Everlasting Torah
Part 2 of 7
In the minds of many Biblical theologians and scholars of our day, what I have cited is of little concern, and unashamedly alter Scripture to fit their modern ideals. In their minds, we are under grace, and the law (Torah) has been done away with. For these false teachers, I dedicate this section.
YHVH made a covenant with the Hebrews through Moses. Within that covenant, He set laws to be obeyed. With those laws, He put in place rewards and penalties regarding the keeping of those laws. Whenever He made a covenant with men, it was a covenant guaranteed never to be broken or done away with on His part. However, the men with whom He made the covenant routinely broke each covenant.
Since the beginning of time, men have grown weary of remaining faithful to the ways and ideals of YHVH. Time and again they have devised different derivatives of their own ways and ideals. Herein lies the controversy so addressed in my writings and adeptly explained by the writer of Proverbs in 3: 5-6—YHVH's ideals versus man's ways of thinking.
Time and space in this forum is not available to enter a complete study of the intricacies of a covenant and the devious ideals of modern “replacement theology” taught and practiced by theologians of our day. For the gain of a solid foundation regarding covenants, I refer my readers to a Monte Judah article, “The Seven Everlasting Covenants”, at http://www.lionlamb.net/v3/YAHVOHArchives/volume11/09.
The eternal, unchanging nature of ANY of His covenants with men is the focus of this section. According to modern christianity, YHVH is protrayed as a fickle wimp that has abdicated His Throne in favor of the ever changing whims of men. I once heard a pastor of a very affluent christian church in Arizona say, “In order to please God, He expects us to adapt ourselves to the culture and society within which we live”. Ugghh!!
The pure fact is YHVH is unmoving and unchanging. There are six covenants in effect to this day listed in Scripture and a seventh coming in the very near future. Each covenant simply added to the covenant before it. The covenant with Noah in no way made null and void the Adamic. The Torah covenant through Moses in no way made null and void the Abrahamic, and so on.
Moses writes of the everlasting nature of YHVH's covenants in Deuteronomy 7: 9, “Therefore know that the Lord your Elohim, He is Elohim, the faithful Elohim who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS”. (My emphasis added)
The commandments of YHVH (Torah) are the written sum of His righteousness—a righteousness which was before the foundation of the world. The Psalmist speaks in 119: 142 of the timelessness of His Torah. “Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Your Law (Torah) is truth.” He says in v. 144, “The righteousness of Your testimonies is everlasting”.
The Psalmist sings in 105: 8, “YHVH remembers His covenant forever, the word which He commanded, for a thousand generations”. He continues in vv. 9-10 with, “The covenant which He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac, and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant”—a blessing to they and their posterity if they would only walk in YHVH's righteousness, enumerated in His Torah.
Jeremiah writes in 31: 35-37 of “the sun for a light by day” and “the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night”. He lists the “(disturbing) of the sea” and the “(wave's) roar” and says in v. 36, “If those ordinances depart from before Me, then the seed of Israel shall cease from being a nation before Me forevermore”.
He speaks in v. 38 of the “(measuring) of heaven” and the “(searching out)” of the earth's foundations, and says if that can be done, then “I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says the Lord”. A quick look at our great outdoors will reveal the sun, moon, and stars still in their ordained positions. Though they try, no one will discern the expanse of the heavens. Therefore, YHVH's Torah covenant is still in effect, and He is certainly NOT “finished with Israel”, and replaced it with the church.
In the next section, I will present His everlasting covenant of Torah through the teachings of Messiah Yeshua. What we will find is an emphatic refutation of the false doctrine which says the Mosaic covenant has been trumped by “grace”. As a bridge to that section, I present the words of YHVH through the Prophet, Malachi in 3: 6. “For I am the Lord, I DO NOT CHANGE; therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.”
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