Introduction
    A minister told us recently in writing, “The Sabbath was only given to the Israelites and applies to no one today.” The question then arises, what does Abram to Abraham mean for those in Messiah? The promise to Abram still applies today, does it not? It’s essential that we understand what Yahweh is doing.
Current religious authorities think that the Father has done away with the law and also with Israel. Nothing could be farther from the truth, especially for those in the Messiah.
   Also the Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind, 1 Samuel 15:29. (The New American Standard Bible used throughout, unless otherwise noted.)
   The Glory of Israel is Yahweh and He will keep His promises made to Abram. As it is clearly stated, He is not a man that He would lie (Num. 23:19).

What’s In a Name
    Abram means “exalted father,” but Yahweh changed his name to “Abraham,” meaning “exalted father of a great multitude.”
   Abram is first mentioned as a descendant of the line of Shem, one of the sons of Noah.
   These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood, Genesis 11:10.
   The descendants afterward are Shelah, Eber, Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor, and Terah, who was Abram’s father.
   Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot. Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah. Sarai was barren; she had no child, Genesis 11:26–30.
   (An interesting piece of information about Sarai here is that she had no child which plays a significant role later when she is 90 years old.)
   Yahweh calls whom He desires and gives blessings and insight. Noah, Abram, Job — all are mentioned in Scripture as having been called of Yahweh Who noted they were just and perfect and upright; foreknown by Yahweh to command their children to keep the way of justice and judgment (Gen. 6:9, 18:19; Job 1:1).
   All of these callings were known ahead of time, just as our calling was known before our birth — just as He knew the prophet Jeremiah (Jer. 1:5). The Apostle Paul (Gal. 1:15). Before their birth, and before ours, He knew He would be calling us for His purpose and His will:

His Will and Purpose, a Mystery
    Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Master Yahshua Messiah, Who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Messiah, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Yahshua Messiah to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him, Ephesians 1:3–9.
   This mystery is that Yahweh is making a way for Israel to come back, through the Messiah. Through the death of a testator (Heb. 9:15-17) to re-establish a binding covenant with Yahweh. Those who were not a people could then become the people of Yahweh once again (Hos. 2:23).
   For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery — so that you will not be wise in your own estimation — that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, “THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNRIGHTEOUSNESS FROM JACOB. THIS IS MY COVENANT WITH THEM, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS,” Romans 11:25–27, (quotes from Isaiah 59:20 and Jeremiah 31:31).
   These Gentiles are part of the 12 tribes and commonwealth of Israel – the very ones, that Yahweh prophesied through Jeremiah that He will take one from a city and two from a family and bring them into Zion — not everyone all at once, but in a specific order, with a remnant being saved first. Yahweh will be dealing with the rest of Israel and mankind after the millennial rule of the Messiah, as King of kings.
   This phrase that Paul uses, the “fullness of the Gentiles” is named in Genesis 48:19, and in the Hebrew is “malo ha goyim” meaning “multitude of nations.” It’s the prophecy spoken by Israel (i.e., Jacob) when he was blessing the sons of Joseph (the 11th son of Israel).
   We’re getting a little ahead of ourselves, but we want to make the point that the headship of Yahweh, down through the Messiah, and to us, is still the order of the day. The Messiah came to do Yahweh’s will and not His own. The Messiah came in service to Him Who calls us for His purpose. Yahshua didn’t come to negate the Father’s laws, but to magnify them and be a Way back for Israel from whom Yahweh was divorced because of their sins.
   How outrageous it is to think we, once forgiven and brought back into good standing with the Father through His Son, are free to willfully forsake Yahweh’s Laws.
   Yours, O Yahweh, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O Yahweh, and You exalt Yourself as head over all, 1 Chronicles 29:11. Yes, He is even the Head of the Messiah.

Covenant Law, before Sinai
    Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, and from your relatives and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you; and I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing; and I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed,” Genesis 12:1-3.
   A great nation, a great name, blessings? Sounds good, but was Abram doing anything to receive such a blessing?
