“For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed Me, for he wrote of Me.
But if you do not believe his writings, how shall you believe My Words?”
John 5:46 & 47
Yeshua spoke those words referring to the writings of Moses… the first five books of the Bible… the Torah.
Should we not also place the words of Moses in high regard?
The following is a quote from a document I ran across, Keeping Shabbat Holy, author unknown.
“The Sabbath is a test and it is also a sign between us and Yehovah. We are told that judgment begins at the house of Yehovah (1 Peter 4:17). Many times people think of this judgment as condemnation. But it’s a process of evaluation, of learning, of growing, of learning how to walk with Yehovah. We are His people and He is showing us through His Holy Days and His laws how we can be part of His family.”
While the Israelites were wandering in the wilderness after the Exodus from Egypt… “Then Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from the heavens for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain amount every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My Law or not.” Exodus 16:4
“And on the sixth day it shall happen, they shall prepare what they bring in. And it shall be twice as much as they gather day by day.” Exodus 16:5
Quoting the unknown author again:
“Yehovah was going to put Israel to a test! On what? “Whether they will walk in My law or not.” The fact that Yehovah here announced that He would test whether the Israelites would obey His laws—several weeks before He inscribed the Ten Commandments in stone at Mount Sinai—tells us that His divine laws already existed (compare Exodus 16:28; Genesis 26:5). He would soon reveal them anew at Mount Sinai.”
Why am I telling you this?
Consider that Yeshua (Jesus) did not change the Father’s commandments or “do away” with them! (Matthew 5:17).
He, essentially, claimed to be that “prophet like unto Moses.” (Deuteronomy 18:15; John 1:45)
He did not “start a new church”… The believers in Christ did not “replace Israel.” They were “grafted in” to Israel.
He said, “Follow me!” (Matthew 4:19) And how do you do that?
What did He do? Where did He go? How did He live? Shouldn’t we be imitating Him the way Paul did?
“… as was His custom, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath Day and got up to read” [from the Torah Scroll]. (Luke 4:16). [You will also find Him throughout the Gospels celebrating the Feasts of the LORD as commanded in Leviticus 23.]
There must be millions of Christians by now who have “crossed over” to Hebraic thinking in their study of the Bible and walking out their faith in the Hebrew Messiah, Yeshua. They are believers in Christ, the Jewish Messiah, who are doing what He did, what He taught…imitating Him…being His “disciple.”
They are getting to “know” Him by studying what Moses wrote about Him.
Will they be the ones referred to here in Revelations 14:12?
“This is when perseverance is needed on the part of God’s people, those who observe His commands and exercise Yeshua’s faithfulness.”
Until next time…
Shalom aleikhem!
LaVada
