HEBREW ROOTS # 5: Making a "god" out of The LAW of Moses

[ Note: It is difficult in these troublous times to focus on bad grammar and faulty doctrine when our brothers and sisters in Syria and other places are under such terrible persecution. 

Although we are DEFINITELY NOT POLITICAL at the Order of The GOOD SHEPHERD+, we are not cabbage-heads either;  we are well aware of "who" is at fault and we are well aware of the help The LORD has ordained to rid Syria of the merciless mercenaries.  

We recognize the workings of the 10 kings of Revelation 17 in these terrible times. And... we KNOW WHO+ WINS IN THE END   !  ]

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The LAW of The LORD is perfect, 

converting the soul;  

the testimony of The LORD is sure, 

making wise the simple.

Psalm 19

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Yes, we receive most EXCELLENT instruction and correction from the Law of The LORD. That is where we learn the difference between right and wrong.

If we covet, for example, we would have no knowledge that coveting is wrong unless we had the Law to teach us,

"Thou shalt not covet."

If we lay the Law of GOD, The Word of GOD,  to heart, we will receive conviction of sin and --- hopefully --- repent of coveting. Turning away from coveting, then, works to convert the soul. 

In other terms, The Law shows us that we ourselves are bad in GOD'S eyes and we hasten to apologize for offending HIM+. The LAW shows us where we transgress HIS+ Way, His+ character, HIS+ image in which we were created.

With a sincere heart, we desire to rectify our values, thoughts, and behavior --- bringing them all into line with GOD.

The Law of Moses brings conviction of sin.  The Law brings us knowledge of our sin. 
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Do we then make that knowledge a "god " ?  

Do we venerate, worship, and adore 

the Law of Moses ?

[ Webster's 7th Collegiate tells us that venerate is  from the Latin root VENUS , which root means "love, charm" . ]

 Do we then worship the Law of Moses 

which brings us KNOWLEDGE 

of our humanly sinful ways ?

Here is what Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA said to venerators of The Law of Moses:

If a man on the Sabbath Day 

receive circumcision 

that the Law of Moses should not be broken; 

are ye angry at ME+  

because I+ have made a man 

every whit whole 

on the Sabbath ?

John 7:23

What was the problem here between The LORD Y'SHU+ and the Torah-observant Jews who kept the Law of Moses to the letter ?

Not only was Y'SHU+ pointing out that HE+ effected the true CIRCUMCISION of man, but HE+ was pointing out something in addition: 

 They worshipped The Law itself !

 Their focus was SO MINUTELY centered upon the Letter of the Law of Moses that it actually HINDERED THEM FROM recognizing The LORD HIMSELF+ ... to WHOM+ the LAW pointed !    

Their practice of the Law of Moses became an obstacle between The ELOHIM and themselves.  This problem is pointed out in the Words of Y'SHU+ in the Gospels and in the words of the Apostles John, Paul, and Peter and James the Jerusalem Elder in the New Covenant.

The worshippers-of-the-LAW's focus upon The Law of Moses actually REPLACED their love for the ONE+ Who+ wanted them to RECOGNIZE HIM+. 

Their focus on The Law of Moses worked to hinder and obfuscate the REAL INTENT of The Law as a means to draw close to GOD, Ha ELOHIM.

If a person or group venerates The Law of Moses, there is no way to avoid DISCARDING several Scriptures in several books of the New Covenant.

In Hebrew Roots circles, it sometimes involves taking the very words of Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA out of context in order to "adjust" His+ Words to fit their doctrines... a dangerous ploy.

For instance, look at the Hebrew Rootist's flagship New Testament, Andrew Roth's AENT, for the infamous mis-translation in Matthew 11:38  and Mr. Roth's even more erroneous footnote #107 which accompanies that verse.

In true translations of the Words of Y'SHU+ in that verse, HE+ admonishes His+ Disciples to pick up the Cross and follow Him+, to lay down their lives for HIS+ sake.  

Incredulously, Mr. Roth calls the Cross a "staff" of authority ( !  ) with which we are to pick up and use to rule, justifying his wrong translation  via the passage in the Torah regarding Aaron's rod that budded, Numbers 17:1-10.

In the New Covenant, some of the verses DISCARDED include these, by the Hebrew Rootists:

Words of Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA, recorded in Matthew 5:18:

For truly I+ say unto you, Till Heaven and earth should pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no way pass away from The LAW until all be fulfilled.

[ Note: The FULFILLMENT or completion of the LAW occurred at Calvary. Hence, the LAW was in full effect and power until the Crucifixion when Y'SHU+ completed the Sacrifice, fulfilling The Law, in regard to our sins. ] 

Words of James, the Jerusalem Elder, in regards to the Law of Moses ( circumcision , etc. ) as recorded by Luke in Acts 21:25:

 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

Words of the Apostle Peter in Acts 11:9, in regards to the vision of eating "unclean" animals:

But answering me a Voice+ the second time out of the Heaven, "What GOD has cleansed, you do not call that ' common.' "

Romans 3:20;  Therefore by the deeds of the Law there shall no flesh be justified in His+ sight: for by The Law is the knowledge of sin.  

Galatians 4:20-30 ...Tell me, ye that desire to be under the Law, do ye not hear the Law ? ... Hagar vs Jerusalem ... Cast out the bondwoman.

Galatians 5:4   ... M'SHIKHA+ is become of NO effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by The Law; ye are FALLEN from grace.

Galatians 5:18

But if ye be led of the SPIRIT the RUACH ha KADOSH, ye are not under the LAW.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ...   5:17 Therefore if any man be in M'SHIKHA+, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Ephesians 2:15

Having abolished in HIS+ Flesh the enmity, even the LAW of Commandments contained in Ordinances; for to make in HIMSELF+ of twain one new man, so making peace;

Ephesians 2:18 

For through HIM+ we both have access by one SPIRIT unto The FATHER.

When the Words of the LORD and His+ hand-picked Apostles are  discarded IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH A SEPARATE DOCTRINE, Followers of Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA no longer follow HIM+ in truth.  They follow error.

No Follower of Y'SHU+ disregards the Law of Moses... because Y'SHU+ is the LAW INCARNATE+ and HE+ and HIS+ Law live within the heart of the person following HIM+.

As Scripture teaches: They are NOW written in their hearts. The phylacteries have moved from the head into the heart.

Thus, peoples and tribes who come to Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA  keep The LAW ... even though they may have no knowledge of the FIRST Covenant at all. HE+ places it into their hearts and they follow the leading of the HOLY SPIRIT, the RUACH ha KADOSH.

Hear these Words of Our LORD from Matthew 22:37-40 and Mark 12: 29-31, combined: 

The GREAT SHEMA

The first of all the commandments is:

HEAR, O ISRAEL; 

The LORD our GOD is ONE LORD. 

Thou shalt love The LORD thy GOD 

with all thy heart, 

and with all thy soul, 

and with all thy mind, 

and with all thy strength. 

And the second is like unto it: 

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 

There is NO COMMANDMENT 

greater than these. 

On these two commandments 

hang ALL THE LAW

and the Prophets.  

I +  and My+ FATHER

ARE ONE.

John 10:30