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A podcast with a focus on PaRDeS. Each week I will read from and comment on the well known commentators such as, Rashi, Ramban, Ohr Chaim and others, as well as more recent Torah commentaries like Shney Luchot HaBrit. Episodes will consist of readings from the TaNaKh, BeShorah/Gospels, and the Apostolic Writings. Connecting the words of Yeshua and his talmidim/disciples to the Torah to gain a proper understanding.
Rumination #35: If there is One King, how can there be two standards, or two laws?
Ruminations from PaRDeS
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Rumination #35: If there is One King, how can there be two standards, or two laws?
There are teachers say that the Torah is abolished. They have played games with the Scriptures and created elaborate theologies to distinguish between "moral law, civil law, and ritual law." They do this for one reason: to separate Jew and Gentile (aka "Christian"). This 1,900 year old heresy uses "dispensations" or "covenants" as theological methods to make it quite clear that the followers of "Jesus" are not to be confused with Jews. Yes, it all boils down to just that.
There are teachers that say that the Torah is abolished for Gentiles. They use new language and phrases such as, "inviting" but not "obligating" but the outcome is the same: separating Jew and Gentile. There is not a fine line between distinguishing family ethnicity and separating believers. It is clear that those who promote more than one standard of righteousness are not merely distinguishing between Jew and Gentile, they are separating them. May that never be. If we have One King, and if we are truly One People, we cannot have different rights and obligations under our One King's reign. There is only One Torah and it applies to all the citizens of Messiah's Kingdom equally. It is as the Almighty always intended, but is repeatedly denied by men.
One ordinance [chokah] shall be for you of the assembly and for the stranger who dwells with you, an ordinance forever [chokat olam] throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the stranger be before HaShem. One Law [Torah] and one custom [misphat] shall be for you and for the stranger who dwells with you.
Numbers 15:15-16
Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens [sompolites = "of the same city/country"] with the saints and members of the household of G-d... ...the mystery of Messiah... That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Messiah by the gospel.
Ephesians 2:19; 3:4b; 3:6
If there is One King, how can there be two standards, or two laws? There cannot be. If Jew and Gentile are made fellow citizens, it means that they have One King, they have One Law, and they are One People.
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Ruminations from PaRDeS
A podcast with a focus on PaRDeS. Each week I will read from and comment on the well known commentators such as, Rashi, Ramban, Ohr Chaim and others, as well as more recent Torah commentaries like Shney Luchot HaBrit. Episodes will consist of readings from the TaNaKh, BeShorah/Gospels, and the Apostolic Writings. Connecting the words of Yeshua and his talmidim/disciples to the Torah to gain a proper understanding.
