The Yahushaic Covenant is the vehicle through which we become children of Yahuah:
John 1:12
Yet to all who did receive Yahusha
as the (fulfillment of the Plan of Yahuah to send a
human) Messiah (as foretold by the
prophets), to those who believed in (the
covenant that bears) his name, he gave the right to become children
of Yahuah.
The Apostle Sha’ul defines
The
Yahushaic Covenant below where we grow to the fullness of deity in our
bodies:
Colossians 2 -
Spiritual Fullness
6 So then, just as you received Yahusha the Messiah as
King, continue to live your lives in (covenant
with) him, 7 rooted and built up in (covenant with) him, strengthened in
the
faith (which establishes the Law in your heart)
as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness (for Yahuah has covered the decrees in the Law which demanded
your death with the blood of the Lamb)
8 See to it that (by the
sealing of your mind with the Shema) no one takes you captive
through hollow and deceptive (pagan Hellenized)
philosophy, which depends on human tradition (Christianity
is built on just such things) and the elemental spiritual forces
of this world rather than on Yahusha (Yahusha
is not God incarnate but came “in the flesh” fully human in every way. Yahusha
was The Passover Lamb not the Easter Pig of Ishtar. He was raised on the
Sabbath not Sunday; he was born on the Feast of Tabernacles not Christmas and
so forth)
9 For in (covenant with the)
Messiah all the fullness of the Deity lives in (you
in) bodily form,
So far in Colossians Sha’ul has
defined The Yahushaic Covenant as:
·
To
“live in” covenant with or live by the example of Yahusha, we must be obedient
to the Law as he was
·
We
can obtain the fullness of deity (spiritual perfection) as we live in covenant
with Yahuah through Yahusha in obedience to His commandments
Let’s continue with
Colossians 2 and see that what I am saying is true, Sha’ul was teaching in
verse 9 that in The Yahushaic Covenant you can be brought to
spiritual perfection (fullness of deity):
Colossians 2
10
and in (covenant with) Messiah (The Yahushaic Covenant) you have been brought
to fullness (of deity). Yahusha is the
head over every power and authority.
11 In (covenant
with) him (The Yahushaic Covenant)
you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands (transposition of circumcision).
Here
we see Sha’ul teaching the physical to spiritual parallel of circumcision. Circumcision
is still valid and true in The Yahushaic Covenant just as is
everything in the Law. Only now the Law has been transposed to “written on our
hearts” spiritually and circumcision along with it.
Your whole self-ruled by the flesh (carnal
mind which was hostile to the Law of Yahuah) was put off when you
were circumcised (in the spirit which is the
commitment to keep the Law) by the Messiah (The
High Priest),
12 having been
buried with him in baptism (consecrated as Priest
through mikveh/ritual cleansing by water defined in the Law is still valid),
in which you were also raised (into newness of life
in obedience to the Law of Yahuah) with him through your faith in
the promises of Yahuah, who raised Yahusha from the dead. 13
When you were dead in your sins and in the
uncircumcision of your flesh (Sha’ul is talking to
previous uncircumcised Gentiles), Yahuah made you alive with Yahusha.
He forgave us all our sins (of violating His Law
through The Passover Lamb),
14 having
canceled out the certificate of debt, which were
His death
decrees against us; he has taken it (the
decrees against us in the Law which amount to a Certificate of Debt)
away, nailing it (The Certificate of Debt not the Law) to the stake. 15
And having disarmed the powers and authorities
(by defeating the Law of Sin and Death),
he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them (defeated death) by the stake.
I want to clarify
and add to what Sha’ul is defining as The Yahushaic Covenant.
So far in Colossians 2, Sha’ul
has defined The Yahushaic Covenant as:
-
To
“live in” the example set by Yahusha, we must be
obedient to the Law
as
he was
-
We
can obtain the fullness of deity as we live in covenant with Yahuah
through Yahusha in obedience to His Commandment
-
We must be Circumcised in the flesh and Spirit which is the commitment to
keep His Law
-
We
must be consecrated as Priests and Kings through Mikveh/Baptism
or ritual cleansing defined in the Law
-
The decrees in the Law
which amount to a Certificate of Debt have been
covered by the Blood of the Lamb.
-
We
must walk in Newness of Life: the Law with active decrees known
as the Law of Sin and Death (sin and you die) has been replaced
now with the Law of the Spirit of Life (the Law with the decrees
against us for disobedience has been covered, the definition of Grace) so now the
Law leads to life as we are restored to perfect obedience through faith in
The
Yahushaic Covenant disarming the powers and authorities that once held
us captive to the fear of death!
That, so far, is what
Sha’ul has identified as The Yahushaic Covenant.
Let’s continue with
Colossians 2:
16 Therefore do not let anyone (the pagans in Colossia all around you) judge you
by what you eat or drink (as you keep the Dietary
Laws for good health), or with regard to (your keeping) the festivals of Yahuah, a New Moon celebration
(as you keep Yahuah’s lunar calendar not the pagan
solar calendar) or a Sabbath day (as you
rest on The Sabbath and not on Dias Solis the pagan day of worship).
17 (You do) These (things
as they) are a shadow (cast by Spiritual
Truth) of the (good) things
that were to come; the reality (in spirit),
however, is found in The Yahushaic Covenant (they teach us through physical to spiritual rehearsals of
the work of salvation).
This is a very important scripture here. Christianity
teaches that Sha’ul is saying “let no one (Jew) judge you for violating the
Law and not keeping the Sabbaths and Holy Days of Yahuah” and
that
is the exact opposite of what Sha’ul is teaching here. According to the
Christian Church, Jews were spying on Sha’ul and following him all over Asia
Minor trying to “convert” pagans to Judaism. This is absurd, totally contrary
to fact and Biblical witness.
We see Sha’ul teaching the Gentiles
to
keep the feasts on multiple occasions, and specifically teaching
them to keep Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
1 Corinthians 5
Don’t
you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Get rid of the
old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Yahusha,
our Passover lamb has been sacrificed (on Passover not Good Friday).
8
Therefore let us keep the Festival of Unleavened Bread, not with the old
bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of
sincerity and truth.
Sha’ul taught them to keep the feasts in
light of Yahusha and in their true transposed spiritual intent.
So it was Sha’ul
who was teaching the Colossians and all those assemblies he established to keep
the feasts. It was the pagans in those pagan communities condemning them for it.
Exactly the same state you and I are in today, we are condemned by the same
exact establishment, Babylon and its rituals (Christmas, Sunday,
Good Friday, Easter, etc.) when we become obedient to Yahuah and His rituals. Let’s
continue with Sha’ul’s definition of The Yahushaic Covenant in Colossians 2.
Sha’ul goes on to teach the transposition of the
Law from physically written in stone to spiritually written on our hearts. Sha’ul
says these things which he taught them to keep in the Law (Kosher, Feasts,
Sabbaths, and New Moons) were designed to teach them of greater spiritual
truths by physical example… physical to spiritual parallels. Sha’ul says they
are physical shadows (training aids, rehearsals, examples, and tutors) designed
to teach us of greater spiritual things that were to come in
The
Yahushaic Covenant.
So let us add to Sha’ul’s definition as the
Spiritual
Fulfillment found in The Yahushaic Covenant:
· To
“live in” the example set by Yahusha, we must be
obedient to the Law
as
he was
· We
can obtain the fullness of deity as we live in covenant with Yahuah
through Yahusha in obedience to His Commandments
· We must be circumcised in the flesh which is the commitment to keep His Law
· We
must be consecrated as Priests and Kings through Mikveh/Baptism
or ritual cleansing defined in the Law
· The decrees in the Law
which amount to a Certificate of Debt has been covered
by the Blood of the Lamb.
· We
must walk in Newness of Life: the Law with active decrees known
as the Law of Sin and Death (sin and you die) has been replaced
now with the Law of the Spirit of Life (the Law with the decrees
against us for disobedience has been covered, the definition of Grace) so now the
Law leads to life as we are restored to perfect obedience through faith in
The
Yahushaic Covenant disarming the powers and authorities that once held
us captive to the fear of death!
· We must keep the Law - The Kosher Laws, Spring and Fall Feasts, Sabbaths,
and New Moons are to be kept in The Yahushaic Covenant as they
teach us through physical metaphors and examples of the Spiritual Kingdom and
Plan of Yahuah. We are to learn from them as we study physical to spiritual
parallels and keep them in honor of Yahusha as they are Yahuah’s witness of
him.
Sha’ul continues in his definition of
The
Yahushaic Covenant in Colossians 2:
18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and
the worship of angels disqualify you (now Sha’ul is
referring to Jews who disqualified them based on bloodline not knowing they
were The House of Israel). Such a person (Pharisees) also goes into great detail about what they have
seen (and how they see it); they are
puffed up (full of pride) with idle
notions by their unspiritual mind (teaching
doctrines of men that nullify the word of Yahuah).
19 They have lost
connection with the head (show a total disconnect
with The Yahushaic Covenant), from whom the whole body,
supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as Yahuah causes
it to grow.
20 Since you died (in carnal
mind) with Yahusha to the elemental spiritual forces of this world,
why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules (which are commandments of men called Takkanots found in The
Talmud): 21
“Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”?
22
These rules, which have to do with
things that are all destined to perish with use,
are based on merely human
commands and teachings.
23 Such
regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom (coming
from Jewish Rabbis and Jewish Mystics), with their self-imposed (ways to worship), their false humility and their
harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual
indulgence.
Christianity teaches that Sha’ul
is talking about Yahuah’s commandments here. The human commands and teachings Sha’ul
is referring to are NOT the Laws in the Torah. The Eternal Law of Yahuah is not
by human commands, but written by the hand of Yahuah in stone, and now
transposed to written on our hearts. Sha’ul is speaking of the literally
thousands upon thousands of extra-Biblical traditions and rules “added” to the
Torah that composed what is called The Talmud. These “rules”
added to scripture by human commands and teachings are called
Takkanots
and ma’asims of the Pharisees. We see Yahusha confront the
Pharisees over and over as he overturned the system of Rabbinical Judaism and
re-established the Torah. It is the very reason Yahusha ran afoul with the High
Priests and Pharisees. Sha’ul is simply telling the new converts to keep that
which Yahuah commanded and ignore that which is human commands/traditions. Keep
the spiritual intent of the letter of the Law; keep the Sabbath and Holy Days
in honor of Yahusha’s fulfillment of them. Learn while in a physical world what
The Spiritual Kingdom of Yahuah is through physical to spiritual parallels.
So in Colossians Chapter 2,
we see the Apostle Sha’ul define the Spiritual Fulfillment found in
The
Yahushaic Covenant as follows:
- Live in (covenant
with) Yahusha – you do that
by walking as he walked and doing as he did… by being obedient to the Law
of Yahuah. It is not the hearers of the Law who are found righteous, but
the DOERS of the Law who will be declared righteous. His Law is our
instructions in righteousness and we are to obey them out of love not
obligation as the Law now leads to our eternal life.
- Obtain the Fullness
of Deity or Spiritual Perfection - We can obtain the fullness of Deity in our physical bodies by the
renewing of our mind as we set our eyes on following Yahusha’s example and
obeying Yahuah’s instructions in righteousness defined by His Law now
written on our hearts.
- Circumcision still defines the sons of Yahuah; physical
circumcision was a metaphor for spiritual circumcision of our hearts.
- Mikveh still cleanses – Total immersion into water still cleanses our
bodies of sin making us “white as snow” and initiates us into
The
Yahushaic Covenant as defined in the Law
- the Law is still the
foundation - the Law of Sin
and Death (the Law with active decrees) has been fulfilled. the Law of the
Spirit of Life now reigns (the Law with the decrees covered leading to
perfect obedience and eternal life).
- The Blood of the
Passover Lamb still covers sin – Sha’ul explains that Yahusha as the final Passover Lamb
permanently covers the decrees in the Law that demanded our death as those
decrees (not the Law) were nailed to the cross.
- The
Feasts/Sabbaths/New Moon Celebrations/Kosher Laws are still valid – Sha’ul teaches us to keep these things of Yahuah
in obedience as they were given as physical teaching tools (tutors) that
teach us what we need to know about the Kingdom of Yahuah
which
is a Spiritual Kingdom we cannot see, touch, hear, or taste. The ONLY way
we can learn of this Kingdom while on Earth is by keeping His ordained
times. Yahusha is the Messiah because he fulfilled the meaning of the
Spring Feasts (Feasts of Passover, First Fruits, Weeks). We are to “keep
them in remembrance of him” as Yahusha commanded and as Sha’ul teaches
“keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread not with the Levin of malice and
wickedness” as he again taught the feasts in their true spiritual
application.
- Ignore human
tradition and commandments of men
– all of them, those imposed by any religion outside of the Law of Yahuah.
Basically what Sha’ul is
teaching is that all 6 previous covenants combined teach us physically
the
Kingdom of Yahuah and we become citizens of that kingdom by entering
into covenant with Yahuah through Yahusha. We know we are in The Yahushaic
Covenant when we are obedient to the Law and keep Yahuah’s ordained
Sabbaths/Feasts. We must understand His Kingdom through these physical to
spiritual parallels found in His Word.
Very simply stated,
The
Yahushaic Covenant is the transposition of all previous 6 covenants
from physical examples, shadows, and metaphors to their true spiritual reality
in the Kingdom of Yahuah.
I covered this in great detail in my
book the Kingdom of Yahuah. The Yahushaic Covenant is literally
defined by the Law of Yahuah as it was transposed from
written
in stone in the Mosaic Covenant to
written on our hearts.
This transposition of the Law
of Yahuah is “The New Covenant” which is a marriage covenant:
Ezekiel 36: 26, 27
I will give you a new heart (for my Law and write my Law on it) and put a new
spirit (of loving obedience) in you; I
will remove from you your heart of stone (legalistic
observance of the Law without love) and give you a heart of flesh.
And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be
careful to keep my laws.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
31
“Behold,
days are coming,” declares Yahuah, “when I will make a new covenant with
The
House of Israel and with
The House of Judah, 32 not like the
covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to
bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke,
although I was a husband (marriage covenant)
to them,” declares Yahuah.
33 “But
this is the (new marriage) covenant
which I will make with
The House of
Israel
after those days,” declares Yahuah,
“I will put My law (marriage vows)
within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their
God, and they shall be My people.
34 They
will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying,
‘Know Yahuah,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the
greatest of them,” declares Yahuah, “for I will forgive their iniquity,
and their sin I will remember no more.” (see
Zachariah 3)
NOTE:
“iniquity” is breaking the
Law of Yahuah. That is what “iniquity” or “lawless” means in Matthew 7:23. The word in
that verse is the Greek word anomía:
Entry for Strong's #458 -
ἀνομία
Zechariah 3 -
Clean Garments for the High Priest, Yahusha anointed High
Priest of Israel after his Mikveh by John…
1
Then he showed me Yahusha the high priest standing before the angel of YAHUAH,
and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him. 2 YAHUAH (through His proxy The Angel before whom stood Yahusha and
Satan) said to Satan, “Yahuah rebuke you, Satan! Yahuah, who has
chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man (Yahusha
was a man not a god) a burning stick snatched from the fire?”
3
Now Yahusha was dressed in filthy clothes (metaphor
of sin) as he stood before the angel. 4 The angel said to those who
were standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes.” Then Yahuah said to Yahusha,
“See (after
taking off his filthy rags),
I have taken away (through Mikveh by John see my
book Melchizedek and The Passover Lamb) your sin (fifthly rags Isaiah 64:6), and I will put fine
garments (of the High Priest) on you.”
5
Then I said, “Put a clean turban (of the High
Priest) on his (Yahusha’s)
head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him (in the garments of the High Priest), while the
angel of Yahuah stood by. 6 The angel of Yahuah gave this charge to Yahusha: 7
“This is what Yahuah the Almighty (God)
says (again Yahuah speaking through His proxy Angel):
‘If (here Yahuah makes a conditional
promise to Yahusha) you will walk in obedience to me and keep my
requirements (the Torah),
then
(here is the promise if he keeps the Torah and
obeys the Will of Yahuah) you will govern my house (i.e. King over creation) and have charge of my
courts (Eternal Judge), and I will give
you a place (at the right hand of Yahuah)
among these standing here.
