“He said to the people of Israel, ‘Here is what Adonai the God of Israel says: ‘I brought Israel up from Egypt. I rescued you from the power of the Egyptians and from the power of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.'”-1 Samuel 10:18
Verse 18 kicks off with the typical prophet formula of “Here is what Adonai the God of Israel says”.
We should pay careful attention whenever that phrase comes up…
Because it’s a sign that the words to follow are not of man, but proceed from the mouth of God.
In Scripture, the prophet’s primary job was to be the Lord’s earthly messenger.
So in this sense, it would be safe to say that Samuel was truly a prophet.
Now, since neither God nor Samuel desired an earthly ruler for Israel, the words Samuel was about to deliver from the Lord were essentially a warning to Israel…
By installing a King patterned after the gentile nations, they had just embarked on a dangerous path…
And now there was no turning back.
The opening of Samuel’s warning should sound familiar because it’s the exact same words as the 1st of the 10 commandments.
“I am ADONAI your God,
who brought you out of
the land of Egypt, out of
the abode of slavery”
-Exodus 20:2
This seems to be a key theological point because it is repeated again and again in Scripture.
Check out the following verse from Hosea:
“When Israel
was a child,
I loved him;
and out of Egypt
I called my son.”
Hosea 11:1
And this same verse is repeated again in the New Testament:
“So he got up, took the child
and his mother, and left
during the night for Egypt,
where he stayed until
Herod died. This happened
in order to fulfill what
ADONAI had said through
the prophet, ‘Out of Egypt
I called my son.'”
-Matthew 2:14-15
Now, I just mentioned that God rescuing Israel from Egypt is a key theological point in the Scriptures.
However, I’m willing to bet if you’re a gentile believer who grew up in a typical Christian church, I betcha you weren’t aware of that.
Am I right?
Also, notice I said the statement “I am ADONAI your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the abode of slavery” was the 1st commandment out of the 10.
I betcha you didn’t know that either too.
Am I right homie?
Because if you’re a gentile believer who was brought up in your typical Christian church, you’ve been taught the 1st Commandment is “You shall have no other gods before Me”.
Well, I’ve got news for ya in case you didn’t get the memo.
What you’ve been taught is the 1st commandment is actually the 2nd commandment.
That’s right.
Traditional Christianity blatantly ignored Holy Scripture and ERASED the 1st Commandment…
Then they took the 2nd commandment and broke it up into 2 commandments so it would all add up to 10 again.
Can you say HOLY COW?!?!!?
Whatever happened to the command to not alter God’s Words?
Well, that’s EXACTLY what the Gentile church has done.
Why?
Anti-Semitism pure and simple.
I find it interesting that Protestants didn’t protest enough when they rebelled against Rome.
Because they still pay homage to the Roman Church on two accounts.
First, they’ve accepted Rome’s decree to do away with God’s Holy Sabbath (the 7th day)…
And they’ve accepted Rome’s decree to do away with the 1st commandment because, from their uncircumcised perspective, it was too Jewish.
Wow!
I shudder to think how God is going to judge them in the end days.
Anyways, if you’re reading this, now you know the truth.
The 1st Commandment is and always has been…
“I am Yehovah your God
who brought you out of
the Land of Egypt, out
of the abode of slavery”
You can either accept what I’m saying is true…
Or continue to blindly follow one of the most anti-Semitic (and idolatrous) religions in the history of mankind.
You make your choice homie.
You have been warned in this reading.
Anyways, the next time we meet, we’re gonna go deeper on the importance of the 1st Commandment…
And when I say the 1st Commandment, obviously I’m speaking about the REAL 1st Commandment…
Not some doctored-up gentile version of the 1st Commandment.
Because you need to understand why the statement that God brought Israel up from Egypt is the quintessential Biblical declaration concerning Israel’s salvation.
And notice the Lord is speaking in the past tense here.
Israel has ALREADY been delivered and saved now and for all time.
God is proclaiming to His people since He is the one who delivered Israel from Egypt, they owe allegiance to no one but Him.
See ya all next time.
P.S. For more oh-so-juicy info on this topic about the Roman church deleting the 1st Commandment, check out these articles:
How the phrase ‘The 10 Commandments’ is a translation error!