   By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going, Hebrews 11:8.
   Okay, he had faith, but we know faith without works is dead (James 2:17-26). Abraham obeyed the calling and went forward.
To his son, Isaac, Yahweh declared, I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; because Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws, Genesis 26:4–5.
   This commendation preceded the giving of the Law at Mt. Sinai. How did Abraham know these things? Did Shem know about Yahweh’s Commandments, Statutes, and Laws? Did Noah? How could Noah be called righteous in his generation and be blameless, walking with Yahweh (Gen. 6:9), if he didn’t know the righteous standards of Yahweh.
   The evidence is that he did know. By faith and continued obedience, the patriarch Abraham was granted the covenant that is called by his name: The Abrahamic Covenant.
   Let’s take a closer look at known laws.
   Then Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar, Genesis 8:11. Clean and unclean laws, for example, were clearly known.
   This is the first time an altar is mentioned in Scripture, though it is implied with Adam and Eve after they sinned. Skins of animals (clean ones, no doubt) were provided for them. These animal skins represented a sacrifice having been made to atone for their sin of disobedience.
   In Genesis, Chapter 4, we read the account of Cain slaying his brother Abel, probably on account of Yahweh preferring Abel’s offering over Cain’s. But how did Abel know what to present Yahweh? And if without law, there is no transgression, why should Yahweh have been displeased with Cain having slain his brother and made him to become a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth?
   The devil told the first recorded lie in Genesis 3:4, and he was cursed. But why should the devil be cursed, if the law forbidding bearing false witness didn’t already exist?
   And, what was the testimony placed into the ark before Mt. Sinai, if not a basic structure of laws set apart at the beginning of creation?
   Yet, there are arguments against the law – arguments proceeding mostly from disputations attending the Apostle Paul’s writings. Here’s an interesting one we normally don’t look at.
   For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is nullified; for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation. For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, Romans 4:13–16.
   While Paul is hard to understand, we have clarification from Paul himself in this very Book that we don’t nullify the law by grace, faith, or anything else (Rom. 6:1-3, 8, 14-16). And, there is no law against the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:23). So how is this area of Scripture understood?
   We are not justified by the Law, but by Yahshua’s sacrifice. But without question, trampling Yahshua’s sacrifice after receiving justification equals an eternal death (Heb. 10:26), just as disobedience to the laws of Yahweh brings death, and not life. By faith, we believe and thus are we saved, just as Abraham had faith in Yahweh’s promise to him and his descendants — not only to them but to others who will believe and come into the faith (Rom. 9:6-7). (Note well, that there is one law, standard instructions, for both those who are of the seed of Abraham and to them which are not, Exod. 12:49; Num. 15:15-16.)
   Paul fully concurred with the law of Yahweh (Rom. 7:22). To disregard the law and think it can be forgotten, is to forget Who provided the Law and the Headship from Whom the Law proceeds, that is, from the top, down to us. The unilateral covenant agreement was made by Yahweh and promised to Abraham and His descendants, and it is brought into both the old and new covenants.
   Paul, I believe, had a difficult time with the Jews who had a hard time understanding the Gentiles would be welcomed into the Covenant Promises and Commonwealth of Israel, even though they were not considered observant Jews (Eph. 2:12; Gal. 3:6-9). There were plenty of eternal laws ratified in the Mt. Sinai Covenant. The ordinances of sacrificial rites imposed under the Levitical order were added because of transgression (Gal. 3:19), though these did not annul the Covenant Promises (Gal. 3:17) but have served as a schoolmaster to bring all to Messiah, that all might be justified by faith (Gal. 3:24).
   For this reason then, we must not be ignorant of the Law, else we should not learn what the will of the Father is, even to the keeping of every word that proceeds from the mouth of Yahweh, as the Savior taught (Matt. 4:4). For seeing Yahweh will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil, man’s whole duty is to fear Yahweh through keeping His commandments (Eccl. 12:14, 13).
