A M ESSAGE F OR O UR T IME 1

By Nazarene Rabbi Shaul ben Yisrael (Paul Todd)

I N T RO D U C T I O N
This message will lead the reader to desire more information than what I present however I will not
be able to take a lot of time to explain things which are discussed in great detail in other messages.
This message is a timely message for our day and for the believers in Yahshua (Jesus). I have written
this message directly to the Christian believer hopefully in a manner that can be understood.
Right up front, I must warn you that this will be a hard message and some of you might just throw it
out. Please, read the whole message. Furthermore, I will use a great deal of Scripture during this
message. It actually will not be me speaking but Yahweh (God) through His Word. Check out
these Scripture references and then check me out. Dont nod your head either in agreement or
disagreement. See what Yahweh says!

FIRST THINGS FIRST AND HOUSE KEEPING

It is necessary to discuss a few things before this material is presented. This will reduce confusion
and allow the reader to have a grasp on some terminology that might be unfamiliar. The first thing
that we have to discuss is words.

S AC R E D N A M E S
We 2 have a long message on the use of the Sacred Names, why they are used and where we see them
in Scripture so I will not present that material as part of this message, however, here are some
important points. I will use the Name hwhy or Yahweh instead of God, The Lord, Adonai,
HaShem or other unscriptural names. We have spent some time studying the correct
pronunciation of the Name hwhy as we see it in the Tanakh (Old Testament) and we have chosen
to pronounce it Yahweh (Yah way). I will also use the term Elohim where most Scripture
versions use the word God or Lord or other variations. I also will use the Name [vwhy or
Yahshua instead of the name Jesus or Isous. We believe that the pronunciation should be
Yahshua (Yah shuah) but there are other sources that say His Name should be pronounced
Yahoshua (Yah ho shuah). This is a matter of Hebrew grammar. In the Hebrew text, we will
continue to spell Yahwehs Name as hwhy and to transliterate His Name as YHVH or
Yahweh. Furthermore, we have chosen to render the Messiahs Name as [vwhy in the Hebrew
text and Brit Chadashah (New Testament). This Name I will transliterate as Yahshua. It
must be noted that Mattithyahu (Matthew) 1:21 says And she shall give birth to a Son, and you shall call
His Name [vwhy for He shall save His people from their sins. (Emphasis mine) The name Yahshua
means salvation of Yah whereas the name Jesus does not mean this.
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Please see My Final Words at the very end of this message.

We being Servants of Messiah Ministries. Most of the messages referenced in this message are found on our
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messages will be added to the CD.

The Scripture version that I will use primarily in this message is The Scriptures 3 (or T.S.) from the
Institute of Scripture Research. I may also use the Restoration Scriptures 4 for clarity and from time to
time I will also compare Scripture text to the King James Version and to the Hebrew Tanakh 5. I prefer
to use the Hebrew portion of the Stone Edition Tanakh 6. I may use other versions of Scripture
where appropriate. I have made use of the free program e-Sword for cut and paste and research.
This program is available at www.e-sword.net. I also made limited use of the computer program
Logos from Logos Research Systems, Inc.

N A M E S A N D W O R D S A R E I M P O R TA N T
We absolutely must set aside our Greek/Roman thinking and understanding and view Scripture
from a Hebraic perspective. The writers of Scripture were NOT Greek/Romans, they did not think
Greek/Roman and their philosophy was not Greek/Roman.
Their theology was not
Greek/Roman. And their language was not Greek or Roman or Latin or English it was Aramaic
and Hebrew 7.
We westerners are Greek/Romans our schools and universities teach with a Greek/Roman
mindset. Our philosophy and theology is G/R. Our legal system and government system are G/R.
Even our religions are G/R. That includes Christianity and present day Judaism.
Because of this, we do not recognize the importance of names, or words, for that matter. We say
things and use names and assign names to people and things without regard to what we are doing.
We give people nick-names or shorten their names as a convenience. We may call someone Bill
rather than William when William is his correct name. We may refer to the person that we work
for as the boss rather than by his name. Some people refer to Yahweh as the man upstairs or a
higher power. This is absolute blasphemy but it goes on unchecked even in the Christian church.
We also change the meaning of words to make certain statements. We might see something and say
cool about that thing. We are not discussing the temperature of the object, we just think its
well cool. This is called an idiom. If you want to see how the meaning of words have been
changed over the past century find a book written in the early 1900s and read it. You might find
that the writer used words that have either another meaning today or an additional meaning. If you
are familiar with the language of the King James Version you will know that many words used in the
older editions and in the 1611 edition are archaic and simply not used in modern English.
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The Scriptures published by the Institute For Scripture Research, PO Box 1830, Northriding
2162 South Africa. The Scriptures is available through Strawberry Islands, 2303 Watterson Trail,
Louisville, KY., 40299 (www.fossilizedcustoms.com) and several other sources.
Restoration Scriptures, True Name Edition, 2004, Your Arms To Israel Publishing, 7378 W.
Atlantic Blvd. #112 Margate Fla. 33063. www.yourarmstoisrael.org.
Tanakh instead of Old Testament. Tanakh is an acronym that stands for Torah (the first five books of
Scripture often called the Law), the Nivim (the prophets) and the Ketuvim (the writings). This paper will
use the word Tanakh to refer to that part of Scripture erroneously called the Old Testament. The word
Old Testament conveys the illusion that the front part of the Bible is Old or Past and therefore, done
away with.
Rabbi Nosson Scherman, 1996, Stone Edition Tanach (Brooklyn, New York, Mesorah Publicaitons, Ltd.)
This fact is proved in other messages and in a short section in this message.

None of this is essentially wrong, it is just the way we do things. It is the current culture we live in.
It is our current way of saying things. What is wrong is when we attempt to apply current culture,
language and idioms to ancient Hebrew culture, language and idioms.

T H E C U LT U R E A N D L A N G UAG E O F T H E B I B L E
Most Believers have been taught that the Bible was written in mostly two languages. We have been
taught that the Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the New Testament was written in
Greek. Most of us assume that the particular version of the Bible that we favor is accurate in its
translation and that we can understand what the original author intended. Over the past few years, I
have come to different conclusions.
I think that the first thing to examine is language. We have made some assumptions about the
English language over our lifetime that affects our understanding of the language. Let me explain it
this way. By this time in history most of us reading this have been exposed to a wide range of
Science Fiction movies and television programs. Whether we want to admit it or not, those movies
and programs have taught us certain things about language and culture.

T H E S TA R T R E K M E TA P H O R
From my own perspective, I like SciFi and I have seen every Star Trek program, movie and take-off
there is. I have also seen almost all of the other space related SciFi movies and television series
going back to the fifties. All of this has taught me certain things about all other cultures and races
of beings in the entire universe or, at least the fictional ones. These are:
1.

Everyone in the universe speaks English (most with a slightly British accent).

2.

Everyone in the universe understands the cultural nuances of all other cultures.

3.

Everyone in the universe has a similar physiology to humans (i.e. 2 arms, 2 legs, 1 head, 2
eyes, 2 ears, 1 nose, 1 mouth etc.)

According to the Star Trek metaphor, we have a similar situation in how we, as Americans, have
been taught to look at Scripture. If I maintain this metaphor, and modify point 3 slightly, here is
how we have been taught:
1.

ALL Hebrew or Aramaic words and phrases can be easily translated directly into Greek and
then English. All Hebrew and Aramaic words have only one exact meaning.

2.

We can fully understand the culture of the ANE (Ancient Near East).

3.

The people of the ANE were exactly like we are today.

C O N S E QU E N C E S O F I G N O R I N G C U LT U R E A N D L A N G UAG E
The Greek/Roman theology that we have been taught has ignored or only lightly considered the
Hebrew and Aramaic language, culture and idioms of the Scriptures. In doing so, they have made of

no account such important things as the multiple meanings of Hebrew words and the importance of
names for people and places.
As we examine Torah and the rest of the Tanakh, we see that names of people and places have an
importance beyond the English translation. We see names of places and people being changed to
reflect a new status such as the name Avram, meaning exalted father, being changed to Avraham,
meaning father of many nations. By examining the importance of Avrahams name we see Avram
was named by his father, Terah (who was an idolater). Yahweh changed his name to Avraham in
Beresheet (Genesis) 17:5.
In Yaakovs (Jacobs) case, he has two names one being Yaakov and the other being Yisrael.
Another way of stating Beresheet (Genesis) 35:10 is your name will no longer be Yaakov exclusively,
but your name will also be Israel. The Tanakh uses both names interchangeably (See Yeshayahu
(Isaiah) 43:1). Yisrael can mean prince/ruler with Yah.
Ignoring the culture of the ANE also creates a misunderstanding of what Scriptures are telling us.
The people of the ANE were mostly agrarian they raised animals and farmed. Their farming
technology was very primitive by our standards today and even the standards of several hundred
years ago.
For example, Yahshua says in Luka (Luke) 9:62, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking
back, is fit for the kingdom of [Yahweh]. (KJV, Sacred Name corrected) Well, I dont actually
understand plowing a field. I saw someone operate a plow once but they were using a tractor to pull
it. Does the same idiom apply to using a tractor? If Yahshua were to say these same words to us
today, He might say, No man, having put his hand to the lawn mower, and looking back, is fit
for the kingdom of Yahweh. Now I can understand that.

R U L E S O F S C R I P T U R E S T U DY
For the sake of this message I will use two Rules when referring to Scripture. I have taken these
rules from a hermeneutics course, and we present and consider them to be vital to our discussion
in this message. This message will say things that might be contrary to what you have been taught
therefore whatever I teach must line up with Scripture precisely.
I am reminded of the words of Yaakov (James) Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers,
knowing that we shall receive greater judgment. (Yaakov (James) 3:1 T.S.) I consider teaching to be a
serious matter and I endeavor to use Scripture properly.

FIRST RULE CONTEXT, CONTEXT, CONTEXT, CONTEXT

Thats four contexts. I have heard, and so have you, Christian teaching where the teacher will use a
Scripture passage or verse to illustrate or justify the teaching. There are times the particular
Scripture is properly used and correctly illustrates the teaching. On the other hand, MANY times
the Scripture is used OUT OF CONTEXT to illustrate a teaching that the teacher wants to make
and not a teaching that the text wants to make.

THE FIRST CONTEXT IS THE CONTEXT OF THE PARAGRAPH THE

VERSE IS IN.
One of the problems with most English Bibles is that they are in single verse format and not
paragraph format. Consequently, we are not sure how that verse relates to the rest of the text.
Many Christians that do not agree with my teaching say to me were not under the law but under
grace. I take that to mean that because the Christian is under grace they dont have to obey
Yahwehs commandments. I usually inform the speaker that they are taking that verse out of
context and it doesnt mean what you think it means. Go look it up yourself. BUT, read it in its full
verse context. And then read it in its paragraph context. If your Bible does not have paragraphs,
then get one that does. However, I dont know of any paragraph format in a proper Scripture.

THE NEXT CONTEXT IS THE CHAPTER CONTEXT.

This can be a little trickier. The original writers of Scripture did not write in chapter format
anymore than we write letters in chapter format. Sometimes the chapter divisions over lap or
under-lap the text. Sometimes several chapters should be grouped together somehow. For
example, Korintyah Alef (1 Corinthians) chapter 13 the love chapter is often said at weddings
because it seems to have something to do with love and a wedding is a good place to talk about love.
Actually, this is part of chapters 12, 13, and 14 which is primarily about Spiritual gifts and not marital
love. Chapters 12, 13 and 14 of Korintyah Alef should be just one chapter somehow.

THE THIRD CONTEXT IS THE BOOK CONTEXT.

The two books of Korintyah (Corinthians) were written to the congregation at Korintyah (Corinth).
They were not written to your congregation or to anyone alive today for that matter. The letters
were written by Rav Shaul 8 to a congregation that he founded. The letters address certain issues
that may or may not be applicable to any particular group today.
Lets use a current example. Rabbi Smithonovich of Whole Word Worship Center has planted some
congregations here and there. Whole Word has been in existence for 10 years so lets assume that
they have planted 10 congregations around the world. Lets say Rabbi Smithonovich writes to the
congregation at Gainsville Florida about some particular issues. He also writes a letter to the
congregation at Cedar Rapids Iowa about some other issues. He writes letters to all of his
congregations. Finally, many years later, these letters come together in one volume. We might also
note that it is possible that some of his letters are missing from this volume. Lets say that Rabbi
Smithonovich said, in his letter to Gainsville, now, to deal with the questions you wrote about
(like Korintyah Alef (1 Corinthians) 7:1) and then he answered a bunch of questions without
restating the questions.
Could the Cedar Rapids congregation apply those question-less answers to doctrine within their
congregation? Maybe and maybe not. Of course, the other congregations could use Rabbi
Smithonovichs letters to justify certain doctrine or theology. So could congregations that have
nothing to do with Rabbi Smithonovich. We could even take some text of Rabbi Smithonovichs
letters to one of his congregations and combine it with a sentence from another letter and make up a
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erroneously called Paul, but thats another message.

doctrinal statement based on these verses. We could even make what Rabbi Smithonovich
actually said say something else.

FINALLY, THE FOURTH CONTEXT IS THE WHOLE OF SCRIPTURE

CONTEXT.
Whatever is said in the verse, paragraph, chapter and book CANNOT be taken out of context of the
whole of Scripture. There are NO SCRIPTURES THAT CONTRADICT SCRIPTURES. If there
are, then Yahweh is a liar and I quit! If a particular verse appears to contradict the rest of Scripture,
then it is our understanding of the meaning of that verse that is in error. Some time ago I was on
the radio and made certain comments that went against the teachings of a local pastor. It was later
reported to me that he had assembled his staff of assistant pastors and had them look up verses to
contradict what I taught. I couldnt believe that he thought that he could find contradictions of
Scripture in Scripture.

A Text Without Context Is Only A Pretext

SECOND RULE NO CONTRADICTIONS
THERE ARE NO CONTRADICTIONS IN SCRIPTURE! If there appears to be a
contradiction in Scripture, it is our understanding or our interpretation that is in error. Yahweh is
always the same 9, no matter what He teaches, and in what period He reveals that teaching, we can be
assured that He does not contradict Himself. Yahweh would not reveal something in a later period
that would contradict something He had previously revealed 10.

PA R D E S A N I M P O RTA N T P R I N C I P L E
An important principle in both Hebraic and Aramaic writing and understanding goes by the
acronym PARDES. This system was used by Moshe (Moses), the prophets, the men of the Great
Assembly 11 and all the rabbis in the Land of Israel and in the exile. This system would have been
known and understood by Yahshua, His followers and Rav Shaul.
The First and Second Covenants or Tenachbcha 12, as I call it, were written by Hebrews for
Hebrews. Consequently, the system of Pardes would have been used in all their writings, accounts
and revelations. If we try to examine Scripture with any Greek/Roman or modern method, we will
set ourselves up for failure, frustration, error, deception and misunderstanding.
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Ivrim (Hebrews)13:8 Messiah is the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
There is another teaching called Progressive Revelation that addresses this concept in more detail.
The Men of the Great Assembly were a group of prophets and other leaders that met sometime around 300
BCE.
This is a combination of the Tanakh and the Brit Chadashah and I made it up so dont look for it somewhere
and dont quote me here.

We cannot examine Scripture by our favorite method and consider that it is good enough to fully
understand what the Scriptures are telling us. We cannot, for example, decide that all Scripture will
be examined exclusively using a face value or literal method.

PARDES D E F I N E D
P = PA S H AT

Pashat is the literal primary meaning of the text.

R = REMEZ

Remez are the hints in the text that point to something deeper.

D = DRASH

Drash is the added understanding that can be gleaned by a story, riddle or parable.

S = SOD

Sod (the o is pronounced like the o in go) is the deepest level. This is the secret or underlying
mystery revealed in the text.
Much of the Brit Chadashah is written in a drash or sod level particularly books such as Yochanan
(John) and Gilyahna (Revelation). Almost all of Yahshuas teachings are at a remez, drash or sod
level. If we take Yahshuas parables at the pashat level and examine them at a literal level, we either
completely miss the point or come to a wrong conclusion. The three parables in Luka (Luke)
chapter 15 are good examples of this problem 13.
A great deal of the Tanakh is written at other than the Pashat level. Actually about the only text we
find at the Pashat level is narrative describing events such as a person going from one place to an
other.

M O R E WO R D S
I have already used some Hebrew transliterated words that might be unfamiliar to you. I will
attempt to translate these and other words to their closest English translation. Hebrew and
Aramaic are more concept or picture languages then a precise language like English so
sometimes Hebrew or Aramaic words do not translate accurately into a single English word. And
this certainly applies to Greek. Im sure most of you have heard the Hebrew word Shalom. In
modern Hebrew it is used like a greeting like the English word hello. We also know the word to
mean peace. However, the Hebrew word m/lv; (Shalom) means peace, security, rest, well being,
welfare, health.
So when we say the Aaronic Benediction found in Bemidbar (Numbers) 6:24 26, the last line is:
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I have since discovered that Yahshua used poetic forms in the Aramaic that He spoke and that the Brit
Chadashah was written in. (See below)

!/lv; *l] !cey:w *yl,ae wyn:P; hwhy ac;yI

Yih-sah Yahweh pa-nahv ay-leh-cha veh-ya-same leh-cha Shalom.
The Hebrew text is read from right to left. The Hebrew word Shalom is the last word to the left
and I have highlighted it for you. The text below the Hebrew is the transliterated text or how it
would be pronounced 14. In English we would say:
Yahweh lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace.
Now, the source of the Torah (the first 5 books of Scripture) is Yahweh Himself. Torah was not
written out of the imagination of Moshe (Moses). Therefore, our English translation might fall a
little short on what Yahweh was conveying to us. Maybe we should understand this verse to say:
Yahweh lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace, security, rest, well
being, welfare and health.

SCRIPTURE VERSIONS
Without trying to denigrate anyones favorite version of the Scriptures I must state the following:
ALL translations are an agenda translation.
This is not necessarily bad, it is just what happens when someone or some group attempt to
translate something from one language into another. The original Hebrew and Aramaic of the
Scriptures and the Greek translation 15 were translated into English, for example, with a particular
agenda in mind. That agenda may have been to preserve as accurately as possible the intent of the
original authors or it may be to change the meanings of certain words so as to reflect a particular
theology. I will discuss some words as we go along in this message and you will see some vivid
examples.
The English translation that I use primarily is The Scriptures 16 by the Institute for Scripture Research.
This is not an obscure translation and is easily obtainable. I also use from time to time the
Restoration Scriptures, True Name Edition 17 by Your Arms to Israel Publishing. And from time to time
Ive even been known to use the King James Version. For an accurate Hebrew Tanakh I use the Stone
Edition Tanakh 18 however, the English in this version of the Tanakh is decidedly anti-Yahshua as
Messiah and the agenda of the English translation reflects this. However, the Hebrew text is

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Hebrew is a phonetic language and we can easily pronounce it in our English.

This statement is not designed to start a fight. This fact must be discussed in another message at great length
however, I have briefly touched on it below.
The Scriptures published by the Institute For Scripture Research, PO Box 1830, Northriding 2162 South
Africa. The Scriptures is available through Strawberry Islands, 2303 Watterson Trail, Louisville, KY., 40299
(www.fossilizedcustoms.com).
Restoration Scriptures, True Name Edition, 2004, Your Arms To Israel Publishing, 7378 W. Atlantic Blvd. #112
Margate Fla. 33063. www.yourarmstoisrael.org.
Stone Edition Tanach, Rabbi Nosson Scherman, 1996, (Brooklyn, New York, Mesorah Publicaitons, Ltd.)

accurate. I will use the free Bible program e-Sword available at www.e-sword.net for my cut and
paste.

W H A T L A N G UA G E W A S T H E N E W T E S TA M E N T W R I T T E N
IN?
During all of my church time I had been taught that the New Testament was written in Greek and
the Old Testament was written in Hebrew. As far as I can remember, I never challenged this
tradition. If I wanted to research something in the NT I would go to Strongs Concordance and
look up a number which would give me the meaning of the original Greek word. Without
questioning it, I accepted this tradition as fact!
When I attended Yeshiva (Rabbinic School) I took a course called Biblical Hermeneutics. The
professor of this course adamantly stated that the NT was written in Greek and there was no two
ways about it. He went so far in his assertion that he was pounding his fist on the table. He had
handed out an enormous pile of hand-outs (most of them 6th or 7th generation copies making
them hard to read) on many topics relevant to Biblical Hermeneutics. Three of those hand-outs
were by some authors that clearly stated that the NT was NOT written in Greek but in Aramaic.
All three of those authors proved their points in what appeared to me to be a logical manner. There
was a hole in the dam of my Greek New Testament tradition.
Some time after the school a fellow rabbi sent me a copy of the preface to Dr. George M. Lamsas
Holy Bible From the Ancient Eastern Text (which was a translation from the Aramaic Peshitta).
This preface is available at http://aramaicnttruth.org/page.php?page=home and is entitled Dr.
George Lamsas Aramaic Evidence. I further discovered that there was absolutely NO evidence
that the NT was written in Greek except church tradition. The ancient church fathers, who were
mostly Greek pagans started this tradition.
There is way too much to say on this subject in an attempt to prove my statements so I strongly
advise you to go to http://www.aramaicpeshitta.com/ or http://aramaicnttruth.org/ or
http://www.raphaellataster.com/ and download the free book Was the New Testament Really
Written in Greek? This book is extremely well researched and will not only answer your questions
but change your mind about the true language of the New Testament and what language Yahshua
spoke.
I really insist on you reading this book because you will see that the parables of Yahshua were
actually poetic forms. Even the, so called, Lords Prayer is in poetic form. Much of Rav. Shauls
(erroneously called Paul) writings are also in poetic forms in Aramaic.
If you can read Hebrew then you might be interested in the book The New Covenant Commonly
Called The New Testament, Peshitta Aramaic Text With a Hebrew Translation edited by The
Aramaic Scripture Research Society in Israel. As I remember it, this book was very difficult to find.
This book has the Aramaic on the right page and the Hebrew translation on the left page. The
Aramaic is not in the true Aramaic font but is in Hebrew text with Hebrew vowel markings so it can
be pronounced. The Aramaic is quite similar in pronunciation to the Hebrew. Since reading the
book Was the New Testament Really Written in Greek? I intend to go back to the Peshitta and

look at Yahshuas words in the Aramaic and see for myself this poetic form. Poetry is definitely not
my strong point so this should be interesting.
Why is the language so important? If the Brit Chadashah or Renewed Covenant (New Testament)
was actually written in Greek with Greek thinking then Yahshua and the writers of the BC 19 were
Greeks. Thus the Hebraic way of thinking is gone in the BC and replaced with the pagan Greek
way of thinking. Furthermore, this Greek NT drives a wedge between Semitic people (of which
Yahshua was one) and the pagan Greeks. In fact, the tradition of a Greek NT is anti-Semitic which
is what many of the early church fathers were.

A M ESSAGE F OR O UR T IME
T H E R E S TO R A T I O N M E S S A G E
And in those days Yochanan 20 the Immerser came proclaiming in the wilderness of Yahudah, and saying, Repent,
for the reign of the heavens has come near! For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Yeshayahu, saying, A
voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of hwhy, make His paths straight. (Mattithyahu
(Matthew 3:1 -2 T.S.)

T H E M E A N I N G O F R E S T O R AT I O N
For the purposes of this message restoration means the restoring of something to an earlier
condition. Restoration can also be considered a physical or spiritual healing. There must be a
something that existed that was somehow broken or deteriorated so that it either does not look
like the original or just barely looks like the original before we can restore it. This might be an over
simplification but you cant turn nothing into something and call it a restoration.
Say for example that someone found a 1957 Chevrolet in some old barn. It is in terrible condition
with just about all of the interior gone or in sad shape and all metal surfaces are nothing but rust.
The engine is rusty and frozen and the wheels and tires are really bad. Its got small trees growing
up through it and it is home to a large family of gophers. All the glass is broken and it is impossible
to tell what color it was.
The person buys the piece of junk because it is their hearts desire to have a showroom looking 1957
Chevrolet. This car can be restored if the owner actually desires to do so and has the resources to
complete the task. It may be that the as found condition of the car appears to be hopeless BUT if
the owner is willing to put the work into the car it can be restored to perfect show-room condition.
The new owner of the old 1957 Chevrolet will need to have the original manufacturers instructions
and specifications. Those original documents will tell him exactly how to restore the car. He could,
of course, just clean things up and make the car into some kind of custom car using some of the
parts of the original and adding a lot of other stuff but that would NOT be restoration. For the
1957 Chevrolet purest, he might look at this custom Chevy as an abomination because it is not true
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BC is a kind of Hebrew short hand for Brit Chadashah.

The Hebrew name Yochanan (John) means Yah is gracious.

to the original. If the Great Designer 21 of the 1957 Chevrolet were to look at the restored car his
reaction would be one of happiness that someone took the care to restore the car accurately. But
what would his opinion be of the custom Chevy?
The restoration I will address in this message is the restoration of the church to its original,
Scriptural condition. After Yahshuas transfiguration His talmidim (Hebrew for taught ones,
students, or disciples) asked him Why do the scribes say that Eliyahu 22 has to come first?
(Mattithyahu (Matthew) 17:10). Yahshua answers them by saying Eliyahu is indeed coming first, and
shall restore all matters.

W H O I S Y A H S H UA ?
The Christian belief system has as a pillar of faith that there is a triune Godhead. There might be
various ways this is described but, as I remember from my younger years, Scripture was not used to
clearly prove this statement. The question is is this true and how can I prove it? There is
nothing that directly states that there exists a triune Godhead at the Pashat level. I was taught a
long time ago that these concepts were only in the New Testament 23. I was further told that the
Old Testament had to be interpreted in light of the New Testament. The New Testament
must always be the guide for interpreting the Old Testament. Old Testament passages may not
become the basis for giving primary direction for the interpretation of New Testament passages. 24
This is a false statement and will lead to serious error. Remember, there are no New Testament
quotes in the New Testament. What must be understood from the start is that the concept of
Messiah is hidden in both Covenants. There is no plain Scripture that says who or what the Messiah
is.

L E T S T RY T O S E E T H I N G S H E B R A I C A L LY
The Tanakh and Brit Chadashah were written by Hebrews for Hebrews 25 using Hebraic words,
idioms and concepts and NOT Greek/Roman/Western words and concepts. There was a system
of interpretation that was well known, understood, accepted and practiced by all of Israels sages
from Moshe (Moses), to the prophets, to the Men of the Great Assembly, to the rabbis, Pharisees
and Sadducees of Yahshuas day to the rabbis of the Diaspora and all the way to us. Even the
simple minded could use this system of Hebraic interpretation to glean important things needed for
a deep comprehension in Yahwehs Word.

U S I N G PARDES I N O U R S E A RC H F O R YA H S H UA
I have briefly discussed PARDES above. PARDES applies to the Brit Chadashah (Renewed
Covenant) as well as the Tanakh. Major portions of Mattithyahu (Matthew) can only be grasped
using the drash method of allegories, metaphor and most often by parable. Rarely does anything
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Hint, hint!
The Hebrew name Eliyahu (Elijah) means Yahweh is my Elohim.
Another thing that I was taught and believed is that I had to have an advanced theology degree to understand
the deep things of the Christian faith. I should just trust the pastor because he has the schooling and
understands these matters. In other words, the pastor was my go-between between myself and Yahweh.
Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., Toward Rediscovering the Old Testament, p. 53
Or Semitic people using Semitic languages, customs and idioms.

Messianic come out plainly in the literal or Pashat level of the text and some parts of the text are at
the Sod level particularly the book of Yochanan (John).
The Brit Chadashah also quotes from the Tanakh using several methods to show Messianic
prophecy. Sometimes partial quotes, cut and pasted quotes, altered quotes and paraphrased quotes
are used. Rav Shaul (erroneously called Paul but that is another message 26) uses this method of
quoting Tanakh passages and discussing them. This was a common practice of rabbinic scholars of
the day of which Rav Shaul was one 27.
In Mattithyahu 13:11-17, Yahshua tells His talmidim that He has hidden the truths of Torah in
parables from the people because their heart has become thickened, and their ears are hard of hearing, and
their eyes they have closed (Mattithyahu 13:15). Yahshua did not teach at the Pashat level. Even to
His talmidim He had to explain everything.
Let us look for Messiah using the Remez, Drash and Sod levels of understanding in Scripture. We
will also revisit some of these words in more detail to see clearly our Messiah Yahshua.

Y A H S H UA I S C R E A TO R
THERE

IS A RELATIONSHIP
COMMANDS AND WISDOM.

BETWEEN

YAHWEHS

WORD,

HIS

Mishli (Proverbs) 2:1 2 says, My son, if you accept my words, And treasure up my commands with you, So
that you make your ear attend to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding;

YAHWEH

FOUNDED THE EARTH BY

WISDOM.

Mishli 3:19 says, hwhy founded the earth by wisdom; He established the heavens by understanding;

BY

THE

WORD

OF

YAHWEH

THE HEAVENS WERE CREATED.

Tehillim (Psalms) 33:6 says, By the Word of

His mouth,

YAHWEH
FAST.

hwhy the heavens were made, And all their host by the Spirit of

SPOKE AND IT CAME TO BE,

HE

COMMANDED AND IT STOOD

Tehillim 33:9 For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood fast.

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See the message Will the Real Rav Shaul Please Stand Up at www.servant2000.org
Rav. Shaul also used other complex methods of teaching is his letters that were in use at the time and are still
used today to some extent. These methods are discussed in another message but it must be understood that
when Christian theology either does not follow Rav Shauls methods or deliberately ignores them then their
theology is flawed.

From these Scriptures and others we can discover that Yahwehs Word, His Wisdom, His
commands, and His Torah created the world. So then what is His Word, His Wisdom, His
Command and His Torah.

YAHSHUA

IS THE POWER OF

ELOHIM

AND THE WISDOM OF

ELOHIM.

Korintyah Alef (1 Corinthians) 1:24 but to those who are called both Yehudim and Greeks Messiah the
power of Elohim and the wisdom of Elohim.

BY YAHSHUA

ALL THINGS WERE CREATED.

Kolesayah (Colossians) 1:15 16 says, who is the likeness of the invisible Elohim, the first-born of all
creation. Because in Him were created all that are in the heavens and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether
thrones or rulerships or principalities or authorities all have been created through Him and for Him.

IN

THE

BEGINNING

WAS THE

WORD

AND THE

WORD

WAS

ELOHIM.

Yochanan (John) 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Elohim, and the Word was
Elohim.

