Does God Change?

The Hebrew Roots movement is filled with people rhetorically asking this question even though they think they already known the answer is NO based on their partial citing of Malachi 3:6 "I am Yahuah, I change not".

The problem is Augustine was a Gnostic because he felt an emotional God  who changed like the Yahuah of the Hebrew Bible must be Evil, and it was someone convincing him he could allegorize and explain away those changes that lead to Augustine becoming an "Orthodox" Christian and laying the foundations of Catholic and Calvansit heresy.

That God changes in terms of what man can and cannot do based on various factors is shown without even leaving the Torah.  Capital Punishment and permission to eat meat where introduced after The Flood.  Circumcision was introduced in Genesis 17 and the Sabbath as a command in Exodus 16.  The came Sinai, where this Meme I created is relevant.

Either God's attitude towards Incest changes, or maybe  Leviticus 18 isn't prohibiting Incestuous Marriage, you can't have it both ways.

The context of Malachi 3:6 is clear, just read the whole verse.

"For I am Yahuah, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed."

Because Yahuah's promises are unconditional Jacob will not be consumed.  And according to Genesis 48 the Fullness of the Gentiles are considered part of Jacob eventually.  Yet many of these same people want to say biological descent from Jacob is irrelevant because of their disobedience.

The Torah itself does not teach The Law is forever, that is simply an erroneous KJV translation.

The word translated "Everlasting" or "Forever' or "Eternal" when referring to things like the Levitical Priesthood, The Sabbath and the Holy Days is Olam, which means age or eon, it does not actually mean forever. Whether it's Exodus 40:15, or Leviticus 16:34, or Leviticus 24:8, or Numbers 25:13.  Same with Exo 21:6, Exo 27:21, Exo 28:43, Exo 29:28, Lev 6:18, Lev 6:22.

In Deuteronomy 33:27, Olam is used of the "everlasting arms" but a different word is used to call God Eternal.

 Likewise the phrase "all the days", which is introduced about time periods that have an end in Genesis 3:14-17.  And again in Genesis 5.  And it's also used of the Nazarite vow in Numbers 6.  If "all the days" is being used of something that is also defined as an Olam, an Age, then it clearly means all the days of that age, just as it can also mean all the days of someone's life.  Taking the phrase to inherently mean all the days of eternity, it wishful thinking.

Exodus 19:5-6 foretells there will be a time when all of the Nation will be Yahuah's Priests. The temporariness of The Torah is implied in The Torah.

See also today's post on my Prophecy Blog, and the Priesthood of all Believers post.