The Mediator
There is a disconnect in the family of
Yahuah in these last days, and a misunderstanding of the
Plan of Yahuah.
We are being taught that Yahuah had to come to Earth as a
man and die.
This is necessary (so
they say) because of His own Law prevent a husband from
remarrying the same bride.
Only the death of the husband releases Yahuah from
this “Law”. The problem is, Yahuah made a vow never to come
to Earth as a man, and swore He would never break that vow.
Yahuah does not break His vows so we have a problem!
Hosea 11
9 I
will not carry out my fierce anger, nor will I devastate
Ephraim again. For I am Yahuah, and not a man
Numbers 23:19
19
"Yahuah is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man,
that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
In Numbers 23:19 Yahuah made a vow
saying He was not a man or the son of man (an
idiom for human being) then He proclaimed “will He not
do it (fulfill His vow not to come to Earth as a man), and will He not make
it good (on this vow).
Yahusha’s favorite title for himself was “son of man”
saying he was a human being.
87 times Yahusha declared to us he was not a god, he
was a human being.
Yahusah the son of man went to Yachannan to be
Mikveh’d for “remission of sin” to fulfill all righteousness
in him and bring him to perfection.
Yahuah clearly denied incarnation as did Yahusha on
many occations.
Yahuah is the Father and God of Yahuah, so says scripture on
many occations.
So Yahuah did not come to Earth as a man, break His vows,
and die (impossible for God).
The Plan of Salvation through a Mediator
I want to quickly summarize the meaning
of The Plan of Salvation and how Yahuah has provided for the
salvation of His children.
Yes, Yahuah married both The House of Israel and the
House of Judah.
We read how both houses were unfaithful to Yahuah, and by
Law He issued them a certificate of divorce.
Yahuah then had His prophets foretell
of a Messiah, a Mediator, whom Yahuah would chose and
perfect bringing to perfect obedience.
Yahuah would enter into a “Father/Son” covenant with
that Messiah.
That man would be risen Divine through resurrection to
Mediate a New Covenant as Eternal High Priest and atone
for the unfaithfulness of the children of Yahuah.
Romans 1
2
which (a
Mediator) Yahuah
promised beforehand (Yahusha
did not pre-exist) through His prophets in the
holy Scriptures (both
Heavenly and Earthly Scrolls), 3 concerning His (first
born) Son (from
the dead Revelation
1:5), who was born (human)
of a descendant of David (by
both parents) according to the flesh (it
takes two human parents to pro-create “according to the
flesh”), 4 who was declared the (Divine)
Son of Yahuah with power by the resurrection from the dead,
according to the Spirit of holiness (Yahuah’s
Spiritual Eternal Seed), Yahusha the Messiah
Hebrews 5
8
though Yahusha was a (future)
Son (of
Yahuah upon resurrection
Romans 1:3), yet he learned obedience (to
Yahuah) by the things which he suffered (due
to disobedience). 9 And having been perfected (he
was not born perfect or a god), Yahusha became
the author of eternal salvation to all who obey him (and follow his righteous example and abide in covenant with him as his
bride)
Qualified to Mediate The Covenant and Atone for our sins
as Eternal High Priest
Yahuah prepared a special bloodline for
that coming Messiah to inherit, whereby, he would be
qualified to be a “Mediator”
between Yahuah and those He chooses as a New Bride (not the
old ones). That
bloodline was the Zadok bloodline of High Priests.
Yahuah would then orchestrate a lineage to the throne
of David through Solomon and this man would be born a unique
genetic mixture of the Royal Bloodline of David and the
House of Zadok.
This firstborn son of Yahuah would inherit the title
Melchizedek the “Ruling Zadok” and be given the throne of
David and the office of Zadokine High Priest eternally.
Yahuah would then, as a sign of his place in the Plan
of Salvation, have this son born a miraculous birth planting
the seed of Joseph into Mariam’s womb outside of physical
sexual union.
This Messiah would be born to a Davidican Prince (Joseph)
and a Hasmonean Princess Miriam from the line of Zadok… and
Melchizedek would be born.
Concerning the righteous line of High
Preist prepared for the Messiah; Zadok was a patrilineal
descendant of Eleazar the son of Aaron the high priest. (2
Samuel 8:17; 1 Chronicles 24:3). The lineage of Zadok is
presented in the genealogy of Ezra (his
descendant) as being of ninth generation and direct
patrilineal descent from Phineas the son of Eleazar (Ezra
7:1, see 1 Chronicles 5:30) where he is placed ninth
in descent from Phineas.
Ezra 7:1-4
...Zadok, The son of Ahitub, son of Amaryah, son of Azaryah,
son of Mirayoth, son of Zerachyah, son of Uzzi, son of
Bukki, son of Avishua, son of Phineas
Similarly, the Hebrew Bible relates
how, at the time Phineas son of Eleazar appeased Yahuah’s
anger, he merited the divine blessing of Yahuah to be the
prophesied lineage of the coming Melchizedek:
Book of Numbers
25:13
Phineas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest.
Behold I give to him my covenant of peace, and will be
his, and his progeny after him, (a) covenant of
everlasting priesthood in turn of his zealousness for
his God, and he atoned for the sons of Israel
This is extremely important when
tracing the right of Yahusha to be the Eternal High Priest.
Yahusha must have come from the lineage of Zadok which is
the bloodline of High Priest prepared for him and to which
is entrusted the Covenant of Peace, Covenant of Eternal High
Priest, and the right to atone for sin as defined in Numbers
25:13 above. If Yahusha cannot be proven to be a Zadokite
High Priest, then he cannot mediate the "New Covenant of
Peace", he cannot serve as Eternal High Priest, and
atone for humanity.
Nothing about Yahusha was “super spiritually
appraised, everything was laid out in detail by Yahuah
through bloodlines.
