The Torah Has Not Been Abolished

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith YHWH, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jeremiah 31:33

For this is my blood of the new testament(διαθήκη), which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Matthew 26:38
διαθήκη = covenant

And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which YHWH hath made with you concerning all these words.
Exodus 24:8

The Torah has not been abolished, it is still in my Bible, but the result of not following it's commandments perfectly have.

Wasn't the law given to us to show us our need For a Savior? And yes, the Torah / Septuagent / 1st five books of the Bible Are still here and should be read just as the rest of the Bible needs to be.

And, yes, the nations who read and obey Will be blessed and those that Don't will be cursed.

The Levitical laws -- weren't they given to the Children of Israel to set them apart from the people groups around them? For their health and well being?! They were not involved with their salvation for eternity.

Is it Really possible to obey All the commandments All the time? If it Was, then the cross would not have been necessary. We Could possibly have worked our way to eternal life with God.
But that would Also say that it's possible to be Perfect in This life. And we All know that That won't happen -- not until a born-again believer is with Jesus Christ for ever.

So - in the New Testament 'we' are told that the greatest commandment of all is to "love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul and mind. and love your neighbor as yourself.'.

We learn from the Old Testament. and see it fulfilled in the New Testament.

God wants Relationship with us. Wants our Hearts.

There was a dear covenant between David and Jonathan that marked their mutual brotherly love, yet ended with Jonathan's death. Even covenants from and with God can expire. The covenant between God and Abraham established Judaism. Then came a seperate covenant based on that covenant to the birth of the nation Israel by way of Moses. There is an expiration between the covenant of Moses and the new covenant with gentile nations, giving them a way to God, in Christ Jesus. Jesus accomplished that by dying for all sins, dying to the holy requirements of the Mosaic Law for all who would believe on Jesus, His message, and His death and resurrection.

It isn't that covenants with God expire, but that they tend to be fulfilled, then replaced by better covenants. Who would desire to return to the Noaic Covenant that said to eat beetles, anything that crawls. When I went through US Navy survival training I was left to eat bugs, snakes, scorpions, cactus flowers, and even more gross things under the leadership of experts. When I survived, I volunteered for more such training. We Christians ought to aspire to higher things that might enable us to poromote the gospel of Christ wherever we are sent. Eat it with thanksgiving to God.

If all we have to present is what was of old, things that failed to convert old Israel, we must be most miserable among men.

The ideals Jesus presented exceed the holiness of the Law. When I read back and forth between Old Testament and New, I am continually struck with the comparison of religion versus agape love.

Born Again 2004 said:

The Torah has not been abolished, it is still in my Bible, but the result of not following it's commandments perfectly have.

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Amen. I'm happy that the curses of not perfectly following that old way does not touch me. I am in Christ, who took all that punishment upon Himself. So, I am left inquiring of the blessings of all those past covenants.

Anyone sticking by the old covenants must accept the curses along with the blessings. Since Jesus endured the cursings for sinners like me, I am raised anew to partake of the remaining parts of the Law, the blessings.

I'm happy that God loves His former covenants, but happier I am not under the cursesof any of them.

Sue D. said:

Wasn't the law given to us to show us our need For a Savior?

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If that were the case then there the Saviour should be involved in changes regarding the law.

Yahushua = Yah saves.

I, even I, am YHWH; and beside me there is no saviour.
Isaiah 43:11

Behold, the days come, saith YHWH, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith YHWH:
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith YHWH, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their Elohim, and they shall be my people.
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know YHWH: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith YHWH: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Jeremiah 31:31-34