10 Commandments

Ten

Commandments

"Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; [27] A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day: [28] And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known." Deut. 11:26-28

It was a long time ago...different times and societies. thought differs greatly from the thoughts of those who witnessed the power of their deliverer: the Ancient of days. The passing of time has diminished our understanding of these simple principles our world's societies were built upon. We have forgotten not only the letter of the Law, but we have also replaced the Spirit of the Law with one of our own making and another source, another god.

We provide this page as a source of reference for you. Of the 613 commandments Adonai gave to us, these are the ten commandments that God's own finger carved into the stone tablets which Moses carried down Mt. Sinai, to give as a gift to the Jewish people. Other commandments are included afterward. Study these things that you may better understand the will of Adonai in your life.

Each of these commandments is alive and contains the Spirit of the Living Lord Who wrote it. Even as the Creator spoke creation into existence, His words in these commandments retain the life and power of His Holy Spirit to work in your life, to bring about the changes you need to make which will allow you to draw closer to His Presence.

Matthew 22:36-40
Master, which is the great commandment in the law? [37] Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. [38] This is the first and great commandment. [39] And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. [40] On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

There is power in the words of God. These words are the simple foundation we are to build our lives upon.

The Ten Commandments

1.) I AM the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage...

2.) You shall have NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME...

3.) You shall not take the Name of the Lord your God in vain...

4.) Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it Holy...

5.) Honor your father and your mother...

6.) You shall not murder.

7.) You shall not commit adultery.

8.) You shall not steal.

9.) You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

10.) You shall not covet...

Exodus 31:12-18

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

[13] Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.

[14] Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

[15] Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

[16] Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

[17] It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

[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.

TORAH 101

The Creator who placed the stars in the heavens, who wrote the Universal Law, and wrote His law and commandments on stone tablets: He sets the rules. No matter what we think, how much we protest and proclaim heritage from apes, it won't change the fact that we are the deliberate creation of a Celestial Being.

Genesis 1:1
    In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:26
    And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

John 1:1-4
    In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. [2] The same was in the beginning with God. [3] All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. [4] In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

The Divine Guide Book - Torah

The story is surrealistic: The Creator of the heavens chose a specific people to give His Universal Law and commandments to, in the middle of a desert wilderness, from atop a mountain called Sinai. The Torah contains the five books detailing this amazing historical story and record.

Exodus 24:9-12
    Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: [10] And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. [11] And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
    [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, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

Exodus 24:16-17
    And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. [17] And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

Exodus 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.

The Creator selected a group of people from all the peoples on the earth, with whom to establish a priesthood, through which He gave His Law and commandments to the world, and would communicate His will. This people, the Jewish people were and are to serve their God in obedience to that which was given and shown to them upon the mountain, by His own hand and Words. The Jewish people were chosen to be priests for the world, giving instructions to the nations in the observance of the Creator's Law.

These children of Israel are the Jewish people. With the redemption through Yeshua, Jesus Christ the Gentiles are now grafted-in to that vine, and share the responsibility

The frailty of our human nature and the devices of the wicked led to the destruction of God's Temple in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, where the Islamic Dome of the Rock now stands. The great nation which possessed the Torah, the Word of God, was scattered among the nations until the re-establishment of the State of Israel, on May 14, 1948. The rebirth of Israel was through a wall of fire and resistance from almost every nation on earth. Only a few nations allied themselves with the tiny newborn nation as they struggled to remain alive. Again the hand of Adonai, the God of Israel stretched forth and provided protection for His people.

The Divine Prime Directive

Our Creator endowed us with the gift of free will for His purposes, and He won't go against the conscious choices we make. Even though He has given us His Laws to live by, He won't force us to do anything we don't want to do. Our Creator has a prime directive of non-interference. It is for this reason that He doesn't interfere in our lives. He knows that it is only through true freedom that a person will turn to Him and love Him. So, He patiently waits for us to act: to call on Him, to seek Him, to humble ourselves before Him, to accept Him as our Lord and Saviour.

We have to make the first move toward Him in order to give Him the opportunity to intercede in our lives. Though He may continue to bless us through our lives, even if we never turn to Him, we will never have that spiritual re-birth and joyous revelation of His existence, until we call upon Him, to ask Him into our lives. At that very moment, we are spiritually reborn, becoming part of His family, entering into the community of His people; and we are given the free gift of eternal life through Yeshua's intercession. (Path of Freedom)

School of Hard Knocks - Elementary School

When we reach the age of accountability, if  we don't have any learning problems which would inhibit our reasonable understanding and comprehension, we are considered to be responsible for every choice we make, right or wrong. The consequences of our actions become evident as mistakes are made and lessons learned.

Our lives are much like a school of hard knocks. Sometimes we just won't slow down and listen to the experienced voice of reason and wisdom...we don't have time for that. So what happens? We end up hitting our heads against the reality of life. Add the multi-dimensional aspect of our tri-part being: body, soul and spirit, and life becomes more than we bargained for. Life becomes overwhelming, even unto death.

Our Creator, the Lover of our souls, knew what we would need, so He provided His Words to guide us and teach us His ways - how we can live our lives without the unnecessary burdens of this world.

The choice is always yours to make, whether you will choose to accept the Lord Yeshua, Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour or not. Even not choosing is making a choice.

The following verses are also offered for your consideration:

Joshua 1:8
    This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Joshua 24:15
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Joshua 22:5
But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

2 Kings 17:37
And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.

Psalm 1:2
But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Psalm 37:31
The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

Isaiah 2:3
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Matthew 5:17-18
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. [18] For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Matthew 7:12
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Luke 24:44
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.

John 1:17
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Acts 24:14
But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

Romans 7:12
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Galatians 3:23-24
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. [24] Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Adonai Has Told Us...

Exodus 6:7
And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

Exodus 12:14
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

Exodus 12:17
And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.

Exodus 31:16
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

Leviticus 3:17 (KJV)
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

Leviticus 11:44
For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Leviticus 18:4
Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:4
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:31
Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 23:41
And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

Isaiah 43:15
I am the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.

Ezekiel 20:19-20
I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; [20] And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.

Simply Stated...

It is not our intention to be contentious. We only want to offer you the challenge to study for yourself what the Bible contains, and not just accept a word of mouth version of the Truth. Yeshua's grace through the shedding of His death allows us the liberty to approach the throne of Adonai, in His Name and receive the redemption of our sins. Salvation is not in that which we eat or drink; it is the FREE gift we have been offered through Yeshua's self-sacrifice, and in the acceptance of the perfect Word of Adonai.

Our goals are to help you improve your life by enriching it with Adonai's Words, and helping you back toward the hope of something so much greater than this worldly existence: a great celestial glory which we refer to as our "Heavenly Home."

Luke 16:16-17
The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. [17] And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

2 Tim. 2:24-26
...the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, [25] In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; [26] And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.