Are Gentiles required to keep the Law of Moses?

The only people who think Gentiles are expected to keep Torah are our friends in the Hebrew Roots world of Torahism. Which is kind of ironic, since that movement is made up of 100% Gentiles. And the fact that they have never been expected to keep Torah should pretty much put an end to Torah-observant Christianity, right? You’d think so. But for some reason that’s not the case. So today we’re going to dig into the Torah and learn why—with the lone exception of Torah-observant Christians—everyone agrees that Gentiles are not required to keep Torah. And once that fact is fully understood, Torahism falls apart completely.

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Testing a Hebrew Roots teaching on Acts 15

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00:00 No one else thinks Gentiles should keep Torah
01:29 To whom does the Torah say the Law was given?
08:15 The mixed multitude
10:11 Same law for foreigners
15:50 What about murder and adultery and the moral laws
17:50 Gentiles and the Torah
19:07 Jewish believers and the Torah
20:16 Wrap it up, Solberg

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Las únicas personas que piensan que se espera que los gentiles guarden la Torá son nuestros amigos en el mundo de las raíces hebreas del toraísmo. Lo cual es un poco irónico, ya que ese movimiento está compuesto 100% por gentiles. Y el hecho de que nunca se haya esperado que guarden la Torá debería poner fin al cristianismo observador de la Torá, ¿verdad? Usted pensaría que sí. Pero por alguna razón ese no es el caso. Así que hoy vamos a profundizar en la Torá y aprenderemos por qué, con la única excepción de los cristianos observantes de la Torá, todos están de acuerdo en que los gentiles no están obligados a guardar la Torá. Y una vez que ese hecho se entiende por completo, el toraísmo se desmorona por completo.

[papabear]

6). Isaiah 56:3-8 says, “Let not the FOREIGNER who has joined himself to the LORD say, “the LORD will surely separate me from His people”, and let not the eunuch (castrated and ineffectual) say, “ Behold, I am a dry tree”... who keeps my Sabbaths, chooses things that please Me and hold fast to my covenant..and the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to Him, to love the Name of the LORD, to be His servants, and who keeps my Sabbaths and does nit profane and holds fast my covenant, these will I bring to My holy mountain, make them joyful in My house of prayer, their burnt sacrifices and ifferings will be accepted on my altar”. This evidence alone suggests that the foreigners in Exodus 12 who join the Sons of Israel and the mix multitude embracing the faith in YHVH will have the full rights as do the native born who embrace the LORD. Sacrifices and burnt offerings signify clean animals, eating kosher foods, observing high Sabbaths, observing circumcision and in Moses’ time were part of the whole congregation that even took part stoning to death those that defied the laws of God (Numbers 15:30-36) as well as the story in Leviticus 24:10-23 where the whole congregation stoned to death a mixed race believer but who cursed and profaned the Name.
Isaiah 66:18-21 says, “ I will gather from among nations and tongues to...to distant lands who have not heard My fame or seen My glory..I will bring your kinsmen from all nations...to my holy mountain Jerusalem..just as Sons of Israel..I will also take some of them as priests and for Levites”, says Adonai.
Isaiah 66:22-23, “just as the new heaven and the new earth I shall make...from one New Moon to another, from one Sabbath to another...all flesh will come and bow down before Me, ” says Adonai.
Zechariah 14:1-21 is a prophecy when Jesus returns and sets His feet on the Mount of Olives which will divide and create a valley. He will destroy the enemies and after that He will be King
over all the earth forever. Then all the survivors from the nations that attacked Jerusalem will go year to year to worship the King of Host and to celebrate the Feast of Sukkot (Tabernacle - the 7th Feast).And any nation that does not will have no rain...

[jross]

Rob, great to meet you at the Messiah Conference! Once again, you knocked it out of the park with this one! Your Messianic brothers in Houston applaud your diligence and work in this space. Shalom!

