The LAW of the FIRST MOSES ("them of OLD TIME")
concerning the prohibition against the OUTWARD ACTION of MURDER (Exodus 20:13;Deuteronomy 5:17)
had JUDGMENT associated with it - even if it was unintentional (Matthew 5:21 cf.Numbers 35:9-12)
The LAW of the SECOND MOSES ("but I SAY unto you")
concerns the prohibition against the INWARD ATTITUDE of UNJUST ANGER, which will be JUDGED (Matthew 5:22)
in "the Kingdom of Heaven" (Matthew 4:17)
The Aramaic term "RACA" (Matthew 5:22)
means "EMPTY HEADED" and in today's vernacular it would be akin to contemptuously calling someone an
"AIR HEAD"
PRIOR TO engaging in WORSHIP before the Lord (the OFFERING
of one's GIFT at the ALTAR) there MUST BE RECONCILIATION with one's brother (Matthew 5:23-24)
Israel failed miserably in their treatment of one another
under the Law and, thus, the Lord despised their offerings (Isaiah 1:11-17)
The SECOND MOSES commanded FORGIVENESS of the DEBTS of
OTHERS, so as to be FORGIVEN of ONE'S OWN DEBT to the Lord (Matthew 5:25-26 cf.Matthew 18:23-35)
ISRAEL under the OT was commanded to LOVE the STRANGER
in her midst in recognition of the fact that she was LIKEWISE HERSELF a STRANGER in Egypt BEFORE the Lord DELIVERED
her FROM BONDAGE (Leviticus 19:33-34;Deuteronomy 10:19)
ISRAEL under the OT was commanded to show MERCY to the
STRANGER in her midst in recognition of the fact that she was LIKEWISE HERSELF a STRANGER in Egypt BEFORE the Lord
DELIVERED her FROM BONDAGE (Exodus 22:21;Exodus 23:9)
ISRAEL under the NT (Jeremiah 31:31-34) will be empowered by GOD'S SPIRIT (Ezekiel 36:26-27) to be GOD'S LIGHT to the nations (Isaiah 60:1-3) and, thus, she WILL fulfill GOD'S DESIRE which He had for her under
the OT (Micah 6:8)
The LAW of the FIRST MOSES ("them of OLD TIME")
concerned the prohibition against the OUTWARD ACTION of ADULTERY (Matthew 5:27 cf.Exodus 20:14;Deuteronomy 5:18)
The GUILTY parties suffered the PUBLIC JUDGMENT of STONING
(a MOST AGONIZING DEATH) in OBEDIENCE to the LAW, which demanded "thou shalt PUT AWAY EVIL FROM AMONG YOU"
(Deuteronomy 5:22-24)
The LAW of the SECOND MOSES ("but I SAY unto you")
concerns the prohibition against the INWARD DESIRE of LUST (Matthew 5:28)
The SECOND MOSES (Matthew 5:17 cf.Deuteronomy 18:15)
gives a MUCH HARSHER WARNING concerning a MUCH HARSHER JUDGMENT - CUT OFF a LUSTFUL EYE or an OFFENDING HAND, so
as to AVOID having the WHOLE BODY being CAST INTO HELL (Matthew 5:29-30)
The SECOND MOSES will return "in FLAMING FIRE taking
VENGEANCE on them that know not God" (II Thessalonians 1:7-8)
The ANTICHRIST shall He "CONSUME with the SPIRIT
of His MOUTH, and shall DESTROY with the BRIGHTNESS of His COMING" (II Thessalonians 2:8-9 cf.Isaiah 30:30-31,33)
The WORSHIPPERS of ANTICHRIST "shall be TORMENTED
with FIRE and BRIMSTONE in the PRESENCE of the HOLY ANGELS, and in the PRESENCE of the LAMB ... and they have NO
REST DAY NOR NIGHT" (Revelation 14:9-11)
At the return of the SECOND MOSES, a "DEVOURING FIRE"
