THE SABBATH CALLED PASSOVER FEAST

The Passover Feast commemorates the death of Y’shua; also, the day when the New Covenant was formally instituted.

Its Old Covenant Significance

The Israelites (the descendants of the patriarch Jacob, whom God renamed Isra’el) celebrate the Passover Feast to commemorate two remarkable occasions: (1) The passing over of their ancestors from captivity to freedom due to God’s intervention; and (2) The passing of the Angel of Death over the homes of their ancestors.

The passing over of their ancestors from captivity to freedom due to God’s intervention. They were treated as slaves in Egypt for 430 years. God sent the prophet Moses to demand their freedom from Pharaoh Amenophis II. (Pharaoh was how the Egyptian king was called from 1550-1307 bc.)

Ten times God demanded their freedom. Instead of heeding God’s demand, the Pharaoh made life more difficult for the Israelites. Thus, the Judgment of God visited Egypt. The Israelites were forewarned and instructed how to escape it.

³ Tell the whole community of Isra’el that on the tenth day of [Nisan] each man is to take a lamb or a kid for his family, one for each household. ⁴ If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. ⁵ The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. ⁶ Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the community must slaughter them at twilight… ⁸ That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with [“maror”] bitter herbs, and [“matzah”] bread made with no yeast. ⁹ Do not eat the meat raw or cooked in water, but roast it over the fire—[with its] head, legs and inner parts. ¹⁰ Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it [completely]. ¹¹ This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover. EXODUS 12

⁷ Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs… ¹² On that same night, I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn—both men and animals—and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. ¹³ The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague [deathblow] will touch you when I strike Egypt. EXODUS 12

The passing of the Angel of Death over the homes of their ancestors. At midnight of Nisan 14 the Angel of Death passed through Egypt and killed the firstborns there—both men and animals. All the firstborns were killed. Only the firstborns of the Israelites were spared from the Judgment of God. That very night the Pharaoh freed the Israelites.

²⁹ At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well. ³⁰ Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead. ³¹ During the night, Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the Lord as you have requested. ³² Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.” ³³ The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. “For otherwise,” they said, “we will all die!” EXODUS 12

The Israelites were commanded to commemorate their last supper in Egypt. 

¹ Observe the month of Nisan and celebrate the Passover of the Lord your God, because in the month of Nisan He brought you out of Egypt by night. ² Sacrifice as the Passover to the Lord your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for His name. ³ Do not eat it with bread made with yeast. DEUTERONOMY 16

⁴³ … No foreigner is to eat of it. ⁴⁴ Any slave you have bought may eat of it after you have circumcised him, ⁴⁵ but a [visitor] temporary resident or hired worker may not eat of it. ⁴⁶ It must be eaten inside one house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones. ⁴⁷ The whole community of Isra’el must celebrate it. ⁴⁸ An alien living among you who wants to celebrate the Lord’s Passover must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat of it. ⁴⁹ The same law applies to the native-born and to the alien living among you.” EXODUS 12 

²⁶ And when your children ask you “What does this ceremony mean to you?” ²⁷ then tell them, “It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites and spared our homes when He struck down the Egyptians.” EXODUS 12

¹⁴ This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance… EXODUS 12 

Its New Covenant Significance

The Death of Y’shua

The ancestors of the Israelites entered into a covenant with God. (Covenant is a contract or agreement with someone greater than us. After we enter into it, the contract becomes a law between him and us.) 

⁷ Moses took the Book of Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the Lord has said; we will obey.” EXODUS 24

The covenant came with a penalty clause: The curse of Second Death upon everyone who did not obey everything written in the Book (Deuteronomy 27:26). Sinners must die (Ezekiel 18:4). And because all the Israelites had disobeyed (Ecclesiastes 7:20, John 7:19) then all must die.

Much as God wanted to set aside the penalty clause after seeing the disobedience of the Israelites, He could not. He had made the covenant a law even unto Himself (Isaiah 46:11). Neither He nor the Israelites could abrogate or revise the covenant, or delete or amend or disobey any one of its stipulations (Isaiah 45:23, 31:2).

¹⁵ Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case. GALATIANS 3

But God was not the type to lose His loved ones without a good fight. He devised a plan where the penalty could be placed upon the one in the entire universe who could take their place—Himself. (Cf. Benny Hinn, The Greatest Miracle, pp. 4-5) God took the form of Son of Man, made a sin offering of Himself, and released the Israelites from the penalty by dying in their place. Lucifer, his demons and human agents were allowed to shame and torment Him. The torment began right after Seder, the Passover supper. It ended in His nailing to the cross. 