   And so, Paul is correct. The Abrahamic Covenant is granted by faith, not because the Law granted it, but because faith in the New Covenant, in which we find the Abrahamic Covenant and its promises, extended to us through the Messiah. Does that mean we can go on sinning against Yahweh’s eternal laws since we have been saved by grace through faith? (Eph. 2:8). Paul would answer, What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Romans 6:1–2.
   Yahshua’s sacrifice was for past sins — the same sins of which Israel was guilty. The same laws they broke, we have broken. Having those sins forgiven, brings us back to the right relationship with the Father, thereby partially fulfilling prophetic Scriptures which foretell the restoration of Yahweh’s people, Israel.
   For people to promote that Israel is no longer in Yahweh’s plans, is to not understand what He is doing or what He wants from His people: obedience, from the heart. This is why the message from John the Immerser can be summed up in one word, “Repent.” People need to turn back to Yahweh. And Paul knew this.
   From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the assembly. And when they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time, serving the Master with all humility and with tears and with trials which came upon me through the plots of the Jews; how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly and from house to house, solemnly testifying to both Jews and Greeks of repentance toward Elohim and faith in our Master Yahshua Messiah,” Acts 20:17–21.
   Repentance toward Yahweh, and faith in Yahshua, through His shed blood and in His Name, we have forgiveness of sins and are brought back into a right relationship with Yahweh.
   Remember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel. Behold, I am going to send you EliYah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of Yahweh, Malachi 4:4-5. This would be an extremely odd statement, coming at the end of the Old Testament, if the laws of Yahweh were done away with.
   We understand John the Immerser came in the Spirit of EliYah which means, “my El is Yah.” This is the end-time message, that our El is Yahweh, and that mankind needs to repent or to teshuvah (in the Hebrew language, literally meaning to “turn around” or to “turn back,” in this sense, turning back to Yahweh and His way of life and receiving forgiveness through the Sacrifice of His Son)

Abram’s Family
    In Genesis 16:1-4, we read of a plan devised by Sarai to provide Abram with a child:
   Now Sarai, Abram’s wife had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar. So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, Yahweh has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. After Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife. He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her sight.
   (This is ten years past the time Yahweh visited Abram and said He would bless him and make a great nation out of him.)
    Sarai evidently reasoned that she was too old and that Yahweh wouldn’t use her for His purpose. Abram, too, thought that Ishmael was the one through whom these promises would come. But they were both wrong. Ishmael, born of the Egyptian handmaid, would present a problem for Israel in the future and still does, today.
   A few more years passed, and then Yahweh explained what He would do in Genesis 17:1-5:
   Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am El Shaddai; walk before Me, and be blameless. I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.” Abram fell on his face, and Elohim talked with him, saying, “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you will be the father of a multitude of nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.”
   Yahweh declares the whole land of Canaan a multitude of nations (“malo ha goyim”), is being given to him and his descendants — 4,000 years ago, and long before the Palestinians can prove the land in the Middle East is theirs.
   Then Elohim said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. “I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.” Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to a man one hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?” And Abraham said to Elohim, “Oh that Ishmael might live before You!” But Elohim said, “No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him, Genesis 17:15-19.
   Yahweh still blessed Ishmael, but nowhere approaching the blessings come through Isaac and to his descendants after him. Then, and now, because Abraham and Sarah hadn’t waited for Yahweh to fulfill His promise, they burdened the family line through Isaac. Adding to the trouble, Esau (known also as, Edom) — Abraham’s grandson, Isaac’s son and Jacob’s brother — later married Mahalath his cousin and one of Ishmael’s daughters (Gen. 28:9) and a granddaughter of Abraham. So, Ishmael and Esau are tied by marriage and family history, and by similar interests and characteristics (Gen. 16:12, 21:20).

History from Adam and Eve
    Adam and Eve sinned, because of having yielded to temptation from Satan. We now live in a fallen world ruled by Satan. Afterward, Cain murdered his brother, righteous Abel, and incurred to himself, a curse. All the earth became filled with violence and every imagination of the hearts of men were only evil. But Noah was found in grace, walking with Yahweh and so he, his wife, and his sons, Japheth, Ham, and Shem and their wives, were delivered from the flood that destroyed all flesh wherein is the breath of life.
