Matthew 5:17 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“Moreover YESHUA MASHIACH said to His talmidim (disciples), “Do not think that I came to throw down the TORAH AND THE PROPHETS, on the contrary, I came to CONFIRM.”
Those who say we don’t have to obey the commandments have been finding ways to wiggle out of being obedient to YAHWEH. And with the use of an ambiguous term like “fulfill” in the Greek has led millions astray, even though the proper meaning would be that YESHUA did FILL FULL the Torah by showing us how to walk in it; however, there is zero wiggle room in the Hebrew manuscript, the language YESHUA spoke. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines CONFIRM as- “Confirm, corroborate, substantiate, VERIFY, AUTHENTICATE, VALIDATE mean to attest to the TRUTH or VALIDITY of something, Confirm implies the REMOVING OF THE DOUBTS.”
Notice again, YESHUA groups the Torah and Prophets together:
Luke 16:29-31 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“But Abraham said, “They have MOSES AND THE PROPHETS; they should LISTEN TO THEM.” However, he said, ‘No, father Abraham, they need more. If someone from the dead goes to them, they’ll repent!” But he replied, IF THEY WON’T LISTEN TO MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, they won’t be convinced even if someone rises from the dead!”
Moses represents the first five books of Scripture and the Prophets is referring to the rest of the Old Testament that YESHUA is telling us to listen to and obey what is written in it. YESHUA is the Living Torah Who rose from the dead on the third day and Christianity still isn’t convinced by His words concerning the Torah and the Prophets. YESHUA removed all doubts that He did not come to get rid of the Torah, but to confirm, validate, and authenticate it. YESHUA also said that He confirmed “The Prophets”, but what does this mean? The prophets CONFIRMED and foretold that YESHUA is EL (God) the Son Who would become flesh, born of a virgin, and die for our offenses, for example:
Isaiah 7:14
“Therefore YAHWEH Himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a VIRGIN shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call His Name Immanuel (EL with us).”
Matthew 26:64 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“Then YESHUA said unto him, “You are saying it. Truly I say to you that you will also see the SON OF THE VIRGIN sitting to the right side of EL, and coming with the clouds of the heavens.”
However, prophets are mainly viewed as those who only spoke concerning words for a future time; however, there is another function of the prophets that gets overlooked. The prophets also pointed the rebellious children of Yisra’el back to the Torah, thus also CONFIRMING THE TORAH! The prophets spoke the words of YAHWEH and YAHWEH’s heart was for them to stop breaking His laws and return to Him, just as many servants of YESHUA are pleading with the world today.
Let’s view the prophets CONFIRMING the Torah:
2 Kings 17:13 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“YAHWEH had warned Yisra’el and Judah in advance THROUGH EVERY PROPHET AND SEER, “Turn from your EVIL WAYS; AND OBEY MY COMMANDMENTS AND REGULATIONS, in accordance with the ENTIRE TORAH which I ordered your ancestors to keep and which I sent to you through My SERVANTS THE PROPHETS.” Nevertheless, they refused to listen but made themselves as STUBBORN as their ancestors.”
Christianity is walking in the same stubbornness as our ancestors did! Notice how disregarding the Torah of YAHWEH is linked to a person walking in their evil ways? Which matches:
Psalms 119:53 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Fury seizes me when I think of the WICKED, because they ABANDON YOUR TORAH.”
Jeremiah 9:13 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“YAHWEH answers: “Because they ABANDONED MY TORAH, which I set before them, and neither listened to what I said nor lived accordingly, but have LIVED BY THEIR OWN HEARTS’ stubbornness and by the ba’alim, as their ancestors taught them…”
Isaiah 30:9-11 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“For this is a REBELLIOUS PEOPLE; they are LYING CHILDREN, children who REFUSE TO HEAR THE TORAH OF YAHWEH. They say to the SEERS, Do not see! To those who have visions, “Do not tell us the visions you have as they really are; but flatter us, fabricate illusions! Get out the way! Leave the path! Rid us of the Set-Apart One of Yisra’el.”
Jeremiah 7:24-26 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“But they neither listened nor paid attention, but lived ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN PLANS, in the STUBBORNESS OF THEIR EVIL HEARTS, thus going backward and not forward. You have done this from the day your ancestors came out of Egypt until today. Even though I sent you all MY SERVANTS THE PROPHETS, SENDING THEM TIME AFTER TIME, they would not listen or pay attention to Me, but stiffened their necks; they did worse than their ancestors.”
Jeremiah 6:16 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Stand at the crossroad and look; ask about the ANCIENT PATHS, “Which one is the good way?” Take it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, “WE WILL NOT TAKE IT.”
Malachi 2:7-9 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“A priests lips should safeguard knowledge and people should seek Torah from his mouth, because he is the messenger of YAHWEH-TZVA’OT. But you turned AWAY FROM THE PATH, you caused many to FAIL IN THE TORAH, you corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says YAHWEH-TZVA’OT. “Therefore I have in turn made you contemptible and vile before all the people, because you DID NOT KEEP MY WAYS BUT WERE PARTIAL IN APPLYING THE TORAH.”
