Is Yahweh's Word Living In You?
John 5:37-47 reads,
5:37
The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. 5:38You don’t have his word living in you; for whom he sent, him you don’t believe.5:39
"You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. 5:40Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. 5:41I don’t receive glory from men. 5:42But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves. 5:43I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. 5:44How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?5:45
"Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope. 5:46For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. 5:47But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"
It Is Necessary To Believe Moses' Writings In Order To Believe Yah'shuah
Doesn't Yah'shuah show, in 5:46-47, that it is necessary to believe Moses' writings in order to believe his words? Do we, in deference to Yah'shuah's word, believe Moses' writings? Or do we, in deference to human beings who bestow their own glory, reject Moses' writings and therefore do not believe them? Shouldn't we seek Yahweh's glory and believe Moses' writings, thereby facilitating our believing Yah'shuah's words?
Yah'shuah's Words Are In Harmony With Moses' Writings
Doesn't Yah'shuah imply that his words are in harmony with Moses' writings, for those who do not believe Moses' writings do not believe his words, and those who do believe Moses' writings believe his words? Shouldn't we believe Moses' writings rather than shun them as is the practice of many who purport to follow Yah'shuah's word but do not?
Yah'shuah Did Not Come To Destroy The Law Or The Prophets
Matthew 5:17-18 reads,
5:17
"Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. 5:18For most assuredly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.Don't Yah'shuah's words make it clear that it was his purpose not to destroy the law - the writings of Moses - or the prophets? Don't Yah'shuah's words make clear that nothing is to pass away from the law prior to the passing away of heaven and earth, prior to the accomplishment of all things? Also, don't Yah'shuah's words imply that the time for the passing away of heaven and earth is also the time for the accomplishment of all things, seeing that this is the time that things can pass away from the law?
When do heaven and earth pass away? When are all things accomplished? Have heaven and earth passed away? Have all things been accomplished?
When Heaven And Earth Pass Away
Revelation 21:1-8 reads,
21:1
I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. 21:2I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. 21:3I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God’s tent is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 21:4He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away. 21:5He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new." He said, "Write, for these words are faithful and true." 21:6He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life. 21:7He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son. 21:8But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."Isn't the time heaven and earth pass away the time of the new heaven and the new earth as seen in 21:1? Isn't this also a time when there will be no sea? Doesn't 21:4 make clear that this is the time when "the first things", including heaven, earth and any aspects of the Law of Moses, have passed away? Doesn't Yahweh in 21:6 make clear that this is the time when "it is done" - when whatever is to be accomplished is indeed accomplished?
The Law Of Moses Is Still Applicable Today
Is the current heaven and earth the first heaven and earth or the new heaven and earth? Does the current earth have sea? Seeing that the current earth has sea isn't it evidently clear that this is still the first earth, and therefore not the new earth? And seeing that this earth has not yet passed away, isn't it clear, from Yah'shuah's words in Matthew 5:17-18, that nothing has to date passed away from the law of Moses? Isn't it therefore clear that the law of Moses is still as valid today as it was at the time Yah'shuah was speaking?
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