Hebrews 4:15
14Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has
passed through the heavens (fulfilled
The Heavenly Scroll), Yahusha the (firstborn)
son of Yahuah, let us hold fast our confession (that he came in the flesh). 15 For
we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our
weaknesses, but a high priest who has been tempted in all
things as we are (he was human,
Yahuah cannot be tempted by Evil), yet without sin (in
the office of High Priest in context). 16 Therefore
let us draw near (to Yahuah through
the Mediator) with confidence (that
we are accepted into His family as children, the wife of His
firstborn son)
Hebrews 1:4
So
Yahusha became as much superior to the angels as the name (Melchizedk)
he has inherited (through
bloodlineage) is superior to theirs.
Yahuah would then bare witness of this Messiah with 3
concurring witnesses, water, blood, and spirit:
·
Water: he
would be born human by the seed of David
·
Bloodline: he
would inherit and restore the Throne of David and the
Priesthood
·
Spirit: he
would be begotten divine through resurrection by the
seed of Yahuah, the Ruach.
John 5:1-20
This
is the conquering Spirit that has overcome the world, even
our faith (in
the promises of Yahuah). 5 Who is it that
overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Yahusha
is the son of Yahuah (not
Yahuah,
but how do we know for sure that
Yahusha is the Son of Yahuah?)
6 This
(Yahusha)
is the one who came by
water and
blood—Yahusha the Messiah. He did not come by
water
only, but by water
and blood. And it is the
Spirit who testifies, because the
Spirit is
the truth. 7 For
there are three that testify (the
testimony that Yahusha is The son of Yahuah): 8
the
Spirit of Holiness, the water and the blood;
and these three are in agreement
(that Yahusha is The Son of
Yahuah). 9 We accept human testimony (that
Jesus is God incarnate), but Yahuah’s testimony is
greater (The
Spirit of the False Messiah) because it is the
testimony of Yahuah, which he has given about his Son
Yahusha (born,
water, by
the seed of David,
bloodline, begotten Divine by the
Spirit of
Holines Romans
1:2-4). 10 Whoever believes in the Son of
Yahuah accepts this testimony. Whoever does not believe
Yahuah (that Yahuah is not a man
nor the son of man)
has made Yahuah
out to be a liar (saying
Yahuah came to Earth as a man named Jesus), because
they have not believed the testimony Yahuah has given about
his Son (that
he was born human, inherited Melchizedek, and begotten
divine). 11 And this is the testimony: Yahuah has
given us eternal life, and this life is (found)
in (covenant
with) his Son. 12 Whoever has the Son (in
covenant) has (eternal) life; whoever does not have
(the covenant of) the Son of
Yahuah does not have (eternal)
life.
Romans 1:3
2
which (a
Mediator) Yahuah
promised beforehand (Yahusha
did not pre-exist) through His prophets in the
holy Scriptures (both
Heavenly and Earthly Scrolls), 3 concerning His (first
born) Son (from
the dead Revelation
1:5), who was born (human)
of a descendant of David (by
both parents) according to the flesh (it
takes two human parents to pro-create “according to the
flesh”), 4 who was declared the (Divine)
Son of Yahuah with power by the resurrection from the dead,
according to the Spirit of holiness (Yahuah’s
Spiritual Eternal Seed), Yahusha the Messiah
Yahuah and Yahusha enter into covenant
Yahuah then would enter into covenant
with His firstborn son to forgive the sins of His children…
this covenant is detailed in Zachariah Chapter 3. The
prophecy in Zachariah Chapter 3, gives us a front row seat
to the conversation that happened between Yahuah and Yahusha
in the desert after Yahusha was Mikveh’s by John (and
declared The Passover Lamb, then fled like the scapegoat
into the desert to seek Yahuah’s anointing as Messiah/Branch).
Yahusha then fled into the desert fulfilling the
shadow of the scapegoat for 40 days/nights looking for
confirmation from his Father.
Lying on the desert floor starving, dehydrated, and
on the verge of death, we know Satan came to Yahusha and
tempted him to take Jerusalem by force.
This is where the vision in Zachariah
Chapter 3 picks up.
We have Yahusha lying on the desert floor suffering
from dehydration and starvation looking like a “stick
snatched from the fire of the hot sun”, and Satan mad
because Yahusha refused his offer.
Now let’s listen in to the conversation where Yahuah
confirms that Yahusha is the Messiah, and they agree on
Yahshua’s role in the Renewed Covenant and Yahuah’s promise
if Yahusha is faithful to his end of the agreement. This is
the critical prophecy and overwhelming PROOF that Yahusha is
the Messiah. It
is also proof to Jews that Yahusha is named by name, as the
Branch. But
because we have been taugh incarnation, we deny the ONE
prophecy that could change the entire conversation…
Zechariah 3
–
Yahuah’s consecration of Yahusha as
High Priest, King of Kings, and Eternal Judge
1 Then
he showed me Yahusha the high priest standing before the
angel of Yahuah, and Satan standing at his right side to
accuse him. 2 Yahuah (through
His proxy the messenger before whom stood Yahusha and Satan)
said to Satan, “Yahuah rebuke you, Satan! Yahuah, who has
chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you (because
Satan offered Yahusha to take Jerusalem by force)!
Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?” (Yahusha was starving and dying in the hot sun
of the desert Matthew
4:1-11) 3 Now Yahusha was dressed in filthy
clothes (metaphor of
sin Isaiah 64:6) as he stood before the messenger of
Yahuah. 4 The messenger said to those who were standing
before him, “Take off his filthy clothes.” Then Yahuah said
to Yahusha, “See (after taking off his filthy rags i.e. sin
Isaiah 64:6),
I have taken away your sin, and I will put fine garments (of the High Priest) on you.” 5 Then
I (Yahuah)
said (through
the messenger), “Put a clean turban (of the High Priest) on his head.” So
they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him (in the garments of the High Priest),
while the messenger of Yahuah stood by.
