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Chapter 10
Our responsibilities within The Yahushaic Covenant |
Throughout
The Original
Revelation Series which contains 8 books:
1.
Creation Cries Out!
2.
Mystery Babylon – The religion of
the beast
3.
Christianity and the Great
Deception
4.
The Antichrist Revealed!
5.
The Kingdom of Yahuah
6.
The Yahushaic Covenant Vol. 1 –
The Mediator
7.
The Yahushaic Covenant Vol. 2 –
The Pauline Doctrine
8.
The Yahushaic Covenant Vol. 3 - Melchizedek
and The Passover Lamb
9.
The Yahushaic Covenant Vol. 4 - The
Narrow Gate of Salvation
My goal has been to educate
the reader so that we may overcome the Great Deception and immerse ourselves in
the Truth. We are to enter into a marriage covenant with Yahusha and Yahuah
called The Yahushaic Covenant:
Revelation 19
9
And the angel said to me,
“Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper
of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of Yahuah.”
Human
marriage is a physical to spiritual parallel of
The Yahushaic Covenant
where through covenant we become “one” with Yahuah.
Revelation 19:9
9 And the angel said to me, “Write
this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.”
And he said to me, “These are the true words of Yahuah.”
Jeremiah 31:32
It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of
Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,"
declares Yahuah.
John 10
25
Yahusha
answered them,
“I
told you (I am the Messiah), and you do
not believe. The works (in fulfilling the Law)
that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me. 26 But you do not believe, because you
are not of My sheep, as I said to you.
27
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow
my example.
28
And
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone
snatch them out of My hand.
29 My Father, who has given
them to Me (in covenant), is greater than all; and no one is
able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. 30 I and
My Father are one (in mind, will, purpose, and Spirit through a marriage
covenant).”
John 17
20
“I
do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one (in marriage covenant), as You, Father,
are
in (covenant with) Me, and I in (covenant with) You; that they also may be one in
(covenant with) Us, that the world may
believe that You sent Me.
22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them,
that they may be one (in
covenant) just as We are one (in
covenant through marriage): 23 I in (covenant
with) them, and You in (covenant with)
Me; that they may be made perfect in one (covenant
through marriage), and that the world may know that You have sent Me (according
to your
predestined plan to send a human Messiah), and have loved them as
You have loved Me.
24 “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may
be with Me (in
the
Kingdom of Yahuah ) where I am, that they may behold My glory
which You have given Me (as you have seated me at
your right hand and through inheritance you have given me authority over Your
Kingdom); for You loved Me (and have
given me preeminence among your creation) before the foundation of
the world (in The Plan of Yahuah by which all
things were created).
25
O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I
have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. 26 And I have declared to them Your name Yahuah,
and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in
them, and I in them.”
That is the proper
understanding of these scriptures in context of the Word of Yahuah.
Christianity has the spirit of the false messiah Jesus Christ in that they
believe in the Incarnation and have elevated Jesus as God above Yahuah. They
pray to the false messiah, they sing to and direct their divine worship to the
false messiah; they have graven images such as crosses and images of Mary/Jesus
and so forth which is idolatry. They have elevated as “truth” that the Law has
been abolished (unrighteousness). Yahuah as promised has turned them over to a
depraved mind. They approach scripture with the spirit of error and cannot
comprehend what it says.
Romans 1:18-29
18
For the wrath of Yahuah is
revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who
suppress the truth (of the Law
Psalm 119:142)
Psalm 119:142
Your righteousness
is everlasting and your law is true.
in unrighteousness (abolishing
the Law 1 John 5:17 and
1 John 3:4),
1 John 5:17
All unrighteousness
is sin
1 John 3:4
Everyone who sins
breaks the Law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.
19 because that which is known about Yahuah is evident
within them (because Yahuah has written the Law in
our hearts Jeremiah 31:31);
Jeremiah 31:33
33 “But this is the new covenant which I
will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares Yahuah, “I will
put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be
their God, and they shall be My people
for Yahuah made it evident to them. 20
For since the creation of the
world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been
clearly seen (in creation), being
understood through what has been made (the Plan of
Salvation is written in the stars
Psalm 19),
Psalm 19
2 The
heavens are telling of the glory of YAHUAH; And their expanse is declaring
the work of His hands. 2 Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night
reveals knowledge. 3 There is no speech, nor are there words; Their voice is
not heard. 4 Their line (Zodiac means line or path of the sun) has gone out
through (and seen through)all the earth, And their utterances to the end of the
world. In them (the constellations) He has placed a tent for the sun
(the Zodiac), 5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber; It rejoices
as a strong man to run his course. 6 Its rising is from one end of the heavens,
And its circuit to the other end of them; And there is nothing hidden from its
heat.
Continuing with
Romans 1…
so that they are without excuse. 21 For even
though they knew Yahuah, they did not honor Yahuah as God or give thanks, but
they became futile in their speculations (that
Jesus was Yahuah incarnate), and their foolish heart was darkened (to the Torah which is a lamp unto our feet
Psalm 119:105).
Psalm 119:105
Your word (Torah/Prophets)
is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.
Continuing with
Romans 1…
22
Professing to be wise, they became fools (in spiritual understanding, given over to The Spirit of
Error 1 John 4:6 and 2 John 7),
1 John 2:3
We know that we
have come to know Yahuah if we keep his commands.
1 John 4:6
We are from Yahuah;
he who knows Yahuah (to know Yahuah is to keep His commandments
1 John
2:3)
listens to us; he who is not from Yahuah does not listen to us. By this we know
the spirit of truth (Truth is the Torah) and the spirit of error (abolishing the
Torah).
2 John 7 – The Spirit of Error and Spirit of the false messiah, Beware of
Antichrist Deceivers 7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world who
do not confess Yahusha the Messiah as coming in the flesh (a mere man, but
rather confess Jesus is the incarnation of God in the flesh).
This is a
deceiver and an antichrist. 8 Look to yourselves, that we do not lose
those things (the Torah / Prophets) we worked for, but that we may receive a
full reward (eternal life is the promise for obedience to the Torah). 9 Whoever
transgresses (the Law of Yahuah) and does not abide in the
doctrine of the Messiah (that he did not come to abolish the Law) does
not have (the Spirit of) Yahuah. He who abides in the doctrine of the Messiah
(that not one Jot or Tittle of the Law has been abolished) has both the Father
and the Son.
Continuing with
Romans 1…
23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God
for an image in the form of corruptible man (ask
Hesus Horus Krishna aka Jesus H. Christ into your heart
and elevated the false image of the Messiah Jesus Christ in
their hearts as God)…
28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge Yahuah
any longer (as the only TRUE GOD
John
17:3 and Isaiah 45:5),
John 17:3
3 This is eternal life, that they may know
You (Yahuah), the only true God
Isaiah 45
5 I am YHWH, and there
is no other; apart from me there is no God.
Mark 12:28-34
28 One of the teachers
of the Law (Torah) came and heard them debating. Noticing that Yahusha had
given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is
the most important?” 29 "The most important one," answered Yahusha
(then he quoted Deuteronomy 6), "is this:
'Hear, O Israel, Yahuah our
God, Yahuah is the one and only true God. 30 Love Yahuah your God with all your
heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'
Continuing with
Romans 1…
Yahuah gave them over to a depraved (of the Torah) mind (not
sealed with the protective shield over their frontal lobe),
Deuteronomy 6
4
“Hear (Shema), O Israel! YHVH is our
God, Yahuah is one (God)! 5
You shall love
Yahuah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your might.
6 These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be
(written) on your heart (in The Yahushaic Covenant see Jeremiah 31:33).
7
You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall
talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when
you lie down and when you rise up.
8
You shall bind
them as a sign on your hand (the works of your hand) and they (His Law)
shall
be as frontals (or spiritual seal) on your forehead.
Continuing with
Romans 1…
to do those things which are not proper (by violating the Law), 29 being filled
with all unrighteousness (disobedience to the Law
of Yahuah)
We see above that those who
elevated an image of a man as God in their hearts are given over to a “depraved
mind”. Elevating an image of a man as God is called the doctrine of Incarnation
and is clearly identified as the spirit of the false messiah:
1 John 4:1-3
1 Beloved, do not believe
every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from Yahuah, because
many false prophets have gone out into the world (claiming
they are the incarnation of God). 2 By this you
know the Spirit of Yahuah: every spirit that confesses that Yahusha the Messiah
has come in the flesh (i.e. born according to
the flesh or HUMAN) is from Yahuah; 3 and every spirit that does not confess Yahusha
(was fully human in every way Hebrews 2:17)
is not from Yahuah; this (the belief in the
Incarnation) is the
spirit of the antichrist (Jesus Christ), of which you have heard that it is
coming, and now it is already in the world.
… By this we know
the spirit of truth (those who worship Yahuah and know that Yahusha is our brother
not our God) and
the spirit of error (those who abolish the Law of Yahuah).
Those who have their minds
sealed with the sign of the cross in the belief in The Trinity do not have the
protective shield of Yahuah over their frontal lobe. The frontal lobe is that
part of the brain which enables us to recognize deception; so they are given
over to believe a lie!
This brings me to our FIRST
responsibility in The Yahushaic Covenant; we must be sealed with
His Shema to protect our minds from deception.
The seal of Yahuah is very
well defined as His Name written on our foreheads and those who
know His Name understand that He alone is God and there is no
other. He is not a trinity nor is He a bi-entity. The doctrine of Incarnation
is a total denial of the foremost command in the Bible. To fully understand The
Seal of Yahuah we must understand and employ the intended physical to Spiritual
parallels given to us and how they were explained over time through progressive
revelation and then transposed into His Kingdom, I will explain these in
detail.
The Seal of
the Kingdom
of Yahuah is clearly defined both in the Torah and
The Yahushaic
Covenant. Let us first define exactly what that seal is. The Seal of Yahuah
is quite literally His Name and
the knowledge that He alone
is God and it is “written” on the foreheads (a metaphor for knowledge)
as a SEAL over the minds of those who will inhabit His Kingdom:
Revelation 3
12
Him who overcomes (the spirit of the false messiah and spirit of error)
I will make a pillar in the temple of my God (those sealed with The Spirit of Truth will become The Temple
of Yahuah). Never again will he (Yahuah)
leave it (that Spiritual Temple). I will
write on him (who overcomes)
the
name of my God (Yahuah, the Mark of God)
Revelation 7:3
3 "Do not harm the land or
the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the
servants of our God (Yahuah)."
