The Law of the Lord

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Is the “Covenant” made up of two parts: “the Law of the Lord” and “the Ceremonial Law”?

Question: Is the “Covenant” made up of two parts: “the Law of the Lord” and “the Ceremonial Law”?
Answer:
(1) Misunderstandings about the Ten Commandments versus Old Testament(see below)
(2) PDF: "Ceremonial law"; pdf article on (click to see pdf).

Here are some misunderstandings about what the Bible teaches on this subject that I characterize as “errors”.

ERROR ERROR The law of the Lord and the law of sacrifice were different laws.

BIBLE: Luke 2: 24: “And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons. ” Note: sacrifice is in the Law of the Lord!

OBSERVE:

This scripture put the offering of turtle-dove and pigeons "in the law of the Lord"!

This mighty "hammer" (Jeremiah 23:29) . "breaks" down the much-boasted "wall of partition." be-tween a "moral" and a "ceremonial" law.

Dare any man "put asunder" what God has joined together! -Matthew 19:6.

ERROR ERROR The Ten Commandments were not “the 'Old' covenant” given exclusively to the Hebrew nation through Moses.

Bible: Deuteronomy 4: 13: "And He [God] declared unto you His covenant, which he commanded you [Israel, i.e., "Jews"] to perform, even ten commandments; and He wrote them upon two tables of stone."

ERROR ERROR The Ten Commandment law" was kept by Adam and Eve in the garden.

Bible. Exodus 20: 12: "Honour thy father and thy mother. "

QUERY:

How could Adam and Eve honor their mother?

The purpose behind this contention is to argue that Adam and Eve were commanded to keep the seventh day sabbath. Hence, the ten commandments would be "eternal" laws.

But to make the ten commandments binding from the beginning is an impossibility and hence, ludicrous.

Whereas it is said that God hallowed the seventh day in Genesis, it does not say that He commanded any observance of the sabbath at that early period. Genesis was written for Israel thousand of years later.

ERROR ERROR . God made this covenant with Abraham and the fathers before Israel's day.

Bible. Deuteronomy 5: 2, 3: "The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. "

ERROR ERROR This covenant was between God and the whole world.

Bible. Deuteronomy 5: I: "Hear, 0 Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day."

ERROR ERROR The law made everything perfect.

Bible. Hebrews 7:19 “For the law made nothing per-fect, but the bringing in of a better hope did."

NOTE:

The Ten Commandments did not forbid every evil.

They do not forbid HATE.

They do not forbid LUST.

They deal principally with ACTS.

ERROR ERROR The glory of the T en Commandments was never to he done away.

Bible. 2 Corinthians 3: 7, 8: "But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: how shall not the ministra-tion of the spirit be rather glorious?"

ERROR ERROR The covenant engraven in stones was never abolished.

Bible. 2 Corinthians 3: 13: “ And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Is-rael could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished.”

ERROR ERROR Not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law under any condition.

Bible. Matthew 5: 18: "For 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."

"TILL ALL BE FULFILLED"

Christ came to “fulfill” -Matthew 5:17.

He came to fulfill all righteousness- Matthew 3:15.

He nailed the law to His cross. - Colossians 2:14. He declared, "It is finished" - John 19: 30.