“Thou shalt not kill.” Exodus 20:13
Yeshua goes from the letter of the Torah to the spirit of the Torah when He states this principle in the Sermon on the Mount, showing that the Father is looking not just at outward behavior but He is also looking at the thoughts and intentions of the heart:
You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’ But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire.
Matthew 5: 21-22
In the Sermon on the Mount, Yeshua is teaching us to do MORE than follow the letter of the law/Torah but to follow the SPIRIT of the law/Torah.
Lets summarize:
*Israel, Torah and the Messiah are ONE
*What happens to Israel happens to the Messiah. What happens to the Messiah happens to Israel. As an example of this, Israel was taken to Egypt, brought out of Egypt, got immersed in the Red Sea, was tested in the wilderness, and got taught Torah from a mountain. Similarly, in Matthew 1-5, we see how Yeshua has a miraculous birth, was taken to Egypt, was brought out of Egypt, was also tested in the wilderness, and taught Torah from a mountain.
*Ephraim, in Genesis 48, is referred to as a “multitude of nations”.
*When Yeshua was speaking to the multitudes from a mountain in Matthew 5, at the sod level, on a deeper level, he was speaking to Ephraim, to the northern kingdom.
*Yeshua was teaching them how to believe in Him by faith and how to follow His Torah and be a Torah bondservant.
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