The first thing to be aware of is that God's Noachide covenant IS NOT God's Jewish covenant.  Almost everyone thinks that God's Torah is a rule book for them.  It is not.  The Torah is the OUTLINE of God's rule book for the Jewish people.  God has a separate rule book for everyone else, and also a separate Book of DETAILS necessary to properly understand the outline.  I will speak more about the DETAILS later. 

       The essentials of the Noachide rule book CAN BE FOUND in the Torah if you know how to look, but the underlying details for Judaism ARE NOT the same as the underlying details for Noachism.  Jews need to learn the Jewish detail, and everyone else needs to learn the Noachide detail.  Do not mix them up, and know which covenant God is applying to YOU!

       For instance, almost everyone talks about the 10 Commandments.  To begin with, the Hebrew phrase, "Aseres HaDIBROS," means 10 STATEMENTS.  10 COMMANDMENTS would be, "Aseres HaMITZVOS."  Second, there are 14 Commandments in those 10 Statements.  Third, some of those Statements have no application to non-Jews whatsoever. 

       For example, Statement #1:  "I am God, who took you out of the land of Mitzrayim (Egypt), out of the house of bondage," applies to Jews and not to gentiles.  It was the Jews that God "took out" from Mitrayim.  "Observe Shabbos" is another example that pertains ONLY to Jews.  Shabbos IS NOT a requirement of God's Noachide covenant.  

       I have asked people many times, IF they think the Torah is for them, THEN why don't they observe Torah law?  Why don't they eat only kosher meat for example?  They give me all sorts of answers, such as, Torah law applied to ancient times, but doesn't apply today, or Jesus released us from having to follow Levitical law...you get the idea.

       WELL...if you have an understanding of what God means by "His Covenants," then you should be aware that the rules apply every bit as much today, as they did back then.  The times have changed, the amenities of life have changed, but the rules have not changed.   As to "Levitical law," the term is taken from the Book of Vayikra (Leviticus).  Jesus could NEVER have released non-Jews from laws that NEVER applied to them.  There isn't anything to release.

       The vitally important bottom line is as follows:  God's Torah laws apply to Jews, and God's Noachide laws apply to everyone else.  They are different and they are not interchangeable.  Now we need to discover just what God's Noachide commandments are, and how to properly apply them.  We will begin that discussion next.