Genesis 26:3 All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

Note: God reminded Isaac here that He is honoring the covenant with Abraham because Abraham obeyed Him, kept His charge, His commandments, Statutes and laws.

Deuteronomy 4:2 Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am delivering to you.

Note: Moses who gave the law was very careful that no one subtract from it.

Deuteronomy 27:26 ‘Cursed is the one who refuses to keep the words of this law.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Note: It is a curse to keep the law

Deuteronomy 30:10-11 if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this scroll of the law. But you must turn to him with your whole mind and being. This commandment I am giving you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it too remote.

Note: Unlike the church teach today saying the commandments of God were too hard for people to keep and therefore God cancelled it. That teaching is not in the bible.

Revelation 22:18-19 I testify to the one who hears the words of the prophecy contained in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city that are described in this book.

Note: It is dangerous too.

Matthew 5:17 -19 Jesus said, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. or verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”

Note:  If Jesus kept the law if Peter kept the law or Paul kept the law how can we say we do not have to? God will not say something holy one day and change His mind later. Will He? If it was good and holy in the beginning it is good and holy even today. God does not change.

Ezekiel 36:26–27 Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My ordinances and do them.

Note: This verse does not talk about abolishing the laws, but the opposite is true. His statues and ordinances are part of the Book of the Covenant.

Rom 11: 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being like a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them to share with them the rich root of the olive tree,

Note: Paul is referring to the fact that the Gentiles are grafted to the New Covenant in Christ, which is the renewed Abrahamic Melchizedekian  covenant , with Israel and Judah. There is no Covenant made with gentiles separately. We see this clearly in Jeremiah 31.

Exodus 12:49 “One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.”

Note: If you are part of the call we are to follow the law which is given in the covenant.

Acts 21:22-24 What then should be done? They will certainly hear that you have arrived. Therefore do just what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow; take these men and purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses [for the temple offerings] so that they may shave their heads. Then everyone will know that there is nothing to the things they have been told about you, but that you yourself also follow and keep the Law.

Note: Paul at Jerusalem before James and the elders rejoicing at the account of the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry. In order to disprove the rumors about Paul teaching the Jews to turn away from the Law of Moses, James and the elders suggested Paul himself to clarify before the Jews in Jerusalem what they heard were wrong.  This was fulfilling a vow which was already promised. Jesus talked about vow too.

1 John 5: 2- 3 John said, “By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.”

Note: John says if you love God you will keep His commandments. Which are these commandments?  The 10 commandments, 7 Feasts, and the Dietary rules.

Romans 6:14–15 For sin will no longer be a master over you, since you are not under Law, but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under Law, but under grace? Certainly not!

Note: The verse begins with the word ‘for’, which means that what follows is to be seen in light of what’s just been said. Grace is found in the Book of the Covenant. Condemnation is found in the Book of the Law. Paul, in these verses dealing with sin nature in our body. The flesh is waging war with the Spirit.

Law was given so that we know what is sin. It is a school master, it is a mirror correcting our walks.  For Paul to mean, “We no longer have to obey Torah (Scripture)” when he said “We are not under the law” would be heresy for a Jewish rabbi like Paul. To be ‘under the law’ is to have an uncircumcised heart, for that person is ‘under’ the condemnation of Torah (Scripture). The Torah (Scripture) has two aspects, a ‘dual nature’: 1) life for those who obey (the law of life) and 2) death for those who do not.

Romans 7:12 Paul said, “Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.”

Note: Law is Holy. Law is Just. Law is Good. Law defines sin for us. Without sin reviving in me – and my lack of awareness of my sin, I would never have known my want for a remedy. Torah (Scripture) did not become death, but SIN used it to convince me of my spiritual condition.

Romans 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Note: In Romans 7: 6 the Greek word used is ‘katargeo’, which means to render inoperative. 

Romans 10:4 states that Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to everyone that believes. The Greek word for end is ‘telos’ and can mean either ‘termination’ or ‘goal’.

This is perhaps the most horribly translated verse in the “New Testament,” and appears this way in almost every edition of our Bibles. The phrase “end of the law” should be translated along the lines of, “goal of the Torah (Scripture),” based on what Paul has been discussing to this point. The word “end” in verse 4, is ‘telos’ in the Greek. Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (which is incidentally, a “Protestant” work), correctly states that ‘telos’ in Romans 10:4, should be defined as, “the final issue or result of a state or process.”

Christian translators have instead inserted the ambiguous phrase, “end of the law,” to lend support to the false view that Paul taught that the Torah (Scripture) was done away with by Jesus’ work. Some, such as the New English Bible, go as far as saying, “For Christ ends the law and brings righteousness for everyone who has faith.”