8
“‘Listen, High Priest Yahusha, you and your associates seated (who came) before you (probably
Adam, Enoch, Moses, Elijah, etc.), who (those
seated before him) are men symbolic
of things to come:
I am going to bring (you) my servant
(from this point forward), the Branch (he is the Messiah).
9
See, the stone I have set in front of Yahusha! There are seven eyes on that one
stone, and I will engrave an inscription on it,’ says Yahuah Almighty, ‘and
I will remove the sin of this land in a single day (the day Yahusha, in obedience, died as Passover Lamb).
Hebrews 10
The Law
is only a (physical)
shadow of the
good things that are coming (in the spirit
when the Law is written on our hearts)—not the realities themselves
(but they teach us of spiritual truths we cannot
otherwise understand i.e. physical to spiritual parallels).
Let’s read from the book of 1
John as The Yahushaic Covenant is summed up as
the Law and The
Prophets plus 1 new command. 1 John goes on to clearly teach that
the “old” commandments are to be kept; and only 1 to be added. This is
"The New Covenant" in a nutshell so to speak.
The Yahushaic
Covenant is all the old "Terms and Conditions" of all other
covenants with the blood of Yahusha replacing the Certificate of Debt which are
the decrees in the Law that demand our death for disobedience to the Law:
1 John 2
3
We know that we have come to
know Yahuah if we keep His commands. 4 Whoever says, “I know Yahuah,”
but does not do what Yahuah commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that
person. 5 But if anyone obeys Yahuah’s
word, the love for God is truly made complete in them (they will be MADE perfect and embody the fullness of deity).
This is how we know we are in The Yahushaic Covenant: 6 Whoever claims to live in covenant with Yahusha
must live as Yahusha did (keeping the Law of
Yahuah in loving obedience and walking The Way of Mikveh, Circumcision, and
Offering)
7 Dear friends,
I am not writing you a new command
but an old one, which you have had since the beginning (the Torah and Prophets… Scripture). This old
command is the message you have heard (the Hebrew
Scriptures). 8
Yet I am writing you
a new command; its
(Spirit of) truth is seen in Yahusha and
in you, because the darkness (of the Law with
active decrees) is passing and the true light (of the Law with the decrees covered which is the definition
of Grace) is already shining.
1 John 1
5
This is the message (all old commands i.e. the Torah plus 1 new command)
which we have heard from Yahusha and I declare to you, that Yahuah is light (revealed through His Commandments which are a light unto our
path) and in (covenant with)
Yahuah is no darkness (sin or transgressing His
Commandments) at all. 6
If we say that we have
fellowship with Yahuah, and walk in darkness (transgress
His commandments), we lie and do
not practice the truth
(keep
the Torah).
7
But if we walk in the light
(the Torah) as Yahuah is in the light (the Torah defines His righteousness), we have
fellowship with one another (so keep all the old
commandments), and (here is the 1 new
command again…) the blood of Yahuah’s son Yahusha the Messiah
cleanses us from all sin (as we express our faith
in Passover and the blood covers the death decrees in the Law, and Yahuah
forgives our iniquity and remembers our sin no more by walking The Way of
Mikveh, Circumcision, and Offering).
What 1 John above is
describing is that the Law of Sin and Death has been defeated by Yahusha and
the only new command is to put your faith in Yahusha and keep Passover in light
of his sacrifice… that was Yahusha’s only command and the last thing he said
before he died. Sha’ul too received this 1 new command that makes whole the
Law transforming the Law of Sin and Death into
the Law of
the Spirit of Life:
1 Corinthians 11
23
For
I received (1 new command) from the King
what I also delivered to you, (now Sha’ul tells us
exactly what that 1 new command is…) that the King Yahusha on the
night (of Passover) when he was betrayed took
bread,
24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This (Passover dinner) is my body which is (sacrificed) for you (to
cover the death decrees in the law). Do this (Keep Passover and walk The Way through The Narrow Gate) in
remembrance of me (as I gave you an example that you
should follow John 13:15).”
25 In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying,
“This (Passover) cup is the new
covenant in my blood (The New Covenant is that Yahusha
fulfilled the requirements of the Passover Lamb making whole the Law).
Do this (keep Passover), as often as you
drink it, in remembrance of me (my example).”
26
For as often as you eat
this bread and drink the cup (on Passover),
you proclaim (your faith in) the King’s death (to
cover the death decrees and defeat death) until he comes.
The New Covenant is “new”
only
in the sense that the Law has been transposed from
written in stone to
written
on our hearts and Yahusha has fulfilled the Passover promise. The primary
focus is that Yahusha fulfilled the physical shadow of Passover and defeated the
Law of Sin and Death removing our “enmity” toward the Law because we feared
death. The only weakness in the Law was our sinful flesh. That weakness was
made whole by covering the death decrees. the Law then was transformed to the
Law of the Spirit that leads to Life.
The main theme of
The
Yahushaic Covenant is that Yahusha defeated the ‘Law of Sin and
Death’ by fulfilling the requirements of the Passover Lamb. Now those in
covenant with him live in freedom (from the threat of death) in what is called
the ‘Law of the Spirit of Life’. Before we go any further, first let me
define terms:
The Law of Yahuah – An all-encompassing
term for the commands/law, ordinances, and decrees of Yahuah. So when we say
“the Law” we are referring to all 3 aspects combined:
Deut. 5
30 "Go, tell them to return
to their tents. 31 But you stay here with me so that I may give you all the
commands,
decrees and
ordinances you are to teach them to
follow in the land I am giving them to possess."
As we read above the Law contains
commands, decrees, and ordinances, so let me quickly define each one:
Commands also called laws. Simply
speaking these are the 10 commandments, the dietary Laws, the judicial laws,
the Laws of ritual purity, the sacrificial laws, and so forth.
Ordinances – these are the
ordained times such as The Sabbath, and the ordained festivals (spring and fall
feasts).
Decrees
– these are the divine
judgments or judicial decrees within the Law that levy judgment against us for
violating the commands and ordinances within the Law. Only the decrees were
“nailed to the stake” as our transgressions were forgiven by Yahuah and covered
by the blood of the lamb Yahusha as agreed upon in Zachariah Chapter 3.
So together the commands,
decrees, and ordinances make up what we call ‘the Law’. The Law first existed
in what the Apostle Sha’ul refers to as ‘the Law of Sin and Death’. the
Law was then transposed by Yahusha into ‘the Law of the Spirit of Life’ as
his blood covered the death decrees (our sin). Let me explain and clearly
define these terms used by the Apostle Sha’ul…
The Law of Sin and Death – is
the Law of Yahuah with active death decrees for disobedience as
it existed in written form passed down from Adam through Moses. The first (and
every subsequent “law”) came with a corresponding judicial decree for breaking
that law. The first Law was given in Eden with “you shall not eat of the apple”
(law) and then the decree “or you shall surely die”. That is where the
Law of sin and you die was first introduced. Over time as new laws were added
so were new judicial decrees for each new law Yahuah revealed as He
progressively disclosed the ‘constitution’ of His Kingdom. Since we all have
sinned, we were being held captive by the death decrees and in bondage to the
fear of death.
The Law of the Spirit of Life – is the Law of Yahuah with
the death decrees covered by the blood
of the Lamb (this is called Grace). The covering of the death decree
which Sha’ul called a ‘certificate of debt’ (we owed with our lives) was a free
give that we did not deserve. This is the definition of ‘Grace’. By covering
the death decrees and forgiving the ‘certificate of debt’ we owed Yahuah, we
are restored to a state of perfect obedience and freeing us from slavery to the
fear of the death decrees. Our sin is forgive through Mikveh and the decrees
covered by our faith in Yahusha as the Passover Lamb.
In effect the Law has not
changed, it was just made whole or ‘complete’ through grace. With the
understanding of terms it becomes clear what the Apostle Sha’ul is saying below
as he defines “The Doctrine of Righteousness”:
Romans 8
1
Now
there is no condemnation (referring to the Death
Decrees/Certificate of Debt) for those in The Yahushaic Covenant.
2 For
the Law of the Spirit of life in (covenant with) Yahusha the Messiah has made me
free from the Law of Sin and Death (the death
decrees in the Law are covered and paid in full).
3 For what the Law could not do (bring eternal life as promised) because the Law was
made weak by our flesh (because we broke the
Law and the decrees in the Law condemned us to death for disobedience),
Yahuah did (provided Eternal Life as a free
gift to those who try to keep the Law and fail i.e. Grace) by
sending His own (firstborn) Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh (as a man fully human),
on account of sin (to defeat it by living obedient to the
Law, becoming perfected, and dying innocent): Yahusha condemned sin
in the flesh (our genetic death sentence),
4 that the righteous requirement of the
Law might be fulfilled in us (we are brought
into total obedience to the Law through The Way of Mikveh, Circumcision, and
Offering which is The Doctrine of Righteousness) who do not walk
according to the flesh (disobedient to the Law)
but according to the Spirit (and are perfected in
obedience as the Messiah was through the process of sanctification!
The Spirit
Sha’ul referring is the spirit
of loving
obedience to the Law prophesied in Ezekiel).
Ezekiel 36: 26, 27 – Walking according to the new Spirit
I will give you a new heart (for my Law and write my Law on it) and put a
new spirit (of loving obedience) in you; I will remove from you your
heart of stone (legalistic observance of the Law out of fear of death) and give
you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow
my commands and be careful to keep my laws.
Now back to Romans 8…
5 For those who live according to the flesh (learn
unrighteousness) set their minds on the things of the flesh (and do not submit to sanctification), but those who
live according to the Spirit (of loving
obedience to the Law through sanctification), the things of the
Spirit (the Law is Spiritual Romans 7:14).
6 For to be carnally minded is
death (you’ll be judged by the decrees in the Law),
but to be spiritually minded is life and peace (because in loving obedience to the Law the decrees against
you are covered by the blood of the lamb resulting in peace and a spirit of
comfort). 7 Because the carnal mind is hatred against Yahuah;
for it is not subject to the Law of Yahuah, nor indeed can be.
8 So then, those who are in the
flesh cannot please Yahuah (because they hate the
Law of Yahuah and abolished it in their hearts).
Romans 7:14
13Therefore did that which is good (the Law) become a cause
of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be
shown to be sin by effecting my death (through
the death decrees) through that which is
good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.
14
For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh,
sold into bondage to sin.
Romans 2:13
For it is not those
who hear the Law who are righteous in Yahuah’s sight, but it is those who obey
the Law who will be declared righteous.
This spirit
Sha’ul is referring to is the comforter that Yahusha and Ezekiel prophesied
would come upon us. We have a spirit of comfort now that the death decrees are
covered we no long live in bondage to the fear of sin and death. Yahusha has
showed us The Way a sinful human being can be perfected in Righteous obedience
and found innocent of sin. Sha’ul
is saying that Yahusha “nailed the death decrees that demand our death”
in the Law to the stake covering them with the blood of the Lamb. Now that
Yahusha was obedient unto death, the Law of Yahuah has become the Law of
the Spirit of Life as Yahusha has removed our enmity (fear of death)
toward the Law by walking The Way and fulfilling the promise of a new covenant
whereby Yahuah will forgive our iniquity and remember our sin no more by
washing us clean with Living Water.
Through Yahusha the Messiah,
those in covenant with him are found in perfect obedience to the Law (the
righteous requirements are fulfilled in us). This is because Yahuah forgives
our transgression and covers the ‘certificate of debt’ against us that
justified our physical death. The promise for obedience to the Law is is
eternal life so once that certificate of debt is forgiven we defeat death. No
in The Yahushaic Covenant the Law has been transposed to the Law of the spirit
of loving obedience that leads to eternal life. Sha’ul discusses this in detail
below:
Colossians 2
13
When you were dead in your
transgressions (held captive to the death decrees)
and the uncircumcision of your flesh (lost among the
Gentile nations), Yahuah made you alive together with Yahusha, having
forgiven us all our transgressions (covered the death
decrees), 14 having canceled out the
certificate of debt
consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and Yahuah
has taken the certificate of debt (death decrees in
the Law) out of the way, having nailed the certificate of debt (that justifies our physical death) to the stake
with Yahusha.
What
Sha’ul is saying is that while we were being held captive to the death decrees
and lost among the Gentiles, Yahuah made us alive together with Yahusha by
canceling out the death decrees in the Law that amounted to a Certificate of
Debt that demanded out death. Yahuah as promised in Zachariah Chapter 3
fulfilled His promise to Yahusha to “forgive the sins of the world in one day”
and Yahuah has taken the certificate of debt we owed Him out of the way,
nailing it to the stake with Yahusha. As a result we now we live in comfort and
obey out of love not the fear of death.
What
Sha’ul is referring to is the Renewed Covenant that Yahuah made with Yahusha. That
detailed agreement is defined in Zachariah Chapter 3 when Yahuah personally
consecrated Yahusha as High Priest. Let’s take a look at this agreement and we
will see exactly how Yahusha fulfilled his end of the agreement and how Yahuah
promised to (as Sha’ul said) cancel out the death decrees and “forgive us of
our sin”.
The
prophecy in Zachariah Chapter 3 gives us a front row seat to the conversation
that happened between Yahuah and Yahusha in the desert after Yahusha was
Mikveh’d by John and declared The Passover Lamb. Yahusha then fled into the
desert fulfilling the shadow of the scapegoat for 40 days/nights looking for
confirmation from his Father. Lying on the desert floor starving, dehydrated,
and on the verge of death we know Satan came to Yahusha and tempted him. This
is where the vision in Zachariah Chapter 3 picks up. We have Yahusha lying on
the desert floor suffering from dehydration and starvation looking like a
“stick snatched from the fire of the hot sun” and Satan mad because Yahusha
refused his offer. Now let’s listen in to the conversation where Yahuah
confirms that Yahusha is the Messiah, and they agree on Yahusha’s role in the
Renewed Covenant and Yahuah’s promise if Yahusha is faithful to his end of the
agreement:
Zechariah 3 –
Yahuah’s consecration of Yahusha as High
Priest, King of Kings, and Eternal Judge
1 Then he showed me Yahusha the high priest standing
before the angel of Yahuah, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him.
2 Yahuah (through His proxy the messenger
before whom stood Yahusha and Satan) said to Satan, “Yahuah rebuke you,
Satan! Yahuah, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you (because Satan offered Yahusha to take Jerusalem by force)! Is
not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?” (Yahusha was starving and dying in the hot sun of the desert)
3 Now Yahusha was dressed in filthy clothes (metaphor of sin Isaiah 64:6) as he stood before
the messenger of Yahuah. 4 The messenger said to those who were
standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes.” Then Yahuah said to
Yahusha, “See (after taking off his filthy
rags i.e. sin Isaiah 64:6), I
have taken away your sin, and I will put fine garments (of the High Priest) on you.”
5 Then I (Yahuah)
said (through the messenger), “Put a
clean turban (of the High Priest) on his
head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him (in the garments of the High Priest), while the messenger
of Yahuah stood by. 6 The messenger of Yahuah gave this charge to
Yahusha: 7 “This is what Yahuah Almighty says: ‘If (Yahuah makes a conditional promise) you will walk in
obedience to me and keep my requirements (the Law and
role of the Branch),
then (here is the
promise if he keeps The Torah and obeys the Will of Yahuah as the Branch)
you will govern my house (i.e.
King over creation) and have charge of my courts (Eternal Judge), and I will give you a place (right hand of Yahuah) among these standing here.
8 “‘Listen, High Priest Yahusha, you and your
associates seated (who came) before you
(probably Adam, Enoch, Moses, Elijah, etc.),
who (those seated before him) are
men
symbolic of things to come (they were all shadows of The Messiah, but were not the Branch): I am
going to bring (you) my servant (from this point forward),
the Branch
(he is The Messiah).
9 See, the stone I have set in front of Yahusha! There
are seven eyes on that one stone, and I will engrave an inscription on it,’
says Yahuah Almighty, ‘and I will remove the sin of this land in a
single day (the day Yahusha, in
obedience, dies as Passover Lamb).
