Black

And

White

JAMES GILLISPIE

Copyright © 2013 JAMES GILLISPIE

All rights reserved.

ISBN-13:

978-1484829448

ISBN-10:

1484829441

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to all of those who have affected my spiritual life and I thank you for being a light in a very dark and turbulent world. However, I would like to make an honorable mention to three of these people who have now gone on to be with the Father, but their legacy has not been forgotten, and the fruit of their work is still being produced. Mary Ruth Orman, Jasper Crossweight Johnson, and James Rufus Snow. These people have been very instrumental not only in my own life but in the lives of so many others. So I say thank you, even though you were not perfect, you lived life to the best of your ability and for that many have been strengthened in their faith… myself included.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

i

1

JESUS OR YESHUA

1

2

DOES GOD HAVE A NAME?

16

3

THE TORAH OBSERVANT    BELIEVER

32

4

LEGALISM AND THE LAW

54

5

ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED

73

6

TRUTH AND OUTRIGHT LIES

85

7

WOLVES IN THE PASTURE

99

8

ARE YOU A JEW OR A GENTILE

112

9

WHERE THE CHURCH CAME FROM

122

10

HEBREW AND ENGLISH

129

11

REMEMBER THE SABBATH

139

12

THE CREATORS CALENDAR

159

13

THIS AND THAT

171

14

YOU CAN’T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS

185

PREFACE

Preface

Shalom and greetings in the name of Yeshua. We are so blessed to be living in this time, when we will see the culmination of Scripture and biblical prophecy. In this book, I will demonstrate many things but none more important than showing how in these last days that YHVH is, just as he said, pouring His Spirit upon all flesh. All glory is given to His Holy name.

I am a Jew who happens to be a believer in Yeshua as the Messiah of all Israel. In saying that I know most people will automatically think that I am a Jew. So I will explain what that is. I was, as far as I knew, a Gentile (a person who does not have Jewish blood) who has come to realize that we must understand the Hebraic principals of Scripture as taught by Yeshua the Messiah and his disciples. I realize you may be thinking that this is no more than the Messianic movement  that is getting so big right now, but I think that by the end of this book you will began to see why I have disassociated myself from that name. In the past fifteen years I have observed the Messianic movement and concluded that its name should be “the messy antic movement”. It really is nothing more then a bunch of Christians still wrapped up in their denominational standards trying to embrace some Hebrew concepts.

I was raised by Christian parents and grandparents who had a love for Scripture and taught me them from an early age. I did not realize until I was an adult that my grandfather was a Jew who had escaped the holocaust. (not to be confused with survived the holocaust) his family immigrated here in the 1800’s. I also did not realize that he had hidden his identity his whole life to protect his family from the anti-Semitism and outright hatred that being a Jew would bring.

As I learned more about Jewish heritage, I began to see how closely it resembled the way I had been raised. I remembered my grandmother making latkes and talking about the feasts. This was pretty convincing, but it was the memories of my grandfather that really set me on the path to find out who I really am.

See my grandfather could not read or write, but he was a master craftsmen. He made violins from nothing more then a tree that he had cut down himself from the forest. And with the most primitive of tools (a small handheld axe, a sharp blade, and a pocket knife, a few hand made forms and braces) He would produce a violin that would rival anything you could buy in the store.

Occasionally, I would sit out in a small shop he had out behind our little two bedroom home and watch him construct these masterpieces. On several occasions he made me what he called a top. This top was not like all the tops my friends had. It had four sides almost in the shape of a box except for the rounded bottom where it would spin. It was not until I started learning Hebrew that something clicked. See even though he could not read or write, he would always make these funny markings on each of the four sides of these tops. Now I can’t say for sure because I don’t have one now to compare, but I would bet a dime to a dozen that he was writing Hebrew on this top that I soon found out was not a top at all but was a dradle.