Revelation 9
4 They were told not to harm the
grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have
the seal of God (Yahuah)
on
their foreheads.
Revelation 22
4 They will see his face, and
his
name (Yahuah)
will be
(written/sealed)
on their
foreheads (minds).
Mark on your forehead is a physical to spiritual parallel for knowledge. The
Seal of Yahuah is the knowledge that the name of The Creator is Yahuah and He
is one God and there is no other God. This example was clearly set by Yahusha
and we are to declare The Shema as it is THE greatest commandment in the entire
Bible:
Mark 12:28-39
28 One of the teachers of the Law
came and heard them debating. Noticing that Yahusha had given them a good
answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most
important?” 29 "The most important one,"
answered Yahusha (then he quoted Deuteronomy 6),
"is this: 'Hear, O Israel, YAHUAH our God, Yahuah
is one. 30 Love Yahuah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your mind and with all your strength.'
Yahusha was demonstrating
that his frontal lobe had the protective seal of Yahuah over it as he quoted
word for word that seal or mark of Yahuah:
Deuteronomy 6
4
“Hear (Shema), O Israel! Yahuah is our God, Yahuah is
one (God)! 5 You shall love Yahuah
your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
6 These words, which I am commanding you
today, shall be (written) on your heart
(in
The Yahushaic Covenant see Jeremiah
31:33).
7 You shall teach
them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house
and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.
8 You shall bind them as a sign on your
hand and they (His Law) shall be as
frontals (or spiritual seal) on your
forehead.
As I explained in detail in
my book the Kingdom of Yahuah
the Shema is a frontal bone
(physical to spiritual parallel) providing protection over the frontal lobe of
your brain.
Deuteronomy
6:8
“they (His Law)
shall be as frontals (or spiritual seal)
on your forehead (Mind).
The Frontal Bone is literally
the protective shield in the cranium (physical metaphor) that protects the
Frontal Lobe of the brain:
This physical to spiritual
parallel employed by Yahuah in Deuteronomy can only now be understood in the
context it was meant. Science has defined the “purpose” of the Frontal Lobe of
the human brain and we can see why that lobe MUST be sealed by Yahuah.
The Frontal Lobe has been
identified and described as follows, according to Dr. Donald Stuss of The
Rotman Research Institute:
The frontal lobe is a critical center and it controls the
"essence" of our humanity. The frontal lobes, which are also called the cerebral
cortex, are the seat of emotions and judgments related to
sympathy,
which is the ability to feel sorrow for someone else's suffering, and
empathy,
which is the ability to understand another's feelings and problems. They are
also the seat of understanding humor, including subtle witticisms and word
plays. The frontal lobes also recognize sarcasm and irony.
And they are
where recognition of deception occurs guiding our judgment between right and
wrong. The cerebral cortex, or frontal lobes, is indeed the seat of our
essence and nature.
We need to always keep in the
foremost of our mind that Yahuah’s purpose is to govern the Universe with His
sons. The Frontal Lobe is critical in all aspects of judgment, empathy, and
knowing right from wrong. Yahuah literally provides a “protective shield”
called The Seal of Yahuah which protects that very part of our mind that
enables us to have empathy toward others, recognize deceptive philosophies, and
the frontal lobe literally determines our essence and nature.
In effect, those who have
this seal have in the foremost of their mind, the truth that Yahuah is ONE God
and that His Law defines what is right and wrong, and that it is love (empathy)
for others that are the foundation of that Law.
This seal or mark on our
forehead is represented by the Tetragrammaton or the “name of God”:
Revelation 22
4 They will see his face, and
his
name (Yahuah)
will be
(written/sealed)
on their
foreheads.
That mark of Yahuah has never
been, is not now, and will never be in the future the “mark of the cross”. That
is the opposing mark of the beast (for more information read my book
The
Antichrist Revealed!). Yahusha was sealed with
The Shema
between his eyes and that is our example we are to follow. By being obedient to
the first 3 of the Ten Commandments we will establish the seal over our minds.
1.
We are to have no other gods in Yahuah’s
face. Not Jesus, not The Trinity, not Buddha, not Krishna, not Ba’al, not
Allah, no other god. There is no other God, those are all false gods.
2. We are not to use titles such as
The LORD, Elohim, Adonai, ha Shem or anything else in place of His Name Yahuah.
These titles remove His Name from our sight, and bring His name to nothing
(which is what “in vain” means in Hebrew). Yahuah is His everlasting memorial
by which He is to be known, called upon, prayed to, and worshipped.
3. We are to have no graven images
(that includes a cross). Yahuah is Spirit, invisible, and no man has ever seen
Him. The only “image” of Yahuah is Yahusha who was the perfect human image of
the invisible God. We are to worship Yahuah in Spirit and in Truth not by
bowing down to an inanimate object.
Revelation 22:14 - King James Bible
Blessed
are they that keep
His commandments (the Law), that they
may have the right to the tree of (eternal)
life (the promise of obedience to the Torah Deuteronomy 6:1-2),
Deuteronomy 6:2
2 so that you and your son and your
grandson might fear Yahuah your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments
which I command you, all the days of your life, and
that your days may be
prolonged (eternal life)
and
may enter in through the gates (of
the Kingdom
of Yahuah and) into the city (of
Yahuah Shammah).
We must not partake in “The
Transgression of Desolation” which is the cause of
The Great
Tribulation:
Isaiah 24
See, Yahuah
is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and
scatter its inhabitants…
3
The earth will be completely laid waste and totally
plundered. Yahuah has spoken this word.
4 The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes
and withers, the heavens languish with the earth. (because)
5
The earth is defiled by its
people; they have disobeyed the Laws of Yahuah, violated the Feasts of Yahuah
and broken the everlasting covenant of The Sabbath.
6
Therefore a curse consumes the earth;
its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up,
and very few are left.
We must have a loving heart
for His Law and be given The Spirit of Truth which teaches us to keep His Law:
Ezekiel 36: 26, 27
I will give you a new heart (for my Law and write my Law on it
Romans 2:15 and
Hebrews
10:16)
Romans 2:15
They show
that the requirements of the Law are written on their hearts,
their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing
them and at other times even defending them.
Hebrews 10:16
"This
is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says Yahuah. I will
put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds."
and
put a new spirit (of loving obedience
1 John 5:3) in you;
1 John 5:3
fact, this
is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome
I
will remove from you your heart of stone (legalistic
observance of the Law without a loving heart for His Law) and give
you a heart of flesh (soft heart of love for His
Law). And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow
my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
And have His Law written on
our hearts:
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 to them,” declares Yahuah. 33 “But this is the covenant which I will make
with The House of Israel
after those days,” declares Yahuah, “I will put My
law 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.”
We are to live by the example
Yahusha set as a Torah obedient son of Yahuah. Keeping Yahuah’s Law is how we
express our love for Yahuah and is the demonstration that we know Yahuah:
1 John 2
3
By this we know that we have
come to know Yahuah, if we keep His Law. 4 The one who says, “I have come to
know God,” and does not keep His Law, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
5 but whoever keeps Yahuah’s Law, in him
the love of Yahuah has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are
in covenant with Yahusha:
6 the one
who says he is in covenant with Yahusha ought himself to walk in the same
manner as Yahusha walked (in obedience to the Law).
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).”
The Ark of the Covent that is
the literal throne that Yahusha sits upon is “The Ark of the Covenant of the
Law” and the foundation of Yahusha’s government. the Law is within the Ark as a
witness against anyone who violates it:
Deuteronomy 31:26
"Take this Book of the Law
and place it beside the ark of the covenant of Yahuah your God. There it will remain
as a witness against you (who break it).
Revelation 11:19
Then Yahuah’s temple in heaven
was opened, and within Yahuah’s temple was seen the ark of Yahuah’s covenant (Law, the marriage vows).
I cover the Law in some
detail in Chapter 11 of my book the Kingdom of Yahuah
from the
standpoint of establishing the Law as the foundation of
The Yahushaic
Covenant and
the Kingdom of Yahuah.
I will cover the Law
in detail as it applies to us in Chapter 5 of this book.
We can only say we are in
covenant with Yahuah through Yahusha if we keep the commandments of Yahuah and
walk in the example set by Yahusha:
1 John 2
3
By this we know that we
have come to know Yahuah, if we keep His Law. 4 The one who
says, “I have come to know God,” and does not keep His Law, is a liar, and the
truth is not in him;
5 but whoever
keeps Yahuah’s Law, in him the love of Yahuah has truly been perfected. By this
we know that we are in covenant with Yahusha:
6
the one who says he is in covenant with Yahusha ought himself to walk
in the same manner as Yahusha walked (in
obedience to the Law).
Yahusha told us his example
was the true way to eternal life. Yahusha was filled with The Spirit of
Holiness and demonstrated loving obedience to the commandments of Yahuah. Yahusha
was in covenant with Yahuah and whoever believes in Yahusha will “do the works
I have been doing” as he kept the Law of Yahuah faithfully.
John 14
5 Thomas said to him, “King, we
don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” 6 Yahusha
answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life (another
way of saying “my example is the true way that leads to eternal life”).
No one comes into covenant with the Father except through me.7 If you really
know me, you will know my Father as well (Yahusha
was one with Yahuah in mind, will, purpose, and spirit). From now
on, you (who keep His commandments) do
know him and have seen him (in the example Yahusha
set. Yahusha was the perfect human image of the invisible God).”
8
Philip said, “King, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” 9 Yahusha
answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a
long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father (through my example). How can you say, ‘Show us
the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in (covenant
with) the Father, and that the Father is in (covenant with) me? The words I say to you I do
not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the (spirit
of the) Father, living in me (The Spirit
of Truth), who is doing His work (through
me, I am his proxy).
11
Believe me when I say that I am in (covenant with)
the Father and the Father is in (covenant with)
me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves (as I kept Your commandments and manifested Your name
John 17:6).
John 17:6
"I have
manifested Your name (Yahuah) to the men whom You gave Me out of the world;
they were Yours and You gave them to Me (in covenant), and they have kept
Your word (the Torah).
Continuing with John 14…
12
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in (covenant
with) me will do the works I have been doing (follow my example in keeping His commandments as my example
is the true way that leads to eternal life).
As we keep the commandments
of Yahuah we will, in the process, be sealed with His Shema and display the
Sign by keeping His Sabbath. I cover both the Seal and Sign in my book
the
Kingdom of Yahuah.