We
see above in Zachariah Chapter 3 exactly what Yahusha’s role was in the Renewed
Covenant. He was the Messiah (the Branch) and had to from that point forward (after
Mikveh as High Priest) walk in complete obedience to the Law and set the righteous
example that we are to follow. And if he would do that, Yahuah promised to
cover the death decrees in the Law that is called Grace.
This
is what the Apostle Sha’ul was telling us in Hebrews:
Hebrews 4:15
For we do not have
a High Priest
who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one (a High Priest) who has been tempted in every way,
just as we are--yet he did not sin (as High Priest
in context).
And
what Sha’ul was referring to in Col. 2 where Yahuah cancelled out the
certificate of debt we all owed when Yahusha obeyed the calling of The Messiah
and died as Passover Lamb. Yahusha offered the final sacrifice as a High
Priest without sin because Yahusha was cleansed of his sin when he was
Mikveh’d as we saw in Zachariah Chapter 3 verse 4.
This is the real question we
are seeking to answer. We are taught in Christianity that “Jesus paid
the price for us, he bore our sin, he kept the Law so we don’t have to keep it,
he died so we can live”. Just like that, just utter the name “Jesus” and
you are in the clear, no need to do anything else, you can be lawless and sin
all you like and Grace will cover you. This is simply not true. What Yahusha
did was he was obedient to his role as Messiah and show us the way by example
that we must follow ourselves. Yahusha “bore our sin” in fulfillment of the
scapegoat he didn’t “die for our sin” and he didn’t do it all for us, WE have
to follow in his example if we too are to defeat death like he did. We must
follow his example of Mikveh (ritual cleansing of sin), circumcision (of heart
our commitment to keep His Law), and bringing an offering of our lives to the
altar.
John 14:6
Yahusha answered, "I am (his example is)
the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through
me (in covenant with him by following his example).
John 10:3-4
For I have
given you an example (a true way that leads to eternal life), that you should do as I
have done.
1 Peter 2:21
21
But if you suffer for doing good (obey the Law)
and you endure it (you will be conformed to the
image of Yahusha, Romans 8:29 and 2 Corinthians 3:18, who was perfected through
suffering), this is commendable before Yahuah.
21 To
this (to be conformed to the image of His son)
you were called, because the Messiah suffered (on
Passover) for you (and tore the veil
giving you access to the Altar of Yahuah), leaving you an example
(of what to do as he fulfilled the spiritual meaning
of Passover), that you should follow in his steps (being Mikveh’d, demonstrating a circumcised heart, and bring
your own offering on Passover to the Altar of Yahuah).
Yahusha did not do it all for
us, he obeyed Yahuah and set the righteous example for us to follow. In doing
so, Yahuah promised to forgive our sin and cover the death decree against us as
Sha’ul said. The death decree that Yahuah
covers is called ‘The Second Death’ or rather the final spiritual death
decree. He does not cover the first physical death decree. The spiritual death
decree or second death is ‘passed over’ for all who follow Yahusha’s example
and put their faith in and properly celebrate Passover. Yahuah does not issue
the final death decree and we then defeat death and live again. So we all, like
Yahusha, must physically die and pay the price of sin as we inherited death in
our bodies. It is Spiritual Death that we do not suffer because after we die
because we, like Yahusha, defeat death and are raised to eternal life by Yahuah.
Let me explain.
I said that Yahusha did not
pay our penalty of sin in our body and he did not cover the first death
decree… you still are going to die. Every physical body must die a natural
death or translation/transposition which is just another form of physical death.
We know that Yahuah's own laws prevent anyone (including Yahusha) from being
judged for another man’s sin. Each man is judged for his sin alone:
Deuteronomy 24:16
"The fathers shall not be
put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for
the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin."
We all are going to pay for
our sin through physical death just like Yahusha did. Yahuah would never
violate His own law and put Yahusha to death for our sin! Yahusha died as all
men do, he was not born into sin. In fact per Zachariah Chapter 3 Yahusha had
his sin forgiven through Mikveh just like we do. The entire doctrine of
“Original Sin” is a false doctrine. What the Bible teaches is that through one MAN’S
act of disobedience to the Law of Yahuah (Adam) “sin” was brought into the
world (not our body) and as a result of Adam's sin his body began to die. From
that point forward, DEATH was passed to all men genetically and
sin was in the world.
Romans 5:12
"Wherefore, as by one man…
sin entered into the world, and death by sin (so
death comes by you own sin not genetically); and
so death
passed upon all men, for that all have sinned (so
our own sin justifies our own physical death which is genetic)"
The Bible says that death,
not sin, is passed on in the body we are not born into “original sin” we are
born into a body that is predisposed to sin a condition called “in the flesh”. Sin
was brought into the world (not our body) through one act of disobedience. Death
however is passed to all men genetically as we are all born to die. In this way
the "law" of sin and you die by decree called
the
Law of Sin and Death reigned over humanity and we lived in bondage to
the fear of death.
It is this threat of death
that held us captive not the Law of Yahuah:
Hebrews 2:14-15
14 so that by his death he, Yahusha, might break the
power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil —
15 and free those who
all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death (not in slavery to the Law as Christianity teaches)
We are all born to die and predisposed
to "sin" in our flesh through temptation and that weakened the Law’s
ability to deliver eternal life as promised. As we read before the Law was
weakened by our flesh, it is we who are not perfect! We were the weak link in
the Law and our weaknesses made the Law incomplete and prevented the Law from
delivering eternal life as promised.
The Law had to be made
complete through grace (by covering the death decrees) for the Law to achieve
its righteous outcome which is eternal life.
Proverbs 3
1My son, do not forget my Torah,
But let your heart keep my commandments; 2 For length of days and years of life
And peace they will add to you.
Deuteronomy 11
20"You shall write them (the
Torah) on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 so that your days
and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which Yahuah swore to
your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens remain above the earth.
It is in this way Yahusha “fulfilled”
the Law; he bridged the gap of our own weaknesses by covering the death decrees.
Now, in covenant with Yahusha the Law is complete and delivers eternal life for
obedience as promised. However, this fleshly body predisposed to sin and
designed genetically to die must pay the price for our sin. The penalty of sin
is death which is in our genetic structure because of Adam. So the sentence of
"physical death" is justified because we all individually fall for
the temptation of sin in this world. This cycle of “being born to die and dying
guilty of sin to justify that death” had to be broken by a man just as
it began with a man. If Yahusha was a demi-god the entire concept of
overturning Adam’s act would have no value.
In order to defeat death, a
man whose body was genetically engineered to “die” which was justified
because “all have sinned” had to die innocent in the eyes of Yahuah. Death
then cannot hold an innocent man because death is the penalty of sin and Yahuah
has to issue the final death decree for them to stay dead (the Second Death). So
Yahuah predestined a human Messiah to come and live and serve as High Priest in
complete obedience to His Law after he was mikveh’d and his sin taken away. That
is how Yahusha defeated death… Yahusha accomplished his role defined in
Zachariah Chapter 3… then so did Yahuah and death was defeated.
Hebrews 5:8-9
8 though Yahusha was a Son, yet he
learned obedience (to Yahuah) by
the things which he suffered. 9 And having been perfected (by Yahuah through obedience and suffering throughout his
life and ultimately on Passover), Yahusha became the author of
eternal salvation (forefather of everlasting life)
to all who obey Yahuah (and follow Yahusha’s
example).
In other words, Yahusha’s
life of being perfected by the Law of Yahuah became the true way to eternal
life by example. His way is the true way that leads to eternal life. The Truth,
the way, and the life. Yahusha had to submit to the process of sanctification
(being perfected in obedience through suffering discipline).
John 17:19-21
“And for their sakes I sanctify myself (Yahusha had to
be perfected through sanctification, he is The Way we all follow), that
they also might be sanctified through the truth (by
following his example which is the True Way that leads to life). Neither
pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through
their word (enter into covenant with him as the Bride);
That they all may be one (family); as thou,
Father, art in (covenant with) me (to be adopted then begotten as Your first born-again son),
and I in (covenant with) thee (crying out Abba Father), that they also may be one in
(covenant with) us (and
adopted then begotten too): that the world may believe that thou hast
sent me (to prove The Way works where Yahuah perfects
our sinful flesh and forgives our iniquity and remembers our sin no more).”
We are being made perfect by
the example Yahusha set with his LIFE not just his death. He gave his life as a
living sacrifice or “example” we all follow to perfection through
sanctification.
Hebrews 10:14
14 because by a single offering (of his life as a
living sacrifice or example) He has made perfect (just like he was “made
perfect” Hebrews 5:8-9_ for all time those who are sanctified (by following his example).
The Messiah Yahusha was that
man to break the ‘Law of Sin and Death’ and then die innocent and defeat
death in the process. Through the Messiah, one act of obedience of one man (not
God) resulted in salvation from death, again we see that DEATH not "sin"
came through Adam genetically... and by "man" not "God"
came the resurrection of the dead:
1 Corinthians 15
20 But now the Messiah is risen
from the dead (by Yahuah), and has
become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep (first born son of the resurrection). 21 For since
by man (Adam) came death,
by
Man (not God) also came the
resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in (one human)
Adam all die, even so in (one human), the
Messiah, all (the sons of Yahuah) shall
be made alive (begotten by Yahuah as sons through
resurrection).
The Law of the
Spirit of Life i.e. a man living
in complete obedience to the Law, having his sin forgiven through Mikveh,
demonstrating a contrite spirit and circumcised heart, and giving his life up
to serve Yahuah; and has received the promise of eternal life.
Yahusha, the man, became the
example for all the sons of Yahuah and he is called the "forefather of
everlasting life" and made righteous in the eyes of Yahuah. Now, to all of
us who follow in his footsteps in obedience to Yahuah, we too are declared righteous.
Not by faith alone, but by a process of obedience to the Law, suffering through
faith, and expressing our faith by keeping Passover in light of Yahusha’s
sacrifice. In doing so, Yahusha’s “blood” or sin offering is accepted by Yahuah
to cover the second death decrees on our behalf and we too are found innocent
after we die… and we too will defeat death through resurrection:
James 2:16-26
16 Faith and Deeds (works of the Law). Faith alone does not save, nor
does deeds alone. You must have both. …17 In the same way, faith by itself, if
it is not accompanied by action, is dead. 18 But someone will say, “You have
faith; I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you
my faith by my deeds. 19 You believe that there is one God (The Shema). Good! Even the demons believe
that—and shudder. … 24 You see that a person is considered righteous by what
they do and not by faith alone…26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so
faith without works of the Law is dead.
Yahusha being fully human
denied the fleshly desire to "sin" after his Mikveh in the office
of High Priest and obeyed Yahuah even to the point of willingly going to
his own death (which was not Yahusha's own will). It is the ultimate
demonstration that Yahusha set aside his selfish will to live, and obeyed Yahuah's
will that he die. This was Yahuah’s plan from the beginning to literally
perfected a human being (Yahusha) through suffering and making Yahusha our
"pioneer of our salvation" our "forefather of everlasting
life" our ultimate example… all meaning the same thing. Yahuah
orchestrated our salvation through His human Messiah which was His Plan from
the beginning written in the stars, prophesied in Genesis where the seed of
a woman would crush the head of the serpent, and foretold through all his
prophets, His Ordained Times, and countless shadow pictures such as Joseph,
David, Joshua, Sampson, and so forth. That plan of Yahuah’s was fulfilled in Yahusha:
Hebrews 2
14 Since the children have flesh
and blood (and are held captive to the Law of Sin
and Death), he too shared in their humanity (he was human too and captive to genetic death) so
that by his death (the death of a human not
God) he,
Yahusha, might break the power of him who holds the power
of death (by being perfected through sanctification)
—that is, the devil— 15
and free those who all their lives were held in
slavery by their fear of death (because Yahuah
fulfilled His promise to forgive our iniquity and remember our sin no more in
the Messiah and he defeated death). 16 For surely it is not angels
he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. 17 For this reason (to break the Law of Sin and Death) he (Yahusha) had to be made like them
fully human
in every way (his flesh had to be “sinful”),
in order that he might become (a sin offering) a
merciful and faithful high priest (who are chosen
from among men) in service to Yahuah.
Sha’ul is teaching above the
exact same message I am trying to convey. Since the children of Yahuah are
first born flesh and blood, the Messiah had to be born flesh and blood to atone
for them and break the power of death. Nowhere in Scripture does it say it
takes ‘God’ to die to save us. Nowhere in Scripture did Yahuah promise to come
to Earth and die; that is impossible. For this reason, the Messiah HAD TO BE
HUMAN not God or a demigod. He could not have been Yahuah in the flesh. He had
to be and was human.... fully human in every way so says verse 17 above and he
HAD to have sinned! Yahuah had to fulfill His promise to forgive our iniquity
and remember our sin no more and deliver eternal life. Because if he wasn’t he
could not undue what was done by Adam who was human. Yahusha is the “second
chance Adam”. A man brought sin and death into the world... it would take a man
to take them out of the world by submitting to sanctification and being
perfected in this life then dying innocent in the eyes of Yahuah.
Now, having proven himself as
a human that could obey and withstand the temptation of his flesh... Yahusha
was chosen by Yahuah from among all mankind as High Priest to serve Him for
eternity. Yahusha HAD to die not only for us but for himself. He too was in a
human body predisposed to death genetically and that body had to be put to
death for Yahusha to enter the Kingdom of Yahuah. He had to make that sacrifice
as the human High Priest. Let’s look at Hebrews 5 in more detail to show that
Yahusha had to make the Passover Sacrifice for himself as well. We see that
Yahusha as High Priest is chosen from among men in vs.
3 "he is obligated
to offer sacrifices for sins, as for the people,
so also for himself".
I get asked all the time
"how could a man do all the work of salvation? It HAD TO BE GOD" I am
told. Not only is that untrue because it is impossible for Yahuah to die or be
tempted by evil in the process, but it is also clearly stated that the Messiah
had to be a human and the sacrifice of death for humanity had to come at the
hands of a human high priest for the people and for himself. He had to overturn
what Adam brought into this world. A man brought sin into this world, and a man
had to take it out.
Hebrews 5
1 For every high priest (Yahusha was the High Priest of Israel by bloodline of Zadok,
consecrated High Priest by Yahuah Zachariah Chapter 3) taken from among
men is appointed on behalf of men in things pertaining to Yahuah, in
order to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins; 2 he can deal gently with the
ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weakness; 3 and
because of it he is obligated to offer sacrifices for sins, as for the people, so
also for himself. 4 And no one takes the honor to himself, but receives it
when he is called by Yahuah, even as Aaron was. 5 So also Yahusha did not
glorify himself so as to become a high priest, but Yahuah who said to Yahusha "YOU
ARE MY SON, TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU"; 6 just as Yahuah says also in
another passage, "YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF
MELCHIZEDEK.” 7 In the days of Yahusha’s flesh (when
he was fully human in every way), Yahusha offered up both prayers
and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One (God, Yahuah, The Shema) able to save Yahusha from
death (Yahusha did not rise from the dead, he was
risen by Yahuah), and Yahusha was heard because of Yahusha’s piety
(reverent obedience to the Law see Zachariah Chapter 3).
8 Although Yahusha was a Son, Yahusha learned obedience (to the ONE GOD) from the things which he
suffered. 9 And having been made perfect (Yahusha
was not born perfect being simply a man), Yahusha became (he was not always, he BECAME after his submission and death
on Passover) to all those who obey Yahuah and follow Yahusha’s
example, the source of eternal salvation (his
example is our source), 10 being designated by Yahuah as a high
priest (from among men verse 1)
according to the order of Melchizedek (see my book
Melchizedek and The Passover Lamb). 11 Concerning Yahusha we have
much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of
hearing. (that is a true statement especially
today)
So what Sha’ul is saying
above is that it took a human high priest to offer the final sacrifice for
himself and for all those in covenant with him. As we read in Zachariah Chapter
3 Yahusha fulfilled his responsibility to show the way by example and be
obedient to his role as the Branch. As a result Yahuah too fulfilled His
promise in Zachariah Chapter 3 and “forgave the sin of the land in one day”. When
Yahusha said “it is finished” Yahuah covered the second death decree and
released all those being held in bondage to death. We see in the Gospel account
that the graves gave up their dead at that moment. What we don’t realize is
that we all followed Yahusha that day in the resurrection just like he told the
thief on the stake next to him.