*** New Covenant made directly with
Yahusha****
6 The
messenger of Yahuah gave this charge to Yahusha: 7 “This is
what Yahuah Almighty says: ‘If (Yahuah
makes a conditional promise) you will walk in
obedience to me and keep my requirements (the
Law and role of the Branch), then (here is the promise if he keeps The Torah and
obeys the Will of Yahuah as the Branch) you will
govern my house (i.e.
King over creation) and have charge of my courts
(Eternal Judge), and I will give you
a place (right
hand of Yahuah) among these standing here. 8
“‘Listen, High Priest Yahusha, you and your associates
seated (who came) before you
(probably
Adam, Enoch, Moses, Elijah, etc.), who (those seated before him) are men
symbolic of things to come (they
were all shadows of The Messiah, but were not the Branch):
I am going to bring (you)
my servant (from this point forward), the Branch
(he
is The Messiah). 9 See, the stone I have set in
front of Yahusha! There are seven eyes on that one stone,
and I will engrave an inscription on it,’ says Yahuah
Almighty, ‘and I will remove the sin of this land in a
single day (the
day Yahusha, in obedience, dies as Passover Lamb)
This is the most important passage of
scripture in the entire Bible.
It proves Yahusha is the Messiah and literaly spells
out his role and how we are saved by Yahuah through
Yahusha’s obedience to our Father.
This is the reason Yahusha went to John to be
Mikveh’d, to “fulfill all the righteous requirements of the
Law” in him, and bring him to perfection.
Matthew 3:15
Yahusha replied, "Let me be Mikvehd now; it is properly
required in The Law, for us to do this to fulfill all
righteousness (have his sin washed
way with living water)."
That is what Mikveh is for, and why
John was in the desert, he was commission to “set the path
straight for the Branch” and baptize for the remission of
sin. No other
reason! Yahusha
was setting the proper example we all must follow to have
our sin washed clean by Yahuah with living water. We just
witnessed in Zachariah Chapter 3 exactly what Yahusha’s role
was in the Renewed Covenant.
He was the Messiah (the
Branch) and had to from that point forward (after Mikveh
as High Priest) walk in complete obedience to the Law and
set the righteous example that we are to follow.
And if he would do that, Yahuah promised to cover the
death decrees in the Law that is called Grace.
Then Yahauh would Hand pick a “New
Bride”. Not the
old ones, but this one would be “chosen” not based soely on
bloodline and would be taken from among the House of Israel
and the House of Judah… this New Bride would be called
Remnant Israel.
Romans 9:24
24
even us (Remnant Israel in context),
whom he also called, not only from among the Jews (The
House of Judah) but also from among the Gentiles (where
The House of Israel is scattered)?
Sha’ul goes into great detail about
this New Bride and how there is a new criterion that makes
this Bride “New”. It
is a totally new group who are chosen not based on bloodline
alone.
Yahuah would literally chose a bride
for His firstborn son, and marry His son off to this New
Bride. His
chosen children would then be given the opportunity to
“abide in” covenant with His firstborn son.
John 15:7
…6
"If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as
a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them
into the fire and they are burned.
It is through a Mediator now that we
become “one” with Yahuah, not through a direct marriage!
We are now one with Yahuah by being married to His
son!
John 17:3 3
Now
this is eternal life: that they know you (Yahuah),
the only true God, and (come
to You through) Yahusha who is the Messiah, whom
you have sent (in fulfillment of
Your promises as foretold through the prophets to be the
Mediator).
1 Timothy 2:5
For
there is one God (Yahuah) and one mediator between Yahuah and mankind, the man
Yahusha the Messiah
John 17:19-21
"And
for their sakes I sanctify myself (through the Truth of Scripture),
that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which
shall believe on me through their word (enter
into covenant); 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 (through me): that the world may
believe that thou hast sent me (to
mediate)."
John 1:12
Yet to
all who did receive Yahusha as the Messiah, to those who
believed in (the
covenant that bears) his name, he gave the right
to become children of Yahuah.
Hebrews 2
…11 For both He who
sanctifies (Yahuah)
and those who are sanctified (Yahusha
and the rest of the sons) are all from one
Father; for which reason Yahusha is not ashamed to call
them brothers, 12saying, "I WILL PROCLAIM YOUR NAME TO
MY BRETHREN, IN THE MIDST OF THE CONGREGATION I WILL SING
YOUR PRAISE." 13 And again, "I, Yahusha, WILL PUT MY TRUST
IN YAHUAH." And again, "BEHOLD, I AND THE (REST OF THE)
CHILDREN WHOM YAHUAH HAS GIVEN ME (as
a Bride)."…
His firstborn son would become the
Bridegroom and the rest of His children would become the
Bride of the Messiah.
This is the meaning behind the Annual Wedding
Celebration we call The Appointed Times or Holy Days.
The Spring Feasts are the engagement between the
Messiah and His Bride.
The Fall Feasts are “The Wedding Supper of the Lamb”
where the Bridegroom Yahusha marries this New Bride called
Remnant Israel.
This was foretold in The Heavenly
Scroll from the foundation of the world as this Messiah
would be portrayed as crucified, a lamb that would be
slaughtered. His
firstborn son would have to shed his own blood, as bloodshed
is required to consummate a marriage covenant.
In Psalms below we see that as the sun
and moon rises and sets daily and night after night…
knowledge concerning The Plan of Yahuah is proclaimed
without voice or speech from one end of the Earth to the
other to all mankind.
Psalm 19
19 The
heavens (H8064:
shamayim - the stars and
constellations of the Zodiac) are telling of the
glory of Yahuah; And their expanse is declaring the work of
His hands. 2 Day to day (the
Zodiac) pours forth speech, And night to night (the
Zodiac) reveals knowledge. 3 There is no speech,
nor are there words; Their (stars
and constellations of the Zodiac) voice is not
heard. 4 Their line (ecliptic
plane through which the sun appears to travel when viewed
from Earth) has gone out 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, 5 Which (the
Sun) is as (a shadow or metaphor) a bridegroom (the
Messiah) coming out of his chamber (to
run the course of a wedding and marry the Bride); It
rejoices as a strong man (Messiah)
to run his course (Plan of
Salvation).
