Mosaic Law Advocation

Foreword
If I miss any verses I am happy to go over them, I am not infallible, only God and His Word are, I am
doing the best I can with what I have. I think the God is the best interpreter of Scripture, so I would like
really to let the Ruach Ha Kodesh (Holy Spirit) speak for Himself. Also, some terms should be defined
Yeshua = Jesus
Torah = Old Testament Law
Hebrew Scriptures = Old Testament
B'rit Chadeshah = New Testament
Introduction: Should Christians keep Torah (Old Testament Laws)?
My entire paper is to the aim of instructing Christians if they should keep the Old Testament Laws, or
properly called the Torah. Common pejoratives for those Christians would include "Legalist, Judaizer"
etc. The term "Legalism" or "Judaizer" is not found in Scripture. So what is the problem exactly? The
Torah, or more specifically, the keeping of it. Two very important verses come to mind before we begin
our study.
"And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures,
neither the power of God?"
Mark 12:24
"These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of
mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so."
Acts 17:11
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness"
2 Timothy 3:16
This was when there WAS no New Testament, so this is speaking of the Hebrew Scriptures! So what is
an example of something that could be profitable for us to do?
"So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to
understand the reading. And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the
Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the Lord your God; mourn
not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law."
Nehemiah 8:8-9

Learning the sense of the Scriptures perhaps? The word law in Hebrew is Torah, it carries more the
sense of instruction or teaching. They wept when they heard they hadn't been keeping the Torah, in that
Spirit let us turn our hearts toward God and His ways.
New Testament Advocation for Keeping Torah
Is there anything more important in this life (and the next) then to listen to Yeshua? Remember when
you first came to Christ, how in love you were the His Words, with Him.
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil"
Matthew 5:17
Let's start with the dictionary.
Full Definition of FULFILL
transitive verb
1
archaic : to make full :
Tennyson>

FILL

<her subtle, warm, and golden breathfulfills him with beatitude Alfred

2
a : to put into effect : EXECUTE
b : to meet the requirements of (a business order)
c : to bring to an end
d : to measure up to : SATISFY
3
a : to convert into reality
b : to develop the full potentialities of

King James being written 1611, I'd say Merrium-Webster is right on about the archaic definition when
you look at the context.
Here clearly Jesus says he didn't come to do away with the Torah, but to more clearly teach it. To say
Yeshua means fulfil in the sense of not having to keep the Torah, destroys the sense of the passage
itself, and the context of the following passages. In Greek the word fufil indicates to fill to the brim, to
fully preach (Strong's concordance) 4137 plro to fulfil, i.e. to cause God's will (as made
known in the Torah) to be obeyed as it should be, and God's promises (given through the prophets) to
receive fulfillment. Also see this from Strong's exhaustive concordance From pleres; to make replete,
i.e. (literally) to cram (a net), level up (a hollow), or (figuratively) to furnish (or imbue, diffuse,

influence), satisfy, execute (an office), finish (a period or task), verify (or coincide with a prediction),
etc. -- accomplish, X after, (be) complete, end, expire, fill (up), fulfil, (be, make) full (come), fully
preach, perfect, supply. He does then proceeds to do this in the rest of the chapter, commenting on
adultery, eye for an eye, etc. The root of pleroo is play-thoo, and is defined as what fully takes
possession of the mind is said to fill it". The ancient Jewish Sages say that when the Messiah comes,
He will explain Torah, i.e. to be the Ultimate Rabbi! Indeed, Yeshua says, call only one Rabbi (besides
being the first recorded Rabbi in history). In fact, a Rabbi was not just a teacher, but the word also had
the sense of lawyer, one who interprets the law. A Disciple (Talmudim) was compared to a cup that was
not to spill a drop of the masters teachings (compare Matthew 23:26), and the root word for Torah
(law) was yara (Strongs 3384), the primitive root properly being to flow as water. "Fulfil" was also
used as an idiom at the time for proper interpretation, and "abolish" meant to misinterpret to as make it
useless. Compare with the Mishna, Jewish law from around Yeshua's time:
"If the Sanhedrin gives a decision to abolish a law, by saying for instance, that the Torah does not
include the laws of Sabbath or idolatry, the members of the court are free from a sin offering if they
obey them; but if the Sanhedrin abolishes only one part of a law but fulfills the other part, they are
liable. "
Mishnah, Horayot 1:3
"Go away to a place of study of the Torah, and do not suppose that it will come to you. For your fellow
disciples will fulfill it (lekayem) in your hand. And on your own understanding do not rely."
Mishnah, Pirke Avot, 4:14.
See See New Light on the Difficult Words of Jesus: Insights from His Jewish Context, by David Bivin,
(En-Gedi, 2005) pp. 93-94, and notes on p.101 for other examples of this idiomatic usage.

Go away to a place of study of the Torah, and do not suppose that it will come to you. For your fellow
disciples will fulfill it (lekayem) in your hand. And on your own understanding do not rely. 4 (Here
"fulfill" means to explain and interpret the Scripture.)
Now some say this means the 10 commandments, but Scripture clearly shows us it means the Hebrew
Scriptures, the Old Testament.
The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every
man presseth into it.
Luke 16:16
In fact, they try to use this verse to say you DONT have to keep the Old Testment, but then you cant
have it both ways, and we deal with this verse later. In a nutshell clearly the passage is saying the

Scriptures pointed to Jesus, now Jesus is straight up preached.

Even the Catholic church understands this: "5:17-20: This statement of Jesus' position concerning the
Mosaic law...To fufill the law appears at first a literal enforcement of the law in the least detail" (NAB,
The New Catholic Translation, sealed by Pope Paul VI)They try to go around this saying when Jesus
died the universe ended, so when heaven and earth passed away...
Back to Matthew 5:17-19
"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
"Observe that our Lord does not say that the Law will then pass away. He says, not till then; i.e. he
affirms, as in Luke 16:17, that it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for the Law. For, in
fact, as being constantly fulfilled in its ideal and therefore permanent character, it must necessarily
remain in the new world; cf. 1 Peter 1:25 (the everlasting duration of the word of the Lord); 1
Corinthians 13:13 (love); 2 Peter 3:13 (righteousness); cf. Meyer. The belief in the permanence of the
Law which the Jews had (vide references in Meyer, and especially Weber, 'Altsynag. Theol.,' 5, 84)
here finds its true satisfaction." Pulpit Commentary
We can quote from Wesley (Founder of Methodism):
"'I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.' . . . Without question, His meaning in this place is
(consistently with all that goes before and follows after),--I am come to establish it in its fullness, in
spite of all the glosses of men: I am come to place in a full and clear view whatsoever was dark or
obscure therein: I am come to declare the true and full import of every part of it; to show the length and
breadth, the entire extent, of every commandment contained therein, and the height and depth, the
inconceivable purity and spirituality of it in all its branches."--Wesley, sermon 25
"In the highest rank of the enemies of the gospel of Christ," said Wesley, "are they who openly and
explicitly 'judge the law' itself, and 'speak evil of the law;' who teach men to break (to dissolve, to
loose, to untie the obligation of) not one only, whether of the least or of the greatest, but all the
commandments at a stroke. . . . The most surprising of all the circumstances that attend this strong
delusion, is that they who are given up to it, really believe that they honor Christ by overthrowing His
law, and that they are magnifying His office while they are destroying His doctrine! Yea, they honor
Him just as Judas did when he said, 'Hail, Master, and kissed Him.' And He may as justly say to every
one of them, 'Betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss? It is no other than betraying Him with a kiss,
to talk of His blood, and take away His crown; to set light by any part of His law, under pretense of
advancing His gospel. Nor indeed can anyone escape this charge, who preaches faith in any such a
manner as either directly or indirectly tends to set aside any branch of obedience: who preaches Christ
so as to disannul, or weaken in any wise, the least of the commandments of God."-- Ibid .
Or to get really in depth here:

