The Whole Law

                         Contributed by Ed Moore

“Christians” often mock those who seek to be obedient to Yahuah in love as “legalistic”; and they condemn us for not keeping “the whole law”. Christian’s favorite accusation is: “if you keep The Law, why aren’t you sacrificing animals?” These Christians show a complete disconnect with The Renewed Covenant and do not know Yahuah.

Sacrifices are made on behalf of those who “do this” or keep Passover in remembrance of his sacrifice. The “Altar” has not disappeared as many assume and in error claim there are currently no daily sacrifices being made. The Altar exists now in our hearts and the sacrifices being made on it are still alive and very active.

The Temple of YAHUAH is the human body

The altar of YAHUAH is the hearts/minds of man

The Sacrifices to YAHUAH are expressing faith through action

Which brings us to "The Law"....

Not everyone is “under” every one of the 613 Laws. The Laws of Yahuah just
like laws of man are jurisdictional and not everyone falls under the jurisdiction of every law:

• There are laws that pertain to women only.
• There are laws that apply to men only.
• There are laws that apply to Kings, Priests, and Judges that don’t apply to the average person.
• The Laws of the Priesthood and Sacrificial Laws have been transposed over
to Yahusha who serves as Melchezidek. These laws don’t apply to us as they
have been transposed to Heaven to define the role Yahusha plays as High
Priest

This is why the entire Law was summarized into the Ten Commandments because those are the commandments that apply to and have jurisdiction over everyone.

The Law is a term used for all 613 “instructions” in righteousness found in The Torah. The Law contains very distinct categories:

                                  by Ed Moore

His Commandments (Ten Commandments)

His Ordinances/Laws (Dietary, Priestly, Ritual Purity, Sacrificial, Judicial, Moral, Agricultural, Business, Sabbatical, Community, Prohibition, Tithes/Offerings, etc.)

His Decrees (Judicial Judgments amounting to a Certificate of Debt against us for our disobedience to His Commandments and His Laws)

Those death decrees are covered by the blood of the Lamb. That reduces the number significantly from the 613 “laws” and leaves only the commands and ordinances.

There are other “sins” not “unto death” which are the laws that pertain to our physical bodies and health such as the dietary laws. Violating these laws has physical consequences to our health not our eternal life. Laws that apply to agriculture, business, community, and so forth are all laws that if violated effect our relationships with others, our reputation, the ability of the land to regenerate etc. They do not impact our eternal life. There are laws given as physical to spiritual parallels that teach us through physical examples what it means to be “set apart”.

All these laws, as Paul said, are profitable to us in our earthly lives and instructing us in righteousness as we study them from the standpoint of spiritual intent. Anytime you see the word “Scripture” in the Bible it is referring to The Law, The Prophets, and The Writings we in error call The Old Testament.

2 Timothy 3:16
All (Hebrew) Scripture is given by inspiration of Yahuah, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of Yahuah may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

We should all study The Law in its entirety to understand Yahusha’s role as High Priest, to become better people in general, to stay healthy, and to prepare ourselves for our roles as Kings, Priests, and Judges in the coming Kingdom.