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.
David is clearly describing the Zodiac,
the chart of the sun moving across our skies, and the “line
of the sun” (called the ecliptic) that goes throughout all
the earth; as it runs its course each year through the Signs
of the Zodiac (called
constellations or starry hosts).
David properly understood the message contained in
the Zodiac as we will learn later in this book. The sun
rises from one end of heaven, and then its “circuit or
Zodiac” is like a “bridegroom coming out of his chamber”.
This is fulfilled in Yahusha the Messiah.
Yahusha proclaims himself the
“bridegroom”, and says
those who “hear His voice” (speaking
of the Zodiac
Psalms 19:2) rejoice; and it is Yahusha’s joy to be
the fulfillment of that message.
Yes, the Zodiac is the original Gospel message
proclaiming the Messiah, as we will find out later in this
book.
John 3:29
29 He who has the
bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom,
who stands and hears Him, rejoices greatly because of the
bridegroom’s voice (proclaimed
in The Heavenly Scroll
Psalms 19). Therefore, this joy of mine is fulfilled (Yahusha
fulfilled the message contained in The Heavenly Scroll).
Matthew 25
4 The wise ones, however, took
oil in jars along with their lamps.
5 The bridegroom was a long time in coming (2,000
years at the end of the Age of Pisces), and they
all became drowsy and fell asleep. 6 At midnight
the cry rang out: “Here’s the
bridegroom! Come out to meet him!”
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 (words
written in The Heavenly Scroll) are the true
words of Yahuah.”
In other words, David sees the Sun as a
prototype for The Messiah.
This physical metaphor of the sun as the bridegroom
pointing to The Messiah is repeated throughout scripture.
This is, in fact, true as the Sun was created as a
witness of the coming of the Messiah and what the Messiah
would do. This
striking declaration in
Psalms 19
clearly tells us that Yahuah built into the Zodiac the story
of redemption, and through the stars He has been
witnessing His Plan to all humanity in a unique view only
from Earth.
Later in this book, we will learn that the message of the
Zodiac is that of a bridegroom who redeems his bride!
This firstborn son is Yahusha. Yahusha
entered into a covenant personally with Yahuah, and
fulfilled his obligations to Yahuah and Yahuah promised to
make him His Eternal High Priest, Judge, and King over
creation which Yahuah would give to him as an inheritance.
The rest of the children of Yahuah then
enter into covenant with the Mediator as his Bride becoming
children of Yahuah.
Yahuah then becomes our Father not our Husband
through marriage between the Messiah and his Bride.
The Renewed Covenant in more detail
The Yahushaic
Covenant is the vehicle through which we become
children of Yahuah:
John 1:12
Yet to all who did receive Yahusha as
the (fulfillment of the Plan of
Yahuah to send a human) Messiah (as
foretold by the prophets), to those who believed in (the
covenant that bears) his name, he gave the right to
become children of Yahuah.
Detailed definition
The Apostle Paul defines
The Yahushaic
Covenant below where we grow to the fullness of
deity in our bodies:
Colossians 2
-
Spiritual Fullness in The Yahushaic Covenant
6
So then, just as you received Yahusha the Messiah as
King, continue to live your lives
in (covenant
with)
him, 7
rooted and built up in (covenant
with) him, strengthened in
the
faith (which
establishes The Law in your heart) as you were
taught, and overflowing with thankfulness (for
Yahuah has covered the decrees in The Law which demanded
your death with the blood of the Lamb)
8
See to it that (by the
sealing of your mind with the Shema) no one takes you
captive through hollow and deceptive (pagan
Hellenized) philosophy, which depends on human
tradition (Christianity is build
on just such things) and the elemental spiritual
forces of this world rather than on
Yahusha (Yahusha is not God
incarnate but came “in the flesh” fully human in every way.
Yahusha was The Passover Lamb not the Easter Pig of Ishtar.
He was raised on the Sabbath not Sunday; he was born
on the Feast of Tabernacles not Christmas and so forth)
9
For in (covenant with the)
Messiah all the fullness of the Deity lives in (you
in) bodily form,
So
far in Colossians Paul has defined
The Yahushaic
Covenant as:
-
To
“live in” covenant with or live by the example of
Yahusha, we must be obedient to The Law as he was
-
We can
obtain the fullness of deity (spiritual perfection) as
we live in covenant with Yahuah through Yahusha in
obedience to His commandments
Let’s
continue with Colossians 2 and see that what I am saying is
true, Paul was teaching in verse 9 that in
The Yahushaic
Covenant you can be brought to spiritual perfection
(fullness of deity):
Colossians 2
10
and in (covenant with)
Messiah (The
Yahushaic Covenant) you have been brought to
fullness (of deity).
Yahusha is the head over every power and authority.
11 In (covenant
with) him (The Yahushaic
Covenant) you were also circumcised with a
circumcision not performed by human hands (transposition
of circumcision).
Here we
see Paul teaching the physical to spiritual parallel of
circumcision.
Circumcision is still valid and true in
The Yahushaic
Covenant just as is everything in The Law.
Only now The Law has been transposed to “written on
our hearts” spiritually and circumcision along with it.
Colossians 2
Your whole
self ruled by the flesh (carnal
mind which was hostile to The Law of Yahuah) was put
off when you were circumcised (in
the spirit; which is the commitment to keep The Law)
by the Messiah (The
High Priest),
12 having (your
'old' self) been buried
with him in mikveh (ritual cleansing by water defined
in The Law is still valid), in which you were also
raised (into newness of life in
obedience to The Law of Yahuah) with him through your
faith in the promises of Yahuah (who
promised to forgive the death decree against you through
mikveh), who (Yahuah) raised Yahusha from the
dead (as promised in Zacharaiah
Chapter 3).