" , ...] until heaven and earth shall have passed away. These words of Jesus do not
indicate a terminus, after which the law shall no longer exist (Paulus, Meander, Lechler,
Schleiermacher, Planck, Weizscker, and others), but He says: onwards to the destruction of the world
the law will not lose its validity in the slightest point, by which popular expression (Luke 16:17; Job
14:12) the duration of the law after the final catastrophe of the world is neither taught nor excluded.
That the law, however, fulfilled as to its ideal nature, will endure in the new world, is clear from 1
Corinthians 13:3 (); 1 Peter 1:25; 2 Peter 3:3 (). The unending authority of the law is
also taught by Bar 4:1; Tob 1:6; Philo, vit. Mos. 2. p. 656; Joseph, c. Ap. ii. 38, and the Rabbins. See
Bereschith R. x. 1, omni rei suus finis, coelo et terrae suus finis, una excepta re, cui non suus finis,
haec est lex. Schemoth R. vi., nulla litera aboletur a lege in aeternum. Midrash Cohel. f. 71, 4, (lex)
perpetuo manebit in secula seculorum. The passage in 1 Corinthians 15:28 is not opposed to our
explanation; for if God is all in all, the fulfilled law of God yet stands in its absolute authority.

] not: until all the prophecies are fulfilled, that would then be down to the
Parousia (Wetstein, J. E. Meyer, comp. Ewald); nor even till all is carried out theocratically which I
have to perform (Paulus), or what lies shut up in the divine decree (Kstlin), or even until the event
shall occur by means of which the observance of the law becomes impossible, and it falls away of itself
(Schleiermacher); but, in keeping with the context, until all which the law requires shall he
accomplished (Matthew 6:10), nothing any longer left unobserved. This sentence is not co-ordinate to
the first , but subordinate (Khner, ad Xen. Mem. i. 2. 36): So long as the world stands shall no
iota[401] of the law pass away till all its prescriptions shall be realized. All the requirements of the
law shall be fulfilled; but before this fulfilment of all shall have begun,[402] not a single iota of the law
shall fall till the end of the world. Fritzsche: till all (only in thought) is accomplished. He assumes,
accordingly, agreeably to the analogous use of conditional sentences (Heindorf and Stallbaum, ad Plat.
Phaed. p. 67 E; Khner, II. 2, p. 988 f.), a double protasis: (1) , ..., and (2)
. But the parallel passages, Matthew 24:34, Luke 21:32, are already opposed to this; and
after the concrete and lively . , this general and indefinite
would be only a vague and lumbering addition. As correlative to and
, can only mean all portions of the law, without, however, any definite point of time
requiring to be thought of, in which all the commands of the law will be carried out, according to
which, then, the duration of the present condition of the world would be conformed. This thought is
rendered impossible by the nearness of the Parousia, according to Matthew 24:29; Matthew 24:34, as
well as by the growth of the tares until the Parousia, according to Matthew 13:30. The thought is rather,
the law will not lose its binding obligation, which reaches on to the final realization of all its
prescriptions, so long as heaven and earth remain.

Observe, moreover, that the expression in our passage is different from Matthew 24:35, where the
permanency of the of Christ after the end of the world is directly and definitely affirmed, but that
in this continued duration of the of Christ the duration of the law also is implied, i.e. according
to its complete meaning (in answer to Lechler, p. 797); comp. on Luke 16:17. The of the

new heavens and of the new earth will be no other than what is here taught, Delitzsch. So completely
one with the idea of the law does Jesus in His spiritual greatness know His moral task to be, not
severed from the latter, but placed in its midst.

[401] , the smallest letter, and , horn, a little stroke of writing (Plut. Mor. p. 1100 A, 1011
D), especially also in single letters (Origen, ad Psalms 33), by which, for example, the following letters
are distinguished, and , and , and . See Lightfoot, Schoettgen, and Wetstein. Both expressions
denote the smallest portions of the law; see ver. 19.

[402] In this is contained the perpetually abiding obligation of the law; for that condition of things, in
which no part of the law remains unfulfilled, in which, consequently, all is accomplished, will never
occur until the end of the world. Of the , moreover, nothing is to be excluded which the law
Contains, not even the ritualistic portions, which are to be morally fulfilled in their ideal meaning, as
e.g. the Levitical prescription regarding purification by moral purification, the sacrificial laws by moral
self-sacrifice (comp. Romans 12:1), and so on, so that in the connection of the whole, in accordance
with the idea of , not even the smallest element will perish, but retains its importance and its
integral moral connection with the whole. Comp. Tholuck; Gess, Christi Pers. und Werk, I. p. 292; and
before him, Calvin on ver. 17."
Meyers NT Commentary
"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. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed
the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven."
Matthew 5:19-20
Very clear here. This word fufil is in verse 17 1096 ginomai. Taking pleroo to mean fufil
instead of fully preach would mean verse 17 says I came not so you dont have follow the law...but I
came so you dont have to follow the law. The very opposite of what He is saying. It would mean 18
to say the Torah is outdated even though it will last till the end of the universe, and 19 would mean the
Torah has already been fulfilled but if you break the least one youre in big trouble. Again the Catholic
church understands this to mean Mosiac law, not just the 10 commandments: 5:19 "Probably These
commandments means those of the mosaic law" (ibid).
He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that
receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.
Matthew 10:41
A righteous man; i.e. one who is punctilious in performing all the details of the revealed will of

God ...Matthew 1:19, note; ...Acts 22

:14; ...James 5:6). This word also is used in a quasi-Jewish sense, and points back to the time when
Jewish Christians performed, not only the law as expounded in the sermon on the mount, but also those
external rites and observances which had been commanded them as Jews (...Acts
21:20). Among such Jewish Christians some would he especially noticeable for their regard to these
things (e.g. James the "Just," or "Righteous"), and it is to one of these that the epithet here refers.
Quoted from Pulpit Commentary, an exegetical commentary as opposed to a homiletical one (one that
tells you what the Bible says rather than how to preach it).
"Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you
observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not."
Matthew 23:2-3
Multiple commentaries (which are not in favor of keeping all of Mosaic law) say that He was not
advocating Talmudic ordinances, which would be a contradiction to his ministry as a whole, but that
when it says "they sit in the seat of Moses" means when they tell you to keep the law of Moses. Again,
Roman Catholicm agrees "Matthew 23: "Matthew portrays the time of Jesus' ministry as marked by the
fidelity to the law"
To put it simply, Jesus says: Whenever they (the scribes) tell you to do something Moses said to do, do
that.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and
have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done,
and not to leave the other undone.
Matthew 23:23
Here Yeshua says to keep all the parts of the Torah, the big parts and the little parts.
"If ye love me, keep my commandments."
John 14:15
"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."
John 15:10
While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet
against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.
Acts 25:8
Paul kept Torah.

