THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

SPIRITUAL FOOD IN THE LAW OF GOD

The Ten Commandments of the Law of God provide individual man a source of spiritual food not expected until now, but if you follow this journey into the Ten Commandments, which are not only a moral base to be fulfilled, nor they provide salvation, "for salvation is by faith in the blood of Jesus Christ shed for the forgiveness of sin and the faith in resurrection for eternal life, not through the works of Law, Galatians 2:16", you will find how God feeds the spirit and the mind of man through His Living Word, Jesus Christ, He who is the Word of God, the mind of God.

These Ten Commandments are a fundamental pillar of the Word and in them, civilization and all it’s cultures may find a universal message composed by many and great teachings, also being the ideal guide of behaviour for humanity, although in its majority does not consider the Word of God.

The world, society of man and his final project, globalization, do not count on God. The result of this human project not counting on God, or at least when they mention Him is to kill in the name of religion to dominate the masses, is clearly exposed; hunger, wars, the search of power and profit, showing no mercy for neighbour’s life. This is the contrary of the teaching of the Ten Commandments, to love God and our neighbour like ourselves; society lacks it completely.

They who try to win the battle against the evil of man, are eliminated by that power that rules the world, as said in the Bible: ...For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places... Ephesians 6:12.

This study does not seek a solution for the World, because the solution is in the future kingdom of God, which will come and will win against all opposition; but to provide the individual who seeks God or who knows Him, with the spiritual tools that will let him build himself as temple of the living God, through the Holy Spirit.

Man looks at the Ten Commandments in different ways, like the rest of The Scriptures:

The sceptic always asks why as an automatic behaviour, but pays no attention to the answer given to his question, and makes no changes in his life.

The ones with blind faith in the literal Word of God, “and this is a gift of God”, does not let them grow spiritually as they do not think about asking God why of things, even though God wants to teach us.

The behaviour of those who criticize the ones who “Search the Scriptures” as Jesus commanded, but they make no effort to grow spiritually for themselves and for the relation with the neighbour, but only judge.

The way I propose to approach the Word of God, is to come to God with the faith in his Word and to ask Him, with clean heart, and in this case to ask why the Ten Commandments are these ones, with the aim of applying them spiritually and literally towards God and towards our neighbour, because this is exactly what God seeks in our relation with Him regarding the wisdom: ...Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them... Nehemiah 9:20. It must be understood that it will not be possible to apply them to the global community till the Kingdom comes, but in the Kingdom it will not be necessary as every one there, will have a heart for God.

God’s Law has 613 commandments and precepts which are based in the Ten Commandments, which at the same time are based in two great ones that our Master taught us:  ...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. ³⁸This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. ⁴⁰On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Matthew 22:36.

We also find in the Word what is called the Law of Christ, which matches the answer found before: ...Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2.

Before starting I would like you to meditate in this brief Bible text: ...Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. Revelation 14.12.

Note two relevant things are said: the first one is that they keep them, this is in their hearts, and the other one refers to the faith of Jesus, not the faith in Jesus whish is necessary for salvation, here the Spirit refers to the fact that we must live with the same faith that Jesus had on earth, with the certainty that God is with us, Emmanuel.

BIBLE TEXTS

EXODUS 20, DEUTERONOMY 5.  ...two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. Exodus 31.18.

THE TRUE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN THE BIBLE

 …And God spake all these words, saying:

1º.- I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have none other gods before me.

To love God over every other thing, is the minimum that we should feel in our hearts if we understand that we come from Him, that He gives us life, and that He supports us.

Man easily looses his friend ship relation with God when he leaves aside his love for Him, his friend ship or because he seeks other sources of knowledge instead of waiting for the answers from God in his life by praying in each circumstance. Man wants the answers now and he doesn’t care if they are true of if it’s the right moment to know them. Man is not patient nor spiritual before God. Normally seeks a god that adapts to his desires, we could say that man wants a god made to his image and likeness.

When God commands us not to have another god, this includes not only beings to which godliness could be attributed, it also includes people and things, relations of man in his life, even animals (some have their pets before anything else), also friends, personal projects, or works. Therefore a god may be a hobby, money, pleasures of flesh, technology, a son or daughter, husband or wife, finally anyone or anything that man places in his life before God.

As Jesus Christ says in His Word: ... If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple...Luke 14:25.

And also: ...He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal… John 12:25.