So without even letting my aunts and uncles know, I began to ask questions about the history of our family. Their was little information that they could provide. There was a little on my grandmother’s side but very little on my grandfathers. But they did provide me with a few names. I took those few names and began to trace our family tree. What I found almost crushed me. My grandfather, great grandfather and great grandmother came to the USA in the late 1800’s but the rest of his extended family stayed in Germany and Europe; Countless numbers of them giving their lives. Some of them were recorded in the Ghetto records and even more of them on the murder list of the various death camps.

As a child living in the south the KKK was still in full force. And I remember one night in particular. Not so much all the specific details but what I do remember is the fear. My grandfather rushing to grab his shot gun and telling us kids to get in the house. He took his shot gun and sat on our front porch. I don’t really remember seeing the Clan myself so I don’t want to speculate but I do remember that this was the reason we were told to get into the house.

It also was not until I was an adult that I started to put these things together. Why would a White man be so filled with fear of the KKK. I began to realize that it was because he wasn’t really just a White man but that he was a Jew and this was a secret that he would and did take to his grave. Whether it was because he had been lied to about his heritage, or he thought it necessary himself to hide it I can not say.

But not wanting to use these memories and death certificates as the only basis of substantial proof that he was a Jew, I took a DNA test about ten years ago and put any question I may have had to rest. As I suspected my DNA was Rb1 and only people with Jewish blood possess this DNA marker. It was this final proof that satisfied the incessant need that  I had to find my history. It also explained some other things to me as well.

Even as a young child I seemed to have a good understanding of Scripture so much so that most of my Sunday school teachers were amazed, and at times left others annoyed. I preached my first message on a youth night in Barstow, California at the age of eleven. The message was on Jonah’s disobedience to what YHVH had instructed him to do and the penalty he faced for that disobedience. I continued to preach for the rest of my teenage years, while occupying various clergy positions, when a tragedy happened in my life that shook my faith at its core.

I realize that it may seem trivial to some, but the death of my grandfather and the death of my grandmother (who had been my spiritual mentor, second mother, and best friend), sent me into a downward spiral. I became an alcoholic, a drug addict, a psychic, and a whoremonger, along with everything else that goes with that sort of life style.

For two years I was in such darkness that my family and some friends became afraid of me because of my new found violent nature. My parents thought that unless YHVH intervened, I would be dead or in a mental hospital within the year. But one night, not long after that statement was made, YHVH did intervene and for the first time in my life I began to have a relationship with the Creator. I no longer followed Him because of what I knew, but because of what I wanted to know.

I now had been truly born again, and unlike before, I had an insatiable hunger for truth that would only come from YHVH and not from the wisdom of man as before. See, I knew the Scriptures, but I only knew them in the way that I had been taught. I knew all the correct answers according to the denomination that I had grown up in, but, had never really questioned if the answers were correct. When I read Scripture, I saw what I had been taught not what YHVH was trying to teach me. And until I had a relationship with Him, rather than knowledge of him, I would never be able to come to the knowledge that only He can give.

I was in the place that quite possibly you are in right now hungry and feeling all alone with the knowledge that I was coming into. No one that I knew or had been associated with thought the way I did, and day by day my denominational doctrines were being torn down as YHVH separated me further and further from the family and friends that I loved and longed to be with, but no longer felt like I was a part of.

When doctrinal issues were brought up, I would more times then not excuse myself so as not to make my internal rift any greater, in the hope that I would not have to separate myself from them totally. I had left the church at the direction of the Holy Spirit and resigned my position. Four two years the Father sat me at my kitchen table with the Bible, Strong’s Concordance, and a couple of lexicons.

I really thought I might be going crazy, but I could not stop studying (Going back and forth through the Bible trying to understand it both in Hebrew and Greek), trying to reconcile every question I had ever had and answer all the new ones that my study presented.

