Posted on 01/14/2015 2:44:38 PM PST by NYer
Nothing in 1John does anything but emphasize that Torah remains in effect for all, but especially Yeshua’s elect.
1John 2:
[1] My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
[2] And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
[3] And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
[4] He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
[5] But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
[6] He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
[7] Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
1John 3:
[4] Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
Acts 18:
[19] And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. [20] When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not; [21] But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
Acts 20:
[16] For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
1Corinthians 5:
[7] Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
[8] Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1Corinthians 16:
[8] But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
Romans 2:
[12] For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; [13] (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. [14] For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: [15] Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
If his laws are not written on your heart, you need to find out why, and correct that barrier to eternal life.
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Complete nonsense!
Ecclesiastes 12:13
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man..
We do not worry about what “Jews” would do.
We do what Yeshua commanded us to do, and that is Torah.
Torah is what the apostles taught, and there is not even one scripture verse that counters that fact.
All of Yehova’s creation is bound to Torah as long as Earth exists; that is what Matthew 5:17-20 says.
There are no “Jewish religious feasts!”
The feasts are Yehova’s school of life for his elect. They prepare us for his events, upon which all have and will continue to occur.
You may perhaps have confused Torah with the false commandments of men, the Takanot, and Ma’asim created by the Pharisees, which Paul assures us were “hung on the cross.”
These were the ordinances that no man could bear, that were condemned completely by Yeshua, in his miracles, and in the ‘woes’ he declared upon the scribes and Pharisees in Matthew 23.
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