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Romans 3:31
What is sin?
"Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law."
1 John 3:4
"By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous."
1 John 5:2-3
"But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful
hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed."
James 1:25
"For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all."
James 2:10
We're supposed to keep all the commandments we can.
"For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also."
James 2:26
Not that we're saved by works, it is by faith we are saved, but a true faith produces works.
"Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of
Jesus."
Revelation 14:12
"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."
Revelation 22:14
These are a few examples among many.
What do the Hebrew Scriptures Say About Torah?
These are the same Scriptures Yeshua and the disciples read, and expected everyone to learn from.
What does God have to reveal to us in His Word?
The Hebrew Scriptures

The Torah
The first mention of Torah in the Bible (not counting daughter-in-law of course).
"And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these
countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; Because that Abraham obeyed
my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
Genesis 26:4-5
"Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go
out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or
no."
Exodus 16:4
"And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?"
Exodus 16:28
"And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk,
and the work that they must do."
Exodus 18:20
"Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God. Ye
shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if
a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord."
Leviticus 18:4-5
They are for everyone, that includes you, New Testament Christians. Remember this?
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness"
2 Timothy 3:16
"Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these
abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that
sojourneth among you"
Leviticus 18:26
"Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the
Lord your God."
Leviticus 24:22
"One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth
with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord.

One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you."
Numbers 15:15-16
(For everyone and forever) The Torah is eternal, parts of it and all of it.
"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 5:29
"Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments,
and his commandments, alway."
Deuteronomy 11:1
"Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their
generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between
me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the
seventh day he rested, and was refreshed."
Exodus 31:16-17
"Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the
congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations"
Leviticus 10:9
The Torah is enforced by God.
"A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day: 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"
Deuteronomy 11:27-28
"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 28:15
Take special note of this last one..
"And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying,
I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart"
Deuteronomy 29:18
God describes a man who hears the Bible say to keep Torah, and it won't be all that great for him if he

doesn't keep Torah, but he thinks, "Ah, I'll be O.K."

Don't be this guy.
The Prophets and Writings
"And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the
house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of
Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem."
Isaiah 2:3
In the future we will keep the Torah.
"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light
in them."
Isaiah 8:20
"The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws,
changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant."
Isaiah 24:5
"Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon
him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles."
Isaiah 42:1
So who is this? Obviously Messiah. He didn't bring forth judgement to the Gentiles the first time
around, so in the future what will He do?
"He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for
his law."
Isaiah 42:4
Did you catch that? We're waiting for His Torah!
"The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it
honourable."
Isaiah 42:21
"For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger
with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all
flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many. They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in
the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse,
shall be consumed together, saith the Lord. For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come,
that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory."

Isaiah 66:15-18
This is a very important verse, it says when God comes at the end, and for those who aren't eating
kosher (Biblically not Rabbinically), their bodies will be slain... just think about it next time you eat a
BLT please?
"The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also
transgressed against me."
Jeremiah 2:8
"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and
with the house of Judah"
Jeremiah 31:31
The New Testament (Covenant) prophesied, which is definitely for us, and applicable to us. The next
verse seems to say we don't keep the Old Covenant..
"Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to
bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto
them, saith the Lord"
Jeremiah 31:32
However, what does the very next verse say?
"But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the
Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and
they shall be my people."
Jeremiah 31:33
The New Covenant is not like the Old one, people didn't honor God and the sacrificial system was
pointing the way to a New and Better Sacrifice. Then God Himself will put His Torah in our hearts. To
support this view, just look at the verses before and after, about their sin, and forgiveness of said sin.
For example:
"If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from
being a nation before me for ever. Thus saith the Lord; If heaven above can be measured, and the
foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they
have done, saith the Lord."
Jeremiah 31:36-37
"Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes
are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the Lord."

Lamentations 2:9
"Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of
the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients."
Ezekiel 7:26
Here and in Daniel it even predicts (quite accurately) that we would stop keeping the Torah, and in a
negative light.
"Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference
between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean,
and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them."
Ezekiel 22:26
"And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments:
and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine
assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths."
Ezekiel 44:24
Here it says again we will keep the Torah!
Pay attention to the spirit of Anti-Christ, an specifically one of the things he will have in his heart to do.
"And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High,
and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and
the dividing of time."
Daniel 7:25
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also
reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also
forget thy children."
Hosea 4:6
The famous verse, and what is it about? Not keeping the Torah!
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem
shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of
tabernacles. And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem
to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. And if the family of Egypt go
not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the Lord will smite the
heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and
the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

Zechariah 14:16-19
The Bible states there will be a punishment for not keeping the festivals at the end of the age!
Obviously it wasn't for just then...
"And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the
house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law
shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem."
Micah 4:2
"Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with
the statutes and judgments."
Malachi 4:4
The last book written of the Hebrew Scriptures and it says to remember the law of Moses.
"Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law,
which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou
mayest prosper withersoever thou goest."
Joshua 1:7
"But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed
not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin."
2 Kings 10:31
"Yet 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."
2 Kings 17:13
"They feared the Lord, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried
away from thence. Unto this day they do after the former
manners: they fear not the Lord, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after
the law and commandment which the Lord commanded
the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel"
2 Kings 17:33-34
Here we see them worshiping God after their own manner they think is best, not the way He wants to
be worshiped.
"The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the
simple."

Psalm 19:7
"I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation."
Psalm 119:99
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood. Thou puttest
away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.
Psalm 119:118-119
Here we see God judging, not just the Israelites, but all the inhabitants of the known world for not
keeping Gods statutes. Keep in mind, Israel was the center of major ancient trade routes, all the
Israelites had to do was be holy and their right living would naturally spread to the rest of the earth, and
here by King Davids time much of the ancient known world would have been in a position to hear of
the way of God. Take not of this verse from Ezra for further confirmation of the wide-spread
availability of knowledge of Gods Word
And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which
may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye
them that know them not. And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let
judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation
of goods, or to imprisonment.
Ezra 14:25-26
See any ancient map of the territory of the Persian Empire under Artaxerxes to see how far this could
be, besides being in between 3 continents.
"It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy law."
Psalm 119:126
"For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law."
Proverbs 4:2
"They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them."
Proverbs 28:4
Answering Common Objections from Scripture
(Concerning the Law in General)
And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if
otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not
with the old. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and

be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are
preserved. No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is
better.
Luke 5:36-39
What is the context? Many times attack against God's law are really just the logical fallacy of
contextomy
They said to him, Johns disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but
yours go on eating and drinking. Jesus answered, Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast
while he is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those
days they will fast. He told them this parable: No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an
old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the
old. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the
wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins.
And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, The old is better.
Luke 5:33-39
Elisha ben Avuyah said:
"He who studies as a child, unto what can he be compared? He can be compared to ink written upon a
fresh [new] sheet of paper. But he who studies as an adult, unto what can he be compared? He can be
compared to ink written on a smudged [previously used and erased] sheet of paper. Rabbi Yose ben
Yehudah of the city of Babylon said, "He who learns from the young, unto what can he be compared?
He can be compared to one who eats unripe grapes, and drinks unfermented wine from his vat. But he
who learns from the old, unto what can he be compared? He can be compared to one who eats ripe
grapes, and drinks old wine. Rabbi (Meir) said: Do not pay attention to the container but pay attention
to that which is in it. There is a new container full of old wine, and here is an old container which does
not even contain new wine.
Like the larger Gospel context of Luke chapters five and six, the Avot passage is comparing different
types of teachers, disciples and teachings. If we allow the similes of Avot 4 to inform the metaphors of
Luke 5, we have surprising results. In Avot, the vessels for containing wine are not institutions,
religious movements or teachings. The vessels containing the wine are individuals. The wine is the
teaching that the individual consumes or contains. Applying this symbolism to Luke, we could parse
out Luke 5:36-39 as follows:
Symbol meanings are: New garment represents previously uneducated students, old garment previously
educated students. The Patch? Teaching. New wine-skins are previously uneducated students and old
wine-skins previously educated students. New wine would then be new teaching while old wine
previous teaching