Then the day came when I was invited to an Assembly of God church in Arkansas, and was told that there was going to be a Messianic Rabbi speaking there concerning the feast days of YHVH. Reluctantly wondering how much real truth could be given at a church that had so many similarities to the one that I had grown up in. But I went, and praise YHVH I did.

This Rabbi spoke to my heart. He was almost saying word for word the things that I was being taught in secret and unable to openly speak of for fear of ostracizing myself from the few friends I had left. But that night, I realized I was not crazy or alone. YHVH was teaching other people and that I should have no fear in sharing what He had been showing me.

This book, is my attempt to maybe help you understand what you are going through is exactly what you need to go through to come to the truth of YHVH’s word and begin to understand it from a Hebrew perspective.

I will in my meager knowledge try to take you back to the Scriptures and show you the lies that we have been taught in traditional Christian churches. This book will in no way answer every question you might have concerning Scripture, but my hope is to at least get you started on the road to understanding our Hebraic roots and how we got to the place we are now.

I ask you to read with an open mind asking YHVH

for understanding, searching and proving all things that are contained in this book, so we together can grow and live in Yeshua together as He intended. Shalom.

CHAPTER 1

JESUS

OR

YESHUA

To begin, we must understand what we are talking about. I use the Hebrew name of the Messiah which is YESHUA. When I use this name, I am speaking of the one that you might call Jesus. Hopefully, this chapter will with out a doubt explain that His name is truly Yeshua and not his Gentile nickname “Jesus”, as Michael Rood a fellow Hebraic Minister says.

I am going to give you some short answers that will be filled with generalizations concerning the true name of our Messiah. These are the answers that I give when questioned in public about His name and do not have the time to sit down and explain the technical, and historical evidence concerning His name.

I normally began to explain it like this: If I were to take a trip to Russia and someone would ask me my name, I would tell them my name is James. They would not translate or transliterate my name into their language and then call me whatever that translation might be. They would call me by my name which is James. Although it may not sound exactly the same as it does now, it would still be James. When they pronounce my name, it may have some differences in the pronunciation because of the difference in the vowel sounds in our native languages, but it would still be James.

The same is true with the name of Yeshua. Names do not translate.  The name you are given at birth is the name you’ll have until the day you die. No matter what country you move to, or what language it is spoken in, your name will always be the same.

Now, knowing this we must ask ourselves why these learned men skilled in translation thought it necessary to translate the name of Yeshua. And even more importantly, why did they translate it to a name that is not even close to His Hebrew name. If it were necessary to translate His name, a much closer translation would have been the English version of the name Joshua. So how did they come up with the name Jesus? Keep in mind that these men were supposedly learned men, schooled in great depth in translation.

Now ask yourself the question: If they did know that names do not translate, what would be their motivation for such a huge mistranslation? I will show in this chapter that something sinister and deliberate happened when it came to the translation of the name of Yeshua and is something we should start to look at as a body of believers.

Before I proceed with the technical and factual portion of explaining the name of Yeshua, I need to make one thing very clear. I am not in any way saying that you are not saved if you use His Gentile nickname, Jesus. I used the name Jesus myself often. I was born again calling on that name. I was filled with the Holy Spirit while calling on that name. And the (GOD) Elohim that I serve is much bigger than a name.

YHVH (GOD) understands the heart, so whatever name you came to know him by was good enough to start you on the path to the redeeming blood of the lamb, His Messiah Yeshua. The point of this dialog is for no other purpose than to show how we have been lied to for hundreds of years. And if we have been lied to about the very name of our Messiah, then what else have we been lied to about. We are about to take the first strand off of a very tangled web spun by Satan and those that are led by him.

Now let’s get to the proof that will turn all the propaganda I’ve been spouting into fact. Yeshua is the original Aramaic proper name for Jesus the Nazarene, who lived from about 6 B.C.E. to 27 C.E. (A.D.). The word “Jesus” is actually a mis-transliteration of a Greek mis-translation. The Emperor Constantine even mistook Jesus for Apollo, the son of the Greek god Zeus. Keep in mind that this happened at the birth of what we have now come to know as Christianity.