Obeying the 4th
commandment is the Sign that sets us apart and makes us Holy to Yahuah. Obeying
all 10 is the love of Yahuah perfected as we learn to love Yahuah (the first 5
commandments) and love our neighbor (last 5 commandments).
The Sabbath is Yahuah’s stamp
on creation and sets Him apart as The Creator. The Sabbath is the sign we
display back to Yahuah that we know He is the Creator and by displaying that
sign, we too are set apart from His Creation. As we set apart the 7th
Day, that day, in turn, was made to set us apart from Creation. This is what Yahusha
was saying below:
Mark 2:27
27 Yahusha said to them,
"The Sabbath was made for man (to set him
apart from creation), and not man for the Sabbath. 28"So (in the same way) the Son of Man is (set apart as) King even of the Sabbath (Millennium)."
Exodus 31
12
Yahuah said to Moshe,
13 Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘You are to observe my
Shabbats for this
is
a sign between me and you through all your generations; so that you
will know that I am Yahuah,
who sets you
apart for me.
17 It is a sign between me and the people of
Isra’el forever; for in six days
Yahuah made heaven and earth,
but on the seventh day (not one day in 7 and
definitely not Dias Solis Sungod Day) he stopped working and
rested.’
The Sabbath is so important to Yahuah that humanity’s breaking The
Sabbath is the cause of The Great Tribulation where Yahuah destroys the face of
the Earth. The Earth is destroyed because humanity has abolished the Torah/Sabbath/Holy
Days:
Isaiah 24
See, Yahuah
is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and
scatter its inhabitants…
3
The earth will be completely laid waste and totally
plundered. Yahuah has spoken this word.
4 The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes
and withers, the heavens languish with the earth. (because)
5
The earth is defiled by
its people; they have disobeyed the Laws of Yahuah, violated the Feasts of Yahuah
and broken
the everlasting covenant of The Sabbath.
6
Therefore a curse consumes the earth;
its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up,
and very few are left.
Yahuah then prophesied through Isaiah that he would set this same Sabbath
“sign” among the gentiles and call out His Chosen from among them and they
would keep His Sabbath among the gentile nations. That “sign” as I stated is
defined as The Sabbath… He will send His Sabbath Keeping sons to display The
Sign to the nations.
Yahuah will gather His elect among all nations and bring them back to
Himself where they will keep The Sabbath for all eternity
Isaiah 66
19 “I will set
a sign
(The Sabbath) among them, and I will
send some of those who survive to the nations—to Tarshish, to the Libyans and
Lydians, to Tubal and Greece, and to the distant islands that have not heard of
my fame or seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory (as Creator) among the nations (By displaying THE SIGN of The Sabbath to them).
20 And they will bring all your people, from all the nations, to my holy
mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to Yahuah.
In the next verse, Yahuah then declared that after he re-creates Heaven
and Earth after the Millennial Kingdom on The Last Great Day/Day of Yahuah (8th
prophetic day after the Sabbath Millennium) that all living in
the
Kingdom of Yahuah will keep
The Sabbath forevermore . We
know from Revelation that this current Heaven and Earth will be destroyed by
fire and Yahuah will create a “new Heaven and Earth” after the prophetic 7th
Day or Sabbath Millennium. This is the time frame Isaiah is speaking of and he
makes it crystal clear that throughout eternity… all mankind will be keeping
The
Sabbath.
Those who disobeyed Yahuah (violated His Sabbaths in context) are found
DEAD as those Sabbath Keepers literally step over their abominable disobedient
bodies to enter the Kingdom of Yahuah.
Isaiah 66:22-24
(
previous
verses talked about a sign, The Sabbath, being set among the gentiles and those
who keep the sign are brought out of the nations) 22 “For just as
the new heavens and the new earth that I am making will continue in my presence,”
says Yahuah, “so will your descendants and your name continue. 23 “Every month
on Rosh-Hodesh and every week on Shabbat,
everyone
living will come to worship in my presence (they won’t be worshipping on Sunday),” says Yahuah.
24 “As they (who bear His Sabbath Sign)
leave (from worshipping Yahuah on The Sabbath),
they will look on the corpses of the people who rebelled against me
(in context rebelled against His Sabbath)
for their worm will never die, and their fire will never be quenched; but they will
be abhorrent to all humanity.”
All those who have abolished His Law are gathered up (and destroyed) out
of His Kingdom:
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
Now, we are “told” by the false religion of Christianity
that a new
day of rest came with the New Covenant. There is zero proof of that in
scripture and for 500 years the early church kept
The Sabbath
until the Sungod worshipping Emperor Constantine changed
The Sabbath
to his god’s day… Sunday. Then he imposed Sunday worship by the threat of death
in the inquisition!
We see in 1 John that we are to “walk as Yahusha walked” and live by the
example the Messiah set on Earth…
1 John 2
3 We know that we have come to know Yahuah if we
keep his commands. 4 Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he
commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. 5 But if anyone
obeys his commandments, love for Yahuah is truly made complete in them.
This is how we know we are in (covenant with)
Yahuah (through Yahusha): 6 Whoever
claims to live in (covenant with) Yahusha
must live as Yahusha did.
The example Yahusha set (that we are to follow) is that of an obedient
son of Yahuah to His Commandments. Yahusha kept The Sabbath; he kept Passover
and every other commandment. This is our example. Constantine is
not our example nor is The Pope not even your Christian Church. For all the
double talk Christian’s do in claiming to walk in the footsteps of “Jesus” they
don’t even come close to walking as Yahusha who set the example in obedience to
the Law of Yahuah by keeping The Sabbath (4th Commandment)!
In fact, they don’t even try as they abolished everything Yahusha stood
for and everything he did on Earth. It is well documented that Yahusha kept The
Sabbath:
Mark 6:2
And when
the Sabbath had
come, He began to teach in the synagogue.
Luke 4:16
So he came to Nazareth, where he
had been brought up. And as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on
the
Sabbath day, and stood up to read.
Luke 6:6
Now it happened on another
Sabbath,
also, that he entered the synagogue and taught.
Luke 13:10
Now he was teaching in one of the
synagogues on the Sabbath.
Luke 4:31
Then he went down to Capernaum, a
city of Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbaths.
In fact, Yahusha understood
The
Sabbath Covenant and that he would return to rule as King to fulfill
The Sabbath Covenant in the 7th prophetic day or 7th
Millennium known as the Millennial Reign:
Mark 2:27-28
And he said to them, "The
Sabbath was made for man (it is the coming of Yahuah’s
rest from the curse of Adam), and not man for the Sabbath. Therefore
the Son of Man is also King of the Sabbath.
The Apostle Sha’ul cleared it up word for word: “If you don’t keep the 7th
Day Sabbath EXACTLTY like Yahuah did, you will not enter His Rest/Eternal life”.
Sha’ul clearly teaches the Sabbath below and that you cannot be saved if
you violate The Sabbath. Remember, all the men of Yahuah in the
Bible and the true assembly of believers kept The Sabbath for 500
years after the Messiah’s death until Constantine changed it by threat of
death in the inquisition and eventually had most of them killed for not keeping
Dias Solis “the Venerable day of the Sungod”. We see in Hebrews 4 even in
the NT or New Covenant The Sabbath is key to salvation as
it is the SIGN that we are the “sanctified” or “set apart” or HOLY ONES:
Hebrews 4
-
A
Sabbath-Rest for the People of God
1 Therefore, since the
promise of entering his (The
Sabbath) rest
still stands,
let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it
(by failing to Keep the Sabbath). 2 For we also
have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they
heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with
faith (Keep
the Sabbath in light of the Messiah). 3 Now we who have believed (and are in covenant with Yahusha) enter that rest
(Keep the Sabbath in light of faith in the Passover
Lamb of Yahuah, whose name is Yahusha), just as Yahuah has said,
"So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They (who break my Sabbath) shall never enter my (Sabbath) rest.' "And yet his work has
been finished since the creation of the world (Yahuah Himself kept the Sabbath in Genesis 1 and
commanded we do to, the 4th Commandment). 4 For somewhere he has
spoken about the seventh day (Saturday,
not Sunday) in these words: "And on the seventh day
Yahuah rested from all his work." 5 And again in the passage above he
says, "They shall never enter my rest." (Referring
to those disobedient to His Sabbath command)
6 It
still remains that some (the remnant sons of Yahuah)
will enter that
(Sabbath)
rest,
and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because
of their disobedience (to the Sabbath).
7 Therefore Yahuah, again (Sha’ul repeats for
emphasis), set a certain day, calling it Today (start keeping The Sabbath today!), when a long
time later he spoke through David, as was said before:
"Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts. (against His Sabbath)" 8 For if Joshua (son of Nun) had given them (the Israelites coming out of Egypt) rest (from the curse of Adam when they entered The Promised Land
of Canaan), Yahuah would not have spoken later about another day (to come..
the true
Sabbath Rest is yet to come in the 7th Millennium).
9
There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the
people of Yahuah; 10
for anyone who enters Yahuah’s rest also rests from
his own work, just as Yahuah did from His (You must keep the Sabbath just as Yahuah did on the 7th
Day). 11 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest (by being obedient to The Sabbath), so that no
one will fall (short of salvation and not enter Yahuah’s
Rest) by following their example of disobedience (to The Sabbath).
It is totally laughable the way the Christian Church tries to twist the scripture
above into saying something else in actual support of Sunday worship. The
Sabbath is defined as the 7th Day; The Sign between Yahuah and His
sons. It is the 4th Commandment. The “sign” of the Christian Church
between Satan and his chosen is and has always been Sunday dating back to
Babylon.
So the reality is, from cover to cover,
The Sabbath is the
only Holy Day kept by Yahuah, it was set apart from every other day and made
Holy along with anyone who keeps it! Those who keep His Sabbath too are “set
apart“as Yahuah stated… it is one of the Ten Commandments, Yahusha kept it, all
the disciples kept it, the church for 500 years after the death of Yahusha kept
it, it is written in both Testaments that it is critical to Salvation.
Those in covenant with Yahusha
are true sons of Yahuah. Yahuah gives the witnesses of water, blood, and spirit
to testify that we are truly His sons. That is called “the testimony of Yahusha”
and we must have that same testimony:
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 (same) testimony of Yahusha the Messiah.
I explained these 3 witnesses
in detail in the last chapter of this book. They are:
1.
Water – born human through the womb of our mother and put
through training on Earth.
2.
Blood – we are of the bloodline of Abraham/Isaac/Jacob
3.
