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| Q9: The "ten commandments" study.
The ten arrangements of words, are never called "ten commandments" in Scripture, but there are special torah-teachings for several reasons:- Ex 24:12 � And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone "eben", and a law "torah-teachings" , and commandments "mitsvah" which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
The torah and the commandments are listed here as things GOD had written. In other words the words I speak are as important as the words I write, they are similes of each other.
Ex 31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
But the stone tables of testimony were written directly with the finger of GOD. The torah-teaching were written by Moses on a scroll as directed by GOD to Him to write down.
Ex 32:16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
This makes the words written very careful indeed, being written by GOD in the Hebrew language.
Ex 34:1 � And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
So sacred are these ten arrangements of words, that GOD writes them a second time on stone, seeing the first were broken.
De 31:24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law "torah-teachings" in a book, until they were finished,
The torah-teachings (basically the first part of the Bible) was placed in the side of the ark as a witness to the two testimonies of the stones, the ten arrangements of words.
Pr 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
This verse says the same idea, the commandments is a simile of the light of the torah-teachings.
Jas 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: (or mirror)
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Jas 2:8 � If ye fulfil the royal 'basilikos' law "torah-teachings" according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Notice the mirror cannot save you..
But the witness from the mirror, which is also a simile of the lamp, the light from the mirror or the light from the lamp, can save you. For two reasons :-
The torah-teachings describe the function of Jesus in action, and how He perfectly witnessed His Father's love as described in the "Ten Commandments".
Jesus Old Testament torah-teachings is a tutor describing Jesus previous works with mankind demonstrating His salvation in action. Jesus' New Testament torah-teachings are recorded by eye witnesses of Jesus, describing His personal love in action. So the love described and applied is essentially the same across both the Old Testament and New Testament. The LORD does not change.
But now notice the way the ten commandments are witnessed to by Jesus in the Old Testament.
Ex 20:1 � And God "Elohim" spake all these words, saying,
Yahweh Elohim speaks on Mount Sinai, whether this is Father-Yahweh alone or both Father-Yahweh and Son-Yahweh, is debatable. The Hebrew word "Elohim" is a plural singular, so perhaps they both spoke as one voice.
Ho 13:4 Yet I am the LORD "Yahweh" thy God "Elohim" from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour "yasha" beside me.
Now we see the same of the first commandments, with three added words, no saviour by me. Clearly Son-Yahweh is speaking these added words because Jesus is the witness to His Father's solution for salvation.
And this is why the tables were called the two testimonies, because the Son was a witness for the Father.
But notice the affect of the added words "no saviour but me"...this is no longer a behavioural moral law, but one of an attitude.
I AM your SAVIOUR. Be humble not proud.
This makes the first of the ten commandments into an attitude, making the moral letter of the first commandment law far more deeper and far reaching.
The second thing we see is the first commandment speaks of a people coming out from Egypt. But in Abraham's day the arrangement of words could not have been worded like this, for Abraham was called out of Haran.
On the basis of this we can predict the other nine commandments are attitudes as well.
Joh 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
These commandments of Jesus would be similes of the commandments of the Father, just as the light that comes from the lamp or the mirror is a simile of a messenger carrying a message.
Notice the presentation of the Jesus the witness speaking attitudes of love from the Mount of Beatitudes, which parallel the Mt Sinai experience:-
Now let's go through the ten attitudes of love, arranging the words in action words:-
It is a rewarding and difficult task quantifying the love attitudes in the "Ten arrangements of words" spoken and written by GOD. One will never get it quite right. The ten commandments are easily read and understood but they are written as negatives mostly and not as positive attitides based on love. To the casual reader the ten commandments seem harsh and restrictive. But they are actually attitudes of love designed to make people feel happy content and whole. Shalom
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