In the Hebrew alphabet, each letter has more than one meaning. This principal not only applies to Hebraic letters but also applies to the names given to Hebrew children. In Hebrew, Yeshua means Salvation while the name Jesus has no intrinsic meaning in English at all. You will find this true with most Gentile names.

Yeshua is the name that was given to Him by His parents Mary and Joseph who had received instructions as to what His name should be by an angel. This was not a chance happening it all was ordained by His Father in Heaven. (Mat_1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.) (Isa_7:14  Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.) His name is very important because His very name implies what He was sent for.

Many Messianic believers will pronounce His name as Yahshua. While I do not claim to be a linguist, I do have some knowledge of the Hebrew language and this simply is not correct.

By pronouncing his name as Yahshua you are in fact saying that YHVH (Yahweh) needs to be saved. Remember that Hebrew names all have meaning, and just as the name Yeshua means “salvation”, the name Yahshua means that Yahweh needs saved. I may elaborate on this point a little more in another section. I don’t believe it necessary at this point since I have yet to even prove that His name really is Yeshua. I don’t only rely on my meager knowledge of the Hebrew text and language though; I also rely on the knowledge of some true Hebrew scholars that YHVH has seen fit to place in my life.

The name Yeshua appears twenty nine times in the Tenakh (OLD TESTAMENT) and has almost the same meaning as Yahshua in the sinse that they both have a root meaning of salvation. The reason many others may call Him Yahshua rather then Yeshua is in changing the first syllable “Yesh” to “Yah” you are changing the first syllable in Yeshua’s name to the same first syllable in his Father’s name.

They claim this is what many did in that day according to the custom of that time, but in doing so you actually change the meaning of His name from Salvation, to Yahweh needs Salvation. YAH is the poetic shortened form of the Father Yahweh’s name combined with SHUA meaning save or saves. So when you combine the YAH with the SHUA you get YAHSHUA or Yahweh needs Saved. They will use Scripture to try and prove this point. They will say He came in His fathers name, and try to make the point. No matter how they try to spin it though, it just does not agree with the language.

I will use Yeshua in this book as there is no definitive proof that Yahshua is the correct pronunciation of his name. There is, however, substantial proof that Yeshua was His name and the only thing that remotely proves it might have been Yahshua is some made up mis information that says it has historical evidence.

Ok, now let’s get to the technical break down of His name. Yeshua was the Hebrew name of Jesus that was translated into Greek first. The Greek translation of Yeshua is IESOUS pronounced (ee-ay-SUS) in Greek. But as was stated previously, Names are not meant to translate, but for whatever reason the translators thought it was necessary to translate this one.

The problem is that their translation does not even bear resemblance to His true name. Just like in the English, it has no meaning in the Greek. But don’t take my statement as definitive proof. Let’s take a look at their translation letter by letter syllable by syllable and see what has taken place in the translation of the name of our Messiah Yeshua’s name.

Ok, now here we go, wrap your mind around this; the Greek has no “Y” in it and Hebrew has no “J” so how in the world did we come up with Jesus. Keep in mind that Constantine thought he was the son of the Greek god Zeus.

Now a little over three hundred years after the Greek mis-translationof his name. The Greek iesous was translated into the language of Rome which was Latin, and in Latin the Greek translation IESOUS lost even more of its Hebraic roots.

When translated from Greek, which was already a mistranslation, we see a greater error take place. We end up with a mistranslation of a mistranslation.

When the Greek IESOUS is written in Latin, it becomes Iesus. Remembering that the Greek has no “Y” sound, they replaced the Hebrew yod, which sounds like the English “Y” with the Greek “I”, and the Greek “I” was later translated into Latin which has an “I” in it and in Latin the “I” takes on a “J” sound. So Iesus becomes Jesus when translated into English which has both the “J” sound and the “Y” sound.

