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October 08, 2008

The Ten Commandments

In my Scripture studies I found the Ten Commandments and I had to ask myself a question, do I know the "ten" commandment by heart?

If not why not? 

After all, they are the ten covenant statements spoken by Almighty God, Sovereign of the Universe from the mountaintop and the words are the outline for the Kingdom of God constitution.

If you too have read the Bible, you'll remember the thunder and lightening as the ten words that were spoken out of the fire and thick darkness atop the mountain at Sinai.

Can we honestly say that you follow all of them?

They were given in the format of a marriage covenant to Israel and to the sojourners and companions that left the oppression and slavery of Egypt with them:
“The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb." Deuteronomy 5:2
With God nothing changes, those saved out of Egypt's slavery were gathered at the base of the mountain seven weeks after the first Passover in Egypt. At Mount Sinai everyone was within sight and sound. The all witnessed the same fire atop the mountain that Abraham saw as a burning lamp between the promised land covenant sacrifices:
"And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. 
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates" Genesis 15:17-18
It was the same fire revealed to Moses in the burning bush at the same place:
"And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush [was] not consumed." Exodus 3:2
It was the same fire seen in the pillar whirlwind that guided Israel out of Egypt and throughout their wilderness journey to the Promised Land:
"The LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night: the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn't depart from before the people." Exodus 13:21-22
And it was the same fire that descended on the disciples and the faithful that had come to Jerusalem to honor and worship God at the Feast of Shavuot (Pentecost) fifty days after the Passover miracle of Yeshua's First Fruit's resurrection:
"Now when the day of Shavuot had come, they were all with one accord in one place. Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them. They were all filled with the Ruach HaKodesh, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak." Acts 2:1-4
The Ten Utterances are known in Hebrew as the “Aseret haDevarim.” They are the words written on two stone tablets. They are the table of contents if you will of the "I will do" covenant agreed by the assembly of native born and sojourner people that came out of slavery's oppression with Moses that begins with the seven-fold oath of Almighty God.

That oath comes form the promise given to Abraham that was a big part of the meeting of Heaven on Earth at Mount Sinai. There, Almighty God entered into a marriage covenant if you will with the children of Israel and the sojourners grafted in with them. Check out in Exodus 6:2-8. 

The LORD's seven-fold "I will" oath is like the husband's oath of the wedding convenant between The Father God and His people:
  1. I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians
  2. I will deliver you from their bondage
  3. I will also redeem you with great judgments
  4. I will take you for My people
  5. I will be your God; and you shall know that I am The LORD your God
  6. I will bring you to the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
  7. I will give it to you for a possession; I am The LORD
The "I will do" spoken by all Israel of the Ten Commandments is like the bride's oath of a wedding vow. That covenant remains for everyone to do.

The Aseret haDevarim aka Ten Commandments are the core values and principles of "I will do" for good life in the Kingdom of God household.

They can be summarized in the witness of two comprehensive instructions from the tablets:

Love God and Love Others

That is exactly what Yeshua of Nazareth taught as He explained God's constitution applies in all the words of the Torah and the Prophets:
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law [Torah]?" Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. 
And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'  
All the Law [Torah] and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." Matthew 22:36-40
Some two thousand years ago, a rich young man asked Yeshua a question:
“Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?” Matthew 19:16
The answer: “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments.”

Take note the words don't pointing to an alternative route to salvation or a short prayer, but why? 

The answer should be obvious: Yeshua knew what He is talking about. 

He was not red-lining an alternative route to redemption. He was saying follow God, love God, live in His image, He is the eternal One. He pointing to love in action, the most neglected side of the gospel of The Kingdom of God which includes the covenant choice of child of God obedience. Yes, keep the commandments for that according to Yeshua is proof of life well lived in the Kingdom.

When questioned further on this, guess what Yeshua pointed to the Ten Commandments.

The Master teacher of Torah was teaching obedience is the characteristic, a solid proof of salvation. It is a part of the Kingdom Gospel. Two thousand years ago and today, the Ten Commandments are forgotten, neglected and broken by many.

So we have to understand the vital importance of the Torah lesson and realize the most neglected aspect of the Gospel calls on everyone to love our Creator and respond in relationship by obeying Him. The Torah of God connects heaven to planet earth, after all the Torah is the written record of the voice of the Sovereign Creator of the Universe for His Kingdom people. 

Being a good citizen of the Kingdom of God makes one liable to the King. Kingdom of God citizenship is not a vaccine, it does not make a person immune to God's rule; on the contrary, it makes a person more responsible to the constitution of the Holy King of the Universe.

At Sinai, everyone heard the sound of God's voice

His face was hidden by the Shekinah glory cloud of fire. That cloud "protected" those in the camp below.

There was a thunderous noise as YHVH of Hosts came down to the top of Mount Sinai at Horeb accompanied by lightning and thunder. On the third day, God spoke the words of His covenant to everyone present. The Creator of the Universe did not pick and choose who could hear His covenant proposal. They all did, both native born and the sojourners with them.

These words are not suggestions for a select few, they were given to all mankind, both for the sons of Jacob and their companions that sought to go with them to God's Kingdom.

We know this because Almighty God of Israel says so. Read what He said for yourself. It's written for you:
  • Exodus 12:19
  • Leviticus 16:29
  • Leviticus 24:16
  • Numbers 15:14-16
  • Numbers 15:30
  • Number 19:10
  • Deuteronomy 31:12
The words found in Exodus 20:19 show us the fear and awe of everyone present as they all swore in unison to Moses after hearing The Father's voice in the fire after the loud blast of the shofar:
"Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die." 
We will listen is we will shema, aka hear and do.

The fear and awe is the message shown to us in the book of Genesis. Adam and Eve transgressed God's instruction about the tree of good and evil and they said: “I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

At Mount Sinai, the Creator of the Universe used His finger to write His covenant in two stone tablets as the core principles of the covenant for the Kingdom of God. He spoke the covenant from atop the mountain of God and because everyone in the assembly below could hear every word, they were afraid of death just like Adam and Eve!

The families of Israel and the former slaves of Egypt with them ALL heard the Ten Commandments whether they were descendants of Jacob or sojourners, aliens and strangers that came out of Egypt's bondage. No doubt, these "strangers" and "sojourners" included many other people groups that were held back by Pharaoh along with Jacob's family.

The sojourners included Egyptians that had worshipped false gods. Together the assembly all witnessed the ten plagues and sought salvation by following the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They all joined the mass exodus through the sea with the people of Israel. 

Everyone was protected by God's pillar of fire.

The words of Moses recorded in Exodus 12:38 confrim a “mixed multitude” went up with them and the covenant was given to all people standing at the base of Mount Sinai with El Shaddai God Almighty above.

In fear and reverence, they all asked God to stop speaking directly to them because they were all afraid they might die if the Almighty One continued speaking. The sound of God's voice ripped through the fire and smoke above and must have shook the mountain and everyone below. The sound of God's voice was so incredible it caused thunder, lightning and it shook the mountain violently as the sound waves of God's voice descended on the earth.