13
When you were dead in your sins (held
in bondag to death by the death decrees) and in the
uncircumcision of your flesh (Paul
is talking to previous uncircumcised living among the
gentiles), Yahuah
made you alive (in covenant) with Yahusha
(forgiving the certificate of
debt held against you by the death decrees in The Law). He forgave us all our sins (covered
the death decrees and forgave the certificate of debt as
promised in Zachariah Chapter 3),
14 having canceled out
the certificate of debt, which were
His death decrees
against us; Yahuah has taken it (the
decrees against us in The Law which amount to a
Certificate of Debt)
away, nailing it (The
Certificate of Debt not
The Law) to the stake (with
Yahusha).
15 And having disarmed
the powers and authorities (by
defeating The Law of Sin and Death), Yahusha made a public
spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the stake (fulfilling
the Passover Lamb sacrifice).
I want to
clarify and add to what Paul is defining as
The Yahushaic
Covenant.
So far in Colossians
2 Paul has defined
The Yahushaic
Covenant as:
-
To
“live in” the example set by Yahusha, we must be
obedient to
The Law as he was
-
We can
obtain the
fullness of deity as we live in covenant with
Yahuah through Yahusha in obedience to His Commandments
-
We must be
Circumcised in the flesh and Spirit which is the
commitment to keep His Law
-
We must
be
consecrated as Priests and Kings through Mikveh/Baptism
or ritual cleansing of sin defined in The Law
-
The decrees
in The Law which amount to a Certificate of Debt
have been covered by the Blood of the Lamb.
-
We must
walk in
Newness of Life: The Law with active decrees
known as The
Law of Sin and Death (sin and you die) has been
replaced now with
The Law of the Spirit of Life (The Law with
the decrees against us for disobedience has been
covered, the definition of Grace) so now The Law leads
to life as we are restored to perfect obedience through
faith in
The Yahushaic
Covenant disarming the powers and authorities
that once held us captive to the fear of death!
We now have a spirit of confort (the comforter) and are
freed from our fear of death. The 'captives to the death
decrees' have been set free.
That, so
far, is what Paul has identified as
The Yahushaic
Covenant.
Let’s
continue with Colossians 2:
Colossians 2
16
Therefore do not let anyone (the
pagans in Colossia all around you) judge you by what
you eat or drink (as you keep the
Dietary Laws for good health), or with regard to (your
keeping) the festivals of Yahuah, a New Moon
celebration (as you keep Yahuah’s
lunar calendar not the pagan solar calendar) or a
Sabbath day (as you rest on The
Sabbath and not on Dias Solis the pagan day of worship).
17 (You
do) These (things as they)
are a shadow (cast by Spiritual
Truth) of the (good)
things that were to come; the reality (in
spirit), however, is found in
The Yahushaic
Covenant (they teach us
through physical to spiritual rehearsals of the work of
salvation).
This is a very important scripture here. Christianity
teaches that Paul is saying “let no one (Jew) judge you for
violating The Law and not keeping the Sabbaths and Holy Days
of Yahuah” and that is the exact opposite of what Paul is
teaching here. According to the Christian Church, Jews were
spying on Paul and following him all over Asia Minor trying
to “convert” pagans to Judaism. This is absurd, totally
contrary to fact and Biblical witness.
This concept of "Judaizing" was instilled in us by the
pagan church in Rome and was not at all what Paul was
discussing in Colossians. Following the Council of Nicaea,
the newly formed “Christian Church” held yet another
“council” of paganism known as The Council of Leodicea to
uphold the abomination of Sun god worship. In this council
they literally declared the obedient followers of YHVH an
“anathema of Christ” or rather “accursed by Chrestos” which
may be true of their god “Jesus” but not the true Messiah
Yahusha. Yahusha kept Sabbath, commanded we keep it, and was
raised by YHVH on The Sabbath. In effect, they declared the
True Messiah, a Jewish Rabbi and follower of The Torah,
accursed as he was truly a "Jewish High Priest of Israel"
and Sabbath keeper. Below is where we get the term "Judaize"
from the pagan sun worshipping emperor Constantine:
"Christians must not judaize by
resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather
honouring the Lord's Day; and, if they can, resting then as
Christians. But if any shall be found to be judaizers, let
them be anathema from Christ." (Canon 29 [A.D. 360]). (The
Church Council of Laodicea circa 364 CE)
Well, Yahusha the Messiah was by their definition “a
judaizer” and there for accursed by their god Jesus. It was
the role of the new “priests of Sol” (formerly the priests
of Mithra called “Fathers”) and the priestesses of Brigit
called “Nuns” in the newly formed “Christian Church” to
teach the masses now that Sungod Day was the “New Sabbath”.
This was accomplished by teaching that the disciples of
“Jesus” met together on the first day of the week. In their
pagan calendars and reckoning of time, Sunday was the first
day of the week and the day began at midnight. The ignorant
masses were easily led astray.
We see Paul teaching the pagans
to keep the feasts
on multiple occasions and specifically teaching them to keep
Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread below:
1 Corinthians 5
Don’t you
know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?
7 Get rid of the old
yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you
really are. For Yahusha,
our Passover lamb
has been sacrificed (on Passover
not Good Friday).
8 Therefore let us keep the Festival of
Unleavened Bread, not with the old bread leavened with
malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of
sincerity and truth.
Paul taught them to keep the feasts
in light of Yahusha and in their true transposed spiritual
intent. So
it was Paul who was teaching the Colossians and all those
assemblies he established to keep the feasts.
It was the pagans in those pagan communities
condemning them for it.
Exactly the same state you and I are in today, we are
condemned by the same exact establishment,
Babylon
and its rituals (Christmas, Sunday, Good Friday,
Easter, etc.) when we become obedient to Yahuah and His
rituals. Let’s
continue with Paul’s definition of The Yahushaic Covenant in
Colossians 2.
Paul goes on to teach the
transposition of The Law from physically written in stone to
spiritually written on our hearts.
