The Significance of the Written Torah: Reward, Punishment And Reincarnation
The Written Torah, which is the Law of Moses, is given to the People of HaShem to serve as a basis for reward and punishment [Malachi chapter 3 verses 14 to 18].
This means that :
1). Everyone will be rewarded for the parts kept, and punished for the parts not kept, of the Written Torah in one’s next life on earth, provided that one is incarnated as a Jew—that is, born into a Jewish lineage. According to Leviticus 18 verse 5 and Ezekiel 20 verse 11, those who keep the Written Torah “shall live by it”.
To understand the above clause, it important to remember that every act of observation or negligence of the instructions of the Written Torah are recorded in a book called the Book of Remembrance (Malachi chapter 3) However, this book is not used to judge a Jew until after death. The record will then determine the “quality” of next life a Jew will have when reincarnated.
Let us compare and contrast the following scriptures:
Deuteronomy chapter 5 verse 9 reads, “Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me…” And Jeremiah chapter 31 verses 29 and 30 reads: “In those days they shall no longer say: “‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’ But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.”
The two scriptures above mean the same thing: The one who sins will return as one’s own grandchild or great grandchild to receive the punishment for the sins which one committed three or more generations before!
In other words, the good-luck or fortune one will have in one’s next life, born as a Jew, will be determined by the degree to which one keeps the Written Torah; and the ill-luck or misfortune one will have in one’s next life, born as a Jew, will be determined by the degree to which one keeps the Written Torah.
However, keeping the Written Torah does not guarantee that one will have a next life on earth, of which one will be born as a Jew. If one does not keep the Oral Torah, it does not matter how much one keeps the Written Torah, one will be “separated from his brethren” in one’s next life. This simply means that one will not be incarnated amongst any of the Jewish lineages.
2.) No one can keep the whole Law because to break just one of its 613 commandments means you have broken the whole Law [James chapter 2 verse 10]. Therefore, everyone who earns this next life on earth, which comes as a reward for upholding or keeping the Oral Torah in the previous life, will receive reward by the Law of Moses in that next life on earth based on the degree to which he kept the Written Torah in the previous life; And one will be punished in the next life on earth (in which one will be born as a Jew) based on the degree to which one did not keep the Written Torah in the previous life on earth.
However, the good news is that one can stop the record of his punishment and even trigger the cancelation of part of, or all of, earlier records even up to the point where one can attract the mercy of HaShem in the same lifetime [Psalm 32 verses 1 and 2] by pleading guilty before HaShem continually [Psalm 39 verse 1,9 and 10; Psalm 32 verse 9;Lamentations 1 verses 18 and 21; Lamentations 3 verses 26 to 32;Psalm 109 verses 26 and 27; Psalm 147 verse 11; Psalm 51 verse 17; Psalm 34 verse 18; Isaiah 66 verse 2] and showing abundance of both mercy and affection to the poor and less privileged [James 2 verse 13;First Corinthians 13 verse 2].
It implies that :
1.) Keeping the Written Torah without upholding or keeping the Oral Torah is useless.
Jesus spoke of this when he said, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.” [Matthew 23 verse 23 NKJV]
2.) Because of the time-sensitive nature of the Oral Torah, not everyone can keep the Oral Torah. Those who can no longer keep it can uphold it. To keep the Oral Torah is to practice it. Only the younger generation can do so. The older generation who can no longer keep the Oral Torah must uphold it for the younger generation who can keep it.
3.) Upholding or keeping the Oral Torah, or not, determines whether you will have a next life on earth in which you will be born as a Jew. Similarly, the degree to which you uphold or keep the Written Torah, or not, determines the “goodluck” or “ill-luck” you will find in the next life on earth of which you will be born as a Jew.
4.) Those who are born as Jews but abandoned the Oral Torah in their lifetime will be born among the Gentiles in their next life as “Jewish souls in Gentile bodies”. And they will be debased among the Gentiles, and oppressed by those who are “Gentile souls in Gentile bodies”….presently, this is the fate of all Hebrew/Jewish souls who abandoned the Oral Torah in their former lives, and this will continue until the “roots” of the Gentiles “dry up” on Earth [Psalm 37 verses 10 and 38; Psalm 9 verses 17 to 20; Psalm 75 verse 10; Psalm 49 verses 13 to 20].