Friday, March 7, 2014

Weekend Meditation--The Walking Torah: Torah Is Not The End, It's The Goal!!

John 1:1-14; 2 Timothy 2:15​; Acts 2:3-5, 3:1-4, 5:2-11,6:12-15, 15; Numbers 6:1-21; Acts 21:23-25; Galatians 5:16-22; Deuteronomy 30:11-14; Romans 10:1-8 john 15:12; Matthew 19:17; John 15:10; Hebrews 2:17-18, 4:15; Romans 3:31; James 1:22-25; Romans 8:5-8; 1 John 2:3-7; 1 Corinthians 7:19; 1 John 5:3; 2 John 1:6; Matthew 11:29-30; 2 timothy 3:12-17;Ezekiel 45:13-20;  Hebrews 7:12; Exodus 28, Leviticus 16:4; Zechariah 8:23; Isaiah 61:3; Luke 4:16-21; Revelation 22:14; Ephesians 2:10-12; Romans 11:1
 


We are walking in today:  Weekend Meditation--The Walking TorahTorah Is Not The End, It's The Goal!!





Here are the next 10 principles of the Lord God Almighty. This arrangement of the 613 principles, the law of our Lord God Almighty, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is from the book by Rabbi Ralph Messer, Torah: Law Or Grace? Kingdom Principles For Kingdom Living. This book can be ordered online here or in the store if you are in the Denver area here.



The Fourth Commandment Exodus 20:8-11

Remember the Sabbath day, to sanctify it.  Six days you shall work and accomplish all your work; the seventh day is Sabbath to the Lord , your God; you shall not do any work--you, your son, your daughter, your slave, your maidservant, your animal, and your convert within your gates--for in six day the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and He rested the seventh day.  Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.


357.  You may acquire foreign bondsmen to remain yours as an ancestral heritage --Leviticus 25:46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
358. You shall not allow a foreigner to mistreat a Hebrew bondsman --Leviticus 25:53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
359. You shall make the second Passover offering on the 14th day of the second month (Pesach Sheni) --Numbers 9:11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
360. You shall eat the Passover Sheni lamb with matzor and bitter herbs --Numnbers 9:11
361. You shall not break a bone of the Passover Sheni lamb offering --Numbers 9:12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
362. You shall not leave over any of the Passover Sheni lamb offering until morning --Numbers 9:12
363. You shall offer to male lambs as and Elevation-Offering on your on each Sabbath (Mussaf)  --Numbers 28:9 And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:
364. You shall offer the prescribed Elevation-Offering on your New Moons --Numbers 28:11 And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the Lord; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;
365. You shall offer the prescribed Elevation-Offering on Shavuot --Numbers 28:26-27 26 Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the Lord, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: 27 But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the Lord; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year;
366. You shall offer the prescribed Elevation-Offering on Yom Teruah --Numbers 29:1-2 1 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you. 2 And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the Lord; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish:


Fiveamprayer, we need to clarify whether we are subject to the law.  Many Christians ask if we are to follow all of the law: sacrificing animals and stoning people for adultery, for example.  Do you live in a theocracy?  Then no--there a commands that only apply to those living in the land of Israel.  There are some commands that apply to the priests, the high priest, men, women, those married and unmarried.  Timothy was instructed by Paul, to rightly divide the word of God.  We have to know and understand that Paul's letters were dealing with specific situations--two main heresies he was dealing with: those new to the Way of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, had to take on all of the Torah to be saved.  This shows that the Jews were holding on to traditions.  Then on the other side of the aisle we have the new converts who believed that once they were saved there was no relationship with the Torah.  The new converts were coming from pagan religions and did not understand that the Torah relationship was not over with salvation.  Those coming out of Roman and Greek societies were also under the misleading anti-Semitic beliefs.
​ In the book of Galatians they had the wrong understandings where even Paul a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin and a rabbi who tells us himself in the book of Romans--Romans 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.  That they would even accuse him of teaching against the Torah.  If this was the case he had the perfect backdrop to make the declaration that Torah observance is over, next we find that he walks in the definition of the Nazrerite vow found in Numbers 6.
​ So with further study and proper translation to the original Hebrew we find that the Torah is to keep us and not the other way around.  It is what Adonai, Elohim, Yahweh has prescribed for His creation and the work of His hands to be blessed, healthy, successful and united community.  All that we have in our ignorance have sought out everywhere else with little to no success.  He, Yeshua is the Way, the Truth and the Life!  He is the walking Torah, the Word made flesh!  To be Christ-like is to walk according to His teaching and instructions!  Thank You Lord God for opening up our understanding that the scales have fallen from our eyes!  Praise His holy name!  Amen, amen!  To hear this again click here.

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