Paul says these things which he taught them to keep
in The Law (Kosher, Feasts, Sabbaths, and New Moons) were
designed to teach them of greater spiritual truths by
physical example… physical to spiritual parallels.
Paul says they are physical shadows (training aids,
rehearsals, examples, and tutors) designed to teach us of
greater spiritual things that were to come in
The Yahushaic
Covenant.
So let us add to Paul’s definition as
the
Spiritual
Fulfillment found in The Yahushaic Covenant:
-
To
“live in” the example set by Yahusha, we must be
obedient to
The Law as he was
-
We can
obtain the
fullness of deity as we live in covenant with
Yahuah through Yahusha in obedience to His Commandments
-
We must be
circumcised in the flesh which is the commitment
to keep His Law
-
We must
be
consecrated as Priests and Kings through Mikveh/Baptism
or ritual cleansing defined in The Law
-
The decrees
in The Law which amount to a Certificate of Debt
has been covered by the Blood of the Lamb.
-
We must
walk in
Newness of Life: The Law with active decrees
known as The
Law of Sin and Death (sin and you die) has been
replaced now with
The Law of the Spirit of Life (The Law with
the decrees against us for disobedience has been
covered, the definition of Grace) so now The Law leads
to life as we are restored to perfect obedience through
faith in
The Yahushaic
Covenant disarming the powers and authorities
that once held us captive to the fear of death!
-
We must keep
The Law - The Kosher Laws, Spring and Fall
Feasts, Sabbaths, and New Moons are to be kept in
The Yahushaic
Covenant as they teach us through physical
metaphors and examples of the
Spiritual
Kingdom
and Plan of Yahuah.
We are to learn from them as we study physical to
spiritual parallels and keep them in honor of Yahusha as
they are Yahuah’s witness of him.
Paul continues in his definition of
The Yahushaic
Covenant in Colossians 2:
Colossians 2
18
Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and
the worship of angels disqualify you (now
Paul is referring to Jews who disqualified them based on
bloodline not knowing they were The House of Israel).
Such a person (Pharisees)
also goes into great detail about what they have seen (and
how they see it); they are puffed up (full
of pride) with idle notions by their unspiritual mind
(teaching doctrines of men that
nullify the word of Yahuah).
19 They have lost
connection with the head (show a
total disconnect with
The Yahushaic
Covenant), from whom the whole body,
supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews,
grows as Yahuah causes it to grow.
20
Since you died (in carnal
mind) with Yahusha to the elemental spiritual forces
of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the
world, do you submit to its rules (which
are commandments of men called Takkanots found in The Talmud):
21 “Do not handle! Do
not taste! Do not touch!”?
22 These rules, which have to do with things that
are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely
human commands and teachings.
23 Such regulations
indeed have an appearance of wisdom (coming
from Jewish Rabbis and Jewish Mystics), with their
self-imposed (ways to worship),
their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body,
but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
Christianity teaches that Paul is
talking about Yahuah’s commandments here.
The human commands and teachings Paul is referring to
is NOT the 613 Laws in The Torah.
The Eternal Law of Yahuah is not by human commands
but written by the hand of Yahuah in stone and now
transposed to written on our heart. Paul is speaking of the
literally thousands upon thousands of extra-Biblical
traditions and rules “added” to the Torah that composed what
is called The
Talmud.
These “rules” added to scripture by human commands and
teachings are called
Takkanots and
ma’asims of
the Pharisees.
We see Yahusha confront the Pharisees over and over as he
overturned the system of Rabbinical Judaism and
re-established The Torah.
It is the very reason Yahusha ran afoul with the High
Priests and Pharisees.
Paul is simply telling the new converts to keep that
which Yahuah commanded and ignore that which is human
commands/traditions.
Keep the spiritual intent of the letter of The Law;
keep the Sabbath and Holy Days in honor of Yahusha’s
fulfillment of them.
Learn while in a physical world what The Spiritual
Kingdom of Yahuah is through physical to spiritual
parallels.
So in Colossians Chapter 2, we see
the Apostle Paul define the Spiritual Fulfillment found in
The Yahushaic
Covenant as follows:
-
Live in (covenant
with) Yahusha – you do that by walking as he
walked and doing as he did… by being obedient to The Law
of Yahuah.
It is not the hearers of The Law who are found
righteous, but the DOERS of The Law who will be declared
righteous.
His Law is our instructions in righteousness and we are
to obey them out of love not obligation as The Law now
leads to our eternal life.
-
Obtain the
Fullness of Deity or Spiritual Perfection - We
can obtain the fullness of Deity in our physical bodies
by the renewing of our mind as we set our eyes on
following Yahusha’s example and obeying Yahuah’s
instructions in righteousness defined by His Law now
written on our hearts.
-
Circumcision
still defines the sons of Yahuah; physical circumcision
was a metaphor for spiritual circumcision of our hearts.
-
Mikveh still
cleanses – Total immersion into water still
cleanses our bodies of sin making us “white as snow” and
initiates us into
The Yahushaic
Covenant as defined in The Law
-
The Law is still
the foundation - The Law of Sin and Death (The
Law with active decrees) has been fulfilled. The Law of
the Spirit of Life now reigns (The Law with the decrees
covered leading to perfect obedience and eternal life).
-
The Blood of the
Passover Lamb still covers sin – Paul explains
that Yahusha as the final Passover Lamb permanently
covers the decrees in The Law that demanded our death as
those decrees (not The Law) were nailed to
the cross.
-
The
Feasts/Sabbaths/New Moon Celebrations/Kosher Laws are
still valid – Paul teaches us to keep these
things of Yahuah in obedience as they were given as
physical teaching tools (tutors) that teach us what we
need to know about
The Kingdom of
Yahuah which is a Spiritual Kingdom we cannot
see, touch, hear, or taste.
The ONLY way we can learn of this Kingdom while
on Earth is by keeping His ordained times.
Yahusha is the Messiah because he fulfilled the
meaning of the Spring Feasts (Feasts of Passover, First
Fruits, Weeks).
