Once you get out of the more narrative-influenced portions of Exodus, the first five books of the Torah do get a bit more tedious. But just because the Torah is a bit hard to muddle through in Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy doesn’t mean they’re not worth reading.
I mean, sure, it’s mostly just the rules and regulations for living in the land of Israel, for the Jewish people. It sometimes seems like there’s a law for nearly everything except pet supplies. But that doesn’t mean they are of no value.
Christian believers talk long and often about wanting to live a godly life, or to live in the will and under the blessing of Adonai. A great and laudable goal, to be sure. But in the same breath, most of them not only reject the Torah, but rejoice in rejecting it. “Praise Adonai, we’re set free from the laws of Moshe!”
Ridiculous! These same believers claim, correctly, that Adonai is “the same yesterday, today and forever,” yet see no contradiction in the idea that “Jesus did away with the old laws of Moshe.”
Did away with them? Yeshua filled them up with meaning and kept them perfectly! If we are called to live a Yeshua-like life, how can anyone claim to be doing that while tossing aside the very laws He lived by, and indeed wrote in his role as the Word of haShem!
Anyone who claims to know how to live a life pleasing to Adonai, yet who reject the Torah that explains how to live such a life, is making up their own rules as they go. Such folks will have a lot to explain on their day before the judgment throne of Adonai.
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