I N T H E B E G I N N I N G WA S T H E WORD
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Elohim, and the Word was Elohim. All came to be
through Him, and without Him not even one came to be that came to be. (Yochanan (John) 1:1, 3)
We accept these 2 statements to be Truth. However, what does the word Word mean according
to Scripture? Sometimes we see word of Yahweh, the word of faith, the Word, Yahwehs
Word and so forth in Scripture so we need to discover what these phrases mean. According to Avi
ben Mordechai 28:
these are words used in religious circles as generic definitions of the words of the
NT or the words of Jesus or Paul. But in Hebraic thinking the word is
much more specific. In Greek the idea of the logos stems from the philosophical
system of Plato which is really not much help to the bible student.
The first century Jewish world in Israel, the language of the day was Aramaic. The
Aramaic word Memra is synonymous with the Hebrew word YHVH when an
anthropomorphic expression was to be avoided. Memra was understood as a divine
manifestation of YHVH and sent to His people for discipline, comfort, and teaching
in the Torah. In Hebrew, another expression was also used Dvar [Word]. Dvar
can mean the word of a man, the word of a prophet, and the word of a child any
word whatsoever. However, what we want to learn is what Yahshua and His
talmidim had in mind when they said memra or dvar. [emphasis and additional
text for clarity are mine]

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If we did a word search on the word Word in the Brit Chadashah we would find Scriptures such
as:
Luka (Luke) 8:21 And He answering, said to them, My mother and My brothers are those who are hearing the
Word of Elohim and doing it.
Luka 8:11 And this is the parable: The seed is the word of Elohim.
Luka 8:12 And those by the wayside are the ones who hear, then the devil comes and takes away the word from
their hearts, lest having believed, they should be saved.
These, and many other passages are telling us that Yahshua considered the Word, memra or
dvar, to be the Word of Elohim. Furthermore we see that His talmidim also considered the
Word to be the Word of Elohim:
Maaseh Shlichim (Acts) 6:7 And the Word of Elohim spread, and the number of the taught ones increased
greatly in Yerushalayim, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the belief.
Maaseh Shlichim 11:1 And the emissaries and brothers who were in Yahudah heard that the gentiles also
received the word of Elohim.
Maaseh Shlichim 12:24 And the word of Elohim went on growing and spreading.
Maaseh Shlichim 13:49 And the Word of hwhy was being spread throughout the entire country.
Take very careful note here Yahshuas talmidim did NOT teach a doctrine or word contrary to
the Word of Elohim or Torah. They would have taught the words that they were taught by
Yahshua. Thus, Yahshua DID NOT teach against Torah and therefore, He did not do away with
Torah. These are proof texts of that fact and any other texts used to say something different
amount to a contradiction which cannot exist in Scripture.
Often times Rav Shauls teachings or writings are used to do away with the Torah. This is saying
something his writing are not saying. Here are a few examples of Rav Shauls teachings concerning
the Word of YHVH.
Maaseh Shlichim 15:35 And Shaul and Barnabah continued in Antioch, teaching and bringing, with many
others also, the Good News: the Word of hwhy!
Maaseh Shlichim 19:10 And this took place for two years, so that all who dwelt in Asia heard the word of the
Master [vwhy, both Yahudim and Greeks 29.
Timtheous Bet (2 Timothy) 3:1 For the rest, brothers, pray for us, so that the Word of hwhy spreads rapidly
and be praised, as also with you
Ephsiyah (Ephesians) 6:17 Take also the helmet of deliverance, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word
of Elohim
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There is also a message for those of us obedient to Yahwehs Torah in the end times:
Gilyahna (Revelation) 6:9 And when He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the beings of those having
been slain for the Word of Elohim and for the witness which they held

W H AT D O E S T H E W O R D O F E L O H I M O R T H E W O R D O F
YA H W E H M E A N ?
I had stated above that the words of the Brit Chadashah must be confirmed from the Tanakh. We
must be able to find their meaning in the Tanakh and then we must apply that meaning to the words
as we read them in the Brit Chadashah 30. The meaning of the words must be the Hebrew or
Aramaic meaning and not the Greek or English or any other language meaning. It must be
remembered that the writers of the passages above wrote in Hebrew and/or Aramaic with Hebraic
concepts. They did not think like Greeks or Romans 31. So in the passages above we must be able to
find a solid definition of the Word of Elohim or the Word of hwhy in the Tanakh.
Furthermore, we should find several passages in the Tanakh that clearly give us this definition.
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 32:46 he (Moshe) said to them, Set your heart on all the words with which I warn
you today, so that you command your children to guard to do all the Words of this Torah.
The King James says: And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this
day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
The Hebrew word for word is Strongs H1697 = rbd = dabar or davar and means word
or thing and can be used in the figurative as to speak.
The last phrase of the King James says all the words of this law. The KJV uses the word law
rather than the actual word Torah. The Scriptures and the Hebrew Tanakh use the correct word
Torah. The word law in the KJV is Strongs # H8451 which = hrwt = Torah. The Torah
contains some laws but it is not law as in a rule of conduct or procedure that is enforceable by
authority. We Greek/Roman/Westerners look at the word law very negatively and when the
English translation uses the word law instead of Torah, we are convinced that what is being
discussed is bad. However, the word Torah means instructions and contains commandments
that we are to follow and that we can follow.
The Hebrew phrase the word of Elohim is synonymously understood to be dvrai
HaTorah (literally words of the Torah).

hr;/toh' yreb]di
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Look at Yochanan (John) 1:45 Philip found Nethanel and said to him, We have found Him whom Mosheh wrote of in
the Torah, and the prophets: [vwhy of Natsareth the son of Yoseph. This tells us that they understood Messiah from
the Tanakh and not the New Testament. This also tells us the correct order of the Old Testament but
thats another message.
Even though their writings were translated into Greek and Latin, their original writings were Aramaic.

In late Second Temple Times (i.e. the first century), every time the phrase Word of Elohim or
the Word of hwhy was used it ALWAYS referred to the WHOLE of the Torah of Mt. Sinai.
Yahshua states in Luka 11:28, But He said, Blessed rather are those hearing the Word of Elohim and
watching over it! The phrase watching over it is the same as keeping it.
Yahshua was restating Shemot (Exodus) 24:7 8, And he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the
hearing of the people. And they said, All that hwhy has spoken we shall do, and obey [hear]. And Mosheh took
the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, See, the blood of the covenant which hwhy has made with you
concerning all these Words. [emphasis mine]
There will be much more said on this Scripture later.

Y A H S H UA I S Y A H W E H
Part of this fact has been answered above by stating that Yahshua is the Word and that the Word is
Yahweh. These are not the only Scriptures that lead us to understand that Yahshua is Yahweh but
we will look at a few more as we continue. To reduce confusion when I speak of Yahweh the
Father in heaven I will use that term and when I am speaking of Yahshua as Yahweh I will call Him
Yahweh the Son. Hopefully this will reduce confusion.

IN THE BEGINNING
We stated above In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Elohim, and the Word was Elohim.
All came to be through Him, and without Him not even one came to be that came to be. (Yochanan (John) 1:1,
3). Maybe we should look at in the beginningfirst however, before we can discuss this we have
to talk about the Torah.

THE TORAH
We really have to discuss what the Torah Scroll is and some of the important things we will find in
it. According to Tradition, Yahweh DIRECTLY dictated the words of the Torah to Moshe and
Moshe wrote them down EXACTLY as Yahweh gave them to him. According to tradition, the
Torah that Moshe wrote did not even have spaces between the words. Moshe literally wrote down
every letter that Yahweh gave him. Later the words were separated without changing the layout of
the Scroll.
The Torah scroll is written in columns. Each column in our Torah at Servant of Messiah Ministries
consists of 42 lines. There are 245 columns and 304,805 letters (or approximately 79,000 words).
The accuracy is insured such that the Torah Scroll our congregation uses is EXACTLY like the
Torah Scroll found in the Qumran caves or the Dead Sea Scrolls which may date back to 1100 BCE.

This photo shows the Torah Scroll open to Shemot (Exodus) chapter 15, the first Song of Moshe.

JOT AND TITTLE

There are several places where letters are larger or smaller than the rest of the letters. Moshe did this
because this is what Yahweh told him to do. There are also places where there are spaces between
sentences but there are also places where there are spaces in the middle of a sentence. There are
even a few words that have dots over all the letters. Notice in the photo above of Shemot chapter
15 that there are some spaces between words.
In the teaching Christianity calls the Sermon on the Mount, Yahshua teaches on the Torah. We
find part of this teaching in Mattithyahu (Matthew) 5:17 20. in verse 18 Yahshua says, For truly, I
say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah till all
be done. I was always taught that a Jot or Tittle was the smallest mark in the Torah Scroll and
referred to decorations the scribes put on certain letters. Like this:

But this cant be true. The reason is because the text that Moshe used to write the Torah scrolls in
his day was Palaeo Hebrew and the letters did not look anything like modern Hebrew.
So the question is, what is a jot or tittle? And the answer is, Jots and Tittles are those larger and
smaller letters, dots over letters and spaces and so forth that I just mentioned. There is meaning in

these Jots and Tittles at the deeper levels of Torah study 32. One of those places is the very first
word in the Torah Scroll.

THE FIRST WORD

If you look at Genesis 1:1 in any English version of Scripture you will see something like this:
The Scriptures: In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth.
The King James Version: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
The New International Version: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
And there are other versions that say something similar. As you look at this text you may compare it
to Yochanan 1:1 and 3 where we know that Yahshua is the Creator and we might just pass this
Scripture up as a simple statement. It is fact and, with the rest of the proof texts above, it proves the
fact that Yahshua is Creator.
BUT Yahshua was talking to his talmidim in Mattithyahu 5 about something called Jots and
Tittles. Now His talmidim knew what he was talking about but do we? Lets look at the first word
in the Torah Scroll.

This is a scan of the first line of the first column in the Torah Scroll above. Notice that all the
letters are consonants (i.e. there are no vowel markers on some of the letters like I have already
shown in this message and that I show below). Notice also that some of the letters have crowns
or decorations on them. But, notice that the very first letter on the right (Hebrew is read right to
left) is larger than the rest of the letters. This is not because it is the first letter of a book and it is
being embellished like we might find in some of our English books. This is a tittle and this letter has
meaning at the sod level. Actually the whole first word has meaning at the sod level.
This is what the first line of Torah looks like with the vowel markings (read from right to left):

.$r,a;h; taew !yIm'v;h' tae !yhila> ar;B; tyviareB]

The first line of the Torah Scroll transliterates to:
beh-ray-sheet bah-rah Eh-lo-him et ha-sha-mah-yihm veh-ayt ha-ah-retz
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There is a rather long message on Jots and Tittles that will be available.

This translates literally to:

In-beginning created Elohim *** the-heavens and-*** the-earth.
The fourth word from the right transliterated as et (***) is alef tav or
later. It is part of Hebrew grammar and has no meaning in English.

ta which I will discuss

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The first word with vowel markers:

tyviareB]
Some of what I will say about this first word is from Hebrew and Jewish tradition and some is from
other sources.
In Hebrew everything means something. The first letter B (bet or like a B in English) stands for
tyIB' (pronounced bah-it) or house. This first larger letter is telling us that Yahweh the Father
willed that there be a house or dwelling place (tabernacle) in the earth.
The first and second letters are combined producing rB (pronounced bar) which means son.
Thus Yahweh the Father wanted to have a dwelling place or tabernacle 34 in the earth for His
Son.
We then take the first two letters and the last two letters 35 producing tyIrB] (pronounced beh-rit
or brit) which means covenant. Yahweh the Father will build a house for His Son through a
covenant. Furthermore, Yahweh will relate to His creation ONLY through covenant. (More
on covenant relationships later).
The Hebrew word Beresheet is actually a word with a prefix. The prefix is the B or bet and the
actual word is the last 5 letters or tyviare which is pronounced ray-sheet and means beginning or
first.
The B or bet often means in, on, by, with and other meanings and it can mean for therefore the
sages (as in rabbis of old) conclude that the first word can also mean For (the sake of) the
beginning. The added words are from Rashi (a tenth century Jewish sage).
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I owe much of this information to Rabbi Eddy Chumney at www.hebroots.org and other sources that I cant
remember or find. This is not my original creation.
Yochanan (John) 1:14 And the Word became flesh and pitched His tent1 among us, and we saw His esteem, esteem as of an
only brought-forth of a father, complete in favour and truth. Footnote: 1An indication that His birth was during the Festival of
Booths. (footnote in original)
This method of examining Scripture text is common in the previously discussed methods of teaching and study
used by Rav Shaul and the Rabbis and sages of his time.

Therefore, the sod level purpose of Creation is that Yahweh the Father wanted to:

b build a house
rb for His Son
tyrb by making a covenant
tyvar for (the sake of) the beginning
There is much more here than I have presented and I will touch on a few points related to this
discussion. Needless to say that at the sod level this single word tells us much about the Will of
Yahweh the Father and the work of Yahshua at creation.
To make my point that we must look at the whole of Scripture from a Hebraic perspective I would
like to make three further illustrations using this first single line of Torah.

.$r,a;h; taew !yIm'v;h' tae !yhila> ar;B; tyviareB]

BA H - R A H

.$r,a;h; taew !yIm'v;h' tae !yhila> ar;B; tyviareB]

In the first line of the Torah there are more sod level secrets for us to look at. The second word,
bah-rah is translated as created. However, this is a weak word in our English language. The word
created can be used to describe something that an artist or craftsman has made and it can even be
used to describe the creation of a child by a man and woman. The Hebrew word for these types of
created is rx'y: yah-tzahr. It is only Yahweh that can bah-rah create something out of
nothing.
In Yochanan (John) chapter 2 there is an account of Yahshua at a wedding in Qanah of Galil.
Christianity teaches that here Jesus turned water into wine. This sounds more like a magic act
than an act of creation. What actually happened was that Yahshua created the fruit of the vine!
Why is the distinction so important? At every Passover celebration the Israelites drink from 4 cups
of wine and at each weekly Shabbat they drink a cup of wine and they recite the following blessing:

@p,G:h' yriP] are/B !l;/[h; &l,m, Wnyhela> hwhy hT;a' &WrB;

Ba-ruch ah-ta Yahweh El-o-hay-nu meh-lehch ha-oh-lahm, bo-ray peh-ree
ha-gahfen.
Blessed are You, Yahweh our Elohim, King of the universe, Who creates the fruit of the vine.
Just a short note on Hebrew grammar most nouns and verbs have a three letter root. In the case
of the word for create those letters are arB. For grammatical purposes sometimes other letters

might be added as in the case of the blessing over the fruit of the vine. The word highlighted is still
the same word.
ALL of the people that were in attendance at that wedding knew that ONLY Yahweh can create
anything and here this man created the fruit of the vine. There is much more in this chapter of
Yochanan but that is another message.

ET

.$r,a;h; taew !yIm'v;h' tae !yhila> ar;B; tyviareB]

The fourth word is ta or et (or also pronounced ate). These two letters combined are the first
letter: a (alef) and the last letter: t (tav) of the Hebrew alef-bet. The word itself has no meaning in
English and is a part of Hebrew grammar. However, the sod meaning here is very deep. If we read
this verse this way:
In the beginning Elohim created the Hebrew alef-bet (or the Hebrew language), etc.
What language does Yahweh speak? Hebrew! See Tzephanyah (Zephaniah) 3:9 which says, For
then I shall turn unto the peoples a clean lip [language], so that they all call on the Name of hwhy, to serve Him with
one shoulder. (emphasis mine for clarification)
As we continue to read in Beresheet (Genesis) we see that Yahweh caused all things to be by
speaking them into existence. He created the language and then used the WORD (the ta alef-tav)
to create everything.
I have been saying that the Brit Chadashah was written in Aramaic with Hebraic or Semitic thinking.
This is a very good proof of that concept. Keep in mind that the Word is the ta Alef Tav and is
the creator and is therefore Yahshua.
In Gilyahna (Revelation) 1:11 in the King James it says, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the
last: 36 these are supposed to be the words of Jesus. Furthermore in Gilyahna 22:13 in the King
James we read, I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. However, The
Scriptures correctly renders these two verses as: Gilyahna (Revelation) 1:11, I am the Aleph and the
Taw 37, the First and the Last, and, Gilyahna 22:13, I am the Aleph and the Taw, the Beginning and the
End, the First and the Last.
It must be noted that Alpha and Omega are Greek letters so they could never be applied to the
ta the alef tav or to the true first and last as we just saw above. There is more Yahshua is
saying here than just being the first of something and the last of something. NOW looking at what
we saw in the first verse of the Torah and these verses in the last book of the whole of Scripture, we
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There is a very interesting discussion on this topic in the free on-line book Was the New Testament Really
Written in Greek? that I discussed above.
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can see actual proof that Yahshua is the creator and he is the finisher of our faithfulness and Torah
obedience as He continues to speak to us in Gilyahna 22:14 21.
Baruch HaShem Yahweh! Blessed is the Name of Yahweh!

Y A H S H UA I S S A LVA T I O N
As we continue to examine Who Yahshua is according to Scripture I want to prove that He is
Salvation. I realize that Christians just accept that Jesus is the Savior but, I must ask the question,
where do you find this? As we read in Yochanan (John) 1:45 Philip found Nethanel and said to him,
We have found Him whom Mosheh wrote of in the Torah, and the prophets: [vwhy of Natsareth the son of
Yoseph. They did not use a Brit Chadashah (New Testament) reference but a Tanakh (Old
Testament) reference. They knew their Tanakh (Scriptures) and from that knowledge they would
know who the Messiah would be. They knew that the Messiah would be the Salvation of Yah. So
where do we find this. Among many of the other Scriptures we can look in Yeshayahu (Isaiah)
chapter 43. I find this chapter pregnant with deep meanings that are in another message but we see
three places where Yeshayahu says that Yahweh is Salvation. These are:
Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 43:3 For I am hwhy your Elohim, the Set-apart One of Yisrael, your Saviour; I gave
Mitsrayim for your ransom, Kush and Seba in your place.
Yeshayahu 43:11 12 I, I am hwhy, and besides Me there is no saviour. I, I have declared and saved
Yeshayahu 43:25 I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and remember your sins no
more.
In these three verses in just this one chapter of Yeshayahu we establish that hwhy is the Savior or is
Salvation. This is easy to see at the pashat level however, at a deeper level there is even more. At
the pashat level we might just say that these three verses say what we see and just go on from there.
However, at the deeper levels we see Yahshua in these three verses.
In verse three the Set-apart One of Yisrael is Yahshua. We will discuss this later.
In verses 11 and 12 we see the words I, I in the Scriptures. In The Scriptures verse 12 should
actually read, I have declared according to the Hebrew text. In verse 11, Yahweh does not
stutter and He is not using the personal pronoun I twice for emphasis. The King James and many
other versions of Scripture translate this part of these verses (and verse 25) as I, even I. This
includes the Jewish Publications Society 38 version using this wording. However, the Stone Edition
Tanakh 39 says, I, only I.
However, the Hebrew of verse 11 begins with:

hwhy ykinOa; ykinOa;

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The Hebrew for the beginning of verse 25 is:

aWh ykinOa; ykinOa;

So why am I making such a big deal about this? Well, Yeshayahu is saying that Yahweh says I, I
(am) 40 Yahweh (verse 11) and he is saying I, I (am) He who blots out transgressions (verse
25). So who is I, I? Who this I, I is found in Yeshayahu 43:3, I am hwhy your Elohim, the Setapart One of Yisrael, your Saviour;
This says Yahweh is our Elohim He is the Set-apart One of Yisrael He is our Savior. Or, for
those mathematicians reading this: Yahweh = Set-Apart One of Yisrael = our Savior.
Lets see what we can find in Scripture.

YA H S H UA A S S AV I O R
Shemuel Bet (2 Samuel) 22:2 3 And he said, hwhy is my rock and my stronghold and my deliverer. My
Elohim is my rock, I take refuge in Him, My shield and the horn of my deliverance, My high tower and my refuge.
My Saviour, You save me from violence.

hwhy, Creator of the heavens, He is Elohim, Former of earth and its Maker,
He established it, He did not create it to be empty, He formed it to be inhabited: I am hwhy, and there is none
Yeshayahu 45:18 For thus said

else.
Yeshayahu 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth. I have not said to the seed of Yaakov,
Seek Me in vain. I am hwhy, speaking righteousness, declaring matters that are straight.
Yeshayahu 45:21 Declare and bring near, let them even take counsel together. Who has announced this from of
old? Who has declared it from that time? Is it not I, hwhy? And there is no mighty one besides Me, a righteous El
and a Saviour, there is none besides Me.
Yeshayahu 45:22 Turn to Me and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am El, and there is none else.
Yeshayahu 45:23 I have sworn by Myself, a word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not return,
so that to Me every knee shall bow, every tongue swear.
Romiyah (Romans) 14:11 For it has been written, As I live, says
tongue shall confess to Elohim.

hwhy, every knee shall bow to Me, and every

Luka (Luke) 1:47 and my spirit has rejoiced in Elohim my Saviour.

Luka 2:11 Because there was born to you today in the city of David a Saviour, who is Messiah, the Master.
Yochanan (John) 4:42 And they said to the woman, We no longer believe because of what you said, for we
ourselves have heard, and we know that this is truly the Messiah, the Saviour of the world.
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Hebrew has no present tense form of the verb to be (hy:h;). This means that there is no Hebrew word for
am, is, or are.

Maaseh Shlichim (Acts) 5:30 32 The Elohim of our fathers raised up [vwhy whom you laid hands on,
hanging Him on a timber. Him, a Prince and a Saviour, Elohim has exalted to His right hand, to give repentance to
Yisrael and forgiveness of sins. And we are His witnesses to these matters, and so also is the Set-apart Spirit whom
Elohim has given to those who obey Him.
Maaseh Shlichim 13:22 23 He raised up for them David as sovereign, to whom also He gave witness and
said, I have found David the son of Yishai, a man after My own heart, who shall do all My desires. From this ones
seed, according to the promise, Elohim raised up for Yisrael a Saviour, [vwhy
Phylypsiyah (Philippians) 3:20 For our citizenship is in the heavens, from which we also eagerly wait for the
Saviour, the Master [vwhy Messiah,
Timtheous Alef (1 Timothy) 1:1 Shaul, an emissary of [vwhy Messiah, according to a command of Elohim
our Saviour, and of the Master [vwhy Messiah, our expectation,
Timtheous Alef 4:10 It is for this that we labour and struggle, because we trust in the living Elohim, who is the
Saviour of all men, particularly of those who believe.
Yochanan Alef (1 John) 4:14 And we have seen and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son, Saviour of
the world.
Teitus (Titus) 2:13 14 looking for the blessed expectation and esteemed appearance of the great Elohim and
our Saviour [vwhy Messiah, who gave Himself for us, to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for Himself a
people, His own possession, ardent for good works.
It looks to me that Rav Shaul is saying in Teitus 2:13 that Yahweh and Yahshua are One.
Furthermore, he says that Yahshua gave Himself (in accordance with Torah) for us to redeem us
from Torah-less-ness (lawlessness). This will cleanse us so that we become a people (being Israel)
for Him. We will become His own possession. We will be ardent or passionate for good
works. The KJV uses the word zealous here for ardent. I must assume that the good works
spoken of here are Torah good works and not just things that make us feel good. They are not
works of the law which are actually man made rules or oral Torah which at that time (and today)
were a big problem. Yahshua addresses this in Mattithyahu (Matthew) 15:8 9 and Markos (Mark)
7:6 7 and elsewhere.

YA H S H UA I S T H E S E T - A PA R T O N E O F Y I S R A E L
Yeshayahu 29:19 41 And the meek ones shall increase their joy in
Set-apart One of Yisrael.

hwhy, and the poor among men rejoice in the

Yeshayahu 41:14 Do not fear, you worm Yaakov, you men of Yisrael! I shall help you, declares hwhy and your
Redeemer, the Set-apart One of Yisrael.
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Yahshua references this verse in Mattithyahu 5:5.

Yeshayahu 47:4 Our Redeemer, hwhy of hosts is His Name, the Set-apart One of Yisrael.
Markos (Mark)1:24 42 saying, Ha! What have we to do with You, [vwhy of Natsareth? Did You come to
destroy us? I know who You are: the Set-apart One of Elohim!
Luka (Luke) 1:35 And the messenger answering, said to her, The Set-apart Spirit shall come upon you, and the
power of the Most High shall overshadow you. And for that reason the Set-apart One born of you shall be called: Son
of Elohim.

YA H S H UA I S T H E K I N G O F I S R A E L
Tehillim (Psalms) 89:18 For hwhy is our shield, And the Set-apart One of Yisrael is our Sovereign.
Yochanan (John)1:47 [vwhysaw Nethanel coming toward Him, and said of him, See, truly a Yisraelite, in
whom is no deceit!
Yochanan 1:49 Nethanel answered and said to Him, Rabbi, You are the Son of Elohim! You are the Sovereign
of Yisrael!

YA H S H UA A S YA H W E H O F H O S T S
There is one other thing found in Scripture that I wish to bring up partially as a rabbit trail and
partially to show us more about Yahshua. In Yeshayahu (Isaiah) chapter 6, there is a very powerful
message that I will not fully discuss here. However, for purposes of this message I will make this
discussion brief. In Yeshayahu 6:1 we see Yeshayahu saying saw hwhy sitting on a throne, high and
lifted up. As he observed this event he also saw seraphim 43 praising Yahweh.
Yeshayahu 6:3 And one cried to another and said, Set-apart, set-apart, set-apart is hwhy of hosts; all the earth is
filled with His esteem!
The King James says:
And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
And the Hebrew Tanakh says:

/d/bK] $r,a;h;Alk; alm] t/ab;x] hwhy v/dq; v/dq; v/dq; rm'a;w hz<Ala, hz< ar;q;w
I have highlighted in yellow the Hebrew word v/dq; or Kadosh which we can translate to Setapart or holy. I believe that 44 the seraphim were not stuttering and they were not emphasizing
their praise to Yahweh by saying Kadosh three times. Notice in verse one that Yeshayahu saw
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Even the demons knew who He is and declared that He is the Set-apart One of Elohim.
A Seraph is a very powerful, fiery creature. The im means that it is a masculine plural Hebrew word.
When I use the phrase I believe that, I am stating something that I have come to believe is true based on
research and other study. I am NOT presenting some kind of great, inspired, TRUTH that should be carved in
stone and presented to the whole world as a TRUTH from Heaven. I am simply expressing an opinion.

Yahweh sitting on a throne. I believe that Yahweh which he saw sitting on the throne is the same
Yahweh that will be seen sitting on the Great White Throne in Gilyahna (Revelation) 20:11 And I
saw a great white throne and Him who was sitting on it. There was ONE sitting on the throne. Yet the
seraphim cried out Kadosh three times. Why? I believe that they were praising Yahweh the
Father, Yahweh the Son (Yahshua) and Yahweh the Ruach Kodesh (the Set-apart Spirit).
Furthermore, in Yeshayahu 6:8 during this same vision we read, And I heard the voice of hwhy, saying,
Whom do I send, and who would go for Us? And I said, Here am I! Send me. The Hebrew for the
English word Us is Wnl; or lah-nu which means us as in more than one person. Again we can
clearly see that there is more than one person speaking.
The next thing we should look at is hwhy of hosts which I have highlighted in light green. The
word hosts is Strongs 6635 which means an army assembled for war. The Hebrew for the
English word hosts is t/ab;x] which is pronounced tzeh-vah-ot 45.
Therefore, Yahshua is Yahweh and He is the Set-apart One of Israel and He is our Savior or
Redeemer. So if we look at Yeshayahu 47:3 we see, Our Redeemer, hwhy of hosts is His Name, the Setapart One of Yisrael. In this verse we find three titles for Yahshua. I will leave this discussion for
another message.
Considering the note above about Yahweh of Hosts when we read Yahudah (Jude) 1:14 15 we see,
And Hanok, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied of these, saying, See, hwhy comes with His myriads of setapart ones, to execute judgment on all, to punish all who are wicked among them concerning all their wicked works
which they have committed in a wicked way, and concerning all the harsh words which wicked sinners have spoken
against Him. Does this mean that Yahweh (of Hosts) comes with His myriads of set-apart ones
(Redeemed house of Jacob) to execute judgment as an army? Interesting!

YA H S H UA I S T H E L AWG I V E R
This will become a very important point as we proceed. Yahshua is the Lawgiver as we see in:
Yeshayahu 33:22 for hwhy is our Judge, hwhy is our Lawgiver, hwhy is our Sovereign, He saves us
We have already identified Yahshua as Yahweh, King and Savior. In the verse below we see that
Yaakov (James) is referring to Yahshua. Notice that the lawgiver in this verse is also the Judge
and is able to save.
Yaakov (James) 4:12 There is one Lawgiver and Judge, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge
another?

Y A H W E H M A K E S A C OV E NA N T W I T H A V R A H A M
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The tz is pronounced like we pronounce the last syllable of pizza. We actually dont pronounce pizza
like it is spelled but we have corrupted the pronunciation of the last syllable. The o in the syllable ot is
pronounced like the o in go.

In Beresheet (Genesis) 13:15 we see that Yahweh promises Avraham, all the land which you see I
shall give to you and your seed forever. Yahweh will seal this promise to Avraham with a blood covenant
in Beresheet chapter 15. There is a great deal in chapter 15 that we will not discuss in this message
but we must address the blood covenant. In Beresheet 15:9 10 we see that Avraham took certain
animals that Yahweh had commanded him and cut them and placed them such that the blood from
the animals would pool together.
In the ANE (Ancient Near East) this would be called cutting a covenant. The covenanters would
walk between the animals getting the blood on the bottoms of their robes. This was a symbol that
they promised to abide by the covenant or this (getting cut in half) would happen to them. This
might sound pretty gruesome to us but this was a way to show that the covenanters took the
covenant promise very seriously.
In Beresheet chapter 15 verse 12 we see that Avraham did not walk through the blood because there
was no way that he could keep the promise of the covenant. He was passive throughout the entire
event accepting Yahwehs grace. In Beresheet 15:17 we read, a smoking oven and a burning torch
passing between those pieces. Yahweh Himself passed through the pieces as a smoking oven and a
burning torch and stepped in the blood and made the covenant with Avraham and his seed forever.
We have already seen that Yahshua is Yahweh. Yahweh is Spirit and remains in heaven however,
Yahshua (Yahweh the Son) can come to earth and interact directly with men. Here we see Yahshua
appearing as a smoking oven and a burning torch. Also notice that the blood covenant here is
with Avraham and his seed (not seeds) which will also be seen again in the Renewed Covenant.
Yahweh restates His covenant with Avraham in Beresheet chapter 17. Verse 2 says, And I give My
covenant between Me and you, and shall greatly increase you. And also note verse 7 which says, And I shall
establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you. It must be noted that Yahweh does
not covenant with any other peoples. His covenant relationship is ONLY with Avraham and his
SEED and not seeds as in other nations (the gentiles or pagans). In Beresheet chapter 17 we also
see that Yahweh commanded Avraham to circumcise all the males of his household as a covenant
sign. This covenant sign will be carried through all the seed of Avraham.
It must be noted that when Yahweh gave the command of circumcision to Avraham that he did not
wait around until the next morning, he did not have a prayer meeting or a staff meeting, he did not
spend any time thinking about it he just did it! And yes it hurt.