The Ancient Path is the true path of worship by obeying the commandments in the Torah as our ancient ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob did.
Isaiah 64:4 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“You favored those who were glad to do justice, those who remembered You in YOUR WAYS. When you were angry, we kept transgressing; but if we KEEP YOUR ANCIENT WAYS, WE WILL BE SAVED.”
Ezekiel 20:11-20 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“I gave them MY LAWS and showed them My rulings; if a person OBEYS THEM, HE WILL HAVE LIFE THROUGH THEM. I gave them My Shabbats as a sign between Me and them, so that they would know that I, YAHWEH, am the One Who makes them set-apart. But the house of Yisra’el rebelled against Me in the desert. THEY DID NOT LIVE BY MY LAWS; and rejected My rulings, which, if a PERSON DOES, HE WILL HAVE LIFE THROUGH THEM; moreover, they GREATLY PROFANED MY SHABBATS. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the desert, in order to destroy them. But concern for My own reputation kept Me from letting it be profaned in the sight of the nations who had seen when I brought them out. Yet I also raised My hand and swore to them in the desert that I would not bring them into the land I was giving them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands; because they had REJECTED MY RULINGS, DID NOT LIVE BY MY LAWS AND PROFANED MY SHABBATS; since their hearts went after their idols. However, I spared them from complete destruction; I did not completely finish them off in the desert. I said to their children in the desert. “Don’t live by the laws of your fathers, observe their rulings or defile yourself with their idols. I am YAHWEH your ELOHIM; LIVE BY MY LAWS, OBSERVE MY RULINGS, AND OBEY THEM, AND KEEP MY SHABBATS SET-APART; and they will be a sign between Me and you, so that you will know that I am YAHWEH your ELOHIM.” But the children TOO REBELLED against Me. They DID NOT LIVE BY MY LAWS OR OBSERVE MY RULINGS, TO OBEY THEM, WHICH, IF A PERSON DOES, HE WILL HAVE LIFE BY THEM; and they PROFANED MY SHABBATS….”
3 times in these 9 verses alone, YAHWEH says if you obey His commandments you will have life through them.
John 12:49-50 (Hebrew)
“For I do not speak of Myself; but the Father who sent Me, He commanded Me to speak and to COMMAND---and I know that His commandment is EVERLASTING LIFE. And that which I speak is identical to that which the Father speaks so I speak.”
Ezekiel 22:26 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Her priests have done VIOLENCE TO MY TORAH, profaned my set-apart things, made no difference between the set-apart and the common, not distinguished between unclean and clean, hidden their eyes from My Shabbats, and profaned Me among themselves.”
Zephaniah 3:3-4 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Her leaders there with her are roaring lions, her judges desert wolves, who don’t leave even a bone for tomorrow. Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men; her priests profane the set-apart and DO VIOLENCE TO TORAH.”
Hosea 4:6 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“My people are destroyed for want of knowledge. Because you rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as priest for me. Because you FORGOT THE TORAH of your ELOHIM, I will also forget your children.”
Amos 2:4 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Here is what YAHWEH says: “For Judah’s three crimes, no, four----I will not reverse it----because THEY REJECTED YAHWEH’s TORAH AND HAVEN’T OBSERVED HIS LAWS, and their lies caused them to fall into error and live the way their ancestors did; I will send fire on Judah, and will consume the palaces of Jerusalem.”
Zechariah 7:8-13 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Then this message from YAHWEH came to Zechariah: In the past YAHWEH TSAV’OT said, ‘Administer true justice. Let everyone show mercy and compassion to his brother. Don’t oppress widows, orphans, foreigners, or poor people. Don’t plot evil against each other. But they wouldn’t listen, they STUBBORNLY turned their shoulder away and stopped up their ears, so that they wouldn’t have to hear it. Yes, they made their hearts as hard as a diamond, so that they wouldn’t HEAR THE TORAH AND THE MESSAGES THAT YAHWEH-TZVA’OT HAD SENT BY HIS SPIRIT THROUGH THE EARLIER PROPHETS. This is why great anger came from YAHWEH-TZVA’OT; and it came about that just as they hadn’t listened when He called, so YAHWEH TZVA’OT said, ‘I won’t listen when they call; but with the power of a whirlwind I will disperse them among all the nations which they have not known.’ Thus the land was left desolate after them, so that no one came or went. They had turned a pleasant land into a desert.”
Malachi 4:4 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“REMEMBER THE TORAH OF MOSES My servant, which I enjoined on him at Horeb, LAWS AND RULINGS FOR ALL YISRA’EL.
In conclusion when we read this scripture again:
Matthew 5:17 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“Moreover YESHUA MASHIACH said to His talmidim (disciples), “Do not think that I came to throw down the TORAH AND THE PROPHETS, on the contrary, I came to CONFIRM.”
There can be no doubts that YESHUA and the Prophets CONFIRMED that we should be obeying the commandments of the Torah! Repent of your lawless ways and return back to YAHWEH with all your heart, soul, and might which is also defined as keeping the commandments of the Torah.
May YAHWEH bless you all in YESHUA’s Name!