THE LAW A HURDLE TO OVERCOME

Commandments and The Law have been problematic for too many people beginning with Adam and his wife. The Law and The Ten Commandments remain obstacles even to modern Christians. Now let’s examine why.

The translations of the Bible are good, but I believe that both the Hebrew and the Greek are the very words of God and that “The Law” (Torah) was written in ancient Hebrew pictographs. Hence, let’s look at theological words through the lenses of ancient Hebrew.

Commandments are things that either must be done or ought not to be done. In the Hebrew, what is termed in English “commandment” is מִצְוָה in the Hebrew. Analyzing each letter at a time, let the meaning of “misva” be investigated going from right to left: mem, tsade, vav, hey.

The letter mem, in this case, is either dynamic or plurality. Mem is actions characterized by the waveform of either blood or water.

Tsade is a hook from which something hangs. It represents the righteousness of God. Misva is to be righteous as God is righteous. It is a countenance, not an obligation.

The letter vav (waw) is some sort of connection between the seen and unseen, or even God and man. It is entanglement; when Christians say “in Christ” which is the love of God from whom any other creature cannot separate us (Rom 8:39).

“Christ” in the Hebrew is the Messiah. Hence, the vav represents the Messiah, Jesus (Yeshua). “In Christ” is entanglement, having the same countenance as Christ Jesus. Noting that the Messiah is Jesus, commandments still pointed toward Jesus because of the letter vav connecting the present to the future. Thus, Jesus is The Law and thus, Jesus came to fulfil The Law (Mat 5:17). The vav in misra points toward The Law not being complete but would be sometime in the future.

Jesus said about The Law of love, “these two commandments hang all The Law and the prophets” (Mat 22:40). The two commandments are the love of God and the love of fellow men. Love is the connector (vav) in misva. Connect what to what?

(It is to be noted that “love” is not emotional but an attitude of respect.)

The letter hey is revelation from God, obviously from God “breathing” on His people from scripture, or according to Paul: 

…the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture (The Word) is given by inspiration (hey) of God, and is profitable for doctrine (lamed), for reproof, for correction (zayin), for instruction in righteousness (tsade) that the man of God may be perfect (tav), thoroughly furnished unto all good works (yod). (1 Tim 3:15-17) 

Inspiration is “God-breathed,” represented by the Hebrew letter hey. Hence God breaths wisdom via Holy Scripture, so it is wise, not obligation, to follow The Law. Inspiration is God breathing truth into your minds, and then it is up to us to either adhere to it or to ignore it. That action is by the conscience.

Adam found that out very quicky by not following The Law and choosing, not the Wisdom Tree, but the Tree of Knowledge.

Knowledge is associated with wisdom simply by this; “Prove all things and hold onto what is good” (1 Thes 5:1). The Law is basically a test for wisdom; for example, it is not wise to have other gods nor to offend your fellow men.

Holding is how The Law hangs on love. Paul was simply acknowledging the Hebrew letter tsade — to hang. That Jesus was hanged on a tree (Acts 5:30) points toward the crucifixion; that Jesus loved us so much that He died for us. The letter tsade may very well imply the Cross as the ultimate act of love. The Cross was the fulfillment of the Law for Jesus said, “It is finished” (John 19:30). The crucifixion of Jesus was the completion of the Law by ultimate love from God Himself.

Tsade also validates that The Law hangs on love (Mat 22:40), and that love is revealed by God’s sacrifice of Himself in which Jesus was the perfect sacrifice (Heb 10:1).

Hence “commandments” are not so much as actions but “ten gratitude’s” (good attitudes) for God’s sacrifice of Himself rather than us.

The commandments were The Law (Torah). However, what was The Lord’s Law (Exod 13:9; tora), spelled תּוֹרָה.

First comes the letter tav — the cross, the mark of God and either the Covenant of Grace and/or completion. “It is finished,” and by that Jesus meant that the Cross and His death were the fulfillment of The Law (tora).

Secondly comes the letter vav. That connects the past with the present, thus connecting the old covenant with the new — the two testaments as one legal document. It also identifies the Messiah who was to come.

Thirdly comes the letter resh. It represents both the beginning and the Head of the Godhead. As a pictograph of a man, it identifies that the Head of the Godhead — The Holy Trinity — is a man. The tora pointed toward God as “The Son of Man” (Mat 8:2). Jesus is not the offspring of God (son) but the gens of Yahweh. He is the “vessel” in which the Virtue of God resides and has the authority of the Father just as the letter resh indicates.

Lastly comes the letter hey at the end. At the end, it signifies completion — the Presence of God. Pointed toward by the letter resh indicates that the “Son of Man,” even in The Old Testament prophecies, points to The Presence of God in the form of a Divine Man.

Tora is not just the beginning Law but points to Jesus as the fulfillment of the Law. 

The Hebrew Torah is the foundational text of Judaism, referring to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. In a broader sense, it can also refer to the entire Hebrew Bible or the whole tradition of Judaism, including both written and oral law. These five books, also known as the Pentateuch or Five Books of Moses, contain narratives and laws, with the laws outlining how God wants Jews to live.  (AI Overview) 

With that explanation, Jesus (Yeshua) is the fulfillment of the whole Law of the Hebrews.

Jews put much emphasis on the laws of both God and Moses, but fail to understand that the fulfillment of The Law is love. Indeed the “Ten Misra’s” are four ways to love God and six ways to love others. In other words, The Ten Misra’s are “The Greatest Commandment” of which Jesus spoke, or ways to love. The Ten Misra’s was always the Way to “salvation” (Yesua), but the Jews never understood that. It is not that them fulfilling The Ten Commandments was so bad, but that Jesus was the only one who could fulfill them as hard as the Pharisees made them try.

Nobody, not even the Chief Pharisee Priest, could fulfill the Law, but Jesus did just that. It is not that they were mean-spirited, but that they failed to breath in any inspiration that God had breathed out.

The Jewish problem was that they would fulfill the Law despite Jesus there for that very purpose. The solution to the Jewish problem is never holocaust but Yesua.