How the Christian church abolished the 1st Commandment of God
The anti-Semitic madness that led the early Gentile church to attack God’s Holy Word
Deu 17:14-20
14 When thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
That was long before a Samuel was born.
However, we are NOT UNDER THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. So, I could care less of what the Catholics did, or didn’t do. I am not Catholic. The OLD COVENANT is not the NEW COVENANT.
Abraham didn’t have the law. It’s not called the Law of Abraham, it’s called the Law of Moses.
Abraham=Faith
Jews=LAW
Gentiles=FAITH
Romans 13:9
For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Abraham:
Genesis 15:6
And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
Romans 4:3
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Romans 4:9
Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
Romans 4:13
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Galatians 3:6
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
James 2:23
And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
JEWS:
Deuteronomy 6:25
And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
Exodus 24:3
3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do.
GENTILES:
Romans 3:21
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
And, Israel is NOT SAVED NOW. Romans 11:8 tells you that. They are BLIND. They can’t get saved until their blinders come off. Blind Jews will be saved, NOT HAVE BEEN SAVED.
Ed Chapman
I cannot say what northern hemisphere Catholicism taught, but the antipodean Catholics are still using the 10 Commandment list I was taught 70 years ago, which has been updated from “Thou” to “You”
I am the LORD your God: you shall not have strange Gods before me.
You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.
Remember to keep holy the LORD’S Day.
Honor your father and your mother.
You shall not kill.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.
Note that this is a teaching summary, not verbatim Torah, and was taught to, and memorised by my class of five-year-olds. (I wish they’d just had us memorise the originals!)
It seemed to me in later years that they’d conflated the first two devarim in order to split the last one, possibly through ignorance.
But I have never regarded it as malicious anti-semitism.
Dear Richoka, hope you are doing great.
At what point in history did the Catholic Church change this commandment when Jesus himself pointed to the Pharisees that this is the 1st and most important.
Jesus did not mention the intro as it is in Exodus 20:2
Mathew 22:34-40
But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 36“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
37Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38This is the first and great commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
Please where do we this statement from the Master Himself?
Hi Abraham,
Please check out these articles I wrote when I was in the Book of Exodus. I think you’ll find the answers to your questions here:
https://messianic-revolution.com/e20-2-how-the-phrase-the-10-commandments-is-a-translation-error-2/
https://messianic-revolution.com/e20-3-how-the-christian-church-abolished-the-1st-commandment-of-god/
https://messianic-revolution.com/e20-4-the-anti-semitic-madness-that-led-the-early-gentile-church-to-attack-gods-holy-word/
Be blessed!
You had said that the following is the first commandment?
:
““I am Yehovah your God
who brought you out of
the Land of Egypt, out
of the abode of slavery”
Now, before I knew what religion even was, I was taught the difference between a STATEMENT, and a COMMANDMENT. I think I was in the 3rd grade.
What you quoted was a statement only, that lead up to a commandment.
I sure hope you are not teaching the Japanese children the English language.
Ed Chapman
This is a follow up enquiry to my previous question .
Still out of curiosity, i tried interplaying wth the scriptures
Based on Mathew 22: I wonder what Jesus would have communicated to those Pharisees as follows;
Mathew 22:34-40
But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 36“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
“He said to the people of Israel, ‘Here is what Adonai the God of Israel says: ‘I brought Israel up from Egypt. I rescued you from the power of the Egyptians and from the power of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’”
Contrary to Jesus’s account according to Matthew 22:37-40 as follows:
37Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38This is the first and great commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
Thanks sir
Hi Abraham,
I understand what you’re saying.
Yeshua answered with the commandment portion of the 1st DABAR (Word) because the lawyer clearly asked him “Teacher, which is the great COMMANDMENT in the law?”
When you have a chance, please read these articles. I think it’ll clear up a lot of stuff for you.
https://messianic-revolution.com/e20-2-how-the-phrase-the-10-commandments-is-a-translation-error-2/
https://messianic-revolution.com/e20-3-how-the-christian-church-abolished-the-1st-commandment-of-god/
https://messianic-revolution.com/e20-4-the-anti-semitic-madness-that-led-the-early-gentile-church-to-attack-gods-holy-word/