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Great question! We believe it's a promise that keeps unfolding as time passes and more and more come to realize that Yeshua is our ONLY Salvation and that Torah remains in effect. Jeremiah 31:30-34 talks to both Jews and Gentiles - which includes ANY believer, including those Jews whose spiritual eyes have already been opened to Yeshua. (And, as you know, in the end, EVERY knee shall bow - Isaiah 45:23, Romans 14:11, Philippians 2:10)! Most Gentiles in the world aren't believers in Christ, either, but they all have the opportunity.
This Scripture speaks at a much deeper level than meets the eye. For instance, most Christians believe that Torah was abolished on the cross, but that is absolutely false teaching. Consequently, they're missing the point of Jeremiah 31. How can something be written on their hearts without them first having studied it? Does a toddler automatically adhere to Torah? No! He has to be taught right from wrong, good from bad! Left unsupervised, ALL children will get into trouble. We are still under the curse of Adam and Eve - born into sin and prone toward sinning.
Torah is only "written on our hearts" (memorized) once we've actually studied, and understand it. The believing Jews already understand Torah but they reject Salvation through Messiah Yeshua; whereas Christian Gentiles reject Torah but believe in Yeshua. Both sides are missing the boat, and most of them right now are NOT partaking of the Jeremiah 31 promise because of it! Christians think that they don't have to do anything because Jesus died for them, thus all that's required to "believe". How does that even make sense? Yeshua was our final SIN Sacrifice; not someone who came to abolish His own original teaching/instruction!
These false teachings are a direct result of the garbage taught in churches and synagogues today. Both sides have only HALF the Bible. How can you understand God if you don't know what the other half says?
Here's a blurb from our article Torah of Righteousness:
THE TORAH IN THE NEW COVENANT
When God promised the New Covenant to Israel (Jeremiah31:31) he said: "I will put my Torah in their minds, and write it on their hearts" (Jeremiah 31:33 and quoted in Hebrews 8:16). Here we see that God's plans in the new Covenant included his Torah. In the New Covenant, the word nomos (Greek translation of the Hebrew word Torah) is used about 200 times. Not one of these 200 occurrences ever says that the Torah has been abolished or taken away. Rather the New Covenant re-affirms the existence of the Torah. Here are just a few of these passages.
"It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Torah". (Luke 16:17)
But the man who looks intently into the perfect Torah that gives freedom, and continue to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does. (James 1:25)
"Do not think that I (Yeshua) have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill [live according to] them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Torah until everything is accomplished". (Matthew 5:17,18)
They said to Rabbi Shaul: "You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the Torah". (Acts 21:20)
Many have the mistaken idea that Rabbi Shaul (Paul) taught against the Torah. There is no question that Rabbi Shaul, a devout Pharisee to the end lived his life according to Torah. Let us examine some of Rabbi Shaul's statements regarding the Torah.
I believe everything that agrees with the Torah and that is written in the Prophets. (Acts 24:14)
I have done nothing wrong against the Torah of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar. (Acts 25:8)
So then, the Torah is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. (Romans 7:12)
Do you not know, brothers - for I am speaking to men who know the Torah - that the Torah has authority over a man only as long as he lives? (Romans 7:1)
Do we, then, nullify [destroy, abolish] the Torah by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold [stand on, establish] the Torah. (Romans 3:31)
For everything that was written in the past [The Torah and the Prophets] was written to teach us. (Romans 15:4)
As for the traditional Jews, most of them aren't even believers in God (more than 50 percent!) Those who do believe are, as in the past, still listening to their rabbis, rather than to check the Truth for themselves. Little by little, some Jews have realized this error and are coming to a saving knowledge of Christ.
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