117 What does redemption into the Renewe

What does redemption into the Renewed Covenant mean?

As Nazarene Jews/Israelites our believe system is not a religion in the true sense of the word, but is a covenantal relationship with YHVH which He is planning to renew with both houses of Israel at Messiah’s return. From the very beginning YHVH our Elohim wanted a covenantal partner to fellowship with and to share His covenant blessings with. This attribute of our heavenly Father is imprinted in human nature, since He created us in His image. We seek life partners, such as spouses and close friends to share our lives with, since we not only need to exchange our love and blessings, but also need witnesses to our lives.

The Torah teaches clearly how perfect, inviting, liberating and liberal the covenant with YHVH the Elohim of Israel truly is: If the human covenant partner is obedient, and repents in time whenever he/she fails, YHVH is always willing to richly bless, forgive and protect him/her. In this way YHVH slowly but surely guides us to develop character like His, in conformance to the perfect image of Elohim in which He originally created us. Even though Torah is a law of liberty and invites Israel to a life of covenantal blessings, it is nevertheless demanding and uncompromising, since it threatens with Elohim’s stern retributive judgment in the event of enduring, unrepentant unfaithfulness on the side of His chosen covenant partner, because YHVH is Set-apart (Kodesh) and a passionate and jealous lover of His people, ever yearning for regular fellowship, especially to those whom He has given a portion of His Set-apart Spirit. We read about the many blessings YHVH promised to bestow on those who obey His Torah teachings from Deuteronomy 28: 1 – 14, but we also read about the severe curses YHVH will impose upon those who continue to disobey His teachings from verses 15 – 68. As can be clearly seen, there are much more curses than what there are blessings. The blessings include amongst other what we read from verses 9 & 10, in this way: “YHVH will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you will keep the commandments of YHVH your Elohim, and walk in His ways. (10) So all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of YHVH; and they shall be afraid of you.” These are fantastic blessings in any man’s language, however the curses including the ones listed in verses 58 – 62 should be enough to scare the living daylight out of us, as follows: “If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honored and awesome name, YHVH your Elohim, (59) then YHVH will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses. (60) And He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. (61) Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, YHVH will bring on you until you are destroyed. (62) Then you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because you did not obey YHVH your Elohim.”

Nevertheless, most people in the world, including those from the house of Israel are not even aware of such curses because they prefer to only concentrate on the good things in life. In addition most in Churchianity have been deceived to believe that Yahshua (the one they call J*e*s*u*s*) has done away with the curses of the law for them, forever. Wow, is this really true? Yes, we read from the first part of Galatians 3: 13, ‘Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us.’ It is therefore true, Messiah paid the penalty demanded by Torah due to us for our past lawless lives, including bowing before an image of a man made of wood or stone and worship him; not keeping the weekly and annual Set-apart Days of Elohim, eating unclean meats, all acts forbidden by YHVH and punishable in most cases by death. As explained in the past, Torah consists of commandments, statutes and judgments; the commandments tell us what we should do and not do to live abundant lives, worshipping YHVH for our own benefit. The statutes break the commandments down in more detail, specifying for example that committing adultery includes fornication, marital relations with others other than our married spouses, family members, people of the same gender, etc. The judgments of the law specify the punishment due to us for breaking any of Elohim’s commandments willfully and habitually. Yahshua our Messiah came specifically to reconcile returnees from the lost ten tribes back to the covenant relationship we made with YHVH, together with the house of Judah, at Mount Sinai. He accordingly paid the penalty due to us for breaking Elohim’s commandments in the past, or as Rav Shaul puts it in Colossians 2: 14, saying: ‘Having cancelled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees (or judgments) against us and which was hostile to us (since it demanded that we be stoned to death by two or three witnesses); and He has taken it (the certificate of debt) out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.’ After the house of Israel was taken into captivity by Assyria during 718 – 721 BCE, it was dispersed into mainly the western nations of the world by which time they have totally forgotten their faith, culture and language and became like Gentiles. Yahshua accordingly took our punishment upon Himself and removed the death penalty or curses due to us for breaking Elohim’s commandments in the past. However, we should not be mistaken, if we continue to sin after Yahshua redeemed us from our past sins once we were immersed in His saving name we need to be very careful how we live, since we are suitably warned in Hebrews 10: 26 – 28, in this way: ‘For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, (27) but a certain terrifying expectation of judgment, and the FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES. (28) Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.’

