Whose commandments are the Ten Commandments- Moses or God?
Scripture could not be more clear one this matter, as if
God wrote them Himself and called them "
My commandments" and He did. If God can't tell us what are His commandments and who they belong to, what are we telling God?
I find it perplexing that so many people relate the Ten Commandments as the law of Moses when the Law itself has nothing to do with Moses, but has everything to do with our relationship with God. God’s name (not Moses) is in each one of these commandments and He takes ownership of them not just in the words itself, but He did not leave His holy and eternal Law to be written by man, God divinely wrote them Himself, not just once but
twice. He wrote them in stone for its eternal nature and then He writes
His laws in our heart
2Cor3:3 Heb 8:10 The first 4 commandments show how to love God and the last 6 how we love our neighbor. They cover so much more than people realize
Psa 119:96 just as Jesus taught from this same unit
Mat 5:19-30
Exo 20:1 And God spoke all these words, saying:
2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of [
a]bondage.
3 “You shall have no other gods before
Me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness
of anything that
is in heaven above, or that
is in the earth beneath, or that
is in the water under the earth;
5 you shall not bow down to them nor [
b]serve them.
For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting[
c] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth
generations of those who hate
Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love
Me and keep
My commandments.
7 “You shall not take the name of
the Lord your God in vain, for
the Lord will not hold
him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.
In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who
is within your gates.
11 For
in six days
the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that
is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore
the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
I personally do not see how Scripture could be clearer about whose Law is the Ten Commandments and Moses the creation and servant of God, is not God the Creator of everything
Exo 20:11. Moses own testimony said the Ten Commandments is God’s work not his, so why do so many insist it’s the law of Moses so we no longer need to keep them when there is not one Scripture in context that says this.
Deu 4:13 So
He declared to you
His covenant which
He commanded you to perform, the
Ten Commandments; and
He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
Deu 5:22 "These words
the LORD spoke to all your assembly, in the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and
He added no more. And
He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
Exo 31:18 And when
He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of
the Testimony, tablets of stone
, written with the finger of God.
Exo 32:16 Now the tablets
were the work of God, and the writing
was the writing of God engraved on the tablets.
Exo 34:28 So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water.
And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
Exo20:6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Jesus is the Great I AM speaking His commandments, written personally by the Holy Spirit of Truth. John8:48