The Son of Man died at about three o’clock in the afternoon (Matthew 27:46, 50) of the Passover of 31 ad. The occasion was prophesied 1,400 years before it happened:

⁵ The Lord’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of [Nisan]. LEVITICUS 23

Again God intervened so that His people might “pass over” from bondage to freedom. It was the Second Passover in the history of Isra’el.

What’s the difference between the First and the Second?

The First brought freedom from physical bondage. Moses was sent to shepherd His flock. A male lamb or kid without any blemish or physical defect was the Passover sacrifice.

The Second brought freedom from spiritual bondage. God acted as the shepherd of His flock. He volunteered to become the Passover sacrifice. 

²⁹ Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! JOHN 1

²⁶ He is holy and blameless, unstained by sin, undefiled by sinners. HEBREWS 7 tlb

¹⁹ … It was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed to you from your forefathers, ²⁰ but with the precious blood of the Messiah, a Lamb without blemish or defect. 1 PETER 1

Hold your breath because this is mind-boggling: The Second Passover covered all sins—past, present and future. It was accomplished not alone for the Israelites but for the benefit of all humankind. Y’shua assumed the liability of the generations before us, our generation, and the generations after us—so we might pass over from the realm of the dead and live. He did it like a father would for his children: with overwhelming LOVE.

¹⁸ The Messiah died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. 1 PETER 3

¹³ The Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” GALATIANS 3

⁴ For [God] chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love ⁵ He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Y’shua the Messiah, in accordance with His pleasure and will— ⁶ to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the One He loves! ⁷ In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace ⁸ that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. EPHESIANS 1

People think of Y’shua as someone punished and humbled by God, yet the sufferings He endured were not His; the sorrows He carried were not His (Isaiah 53:4 jb).

⁵ He was pierced through for our faults, crushed for our sins. On Him lies a punishment that brings us peace, and through His wounds [stripes] we are healed. ⁶ We had all gone astray like sheep, each taking his own way, and Yahweh burdened Him with the sins of us all. ⁷ Harshly dealt with, He bore it humbly, He never opened His mouth, like a lamb that is led to the slaughter-house, like a sheep that is dumb before its shearers never opening its mouth. ⁸ By force and by law, He was taken [arrested and sentenced and led off to die, and no one cared about His fate]; would anyone plead His cause? Yes, He was torn away from the land of the living; for our faults [He was] struck down in death. ⁹ They gave Him a grave with the wicked, a tomb with the rich, though He had done no wrong [violence] and there had been no perjury [deceit] in His mouth. ¹⁰ Yahweh had been pleased to crush Him with suffering. If He offers His life in atonement, He shall see His heirs, He shall have a long life and through Him what Yahweh wishes will be done. ISAIAH 53 jb

The Institution of the New Covenant

The Old Covenant between God and the Israelites was defiled, torn to pieces by disobedience and spiritual adultery and lack of LOVE. A new covenant was instituted. It anointed the Church (ekklesia in Greek meaning “called out ones”) as a coworker of God. The task was to propagate and perpetuate LOVE. How to do it was stipulated in the Ten Commandments.  

First to join were the Twelve. They entered into it for and on behalf of the first disciples. Since then membership to the New Covenant has been open to those who have the heart for it. Membership means committing ourselves to be God’s coworkers the rest of our lives. The commitment entails 100% obedience of God’s instructions. In return, God commits to love and take care of us—in this life and hereafter. 

⁷ For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. ⁸ But God found fault with the people and said: The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a New Covenant with the house of Isra’el and with the house of Judah. ⁹ ...Because they did not remain faithful to My covenant. ¹⁰ This is the New Covenant I will make with the house of Isra’el… declares the Lord: I will put My laws in their minds [so they will know My instructions] and write them in their hearts [so they will obey them]. I will be their God, and they will be My people. ¹¹ No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, “Know the Lord,” because they will know Me, from the least of them to the greatest… ¹³ By calling this covenant “new,” He has made the first one obsolete and aging [it] will soon disappear. HEBREWS 8

Why Participate IN THE NEW COVENANT?

The New Covenant seeks to re-inject the element of LOVE into our hearts. Without it, we will continue in being self-destructive, breeding unrighteous relationships, and bringing about a sick society.