Singular Meaning: New teaching requires previously uneducated students in order to be received.
Nothing about not keeping the Torah, which would create SO many contradictions in Scripture.
The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every
man presseth into it.
Luke 16:16
Also this similar passage in Matthew:
And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the
violent take it by force. For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
Matthew 11:12-13
First off the context of both verses are simply Yesua acknowledging John as a prophet, not the end of
Torah. In fact, look at the next verse in Luke:
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Luke 16:17
Lol then read the REST of the chapter:
And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though
one rose from the dead.
Luke 16:31
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
John 1:17
The but isnt in the Greek, it should be read more as a semi-colon.
Now you have to keep in mind all the other things we've read, that the Word of God cannot be with
contradiction, for it is perfect and unerring, but reflect
on the whole counsel of God.
"Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words,
subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such
commandment"
Acts 15:24
Sounds like what I'm doing right? What is the context of this argument?

"And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be
circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved."
Acts 15:1 The issue is not of commandment keeping per se but of soteriology, that is, how are men
saved. Not by works but by faith in Messiah,
"...purifying their hearts by faith. Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the
disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? But we believe that through thegrace of
the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they."
Acts 15:9-11
What would make the Council of Jerusalem make such a landmark decision to not need to keep God's
Torah?
"Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. Wherefore my sentence is, that we
trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: But that we write unto them, that
they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every
sabbath day."
Acts 15:18-21
They said just make sure they do these certain things right now, and why? For (because) They assumed
they would hear the rest of the Bible in Church later, and would work their way up to it. Otherwise
what does this passage mean? Some people say that just Jewish people have to keep ceremonial laws
then and Gentile Christians keep just the moral law, but here we see the two being co-mingled (not
eating blood and sexual purity).
"And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many
thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:And they are informed of
thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they
ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs. What is it therefore? the
multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come. Do therefore this that we
say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them; Them take, and purify thyself with them, and
be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof
they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also
walkest orderly, and keepest the law."
Acts 21:20-24
Paul himself kept the Torah, he didn't force the Torah on the Goyim the same reason I don't, the most
important thing is their salvation, if they can do the other stuff, great, if not, at least they are saved.
"While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet
against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all."

Acts 25:8
What about Paul's letters? Let's look through them. Keeping in mind what Peter said...
"Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in
peace, without spot, and blameless. And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even
as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As
also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be
understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures,
unto their own destruction."
2 Peter 3:14-16
"Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every
mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 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."
Romans 3:19-20
The issue isn't keeping the Torah, the whole letter to the Romans is how is a man saved, through works
or by faith? It is evident from the letter itself after a casual reading and the great scholars of history will
attest to it, as well as your own eyes.
"Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law."
Romans 3:28
What does Paul think of the Torah, not for salvation then?
"Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law."
Romans 3:31
"For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace."
Romans 6:14
So we're not under Old Testament law right? Remember context, for salvation. If the context isn't for
salvation, but this is speaking of the ceremonial law, the next verse shreds that. Proof? The very next
part EVERYONE forgets to mention...
"What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid."
Romans 6:14
This would show there is a moral aspect the preceding verse. If you still read it as Christians have said
"we aren't under the law!" Remember it said a few chapters back the Gentiles are a law unto themselves
when because of our conscience. Reading it in the traditional sense means we don't even have to listen
to our consciences! This cannot be the correct reading.

"Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be
married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto
God."
Romans 7:4
Here seems like a clear passage. What does the rest of the chapter say?
"But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in
newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." Romans 7:6
Again for salvation (and actually to better help us keep the Torah), remember the point of the whole
letter. An example of newness in spirit is "Thou shalt not commit adultery" but now you don't even lust
in your heart, or look at a woman. The Old is still there, the New reinforces it. Or from not killing to
not hating, it doesn't mean to hate but it's OK to kill. Paul makes an example of "not muzzling the oxen
while he treads the grain", then uses it to infer paying the preacher. Does that make it OK not to feed
your animals?
"What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid."
Romans 7:7
"Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good."
Romans 7:12
"For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin."
Romans 7:14
"If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good."
Romans 7:16
"For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring
against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O
wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus
Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."
Romans 7:22-25
Here it is important to notice which law he is talking about, evil law or God's law, and for what
purpose, he is saved from the Torah so he is saved, not so he
doesn't have to keep it. I think you get the general idea by now, try reading the passage through
Jewish/Christian eyes, the Hebraic perspective the writer had (and has to this day in Heaven lol) and his
readers would have gotten from it.

"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For
what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might
be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."
Romans 8:2-4
Why has it been so different for so long? Maybe a clue in the same chapter?
"Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed
can be."
Romans 8:7
"But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of
righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law.
For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and
rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed."
Romans 9:31-33
The long and the short of the whole matter.
"Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them
record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's
righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves
unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that
believeth. For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those
things shall live by them."
Romans 10:1-5
The greek work used for end here is , telos, end meaning the goal, as in To what end do you
intend to do so?
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath
raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness;
and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on
him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord
over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved."
Romans 10:9-13
I pray to God Almighty anyone reading these words would take it to heart and call upon the Lord Jesus
Christ (Yeshua the Messiah) and be saved, the true cry of my heart to you, dear reader, whoever you
may be.

"For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as
under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To them that are without law, as without
law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are
without law."
1 Corinthians 9:19-21
What is Paul's heart? Abolishing the treasured Torah of God from the chosen people he himself was, or
the salvation of the soul of men? It is evident here.
Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in
uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
1 Corinthians 7:18

Now this is a good one. LONG story short, the calling isnt the present station in life, but the calling
into salvation. Dont get circumcised to be saved basically. Otherwise in the chapter it tells slaves to
stay slaves (and ignoring verses where it tells slaves to run away if they dont like it without
repercussion, ignoring the fact that the Bible is the first anti-slavery document ever written)!!
http://tnnonline.net/faq/C/1_Corinthians_7_17-24.pdf

"Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of
God."
1 Corinthians 7:19
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the
letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
2 Corinthians 3:6
Ive heard this verse being used to even justify homosexuality, but it is a natural thought if you take it
to mean Gods law is no longer applicable to our lives. Its like when a cop gives a little kid with a
lemonade stand a ticket for not having a business license, he has violated the spirit of the law, to serve
and protect people, by using the letter to kill. It doesnt mean the letter has no value whatsoever
anymore, far from it.
And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to
the end of that which is abolished: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same
vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. But even unto
this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
2 Corinthians 3:13-15

