 [Paul quoted Lev.26:12/Jeremiah 32:38/Ezekiel 37:27]
111.) 2Cor.6:17 [Paul quoted Isaiah 52:11/Ezekiel 20:34; 41]
112.) 2Cor.6:18 [Paul quoted 2 Samuel 7:14]
113.) 2Cor.8:15 [Paul quoted Ex.16:18]
114.) 2Cor.9:9 [Paul quoted Psalm 112:9]
115.) 2Cor.10:17 [Paul quoted Jeremiah 9:24]
116.) 2Cor.13:1 [Paul quotes Deut.19:15]
*Galatians:
117.) Gal.3:6 [Paul quoted Gen.15:6]
118.) Gal.3:8 [Paul quoted Gen.12:3; 18:18; 22:18; 26:4; 28:14]
119.) Gal.3:10 [Paul quoted Deut.27:26]
120.) Gal.3:11 [Paul quoted Habakkuk 2:4]
121.) Gal 3:12 [Paul quoted Lev.18:5]
122.) Gal.3:13 [Paul quoted Deut 11:26-28; 27:15-26]
123.) Gal.3:16 [Paul quoted Gen.12:7; 13:15; 24:7]
124.) Gal.4:27 [Paul quoted Isaiah 54:1]
125.) Gal.4:30 [Paul quoted Gen.21:10]
126.) Gal.5:14 [Paul quoted Lev.19:18]
*Ephesians:
127.) Eph.4:8 [Paul quoted Psalm 68:18]
128.) Eph.4:25 [Paul quoted Zechariah 8:16]
129.) Eph.4:26 [Paul quoted Psalm 4:4]
130.) Eph.5:31 [Paul quoted Gen.2:24]
131.) Eph.6:2 [Paul quoted Deut.5:16]
*Philippians:
132.) Philipp.2:17 [Paul related himself to a drink offering (Lev.23:13)]
*1 Thessalonians:
133.) 1Thess.4:2 [Paul taught to walk in the Commandments of YHWH]
134.) 1Thess.4:3 [Paul taught to avoid sexual immorality (Lev.20)]
135.) 1Thess.5:1-11 [Paul taught that those who don't know the Feast Days are in darkness/blind]
*2 Thessalonians:
136.) 2Thess.1:8 [Paul quoted Isaiah 24:23]
*1 Timothy:
137.) 1Tim.1:8 [Paul taught that the Torah is good if one uses it right]
138.) 1Tim.5:18 [Paul quoted Deut.25:4]
139.) 1Tim.5:19 [Paul taught the concept of two witnesses (Deut.19:15)]
*2 Timothy:
140.) 2Tim.3:15 [Paul said Timothy had known the "Holy Scriptures" (Torah/Prophets) since his youth]
141.) 2Tim.3:16 [Paul referred to the Torah/Prophets when he said "Scripture, Doctrine, Instruction"]
142.) 2Tim.4:6 [Paul related himself as a drink offering (Lev.23:13)]
*Titus:
143.) Titus 2:9 [Paul taught obedience to the Torah concerning bondservants & masters (Deut.15:12-18)]
144.) Titus 2:14 [Paul taught that Yeshua died so we will have zeal for good works (Torah)] -Other Epistles-
*Hebrews:
145.) Heb.1:5 [quoted Ps.2:7/2Sam.7:14]
146.) Heb.1:6 [quoted Deut.32:43/Psalm 97:7]
147.) Heb.1:7 [quoted Ps.104:4]
148.) Heb.1:9 [quoted Ps.45:6-7]
149.)Heb.1:12[quoted Ps.102:2527]
150.) Heb.1:13 [quoted Ps.110:1]
151.) Heb.2:8 [quoted Ps.8:4-6]
152.) Heb.2:12 [quoted Ps.22:22]
153.) Heb.2:13 [quoted 2Sam.22:3/Isaiah 8:17-18]
154.) Heb.3:11 [quoted Ps. 5:7-11]
155.) Heb.3:15 [quoted Ps.95:7-8]
156.) Heb.4:3 [quoted Ps.95:11]
157.) Heb.4:4 [quoted Gen.2:2]
158.) Heb.4:5 [quoted Ps.95:11]
159.) Heb.4:7 [quoted Ps.95:7-8]
160.) Heb.5:5 [quoted Ps.2:7]
161.) Heb.5:6 [quoted Ps.110:4]
162.) Heb.6:14 [quoted Gen.22:17]
163.) Heb.7:17 [quoted Ps.110:4]
164.) Heb.7:21 [quoted Ps.110:4]
165.) Heb.8:5 [quoted Ex.25:40]
166.) Heb.8:12 [quoted Jer.31:31-34]
167.) Heb.9:20 [quoted Ex. 24:8]
168.) Heb.10:7 [quoted Ps.40:6-8]
