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I
personally believe that the old ceremonial law
was done away with when Jesus became the true
lamb of the new covenant.
He
was certainly the fulfillment of all of the sacrifices.
The
old sanctuary service and yearly day of atonement
was pointing to His future sacrifice "once
for all". I further believe that we do not
need to continue to expend time and effort in
adhering to rituals ended by Christ on the cross.
The
fact that the temple was destroyed and that the
veil was rent is evidence of your correctness.
Hey,
before I forget, what's a midrash??
That
is where two or more believers talk together about
the revelations they’ve been given about Jahuwah
and His Word.
The
law that Jesus came to fulfill was God's ten commandment
law.
As
I see it now there is way more to it than that. To
figure it out we have to start by understanding
who Jahshuwah is. If you study the issue
I think you will come to the same understanding
that I have; He was the one that gave the law
to Mosheh. He said, “Have I been with all
of you for so long a time, and do you not recognize
and know Me yet, Philip? Anyone who has seen Me
has seen the Father. How can you say then, Show
us the Father?” John 14:9. And also, “I and
the Father are One.” John 10:30. In
Matthew 5 He says, “17 Do not think that I have
come to do away with or [3] undo the Law or the
Prophets; I have come not to do away with or undo
but to complete and fulfill them. 18 For
truly I tell you, until the sky and earth pass
away and perish, not one smallest letter nor one
little hook [identifying certain Hebrew letters]
will pass from the Law until all things [it foreshadows]
are accomplished.” He’s saying that he is
going to keep the law and the prophets perfectly. We
still have the sky and the earth and therefore
nothing has passed from His law. I don’t
think you will dispute that there is much more
to be accomplished. In Matthew 10:25 He says,
“It is sufficient for the disciple to be like
his teacher, and the servant or slave like his
master. If they have called the Master of the
house Beelzebub, how much more will they speak
evil of those of His household?” Or, when
we become like our teacher, Jahshuwah himself,
they will also call us Beelzebub. In Luke
6:40 He tells us that if we will let Him teach
us we will become like Him (Torah (law) observant)
by saying, “A pupil is not superior to his teacher,
but everyone [when he is] completely trained (readjusted,
restored, set to rights, and perfected) will be
like his teacher.” And here’s the reason
I am taking time to write this to you; “Whoever
then breaks or does away with or relaxes one of
the least [important] of these commandments and
teaches men so shall be called least [important]
in the kingdom of heaven, but he who practices
them and teaches others to do so shall be called
great in the kingdom of heaven.” We get a
first hand example of what He was talking about
when He said in Matthew 23:23, “Woe to you, scribes
and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you
give a tenth of your mint and dill and cummin,
and have neglected and omitted the weightier (more
important) matters of the Law--right and justice
and mercy and fidelity. These you ought [particularly]
to have done, without neglecting the others.” There
is nothing about the Ten Commandments in this
statement. The Ten Commandments are a start. Justice,
mercy and fidelity (faith in some versions) are
included among the weightier matters of the law. In
John 13:23 it is said of John that he was, “One
of His disciples, whom Jahshuwah loved [whom He
esteemed and delighted in], was reclining [next
to Him] on Jahshuwah' bosom.” After reading
and comprehending this next statement I came to
an understanding as to why John felt Jahshuwah
loved him; it was because He said in John 14:21,
“The person who has My commands and keeps them
is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever
[really] loves Me will be loved by My Father,
and I [too] will love him and will show (reveal,
manifest) Myself to him.” John became loved
of both Jahshuwah and His Father by having His
commands and keeping them. His understanding
of how this all worked; how he came to be loved
by both Jahshuwah and His Father; manifests itself
in John’s writings in 1 John 2:
3
And this is how we may discern [[2] daily, by
experience] that we are coming to know Him [to
perceive, recognize, understand, and become
better acquainted with Him]: if we keep (bear
in mind, observe, practice) His teachings (precepts,
commandments). 4Whoever says, I know Him
[I perceive, recognize, understand, and am acquainted
with Him] but fails to keep and obey His commandments
(teachings) is a liar, and the Truth [[3] of
the Glad Tidings] is not in him. 5 But
he who keeps (treasures) His Word [who bears
in mind His precepts, who observes His message
in its entirety], truly in him has the love
of and for Jahowah been perfected (completed,
reached maturity). By this we may perceive (know,
recognize, and be sure) that we are in Him: 6
Whoever says he abides in Him ought [as [4]
a personal debt] to walk and conduct himself
in the same way in which He walked and conducted
Himself [Bear’s note: He was exactingly
Torah observant].
And
in 1 John 3:
“3:3
– I keep myself ceremonially and morally free
of foreign elements[1] because of this I have
a positive expectation of a favorable outcome;
I know how free from mistake or error The Anointed
One is. 4-6 – When I transgress
I break Jahuwah's Torah. Transgression by definition
is a breaking of Jahuwah's Torah.”
A
little clearer understanding of 1 John 3:4 comes
from the King James Version:
4
Whosoever committeth s-n transgresseth also
the law: for s-n is the transgression of the
law. (The word s-i-n intentionally obliterated
being the name of an Amorite deity)”
And
the importance of meditating on His law that we
might observe to do all that is written therein
(Joshua 1:8) becomes clearer and is really driven
home when John says in 1 John 3:
5 Whosoever
abides in him transgresses not: whosoever transgresses
has not seen him, neither known him.”
We
are to become like Him and not violate the Torah.
We cannot know what a Torah violation is without
His Torah. When we violate His Torah we are admitting
that we don’t know Him and show that our love
isn’t perfected.
Here
is an exercise for you. In Deuteronomy
28 starting at verse 15 is the curse of failing
to keep his Torah. Read from verse 15 to
the end of the chapter. Here’s what I noticed;
almost everything mentioned in this passage is
what so called “Christians” spend most of their
prayer time on. These types of things happen
to those who will not hear and do His Torah. Conversely,
my experience has been in line with His Word;
the more I keep His Torah the more they manifest
themselves to me. I spend very little time,
if any, praying about the things listed in verse
15 on. I asked Jah once why I have so many
dramatic testimonies about Him manifesting Himself. His
reply was, “Because you keep My commandments.”
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