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John, Can you produce a definite Scripture verse or passage that tells us specifically that the 'Torah' has been abolished?? If you can, then your bible is different to mine. DON'T GET ME WRONG, I do not follow the Torah as such however the Lord has been challenging me on the subject over the past 2 years. This year I really honed in on what Jesus actually taught & no where did He or Paul as I am now in Romans say that the law was abolished!! In fact, the law came long before Moses gave it at Sinai. It was verbal up until that time, written on man's hearts. They knew when they were doing right or wrong according to God's wishes. By writing it down on tablets of stone it was now a Statement, written down. Jesus is the Word of God, so God spoke & wrote the Words Himself. Also God said that these words would not pass away, they were eternal. Jesus himself said that He didn't come to abolish the law but in fact, to fulfill it. I am sorry but the horse is Jesus & the cart being pulled is the law. The law was written into our hearts & we keep them as in Thou shalt love the Lord your God... and your neighbour as yourself... The 10 laws are summarized into the two but we are still to keep them.

Romans chp 7:22 Paul says, For I delight in the law of God in my inner being. So yes, we naturally keep the law as the cart that follows the horse. We don't put the cart before the horse as a number of people these days have fallen into the trap of doing. As far as the rest of the laws in Leviticus, my cousin has been studying the Hebrew in this book & he says it all points to Christ & he came away incredibly moved by the Hebrew. He points out that if we love Christ we will keep these laws as they were made to keep the people safe - they were made out of God's love for his people to protect them from diseases etc. I also read elsewhere just recently that linen & wool both have the same signature frequency. The human signal is 100 in a healthy person. Organic cotton is the same, 100. Linen & wool both register at 5,000 & cancel one another out if worn together or mixed as a thread. So a linen shirt covered by a woolen jacket is not advisable. Also wool flows from left to right & linen from right to left. Both on their own are super fabrics & give off health & well being but put together make one sick. This was all done by a Jewish doctor scientifically. I had heard of this a few years ago & it doesn't surprise me because our bodies are electrical. One reason why I always felt better walking around bare footed but can't these days & miss it as I lived in bare feet for 70 years of my life.

I have been praying & asking the Lord for three years now for understanding of the verse in Jeremiah 6: 16 & finally this year I believe He has given me the answer. The old or ancient path is following His decrees, laws, commandments etc. from the Tanakh, that He has never abolished. This year I noted in my bible that over the past couple of years I have queried to the Lord about the laws He gave in Genesis through to Malachi that He called eternal & I have yet to find a Scripture that says that He has now cancelled them. I have also been questioning the Lord for possibly 5 years each time I read the Torah, what do I do with the feasts of the Lord? This year I have my answer, they are for everybody to keep as they are HIS feasts & they covered not only the children of Jacob but also the rabble that came with them out of Egypt. As well as anyone else who was in the land at the time of the feast. I also have come to realise that they are just that except for one - FEASTS - meals to be celebrated before the Lord. I can happily do that as I like special feasts which I don't get otherwise. [I am lucky to get a birthday cake that I can actually eat!! It is only since my g/granddaughter arrived that I get that so that she can blow out the candles which is fine by me!!] So basically I am being challenged by the Holy Spirit to rethink my understanding of these laws & feasts in the Torah. A reminder today was that in John's gospel chapter one tells us that Jesus is the Word & if that is true, then everything written in the Scriptures was written by Jesus as the living Word of God. So is He going to change His mind & toss things out? I hardly think so, He is God & so unchangeable. So I am being slowly forced to change my way of thinking from Marcion's belief system to God's belief system. This is my last hurdle I think. I celebrate Passover now, & just need to align myself with the other feasts as Jesus fulfilled each of the 'spring feasts' - autumn for me as I live in Australia. Now coming soon the autumn feasts for you & the spring for me.

Obviously God gave Adam laws to follow as the son's celebrated a sacrifice, Genesis 4: 3,4 then Cain killed his brother & tried to hide his deed from God. Paul seems to sum up the need for the written laws in Romans 5: 12 to bring us to Christ. It is a very confusing book but chapters 5 through to 8 so far are clear & make absolute sense. From memory I think that I end up confused again before I get to the end of the book but maybe this year the Lord will clarify things for me. I am just amazed that I have come this far in my understanding of the need for the commandments/law & the keeping of the feasts as I had always been taught that Christ did away with the law & the feasts etc. on the cross. Traditions of man!! Here I am in my 6th year of reading the Tanakh & I am turning 180 degrees from my original belief system. The verse in the NT that has haunted me this year was Jesus saying many are called but few are chosen. I wish to be one of the chosen & if it means following the laws that Jesus said he came to fulfill then I will willingly do so. Blessings

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