Spirit – we follow the Law of the Spirit that leads to Life,
in other words we are filled with The Spirit of Holiness which guides us in
keeping His Commandments in loving obedience. The Spirit of Holiness
is the earnest guarantee that we will be begotten as gods into the family of Yahuah
in His literal image.
What these witnesses say of us is that we are
born into the
bloodline and
begotten
into the Kingdom of Yahuah
…. Born,
Blood, Begotten = water, blood, spirit!
Romans 11
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
in covenant with Yahusha
the Messiah)
2 which Yahuah promised before through His prophets in
the Holy Scriptures (that the New Covenant is with
The House of Israel and The House of Judah exclusively
Jeremiah 31 and
that the Messiah would come from The House of Judah),
3
concerning His Son Messiah Yahusha
our King, who was born of the
bloodline
of David and born according to the flesh (water),
4
and begotten (declared)
to be the Son of God 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 (as His chosen bloodline taken from) among all
nations for Yahuah’s name,
6 among whom you also are
the called out ones
(who are set apart by keeping The Sabbath)
to be in (marriage) covenant (The Yahushaic Covenant) through (the blood of the Passover Lamb)Yahusha the
Messiah;
Those who display faith in Yahusha
by keeping Passover, have a heart for the Law of Yahuah, and keep His Sabbath
identify themselves among the Gentile nations where Yahuah had scattered His
sons. They are The Lost Sheep of the House of Israel that had
been scattered among the nations. We have no idea we are of that bloodline as we
have lost our lineage and our identity because Yahuah made the knowledge of our
bloodline “cease from the remembrance of man”:
Deuteronomy 32:26
26 I said, I would scatter them
into (all) corners (of Earth), I would make the remembrance of them
to cease from among men (no one would know they are
truly Israelites):
Yahuah will move on us and
once again cause us to know His Holy Name and it is by that key
SEAL over our minds that we know we are truly of The House of Israel:
Jeremiah 16:21
And, behold,
I will make
them know; this time
I will cause them to know My hand
and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahuah.
Yahusha came only for “the
Lost Sheep of the House of Israel”. No one outside of the bloodline of Israel
will be chosen. See Chapter 10 of my book the Kingdom of Yahuah:
Matthew 10
5
These twelve Yahusha sent
out after instructing them: “Do not go in
the way of
the (pagan) Gentiles, and do not enter
any city
of the Samaritans; 6 but rather
go to the lost sheep of the house of
Israel.
7 And as you go, preach,
saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’
The New Covenant is with The
Lost Sheep of the House of Israel and the House of Judah exclusively. Again no
one outside of that bloodline:
Hosea 1
10
Yet the number of the sons of
Israel Will be like the sand of the sea, Which cannot be measured or numbered;
And in the place (pagan Gentile lands)
Where it is said to them (not that it is true it
is only said of them), “You are not My people,” It will be said
to them (after I reclaim them to their rightful
inheritance), “You are (in
fact) the sons of the living God.” 11
And the sons of Judah (House of Judah) and the sons of Israel (House of Israel) will be gathered together,
Jeremiah 31:33
"But this is the covenant
which I will make with the house of Israel after those
days," declares Yahuah, "I will put My law within them and on
their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be
My people.
It is only Abraham’s
descendants, no one else, not even angels, that Yahusha intercedes for as High
Priest.
Hebrews 2
14 Since the children have flesh
and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might
destroy 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. 16
For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s
descendants. 17 For this reason he had to be made like his
brothers (in the bloodline promised to Abraham)
in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest
(of Israel) in service to Yahuah, and
that he might make atonement for the sins of the people (that descend from the bloodline of Abraham in context).
We see Yahusha outright
reject a pagan woman not of the proper bloodline to Abraham through Isaac, and
Jacob as Yahusha declared outright he only came (the first time) for the lost
sheep of the House of Israel’s bloodline:
Matthew 15
21
Leaving
that place, Yahusha withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22
A
Canaanite woman (pagan gentile not from
either The House of Judah or The House of Israel) from that vicinity
came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is
demon-possessed and suffering terribly.”
23
Yahusha did not answer a word. So his disciples came to
him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.” 24
He answered, “I was sent
only to the lost sheep of (The House of) Israel.”
25
The woman came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!”
she said.
26
He replied,
“It
is not right to take the children (of Abraham)’s
bread and toss it to the dogs (those not chosen or
pagan gentiles not of the proper bloodline).”
I cover this topic in great
detail in my book the Kingdom of Yahuah.
As I explained in the
previous chapter of this book, true followers of Yahusha are followers of the
Branch
or Notsris in Hebrew and called Nazarenes. Nazarenes were spoken of in
the Dead Sea Scrolls as guardians of the Torah, Prophets, and Messiah.
It is a mistranslation in our Bibles where it says “Jesus of Nazareth” it
should read “Yahusha the Nazarene”. Not only is his name not Jesus, not only
was Yahusha not from Nazareth, but the terms "sect of the Nazarenes"
and "Yahusha of Nazareth" are the same. They both employ the
adjective nasraya
(ܐ
ܝܪܨܢܕ) or notsri meaning
branch, which is referring
to the prophecy in Isaiah Chapter 11 concerning The Branch and prophecy in
Zachariah Chapter 3 concerning The Branch.
The English word “Nazarene”
(Greek “Nazaraios,” Aramaic “Natsraya,” or Hebrew “Notsri”) comes from the
Hebrew word netser
(branch), which itself is derived from the verb
natsar
which means “to guard, watch, keep, or preserve.” in context speaking of
the
Torah.
http://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/hebrew/nas/natsar.html
The
NAS Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon - Strong's Number: 5341
Transliterated
Word - Natsar
Definition:
to guard,
watch, watch over, keep (Qal) to watch, guard, keep, to preserve, guard from
dangers, to keep, observe, guard with fidelity, to guard, keep secret, to be
kept close, be blockaded, watchman (participle)
So in context of the Torah
and Prophets, Yahusha the Nazarene and all his followers even today keep and
observe the Torah to guard, watch over, and protect it from the Lawless
one Jesus Christ (and all who follow him) who is a false image designed to
destroy the Torah and Prophets. I, Rav Sha’ul, am a Notsri if you haven’t
noticed by now. All true followers of Yahusha are Nazarenes. I defend the Torah,
Prophets, and true Messiah with all that is in me.
Yahusha made some very bold
declarations. He said he was the son of God, that he and his Father were one,
and that he embodied the fullness of deity! If you take these statements he
made, out of context (sound bites), and string them together you; can come up
with a false doctrine. That false doctrine is the doctrine of
Incarnation
which is the Spirit of the false messiah. Taken out of context, these
declarations are taught as though Yahusha was “implying” he was Yahuah in the
flesh. Implying that he was “God” who came down to Earth in the form of a man,
even the son of man. A god-man just like every other pagan “Christ” dating back
to Tammuz of Babylon. For more information, please read my book
Christianity:
The Great Deception.
As with all “sound bite
doctrines” they are implied doctrines that contradict explicit
commands found in scripture. Yahuah declared He is not a man, nor is He the son
of man and that He promised to make good on that statement:
Numbers 23:19
"Yahuah is not a man,
that He should lie, Nor a son of man (Yahusha
is called the son of man 87 times), that He should repent; Has He
said (that He would not take the form of a man),
and will He not do it (keep His promise NOT to
come to Earth as a man)? Or has He spoken (this promise not to take the form of a man),
and will He not make good on this promise?
1 Samuel 15:29
29 Also the Glory of Israel will not lie
or change His mind; for He (Yahuah)
is not a man that He
should change His mind.”
Job 9
“For He
(Yahuah)
is not a man
as I am that I may answer Him, That we may go to court together.
The doctrine of
incarnation
makes Yahuah out to be a liar. Yahusha was a man and called himself the son of
man 87 times! The doctrine of incarnation also makes Yahusha out to be a
liar. Yahusha was “of the flesh” or “born according to the flesh” all phrases
to simply say HE WAS A MAN! Yahusha outright denied
incarnation and said
he could not even conceive of such a concept and that the doctrine of
incarnation
is robbing Yahuah of His Glory as the one true God:
Philippians 2:6
Yahusha who, being in the form of God (the
human proxy), thought it not robbing Yahuah of His Glory to be
equal with God:
New Living Translation
Though he was (the human image of)
God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to.
New American Standard Bible
who, although He existed in the (human)
form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
King James Bible
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Aramaic
Bible in Plain English
He who, while he was in the form of God, did not esteem this as a prize, that
he was the equal of God,
King James 2000 Bible
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not a thing to be grasped to be equal
with God:
Darby Bible Translation
who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be
on an equality with God;
World English Bible
who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to
be grasped,
You cannot take the
declarations Yahusha made as a son of Yahuah out of context. As I fully
explained in Chapter 2 of this book, the Chosen are all gods, sons of Yahuah,
one with our Father, and within us dwells the fullness of deity. We, as Yahusha
did by example, should cry out…
"I am the son of
Yahuah and my Father and I are one. I am god and the fullness of deity dwells
in me!"
That declaration is our
birthright. I and my father are one family… through covenant.
John 17: 21
That
they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in (covenant
with) me, and I in (covenant with)
thee, that they also may be one in (covenant with)
us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.”
I am a god… through resurrection.
Psalm 82:6
I (Yahuah)
said, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you”
Within me dwells the fullness
of deity.
Ephesians 3:19
19
and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled (in bodily form) to the measure of all the
fullness of deity (which is the Spirit of Holiness).
I am the son of God.
2 Corinthians 6:18
“and I will be a father to you,
and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says Yahuah Almighty.”
When Yahusha made these bold
declarations of his birthright and lineage, he was accused of blasphemy by the
Jews and made out to be God in the flesh by pagans. Both accusations are
totally baseless. The truth is that Yahusha was simply declaring his birthright
as a son of Yahuah and each of us have the same authority to make the same
exact claim. We, like the example Yahusha set, should be so bold as to declare
our birthright.
One of the main lessons that
we are intended to learn during this life training is the concept of Righteousness.
Righteousness is defined in the Law of Yahuah so we are to study that Law in
preparation for our role in the Kingdom of Yahuah. We are to train ourselves in
the Law of Yahuah so that we can become Righteous Judges. We are being trained
as Kings and Priests of Yahuah and the foundation of both is righteous
judgment.