Immediately after the five books of Torah containing the covenant in its primarily inviting and secondarily threatening aspect, the book of the Prophets follow. The prophetic books in the Tanach demonstrate that in history, one covenant partner failed dismally to walk faithfully with Elohim. It was only after the house of Judah returned from Babylon that they remained faithful to Elohim’s covenant, and even though they like any other human being sins, they retained the covenant in their writings and hearts and could return to YHVH in heartfelt repentance every time they sinned. However, the outcome of the history for the house of Israel resulted in the spiritual bankruptcy of a people who once shared in Elohim’s covenantal blessings, with the house of Judah. This is the covenant crises so evident in the lives of members of the house of Israel spoken about throughout the Scriptures. The prophets of Israel stand amidst the historical failure of the house of Israel as the elect covenant partner of YHVH, and proclaim imminent, harsh judgment of the hiding of (YHVH)’s face (transliterated in Hebrew as ‘hester panim’) and exile (‘galut’) for the house of Israel. But then the prophet lifts up his eyes by the Spirit of YHVH to see the end-of-days, when the Almighty YHVH will by His servant and Set-apart Spirit, turn his errant human covenant partner around, redemptively changing human nature radically, so that knowledge of and obedience to Torah will be the core of the redeemed nature of (YHVH)’s human covenant partner, as witnessed in amongst other Isaiah 42: 1 – 6, as follows: “Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations. (2) He will not cry out or raise His voice, nor make His voice heard in the street. (3) A bruised reed He will not break, and a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice. (4) He will not be disheartened or crushed, until He has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands will wait expectantly for His law.” (5) Thus says Elohim YHVH, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it, and Spirit to those who walk in it, (6) I am YHVH, I have called you in righteousness, I will also hold you by the hand and watch over you, and I will appoint you as a covenant to the people, as a light to the nations.”’ Yahshua our Messiah came specifically to bring the lost sheep of the house of Israel back to the covenantal relationship we had with YHVH, together with the house of Judah, so that YHVH may richly bless and protect the transformed covenant partner that He redeemed, when the elusive, obstructed Kingdom of Elohim will finally touch ground and break forth as a physical reality. This is essentially the meaning of the Renewed Covenant – the internalization of Torah by the redemptive transformation of human nature to make the Torah the heart and core of redeemed beings, as witnessed in Isaiah 49: 5 & 6, in this way: ‘And now says YHVH, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, in order that Israel might be gathered to Him (For I am honored in the sight of YHVH, and My Elohim is My strength), (6) He says, “It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also make You a light of the nations so that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”’

The third part of the Tanach, namely the Writings (transliterated as the ‘Ketuvim’) largely contains the wisdom and songs of praise of individuals in Israel. The Prophets however, specifically unfolds the covenant crisis and extended the covenant lawsuit of the Tanach. Even though our father’s in the faith Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were faithful covenant partners to Elohim, the entire nation of the house of Israel could not cope with the requirements of the covenant and were allowed to be taken captive by Esau, or the Roman Catholic Church soon after Messiah ben Joseph came to redeem the property the house of Israel lost in the Promised Land, but also to pay the penalty due to us for transgressing Elohim’s Torah teachings. As a side light, it is necessary at this point to show that the only authentic branch of Judaism that remained in control of Elohim’ Torah are the modern day Pharisees, since they are also the ones Yahshua Messiah identified as sitting in Moses’ seat in Matthew 23: 1 – 3. As opposed to the Sadducees who were connected with Rome; the Pharisees who were called the ‘separate’ ones. They were the local rabbis who founded modern Rabbinical Judaism and as witnessed in Acts 15: 5, some of the ones Yahshua corrected in the four gospel accounts, also came to believe that He was the Messiah. The Sadducees were the aristocracy of the Temple, and were connected to Rome to ensure their political influence on the Jewish nation. They were the forerunners of the Karaite movement whose rejection of the Oral Torah caused them to be considered heretical in Judaism. Understanding this difference lends some light to the conversations Yahshua had with these two groups, and shows the significance of His agreement with the Pharisees. The Pharisees clung more to the essence of Torah than the Sadducees did. It is interesting to note that the Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection of the dead, and to this end Yahshua addressed them in Matthew 22: 29, saying: “You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures, or the power of Elohim.”