We are to “keep them in remembrance of him” as
Yahusha commanded and as Paul teaches “keep the Feast of
Unleavened Bread not with the Levin of malice and
wickedness” as he again taught the feasts in their true
spiritual application.
-
Ignore human
tradition and commandments of men – all of them,
those imposed by any religion outside of The Law of
Yahuah.
Basically what Paul is teaching is
that all 6 previous covenants combined teach us physically
The Kingdom of Yahuah
and we become citizens of that kingdom by entering
into covenant with Yahuah through Yahusha.
We know we are in The Yahushaic Covenant when we are
obedient to The Law and keep Yahuah’s ordained
Sabbaths/Feasts.
We must understand His Kingdom through these physical
to spiritual parallels found in His Word.
Very simply stated,
The Yahushaic
Covenant is the transposition of all previous 6
covenants from physical examples, shadows, and metaphors to
their true spiritual reality in
The
Kingdom of Yahuah.
I covered this in great detail in my book
The Kingdom of Yahuah.
The Yahushaic
Covenant is literally defined by
The Law of Yahuah
as it was transposed from
written in stone
in the Mosaic Covenant to
written on our hearts.
This transposition of The Law of
Yahuah is “The New Covenant” which is a marriage covenant:
Ezekiel 36: 26,
27
I will give you a new heart (for
my Law and write my Law on it) and put a new spirit (of
loving obedience) in you; I will remove from you your
heart of stone (legalistic
observance of The Law without love) and give you a
heart of flesh. And
I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my
decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
31
“Behold, days are coming,” declares Yahuah, “when I
will make a new covenant with
The House of
Israel and with
The House of Judah,
32 not like the
covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took
them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt,
My covenant which
they broke, although I was a husband (marriage
covenant) to them,” declares Yahuah.
33 “But this is the (new
marriage) covenant which I will make with
The House of Israel
after those days,”
declares Yahuah, “I
will put My law (marriage vows)
within them and on their heart I will write it;
and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
34 They will not
teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother,
saying, ‘Know Yahuah,’ for they will all know Me, from the
least of them to the greatest of them,” declares Yahuah, “for
I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember
no more.” (see Zachariah below)
NOTE: “iniquity”
is breaking The Law of Yahuah.
That is what “iniquity” or
“lawless” means in Matthew 7:23.
The word in that verse is the Greek word
anomía:
Entry for Strong's #458 -
ἀνομία
Zechariah 3
Clean Garments for the High Priest,
Yahusha anointed High Priest of Israel after his Mikveh by
John… see my book
Melchizedek and The
Passover Lamb for a full explanation of this scripture
1
Then he showed me Yahusha the high priest standing before
the angel of Yahuah, and Satan standing at his right side to
accuse him. 2 Yahuah (through His
proxy The Angel before whom stood Yahusha and Satan)
said to Satan, “Yahuah rebuke you, Satan! Yahuah, who has
chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man (Yahusha
was a man not a god) a burning stick snatched from
the fire?”
3 Now Yahusha was dressed in filthy
clothes (metaphor of sin)
as he stood before the angel. 4 The angel said to those who
were standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes.”
Then Yahuah said to Yahusha, “See (after
taking off his filthy rags), I have taken away (through
Mikveh by John see my book
Melchizedek and The
Passover Lamb) your sin (fifthly
rags Isaiah 64:6),
and I will put fine garments (of
the High Priest) on you.”
5 Then I said, “Put a clean turban (of
the High Priest) on his (Yahusha’s)
head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed
him (in the garments of the High
Priest), while the angel of Yahuah stood by.
6 The angel of Yahuah gave this charge to Yahusha: 7
“This is what Yahuah the Almighty (God)
says (again Yahuah speaking
through His proxy Angel): ‘If
(here Yahuah makes a conditional
promise to Yahusha) you will walk in obedience to me
and keep my requirements (The
Torah),
then (here
is the promise if he keeps the Torah and obeys the Will of
Yahuah) you will govern my house (i.e.
King over creation) and have charge of my courts (Eternal
Judge), and I will give you a place (at
the right hand of Yahuah) among these standing here.
8 “‘Listen, High Priest Yahusha, you
and your associates seated (who
came) before you (probably
Adam, Enoch, Moses, Elijah, etc.), who (those
seated before him) are men symbolic of
things to come: I am going to bring (you)
my servant (from this point
forward), the Branch (he is
the Messiah).
9 See, the stone I have set in front
of Yahusha! There are seven eyes on that one stone, and I
will engrave an inscription on it,’ says Yahuah Almighty, ‘and
I will remove the sin of this land in a single day (the
day Yahusha, in obedience, died as Passover Lamb).
Hebrews 10
The Law is
only a (physical)
shadow of the
good things that are coming (in
the spirit when The Law is written on our hearts)—not
the realities themselves (but they
teach us of spiritual truths we cannot otherwise understand
i.e. physical to spiritual parallels).
All the “old commands” plus
1
Let’s read from the book of 1 John as
The Yahushaic
Covenant is summed up as
The Law and The
Prophets plus 1 new command.
1 John goes on to clearly teach that the “old”
commandments are to be kept; and only 1 to be added.
This is "The New Covenant" in a nutshell so to speak.
The Yahushaic
Covenant is all the old "Terms and Conditions" of
all other covenants with the blood of Yahusha replacing the
Certificate of Debt which are the decrees in The Law that
demand our death for disobedience to The Law:
1 John 2
3
We know that we have come to know Yahuah if we keep
His commands. 4
Whoever says, “I know Yahuah,” but does not do what
Yahuah commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that
person. 5 But
if anyone obeys Yahuah’s word, the love for God
is truly made complete in them (they
will embody the fullness of deity). This is how we
know we are in
The Yahushaic
Covenant: 6
Whoever claims to live in covenant with Yahusha
must live as Yahusha did (keeping
The Law of Yahuah in loving obedience)
7
Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command
but an old one, which you have had since the beginning (The
Torah and Prophets…
Scripture). This old command is the message you
have heard (the Hebrew Scriptures).
