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.
The Correct Copy
God incarnated to restore the omissions. Two thousand years ago He made the Nine to be Ten again. The real commandments in the Three were given; it had been made clear what they were. The correct interpretation of each of the Ten-C was given.
And so the Ten-C should read like this:
2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. EXODUS 20
Commandment No. 1: LOVE
29 Hear, O Isra’el, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 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
39 Love your neighbor as yourself. MATTHEW 22
20 For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And [God] has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother. 1 JOHN 4
Commandment No. 2: HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME
3 You shall have no other gods before Me. 4 You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to idols or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments. EXODUS 20
Commandment No. 3: SPEAK ONLY TO BUILD AND FIRM UP A LOVE-RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
6 Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. ECCLESIASTES 5
Commandment No. 4: OBSERVE THE SABBATHS
13 Observe My Sabbaths. EXODUS 31
Commandment No. 5: HONOR YOUR PARENTS
16 Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well for you in the land the Lord is giving you. DEUTERONOMY 5
Commandment No. 6: COMMIT NO MURDER
13 You shall not murder. EXODUS 20
Commandment No. 7: COMMIT NO ADULTERY
14 You shall not commit adultery. EXODUS 20
Commandment No. 8: DO NOT STEAL
15 You shall not steal. EXODUS 20
Commandment No. 9: SPEAK ONLY TO BUILD AND FIRM UP LOVE-RELATIONSHIPS WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS
6 Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. ECCLESIASTES 5
Commandment No. 10: DO NOT COVET
21 You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor’s house or land, his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. DEUTERONOMY 5
We shall scrutinize and understand each of the commandments in the succeeding chapters of this book. Meanwhile, do not think the Ten-C suffered no more corruption. It continues to be corrupted.
[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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