Because Torah is read systematically in the annual Torah cycle, but the book of the Prophets is not, the traditional annual Torah cycle tends to obscure the historical reality of the covenant crisis in the Tanach. Nevertheless we need to be aware that Israel is the experimental vineyard of YHVH. The house of Israel as a collective unit failed in history to be a faithful covenant partner unto YHVH and represents the universal bankruptcy of all mankind. Unredeemed human nature without obeying Torah is just too prone to going astray on our own wicked ways. We just mess up and therefore miss the blessings and come under the judgment and eventually go through dark detours of exile. But, by the grace and favor of YHVH and His Set-apart Spirit, faithful individuals can cope with the covenant and live by it – as the lives of many righteous individuals attest, ever since the example of Abraham. How did YHVH solve the covenant crisis that is so tragically clear in the Prophetic books? Just as the creative word of YHVH went forth in Genesis 1 : 1 to create the universe, Adam and the children of Adam, His creative word again goes forth to conceive, form, teach, commission anoint and empower the first New Covenant man, the new man who now lives in total covenantal unity with YHVH, the obedient man, the true Son, the new representative, faithful human covenant partner, who walks the way of faithful obedience on behalf of all Israel and in doing so, on behalf of all mankind. The one righteous person Yahshua, lived, suffered and overcame on behalf of all Israel, and eventually all of humanity, so that He is the faithful Covenant Man, the faithful, representative human covenant partner, on our behalf. Now we stand before Almighty YHVH Elohim, not in our own merit, but in the merit of the True man, and receive not the punishment due to us, but the abundant blessings that the representative first New Covenant Man, a corporate personality, earned and deserves. The drama in the Scriptures is then; a good, plentiful, inviting but also threatening covenant as set forth in the Torah given through Moses. The house of Israel and humanity fails dismally as a covenant partner of YHVH. The heartbroken lover of Israel cries out in the book of Malachi 1: 6 - 14, saying: “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then If I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?” says YHVH of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, ‘How have we despised Thy name?’ (7) You are presenting defiled food upon My altar. But you say, ‘How have we defiled Thee? In that you say, ‘The table of YHVH is to be despised.’ (8) But when you present the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And when you present the lame and the sick, is it not evil? Why not offer it to your governor? Would he be pleased with you? Or would he receive you kindly? Says YHVH of hosts. (9) But now will you not entreat Elohim’s favor, that He may be gracious to us? With such an offering on your part, will He receive any of you kindly? Says YHVH of hosts (10) Oh that there were one among you who would shut the gates, that you might not uselessly kindle fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you,” says YHVH of hosts, “nor will I accept an offering from you,” (11) for from the rising of the sun, even to its setting, My name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense is going to be offered to My name, and a grain offering that is pure; for My name will be great among the nations,” says YHVH of hosts. (12) “But you are profaning it, in that you say, “The table of YHVH is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is to be despised.’ (13) “You also say, ‘My, how tiresome it is!’ And you disdainfully sniff at it,” says YHVH of hosts, “and you bring what was taken by robbery, and what is lame or sick; so you bring the offering! Should I receive that from your hand?” says YHVH. (14) “But cursed be the swindler who has a male in his flock, and vows it, but sacrifices a blemished animal to YHVH, for I am a great King,” says YHVH of hosts, “and My name is feared among the nations.” Sonship of the kings of Israel and the people at large came to a dead end in the Prophets. There is a human failure and universal bankruptcy. The kings were supposed to be children of Elohim—adopted sons of YHVH, and the agents of His Torah government on earth; instead they degraded into a succession of evil shepherds and dumb dogs, as Jeremiah and Isaiah respectively described them, saying in:

Jeremiah 23: 1 & 2: ‘“Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of My pasture!” declares YHVH. Therefore thus says YHVH Elohim of Israel concerning the shepherds who are tending My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them; behold, I am about to attend to you for the evil of your deeds,” declares YHVH.’
Isaiah 56: 10 – 12: ‘His watchmen are blind, all of them know nothing. All of them are dumb dogs unable to bark, dreamers lying down, who love to slumber; and the dogs are greedy, they are not satisfied. And they are shepherds who have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each one to his unjust gain, to the last one. “Come,” they say, “let us get wine, and let us drink heavily of strong drink; and tomorrow will be like today, only more so.”