8 Yet I am writing
you a new command; its (Spirit
of) truth is seen in Yahusha and in you, because the
darkness (of The Law with active
decrees) is passing and the true light (of
The Law with the decrees covered which is the definition of
Grace) is already shining.
1 John 1
5
This is the message (all old
commands i.e. the Torah plus 1 new command) which we
have heard from Yahusha and I declare to you, that Yahuah is
light (revealed through His
Commandments which are a light unto our path) and in
(covenant
with) Yahuah is no darkness
(sin or transgressing His Commandments) at all.
6 If we say
that we have fellowship with Yahuah, and walk in darkness (transgress
His commandments), we lie and do
not practice the
truth (keep
The Torah).
7 But if we walk in
the light (The Torah) as
Yahuah is in the light (The Torah
defines His righteousness), we have fellowship with
one another (so keep all the old
commandments), and (here is
the 1 new command again…) the blood of Yahuah’s son
Yahusha the Messiah cleanses us from all sin (as
we express our faith in Passover and the blood covers the
death decrees in The Law).
What 1 John above is describing is
that The Law of Sin and Death has been defeated by Yahusha
and the only new command is to put your faith in Yahusha and
keep Passover in light of his sacrifice… that was Yahusha’s
only command and the last thing he said before he died.
Paul too received this 1 new command that
makes whole The Law transforming
The Law of Sin and
Death into
The Law of the Spirit
of Life:
1 Corinthians 11
23
For I received (1 new
command) from the King what I also delivered to you,
(now Paul tells us exactly what
that 1 new command is…) that the King Yahusha on the
night (of Passover) when he
was betrayed took bread,
24 and when he had
given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This (Passover
dinner) is my body which is (sacrificed)
for you. Do this (Keep Passover)
in remembrance (faith) of
me.” 25 In
the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This (Passover)
cup is the new covenant in my blood (The
New Covenant is that Yahusha fulfilled the requirements of
the Passover Lamb making whole The Law). Do this (keep
Passover), as often as you drink it, in remembrance
of me.” 26
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup (on
Passover), you proclaim (your
faith in) the King’s death until he comes.
Summary
In summary The Renewed Covenant of
Yahusha is “new”
only in the sense that the Law has been transposed
from written in stone
to written on our
hearts and Yahusha has fulfilled the Passover promise.
The primary focus is that Yahusha fulfilled the
physical shadow of Passover and defeated the Law of Sin and
Death removing our “enmity” toward the Law because we feared
death. The only
weakness in the Law was our sinful flesh.
That weakness was made whole by covering the death
decrees. The Law
then was transformed to the Law of the Spirit of loving
obedience that leads to eternal life.
So finally, Yahuah has fulfilled His
promise to grant us eternal life for the purpose of
procreating a family to govern His creation.
So again, let me list what The Yahushaic Covenant is
as defined in the NT mainly Colossians Chapter 2:
-
Live in (covenant
with) Yahusha – you do that by walking as he
walked and doing as he did… by being obedient to the Law
of Yahuah. It is
not the hearers of the Law who are found righteous, but
the DOERS of the Law who will be declared righteous.
His Law is our instructions in righteousness and
we are to obey them out of love not obligation as the
Law now leads to our eternal life.
-
Obtain the
Fullness of Deity or Spiritual Perfection - We
can obtain the fullness of Deity in our physical bodies
by the renewing of our mind as we set our eyes on
following Yahusha’s example and obeying Yahuah’s
instructions in righteousness defined by His Law now
written on our hearts.
-
Circumcision
still defines the sons of Yahuah; physical circumcision
was a metaphor for spiritual circumcision of our hearts.
-
Mikveh still
cleanses – Total immersion into water still
cleanses our bodies of sin making us “white as snow” and
initiates us into
The Yahushaic
Covenant as defined in the Law
-
The Law is still
the foundation - the Law of Sin and Death (the
Law with active decrees) has been fulfilled. The Law of
the Spirit of Life now reigns (the Law with the decrees
covered leading to perfect obedience and eternal life).
-
The Blood of the
Passover Lamb still covers sin – Paul explains
that Yahusha as the final Passover Lamb permanently
covers the decrees in the Law that demanded our death as
those decrees (not the Law) were nailed to
the cross.
-
The
Feasts/Sabbaths/New Moon Celebrations/Kosher Laws are
still valid – Paul teaches us to keep these
things of Yahuah in loving obedience as they were given
as physical teaching tools (tutors) that teach us what
we need to know about
The Kingdom of
Yahuah which is a Spiritual Kingdom we cannot
see, touch, hear, or taste.
The ONLY way we can learn of this Kingdom while
on Earth is by keeping His ordained times.
Yahusha is the Messiah because he fulfilled the
meaning of the Spring Feasts (Feasts of Passover, First
Fruits, Weeks).
We are to “keep them in remembrance of him” as Yahusha
commanded and as Paul teaches “keep the Feast of
Unleavened Bread not with the Levin of malice and
wickedness” as he again taught the feasts in their true
spiritual application.
-
Ignore human
tradition and commandments of men – all of them,
those imposed by any religion outside of the Law of
Yahuah found in The Torah.
-
The Yahushaic
Covenant is all the old commandments plus 1 new command…
put our faith in Passover in light of Yahusha’s
sacrifice to bring us into complete obedience and
fullness of diety… and we will then be begotten as sons
of Yahuah which is the very purpose of goal or desired
outcome of The Yahushaic Covenant.
Remember…
Romans 8:28
28
And we know that all things work together for good to them
that love Yahuah, to them who are the called according
to Yahuah’s purpose.
John 1:12
Yet to all who did receive Yahusha
as the (fulfillment
of the Plan of Yahuah to send a human) Messiah (as foretold by the prophets), to
those who believed in (the
covenant that bears) his name, he gave the right
to become children of Yahuah.
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