¹⁷ The Law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Y’shua the Messiah. JOHN 1

¹ Let love be your highest goal! 1 CORINTHIANS 14 nlt

¹⁹ See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. ISAIAH 43

Our participation in the New Covenant is component to gaining the restoration of our original blessed state.       

¹² Yet to all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God— ¹³ children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. JOHN 1

²⁶ You are all sons of God through faith in Messiah Y’shua, ²⁷ for all of you who were baptized into the Messiah have clothed yourselves with the Messiah. GALATIANS 3

⁹ If you confess with your mouth “Y’shua is Lord” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰ For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. ROMANS 10

We participate because we agree with the New Covenant’s objective of dismantling the barriers that separate men.  The New Covenant is all-inclusive, open to everyone—without prejudice to anyone’s gender, age, color, wealth, education, affiliation or belief.

¹⁵ His purpose was to create in Himself one new man out of the two [the Jews and the non-Jews, rich and poor, young and old, white and non-white]; thus making peace, ¹⁶ and in this one Body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which He put to death their hostility. ¹⁷ He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. ¹⁸ For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. ¹⁹ Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, ²⁰ built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Messiah Y’shua Himself as the chief cornerstone. ²¹ In Him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. EPHESIANS 2

The objective is to build one citizenship out of the humankind, one Body where no one is discriminated or more dignified than the others; where each member is welcomed, respected and loved as a vital part of the whole; where everyone contributes LOVE-sacrifices to the collective cause. God is building a classless society that is not based on the absence of social status but where all are honored equally as “heirs” according to the promise made to Abraham.

¹² The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with the Messiah. ¹³ For we are all baptized by one Spirit into one Body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 1 CORINTHIANS 12

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Messiah Y’shua. ²⁹ If you belong to the Messiah, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. GALATIANS 3

⁴ There is one Body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope, when you were called— ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. EPHESIANS 4

We participate because the Blood that sealed the New Covenant is too precious to waste.    

³⁵ One of the [Roman] soldiers pierced Y’shua’s side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. JOHN 19

¹³ You who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of the Messiah. EPHESIANS 2

²⁰ After the supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the New Covenant in My Blood, which is poured out for you.” LUKE 22

²⁷ Drink from it, all of you. This is My blood of the Covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. MATTHEW 26

Only animal blood sealed the Old Covenant.  

²² Under the old agreement almost everything was cleansed by sprinkling it with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. HEBREWS 9 tlb

¹⁹ When Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the Law to all the people, he took blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people. ²⁰ He said, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.” HEBREWS 9

Gratitude dictates that we reciprocate God’s love for us.  

¹¹ The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the city. ¹² And so Y’shua also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy with His own blood. HEBREWS 13

⁷ The blood of Y’shua, His Son, purifies us from all sin. 1 JOHN 1

Most important of all, we participate because there will be no repeat of the Most Holy Sacrifice. Y’shua cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over Him (Romans 6:9). Lucifer, his demons and human agents cannot crucify, disgrace or humiliate Him again ever. The opportunity therefore to be reconciled with God while we are on earth should not be squandered; otherwise, there will be nothing to look forward to but God’s awful anger and the terrible punishment which will strike His enemies (Hebrews 10:27 tlb).   

ARE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS PASSÉ & IS OBEYING THEM EMPTY LEGALISM?

Many churches claim this is the teaching of St. Paul—particularly in Colossians 2:14, Ephesians 2:15, Galatians 3:25, Romans 10:4 and 7:6. Is the claim legitimate? The answer is No.

Scripture says, “The Lord will judge the world in righteousness” (Psalm 9:8). Along this line, St. Paul wrote:

¹³ It is those who obey the Law who will be declared righteous. ROMANS 2

¹² The Law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. ROMANS 7

²¹ Is the Law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! GALATIANS 3 

³¹ Do we, then, nullify the Law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the Law. ROMANS 3

¹⁴ I [Paul] believe everything that agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophets. ACTS 24

St. Paul was not telling anyone to disregard or disobey the commandments. The Ten-C are never passé and obeying them is not empty legalism. What St. Paul was saying in Colossians 2:14, Ephesians 2:15, Galatians 3:25, Romans 10:4 and 7:6 is that no one may re-enter the kingdom of God by sheer obedience of the Law of Moses (the Ten minus Commandment No. 1 version). He was saying the Jewish belief must be corrected.

The full teaching of St. Paul was this: Man’s relationship with God should be one of faith perfected by 100% obedience of God’s instructions, resulting in good works motivated by LOVE.