Of course, the false religion
of Christianity is designed to hide this most highest of callings. We are taught
“thou shalt not judge” as though it were one of the Ten Commandments! It
is actually referred to as the 11th commandment. There is no 11th
Commandment. If there were, it would most probably be “thou shall not take My
Word out of context”. Not only is “thou shalt not judge”
not one of the Ten Commandments it is not one of any of the 613 Laws. The Law
of Yahuah actually contains instructions for how to be a judge. The
word “Torah” means “instructions in Righteousness”.
Like all sound bite implied
doctrines, “Thou shall not judge” is a direct contradiction of explicit
scripture that we are in fact called to be judges. Sha’ul, writing to the
assembly in Corinth, was frustrated that they had not exercised their authority
to judge:
1 Corinthians 6
Dare any
of you, having a matter against another, go to (a
court of) law before the unrighteous (those
who do not keep the Law of Yahuah), and not before the saints?
2
Do you not know that the
saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you,
are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3
Do you not know that we
shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? 4
If then you have judgments
concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least
esteemed by the church to judge?
5 I say this (that you fail
to judge) to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man
among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren? 6
But brother goes to (a court of) law against brother, and that (court of Law) before unbelievers!
Yahusha
delegated the authority to judge to the rest of the sons of Yahuah:
John 20
21
So
Yahusha said to them again,
“Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send
you.” 22
And when He had said this,
He breathed on them, and said to them,
“Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any,
they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are
retained.”
Yahusha gave
instruction on how judgment should be handled:
Matthew 18:15-18
15
“Moreover if
your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
If he hears you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he will not hear, take with you
one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be
established.’
17
And
if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the assembly of believers. But if
he refuses even to hear the assembly, let him be to you like a heathen and a
tax collector.
18 “Assuredly, I say to you (you
are judges), whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven,
and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
The Apostle Sha’ul readily
accepted his role as a judge:
1Corinthians 5:3
"For I verily, as absent in
body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present,
concerning him that hath so done this deed"
Obviously the 11th
commandment is a commandment of men not of Yahuah. The false doctrine of
“thou shalt not judge” is based on the following scripture taken out
of context:
Matthew 7
“Judge not, that
you be not judged.”
Let’s put this sound bite
back into context and establish sound doctrine that does not contradict
explicit scripture that we are called to be Righteous Judges. What Yahusha is
teaching above is that we are not to be self-righteous judges setting our own standards
based on our own personal moral code of behavior. We see this all the time in
Christianity. For instance those who don’t drink alcohol at all judge those who
drink socially on occasion. Those that drink only on occasion judge those who
drink more often. Those who drink more often judge those who are alcoholics. We
set our own personal standards and then judge everyone around us by those
self-righteous
standards. In every case we end up judging others for the “hidden sins in our
own life” and we become hypocrites.
We are to judge by the Torah
alone in righteousness so that our judgment will stand.
Matthew 7
1 “Judge not (self-righteously), that you be not judged
(by others self-righteousness). 2 For with what judgment you judge (it doesn’t say not to judge), you will be judged;
and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you (this is saying to judge fairly and just by the Law of Yahuah
alone).
3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s
eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye (first
judge your own life by the Law)? 4 Or how can you say to your brother,
‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank
is in your
own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from
your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
brother’s eye.
Now Yahusha
restates what he just said in verses 1 and 2 below in a parable (physical to
spiritual parallel)
6
“Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your
pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and
again and render you.
What Yahusha is saying (using
metaphors to veil the Kingdom as always) is this:
“Judge not self-righteously, that you not be unrighteously judged
in return. Evaluate your own life in context of the Law before you are
qualified to judge your brother. Properly judge between that which is
“holy” and “dogs”, “pearls” and “swine” defined in the Law of Yahuah… if you
don’t judge properly by His Law, your poor self-righteous judgment will not
stand (be trampled under their feet) and self-righteous judgment will be turned
against you and Yahuah will heap your righteousness back onto your head.”
The Apostle Sha’ul taught the
exact same message:
1 Corinthians 2:10-16
10
But
Yahuah has revealed the mysteries of His Kingdom
to us through His
Spirit of Truth. For the Spirit of Truth searches all things, yes, the deep
things of Yahuah.
11
For what man knows the things of a man except the
spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of Yahuah
except the Spirit of Yahuah.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the error (which is abolishing the Law), but the
Spirit
of Truth who is from Yahuah (which teaches
us to keep His Law), that we might know the things (in the Law) that have been freely given to us by Yahuah.
The Spirit Sha’ul is referring to
is the Spirit of Truth that Ezekiel prophesied would come over those in The New
Covenant:
Ezekiel 36: 26, 27
I will give you
a new heart 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.
Continuing with
1 Corinthians 2…
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s
wisdom teaches but which the Spirit of Holiness teaches (The Spiritual Law
which is
written on our hearts Jeremiah 31), comparing spiritual
things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the
Spirit of Yahuah, for (he is filled with the Spirit
of Error abolishing the Law) they (the commandments)
are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are
spiritually discerned (Spiritual intent behind the
Law).
15
But he who is spiritual judges all things (properly
according to intent of the Law
of Yahuah),
yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.
16
For “who has known the mind of Yahuah
that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of the Messiah (who judges by the Law of Yahuah as it flows forth from Zion
as the standard of righteousness in the Kingdom of Yahuah).
Isaiah 2:3-4
3 Yahusha will teach us the ways of Yahuah, And we shall walk
in Yahusha’s example.” For out of Zion shall go forth the Law, And the
word of Yahuah from Jerusalem.
4
Yahusha shall
judge between the nations, And rebuke many people;
We are called by Yahuah to
have the Spirit of Holiness which teaches us the spiritual intent of His Law
and by that Law we are to judge with equity. We are being trained for the day
we are resurrected as gods in His family and we are being trained to govern:
Psalm 58:1
Do you indeed speak
righteousness, O gods? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?
In the Law of Yahuah the
concept of judgment and instructions in righteous judgment are defined clearly.
I’ll cover this in detail in the next chapter:
Leviticus 19
15' You shall do no injustice in
judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you
are to judge your neighbor fairly.
Judging another by your own self-righteous
moral code is injustice. You are not the standard of righteousness,
Yahuah is. If you don’t know the Law of Yahuah then you are simply not
to judge at all. If you decide to be judgmental outside of knowing His Law,
then Yahuah will judge you by His Law and by the same standard you used to
judge those around you.
I am now going to firmly
establish what it means to be a Righteous Judge in
the Kingdom of Yahuah.
Righteous judgment is the character that is the underlying foundation
of every King, every Priest, and every son of Yahuah.
To be qualified as a
Righteous Judge, we must meet the following Biblical standards:
·
Properly judge our own lives first
in accordance with the Law of Yahuah.
·
Understand that every judgment is
subject to the Highest Court… Yahusha the Messiah. So your judgment must be in
line with his which is in line with Torah standards.
·
Exercise the proper “purpose” in
judgment which is to lovingly deliver Yahuah’s people from their sin against Yahuah
(sin is breaking the Law of Yahuah). You must know the Spiritual intent of the
Law of Yahuah in order to deliver others from their sin.
·
Judges must have the heart of a
servant, and judge in humility and love
·
Righteous judgment brings people
to Yahuah; selfish judgment drives them away.
·
You must act at all times within
The Will of Yahuah.
·
Your judgment must justify the
righteous (those who keep His Law) and condemn the wicked (lawless ones or law
breakers; those who commit “iniquity”)
·
At all costs you must avoid the
tendency to exercise self-righteous judgment by imposing on others your own
personal standards.
We are called as judges to
first judge our own lives. Then properly judge our loved ones, then the
nations, then the Earth, and ultimately the Universe.
We are to be set apart from
this world by His Law and sanctified through it:
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),
so now, in the same way, you must offer the parts of your body as slaves to
righteousness (which is keeping the Law)
that leads to sanctification.
Judging our own lives by His
Law is how we progress in the process of sanctification. That is the process of
being disciplined by Yahuah for disobedience as we bring our lives into harmony
with His Will. Once sanctified, we will be set apart from this world and
not condemned with it.
1 Corinthians 11
31
But
if we were more discerning with regard to ourselves, we would not come under
such judgment. 32 Nevertheless, when we are judged in this way
by Yahuah, we are being disciplined so that we will not be finally condemned
with the world.
Self-judgment
is a pre-requisite of righteous judgment. If we don’t first judge ourselves we
will inevitably be a hypocrite.
Matthew 7:5
"Thou
hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou
see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye"
Every
work we do on Earth will be judged by Yahuah.
Ecclesiastes 12:14
"For
Yahuah shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether
it be good (works of the Law), or
whether it be evil (breaking the Law)."
That
judgment will be executed by PROXY as Yahusha (the image of Yahuah) was given
the responsibility to judge and charge over the courts of Yahuah. We see below
that even Yahusha had to be trained in righteousness by “keeping My commands
and walking in Yahuah’s way by keeping the Torah” BEFORE he was qualified as
judge and King:
Zachariah 3
6
Then the Angel of Yahuah admonished Yahusha, saying, 7
“Thus says Yahuah of hosts: ‘If
you will walk in My ways (the Torah),
And if you will keep My command (the
Law), Then you shall (be
qualified to) also judge My house, And likewise have charge of My
courts;”
We
see that the only way Yahusha would be judge and take charge of Yahuah’s courts
is if he walked in the way of Yahuah and kept Yahuah’s commandments. Because it
is the Law that is the constitution of the Kingdom of Yahuah.
All
our works will be categorized as gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or
stubble. Our works will be judged by The Word of Yahuah which is the “fire”
mentioned below:
1 Corinthians 3
12 If anyone builds on the
foundation of Yahusha’s example using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or
straw, 13 their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring
it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality
of each person’s work.
Note: Fire is a physical metaphor of the Law of Yahuah. The Word of
Yahuah is the all consuming fire…
Jeremiah 23:29
"Is not my
word like fire," declares Yahuah”
Jeremiah 5:14
Therefore, thus says Yahuah,
the God of hosts, "Because you have spoken this word, Behold, I am making
My
words in your mouth fire And this people wood, and it will consume them.
Hebrews 12:29
for our "God
is a consuming fire."
Exodus 24:17
The sight of the glory
of Yahuah (giving His Law to Moses) was like a
consuming
fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of
Israel.
Continuing with 1 Corinthians…
14
If what has been built survives (the test of the
Law of Yahuah which is a consuming fire), the builder will receive a
reward. 15 If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even
though only as one escaping through the flames.