YA H S H UA M E E T S AV R A H A M
Avraham was sitting in the door of his tent recovering when, hwhy appeared to him by the terebinth trees
of Mamre, while he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day. (Beresheet 18:1). Notice that it clearly
says hwhy; Yahweh appeared to him. In verses 2 and 3 we read, So he lifted his eyes and looked, and saw
three men standing opposite him. And when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself
to the ground, and said, hwhy, if I have now found favour in Your eyes, please do not pass Your servant by.
I believe that one of these three men was pre-incarnate Yahshua, or Yahweh the Son, in light of
the wording of verse 3. Verse 3 specifically says hwhy: Yahweh. Furthermore, as we continue to

read we find that the other two men go on to destroy Sedom. In chapter 18 we see that Yahshua
reassures Avraham that he will have a son and therefore seed through his wife Sarah.
As I just stated that one of these three men was Yahshua.
In Shemot (Exodus) 15 we see the first Song of Moses 46.
battle, hwhy is His Name. The KJV says man of war
verse is vya ish which means an individual male
anthropomorphism which is using human terms to describe
He is spirit and not flesh.

How can Yahweh be called a man?

At verse 3 we read, hwhy is a man of
The Hebrew word for man in this
person.
This would be like an
Yahwehs characteristics even though

T H E H O U S E O F Y A A K OV (J A C O B )
Avraham will have a son named Yitzchak (Isaac) and Yitzchak will have a son named Yaakov
(Jacob) and Yaakov will have 12 sons. These 12 sons will be the heads of the 12 tribes of Yisrael or
the House of Jacob. Please note that there is not just one tribe; Yehudah (Judah from which we get
the name Jew) but there are 12 tribes. The sons of Yaakov are; Reuven, Shimon, Levi, Yehudah,
Yissaskar, Zevulun, Binyamin, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher and Yoseph. These names can be
found in Shemot (Exodus) 1:2 4. By the way, the reason the book of Exodus is called Shemot is
because the first significant word is t/mv] or Shemot which means names.
Yaakov and his household went to Mitsrayim (Egypt) a total of 70 people. As time passed they
increased in numbers and became slaves to the Mitsrites (Egyptians). The entire House of Yaakov
along with others will eventually leave Mitsrayim in 430 years under the leadership of Moshe
(Moses).
It must be noted that in the Tanakh the House of Yaakov or the descendants of Yaakov are also
called the House of Yisrael. Later we will see that the northern tribes will also be called Yisrael as
well.

YA H S H UA M E E T S M O S H E
Please totally forget about the movie The Ten Commandments; it is fiction.
In Shemot (Exodus) chapter three we see Moshe before the burning bush. He sees a burning
bush which is not consumed by the flames. Shemot 3:2 tells us, And the Messenger of hwhy appeared
to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. Notice that this is specifically a Messenger of
Yahweh or the angel of the LORD as the KJV says. A Messenger or Malach in Hebrew is one
who specifically delivers a message from Yahweh.
However, Shemot 3:4 says, And hwhysaw that he [Moshe] turned aside to see, and Elohim called to him from
the midst of the bush and said, Mosheh! Mosheh! And he said, Here I am. [additional note is mine for
clarity]. Now we see that the Messenger was actually Yahweh and furthermore we see that Yahweh
is also referred to as Elohim. I call your attention to Beresheet (Genesis) 1:1 where we see that
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In Gilyahna (Revelation) 15:3 we read that they shall sing the Song of Moses. If the Old Testament is
done away with as Dispensationalism teaches, then why sing a song found in the Tanakh?

Elohim created the heavens and the earth. I believe that in this verse Yahweh and Elohim are one
and the same and that here Yahweh is in fact Yahshua 47.
I must make mention here of the rest of verse 4. Notice that Yahshua specifically calls out to
Moshe by his name. If you will remember, previously I stated that names are important. That
importance is further discussed in another message. Notice also that when Moshe heard his name
he immediately responded Here I am. In the Hebrew this is ynInh
E i or hih-nay-nee. This word
sometimes gets translated as Behold or Behold me. Oh that we would be so instant in
answering Yahshuas call to us. As we continue to read chapter 3 we see that Yahweh gives Moshe a
mission but Moshes real complaint seems to be that he thinks he is not even worthy to carry out
such a mission in the Name of Yahweh.
In Shemot 3:13 we read, And Mosheh said to Elohim, See, when I come to the children of Yisrael and say to
them, The Elohim of your fathers has sent me to you, and they say to me, What is His Name? what shall I say to
them? This is a fair and proper question for Moshe to ask Yahweh. Yahweh gives him a 2 part
answer in verses 14 and 15.
Shemot 3:14 says, And Elohim said to Mosheh, I am that which I am. And He said, Thus you shall say to
the children of Yisrael, I am has sent me to you. . In Hebrew Elohim says hy<h]a, rv,a} hy<h]a, or ehyeh ah-sher eh-yeh. Most English versions translate this as I AM THAT I AM or something
similar. This is actually a poor translation because the Hebrew words and the Hebraic concept do
not translate easily into English. Please note this is actually NOT Yahwehs Name but something
like the essence of who Yahweh is. This phrase describes Yahweh as I shall be and the Hebrew
word eh-yeh implies that Yahweh is timeless or eternal.
In Shemot 3:15 Yahweh continues, And Elohim said further to Mosheh, Thus you are to say to the children
of Yisrael, hwhy Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Avraham, the Elohim of Yitzchak, and the Elohim of
Yaakov, has sent me to you. This is My Name forever, and this is My remembrance to all generations. There can
be absolutely no mistake here in what Yahweh is saying. He is clearly saying in the Hebrew that His
Name is hwhy that is yud-hey-vav-hey and NOT something else. In the Restoration Scriptures 48
at page 59 regarding this verse we read, Regardless of any other man-made substitute names and
regardless of translators hiding His Name almost 7,000 times in most English translations, YHVH
assures all Yisrael that YHVH is His true everlasting Name, regardless of which language man
speaks or writes. And I personally wish to add regardless of religious tradition and
superstition Also take note that Yahweh is saying that hwhy is His Name forever. As in forever
which is a long time.
A note on how important Yahwehs Name is and why you should know it and use it and stop using
the false names. In Malaki (Malachi) 3:16 we read, Then shall those who fear hwhy speak to one another,
and hwhy listen and hear, and a book of remembrance be written before Him, of those who fear hwhy, and those who
think upon His Name. Please remember this verse the next time someone tells you that it doesnt

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matter what name you call God. He takes His Name so serious that there will be a book of
remembrance where your name can be written if you fear Yahweh and think upon His Name.

Y I S R A E L L E AV E S M I T S R A Y I M
In Shemot (Exodus) chapter 12 we see Moshe leading Yisrael out of Mitsrayim (Egypt). The events
leading up to this event and the command of the Pesach (Passover) are another message. The
question would be who left Egypt? Well, some religious traditions, especially replacement
theology and Dispensationalism says that the Jews left Egypt. This is taught not only in
Christianity but also Judaism. But is this true Scripturally?
In Shemot 12:38 we read, And a mixed multitude went up with them too, also flocks and herds, very much
livestock. This does not say the house of Judah only or anything like that. Torah clearly says a
mixed multitude. Let us also look at Shemot 12:41 which will help clarify who this mixed
multitude is, all the divisions of hwhy went out from the land of Mitsrayim. The mixed multitude
are called all the divisions The KJV says all the hosts and this word hosts or divisions is
Strongs #H6635 which is h[bx which is tz-vah-ah and means, a mass of persons, especially
regularly organized for war (an army). The actual Hebrew word in the Torah is t/ab]xi or tzeevot or hosts. We see this word used in Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 6:3 to describe Yahweh seated on the
throne.
If we were to continue to read through Torah we would see that Yahweh commanded that the camp
of Israel be set up in a certain way. The Tabernacle would be in the middle and the tribes would
encircle the Tabernacle in a certain order. This discussion is in another message but this
arrangement of the camp is a military encampment of the time of the ANE.
These all the divisions of hwhy are this mixed multitude and Yahweh is identifying them as
belonging to Him they are His people. The mixed multitude would consist of all the House of
Yaakov or the House of Yisrael all 12 tribes AND those that had aligned themselves to the
House of Yaakov. This certainly would be those that put the blood on their door posts the night
before. Those that are not the direct descendants of Yaakov could be strangers or sojourners
or even non-Israelites that married into the House of Israel.
Further evidence that the mixed multitude consisted of others than the House of Yaakov is found
in Shemot 12:49 which says, There is one Torah for the native-born and for the stranger who sojourns among
you. This verse follows the law of Passover and shows that Torah applies to all who are Yisrael.
It is also evidence that all the divisions included strangers and sojourners or goyim meaning
gentiles.

T H E N O N -I S R A E L I T E M U S T B E C O M E A N I S R A E L I T E
The non-Israelite or strangers and sojourners must become Israelites as we see in Shemot 12
verse 48 which says, And when a stranger sojourns with you and shall perform the Passover to hwhy, let all his
males be circumcised, and then let him come near and perform it, and he shall be as a native of the land. But let no
uncircumcised eat of it. When these former gentiles or pagans accept Yahwehs Torah and obey His

commands they are grafted into Israel. They are Israelites and are absorbed into one or another
of the tribes of Israel.
I wish to show one of the greatest examples of this conversion from gentile pagan idol
worshipper to Torah obedient follower of Yahweh. In the account of Root (or Ruth) we see a
former gentile who is in the lineage of Yahshua. In Root (Ruth) 1:16 we read, But Ruth said, Do
not urge me to leave you, or to go back from following after you. For wherever you go, I go; and wherever you stop over,
I stop over. Your people is my people, and your Elohim is my Elohim. The Scriptures has a footnote which
says, An example of how a gentile is grafted in among the Chosen People 49. Ruth, this exMoabite, later on became the great-grandmother of David and is listed in the lineage of Messiah! I
like to call non-Israelites, or those that do not know if they are Israel or not, that join Israel in the
same manner as Ruth did Ruthians. But thats another message.
Above I stated that Yahweh deals with humans only through a covenant. Yahweh has a covenant
with only one people the descendants of Avraham. In Beresheet (Genesis) 17 we see the
covenant sign of circumcision. Notice in verse 23 that Avraham circumcised all the males in his
household. At this time Yitzchak had not been born but he circumcised Yishmael and the rest of
the household. This is proof that by obeying Yahwehs command Avraham brought into the
household of Yahweh strangers.

T H E H O U S E O F J AC O B C O N S I S T S O F
Physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob PLUS a mixed multitude (strangers, sojourners,
adopted / grafted in). The Redeemed House of Jacob is Those that have accepted Yahshua as
Messiah are called the House of Jacob. (Yahshua does not rule over a house of gentiles 50). Luka
1:32 33 says, He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High. And hwhy Elohim shall give
Him the throne of His father David. And He shall reign over the house of Yaakov forever, and there shall be no
end to His reign. 51

Y I S R A E L A T M O U N T S I NA I
Shemot chapter 19 begins the account of the House of Yisrael at Mount Sinai and the receiving of
the Commands of Yahweh. Yahweh speaks to Moshe in verses 3 6 saying: And Mosheh went up to
Elohim, and hwhy called to him from the mountain, saying, This is what you are to say to the house of Yaakov,
and declare to the children of Yisrael: You have seen what I did to the Mitsrites, and how I bore you on eagles wings
and brought you to Myself. And now, if you diligently obey My voice, and shall guard My covenant, then you shall
be My treasured possession above all the peoples for all the earth is Mine and you shall be to Me a reign of priests
and a set-apart nation. Those are the words which you are to speak to the children of Yisrael. (Emphasis mine)

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By Chosen People The Scriptures is saying Israel and not only the Jews which is un-Scriptural
replacement theology.
There is another discussion in this message regarding this statement and the fact that Christians are being lead
astray by replacement theology.
The Scriptures has as a foot note for these two verses, Verses 32 and 33 confirm the prophecies Ps. 2, Ps.
89:14-34, Isa. 9:7, Isa. 16:5, Jer. 23:3-6, Jer. 30:9, Ezek. 37:24, Dan. 2:44, Dan. 7:18-27, Mic. 5:2-4, Acts 1:6-7,
Rev. 11:15.

There is much said here that needs discussing. First notice that Yahweh is the speaker and he tells
Moshe to say to the house of Yaakov, and declare to the children of Yisrael:. These will be Yahwehs
Words and not Moshes. Furthermore, they will be delivered to the actual House of Yaakov (Jacob)
(the descendants of Yaakov) AND the children of Yisrael and the mixed multitude. Next notice
that it is Yahweh who brought Yisrael to Himself. His desire is to have the House of Israel as His
own people.
The next statement is very important and gets misused by Christianity. It clearly is an IF THEN
statement. In other words, IF something, THEN something else. Yahweh says, if you diligently
obey My voice, and shall guard My covenant, then you shall be My treasured possession above all the peoples and
you shall be to Me a reign of priests and a set-apart nation. Beyond a shadow of a doubt Yahweh is saying
that IF we (being Israel) obey His voice THEN we (Israel) will be His treasured possession and a
a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation as the KJV says (which most people are familiar with).
Christianity teaches that they are a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation simply because they are
Christians. This cannot be true unless they are following Yahwehs commands as we see in the
verses above.
Israels immediate response is found in Shemot 19:8 which says, And all the people answered together and
said, All that hwhy has spoken we shall do. The entire House of Yisrael (the native born and the
stranger) committed to the commands that they were yet to receive. They did not go off and have
a prayer meeting to see what the Lord has to say; they did not wait and see what these commands
were going to be; they committed themselves without hesitation.

YA H S H UA I S O N M O U N T S I N A I
In the rest of chapter 19 of Shemot we see the people of Israel preparing themselves to receive the
Torah from Yahweh on Mount Sinai. In verse 18 we read, And Mount Sinai was in smoke, all of it,
because hwhy descended upon it in fire. And its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and all the mountain
trembled exceedingly. We have already seen that Yahshua appeared to Avraham to make a covenant
with him and his seed as a smoking furnace so we see here that it is Yahshua who is on Mount
Sinai. We have also seen that Yahshua is the law giver or the Torah giver so it is Yahshua that
will actually give the Torah to Israel.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

Shemot chapter 20 gives us the Ten Commandments or the Ten Words or the Ten
Utterances. They begin with verse one which says, And Elohim spoke all these Words, saying,.
Notice that again it is Elohim speaking which implies that the speaker is Yahweh the Father
Yahweh the Son Yahweh the Ruach Kodesh.
I have seen many Ten Commandment signs in peoples yards, in business windows, even as
bumper stickers. They usually say that the first command is verse 3. This is not true! The first
commandment or Word is verse 2 which says, I am hwhy your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of
Mitsrayim, out of the house of slavery. The first part of this Word states that it is Yahweh speaking and

He specifically identifies Himself as the Elohim who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, out of the
house of slavery. He cannot be confused with another mighty-one. 52 The first words of verse 2 in
Hebrew are:

*yh,la> hwhy ykinOa;

This verse does not use words such as the Lord, or Adonai or, HaShem, or Jehovah or
even God. It specifically says I am hwhy your Elohim. Please remember that this is the First
Command or the First Word. And you might also want to consider Who is speaking and what He is
saying about Himself. It is Yahshua as the speaker!
Notice also that Yahweh is OUR Elohim. He is not my Elohim or your Elohim but OUR Elohim.
Notice that Yahshua in Mattithyahu (Matthew) 6:9, in what Christianity calls the Lords Prayer,
uses the same terminology by saying OUR Father or Avinu (Hebrew for our father) and
Ahvon (Aramaic for our father). And you might ask just exactly who is this our anyway? As
we read the preceding chapters in Shemot, we discovered that this our is the whole House of
Israel. That is the House of Yaakov and the strangers that have attached themselves to Israel. It
must be noted that the commandments do not belong to the nations. They do not belong to
pagans. They are ONLY for the redeemed House of Israel. More on this later.

T H E R E I S G R AC E I N T H E T E N C O M M A N D M E N T S
In Shemot 20:3-5 we are told that we are not to have any other mighty-ones in His face and that we
are not to make any carved images and bow down to them. He is a jealous El (verse 5). He is
clearly saying that it is He that we shall love hwhy [our] Elohim with all [our] heart, and with all [our]
being, and with all [our] might. (Devarim (Deuteronomy) 6:5, emphasis mine).
In Shemot 20:6 we read, but showing kindness to thousands, to those who love Me and guard My
commands. In the KJV we see the word mercy instead of kindness. The word kindness is ds,j,
or chesed in the Hebrew. It means unmerited favor or Yahweh bestows upon us what we do
not deserve. I have a serious bone to pick with the New International Version 53 which translates the
word chesed as love most of the time that it appears in the Tanakh. By doing so, the NIV is
changing the words of Scripture to meet their own agenda. If the words they translate are not true
then there must be a term for that
The Hebrew word chesed appears 251 times in the Tanakh and the Greek equivalent word, eleos,
appears only 50 times in the Brit Chadashah. Thus the Tanakh has five times more grace than the
Brit Chadashah.

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The Scriptures and I use the term mighty-one to denote false gods. It is not that they are mighty in the
same manner that Yahweh is mighty. They are, however, mighty in the eyes of the gentiles and in this
specific case in the eyes of the former Egyptians and other gentiles that are the strangers in the House of
Israel.
I call the NIV the Not Inspired Version. It is clearly an agenda translation making the Old Testament to
be grace-less and the New Testament to be grace-full.

It seems that grace or chesed and eleos imply merciful, kind, favor, beneficent, benevolent,
compassionate. The words, in general use in Scripture pertaining to Yahwehs relationship toward
man is one of unmerited favor. The antonym of grace is domineering, dominating, cruel,
rigorous, hard, exacting, austere, severe, stern, ungracious. However, dispensationalist Christianity 54
assumes that law (actually according to their teaching, anything in the Old Testament) is the
antithesis of grace and therefore, law seems to be the antonym of grace. Thus, anytime the
word law appears in the New Testament in most English translations it is assumed to be bad
as in anti-grace. The mantra for dispensationalist Christianity is we are not under the law but
under grace. This will lead to rebellion against Yahweh which we will discuss later.

T H E S A B BAT H C O M M A N D
In Shemot 20:8 10 we have the command for the weekly Shabbat (Sabbath). We read, Remember
the Sabbath day, to set it apart. Six days you labour, and shall do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath
of hwhy your Elohim. You do not do any work you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor
your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. This is a command and it
refers to the seventh day and not the first day. There are also other Sabbaths that we will find in
Vayikrah (Leviticus) chapter 23 but that is another message. More will be said on this command
later. Remember, that this is the command of Yahshua and he expects His people to follow His
commands. This is not the Jewish Sabbath either. It is Israels Sabbath it is a Sabbath of
Yahweh Israels Elohim. In Yochanan (John) 14:15 Yahshua says, If you love Me, you shall guard My
commands.. And in Yochanan Alef (1 John) 2:3 4 we read, And by this we know that we know Him, if
we guard His commands. The one who says, I know Him, and does not guard His commands, is a liar, and the
truth is not in him.

WE WILL DO AND WE WILL HEAR

In Shemot chapters 20 to 23 Yahshua gives the Whole House of Israel various commandments. In
Shemot 24:3 Moshe, came and related to the people all the Words of hwhy and all the right-rulings. And all
the people answered with one voice and said, All the Words which hwhy has spoken we shall do. As we saw
above in Shemot 19:8 the Whole House of Israel said, All that hwhy has spoken we shall do. And
now they are restating that same promise. In Shemot 24:4 Moshe writes down all the Words of
Yahweh and then in verse 7 we read that he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the
people. The Whole House of Israel has now heard the Word.
In the rest of Shemot 24:7 we read, And they said, All that hwhy has spoken we shall do, and obey..
At least thats the English translation. The KJV says, and they said, All that the LORD hath said will
we do, and be obedient. The Hebrew for this part of the verse is more revealing. It says:

[m;v]nIw hc,[}n" hwhy rB,DiArv,a} lKo

In this phrase, the last 2 words [m;v]nIw hc,[}n" (naaseh veh-nish-mah) literally means in English wewill-do and-we-will-listen or we-will-do and-we-will-hear. Actually the idea behind this statement
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was a deep seated desire to practice first the Torah of Yahshua and then to understand the depths
and details of the Words of Torah as they did them. We as Israel today can do the same thing. As
we begin to hear the Words of Torah and the commands of Yahweh and we have a heart to follow
them then we start right then and there. We dont need to go to classes on how to honor the
Sabbath, for example. We begin by not working on Shabbat as we are commanded in Torah. As we
continue to practice this command we will learn more and our obedience will become more
meaningful to us. More on the word obey later.
When we say [m;v]nIw hc,[}n" (naaseh veh-nish-mah) we are saying I want to do with my actions and
then hear or understand and learn why I am doing what I am doing. This implies a trust in
Yahshua that His commands are good for us. In Mattithyahu (Matthew) 11:30, Yahshua says, For
My yoke is gentle and My burden is light. His Torah is not a burden, His commands are easy to follow.
It is the commands of men that are a burden and even a type of slavery 55.
We also see that Yahshuas brother, Yaakov in Yaakov (James) 1:22 says, And become doers of the
Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. And in Yaakov 2:14 he says, My brothers, what use is it for
anyone to say he has belief but does not have works? This belief is unable to save him. Even Rav Shaul says in
Romiyah (Romans) 2:13 56 For not the hearers of the Torah are righteous in the sight of Elohim, but the doers of
the law shall be declared right.
Yahshua condemns those that do not follow His Torah in Mattithyahu 7:21 23 by saying, Not
everyone who says to Me, Master, Master, shall enter into the reign of the heavens, but he who is doing the desire of
My Father in the heavens. Many shall say to Me in that day, Master, Master, have we not prophesied in Your
Name, and cast out demons in Your Name, and done many mighty works in Your Name? And then I shall declare
to them, I never knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness (or Torah-less-ness)! (emphasis mine).
This concept of we will do and we will hear is going to be hard for the Christian to handle because
of our Greek/Roman/Western training. We expect to know about something before we do it. I
think this concept is not saying that we should blindly proceed down an unknown path doing things
just because Judaism or Messianic-ism or whoever-ism is doing them. We must have the faith
that Torah, that was written by Yahshua and given to us by Him, is Truth and that his Words and
commands are just. This faith will allow us to obey Him with confidence. This obedience will also
grow with our love for Him and our trust in Him.
At Mount Sinai, once Israel accepted the Torah from Yahshua there was no turning back. They had
the opportunity to refuse or exercise their freedom of choice like the rest of the nations that
Yahweh presented the Torah to 57. However, they chose to obey so they committed themselves and
could no longer exercise their freedom of choice. They were committed! This also applies to us
today, right now. Any of us that read these words in this message have the freedom to accept or
reject them. If you reject them you will be on the Torah-less side of the fence, as it were. If you
accept them then you will be on the Torah side of the fence. If you accept them then there is no
turning back you are committed.
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This is the meaning of works of the law as seen in Galutyah (Galatians) particularly chapter 3. The works
of the law that Rav Shaul is speaking of is NOT the written Torah otherwise he would be speaking against
Yahshua.
It seems to me that this verse is a contradiction to the Christian teaching that Paul did away with the law.
This statement is according to ancient Jewish tradition.

T H E W O R D O B E Y F RO M A H E B R A I C P E R S P E C T I V E
Yahshua, His talmidim (students) and the other writers of the Brit Chadashah were NOT GREEKS
they were Hebrews and spoke and thought Aramaic and Hebrew 58. Furthermore, the Torah
obedience and submission that we wish to examine are the meanings that Yahweh gave to those
words in Torah, that is, in Hebrew, and NOT the meanings we might get from a Greek translation
or from our understanding of the English word obey.
We Greek/Roman/Westerners think of the word obey as meaning to follow instructions or
behave in accordance with a law, rule, or order. I have found that the apparent definition that
Christianity has of this word is to be controlled by something like law. On the other hand I was
once taught in the Christian church that I had to obey the laws of men. If I went 56 MPH in a 55
MPH speed limit zone I was sinning and breaking the law and so forth. I was dis-obeying.
Any of us that have been in the military have an entirely different understanding of the word
obey. To us it means to already be doing it as the words come out of the commanders mouth.
There is no questioning and there is no thinking allowed. Actually that works fine for the military
but that is not what obey means Hebraically.
The first place in Torah where we see Yahweh using the word obey is Shemot 19:5 which we have
already seen above. Shemot 19:5 says, And now, if you diligently obey My voice, and shall guard My
covenant

TO OBEY IS TO HEAR
The word obey here in verse 5 is Strongs #8085 which, according to the Strongs Lexicon is
shama meaning to hear, to listen, to obey and also to understand and to discern.
The actual Hebrew for verse 5 is:

hl;gUs] yli !t,yyIh]wI ytiyriB] ta, !t,r]m'v]W yliqoB] W[m]v]ti ['/mv; !ai
Im sha-mo-ah tish-meh-u beh-ko-lee ush-mar-tehm eht beh-ree-tee
vih-yee-tehm lee seh-gu-lah
Which says literally, if to-obey you-obey to-voice-of-me and-you-keep *** covenant-of-me
then-you-will-be to-me possession.
The second and third words for obey in the Hebrew text above has as a root [mv or shema
which means to hear. Without going into a detailed word study, we get the sense that the word
obey used in Torah means to hear or to hear intelligently with intent to obey.

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For a better understanding of the differences between Greek and Hebrew thinking see, Marvin R. Wilson,
1989, Our Father Abraham, (Grand Rapids, Mich., Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company)

SPIRIT OF OBEDIENCE
Throughout Scripture we find many Bible Heroes such as Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov, David
and many, many more who demonstrate a Spirit of Obedience. These people had a mature
relationship with Yahweh and that relationship was demonstrated in their habit of obedience to the
will of Yahweh. Mature Believers also have this Spirit of Obedience and demonstrate it by seeking
Yahwehs will for their lives and trying to live it. The writer of Hebrews discusses this maturity in
Ivrim (Hebrews) 6:1 3. I am not referring to mature as in old or people that have been
Christians for many years.
I would say that the mature believer is described in Devarim (Deuteronomy) 10:12 13 where we
read, And now, Yisrael, what is hwhy your Elohim asking of you, but to fear hwhy your Elohim, to walk in all
His ways and to love Him, and to serve hwhy your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being, to guard the
commands of hwhy and His laws which I command you today for your good? Yahweh expects His committed
Believers to fear Him and follow His ways. Yahweh is seeking people that have a heart to be
obedient to Him and do His will.
To do these things outlined in verses 12 and 13 above, takes a steer type commitment rather than
a chicken type commitment. The steer type commitment comes from the steak and eggs
breakfast analogy. The chicken has only a casual commitment to the breakfast while the steer is
completely committed. Yahweh is fully aware of who is committed to Him and, therefore, who will
have a Spirit of Obedience 59.
Many mature Christian Believers have a Spirit of Obedience of a sort but they are obeying the
wrong things. They have been in the church for so long and under the churches doctrines and
theologies for so long that they believe that the unbiblical things they are doing is the will of God,
as they would say it. They are under the delusion, for example, that attendance at church on Sunday
satisfies the fourth commandment. Or being at sun-rise services on Easter is the will of God.
I will say that the church, has robbed these Believers of Yahwehs great and wonderful blessings by
what it is teaching. I also believe that many of these teachers (pastors or shepherds) are just reteaching what they were taught and might be excused. On the other hand, these pastors have no
excuse before Yahweh because they are able to read and understand what Scripture teaches. An
examination of Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 23:1-4 and Yechezqel (Ezekiel) 34 might be of interest here.
Over the past many years, I have been teaching Torah obedience to many Christian Believers and I
have discovered that there really are many people out there that really want to follow Yahweh and, I
believe, that they want this Spirit of Obedience. We have many promises from Yahweh and one of
those promises is that He will put His Torah in our hearts and in our minds and He will be our
Elohim and we will be His people (see Yirmeyahu 31:32 60).

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Yahwehs ways.
Most English Bibles such as the King James have verse 32 as verse 33.

W H AT D O E S I T M E A N T O F E A R YA H W E H 61?
Moshe had just written the whole Torah scroll that Yahweh had given him and in Devarim
(Deuteronomy) 31:9 11 he says to the Levites that at the end of the seven years (the release year or
the Year of Jubilee) that they will assemble the Whole House of Yisrael during Sukkot (the Feast of
Tabernacles) and read this Torah before all Yisrael in their hearing. (verse 11). In Devarim 31:12 we
are told, Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your sojourner who is within your
gates, so that they hear, and so that they learn to fear hwhy your Elohim and guard to do all the Words of this
Torah.
Notice the green highlight this is who of the Whole House of Yisrael is to be assembled. It
includes all of the people and the sojourners. Everyone is to hear the Torah read aloud so that they
do the two things highlighted in yellow. One, to fear 62 Yahweh and two, to guard to do all the
Words of this Torah. No one would be able to say that they didnt know.
Yochanan (John) 1:17 tells us that, for the Torah was given through Mosheh the favour and the truth
came through [vwhy Messiah. The word favour 63 here is the Greek word charis means charm,
beauty, loveliness, favor and preciousness. This word does not mean the same as chesed
unmerited favor. Christianity leads us to believe the law was given through Moses but now we have
grace through Jesus. (KJV with my addition). This is incorrect because of the incorrect understanding
of grace in Hebrew and Greek. Once we correctly translate grace as the precious and lovely
words of Torah, it all falls into place. Therefore, Yochanan 1:17 might correctly read like this: The
Torah was given through Moshe and the Torahs beauty (chen) loveliness, charm [grace], and truth
was realized through Messiah Yahshua. This makes sense in the light of the whole of Yahwehs
word. Remember: Scripture cannot contradict Scripture.
The Tanakh concept to fear Yahweh is to keep His commandments and His commandments are
chesed, or grace and mercy. Another way of saying this is: those who receive His chesed or grace
are those who accept Yahwehs commandments and fear Him. This statement can also say, he
who does not accept Yahwehs commandments and fear Him do not receive His chesed or grace.
Thus if you are not following Yahwehs commands then you are not under grace!