[KORR]

This is a silly argument... You're right, the law was never for gentiles, so it's basically beating a strawman. In fact, the term "gentile believer" is an oxymoron. When we follow the Father through the Messiah, we come *out* of the nations(gentiles) and are joined to Israel (Yah's one people, His one nation). You're either of Israel and under covenant, our outside of God's people and outside of the promise. There is only one standard of right and wrong, one definition of sin, our Creator's Law. Until when? Until heaven and earth pass away... which happens in Rev 21, and we're not there yet.

[marcyoliver]

I thank you, brother Rob, once again for continuing your clear and concise Biblical contextual teachings to help overcome the false teachings of the Torah observant/Hebrew Roots teachers and community that are being deceived and deceiving others and bringing others into slavery of mens made up rules and traditions that are not commanded by God for the Gentiles. God bless you!

[LoveAcrossAmerica]

If you love Yeshua, you will keep all his commandments, not cherry-pick them.

[azariahisrael]

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: BECAUSE THOU HAST REJECTED KNOWLEDGE, I WILL ALSO REJECT THEE, that thou shalt be no priest to me: SEEING THOU HAST FORGOTTEN THE LAW OF THY GOD, I will also forget thy children.
Hosea 4:6 KJV

[rileywshay]

Another clear and concise, scripture-based video! Thank you Rob!

[charitybrook]

I posted this as a response to another commenter but feel that I should put it here as well... There are many ethnic Jews among that movement so idk where people are making the assumption that it's only a gentile thing...

Also, why would we base our opinion on this matter on what unsaved Jews think when God said that #1 He has blinded them and #2 that the reason that God had to get gentiles to do His work in the first place was because the Jews refused to be a light to the nations like they were intended and instead became too ethnically focused and closed off.

Salvation is for the Jew and Gentile and always has been and always will be.

[ForgedinTruth]

““But you, Bĕyth Leḥem, in the land of Yehuḏah, you are by no means least among the rulers of Yehuḏah, for out of you shall come a Ruler who shall shepherd My people Yisra’ĕl. ’ ””
‭‭Matthew 2:6‬ ‭

I wonder why The gospel didn’t get changed knowing that Gods people are the Christians now and not the Israelites?!

[charitybrook]

I like the lighthouse picture in your background! My grandfather has the same picture and it's his favorite because I think he said it is a picture of the lighthouse keepers last moments before the wave took him away. It was significant to him for a number of reasons. Reminding him of his own mortality I think is a big part of why he likes it so much.

My grandfather used the wave as a teaching metaphor for how sin works in our lives when I was little.

[KeenanModica]

Is there a different law?

Deuteronomy 29:10-13“ “All of you stand today before the LORD your God: your leaders and your tribes and your elders and your officers, all the men of Israel, 11 your little ones and your wives—also the stranger who is in your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water— 12 that you may enter into covenant with the LORD your God, and into His oath, which the LORD your God makes with you today, 13 that He may establish you today as a people for Himself, and that He may be God to you, just as He has spoken to you, and just as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

Exodus 12:49
"The same law shall apply to the native as to the stranger who sojourns among you."

Leviticus 18:26
'But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you

Leviticus 24:22
'There shall be one standard for you; it shall be for the stranger as well as the native, for I am the LORD your God.'"

Numbers 9:14
'If an alien sojourns among you and observes the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its ordinance, so he shall do; you shall have one statute, both for the alien and for the native of the land.'"

Numbers 15:15
'As for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the alien who sojourns with you, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the alien be before the LORD.

Numbers 15:16
'There is to be one law and one ordinance for you and for the alien who sojourns with you.'"

Numbers 15:29
'You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the sons of Israel and for the alien who sojourns among them.

“The law will be the same for the foreigner as for those from your own country. I am the Lord your God.”