Therefore we must look within
ourselves and test our motives (spiritual intent) to ensure our works and our
judgments are found to be gold, silver, and precious stones so that they
survive the fire and we receive our reward:
2 John 1
8 Look (in) to yourselves (in
self judgment), that we do not lose those things we worked for (by self righteous judgment), but that we may
receive a full reward (for our righteous judgments
that lead people to Yahuah). 9 Whoever transgresses the Law and does
not abide in The Yahushaic Covenant does not have the Spirit of Yahuah.
We are to be wise in the path
we take and ensure we always keep the Law of Yahuah as the light that directs
our paths. If we do that, all our judgments will be righteous and will be
upheld by the Highest Court and we will receive our reward.
This is because, as I will
show next, righteous judgment brings people to Yahuah and we bear fruit for His
Kingdom by exercising righteous judgment.
Ephesians 5
8 For you were once darkness (did not follow Yahuah’s Laws), but now you are
light in Yahuah (the Torah is a light unto our path
to Yahuah). Walk as children of light (in
obedience to the spiritual intent of the Law) 9 (for the fruit of the Spirit of Holiness is all goodness,
righteousness, and truth in obedience to the Law), 10 finding out
what is acceptable to Yahuah (which is defined in the
Law). 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness (people who do not keep the Law),
but rather expose (judge) them. 12 For
it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light (the Law exposes our sin)… 15 See then that you
walk circumspectly (walk very carefully according
to His Law), not as fools (who believe the
Law has been abolished) but as wise men (who
obey the Law of Yahuah).
As with all things, Yahuah
gave us a physical example in the era of Judges that are to serve as spiritual
examples (physical to spiritual parallel). This divine shadow picture of
righteous judges can be found in the Book of Judges. In true form, judges came
before kings as righteous judgment is the foundation of a righteous king. Each
judge is a divinely inspired leader whose direct knowledge of Yahuah
allows them to act as champions for the Israelites. The judge delivers Yahuah’s
people from oppression by foreign rulers...
They are models of the wise
and faithful behavior required of them by Yahuah.
Judges 2:18
“And when Yahuah raised them up
judges, then Yahuah was with the judge, and delivered His people out of the
hand of their enemies all the days of the judge”
We see the purpose of
righteous judgment with Abraham who was commended for practicing
"judgment" leading to the deliverance of his family and the blessings
of Yahuah:
Genesis 18:19
"For I know him, that he
will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the
way of Yahuah, to do justice and judgment; that Yahuah may bring
upon Abraham that which He hath spoken of him"
A Righteous Judge must have a
servant’s heart. King Solomon stands as one of Yahuah’s examples of a Righteous
Judge. King Solomon understood the awesome responsibility that came with
judging the people of Yahuah. Solomon was humbled by the responsibility and
asked Yahuah for an understanding heart toward his people:
1Kings 3:9
"Give therefore thy servant
an understanding heart to judge Thy people, that I may discern between good and
bad: for who is able to judge this Thy so great a people?"
Solomon’s heart was not
self-seeking! Solomon sought the Will of Yahuah in the judgment of his, Yahuah’s,
people. Solomon was careful to seek Wisdom, Knowledge, and Understanding that
he could properly exercise judgment and be a Righteous Judge. Yahuah gladly
granted that request in addition to every request Solomon didn’t make:
2 Chronicles 1:11-12
11
Then
Yahuah said to Solomon: “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked
riches or wealth or honor or the life of your enemies, nor have you asked for
long life — but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may
judge My people over whom I have made you king— 12
wisdom and knowledge
are
granted to you; and I will give you riches and wealth and honor, such as none
of the kings have had who were before you, nor shall any after you have
the like.”
A Righteous Judge is one of
the most powerful weapons in the hands of Yahuah. These men of God are able to
truly understand relative evil vs.
absolute evil.
Relative
evil is what is evil in the eyes of man and it is relative to the person
experiencing it. Absolute evil is evil in the eyes of Yahuah as
defined by His Law. He has a close relationship with Yahuah
understanding the true spiritual definition of sin as it relates to attitude of
heart. He is not bound by “religious” dos and don’ts. The Righteous Judge has
full use of the powers given to him personally by Yahuah (personal liberty) and
there is no limit to his resourcefulness in winning people to Yahuah through Yahusha:
1Corinthians 9:22
"To the weak became I as
weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might
by all means save some"
I’ll cover Grace, liberty,
and the Law in the next chapter. A Righteous Judge is truly a spiritual man who
is capable of effectively judging or discerning ALL THINGS. A Righteous Judge
has Godly Wisdom, Knowledge, and Understanding and is judged by no man.
1 Corinthians 2:15
"But he that is Spiritual
judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man”
Our purpose in exercising
judgment will be to justify the righteous who keep the Law of Yahuah and
condemn the wicked who work iniquity (break the Law of Yahuah):
Deuteronomy 25:1
"If there be a controversy
between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then
they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked".
Unrighteous judgment is
avoidable and forbidden to the righteous judge:
Leviticus 19:15
15
‘You
shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor
honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness (the
Law) you shall judge your neighbor.
The Bible clearly teaches
that the sons of Yahuah will reign over and judge the nations during the time
of the Millennial Reign under the authority of King Yahusha the Messiah.
1 Corinthians 6:2
2 Do you not know that the sons
of Yahuah will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you
unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Do you not know that we shall judge
angels?
Revelation 20:6
"Blessed and holy is he that
hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power,
but they shall be priests of God and of the Messiah, and shall reign with Him a
thousand years"
The very purpose of our life
on Earth is to be trained for service in the Millennial Kingdom and into the
Eternal Kingdom. In Luke, Yahusha clearly illustrated this truth in the parable
of the Ten Pounds and Ten Servants who were ordered to "Occupy till I
come". This parable teaches us that our faithfulness in this life will be
rewarded with MORE responsibility in the future Kingdom of Yahuah. More
authority as a JUDGE as we REIGN with Yahusha the Messiah:
Luke 19:11
11
Now
as they heard these things, He spoke another parable, because He was near
Jerusalem and because they thought the kingdom of God would appear immediately.
12
Therefore
He said:
“A
certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and
to return.
13
So
he called ten of his servants, delivered to them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do
business till I come.’
14 But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation
after him, saying, ‘We will not have this man to reign over us.’
15
“And so it was that when he returned, having received
the kingdom, he then commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money,
to be called to him, that he might know how much every man had gained by
trading.
16
Then came
the first, saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned ten minas.’ 17 And he said to him, ‘Well
done,
good servant; because you were faithful in a very little, have authority over
ten cities.’
Remember, we are being
trained as Righteous Judges. We are supposed to be “doing business”
or taking care of the business at hand which is applying our lives to training
for His coming Kingdom. We should be studying His Law and applying it to our
lives and learning to exercise judgment. It is not at all something to abuse or
take lightly. To the Righteous Judge, it is joy to exercise justice in judgment:
Proverbs 21:15
"It is joy to the just to do
judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of
iniquity
(breaking the Law of Yahuah)".
NOTE:
Meaning of “iniquity” is breaking the Law of Yahuah.
The
word in that verse is the Greek word anomía:
Entry for Strong's #458 -
ἀνομία
Yahuah loves everyone He
created. He gives everyone this life on Earth as a gift. Yahuah then makes His
sons a promise that requires an immense amount of faith. He offers eternal life
as a gift for those that will give this life back to Him. We “give this life
up” by denying our own selfish will and seeking His Will by obeying His
Commandments.
We must serve His purposes
and not our own. We are to give up our own will for this life and do the Will
of our Father and submit our lives as living sacrifices to Him. Just like Yahusha
did. That means… we are to submit to this life as a training ground for His
Kingdom.
We must overcome the Great
Deception and persevere in The Truth unto death.
Luke 18
18 Now a certain ruler asked Him,
saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 19 So Yahusha
said to him, “Why do you call me good (Yahusha was
again denying Incarnation)? No one is good but (the) One (God),
that is, Yahuah (Yahusha is declaring The Shema
again). 20 You know (to keep)
the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’
‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ (the Ten Commandments)” 21 And he said, “All these
things I have kept from my youth.”
22
So when Yahusha heard these things, he said to the young ruler, “You still lack
one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have
treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” 23 But when he heard this, he
became very sorrowful, for he was very rich.
24
And when Yahusha saw that he became very sorrowful, he said, “How hard it is
for those who have riches (physical metaphor of
richness of lives) to enter
the Kingdom of Yahuah
! 25
For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich
man (a man with a richness of life to give this
life up and) to enter
the Kingdom of Yahuah.”
26
And those who heard it (realized he was not talking
about rich as in money but rich meaningful earthly lives and)
said, “Who then can be saved?” (Because giving up
this life in hope of the next life is a huge leap of faith) 27 But Yahusha
said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with Yahuah.” (you have to be chosen by Yahuah to be able to truly
sacrifice this life in faith)
Next, Yahusha continues to
clearly say he was not talking about material wealth, but rather richness of
life in terms of family, friends, wives, and children
28
Then Peter said, “See, we have left all and followed You.” 29 So He said to
them, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents
or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of
the Kingdom of Yahuah
,
30 who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and in the age
to come eternal life.”
As we give this life up and
surrender to our training, and study His Laws; we will apply ourselves in
walking the example set by Yahusha. Exercising our authority given us as judges,
declaring our birthright as sons of Yahuah, setting ourselves apart from this
world with Yahuah by keeping His Sabbaths and Ordained Festivals, we will be
transformed into living Temples of Yahuah.
1 Corinthians 6
19
Or
do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit
who is
in you, whom you have from Yahuah, and you are not your own? 20
For you were bought at a
price; therefore glorify Yahuah in your body and in your spirit, which are Yahuah’s.
We will be transformed into
living stones uncut by human hands. Our hearts and minds are sanctified through
the study of His Word and become altars to Yahuah upon which our spiritual
sacrifices are offered:
I Peter 2:5
You also, as living stones,
are being built up as a spiritual house…
I Thessalonians 5:23
Now may
the God (Sha’ul declares the Shema, The Seal) of peace
Himself (Yahuah) sanctify you (His Temple) entirely; and may your spirit (Holy of Holies) and soul (Inner Court) and body (Outer Court) be preserved complete (as living Temples), without blame at the coming of our King Yahusha
the Messiah.
NOTE: One evident
physical to spiritual parallel
is that both the Tabernacle of Moses and the Temple of Solomon contained three
distinct and clearly defined sections. There was the Outer Court (Ulam), the
Inner Court or Holy Place (Hekal), and the Holy of Holies or Most Holy Place
(Beit HaMikdash).