will go before Him (Isaiah 29:6;
Isaiah 30:27,30; Isaiah 33:14) and it will turn "the LAND of IDUMEA" (Isaiah 34:5-6)
into "BURNING PITCH ... it shall NOT be QUENCHED NIGHT NOR DAY, the SMOKE thereof shall GO UP FOREVER"
(Isaiah 34:8-10)
This OPEN BURNING PIT will become the place of TORMENT
for those who "WORSHIP the BEAST" (Revelation 14:9-11)
The "FLAMING FIRE" issuing forth from the SECOND
MOSES at His SECOND COMING will "BURN INTO THE LOWEST HELL" (Deuteronomy 32:22) making HELL botth VISIBLE TO THE EYE and ACCESSIBLE FROM THE EARTH
where OFFENDERS can be CAST INTO IT (Mark 9:43-48 cf.Isaiah 66:23-24;Matthew 25:40-41,45-46) in the MILLENIAL KINGDOM (Revelation 20:4,6)
The LAW of the FIRST MOSES ("HATH BEEN SAID")
had an ALLOWANCE for a "bill of DIVORCEMENT" (Matthew 5:31 cf.Deuteronomy 24:1)
The SECOND MOSES said that the FIRST MOSES had this ALLOWANCE
"because of the HARDNESS of YOUR HEARTS" (Matthew 19:7-8)
The LAW of the SECOND MOSES ("but I SAY unto you")
ALLOWS for DIVORCE only in the case of FORNICATION (Matthew 5:32 cf.Matthew 19:9)
The Biblical definition of FORNIATION is "going after
STRANGE FLESH" (Jude 7)
The Biblical definition of MARRIAGE is that "they
TWAIN (TWO) shall be ONE FLESH" (Matthew 19:5 cf.Genesis 2:21-24)
and that this UNION is NOT to be "PUT ASUNDER" (Matthew 19:6), for "God BLESSED THEM and God said unto them, BE FRUITFUL"
(Genesis 1:27-28)
God views His COVENANT RELATIONSHIP with Israel as a MARRIAGE
(Isaiah 54:5)
ISRAEL proved to be UNFAITHFUL in God's COVENANT RELATIONSHIP
with her (Jeremiah 31:32) by "WHORING after their idols" (Ezekiel 6:9)
This resulted in God giving Israel a "bill of DIVORCEMENT"
for having "played the HARLOT" (Jeremiah 3:8)
God will make a NEW COVENANT with Israel (Jeremiah 31:31)
by which He says that "I will put MY LAW in THEIR INWARD PARTS and write it in THEIR HEARTS" (Jeremiah 31:33)
God will give Israel a NEW HEART and a NEW SPIRIT (Ezekiel 36:26)
by which He declares to Israel that He will "cause you to WALK IN MY STATUTES, and ye shall KEEP MY JUDGMENTS
and DO THEM" (Ezekiel 36:27) and, thus, Israel will confess that "in the Lord have I righteousness"
(Isaiah 45:23-25 cf.Jeremiah 23:5-6)
God has promised Israel, "I WILL even BETROTH THEE
unto Me IN FAITHFULNESS" (Hosea 2:20)
for "I WILL HAVE MERCY upon her that HATH NOT OBTAINED MERCY; and I will say unto THEM WHICH WERE NOT MY PEOPLE,
THOU ART MY PEOPLE; and THEY shall say, THOU ART MY GOD" (Hosea 2:23
cf.Hosea 1:6,8-10)
The LAW of the FIRST MOSES ("them of OLD TIME")
declared that "thou shalt NOT FORSWEAR thyself, BUT shalt PERFORM unto the Lord thine oaths" (Matthew 5:33),
i.e. "ye shall NOT SWEAR by My Name FALSELY" for to do so was to "PROFANE the NAME of thy God"
(Leviticus 19:12 cf.Exodus 20:7)
NOT BY THY HEAD, because one CANNOT CHANGE the COLOR of
one's HAIRS (Matthew 5:36) ANYMORE THAN one can CHANGE one's STATURE (Matthew 6:27);