In the fear of death, they all pleaded with Moses to speak directly with God on their behalf.

Almighty God agreed to their request and Moses ascended the mountain into the glory cloud of fire on their behalf as an intercessor. Today, Messiah Yeshua serves in that role and His message is the same message he provide the young man, "obey the commandments."

At the top of that mountain, Elohim God continued to give His covenant to Moses as He decreed His ordinances, the mishpatim shown in Exodus 21:1-23:33 and Moses faithfully wrote them all down. The mishpatim expounded on the foundation stones of the Ten Commandments with God's instruction on how the former slaves were to live out that covenant with God and others in everyday life.

The fourth covenant includes the Sabbath and it portrays the importance of the Messianic era to come when slavery to sin ends after six thousand years of bondage; because on the seventh day we shall go out as a free man without payment.

When Moses came back down the mountain, he built an altar at the base of Mount Horeb (Sinai). Moses then lifted up twelve stone pillars, one representing each family tribe of Israel including Jacob's adopted sons Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Asenath, the Egyptian daughter of a pagan priest.

Moses instructed young men to offer sacrifices to THE LORD on that altar. He then took the blood of their offerings and threw half of it against the twelve pillars of the altar as he read the words of God.

They ratified the blood sprinkling saying, "all that the LORD says we will do and obey."

Upon hearing their vow, Moses took the rest of the blood of the sacrifices and threw it on the assembly of all the people there, both native born and sojourner saying, "Behold the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."

Next, Moses and his brother Aaron, along with Nadab and Abihu, Aaron's sons and seventy other blood splattered elders (leaders) ascended the mountain of God to eat the "First Supper." It was the  "covenant meal" between all Israel and God Almighty.

The balance of the Torah describes more on how to live out the principles of the Ten Commandments and it includes instruction for the priesthood. These are the covenant that Yeshua taught. Yeshua did not write on stone, but on the hearts of everyone after the Passover eve "Last Supper" of bread and wine that points us back to the celebration meal that Abraham and the High Priest Melchizedek shared after battle and victory described in Genesis 14.

Yeshua, like Melchizedek shared bread and wine with His twelve disciples before He gave His own life as an offering at Passover almost 2,000 years ago. His blood was sprinkled on the crucifixion wood nailed as a renewed covenant offering like the lamb's blood on the door posts in Egypt. Yeshua's was for all mankind too just as Moses sprinkled the blood of the sacrifices on everyone at Mount Sinai:
"And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he threw against the altar. Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.” And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.” Exodus 24:6-8
Yeshua gave the disciples a picture of the connection to Melchizedek as it was fulfilled that Passover:
"While they were eating, Yeshua took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins." Matthew 26-28
In the Hebrew Scriptures, we can all see the words foreigner, stranger and alien. These terms come the translation of the word "ger." In the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, the word is translated into the Greek as "proselutos" or in English as proselyte.

Isaiah gives greater definition to the foreigner. In Isaiah 56:6 the word translated as foreigner is "b'nei haneicha" and the Greek Septuagint word use here is "allogenes" meaning another race. Today, we think of proselyte as a "convert" to a particular religion defined by men, but how is it defined with a Biblical perspective?

Any modern dictionary defines religion as a fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects, andin the Bible, the definition of convert is much different.

A convert's belief and faith is to follow YHVH in His covenant to turn from sin and do righteousness and prove it by keeping the Sabbath of The LORD. Almighty God gives His outline for this in the fourth of the Ten Commandments and He explains this to Isaiah:
"Thus says the LORD,
“Preserve justice and do righteousness,
For My salvation is about to come
And My righteousness to be revealed."
“How blessed is the man who does this,
And the son of man who takes hold of it;
Who keeps from profaning the sabbath,
And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
Isaiah 56:1-2 
“Also the foreigners (ger) who join themselves to the LORD,
To minister to Him, and to love the name of the LORD,
To be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning the sabbath
And holds fast My covenant;
Even those I will bring to My holy mountain
And make them joyful in My house of prayer. 
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar;
For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.”
The Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel, declares, 
“Yet others I will gather to them, to those already gathered.”
Isaiah 56:6-8
A "ger" was a stranger from the nations that joined themselves to The LORD to minister to Him, and to love the name of the LORD, to follow His commandments, to be His adopted bond servant in love.

Today, like the seventy elders of Israel that went up with Moses, Aaron and his sons; all covenant people whether Jew or not must choose to do the blessing of God's marriage proposal. Its an invitation to the marriage supper of the lamb of God. It will be realized at the Tabernacles (Sukkot) celebration to come:
"Then he *said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.’” And he said to me, “These are true words of God.” Revelation 19:9
After the first Supper at Sinai, God called Moses back up the mountain and inscribed His Ten Words spoken to the whole congregation in stone with His finger. Because of the fearful request of the assembly, over the next 40 days, Moses received God's ordinances and judgments for personal injury, property rights and other instructions from the consuming fire on the mountain top.

Moses also received the designs for the Ark of the Covenant, the Table of bread, the Menorah, the Priestly garments, the Altar of Incense, the Anointing Oil and Incense, the Tabernacle and the Altar. Moses wrote down their consecration requirements by sacrifice so that God might tabernacle and live among the sons of Israel and the sojourners with them without His glory fire consuming them.

The Lord God concluded the 40 days of instruction with Moses by saying: "You shall surely observe My sabbaths; for this is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you."

We all have to remember something, the assembly asked Moses to intercede for them to hear God's teaching and instruction because they were too afraid of the sights and sounds from His Almighty voice that shook the mountain. They afraid to listen to God.

Because of that, Moses went back up the mountain and wrote down God's guidelines and principles to live in covenant near His glory presence.

You see, the Torah has a great purpose, in it is the often neglected story of the covenant given at Sinai for everyone and it is fulfilled by the death and resurrection of King Messiah Yeshua and the return of God's Spirit at Shavuot in Jerusalem.

Yeshua is like the messenger seen in Exodus 14:19 going before the pillar cloud of fire as the Pharaoh closed in on Israel at the Red Sea:
"The angel [messenger] of God, who had been going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them..."
In fact Yeshua is means salvation. Is He the messenger?

Moses tells us something important before he describes the sight of the messenger in front of the glory pillar of fire as he yells out to everyone:
“Do not fear! Stand by and see the [אֶת] salvation [Yeshua יְשׁוּעָה] of the LORD [אֶת יְשׁוּעַת יְהוָה] which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again forever. Exodus 14:13
The Ten Commandments are the foundation of Yeshua's teachings and keeping them demonstrates the heart of our love of God. Like the ordinances (mishpatim), the parables that Yeshua taught explain the meaning of God's ten words. In fact, all of the Torah points to Messiah who is the 'One' who declares the ordinances of Almighty God for all who choose to come out of the slavery of sin to join “Israel” as the household of God whether native born or adopted sojourner as the children of the God of Israel.

As a faithful disciple in Yeshua's, our obligation is to hear Him, do as he did and say I will do as He instructed. This means keeping the written mitzvot of God just as Yeshua did because they are "the covenant ways" of the Kingdom of God. 