These three sections find
perfect correspondence to man, as he is also a tri-part being consisting of
body, soul and spirit. The Apostle Sha’ul was speaking of our body temples and
the physical to spiritual parallel of The Temple in the verse above.
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.
8 I delight to do Your will (true
sacrifices), O my God; Your Law is within my heart.”
Inside each of us is the
spiritual equivalent of the physical portrait that was the Ark of the Covenant!
The tablets of the Law of Yahuah as given to Moses... Aaron's staff, and a
portion of Manna, bread from Heaven.
Hebrews 9:4
4
which had the golden altar of
incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold
jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the
covenant.
The Ark of the Covenant is within each of us in
the Kingdom of Yahuah.
The
blood of Yahusha, the Passover Lamb, is poured on top of the Ark spiritually
inside us to cover our sins as we keep Passover in light of Yahusha’s sacrifice.
Inside the Ark (in our heart)
is:
·
The Commands of Yahuah. They are “written on our hearts” or placed inside
The Ark of the Covenant. We keep them out of love.
·
The staff of Aaron. YAHUAH is our shepherd, YAHUAH ROHI. Yahuah
delegated that responsibility to Yahusha who is the good shepherd.
·
The Manna. We are fed spiritually “manna from heaven” as we are
filled with the Spirit of Yahuah and His Spirit of Holiness. Yahusha’s example
is that “manna from heaven” as Yahusha said “I am (my example is) the living
bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread (follows my
example) will live forever.” John 6:51.
We must keep Passover to be
“Passed Over” the Second Death. As I have stressed throughout this book series,
faith without works is dead. Passover is the plan of Salvation through Yahusha.
It is the very initiation of The New Covenant “in his blood”. In fact, it is
still in keeping and putting our faith in Passover that Yahusha as High Priest
faithfully makes the proper sacrifices before the throne of Yahuah.
Expressing our faith in
Passover, is the spiritual equivalent of “sacrificing a lamb” each year. As we
do, Yahusha’s “blood” is poured out on the altar of our hearts and minds
spiritually. The blood of the Passover Lamb covers the death decrees in the Law
that held us captive to the fear of death.
We are to do this (keep
Passover) each year as we keep alive the memory of Yahusha’s sacrifice for us. Just
as Yahusha commanded us “keep Passover in remembrance of me”. We see below Yahusha
set the righteous example of keeping Passover and the significance of keeping
Passover going forward in “remembrance” or “faith” in him.
We see Yahusha clearly say
the Passover will find its fulfillment spiritually in
the Kingdom of Yahuah
and only then will Yahusha eat Passover again with us.
Yahusha then “confers
the
Kingdom of Yahuah” on those who keep Passover in this way.
Luke 22
7
Then came the day of Unleavened
Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. 8 Yahusha sent
Peter and John, saying, “Go and make preparations for us
to eat the Passover.”…
14 When the
hour came (the sun set and the next day began),
Yahusha and his apostles reclined at the table (to
keep Passover).
15 And
he said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this
Passover with you before I suffer.
16 For I
tell you, I will not eat it (Passover)
again until it (Passover)
finds
fulfillment in the Kingdom of Yahuah.”
17
After taking the (Passover)
cup, he gave thanks and
said,
“Take this
and divide it among you. 18
For I tell you I will not drink again from the fruit
of the vine (on
Passover)
until the Kingdom of Yahuah comes.”
19
And he took the (Passover)
bread, gave thanks and
broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This (Passover meal)
is my body given for you; do this (keep Passover)
in remembrance of me (Yahusha commands us to keep
Passover in The Yahushaic Covenant).”
20
In the same way, after the supper he took the (Passover)
cup,
saying,
“This (Passover) cup is the new covenant in my blood,
which is poured out for you. 21
…
And
I confer on you a kingdom (we are co-heirs),
just as my Father conferred one on me (His Kingdom), 30
so that you may eat and
drink (Passover) at my table
in my
kingdom (Passover is kept in
the Kingdom
of Yahuah) and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of
Israel (the only ones who enter the Kingdom of Yahuah).
The Apostle Sha’ul confirms
that Passover is kept as we put our faith in the sacrifice of Yahusha thereby
his blood is spread over the Altar of Yahuah (in our hearts and minds) covering
our sin. Sha’ul “received these instructions from Yahusha” and passed them on
to every assembly he started:
1 Corinthians 11
23
For
I received from the King what I also passed on to you: Yahusha the Messiah, on
the night he was betrayed (evening before Passover,
the 14th of Abib as Yahuah commanded in the Torah), took
bread,
24
and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This (Passover meal) is my
body, which is for you; do this (keep Passover)
in remembrance (faith) of me.” 25 In the same way, after supper he took the
(Passover)
cup, saying,
“This (Passover) cup is the new covenant (the transposition of Passover literally inaugurated
The
Yahushaic Covenant) in my blood; do this (keep Passover), whenever you drink it, in
remembrance (faith) of me.”
26
For
whenever (once a year on Passover as commanded by Yahuah)
you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim (your faith spiritually in your heart and mind, the Altar of Yahuah)
the King’s death until he comes.
27
So then, whoever eats the (Passover)
bread
or drinks the (Passover)
cup of the King’s in an
unworthy manner (eating ham on Easter for example
violating Yahuah’s command and Yahusha’s instruction to keep Passover)
will be guilty of sinning (you will not have the
proper sacrifice for sin offered by the eternal High Priest on Yahuah’s altar
which is your heart and mind) against the body and blood of the King
(Passover Lamb).
28 Everyone
ought to examine themselves (purify the Altar of Yahuah)
before they eat of the (Passover)
bread and drink from the (Passover)
cup.
29 For
those who eat and drink (Passover)
without discerning the body of the Messiah (who is the Passover Lamb NOT the Easter Pig of Ishtar)
eat and drink judgment on themselves. (because the
blood of the Ishtar (Easter) Pig DOES NOT COVER SIN!)
Sha’ul teaches us to keep
Passover and in doing so we proclaim Yahusha’s death until he comes. Above Sha’ul
is talking about examining ourselves before we keep Passover. He is speaking of
the physical to Spiritual parallel in the Law of ritual cleansing the Altar
which is our hearts and minds in The Yahushaic Covenant:
Holman Bible Dictionary
http://www.studylight.org/dic/hbd/view.cgi?number=T5157
The altar for
sacrifice was purified so that it would be prepared for worship (Leviticus 8:15; Ezekiel
43:26). The objects of gold used in the tabernacle and Temple were also
pure in this sense; this would be true of the incense in Exodus 37:29. The Levites were to purify
themselves for service in the tabernacle (Numbers
8:21). When that which was unclean or impure came into contact with that
which was holy, danger resulted and could even lead to death. This is probably
the background for the preparation made for the theophany, a manifestation of God's
presence, in Exodus 19:1 and for the
death of Uzzah when he was unprepared (not purified) to touch the ark of the
covenant, a most holy object ( 2 Samuel 6:1-11
). Malachi 1:11-12 contrasts the pure offerings
of Gentiles with blemished offerings given by God's people; such a state
necessitated purification (Malachi 3:3-4).
Purity qualified one to participate in worship, an activity central to the life
of ancient Israel. Breaking that purity was a serious matter.
As we showed earlier, those
sacrifices are made on behalf of those who “do this” or keep
Passover in remembrance of his sacrifice:
Hebrews 5 -
The Perfect High Priest
1 For every high priest taken from among men (Yahusha was a man when chosen by Yahuah as heir to High
Priest Yahusha III) is appointed on behalf of men in things
pertaining to Yahuah
(the High Priest, including Yahusha,
is not Yahuah but is a mediator), in order to offer both
gifts and sacrifices for sins (this is Yahusha’s
eternal role, these offerings/sacrifices are defined in the Law which
has been transposed to serve him in the Kingdom of Yahuah
);
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 (like every human High Priest)
Yahusha did not glorify himself so as to become a high priest (he was chosen by blood in the Order of Zadok being the heir
to Yahusha III, he is the Ruling Zadok or Melchezidek. See my book
Melchizedek
and The Passover Lamb), but He who said to Him
"YOU
ARE MY SON, TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU"; 6 just as He says also in another
passage, "YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF
MELCHIZEDEK."
So now Yahusha is offering
the daily oblation (sacrifice) for sin on the Altar of Yahuah and offers his
slain body as the final Passover Sacrifice. This is performed for those who put
their faith in and keep Passover as he commanded. The “Altar” has not
disappeared as many assume and in error claim there are currently no daily
sacrifices being made. The Altar exists now in our hearts and the sacrifices
being made on it are still alive and very active. It has simply been
transposed to its final Spiritual state in the Kingdom of Yahuah
along
with Passover. See my book the Kingdom of Yahuah for more on this
topic.
We see a “picture” of this
Spiritual Reality in Revelation as Yahusha is seen as
The Passover Lamb
that had been slain on The Altar of Yahuah in Revelation 5.
Revelation 5
6
Then I saw a Lamb, looking as
if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne… 12 “Worthy is the (spotless) Lamb, who was slain (on Passover), to receive power and wealth and
wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!”
So Yahusha, the final
Passover Lamb, is offering his Spiritual body as THE sacrifice for sin before
the throne of Yahuah continually (daily oblation) now in
the
Kingdom of Yahuah. This sin offering is made effectual only for those
who obey Yahuah and Yahusha’s command to keep Passover in light of and
expressing faith in his sacrifice. This Altar is not the physical altar used by
the physical priesthood of Aaron and Levi. The Altar in
the Kingdom of Yahuah
is intimately connected spiritually throughout
The Temple of Yahuah
which again has been transposed and now is the sum total of the sons of Yahuah!
Hebrews 10:1-24
1 For the Law, since it has
only
a shadow of the good things to come and
not the very form of things
(the very form of things is in The Spirit not physical),
can never, by the same (physical)
sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who
draw near. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be
offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have
had consciousness of sins?
3 But in
those (physical)
sacrifices there
is a reminder of sins year by year.
4 For
it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He
says,
Psalm 40:6-8
“Sacrifice
and offering You have not desired,
But
a body You have prepared for Me; 6 In whole burnt offerings
and sacrifices for sin You have taken
no pleasure. 7 “Then I said, ‘Behold, I
have come
(In
the scroll of the book it is written of Me)
To do Your will, O God.’”
