Love the Lord your God with all your Heart and Soul

Mark 12:30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

The Big 'theological' Debate

Should Christians follow the Torah?
This question came to my mind. Should We or don't We have to?
Careful, do not follow doctrines of men. Judaism is full of them.
The Bible is clear, do we believe and are followers of Christ?
Galatians 2:16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

BY FAITH!
What does it mean to be faithful?
Definitions:
- steadfast in affection or allegiance : LOYAL
- firm in adherence to promises or in observance of duty : CONSCIENTIOUS
- given with strong assurance : BINDING
- true to the facts, to a standard, or to an original

The Kingdom of God on Earth. (Outside of the city of New Jerusalem)
Revelation 22:14 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.
15 But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.

His commandements: they can be found in Exodus and Deuteronomy 5. And also in Matthew 4 and 5; 1 John 5; Acts 17; 1 Timothy 6; Romans 13; Matthew 19; Romans 7; Mark 12. We can count 10 of them.
What of the other 603 laws and the Feasts of the Lord?
Zechariah 14:16 And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
17 And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain.
18 If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

Zechariah 14 depicts the return of Christ and his rule on earth. Jerusalem will be the New Jerusalem that comes down from heaven. Families will have to come worship during the Feast of Tabernacles.
Here's my take. The more one observes his commandements, the less likely he or she is to sin. Dedication, like a training, to do his will and become righteous.
Years ago (2018) I wrote a Blog post titled: God Communicates. I described what it felt like to obey or disobey God. The feeling was in part Holy Spirit (the guidance) and the pressing of evil ones to make me stray away from God and embrace wickedness.
Today, looking back at my life, I've been in constant battle against evil. I believe most of us have been in such a life long battle. And it becomes an endurance race, as we strive to walk in God's ways, and become righteous.

After thought extension

Ok, I did not leave a clear answer since I don't know the answer to be Torah observant.
So, I'll tell you what I do.
I Love God with all my heart and soul.
I follow the 10 commandements.
I don't do what is forbidden in the 603 laws. Or I try since I don't know them by heart. But then again, the Holy Spirit is my guide.
Of the 10, I observe Shabbat. It so happen that I am retired and don't work on Saturdays. Saturday would have been impossible when I was working. Does the Bible specify Saturday? No, where does it say so. All we know is that God worked for 6 days and rested on the 7th.
Of course, the other 9's are of utmost importance.
Do I observe the Feasts of the Lord? Shabbat; Passover and the week of unleavened bread; pretty much all of them even the Day of Atonement, but without sacrifice, since Christ was the ultimate sacrifice. Tabernacles at my age? No, no tent for me, until the day God let's us partake of the waters of life, or after we rise from the dead.
I pray as often as I can. I praise God for everything I enjoy, see, and more. There is so much around us to praise.
And most of all I trust God in everything. Not science, and certainly not men.
Do I follow the dietary laws? I do. A few months after I started, my heath improved.
And yes, I read the Bible and other God inspired texts daily. Pastors, priest, theologians, I listen to but... Again I don't trust men.

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RAPTURE - When? What will happen after?

Matthew 24

29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

1 Thessalonians 4

15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.
16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

2 Thessalonians 2

3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,

2 Peter 3

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

1 Corinthians 15

35 But someone will say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?”
36 Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies.
37 And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain.
38 But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

Zechariah 14

Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, And your spoil will be divided in your midst.
2 For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; The city shall be taken, The houses rifled, And the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then the Lord will go forth And fight against those nations, As He fights in the day of battle.
4 And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From east to west, Making a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it toward the south.

Revelation 20

4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Isaiah 65

17 “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; For behold, I create Jerusalem as a rejoicing, And her people a joy.
19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem, And joy in My people; The voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, Nor the voice of crying.
20 “No more shall an infant from there live but a few days, Nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; For the child shall die one hundred years old, But the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 They shall build houses and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 They shall not build and another inhabit; They shall not plant and another eat; For as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of My people, And My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They shall not labor in vain, Nor bring forth children for trouble; For they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the Lord, And their offspring with them.

Isaiah 66

15 For behold, the Lord will come with fire And with His chariots, like a whirlwind, To render His anger with fury, And His rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by His sword The Lord will judge all flesh; And the slain of the Lord shall be many.
22“For as the new heavens and the new earth Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord, “So shall your descendants and your name remain.
23 And it shall come to pass That from one New Moon to another, And from one Sabbath to another, All flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord.

Psalm 2

4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision.
5 Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, And distress them in His deep displeasure:
6 “Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion.”
7 “I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.
8 Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’ ”
10 Now therefore, be wise, O kings; Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear, And rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, And you perish in the way, When His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.

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