Revelation sums it up and describes keeping them as patient steadfastness:
"Here is the patience of the holy ones, those who keep the mitzvot [commandments] of God, and the faith of Yeshua." Revelation 14:12 HNV
The truth is Jesus never broke covenant with God's written Torah. He is the Messiah of Israel.

Instead, He always explained the spirit of the Torah scrolls, their meaning and high purpose in the Kingdom of God. He did this when asked about the greatest command. 

He prioritized and summed the whole of the Torah and the Prophets in two commands:
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law [Torah]?”

And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 22:36-39
Many are mistaken, saying the Torah was done away with.

It's time to repent. Jesus makes it abundantly clear the Torah is eternal in the Sermon on the Mount. 

His way of life is found In Matthew 22:36-40 and Luke 10:27 where Yeshua quotes from the words of "the Shema" written in Deuteronomy 6:4-5 because "the Shema" is the highest of all commandments and the response out of love for Almighty God.

Some choose to not hear that. They toss out the commandments, some ate tossed aside, thinking they have been replaced including the eternal sign of the Lord's Sabbath. 

I know, I used to ignore what is written, then I read the Bible from the beginning.

I once thought part God's word was old and done away with, replaced by grace but now I know that is not true, grace is part of the picture. Even Ezra taught about God's grace, it wasn't invented after a blank page and it's not new:
“But now for a brief moment grace has been shown from The LORD our God, to leave us an escaped remnant and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our bondage." Ezra 9:8
That holy place in the end is the Kingdom of God.

It's the original message of the deceiver to fall for the idea that God does not mean what He says or that He changes His mind. Don't listen to that lie any longer! Yeshua NEVER taught that despite any Sunday sermon I heard.

The covenant at Sinai and its words are unchanging, the yoke of the Father's commands that Yeshua kept as His own in the image of God are not burdensome or heavy:
“For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:30
John, the disciple whose Hebrew name was Yochanan, wrote the definition of love:
"Whoever believes that Yeshua is the Messiah is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep Yeshua's commandments.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous." John 5:1-3
After God spoke His covenant to Israel and the sojourners with them, Moses wrote down the marriage vow as a witness as EVERYONE said:
"All the words which The LORD has spoken we will do!"
The next day, Moses wrote them down and reread them and once again everyone promised to do them and they added the future tense when Moses sprinkled the blood saying we will be obedient:
“All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!”
That is written in Exodus 24:3-8.

Then Almighty God wrote the covenant with his own finger in two stones. 

Did you know that many Bible scholars say that those stones were not at all like the rocks depicted in Hollywood movies, but that they were magnificent, translucent gemstones.

Many think that they may have been made of blue sapphire.

Not only that, if we consider the jewel-like pavement shown in Revelation, it ties directly to the description in Exodus 24:9-11:
And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory... And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous [are] thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true [are] thy ways" Revelation 15:2-3

"Moses and Aaron, Nadav and Avihu, and the seventy elders arose. They saw the Lord of Israel and beneath His feet, like a brickwork of sapphire ... And to the chieftains of the Children of Israel, He [God] did not strike His hand. They viewed the Lord, they ate and drank..."
It is engaging to consider that perhaps those first two gemstones may be like the sapphire foundation beneath The LORD's feet. 

We may not know for sure, but we do know they were written by Almighty God to record His covenant words like precious jewels to a people He calls "Israel" that include the sojourners with them.

I repeat, the Ten Commandments are the unchanging covenant instruction that God spoken and written at the mountaintop for all Israel and the sojourners that came out of the slavery of Egypt with them. The Ten Commandments are the gemstones of the great and marvelous "ways" of God for everyone that seeks to follow their Creator's teaching and instruction, His Torah and promise “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!”

The Hebrew word "Torah" means just that... teaching and instruction. 

It does not translate properly as the common word "law." In medieval times, the olde English translators chose to interpret and render Torah as "law," but that is a misnomer for the depth of its Hebrew meaning. The "Torah" represents God's written words of teaching and instruction for life in the Kingdom under Him. 

The Torah explains how to live out the Ten Commandments because His Torah is based on God's Ten Words that were spoken and written so that people can live with Almighty God among them.

James taught this:
"Do not merely listen to the Word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says." James 1: 22
Believe it or not, the early English translators, perhaps by some theological misunderstanding, changed the meaning of "dabar" to the word commandment. You can see this for yourself in Exodus 34:28:
And he wrote כתב kathab
upon the tables לוח luwach
the words דבר dabar
of the covenant, ברית bĕriyth
the ten עשר `eser
commandments. דבר dabar
The light of truth is that Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth reflects the image of God. He came to teach His any and everyone how to live out The Father's words given in the covenant at Sinai. He came to tell us they are easy and show us how to live out the written Torah. 

He did this perfectly before the eyes of everyone while walking, talking and living it out in the Promised Land!

You may have heard WWJD… "What Would Jesus Do" so we need to ask WDJD "What Did Jesus Do"?

The Jewish gospel writers He was Lord of the Sabbath (Matthew 12:8; Mark 2:28 and Luke 6:5). Think about that, are you following the Sabbath? 

You should, Jesus came to teach and live out the Torah, not erase it. He even taught us about the future when the bride would lose one of the Ten Commandments. He taught this in the parable of the "ten" silver coins. But the good news is that the lost coin was found.

So too, the Sabbath is being restored today. You can read this parable in Luke 15:8-10.

Jesus teaches us that the traditions of religion are not always scriptural. Men's ways are not always God's ways, they are not His words. Traditions are the ways of "religious" people that can add or take away from the written words.

Contrary to popular belief, God did not give mankind "religion" any new religion as we may think.

 James the half brother and disciple of Yeshua gives us a good definition of religion straight out of the Torah of Exodus 22:22 ...
"Religion that is pure and un-defiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world." James 1:27
Traditions that add in men's religion are not Biblical. That is why Yeshua had a few conflicts with religious men of the first century. They thought they had authority to "add to" or "take away" from Torah with interpretations on matters of how to honor the Sabbath, how to pray, how to worship and so on.

When you think about it, God's Word is no religion at all, it is the Creator's instruction for life set apart near Him. Yeshua called it a "light yoke" for good reason. He is telling us, don't add your own weight to God's Word through traditions of men - just do Torah God's way!

Consider this about the 4th commandment... just how how hard is it to rest the one day a week, especially a day that God set apart for Himself and us? There's more, wow hard is it to take a few vacation days a year on God's appointed Feast Days? 

How hard is it to not eat foods that Almighty God says are unhealthy?

How hard is to do the right thing and help others?

Give me a break. Loving God and others is not a heavy yoke burden.  

Yes most people want to add in religious traditions because they ignore what is written while others "take away" from God's written instruction. 

I'm know, for years I was taking away the Sabbath of God's word and replacing it with another day, but they I read from the beginning of the Bible that Sunday is not The LORD's Sabbath.