Now the real question is are we supposed to believe this was an honest mistake or was it done deliberately to hide the true name of Yeshua?

Now, let’s assume for the sake of argument that His name is Jesus (although I have already expressed my opinion on this). And as I have alluded to, I also believe that this was deliberate and not just a simple translational error, but let’s say it was and go through the rest of the sounds in Yeshua.

The second Hebrew sound in Yeshua’s name is called tse-RE and is pronounced almost like the letter “e” in the word “net”. Just as the “Y” sound of the first letter is mispronounced in today’s English, so too is the first vowel sound in “Jesus”.

Before the Hebrew name “Yeshua” was transliterated into English, it was first translated into Greek and then Latin. There was no difficulty in translating the tse-RE sound since the ancient Greek language had an equivalent letter which represented this sound. And there was no real difficulty in transcribing this same first vowel into English either since English contains this sound as well.

The translators of the earliest versions of the English Bible transliterated the tse-RE in Yeshua with an “E”. Unfortunately, later English speakers guessed wrongly that this “E” should be pronounced as the “E” sound in “me,” and thus the first syllable of the English version of Yeshua came to be pronounced “Jee” instead of “Yeh”. The tse-RE should have been translated as an “e” but as the “e” in the word net. It is this improper pronunciation which produced such euphemistic profanities as “Gee” and “Geez”.

The first sound of the second syllable of Yeshua is the “SH” sound. It is represented by the Hebrew letter “shin” or “sheen”. However Greek, like many other languages, has no “sh” sound. Instead, the closest approximation was the Greek sigma, which was used when transcribing “Yeshua” as “Iesus”. Translators of English versions of the New Testament transliterated the Greek translation of a Hebrew name instead of returning to the original Hebrew.

This was doubly unfortunate, first because the “sh” sound exists in English, and second because in English the “s” sound can shift to the “z” sound, which is what happened in the case of the pronunciation of “Jesus”. Or maybe once again Constantine was thinking of Zeus rather than the Messiah of our early church forefathers, Yeshua. But let’s go on before I start my ranting on about Constantine.

The fourth sound one hears in the name Yeshua is the “u” sound, as in the word “true”. Like the first three sounds, this also has come to be mispronounced but in this case it may or may not be deliberate. The translators transcribed this sound accurately, but English is not a phonetic language and “U” can be pronounced in more than one way. At some point the “u” in “Jesus” came to be pronounced as the “u” in the word “cut,” instead of the way it should be pronounced like in the word “cute” and so we say “Jee-zuhs.”

The last sound in the name Yeshua is the “A” sound, as in the word “father”. This is the fifth sound in Yeshua’s name. It is followed by a guttural sound produced by contracting the lower throat muscles and retracting the tongue root. A unfamiliar task for English speakers. In an exception to the rule, the vowel sound “a” associated with the last letter “ayin” (the guttural) is pronounced before it, not after.

While there is no equivalent in English or any other Indo-European language, it is somewhat similar to the last sound in the name of the composer, “Bach.” In this position, it is almost inaudible to the western ear. Some Israelis pronounce this last sound and some don’t, depending on what part of the dispersion their families returned from.

The Hebrew Language Academy, guardian of the purity of the language, has ruled that it should be sounded, and Israeli radio and television announcers are required to pronounce it correctly. There was no letter to represent them, and so these fifth and sixth sounds were dropped from the Greek transcription of “Yeshua,” the translation from which the Latin and later the English “Jesus” is derived from.

The final atrocity that was done to the Hebrew name, Yeshua, is that English speakers make one final change from the original pronunciation of Yeshua’s name. English places the accent on “Jee,” rather than on “sus.” For this reason, the “u” has been shortened in its English pronunciation to “uh.”

So here is what it boils down to, the name Jesus is not even close to the Aramaic or Hebrew name of our Messiah which is Yeshua. I have given you the scholar’s version of how this might have happened, but knowing what I know about history I cannot come to the conclusion that this was just an honest mistake.