   Four generations later (Gen. 11), the people under the rule of Nimrod wanted to make a name for themselves by constructing a tower that should reach into heaven itself, rather than honoring Yahweh’s Name and His Commandment to “replenish the earth” (Gen. 1:28). Yahweh confused their language and the people were scattered. It is supposed that Shem’s lineage hadn’t joined their rebellion and therefore their language (Hebrew) — believed to have been the language from the beginning, given and spoken from Heaven to Adam and Eve in Eden — was not subject to the confusion of Babel. (Incidentally, Hebrew is likely derived from Eber (H.5677 [regions] beyond [the river], the third generation from Shem, from which perhaps, the word “Semitic” is derived — was not subject to change.
   Abram (who was the first called a Hebrew, Gen. 14:13) was called out of the land of Ur of the Chaldees. He and his nephew Lot and their households went into Canaan, but famine drove them into Egypt for a time. Afterward, they returned to the region of the Negev valley from which they split up, because the land could not support all of them. Lot went southeast and Abram, farther into Canaan away from Lot whose possession stretched to the Dead Sea where archeology has identified the sites of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 13).
   The blood-covenant of circumcision is made with Abraham, setting his seed apart from the nations among whom he sojourned in Canaan. Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed for their wickedness and sins – defined by Scripture as breaking Yahweh’s laws – but Lot and his daughters escape.
   Abraham’s son Isaac marries Rachel. They have a son named Jacob. Jacob wrestles with the Angel of Yahweh till daybreak, overcoming Him and blessed by Him. Jacob is renamed Israel, which in this context means he overcomes with the help of El.
   Israel has twelve sons through Leah, Rachel, and their handmaidens Zilpah and Bilhah. By birth order, the twelve tribes are: Rueben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph and Benjamin. Dinah, born to Leah, was Jacob’s only daughter. Joseph has a falling out with his brothers and is sold as a slave to a caravan of Ishmaelite merchants who took him to Egypt. After experiencing difficulty with his master’s wife who falsely accused him of sexual misconduct, Joseph is imprisoned … later released, when Pharaoh becomes troubled with dreams and Joseph is discovered as an interpreter of dreams. A world famine sends Israel’s sons to Egypt to buy grain, and after excursions there, Israel’s family is brought to Egypt … to the best land, in Goshen.
   Joseph has two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who are blessed by Israel before he dies. And blessed they were, but not in the order Joseph expected. Ephraim becomes a dominant name among Israel, later identifying the people of the 10 northern tribes of Israel (Ezek. 37:19).
   After Joseph’s death and the rise of a Pharaoh hostile toward Israel as a people, they are pressed into.
   Moses is born, and raised up by Yahweh to remove His Covenant People from under bondage. Yahweh gives Moses a codified law … not only for Israel, but for all mankind who would come to Yahweh to worship Him. The Levitical priesthood is instituted. Though animal sacrifices weren’t something new, there were specific ordinances the priesthood were to execute with regard to sacrificial offerings which are presently in abeyance, owing to a change in the Levitical order to the Melchizedek priesthood over which Yahshua presides, and a lack of a physical temple.
   After forty years wandering in the wilderness, Israel is admitted into the promised land, but Moses is denied because of his sin. Of the generation that left Egypt, only Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb, along with those under the age of twenty years — the age of accountability — were given leave to enter into the land.
   Because of Israel continuing in sin, however, they were taken away into Assyrian captivity. Yahweh divorced the northern tribes, and they were eventually dispersed throughout the world. They have become the Gentiles (goyim, nations).
   Judah, with Benjamin and Levi, are identified as the southern tribes, who are, two centuries later, exiled to Babylon for their sins, as well. However, they were allowed return to Israel after 70 years. Their descendants, too, have been dispersed among the nations, but are more easily identified.