Faith in Jesus does not end the “law” (Romans 3:31, Matthew 5:17-21). Paul has already said in his letter that the Torah (Scripture) witnesses to the righteousness of God. The context of the entire Romans letter to this point and forward, is that if a person was/is following Torah (Scripture) in faith, that person will recognize Jesus as the Messiah as He is the Torah (Scripture) in the flesh — the goal of the Torah (Scripture)

Romans 11: 26 – 27 and that it is in this way that all Isra’el will be saved. As the Scripture says, “Out of Zion will come the Redeemer; he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob and this will be my covenant with them, when I take away their sins.”

Note: Has the fullness of the Gentiles happened yet? No.

All Israel includes all believers of all time, every person who has placed his trust in the Name of Jehova to deliver him from his bondage to sin and exile (Psalm 14:7, Isaiah 53:6, Isaiah 2: 3, Isaiah 37: 32, Joel 3: 16).

Has God really taken away our sins? Has he done so, already? Spiritually speaking He has. But in our experience we know this is yet to be fully accomplished in us. Look at Is.59.21. When will God’s word be ever present on our lips, as well as on the lips of our children and grandchildren? When he takes away our sins? Our seed and our seed’s seed can only be spiritual or metaphorical today, as is our part in Abraham’s covenant (Gal.3), but in eternity, on the new earth and in the new heavens, it will also be physical reality, when both we and our faithful literal, as well as our spiritual, offspring will both have his Spirit and have his Word forever on their lips.

Deuteronomy 4:6 – 9 says this is obeying the law is wisdom

Note: Obeying the Law is wisdom. If the law is abolished, are we left without wisdom?

Matthew 24:35 Jesus said, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”

Note: Law will stay until the new Heaven and Earth appear. We could say the law is being fulfilled.  

In short, Jesus did not come to abandon the law or nullify the law, but He came to fulfill it. Jesus is the goal of the Law. Let me also add, Jesus is in the process of fulfilling the law in its entirety because He hasn’t yet fulfilled it completely.  If you throw away the law you will never understand the ministry of Jesus Christ.

Don’t get me wrong! Our salvation is indeed by our faith in the finished work of Lord Jesus. It is the grace of God. Salvation cannot be obtained by fulfilling the requirement of the law in terms of making us holy and thereby restoring the relationship with God Almighty. By His death on the cross, Jesus is dealing with our sanctification, being the perfect lamb of God, sacrificed His life to please the Father so that you and I who trust in Jesus have the restored relationship with God.

Hebrews 7: 18 For, on the one hand, a former commandment is canceled because of its weakness and uselessness.

Note: The role of the Torah (Scripture) is not to bring anything to the goal. It did not bring about perfection.  The Old Testament laws and the Old Testament priesthood did not allow us to draw near to God on a permanent basis.   It did not bring perfection. Levi’s priesthood was inferior to the priesthood of Malki-Tzedek. In Vs 6 we see Abraham giving the 10^th to  Malki-Tzedek. In turn Malki-Tzedek blesses Abraham showing his superiority. In Vs 9 we see that it was assumed even before the Levites were born, they game the 10^th to Malki-Tzedek because the Levites from the descendants of Abraham.  Therefore the Aaronic priesthood was weak in reaching the goal of perfection. In Vs 16 we see that the Old Testament law came about through the word. But the New Testament truth of Jesus came through an oath from the order of Malki-Tzedek. God swore on the priesthood of Jesus, which of the order of Malki-Tzedek and is eternal. Vs 18 – 24 does not mean that the entire law was canceled, but the system is strengthened and equipped to obtain the perfection because of Jesus.

Hebrews 8:6 – 8:- But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

Note: This passage dealing with the superiority of the sacrifice of Christ in the Heavenly tabernacle.  This has nothing to do with the Laws of Moses. Aaronic High priest served in the earthly tabernacle, mediating the covenant with God. But it is weak because it has to be offered frequently and the High priest himself is vulnerable to death. But Jesus’s ministry is in Heaven, in the Heavenly tabernacle, which is permanent and was from the beginning and will be eternal. This does not mean the laws of God is not good or week  or canceled. On the other hand the opposite is true. Law is stronger as Christ fulfills its requirements. Christ mediation in the Heavenly tabernacle makes is eternal and ever strong.

Vs 8 talks about the ushering of the new covenant in Christ, as the High Priest in the Heavenly tabernacle, according he laws of Moses. What makes it superior and excellent? Because God is the High Priest and the mediator of the new covenant.

Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Note: This is something that will happen after the Millennium.

Hebrews 8:13 When God speaks of “A new covenant,” He makes the first one obsolete. And whatever is becoming obsolete (out of use, annulled) and growing old is ready to disappear.

Note: If you look at the preceding verses starting from verse 8, it is a copy of Jeremiah 31. If you think that the new covenant has already come to pass, you are wrong. On the other hand it is being happening and the ushering of the kingdom makes it complete. And in the kingdom living the Law of God will still rule, not vanishing. But what was vanishing will be the Aaronic mediation, which was the order of Levi, earthly and inferior. 

The old covenant is vanishing. God is restoring His creation. God has established the new covenant with Jesus as the High priest. One end is secure and eternal. But we are not eternal yet. This will happen in the Kingdom. The old covenant with law given in the scrolls will be law written in our hearts. 

The passage in Hebrews 8:6-7 is dealing with the superiority of the sacrifice of Christ in the Heavenly tabernacle. This has nothing to do with the Laws of Moses being wiped out. Aaronic High priest served in the earthly tabernacle, mediating the covenant with God. But it was weak because it has to be offered frequently and even the High priest himself is vulnerable to death. But Jesus’s ministry is in Heaven, in the Heavenly tabernacle, which is permanent and was from the beginning and will be eternal. This does not mean the laws of God is not good or week or canceled. On the other hand the opposite is true. Christ’s mediation in the Heavenly tabernacle makes it eternal and ever strong.

In Hebrews Chapter 8 talks about the ushering of the new covenant in Christ, as the High Priest in the Heavenly tabernacle, according he laws of Moses. What makes it superior and excellent? Because God is the High Priest and the mediator of the new covenant.

Here is what I see in Hebrews 8:13. If you look at the preceding verses starting from verse 8, it is a copy of Jeremiah 31. If you think that the new covenant has already come to pass, you are wrong. On the other hand it is being happening and the ushering of the kingdom will make it complete. The new covenant is the Kingdom covenant. And in the Kingdom living the Law of God will still rule, not vanishing. But what was vanishing will be the Aaronic mediation, which was the order of Levi, earthly and inferior. Earthly Temple and priesthood was just a shadow of things to come. It casts a shadow of the real things of Heaven.

Paul says in Romans 7: 14 the law is not for carnal people but it is for spiritual people. What is the law God was referring to? The Mosaic Law! The Mosaic covenant has problem because we are not appropriated for carnal people. The new covenant must be seen as ratifying the law by the New covenant established using the mediation of Christ. The law is still the foundation and the basis of this ratification. According to the new covenant God is in the process of changing our heart and our mind so that the Law can be written in our heart.

Hebrews 8: 10 says “I will be their God, and they will be my people.” It is a covenant of final redemption. The righteousness of God will become so natural and second nature to us as the laws are written in our hearts. This does not mean the law is ‘obsolete’. It is a wrong translation. It should read as getting ‘Old’.

Again, In 2 Corinthians 3 Also referring to the priestly ministry of Jesus Christ. His ministry is better, perfect and everlasting in nature. It was not to establish that the law was bad. Rom 7 13 says Law is of the Spirit. It is divine. The High priestly ministry of Christ in the Heavenly tabernacle makes the Spiritual laws live and meaningful to us who believe in Christ.

Again, In 2 Corinthians 3 Also referring to the priestly ministry of Jesus Christ. His ministry is better, perfect and everlasting in nature. It was not to establish law was bad. Romans 7 13 says Law is if the Spirit. It is divine. The High priestly ministry of Christ in the Heavenly tabernacle makes the Spiritual laws live and meaningful to us who believe in Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:21-25 For since [it was] through a man that death [came into the world, it is] also through a Man that the resurrection of the dead [has come]. For just as [because of their union of nature] in Adam all people die, so also [by virtue of their union of nature] shall all in Christ be made alive. But each in his own rank and turn: Christ (the Messiah) [is] the firstfruits, then those who are Christ’s [own will be resurrected] at His coming. After that comes the end (the completion), when He delivers over the kingdom to God the Father after rendering inoperative and abolishing every [other] rule and every authority and power. For [Christ] must be King and reign until He has put all [His] enemies under His feet.

Note: This verse talks about when the law become inoperative. Not only the law but also abolishing every rule and every authority and every power. One day the law will be abolished and that will be when God establishes the New earth and New Heaven and the Kingdom is delivered to the Father.

Hebrews 9:12 He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.