You see, the resurrection is an
event that occurs outside of the boundaries of time in the realm of the Spirit
and we witnessed the first resurrection of the dead on that day. When Yahusha
said it is finished and Yahuah covered the second death decree (which was
holding us in bondage to death) and death was defeated. I go further into the
resurrection later in this book and explore the concept of time.
The High Priest in Israel at
the time even knew this concept, which is WHY they sacrificed Yahusha. Caiaphas
when confronted with the issue of Yahusha realized it was "better for
one innocent man to die, then for the entire nation of Israel to perish".
Caiaphas considers, with "the Chief Priests and Pharisees", what to
do about Yahusha, whose influence was spreading. They worry that if they
"let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans
will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation." Caiaphas makes
a political calculation, suggesting that it would be better for "one man
to die than for the whole nation to be destroyed". What Caiaphas didn't
realize is that he was exactly right but didn't understand what he was
saying. Yahusha, however, did understand exactly what was required. One
innocent man had to die, so that the children of Israel would not perish. By
dying innocent Yahusha could save the eternal lives of the sons of Yahuah
called “Remnant Israel” for all those who would obey his example.
Now, DEATH still reigned in Yahusha's
genetic body (made evident by the fact he died) because he was human, however
that sentence was not justified in Yahusha because he had not sinned as High
Priest. So, death could not hold Yahusha... he was innocent of sin therefore
did not deserve the fleshly penalty of death in his body. By breaking the cycle
of "sin and you die" Yahusha literally defeated death. He broke the
cycle of the Law of sin and you die by decree, and purchased the salvation for
the children of Israel by becoming the Passover Lamb whose blood covers the death
decrees in the Law. So Caiaphas got it right, even though he didn't realize it.
He was being used by Yahuah to bring about The Plan of Salvation and it came
out of Caiaphas’s mouth.
Yahusha was destined by Yahuah
to be the Passover Sacrifice for our sin IF we enter into The Yahushaic
Covenant and keep Passover in remembrance of Yahusha’s sacrifice. So our having
faith in Yahusha as that Passover sacrifice and having faith in the Promise of Yahuah
to accept it... we are washed white as snow in the eyes of Yahuah by the
blood of the Passover Lamb. Our faith is demonstrated by
our works in obedience to His Laws which overturn Adam's disobedience.
We, like Yahusha, put aside
our own will in favor of Yahuah's. Having put our faith in the cleansing blood
of Yahusha (by keeping Passover in light of Yahusha) and believing that Yahuah
accepts his sacrifice on our behalf, we then die innocent as well; because the
condition of "guilt vs. innocence" is not based on our works but on
the Righteousness of Yahuah.
If Yahuah finds us innocent
in the blood of Yahusha, WE ARE INNOCENT of sin when we die regardless
of what we have done. The evidence that we have "faith" is that we
obey His Laws and specifically keep Passover.
1 Corinthians 5:8
Therefore let us keep the
Festival (of Passover and Unleavened Bread),
not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians 11
23 For I received from the King that
which I also delivered to you: that the King Yahusha on the
same night
in which He was betrayed (on Passover)
took bread; 24 and when He had given thanks, He broke
it
and said,
“Take,
eat; this is (Passover
meal) My body (transposition of
Passover, physical to spiritual parallel)
which is broken for you; do this (keep Passover)
in remembrance of Me.” 25 In the same manner
He also
took the (Passover) cup after supper, saying,
“This (Passover)
cup is the new covenant in My blood (physical to
spiritual parallel). This do, as often (yearly
on Passover) as you drink
it, in remembrance of Me.”
26 For as often (yearly on Passover) as you eat this bread and
drink this cup, you proclaim the King’s death till He comes.
So what we have been
discussing is that death cannot hold an innocent man. So, like Yahusha, death
will be defeated by each of the sons of Yahuah; those who have faith in Yahusha
and demonstrate love for Yahuah in obedience to Him will be found
innocent and our names written in The Book of Life! The final death decree that
justifies the death of our bodies will NOT be issued by Yahuah and we will live
again eternally through resurrection.
But what exactly is The Book
of Life? It is a record kept by Yahuah in “heaven” with the names of His sons
written down in it. Only those names on that list are given Eternal Life.
Revelation 13:8
And all who dwell on earth will
worship the beast (I.H.S. Jesus H. Christ the Pig
of Ishtar), everyone whose name has not been written before
the foundation of the world in the book of life of the (Passover) Lamb (Yahusha)
who was slain.
Revelation 3:5
The one who conquers (the beast and does not worship Jesus Christ) will
be clothed thus in white garments (be found
righteous in the eyes of the Law), and I will never blot his name
out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before
his angels. (this gives me chills every time I read
it. Having Yahusha stand up before Yahuah and personally introduce me to my
God… I just can’t imagine the magnificence of that moment, I feel so completely
unworthy of such an honor)
Revelation 20:12
And I saw the dead, great and
small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was
opened, which is the book of life. And the dead (not
found written in that book) were judged by what was written in the
books (of the Law), according to what
they had done.
Revelation 20:15
And if anyone's name was not
found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 21:27
But nothing unclean will ever
enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who
are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Psalm 69:28
Let them be blotted out of the
book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
Revelation 17:8
The beast that you saw was, and
is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And
the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life
from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was
and is not and is to come.
Luke 10:20
Nevertheless, do not rejoice in
this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written
in heaven.
We see below in Malachi that
only those who “fear Yahuah” i.e. keep His Law and know His name are written in
The Book of Life.
Malachi 3:16
Then those who feared Yahuah
spoke with one another. Yahuah paid attention and heard them, and a book of
remembrance was written before him of those who feared Yahuah and esteemed his
name.
By keeping His Law, you will
obey The Sabbath and therefore display the
Sign.
You will “esteem His name Yahuah” thereby
Sealing
your mind with The Shema. You will keep Passover in light of the sacrifice of the
Messiah thereby expressing your faith in the blood of the Passover Lamb you
will be delivered from the second
death. You will be “signed/sealed/delivered” into
the
Kingdom of Yahuah as your name will be found in The Book of Life.
The Bible provides the
criteria one must meet if they desire salvation. In this section I will clearly
define the evidence that you can count on to prove you are saved. In
Christianity we are taught that all that is required is just simply uttering
the name “Jesus”. We know that isn’t true as Yahusha demonstrated that many who
put their faith in that false messiah are mistaken:
Matthew 7:22-23
22 Many will say to me on that
day, ‘King, King, did we not prophesy in Jesus name, and in
Jesus
name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' 23 Then
Yahusha
will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you (you
believed in Jesus Christ the false messiah and abolished the Law of Yahuah).
Away from me, you who abolished the Law of Yahuah!'
In Christianity we are taught
that all that is required is “asking Jesus Christ into our hearts”. As I
pointed out in my last book the Kingdom of Yahuah
that is a death
sentence. Pouring the blood of the Easter Pig over the Altar of your heart will
destroy your body Temple. That is committing the Abomination of Desolation in
the spirit. I cover the Abomination of Desolation in great detail in my book
The
Antichrist Revealed!.
Christians point to the
following “sound bite” and take it totally out of context to justify that “all
they need to do is ask Jesus into their heart and confess Jesus’ name”:
John 1
12
But
as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of Yahuah,
to those who believe in His name:
We are once again confronted
with a Christian “sound bite” as they take this verse totally out of
context of the rest of Scripture. In this section we are going to put this
verse back into the context it was written and present
sound doctrine.
Those deceived by
Christianity are spiritually lazy. They don’t have a heart for the Law of Yahuah.
They desire a religion where all that is required is as little as
possible. The easier and the more fun and exciting a motivational speaker
(we call them preachers or pastors) can make this false religion the more money
he can make passing the plate.
The people have surrounded
themselves with false teachers who tickle their ears and tell them what they
want to hear and they are willing to pay for that pleasurable experience:
2 Timothy 4:3
3
For the time is coming when
people will not have patience for sound teaching, but will
cater to their passions and gather around themselves teachers who say whatever
their ears itch to hear (sound bite implied doctrines).
Make no mistake…
there is no milk here in this book series! What I teach is solid meat and I
have no desire to tickle ears, I tell the truth. I don’t take money for my
service which frees me from serving the interests of anyone. I am a free
man and freely I give what I have received freely from Yahuah. The old saying
“truth hurts” is very true. You will know real truth when you hear it as it is
sharper than a two edged sword and will divide your very being! Truth is far
from comfortable and most people would rather shoot the messenger than listen
to the truth (that is why Yahusha and all the Prophets met an untimely death). That
is why selling the lies of Christianity is so lucrative. You don’t have to do
anything at all… just sit there with the warm fuzzy feeling you get in your pew
as your ears are tickled and say “thank you Jesus” as you are lead to your own
destruction.
Whenever the term “in
Christ”, “believe in his name”, or “abide in him” appears in your uninspired
modern English Bibles we must have “eyes to see” and understand what that
phrase literally is saying. To be, receive, dwell, remain, abound, die with,
identify with, or however it is translated means: ‘to be in covenant with
Yahuah through The Yahushaic Covenant’. “Believe in his name” means to
put your faith in the covenant that bears his name…
The Yahushaic
Covenant.
Entering into covenant with Yahuah
through The Yahushaic Covenant is the entire message of the New
Testament. The end result of The Yahushaic Covenant is entrance
into the Kingdom of Yahuah.
The Great Commission of
The
Yahushaic Covenant is to
“Proclaim The Yahushaic
Covenant because through that covenant the Kingdom of Yahuah is
within our reach”.
With that simple
understanding let me develop the evidence of our salvation beginning with the
same verse in 1 John that Christians fall back on as they have missed the
entire point of scripture. They quote a “sound bite” and have no patience for
“sound doctrine” as 2 Timothy 4:3 explained.
Below is the true translation
of all of John Chapter 1 in context of the Bible’s revelation in general:
John 1:1-18
1 In the beginning was the
plan of Yahuah, and
the plan was with Yahuah
(and defined His purpose in creation),
and the plan was Yahuah's. 2 The same
plan was in the beginning
with Yahuah. 3 All things were done according to the
plan of Yahuah, and
without the plan of Yahuah nothing was done, that was done. 4 In
this
plan was (predestined) life (through a human Messiah’s sacrifice), and that
life was the light (revelation) to
mankind. 5 Now that light (revealed plan to send a
human Messiah has been fulfilled in Yahusha) shines in the darkness,
but the darkness does not take hold of it.
6 There
was a man sent from Yahuah whose name was John (Yahusha
wasn’t the only one sent by Yahuah to earth and John was born a miraculous
birth too).
7 He came as
a witness to testify concerning that light (that Yahusha
was The Passover Lamb of Yahuah), so that
through John all
might believe in Yahusha (very interesting
statement).
8 He himself
was not the light (the Messiah, many believed John
the Baptist was the Messiah); he came only as a witness to (Yahusha) the light.
9 The true light (Yahusha)
that gives light (reveals
The WAY)
to everyone was coming into the world (as a man).
10 He (Yahusha) was in the world, and though the world
was reconciled to Yahuah through him, the world did not recognize him. 11
Yahusha came to that which was his own (the Jews), but his own did not receive him.
12
Yet to all who did receive him (enter into
The Yahushaic Covenant), to
those who believed in (the covenant that bears)
his name (The Yahushaic Covenant),
he gave the right to become children of God—
13
children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a
husband’s will, but begotten of Yahuah (through
resurrection).
14 The predestined plan of Yahuah (to send a human Messiah) became flesh
(was born human and that plan was fulfilled) and
made his dwelling among us (was fully human in
every way Hebrews 2:17). We have seen Yahuah’s glory (fulfilled in Yahusha), the glory of the one and
only (begotten) Son (until the first resurrection), who came from the
(predestined mind or Plan of the)
Father, full of grace (covered the death decrees
for our sin) and truth (properly
teaching the Torah as Moses prophesied of him).
15 (John the Baptist testified concerning him. He cried
out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me
has surpassed me because he was before me (in the
Plan of Yahuah and given pre-eminence among the sons of Yahuah
Colossians
1:17)’”) 16 Out of his fullness (of obedience to the Law) we have all received
grace (his blood covers the death decrees in the
Law) in place of grace already given. 17 For the Law (with
active decrees or
the Law of Sin and Death) was
given through Moses; grace (the decrees
covered by the blood of the lamb) and truth (the Law of the Spirit that leads to life) came through Yahusha the
Messiah. 18
No one has ever seen God (including Yahusha) but (however) the one and only Son (has come as the light to reveal Yahuah to mankind),
who is himself (the perfect human image of)
Yahuah (Colossians 1:15 – “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all
creation”)
and is in closest relationship with the Father, has
made Yahuah’s plan (to procreate a family)
known to us.
That is in context of what
John was saying in John Chapter 1. So those who enter into
The Yahushaic
Covenant and live it (abide in it) will be given the right to be called
sons of Yahuah.
I explained earlier in this
chapter that The Yahushaic Covenant was the Law of Yahuah plus 1
new command to keep Passover in faith that Yahusha was the Lamb of Yahuah. It
is not simply “asking Jesus into your heart and saying his name”. This is
confirmed below:
Revelation 12
17And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to
make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of Yahuah,
and have the testimony of the Messiah Yahusha (I’ll
explain the testimony of Yahusha that we must have later).
In my book
the Kingdom
of Yahuah; I fully developed the reality of the Law as the foundation
of The Yahushaic Covenant and governing constitution in His
kingdom to come. Let us now more fully develop the evidence of our salvation
as we “12 receive him (enter into
The Yahushaic Covenant), to
those who believed in (the covenant that bears)
his name (The Yahushaic Covenant)”
John 1:12.
We are going to look at the
evidence of our salvation and the testimony of Yahusha the Messiah and define
clearly what they mean. In the book of 1 John, the evidence of our salvation is
laid out in detail.
The Bible from cover to cover
is a testimony to Yahuah’s Holy Instructions. “Torah” in Hebrew means
Instructions
in Righteousness. Keeping the Law is how we will be declared righteous
before Yahuah as the Torah is that instruction.
It is in keeping the Law that
the process of sanctification is accomplished as we are set apart for Yahuah as
a prized possession through our obedience. Sin is breaking the Law and Grace is
forgiveness in light of our inability to keep the Law fully. The love of Yahuah
is made complete in those who obey the Law.
Those who are zealous for
good works of the Law are purified by the Law.
Romans 2:13
For it is not those who hear
the Law who are righteous in Yahuah's sight,
but it is those who obey the Law who will
be declared righteous.
Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us to redeem
us from all lawlessness (abolishing the
Law 1 John 3:4) and to purify for himself a people for his
own possession who are zealous for good works (of
the
Law James 2:14-26).
Romans 6:19
I am speaking in simple terms
because of the frailty of your human nature. Just as you once offered the parts
of your body as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater
disobedience
(to the Law; the carnal mind is hostile to the Law
Romans
8:7), so now, in the same way, you must offer the parts of your
body as slaves to righteousness (which is keeping the
Law Romans 2:13) that
leads to sanctification.
1 John 3:4
Whosoever commits sin
transgresses also the Law: for sin is the transgression of the Law.
1 John 2
3
We know that we have come to
know Yahuah if we keep His commands. 4 Whoever says, “I know Yahuah,”
but does not do what Yahuah commands is a liar, and the truth is
not in that person.
5 But if anyone
obeys Yahuah’s word (Matthew 5:17-20),
love for Yahuah is truly made complete in
them. This is how we know we are in
The Yahushaic Covenant:
6 Whoever claims to live in covenant with Yahusha
must live as Yahusha did (keeping the
Law of Yahuah in loving obedience)
Yahusha did not come to
abolish the Law of Yahuah but to transpose it to its fullest meaning and
spiritual intent. We know Yahusha’s view of those who violate the commandments
of Yahuah:
Matthew 7:23
But I will reply, 'I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break
God's laws.'