169.) Heb.10:16 [quoted Jer.31:33]
170.) Heb.10:17 [quoted Jer.31:34]
171.) Heb.10:30 [quoted Deut.32:35-36]
172.) Heb.10:37 [quoted Hab.2:3-4]
173.) Heb.11:5 [quoted Gen.5:24]
174.) Heb.11:18 [quoted Gen.21:2]
175.) Heb.12:6 [quoted Prov.3:11-12]
176.) Heb.12:20 [quoted Ex.19:12-13]
177.) Heb.12:21 [quoted Deut.9:19]
178.) Heb.12:26 [quoted Hag.2:6]
179.) Heb.13:5 [quoted Deut.31:6-8/Josh.1:5]
180.) Heb.13:6 [quoted Ps.118:6]
*James:
181.) Jam.1:22-24 [James taught to be a doer of the Word]
182.) Jam.1:25 [The Torah is liberating]
183.) Jam.2:8 [James quoted Lev.19:18]
184.) Jam.2:11 [James quoted Ex.20:13-14/Deut.5:17-18]
185.) Jam.2:23 [James quoted Gen.15:6]
186.) Jam.3:2-12 [James did a midrash on the evil tongue (Lev.14)]
187.) Jam.4:6 [James quoted Prov.3:34]
188.) Jam.4:12 [James said YHWH is our Lawgiver. Why need a Lawgiver if the Law is done away with?]
*1 Peter:
189.) 1Pet.1:16 [Peter quoted Lev.11:44-45; 19:2; 20:7]
190.) 1Pet.1:25 [Peter quoted Isaiah.40:6-8]
191.) 1Pet.2:6 [Peter quoted Isaiah 28:16]
192.) 1Pet.2:7 [Peter quoted Ps.118:22]
193.) 1Pet.2:8 [Peter quoted Isaiah 8:14]
194.) 1Pet.2:22 [Peter quoted Isaiah 53:9]
195.) 1Pet.3:12 [Peter quoted Ps.34:12-16
196.) 1Pet.3:14 [Peter quoted Isaiah 8:12]
197.) 1Pet.4:8 [Peter quoted Prov.10:12]
198.) 1Pet.4:11 [Peter taught to speak as the Oracles of YHWH (Heb.5:12; Acts 7:38; Rom.3:2)]
199.) 1Pet.4:18 [Peter quoted Prov.11:31]
200.) 1Pet.5:5 [Peter quoted Prov.3:34]
*2 Peter:
201.) 2Pet.2:22 [Peter quoted Prov.26:11]
*1 John:
202.) 1Jo.2:3-5 [We are YHWH's children if we keep His commandments]
203.) 1Jo.2:6 [We are to walk as Yeshua Messiah walked (Torah)]
204.) 1Jo.3:4 [Sin is violating the Torah]
205.) 1Jo.3:22 [We are to do YHWH's commandments and do things that are pleasing to Him]
206.) 1Jo.3:23 [To believe in Yeshua as Messiah is a Torah based faith]
207.) 1Jo.3:24 [Those who keep YHWH's commandments abide in Him, and He in them]
208.) 1Jo.5:2 [We are YHWH's children if we keep His commandments]
209.) 1Jo.53 [It is the love of YHWH to keep His commandments and they aren't a burden]
*2 John:
210.) 2Jo.1:6 [It is love to walk in His commandments]
211.) 2Jo.1:9 [Violators of Torah do not abide in the teaching of Yeshua which is to follow Torah] [Those who abide in the teaching of Messiah has both YHWH and Yeshua]
212.) 2Jo.1:10 [John said to have nothing to do with those who teach against the teaching of Messiah]
*Jude:
213.) Jude 1:12 ["love feasts" were the Feast Days (Lev.23)]
-Revelation-
214.) Rev.1:6 [The Torah comes forth from Yeshua's mouth]
215.) Rev.12:17 [The adversary is enraged mainly with those who keep Torah & believe in Yeshua]
216.) Rev.14:12 [Those who endure are they that keep the Torah and believe in Yeshua]
217.) Rev.19:15 [Yeshua judges and strikes the nations with the Torah (Word of YHWH/His Sword)]
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