Who gave Moses the LAW

Here is something I found not too long ago, after reading over it for years, but never "seeing" this Scripture:

Exo 24:9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:
Exo 24:10 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.
Exo 24:11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

Consider this ... no man has seen the Father, for HE is spirit, and any man who sees the Father will not live..

Joh 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
Joh 6:46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.

So, if no man has seen the Father, then who did they see?
It must be that they saw Y'shua, And who walked with Adam? Seeing that he too is a man, and no man has seen the Father, but the Son.

So, here is the one that rocked my boat!!

Who gave Moses the Commandments?

Because here is an interesting Scripture:
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Moses asked to see GOD's glory:
Exo 33:18 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
Exo 33:19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
Exo 33:20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
Exo 33:21 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
Exo 33:22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
Exo 33:23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.


Joh 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.


Joh 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

So the question then is this:
When Christ said that we must obey HIS commandments, was HE referring to this fact, that HE gave Moses the Commandments, so the Commandments we are to follow are the very ones the "church" wants to sweep under the floor.

People try to claim that the commandments were nailed to the tree, because they fail to take this verse in context:
Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

Paul was writing to the uncircumcised Gentile Christians in Colosse.

And what was nailed to the tree, was not the law, but rather the handwriting of ordinances

(Hebrews 7:15-16) "And it is yet far more evident if, according to the likeness of Melchisedec there arises another priest,
Who is made, not according to the law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an endless life."
(Hebrews 9:9-10) "Which was symbolic for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him who did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
Which stood only in meat and drink offerings, and various washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed until the time of reformation."

Now if we meditate on these scriptures, we can see what Jesus nailed to the cross, and what was contrary to him;

(Ephesians 2:15) "the law of commandments contained in ordinances;"
(Colossians 2:14) "the handwriting of ordinances;"
(Hebrews 7:16) "the law of a carnal commandment;"
(Hebrews 9:10) "carnal ordinances;"

What Jesus abolished was carnal (or fleshly) commandments and ordinances, and hand written ordinances. Carnality was what defeated people in the Old Testament, and prevented them from keeping the law. Because the blood of bulls and goats did not remove the sin from the heart (Hebrews 10:4), people were often stuck in bondage to sin (Romans 7:14-24). Why?

(Romans 8:7) "Because the carnal mind is enmity with God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be."

As long as people are carnal they are "sold (like a slave) under sin." (Romans 7:14). The enmity is the carnal mind (Romans 8:7), and this is what Jesus slew on the cross (Ephesians 2:16). What replaces it? Spirituality and a spiritual mind. Jesus was our example; he was a spirit led man and came to do the will of the Father and keep the law with the law of God written in his heart.

(Psalm 40:8) "I delight to do your will, O my God, and your law is in my heart."

In fact having the law in the heart was what God always commanded the children of Israel, and it was an attribute of every righteous man.

(Deuteronomy 6:6) "And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart:"
(Psalms 37:30-31) "The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of judgment.
The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide."
(Isaiah 51:7) "Hear me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law;"

It also happens to be one of the attributes of people who come under the New Covenant.

(Jeremiah 31:33) "But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says YHWH, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people."
(Hebrews 8:10) "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
(Hebrews 10:16) "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;"

This writing of the law in the hearts of people enables them to keep the commandments in the law.

(Psalm 119:11) "Your word have I hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against you."
(Romans 2:13-15) "For not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, who do not have the law, are a law to themselves:
Which shows the work of the law written in their hearts,"

Keeping the commandments of the law enables us to live free from sin just as Jesus did.

(Romans 7:7) "What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it not be! No, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, You shall not covet."
(1 John 3:4) "Whoever commits sin also transgresses the law: for sin is the transgression of the law."

Jesus death on the cross enabled the Old Covenant written on stone and in a book, and made with carnal people, to be superseded. He replaced it with a spiritual covenant made with spiritual people, who have God's law written in their heart. The law is spiritual (Romans 7:14) and was meant to be fulfilled in a spiritual way, and Jesus gave us the example of how to do it.

(Romans 8:3-4) "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit."

When we operate according to the spirit, and not carnally according to the flesh, it sets us free from condemnation.

(Romans 8:1) "There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit."

When we follow Jesus' example in a spiritual way, and crucify our spiritual flesh, which is what causes us to sin, we can have God's law written in our hearts, and become fully obedient to fulfil the law in a spiritual way. Jesus didn't nail the Ten Commandments to the cross, he nailed carnal ordinances such as animal sacrifices to it, carnal interpretation, and gave us spiritual understanding to replace carnal understanding. As Jesus said, every commandment of God still stands in a spiritual sense.

(Matthew 5:17-19) "Do not think that I came to destroy the law, or the prophets: I did not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
For amen I say to you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no way pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Whoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

There is no proof in Ephesians 2:15 for removing the Sabbath commandment, or any other of the Ten Commandments.

(I found references to scripture here logosapostolic.org)

GS Robison