The word abolish here katarge is used 27 times in Scripture, and 11 of them as
miscellaneous. Most likely it means here to lose its power, and in what context? The context of the
verse is the salvation of Jewish people into the fullness of the Gospel, as the next verses clarify. It can
mean abolish look at when the word is used in the sense of void, as in Romans 3:31: Do we then
make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. Now the Lord is that Spirit:
and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
2 Corinthians 3:16-17
Besides being one of the clearest indication in Scripture of the Divinity of the Ruach Ha Kodesh (Holy
Spirit), it should point us to similar language. Who remembers James perfect law of liberty? A law
that requires one not to steal actually enhances liberty rather than detracts from it.
What about when Paul yelled at Peter?
"But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter
before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why
compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?"
Galatians 2:14
Why was he yelling at him? Because he was racist.
"For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he
withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision."
Galatians 2:12
The answer?
"Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we
have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of
the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. But if, while we seek to be justified by
Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I
build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law am dead
to the law, that I might live unto God."
Galatians 2:16-19
Now all the problem passages are easy to understand yes? It's all about Yeshua!
"I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain."
Galatians 2:21

"So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. For as many as are of the works of
the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which
are written in the book of the law to do them. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God,
it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them
shall live in them. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it
is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:That the blessing of Abraham might come on the
Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith."
Galatians 3:9-14
It doesn't say we don't keep the Torah, it says Messiah took the curse of the law for us, and we are
saved through faith.
"Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which
could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law."
Galatians 3:21
"Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?"
Galatians 4:21
"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again
with the yoke of bondage."
Galatians 5:1
Who is he talking too and what is their specific issue?
"Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify
again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no
effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. For we through the
Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith."
Galatians 5:2-5
The issue is salvation by works. Paul had Timothy circumcised to help save Jewish souls, clearly the
issue is salvation through faith.
Also, Paul in his writings addressed the difference between just outward observance and true heart
conversion ( like baptisim is just swimming if you aren't really in the faith)
And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who though having
the letter of the Law and circumcision are a transgressor of the Law? For he is not a Jew who is one
outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. But he is a Jew who is one inwardly;
and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from
men, but from God.
Romans 2:27-29

Two things especially were THE symbols of the faith, Shabbat and cicumcision. To think any selfrespecting Jew would see any of these verses as NOT having to keep it, is the result of looking
backward with a present viewpoint (a logical fallacy, historians or presentism I forget lol). Those verse
highlight the incredible grace, that the most important religious symbols were nothing compared to Yah
himself.
"Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which
were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek."
Acts 16:3
Did Paul help one of his greatest pupils fall from grace? God forbid.
"For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by
love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of
another."
Galatians 5:13-15
We have freedom from the curse of the Torah, from being under the Torah for salvation, as a way to
better love each other and bring people to Yeshua, not to throw away what is holy and good and just, as
Paul describes the Torah.
"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 2:15
This would be the strongest case against my point, and notice the context of the one new man, the
Oneness of Jew and Gentile. Thayers lexicon on the enmity (Strongs 2189 echthra, says on the
cause of the enmity. What is the cause of the enmity, the Torah or not keeping the Torah, the curse from
sin He died to save us from? Did He die to save us from the Torah or our sins? Remember the context
of the whole counsel of God. In fact, let's look in the same letter Paul writes, to say nothing of the rest
of God's Word.
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God"
Ephesians 2:8
"Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it
out of the way, nailing it to his cross"
Colossians 2:14
This is also one of the strongest and most powerful arguments against my view. This word in Greek
doesn't mean handwriting of ordinances, it is found only once in Scripture and has the idea of a debt

owed, so He payed for our debts on the cross. 5498 cheirographon. It doesn't say God
nailed the Torah on the cross, but our sins!
"But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is not made for
a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners"
1 Timothy 1:8-9
I don't know about you, but that sounds like me without Him.
"For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law."
Hebrews 7:12
There was a change in the Torah, it was magnified. Don't look with lust, don't hate in your heart
without cause, New Testament commandments were expounding upon old ones. Haven't had an animal
sacrifice in a while I noticed, so I would say it's right about that, but then there were animal sacrifices
during the writer of Hebrew's time and Paul went after his conversion and gave sacrifices to point back
to Christ like they pointed forward. The law change was the sacrifice used to cover sin, now the sin is
washed away by the blood of God. The verses never mention anything with clean and unclean food,
worshiping God was part of that system too, we don't take that away.
"For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and
unprofitableness thereof."
Hebrews 7:18
How was it dis-annulled? In usage or in purpose? Context!
"For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning
priesthood. And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth
another priest, Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an
endless life."
Hebrews 7:14-16
"For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh
unto God."
Hebrews 7:19
"By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament."
Hebrews 7:22
It's about Yeshua, it's always about HIM.
"In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old

is ready to vanish away."

Hebrews 8:13
This seems like a good one to disprove this paper. What is the chapter saying and what is it about?

"For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I
made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt;
because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord."
Hebrews 8:7-9
We dealt with this verse already if you care to understand it, read the commentary on it. It's quoting
Jeremiah 31:31. The fault is in it can't make the sinner righteous, that is for the grace of God. To say the
Torah itself is faulty makes a contradiction in Scripture, where it says in Psalms the Torah is perfect. To
say this verse means the Torah is obsolete and done away with would have to ignore the next passage...
"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will
put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall
be to me a people"
Hebrews 8:10
It says God will put what into our hearts and minds? The Torah!
So what is the context of the verse talking about?
"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no
more."
Hebrews 8:12
The forgiveness of sins, salvation by grace.
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is
ready to vanish away.
Hebrews 8:13
In the NIV it says the Old Testament is obsolete. That's not what the word means Strong's G3822 palaio it means either made old (which a New Testament would do, or made old so about to
be abrogated. Abrogated means two things, either abolish (which Yeshua Himself said He did NOT
come to do) or to treat as non-existent. If the Old Testament was absorbed into the New Testament, then

you could take it this way. Did you know there 1050 or so commands in the New Testament? Where
did they come from? From expounding on the Old!
"He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer
punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and
hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done
despite unto the Spirit of grace? For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will
recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into
the hands of the living God."
Hebrews 10:28-31
Answering Common Objections from Scripture
(Dealing with specific parts of the Law)
Did the New Testament do away with the Festivals?
First let's set the precedent:
And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies
out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for
ever.
Exodus 12:17
And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of
ingathering at the year's end.
Exodus 34:22
The list of festivals to keep are in Leviticus 23, they are fun and the Bible says they are the Lord's
festivals. We are concerned with the New Testament. Did Yeshua keep the festivals?
And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I
will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
Matthew 26:18
And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.
Luke 22:8
That's all well and good, but did the disciples keep the festivals after the Crucifixion?
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

Acts 2:1
But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will
return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
Acts 18:21
Paul even says we should keep Passover and Unleavened Bread!
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ
our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the
leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1st Corinthians 5:7-8
Now to an actual objection
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you
labour in vain.
Galatians 4:10-11
Is this about the Lord's festivals, that Paul said to keep and God Almighty told us to keep and kept
Himself? What is the context?
It can't be the weak and beggarly elements that bring them into bondage are the festivals of the Lord,
because they didn't know God, so they can't return to a festival of the Lord that isn't the Lord's lol. It
says they turned again to worship some days for things that by nature were no gods. There are pagan
days (Sunday instead of the Sabbath), pagan months (the New Moon is Biblical the full moon is a
Wicca day), pagan seasons (Halloween, Christmas, Easter (not talking about the birth and
Resurrection)), pagan new years (New Years eve, to Janus, the rapist god of time).
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon,
or of the sabbath days:
Colossians 2:16
Well then don't judge me for eating Kosher, or drinking a little wine, or for Hanukkah, or for New
Moons shofar blowing or for keeping the Sabbath then:) Its not about rejecting the Sabbath, as its
contrasting how that when you eat and celebrate those who practice asceticism (self-abasement of the
flesh) in an effort to make themselves holier (Colossians 2:23). It then says not to let people judge you
for keeping these things because they are so important they point to Messiah (shadows means symbols
or types).
Did the New Testament do away with eating Kosher
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts

that are on the earth.

