Torah and the 10 Commandments purpose explained! Why does religion manipulate God's Law? What is God's Law? What is its true purpose? Are we supposed to follow God's Law? Has the Law been nailed to the cross? See the truth of God's Law clearly presented. Know what God's will is for you.
Personally, I have no interest in playing church or vindicating any religious denomination. My desire here is to simply find out what the truth really is and then to follow it whither so ever it goes. But, that being said, I believe the law of God may be one of the most misunderstood topics in the “religious” world today! As we read in the scriptures, we see that those who receive the seal of God between their eyes and in their right hands will be spared from the coming judgments. One simple interpretation of that passage from the scriptures could simply be communicating to us that those who receive His law between their eyes and in their right hands means that we will have let the law of God become one with them to the point where it is fully embedded in their minds to the point where what we’ve learned comes out through their deeds, i.e., in our right hands.
If that interpretation is true, then the mark of the beast, by contrast, is the opposite. Those who let the sick twisted ways of this world enter into their minds, to where the ways of the beast come out in their actions and in their deeds through their right hands. Now, as it pertains to the Mark of the Beast, some folks like to get out into the weeds and discuss some of the other possible layers of this topic. For example, they want to know how RFID technology and things like that may also fit in here. But we’re not going to focus on that aspect in this essay. Regardless, please pray that “Yahweh or Yehovah” (God’s real name) can open your heart to his truth before you dig into and study any of these things further.
Now here’s a warning, we silly humans often study things with the desire to confirm our own biases that we have developed over time. For example, during the whole “Plandemic” as I like to call it, we were incessantly told by our self-appointed betters to “Trust The Science!” The irony to that is this, that statement is just about the most anti-science thing anyone could ever say! That’s because “Questioning The Science!” is how you’re supposed to do science. What we need to be is open to correction by the Word of God if our desire is to serve Him and not our own selves.
They reason why I said that is this, if at any time you see something I say that strikes you as weird or out of line, by all means check it against the scriptures. They are the real ruler, not me. The only way we're going to really stay on track with anything is to check what we learn against the scriptures. So, please don't make any of your decisions as to who or what God is based on what I say, or your pastor’s educated opinion, or your denomination’s teachings, or a Bible commentary, or pamphlets that you have read. You especially don't want to base the truth on your own personal bias because we can be wrong. The Scriptures alone are the truth. All we can do is to try to follow them to the best of our ability. They are our true authority not anyone else.
Now I'm going to try to communicate with all of you what I have learned and discovered during my sojourn here. Regardless, please make sure you do your own studies. None of us, no matter how learned we might be, can get every little detail right. Remember, we see through a class darkly. If you truly love and seek to serve God, when you study his word, trust in Him and He will lead you to the truth.
Looking at the fruits of Western Christianity, it doesn't really surprise me when the different denominations argue constantly as to what the purpose of the law is. Churches by and large seem to try to define the purpose of the law to suit either their legalistic or their antinomian flesh trips. They either claim that the law is a list of rules and regulations that you have to keep if you're going to go to heaven, or they'll go on the other extreme end of the spectrum and say that the only purpose of the law is to expose your sins so that you can get saved, only to discard the law afterwards. Each side will prooftext their position using little scriptural sound bites that they have removed from the greater context and then reassembled them in a way to say what they want them to say. This can be a real dangerous practice.
If we want to understand the whole truth as to what the purpose of the law is, we have to really back up and look at the whole picture in its complete context. In this essay, I'm going to try to help clear up some of the confusion and debate that the various religions have stirred up and show the true beauty and simplicity of God's law. God does not require you to have a PhD in systematic theology to properly understand these things. In fact, Messiah said very plainly that unless you all become like little children, you will in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
I'm just going to lay out the various commandments and show where they are, show who they apply to and then explain the purpose of God's law after the crucifixion. You might have heard a lot of religious debate on which law we're supposed to keep as Christians and which laws might be gone now. We're going to go through all the writings and attempt as best we can to clear that up. Messiah stated this very clearly for us so we shouldn't have to poke around in the dark, so alright, let's get to it.
What truly is God's law and what is the real purpose of his law. Many people have a real negative picture of God's law as simply being a collection of rules and regulations that prohibit us from having any fun at all. Unfortunately, a lot of us have assimilated God's law with man's law. There's a big difference between God's law and then the laws that our religious leaders try to impose on us in the name of God. God's entire law can be summed up into one word, love! For the complete definition of this though, in its full context, Yahweh gave us his written law in a collection of writings which constitute the first five books of the Bible. Let's take a little bit closer look at the word law.
When we read the word law in the scripture, we may think of the Ten Commandments. Now this is true, but it's not the full picture. The word law in the Hebrew is actually Torah. If we look up the word law or Torah in Strong's exhaustive concordance, you'll see that it basically means instructions. So, the first five books of the Bible is simply God's complete instructions. Now the Ten Commandments are part of the law, but technically, the entire Torah is the full law. God's law is His perfect will revealed to us, which, instructs us on how to fully experience a good life here on earth and eternal life thereafter. His law is sweet as honey and is not hard to bear.
Now on the other hand, man's law is not so sweet. We have created thousands of our own strict religious laws, which, we impose on one another so that we can rule and lord over each other. Now, does that mean that can we just make up new religious laws as we see fit? Well listen to this:
“Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish aught from it that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.”
My whole point with this long introduction is that many of the rules and regulations we have been told to keep and obey in our religious denominations were never spoken by God. Rather, they were created by religious leaders who just love playing Church and being in charge of everybody. Now God strictly forbids us from adding to or taking away from his Commandments. In the Gospels we read how Messiah constantly rebelled against the made-up Pharisaical laws of the religious leaders of his time. They hounded him constantly for not respecting the traditions that they had created.
You see, the Pharisees had created their own little set of religious rules and Messiah made a show of them openly. It’s important to note that although he ignored the religious rules of the Pharisees, Messiah never broke any of the laws that his father had laid down in the Torah. We are not to keep man's religious laws. But, he was very clear that we are to keep his father's laws.
Many today have been taught that Messiah has done away with the law. Let's see what Messiah himself said plainly about this in his first sermon. At the very beginning of his ministry in his Sermon on the Mount, Messiah makes it perfectly clear. This is huge, so listen very carefully:
“Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I have not come to destroy but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you till heaven and earth pass not one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled.”
Not one jot or tittle will pass from the law, till when? Till heaven and earth pass away. Has that happened yet? No! So, according to Messiah every little jot and tittle in the entire Torah, in the prophets and the Old Testament is still intact.
Now this might sound a little different than what we've been taught but it's very important for us to heed his words here. So, if not one jot or tittle has passed from the law then what is the law? I think you're going to be kind of surprised as to see what is in the law and what is not in the law. It's very important for us to study this so that we're not enslaved to the traditions of our elders, but rather being faithful to what our God would have us do.
So in summary for this week, God’s law is sweet, it’s far simpler than we often make it out to be. It’s based upon love, mutual trust and it’s still in effect. It has NOT been done away with nor is it null and void as a result of Christ’s work on the cross. This is in contrast to man’s law which is burdensome and hard, based upon mutual mistrust and is about control. But it doesn’t end just there. There’s still more we need to explore if we’re going to understand this better and we’ll get deeper into that in next week’s post.