It was not obedience that really mattered but the motive behind the obedience. If LOVE was not the motive, then the obedience was insipid and worthless in God’s sight. 

¹⁰ Love is the fulfillment of the Law. ROMANS 13 

Also, St. Paul stressed that obedience must be accompanied with faith that Y’shua is God. (Y’shua is Jesus Christ to the world.) God alone can forgive sin and so Y’shua alone can forgive sin. He who has no faith in Y’shua will not receive total forgiveness of his sins. Without the total forgiveness, the impure will stay impure and barred from heaven; his obedience will be worthless—an exercise in futility, an empty legalism.  

⁴ If anyone ever had the reason to hope that he could save himself, it would be me [Paul]. ⁵ For I went through the Jewish initiation ceremony when I was eight days old, having been born into a pure-blooded Jewish home that was a branch of the original Benjamin family. So I was a real Jew if there ever was one! What’s more, I was a member of the Pharisees who demand the strictest obedience to every Jewish law and custom. ⁶ And sincere? Yes, so much that I greatly persecuted the Church; and I tried to obey every Jewish rule and regulation right down to the last point. ⁷ But all these things that I once thought very worthwhile—now I’ve thrown them all away so I can put my trust and hope in the Messiah alone. ⁸ Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the priceless gain of knowing Messiah Y’shua my Lord. I have put aside all else, counting it worth less than nothing, in order that I can have the Messiah, ⁹ and become one with Him, no longer counting on being saved by being good enough or by obeying God’s laws, but by trusting the Messiah to save me; for God’s way of making us right with Himself depends on faith—counting on the Messiah alone. PHILIPPIANS 3 tlb

¹⁵ We are not under Law but under grace. ROMANS 6

⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that one can boast. EPHESIANS 2

Think logically. Sin is the breaking of the Law (1 John 3:4). If the Ten-C were passé, that would mean no more sin and no more need for total forgiveness and for faith in Y’shua. No more need for anyone to be righteous, ethical and decent. No more need for religion, the churches and the clergy!      

Many churches teach that the New Covenant has replaced the Ten-C (“the Law of Moses”) with the two commandments of Love God and Love your neighbor (“the Law of Christ”)? Is this true? 

It is not. Y’shua said:

¹⁷ Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill [pleroo, make full, perfect] them. MATTHEW 5

³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away. MATTHEW 24

¹⁷ It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law. LUKE 16

¹⁹ Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. MATTHEW 5

Take note of His encouragement for the Ten-C to be taught and obeyed.  

²⁹ Let them listen to Moses and the Prophets. LUKE 16

³¹ If you continue in My Word, you really are My disciples. JOHN 8

²¹ My mother and brothers are those who hear the Word of God and put it into practice. LUKE 8

³⁶ Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him. JOHN 3

Discard and dishonor the Ten-C? Do not be hoodwinked. Y’shua said:

¹⁷ “If you want to enter life, obey the commandments.” ¹⁸ “Which ones?” the man inquired. Y’shua replied, “Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, ¹⁹ honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.” MATTHEW 19

Never will God abolish the Ten-C because doing so will contradict the very purpose of His incarnation and His instituting the New Covenant. “I will put My Law in their minds and write it on their hearts,” said He in Jeremiah 31:33. To stress this, the New Testament quoted Jeremiah 31:33 twice in Hebrews 8:10 and 10:16.

²⁷ I will put My Spirit in you and move you to follow My decrees and be careful to keep My laws. EZEKIEL 36

¹⁹ Keeping God’s commands is what counts. 1 CORINTHIANS 7

³⁴ I will not violate My covenant or alter what My lips have uttered. PSALM 84

⁸ (The commandments) stand fast for ever and ever. PSALM 111 kjv

The Gospel teachings were given to expound the proper intentions and applications of the commandments, to raise our level of awareness of them. The two commandments Love God and Love your neighbor (which really are one) were not given to replace the Ten but to make the Nine to be Ten again. The element of love was reinstated to perfect and amplify the Law.

God did not expunge any commandment. What He expunged were the man-made traditions (kjv calls them the handwriting of ordinances) that were effectively diluting or nullifying the sought-effect of the commandments to which they were grafted.

¹⁴ [He] canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; He took it away, nailing it to the cross. COLOSSIANS 2

Let us cite an example of a man-made tradition that was expunged off Commandment No. 5.