T H E G O L D E N C A L F WO R S H I P S Y S T E M
We need to discuss this topic and this seems like a good place to do so. This topic will become
important as we continue because it shows us a pattern for Israel from the days of Moshe to today.
We might also call this part of the message, Replacing Yahwehs Commanded Worship System
With Mans Worship System. This portion of The Message For Our Time is part of a longer and
more detailed message.

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I owe much of the information in the section to Avi ben Mordachis book Messiah Volume 1.
The word fear is arey: or yahray which means to hold in awe or to reverence.
The Scriptures uses British spelling which we Americans consider incorrect spelling.

THE FIRST GOLDEN CALF EPISODE

Shemot (Exodus) 32:1-9 discusses Israel making a golden calf to replace Yahweh. I have heard
many preachers preach that this is Israel reverting to the idolatry of Egypt. This is not so. Israel
wants to serve or obey Yahweh. We have already seen this above in Shemot 24:7. Notice that the
people of Israel agree to be obedient. If we read all of Shemot 24, we will see that Moshe and the
Elders of Israel go up the mountain to make a covenant with Yahweh. And then Moshe goes up
into the midst of the cloud on Sinai for 40 days and nights (Shemot 24:18). In Shemot chapters 24
to 31, Yahweh gives Moshe instructions on how He wants to be worshipped. Read these chapters
yourself and you will see that Yahweh is EXTREMELY detailed in how the Tabernacle is to be
built. It is to be built after the pattern of the Tabernacle in Heaven before Yahweh.
I really have to stress this. Yahweh/Yahshua give Moshe commands that will be part of Torah and
are specific. Yahweh/Yahshua leaves no doubt in how the Tabernacle was to be built 64. He gave
Moshe every tiny detail. He gave Moshe all the details of how the Levites were to come before Him.
If we, as Israel are to worship Yahweh then we must do it EXACTLY like He commanded and not
how we want to out of our own convenience. Yahweh/Yahshua said specifically what day His
Shabbat (Sabbath) was to be and He said that there would never be a change to His Set-apart days.
The seventh day Shabbat is EXACTLY the day Yahweh chose for us to meet with Him each week.
The church fathers 65 and the Roman Catholic Church 66 changed the day to the day of the sun (sun
worship).
Yahweh does not change. Therefore, His commands do not change at the whim of men. Yaakov
(James) 1:17 says, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of turning. And in Malaki (Malachi) 3:6
we see, For I am hwhy, I shall not change.

S H E M O T C H A P T E R 32 67
When Moshe had been up on Mount Sinai the people of Israel get impatient. In Shemot 32:1 we
see, For this Mosheh, the man who brought us up out of the land of Mitsrayim, we do not know what has
become of him.. Moshe did not come down from the mountain BEFORE the 40 days and nights were
up. I understand that it was ancient tradition that if someone were lost in the wilderness for 40 days
and nights, they were considered dead. The people must have assumed that he was dead and they
took matters into their own hands.

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Later in Torah we will see that Yahweh is specific in all other matters. Think about this for a minute.
Yahwehs commands are clear and concise. You cannot go wrong if you follow them. Furthermore, Yahwehs
commands are easy for us to follow (see Devarim (Deuteronomy) 30:11). It is mans commands like the
works of the law which is not Torah at all but the commands of a strict Jewish sect of the days of Late
Second Temple times. Yahweh did not write the works of the law; man did!
Most of the church fathers were pagans with no or little knowledge of Torah and they meant to do away
with all things Jewish and replace them with pagan things such as worshipping of the day of the sun and
calling it The Lords Day. (which lord??)
This information is presented in other messages.
There is a great deal more to this part of the message in another message entitled, The Golden Calf Worship
System found on our website.

The people of Israel really meant to worship Yahweh, but without Torah or instructions, they did
not know how. They did not know what Yahwehs EXACT instructions were. They feared
Yahweh and had promised to obey His commands but rather than wait for the teacher Moshe,
they sought to devise another worship system to worship Yahweh. The only thing they knew
about worshipping a mighty-one or god was what they learned in Egypt.
If they had wanted to return to the idolatry of Egypt and abandon Yahweh, then they would have
demanded of Aharon (Aaron) to return to Egypt. There is nothing in the text that indicates that
they were murmuring to return to Egypt.
Aharon made a golden calf and in Shemot 32:5 he said, And Aharon called out and said, Tomorrow
is a festival to hwhy. By making the golden calf and worshipping it, Israel disobeys the first three
commandments. In Shemot 20:2, Yahweh says, I am Yahweh your Elohim. In Shemot 32:4 Israel
says that the golden calf is their god or elohim" that brought them out of the land of Egypt.

In Shemot 32:7 we see Yahweh saying to Moshe, for your people which you brought out of the land of
Egypt have corrupted themselves. Yahweh disowns Israel! Why? Shemot 32:8 says, they have turned
aside out of the way which I commanded them. They disobeyed even the little Torah that they knew.
Moshe pleads with Yahweh not to destroy Israel and Yahweh concedes. There is more to what
happened that you can read in the rest of Shemot 32.

T H E C H U RC H W A S B O R N A T M T . S I NA I
It is now necessary to add to our discussion some facts about Israel receiving the Torah at Mount
Sinai from Yahshua. In Maaseh Shlichim (Acts) 7:36 we read, This one (Moshe) led them out, after he
had done wonders and signs in the land of Mitsrayim, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years. And
in Maaseh Shlichim 7:38 we read, This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the Messenger who
spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received the living Words to give to us

The KJV of Acts 7:38, This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in
the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
The word church or assembly as used in the Brit Chadashah is the Greek word ekklesia
(Strongs #G1557) which means: the assembly of the Israelites, an assembly of Christians, a
called out assembly.
This same word for church in Hebrew is lh;q; or Kah-hal or Strongs H06951 which means,
assembly, company, congregation, multitude. In Devarim (Deuteronomy) 9:10 we read, Then
hwhy gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of Elohim, and on them were all the Words which hwhy
had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. The KJV for this verse
says, And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written
according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the
assembly. In both cases the Strongs number for the word assembly is H06951 or Kahhal.
Further evidence of the church or assembly (kahhal) being at Mount Sinai is found in Devarim
10:4 which says, And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten Words, which hwhy had
spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. Then hwhy gave them to me
Kahal =

lh;q; = an assembly or congregation the same word as church.

T H E D AY O F T H E A S S E M B LY
We have already seen in Maaseh Shlichim 7:38 that, This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness
with the Messenger who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received the living Words to give to

us The Aramaic Peshitta 68 for Maaseh Shlichim 7:38 uses the Hebrew word lh;q;B' bah-kah-hal
which means in the assembly. However, in Devarim (Deuteronomy) 9:10 we read, Then hwhy
gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of Elohim, and on them were all the Words which hwhy had
spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. And also in Devarim 18:15
16 we read, hwhy your Elohim shall raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brothers.
Listen to Him, according to all you asked of hwhy your Elohim in Horev in the day of the assembly,
Clearly we see that the Assembly or Church (ekklesia in Greek and Kahhal in Hebrew) was at
Sinai. We also see the term day of the assembly or lh;q;h' !/yB] or beh-yom ha-kah-hal which
means on-day-of the-assembly. I believe that the day of the assembly is the day of the church
and it is clearly the day at Sinai. Also take note in Devarim 18:15 that Yahweh will raise up for you
a Prophet who is actually Yahshua.

T H E C H U RC H WA S R E B O R N I N A C T S C H A P T E R 2
Traditional (or dispensationalist) Christianity teaches that the church was born in Acts chapter 2 but
if the church was already at Sinai during the giving of the Torah then how can it be born in Acts
chapter 2? The fact is that it is not born but it is re-born as in born again.
This re-birth of the Assembly is also discussed in Yechezqel (Ezekiel) 11:19 20 which says, And
I shall give them one heart, and put a new spirit within you. And I shall take the stony heart out of their flesh, and
give them a heart of flesh, so that they walk in My laws, and guard My right-rulings, and shall do them. And they
shall be My people and I shall be their Elohim. And we also see this re-birth discussed in Yechezqel
36:26 27 which says, And I shall give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. And I shall take the
heart of stone out of your flesh, and I shall give you a heart of flesh, and put My Spirit within you. And I shall cause
you to walk in My laws and guard My right-rulings and shall do them.
There is a great deal being said here if this is speaking to the assembly (or church as we have
seen above) which must be the Whole House of Israel which I believe it is. It says they (Jacob or
Israel) had a heart of stone (they did not follow Torah) Yahweh gives them a heart of flesh (they
will follow Torah). Yahweh will put the Ruach Kodesh within them AND He shall cause
them to walk in His Torah. The assembly or church does not just get the Holy Spirit so
that they can feel good, laugh, fall out, or get all the things they want. The gift of the Ruach
Kodesh empowers believers to follow Yahwehs Torah.
In todays church there seems to be a lot of Holy Spirit abuse. Maaseh Shlichim (Acts) chapter 2
is used to justify much of this Holy Spirit abuse along with teachings and traditions that are of
men. In Maaseh Shlichim 2:16 17 we read, But this is what was spoken by the prophet Yoel: And it
shall be in the last days, says Elohim, that I shall pour out of My Spirit on all flesh. This is a reference to
Yoel (Joel) 2:28 which says, And after this it shall be that I pour out My Spirit on all flesh. However,
before you get all excited read the rest of Yoel. In verse 27 we read, And you shall know that I am in
the midst of Yisrael, and that I am hwhy your Elohim and there is no one else Yahweh cannot be in the
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midst of a gentile church, He is only in the midst of a redeemed Yisrael (more on this elsewhere in
this message).
If we look at all of the text of Maaseh Shlichim chapter 2 and read it in context, we see that
everyone who calls on the Name of hwhy shall be saved (verse 21). This verse references back to
Yoel 2:28 32. we know that Yahshua is Salvation which is discussed elsewhere in this message
so by calling on the Name of YAH-shua we receive Salvation. We see in Maaseh Shlichim 4:12
that, there is no deliverance in anyone else, for there is no other Name under the heaven given among men by
which we need to be saved. (emphasis mine). Maaseh Shlichim 4:10 tells us that the Name is [vwhy
(Yahshua) and not the Greek name Iesous or Isous 69 or its English translation Jesus. There is
more on this elsewhere in this message.
In Maaseh Shlichim chapter 2 we read a discourse by Kepha (Peter to the Christian church). In
this discourse at Maaseh Shlichim 2:37 38 we read, And having heard this, they were pierced to the heart,
and said to Kepha and the rest of the emissaries, Men, brothers, what shall we do? And Kepha said to them,
Repent, and let each one of you be immersed in the Name of [vwhy Messiah for the forgiveness of sins. And you
shall receive the gift of the Set-apart Spirit. In this message I discuss repentance in more detail but what
Kepha was telling the people at the Temple 70 was that they were to return to Torah (the meaning
of the word repent).

T H E R E B O R N C H U RC H I S T H E R E D E E M E D H O U S E O F I S R A E L
The House of Yisrael or the House of Jacob consists of the Physical descendants of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob PLUS a mixed multitude (strangers, sojourners, adopted / grafted in). In Luka
(Luke) 1:32 33 we read, He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High. And hwhy Elohim
shall give Him the throne of His father David. And He shall reign over the house of Yaakov forever, and there shall
be no end to His reign. Those that have accepted Yahshua as Messiah are called the Redeemed House
of Israel or the Redeemed House of Jacob. (Yahshua does not rule over a house of gentiles).
The New (renewed) Covenant was made ONLY with the House of Israel and the House of
Judah. See Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 31:31 which says, See, the days are coming, declares hwhy, when I
shall make a new covenant with the house of Yisrael and with the house of Yahudah. We also see this repeated
in Ivrim (Hebrews) 8:8 which says, For finding fault with them, He says, See, the days are coming, says
hwhy, when I shall conclude with the house of Yisrael and with the house of Yahudah a renewed covenant.
When Yahshua died on the stake He ushered in this New Covenant.
Traditional Christianity says that there was something wrong with the law based on their
misunderstanding of Ivrim (Hebrews) chapter 8 and other places however, Ivrim 8:8 says finding
fault with them and not with the Torah.

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There is quite a bit of material on this Greek name that the interested student should examine. You might
consider starting at http://www.fossilizedcustoms.com/. Possible meanings of this Greek name might be
hail zeus or even son of zeus (I am not entirely convinced of this meaning). It might also be the Greek
form of the Greek/Roman god/goddess of healing Issa or a similar spelling.
At the Feast of Shavuot or the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost according to the church) is a feast where all Israelites
are required to be at the Temple or the house as we see in Maaseh Shlichim 2:2.

T H E H O U S E O F J A C O B A F T E R K I N G D AV I D
A V E RY B R I E F H I S T O RY 71
In the days of King David, we see the house of Yahudah (Judah) ruling and reigning over a united
Yisrael with all of the 12 tribes under Davids monarchy. All was well until Shelomoh (Solomon),
Davids son, began whoring physically as well as spiritually. What Shelomoh did after he was king of
Yisrael is important because it shows a pattern that will be followed by other kings and it will
continue to this day by those who claim to fear Yahweh. In Melechim Alef (1 Kings) 11:5 7 we
read, Shelomoh went after Ashtoreth 72 the mighty one of the Tsidonians, and after Milkom 73 the abomination of
the Ammonites. Thus Shelomoh did evil in the eyes of hwhy, and did not follow hwhy completely, like his father
David. Then Shelomoh built a high place for Kemosh 74 the abomination of Moab, on the hill that is east of
Yerushalayim, and for Molek 75 the abomination of the children of Ammon.
Even though Shelomoh built the first Temple and feared Yahweh, in his later years he turned from
Yahweh and went after the mighty-ones of his foreign wives. By allowing the gentiles in his midst in
such a manner that they could influence his spiritual condition he not only turned away from
Yahweh himself but he brought a curse in Israel. Yahweh revealed to Shelomoh that the kingdom
would be broken in the life of his son Rehoboam because of Solomons sins. (Melechim Alef 11:11 14).
Yahweh further revealed to Yarovam (Jeroboam) an Ephraimite, one of Solomons talented
craftsman, that he would receive ten tribes resulting from this split in the kingdom of Israel after
Solomons death. This prophecy was acted out in front of Yarovam by Ahiyah the prophet and we
can read this in Melechim Alef 11:29 39. Ahiyah tells Yarovam that he is doing this to Shelomoh,
Because they have forsaken Me, and bow themselves to Ashtoreth the mighty one of the Tsidonians, to Kemosh the
mighty one of the Moabites, and to Milkom the mighty one of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in My
ways to do what is right in My eyes, and My laws and My right-rulings, as did his father David. (Melechim
Alef 11:33)
Ahiyah takes the coat of Yarovam and tears it into 12 pieces and Yarovam takes 10 of the pieces.
He is told that Yahweh will take 10 of the tribes out of the hands of Shelomoh and give them to
him.
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From the on-line paper The Full Restoration of Israel by Rabbi Moshe Koniuchowsky at
www.yourarmstoisrael.org.
This is the goddess of love of the Phoenician. We will see much more of her later.
This is the national idol of the Ammonites.
A mighty-one of the Moabites.
The chief deity of the Ammonites. This mighty-one was worshipped by sacrificing babies that would be born
from the sexual unions of worshiping Astoreth (in one of her names or another) and eggs would be dipped in
the blood of the babies and hung around the peoples houses. This is the source of the colored easter eggs.
The source for this information is from a Christian video series called That the World May Know and
elsewhere on the internet but I cannot find those sources anymore.

In approximately 921 BCE the ten northern tribes (the tribes given to Yarovam) broke away from
the House Of David (the Whole House of Israel) and called themselves Yisrael (Israel) making
Samaria its capital. The southern tribes of Yahudah, Binyamin and Levi (Judah, Benjamin and Levi)
made up the southern kingdom under Rechavam (Rehoboam) with Jerusalem as its capital (see
Melechim Alef 11:26 43). As Rechavam prepares an army to retake the ten renegade tribes in the
north, Yahweh forbids it in Melechim Alef 12:24 by telling Rechavam that this split in the House of
David is from Him and that they should not fight against their brothers.
As time goes by the Northern kingdom of ten tribes began to adopt pagan practices, holidays,
customs, false worship and unfortunately Yarovam (Jeroboam) became the father of the Ephraimite
pagans 76. In Melechim Alef (First Kings) 12:26 33 we see the evil heart of Yarovam son of Nebat
as he devised a scheme for the northern ten tribes 77 to begin to practice a false religion designed to
keep Ephraim separate from Judah and separate from Judahs Elohim. This system of Jeroboam had
as its basic design the creation of a separate entity from the House of David consisting of the ten
tribes in the north.

THE SECOND GOLDEN CALF WORSHIP SYSTEM

King Yarovam (Jeroboam) of Yisrael (the ten northern tribes) sets up a golden calf worship system.
Part of his reasoning is that he does not want the Ephraimites under him to go up to Yerushalayim 78
(Jerusalem) as commanded by Yahweh in Devarim (Deuteronomy) 16:16 which says, Three times a
year all your males appear before hwhy your Elohim in the place which He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened
Bread, and at the Festival of Weeks, and at the Festival of Booths. The place that Yahweh chose was
Yerushalayim and not somewhere up north. Yarovam was concerned that, If these people go up to do
slaughterings 79 in the House of hwhy at Yerushalayim, then the heart of this people shall turn back to their master,
Rechavam sovereign of Yahudah, and they shall slay me and go back to Rechavam sovereign of Yahudah.
(Melechim Alef (First Kings) 12:27).
His solution is to create a false worship system. In Melechim Alef (First Kings) 12:28 29 we read,
So the sovereign took counsel and made two calves of gold, and said to the people, It is too much for you to go up to
Yerushalayim. See, your mighty ones, O Yisrael, which brought you up from the land of Mitsrayim! 80 And he set
up one in Beyth El 81, and the other he put in Dan 82. This is almost a repeat of the golden calf incident in
Shemot (Exodus) chapter 32. However, in this case, Yarovam was trying to accommodate his
people by setting up two golden calves and putting them at two convenient locations. Scripture
tells us in Melechim Alef 12:30, And this matter became a sin, for the people went before the one as far as
Dan. Yarovam also changed the priesthood as we see in Melechim Alef 12:31, And he made the
house of high places, and made priests from all sorts of people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

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collectively known as the House of Israel or Ephraim.
You always go up to Jerusalem even if you are in the north.
The Scriptures uses slaughterings instead of sacrifice.
Another violation of the first 3 commands.
Beyth El or Bait El is often seen as Bethel in English Bibles. Beyth El means House of El.
Dan is pronounced dahn.

Yarovam has gone a long way to turn Ephraim away from Yahweh but he goes further by
substituting Yahwehs Scriptural set-apart day as seen in Melechim Alef 12:32, And Yarovam
performed a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival that was in Yahudah, and he offered on
the altar. So he did at Beyth El, slaughtering to the calves that he had made. And at Beyth El he appointed the
priests of the high places which he had made.
Yahwehs commandment regarding Sukkot or the Festival of Booths (Feast of Tabernacles) is found
in Vayikrah (Leviticus) 23:34, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Booths for seven
days to hwhy. Yarovam kept the feast of Tabernacles after a fashion but he did it in the wrong
month. He substituted the place and substituted the set-apart day. In Melechim Alef 12:33 we read
of Yarovam that, he made offerings on the altar which he had made at Beyth El on the fifteenth day of the
eighth month, in the month which he had devised in his own heart. And he performed a festival for the children of
Yisrael, and offered on the altar and burned incense.
This is exactly the same thing as substituting Yahwehs Set-apart days in Vayikrah (Leviticus) chapter
23 with man made days such as Sun-day, Christmas, Easter etc.

A G O L D E N C A L F S Y S T E M O F WO R S H I P I N VO LV E S
S U B S T I T U T I N G T O R A H C O M M A N D E D S E T - A PA R T P L AC E S A N D
S C R I P T U R A L S E T - A PA R T DAY S W I T H M A N S C O M M A N D S A N D
DAY S .
A G O L D E N C A L F WO R S H I P S Y S T E M I S BA A L WO R S H I P
In Melechim Bet (2 Kings) 17:16 we see of Yisrael (that is the northern 10 tribes or Ephraim), And
they left all the commands of hwhy their Elohim, and made for themselves a moulded image, two calves, and made an
Asherah and bowed themselves to all the host of the heavens, and served Baal. An Asherah is a
Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same. The KJV uses the word grove instead of
Asherah. This word may also appear as ashtoret or ashtarte. This is the spring goddess or
the goddess of fertility. She is also known by other names. Think of an asherah as a pole or even a
tree 83.

B A A L WO R S H I P I S S E RV I N G I D O L S
Baal worship is not just bending the knee to a graven calf, it is also substituting the commandments
of men for Yahwehs commandments. Baal worship includes not just the idols but also changing
the place and the day as commanded by Yahweh. Therefore the characteristics of Baal worship are
not following Torah! In not following Torah the individual or group of individuals is following
idolatry. Not following Torah and disobeying Yahweh is rebellion!

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In Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 66:3 we read about the Baal worshippers who sacrifice but, they have chosen
their own ways, and their being delights in their abominations. This continues in verse 17 which says, those
who set themselves apart and cleanse themselves at the gardens after One in the midst, eating flesh of pigs and the
abomination and the mouse, are snatched away, together, declares hwhy. In his book Isaiah, Dr. Slotki 84
says, [this is a] description of the detestable rites of idolatry resumed from verse 3. to go into the
gardens. The first two words are implied. The gardens were the favourite [sic] spots for the practice
of the heathenish rites. Behind one. The kethib reads the word as masculine, the kere reads the word
as feminine. The former may denote the leader of the procession, the latter a goddess, possibly the
asherah. Maimonides 85 explains as behind one tree in the midst, which he understands as indulgence
in forbidden lust.
Above we see some more examples of Baal worship. We see that the Baal worshipper has chosen
their own ways. Rather than following the ways of the Torah of Yahshua, the people followed
their own ways. Furthermore, they delighted in their abominations. Clearly this is saying that they
liked it and continued to worship in this mixed worship system. Then in verse 17 we read that they
set themselves apart. There is more to be seen here that I do not want to explain here but if we
followed Maimonides explanation it seems that they are setting themselves apart for their mightyone by engaging in Torah forbidden lusts. This is what the worship of the spring goddess ashtarte is
about. A mark of this being set-apart for Baal involves the eating of pig meat 86. Vayikrah
(Leviticus) 11:6 commands us not to eat pig meat. That is Yahshuas command to His people and it
has nothing to do with the lack of refrigeration in the wilderness 87. The real reason we are not
supposed to eat pork is found in Vayikrah 11:45 which says, For I am hwhy who is bringing you up out
of the land of Mitsrayim, to be your Elohim. And you shall be set-apart, for I am set-apart. We are to be setapart as Yahweh is set-apart. And we are to be set-apart for Him. Eating pig meat actually makes us
set-apart for Baal worship as we see above.

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Slotki, Dr. I. W., 1957, Isaiah, Hebrew Text & English Translation with an Introduction and Commentary (London,
England, The Soncino Press)
A Spanish Jewish sage from 1135 1204.
Please remember this when you have ham for Easter (the feast to Ashtarte).
I make this statement because I heard a Liberal Jewish Rabbi explain that the reason the Jews (as he put it)
were not allowed to eat pork in the wilderness was because they did not have refrigeration but they could eat
pork now. What?????

Y I S R A E L H A D A H E A RT F O R YA H W E H BU T
In Melechim Bet (2 Kings) 17:6 we see that Ashshur (Assyria) takes Yisrael into exile. This is the
doing of Yahweh and is discussed at great length in 2 papers by Rabbi Moshe Koniuchowsky on the
website www.yourarmstoisrael.org so it unnecessary for me to reinvent the wheel here.
After the exile of Ephraim (Israel) into the lands that they were exiled to, the king of Ashshur sent
others not of the land of Shomeron (Samaria) to dwell in the former Ephraimite land. And we read
in Melechim Bet (2 Kings) 17:25 26 And it came to be, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they did
not fear hwhy, and hwhy sent lions among them, which kept on slaying among them. And they spoke to the sovereign
of Ashshur, saying, The nations whom you have removed and placed in the cities of Shomeron do not know the rightruling of the Elohim of the land. And He has sent lions among them, and see, they are slaying among them because
they do not know the right-ruling of the Elohim of the land. Even though those dwelling in the land were
not Israelites, Yahweh still punished them for not fearing Him.
In Melechim Bet (2 Kings) 17:27 we read, And the sovereign of Ashshur commanded, saying, Send one of
the priests whom you exiled from there, to go there. Let him go and dwell there, and let him teach them the right-ruling
of the Elohim of the land. The king of Ashshurs goal was to have one of the priests go back and teach
the Torah of Yahweh so that the people will learn to fear Yahweh. In Melechim Bet 17:38 we read,
And one of the priests whom they had exiled from Shomeron came and dwelt in Beyth El, and taught them how to
fear hwhy. But every nation was making mighty ones of its own, and put them in the houses of the high places which
the Shomeronites had made, every nation in the cities where they dwelt. The important point here is that the
priests taught the people how to fear Yahweh but each of the different nations (read that as
gentiles) made their own mighty-ones that they were familiar with.
These people really did fear Yahweh but, as we see in Melechim Bet (2 Kings) 17:32 33, They
also feared hwhy, and from every class they made for themselves priests of the high places, who offered for them in the
house of the high places. They were fearing hwhy, and they were serving their own mighty ones, according to the ruling
of the nations from among whom they had been exiled.
Notice that they feared Yahweh but they ALSO served their old mighty-ones. This is mixed
worship. Traditional Christianity (i.e. dispensationalist or replacement Christianity) teaches that
Israel was not worshipping Yahweh they claim that He was not in their thoughts and prayers.
This was not so. They did fear Yahweh they just didnt worship Him the way HE commanded to
be worshipped. Israel had brought in mixed worship or baal worship.
We saw above that the golden calf worship system is baal worship and it is mixed worship.
Furthermore, the golden calf worship system is contrary to Yahwehs Torah. Thus I conclude that:

T H E G O L D E N C A L F W O R S H I P S Y S T E M I S C O N T R A RY T O
T O R A H A N D I T I S T H E S A M E A S BA A L WO R S H I P A N D I T I S
THE SAME AS A MIXED WORSHIP SYSTEM.

SYNCRETISM
The above described golden calf / contrary to Torah / Baal worship / mixed worship system is a
syncretic worship system. Syncretism is the combination of different systems of philosophical or
religious belief or practice.

I S R A E L F E A R E D YA H W E H BU T D I D N O T F O L L OW T O R A H .
In Melechim Bet 17:34 we read, To this day they are doing according to the former rulings: they are not fearing
hwhy, nor do they follow their laws or their right-rulings, or the Torah and command which hwhy had commanded the
children of Yaakov, whose name He made Yisrael, Did they fear Yahweh? Well, yes and no. Above we
see that they had a fear of Yahweh of sorts but their actions were contrary to Yahwehs
commands. Thus, by their actions they showed that they did not fear Yahweh. They may have had
good intentions but good intentions are not worth much.
Furthermore, in Melechim Bet 17:40 41 we read, And they did not obey, but did according to their former
ruling. So these nations were fearing hwhy, and served their carved images, both their children and their childrens
children. As their fathers did, they are doing to this day. (emphasis mine). They feared Yahweh in their
hearts but not according to their actions. They talked the talk but did not walk the walk.

A N I N D I C T M E N T AG A I N S T I S R A E L
In Yechezqel (Ezekiel) chapter 20 we read an indictment against Israel. And I said to their children in
the wilderness, Do not walk in the laws of your fathers, nor observe their rulings, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
I am hwhy your Elohim. Walk in My laws, and guard My right-rulings, and do them. And set apart My
Sabbaths, and they shall be a sign between Me and you, to know that I am hwhy your Elohim. But the children
rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My laws, and My right-rulings they did not guard to do them, which, if a
man does, he shall live by them. They profaned My Sabbaths, so I resolved to pour out My wrath on them to complete
My displeasure against them in the wilderness. But I held back My hand and acted for My Names sake, not to
profane it before the eyes of the gentiles, before whose eyes I had brought them out. Also, I Myself lifted My hand in
an oath to those in the wilderness, to scatter them among the gentiles and disperse them throughout the lands, because
they had not done My right-rulings, and they rejected My laws, and they profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes were
on their fathers idols. And I also gave them up to laws that were not good, and right-rulings by
which they would not live. (emphasis mine)
Rav Shaul addresses this topic in Romiyah (Romans) 1:24 25 by saying, Therefore Elohim gave them
up to uncleanness in the lust of their hearts, to disrespect their bodies among themselves, who changed the truth of
Elohim into the falsehood, and worshipped and served what was created rather than the Creator, who is blessed
forever. Amen. Notice that Rav Shaul says worshipped and served what was created this is the man
made / mixed worship system. Christianity might teach this as meaning bowing down to physical
idols but by engaging in an anti-Torah or mixed worship system Yahweh sees it as the same thing.
The what was created was and is the non-Torah worship system. This is exactly present day
Christianity!

A M O D E R N A P P L I C AT I O N
This will be a hard thing to hear for the dedicated Christian but I am compelled to say it. Some of
those that go to Sunday church really love the Lord (as they understand Him). They want to
follow Him and be pleasing in His sight. Are they seeking to love Him according to His Torah?
NO. They are, on the other hand, demonstrating their love for Him according to their own law
and traditions. They fear Yahweh but they are engaged in a mixed worship system.

B A A L WO R S H I P WA S D O N E I N T H E T E M P L E O F YA H W E H
From many of the Scripture quotes above it might seem that the Israelites did their Baal worship on
a high place or in a grove or something like that. In Melechim Bet 22:3 we read, And it came to be,
in the eighteenth year of Sovereign Yoshiyahu 88, that the sovereign sent Shaphan the scribe, son of Atsalyahu, son of
Meshullam, to the House of hwhy, saying In verse 8 we read that, And Hilqiyahu the high priest said to
Shaphan the scribe, I have found the Book of the Torah in the House of hwhy. The rest of chapter 22 is
quite stirring and you should read it.
Israel had brought the idols and other objects of Baal worship into the Hekel (Temple) of Yahweh.
This might be something like the pastor of Big Time Christian Church bringing a prostitute into
the church and putting her on display on the stage not for ridicule but for admiration. In
Melechim Bet 23:4 we read, Then the sovereign commanded Hilqiyahu the high priest, and the priests of the
second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring out of the Hekel [Temple] of hwhy all the objects that were made for Baal,
and for Asherah, and for all the host of the heavens. And he burned them outside Yerushalayim in the fields of
Qidron [Kidron], and took their ashes to Beyth El. (note and emphasis mine). Note that the word
asherah 89 or sacred tree is used. Baal worship involves setting up sacred trees in the Temple.
A short note on the phrase above, and for all the host of the heavens. There are many objects,
pictures or images and other things that represent the host of the heavens. Anything that looks
like a star burst or sun should be considered the host of the heavens. Pictures showing Jesus
or any of the other saints with halos is a sun symbol and is the host of the heavens. Ive
already mentioned Christmas trees but notice that the top ornament is a star and the lights are stars
or the host of the heavens. For more information, see Fossilized Customs available at
www.fossilizedcustoms.com.

