Acts 24- I agree with everything that is written in the law and the prophets

Questions To Ponder

Let's start by saying that what God says supercedes anything a human says. Please stop at each question and see what your answer is. Please don't just skim over. 

Jesus says "The  only way to the Father is through me". Which means we will face the Father. What will you say to him when he asks, Why did you disregard my teachings and instructions? I wonder if he would consider that as being lukewarm. All I know is that I don't want to find myself in that situation. 

We pray Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. What is his will?

Jesus said no one gets to heaven unless they do the Father's will. What was the Father's will?

Matthew 7:21

Will of the Father -Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness. Lawlessness means without the law.

Ps 40:8

I desire to do your will oh my God, your law is within my heart. What law should be in our hearts?

Joshua 1:8

This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.

Psalms 119:6

When I look into all your commands, I thank you with rightness of heart when I learn the right rulings of your righteousness, I guard your laws.

Heb 10:7

Jesus said "Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”

Don't need to observe The Torah? Jesus said not one jot or tittle will depart from The Torah and heaven and earth will not pass away until all is accomplished. Heaven and earth are still here. Why did he say that and what was he referring to? 

Why did he say i came not to abolish the law? Hmmmm. If you abolish the Torah why keep the ten commandments? They are just part of God's instructions. Why then does any church teach that you should tithe. That's called Old Testament. Is it pick and choose? 

Why would God abolish his own original divine instructions in righteousness which he said were to last forever. Did Jesus come to make a liar out of his father? He said the Father and I are one.

Jesus never once suggested that grace would somehow replace all of Yahweh's divine instructions in righteousness. Jesus constantly upheld them. That's what made him sinless.

The subject that is always 

read in Hebrew on the Sabbath in the synagogue is the Torah and the prophets. 

When Yeshua went into the synagogue on the sabbath, he read Isaiah then declared who he was and they threw him out to stone him. 

We believe that his ministry was 3 and a half years, which means that Yeshua and the disciples went to the synagogue or temple approximately 

168 times. We are told that the pharisees were amazed at his teaching and he was never thrown out. There was no new testament then, so what was he teaching?

Rev. 21:10-13

We are told that the New Jerusalem will have 12 gates and it states there are names written on them, which are those of the 12 tribes of Israel to go into the New Jerusalem. 

The question is which gate will you go in? There is no gate that says for the Gentiles or for the Catholics, or for the Baptist, or for the Pentecostals, etc. You will have the freedom

to decide which tribe you want to join, to go into the New Jerusalem.

We are taught that the law was abolished.  When and by whom was it abolished, certainly not by Jesus. He said he came not to abolish. The New Testament tells us that sin is transgression of the law. It also tells us that people die because of their sin. If the law has been abolished, and there is no sin there's no need for a Savior, and nobody would have died in the last 2,000 years, but people are still dying today because of transgressing the law. 

Ask yourself, why do both Isaiah and Micah tell us that in the last days Torah will be taught when Jesus returns. "The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem". Will we be living under a so called curse in the future when Jesus returns to rule and reign. If so, why are people eager for the rapture?

Zechariah 14:16-18

And what about Zechariah's end time prophecy. "Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot). And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there is to be no rain, and if the family of Egypt does not come up and enter in, then there is no rain. On them shall be the plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. 

So what did Paul say? Do we then abolish the law? Absolutely not. We uphold the law.

Romans 2:13 

For it is not those that hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. Pardon me Paul. Why did he say in Romans 3:31-Do we then nullify the law through faith. May it never be. On the contrary, we establish the law? Ask yourself what is he saying.

If we establish the law then we can't at the same time insist it's been abolished. Furthermore 1 John 3 clearly says that sin is lawlessness which means the law could not have been abolished at the cross. 

 Acts 24:14 

What did Paul say about himself? I believe everything that agrees with the law and that which is written in the prophets. Sure he's a Benjamite, not a Jew so i thought that was abolished. This was after Jesus died and Paul had the holy spirit. Why was Paul caught being Torah observant 29 years after Jesus's death in Acts 21:23,24. Was he a hypocrite or just misunderstood. When you go to confession it's based on the transgression of the law, sin. Although you have grace, does that mean you can break every law in the Torah because your covered by the blood of Jesus, so in effect what is the point of repenting if you've been saved by faith in Jesus, what are you actually repenting for or to whom and how do you know what the Lord says is sin. The Lord is showing you transgression of the Torah, not the New Testament. Transgression against the law. If that is true why are you asking for forgiveness when Christ came to conquer sin and death? 

Now salvation is only through Christ. But saying keeping The Torah is not necessary, is not correct. When we receive the holy spirit it makes it much easier to obey what our Lord teaches and instructs. It is an honour and of course we can't obey perfectly all the time which is why we go to Jesus to repent. God gave us instructions to live by for our own good and he told us some of them are FOREVER. As he says, if you keep my instructions it will go well with you. When you keep his instructions it is a great joy. You're showing him you love him with all your heart and your relationship with him is so deep and the blessings are so great.

Jesus celebrated the Feast of Dedication (Channuka). It isn't even a commanded feast so if we love him with all our heart we want to do what he did but because of rebellion and anti-semitism the churches make no mention of it . 

Not only that but Jesus nor his disciples not once said celebrate Jesus's birthday and you wonder why two thousand years later the Jews see Christians as Sabbath breaking, pork breathed apostates. Many Jews and now Christians  pursue the Torah. That's why scripture says that in the end of days that ten men will grab the garment of a Jew and say we know the Lord is with you. Why is The Lord with them?    

 As long as the church rejects God's Holy Torah do not expect to attract many strong believing Jews. After all it has been two thousand years and it hasn't happened. The Jews are not jealous of the Christians and yet we are told in scripture we are to make them jealous. Why hasn't it happened? What is the church doing wrong and need to change?