Matthew 13:41
The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom
all causes of sin and all law-breakers,
Matthew 23:28
The same is true of you: outwardly you seem to the human eye to be good and
honest men, but, within, you are full of insincerity and
disregard of
God's Law.
Now let us review 1 John where the evidence
of our salvation is laid out in detail. I’ve already covered 1 John 1 in detail.
Moving on to 1 John 2 below, we see John enforce the reality of keeping His Law
as the evidence you know Yahuah, and that if you say you know Yahuah and don’t
keep His Law you are a liar!
1 John 2
1 My little children (speaking to the spiritually immature), these
things I write to you, so that you may not break the Law of Yahuah. And if
anyone breaks Yahuah’s Law, we have an Advocate with the Father, Yahusha the
Messiah the righteous (one in keeping the Law of Yahuah
that is Yahusha’s example on Earth). 2
And Yahusha is the
propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the whole world (Yahusha is The Passover Lamb).
3
Now by this we know that we know Yahuah, if we keep
His commandments.
4 He who says, “I know Yahuah,” and does not keep His
commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
5
But whoever keeps Yahuah’s
commandments, truly the love of Yahuah is perfected in him. By this we know that we
are in covenant with Yahusha.
6 He who says he abides in covenant with Yahusha ought
himself also to walk just as Yahusha walked (in
obedience to the Law of Yahuah).
7 Brethren (in the family of
Yahuah),
I write no new commandment to you, but an old
commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the
word which you heard from the beginning (the
Commandments of Yahuah).
8 Again, a new commandment I write to you (here is the only new command in
The Yahushaic Covenant),
which Spirit of loving obedience is true in Yahusha and in
you,
Ezekiel 36: 26, 27
I will give you a new heart (for my Law and write my Law on it) and put a new
spirit (of loving obedience) in you; I will remove from you your heart of
stone (legalistic observance of the Law out of fear of death) and give you a
heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my
decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
Continuing on with 1 John 2…
because the darkness (of the Law with active
decrees that demand our death) is passing away, and the true light (Grace i.e. the decrees in the Law are covered by the blood
of the lamb) is already shining. (Yahusha
defeated the Law of Sin and Death and we now live in freedom through the Law of
the Spirit of Life)
24 Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from
the beginning (the Torah there was no New Testament
until 300 years later). If what you heard from the beginning abides
in you (you keep the Law of Yahuah), you
also will abide in (the example set by)
the Son and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise that Yahuah has promised us (for obedience in the Torah)— eternal life.
Deuteronomy 6
2
that you may
fear Yahuah your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I
command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and
that your days may be prolonged (eternal life)
26 These things I have written to you concerning those
who try to deceive you (that the Law has
been abolished).
27 But the anointing (the
spirit of loving obedience to the Law) which you have received from Yahuah
abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you
(see Jeremiah 31 below); but as the same
anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and
(as we do) just as The Spirit has taught you (to do), you will
abide in Him.
Jeremiah 31
33
But this is
the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahuah:
I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts;
and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
34
No more
shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahuah,’
for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahuah.
For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
Continuing on with 1 John 2…
28 And now, little children, abide in the example of
obedience to the Law of Yahuah set by Yahusha, that when
he appears,
we may have confidence and not be ashamed (of your
habitual transgression) before Yahusha at his coming.
29
If you know that Yahuah is
righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness (which is keeping the Law
Romans 8:4, Romans 2:13) is begotten of Yahuah.
Matthew 13:41
The Son of Man will
send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin
and
all law-breakers,
I am going to stop here. The
entire New Testament is testimony to keeping the Law of Yahuah. This was just
one small example. The evidence of salvation is simply that you keep the Law of
Yahuah and keep Passover in light of Yahusha’s sacrifice thereby expressing
faith in The Passover Lamb of God.
That is
The Yahushaic
Covenant!
Revelation 12
17And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to
make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of Yahuah,
and have the testimony of the Messiah Yahusha (believe
that Yahusha is the Passover Lamb).
Malachi 3:16
Then those who feared Yahuah
spoke with one another. Yahuah paid attention and heard them, and a book of
remembrance was written before him of those who feared Yahuah (Deuteronomy 6:2 ‘2 that
you may fear Yahuah your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments
which I command you’) and
esteemed his name.
“I asked Jesus into my heart
and declared the name of the Lawless one” is no evidence. That is a death
sentence. The evidence of our salvation is that we keep the Law.
What does the term “testimony
of Yahusha” mean? It must be important because WE must have it too…
Revelation 12:17
17
And
the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of
her seed, which keep the commandments of Yahuah,
and have the
testimony of Yahusha the Messiah.
It is that we believe in the
witnesses that Yahuah gave that prove Yahusha is the Messiah and that we too
“have the same testimony”. Those witnesses of Yahuah that Yahusha is the son of
Yahuah is defined below as water,
blood, and
spirit…
They are “the testimony of Yahusha the Messiah” but what do they mean?
1 John 5:1-20
1 Everyone who believes that Yahusha
is the Messiah is begotten of Yahuah, and everyone who loves the father loves
his child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children
of Yahuah: by loving Yahuah and keeping His Law. 3 In fact, this is love for Yahuah: to keep His
Law. And that His Laws are not burdensome,
4
for everyone begotten of Yahuah overcomes the world. This is the
conquering Spirit that has overcome the world, even our faith (in the promises of Yahuah). 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the
one who believes that Yahusha is the son of Yahuah. (but how do we know for sure that Yahusha is the Son of Yahuah?)
6 This (Yahusha) is the
one who came by water and
blood—Yahusha the Messiah. He did not come by
water only, but by water and blood. And it is the
Spirit
who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
7 For
there are three that testify (the testimony
that Yahusha is The son of Yahuah): 8
the
Spirit of Holiness,
the water and the
blood; and
these three are in agreement (that Yahusha is The
Son of Yahuah).
9 We
accept human testimony (that Jesus is God incarnate),
but Yahuah’s testimony is greater (and overcomes
traditions of men) because it is the testimony of Yahuah,
which
he has given about his Son Yahusha.
10
Whoever believes in the Son of Yahuah accepts
this
testimony. Whoever does not believe Yahuah (that Yahuah
is not a man nor the son of man) has made him out to be a liar (saying Yahuah came to Earth as a man named Jesus),
because they have not believed the testimony Yahuah has given about his Son.
11
And this is the testimony: Yahuah has
given us eternal life, and this life is (found)
in (covenant with) his Son. 12
Whoever has the Son (in covenant) has (eternal)
life; whoever does not have (the covenant of)
the Son of Yahuah does not have (eternal)
life.
13 I write these things to you who believe
in the name
of (The Yahushaic Covenant)
the Son of Yahuah so that you may know that you have eternal life.
14 This is the
confidence we have in approaching Yahuah: that if we ask anything according to
his will, he hears us.
15 And if
we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him…
18 We know that anyone begotten of Yahuah does not
continue to break the Law of Yahuah (believing in the
Lawless one Jesus Christ); the One (Yahusha)
who was born (again) of Yahuah keeps them safe,
and the evil one cannot harm them.
19
We know that we are children of Yahuah,
and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. 20
We know also that the Son of Yahuah has come
and has given us understanding (of The Way by his
life example), so that we may know Yahuah who is (the only) true (God;
John 17:3). And we are in (covenant with) Yahuah who is (the only) true (God;
John
17:3) by being in (covenant with) his Son Yahusha the Messiah (The Yahushaic Covenant).
Yahuah is the true God (The Shema) and (giver
of) eternal life.
What is that
testimony Yahuah gave that identifies Yahusha uniquely as His Son? That
testimony is that Yahusha the Messiah was born
human, with the
bloodline
to be King and High Priest, and begotten by the Spirit of Holiness.
Born, Bloodine, Begotten = water, blood, spirit!
I realize most
people think “water” is baptism. It is not baptism it is that we believe that Yahusha
was a man. Below the Apostle Sha’ul defines the testimony Yahuah gave to us
that proves that Yahusha is the Messiah.
Romans 1
1 Sha’ul, a bondservant of Yahusha
the Messiah, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of Yahuah
(to proclaim
the Kingdom of Yahuah
through Yahusha
the Messiah)
2 which Yahuah promised before through His prophets in
the Holy Scriptures (the Holy Scriptures are the
Torah and Prophets),
3 concerning His Son Messiah Yahusha our King, who was
born
of the bloodline of David and
born
according to the flesh (human through
water in
the womb of a woman),
4
and begotten (declared)
to be the Son of Yahuah with
power according to the Spirit of holiness (Spirit),
by the resurrection from the dead.
5 Through
The Yahushaic Covenant we have
received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for
Yahuah’s name,
6
among whom you also are the called to be in covenant
through Yahusha the Messiah;
Sha’ul is saying
that Yahusha’s claim to Messiah is founded first and foremost on the Prophets
in the Holy Scriptures that foretold of the coming human Messiah. They foretold
of a human Messiah who would be a “Priest/King” known as Melchizedek which
means “Royal Priest”.
Sha’ul goes on to
prove Yahusha is that prophesied Messiah Melchizedek because he
was born
according to the flesh i.e. water, born into the bloodline of the seed of
David i.e. blood, and begotten through resurrection i.e. Spirit.
Yahusha
was born human as prophesied through the womb of a woman and fulfilled “the
sign” that was given for all highly anointed men that played a key role in The
Plan of Salvation; a miraculous birth. All humans come into this world “through
water” in their mother’s womb but Yahusha had to fulfill the sign of a “virgin
birth” as foretold by Yahuah’s Prophets. So by water is the testimony that Yahusha
was a HUMAN Messiah and a highly anointed man by the sign of a miraculous birth.
I will explain further concerning The Virgin Birth next in this
Chapter.
Yahusha
was the descendant and heir to the Throne of David by blood through Joseph’s
bloodline. Yahusha was heir to the office of High Priest being the great
grandson (through Mary’s maternal line) of the High Priest over the rebuilding
of the Second Temple Yahusha III. So by blood Yahusha fulfilled the
requirements that the Messiah would restore the priesthood and the throne of
David. I wrote an entire book on that testimony call
Melchizedek and The Passover Lamb. Available on
www.sabbathcovenant.com.
In
the book above I demonstrate that Yahusha was the unique fulfillment of the
Messiah who was prophesied to be the King of Israel and the High Priest of
Israel. I will include parts of that book here in this section to explain the
bloodline witness of Yahusha.
Yahusha
was then begotten as the son of Yahuah not through human birth but by the
Spirit of Holiness through resurrection as the first born Son of Yahuah.
The reason this is important
is because most people don’t understand that this is the proof that Yahusha is the
Messiah. It is Yahuah’s witness of him. Most people are totally ignorant of who
the Messiah really was and why. They believe he is the Messiah because of the
miracles he performed because they say that is proof he was God. Those
signs were given to a wicked and adulterous generation who required a “sign”. Those
are not the true witnesses that he was the Messiah and son of Yahuah. Below I
will explain each witness in greater detail.
Yahusha was born human as
prophesied through the womb of a woman and fulfilled “the sign” that was given
for all highly anointed men that played a key role in The Plan of Salvation; a
miraculous birth. All humans come into this world “through water” in their
mother’s womb but Yahusha had to fulfill the sign of a “virgin birth” as
foretold by Yahuah’s Prophets. So by water is the testimony that Yahusha
was a HUMAN Messiah and a highly anointed man by the sign of a miraculous
birth.
The Christian doctrine of The
Virgin Birth is one (of if not THE) most destructive false doctrines. It has
literally lead to the false doctrine of Incarnation and to avoid Yahusha having
been born under Original Sin (another false doctrine) we had to come up with
yet another false doctrine of Immaculate Conception. All this lead to Mary
being worshipped as Co-Redemptrix as the pagan Christian Church came full
circle in worshipping The Queen of Heaven i.e. the Babylonian queen known as
the goddess Ishtar (Easter).
What I want to do here is
explain Yahusha’s miraculous birth and the sign of a “virgin” and establish Yahuah’s
witness of Yahusha in sound doctrinal truth, not the traditions of men. The
entire doctrine of Incarnation began with one sound bite taken totally out of
context of Scripture. That sound bite is:
Matthew 1
18
Now
the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was
espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the
Holy Ghost.
Luke 1
27
To
a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and
the virgin's name was Mary.
First
I want to point out that what is called “The Holy Ghost” is not “ghost” or any
entity whatsoever. It is The Spirit of Holiness (Holy Spirit), the breath of Yahuah
given to all of us that teach us to keep His Law. So what that actually says
is…
Matthew 1
18
Now
the birth of Yahusha the Messiah was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was
espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of The
Spirit of Holiness (Yahusha was born with the
Spirit to keep the Law of Yahuah that would make Yahusha HOLY before Yahuah).
The
reality is that the “Holy Ghost” or “breath of Yahuah” gives life to EVERY
conception. There was no “Ghost” that came down and impregnated Mary. The Christian
Church is built up around the doctrine of Incarnation that a “Holy” Ghost
impregnated Mary and Jesus was a demi-god. If the Virgin Birth, the way it is
taught, is proof of the incarnation why is it only mentioned in passing in only
two of the Gospels and never mentioned at all by Yahusha or any
other writer in the New Testament? That alone should have us asking questions
of this doctrine. It just wasn’t important to Yahusha or anyone else.
The
reason it is scarcely mentioned at all in The Bible is that the way The Virgin
Birth is taught is a false doctrine and Yahusha was not the incarnation
of God. Again we are dealing with uninspired modern translations that have
poured into Greek words all the pagan implications to make Yahusha
into a demi-god that would be accepted by pagan Greeks. That pagan demi-god is
Hesus Horus Krishna a.k.a. “Jesus H. Christ” as the name has evolved over 1500
years. I cover the identity of the false messiah in great detail in my book
The
Antichrist Revealed! and in my book
Christianity: The Great
Deception. These books are available on
www.sabbathcovenant.com
The
word mistranslated into “virgin” relies on the Greek word Parthenos instead of
the Hebrew word almah. Parthenos in Greek does mean “sexual
virgin”. However, we are dealing with the fulfillment of the prophetic “sign”
concerning the Messiah spoken through Isaiah (speaking of a sign in the
Heavenly Scroll called ‘the son of man’), IN HEBREW not Greek. It was
Isaiah’s prophecy in Hebrew that Yahusha must fulfill that the Messiah will be
born of an “almah”. The Hebrew word for virgin does not mean “sexual virgin”
that is a mistranslation into Greek. The Hellenized translators of our modern
Bibles believed in (and to this day believe in) the Babylonian trinity where Semaramis
was miraculously impregnated by the rays of the sun god Ba’al. To foster that pagan
philosophy, the translators opted for the Greek meaning of “sexual virgin”
instead of what Isaiah said in Hebrew. The prophecy that Yahusha must fulfill
the witness of “water” and the sign of “a virgin” is spoken by Yahuah through
Isaiah:
Isaiah 7:14
"Therefore Yahuah Himself will give you
a
sign (VIRGO): Behold (VIRGO), a young maiden of marrying age (almah) will be with child and bear a son, and she
will call His name Immanuel,"
“Immanuel” is a Hebrew name
with “meaning” that gives glory to Yahuah. It, like Yahusha and Elijah, is a
contracted sentence name (Imman – u – El) and as such can be a “title” not just
a name. In Hebrew it is a contracted form of the sentence (Faithful and True
Witness of Yahuah). It does not mean “God is with us” as it taught in the false
Christian Church.
The word “aman” is the root
in Hebrew of eman, or iman (the beginning of Immanuel)’? Aman is
the same word and there are three; aman(u), amen(u) and iman(u). The word trail
(with Strong’s numbers) is: Aman (H6004), Amen (H543) and Iman (H5973). There
is also emune(ah), which means "I am one of them that are faithful and
peaceable". We must, in the case of Hebrew, study the word trail to come
to a full understanding of a “sentence name” or “title” such as Immanuel:
Strong’s H-6005. 'Immanuw'el, im-maw-noo-ale';
from
{A.}H-5973 and {B.}H-410 with suff. pron. ins.; with us (is) God; Immanuel, a
typ. name of Isaiah's son:--Immanuel.