Leviticus 11:2
Well and good, but didn't Yeshua say all foods were declared clean?
There is no verse that states directly as such, but you could infer perhaps. Let's examine them.
There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come
out of him, those are they that defile the man.
Mark 7:15
And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever
thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
Mark 7:18
Is He talking about which foods are kosher or not? What is the context?

And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands,
they found fault. For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding
the tradition of the elders. And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And
many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen
vessels, and of tables. Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according
to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? He answered and said unto them,
Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their
lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the
washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. And he said unto them, Full well ye
reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Mark 7:2-9
The issue was they didn't wash their hands before they ate, and Yeshua was mad they put their own
traditions instead of the commands of God (Read New Testament Christians, and think if perhaps YOU
are following traditions instead of commandments.)
Some versions add to this chapter that Yeshua declared all foods clean, but that is not in the Greek and
is simply an addition to the Word of God. Well that's all well and good, but didn't pork become OK
after the Resurrection? Let's look.
And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at
the four corners, and let down to the earth:Notice Peter says he NEVER ate anything unkosher. It
doesn't say afterward that Peter says "OK time for Shrimp Scampi." What does Peter say afterward?

Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men
which were sent from Cornelius had made enquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate...
While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.
Acts 10:17,19
Now Peter knows the Torah is eternal, but He knows this is a vision from God, so he is struggling to
understand the message. When does he get it, and what does he say?

Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:He
realizes that he shouldn't be racist, and that anyone who puts their trust in Yeshua is made righteous. We
will see Peter's problem with racism later on, so keep this in mind. Now, does God endorse Peter's
interpretation of the vision (who never mentions it is OK to eat unclean foods)?
While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.See racism
rear it's ugly head and how God deals with it through Paul.

But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For
before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he
withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.Paul doesn't say that
Peter ate unclean foods, it just says he ate with them, then he was racist. Now does the next verse say
they don't have to keep the Torah?
But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter
before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why
compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
Galatians 2:14
Again the context, what is the very next verse?
We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,Again, and again, salvation by faith.

For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
Romans 14:2
I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that
esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Romans 14:14

This seems like we can eat any food right? Look carefully, it doesn't say the weak in faith eats only
kosher food, or only lamb, it says eats herbs. And again...
But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy
meat, for whom Christ died.
Romans 14:15
The issue is about meat sacrificed to idols, another verse for context, and we will discuss that.
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is
offended, or is made weak.
Romans 14:21
Back then, the good meat in a major city was sacrificed to an idol, but seeing as how they weren't real
gods, it was a waste of perfectly good meat to let it sit there and rot, so they would sell it in stores, but
Christians would feel bad about it. Paul said as long as you realize it's not a god and you don't cause a
weaker brother to stumble, go ahead. Some verses to back this up are need.
Now about food sacrificed to idols...So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that An
idol is nothing at all in the world and that There is no God but one. Some people are still so
accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a
god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. But food does not bring us near to God; we are no
worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do. 1 Corinthians 8:1, 4. 7-8
It doesn't say we are no worse if we don't eat unkosher food, the context is clearly talking about meat
sacrificed to idols.
Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I
will not cause them to fall.
1 Corinthians 8:13
When you look at the whole picture, all the pieces fall into place.
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:38
Is this passage going to be talking about kosher foods or meat sacrificed to idols? I bet you can guess.
Do I mean then that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?1 Corinthians

10:19-20

Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world,
are ye subject to ordinances,Colossians 2:20-23
The issue is not Kosher Food, it's about Gnostic heresy which says matter is evil, and the Bible
condemns in other epistles repeatedly. Here's an example of it in this same chapter...
Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding
into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Colossians 2:18
One of the tenants of the Gnostic heresy was that God made the angels, and the angels made the world,
but they did a crappy job, so the world was evil. We see it again addressed here:
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed
to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared
with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created
to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God
is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word
of God and prayer.
1 Timothy 4:1-5
In the various forms of Gnosticism sex was evil (forbidding to marry) and extreme asceticism
(forbidding from eating, not dealing with kosher laws). This is still around today in differing sects of
the New Age movement for example. We also see the beginnings of forbidding to eat meat (not just
food) in Peta and aggressive Vegan movements, the Antichrist will end the Temple sacrifices
(eschatology not being my strong suit noted lol) midway between the 7 year peace treaty, probably
under pressures from these types of movements. Its not a sin to kill and eat an animal, but it should be
done with respect, recognizing its life was given so you could live, and then seeing Messiah Yeshua in
the process (which was the ultimate point of the Temple sacrifices.)
Did the New Testament do away with the Sabbath?
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the
seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor
thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy
gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the
seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Exodus 20:8-11

The Sabbath was instituted from the beginning of creation, even before the Torah proper.
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from
all his work which he had made.Genesis 2:2-3
A day, a month, a year, you can naturally reason out these things (setting of the sun, lunar cycle, the 4
seasons), but why a 7 day week? A good proof of the Bible in an of itself, also see how many languages
name the seventh day the Sabbath
Arabic: Sabet Armenian: Shabat Bosnian: Subota Bulgarian: Sabota Corsican: Sbatu Croatian: Subota
Czech: Sobota Georgian: Sabati Greek: Savvato Indonesian: Sabtu Italian: Sabato Latin: Sabbatum
Maltese:is-Sibt Polish: Sobota Portuguese: S bado Romanian: Sambata Russian: Subbota Serbian:
Subota Slovak: Sobota Slovene: Sobota Somali: Sabti Spanish: Sabado Sudanese: Saptu Ukranian:
Subota
And there are many more... but let's say that's all Old Testament. Doesn't Yeshua sat we don't keep the
Sabbath?
At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and
began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold,
thy disciples do that which is not lawful (Not lawful from the laws of the Pharasies, which Yeshua
always condemned) to do upon the sabbath day. But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David
did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; How he entered into the house of God, and
did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but
only for the priests?(The text was kind of long, the inserts in bold are not the Word of God, I hope it is
realized) Yeshua never breaks the Sabbath even though He could because it's His day (if you tell a party
in your house, "No one sleeps in my bed!" then you sleep there, everyone understands). He simply eats
and does a miracle, also He points out its OK to have emergencies, and really telling them to chill out
and not to be so uptight.
But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
Matthew 24:20
If we don't have to keep the Sabbath then why should we pray about it?
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene
and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
Mathew 28:1
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
Mark 2:27

The context is the same, also man is made for God and not God for man, but we still expect Him to
keep up his end of the bargain. Really the whole issue is laws made by man versus God's eternal Torah.
And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were
astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given
unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?
Mark 6:2
Here's He's still keeping the Sabbath. There are many examples of this Yeshua, and the Disciples (and
Paul) but this paper is getting pretty long and unless I get requests for more lol that's good enough for
now. Here's just one of many
And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the
scriptures,
Acts 17:2
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully
persuaded in his own mind.
Romans 14:5
Remember the meat sacrificed to idols chapters, it's the same context. The same people who didn't eat
the meat sacrificed to an idol also didn't eat certain foods certain days, like how some Catholics don't
eat meat on Friday. Others didn't care like they don't care now lol. The context is about eating and not
eating, the days its talking about are fast days (compare Luke 18:12)
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or
of the sabbath days:
Then don't judge me for keeping the Sabbath :)
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet
Revelation 1:10
People say the Lord's Day is Sunday, but Yeshua said He was Lord of the Sabbath. He is the Lord of all
days lol but you can't find any Scripture that changes the Sabbath from what is called (unfortunately)
Saturday to Sunday.
Here's a last one you miss unless you're a serious student of the Word.
So then, it remains for the people of God to keep the Sabbath.