Micah 4:1-2
Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That the mountain of the LORD’s house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And peoples shall flow to it.
2 Many nations shall come and say,
“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
He will teach us His ways,
And we shall walk in His paths.”
For out of Zion the law shall go forth,
And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

[Rvillaluz]

I'm a believer in Jesus and I know I've been grafted in and according to Galatians 3:29 I'm a partaker of the promises given to Abraham. This same chapter explains that it is by faith and NOT by any works of the law.

Galatians 2:16 KJV — Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

This brings to mind that the Lord caused the earthly nation of Israel to exist again without the temple. It's the Lord's way of showing that his way is NOT by a physical temple which is a shadow of the real temple; which is Jesus along with all that believe in his Name. Blessed be his Name forever.

[matiyasalemayehu]

Keep up the good work. We are blessed by your work.

[papabear]

7). Acts 15:28-29 is in the context of Acts 15:19-21. The 4 Laws of Moses were given to the Gentiles who are turning to God to abstain from contamination of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled or blood “for Moses in ancient generations has had in every city those who proclaim him since he is read in all the synagogues every Sabbath (v21)” thus “no greater burden than these (v28).” This means that the gentile who is new and turning to God was not required to have a physical cicumcision but has to follow 4 things and the rest of Moses laws will be read in the synagogue every Sabbath. This means that these early gentile believers were observing the Sabbath and learning from the OLD TESTAMENT. The purpose of the 4 laws of Moses as essentials is because they will learn more from what is sexual immorality as this is a very vague non specific terminology that the gentiles are not aware of, what is strangled animal and blood and everything to do with its ramifications as Moses is read in the synagogue every Sabbath and what is contamination of idols and its ramifications. It was not given for the sake of having a fellowship between Jews and gentile believers in Jesus as the speaker opined. The Sons of Israel took 40 years to learn Moses Laws in the wilderness. Paul perfected the Laws of Moses but still failed because of his sinful nature. Thus to say that the four things were it...is unfounded and did not know the context. The gentile believers going in the synagogue on the Sabbath will learn about Feasts of God as they are tied closely to the Sabbath. They will learn kosher food as they are tied closely to the Feasts of God. The older believers are aware of Isaiah 66 and Zechariah 14. Jesus said in Revelation chapters 2-3 that those who practice sexual immorality and eat foods offered to idols are in danger of being spat out from His mouth or be removed from the book of life. Colossian gentile believers in chapter 2 were faithfully observing the drinks, food, Sabbath, New Moon, and feasts of God that Paul told them to not let anyone judge them about these matters as they are a foreshadowing of THINGS TO COME, the reality is in Messiah. (Meaning Jesus Himself practiced them and they foreshadow events in the future like Isaiah 66, Zechariah 14, His second coming, the rapture and trumpet sound blasting etc. )

[rocksolidmn]

Amazing! Very thorough, well done 👏. Anyone, after watching this that would still preach, teach or observe the Torah laws would have to be a die hard ideolog. You have a heart for truth and it clearly comes through in your videos 🙏

[cameronstolhand]

Instead of seeking your answers from men seek them from the Bible. Romans 11 clearly teaches that the Gentile Christians were grafted into Israel and are there for to keep the laws given to Israel.

[karengarner]

Great teaching! Thank you for clarification on this !

[paulmccabe]

Well done Mr Solberg! I think you nailed everything up to the point where you said gentiles are free to do whichever Jewish things they please. But I do appreciate why you believe that considering your Christian bases. And I in no way mean that as derogatory. You strike me as someone who takes his faith very seriously and gives it a 100% honest effort. For that I applaud you. I come for the Noahide/Jewish perspective however. That alternative prospective still draws distinction and boundaries between Jew and non Jew as prescribed in Tanach as you so eloquently demonstrated. Anyone may of course join the nation. But nobody makes up their own entry rules and criteria. Shalom Mr Solberg!

[mikenixon]

Great explanation. Thank you for your research and presentations.

[builtspeed]

Acts 15 answers this precisely!
Thanks Rob and God bless!