Strong’s H-5973. 'im, eem;
from
H-6004; adv. or prep. with (i.e. in conjunction with ), in varied applications;
spec. equally with; often with prep. pref. (and then usually unrepresented in
English):-- accompanying, against, and, as (X long as), before, beside, by
(reason of), for all, from (among, between), in, like, more than, of, (un-) to,
with (-al).
Strong’s H-410. 'el, ale;
short.
from H-352; strength; as adj. mighty; espec. the Almighty (but used also of any
deity):--God (god), X goodly, X great, idol, might (-y one), power, strong.
Comp. names in "-el."
Strong’s H-6004. 'amam, aw-mam';
a
prim. root; to associate; by impl. to overshadow (by huddling
together):--become dim, hide;
Strong’s H-539 ‘aman aw’man;
Primary
root word; properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse;
figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be
permanent or quiet; morally to be true or certain; once (Isa. 30:21;
interchangeable 541) to go to the right hand:--hence, assurance, believe, bring
up, establish, + fail, be faithful (of long continuance, stedfast, sure,
surely, trusty, verified), nurse, (-ing father), (put), trust, turn to the
right. (Click on the word “aman” above for the full Gesenius Hebrew-Chaldee
definition, which I recommend that you do)
Strong’s H-352. 'ayil, ah'-yil;
from
the same as H-193; prop. strength; hence anything strong; spec. a chief
(politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong
support); an oak or other strong tree:--mighty (man), lintel, oak, post, ram,
tree.
Strong’s
H-193. 'uwl, ool;
from
an unused root mean. to twist, i.e. (by impl.) be strong; the body (as being
rolled together); also powerful:--mighty, strength.
So, ame(a)nu'el, imanu'el and
emune'el all are Immanuel and together give us the full meaning.
It's like how Yeshu, Yeshua, Yahushua, and Yahusha are all the same name, but
sometimes it is spelled with an “e” or an “a”. “I” is often pronounced with the
YEH sound. In fact, those that call themselves Ethiopian Jews say Amanu’el,
which (to them) means “to have faith in Elohim, my faith is in EL, Amen (Amon,
Imam, Magnet, Faith)” and claim this was a literal name for Yahusha, even
citing Revelation 3:14.
Revelation 3:14
And unto the angel of the church
of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen (aman), the faithful and
true witness, the beginning of the creation of Yahuah;
The word “aman” defines
itself there – a “faithful and true witness” of Yahuah. It is not just given to
the Messiah, or Isaiah's son, but Yahuah Himself is also called "faithful
and true". Moses and Samuel were called faithful witnesses they are
“Immanuel”, as are many others.
http://www.biblestudytools.com/search/?q=faithful&c=&t=kjva&ps=10&s=Bibles
Immanuel is a title and not a
literal name (much like Elijah is a title) - even though the prophecy has been
misapplied and the word mistranslated as "god with us" in order to
promote the church’s falsely claimed position of Yahusha's deity. Discernment
tells us, however, that Yahusha WAS an Aman’el, and any other person who is faithful
to YAHUAH’s two witnesses (the Law and The Prophets) is also an Aman’el.
Now
back to the prophecy in Isaiah concerning the “virgin” prophecy.
Isaiah 7:14
"Therefore
Yahuah Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a young maiden of
marrying age (almah) will be with child
and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel,"
In
reality, Isaiah was speaking of the “sign in the sky of the son of man”
that would herald the birth of a king. This is “the sign” that the Babylonian
Astronomers, trained by the prophet Daniel (magi), were looking for and
followed to the place (Bethlehem) where it was foretold the King would be born.
This is the same “sign” that appears in the sky again at the time of the second
coming:
Revelation 12:1-2
Now a
great sign appeared in heaven: a woman (constellation
Virgo or Virgin) clothed with the
sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. 2 Then
being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth (to a King, the planet Jupiter).
This
was a dual prophecy and dual sign. One fulfilled in the sky (heavens) as Yahuah’s
plan of salvation is written in the stars (see my book
Creation Cries
Out!) and on Earth. Isaiah 7:14 says that an almah will bear a
son. The problem is dealing with the Hebrew word mistranslated into Greek as
“virgin” with a sexual context implied.
This word is Strong's entry 5959. almah
http://biblesuite.com/hebrew/5959.htm
almah: a young woman, a virgin
Original Word:
עַלְמָה
Short
Definition:
maidens
This
word can mean sexual virgin in the sense that most young maidens are sexual
virgins being “not married” but the primary meaning of this word is:
young
woman 1a) of marriageable age 1b)
maid or newly married. Therefore,
the word "almah" does not mean virgin in a sexual context but the
primary meaning is young
maiden of marrying age. The word occurs
elsewhere in the Old Testament and never is it translated in sexual context as
in Genesis 24:43 (”maiden“); Exodus 2:8 (”girl“); Psalm 68:25 (”maidens“); Proverbs
30:19 (”maiden“); Song of Songs 1:3 (”maidens“)
Here
is the key. There is a Hebrew word for sexual virgin:
bethulah.
If Isaiah 7:14 was meant to mean virgin instead of young maiden, then Yahuah
through Isaiah would have used bethulah to be specific concerning the
birth of the Messiah. Yahuah is not a trickster. I am not saying that Mary was
not a virgin, what I am saying is that she didn’t have to be; she simply
had to be a young maiden of marrying age to fulfill the “sign” foretold by
Isaiah. What I am saying is that Joseph and Mary were well within their rights
to have sexual intercourse.
There
are two ways to understand the virgin birth scriptures, the traditional way of
understanding i.e. Greek appropriate (traditions of men are tricky) and the
Hebraic mindset of Scripture below. We all know the Greek understanding that
Mary (a sexual virgin) and Joseph not having come together with her sexually
had her put away with her cousin Elizabeth implying he wanted a divorce. None
of that is true and not one word of it is said… it is
implied doctrine.
Below
is the true translation using the Hebraic mindset;
Matthew 1
18
This
is how the birth of Yahusha the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was engaged
to be married to Joseph (the subject of this is
marriage not sex), but before they came together (speaking of
marriage in context not sex),
she was found to be pregnant through the will of Yahuah. 19 Because
Joseph her husband was faithful to the Law (which
declares those who are engaged to be husband and wife), and
yet (although they were married in the eyes of Yahuah
according to Yahuah’s Law and had not sinned in having sex during the
engagement) did not want to expose her to public disgrace (because the commandments of men forbid sex before the
ceremony to prove virginity), he had in mind to send her away
quietly (to avoid the unnecessary scandal, not to
divorce her. In fact, Joseph sent Mary and the baby into the protective custody
of The Temple out of Herod’s reach).
You
see, in the Law of Yahuah two people who are engaged are considered by Yahuah
husband and wife:
Deuteronomy 22
23 If a man happens to meet in a town a young woman (almah) pledged to be married and he sleeps with
her, 24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to
death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help,
and the man because he violated another man’s wife.
There
is no commandment against engaged couples having sex in the Law! So the
covenant of Marriage, whereby two people become man and wife, is made before Yahuah
when the man asked the woman to be his wife and she accepts before Yahuah.
The wedding ceremony is a human institution to celebrate that covenant
previously made. That is why having sex with an engaged woman is adultery and
there simply is no Law of Yahuah that forbids sex between engaged couples.
Joseph
being a keeper of the Law of Yahuah (wonder why they put that in there?)
knew they were well within there “legal rights before Yahuah” to make love and
conceive Yahusha before they had come together in marriage according the human
tradition. But explaining that to The Jews at that time that followed the
traditions of men (The Talmud) would have been
impossible and
Mary would have been put to public shame.
So
the reality is that it is possible that Yahusha was “the son of man” through
actual physical sexual intercourse between “the man Joseph” and his wife Mary. After
all Yahusha proclaimed over 87 times that he was the son of man. It is
important we understand the Law because according to Torah standards that Yahusha
was not born a bastard son, as is the case with Christianity’s doctrine
that he was born outside of marriage. Joseph and Mary were husband and wife in
the eyes of Yahuah.
It
is also very possible that Mary was a sexual virgin (which I
believe she was), but that does not imply in any way that Yahuah had sex with
Mary and imparted a “Spiritual Seed” into Yahusha making him a demi-god as
Christianity teaches.
The
fact that Yahusha died should put an end to that false doctrine. Death is
inherited through the father’s seed! Yahusha died. End of story. Yahusha was
born by the seed of Joseph, and thereby death was imparted to him.
Yes
Mary very well could have been a sexual virgin. In fact, I believe that she was.
If she was (and she probably was) then Yahuah used Joseph’s seed in performing
the miracle and Yahusha was still fully human in every way (Hebrews 2:17
NIV) the son of man “born human according to the flesh (Romans 1:3)”. Exactly
as the Bible declares he was.
In fact,
the phrases “image of God” and “son of God” are both phrases used to say “he
was human” not a God:
Genesis 1:27
So God created
mankind
in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and
female he created them.
Luke 3:38
the son of Enosh, the son of
Seth, the son of Adam, (Adam being)
the
son of God.
Psalm 82:6
"I said, 'You are
"gods"; you are all sons of the Most High.'
These
phrases are consistent throughout scripture. They did not take on some
“magical” meaning when applied to Yahusha. Yahusha is the PERFECT (or rather
first
perfected) human or “perfect image” of The Almighty.
Hebrews 5:8-9 NKJV
8
though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience (to Yahuah)
by the things which He suffered. 9 And having been perfected, He became the
author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him (Yahuah),
Many
men in The Bible who were instrumental in the Plan of Salvation were born
highly anointed by Yahuah through miraculous births as a “sign”. Each
one’s birth announced by an Angel. Each and every one of these men was born
miraculously outside of sexual intercourse yet the “seed” of their father was
used by Yahuah in the conception process.
Of
course, Adam didn't have any parents and Adam is directly called the Son of Yahuah
in the most literal terms. Adam had NO parents at all male or female, but the
Breath of Yahuah alone gave Adam life. Yet... we do not worship Adam as equal
to Yahuah and part of a polytheistic deity! Why is Adam considered human when
it was truly the Breath of Yahuah from which he originated?
Isaac
was the Chosen One and brought about in a miraculous way to Abraham and Sara
who BOTH were his parents. Abraham and Sara had given up on sexually conceiving
and had turned to a slave woman Hagar to conceive the child and believed
Ishmael to be the fulfillment of the promise. Not only were they no longer
trying, but Sara’s womb was dead and she didn’t believe it in the first place
and believe that prophecy was fulfilled in Ishmael. But that miracle did not
make Isaac part of a GODHEAD. We do not worship Isaac as equal to Yahuah and
part of a polytheistic deity! In the account of Isaac’s Miraculous Birth in
Genesis we know Sara’s womb was “dead” and Sara too conceived a child of promise
named Isaac through the miraculous intervention of the Angel of Yahuah. This
child too was “brought” by an Angel of Yahuah and conceived with “The Spirit of
Holiness” which means set apart. How does this differ from Mary/Joseph? It
doesn't. Why is Abraham considered the biological father of Isaac when it was Yahuah
who gave her the child? Because Yahuah used Abraham's seed in the
miracle.
Sampson
was a Chosen One from the womb, a Nazarite to Yahuah, a Righteous Judge, and
brought about in a miraculous way to Manoah and his wife, who WERE BOTH his
true parents. But that did not make Sampson part of a GODHEAD. We do not
worship Sampson as equal to Yahuah and part of a polytheistic deity! In Judges
13:2-5 Manoah’s wife was barren and unable to have children and at that
time the act of sex was only performed to provide an heir so it is highly doubtful
Monaoh was having a lot of sex with his barren wife. The Angel of Yahuah
appeared to her too and gave her a son named Sampson who was a “Nazarite to Yahuah”.
How does this differ from Mary/Joseph? It doesn´t. Why is Manoah considered the
biological father of Sampson when it was Yahuah who gave his wife the child?
Because
Yahuah used Manoah´s seed in performing the miracle.
The
miraculous birth of John the Baptist is recounted in Luke’s Gospel where we
learn of the elderly priest Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth, who was barren.
While Zechariah was performing his priestly duties in the temple (not out
having sex with his wife), the angel Gabriel came to him and prophesied the
birth of a son. Because Zechariah doubted the word of the angel, he was struck
dumb until the day of the birth, at which time, filled with the Holy Spirit, he
proclaimed his prophetic canticle (Lk 1:68-79). But... this did NOT make John
the Baptist part of the GODHEAD. We do not worship John as equal to Yahuah and
part of a polytheistic deity! Why is Zechariah considered the biological father
of John when it was Yahuah who gave Elizabeth the child?
Because Yahuah
used Zechariah´s seed in performing the miracle.
In
each case above Yahuah came and announced the birth of a child through a
messenger then brought about that birth in a miraculous way using the seed of
the biological father… outside of sexual conception. Yahusha is different in
that he was the most anointed of all and in true form Yahuah came
to announce his birth through a messenger and then in a miraculous way the
child was conceived with the seed of his biological father.
This
is why Yahusha taught his lineage through his father Joseph to his disciples,
because that bloodline that ran through Yahusha’s veins (given him by Joseph)
was proof he was the Messiah! It is by that bloodline that he restored
the Throne of David through Solomon which was the line of the Throne. I cover
this in detail in my book Melchizedek and The Passover Lamb available free on
www.sabbathcovenant.com.
We
have to be careful with “traditions of men” as they have the tendency to
nullify The Word of Yahuah as Yahusha said:
Matthew 15:6
Thus you nullify the word of Yahuah for the sake of
your tradition.
In
this specific case, the tradition that “Jesus was not the biological son of
Joseph” nullifies “Jesus” from being the Messiah. The doctrine of
Incarnation
(built upon the doctrine of The Virgin Birth) is defined in Scripture as
The Spirit of the False Messiah Jesus Christ. It is a tradition of men that
literally nullifies Jesus Christ as the true Messiah. Jesus was not born of the
physical seed of Joseph thereby failing the prophetic requirement that the
Messiah would restore the throne of David and the priesthood by the witness of
BLOODline. Yahusha, however, WAS born of the seed of David on both sides of his
parental tree restoring both the Throne through Joseph and the priesthood
through Mary. Joseph and Mary were chosen in an arranged marriage to bear the
Messiah for those reasons!
In
summary, it is possible and Lawful that Joseph and Mary had sex and conceived Yahusha
because the only prophetic requirement of the Messiah was to be born of a
“young maiden”. It is also possible and more likely that Mary was a sexual
virgin and Yahuah did as He has done many times and used the seed of Joseph in
performing a miracle demonstrating Yahusha’s high anointing. Either way one
thing is crystal clear… Yahusha was born human through the seed of Joseph and
Mary. This was proven by the fact that Yahusha inherited death in his body from
Joseph and Yahusha died as proof.
The
sons of Yahuah are begotten by Yahuah’s Spiritual Seed upon resurrection and
those sons cannot die:
Luke 20:36
and they can no longer die; for they
are like the angels. They are God's children, since they are children of the
resurrection.
Furthermore,
the throne of David was passed down by blood to Yahusha through Joseph’s
bloodline which is through Solomon to David which is the lineage of the Throne.
Mary’s lineage is through Nathan (the priest) to David which is the lineage of
the priesthood not the Throne.
Yahuah’s
witness of Yahusha is that he came by water (born fully human to both
parents) and blood through the lineage of both Joseph and Mary Yahusha
fulfilled the prophetic requirements of the Messiah to restore both the throne
and the priesthood.
Yahusha was the descendant
and heir to the Throne of David by blood through Joseph’s bloodline. Yahusha
was heir to the office of High Priest being the great grandson (through Mary’s
maternal line) of the High Priest over the rebuilding of the Second Temple Yahusha
III. So by blood Yahusha fulfilled the requirements that the Messiah would
restore the priesthood and the throne of David. Yahusha is the Messiah by the
witness of Yahuah as he fulfilled the prophets who foretold of Yahusha. If Yahusha
fails to meet just 1 of those prophecies he cannot be the Messiah.