2º.- Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: ⁹Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, ¹⁰And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

The second commandment I will present in two parts, images and the inheritance from the fathers, we will see each one separately:

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A good example that we shall not worship any but God, is John’s situation before the angle in Revelation:

...And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. ⁹Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.  Revelation 22:8.

This matter of the images has been a conflict in Christianity since 300 A.C. because civilizations have done this for centuries, and those who are still in the flesh prefer to follow tradition instead of spiritual understanding.

It is known that not to make a covered image includes not to represent God nor any being to be worshiped by it, but there is something deeper in the act of making an image and this is normally not understood, this is to make an image in our mind, of how will God be, or every thing in the spiritual dimension, therefore we may see that this includes angels, principalities and powers, includes heaven itself, beings that work on earth and in the waters under earth, which means the origin of nations, those who dominate doctrine of humanity, human wisdom and the power that makes humanity go against God as it is confirmed in: Philippians 2:10 ...That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth...

Those Christians that worship images mostly use the following versicles with a wrong interpretation:

The bronze serpent in Numbers 21 where God commands Moses to make a fiery serpent and set it upon a pole, has a moral teaching backround. The people of God like the Church today some times loose their faith, have doubts towards the Word of God and begin in their minds other possible ways, other morals, etc.

God sends fiery serpents which symbolise all cultures, including their morals and their idolatry to them and to hand made gods, therefore God tells us in this message that if we are beaten, which means to be tempted by the poison of believing in these morals, we find that looking to the serpent means to look at the Law, not to worship it, but to understand that it is higher than the others. The prosecutor, which is the meaning of Satan, takes advantage of this situation and uses the Law of God to accuse man: “you failed in this or that commandment”. Today the serpent, or Law, is the same one that we find in Eden offered to our mind by the serpent. It is not God’s will that his people serve images and statues. Yes, the law of God is the power of the devil, he condemns us with it. Read it in the Bible in 2Corinthians 3:7 & 9.

Under these circumstances, you need your only valid spiritual lawyer, Jesus Christ, to set you free from condemnation by his blood, the only act that cleans us from sin. In the cross, He paid the condemnation on your behalf and on mine.

On the other hand we have the case of the cherubim, whom is said to be placed at the door of Paradise to stop man from going in, meaning that man will find angels before coming to God if he doesn’t come through Christ. The door is Jesus Christ, the faith in Him is the access to God. The cherubim in the Arc of the Covenant have their faces covered by their wings, meaning that what they are protecting is sacred and cannot be looked at, but also we see different angels in curtains, different decorations in the temple and at the entrance, all this means that God lives surrounded by spiritual beings, that a heaven above exists, but these beings are not worshiped by His people.

See the interpretation in the next text: The sea represents humanity and the waters the different nations that coming to humanity make the sea. Humanity made by God as it stands in the Scripture: ... and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. Revelation 14:7, Who obviously made heaven, his place, the spiritual dimension and the earth with His hands, a symbol of the soul of man, that by receiving the Holy Spirit, becomes the promised land on Earth.

Not to bend before them, means that man must only have spiritual communication with God, that only Jesus Christ, Yah-Weh, Yah-Shuah is who feeds our spirit, so that we don’t defile. This is absolutely vital because: ...For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus... 1Timothy 2:5. But the devil seeks to be worshipped and dresses as angel of Light, this is why we find so many different gods and saints, etc. his aim is to make man’s heart fall in any worship except to God. The devil places himself as a hidden mediator and has power to give people what they ask for so they don’t escape from his power; if you are surprised by this, please read it in the Bible: ...And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. ¹⁵Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. 2Corinthians 11:14.

As a comparison with now a days we can read the following Bible text:

...For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. ⁴And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. ⁵And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. ⁶And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 2 Kings 21:3, Doesn’t this text sound familiar to you in today’s society and in some churches and religions of the XXI?

The consequences of worshiping idols you may find in the book of Romans 1:25.

Human imagination has no limits, but we must leave the images that our mind may create for the times of eternity in the spiritual field; however this must be something personal between God and man.

…And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; ¹⁴But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:  ¹⁵Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. Jeremiah 9.

Apart form this, there is one more subject to clarify, the visions given by God and also the dreams, where He talks to us or gives us signs, not included in this commandment.

Following the 2^nd commandment we find God telling us that He is jealous, which is easy to understand when man worships other spirits, He is jealous because He loves us and gave his life in the Cross also to beat these deceptive spirits that kill the relation between God and us, the wife.

