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Paul and the Laws of Moses
Acts 21:21 “But they have been told that you teach all the Jews living among non-Jewish people to abandon Moses“
There is a great controversy about the Laws, and people make them out to be a curse – how can people say the rules and guidelines of our Father is a curse? Click here to read our post from back in Exodus 21 where we did a big post on the meaning of the Laws. I would really encourage you to go back and read that post, or re-read it, if you feel the Laws are a burden. Yeshua says in Matthew 11:28-30, “my yoke is easy, and my burden is light“. The 7th day Sabbath rest is not a burden, but an absolute pleasure! And the 7 yearly feasts and off days are life changing and a must. And the Torah/Laws are just instructions to guide us into being better people and take care of each other. When we did the bible read plan on the Torah (Genesis – Deuteronomy), we made a list of all the Laws, and we will make them available soon on this website when we have completed the 1 Year Bible Read Program. Click here for previous posts about “The Torah” and it’s meaning.
See how Paul end the book of Acts 24:14, “But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets.” When Paul says “the Way which they call a sect”, he is talking about what people call “Christianity” today.. but back then they were known as “followers of The Way” – click here to read more posts on this topic.
Pharisees and Sadducees
Acts 23:8 “For Sadducees say that there is no resurrection -and no angel or spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.”
We read in two verses earlier something amazing.. “But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”” Paul was brought up and taught as a Pharisee, and he understood exactly how the Laws work of YHWH from Torah (Genesis – Deuteronomy), as well as the Pharisees own Laws that they added. Since he believed in the resurrection, and he experienced it for himself (Yeshua speaking to him while he was persecuting the followers), he was now proclaiming that to the world – Yeshua lives! Paul’s life had a 180 degree turn around, his soul was saved, and he wanted to reach as many as he could for people to be saved too.
See our post back from Mark 7, which explains the differences between the Pharisees, Sadducees and Scribes.