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The last four letters of this name yahu are pronounced yh-hoo. This is a theophoric name in that it has
part of the Name of Yah in it.
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Groves are for idol worship. An Asherah is also a Babylonian Canaanite goddess, (of spring and
fertility). An asherah is also a sacred tree or pole set up near an altar. The asherah became the
Christmas tree. The Asherah is actually a phallic symbol and has some other rather unpleasant
meanings 90. In Christian churches during Christmas where was the Christmas tree???? right next
to the altar. Just like the asherah in the Temple. By placing Christmas trees even in the church the
church has honored Baal worship or mixed worship.

Some time ago I accepted an invitation to a Christian home at Christmas time. Of course there was
a Christmas tree prominently displayed in the living room. There were also some plaques that said
Jesus is the reason for the season all over the house and several manger scenes. From this I
assumed that this home centered their thinking around the birth of Jesus 91. However, the entire
discussion centered around the tree and how beautiful it was and not around Jesus is the reason for
the season. Judging by their actions and not their intentions, the reason for the season was that
phallic symbol in their living room and the Baal worship it represented. Think about that next
Christmas.
Christmas 92 is actually a festival to the sun god. The Romans had a festival on December 25th dies
natalis solis invicti or the birthday of the unconquered sun. The use of the title Sol Invictus
allowed several solar deities to be worshipped collectively, including Elah-Gabal, a Syrian sun god;
Sol, the god of Emperor Aurelian (AD 270274); and Mithras, a soldiers god of Persian origin.
Emperor Elagabalus (218222) introduced the festival, and it reached the height of its popularity
under Aurelian, who promoted it as an empire-wide holiday.
Baal worship also involves worshipping ashterah or ashtarte or ishtar. The English word for
ishtar is Easter. We read in Shophtim (Judges) 2:11 Then the children of Yisrael did evil in the eyes of
hwhy, and served the Baals and also in Shophtim 2:13, So they forsook hwhyand served Baal and the
Ashtoreths. Well, what is an Ashtarot? Ashtarot = tWt;v;[' = easter. It is a false goddess in the
Canaanite religion related to fertility cults. The easter (ishtar) custom is associated with easter
bunnies, eggs (a fertility symbol) and is right after the spring equinox. This cant be associated with
Yahwehs Passover! Yahwehs Passover was changed by Emperor Constantine (who was the first
pope and not Peter). However, this is another message. The picture below is from a prominent
denomination book store advertisement.

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For more information see the paper on the asherah at www.fossilizedcustoms.com/

Yahshua was born at Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles).
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

I have a problem with the easter eggs because of how they came to be associated with the feast to
asherah. To put it bluntly, and pardon me for offending you here, but in ancient times the
prostitutes of asherah would have sex with the worshipers and the babies that might be born as a
result of these unions would be sacrificed to the god molech. The eggs which represent fertility,
would be dipped in the blood of the babies and then they would be hung around the homes. The
source of the above resurrection eggs is this abomination!

B A A L WO R S H I P A L S O I N VO LV E S S U N WO R S H I P
We have already seen above in Melechim Bet 22:3 that Sovereign Yoshiyahu, sent Shaphan the
scribe to the House of hwhy. In chapter 23 verse 5 we read, And he put down the black-robed priests
[idolatrous priests] whom the sovereigns of Yahudah had appointed to burn incense on the high places in the cities of
Yahudah and in the places all around Yerushalayim, and those who burned incense to
Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the constellations, and to all the host of the heavens. (note for clarity is
mine)
This idolatrous practice of sun worship was evident in the changing of the seventh day Shabbat
(Sabbath) command by Yahweh in His Torah to the day of the sun which is a day of Baal
worship. In other words, Sunday. Instrumental in changing the true, Torah based Sabbath to the
day of the sun is the Roman Catholic Church. Also please note that many paintings of the Catholic
idea of the image of their version of Jesus shows Him with a halo above His head. This is also the
case with many of the other Catholic saints. This halo is associated with sun worship. It might be

of interest to you that the Vatican is laid out according to symbols of sun worship. The obelisk in
the middle of the square is associated with Egyptian sun worship 93.

T H E R E S TO R A T I O N M E S S A G E
Finally after all that discussion we can get to the actual message. We will need all of the above
information and more to finish the rest of this message. We started with Mattithyahu (Matthew 3:1
-2 which says:
And in those days Yochanan 94 the Immerser 95 came proclaiming in the wilderness of Yahudah, and saying, Repent,
for the reign of the heavens has come near! For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Yeshayahu, saying, A
voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of hwhy, make His paths straight.
Who is Yochanan the Immerser? The conception and birth of Yochanan the Immerser is described
in Luka (Luke) chapter 1. In case you are interested, from this information and some understanding
of the courses of the Kohanim (Priests) we can determine that Yochanan was born on Passover and
that Yahshua was born on Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles). But that is another message.

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The Hebrew name Yochanan (John) means Yah is gracious.
I will use the term Immerser rather then Baptist because Yochanan was not a Baptist.

E L I YA H U P R E C E D E S T H E C O M I N G O F M E S S I A H
In Mattithyahu (Matthew) 17:10 13 we read, And His taught ones asked Him, saying, Why then do the
scribes say that Eliyahu has to come first? And [vwhy answering, said to them, Eliyahu is indeed coming first, and
shall restore all matters. But I say to you that Eliyahu has already come, and they did not recognise him but did to
him whatever they wished. In this way the Son of Adam is also about to suffer by them. Then the taught ones
understood that He had spoken to them about Yochanan the Immerser. We see in verse 11 Eliyahu is
indeed coming first and shall restore all things. How is this restoration to take place? Primarily by faith in
Yahshua by keeping His commandments. In verse 12 not only did the spirit of Eliyahu come then
but he will also come in the end of days and they will not know he is in their midst.

Y O C H A N A N T H E I M M E R S E R I S P E R S O N I F I E D A S E L I YA H U
In Luka 1:13 we read, But the messenger said to him, Do not be afraid, Zekaryah 96, for your prayer is
heard. And your wife Elisheva 97 shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Yochanan 98. In Luka 1:17 we
read, And he shall go before Him in the spirit and power of Eliyahu, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the
children, and the disobedient to the insight of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for hwhy. Yochanan
is coming in the spirit and power of Eliyahu and not a reincarnation.
The Christian church has given an incorrect picture of John as some kind of wild man, religious
fanatic dressed in nothing more than a camel skin coat and eating honey and locusts. We get this
from Mattithyahu (Matthew) 3:4 which says, And Yochanan had a garment of camels hair, and a leather
girdle around his waist. And his food was locusts and wild honey. Because of this we have been bombarded
by movies and TV that have shown us an incorrect picture. Remember that Yochanan was the son
of a Cohen and not some poor beggar. He was a prophet but I doubt that he looked like some kind
of hermit wild man.
Below we see a photo of a painting of John the Baptist baptizing Jesus. Notice that the
John in this painting looks somewhat like a hermit. However, also notice in this image that the
two men have long beards rather than the usual scruffy beard of most images of the Christian
Jesus. Notice also that the three people pictured in this painting are white Caucasians.

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I am deliberately using the Hebrew form of the names of these people. They were Hebrews and not Greeks
and their names were Hebrew names and not Greek names. His Hebrew name means Light of Yah.
Elisheva means Yah is my oath which is also the feminine form of Eliyahu which means El is my Yah.
Yochanan means Yah is gracious.

The camels hair is woven into a course cloth and usually worn by the poor people of Israel and the
leather belt would be worn by the poor. Someone from Yochanans status might wear a wool
garment and use an ornate belt. Yochanan may have been identifying with the poor of Israel rather
than the rich or the pompous priesthood. It would have been known that he was the son of
Zekaryah (Zecharyah). However, these garments would also be the garments of the prophets. And
the food that he ate would be the food of the prophet. There has been speculation that the camels
hair garment was actually the mantle of Eliyahu. Note, that in Melechim Bet (2 Kings) 2:9-13,
Elisha takes the mantle or cloak or robe of Eliyahu. The mantle might have been Eliyahus talit
(prayer shawl).

T H E M I N I S T RY M E S S AG E O F Y O C H A N A N T H E I M M E R S E R
A major part of Yochanans mission was to turn many Israelites to Elohim. Notice in Luka (Luke)
1:17, it says he is to go before him in the spirit and power of Eliyahu, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the
children which references Malaki (Malachi) 4:5 which says, See, I am sending you Eliyahu the prophet
before the coming of the great and awesome day of hwhy. This second Eliyahu is to go before Yahshua
and pave the way for Him.
Notice in Luka 1:17 that there is MORE. It says, and the disobedient to the insight of the righteous, to
make ready a people prepared for hwhy. This tells us that as Yochanan makes ready Israel, that the
disobedient ones or lawless ones shall learn from the righteous ones or the Torah obedient ones.
And the purpose of all this is to make ready a people prepared for Yahweh. This prepares the
Bride of Messiah for Yahshuas coming. Yahshua is NOT coming for a bride involved in
mixed worship. He is also NOT coming for a Bride who is disobedient to His Torah. He is
coming for a Bride that worships Him in Spirit and in Truth.

Y O C H A N A N S P E A K S T H E W O R D O F YA H W E H R E P E N T
In Luka (Luke) 3:2 we read, the word of Elohim came to Yochanan the son of Zekaryah in the wilderness.
The word of Elohim must involve Torah as we saw above. The Wilderness is not a bad place
It is not a horrible place the wilderness is a place without distractions. From the context of the
next few verses, Yahweh had spoken to Yochanan to go into the area of the Yarden and preach a
gospel of repentance or teshuvah 99 and then immerse or tehvilah 100 those people.
From the teachings of certain Christian theologians, this is the beginning of what they call baptism
which, they claim, did not exist at all before John created it. I have examined this theological
teaching in several places common to anyone and discovered this is a horrendous error. The
practice of Tehvilah (baptism) in a Mikvah 101 began with the Tabernacle in the Wilderness. We
have had several messages on tehvilah so I do not want to go into much detail here except to state
certain basic concepts.

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Teshuvah means return or repent.

Tehvilah is sort of the same as baptize as the Christian church calls it.
A Mikvah is a pool of living water or flowing water that a person takes tehvilah in.

Tehvilah is immersion 102 in a Mikvah or pool of living water (i.e. running water like a river). There
is no splashing, dripping, sprinkling, or other such nonsense. Tehvilah is a physical action for ritual
cleanliness. That which was unclean is made clean in the Mikvah. It is not to wash the body to
remove dirt.
Tehvilah is also used to change the status of a person. When a man or woman becomes married
they take tehvilah which prepares them for the change of their status from unmarried to married. A
person entering the priesthood took tehvilah which prepares them for the change of his status from
not-priest to priest. A person took tehvilah when he entered a ministry or graduated from yeshiva
or changed his position from Cohen to Cohen gadol (high priest). When a person performed
tehvilah, they were considered to be re-born or born again 103.
In Luka 3:3 we read, And he went into all the neighbourhood of the Yarden 104, proclaiming an immersion of
repentance for the forgiveness of sins Yochanan was proclaiming tehvilah of teshuvah or repentance in
Luka 3:3 he did not create the Baptist church or the catholic church and he did not create some
kind of new command. We will discuss repentance from a Torah perspective shortly.

P R E PA R E T H E WAY O F YA H W E H
In Luka 3:4 we read a very important Word; as it has been written in the book of the words of Yeshayahu
the prophet, saying, A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of hwhy, make His paths straight.
The highlighted section references Yeshayahu 40:3 5 which says in English: The voice of one crying in
the wilderness, Prepare the way of hwhy; make straight in the desert a highway for our Elohim. Let every valley be
raised, and every mountain and hill made low. And the steep ground shall become level, and the rough places smooth.
And the esteem of hwhy shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see it. For the mouth of hwhy has spoken.

In the Hebrew of the Tanakh there is no punctuation therefore we have accepted the punctuation of
tradition. It may be that what we read in The Scriptures or KJV or Stone Edition or other
translations is right. BUT, I would like to propose another possibility:

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Like dunking! The whole persons body goes under the water as if dying and comes as if rising to renewed life.
This is what part of the discussion between Yahshua and Nakdimon (Nicodemus) in Yochanan chapter 3 is
about.
The Jordan River area.

A voice of one calling (or crying), IN THE WILDERNESS, prepare the way of Yahweh,
Make straight, in the desert, a highway for our Elohim.
I emphasize the in the wilderness part for the following reasons; the wilderness was a place of
growth and teaching for Israel. Israel became a nation and received Yahwehs Torah in the
wilderness. In the wilderness there is discipline and teaching. Also the prophets went into the
wilderness to meet and speak to Yahweh and hear from Him. Yahshua went into the wilderness
right after He was ordained, as it were, for ministry by tehvilah by Yochanan.
Yahshua speaks of a wide road or gate and narrow gate in Mattithyahu (Matthew) 7:13 14 when
He said, Enter in through the narrow gate! Because the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to
destruction, and there are many who enter in through it. Because the gate is narrow and the way is hard pressed (or
the way is afflicted) which leads to life, and there are few who find it. If we were to use this analogy to
describe the wilderness experience, we might have an understanding of what is happening.
If the emphasis changes from going 105 INTO the wilderness to someone calling FROM the
wilderness then we could stay right here in our comfort zones and watch as someone else prepares
a way for Yahweh. We might even have the idea that Yahweh Himself will prepare His Own way
and make the paths straight etc. and we wont have to do anything but watch and enjoy. It is our
nature to take the easy road.
Furthermore, I believe that in the wilderness is correct because the context of the Yeshayahu
reference Yeshayahu 40:3 5 seems to indicate that this is the case. Notice that the highway or
path is made straight by lowering mountains and raising valleys and making the path smooth and
level. But we still must be on the path IN THE WILDERNESS rather than in our comfort zone
somewhere else watching 106. The highway or path is to be made straight to be walked on rather than
looked at. It is to be used. So what is this path or way? It is Torah! As we have seen above.

T H E WAY O F YA H W E H I S F O L L OW I N G T O R A H
The path or the way (der-ech in Hebrew) is seen in some of these Scripture:
Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 2:3 And many peoples shall come and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of
hwhy, to the House of the Elohim of Yaakov, and let Him teach us His ways, and let us walk in His paths, for out
of Tsiyon comes forth the Torah, and the Word of hwhy from Yerushalayim. 107
Yeshayahu 40:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of hwhy; make straight in the
desert a highway for our Elohim.
Tehillim (Psalms) 25:8 Good and straight is hwhy; Therefore He teaches sinners in the way.

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You might want to look at this as sitting in the easy chair while watching the event on TV instead of
participating in the event.
His ways, His paths, the teaching and the Word of hwhyare used synonymously. (footnote from The Scriptures)

Tehillim 119:1 Blessed are the perfect in the way, Who walk in the Torah of hwhy!
Tehillim 119:9 How would a young man cleanse his path. To guard it according to Your word?
Tehillim 119:10 I have sought You with all my heart; Let me not stray from Your commands!
Tehillim 119:35 Make me walk in the path of Your commands, For I have delighted in it.
Tehillim 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.
Mishli (Proverbs) 6:23 For the command is a lamp, And the Torah a light, And reproofs of discipline a way of
life
Mishli 10:29 The way of hwhy is a stronghold for the perfect, But ruin to the workers of wickedness.
Mattithyahu (Matthew) 3:3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Yeshayahu, saying, A voice of one
crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of hwhy, make His paths straight. (quoting Yeshayahu 40:3). See
also Markos 1:3, Luka 3:4 and Yochanan 1:23.
Yochanan Bet (2 John) 1:6 And this is the love, that we walk according to His commands. This is the
command, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it. 108

R E P E N TA N C E
Within Christian circles and Western understanding there is misused term used called repentance
or repent. It seems that the accepted definition of this term is to recognize the wrong in
something that the person has done and then be sorry about it. A better and more accurate
definition is for a person to feel regret about a sin or past action and then change their ways or
habits. The second definition comes close but still misses the mark.
Having grown up in the Christian church I found that the church taught me rather ambiguously
about repentance. The meaning was elusive and I was left with a weak understanding of what true
repentance means. This is the norm for the Christian church. I think that somehow the church has
the idea that it means something like dont do that or dont sin in accordance with the churches
understanding of the definition of sin. Therefore, if the Christian often drives fast then he needs
to repent and drive the speed limit. He needs to stop sinning (driving fast) and repent or drive the
speed limit.
If we assume that to repent is to turn from something then there must be something to turn
to. That something must be the opposite of the previous behavior. The Scriptural concept of
repentance is turning from sin and turning to Yahweh (See above for the Scriptural definition of
sin).

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The Hebrew root for the word repent is bWv (shuv). This word has a specific meaning! It
appears throughout the Tanakh and Yahshua and His talmidim understood its real meaning.
Repentance is turning from a lifestyle contrary to Torah to a lifestyle that follows Torah. It is
turning from sin and to Yahweh. It is doing a U-turn!
We see a good definition of repentance and the reward for repenting in Devarim (Deuteronomy)
30:1 3, And it shall be, when all these words come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before
you, and you shall bring them back to your heart among all the gentiles where hwhy your Elohim drives you, and shall
turn back to hwhy your Elohim and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, with all your heart
and with all your being, you and your children, then hwhy your Elohim shall turn back your captivity, and shall have
compassion on you, and He shall turn back and gather you from all the peoples where hwhy your Elohim has
scattered you. And also Devarim 30:8, And you shall turn back and obey the voice of hwhy and do all His
commands which I command you today.
The Tanakh is filled with references to teshuvah or repentance. Yisrael and Yahudah had strayed
from Yahwehs commands on many occasions and Yahweh punished them accordingly and He sent
His prophets to tell Yisrael to return to Yahwehs Torah. We see this in Melechim Bet (2 Kings)
17:13, And hwhy warned Yisrael and Yahudah, through all of His prophets, and every seer, saying, Turn back
from your evil ways, and guard My commands and My laws, according to all the Torah which I commanded your
fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.
In the church I have seen Divre HaYamim Bet (2 Chronicles) 7:14 which says, and My people upon
whom My Name is called, shall humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, then I
shall hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin and heal their land. I do not think this is used to say that
the Christian is to turn from not following Torah to following Torah but rather to turn from the
churchs definition of sin to not sinning. Again the church leaves us with a nebulous definition of
sin and thus the Christian is going to be confused as to what Yahweh really wants. This Scripture
(Divre HaYamim Bet (2 Chronicles) 7:14) is actually Yahweh speaking to Shelomoh as seen in verse
12. Yahweh then says If my people, which are called by my name (KJV), therefore, what He is
saying is directed to His people Yisrael 109. The Christian church seems to have the idea that this
statement is applied to Christians or Christ-ians but this is not so. It is however, applied to the
Whole House of Yisrael (that is the House of Ya'akov and the strangers that have joined with
Yisrael who obey Torah). Notice also that Yahweh tells Shelomoh that Yisrael is to turn from their
evil ways which was not following Torah.
In Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 55:6 8 we see a very profound statement from Yahweh to His people.
However, I will only discuss returning to Yahwehs Torah and leave the rest for another message.
Yahweh says, Seek hwhy while He is to be found, call on Him while He is near. Let the wrong forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to hwhy, who has compassion on him, and to our Elohim, for
He pardons much. For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, declares hwhy. Here
we are told that the wrong or the wicked (as the KJV says) and the unrighteous man are to
stop doing what they are doing. They are to return to Yahweh or, another way to say this is that
they are to return to Yahwehs Torah. They are not told to just stop sinning but they are told to

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do a U turn they are told to repent. Notice also the reference to our Elohim who pardons. This
is Yahshua who is Salvation.
The prophet Yechezqel (Ezekiel) tells us in Yechezqel 18:21 23, But the wrong, if he turns from all his
sins which he has done, and he shall guard all My laws, and shall do right-ruling and righteousness, he shall certainly
live, he shall not die. All the transgressions which he has done shall not be remembered against him in his
righteousness that he has done, he shall live. Have I any pleasure in the death of the wrong? declares the Master
hwhy. Is it not that he should turn from his ways, and live?
And also in Malaki (Malachi) 3:7 we are told, From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My
laws and did not guard them. Turn back to Me, and I shall turn back to you, said hwhyof hosts. But you said, In
what shall we turn back? This verse precedes verse 8 which is the tithe and offering verse that I
heard in church to make the Christian feel bad for not giving money to that church. Read Malaki
chapter 3 in context and you will see that this verse cannot be used to force you to give money to
your church. Bashing you over the head with this verse to get money out of your pockets is another
guilt trip of Christianity. Besides, havent you been told the Old Testament is done away
with???? If so, then why quote something from the Old Testament????

R E P E N TA N C E I N T H E B R I T C H A DA S H A H
In Mattithyahu (Matthew) chapter 3 we continue our discussion about Yochanan the Immerser. In
verses 7 and 8 we see Yochanan speaking to the Prushim (Pharisees), And seeing many of the Pharisees
and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, Brood of adders! Who has warned you to flee from the
coming wrath? Bear, therefore, fruits worthy of repentance. I have another paper about the Prushim110
which a small portion is quoted in the footnote below. Even though the Prushim were devoted to
the principles of set-apartness they still were not following Torah according to the way that Yahweh
wants His people to follow Torah. They were following the Oral Torah or the man made rules that
were very stringent and made it difficult for the average person to follow the Written Torah of
Yahweh.
Yahshua said to the people of the Galil in Markos (Mark) 1:14 15, The time has been filled, and the
reign of Elohim has come near. Repent, and believe in the Good News. What does repent and believe in the
Good News 111 mean? Well, according to Scripture we find in Ivrim (Hebrews) 4:2, For indeed the
Good News was brought to us as well as to them, but the word which they heard did not profit them, not having been
mixed with belief in those who heard it. Who is them? In Ivrim chapter 3 we can determine that the
them is the Israelites during the 40 years in the wilderness. Remember that the Israelites in the
wilderness were the House of Jacob and the strangers who had joined the House of Jacob.

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A portion of that paper says, During the Late Second Temple era, there were more then 30 sects of what we
would call Judaism. This is not the Judaism of today which did not come into being until after the destruction
of the Second Temple. The Hebrew word for Pharisee is Prushim which means separatists. The Pharisees
did not associate with the Am ha Eretz or the common people. The Pharisees regarded themselves as the
practitioners of the principles of holiness as described in the Priestly Code of Ezra. They called themselves
the Holy Community of Jerusalem. This may seem very egotistical and even arrogant on the surface, but the
Pharisees were devoted to Judaism.
or Besorah in Hebrew

T H E G O O D N E W S I S R E P E N TA N C E
What does the Good News mean according to Scripture? In Markos 13:10 we read Yahshuas
words, And the Good News has to be proclaimed first to all the nations. And in Markos 16:15 Yahshua
also says, Go into all the world and proclaim the Good News to every creature. In Maaseh Shlichim (Acts)
8:4 we read, Then those who had been scattered went everywhere bringing the Good News: the Word! And also
in 15:35, And Shaul and Barnabah continued in Antioch, teaching and bringing, with many others also, the Good
News: the Word of hwhy! We have already seen above that the Word is Torah.
The concept of repentance and returning our hearts back to the Good News or Gospel of the
Torah is supported by Yahshua Who sent out His talmidim in Markos 6:7 12, And He called the
twelve near, and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over unclean spirits. And He instructed
them And they went out and proclaimed that men should repent.
Kefa (Peter) who was not the first pope!) speaks to Jewish leaders in Jerusalem in Maaseh
Shlichim (Acts) 3:19 and says, Repent therefore and turn back, for the blotting out of your sins, in order that
times of refreshing might come from the presence of the Master From this passage I get the idea that
repenting to Yahwehs Torah produces times of refreshing from Yahshua.
Again in Maaseh Shlichim 11:17 18 we read, So if Elohim gave them the same gift as He gave us when we
believed on the Master [vwhy Messiah, how was I able to withstand Elohim? And having heard this, they were
silent, and praised Elohim, saying, Then Elohim has indeed also given to the gentiles repentance to life. 112 This
repentance that leads to life is from Torah. In Devarim (Deuteronomy) 32:46 47 we read, he
[Moshe] said to them, Set your heart on all the words with which I warn you today, so that you command your
children to guard to do all the Words of this Torah. For it is not a worthless Word for you, because it is your life, and
by this Word you prolong your days on the soil which you pass over the Yarden to possess. (note is mine for
clarity). This then has to mean that Elohims gift to the gentiles of repentance was a turning to His
Torah and not continuing in their pagan ways.
After Yahshua had risen and He met with His talmidim we read in Luka 24:45 47, Then He opened
their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, Thus it has been written, and so it was necessary for the
Messiah to suffer and to rise again from the dead the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be
proclaimed in His Name to all nations, beginning at Yerushalayim.
It looks to me like there is more said here than first meets the eye. In verse 45 Yahshua opens their
minds so that they would understand the Scriptures. Is this similar to Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 31:33
where He puts the Torah in our minds and in our hearts? Verse 47 tells me that they were to teach
Torah to all the nations and proclaim His Name (Yahshua). By teaching Torah to all the nations
then people of the nations (pagans) would hear the Torah and turn from their evil ways (rebellion,
baal worship, etc.) and turn to Torah. This is the Good News!
And for the Christian that continues to say that they are under grace and not under the law and
they dont have to do all that Old Testament stuff. Rav Shaul (Paul to you) says in Maaseh

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accepted by Him.

Shlichim 17:30, Truly, then, having overlooked these times of ignorance, Elohim now commands all men
everywhere to repent This means that ALL 113 must live by Yahwehs Torah.
Shaul also says in Maaseh Shlichim 20:17 21, And from Miletos he [Shaul] sent to Ephesos and called
for the elders of the assembly. And when they had come to him, he said to them, You know, from the first day that I
came to Asia, how I was with you all the time, serving the Master with all humility, with many tears and trials which
befell me by the plotting of the Yahudim, as I kept back no matter that was profitable, but proclaimed it to you, and
taught you publicly and from house to house, witnessing to Yahudim, and also to Greeks [gentiles, among others,
possibly Yehudim or Ephraim who have been assimilated and may not even know who they are]: repentance toward
Elohim and belief in our Master [vwhy Messiah. (note is mine for clarity). Shaul is telling both Jews
and Gentiles that they must repent and return to Torah which produces belief in Yahshua. This was
another chance for the Christian version of Paul to do away with the law but he did not. This
also should tell the Messianic Jewish community that Rav Shaul expected the gentile as well as the
Jew to follow Torah 114. By the way, in Maaseh Shlichim 20:16 we read, For Shaul had decided to sail
past Ephesos, so that he might lose no time in Asia, for he was hurrying to be at Yerushalayim, if possible, on the
Day of the Festival of Weeks. The day of the Festival of Weeks is Shavuot or what the church refers to
as Pentecost and is found in Vayikrah (Leviticus) 23:10 21. If the Christian version of Paul
started a new religion doing away with the Jewish law or the law of Moses, then why was he
hurrying to get to Jerusalem for Shavuot???? 115
We also see Shaul speaking to King Agrippa in Maaseh Shlichim 26:19 20, Therefore, Sovereign
Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, but declared first to those in Damascus and in Yerushalayim,
and in all the country of Yahudah, and to the gentiles, that they should repent, and turn to Elohim, and do works
worthy of repentance. Again Rav. Shaul is saying that the gentiles are responsible to Torah. They are
to repent of being gentiles (pagans) and turn to Yahweh to become Israel. Also note they are to do
works worthy of repentance. This has absolutely nothing to do with works of the law which is
rigid adherence to man made rules and NOT to Torah commands.

SIN IS TORAH-LESS-NESS
By now we should have an idea of what sin is. Sin, or af]je (Chet) in Hebrew, conveys the
underlying idea of missing the mark, or deviating from the goal 116. I think that the best Scriptural
definition of this is found in Yochanan Alef (1 John) 3:4 which says, everyone doing sin also does
lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.. The King James says it this way, Whosoever committeth sin
transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. (Emphasis mine).

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That means you!

I make this statement because in present day Messianic Judaism the Jew by birth is required to follow Torah
but the gentile or the non-Jew by birth is required to follow the seven Noachian laws which are NOT
found in Scripture. The question is then where are they found? They are found in the Talmud at Sanhedrin
56a, and Melachim 9:1. See page 53 of the Stone Edition Chumash.
Remember the law of contexts and the fact that there is no Scripture contradicting Scripture stated elsewhere in
this message? This Scripture is true and many others about Rav Shaul verifying and supporting the believers
requirement to follow Torah are true. Thus the teaching that Galatians chapter 3 does away with the law is a
doctrine of demons to be avoided!
The New Bible Dictionary, (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.) 1962.

Sin is transgression of Torah (or the law) which is lawlessness. I think this whole definition
of sin is missed in Christian circles. I think that the reason is that we are using the phrase
transgression of Torah (or the law) as part of the definition of sin. Some of Christian people
dont want to deal with this law thing, besides, isnt the law done away with? Isnt the law
associated with the Old Testament? Arent we under grace and not under the law? Then how can
sin be a transgression of something we are not under?
Maybe some Christian people, particularly the theologians and church leadership, are going to
change this definition to something like sin is not doing what youre supposed to do to make it a
little more palatable and not so strong. Or maybe some Christian people will say, Im a former
sinner saved by grace so, for me, there is no such thing as sin. I have heard this very statement
made as justification for not following Torah. This softens sin to just being bad and the Christian
expects that Yahweh is just going to wink at their sin because they are saved by grace, under the
blood, covered by the blood or once saved, always saved or some other Christian nonsense.
Yahweh does not wink at sin especially amongst His people. To Him sin is the transgression of
HIS Torah period!
When discussing the definition of sin we could bring in a great deal of Jewish and Christian theology
to define it and reduce its seriousness. The Jewish theologian could say that sin is yetzer hara or
our evil inclination. We could also argue between two philosophies that state man sins because he
is a sinner or that man is a sinner because he sins117. However, I like to take things down to their
roots. I want to get down to the basics. I want things simple! Sin is the transgression of Torah.
Transgression of the Torah is Torah-less-ness. Torah-less-ness is lawlessness. Well, thats pretty
clear!!!!!!
What does Yahshua say about those that are Torah-less or lawless? Mattithyahu (Matthew) 7:21
23 which says, Not everyone who says to Me, Master, Master, shall enter into the reign of the heavens, but he
who is doing the desire of My Father in the heavens. Many shall say to Me in that day, Master, Master, have we not
prophesied in Your Name, and cast out demons in Your Name, and done many mighty works in Your Name? And
then I shall declare to them, I never knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness! Yahshua will not
wink at the sin of the Christian no matter what excuses they make. He wrote the Torah, remember?