8 After saying above, “Sacrifices
and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin
You have not desired, nor have You taken pleasure in them” (which are offered physically according to the Law until Yahusha
came), 9 then He said, “Behold,
I have come
to do Your will.” He (Yahusha) takes away (the
responsibility to offer physical sacrifices from) the first in order
(of the Levitical Priests) to establish
(the spiritual sacrifices in) the second
(order of the Priesthood of Melchizedek).
10 By this will we have been sanctified
through the (daily) offering of the body of the Messiah Yahusha (who was sacrificed) once for all (as The Passover Lamb).11 Every priest (of Levi)
stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same (physical) sacrifices, which can never take away
sins;
12
but He (Yahusha as Melchizedek the Spiritual
High Priest), having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time,
sat down at the right
hand of God, 13
waiting from that time onward until His enemies be
made a footstool for His feet. 14
For by one offering He has perfected for all
time those who are sanctified (because he lives
eternally offering his body as the daily sacrifice before Yahuah).
15
And the Spirit of Holiness also testifies
to us; for after saying,
16
“This is the covenant that I
will make with them
After those days,
says Yahuah:
I
will put My laws upon their heart,
And on their mind
I will write them,”
He then says,
17
“And their sins and their
lawless deeds I
will remember no more.”
18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there
is no longer any (physical)
offering for sin (because the sacrificed body of Yahusha
is ever before the Throne of Yahuah).
Revelation 5:6
Then I
saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the
throne
19 Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter
the holy place by the blood of Yahusha (because we
keep Passover in light of Yahusha’s sacrifice each year),
20 by a new and
living way which Yahusha inaugurated for us (on
Passover) through the veil, that is, His flesh (gave his life as the Passover Lamb), 21
and since we have a great priest over
the house of Yahuah (offering the spiritual
sacrifices prescribed by the Law on our behalf), 22
let us draw near with a sincere heart in full
assurance of faith (in The Passover),
having our hearts (The Altar of Yahuah)
sprinkled clean (by the blood of The
Passover Lamb when we express our faith by keeping Passover in remembrance of
him until he comes again) from an evil conscience and our bodies
washed with pure (living) water (Mikveh / baptism). 23
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope (as we keep Passover in remembrance of Yahusha)
without wavering, for He who promised (that The
Passover Lamb covers the death decrees in the Law) is
faithful (to set us free from bondage to the threat
of death Hebrews 2:15);
24 and let
us consider how to stimulate one another to love and (to do) good deeds (of
the Law, because now we have been set free from the Law of Sin and Death which
is the Law with active death decrees and live by the Law of the Spirit of Life
which is the Law with the decrees covered by the blood of the lamb)
The true spiritual meaning of
Passover is understood in the physical shadow that Yahuah gave us. The physical
shadow cast by the Spiritual Truth was given to us when the Israelites were being
led out of the bondage of Egypt. The last plague to hit the land of Egypt was
the “death of the firstborn”. The Israelites were instructed to kill a lamb
and spread the blood of that lamb over their doorpost and the angel of death
would “pass over” that home and the life of the firstborn would be saved.
That was a physical shadow
cast by the spiritual Truth of Passover. That truth is that by keeping Passover
the blood of the Passover Lamb is spread over the “doorposts of our heart” and
we are “passed over” by the second death and live… eternally.
We are to “understand with
our minds” the meaning of the Festivals of Yahuah and keep them now with both
the historical significance and the future truth in mind. Now as we celebrate
Passover we remember back to the mighty Hand of Yahuah delivering His people
from bondage in Egypt through The Passover Lamb. We also celebrate the
spiritual truth that we too have been delivered from the bondage of sin and
death by the Passover Lamb Yahusha and will be passed over by the second death.
A spiritual understanding is
required of The Sabbath and all the other Festivals of Yahuah. For instance, we
celebrate the Sabbath as it is a day (specifically the 7th Day) set
apart for us to rest from the curse of Adam each week. By keeping the Sabbath,
we display back to Yahuah the sign that we are set apart from this world as He
is. We also look ahead in faith on The Sabbath as it is a weekly celebration of
the Plan of Yahuah for mankind. 6 days of work is 6,000 years of laboring under
the curse of Adam. The 7th Millennium is the fulfillment of The
Sabbath Covenant when the curse of Adam is lifted and we enter into Yahuah’s
Rest. Yahusha returns to reign as “King of the Sabbath”.
When you “understand” the
shadow pictures and the spiritual intent of Passover and The Sabbath (and all
of Yahuah’s Festivals) the question that comes to my mind is not “should we
keep them” but “why would we not want to keep them!” They
are the very celebrations of the Plan of Yahuah and
Yahusha…
the “salvation of Yahuah”.
Each festival is a
celebration of what Yahusha came to do and is coming back to do according to
The Plan of Salvation of Yahuah:
· The Sabbath – a weekly celebration of the coming of The King of
the Sabbath Millennium to lift the curse of Adam and give us rest!
· The Passover - an annual celebration of our salvation through the
blood of the Passover Lamb Yahusha. It is when we re-affirm our commitment to The
Yahushaic Covenant becoming the bride of Yahuah by drinking the cup and keeping
alive the memory of Yahusha’s sacrifice. It is when we, through our actions,
offer up the sacrifice of Passover to Yahuah and the blood of the lamb is poured
out over our hearts (his Altar) and our sins are forgiven. Passover is the
“preparation of the bride to meet her husband at the altar on Shav’uot” by
being Mikveh’d and bringing an offering of her life (living sacrifice) to her
husband Yahuah.
· The Feast of First Fruits – an annual celebration of Yahusha ascending to our
Father and offering up the first fruits from the grave. It is the celebration
of the resurrection, our being begotten as sons of Yahuah.
· The Feast of Shav’uot – an annual celebration of the giving of the Torah
and the pouring out of The Spirit of Holiness that writes it on our hearts and
teaches us to keep in it love. This is the day we commit to the marriage vows
before Yahuah and as His bride meet our husband at the altar.
· The Feast of the Blowing
of the Shofar – an annual
celebration of the second coming of the King. True sons would buy a Shofar and
go outside and blow it with all their might on this day. The Shofar is a
spiritual weapon that brought down the walls of Jericho. The Shofar blows a
whole in this present spiritual darkness and opens up a clear pathway to
the Heavens and is a powerful tool of prayer. On one of these Feasts of
Blowing the Shofar Yahusha is actually going to return. On that special
day when we hear the archangel announce with a loud voice “arise”; my son and I
will arise and go forth and blow our shofars in unison with the rest of the
sons of Yahuah across the globe (as we have been rehearsing each year) to
announce to a dying world our King is coming… it will be so powerful it will
literally raise the dead!
1 Thessalonians 4:16
For Yahusha himself will come
down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and
with the Shofar call of Yahuah, and the dead in covenant with Yahusha will rise
first.
· The Day of Atonement – an annual solemn day of retrospection and cleansing
of our body temples and purifying of His Altar (our hearts and minds). On this
day we look forward to Yahusha atoning for creation. We are to afflict our souls.
· The Feast of Booths – this is the annual celebration of the Marriage
Supper of the Lamb when we are gathered from the 4 corners of Earth to dine
with Yahusha on the Mount of Olives. This is the commencement of the
Kingdom of Yahuah on Earth.
How can we “say we know Yahuah”
and then not go out of our way to celebrate Him and His Messiah in
keeping
these joyous festivals? How can we “say we are worshipping Yahuah”
and then do it through Babylonian rituals of Christmas, Good-Friday, Easter,
Sunday and so forth… You can’t! If you try and say such a thing (that you
worship Yahuah through pagan rituals) you are a liar and the truth is not in
you. You have been deceived.
1 John 2:4
Whoever says, "I know
him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in
that person.
Yahuah told us we cannot
worship Him through pagan rituals:
Deuteronomy 12
29
“When
Yahuah your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to
dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land, 30
take heed to yourself that
you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you,
and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How did these
nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.’
31
You shall not worship
Yahuah your God in that way; for every abomination to Yahuah (is
committed in these pagan rituals of Christmas, Easter, Sunday worship etc.)
Yahuah literally hates the
pagan rituals of Babylon that Christian holidays are based on:
Amos 5
21
“I
hate, I despise your feast days (pagan feasts such
as Christmas and Easter), And I do not savor your sacred assemblies
(on Sunday).
22
Though you offer Me burnt
offerings and your grain offerings (through pagan
rituals),
I will not accept them,
Nor will I regard
your fattened peace offerings.
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs, For I will
not hear the melody of your stringed instruments (as
you sing praises and worship Hesus Horus Krishna the Antichrist).
24
But let justice run down
like water, And righteousness like a mighty stream (as
Yahuah will cast out all those who break the Law of Yahuah from His Kingdom).
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”
Only the festivals of Yahuah
are kept in the Kingdom of Yahuah
forever; to keep alive the
mighty works of Yahuah through His Messiah. We will forever be celebrating The
Plan of Salvation through these festivals as they represent the finished work
of our King who purchased our eternal lives. Only those who keep Yahuah’s
Festivals enter the Kingdom of Yahuah, those who violate them and keep pagan
rituals will be dead carcasses that litter this Earth that His true sons step
over to enter the Kingdom of Yahuah:
Isaiah 66:22-24
22 “For just as the new heavens
and the new earth that I am making will continue in my presence,” says Yahuah,
“so will your descendants and your name continue. 23 “Every month on
Rosh-Hodesh (Yahuah’s lunar calendar)
and every week on Shabbat, everyone living
will come to worship in my
presence (they won’t be worshipping on Sunday),”
says Yahuah. 24 “As they (who bear His Sabbath Sign)
leave (from worshipping Yahuah on The Sabbath),
they will look on the corpses of the people who rebelled against me (in context rebelled against His Ordained Times and Festivals)
for their worm will never die, and their fire will never be quenched; but they
(and their pagan rituals) will be
abhorrent to all humanity.”
In this chapter I wanted to
show that there is much more to being in covenant with Yahuah through The
Yahushaic Covenant than simply “asking Jesus into your heart and proclaiming
Jesus’ name” and then sitting back and letting “Jesus do all the work”. We have
roles and responsibilities while on Earth as we prepare ourselves for service
in His Kingdom:
·
We must obey the Law of Yahuah
·
We must walk in the example set
by Yahusha
·
We must display the Sign of the
sons of Yahuah
·
We must keep Passover We must
have the same testimony that Yahuah gave Yahusha
·
We must be Nazarenes
·
We must boldly declare our
birthright
·
We must learn to be Righteous
Judges
·
We must submit our lives to Yahuah
·
We must give this life up
·
We must keep all the Festivals
of Yahuah