Prophecies Concerning a New Age
    We believe Yahshua is Who He said He was — the Messiah — and that a number of Old and New Testament prophecies regarding the restoration of Israel and the Law declare what will be found in the Kingdom and in eternity. We, like Abram and Sarai, will be given new names if we overcome (Rev. 2:17).
   Some think the 1000-year reign is not coming, but a remnant of Israel will come into it as well as other nations who will learn of His ways, path, and laws (Isa. 2; Mic. 4). For Yahweh is not done with Israel, neither with us:
   I will plant her for Myself in the land; I will show My love to the one I called “Not My loved one.” I will say to those called “Not My people,” “You are My people”; and they will say, “You are my Elohim,” Hosea 2:23, NIV.
   Isaiah 54:4-8 says, “Fear not, for you will not be put to shame; and do not feel humiliated, for you will not be disgraced; but you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more. For your Husband is your Maker, Whose Name is Yahweh of hosts; and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, Who is called the Elohim of all the earth. For Yahweh has called you, like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even like a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,” Says your Elohim. “For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will gather you. In an outburst of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting lovingkindness I will have compassion on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.
   This is at the heart of what Paul is bringing out in chapters 9-11 of Romans. He is quoting the prophets Hosea and Isaiah, and others like Jeremiah, for the purpose of showing that through Messiah, there is a restoration; that through the Messiah, there is a grafting back into the olive tree which is both houses of Israel, as noted in Jeremiah chapter 11.
   So, what does the name change from Abram to Abraham mean for those in Messiah? It means Yahweh is keeping His promise to Abraham, that his descendants should become like the sands of the sea, and as the stars of heaven – both a physical, and spiritual people, ultimately come from him with Yahweh accomplishing these things through the Messiah.

Conclusion: Yahshua the Messiah, Redeemer and Law Keeper
    For this reason He is the Mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the One Who made it, Hebrews 9:15-16.
   And what did the Messiah point to, besides His Father in heaven? He pointed to the Law of His Father.
   “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” And He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How does it read to you?” And he answered, “YOU SHALL LOVE YAHWEH YOUR ELOHIM WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.” And He said to him, “You have answered correctly; DO THIS AND YOU WILL LIVE” (Luke 10:25-28).
   The writers of the New Testament understood that neither the weekly seventh-day Sabbath nor any other eternal laws were done away. Israel’s transgressions of the Sabbath and Yahweh’s other eternal statutes provoked His anger among them.
   Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living Elohim. But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Messiah, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end, while it is said, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS, AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME,” Hebrews 3:12-15
   Yahshua Himself declares His attitude toward Yahweh and His Commandments:
   While He was still speaking to the crowds, behold, His mother and brothers were standing outside, seeking to speak to Him. Someone said to Him, “Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside seeking to speak to You.” But Yahshua answered the one who was telling Him and said, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?” And stretching out His hand toward His disciples, He said, “Behold My mother and My brothers! For whoever does the will of My Father Who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother,” Matthew 12:46-50.
   Yahshua says in Matthew 5:17-20:
   Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
   Besides these, there are many places in which Yahshua defaults to Yahweh and to the laws of Yahweh, even quoting Old Testament Scriptures, which were the only source extant at that time.
   Later, New Testament letters were codified, testifying that their authors were knowledgeable of the Scriptures, as suggested by the following:
   … from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Messiah Yahshua. All Scripture is inspired by Elohim and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of Elohim may be adequate, equipped for every good work, 2 Timothy 3:15-17.
   What we won’t find is Yahshua, or any authors of the New Testament, ever saying, “forget Israel and forget Yahweh’s law.” In fact, the Apostle Paul affirms that Israel has the advantage, chiefly because to them were committed the Oracles of Yahweh (Rom. 3:1-2) and the Covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the Service at the altar, and the Promises (Rom. 9:4).
   And so, what does that say about someone who says, “The Law was only given to the Israelites and applies to no one today?” It’s a direct contradiction to what the Savior taught and such a person is in danger of being told, “I never knew you, depart from Me you who practice lawlessness” (Matt 7:23).