OR the ETHIOPIAN, the COLOR of his SKIN; OR the LEOPARD, his SPOTS (Jeremiah 13:23)
The LAW of the SECOND MOSES respecting one's COMMUNICATION
(SWEARING of an OATH) - LET your YEA BE YEA and LET your NAY BE NAY - ANYTHING MORE is to invite EVIL (Matthew 5:37)
The LAW of the FIRST MOSES demanded COMPENSATION IN KIND
FOR ANY LOSS (Deuteronomy 22:1-3)
The LAW of the SECOND MOSES ("but I SAY unto you")
commands GIVING IN RESPONSE TO TAKING (Matthew 5:40-42)
Note JOHN'S RESPONSE to the PEOPLES' QUESTION (Luke 3:10-11)
Note JOHN'S RESPONSE to the PUBLICANS' QUESTION (Luke 3:12-13)
Note JOHN'S RESPONSE to the SOLDIERS' QUESTION (Luke 3:14)
MESSIAH'S KINGDOM APOSTLES and FOLLOWERS who NOW SUFFER
the LOSS of ALL will be BLESSED with ABUNDANT COMPENSATION in MESSIAH'S KINGDOM GLORY (Matthew 19:27-29;Luke 14:33)
The LAW of the SECOND MOSES will be fitted to the RIGHTEOUS
REIGN of ISRAEL'S DIVINE KING (Jeremiah 23:5-6) Who will "exercise LOVINGKINDNESS, JUDGMENT, and RIGHTEOUSNESS,
IN THE EARTH" (Jeremiah 9:23-24)
He shall be endued with "the SPIRIT of WISDOM and
UNDERSTANDING, the SPIRIT of COUNSEL and MIGHT, the SPIRIT of KNOWLEDGE and of the FEAR of the LORD" (Isaiah 11:2)
The LAW of the FIRST MOSES ("HATH BEEN SAID")
commanded "thou shalt LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF" (Matthew 5:43 cf.Leviticus 19:18)
The command to "HATE THINE ENEMY" (Matthew 5:43)
was a reference to the "TRADITION of the ELDERS" (Matthew 15:2) which "TRANSGRESSED the COMMANDMENT" of the FIRST MOSES
(Matthew 15:3)
The LAW of the FIRST MOSES ("HATH BEEN SAID")
commanded ISRAEL to NOT ABHOR her OPPRESSORS, e.g. the EDOMITE, the EGYPTIAN (Deuteronomy 23:7)
SOLOMON counselled to DO GOOD TO ONE'S ENEMY (Proverbs 25:21),
so as to bring the FIRE of CONVICTION to the EVIL DOER as well as the BLESSING of DIVINE REWARD to the WELL DOER
(Proverbs 25:22), e.g. SAUL the EVIL DOER and DAVID the WELL DOER (I Samuel 24:16-22)
The LAW of the SECOND MOSES commands "LOVE YOUR ENEMIES"
(Matthew 5:44)
This command HONORS THE FATHER WHO PROVIDES EARTHLY BLESSING
TO BOTH the EVIL and the GOOD and to the JUST and the UNJUST (Matthew 5:45) and in that GOD DOES GOOD TO ALL (Acts 14:15-17) - so should HIS CHILDREN DO LIKEWISE (Matthew 5:45)
The LAW of the SECOND MOSES sets a HIGHER LOVE STANDARD
than the LAW of the FIRST MOSES:
The OLD COMMANDMENT said "thou shalt LOVE THY NEIGHBOR
AS THYSELF" (Leviticus 19:18)
The NEW COMMANDMENT says "that ye LOVE ONE ANOTHER:
AS I (MESSIAH) LOVED YOU" (John 13:34)
The SECOND MOSES declares that "IF YE LOVE THEM WHICH
LOVE YOU, WHAT REWARD HAVE YE?" (Matthew 5:46) and that "IF YE SALUTE YOUR BRETHREN ONLY, WHAT DO YE MORE THAN
OTHERS?" (Matthew 5:47)
The SECOND MOSES CONCLUDES the LAW COMPARISONS by COMMANDING
HIS OWN to BE PERFECT AS YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER (Matthew 5:48 cf.Matthew 19:21),
e.g. ABRAHAM earned the PRAISE of his HEAVENLY BENEFACTOR (Genesis 15:1) by his REFUSAL of EARTHLY REWARD (Genesis 14:22-24)