If man rejects the Spirit of God and surrenders to a relation with other spirits like saints, virgins, angels, and gods from different cultures, that are being preached by the religious men of the different doctrines, man is following those spiritual fathers and therefore receives the spiritual inheritance of their evilness in himself.

THE INHERITANCE FROM THE FATHERS

The spiritual inheritance that man receives comes from the fathers referred in this commandment, from which man receives the blessing of God, or the evilness, until the third and the fourth generation which we find in the text of the second commandment: visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me ¹⁰And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. These are the spiritual fathers of people. If these spiritual fathers teach a doctrine against the True one, the disciples of these carry the yeast of an unholy bread and therefore defile their lives. To understand that in the commandment God is talking about the spiritual fathers we simply can read that it doesn’t say parents, we read fathers, not father and mother. To make it more clear: ...The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. Deuteronomy 24:16.

And in Malachi we are showed the target of the work of God with His people, regarding the relation between the fathers of the faith and their descendents:

...Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: ⁶And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. Malachi 4:5.

Precious text where we have the most important prophecy in the relation between the ones that teach the sound doctrine and those who receive it: the spiritual fathers and sons. Abraham (The Father), Isaac (The promised Son) and Israel (The Holy Spirit), the people who are born again.

3º.- Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

The meaning of taking the Lord’s name in vain is deeper than it has been taught until now, including more than the mere commandment of not mentioning His name in vain conversations and not to swear.

To take God’s name in vain includes not accepting his name, and in the richness of the name of God Yah-weh, we find that in it's main variation  includes salvation, this is Yah-Shua, which means: the salvation of Yah. This concludes in those who dont accept Jesus Christ as their saviour, neither pray in the name of Jesus Christ, nor bless in His name, and in His name do not do all holiness, these take the name of God in vain, because the son of God and God are one. The name of Jesus Christ and the Father’s name is the same name, as we read in the Bible ...And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee... Zechariah 3:2.

...Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Acts 4:12.

Remember there is only one Lord, not two. When you evoke Yahshua, you call Yahweh, if we use the short name we call YAH. Jesus Christ.

...Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Acts 2:38.

... and given him a name which is above every name: ¹⁰That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; ¹¹And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:9.

...For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself. John 5:26.

See that YHWH or YAHWEH is the same as YHSWH or YAHSHUAH.

...Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? ⁵⁸Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. ⁵⁹Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.  John 8:57. In this text Jesus Christ says: I am the same as the Father does.

Therefore: ...for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain... takes us to the following understanding; that although sin is the guiltiness of man,  God does not want to look at man through it, but covered by the Blood of Christ, the life of Christ; that man must accept the sacrifice of Christ, because salvation is impossible for us, the same as to beat death and sin, but it is possible for God, therefore when man receives Jesus Christ, stops taking the name of God in vain, because that name includes God’s salvation, and as explained: Yah-Shuah, where Yah is God and Shuah is Salvation, is the name we know as Jesus Christ.

4º.- Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. ¹³Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: ¹⁴But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. ¹⁵And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day.

The first thing that calls the attention in the fourth commandment is the exclusion of the wife in the list of the ones who are free of doing labour in Sabbath. For a long time I prayed to understand why the wife was not mentioned.

If we take Eve when we refer to the wife, spiritually the hidden meaning in the word opens up as a parable, and in the wife we can see the soul-mind of an individual. Precisely she is indeed invited to do labour on Sabbath, and let me explain why: when someone who is born again and knows the Lord, then it is built as spiritual house and holy priest. Now this priesthood can only be made spiritually when one is in Sabbath, which means once you have entered in the resting of the Lord, when He rests from the labour of building your soul as a temple of God to receive Him, then you, the wife, your soul takes the cross every day of your new life, and this new life is the Sabbath.

Remember that the old man of someone was a slave of the system of sin (society), before he came to know the Lord, and …the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm…

Therefore take the Holy Supper as the Holy Passover celebrating Christ and His resurrection until He comes.

Another hidden message that we find in this commandment as well as in the tenth in when it says: ...nor thine ox, nor thine ass.

These two animals, in the same way they accompanied Christ in the manger, they accompany us from our birth; in the Sabbath, your ox, which is an animal that pulls the plough, means our mission in the world and in Christ, our labour, and the ass means our spiritual burden and responsibility in our life, you will no longer carry burden, but voluntarily you will carry your cross, both burdens. This will be so, if we do what the Lord says: ...Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. ³⁰For my yoke is *easy, and my burden is light. Matthew 11:29.

