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Articles: Introducing the First Covenant

Central to the purpose of the Bible, the First Covenant's seven laws are the ancient Western Code, the foundation of civilization (as the United States Congress has declared. See the official Resolution below).

Noah, Meet Jacob

First Covenant spirituality and observance

In ancient times the Children of Israel called them "God-fearers." In modern times, after the Holocaust and destruction of the Jews in Europe, Israel calls the heroic souls who tried to save their fellows from the Nazis' genocide "righteous gentiles." The righteous men and women of every nation, according to the Torah (the holy "Way" or "Teaching" of Sinai), are blessed. Today, those who consciously try to keep the Seven Noahide laws - the seven keystone principles of all true morality - which constitute the basic, ancient Universal Law are frequently called Noahides.

[A scholarly conversation, including the articles Man of Faith and Man of Law and Legalism and Spirituality. Ten papers posted before January, 2007. Papers by Alan W. Cecil, Jeremy Lawson, Adam Penrod, Michael Dallen, and Rev. Jack E. Saunders]
  • Noahide Rebirth, 1990 (Report from a conference on the modern rebirth of the Noahide movement) by Rabbi Michael Katz

Biblical studies/Torah studies

Suppose you come from the vast majority of humankind, the more than 99.75 percent of humanity which isn't Jewish. In Hebrew thinking, you're a gentile, a Noahide, one of the non-Hebrew descendants of Noah. One who studies the First Covenant's Universal Law sincerely, in order to do God's will and come closer to Him, receives infinite blessings. According to the Torah, that person can attain the same heights of perfection of Israel's own very High Priest.

From Genesis to 9/11, Islam, Israel,
and Amalek*

One can learn a lot about God, the Creator of all things, from the Bible. It teaches - this will strike some readers as almost unbelievable - that He has friends and He also has enemies.*

* Michael Dallen is working on a book on the Amalek phenomenon ["The LORD (HaShem) shall have war with Amalek for all generations." Exodus 17:16].

He blesses those who bless the People of Israel and curses those who curse them (Genesis 12:3, 27:29).

Why such favoritism? Because the People of Israel represent and belong to all humankind, since Jews, as members of a people and a great religious movement, come from and live among every race and nation; and because this people is "chosen," the Bible says, not for privilege but for service (Isaiah 41:9).

Of course Jews are just people, with all the good and bad that goes with that. But collectively, they constitute an irresistible force for holiness on earth. As a grudging admirer, Jacques Maritain, a Catholic Bishop, put it, they serve God and man as a unique instrument: "they challenge mankind, they provoke, upset and inspire the world; collectively, they help make mankind more human."

Contrary to certain teachings, Isaiah's "suffering servant of the Lord" (Isaiah 53) isn't just one deceased Jew, Jesus (or Yeshua). Rather, it is Jesus' people, the Jewish people. So it isn't just one man, Jesus, who serves each generation as God's Torah incarnate - as a living Torah. Rather, the God of Jesus chose to incarnate His Teachings, His Way, in a whole people, an eternal people: Israel.

As for those nations and individuals who "bless" the People of Israel, they themselves are blessed. It is a Biblical guarantee.

As for the enemies of Israel, who seek to destroy the Jews, especially including women and children, that unholy spirit is represented in the Bible by Amalek (Exodus 17:16). Not every enemy of Israel is Amalek, but Amalek, particularly, hates and envies Israel - and, in fact, anyone who has God's blessing. Amalek lives almost besides himself, feeling wronged and jealous. In every generation, those who incarnate this spirit - the Nazis, not long ago; bin Laden's Al-Qaeda, the 9/11 hijackers, Hamas, Hezbollah and their ilk, and their supporters, today - make themselves God's enemies (See Deuteronomy 25:17-19). They have no pity and stop at nothing. They condemn themselves. They make the world more brutal.

Today, the reborn State of Israel is perpetually in the news. That this tiny nation, smaller than some American counties, with fewer people than many American cities, should be so obsessively hated by so many hundreds of millions of people, shows God's hand in history. Those who hate Israel so intensely make themselves the enemies of both God and man.

This phenomenon is explored in the articles below.

Every statement in Articles does not necessarily reflect the entire viewpoint of the First Covenant Foundation, its directors, members, or trustees                      

For the best book [so they say] on the First Covenant, the Noahide Code, Noahism, the Universal Torah, and the sheva mitzvot b'nei no'ach (the Seven Commandments of the Children [Descendants] of Noah),

See:  The Rainbow Covenant: Torah and the

Seven Universal Laws

 

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