YA H S H UA D I S C U S S E S T H E M I S S I O N O F Y O C H A N A N T H E
IMMERSER
In Mattithyahu (Matthew) 17:10 13 we read, And His taught ones asked Him, saying, Why then do the
scribes say that Eliyahu has to come first? And [vwhy answering, said to them, Eliyahu is indeed coming first,
and shall restore all matters. But I say to you that Eliyahu has already come, and they did not recognise him but did
to him whatever they wished. In this way the Son of Adam is also about to suffer by them. Then the taught ones
understood that He had spoken to them about Yochanan the Immerser.
In Luka (Luke) 1:17, it says of Yochanan that he is to go before him in the spirit and power of Eliyahu,
to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children which references Malaki (Malachi) 4:5 which says, See, I
am sending you Eliyahu the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of hwhy.
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From what we read in the Renewed Covenant Scriptures quoted above, that the spirit of Eliyahu will
come before Yahshuas physical arrival 118. In the Mattithyahu Scripture above we see that Yahshua
clearly says that Yochanan is the spiritual representation of Eliyahu and that he will restore all
matters. In Mattithyahu (Matthew) 3:1 -2 we read that Yochanan said, Repent, for the reign of the
heavens has come near! So it appears that Yochanans ministry should parallel Eliyahus ministry. If
this is so then I would think that we would see that Eliyahus ministry dealt mostly with repentance
and restoration of all things. So we should examine what Eliyahu did.

T H E M I N I S T RY O F E L I YA H U
During the years 874 853 BCE King Ahab reigned over Israel (the northern 10 tribes) and he was
very evil. His wife Jezebel was even more evil and followed after the religion of her father which
was Baal worship. In Melechim Alef (1 Kings) 16:31 we see that Ahab married Jezebel the daughter
of Ethbaal. The Hebrew for Ethbaal is l['B't]a, which means with baal, consequently, Jezebel is
from with baal. We shall see much more of her later.
In Melechim Alef (1 Kings) 18:17 18 we read the encounter between Eliyahu and King Ahab,
And it came to be, when Ahab saw Eliyahu, that Ahab said to him, Is that you, O disturber of Yisrael? And
he answered, I have not disturbed Yisrael, but you and your fathers house, in that you have forsaken the commands
of hwhy, and you have followed the Baals. It is clear that the prophet of Yahweh is telling the King that
he is worshipping the baals and that Yahweh knows about it.
A Scriptural fact is that a prophet of Yahweh will show the people of Yahweh that they have
departed from His Torah. We can see this in Melechim Bet (2 Kings) 17:13 which says, And
hwhy warned Yisrael and Yahudah, through all of His prophets, and every seer, saying, Turn back from your evil
ways, and guard My commands and My laws, according to all the Torah which I commanded your fathers, and which
I sent to you by My servants the prophets. This is speaking to both houses of Israel not just Yisrael
(Ephraim) or Yahudah (Jews). As we continue to read through the Tanakh we will see that Yisrael
and Yahudah constantly disobeyed Yahwehs Torah and He punished them accordingly. Eliyahu is
filling this role as a prophet of Yahweh by telling King Ahab that he is disobeying Torah.

E L I YA H U C O N F RO N T S T H E P RO P H E T S O F B A A L
In Melechim Alef (1 Kings) 18:19 22 we read the account of Eliyahu confronting the prophets of
Baal, And now, send and gather all Yisrael to me on Mount Karmel, the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal,
and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Izebels [Jezebels] table. Ahab then sent for all the children of
Yisrael, and gathered the prophets on Mount Karmel. And Eliyahu came to all the people, and said, How long
would you keep hopping between two opinions? If hwhy is Elohim, follow Him; and if Baal, follow him. But the
people answered him not a word. And Eliyahu said to the people, I alone am left a prophet of hwhy, but
the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men. It is my opinion that verse 21 is the saddest verse in
Scripture.

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I will not discuss the events of Yochanans birth and the association with Yahshuas birth in this message but
suffice it to say that Yochanans arrival preceded Yahshuas.

Eliyahu challenges the prophets of Baal to a cook off of sorts. In Melechim Alef 18:23 29
Eliyahu gives them a challenge. He tells them and Yisrael that each is to have a bull and prepare for
a sacrifice. He tells the prophets of Baal to call on their mighty-one to light the fire and he will call
on Yahweh to light the fire of his sacrifice. Verse 24 says, And you shall call on the name of your mighty
one, and I, I call on the Name of hwhy. And the Elohim who answers by fire, He is Elohim. So all the people
answered and said, The word is good. Personally I think this was a trick on Eliyahus part. As a true
prophet of Yahweh he knew that only Yahweh could answer with fire because He is real and Baal is
not.
In Melechim Alef (1 Kings) 18:29 we read of the prophets of Baal, And it came to be when midday was
past, that they prophesied until the time of bringing the evening offering. But there was no voice and no one answered,
and no one paying attention. Well, nothing happened! But, notice the phrase time of bringing the
evening offering. This phrase might get missed but it represents something very important
pertaining to the time that Eliyahu will present his sacrifice. He will perform the sacrifice according
to Torah 119 and not according to his own convenience. If he had performed the sacrifice at any
other time then he, as a prophet of Yahweh, would have been demonstrating that it is not necessary
to follow Yahwehs set-apart times.

E L I YA H U H E A L S T H E A LTA R O F YA H W E H
In Melechim Alef (1 Kings) 18:30 we read, Then Eliyahu said to all the people, Come closer to me. And
all the people came closer to him. And he repaired the altar of hwhy that was broken down. Notice that the
word repaired is used to describe what Eliyahu did. The Hebrew word used here is apr or rohfeh which actually means heal. The word for repair would be @qt or tik-un. The altar of
Yahweh was broken down because the people of Yisrael under Ahab and Jezebel turned their backs
on Yahwehs Torah and went whoring after the Baals. The altar, representing the relationship
between Israel and Yahweh, needed to be healed rather than just fixed.
In Mattithyahu (Matthew) 17:11 we read Yahshuas words in reference to the ministry of Yochanan
that he shall restore all matters. It is apparent that Yahshua is saying that Yochanans ministry is
to cause Yisrael to repent which restores or heals their relationship with Yahweh. Then, in the
spirit of Torah obedience, Yisrael can come before Him. Thus, Yochanan is doing the same thing
as Eliyahu did.
In Melechim Alef (1 Kings) 18:31 32 we read, And Eliyahu took twelve stones, according to the number of
the tribes of the sons of Yaakov, to whom the word of hwhy had come, saying, Yisrael is your name. And with the
stones he built an altar in the Name of hwhy. Why twelve stones? This whole event was taking place
before Ahab and Jezebel and the northern ten tribes of Yisrael or Ephraim and did not involve the
southern tribes of Yahudah and Binyamin. It appears to be that the healing that Eliyahu and the
restoration of Yochanan will involve restoring the Whole House of Israel. Eliyahus healing is not a
band-aid on a sore but a full healing and restoration of the twelve tribes.

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See Shemot 29:39 and 41.

As we see in Melechim Alef 18:30 that this healing is happening before all the people and the
prophets of Baal (verses 19 22) and Ahab and Jezebel. What they are witnessing is a kind of
precursor to the final restoration of the Whole House of Israel by Messiah Yahshua 120.

T H E S AC R I F I C E I S S E T F I R E B Y YA H W E H
In Melechim Alef (1 Kings) 18:32 38 Eliyahu has the people prepare the sacrifice by pouring water
on it which is going to make it hard to light. This kinda defeats the purpose unless Yahweh has
something in store for the people of Israel to show His power. Verse 36 says, And it came to be, at
the time of bringing the evening offering, that Eliyahu the prophet came near and said, hwhy Elohim of Avraham,
Yitzchak and Yisrael, let it be known today: You are Elohim in Yisrael, and I, Your servant, have done all these
matters by Your word. Notice that the lighting of the sacrifice was to be at the time of bringing the
evening offering which is in accordance with Yahwehs Torah commands. Eliyahu did not act
presumptuously and show off, as it were, and call down fire at his convenience but he did all
these matters by Your word.
This is important to understand. He did not change Torah or change the time for the offering to
what he wanted to do. He did not change the time of the offering to match the time of the offering
to Baal. For him to have changed the time would have been rebellion against Yahwehs Torah. We
will see more of the result of rebellion to Yahweh's Torah later in this message.
In Melechim Alef 18:37 we read, Answer me, O hwhy, answer me, and let this people know that You are
hwhy Elohim, and You shall turn their hearts back to You again. Notice that Eliyahu did not say that he
wanted Yahweh to show the people what a great prophet he is and that he is turning the hearts of
the people to Yahweh. He is giving the glory to Yahweh and the mentioning of himself is purely
incidental. In verse 38 we read, Then the fire of hwhy fell and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood and
the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench. What happened was something
greater than simply lighting a fire; Yahweh consumed the offering and the altar. Only He could do
such a thing.
At the sight of such a fantastic thing all the people saw, and fell on their faces, and said, hwhy, He is the
Elohim! hwhy, He is the Elohim! It took a dazzling show for the people of Israel to decided that
Yahweh was Elohim and not the Baal. This is sad because they were Yahwehs people but their
kings before them were evil and did not follow the Torah of Yahweh. Thus, the Israelites would be
lead astray and go whoring after the Baals in rebellion to Yahweh.

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For more detailed information on the restoration of the Whole House of Israel go to
www.yourarmstoisrael.org and there are two papers on the restoration. You might also read Restoring the Two
Houses of Israel by Chumney, Eddie (Serenity Books, Hagerstown, Maryland 1999) and Who is Israel and Why
You Need To Know or Ephraim and Judah, Israel Revealed by Batya Wooten (Key of David Publishing, Saint
Cloud, Florida 1998).

E L I YA H U G I V E S T H E G L O RY T O YA H W E H
In Melechim Alef 18:37 we have read that Eliyahu prayed to Yahweh, Answer me, O hwhy, answer me,
and let this people know that You are hwhy Elohim, and You shall turn their hearts back to You again. It is
clear that he is giving the glory to Yahweh.
Yahshua sets the same example in many places in the Brit Chadashah where He gives the glory to
Yahweh even onto His own death. As an example in Yochanan (John) 12:28 we read Yahshuas
words, Father, esteem Your Name. Then a voice came from the heaven, I have both esteemed it and shall esteem
it again.. The KJV says, Father, glorify thy Name which is a popular praise and worship song
in the church. My question to the church is; if you are singing about glorifying the Name then why
are you not using it?

R E P L A C E M E N T D I S P E N S A T I O NA L T H E O L O G Y
There are two concepts within Christian theology that seem to be the cornerstone of the NTOC 121.
These are replacement theology and dispensational theology. These two concepts are taught to the
Christian pastors and theologians and others that attend Christian cemeteries 122. The NTOC
pastors and assistant pastors and others within the church use these two concepts for ALL their
teachings and writings. Christian books, Sunday school classes, Bible studies, preaching, teaching
and everything else is tainted by these two concepts. This Replacement/Dispensational Theology
replaces Yahwehs Torah with the churchs Oral Torah or the commandments of men! 123

R E P L AC E M E N T T H E O L O G Y
It appears that the definition of replacement theology is a bit illusive. In some denominations and
some individual churches, either denominational or non-denominational 124, Replacement
Theology is defined as:
God is done with the Jews and now the new Israel is the church 125.
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New Testament Only Christianity (NTOC) or New Testament Only Church depending on context. This is
that group that believes that, because of Jesus, the New Covenant under Him is now in force and the Old
Covenant is passed away or nailed to the cross or done away with or similar phrases. This group believes
that they are not under the Jewish Law or the Law of Moses or even under the Old Testament and that
none of that applies to them. This is not a becoming term and I make no apology for it.
I deliberately use the word cemetery rather then seminary because a cemetery is a place of death which, as
you will see, is the end result of replacement and dispensational theology.
Hint, hint! This is the same thing that Yahshua complained about the Pharisees and their practices. They had
placed the Oral Torah above the Written Torah they had placed the Works of the Law above the Written
Torah.
I am not referring to the fringe white power groups or similar groups. Their theology is based on racism
and some really strange interpretations of Scripture.
This is not an actual quote but a representative statement of a typical replacement church or group.

One of these NTOC groups base their theology on a concept that their God is done with the Jews
because the Jews would not accept their Jesus as the Christ. So the Jews are gone and relegated
to eternal damnation. Now, according to this concept, the NTOC becomes the bride of Christ.
Another very important part of this NTOC theology is the concept that the entire Old Testament
is done away with. These groups will use quite a bit of Bible quotes, mostly from the Christian
version of Paul, to prove their concepts. ALL of these quotes violate the hermeneutic principle
of context and no contradictions in Scripture principle stated above. Thus, their theology is
flawed 126.
The second group openly has a heart for Israel or they support Israel but, like the first group
they consider that the law and the Old Testament are done away with and they are now under
grace and not under the law. I call this type of grace greasy grace in that it is very slippery
allowing the graced Christian to openly and deliberately violate Torah believing they are forgiven
or under the blood or something like that.

Under the Blood

H OW T H E C H U RC H U S E S R E P L AC E M E N T T H E O L O G Y
The most obvious and, to me, the most disturbing result of the NTOCs use of replacement
theology puts the church in the position Yahshua was discussing in Mattithyahu (Matthew) 5:17
19, Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets 127. I did not come to destroy but to complete. For
truly, I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah
till all be done. Whoever, then, breaks one of the least of these commands, and teaches men so, shall be called least in
the reign of the heavens; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens.
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I have made these statements before to other groups and I have had antagonistic detractors interrogate me with
questions such as Well, what education do you have to make such comments? or Where do you come off
thinking you know more than someone with a PhD in theology? My usual comment is I do not have the
learning disability of a PhD in theology so I can read and understand Scripture. In our congregation in
Florida we had an older woman who kept telling us that she had been so deceived all the years she was in
church and then finally she discovered Yahwehs Torah truth. She had very poor reading skills until only 10 or
so years before we met her because of dyslexia which produced difficulty reading. If she can understand
Yahwehs Torah truth in His whole of Scripture then why cant an over-educated theologian understand?
The Law and the Prophets is a term used for the pre-Messianic Scriptures.

These are red letter words for the King James people so there is no doubt Who said them. Verse
19 should be very clear so how come verses in the Christian version of Pauls letters do away
with this clear teaching of Yahshua 128.
If you think that I am just making a mountain out of a mole hill, let me quote a few articles I
found in the Logos program study notes 129. I did research on what Christianity teaches about the
true Sabbath and found some of these notes reflecting a Replacement/Dispensational Theology.
According to Warren W. Wiersbe, the book of Galatians does away with the law. He says,
Galatians is Gods strongest word against legalism. The flesh loves to do things religious
celebrate holy days, practice rituals, attempt to do good works for God. Many religious systems
today mix law and grace and present a garbled, confused way of salvation that is actually a way of
bondage (Gal. 2:4; 4:9; 5:1). Keeping the Sabbath, dietary laws, an earthly priesthood, holy days,
obeying rulesall of these are swept away in Galatians and replaced by the glorious liberty the
believer has through faith in Christ! 130 He further says, Rom. 2:14 and Acts 15:24 make it clear
that God never gave the Law to the Gentiles. The moral law was already written in the Gentiles
hearts (Rom. 2:15). But the ceremonial law (including the Sabbath laws) was never given to the
Gentiles. The law was added and was not a replacement for the Abrahamic promises. Once the
Seed (Christ) came, the Law was superseded.
I must refute Dr. Wiesbe and his deception. He used the word legalism which is a word found
nowhere in Scripture. According to the Encarta Dictionary legalism means, strict adherence to a
literal interpretation of a law, rule, or religious or moral code. I have had many NTOC pastors and
other religious types bash me over the head with this word in one form or another to refute what I
was teaching about the Torah being still in effect. Following Torah is not legalism but following
the NTOC rules, laws, and religious moral codes that are not a part of Torah are legalism. Dr.
Wiesbe states that, the flesh loves to do things religious NOT SO!!! It is the natural nature of
man NOT to obey Yahweh and to do what is right in mans own eyes (Do I need to remind you of
the incident in the garden where there was only ONE command?). To celebrate holy days, practice
rituals, do good works keep the Sabbath, dietary laws, etc. are Yahshuas commands to His
people (read the rest of this message if you have missed this point). Dr. Wiesbe is leading you astray
he is deceiving you! He is lying to you! Furthermore, Dr. Wiesbe does not seem to understand
the difference between exegesis (determine the original meaning of the text and base your
theology on that) and eisegesis (reading a meaning into the text and creating a theology). If you
follow his teaching then one day you will hear the words recorded in Mattithyahu (Matthew) 7:21
23 spoken to you by Yahshua!
Dr. Wiesbe also says that the law was not given to the gentiles. Actually this is true. The gentiles
are NOT Yahwehs people and they do not have the Torah. However, Dr. Wiesbe quotes Romiyah
(Romans) 2:15 but please read 2 verses up from there to get the whole picture. As a matter of fact,
read all of Romiyah following the rules of Context and no contradictions and you will see that Rav.
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The actual reason for this is the NTOCs misunderstanding of the word law and law used in the Paulian
letters. One law is referring to the oral law or mans law and the other refers to Torah or the written law.
For an in-depth and scholarly study of this topic buy the book Galatians by Avi ben Mordechai at
www.millennium7000.org. You owe it to your self to read this important book. You will clearly see that you
have been taught lies and deception (Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 16:19).
The Logos study notes are from a very New Testament Only Christianity perspective and strongly reflect a
replacement / dispensational theology.
Warren W. Wiersbe, Wiersbes Expository Outlines on the New Testament, (Wheaton, Illinois: Victor Books) 1992.

Shaul (not the NTOC Paul) does not do away with Torah and it cannot be used to justify this
false teaching.
According to J. I. Packer we are told, Under the new covenant, in which Old Testament types give
way to their antitypes, Christs priesthood, sacrifice, and intercession supersede the entire Mosaic
system for putting away sin (Heb. 710); baptism (Matt. 28:19) and the Lords Supper (Matt. 26:2629; 1 Cor. 11:23-26) replace circumcision (Gal. 2:3-5; 6:12-16) and Passover (1 Cor. 5:7-8); the
Jewish festal calendar no longer binds (Gal. 4:10; Col. 2:16) 131 What Dr. Packer has said here is
entirely false according to the rules of Context and no contradictions.
Benjamin Blech states of NTOC Christianity therefore rejected the law and gave a new
interpretation to the Covenant at Sinai. This is the crucial distinction between the Old Testament
and the New. The Torah was assuredly given to the Jewish 132 people at Mount Sinai, but its laws
were no longer binding, according to Christianity. And he also states, How could God have given
directives that He Himself later saw fit to change? 133 This is a good question.
According to NTOC teaching we find that it is assumed that the book of Acts is considered a
transitional book with little theology and is often used to show the Christian that following the law is
no longer necessary. It shows us a shifting of the followers of Jesus from mostly Jewish to mostly
Gentile. Many Bible scholars have gone way beyond the context of the text of Acts. For example,
Merrill C. Tenney, in his book New Testament Introduction (which is used as a major text in many
Bible colleges) states:
Since Paul was the leader of the Gentile mission, he deserves primary attention, and the
explanation of the transition from Jew to Gentile, from law to grace, and from Palestine to the
empire did not call for a comprehensive survey of all that took place in the missionary growth of the
Christian church. For Lukes purpose the presentation of this one phase was sufficient. (Merrill C.
Tenney, New Testament Introduction (Leicester, 1961, 1988), pg. 234.) [emphasis is mine].
Notice that Tenney (and many other scholars) states that Acts is describing not just a transition from
a predominantly Jewish body of Messiah, but to a Gentile body and a transition from law to grace!
To be sure, this in only one paragraph taken from a vast body of literature with probably thousands
of scholars. Most of those scholars agree with the above statement so it would be safe to assume
that this represents a consensus. I would also like to make note of his comment from Palestine
to the empire. What empire the Holy Roman Empire or the Roman Catholic Church.

C H A N G I N G T H E S A B BAT H D AY
To me the most horrendous error of NTOC replacement theology is changing the Torah
Commanded Seventh Day Shabbat to the pagan day of the sun or Sun-day 134. There are more
excuses and misuse of Scripture in the material that I found in the Logos research material and
elsewhere than you can shake a stick at. However, there were a few articles that stuck out. One of
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Packer, J. I., Concise Theology, (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.) 1993.
Most Jewish theologians, scholars and teachers consider that Israel = Jews as in only one tribe the tribe
of Judah.
Benjamin Blech, Understanding Judaism, p xviii
There is more on the day of the sun elsewhere in this message.

them being, The Sabbath was dear to the Jews, since it was Gods special covenant sign to the
nation (Ex. 31:1217). However, the religious leaders had turned this day of spiritual blessing and
joy into a day of legal observances, and the rules made their Sabbath a burden, not a blessing. Keep
in mind that the Sabbath was never given to the church. Our covenant day is the first day of
the week, the Lords Day, the day of resurrection. 135 [emphasis mine!!!!] Again Dr. Wiesbe is
leading you astray.
Furthermore this NTOC theology is taught to church children. What makes Sunday special? The
Pharisees tried to keep the Sabbath by restricting what a person could do on that day. Help children
avoid this sterile approach to worship. Emphasize the things we do to make Sunday special. Include
of course going to Sunday School and church. Let the children add other things as well. Do they
have family traditionsvisiting relatives, taking family trips, etc.that bond the Christian family
closer together? 136 So the parents teach the child the deception of the NTOC by bringing them to
church and encouraging them to participate in church activities. Train up a child in the way he should
go, Even when he is old he turns not away from it. Mishli (Proverbs) 22:6 must not apply I guess.
We note in Malaki (Malachi) 3:6 that Yahweh says of Himself, For I am hwhy, I shall not change
and in Yaakov (James) 1:17 we read, Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the
Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of turning. And also in Ivrim (Hebrews) 13:8 we
read, [vwhy Messiah is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. This is Scriptural Truth which
completely refutes the NTOC theologies that do away with the law and change things to former
gentile pagan ways.

T H E NTOC I S G E N T I L E
According to most of the material that I found in Logos and elsewhere, the NTOC is gentile. A
gentile is the same as the nations and they are pagan! The gentiles do not follow Yahwehs
Torah and they are not a part of the Whole House of Israel and they will NEVER be a part of it
unless they repent (turn from their rebellion and follow Torah). Yahweh did not make a covenant
with the gentiles, He made a covenant only with Israel. The gentile must convert to Israel and not
the other way around as the NTOC teaches. The gentile must be grafted into the Whole House of
Israel and not the other way around. That gentile then is adopted as an Israelite and is required to
follow Torah as I have stated elsewhere in this message.
Come-on now, think about it! A couple adopts a Korean baby 137 and brings it into their home. Will
they bring the baby up according to their own lifestyle, beliefs, and customs or will they just let the
baby continue to be a Korean and keep the Korean lifestyle, beliefs and customs? Look at what
Ruth did! She gave up her former pagan ways and became a non-gentile. She became an Israelite!
She adopted into her mother in law, Naomis belief system even though Naomi told her to go to
her old mighty-ones. You might also notice that Ruth is in the lineage of Yahshua.

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Warren W. Wiersbe, Wiersbes Expository Outlines on the New Testament, (Wheaton, Illinois: Victor Books) 1992.
Richards, Lawrence O., The Teachers Commentary, (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books) 1987.
I use this illustration only because I know a couple that had adopted a Korean baby because it was so hard to
adopt an American baby.

Just for a Scripture study look up the use of the word gentile in the Old Testament and then tell
me if you want to be one of those. Also see Gilyahna (Revelation) 21:12 where you will read,
and having a great and high wall, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve messengers, and names written on
them, which are those of the twelve tribes of the children of Yisrael. Did you notice that the gentile gate is
missing???? There is no gentile gate! You will be an Israelite (either a natural born Israelite or a
stranger grafted into the Whole House of Israel) in order to enter the great city, the set-apart
Yerusalyim (verse 21:10). If not, you will be outside. Yahshua has much to say on this topic and I
leave it to you to search it out.

D I S P E N S AT I O N A L I S T T H E O L O G Y
A dispensationalist is simply one who recognizes that God deals differently with people in different
ages or economies. One who worships on Sunday instead of Saturday is also a dispensationalist,
because he recognizes the Sabbath was for Israel, not the church (Exod. 20:811). 138
Dispensationalists teach that God has a distinct program for Israel 139 and a distinct program for the
church. The commands given to one are not the commands to the other; the promises to the one
are not the promises to the other. God calls on Israel to keep the Sabbath (Exod. 20:811), but the
church keeps the Lords Day (1 Cor. 16:2). Israel is the wife of Yahweh (Hos. 3:1), but the church is
the Body of Christ (Col. 1:27). 140
Dispensation is also described as, The method or scheme according to which God carries out his
purposes towards men is called a dispensation. There are usually reckoned three dispensations, the
Patriarchal, the Mosaic or Jewish, and the Christian. These were so many stages in Gods unfolding
of his purpose of grace toward men. The word is not found with this meaning in Scripture.141
Notice Eastons use of the word grace.
In the King James Version, the word dispensation appears 4 times. They are at Korintyah Alef (1
Corinthians) 9.:17, Ephsiyah (Ephesians) 1:10 and 3:2 and Kolesayah (Colossians) 1:25. The word
dispensation is Strongs G3622 which is the Greek word oikonomia meaning administration (of
a household or estate); specifically a (religious) economy: - dispensation, stewardship. This is the
word used in each of the four verses in the KJV. However, The Scriptures uses the word
administration instead. The Scriptures does not use the word to indicate a distinct segment of
time.
According to the Webster 1828 Dictionary 142, the word dispensation can mean, That which is
dispensed or bestowed; a system of principles and rites enjoined; as the Mosaic dispensation; the
gospel dispensation; including, the former the Levitical law and rites; the latter the scheme of
redemption by Christ. According to what I have studied and seen of the NTOC, this means

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Enns, Paul, The Moody Handbook of Theology, (Chicago, Ill.: Moody Press) 1996.
Dispensationalists and NTOC also consider that Israel consists of the Jews and no one else.
Enns, Paul, The Moody Handbook of Theology, (Chicago, Ill.: Moody Press) 1996.
Easton, M. G., M. A. D. D., Eastons Bible Dictionary, (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.) 1996.
Noah Webster, LL. D. An American Dictionary of the English Language. (Originally published in two volumes by S.
Converse, 1828, Facsimile Edition by Foundation for American Christian Education, San Francisco, Calif.,
1985)

something like God slicing up His relationship with humans into time frames and when one time
frame (dispensation) was complete, it was discarded in favor of the next.
However, Webster also defines dispensation as, The granting of a license, or the license itself, to
do what is forbidden by laws or canons, or to omit something which is commanded; that is, the
dispensing with a law or canon, or the exemption of a particular person from the obligation to
comply with its injunctions. The same dictionary defines license as, Excess of liberty;
exorbitant freedom; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum.
It seems the NTOC assumes that the current Christian dispensation is one of grace and that
grace implies merciful, kind, favor, beneficent, benevolent, compassionate. The NTOC considers
the antonym of grace to be domineering, dominating, cruel, rigorous, hard, exacting, austere,
severe, stern, ungracious. Because law, according to NTOC theology, is the antithesis of grace
then law seems to be defined by the antonyms of grace. The NTOC has really changed Yahwehs
grace into license. They have become a law unto themselves and replacement dispensational
theology has smoothed the way for the Christian church to disregard Yahwehs Torah.
Dispensationalism directly opposes the Scriptures quoted above that state that Yahweh does not
change. Those Scriptures are True because Scripture is True therefore dispensationalism and
replacement theology are false!

W E H AV E I N H E R I T E D L I E S
I have already stated that I grew up in the Christian church and considered myself a good
Christian 143. I attended church regularly and Sunday school and even Bible studies. I did have a
problem with some of the Scripture that I read that did not agree with what the church was teaching
me as true but I reasoned I just did not have the theological training to fully understand. I
remember that I asked our senior pastor of a main denomination church some questions and he told
me something like I did not have the theological training to understand those things and that
theologians had worked all those things out long ago. Well, he was doctor so-and-so therefore he
must know and who was I to question him?
Eventually I came to a true understanding of Torah truth and a true understanding of who Yahshua
is. I dont want to bore you with the story so well skip it but when I discovered that I had been
taught lies, deception, and the doctrines of demons, I was furious with the entire Christian church 144.
For the NTOC pastors who are teaching and misleading their people I must quote what Yahweh
says through the prophet Yirmeyahu For the shepherds have become brutish, and they have not sought hwhy.
Therefore they did not understand, and all their flock scattered. (Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 10:21). Your flock is
scattered here and there to every whisper of doctrine and teaching they hear. You have not sought
Yahweh but your own understanding. Some of you do not even believe in Him anyway!
An indictment against the NTOC pastors misleading their flock is found in Yirmeyahu 23:1 2
which says, Woe to the shepherds destroying and scattering the sheep of My pasture! Declares hwhy. Therefore
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Whatever that is supposed to mean.

You may detect some of this animosity in my writing. It is not directed at you personally unless you are a
pastor or teacher of people and you are teaching these doctrines of demons.

thus said hwhy Elohim of Yisrael against the shepherds who feed My people, You have scattered My flock, driven
them away, and have not tended them. See, I am punishing you for the evil of your deeds, declares hwhy. The
KJV uses the word pastors instead of shepherds in these Yirmeyahu verses.
But Christian, do not despair for Yahweh continues in Yirmeyahu 23:4 by saying, And I shall raise up
shepherds over them, and they shall feed them. And they shall fear no more, nor be discouraged, nor shall they be
lacking, declares hwhy. The KJV uses the word shepherd in this verse. And also at Yirmeyahu
3:15 which says, And I shall give you shepherds according to My heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge
and understanding. The KJV uses the word pastors in this verse.