These spiritual leaders failed by far and brought the whole nation down with them, similar to the way King Jerobaom of the house of Israel caused the nation to follow him in idolatry. This crisis necessitated the Messiah and is finally solved by YHVH through and by His Messiah. The foolish way these false shepherds misread the Scriptures is to come up with statements that the Torah was a failure, had been ‘abolished in Christ’ and similar anti-Torah, antinomian heresies, which miss the clear drama and message of the Scriptures by miles. The house of Israel failed, the New Covenant is exactly this: a redemptive transformation of human nature to make (YHVH)’s human covenant partner Torah-knowing, Torah-loving, Torah-centered and Torah-observant. When Rav Shaul apparently says negative things about the Torah, he means that collective attempts to keep Torah by the house of Israel and consequently because of their wrong example they set for the rest of the world failed dismally in the drama of history, even though Torah in itself is perfect and Set-apart. Instead of teaching the nations around them Torah, by their example, they taught them paganism taught by the false religious leaders in Israel. As a result, the road to Torah obedience and the blessings of the covenant now runs through the one representative, who represents us and who brings the New Covenant, the Set-apart Spirit and the blessings of resurrection and an abundant life, to us from the lost ten tribes. Apart from Messiah, Scriptural history of the house of Israel proves there is no enduring, trustworthy road to the blessings of the covenant. Rav Shaul is informed by a specific premise, namely the historical fact of the radical covenantal crises, which could only be solved by the direct intervention of Almighty YHVH through the person and work of the Messiah. The corrupt, powerful, self-important band of Sadducean religious leaders, who rejected and condemned Messiah to death, did so in the name of Torah, as the human custodians of Torah. Many Pharisees, the custodians of devotion to YHVH and radical piety—accepted Messiah, but more rejected him, due to being blinded to His identity by YHVH for mainly two reasons; firstly to allow a remnant of the lost sheep of the house of Israel to return to YHVH and His eternal covenant, and secondly as Rav Shaul described in 1 Corinthians 2: 4 – 8, saying: ‘And my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, (5) that your faith should not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of Elohim (Yahshua). (6) Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away; (7) but we speak Elohim’s wisdom in a mystery[1], the hidden wisdom, which Elohim predestined before the ages to our glory; (8) the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Master of glory.’ In the end they allowed the Romans, the custodians of the Pax Romana—peace and justice in human government of this world to murder (YHVH)’s Anointed Messiah.

This pre-knowledge of the covenant history is what motivates many of Rav Shaul’s apparently Torah-negative arguments in his pastoral letters. Like the Tanach, Rav Shaul also warns the flock against religious behaviorism. Through Messiah, YHVH brings the New Covenant—the redemptive reformation of the very nature of the human covenant partner of YHVH, to write Torah on our hearts, to change it from being external to us, into living waters that well up from within us, as Rav Shaul explains in Hebrews 8: 7 – 12, as follows: ‘For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second. (8) For finding fault with them, He says, “BEHOLD, DAYS ARE COMING, SAYS YHVH, WHEN I WILL EFFECT A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH; (9) NOT LIKE THE COVENANT WHICH I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS ON THE DAY WHEN I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND TO LEAD THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT; FOR THEY DID NOT CONTINUE IN MY COVENANAT, AND I DID NOT CARE FOR THEM, SAYS YHVH. (10) FOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISREAL AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS YHVH; I WILL PUT MY LAWS INTO THEIR MINDS, AND I WILL WRITE THEM UPON THEIR HEARTS. AND I WILL BE THEIR ELOHIM, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. (11) AND THEY SHALL NOT TEACH EVERYONE HIS FELLOW CITIZEN, AND EVERYONE HIS BROTHER, SAYING, ‘KNOW YHVH,’ FOR ALL SHALL KNOW ME, FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST OF THEM. (12) FOR I WILL BE MERCIFUL TO THEIR INIQUITIES, AND I WILL REMEMBER THEIR SINS NO MORE.”’ Torah as a rulebook does not bring us into the New Covenant; the letter of Torah cannot solve and transcend the problem of human failure in the encounter with the covenant. Only the death and resurrection of Messiah make this solution possible, we enter the New Covenant by the indwelling of Elohim’s Divine Nature or Set-apart Spirit in us, in the merit of the righteous anointed Servant of YHVH, who had to die for the Set-apart Spirit to come, as Yahshua Himself confirmed in John 16: 7, saying: “But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper shall not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.”