Constantine had a feverish hatred for the Jewish people and especially the Messianic believers because their religion stood in the face of his false gods. This old religion made new again by Yeshua also said that unless you believe that Yeshuawas the son of the one true (אלהים) Eloheem you were going to face the judgment of that (אלהים)   Eloheem. There is only one punishment for blatant disobedience to His commandments and that punishment was death and hell.

Constantine killed or ordered killed literally thousands upon thousands of believers and only began to except the early believer’s religion out of desperation. He had seen that his country had become the most immoral society in the known world and because of that immorality he would soon lose control over it if he didn’t do something about it. So out of desperation He adapted the early believer’s religion into the Roman worship and made this the official religion of Rome.

So since we have gone there let’s just elaborate on Constantine a bit. I’m sure this will come up again during this book and I will expound on it further at that point, but for now let’s just talk about the basics. I will at some point get to the facts and sight references to prove that the story that follows is the truth and not just some made up thing.

Constantine, in or about the year 325 of the common era, is said to have seen the sign of the cross one morning while praying and became the first Christian emperor. But I think we need to take a look at what was going on at the time when this supposed miracle happened.

Constantine had a sister who had traveled to Jerusalem and encountered some 3rd generation Pauline students where she became part of what was referred to as “The Way” or “The Believers”. She had given her life to the Messianic Messiah of the Jews named Yeshua. But her brother was not pleased at all and married her to the other emperor at the time. We will get into this in much greater detail in the chapter referred to as “Where the church came from”.  But for now let’s just continue on.

Constantine was a momma’s boy in a major way. But his mother favored his sister more than him. So she would often travel to the other side of the empire to visit her daughter, Flavia Julia Constantia. It was on one of these visits that she too gave her life in service to the Messiah of the Jewish believers, Yeshua.

Now Constantine not about to exile his mother was faced with a real dilemma. His mother had now converted to the faith of “The Believers” and with war looming, that would almost certainly cost him his kingdom, he had some very serious decisions to make.

Constantine was polytheistic in his belief, meaning He believed in many gods. His faith now, would be described as mythology. Many of the gods he prayed to were a part of that system of worship. But the main god that he prayed to was known then as Mithrah but now would be referred to commonly as Zeus. He was the sun god and his patrons would most assuredly be on their knees before him at sunrise on Sunday morning seeking his favor.

It was on this day that the idea hit him how to reconcile both of his problems. By saying that he was now a Christian, he would be able to allow his mother to stay and, if he played his cards right, he would be able to dupe this group called “The Believers” into joining him to go to war against Licinius the other emperor. As we will clearly see in the chapter “Where the church came from” He was anything but a true believer but for now let’s stop here.

Even this loose adaptation of the early believers did not last long; Constantine started killing them again within a few years because they continued to celebrate the Jewish festival of Passover. His hatred for the Jews burned in him and he was not about to be made to worship like a Jew or keep their feast days. So he decreed that the early believers could no longer celebrate Passover on the day that YHVH had commanded them to.

So he decreed that they would celebrate the resurrection of Yeshua on the Roman feast day of (Ishtar) or Ester. We will get into that in greater detail as well later in the book so I won’t ruin the surprise.

Just know he hated the Jews so much that he wanted absolutely nothing to do with them other than to see them killed. He only used the early believers to gain the morality that might be derived from adapting their religion into his sun god worship, and an allegiance between them so he could win the coming war. The early believers to him where damnable, in his words. So why not change the name of the very person that this religion was based on from Yeshua to one that closer resembled one of their god’s, Zeus, namely.

Just think of the similarities Jesus, GEE-Zeus, but I’m not saying that you’ve been calling on the name of a false God. What I am saying is that Constantine quite possibly wanted to hide the true name of the Jewish believer’s Messiah, which was Yeshua.

