Luke 2:24, Law of the Lord/YHVH. This phrase is found only three times in the Testimony of Yeshua—here and in vv. 24 and 39. The same phrase is additionally found 18 times in the Tanakh and obviously refers to the Torah (e.g. Pss 1:1; 19:7; 119:1). Meanwhile, the phrase the law of Moses is found a similar number of times in the Bible: 15 times in the Tanakh and seven times in the Testimony of Yeshua. Obviously the phrases the law of YHVH and the law of Moses are synonymous terms in that they refer to the same thing: the Written Torah.
From the obvious meanings of these two terms, we learn that YHVH Elohim is the divine source or origination of the Torah, while Moses was merely the one who first wrote it down or codified it, and as the leader of the nation of Israel, he administered it.
In light of these facts, it is interesting, if not ironic, how the mainstream church chronically refers to the Torah as “the law of Moses,” when Scripture refers to the Torah as “the Torah of YHVH” the same number of times less one. The mainstream church’s choice of one term over the other seems to reveal, sadly, its apathy, if not, at times, its outright antipathy, toward YHVH’s Torah. To justify this ungodly attitude, it has chosen to use the term that casts the Torah-law of Elohim in the most negative light possible by inferring that its source is man and not Elohim. This furthermore underscores the truth of Paul’s words in Romans 8:7 about the carnal mind of man being at enmity with the laws of Elohim in that it refuses to be subject to them.
The less we listen the louder the consequence!
Like the ‘Jews’ (Mark 7:13) NKJV, the Christians have found a way of making the Words of Elohim of no effect.
Sonja
Sad to see while holding the word in their haND
they speak against it…this may be why these modernized messages use a teleprompter ….
Thank you for this, and this blog. Sadly, they’ve done the same thing with the feasts – I can’t tell you how many times I correct fellow Christian’s when they say “the Jewish feast of ________.” Leviticus 23 clearly defines them as feasts at “set times of the Lord,” not “set times of the Jews.”
Are you the Cory Jones that lives just south of me or another one?