³ (Y’shua said to some Pharisees and teachers of the Law from Jerusalem:) Indeed, why do you break the command of God by your tradition?  ⁴ For God said, Honor your father and your mother and Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death. ⁵ But you say, “If anyone says to his father or mother I have promised to give to God what I might have used to help you ⁶ then he is rid of his duty to honor his father or mother.” Thus, by your tradition you make null and void the Word of God! ⁷ You hypocrites! Yesha’yahu [Isaiah] was right when he prophesied about you, ⁸ These people honor Me with their lips but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is useless, because they teach man-made rules as if they were doctrines. MATTHEW 15 cjb

¹² Then His disciples came to Him and asked, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?” ¹³ He replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. ¹⁴ Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” MATTHEW 15

In the Oxyrhynchus Gospels Y’shua explained to His disciples, "The Pharisee plans in advance; before doing wrong, he slyly reasons everything out. Take care that you do not end up suffering the same fate as them. For the wicked of humanity receive Judgment not only among the living, but they will also undergo punishment later." (Wikipedia)

¹¹ “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” ¹² Then they understood that He was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. MATTHEW 16

Many churches teach that the Messiah’s resurrection had fulfilled the Law and therefore observing them is no longer necessary. Is this true?

It is not. Let us recall what Y’shua said on the matter:

¹⁸ I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. MATTHEW 5

Take note of the words “until heaven and earth disappear.” Neither the earth nor the heaven (the sky) has disappeared or passed away. That means the Ten-C stands.

Colossians 2:17 says the Law is a shadow of things to come, the substance of which is Y’shua. That is true. But “not everything that must happen has happened”—at least not yet. The Law is given so man could be restored; therefore, the fulfillment of the Law will come after the Judgment, when the impure-turned-pure shall have received his reward of restoration. This being the case, observance of the Ten-C is still necessary.

Y’shua purified the commandments of the corruptions grafted into them. He warned us of the troubles we shall face for obeying the commandments. This indicates that He expected us to keep and honor the Ten-C.  

¹⁷ Then the dragon was enraged at the woman [the Church] and went off to make war against the rest of her offspring—those who obey God’s commandments and hold to the testimony of Y’shua. REVELATIONS 12    

²⁰ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you also. JOHN 15

² They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. JOHN 16

Many churches teach that the Ten-C is only for the Jews. Is this true? 

It is not. If it were, why else did God say in Leviticus 24:22, “You are to have the same Law for the alien and the native-born”?

¹³ Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. ECCLESIASTES 12

Observance of the Ten-C does not stop in Isra’el. The Jews are called to live by the Ten-C and so are the rest of the world (Buddhists, Taoists, Hindus, Muslims, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Catholics and Born Again Christians included).

¹⁵ The community is to have the same rules for you and for the alien living among you. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. You and the alien shall be the same before the Lord. ¹⁶ The same laws and regulations shall apply both to you and to the foreigner living among you. NUMBERS 15

¹⁶ Then, if [the other nations] will carefully learn My people’s ways, swearing by My name, “As Adonai lives,” just as they taught My people to swear by Ba’al, they will be built up among My people. JEREMIAH 12 cjb

God looks down from heaven at both Jews and non-Jews to see if there are any who are wise, any who worship Him (Psalm 53:2 tev). He is waiting to welcome into His kingdom Jews and non-Jews whose hearts are right with God.

¹⁰ Have we not all one Father? Did not one God create us? MALACHI 2

²⁹ Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too. ROMANS 3

⁵ [There is] one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. EPHESIANS

¹⁶ I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to My voice, and there shall be one flock and one Shepherd. JOHN 10

⁶ And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to serve Him, to love the name of the Lord, and to worship Him, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to My covenant— ⁷ these I will bring to My holy mountain and give them joy in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar; for My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations. ISAIAH 56

Whether one is born a Jew or non-Jew is immaterial. God is after the spiritual man, not the physical man. He does not look at our religion, nationality, skin color, intelligence, wealth, gender, strength or physical beauty; God looks at our hearts. To Him the true Jew is anyone who hears the voice of the Good Shepherd and heeds His instructions. The true Jew is he who worships God in spirit and in truth. The true Jew is he who soaks in LOVE and exudes it.     

⁶ For not all who are descended from Isra’el are Isra’el. ⁷ Nor because they are descendants are they Abraham’s children. ROMANS 9

²⁹ A true Jew is one whose heart is right with God. And true circumcision is not merely obeying the letter of the Law; rather, it is a change of heart produced by God’s Spirit. And a person with a changed heart seeks praise from God, not from people. ROMANS 2 nlt

The true Jew is the true lamb of Messiah Y’shua.

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