* Easy: in the Greak text, the word is xpnotós: means useful, that serves, good and helpful. In such a way that when we take our cross or yoke with Christ, it’s being a blessing to those from whom we carry burden.

The last part of the forth commandment: ¹⁵And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day. Connects with the first words of God, when He says: … I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage…

This is one of the most beautiful texts, where the Lord shows the love he has for the human being. But it needs to be read with spiritual eyes, with eyes of God, otherwise we can only see the story of the Jewish in Egypt, which h is important and testimony of God, but the universal meaning is that God set us free from sin, from the hands of the devil, by coming in flesh in the Christ and going to the cross to die and resurrect, showing us and giving us the victory over death for eternal live. This is made by His mercy, by His love, as we are sinners and don’t seek the Lord’s ways, but our own way, we do not look for His salvation, we try our own by justifying ourselves by our consciences, morals and religions.

So the deep meaning of celebrating the Sabbath is to celebrate the Messiah’s sacrifice, the Lamb of God, and His blood in the doors and posts of our soul. This is our mark in our minds by faith. We can celebrate this Passover by having Holy Supper. Yes the supper is the Passover. Jesus did it in Passover and now we know the meaning, so do give the glory to the Messiah and be set free from sin, out of the house of bondage. Take the bread and the wine at home with your brothers in intimacy and pray and worship God.

5º.- Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

The honour that man gives his father and his mother will bring him blessing from God during his life. They were the chosen ones by God to give life to this man on Earth.

...My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: ²¹Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. ²²When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. ²³For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life... Proverbs 6:20.

...A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.  Proverbs 10:1.

Also we could talk about our spiritual Father, God, but we would need a complete study. ...Father which art in heaven...

...And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. Exodus 21:15.

...And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. Exodus 21:17.

6º.- Thou shalt not assassinate. (kill)

The commandment of not to kill, has a deep significance, it means not to assassinate innocent people for whatever reason, but to give human life the same value as our own life, or the life of our beloved ones, because for God every life hurts like His children.

Self defence is not considered as assassination and therefore is not punished in the law of God, nor in international law, as it couldn’t be on any other way, however man could modify it, like he does with every law as soon it is of his interest. The law of God cannot be moved regarding moral, that is why Jesus Christ teaches that it will never pass away, and it is the ministry of condemnation and of death, it’s useful to condemn man, as it’s said in the Bible:

... But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: ⁸How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? ⁹For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 2 Corinthians 3:7.

But the work of Jesus Christ brings this result:

...There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. ²For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. ³For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: ⁴That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. ⁵For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. ⁶For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. ⁷Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. ⁸So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Romans 8:1.

A concept still alive in the mind of the Jews, is that they are free to fight against other nations to defend them selves and to conquer the land.

Jesus Christ gives us breath about life and resurrection and teaches us:

...And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 10:28.

Spiritually we could say that to kill someone is to give him the yeast and the support of the human mind as the absolute answer, instead of teaching him the knowledge of God, specially with the children; the parents must feed them with the Word of God, but they don’t they feed them with their own and with society, so they are killed.

7º.- Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

Spiritually when we say someone is in adultery before God, it is equivalent to idolatry, because the Husband of our soul is God, therefore if we have strange gods, or other mediators rather than Jesus Christ, we are in adultery.

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: ²⁸But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Matthew 5:27.

Apart form this text of impact, also and not less important we should take as spiritual …you shall not adulter the Word of God… as many religions and sects do to dominate men, by changing the meaning of the Texts to their likeness to mistake the interpretation for their benefit.

8º.- Neither shalt thou steal, (steal people).

The main idea of this commandment is not to prohibit to steal things from our neighbour, but to steal people, because there is great suffering in a kidnapped person and his family, or to make them slaves stealing his freedom, not to sell him because a person is priceless, suffering has no price. But not to steal goes even further.

Hebrew thinking in which God deposed the ministry of transmitting The Word, to steal implicates more, like stealing people’s time, stealing from those of good will. This shows how these commandments are focused in the love for others, the same way we want to be loved from God’s perspective.

Also you shall not steal things.

...And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. Exodus 21:16.

This commandment may also be seen spiritually in those who steal souls, the religious and sect leaders, who count the souls at their congregations, as you may read it in the Bible in Revelation 18 regarding the judgment that will come to the religious and worldly Babylon: ...The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, ¹³And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. 