C O M PA R I S O N O F T O R A H T RU T H A N D C H R I S T I A N
THEOLOGY
In this message we have already seen what Torah Truth is and what Torah says about many things.
We have also briefly discussed Christian replacement and dispensational theology. Much has been
said so it is time to compare what we know of Torah Truth to what Christianity teaches us. To be
fair, there should be a third column labeled Orthodox Judaism Teaching. The Pharisee Judaism
of Yahshuas day up to current Orthodox Judaism follow the Oral Torah or the teachings of man
over the Written Torah of Yahweh.

Torah Truth

Christian Teaching

Yahwehs Name is hwhy and it is His command

to use His Name when referring to Him

Gods name is God, the Lord, Lord etc.

and it is not important what He is called.
However, the name of the adversary is
capitalized and has become a proper name and
all the names of the false gods are proper names.
The Greek word Christ is used instead of the
proper Hebrew word and this Christ is named
Jesus which does not mean Salvation of Yah
but it has other meanings. And it also doesnt
matter what we call Him because God knows
Who we are talking about.
Names and words are not important.

The Messiahs Name is Yahshua ([vwhy) which

means Salvation of Yah

Hebrew and Aramaic names and words have

great importance
Hebrew and Aramaic words can have more than
one meaning.
The culture and language of the Scriptures is
Hebraic and Aramaic.
All of Scripture (the Torah, the Prophets, the
Writings and the Brit Chadashah) are one
continuous revelation from Yahweh.

Greek and English most of the time have only

one, precise meaning (making translating and
understanding Scripture difficult).
The Bible can be interpreted into any culture and
language.
The Old Testament has to be interpreted in
light of the New Testament.

The words of Scripture are divine authority

The Seventh Day is the Sabbath according to
Torah.
No work is to be done on the Sabbath and that
includes buying and selling.
Passover is on the 15th day of the first month of
Aviv.
The feast of First Fruits is the day which
Yahshua rose from the dead.
The feast of Shavuot which is the giving of the
Torah and represents a Hebrew wedding of the
Bride of Yahshua (the Whole House of Israel) to
Yahshua.
Yahshua will return on Yom Teruah or the Feast
of Trumpets 147.
Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement.
Yahshua was born on Sukkot (Feast of
Tabernacles).
Torah is valid for the Whole House of Israel.
Yahshua was an orthodox Jew and followed
Torah and never taught against Torah.
Yahshua was a Jewish man of late second
Temple times and wore Scriptural clothing such
as Tzitzit. He would have been dark skinned,
dark haired, and He would have worn a beard.
All the Glory belongs to Yahweh.
Yahshua never commanded His followers to
pray to Him. He said that we are to pray to
Yahweh the Father in His Name 149.
Rabbi Shaul taught that the believer in Yahshua
was to obey the words of Torah and not the
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149
150

The decrees of the early church councils 145 and

the teachings of the churches and their
denominations are divine authority
The First Day (or the Day of the Sun) becomes
the Lords Day or the churchs Sabbath.
You can do anything you want after going to
church.
Passover has been changed to Maundy Thursday
which is the day before Good Friday.
First fruits is changed to Easter which is a pagan
feast day honoring the fertility goddess 146.
Pentecost is the birthday of the church.

Jesus will come and rapture the church away

before the tribulation.
The Christian is covered by the blood and is
saved so this is not necessary.
Jesus was born during the pagan solstice
(Christmas).
Torah (Yahwehs Law) is not valid anymore as a
standard for Christians.
Jesus is effeminate, non-Jewish 148, and breaker
of Torah.
Jesus is a Greek/Roman/Westerner who is
white skinned, long blond haired, and either
beardless or with a scrawny beard. The church
has no clue what Tzitzit are.
The churchs glory belongs to the popes,
Mary as the Queen of Heaven, the pastors,
bishops, and other church leaders.
The Christian prays to Jesus, the Holy Spirit,
God and (horror of horrors) even hasatan! 150
The words of Paul did away with all of the
Old Testament.

Read that as the Early Roman Catholic Church councils.

This is done by decree of Emperor Constantine the first pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
I must explain here that it is my opinion that Yahshua will return on Yom Teruah, however, others have said
other feast days such as Passover. In any event, His return will be on a Set Apart Day of Yahweh and not on a
day of the church. If I am wrong here, then I stand corrected.
Some teach that he became a Christian and some have even gone as far as to say that He was a gentile.
Again what Name????
Many Christian prayers for healing or to free someone from such things as alcoholism or drug addiction begin
with I command you S-------, in the Name of Jesus to STOP DOING THIS!!

law of men.
Rav Shaul did not start a new religion.
Rav Shaul was a a ringleader of the sect of the
Natsarenes 151 and he said of himself that he is a
member of the Way which they call a sect 152.
Yahweh made a covenant ONLY with the
Whole House of Jacob and those that are grafted
into it.
The First Covenant or Old Testament is of
grace forever and ever.
The Law of Moshe or the Commandments of
Torah are binding on the Whole House of Israel
(which includes the physical House of Jacob and
those strangers that align themselves to
Yahwehs Torah).
The Prophets of Israel spoke words of Torah to
the people of Israel.
The talmidim of Yahshua and the other
emissaries (apostles) spoke words of Torah to
the people of Israel and all those that would be
grafted into the Whole House of Israel.
Grace (chesed or unmerited favor) is given to us
by Yahweh through His commands.

Paul started a new religion called Christianity.

Paul became a Christian.
The gentile church is the new Israel.
The gentile church is now under the New
Covenant of grace.
The Law of Christ has replaced the Law of
Moshe.

Preachers now speak to their churches words of

their theology of their denomination.
Christian theologians now interpret the Bible.

Greasy grace is from Jesus.

THE HEBRAIC WAY OF THINKING

T H E G R E E K /R O M A N F I LT E R
We are Westerners and we have been trained in a Greek/Roman world. Our schools from
kindergarten to graduate school teach from a Greek/Roman mindset, therefore, our mindset is
Greek/Roman 153. For the most part, Christianity uses a Greek/Roman filter to explain (or, in some
cases, explain away) Scripture. Christianity attempts to view Scripture through its own culture;
whether that culture is modern American or Roman Catholic Church or some other denomination
or even a Scripture version like the King James Version. This produces at best a distorted view of
Scripture and at the worst, a decidedly different view of Scripture from the intent of Yahweh, the
original Author. We cannot hope to understand Scripture rightly if we do not place the Words of the
Author in their original Hebraic culture and in the Hebrew/Aramaic language they were written in.
The result of Christianitys use of this Greek/Roman filter is the creation of a blond, blue eyed,
nearly beardless, Aryan, Torah breaking Jesus rather than a Semitic (that is, Israelite) Torah
observant Yahshua. The use of this Greek/Roman filter has created a replacement theology that

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See Maaseh Shlichim (Acts) 24:5.

See Maaseh Shlichim 24:14.
Marvin R. Wilson, 1989, Our Father Abraham, (Grand Rapids, Mich., Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company)

begins with the early church fathers 154 and continues today. This Greek/Roman filter centers the
Belief System of the Christian on Rome 155 and its theology rather than Scripture and its theology.

THE SEMITIC WORLD VIEW

Hebrew 156 thinking and Greek/Roman thinking are 180 apart. We, here in America and over most
of the world are raised, educated, and trained according to a Greek/Roman philosophy. Virtually all
Christian theology and teaching is based on a Greek/Roman philosophy, consequently, Scripture is
viewed by Christianity with this Greek/Roman filter. We are taught according to Western or
American metaphors that actually do not correctly fit the Hebraic metaphors or idioms used by the
writers of Scripture.
We might say that modern Judaism has a philosophy similar to Greek/Roman philosophy and
therefore it is appropriate to use a Greek/Roman to interpret and understand Scripture. However,
the philosophy of present day Judaism did not appear until about 900 C.E. and is considerably
different from pre-Second Temple times when the Tanakh and the Brit Chadashah was written.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HEBREW AND GREEK THINKING

HEBREW Thinking

GREEK Thinking

Hebrew thinking is based on the group. Hebrew

thinking considers the family. Hebrew thinking
considers the Whole House of Israel which is
made up of the tribes and those who join
themselves to Israel.
Hebrew thinking has a conceptual approach to
Yahweh.
Yahweh IS there is no need to prove His
existence.
Hebrew thinking has a value concept approach
to Yahweh.
Hebrew thinking understands that Yahweh
expresses Himself through:
Love
Grace
Justice
Torah
Israel

Greek thinking is based on the individual. Greek

thinking considers the group only with reference
to the individuals membership in the group.
Greek thinking has an abstract approach to
something called God.
Greek must prove the existence of this God or
any other god or mighty one.
Greek thinking does not have a value approach
to a god unless that particular god somehow
exhibits some character trait.

Hebrew thinking can tolerate paradoxes.

Greek thinking must resolve paradoxes.
Hebrew thought uses block logic. This means Greek thinking assumes that there must be some
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Remember that the early church fathers were Greek/Roman pagans with no real understanding of Torah.
Rome would be the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) even though Protestants will claim otherwise.
Protestants are actually protesting Catholics.
It must also be understood that Hebrew thinking and Aramaic thinking are the same thing. They just use some
different words.

that things are black and white,

Thus:
Elohim is wrathful -- Elohim is merciful

gray area in between.

He who finds his life -- He who loses his life

Will lose it.
Will find it.
Hebrew thinking assumes that it does not know
all the answers and that it might not even know
all the questions. Hebrew thinking allows that
we might not understand all that we know about
something.
Hebrew language is verb oriented
Hebrew is a language of the heart it asks why?

Greek thinking assumes that it must know all the

answers and understand all the answers. Greek
thinking must also know and understand the
questions too.

Greek language is noun oriented.

Greek is a language of the thinking or mind its
asks who?
Hebrew language uses word picture words. Greek uses precise words with precise meaning.
Many Hebrew words do not have a precise
meaning. The language is not precise and
analytical. The same applies to the Aramaic of
the Brit Chadashah.
Hebrew thinking has a non-linear time line.
Greek thinking has a linear time line.
Hebrew people have a deep relationship with Greeks have no relationship with their gods.
Yahweh.
They seek this relationship and They do not want to know their gods only
cultivate this relationship. Not only do they know about their gods.
want to know Yahweh, but they want to obey
Yahweh.
Hebrews have a total lifestyle dedicated to Greeks only need to serve their gods when
serving Yahweh.
they need something.
There is no past, present or future in Biblical In Greek there are 6 tenses of time.
Hebrew.

T H E C H U RC H I S I N R E B E L L I O N A G A I N S T Y A H W E H
What you have read above should clearly show that the Christian church, particularly the NTOC 157,
is in rebellion against Yahweh. I am referring to the institution of the church and not necessarily the
individual Christians. From what I have discovered from church history is that some 1700 or more
years ago the church fathers 158 began to change the Belief System of Yahshua and His followers
which was called The Way or the sect of the Natsarenes to a pagan church. The first pope of
the RCC 159, Constantine, changed Yahwehs commanded set-apart day, Passover to the pagan
festival of easter in 312 CE 160. Constantine was a sun worshipper as the coin below depicts
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New Testament Only Church

Who were mostly pagans and were not trained in Torah.
RCC = Roman Catholic Church
This information is available from several sources. One of the sources is www.fossilizedcustoms.com and
www.yourarmstoisrael.org as well as our own website www.servant2000.org.

(Constantine and Sol Invictus on the coin and he is shown in the mosaic with a halo). Over the
centuries things did not get any better. When a group of people separated themselves from the RCC
and called themselves Protestants they are really only protesting catholics because they have
retained a large part of the paganism of Catholicism.

The church has deliberately taught a lie to its people by teaching that a former Jew they call Paul
actually created a new religion called Christianity. This is flat not true! In Maaseh Shlichim (Acts)
chapter 24 we see Rav Shaul (his real name) before the governor. In verse 5 it says of Rav Shaul
that he is, a ringleader of the sect of the Natsarenes. Furthermore, in verse 14, Rav Shaul admits of
himself, And this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the Elohim of my
fathers, believing all that has been written in the Torah and in the Prophets. He is not a Christian and he
admits that he believes in the written Torah and Prophets. I want to make this statement clear in
case you missed it. He believes in the written Torah and Prophets and not in the oral law.
Therefore, stop blaming Rav Shaul for changing Torah and creating some kind of hybrid religion
but put the blame where it should go to the RCC!

H OW I S T H E C H R I S T I A N C H U RC H I N R E B E L L I O N A G A I N S T
YA H W E H ?
The church has rejected Yahwehs commanded Seventh Day Sabbath as we find in Shemot
(Exodus) 20:8 11 and elsewhere. The church has replaced Yahwehs Sabbath with the day of the
sun (sun-day) and called it The Lords Day. The question is, which lord? The answer is the sun
god (in his various forms and names).
The church has rejected all of Yahwehs commanded set-apart days as found in Vayikrah (Leviticus)
chapter 23. The church replaced Yahwehs set-apart days with easter, christmas, halloween 161,
valentines day, saint patricks day, and lets not forget the long list of holy days to the saints of
the RCC.

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And dont say that the church doesnt celebrate halloween. They do but they call it fall festival or something
similar.

The church has rejected Yahwehs food commands as found in Vayikrah (Leviticus) chapter 11.
The church teaches that you can eat what you want. Some even say that if you say a blessing over
the food it makes it all right and somehow makes the food clean. This actually amounts to
pronouncing an incantation over the food to magically make it clean.

There are also a few other things that I will only mention and allow you to investigate them yourself
by going to the websites listed at the end of this message. What I am going to say is going to be
hard to take and might even embarrass you but that is not my intention. I discovered much of this
information in a book I read many years ago called The Two Babylons: or the Papal Worship
Proved to be the Worship of Nimrod and his Wife by Alexander Hislop 162. I recently found a
book called Too Long In The Sun by Rives (www.toolong.com). This website also verifies much
of what I say below.
The christmas tree that is in the front of your church sanctuary right near the altar and the one in the
living room of your house at christmas time is a phallic symbol and an asherah pole. The
decorations also represent sexual symbols. The wreath on your front door is a female sexual
symbol. The steeple on your church is the same thing as an obelisk which is a phallic symbol and is
dedicated to the sun god. The cross is actually an offshoot of the Egyptian ankh which is a symbol
of the after life. The cross in its various forms is found over and over again associated with the
various sun gods and sun god worship. When Constantine saw the cross in his vision (or
hallucination) he actually was referring to the sun god symbol.

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This book is available at www.Amazon.com.

And the deception goes on and on. And dont be fooled when someone says that the church has
redeemed the symbol. You cant redeem that which belongs to hasatan. You may think that the
symbol doesnt mean anything to you and therefore thats alright. However, the symbol means
something to hasatan and he likes it when you honor him by wearing one of his symbols.

SPIRIT OF REBELLION
By now you should have been able to put two and two together and come up with four as an
answer. As we saw above, the spirit of rebellion is the same thing as baal worship. It doesnt
matter if you are bowing the knee to the wafer god in the catholic church or you are celebrating
easter sun rise service and then having an easter ham dinner later in the day. It is rebellion!

Every Seventh Day (Saturday to you) that you go and work or shop or do any other thing except
honor Yahwehs set-apart Sabbath day you are rebelling against Yahweh. When you attend church
on the day of the sun (the Lords Day) assuming you are honoring the Sabbath you are rebelling
against Yahweh.
Every morning that you have bacon for breakfast you are rebelling against Yahweh. There is much
to say about Yahwehs food commands found in Vayikrah (Leviticus) chapter 11 and there is not
enough room for that discussion here. I have a message posted on our website called Yahwehs
Dinner Table that should help you understand the seriousness of these food commands.
Every year that you ignore Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of Firstfruits you
are rebelling against Yahweh. When you turn Shavuot (Feast of Weeks) into Pentecost and claim
it is the beginning of the church you are rebelling against Yahweh. When you ignore Yom Teruah
(Feast of Trumpets) you are rebelling against Yahweh. It is my opinion (and the opinion of many
others) that Yahshua will return on Yom Teruah. The explanation is in another message that is on
our website. When you ignore Yom Kippur Yahwehs most set-apart day you are in serious
rebellion against Yahweh. And finally, when you ignore Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) you are
rebelling against Yahweh and rejecting His Salvation Yahshua. Yahshua came to Tabernacle with
us. The Scriptures says in Yochanan (John) 1:14, And the Word became flesh and pitched His tent1
among us, and we saw His esteem, esteem as of an only brought-forth of a father, complete in favour and truth.
Footnote: 1An indication that His birth was during the Festival of Booths. The phrase, pitched His tent
is the same as saying tabernacle-ed. Sukkot is Yahshuas birthday and not christmas (the birthday
of several sun mighty-ones) but that is another message.

Why are these seven set-apart days so important? All of these set-apart days are prophetic and
Messianic in that all of them are fulfilled in Yahshua. To reject Yahwehs set-apart days and
substitute them with anything else is the same as rejecting Yahshua. It is worshipping the baals.
Reject the rebellion of the church and turn to Yahwehs Torah Truth. Later I will discuss some
solutions that will help you do this.
I have posted a message called The Golden Calf Worship System that includes a hard word from
Yahweh for the Christian. Please read that message.

S U M M A RY
Even though this has been a long message, I have not covered all that I wanted to cover. I have
other messages and papers that can be read to clarify much of what is said in this message. This has
been a Message for Our Time and it is addressed to the Christian who is seeking truth. I am not,
and I do not claim to be the author of original truth. I have presented to you what I have studied
and what I have been taught by others. I followed the Scriptural principles that what I was studying
or reading must be in context with the whole of Scripture and that there are no contradictions.
Thus the material that I presented to you must also meet that criteria.
I have not said much about who I am or what my training is. I spent many years in a certain
technical field and then spent many years teaching about that field. I wrote major training programs
and even some books. However, that makes me a Greek/Roman/Westerner as I discussed above.
This mind set has its disadvantages, however, it also made me very critical of what I was being
taught and what I thought I believed. I started taking what I was being taught in the church and
holding it up to Scripture and the teachings could not stand the scrutiny of Scripture. When the
church taught me that the Sabbath had been changed to sun-day I believed them for a time. But my
technical training said that one plus one equals two and when I found in scripture that Sabbath
was a BIG deal but could not find one single Scripture that changed the Sabbath from Yahwehs
commanded seventh day to another day the math didnt work out any more. The church was
using some kind of new math. A hole had been punched in the dam of my former belief system.
Other things happened that I wont bore you with but Yahweh put teachers and shepherds before
me that were after His Heart and they filled me with knowledge and understanding. Of course, it
helped that Yahweh had opened my heart to Him and His Torah. He called me and I answered like
Israel did in Shemot 24:7 (see above). Furthermore, I believe that I am a watchman and I must
speak out and teach that the Christian Believer must be Torah obedient and must repent and return
to Yahwehs Torah. I have seen that Yechezqel (Ezekiel) 3:17 21 applies to me. I have presented
this message to you so that you would repent. I have also presented this message so that you would
continue to search out Yahwehs Word and so that you would know Yahshua in a real way rather
than just know about Yahshua.

W H AT T H I S M E S S AG E H A S P R E S E N T E D
NAMES

AND

WORDS

Names and words in their original Hebrew meaning are vital to understanding Scripture. Yahwehs
Name is Yahweh and Yahshuas Name is Yahshua and not something else. These Names have
meaning and when we use the Name Yahweh Malaki (Malachi) 3:16 applies.

RULES

OF

SCRIPTURE STUDY

This section was more for your information than a part of the message but it explains what rules I
would use to discuss Scripture in this message. The short discussion of PARDES was for your
information. And a brief discussion of the true language of the Brit Chadashah.

THE MEANING

OF

RESTORATION

This section discusses what I mean by restoring and how I will apply that term to this message. For
the purposes of this message restoration means the restoring of something to an earlier
condition. Restoration can also be considered a physical or spiritual healing. There must have
been an earlier condition in order to restore something. Restore implies that we will return to the
earlier condition.

WHO

IS

YAHSHUA?

We needed to see Who Yahshua is according to Scripture rather than what we have been taught in
the church. Scripture paints a different, more accurate picture of Yahshua than the traditions and
teachings of the Christian church particularly the NTOC. We have discovered that Yahshua is
Creator, He is the Word, He is Yahweh the Son, He is Salvation and our Savior, He is the Set-apart
One of Israel, He is the King of Israel, He is Yahweh of Hosts, and He is the Lawgiver.

YAHWEH MAKES

COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM

Yahweh appears to Abraham as Yahshua (Yahweh the Son) and makes a blood covenant with
Abraham and his seed. Yahweh relates to man through a covenant and He has made a covenant
only with Abraham and his seed to follow. Yahweh did not make a covenant with Yishmael or his
seed and he did not make a covenant with the gentiles or the nations.

THE LITERAL HOUSE

OF

YAAKOV (JACOB)

This was a very brief discussion of who is the House of Yaakov. There is some confusion because
Jacob is also named Israel in Scripture and sometimes the two words are used interchangeably and
sometimes the name Israel refers to the ten northern tribes that we see later in the Tanakh. I use the
term The Literal House of Yaakov (Jacob) or the House of Yaakov (Jacob) to refer to those
people born into one of the tribes of Jacob/Israel. The term the whole house of Israel refers to
the house of Jacob plus all those who will graft into the Whole House of Israel and be under
Yahwehs Torah.

YAHSHUA

MEETS

MOSHE

Yahweh the Son met Moshe in the burning bush and we saw that Moshe asked Yahweh what His
Name is. Yahweh was specific and told Moshe what his Name is and that His Name is to be My
remembrance to all generations. (Shemot 3:15). We are to use and speak Yahwehs Name and not to

hide it. During this meeting Yahshua gives Moshe his marching orders to take Israel out of
Egypt.

YISRAEL LEAVES MITSRAYIM

In Shemot chapter 12 we see that a mixed multitude left Egypt and not just the Literal House of
Jacob or the Jews as much of Christianity and Judaism teach. Shemot 12:41 tells us that this
mixed multitude were all the divisions of Yahweh thus it was the House of Jacob/Israel and the
strangers that had aligned themselves to Jacob/Israel. Yahweh identifies this mixed multitude or
all the divisions of as belonging to Him they are His people.

YISRAEL

AT

MOUNT SINAI

In Shemot chapter 19 we see that Israel (the mixed multitude) arrives at Mount Sinai to receive from
Yahshua the Lawgiver the Commands of Yahweh. In Shemot 19:5 and 6 we read the words of
Yahweh to Yisrael, And now, if you diligently obey My voice, and shall guard My covenant, then you shall be My
treasured possession above all the peoples and you shall be to Me a reign of priests and a set-apart nation .
This is a clear IF-THEN statement from Yahweh to His people. In Shemot 19:8 Israel (the mixed
multitude) said, All that hwhy has spoken we shall do. This is commitment. This is the same as
signing a contract in our time.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

Shemot chapter 20 gives us what is called the Ten Commandments but it should more correctly
be called the Ten Words or even the Ten Utterances. The first command or Word is Shemot
20:2 which says, I am hwhy your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, out of the house of
slavery. The first three words in the Hebrew are clear as can be and they specifically say, I am hwhy
your Elohim. By that command we are to call Him Yahweh. We also discover that there is grace
in the commands of Yahweh in Shemot 20:6 163.

THE SABBATH COMMAND

In Shemot 20:8 10 we are given the Sabbath command. This is another very specific command
stating that Yahweh wants us to cease from working on the seventh day and keep that day set-apart
to Him. There are hundreds of references to the seventh day Sabbath throughout the Tanakh and in
the Brit Chadashah. There is not one single reference to Yahweh changing the Sabbath day to any
other day!

WE WILL DO AND WE WILL HEAR

Yahweh gives many commands to Israel in Shemot chapters 20 to 23 and then in Shemot 24:7 Israel
says, All that hwhy has spoken we shall do, and obey. Actually the last two words in the Hebrew
literally mean in English we will do and we will listen or we will do and we will hear. The
concept behind this statement was a deep seated desire to practice first the Torah of Yahweh and
then to understand the depths and details of the Words of Torah as they did them.

THE WORD OBEY

FROM

A HEBRAIC PERSPECTIVE

We Greek/Roman/Westerners do not have a Scriptural concept of obey. We apply our G/R/W

understanding, philosophy and theology to obey which sends us in an entirely different direction
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than the Scriptural obey. From what I have stated in this message we get the sense that the word
obey used in Torah means to hear or to hear intelligently.

WHAT

DOES IT MEAN TO

FEAR YAHWEH?

Above we saw in Devarim 31:12 that to, learn to fear hwhy your Elohim we are to hear the
Torah and we are to guard (obey) all the words of the Torah. The Tanakh concept to fear Yahweh
is to keep His commandments and His commandments are chesed, or grace and mercy.

THE GOLDEN CALF WORSHIP SYSTEM

This discussion in this message shows us briefly how man has replaced Yahwehs detailed
commanded worship system with mans own worship system. This section discussed the Golden
Calf incident described in Shemot chapter 32. It shows us that Israel did not want to return to
Egypt, as the church teaches, but they wanted to worship Yahweh. They simply went about
everything the wrong way.

THE CHURCH

WAS BORN AT

MT. SINAI

The NTOC teaches that the church was born at Pentecost which is error. This section in this
message clearly and Scripturally shows how the Assembly or Church (ekklesia in Greek and
Kahhal in Hebrew) was at Sinai. The kahhal/ekklesia/assembly/church was re-born (as in born
again) in Maaseh Shlichim (Acts) chapter 2. This re-born church is the redeemed House of Israel.
The House of Yisrael or the House of Jacob consists of the physical descendants of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob PLUS a mixed multitude (strangers, sojourners, adopted / grafted in). I also
presented the Scriptural fact that the New (renewed) Covenant was made ONLY with the House of
Israel and the House of Judah (the re-born church).

THE HOUSE

OF

JACOB

AFTER

KING DAVID

This was a very brief history in order that the remaining material would make some sense.

THE SECOND GOLDEN CALF WORSHIP SYSTEM

In this section we saw that King Yarovam (Jeroboam) of Yisrael (the ten northern tribes) set up a
golden calf worship system. Yahweh had specifically chosen Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) as His place
for us to worship Him but King Yarovam puts two golden calves at Beyth El and Dan and tells
Israel that these calves were Yahweh and that they would worship them where they were. He also
substituted Yahwehs set-apart days with his own days. A golden calf system of worship involves
substituting Torah commanded Set-apart Places and Scriptural set-apart days.

A GOLDEN CALF WORSHIP SYSTEM

IS

BAAL WORSHIP

In Melechim Bet (2 Kings) 17:16 we see of Yisrael (that is the northern 10 tribes or Ephraim) that
they left the commands of Yahwehs Torah, they made for themselves molded images, they set up
an asherah (grove) in the KJV) and they served the baals. Baal worship is substituting the
commandments of Yahweh for the commandments of men and changing Yahwehs set-apart days
and places to those chosen by men. Therefore the characteristics of baal worship are not following
Torah! In not following Torah the individual or group of individuals is following idolatry.

YISRAEL

HAD A HEART FOR

YAHWEH

BUT

In this section we saw that in Melechim Bet (2 Kings) chapter 17 Israel feared Yahweh after a
fashion. However, they ALSO served their old mighty-ones which is called mixed worship. They
did fear Yahweh they just didnt worship Him the way HE commanded to be worshipped. The
Golden Calf Worship System is contrary to Torah and it is the same as baal worship and it is the
same as a mixed worship system.

SYNCRETISM

We saw that syncretism is the combination of different systems of philosophical or religious belief
or practice.

ISRAEL

FEARED

YAHWEH

BUT DID NOT FOLLOW

TORAH.

They feared Yahweh in their hearts but not according to their actions. They talked the talk but did
not walk the walk.

AN INDICTMENT AGAINST ISRAEL

In this message we saw in Yechezqel (Ezekiel) chapter 20 an indictment against Israel. Rav Shaul
also addresses this topic in Romiyah (Romans) 1:24 25. Israel worshipped and served what was
created which is the man made / mixed worship system spoken of above. Christianity engages in
an anti-Torah or mixed worship system which Yahweh has not approved.

A MODERN APPLICATION
In this brief section I stated that the dedicated Christian is engaged in a mixed worship system in the
church because they are not following Yahwehs Torah.

BAAL WORSHIP WAS DONE IN THE TEMPLE OF YAHWEH

This section shows that baal worship was done in Yahwehs Hekel (Temple). It shows that there
were objects of baal worship and objects of asherah worship physically in the Hekel. I stated that
the Christmas tree in Christian churches (on or near the altar) and in the home are an asherah. I also
stated that asherah is also ishtar or easter in English. When the Christian observes Christmas and
easter they are engaged in baal worship!

BAAL WORSHIP ALSO INVOLVES SUN WORSHIP

The Roman Catholic Church changed Yahwehs commanded seventh day Sabbath to the first day
day of the sun or sun-day. This section only touched on some of the symbols of sun worship
found in the church as well as elsewhere.

ELIYAHU

PRECEDES THE COMING OF

MESSIAH

We saw in Mattithyahu (Matthew) 17:10 13 that not only did the spirit of Eliyahu come at that
time in the form of Yochanan the Immerser but he will also come in the end of days.

YOCHANAN

THE

IMMERSER

IS PERSONIFIED AS

ELIYAHU

We saw in Luka 1:17 that Yochanan the Immerser came, in the spirit and power of Eliyahu and
that his mission was to, to make ready a people prepared for hwhy.

THE MINISTRY MESSAGE

OF

YOCHANAN

THE

IMMERSER

Yochanans mission, and thus his ministry message, was to turn many Israelites to Elohim. I stated
in this section that Yochanans ministry message prepares the Bride of Messiah for Yahshuas
coming. Yahshua is NOT coming for a bride involved in mixed worship and He is also NOT
coming for a Bride who is disobedient to His Torah. He is coming for a Bride that worships Him in
Spirit and in Truth.

YOCHANAN SPEAKS

THE

WORD

OF

YAHWEH REPENT

In Luka (Luke) 3:2 we read of Yochanan that, the word of Elohim came to him. We saw above
that the Word of Elohim must involve Torah. We also saw in Luka 3:3 that Yochanan
proclaimed an immersion of, repentance for the forgiveness of sins. I discussed that this immersion
is called tehvilah and we saw that Yochanan was proclaiming tehvilah of teshuvah or repentance.
The Christian church has redefined tehvilah into something else such as a sign of accepting Christ
or becoming a member of a certain church and other things. We must return to the tehvilah of
Scripture and do tehvilah of teshuvah and return to Yahwehs Torah.