With the Sabbath I learned the problem of taking away Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread thinking they were old and replaced with the traditions of Easter ham, hot cross buns and bunny eggs.

And then there is the year end annual spending spree I had to deal with. It's the traditional big business enterprise of Christmas with its traditions of silver and gold decorated trees and a red-suited Santa Claus.

It seems we all want to take away from God's written word instead of rejoicing in His HOLY days, we have substituted our own golden golden calf-like holidays that God has no appreciation for. 

Jeremiah 10:1-5 proves it.

In so many ways, we have moved away from the truth of God to the golden glory of the cash register. This is one big reason John records Messiah's unchanging words. They are so important because we are to show our love in one simple way. As Yeshua said:
"If you love me, keep my commandments" John 14:15
Any idea that The Messiah would "change" start a new religion and discard living according to the Torah of The Father's "teaching and instruction" manual given at Mount Sinai is beyond comprehension when you truly understand these words from John 10:30:
"I and the Father are one."
Think about God's voice, are you with God or against Him?

Father and Son words are the same, one for all children of God. We are to all walk the same path, share the same light, the same Kingdom truth living life in God's way in His image as it was intended in the beginning. 

Yeshua - Jesus could not have said it any clearer when He pointed everyone back to the beginning:
"Until heaven and earth pass, not one jot or one tittle shall in NO WAY pass from the Torah..." Matthew 5:18
No religion can abrogate, no tradition can change a thing in the word of God as it was written. 

Yet, many try and many like me have mistakenly followed the "doctrines of men" instead of opening the Bible and reading it for what it says from the voice of God. 

From my Scripture studies, I quickly learned that from the fire and smoke Almighty God spoke His covenant with Ten Commandments, not nine, not eight. Nothing has changed, because God does not change. If we love God, we cannot pick and choose to hear what we want to hear in a tradition from the voice of a man to suit our own creed or belief.

In faith we have to come out of Egypt to understand this.

Many cannot tell you what the Ten Commandments are or which command is the longest command given by God from the mountaintop?

Surprise, surprise... it is the fourth, the voice of instruction of the Sabbath.
1. "I am YHVH your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me."

2. "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, YHVH your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments."

3. "You shall not misuse the name of YHVH your God, for YHVH will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name."

4. "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as YHVH your God has commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to YHVH your God.
 
On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor the alien within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest, as you do.   
Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that YHVH your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore YHVH your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day."

5. "Honor your father and your mother, as YHVH your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land YHVH your God is giving you."

6. "You shall not murder."

7. "You shall not commit adultery."

8. "You shall not steal."

9. "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor."

10. "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor's house or land, his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
You may be wondering why is the Sabbath day command our Creator so detailed?

For one, historians can give us an Egyptologist clue on the context from their culture. 

The ancient Egyptian calendar was what everyone that came up out of Egyptian slavery was used to.  
Did you know their calendar week was ten days? In Egypt three weeks equaled a month, four months a season and three seasons with five extra days at the end as an Egyptian calendar year. The cycle started around September. and each season was dedicated to their different false gods.

Each of the three ten-day periods were actually called decans or decades, not weeks. The last two days of each decan were holidays and Egyptians didn't work, but the slaves did. During the five extra days the Egyptians celebrated their false-god birthdays and Egyptians did not work.

Remember the first commandment... God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

The Father tossed out their calendar in Egypt, He even did away with the ten day work week with no sabbath day in between. Hopefully that sheds the light on these words:
"This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you." Exodus 12:2

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of YHVH your God..." Exodus 20:8-10
Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath hasn't changed unless YHVH is not your God.

There's a reason the Ten Commandments are called the “Covenant of Lovingkindness” (see 1 Kings 8:23, 2 Chronicles 6:14, Nehemiah 1:5). 

Almighty God set the record straight on His creation calendar. 

Thank The Lord, everyone got a break from work and God is very serious about that because it points to something bigger that He will do, even bigger than the exodus. 

Not only that, The LORD explain more about His plan when He gave His moedim holy day calendar to Moses and instructed Moses to declare it to everyone. You can find it for yourself in Leviticus 23. It's tied into God's lovingkindness, His redemption plan for mankind.

If we step back and look at the Ten Commandments we can see the “Covenant of Lovingkindness” is the same message Yeshua summarized:
“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” Matthew 22:37-40
Let's look at the arrangement of two commands Jesus described by reviewing the ten words of instruction that God inscribed in stone:

1. INSTRUCTION FOR MAN TO LOVE GOD WITH ALL HEART, SOUL AND MIND
"Then God spoke all these words, saying, "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing loving kindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy." 
2. INSTRUCTION FOR MAN TO LOVE EACH OTHER AS THYSELF
"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor." Exodus 20:12-17
WITH THOSE WORDS, THE PEOPLE SHOUTED AND INTERRUPTED GOD AS HE WAS SPEAKING!!

Can you imagine this at your own wedding? As you are giving your vows to your bride...

Everyone shouts stop, say no more! 

Yet, unlike us, Almighty Elohim God in lovingkindness graciously agreed to their request, so Moses went up the mountain and the Holy One continued giving His instructions to Moses... the people did not hear the instruction directly from God, so Moses wrote everything down one letter, one word at a time and get this... those words all expound on the ten words. They include:

INSTRUCTION AGAINST IDOLS, BUT FOR PEACE OFFERINGS TO GOD
“You shall not make other gods besides Me; gods of silver or gods of gold, you shall not make for yourselves. You shall make an altar of earth for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you. If you make an altar of stone for Me, you shall not build it of cut stones, for if you wield your tool on it, you will profane it. And you shall not go up by steps to My altar, so that your nakedness will not be exposed on it.“ Exodus 20:23-26
ORDINANCES FOR FREEDOM AND DEBT RELEASE
"Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them: If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment. If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out alone. 
But if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man, then his master shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the door post. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently. If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do. If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people because of his unfairness to her. If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters. If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights. If he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money." Exodus 21:1-11
ORDINANCES ON JUDGMENT AND INDEMNITY FOR PERSONAL INJURY AND PROPERTY DAMAGE
"He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death. But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place to which he may flee. 
If, however, a man acts presumptuously toward his neighbor, so as to kill him craftily, you are to take him even from My altar, that he may die. He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death. He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. 
If men have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but remains in bed, if he gets up and walks around outside on his staff, then he who struck him shall go unpunished; he shall only pay for his loss of time, and shall take care of him until he is completely healed. If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, he survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken; for he is his property. 
If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide. But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye. And if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth. 
If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall go unpunished. If, however, an ox was previously in the habit of goring and its owner has been warned, yet he does not confine it and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death. If a ransom is demanded of him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is demanded of him. Whether it gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule. If the ox gores a male or female slave, the owner shall give his or her master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. 
If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his. If one man's ox hurts another's so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide its price equally; and also they shall divide the dead ox. Or if it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not confined it, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall become his. 
If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep. If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account. But if the sun has risen on him, there will be bloodguiltiness on his account. He shall surely make restitution; if he owns nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft If what he stole is actually found alive in his possession, whether an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double. 
If a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed bare and lets his animal loose so that it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard. If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or the standing grain or the field itself is consumed, he who started the fire shall surely make restitution. 
If a man gives his neighbor money or goods to keep for him and it is stolen from the man's house, if the thief is caught, he shall pay double If the thief is not caught, then the owner of the house shall appear before the judges, to determine whether he laid his hands on his neighbor's property. For every breach of trust, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any lost thing about which one says, 'This is it,' the case of both parties shall come before the judges; he whom the judges condemn shall pay double to his neighbor. 
If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep for him, and it dies or is hurt or is driven away while no one is looking, an oath before the LORD shall be made by the two of them that he has not laid hands on his neighbor's property; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution. But if it is actually stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner. If it is all torn to pieces, let him bring it as evidence; he shall not make restitution for what has been torn to pieces. If a man borrows anything from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while its owner is not with it, he shall make full restitution. If its owner is with it, he shall not make restitution; if it is hired, it came for its hire. 
If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and lies with her, he must pay a dowry for her to be his wife. If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.” Exodus 21:12-36 to Exodus 22:1-17 
COMMAND AGAINST SORCERY AND GRAVE SINS
"You shall not allow a sorceress to live. Whoever lies with an animal shall surely be put to death. He who sacrifices to any god, other than to the LORD alone, shall be utterly destroyed.” Exodus 22:18-20 
COMMAND AGAINST WRONGDOING AND OPPRESSION 
"You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall not afflict any widow or orphan. If you afflict him at all, and if he does cry out to Me, I will surely hear his cry; and My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless." Exodus 22:21-28 
INSTRUCTION ON LENDING AND SPEAKING CURSES
"If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest. If you ever take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, you are to return it to him before the sun sets, for that is his only covering; it is his cloak for his body. What else shall he sleep in? And it shall come about that when he cries out to Me, I will hear him, for I am gracious. You shall not curse God, nor curse a ruler of your people." Exodus 22:25-28
TEACHING ON INTEGRITY, HONESTY AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION
"You shall not delay the offering from your harvest and your vintage. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me. You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me. You shall be holy men to Me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh torn to pieces in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs. You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert justice; nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his dispute. If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him. If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall surely release it with him. You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute. Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the just. You shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the feelings of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.” Exodus 22:29-31 to Exodus 23:1-9
COMMAND TO HONOR ALL OF THE LORD'S SABBATHS WITH COMPASSION
"You shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield, but on the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove. 
Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as your stranger, may refresh themselves. 
"Now concerning everything which I have said to you, be on your guard; and do not mention the name of other gods, nor let them be heard from your mouth. Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. And none shall appear before Me empty-handed. 
Also you shall observe the Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors from what you sow in the field; also the Feast of the In-gathering at the end of the year when you gather in the fruit of your labors from the field. Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD. You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My feast to remain overnight until morning. You shall bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. You are not to boil a young goat in the milk of its mother." Exodus 23:10-19
THE PROMISE OF THE COMING MESSENGER OF GOD
"Behold, I am going to send an angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. Be on your guard before him and obey his voice; do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since My name is in him. But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. For My angel will go before you and bring you in to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them." Exodus 23:20-22
ORDINANCE ON WORSHIP AND POSSESSION OF THE PROMISED LAND
"You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their sacred pillars in pieces. But you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water; and I will remove sickness from your midst. There shall be no one miscarrying or barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days. 
I will send My terror ahead of you, and throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. I will send hornets ahead of you so that they will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you. I will not drive them out before you in a single year, that the land may not become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. I will drive them out before you little by little, until you become fruitful and take possession of the land." Exodus 23:24-30
INSTRUCTION ON BOUNDARIES
I will fix your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you. You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods. They shall not live in your land, because they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you." Exodus 23:31-33 
It is amazing to realize that the Ten Commandments THAT WERE HEARD BY EVERYONE and these instructions THAT ARE WRITTEN for everyone are the constitution basics in the Kingdom of God.

As we have seen, Moses wrote these words BEFORE the two stone tablets were delivered.

Everyone there in the wilderness of Sinai, both native born and sojourner were given these instructions that God revealed. They all agreed, native born and sojourner from the nations to do them before they heard them. They said all that The LORD says we will do before they knew what they were. They agreed to do them before the two tablets of the Covenant were delivered to them as the covenant in stone outline. 

The Ten Commandments are the foundation stones of the rest of the Torah, The Prophets and the Writings of the Bible:
"And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do. And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel." Exodus 24:3-4
The truth does not quite follow the timeline of the Cecille B. Demille movie does it?

Demille was the Hollywood film director of the 1956 movie, The Ten Commandments. It was his last film. In that movie, you won't see that it was only AFTER the Heavenly Father's seven-fold "I will" oath of the wedding covenant and the people's vow of "I will" that Moses sacrificed according to the instruction of the altar given by God or that Moses sprinkled the blood of the sacrifice on everyone to seal the deal.

You won't see that following that shedding of the blood that sealed the covenant vows, Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu and seventy elders of Israel went to the top of the mountain under the feet of God to celebrate the first supper, the "wedding" feast:
"And they saw the God of Israel: and [there was] under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in [his] clearness. And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink." Exodus 24:10-11
After the first supper with Almighty God, Moses went up higher on the mountain top where he remained for forty days and nights. It was at that time that Moses received the first two precious stone tablets like a wedding Ketubah to be given to the bride:
And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law [Torah], and commandments [Mitzvah] which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. Exodus 24:12
IT WAS DURING THOSE 40 DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE CLOUD OF GLORY THAT GOD GAVE MOSES THE INSTRUCTION TO BUILD A TABERNACLE.

There's an Unseen Promise.

The plain re-reading of the Scripture points us toward a bigger picture and that it includes the promise of a final Exodus entry into the Promised Land with the promised messenger of God. But don't believe me, re-read the Biblical account for yourself.

The importance of what God will do in the Promised Land exceeds what was seen in the ten plagues in Egypt.

When Moses ascended back up with the second set of stone tablets that he cut under God's direction we have to notice that this time, God added the Mishpatim "Judgments" with these words found in Exodus 34:
"And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou [art] shall see the work of the LORD: for it [is] a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
Moses had just witnessed the ten plagues, he was the one that plunged the staff into the Red Sea, but this is greater. God's first work was in Egypt, but next time it will be in the Promised Land.
Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: But you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:" Exodus 34:10-13
Not only that, God again focuses His attention on the Sabbath, but He includes emphasis on His three feasts, the big three of: 1) Passover-Unleavened Bread, 2) Shavuot, and 3) Tabernacles. 

You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest.
You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end.

These three feasts are critically important to Almighty God's promise to Abraham. In these three, The LORD God gives a promise to all that demonstrate their love by doing His word:
The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt...

And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of in-gathering at the year's end.

Three times in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year. Exodus 34:18 and 34:22-24
It is time to return to His forever Feast days! 