The Throne of David had to be
restored because it fell into judgment for kings who committed idolatry against
Yahuah. This is the reason there is an extended period of time when no man has
sat on the Throne of David as King. The prophets foretold of a human Messiah
(Messiah means anointed King of Israel) that would come and restore the Throne
of David from its fallen state as well as restore the priesthood of Aaron and
Levi that had fallen into idolatry.
It is clear that Yahuah
brought judgment on the Kingly Line of David and cast it to the ground. It is
even clearer, through prophecy of the coming Messiah, that Yahuah would restore
that Kingly Line of David/Solomon and re-establish the priesthood.
Yahuah’s promise to David was
eternal to be fulfilled by the Messiah. However, that promise was conditional
to every other king who sat on that throne. Later King’s rebelled and Yahuah,
while keeping the eternal promise alive to David, disciplined the Kings and
Israel for rebellion.
We see the big “IF” below as
these promises were conditional to every king:
I Kings 8:25
Now Yahuah, God of Israel, keep
for your servant David my father the promises you made to him when you said,
´You shall never fail to have a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel,
IF
only your sons are careful in all they do to walk before me as you have done!´
In other words, Yahuah made
it clear that there would be discipline and the throne would be suspended if
all the Kingly Line were not obedient to His Law and govern righteously as
David had done.
I Kings 9:4-7
4 “Now,
IF you walk
before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in
uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and
IF
you keep my statues and my judgments, THEN I will establish the
throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised David your father,
saying, ´You shall not fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.´
BUT
if you or your sons at all turn from following Me, and do NOT
keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and
serve other gods and worship them, THEN I WILL CUT OFF [DESTROY] ISRAEL FROM
THE LAND which I have given them; and this house [of David] which I have
sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight. Israel will be a proverb and
a byword among all peoples.”
This is exactly what happened,
the Kings rebelled and followed after other gods, and did not exercise
righteous judgment. The Throne of David ceased when Yahuah cursed King Coniah and his sons, and the Throne of David was
thrown to ground because the King did not obey the Law of Yahuah. Coniah was
dethroned by the King of Babylon, as prophesied by Jeremiah, and the House of
Judah was sent into Babylonian Captivity:
Jeremiah 22:5; 24; 28-30
5
But if you will not hear
these words, I swear by Myself,” says Yahuah, “that this house shall
become a desolation.” …
24 “As I live,” says Yahuah, “though Coniah the
son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet on My right hand, yet I would
pluck you off…
28 “Is this man Coniah a despised, broken idol—a vessel
in which is no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his descendants,
And cast into a land which they do not know? 29
O earth, earth, earth, Hear
the word of Yahuah!
30
Thus says Yahuah:
‘Write this man (Coniah
specifically) down as childless, A man who shall
not prosper in his days; For none of his (direct)
descendants shall prosper, Sitting on the throne of David, And ruling anymore
in Judah.’”
King Coniah sat on the throne
of David for 3 months before Yahuah fulfilled His Word through Jeremiah and
dethroned him and sent him and the Southern Kingdom of Judah (the House of
Judah) into Babylonian Captivity. No descendent of David has ever ascended the
throne after that… until Yahusha that is.
The false doctrine that Jesus
is the incarnate God born outside of the seed of Joseph alone disqualifies
“Jesus Christ” from being the true Messiah. The true Messiah was foretold by
the prophets of Yahuah as the one who would restore the Throne of David being a
direct blood descendant of David through Solomon. That bloodline runs through Yahusha’s
father Joseph! The throne is not passed to “step children” it is passed to the
first born son by blood. It is that bloodline that is the witness of Yahuah
and the testimony that Yahusha is the Messiah… BLOOD.
Let’s take a look at the
prophecies Yahusha must fulfill by blood to be the Messiah concerning the
Throne of David. Below we see that Yahuah prophesied a “righteous branch” that
would restore both the Throne of David and the Priesthood of Aaron and the
Levites within the context of The New Covenant:
Jeremiah 33
14 ‘Behold, the days are coming,’
says Yahuah, ‘that I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the
house of Israel and to the house of Judah (referring
to The Yahushaic Covenant see Jeremiah 31 where the Law would be written
on our hearts):
15
‘In those days and at that time I will cause to grow up (in the bloodline) to David A Branch of
righteousness; He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. 16 In
those days Judah will be saved, And Jerusalem will dwell safely. And this is
the name by which he will be called: Yahuah OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS…
17
“For thus says Yahuah: ‘David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne
of the house of Israel; 18 nor shall the priests, the Levites, lack a man to
offer burnt offerings before Me, to kindle grain offerings, and to sacrifice
continually.’”
Now consider a much misunderstood
passage of prophecy. If you will begin reading at the 18th verse of the 21st
chapter of Ezekiel, you will see plainly that Yahuah is speaking of the
captivity of Judah by the king of Babylon.
And, beginning in the 25th
verse, He says:
Ezekiel 21:25-27
"And thou profane wicked
prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, thus
saith Yahuah your God; REMOVE THE DIADEM, AND TAKE OFF THE CROWN (as did happen, through the first half of Jeremiah’s
commission): this [the crown] shall not be the same: EXALT him that
is low, and ABASE him that is high. I will OVERTURN, OVERTURN, OVERTURN, it:
and
it shall be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it to
him." (this a reference to the Messiah
who would RESTORE the Kingly Line)
This prophecy, in fact,
predicts the interruption of the Throne of David reflected in Amos 9: 11-12 and
Acts 15: 16-18.
Ezekiel 21: 27
"Take off the crown...A
RUIN, RUIN, RUIN I WILL MAKE IT; THERE SHALL NOT BE A TRACE OF IT until he
comes whose right it is; and to him will I give it"
Amos prophesies what will
happen when the Messiah returns:
Amos 9: 11-12
"On that day (at the return of the Messiah) I will raise up the House of David (the bloodline of David), which has fallen down,
and repair its damages; I will raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the
days of old; that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the Gentiles
who are called by My name," says Yahuah who does this thing.
Simon declared the prophecy
in Amos to those in Jerusalem in Acts 15: 16-18. Jeremiah repeats this prophecy
concerning Remnant Israel in Jeremiah 23:5-6.
If Yahusha is the true
Messiah then he would by blood witness of Yahuah fulfill these
prophecies and restore both the Throne of David and the priesthood by his
bloodline. Yahusha was anointed King of Israel and High Priest of Israel
directly by Yahuah when he was in the desert after being Mikveh’d (Baptized) by
John.
We see a “vision” of this
event in Zachariah Chapter 3:
Zachariah 3 -
Clean Garments for The High Priest, Yahusha
1 Then he showed me Yahusha
the
high priest standing before the angel of YAHUAH, and Satan
standing at his right side to accuse him. 2 YAHUAH (through His proxy The Angel before whom stood Yahusha and
Satan) said to Satan, “YAHUAH rebuke you, Satan! YAHUAH, who has
chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched
from the fire?”
3 Now Yahusha was dressed in filthy clothes (metaphor of sin) as he stood before the angel. 4
The angel said to those who were standing before him, “Take off his filthy
clothes.” Then YAHUAH said to Yahusha, “See (after
taking off his filthy rags), I have taken away
your sin
(fifthly rags Isaiah 64:6),
and I will put fine garments (of the High
Priest) on you.”
5 Then I said, “Put a clean turban (of the High Priest) on his head.” So they put a
clean turban on his head and clothed him (in the
garments of the High Priest), while the angel of YAHUAH stood by. 6
The angel of YAHUAH gave this charge to Yahusha: 7 “This is what YAHUAH
Almighty says (again YAHUAH speaking through His
proxy Angel): ‘If (YAHUAH makes a
conditional promise) you will walk in obedience to me and keep my
requirements (the Torah),
then (here is the promise if he keeps the Torah and obeys the Will
of YAHUAH) you will
govern my house (i.e.
King of Israel) and have charge of my courts (Eternal Judge), and I will give you a place (as High Priest of Israel at the right hand of YAHUAH)
among these standing here.
8 “‘Listen, High Priest Yahusha, you and your
associates seated (who came) before you
(probably Adam, Enoch, Moses, Elijah, etc.),
who (those seated before him) are men
symbolic of things to come (physical to spiritual parallels of the Messiah):
I am going to bring (you, Yahusha) my
servant (from this point forward),
the
Branch (he is the Messiah).
9 See, the stone I have set in front of Yahusha! There
are seven eyes on that one stone, and I will engrave an inscription on it,’
says YAHUAH Almighty, ‘and I will remove the sin of this land in a
single day (the day Yahusha, in
obedience, dies as Passover Lamb). 10 “‘In that
day each of you will invite your neighbor to sit under your vine and fig tree,’
declares YAHUAH Almighty.”
I cover this in great detail
in Chapter 3 of my book Melchizedek and The Passover Lamb.
Below
I will summarize what I detail in that book.
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Both Mary and Joseph were
royalty in Israel as their bloodlines were carefully cultivated to produce the
Messiah. The Jews in Israel at that time knew the prophecies of Daniel and the
messianic expectations were very high. The marriage between Mary and Joseph was
an arranged marriage to bring about the birth of the Messiah. Mary was chosen
for her unique bloodline to both The House of David (through the priest Nathan)
and to the chosen bloodline of High Priest the House of Zadok. Mary was
literally a Princess on both sides of her lineage and was put in protective
custody to spare her life from Herod who was hunting down and killing all
Royalty that threatened his throne (this is why he attempted to kill her son… Yahusha):
·
Miriam was the grand-daughter of
the first High Priest (Yahusha III) to serve in the second Temple - Mary was
the daughter of Hannah (Anna) who lived in protective custody of The Temple,
she was known as one of the ‘Daughters of Jerusalem’ whom Yahusha mentioned on
occasion in Scripture. Hannah was the daughter of the High Priest Yahusha III. Yahusha
III was the first High Priest to serve in the second Temple coming out of
Babylonian/Persian captivity. Yahusha III was a High Priest in the line of Zadok
or a Zadokian High Priest. This is the prepared line of priesthood by Yahuah
for the Messiah who would be the Ruling Zadok or MelchiZADOK! Yahusha was the
great grandson of Yahusha III and direct heir to the office of High Priest as a
Zadok Priest.
·
Miriam was also the daughter of
Heli, a Davidic and Hasmonean prince – Heli (or Eli as he is called in the
genealogy of Yahusha in the Bible) was also known as Alexander Helios (Heli)
III. Eli was the son of the future Maccabee Queen Alexandra II, who at this
time was known by her Jewish name, Esther of Jerusalem. Heli, the shortened
nickname for Helios (“The Sun”), was a descendant of both the Maccabee Kings of
Judea and a prince of the House of David, for his father was Matthan ben Levi,
a Davidian Prince who was first married in his youth to the vivacious royal
princess, Elizabeth of Jerusalem. Heli was executed, in the world where many
Davidian aspirants, as the “young lions of Judah”, were eliminated by the cruel
and tyrannical King Herod the Great as they were a threat to his throne.
Joseph, the father of Yahusha,
came from a family of royal Davidian princes with his blood lineage going back
to David through the Kingly Line of Solomon. Joseph was one of the “Lions of
Judah” who were being prepared to either be the Messiah or sire the Messiah. All
of whom carried the hidden dream of being the Promised One, or the father of
the Promised One who would sit on the seat of their ancestral forefather, King
David.
Yahuah’s BLOOD witness of Yahusha
as the Messiah produced the most potent genetic merges in Jewish history. We
find that Yahusha ben Yahseph was a genuine genetically eligible
Priest-King. He would later be recognized as eligible to be a member of the
Order of Melchizedek Priest-King, who’s first High Priest-King was Shem, the
son of Noah. Here was a true fusion of the genetic tree between the House of
Aaron the Levite and King David the Judaite. As such, a REAL threat to King
Herod and the High Priest Chiapas! This blood witness that proves Yahusha
is the Messiah of Israel is not taught in any seminaries, churches, higher
learning Christian colleges, or anywhere else that I know of. But you can learn
of it in my book… Melchizedek and The Passover Lamb available on my website www.sabbathcovenant.com
The Spirit of Holiness is one
of the 3 witnesses that Yahuah gave us to prove that Yahusha is the Son of Yahuah.
1 John 5
7
For there are three that
testify (Yahusha is the Son of Yahuah): 8
the Spirit of Holiness, the
water and the
blood;
and the three are in agreement (that Yahusha is the
Messiah and Son of Yahuah).
It is these 3 witnesses of Yahuah
that testify that Yahusha is the Messiah. They are ‘the testimony of Yahusha’. Yahuah’s
witness of the Spirit is that Yahuah declared Yahusha His Son through the power
of the resurrection of the dead:
Romans 1
3
concerning His Son Messiah Yahusha
our King, who was born of the seed of David (blood)
according to the flesh (water),
4
and declared
to be the Son
of Yahuah with power according to the Spirit of holiness (Spirit), by the resurrection from the dead.
5
Through The Yahushaic
Covenant we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the
faith among all nations for Yahuah’s name, 6
among whom you also are called
to be in covenant through Yahusha the Messiah;
As Scripture declares we must
have the “testimony of Yahusha the Messiah”.
Revelation 12:17
Then the dragon was enraged at
the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring--those who
keep Yahuah’s commands and hold fast their testimony of Yahusha.
Revelation 19
9
Then he said to me, “Write:
‘Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper (The Yahushaic Covenant
is a marriage covenant) of the Lamb!’” And he said to me, “These are the
true sayings of Yahuah.”
10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to
me, “See that you do not
do that! I am your fellow servant, and
of your brethren who (themselves)
have the (same) testimony of Yahusha (water, blood, spirit).
Worship Yahuah! For
the testimony of Yahusha is (that he fulfilled) the spirit of prophecy.”
We are all born human and
have the witness of water, those chosen by Yahuah are all of the
bloodline
of Abraham/Isaac/Jacob and have the witness of bloodline, and we all will be
declared sons of Yahuah by the Spirit of Holiness and the power
of the resurrection. I cover our blood witness in detail in
Chapter 10
– The Citizens of
the Kingdom of Yahuah
in my book the
Kingdom of Yahuah. In that chapter I prove that that members of
“Remnant Israel” are the only ones who are saved and they come exclusively from
the bloodline of Abraham/Isaac/Jacob. They are “the elect” chosen from among
the House of Judah (Jews) and the House of Israel (scattered among all
nations).
Romans 9 Yahuah’s Sovereign Choice of the Remnant
27 Isaiah cries out
concerning Israel: "Though the
number of the Israelites (both Houses)
be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved."
Hebrews 2
16 For surely it is not angels Yahusha
helps, but Abraham’s descendants.
We have all been taught in
Christianity that we are saved by faith not by works of the Law. It is a true
statement that we are saved by faith, however we need to know what
faith
is to understand what that means.
Faith, by definition, is
expressed through keeping the Law of Yahuah and believing in the promises made
in Scripture which is the Torah and Prophets. In Scripture (the Torah and
Prophets) Yahuah promised us:
·
Eternal life for obedience
·
Death for transgression
·
A Passover Lamb to cover our
transgression
·
A Sabbath Rest
·
A Sabbath Resurrection
·
Sacrifices to cover our sin (transgression
of His Law) to be made by the High Priest
·
A marriage covenant whereby he
would give us a loving spirit of obedience to His Law which would be transposed
into our hearts
Simply “saying you have
faith” and not backing that faith up with action in keeping Yahuah’s
commandments is dead faith. Christians are willingly ignorant of this
fact and choose to believe all they need is to believe in Jesus Christ (the
false messiah) and nothing else is required of them. I will cover in detail our
responsibilities within The Yahushaic Covenant in this book.
Scripture declares we are
saved through faith in Yahuah’s Law which is where His promises are given to
us:
Psalm 119:147-150
147 I rise before dawn and cry
for help; I have put my hope in your word. 148 My eyes stay open through the
watches of the night that I may meditate on your promises. 149 Hear my voice in
accordance with your love; preserve my life (eternal life), O Yahuah,
according to your
laws (eternal life is the promise
for obedience to the Torah). 150 My comfort in my suffering
is this: Your promise (in the Torah)
preserves my life.