The entire canon of the Hebrew Tanach, persistently resist other, anti-Torah interpretations of Rav Shaul’s pastoral teachings. Page after page, chapter after chapter, and Psalm after Psalm in the Tanach clearly inform us that the Torah of Elohim is Set-apart and very, very good – a lamp for our feet and a light for our lives. Whoever negates this, leans towards neo-Marcionic and antinomian heresy, and has to invoke all manners of ad-hoc theological hypotheses in a miserable attempt to neutralize the clear Torah-positive witness of the Tanach. The Judaism during Messiah’s ministry in Israel is characterized by a specific pattern of religion, namely covenantal nomism. The structure of covenantal nomism is: (1) YHVH has chosen the commonwealth of Israel and (2) given them His Torah. The Torah implies both (3) (YHVH)’s promise to maintain the election and (4) the requirement to obey. (5) YHVH rewards obedience and punishes transgression, (6) The Torah provides for means of atonement, and atonement results in (7) maintenance or re-establishment of the covenantal relationship. (8) All those who are maintained in the covenant by obedience, atonement and (YHVH)’s mercy belong to the group which will be saved. This means that YHVH will save members of both houses of Israel who remain obedient to Torah, including those of us from the lost ten tribes who remain so after returning to YHVH through Yahshua, Abraham’s one seed. Rav Shaul did not teach anything different to what we read in the Tanach, since he quoted directly from it, as may be witnessed from Jeremiah 31: 31 – 34, in this way: “Behold, days are coming,” declares YHVH, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, (32) not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares YHVH. (33) But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares YHVH, “I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be My people. (34) And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know YHVH,’ for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares YHVH, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” Notice that verses 33 & 34 only applies to the house of Israel, since the house of Judah remained faithful to YHVH and His Torah all along!

Yes, YHVH will have to renew the original Marriage covenant that He made with both houses as their husband at Mount Sinai, since, even though Messiah came only to reconcile the lost sheep of the house of Israel to YHVH and Brother Judah, His death atoned for both houses as testified in John 11: 49 – 52, as follows: ‘But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, (50) nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish.” (51) Now this he did not say on his own initiative; but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Yahshua was going to die for the nation, (52) and not for the nation (of Judah) only, but that He might also gather together into one the children of Elohim who are scattered abroad (namely the lost sheep of the house of Israel).’ It was not the Torah covenant that failed, it was the house of Israel who failed and were scattered into the world because of idolatry. YHVH never divorced the house of Judah, but because Messiah the bridegroom of the bride consisting of a remnant of both houses of Israel died to atone for both houses, He will enter into a New Covenant with both houses of Israel once again, after which He and His bride will rule the world from Jerusalem as their headquarters. The Renewed Covenant changes the relation between Torah and the house of Israel and ultimately all of mankind, by not altering the Torah, but by changing mankind.

When the fullness of the redemption to the Kingdom of Elohim is imparted to the righteous at the coming of Messiah, the nature of mankind will be radically changed. We will have knowledge (transliterated as ‘da’at’) of truth (‘emet’), wisdom (‘chokmah’) and understanding (‘binah’). Satan will be bound and mankind will live totally in peace and safety during Messiah’s millennial rule, as witnessed in Revelation 20: 1 – 3, in this way: ‘And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. (2) And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, (3) and threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he should not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.’ Our relationship to Torah will be changed, since it will be internalized in us. The new relation between the house of Israel and Torah which the New Covenant brings, is best explained by using the computer term BIOS – meaning the Input/output System of the computer that controls its most fundamental levels of operation. The New Covenant changes the relation ‘Torah as learned from documentation’ to Torah as the internalized input/output system of Elohim’s people. The crucial truth is that the problem or fault with the original covenant was that the house of Israel’s susceptibility to idolatry and the incorrect example they set for the rest of mankind that led to the deterioration and eventual collapse of human society. However, under the New Covenant Torah stands firm, while man’s fallen nature will ultimately be done away with, after which the commonwealth of Israel will finally fulfill their role as kings and priests to be a light to the rest of humanity, the way YHVH planned from the time He gave Israel the Torah at Mount Sinai, as witnessed in Exodus 19: 5 – 9, as follows: ‘Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; (6) and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the sons of Israel (meaning both houses).” (7) So Moses came and called the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which YHVH had commanded him. (8) And all the people answered together and said, “All that YHVH has spoken we will do!” And Moses brought back the words of the people to YHVH.’ (9) And YHVH said to Moses, “Behold, I shall come to you in a thick cloud, in order that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe in you forever.” Then Moses told the words of the people to YHVH.’

This has in fact come full circle, since under the New Covenant, the Torah stands firm and the words of Messiah rings true for us who claim faith in Him, as He substantiated in John 5: 43 – 47, saying: “I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another shall come in his own name, you will receive him. (44) How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another, and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only Elohim? (45) Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope. (46) For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote of Me. (47) But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” We from the house of Israel, have to continually be aware, the antinomian, anti-Torah interpretation of the Scriptures will be judged and cast on the rubbish heap of history. We need to turn away from lawlessness and obey the commandments of YHVH our Elohim, trusting YHVH and His Messiah and be renewed daily by asking for more of Elohim’s Set-apart Spirit. Think carefully about it!

[1] We read according to 1 Corinthians 1: 24 that Messiah is both the power and wisdom of Elohim, as follows: ‘But to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Messiah the power of Elohim and the wisdom of Elohim.’