When that happens in Israel, the Promised Land borders which are tiny today will expand to the irrevocable river to river royal land grant sworn to Abraham first outlined in Genesis 15:18, again in Exodus 23:31 and Joshua 1:4 as The LORD will cast out those that oppose Him much like Adam and Eve were cast out of the garden when they opposed Almighty God in Eden. 

People miss the fact that The LORD tied the for ever promise of His Kingdom land blessing to faithful obedience in honoring His Sabbath days.

Remember the law of physics that Moses described for the Torah:

1. For obeying the God's Commandments in love we are promised "blessings."
2. For disobedience we are promised "curses." will arrive that we bring on ourselves.
"Behold, I set before you a blessing, and a curse: "The blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God And a curse, if you will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known. Deuteronomy 11:26-27
Let's take a careful look at the instruction inscribed on the second set of stones that Moses had to cut from the rock.

Take notice! The first set of stones were provided by God, but Moses broke them because some 3,000 people broke their covenant vow and worshipped a golden idol, a cow no less, So, Moses had chisel the stone tablets and bring up the two stone. It was the second trip. For those that say Messiah's arrival will be the first trip, look to Moses. 

That's one reason Yeshua of Nazareth said, "For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” John 5:46-47

Notice too, due to the sin of breaking the I will covenant; there are new directives given for Moses to record and we can read them all today. Exodus 34 is the witness. 

Take notice these instructions have full focus on Passover, Shavuot and Tabernacles:
"Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 
Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst. You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.

You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.

You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.

All that open the womb are mine, all your male livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep. The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck.

All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty-handed.

Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end. Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel. For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.

You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning.

The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

And the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. Exodus 34:27-28
Wow, what we see this time with clarity and emphasis is that the weekly Sabbath and the three pilgrimage Feasts ARE CRITICAL to the coming redemption and that a terror greater than what was seen is Egypt is will be seen one day.

For the Kingdom's sake - Don't ignore this. Elohim God is giving us a big time message here!!

We are to follow all of His commandments, all of His instruction for living and this includes the three big appointments that are critical to all mankind's redemption in God's master plan:

1. The Exodus and the first coming offering sacrifice of Messiah - the feast of unleavened bread:
2. The giving of the Torah and the Spirit to all Man - the feast of the Pentecost harvest, and
3. The feast of in-gathering when Messiah will drive out unbelieving nations and return to Tabernacle in the Promised Land.

So don't forget, we are to obey and display His Commandments in our homes and in our communities!
"And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates ..." Deuteronomy 6:9
A part of obeying the commandments is to display them so that people will know what they are. That is why I have written this post on this website. I want you to consider more than you may have in the past about God's eternal word.

Many have obeyed the command to publicly post His Commandments on our gates (public places), and I read once that the first ten of them are placed in over 4,000 public places across the United States alone, and in Europe. No other Scripture is displayed in public places (courthouses, parks, city halls) like the Ten Commandments are.

Follow His word, show your love, display them in your home, in your office, on your door and at the gate. Read these words in Deuteronomy and notice the promise:
And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates. That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. Deuteronomy 11:20-21
Another part of the obeying is to teach them to our children and to talk about them every waking hour... we are NEVER to ignore them.
"And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." Deuteronomy 6:5-7

That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. Deuteronomy 6:2

Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. Deuteronomy 8:6

Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. Deuteronomy 13:4

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. Ecclesiastes 12:13

And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Exodus 20:6
We are also taught by Paul that "love" is the fulfillment of the law, God's Torah.
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Romans 13:8-10
Life words from our living Messiah Yeshua - Jesus:
... if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. Matthew 19:17

Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:1

"And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one" Mark 12:29
Here we see Deuteronomy 6:4 again!
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Matthew 7:12
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. Luke 6:31
The Commandments of God apply for ever.

The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure. They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness. He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever. Psalm 111:7-10
We have a Promise, a Covenant that God Promises He will not break the Covenant of His Word, His Commandments.
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Psalm 89:31-34
Jesus - Yeshua CONFIRMS THIS.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Matthew 5:18

And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. Luke 16:17
Scripture is clear. Jesus did not stutter. Heaven and Earth are still here. His instruction for living does not change.

Be set apart, obey His Voice and Serve Him!

His instructions are not about salvation, but rather about loving and serving Him. Think about the story of the Exodus from Egypt. After they cried out in despair for salvation, YHVH redeemed Israel from death first through their obedience by Israel's placing the blood of the lamb on their door posts. He parted the Red Sea and saved them from the armies of Pharaoh. They were saved before they ever received His instruction, His Torah. He did this without any conditions and He invited them to His holy mountain Sinai where He gave them the opportunity to Hear His voice and obey His word and command and accept His covenant so that they could be set apart (holy) and serve Him in the manner that He instructed.

Why are we to follow His instruction? Because He asks us to demonstrate our love for Him!

Why did He give us His instruction, His Torah? Easy again, because it sets us apart (holy) from the world and it gives us the way to approach near to Him. It makes us like Him. That is why Yeshua did not break any of His (own) instructions. He fulfilled the purpose of mankind. We can not keep His Torah to get saved, we get to keep His Torah because we love Him!

The motivation is LOVE. Look again at what Yeshua - Jesus said...
Master, which [is] the great commandment in the law? Jesus {Yeshua} said unto him, "Thou shalt love YHVH thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets"... Matthew 22:36-40

If you love me, keep my commandments. John 14:15

Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of {Yeshua} Jesus. Revelation 14:12
Scripture, the word of God DOES NOT change. No matter what you may have been taught they do not change.

So what do we need to consider and understand?

We need to do something change something.
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and [things] wherein [there is] no profit. Jeremiah 16:19

Hear, O Israel: The LORD {YHVH} our God [is] one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD {YHVH} thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command you this day, shall be upon your heart: you shall teach them thoroughly to your children, and you shall speak of them when sitting in your home and walking on the road, when you lie down and when you rise. Deuteronomy 6:4-7
This means that we are to endeavor to keep the teaching and specific instruction of the very words of {YHVH} God that are recorded for us in His Scripture by placing them on our hearts, but we must also understand that there is an assurance of the future. Jeremiah 31:33 promises that in the new covenant, God will write his Torah teaching upon hearts:
“I will put My law [Torah] within them and on their heart I will write it” Jeremiah 31:33
This means that God will actually change our inner nature, circumcising our hearts as it were, to remove our sin. For more background on the new covenant see "Cutting a Covenant.

Paul writes of this shift as “the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit” (Titus 3:5). In another passage, Paul says:
“Therefore if anyone is in Messiah, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come” 2 Corinthians 5:17
Paul also describes the work of The Spirit of God as evidence of the new covenant:
“You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. You are a letter of Messiah, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts” 2 Corinthians 3:2-3
All of this is a fulfillment of the promise of the new covenant in the heart. The indwelling Holy Spirit of God is responsible for writing His commandments on our hearts:
Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances. Ezekiel 36:26–27
Ezekiel taught the same the same message that Paul wrote about:
"I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion, He will remove godlessness from Jacob." Romans 11:25-26
Many think of the "fullness" of the Gentiles" as exclusive to a full measure or count of Gentiles coming into the belief of Jesus as Savior. But that is just touching the surface of Paul's message. The word "fullness" is "plērōma" and it means a fulfilling as in keeping.