And following in this same chapter we can see the future for those who steal souls for the Babylon, a symbol of the religious system that gives the first place to their traditions and precepts before the truth in the Word of God and the knowing of God to those who approach them:

¹⁴And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. ¹⁵The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, ¹⁶And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! ¹⁷For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, ¹⁸And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! ¹⁹And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

²⁰Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.

²¹And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. ²²And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; ²³And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. ²⁴And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

If you read this last text making emphasis in the underlined parts, you will realise that: no craftsman, they are those who make carved images for idol worship, sound of a millstone, the millstone is used to make the bread by stoning the seed; in Babylon they are experts in providing a bread with yeast with worldly doctrines and traditions, after we reed ...voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more... this is that weddings under religion are not the way new generations get married, if they do, because people don’t seek for the blessing of God, neither fear God, and because these organizations are not trustful, people doubt of the authenticity of the ministers, etc. Civil marriage if any. As a final issue we find that human religions have killed in the name of God, the same as we see today, how the fundamentalists do.

9º.- Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Before you bear any kind of witness in your life, against any one, have in mind the responsibility that you take for your words and that you will have to give account of them before the Lord, read the teaching of Jesus Christ: ...But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. ³⁷For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. Matthew 12:36.

...A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow. Proverbs 25:18.

... worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Revelation 19:10.

The testimony of Jesus Christ is the base of all the preaching, the reason of the Gospel and the prophecy that was fulfilled and that is being fulfilled from the Word of God, this is the witness that we must give, so be aware that the devil intends to make those who don’t love God give false witness, with the aim to accuse them and destroy their lives in eternal condemnation.

10º.- Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

Another message is found in this commandment as well as in the forth referring to: ...his ox, or his ass.

As we saw in the forth commandment, these two animals, in the same way as they accompany Christ in the manger, they accompany us from our birth; in the Sabbath, your ox, which is an animal that pulls the plough, means our mission in the world and in Christ, our labour, and the ass means our spiritual burden and responsibility in our life, you will no more carry burden, but voluntarily you will carry your cross, both burdens. So, we shall not covet other's ox neither his ass.

Apart from the literal meaning of the tenth Commandment, we can also consider the spiritual meaning of not to covet: not to covet being like others, not to covet them, because you are precious in front of God, as much as any other person, you are given a life that you must live, but it’s in your hands that your life will give fruits on earth, and for the Spirit in your relation with God and with your neighbour and even with yourself. You can pray to God and make an effort so that your life becomes a life of blessing. Reed 2Peter 1:5 to 12.

So don’t covet the ministry of your brother, nor the gifts the Lord has given him, nor the revelation, etc, because you are important for God, and He has a plan for every life, be patient and wait for yours if you don’t know it yet.

Following is a magnificent sentence from Jesus Christ referring to this matter:

...For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matthew 6:21.

JESUS CHRIST TEACHES ABOUT THE LAW

Following, there is a selection of verses from the Word of God, that directly from the Bible expose the teaching of Jesus about the Commandments, because Jesus obviously defends the Law in its purpose, as He gave it too being in the Father:

...Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. ¹⁸For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot (from the Greek Iota equivalent to Yod in Hebrew, in reality the is no J in Hebrew, and it must be understood as part of the Tetragramathon, the name of God) or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Matthew 5:17.

...Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. 10And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power. Colossians 2:8.

I think this is a great text from Paul in Hebrews regarding the text in Jeremiah 31:33: ... I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them. Hebrews 10:16.

...For Christ is the end of the law... Romans 10:4.

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS. COMPARISON BETWEEN THE ONES IN THE BIBLE, THE JEWISH AND THE VATICAN

Also in the 10 Commandments, we find several changes made by the different Judeo-Christian roots or different ways of using them:

The Orthodox Jewish honour the wise Ramban, Maimonides who is considered the Law master as he compiled the Mishne Torah, or second Law, in which we find a different viewing of which should be the priorities in the Law, all taken from the Law given to Moses, so instead of the 10 commandments they have 14 books in which the 613 commandments of the complete Law are divide in themes in a different way as they were given by God. There are also some roots that divide the 10 commandments in 13 or 14 statements.

On the other side we find the Vatican, but in this case they have modified the 10 Commandments by not using the part of the second that prohibits worshiping images or other gods or intermediates between God and man, making it part of the first one and then dividing the 10th in two parts. This was done to allow them to worship images of the many false mediators that they use, like saints, virgins and the dead to whom they evoke, these are false according to the Word of God: ...For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus... 1Timothy 2:5.

