After the first disobedience was committed, He did not bring man to judgment. He banished man with hope that he would appreciate life better when death is in sight. With hope that the stain of disobedience might forever be removed from him. With hope that in the face of mediocrity and failure, poverty and suffering, he would desire to receive abundance from His hand, partake of His bliss and immeasurable love, and get to celebrate life anew. God hoped that man would desire to be restored to his original blessed state, gain re-entry to His kingdom, and stay in it throughout the rest of eternity. God wanted man to be reconciled to Him and become part of His royal family again.
This explains why man was given instructions to live by, instructions summed up and unified in the Decalogue called Ten Commandments.
The instructions (summarily called the Law of God or simply the Law) blueprinted the way of life in heaven. It gave man focus on what to achieve over and above the hustles and bustles of his day-to-day existence. Man—who was weak (Romans 8:3) and error-prone (Hebrew 8:8)—was told what to do in given situations so he might not miss the mark. “Miss the mark” is the literal translation of the word “sin.”
The instructions reflected God’s love, plan and hope for man. Clearly it was not to abandon him in the realm of the dead but to provide him with a roadmap to the realm of the living.
17 If you want to enter life, obey the commandments. MATTHEW 19
8 The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes. PSALM 19
5 Follow the practices and the laws that I give you; you will save your life by doing so. LEVITICUS 18 tev
17 I am the Lord your God who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way to go. ISAIAH 48
11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future… 14 I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you, declares the Lord, and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile. JEREMIAH 29
50 God’s command leads to eternal life. JOHN 12 Corruption in Old Testament Times
But look! Lucifer has been corrupting God’s instructions—contaminating, distorting and messing up our knowledge and understanding of them. The motive was to frustrate obedience, to spite God.
Get a Bible. Validating what is being taught or said to us is a good habit to develop. The Old Testament has two lists of the Ten-C. Open to Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:1-21. Did you notice the heading? It says Ten Commandments. Yet one commandment—Commandment No. 1—has been omitted:
30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. MARK 12
You won’t find it written in Exodus 20:1-17 or in Deuteronomy 5:1-21. God gave to Prophet Moses ten but, unknown to most men, only nine have been listed.
Scripture Verse | Pertains to Commandment No. | Commandment | ||
Deuteronomy | Exodus | |||
1 | Love God and neighbor. | |||
5:7-10 | 20:3-6 | 2 | No idolatry. | |
5:11 | 20:7 | 3 | Do not misuse the name of God. | |
5:12-15 | 20:8-11 | 4 | Observe the Sabbath. | |
5:16 | 20:12 | 5 | Honor your parents. | |
5:17 | 20:13 | 6 | Do not commit murder. | |
5:18 | 20:14 | 7 | Do not commit adultery. | |
5:19 | 20:15 | 8 | Do not steal. | |
5:20 | 20:16 | 9 | No false testimony. | |
5:21 | 20:17 | 10 | Do not covet. | |
The Great Omission created a spiritual blind spot among men. What followed was legalism <obedience of the Law with the element of love missing in it>. The Jews, for example, have become rigidly strict in obeying the Law, quick to stone the lawbreaker to death. In our present time, many of the clergy would not correct the omission, insisting that nothing can be wrong with the Scripture.[1] Lucifer loves it!8 How can you say, “We are wise; the Lord’s Law is with us” when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely? JEREMIAH 8
More Corruptions
Take note how cunning Lucifer is. He removed Commandment No. 1 from the original list and placed it elsewhere. The phrase “with all your mind” was deleted so that anyone who finds the commandment gets to read a corrupted copy:
5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength. DEUTERONOMY 6
Three more commandments were corrupted, to wit: Commandment No. 3 (“You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses His name”—Exodus 20:20), Commandment No. 4 (“Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the Lord your God has commanded you”—Deuteronomy 5:12), and Commandment No. 9 (“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor”—Exodus 20:16).
What is wrong with them? All three have been scaled down. A commandment has two or more decrees (ordinances, rules and regulations) under it. In this instance mere decrees are being passed off as commandments. Lucifer omitted the real commandments so that nobody might observe them completely.[1] Y’shua said, “Your Father in heaven has but one communication to all humankind. If the truth had not been erased from the Book of Moses, then the Father would not have given to David a second book. And if the Book of David had not been contaminated, then the Father would not have sent Me.”—The Gospel of Barnabas (London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1907), chapter 124, edited and translated from the Italian Manuscript at the Imperial Library at Vienna by Lonsdale and Laura Rigg.
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