Hebrews 4:9
This is from the Aramaic Bible, which many serious scholars assert is the original language the New
Testament was written in, and almost all scholars admit Yeshua and the Talmudim (disciples) spoke.
Does the Bible do away with animal sacrifices?
Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your
sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and
bless you.
Exodus 20:24
Is that just Old Testament?
All the people of the land will be required to give this special offering to the prince in Israel. 17 It
will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings at the
festivals, the New Moons and the Sabbathsat all the appointed festivals of Israel. He will provide the
sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the
Israelites.
Ezekiel 45:16-17
The chapters around this one talk FOREVER lol about the exact dimensions of the Temple that is to be
built, like the exact dimensions of Tent of Meeting in Exodus. Apparently we will sacrifice animals in
Kingdom Come, so any verse that seems to say it's a sin must be talking about some other context, or
the prophet here is making a contradiction in Scripture. This is talking about the Temple of the future,
and not just of the future on earth, but in heaven. Notice these verses
Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under
the threshold of the house eastwardAgain he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the
waters were to the loins. Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass
over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over And by the
river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall
not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his
months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat,
and the leaf thereof for medicine.
Ezekiel 47:1,4-5, 12
Out of this Temple flows water that turns into a river, and grow trees that bear fruit every month and
heal people. Notice what happens in Revelation
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God
and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life,
which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were
for the healing of the nations.

Revelation 22:1-2
And again...
...nor will the Levitical priests ever fail to have a man to stand before me continually to offer burnt
offerings, to burn grain offerings and to present sacrifices.
Jeremiah 33:18
Surely God would have wanted interrupted sacrifices though?
For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones,
without ephod or household gods.
Hosea 3:4
God knew this would happen (He's not surprised lol) and He didn't say forever there would be no
sacrifices, but for many days
"I will gather those who grieve about the appointed feasts-- They came from you, O Zion; The reproach
of exile is a burden on them.
Zephaniah 3:18
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin
offering hast thou not required.
Psalm 40:6
This seems like an interesting verse. Did you know the New Testament quotes this verse? However,
they quote the Septuagint, which shows it is pointing to Messiah.
"Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not, but a body hast Thou prepared me"
Hebrews 10:5
Clearly points to Yeshua, not about removing the entire sacrificial system forever, which would
contradict other passages in the Psalms themselves.
The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; send thee help
from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; remember all thy offerings,
and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
Psalm 20:1-3
How about this one? Again, remember context...
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. I

will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. For every beast of the forest is mine,
and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the
field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee:
for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls,
or drink the blood of goats?
Psalm 50:7-13
It's about external shows of piety without real worship and holiness.
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes,
or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? Seeing thou hatest instruction,
and castest my words behind thee.
Psalm 50:16-17
To illustrate, take this excerpt from The Message paraphrase:
This is God, your God, speaking to you. I dont find fault with your acts of worship, the frequent burnt
sacrifices you offer... What are you up to, quoting my laws, talking like we are good friends? You
never answer the door when I call; you treat my words like garbage.
Or from the King James again
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his
delight.
Proverbs 15:8
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
Psalm 51:16
Context...David committed adultery and murder and was feeling really bad about it, and wanted to be
right with God, but he knew some lamb chops just wasn't going to cut it. Remember these part of the
Bible are songs which were originally set to music, it's poetry.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone
in to Bath-sheba. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I
acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me
Psalm 50:0-3 (it really should be verse one, the intro is part of the Bible too)
I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with
goats. Selah.
Psalm 66:15
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt

offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of
he goats...Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and
sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your
new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth:
they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Isaiah 1:11, 13-14
Again like Psalm 50, it is against outward signs of religion without a true inward devotion. Hence, the
term vain, or meaningless sacrifices.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and
the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear
shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Isaiah 11:6-7
The objection raises here is that hw can there be animal sacrifices when these verse suggest
vegetarianism? It only says things will be peaceful and animals will be vegetarians.

He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dogs neck; he
that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swines blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an
idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
Isaiah 66:3
This seems like God is tired of steak. Why would He later yell at people for not bringing sacrifices, in
the same book no less?
But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. Thou hast not
brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I
have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense. Thou hast bought me no
sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me
to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
Isaiah 43:22-24
It even predicts in the same book that strangers will keep the Sabbath and offer sacrifices!
Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of
the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my
covenant; even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer:
their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be
called an house of prayer for all people. The Lord God which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet

will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
Isaiah 56:6-8
Back to chapter 66. The context?
...but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my
word. He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dogs
neck
The Pulpit Commentary (not a Mosaic law keeping Commentary as far as I know) says this:
The full meaning seems to be, "He that, not being of a poor and contrite spirit, would offer me an ox
in sacrifice, is as little pleasing to me as a murderer." Sacrifice, without the true spirit of sacrifice, is an
abomination (comp. Isaiah 1:11;
To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your
burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
Jeremiah 6:20
You know the answer by now if you've been following along lol.
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from
the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely...Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon
this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my
law, but rejected it.
Jeremiah 6:13, 19
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Yahweh. He even yells at them for not really
keeping the laws, which include sacrifice lol.
For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land
of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my
voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have
commanded you, that it may be well unto you. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but
walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not
forward.
Jeremiah 7:22-24
Stand in the gate of the Lords house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the
Lord, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the
God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. Trust ye
not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are
these. For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between
a man and his neighbour; if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not

innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: then will I cause you to dwell
in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. Behold, ye trust in lying words,
that cannot profit. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto
Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; and come and stand before me in this house, which
is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Is this house, which is
called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 7:2-11
Yeshua actually quotes this at the end when He whips people out of the Temple. It the idea that just
bringing the sacrifice will cover it without a contrite heart and sincere repentance. It's similar to people
who just say, Oh well, Jesus will forgive me so it's OK to sin all I want. That makes God really angry.
And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land
of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings,
and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the
Lord.
Jeremiah 17:26
Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God;
Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. For
when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they
saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they
presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out
there their drink offerings.
Ezekiel 20:27-28
They were sacrificing to pagan gods.
Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Are ye polluted after the manner of
your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations? For when ye offer your gifts, when
ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day:
and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel 20:30-31
And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away
the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
Daniel 11:31
Yeshua even points to this verse as a terrible thing, not a thing to rejoice in. The anti-Christ will stop
the sacrifices that are to come, as a type of anti-Christ did in 70 AD (which was predicted and fufilled
along with the time the Messiah was to come, and who do you think that was ;} )

At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for
thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision. Seventy weeks are
determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of
sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up
the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the
going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be
seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in
troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and
the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof
shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the
covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the
oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the
consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Daniel 9:23-27
A good book on this is The Coming Prince by Sir Robert Anderson, detailing how this prophecy
came true, showing the time Messiah was to come at the time Yeshua did. If I say a guy in a purple suit
is going to come at 8:30, and a guy shows up wearing purple, and no one else comes, well...
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Hosea 6:6
The sacrifice was something you brought when you did something wrong. He would rather us be good
then say we're sorry. To say this means no sacrifice ever takes it out of context with the very next verse
where God yells at people for not doing the things He tells them, including sacrifices. Again, they were
acting terribly in the name of God and He doesn't like that either
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against
me...And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent:
for they commit lewdness.
Hosea 6:7,9
All the Old Testament verses that seem to be against it are like this. Which leads us into the New
Testament, and should help enlighten things a little...
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call
the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Matthew 9:13
But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have
condemned the guiltless.
Matthew 9:17