COMPARISON WITH THE JEWISH:

The 10 commandments were inside the Arch of The Covenant, but not the rest of them, the other 603. Also the order of the 613 famous list of Maimonides does not follow the Biblical order, but it is an easy to use system divided in themes.  So this shows how tradition can take the place of the Bible because Maimonides (Rambam, Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon), 1135-1204 A.C. looked at the Law with the eyes of human wisdom, not with the eyes of the Spirit of God.

So for the Law is valid, but in the Bible they cannot be changed, for the simple reason that God had at least two purposes to give the commandments in the order that he gave them: first to be part of the mathematical order of the secret code in the Bible (nowadays proved) and second because God knows the order in which the soul of man can take the commandments, like the rest of the Scriptures, because they are alive, “and the Word was God” John 1:1. “and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us…” John 1:14.

To read about the Jewish way to follow the 613 commandments you may visit:

http://www.akhlah.com/holidays/Shavuot/10_commandments.asp

http://www.jewfaq.org/613.htm

http://www.gospeloutreach.net/613laws.html

http://www.torah.org/advanced/mikra/5757/sh/dt.57.2.05.html

THE COMPARISON WITH THE VATICAN:

The commandments used by the Vatican, have been presented in a way that the part in which they are not interested has been left out. But if you seek in depth in their texts they have to recognize the truth, then they use a few excuses to do as they wish.

The texts that follow have been taken from the Roman catechism at Vatican’s website:

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM

BIBLE TEXT FROM EXODUS 20 & DEUTERONOMY 5 IN THE BIBLE.

First you can reed the Bible text and the the Vatican text:

1º.- I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have none other gods before me.

CATECHISM: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them.

 2º.- Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: ⁹Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, ¹⁰And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

CATECHISM: You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.

3º.- Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

CATECHISM: Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work.

It is very strange that they expose the original text which refers to the Sabbath and then use the pagan Sun-day as the day of the Lord. Specially when the Lord resurrected at the end of Sabbath and was crucified tree days before in the great Passover Sabbath. Their excuse is a Bible text, that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath; so the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath, which is correct but does not change the day of the Lord, it means that ones we believe in Christ, and accept him as Saviour and repent, we fulfil Sabbath. The origin of their use of Sun-day is their decision to adopt pagan traditions when Rome mixed with the society of the third century.

4º.- Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. ¹³Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: ¹⁴But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. ¹⁵And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

CATECHISM: Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

5º.- Honor thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

CATECHISM: You shall not kill.

6º.- Thou shalt not assassinate. (kill)

CATECHISM: You shall not commit adultery.

7º.- Thou shalt not commit adultery.

CATECHISM: You shall not steal.

8º.- Thou shalt not steal.

CATECHISM: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.

9º.- Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

CATECHISM: You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.

10º.- Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor’s.

CATECHISM: You shall not covet ... anything that is your neighbour’s...

CONCLUSION:

God made us to His image and likeness, which means He gave us the capacity to become temples of the living God, receptacles of His Spirit.

IS THE SOCIAL AND MORAL PART OF THE LAW OF GOD APPLICABLE IN TODAY'S SOCIETY?

He gave us a guide of moral and behaviour to live on Earth, but people make their own, changing it according to times and fashion, becoming more and more like animals, but like these, instead of feeding their instinct to survive and procreation, man uses the mind that God gave him, to build a society where everything is accepted, …let me do what I want, slogan… the problem becomes when in democracy we must respect a neighbour who is vile, loveless, unholy, adulterous, covetous, murderers, unmerciful, proud, disobedient to parents, and a long etc. this is not acceptable, but to these, human rights are given.

The Kingdom of God will be perfect. Believe in Jesus Christ who had to give His life to pay for man’s sin, because we cannot escape from the slavery of sin (sin is not to believe in Christ: John 16:9) because human mind without Christ, is dominated by the animal doing dead things, and by evolution, for doing moral things, but really we were given the mind to understand God’s love and mercy, not to depend on a moral and ethical code, the fruit of the science of good and evil, this takes us back to Eden, were we started to sin, were we started creating our independence from God to create our own model, but this model is wrong and has no fixing.

Thank God, Jesus Christ came and opened the door to leave this system to leave this world and come to His world, now and here, spiritually and in eternity when His Kingdom comes, mean while, ...for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you... Luke 17:21.  Maranatha, Christ is coming.

...Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. Revelation 14:12.