Hebrews 6:11-13
11 We want each of you to show
this same diligence (in keeping the Law of Yahuah)
to the very end, in order to make your hope sure. 12 We do not want
you
to become lazy (abolish the Law),
but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been
promised (in the Law which is eternal life).
Hebrews 10:22-24
23Let us hold unswervingly to the
hope we profess (in the promises of Yahuah),
for he who promised (all of Yahuah’s promises are
found in the Torah and Prophets true scripture) is faithful.
2 Peter 1:3-7
4 Through these he has given us
his very great and precious promises, so that through them (the promises of Yahuah in the Torah and Prophets)
you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world
caused by evil (breaking His Law) desires.
Psalm 85:8
8 I will listen to what Yahuah
your God will say; he promises peace to his people, his saints-but let them not
return to folly.
Psalm 119:140
140 Your promises have been
thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.
Psalm 145:13
13 Your kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom, and your dominion endures through all generations. Yahuah is faithful
to all his promises and loving toward all he has made.
2 Corinthians 1:20-22
20 For no matter how many
promises Yahuah has made, they are "Yes" in covenant with Yahusha (because The Yahushaic Covenant is the transposition and
fulfillment of all previous 6 covenants).
2 Corinthians 7:1
1 Since we have these promises,
dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body
and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for Yahuah (which is defined as obedience to His Law).
Ephesians 1:13-14
13And you also were included in
The
Yahushaic Covenant when you heard the word of truth (Yahuah fulfilled His promises in Yahusha
John 1),
the gospel of your salvation (Yahusha is the
Passover Lamb to cover “nail” the death decrees in the Law to the stake
Colossians 2:14). Having believed (that Yahuah
alone is God, the GREATEST commandment
Mark 12:29),
you were marked (on your forehead
Revelation 22)
in Yahuah (the name of God) with a seal
(The Shema
Deuteronomy 6:4-8),
the promised Holy Spirit (of loving obedience to the
Law
Ezekiel
11), 14 which is a deposit
guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are Yahuah’s
possession-to the praise of Yahuah’s glory.
James 1:12
12 Blessed is the man who
perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the
crown of life that Yahuah has promised to those who love him (to love Yahuah is to keep His Law
1 John 5:3).
1 John 2:24-25
24 See that what you have heard
from the beginning (the Torah and Prophets)
remains in (written on your heart)
you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. 25
And this is what he promised us (in the Torah)
- even eternal life.
In
The Yahushaic
Covenant, it is exercising our faith through actions that are the
spiritual equivalent to the physical shadow of animal sacrifices. The true
sacrifices to Yahuah are faith through action of keeping His Law. We see this
is true below, speaking of The Yahushaic Covenant, that it is
“written on our hearts” and that we are to “do” or have a loving spirit of
obedience toward His Law. That Spirit of Loving Obedience is the spiritual
sacrifices required by Yahuah:
Psalm 40:6-8
6
Sacrifice and meal offering
You have not desired; My ears You have opened; Burnt offering and sin offering
You have not required.
7 Then I said, “Behold, I come;
in the scroll of
the book it is written of me (having a heart for the
Law of Yahuah is a witness of us in The Book of Life). 8
I delight to do Your
will, O my God; Your Law is within my heart (the
foundation of The New Covenant Jeremiah 31).”
Ezekiel 36: 26, 27
I will give you a new heart (for my Law and
write my Law on it) and put a new spirit (of loving obedience) in you; I will remove from
you your heart of stone (legalistic observance of the
Law out of fear of death) and give you a heart of flesh. And
I
will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to
keep my laws.
James 2
8
If you really fulfill
the
royal law according to the Scripture (the
Scriptures he is referring to are the Torah and Prophets there was no NT for
another 300 years. He is speaking to a Jewish audience),
“You shall love your neighbor as
yourself,”
you do well;
9 but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the Law
(specifically the decrees in the Law) as
transgressors.
10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble
in one point, he is guilty of all (eternal
life is promised for perfect obedience).
11
For Yahuah who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.”
Now if you do not commit
adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the Law. 12
So speak and so do
(talk the talk and walk the walk) as
those who will be judged by the Law of liberty (the
Law with the death decrees covered by the blood of the lamb that LIBERATE us
from the fear of death found in the Death decrees within the Law. Those Death
decrees have been covered).
13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown
no mercy. Mercy (blood of the Passover Lamb)
triumphs over judgment (imposed by the Death
decrees in the Law).
14 What
does it profit, my brethren, if someone
says he has faith but does not have works (of the
Law)? Can faith save him? (no)
15
If a brother or sister is
naked and destitute of daily food,
16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be
warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for
the body, what does it profit?
17
Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works,
is dead.
18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have
works.” Show me your faith without your works, and
I will show you my
faith by my works (for example having faith
in Yahusha as the Passover Lamb is expressed in our keeping Passover in light
of his sacrifice)
19
You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even
the demons believe—and tremble!
20 But do you want to know, O foolish man,
that
faith without works is dead?
21
Was not Abraham our father justified by works (not
just faith) when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? (If Abraham would not have attempted to sacrifice Isaac in
obedience to the command of Yahuah, his faith would have been dead faith. He
had to express it through action for it to be reckoned to him as faith) 22
Do you see that faith was
working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? 23
And the Scripture was
fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed Yahuah (by sacrificing
Isaac), and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend
of Yahuah.
24
You see then that a man is justified by works, and not
by faith only.
25 Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by
works when she received the messengers and sent
them out another way?
26
For as the body without
the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Every writer in the NT
confirms this fact. If you say you have faith and don’t express it through
keeping the Law you are a liar and your faith is dead.
The definition of Grace is
the forgiveness of our transgressions against the Law. This Grace is extended
only to those who in a spirit of loving obedience try as they may and fail to
keep the Law completely.
We have a High Priest who
serves the throne of Yahuah eternally making the gifts and sacrifices on our
behalf for transgressing the Law.
Hebrews 5
Qualifications for High Priesthood the Messiah Our High
Priest Forever
1
For every high priest taken from among men (Yahusha
was a man appointed High Priest by Yahuah) is appointed for men in
things pertaining to Yahuah (Yahusha was appointed
on our behalf in things pertaining to Yahuah), that he may offer
both gifts and sacrifices (defined in the Law,
outside of the Law there is no definition for such gifts and sacrifices)
for sins (transgressing the Law). 2 He
can have compassion on those who are ignorant (of Yahuah’s
Law) and going astray (from the commands
of Yahuah), since he himself is also subject to weakness
(bound by sinful flesh, Yahusha was baptized by John for
repentance of such weaknesses). 3 Because of this (his own guilt of transgression) he is required (to repent) as for the people (he makes sacrifices), so also for himself,
to offer sacrifices for (his) sins (Yahusha offered his own life and blood to atone).
4 And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by Yahuah, just
as Aaron was.
A
Priest Forever
5 So
also Yahusha did not glorify himself to become High Priest, but it was Yahuah
who said to Yahusha (upon
resurrection):
"You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You."
6 As
Yahuah also says (of Yahusha) in another
place:
"You
are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek" (Yahusha by bloodline was
Melchi (royal) and by
bloodline was of The House of Zadok);
7
who (Yahusha), in the days of his flesh
(when he was fully human in every way),
when he had offered up prayers and supplications (for
Israel and himself vs. 3 above), with vehement cries and tears to Yahuah
who was able to save Yahusha from death, and was heard (by Yahuah) because of his (Yahusha’s) godly fear (of or reverent submission i.e. PIETY to Yahuah Zachariah Chapter 3),
8 though he (Yahusha) was a Son, yet he
(Yahusha) learned obedience (to the Torah over time through a life on Earth)
by the things which he suffered (being disciplined
by Yahuah as are all men of Yahuah Revelation 3:19, Hebrews 12:6).
9And having been perfected (over time through
discipline), he (Yahusha)
became (perfected through obedience to the Torah
and) the author of eternal salvation (forefather
of everlasting life Isaiah 9:6) to all who obey him
(by keeping the commands of Yahuah), 10 (Yahusha was) called by Yahuah as High Priest (from among men
Hebrews 5:1)
"according to the order of Melchizedek (the
witness of blood and testimony of Yahusha)," 11 of whom (Yahusha) we have much to say, and hard to
explain, since you have become dull of hearing (mind
not set on the Spiritual Law of God but on the flesh which transgresses the Law
Romans 8:7). 12 For though by this time you ought to be
teachers (of the Torah, at that time there was no
such thing as the "New" Testament), you need someone to
teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God (the Torah); and you have come to need milk and
not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk (has abolished the Torah) is unskilled in the word
of righteousness (the Torah/Law which is Holy,
Righteous, and Good Romans 7:12), for he is a babe. 14 But
solid food belongs to those who are of full age (mature
Saints with minds set on Spiritual Law), that is,
those who by
reason of use (by obedience to the Torah/Spirit
of the Law) have their senses exercised (trained
by the Torah through physical to spiritual parallels) to discern
both good and evil (which is defined by the Law of Yahuah).
Romans 5
Faith Triumphs in Transgression of Law - Death in Adam, Life
in the Messiah
1
Therefore, having been justified by faith (in the
promises of Yahuah made in the Torah), we have peace with Yahuah
through our King Yahusha the Messiah (by whose
blood we are in covenant with Yahuah for forgiveness of transgressing the Law,
making us complete in obedience to the Law), 2 through whom (the blood of Yahusha, the Eternal High Priest)
also we have access (to Yahuah) by faith
into this grace (forgiveness of our transgressions
as we keep the Law with a spirit of loving obedience not fear of death)
in which we stand (keeping the commands but falling
short i.e. the battle between Flesh/Spirit), and rejoice (crying Abba Father) in hope of the glory of Yahuah
(that we will be forgiven and resurrected Elohim
promises made in the Torah). 3 And not only that (hope in future glory found through faith in the promises
made in the Torah), but we also glory in tribulations (knowing that Yahusha became perfected through them by
obedience to the Torah), knowing (by Yahusha’s example) that tribulation produces
perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 Now hope does
not disappoint, because the love of Yahuah has been poured out in our hearts (the Law of Love, the Torah has been written on the ‘tablets’
of our hearts) by the Holy Spirit (of
Truth, one of the 7 Spirits of Yahuah) who was given to us.
The Messiah in Our Place
6
For when we were still without strength (to fully
obey the Law of God, the Law was weakened by our flesh
Romans 8:3),
in due time (as proclaimed by the Prophets and
promises made in the Torah) Yahusha died (in
fulfillment of the Passover Lamb promise found in the Torah) for the
ungodly (the transgressors of the Law). 7 For
scarcely for a righteous man will one die (it is an
amazing thing that someone would even die for a righteous man); yet
perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die (even
rarer to die for a good man). 8 But Yahuah demonstrates His own love
toward us (sons of God), in that while we were
still sinners (defined as transgressors of the Law
1
John 3:4), Yahusha died for us (the
perfect example of obedience in love). 9 Much more then (Yahusha made whole the Law as the fulfillment of the
Passover Lamb promise found in the Law, providing Grace to cover our transgression
of the Law), having now been justified (made
just before and one with Yahuah in faith by obedience to the Torah) by
His (Yahusha's) blood (of
the Passover Lamb, the consummation of the marriage covenant), we shall
be (upon resurrection) saved from wrath (the second death, the Spiritual meaning of The Passover)
through him (Yahusha, by the blood of the Passover Lamb).
10 For if when we were enemies (hostile to the Law of
God Romans 8:7) we were reconciled to Yahuah through the
death of His Son (Yahusha, The Passover Lamb of Yahuah),
much more, having been reconciled (found perfect in
obedience to the Law through faith in the covenant with Yahuah through Yahusha),
we shall be saved (from the second death) by
his (eternal) life (Yahusha
defeated death in the resurrection). 11 And not only that, but we also
rejoice in Yahuah (that we are sons) through (faith in) our King Yahusha the Messiah, through whom
we have now received the reconciliation
(to Yahuah as
future begotten sons of Elohim as we are saved through faith in the promise
that Yahuah would send a Passover Lamb through which sacrifice we would be
found 100% obedient to His Law and receive eternal life promised in the Torah
and adoption as sons).
Death
in Adam, Life in the HUMAN Messiah
12
Therefore, just as through
one man
(Adam disobeyed Yahuah’s commands bringing death as
promised in the Torah for transgression) sin entered the world, and
death through sin (the penalty of sin is death),
and thus death spread to all men (not sin,
Original Sin is a false doctrine), because all sinned (we aren’t born under sin, we all commit sin that
justifies our death)—13 For until the (written)
law (in the Mosaic Covenant) came sin
was still in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law (so since sin was being imputed at the time of Adam… the Law
was alive and active… the Law teaches us what is Holy and what is sin).
14 Nevertheless (even without the written Law, the
penalty of the Law was active) death reigned from Adam to Moses,
even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the
transgression of Adam (God’s Holy Law was more than
just what Adam did), who (Adam)
is a type of him (Yahusha) who was to
come.
15
But the free gift (of Yahusha defeating the Law of
Sin and Death) is not like the offense (of
bringing into the world sin and death). For if by the
one man's offense many died, much more the
grace of Yahuah and the gift (of grace in light of
transgressing the Law) by the grace of
the one man, Messiah Yahusha, (atonement had to be at the hands of a human not a god)
abounded to many (who would be saved through faith
in the promises found in the Law). 16And the gift (of grace in light of transgressing the Law) is
not like that (penalty of death for transgressing the
Law) which came through the
one
man who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense
resulted in condemnation (to death of the physical
body), but the free gift (of life
through obedience and grace in light of transgressing the Law) which
came from many offenses resulted in justification (we are justified by our loving obedience to the Law and by
Grace as the blood of the lamb covers our transgression).
17
For if by the one man's
offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of
grace and of the gift of (total)
righteousness (through Yahusha we are found in
total compliance with the Law and that total compliance is a gift as we attempt
to keep His Law out of love not fear of death) will reign in (everlasting) life through (blood covenant in and faith in)
the one (man), Yahusha who is the (100% fully human in every way) Messiah (the Passover Lamb of Yahuah).
18
Therefore, as through
one man's
offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation (to death of the physical body), even so through
one man's righteous act (of self denial, obedience, and love unto death to fulfill
the Passover promise) the free gift (of
grace in light of transgressing the Law bridging the gap to total obedience to the
Torah and the promise of obedience is Life Eternal) came to all men
(who have faith in the promises of Yahuah),
resulting in justification (before Yahuah)
of life (after death). 19 For as by
one man's disobedience many were made
sinners, so also by one man's obedience
many (not ALL men ever created but many who have
faith in the promises of Yahuah) will be made righteous (you are saved through faith and made in right standing with the
Law).
20
Moreover the (Holy, Righteous, Good) law
entered (was given by Yahuah) that the
offense might abound (God’s Holiness was made clear
by the Law as well as our need and the promise of a savoir). But
where sin (transgression of the Law)
abounded, grace (forgiveness of those
transgressions) abounded much more (as Yahuah
delivered us who have faith in His Promises found in the Torah through His Son
and freely reconciled us to Himself),
21 so that as sin reigned in death (the Law of Sin
and Death or the Law with active death decrees for disobedience to it),
even so grace (the Law with the death decrees
covered or the Law of the Spirit of Life) might reign through
righteousness (keeping the Law) to
eternal life through (the blood of and faith in)
Yahusha the Messiah (who made whole the Law
providing Grace in light of transgression by fulfilling the promise of the
Passover)
That is what “saved by faith”
means. We were delivered by ONE MAN’s obedience that overthrew ONE MAN’s
disobedience. It took the death of a human in obedience to the Law to break the
Law of Sin and Death. If Yahusha was “god” in any way that sacrifice would have
been ineffective! We are saved by faith in the promises Yahuah made in His
Torah and Prophets and that faith is made alive by our exercising that faith
through good works of keeping His Law. We enter into
The Yahushaic
Covenant for the forgiveness of our inability to fully keep His Law. It
is the blood of the Passover lamb that covers the decrees that demand our death.
With those decrees covered we are brought into complete compliance and total
obedience to the Law as a free gift of the Messiah. Being found in compliance
with the Law we obtain the blessing in the Law which is Eternal life.