Note: This passage dealing with the superiority of the sacrifice of Christ in the Heavenly tabernacle.  This has nothing to do with the Laws of Moses.

Hebrews 9:15 For this reason He is the Mediator and Negotiator of a new covenant, so that those who have been called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has taken place which redeems them from the sins committed under the obsolete first covenant.

Note: This passage dealing with the superiority of the sacrifice of Christ in the Heavenly tabernacle.  This has nothing to do with the Laws of Moses.

Hebrews 10:4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Note: This passage dealing with the superiority of the sacrifice of Christ in the Heavenly tabernacle.  This has nothing to do with the Laws of Moses.

Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

Note: This passage dealing with the superiority of the sacrifice of Christ in the Heavenly tabernacle.  This has nothing to do with the Laws of Moses.

Galatians 3:10 – 11 For everyone who depends on legalistic observance of Torah (Scripture) commands lives under a curse, since it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the Scroll of the Torah (Scripture).” Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the Law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”

Note: By doing the commandments you are not justified. It does not say the Law is bad. Justification was never the role of the law. The Judaisers taught that. If you are trying to produce justification by doing the Torah (Scripture), you are cursed. Because you have to perfect all of them in order to be justified. Failing on one will fail you altogether. Torah (Scripture) is like a chain. If one link breaks it break the whole chain. Torah (Scripture) is not an instrument of salvation.  On the other hand, it is by faith we are justified. And having been saved we can live the life in Christ, pleasing God. If you want your works to be pleasing to God, you have to be justified first. Not the other way around. Law was given to show us how we look compared to God. It shows how we fall short of what is required by God. It was never given to save us.

Galatians 3:14:- That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Note: Old Testament believers looked forward to this event. What is the blessing we are talking about? It is the justification, obtained through Christ. Paul is also emphasizing the giving of the Spirit to all.

Galatians 3:19- 25: New covenant which is in reality based on the laws of God, is a Kingdom covenant. God is not asking us to DO the law. He never did. You cannot show that in the scripture. No one is justified by the works of the law. It is by faith and faith alone. The topic Paul is addressing is about the justification. Paul is writing to Galatians who are trying to address an issue that caused by so called Judaizers. For they taught people that faith alone is not sufficient, but you must also add your works of the law to be justified. They taught that one must first become a Jew, practice the Law and then add Christ to that. That was absolutely wrong and against what Paul taught. The theology they taught makes Christ is a partial Savior, isn’t it? Law is not at fault here and these verses must NOT be used to invalidate the Law. If you take the law as the instrument of salvation you must be perfect in all of the laws. If you mess up in one of them, you will fail in all. It is like a chain comprises of many links. If one link is broken the entire chain is broken. So the Law was insufficient to save and nowhere in the scripture is says that Law is the instrument of salvation. On the other hand no one is justified by the law. Law just manifested the need for a Savior not a Savior.

Finally, we must also look at the book of Revelation.

Revelation 12:17 So then the dragon was furious (enraged) at the woman, and he went away to wage war on the remainder of her descendants—[on those] who obey God’s commandments and who have the testimony of Jesus Christ [and adhere to it and bear witness to Him].

Revelation 12:17 So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went off to wage war on the rest of her children (seed), those who keep and obey the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus [holding firmly to it and bearing witness to Him].

Note: Who is the dragon going after? He will go after those who keep and obey the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus.

Revelation 14:12 Here [comes in a call for] the steadfastness of the saints [the patience, the endurance of the people of God], those who [habitually] keep God’s commandments and [their] faith in Jesus.

Note: Although the above verses refers to the tribulation saints, the plum line is draws on the virtue of obeying the law or the commandments of God

Revelation 22:14  Blessed (happy and to be envied) are those who cleanse their garments (commandments), that they may have the authority and right to [approach] the tree of life and to enter through the gates into the city.

Note: This scripture talks about the events that happens even after establishing the New heaven and the new earth. God commandments is not going away.

1 John 5:2-3 By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

Note: What was the litmus test to recognize His children? By their obedience to the commandments of the Lord.

Matthew 7:21-23 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, only those who do what my Father in heaven wants. On that Day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord! Didn’t we prophesy in your name? Didn’t we expel demons in your name? Didn’t we perform many miracles in your name?’ Then I will tell them to their faces, ‘I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness!’

Note: A better term that captures exactly what lawlessness means in this case is Torah (Scripture)-lessness. It refers to the God’s laws: the Law of Moses. So “workers of lawlessness” are those who are disobedient to the covenant. We see that throughout the books like Revelation, Daniel and Ezekiel.