The fullness refers to keeping the Torah walk of the Jewish Messiah



Paul was revealing an amazing prophecy of the time we are in today as people are returning to the Jewish roots of their faith because:
“I ask instead: Did Israel not understand? First, Moses says: "I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation without understanding." Romans 10:19

“I ask then, did they stumble so as to lose their share? Absolutely not! However, because of their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.” Romans 11:11

“I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.” Romans 11:13-14
So far, a remnant have returned, we have not all experienced this change of heart in its fullness. The promise recorded by Jeremiah 31 goes on to proclaim everyone will "know" The LORD and no one will have to teach each other about him because The Spirit will fulfill the words of Deuteronomy 6.
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Jeremiah 31:34.
The completion of the promises of the new covenant are being fulfilled with Messiah Yeshua who is the “guarantee of a better covenant” (Hebrews 7:22). Paul tells us that God “gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge” (2 Corinthians 1:22). A "pledge" only implies a "down payment." A full sum will be paid in full in the future. The down payment, the pledge is given to us by the Holy Spirit within us today. The amount to be paid in full in the future at His return is His Torah on our hearts, His instruction and teaching written on our hearts by Almighty God.

The One who created us for this purpose is our Creator, it is He who gave to us His Son as a pledge … a pledge toward our future inheritance in resurrection and the salvation in redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory. (2 Corinthians 5:5; Ephesians 1:13-14)

In that day of redemption, the words of Deuteronomy 6:6 will be fulfilled:
“These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart” Deuteronomy 6:6
That is why John recorded the words of Messiah that work like a fiduciary, a power of attorney on our behalf. A power of attorney allows you to appoint a person to legally manage your affairs. Almighty God appointed and anointed Yeshua as His power of attorney. That is why He was able to declare God's commandments His:
John 14:15-16 If you love me, keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever. 
John 15:10 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 
Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Yeshua {Jesus}.
These were the same as the power of attorney words given by Moses in his sermon at Moab:
Deuteronomy 5:29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

Deuteronomy 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Let's follow God's word, we must not add to it or take away from them. The Torah, God's instruction was NOT nailed to the cross, what was nailed to the cross was the enmity, the curse of sin, the curse of death for disobedience of the very word of God. The curse of death was nailed to the cross on Passover and the gift of eternal life was granted at First Fruits in resurrection. You see, if you follow Messiah, what is "nailed to the cross" is the death penalty of your past sin.

How do we know this?

Because Yeshua i, the sinless one, the unleavened bread that never broke Torah. Because of that He overcame the curse of death given to Adam in the Garden of Eden. Yeshua overcame penalty when He arose to eternal life after the third night, on the third day, in fulfillment as the First Fruit in resurrected life.

The Greek word “kai” καί is translated as: “and” in Revelation 14:2... But the (the translators) missed something in the meaning of this word? It includes “indeed”...
“Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, [indeed] the faith of Yeshua.”
The summary is we are to walk like Yeshua walked.

The children of God need to walk in all of God's teaching and instruction, it is the same Torah the Yeshua taught. That is why He is the Living Torah, He is the Word, the embodiment of the unchanging words given at Mount Sinai that were written by Moses. 

John the disciple, opens his account telling us: "In the Beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God". We must know what this means if we are to understand God's message in the written word we call the Bible:
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might."

Mark 12:29-31 "Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Leviticus 19:18 "You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord. "

Luke 10:27 "And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”"

Matthew 7:12 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets."

Matthew 22:37-40 "And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
The prophet Isaiah gives a solemn word about the testimony of Yeshua:
For the LORD spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying: "Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread. But the LORD of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And many shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken." 
"Bind up the testimony; seal the teaching among my disciples. I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him. Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion." Isaiah 8:11-18
The Scripture scrolls that Jesus (Yeshua) taught were originally written In Hebrew and many of the words we read today are from the early English texts such as the King James Bible. However, the word’s meanings can be better understood if we just go back and seek the original Hebrew word meanings. 

For example, the word we see as “law” over 200 times in the first 39 books of the King James Bible is really “Torah”, which means “teaching and instruction” vs. what we call legislation.

That throws quite a different meaning out there doesn’t it?

Instead of thinking of God’s “law” per se, we can really be taking on God’s “teaching and instruction” for living according to His way, His path.

David was writing often about God's instruction in the Psalms. As an example, I will quote some of King David’s words that he penned in Psalms 119 using the traditional old English from the 1600’s King James and taking the Hebrew words into a translation that is consistent with their Hebrew meanings.

God said this about Abraham, His friend:
Because that Abraham obeyed {shama} my voice, and kept {shamar} my charge {mishmereth}, my commandments, {mitsvah} my statutes {chuqqah}, and my laws {Torah}. Genesis 26:5

Because that Abraham listened to my voice, and observed my 1)obligations of service, my 2) code of wisdom, my 3)ordinances, and my 4) teaching and instruction.
David wrote about them. Using the Bible and a concordance we can expound on what King David wrote about each of these five instructions:
• Psalm 78:7That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
• Psalm 89:31If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
• Psalm 103:18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
• Psalm 103:20 Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
• Psalm 111:7 The works of his hands [are] verity and judgment; all his commandments [are] sure.
• Psalm 111:10 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do [his commandments]: his praise endureth for ever.
• Psalm 112:1 Praise ye the LORD. Blessed [is] the man [that] feareth the LORD, [that] delighteth greatly in his commandments.
• Psalm 119:6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
• Psalm 119:10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
• Psalm 119:19I [am] a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
• Psalm 119:21 Thou hast rebuked the proud [that are] cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
• Psalm 119:32 I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
• Psalm 119:35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
• Psalm 119:47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
• Psalm 119:48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
• Psalm 119:60 I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
• Psalm 119:66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
• Psalm 119:73 JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
• Psalm 119:86 All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
• Psalm 119:98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they [are] ever with me.
• Psalm 119:115Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
• Psalm 119:127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
• Psalm 119:13 1I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
• Psalm 119:143Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: [yet] thy commandments [are] my delights.
• Psalm 119:151 Thou [art] near, O LORD; and all thy commandments [are] truth.
• Psalm 119:166 LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.
• Psalm 119:172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments [are] righteousness.
• Psalm 119:176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
At the end of the day, we too “get to” demonstrate our love to God by following in His path, doing things the way He would do them. Thinking the way He does in truth and spirit.

So it is time to study His teaching and instruction and guard it because we love Him and those around us just as He does. God's love is unconditional. We can't earn it. He loves the sinner that misses the mark and the righteous. He asks the sinner to repent {nacham} be sorry and turn back to God's ways.

My first posting in this study series is a quick reference guide and summary of His 613 (6+1+3=10) instructions. You can read them here.