And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is
none other but he: 33 and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all
the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt
offerings and sacrifices. 34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou
art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.
Mark 12:32-34
Loving God and people is the most important thing, if you do that you would just do the rest. Like
Mary and Joseph...
And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called
JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb. And when the days of
her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to
present him to the Lord; (as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall
be called holy to the Lord;) and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the
Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
Luke 2:21-24
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the
prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty
years in the wilderness? 43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god
Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
Acts 7:42-23
Quoting Amos 5:25, God was mad they offered sacrifices to pagan gods, not that they offered
sacrifices.
For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made
higher than the heavens; who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his
own sins, and then for the peoples: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. For the law
maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law,
maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
Hebrews 7:26-28
That His sacrifice was better (the best, thank you Yeshua), not that the others are bad.
Hebrews clearly show Temple sacrifices being legitimately offered AFTER the Crucifixion...
For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts
according to the law:
Hebrews 8:4
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never

with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should
have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins
every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore
when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou
prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I
come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Above when he said,
Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst
pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He
taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews 10:1-10
Quoting Psalm 40 which we already dealt with. We will not sacrifice because they make us perfect. We
won't do them to cover sin, that purpose has been taken away so the second may be established. That's
the point of the sacrifice of God's own precious blood, new sacrifices will just point back to Messiah
like they pointed forward before. Is that the reason of it was taken away? Let's try the very next verse in
the Message paraphrase...
Every priest goes to work at the altar each day, offers the same old sacrifices year in, year out, and
never makes a dent in the sin problem. As a priest, Christ made a single sacrifice for sins, and that was
it!
Hebrews 10:11-12
Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Hebrews 10:18
So they won't be FOR SIN, the offerings will just be ceremonial.
"And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed
thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a
vow."
Acts 18:18
Here we see Paul, who wrote these things about sacrifices, making a vow to offer a sacrifice! He took a
Nazarite vow, see what that entails...
"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When
either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves
unto the Lord: he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of
wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or
dried. All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels
even to the husk. All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head:

until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the Lord, he shall be holy, and shall
let the locks of the hair of his head grow...And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his
separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and
he shall offer his offering unto the Lord, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt
offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without
blemish for peace offerings, and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and
wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings. And
the priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering: and
he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord, with the basket of unleavened
bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering. And the Nazarite shallshave
the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of
the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings."
Numbers 6:1-5,13-18
It's what he did and then what he would have done, so obviously it can't be wrong to make sacrifices if
Paul the apostle did it after the Crucifixion, Death, and Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ.
"And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were present. And when he
had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his
ministry. And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how
many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law: and they are
informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses,
saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs. What is it
therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come. Do therefore
this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them; them take, and purify thyself
with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those
things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest
orderly, and keepest the law. 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. Then Paul took the men, and the next day
purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of
purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them."
Acts 21:18-26
We dealt the Gentile not having to keep the law by showing the law was eternal and for everyone for
one. To see this same language go to Acts 15, where they said this because they knew the would be in
synagogue every Sabbath learning it. This can't be ALL the Goyim (Gentiles) are required to observe,
because it doesn't mention murder, loving your neighbor, etc. It's not simply a ceremonial list, because
it includes fornication. Paul here gives a sin offering and takes others to do so too, so our understanding
of Scripture must not violate the law of non-contradiction. The save only is not in the Aramaic Bible,
most likely the original New Testament. Observe...

But concerning those who believe among the Gentiles, we have written that they would keep
themselves from what is sacrificed, from fornication, from strangled things and from blood.
Acts 21:25 Aramaic Bible in Plain English.
Answering Common Objections
"It's too hard to keep the all those laws"
It's too hard to love your neighbor, or to keep the 10, but we're still expected to keep it.
"You're teaching salvation by works!"
If you read the paper it's very clearly not. If you think someone can commit a serious sin and it's not
good for them to do, even as a believer, then we have a similar position.
"I just don't believe (or that's just what I believe)."
Beliefs should be grounded in truth. You can believe 1 + 1 = 3 but you're not going to get an accounting
job that way. Right believing leads to right action, that's part of the Gospel Message!
"You're (crazy/legalistic/Judaizer, etc)"
I don't teach salvation by works or adding laws, especially for salvation so I'm not a legalistic type of
person, and actually the statement is an attack ad hominem (calling names instead of attacking the
idea.) That's not a refutation.
It's not compatible with modern ideas
And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and
in all manner of workmanship,
Exodus 31:3
To quote from the Pulpit Commentary
In wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge. By the first of these terms is meant the power to
invent and originate; by the second ability to receive and appreciate directions and suggestions; by the
third, such information as is acquired by experience and acquaintance with facts. Bezaleel was to have
all these, and, in addition, was to be wise in all manner of workmanship; i.e. - to possess manual
dexterity, the power of artistic execution.
This is not the only verse like this one. Israel has the highest number of people living by Torah, and it
has incredible scientific advancements (look at the current news, whenever you are reading this).
Paul didn't keep the feasts for 14 years.
This is similar to the argument that you can't keep it so you don't have to. Not everyone it perfect but

still has the standard for one. Secondly, if I had to guess, and not being a Talmudic scholar, I would
assume it was due to a Rabbinic loophole like this Rabban Gamliel, He who does not stress these
rituals on Passover does not fulfill his obligations: the paschal lamb, matzah, and maror [bitter herb]
(Talmud Pesachim l16a)." To quote from Michael Hoffman:
"... find many different versions of the Four Questions in the various manuscripts of the Talmudnot
only in the order of the questions but in the number as well. Some versions, for example, omit the
question about bitter herbs, others omit the question about the Paschal lamb even in Temple times.
"Theabovewouldseemtoindicatethatinitiallytherewerevariousacceptableversions,orperhapsno
fixedversionatall.ThiswasbecauseaccordingtoJewishlawoneneednotaskallthequestions."
AstheTalmudrelates,whenAbbayeasachildsawthetablebeingremovedfrombeforeRabbah,he
exclaimed:Wehaventeatenyetandtheycomeandremovethetablefrombeforeus?!Rabbah
turnedtothechildandsaid:Youhaveexemptedusfromhavingtosaythefourquestions(Pesachim
115b,seeTosfotadloc.)."
This says you have to do those things and you're good. We know he was a Pharisee, which was a type
of Proto-Talmudic Judaism.
Now I don't hassle people about it, usually they hassle me, so this is in response to that and for
posterity, for it is written:
"But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they
are unprofitable and vain."
Titus 3:9
The reason for all this:
"So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear
the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. When I say
unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from
his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but
his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it;
if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his
iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul."
Ezekiel 33:7-9
"And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully... Consider what
I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all
things. Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly
dividing the word of truth."
2 Timothy 5,7, 15
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
" The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto
thee: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. "
Numbers 6:24-26
All Scriptures taken from the King James Version unless otherwise noted
Any Scriptures that need to be dealt with please bring to my attention.