The 10 Commandments and the Law of Moses

Arguments arise about the relevance of the 10 Commandments and the Law of Moses. I would like to explain here the differences between the two based on scripture (KJV).


First, the 10 Commandments that were given by GOD, were written by the finger of GOD himself on tables of stone;

Deu 10:1 At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount,p and make thee an ark of wood.
Deu 10:2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
Deu 10:3 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.
Deu 10:4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount pout of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
Deu 10:5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.

Note that the tablets were placed INSIDE the Ark of the Covenant under the Mercy seat. The 10 commandments are on a permanent medium, STONE, they are a permanent record. the 10 Commandments are referred to in the biblical texts as My Commandments or His Commandments. The 10 Commandments are the Moral law left to humanity, Jews and Gentiles alike.

Moses wrote a separate set of Laws that contained ordinances precepts, and statutes. They contained many things that were important for the Israelites of that time such as food laws, purity laws, social laws, sacrifice and offerings, instructions for the tabernacle, the priesthood, the sacrifices the feasts and more. Moses also copied to text what was on the tables of stone, the commandments but it does not mean the 10 commandments given by GOD are from Moses, The 10 Commandments have a HOLY status and are forever and are Distinct and separate from the Law of Moses. The law of Moses written on parchment or other similar medium was TEMPORARY by nature and was put OUTSIDE the ark of the covenant as it is written;

Deu 31:24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
Deu 31:25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
Deu 31:26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
Deu 31:27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?

Yeshua, the messiah, the son of GOD, was the ultimate sacrifice, He paid the price for our sins with his blood unto death. Since the Final sacrifice for sin was fulfilled By Christ, The Law of Moses was therefore no longer applicable, it was a temporary Law contrary to the 10 Commandments that will not pass away. The two set of laws were, kept separately, given differently and written differently.

Jesus said we must keep the Ten Commandments to be saved, (Mat. 19:16-19). We are not saved by our obedience to God's law, but by grace thru faith. We must repent of our sins having transgressed the commandments. Repentance changes us from disobedience to willing obedience. Those who are willing to obey the Ten Commandments shall enter thru the gates into the HOLY City;

Rev 22:14 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.

His Commandments are sure and are Love and stand for ever and ever.

Deu 5:29 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!

Peace

All the commandments and laws are fulfilled in Love.

All the commandments and laws are fulfilled in Loove.

Jesus said we must keep the Ten Commandments to be saved, (Mat. 19:16-19).

The 10 commandments and the law were for the house of Israel.
27 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 So he was there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

True Jesus said keep the commandments before His death because it's His death that would establish a new covenant.
After Jesus's sacrifice, no NT writer tells us to keep the 10 commandments. We are to worship in spirit, not in letter.
But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

That is correct. Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the Law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the Law. (Rom 13:8-10).

Furthermore, the New Covenant and the New Birth ensure that all Ten Commandments are written in the hearts and minds of those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. 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: (Heb 8:10)

Regarding the fourth commandment (concerning the Sabbath) the Lord's Day (Rev 1:10) is now the "Christian Sabbath". Christ Himself established the first day of the week as the day for Christian worship, good works, and rest.

Mat 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, evenunto the end of the world. Amen.

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In Deuteronomy 5:31-33, Moses wrote down everything that God commanded him without departing from it, so all of the Law of Moses was commanded by God, which is why it is referred to as the Law of God in verses like Nehemiah 8:1-8, Ezra 7:6-12, and Luke 2:22-23. All of God's commands have the same moral authority regardless of where they are placed or of whether He wrote them or told Moses to write them, or even if God had just spoken them without anyone writing them down. The Bible never refers to the Ten Commandment as being the Moral Law and never suggests that we can be acting morally while disobeying everything else that God has commanded. For example, do you think that it is not immoral to commit rape because it is not one of the Ten Commandments? God has given many more commandments than the Ten Commandments, so when the Bible refers to My Commandments or His commandments, then it should be understood as referring to all of them, not just ten of them unless is specifies that is only referring to ten.


The Mosaic Law has 613 commandments, ten of which are the Ten Commandments. There is nothing in the Bible that states that the placement of the other commandments means that they are temporary in nature, but rather all of God's righteous laws are eternal (Psalms 119:160). You are concocting whole doctrine around where God's commandments based that is not derived from what is stated in the Bible.


In Matthew 5:17-20, Jesus said that he came to fulfill the law in contrast with saying that he came not to abolish it and he warned against replacing the last part of it, so you should not interpret fulfill the law as meaning the same thing as abolishing and as relaxing most of the Mosaic Law.


Those who reject the vast majority of God's commandments should not consider themselves to be obeying all of God's commandments.

SOME DISPENSATIONAL QUESTIONS


We might ask many questions of men of God who have apparently made little or no
effort to give any Scriptural explanations as to the seeming contradictions and discrepancies in
the Bible. In the interpretations and applications of the New testament Scriptures by
denominational church-leaders, the Bible is left with many seeming contradictions and
discrepancies.
We trust these questions will provoke our readers to something more than a passing
thought.


1. Why did Christ instruct His apostles in Matthew 16:20, not to testify to Israel that He
was Christ, or their Messiah, and afterward rescind that order? Acts 2:36. Acts 9:13.
Acts 17:3 and Acts 18:5.


2. Why did Christ denounce His people Israel as “serpents” and “vipers” in Matthew
23:33 to 39, and then, after His death, have Peter address them so tenderly in Acts


3:17 and 18 and 25? Open your Bible and compare these two portions of the Word of
God. Note Matthew 23:33—”ye serpents . . ye generation of vipers” and then note
Acts 3:25: “Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made
with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the
earth be blessed.”