Yeshua told us, if we know Him, we love Him and we WILL “keep” His words, His teaching and instruction for living. If will follow Him, we must walk the way He does (John 14:15;21, 15:10, 1John 2:3; 3:24; 5:2, Revelation 14:12; 22:14). 

These words are all about what He preached, taught and explained:
• Genesis 26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
• Exodus 15:26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I [am] the LORD that healeth thee.
• Exodus 16:28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
• Exodus 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
• Exodus 24:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
• Exodus 34:28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
• Leviticus 4:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:
• Leviticus 4:13 And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done [somewhat against] any of the commandments of the LORD [concerning things] which should not be done, and are guilty;
• Leviticus 4:22 When a ruler hath sinned, and done [somewhat] through ignorance [against] any of the commandments of the LORD his God [concerning things] which should not be done, and is guilty;
• Leviticus 4:27 And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth [somewhat against] any of the commandments of the LORD [concerning things] which ought not to be done, and be guilty;
• Leviticus 5:17 And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist [it] not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
• Leviticus 22:31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I [am] the LORD.
• Leviticus 26:3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
• Leviticus 26:14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
• Leviticus 26:15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, [but] that ye break my covenant:
• Leviticus 27:34 These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
• Numbers 15:22 And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,
• Numbers 15:39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
• Numbers 15:40 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.
• Numbers 36:13 These [are] the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho.
• Deuteronomy 4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish [ought] from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
• Deuteronomy 4:13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, [even] ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
• Deuteronomy 4:40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong [thy] days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
• Deuteronomy 5:10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
• Deuteronomy 5:29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
• Deuteronomy 5:31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do [them] in the land which I give them to possess it.
• Deuteronomy 6:1 Now these [are] the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do [them] in the land whither ye go to possess it:
• Deuteronomy 6:2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
• Deuteronomy 6:17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
• Deuteronomy 6:25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
• Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he [is] God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
• Deuteronomy 7:11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
• Deuteronomy 8:1 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
• Deuteronomy 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
• Deuteronomy 8:6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
• Deuteronomy 8:11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
• Deuteronomy 10:4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
• Deuteronomy 10:13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
• Deuteronomy 11:1 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
• Deuteronomy 11:8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;
• Deuteronomy 11:13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
• Deuteronomy 11:22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
• Deuteronomy 11:27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
• Deuteronomy 11:28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
• Deuteronomy 13:4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
• Deuteronomy 13:18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do [that which is] right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.
• Deuteronomy 15:5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.
• Deuteronomy 19:9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:
• Deuteronomy 26:13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of [mine] house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten [them]:
• Deuteronomy 26:17 Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
• Deuteronomy 26:18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that [thou] shouldest keep all his commandments;
• Deuteronomy 27:1 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.
• Deuteronomy 27:10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
• Deuteronomy 28:1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
• Deuteronomy 28:9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.
• Deuteronomy 28:13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do [them]:
• Deuteronomy 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
• Deuteronomy 28:45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
• Deuteronomy 30:8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.
• Deuteronomy 30:10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, [and] if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
• Deuteronomy 30:16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
• Deuteronomy 31:5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
• Joshua 22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
• Judges 2:17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; [but] they did not so.
• Judges 3:4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
• 1Samuel 15:11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul [to be] king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
• 1Kings 2:3 And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
• 1Kings 3:14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
• 1Kings 6:12 [Concerning] this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:
• 1Kings 8:58 That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
• 1Kings 8:61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
• 1Kings 9:6 [But] if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments [and] my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
• 1Kings 11:34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
• 1Kings 11:38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do [that is] right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
• 1Kings 14:8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and [yet] thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do [that] only [which was] right in mine eyes;
• 1Kings 18:18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.
• 2Kings 17:13Y et the LORD testified against Israel , and against Judah , by all the prophets, [and by] all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments [and] my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
• 2Kings 17:16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, [even] two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
• 2Kings 17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
• 2Kings 18:6 For he clave to the LORD, [and] departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
• 2Kings 23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all [their] heart and all [their] soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
• 1Chronicles 28:7 Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this day.
• 1Chronicles 28:8 Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave [it] for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.
• 1Chronicles 29:19 And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all [these things], and to build the palace, [for] the which I have made provision.
• 2Chronicles 7:19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
• 2Chronicles 17:4 But sought to the [LORD] God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel .
• 2Chronicles 24:20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
• 2Chronicles 31:21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did [it] with all his heart, and prospered.
• 2Chronicles 34:31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
• Ezra 7:11 Now this [is] the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, [even] a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
• Ezra 9:10And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
• Ezra 9:14 Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed [us], so that [there should be] no remnant nor escaping?
• Nehemiah 1:5And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:
• Nehemiah 1:7 We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
• Nehemiah 1:9 But [if] ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, [yet] will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
• Nehemiah 9:13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
• Nehemiah 9:16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
• Nehemiah 9:29 And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
• Nehemiah 9:34 Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.
• Nehemiah 10:29 They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
• Proverbs 2:1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
• Proverbs 3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
• Proverbs 4:4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
• Proverbs 7:1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
• Proverbs 7:2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
• Proverbs 10:8 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
• Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man.
• Isaiah 48:18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
• Daniel 9:4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
• Amos 2:4 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
• Matthew 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
• Matthew 19:17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
• Matthew 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
• Mark 10:19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
• Mark 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments [is], Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
• Luke 1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
• Luke 18:20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
• John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
• John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
• John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
• 1John 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
• 1John 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
• 1John 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
• 1John 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
• 1John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
• 1John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
• 2John 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
• Revelation 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
• Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
• Revelation 22:14 Blessed [are] they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
The team at BlueLetterBible provides an interesting reference view of the Ten Commandments. 

It is by Nevin, Alfred, Ed., et al. "Analytical Table and Harmony of the Mosaic Law," The Parallel Bible. Blue Letter Bible. 1 July 2002.

What does this all mean? 

It's time for you to repent and return to God's voice, return to hear and do His word and walk in the faith of His Kingdom path so that you can ready your lamp for your coming assignment. 

It means we need to know "Who is the One Called Jesus.

Consider a prayer: Please, God guide me by your Spirit as to what I should hear and do.

It's time to repent and return to God's voice, return to hear and do His words and walk in the faith of His Kingdom path so that you can ready your lamp for your assignment. 

Stretch out your hand, and take from the tree of life, and live forever.

Open a Bible, read it, listen to God's voice and do Yeshua's teaching about the forever jots and tittles. 

You can learn how the things which are written in the Torah, the Prophets, and the Psalms are concerning Messiah and you can teach others to live life like Jesus, it's love in God's way:
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved." John 3:16-17
Today is the time, open your eyes if you're dead in your own valley of dry bones.

Look up and you'll recognize Messiah from Abraham's promise passed on to Isaac and Jacob as written by Moses in the Torah. You can see Him too in the Prophets and the Writings.

Repent and walk your Emmaus Road with Messiah. Study the Scriptures He taught every Sabbath that are filled with doing life God's way in the Kingdom, and tell others about Him. Be a gatekeeper until the house is complete.

Shalom.