EXACTLY!! And the Sabbath and the rest of the Ten Commandments ARE INCLUDED IN THE 613! The Jews had no concept of two seperate laws like Adventism tries to create. They had one law… and that one law included all 613 of God’s commands INCLUDING the 10 Commandments.
ARe you? The Law of Moses is included the Ten Commandments. It included ALL of the commands of God. There was not two laws to the Jews, only one!
Scripture shows that the “law of God” and the “law of Moses” are the
EXACT SAME LAW. The law of God included several thiongs that both Catholics and Adventists claim have been done away with:
Nehemiah 8 refers to the “book of the law,” and calls it the book of the law of Moses (v1)1And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
and the book of the law of God (v8,18). 8So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
18Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
God commanded it by Moses (v14), so both terms refer to the same law.14And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:
Luke 2:21-24,39 - The law of Moses (v22) is called the law of the Lord (v23,24,39).
22And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
23(As it is written in the law of the LORD, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord
24And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
39And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
This law included a purification rite and animal sacrifices. These were clearly done away (cf. Lev. 12:2-8). Hence, the law of the Lord is the same as the Law of Moses, and it contains things that were done away, this is because the Law of God/Moses was ONE law and contained all 613 of the Commands that God gave to the Jews!
There is absolutely no Biblical support of the idea that there were two seperate laws.
In 2 Chron. 31:2-4 the law of God included animal sacrifices, new moons, and feast days, which we know were done away.
2And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.
3He appointed also the king’s portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.
4Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.
There is no distinction between the law of God and the law of Moses. It was both God’s law because He originated it, and Moses’ law because he revealed it (Neh. 10:29). This whole distinction is a man-made rule having no Divine source!
You quoted! Hebrews 8:10-11: “But this is the
new covenant (Christ) I will make with the people of Israel on that day, says the Lord: I will put
my laws in their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
Exactly… there is a NEW Covenant… because the OLD Covenant was abolished. What was the Old Covenant?
(Exo 34:28 NASB) So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And he wrote on the tablets the
words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
Notice this verse states that the words of the covenant were the Ten Commandments; it does not mention the Jews acceptance or agreement to accept the law as being the covenant.
(Deu 9:11 NASB) "And it came about at the end of forty days and nights that
the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. This verse re-affirms that the two tablets of stone were the tablets of the covenant.
(1 Ki 8:21 NASB) “And there I have set a place for the ark,
in which is the covenant of the LORD, which He made with our fathers when He brought them from the land of Egypt.”
Notice this says the covenant is INSIDE the ark, we know the Ten Commandments were in the ark. Do we really believe that the “agreement” between all the people and God, which would be immaterial, was somehow physically placed in the ark?
(2 Chr 6:11 NASB) “
And there I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD, which He made with the sons of Israel.”
(Heb 9:4 NASB) having a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden jar holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod which budded,
and the tables of the covenant.
The Bible plainly states that the covenant IS the Ten Commandments! And as you rightly noted in Hebrews… it has been done away with!