3. Why did the Lord permit Israel to remain protected and preserved by His Covenant,
protected by Rome, receiving the favour of Rome all through the thirty years covered
by the Book of Acts? During those years Israel had access to the Temple and
Jerusalem. Their high-priest and priests continued in charge. This was after Christ
pronounced His awful judgment upon them.


4. What is the meaning of God’s message in Acts 3:19 to 21, inviting Israel to repent so
that they might enjoy the kingdom and the kingdom blessings promised to Israel by
the Old Testament prophets? Surely Peter was not here telling individual Israelites to
be saved by grace and become members of the Body of Christ?


5. Why did Peter declare, in Acts 5:29 to 31, that Jesus Christ had been raised from the
dead to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins? Where did the Gentiles
come in? Does this not prove that the “far off” of Acts 2:37 are the “far off” Israelites
of Daniel 9:7?


6. Why was Paul chosen to be the Apostle to the Gentiles and sent out after Peter
preached to one company of Gentiles, the household of Cornelius? And why did
Christ give Paul’s gospel to him by special revelation and send him to Gentiles to
provoke Israel to jealousy? In other words; why Paul? Acts 13:46. Romans 11:11 and
13. Galatians 1:11 to 18. We repeat: “why Paul; if Paul was chosen to carry on with
Peter’s gospel and the same program?”


7. Is it not a fact, that because of the prayer on the cross for Israel, “Father forgive them,
for they know not what they do,” God gave Israel the opportunity to commit the
UNPARDONABLE sin against the holy Spirit, in the Book of Acts period as they
had committed the PARDONABLE sin against the Son of man when they had Him
crucified? Matthew 12:31 to 33.


8. Why did the Lord tell the Twelve Apostles to remain in Jerusalem and the Apostle
Paul to get out of Jerusalem? Acts 8:1 and Acts 22:17, 18 and 21.


9. Why was it, that some years after Christ told the Twelve to disciple all nations and
preach the gospel to every creature, they accepted Paul’s instructions to limit their
preaching to the circumcision? Matthew 28:19 and 20. Mark 16:14 to 16. Galatians
2:9. Who went into all the world to preach to the nations? Colossians 1:6. I Timothy
2:5 to 7. II Timothy 4:17.


10. In the light of these questions and the Scriptural answers, is it not a fact that the
Christian preacher, who preaches that the Nation Israel was set aside before Peter,
with the Eleven, preached on the day of Pentecost, doth greatly err, not knowing the
Scriptures? Why Acts 13:40 and 41, “Beware”, if it had already happened?


11. Why, after the words of Christ, in John 12:37 to 42, does God grant to Israel the
privilege of repenting for same time after the day of Pentecost, and for seven or eight
years restrain His apostles from preaching to Gentiles? Note the similarity of
judgment in John 12:37 to 42 and Acts 28:25 to 28, and the delay in execution until
after the “Acts” period had passed.


12. Why was there, during the “Acts” period, one order for the Jews that believed and
another order for the Gentiles that believed? Acts 21:18 to 20. Acts 21:24 and 25.
Acts 15:19 to 25. And why, during that period, did Paul become as one under the law
to them who were under the law, and as one not under the law to Gentiles? I
Corinthians 9:20. Read Matthew 23:33 to 39 and then answer, “why was God’s order
‘to the Jews first”’ during Acts?


13. Why is it that so many church-leaders have been so influenced by denominational
creeds and so blinded by tradition that they have neither taught nor believed Romans
11:25? “that blindness in part is happened to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles be
come in?” And then what? Israel saved. This truth is called a “mystery” or a “secret”.
But it has not been a secret since the truth of Romans 11 was preached.


14. Why is it that men of God, considered able Bible-expositors, have not seen the
significance of God’s judgment upon Israel recorded in Acts 28:25 to 28 about 63
A.D., about thirty years after most Bible teachers have dated the fall of Israel? And
why does the “Acts” period close before the acts of Paul have ended?


15. Why is it that very, very few church-leaders, pastors or teachers, have made any
effort to obey Ephesians 3:9: “and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the
mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, Who created
all things by Jesus Christ?” And why were about half of Paul’s Epistles written before
the “Acts” ended and about half thereafter?
16. What intelligent Bible exegesis can Christian preachers give to proves that the
Pentecostalists are Scripturally right or wrong in their endeavor to recover for the
members of Christ’s Body the tongues, healings, signs, miracles, and visions of the
Book of Acts? Is there no Scriptural antidote for their fanaticism? Is there no cure for
their religious disease? Is, or is not, the message and spiritual program of Peter, in
Acts, for the Church today? Surely it must be admitted by every thinking person, if
there was no change in God’s Divine program after the “Acts” period closed, the
Pentecostalists are the only Christians who are making any effort to carry out the
commission and program of Mark 16:15 to 18 and to perpetuate the message and acts
of the apostles and Christians of the “Acts” period.

Granted-

Dispensationalism is the only cure for the doctrinal blunders of the Church. Some
“dispensationalists” have gone to such extremes that their remedy is worse than the disease. This
remedy, sometimes called “Bullingerism” or “Hyperdispensationalism,” leaves the student with
just as many blunders.

J.

Not only for the house of Israrel;
Mat 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Mat 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, evenunto the end of the world. Amen.

Just know I am not part of any denomination, I follow Christ teachings.

Just know I am not part of any denomination, I follow Christ teachings.

Right-a one man band-I get it.
J.

Yes I go to the source of all things, Jesus. Doing so I cannot go wrong.

Jhn 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Jhn 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
Jhn 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Jhn 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Jhn 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.