PREPARE

THE

WAY

OF

YAHWEH

This section discussed Luka 3:4 which references Yeshayahu 40:3 5 where we read, The voice of
one crying in the wilderness I discussed changing the focus of this scripture from someone crying
from the wilderness to someone calling us into the wilderness.

T H E WAY O F YA H W E H I S F O L L OW I N G T O R A H

From Scripture we saw that the term way of Yahweh or the way of Elohim is exactly the same
as saying the way of Yahweh is His Torah.

R E P E N TA N C E

It seems that the accepted definition of repentance within Christian circles is to recognize the
wrong in something and then be sorry about it. However, a better and more Scriptural definition
is for a person to feel regret about a sin or past action and then change their ways or habits.
Scripturally however, repent means to turn from sin (Torah-less-ness) and turn to following
Torah.

R E P E N TA N C E I N T H E B R I T C H A DA S H A H

Yahshua said to the people of the Galil in Markos (Mark) 1:14 15, The time has been filled, and the
reign of Elohim has come near. Repent, and believe in the Good News. We saw that the Good News is the
Word of Yahweh.

T H E G O O D N E W S I S R E P E N TA N C E

By teaching Torah to all the nations then people of the nations (pagans) would hear the Torah and
turn from their evil ways (rebellion, baal worship, etc.) and turn to Torah. This is the Good News!

SIN IS TORAH-LESS-NESS

I think that the best Scriptural definition of this is found in Yochanan Alef (1 John) 3:4 which says,
everyone doing sin also does lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness..

YA H S H UA D I S C U S S E S T H E M I S S I O N O F Y O C H A N A N T H E
IMMERSER

From what we read in Mattithyahu (Matthew) 17:10 13, Luka (Luke) 1:17 and Malaki (Malachi)
4:5 we see that the spirit of Eliyahu will come before Yahshuas physical arrival. In the Mattithyahu
Scripture we see that Yahshua clearly says that Yochanan is the spiritual representation of Eliyahu
and that he will restore all matters. In Mattithyahu (Matthew) 3:1 -2 we read that Yochanan said,
Repent, for the reign of the heavens has come near! So it appears that Yochanans ministry should parallel
Eliyahus ministry. If this is so then I would think that we would see that Eliyahus ministry dealt
mostly with repentance and restoration of all things.

T H E M I N I S T RY O F E L I YA H U

A Scriptural fact is that a prophet of Yahweh, which includes Eliyahu, will show the people of
Yahweh that they have departed from His Torah. We can see this in Melechim Bet (2 Kings) 17:13
which says, And hwhy warned Yisrael and Yahudah, through all of His prophets, and every seer, saying, Turn
back from your evil ways, and guard My commands and My laws, according to all the Torah which I commanded your
fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets. This is speaking to both houses of Israel not
just Yisrael (Ephraim) or Yahudah (Jews).

E L I YA H U C O N F RO N T S T H E P RO P H E T S O F B A A L

In Melechim Alef (1 Kings) 18:19 29 we read the account of Eliyahu confronting the prophets of
Baal. He challenges them to demonstrate the power of their mighty one and He will demonstrate
the power of Yahweh before the people of Israel. The prophets of baal lose and Yahweh wins!

E L I YA H U H E A L S T H E A LTA R O F YA H W E H

In Melechim Alef (1 Kings) 18:30 we read that Eliyahu, repaired the altar of hwhy that was broken
down. However, the actual Hebrew word in the Tanakh is apr roh-feh which means heal.
Furthermore, we saw that in Melechim Alef (1 Kings) 18:31 32, And Eliyahu took twelve stones,
according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Yaakov, And with the stones he built an altar in the Name of
hwhy.

T H E S AC R I F I C E I S S E T A F I R E B Y YA H W E H

In Melechim Alef (1 Kings) 18:32 38 Eliyahu has the people prepare the sacrifice by pouring water
on it. Notice that in verse 36 the lighting of the sacrifice was to be at the time of bringing the evening
offering which is in accordance with Yahwehs Torah commands. Yahweh lit the fire and
consumed the offering, the water, the stones and everything. In verse 38 we read, all the people
saw, and fell on their faces, and said, hwhy, He is the Elohim! hwhy, He is the Elohim!

E L I YA H U G I V E S T H E G L O RY T O YA H W E H

In Melechim Alef 18:37 we have read that Eliyahu prayed to Yahweh, Answer me, O hwhy, answer me,
and let this people know that You are hwhy Elohim, and You shall turn their hearts back to You again. It is
clear that he is giving the glory to Yahweh.

R E P L AC E M E N T D I S P E N S AT I O N A L T H E O L O G Y

This is a long and admittedly difficult section for the Christian reader. Especially the New
Testament Only Christian (NTOC). I used reference material that can be found by anyone and
showed how this theology is contrary to Scripture.

C O M PA R I S O N O F T O R A H T RU T H A N D C H R I S T I A N T H E O L O G Y

This chart compares only a few of the differences between Torah Truth and Christian teachings
common in the church.

T H E H E B R A I C WAY O F T H I N K I N G

This chart compared the Hebraic way of thinking or the Torah way of thinking to the
Greek/Roman/Western way of thinking which is the church way of thinking.

T H E C H U RC H I S I N R E B E L L I O N A G A I N S T YA H W E H
This was actually the hardest section for me to write and I still do not think I did it justice.

SOLUTIONS
I hope you have read all the way down to here and not just tossed this message out as the ramblings
of a man with an axe to grind against Christianity. I ask you to go and search out all of the Scripture
quoted in this message and see if it is true. See if I have violated the context rule or the rule of no
contradictions in what I have said. If what I have said is true then now you have a problem.
You have a choice. You can reject what has been said above (after you have checked it out) and
continue in your Christian belief system. That is, you can continue in rebellion against Yahweh. OR
you can do teshuvah (repentance) and return to Yahwehs Torah. If you are a typical Christian in a
normative Christian belief system then you are in rebellion to Yahweh. At a time in the future you
will hear Yahshua say to you, I never knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness! (Mattithyahu
(Matthew) 7:23). However, read Mattithyahu 7:18 23 for the whole story. See also Mattithyahu
13:41 42. This is clearly not good! So there must be a solution that will allow you, the Christian,
to be in a good relationship with Yahweh and not hear these words. There is!!!!

B E G I N F RO M T H E B E G I N N I N G 164
Hold up your Scriptures THAT is your Guide To Torah Obedience.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

Shemot (Exodus) 20 gives us the Ten Commandments. The First Commandment is found in verse
2 which says, I am Yahweh your Elohim In the Hebrew it says:
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Parts of this section are taken from The Ephraimites Practical Guide to a Torah Lifestyle that was presented
at the UOTHMC 2002 conference in Kansas City by myself.

*yh,la> hwhy ykinOa;

It does not say, I am the Lord, or Adonai or, HaShem, or Jehovah or even God. It says
hwhy or yud-hay-vav-hay and we have chosen to pronounce that as Yahweh. This is the FIRST
COMMANDMENT. This First Command tells you Who you are committed to. You are not
committed to your denomination, or your family, or to traditions or even Christianity. Your
commitment is to Yahweh and we have already discussed Who He is above. That commitment
means that you are to do what he says to do. He has the right to tell His people what to do and how
He wants us to do it. As long as you follow His rules His way (and not your way or traditions way),
you cant go wrong.

D O I N G V S. L I V I N G
Our objective is not to DO the commandments. We are not going to follow Torah commands
for the sake of blind ritual and tradition. This is forcing ourselves to accomplish some THING in
order to please our god this is a form of idolatry. DOING a list of things or not doing them is
what the pagans do to please their gods and goddesses.
NTOC seems to have the idea that we are teaching this form of paganism when we say that we are
still required to follow Yahwehs commandments. I cant tell you how many times Ive been accused
of teaching legalism by people that do not have a full understanding of what I teach and the
Scriptures I teach from. LIVING Yahwehs commandments as a lifestyle is what we are committed
to doing.
As you begin to change your lifestyle from the pagan Christian lifestyle you were living before to a
Torah based lifestyle you will find that your life is centered around the Torah. Your week will be
clearly divided by the weekly Sabbath. You will even look forward to Shabbat. Your year will be
divided into the annual feasts. You will feel drawn closer to Yahshua as you celebrate the Pesach
(Passover) and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. You will feel closer to Torah at Shavuot
(Pentecost according to the church) because the Torah was given on Shavuot. If you are
expecting Yahshua to return someday, then you will have a deeper appreciation for Yom Teruah
(Feast of Trumpets) 165. Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) is the most set-apart day in Yahwehs
calendar and as you honor it as commanded, you will receive the understanding and the reward that
comes with it. And finally Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) which would take too much space to
discuss here. There is much more to say about Yahwehs set-apart days that would take up a very
long message.

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This is an expected day for Yahshuas return. There is another message on our website regarding the fall feasts
that will explain this.

T H E S E V E N T H D AY S A B BAT H
YA H W E H S FAVO R I T E S E T A PA R T D AY S H A B B A T
Yahwehs most favorite day is Shabbat. If you want to discover this for yourself, do a word search
on Shabbat and see how many times Yahweh discusses Shabbat.
We open our Shabbat service at SOMM with Isaiah 58:13-14 which says:
If you hold back your foot on Shabbat
from pursuing your own interests on My Holy Day;
if you call Shabbat a delight,
Yahwehs Holy Day, worth honoring;
Then honor it by not doing your usual things
Or pursuing your interests or speaking about them.
If you do, you will find delight in Yahweh
I will make you ride on the heights of the land
And feed you with the heritage of your ancestor Yaakov,
For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken.

O B S E RV E T H E S H A B BAT
For the new Ephraimite (that would be you) that really has no clue what we are doing and what is
expected of them, this is the place to start. When you have suddenly come to the conclusion that
you are part of Yahwehs set apart people and that He expects you to obey His Torah, this is the
place to start. This is the Fourth commandment and holds a place of great honor to Yahweh and
His people. For the newcomer you cannot imagine the tremendous spiritual blessings that await
you as you obey this most cherished of Yahwehs commandments.

S O W H AT E X AC T LY D O W E D O ?
First make a commitment to Yahweh that you will observe Shabbat. Make a vow. As a family.
Margaret and I did this as we were convinced by Yahweh that we were under His Torah and that we
were to obey His commandments.
Second refer to the Ephraimites guide to Torah obedience your Scriptures.

W H E N D O E S S H A B BAT B E G I N ?
Shabbat begins at sundown Friday (sixth day) evening which is called Erev Shabbat or Sabbath
Evening. Shabbat ends after sundown Saturday (seventh day) evening. First day or Sunday begins
at sundown after Shabbat.
We may have to adjust this depending on our latitude and what time of the year it is. For example,
someone in Alaska really doesnt have a sundown during the summer and really never has a sunrise

in the winter. In Florida, there are only a few hours difference from summer to winter whereas in
Minnesota the difference is considerable.

D O N T D O A N Y W O R K O N S H A B BAT
Exodus 20:9 says, Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work (Exodus 20:9, KJV)
That should be pretty straight forward, however, the Rabbis, Judaism, Christianity, Messianic
Judaism and a whole lot of other people have gotten their hands into this so much that the
definition of work eludes us.
For the new Ephraimite do NOT go to Orthodox Judaism or anything quoting Orthodox Judaism
for a source on the definition of What is Work? You will be bewildered and confused and
probably give up in frustration. You can go to these sources later as you mature in your walk with
Yahweh.

STOP W O R K I N G
This means dont do any work like in what you do for a living. Dont do the laundry, or cut the
lawn, or clean the house. Dont rebuild the back fence, or change the oil in the car. Dont talk
about what you do for a living. Dont sit there thinking about what you do for a living. Dont buy
and sell.
We prepare meals and turn on our stoves but we do not prepare large meals or do any major
cooking. Most of the time we eat leftovers anyway on Shabbat day. We like to have a special meal
on Erev Shabbat and often we eat the remainder for Shabbat day.
Some congregations teach that we should not cook at all on Shabbat. Some congregations teach
that we should also not do any creative work such as going out to our workshops and making stuff
or engage in hobbies that are creative like painting. As you practice this command, Yahweh will
teach you what He considers work. Your congregation should also discuss this so that the whole
congregation understands the concepts.
Remember Yahweh still extends His True Grace to you because you are trying to follow His
Torah. He will overlook mistakes because somewhere along the way He will teach you what He
wants you to do. See Maaseh Shlichim (Acts) 15:21.

PLANNING
Honoring the Sabbath also means that you will have to plan your week so that all work related stuff
gets done before Friday evening. Get the house clean, clothes washed, shopping done, gas in the
car, etc. on Thursday and Friday.

T H E OT H E R F E A S T DA Y S
Notice in Leviticus 23 there are other set apart feast days of Yahweh that are also Shabbat. These
other Shabbat days are to be treated exactly like the weekly Shabbat. Think about it!! You get a
LOT of days off during the year.

S I G N S T H AT W E A R E I S R A E L
As I have already stated, the Shabbat is a sign that you are Israel. Never mind that most Christians
will confuse you with being Jewish they just dont understand. The sign of Shabbat is both
spiritual and physical.
If the Ephraimite is still associated with a NTOC and participates in some of the ministry activities
and they have events on Shabbat do not attend and tell them why. The Ephraimite might have to
compromise in some places but we have to take a firm stand here. Yahwehs most cherished
commandments deal with Shabbat. Just because the NTOC has rationalized away their lawlessness
does not mean we have to go along with them. Besides, this would demonstrate to the NTOC that
we mean business when it comes to obedience to Yahweh.
The Ephraimite must insist and even demand that they be allowed to follow Yahwehs Shabbat and
feast days. If America can be tolerant of every aberration of Belief System, then they can be tolerant
of our insistence on following Torah. By the same measure, we must also be vigilant in following
Yahwehs Holy Days. That would mean that we do not work on Yahwehs Shabbats (also the ones
during His feast days such as Passover and Shavuot). We should follow Isaiah 58:13-14 and not do
our usual things or speak about them.
I want to make a reality note here. There are many non-religious things that we might do. We
might be members of a club dedicated to some craft or hobby. It might be that this club has
workshops and picnics on the Sabbath so we have to decide if we want to go or follow Yahwehs
commands. I know this because I am involved in a certain craft club that has many events on the
Sabbath. I have made it a point to voice my opinion that I cannot attend and do not discuss why.
After all, the focus of the club is on the craft and not religion. However, this particular craft club
makes certain decorations for x-mass trees and there is discussion about that topic every meeting. It
almost makes my skin crawl just listening to it. I have chosen not to say anything although I have
discussed it with a few of the club board members. I wont have anything to do with their
decorations and I certainly wont be attending the x-mass party!

YAHWEHS FOOD COMMANDMENTS

I have chosen to discuss the food commandments found in Leviticus chapter 11 because these are
also obvious signs that we are Israel. Notice Leviticus 11:1-2 says, Yahweh said to Moshe and Aharon,
Tell the people of Israel. Therefore these are still Yahwehs commands. Moses did not have some
kind of problem with pork and shrimp and, therefore, he made these commands up Yahweh
commanded them. Leviticus chapter 11 states in no uncertain terms what animals we can eat and
which ones we cannot eat.
READ LEVITICUS 11 yourself to find out what we can eat.

WHY?
I remember reading something written by a contemporary Rabbi that stated that the reason that the
Jews, as he put it, could not eat pork in the desert was because they did not have good
refrigeration. But now that we have these modern conveniences, we can eat all these things. Yeah
sure. Id like to see him eat a bat sandwich.
As a matter of fact, the next time you go to some Christian get-together and they tell you something
like Stop complaining. The Bible says anything put before you is clean. So eat it! 166. Invite them
over to your house for a lizard sandwich or mouse stew.
American always want to know the why about something. Yahweh tells us why in Leviticus 11:45
which says, For I am hwhy who is bringing you up out of the land of Mitsrayim, to be your Elohim. And you
shall be set-apart, for I am set-apart. You might want to go on a little Rabbit Trail here and look up
references to swine or swine flesh and see who eats it and why. Like Isaiah 65:4 and 66:17. We
might find that eating pig meat is the same as idolatry.

E AT I N G B L O O D
Leviticus 17:10-12 tell us not to eat blood. This means that we should drain the blood from any
meat we intend to eat and not to eat things made from blood like blood sausage (yuck!!!). You
might also want to know that some breakfast cereal that is fortified with iron might be fortified
with blood. We can kosher meat to remove the blood from it using koshering salt 167.

A LITTLE REALITY HERE

America eats unclean! We cannot guarantee that the food we are eating does not contain some
unclean product such as pig meat. Pig is used for flavoring in many things besides beans and salad
dressings. Sometimes even the labels dont tell us the whole truth. We cant buy sliced meats from
the grocery store deli because they could have just sliced some ham on the same slicer that they are
using for our roast beef.
If the Ephraimite has anything to do with any Christian organization and must go to any event
where food is served, you can be sure that they will not even consider Yahwehs food
commandments. This has happened to us several times. If it is a pot luck type lunch or dinner at
the local church, dont eat the mystery meat.
Kosher foods are VERY expensive. Some Kosher pastrami might cost 8.00 to 12.00 a pound 168.
Most Ephraimites that are on a budget simply cannot afford to eat Kosher all the time. If we live in
an area that has a very low Jewish population, then there might not even be a Kosher food store or
restaurant nearby. There must be an alternative solution. Remember, Scripture tells us what animals
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These are almost exactly the words I heard from a very pompous Christian when I had to attend a dinner
related to a drug and alcohol addiction ministry my wife and I were involved in at the time.
Look at the instructions on the box of kosher salt.
As of 2000.

we can and cannot eat and that we are not to eat blood. It does not command us to eat foods
stamped with the appropriate Kosher stamp.
The Ephraimite must stop thinking that pigs, shrimp, catfish, oysters and so forth are food just like
we do not consider dogs and cats to be food. When we go to the grocery store and look at the meat
counter, the only FOOD we see are beef, chicken and turkey, certain fish and lamb. By doing these
things, we are obeying Yahwehs food commandments. We are eating clean animals and not eating
blood.
The Ephraimite must also make some substitutions for unclean foods that he might have enjoyed as
a christian. Turkey ham can replace pig ham. Turkey ham is not ham and it should not be
flavored with pig juices. READ THE LABEL. Jenny-O Turkey Ham is OK for our purposes 169.
Most turkey sausage is NOT clean because the casings are pig intestine rather than sheep intestine.
If it doesnt say what the casing are on the label then we must assume that it is pig casings.
I love beans but most beans have pork as a flavoring. However, the vegetarian products have no
pork in them. Bushes brand vegetarian beans also are kosher. Some other canned vegetables might
have pork as an added flavoring so read the labels.
Bread, cakes, pies and cookies should be clean but we must be aware of the use of lard in the
cooking. Ask the baker. We buy these products from the grocery bakery rather than off the shelf
because we can ask the baker what he puts in things. After awhile, the grocery people will
understand what you are asking about and try to meet your needs. There are some bakery goods
that are kosher so buy those.
Mixing milk and meat is Jewish halakah and we are not obliged to follow it. The injunction is in
Exodus 23:19 which says, Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mothers milk. This will be an issue that
each Ephraimite family will have to work out for themselves. The Ephraimite congregation must
develop minhag (local custom) regarding this issue. We state that this does not mean we are
forbidden from eating meat and milk together.

H O LY G A R M E N T S
The last item that I want to discuss that is an outward sign that we are Israel is the Tzitzit.
In Numbers 15:37-41 and Deuteronomy 22:12 we are commanded to wear Tzitzit. The reason is so
that we And it shall be to you for a tzitzit, and you shall see it, and shall remember all the commands of hwhy
and shall do them, and not search after your own heart and your own eyes after which you went whoring.

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I have called them and was told that they do not use pork as a flavoring in any of their products.

We are to wear them on the corners of our garments. Here we see a man praying with a Talit
(sometimes called prayer shawl) on with Tzitzzit on the corners of the Talit.

Here in the Diaspora and in our American culture, we do not wear garments with corners so some
of us tie Tzitzit to our belt loops. The Tzitzit are to have a blue thread so some of us tie our own
Tzitzit out of cotton string or wool yarn. We do not meet Orthodox Jewish standards and what we
do probably offends Jewish people so here we must be careful if we live in a large Jewish
community.
The Ephraimite must remember that we are obeying Yahweh and trying to please Him and not man.
However, we should be sensitive to other people. Remember, the Tzitzit are for the individual to
remember and not for the individual to remind the rest of the world. NTOCs dont know what we
are doing anyway and they dont want to know. The Ephraimite must be clear as to the what of
wearing the Tzitzit and the why of wearing them. Once those points are understood, then we can
proceed.
There is no Biblical requirement to make the Tzitzit out of kosher wool spun and tied by orthodox
Jews. There isnt even any Biblical requirement as to the number of knots and windings in the
tzitzit. There might be some debate about the dye used to make the blue and we can pick this nit
into oblivion and miss the point of the commandment. The point is that we are to wear Tzitzit on
the corners of our garments.

If we used Orthodox halakah as a basis for compliance with this commandment, we could tie string
or yarn with the same number of knots and windings as they do. I tie Tzitzit with the Orthodox
winding count and, what I call the Yahweh count. This count spells out Yud-hey-vav-hey (see
the photo above). We could use medium weight cotton strings of blue and white that would make
some rather small and unobtrusive Tzitzit. There is kind of another problem with string Tzitzit on
the belt loops they fall off sometimes. So make some extra.
Should women wear Tzitzit? The commandment is for the people of Israel Am Yisrael. It
does not distinguish between men and women. In our congregation we allow women to wear
Tzitzit however, other congregations do not allow women to wear them out side their garments.
The issue here is whether it will offend someone or not. Another issue is the commandment against
women wearing mens garments. Some congregations allow women to wear Talitot (the plural of
Talit) if the talit looks feminine.

A B O U T M E S S I A N I C O R N E T Z A R E N E C O N G R E G AT I O N S
I advise you to find a congregation near you. I have listed some web sites below that might be
helpful in directing you to a congregation. Be advised not all congregations are Two House in
that they teach the restoration of the Whole of Israel and not all congregations are Sacred Name. If
you are not of Jewish decent, I wouldnt recommend attending a Messianic Jewish congregation. I
say this sadly because we attended a Messianic Jewish congregation for a year but found we really
were not welcome. If you cannot prove your Jewish-ness according to their requirements then you
are goy (aliens) and will be treated like one. This is very bad and you will become disgusted and
may turn away altogether.
On the other hand, there are many small congregations all over the country. These are home
groups that have started because someone (like you) finally had enough of the church and tried to
find a Netzarene congregation near them. When they could not find one, they formed their own.
Sometimes these groups are 2 or 3 families and sometimes they are just one family. You can find
Siddurim (plural for Siddur) for Shabbat on many websites. The Siddur is a go-by for the
service. The word Siddur means order and it gives the order of the service. We have one
posted on our website that is free; just download it and print it out. We will be posting a home
group guide in the near future to help home groups get started.

A B O U T S AT U R DAY C H U RC H E S
There is also another type of Messianic Congregation that you must be aware of. This
congregation might be a group that meets on Saturday calling themselves a Messianic
Congregation, Messianic Church or even a Torah church or something like that with the
outward aim of being a Torah obedient group. Some of these groups might be run by a pastor and
be part of a church and even be a part of a large national Messianic organization. There are also
groups that are not associated with a church and outwardly look like a Messianic congregation. By
outwardly looking like a Messianic congregation I am referring to the group meeting on the
Sabbath and having some kind of liturgy, praise and worship of a Jewish or Messianic flavor (they
sing Messianic songs) and maybe even some Hebrew dancing. They might have a Torah service
where the Torah is read and maybe even discussed. However, with all the Messianic trappings they

have surrounded themselves with, they are still a church being a church and playing Hebrew
Roots.
Some thing to look for: mixing church and Torah service either with church teachings included in a
message or, what I call, Jesus songs as part of the praise and worship. This would be called
syncretism. Another thing to look for is the mixing of church terminology and liturgy with what
would be expected from an actual Messianic congregation. There is an order to things in the liturgy
and these thing would be found in a Siddur 170. If the congregation either has no Siddur or is doing
something from a church denomination then this is a Saturday church. There is no excuse not to
have and use a Siddur; they are available on line and sometimes even for free 171.
Some well meaning people (that includes both lay people and pastors) may go to a Messianic
conference and be thrilled and up-lifted by the whole experience. The Praise and Worship and
dancing was awe inspiring and the messages spoke directly to their hearts. I know this to be the case
and I am not denigrating it in the least. Yahweh may speak to someone through that conference!!
However, there are others that He did not speak to. Some of those people will start up a Messianic
Congregation with no training or understanding of what they are doing. They will have created a
thing not of Yahweh and it will lead some astray. The Hebrew word d/bk;Ayai or Ikabod 172 meaning
No Glory. Yahwehs Glory is not there but the leaders glory is.
The reason that I bring this up is that we have encountered (or should I say that we have been
entangled in) Saturday churches before. If you are going to a congregation for the first time, then
allow the Ruach Kodesh (Set-apart Spirit) tell you if this is the place for you.
A case in point: Two people went to a large church that was supposed to be a Messianic
Congregation They expected to see a Torah service but they saw something that sort of looked like
a Torah service in one end of the church and at the other end of the same church they were selling
pizzas (with pork toppings I might add)!!!!! The pastor and the man knew each other and he had
told the man many times that he was absolutely Torah obedient and thats what he taught in his
Messianic congregation. He taught a both and concept which stated that you could be Torah
obedient and do church at the same time. He even had some Scripture to back up his claim. He
was on the radio one night a week and taught this error and he even made a major presentation at a
large Messianic conference on this topic.
On the other hand, a certain Messianic teacher that I have already mentioned in this message came
to stay with us overnight when we were in Florida 173. On the way to my house he told me that there
are tens of thousands of small one or two family home groups all over the country. These groups
are mostly people that are fed-up with the deception of the church and have discovered Torah
Truth. They meet in the home and they use Siddurim from one of the internet Messianic ministries
like ours and many others They follow Torah as best as they know how and as they learn more
about Torah they change their lives to agree with Torah. If you can find one of these groups then
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The word Siddur means order and is a method of performing the service. The Siddur has its origin in the
Temple and the daily Sacrifices. Certain things are supposed to be done in a certain order and with a certain
reverence.
You can download a free Siddur from our website.
See Shemuel Alef (1 Samuel) 4:21.
I believe this event took place after a Shavuot conference in 2004 in Orlando.

you might be able to get in it or you could even start one yourself. If you need some help, e-mail me
at [email protected].

IN CLOSING
We probably could continue to discuss these few commandments and many, many more for hours.
I suggest getting some of the books available on Yahwehs commandments. Many of the books
written might not reflect the restoration of Israel or the Sacred Names but they are useful. Again, be
careful of Messianic Jewish sources or Orthodox Jewish sources. Much of their discussion on
obedience to Yahwehs commands will reflect a decidedly Talmudic (mans law or the Oral Torah)
view point.
Congregations must teach Torah and how and what is expected of the Ephraimite. If you are a
congregation leader, then you might have to make decisions on some of these and other issues. The
Key for Ephraimites to remember is to follow Yahwehs Torah He did not write His Torah so that
we could not understand it. When in doubt ask Him.

R E S O U RC E S
WEBSITES
By listing these websites I am not endorsing the material on those websites. Some of the material is
very good and I agree with it and you will find it beneficial. On the other hand, there is also material
that is either in error (in my opinion) or might not be relevant to you now. I have not included
some sites that may or may not be useful to you right now and I have deliberately left out sites that
are either anti Messianic or anti Restoration of The Whole House of Israel.
I strongly advise you to be aware in your search of the Internet. There are many useful websites out
there that have information that will benefit your study and search for Torah Truth. There are also
many sites that look good on the surface but they are grossly in error and their purpose, it seems to
me, is to lead people astray.

A B O U T T H E A R A M A I C P E S H I T TA
http://www.aramaicpeshitta.com/
http://aramaicnttruth.org/
http://dukhrana.com/
http://www.raphaellataster.com/
Written in Greek?

Download the free book Was the New Testament Really

http://www.peshitta.org/
http://www.aramaicnewtestament.org/

http://www.aramaicnt.org/
Other websites about Scripture Languages
http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/

NAZARENE / MESSIANIC WEBSITES

http://www.yourarmstoisrael.org/
http://www.fossilizedcustoms.com/
http://www.hebroots.org/
http://www.isr-messianic.org/
http://www.millennium7000.com/
http://www.nazarite.net/
http://www.messianicisrael.com/
http://www.hearoisrael.org/
http://www.servant2000.org/ our website.

OTHER SITES
http://www.e-sword.net/ an excellent Bible program.
http://www.aish.com/wallcam/default.asp web cam of the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

A C K N OW L E D G E M E N T S
I truly dont know where to begin with this section. There are so many people that have helped me
to get to this point in my ministry and all of them have a part in this message. To simplify things, I
will list people that have been my teachers either through personal contact or the internet. Just
because I have listed someone does not mean that I agree with all that they taught at the time or that
they are teaching now. I must mention them because they, at least at one time, have had a positive
influence on me. On the other hand, I will also list those that have helped in a negative way. I
will only use their initials so as not to embarrass the guilty.
My teachers, mentors and helpers: Rabbi Moshe Koniuchowsky, Rabbi Avi ben Mordachai, Rabbi
Eddie Chumney, Rabbi Stuart Dauermann, Rabbi M. Shiffmann, Rabbi J. Fisher, Rabbi Alan Levine,
Rabbi Ed Grass, Lew White, Rabbi Rob Miller, Greg Killian, Rick and Debbie Toole and there are
many, many others.

The others: Rabbi H. L., Rabbi E. N., Rabbi S. C., T. M., Pastor T. F., R. P. J., Pastor M. S., Pastor
D. S., Pastor P. L., Pastor L. L., B. R., D. J., Z. R. & B. R., and others (especially TV evangelists).
I have a very special thank you to my wife, Margaret for reviewing this paper and reminding me
about then and than which I never seem to get right. I would also like to thank Steve Massengill
for his review and editing.

M Y F I NA L W O R D S
Over the past 9 years or more I have written a lot of papers and messages however, this has been
probably the hardest message for me to write. It certainly has taken the longest amount of time and
seems to be the culmination of all the other works. I have been advised to cleanup and re-work the
other messages and make them a part of this work so that the reader can find the message where I
say and thats another message. Furthermore I have been advised to finish the second draft of
the Siddur that we have been using for many years. These thing will soon be available either on the
website or on CD or both.
May Yahweh be with you always. Baruch ha shem Yahweh!!!!
Netzarene Rabbi Shaul ben Yisrael (Paul Todd)