Throughout history there has been an insatiable hatred for the chosen children of YHVH (God/Yahweh). We know about our recent history and the persecutions that the Jew’s have had, Hitler, Stalin, the anti-Semitic reaction to the Jews right here in the USA. The problem is we don’t learn from our history.

We have been lied to as a people by those who we have put in leadership over us. Now let’s move on to more recent times, and in part talk about probably the most instrumental and influential church forefather, Martin Luther. Martin Luther who also didn’t like the Jews very much. Luther stated several times that “the Jews are a damnable race that needed to be wiped off of the face of the earth”. This is one of the milder comments he had concerning the Jews.

Again we will talk about Martin Luther in greater detail in the chapter  “where the church came from, and I will try to make it as non-redundant as possible. But I believe this is a necessary insert here to show how our Messiah’s name got from Yeshua to Jesus.

For those of you that may not know who Martin Luther was, Martin Luther was the one that brought about the Reformation by nailing his list of grievances to the Roman Catholic Church door. This is what brought about the Reformation and the Protestant religion for which, if you are not Catholic or Lutheran you are now part of. While in my opinion that was a good thing, the perversion of the word that came with it, because of his hatred for the Jews, was not. I think once again we see a major player with an ulterior motive to hide the true name of the Messiah from the people.

We have been taught we are not Catholic but that is where it ends. We still celebrate Catholic traditions and feast day’s. Though we have separated ourselves in part from the Catholic Church that is where we stopped. We have neglected to study the foundations of our faith.

We have neglected the teachings of our Messiah for the traditions of man. Most Christians do not even know that what Yeshua stated in the New Testament was just restating what had already been said in the Old Testament. He did not come to change what His Father said, He came to clarify it, and kick out the traditions of man.

Now the Father once again has sent us a Comforter that despises the traditions of man and wants to lead us in spirit and truth. He is once again compelling His people to know His name, honor it, and return once again to the truth that He has given us in His word, His whole word-not just the New Testament.

So while I’m not saying you are worshipping a false God by calling on the name of Jesus isn’t it nice to know what His true name is and what it truly means. Now that you do know His true name, isn’t it only right to start calling Him by it.

I have a similar thing with my own name but only reversed. My name is James Gillispie, but the name I have been called since birth is Jamie, and only my close friends and family know and call me by this name, so when I am called Jamie, I immediately fill more emotionally connected to the person that has addressed me using it. I don’t know if Yeshua cares, but I want to fill more emotionally connected to Him so I use the name His parents used when they addressed Him, which is YESHUA and not Jesus.

In fact, no one called him Jesus or any derivative of Jesus until about three hundred and twenty-five years after he rose again. So if the choice is Jesus or Yeshua, I’ll use Yeshua, except when I am in the company of those who might not understand or would take offence because of their lack of knowledge.

In using the name of Yeshua you are first of all  acknowledging the Son of the one true God of the universe. Secondly, you are saying He is your salvation sent by the Father to redeem you. Every time you verbally say the name of Yeshua you are declaring that this is the Messiah that was sent to bring salvation to anyone who chooses to believe in Him, And be obedient to His teaching and His instructions.

CHAPTER 2.

DOES GOD HAVE A NAME?

YES!

HE DOES HAVE A NAME!

God does have a name, and that name is important and very holy. It is not to be made common or unclean. For this reason, Jewish religious leaders thought it necessary to remove His name from public speech. Because of this we have lost His true name but, He is once again allowing us to come to the knowledge of who He is and what His name is.

We will in this chapter begin to discover that our God does have a name and that He wants His people to know Him by it. I ask you before you read this chapter to let these words be heavy upon your heart as a warning. The true name of GOD is not to be used in everyday common speech, it is so holy it should only be used when addressing Him on a very personal level in prayer and supplication. The one exception to this is when you are talking with like minded believers (those who follow the teaching of Yeshua Messiah), and that is only to be done with the uttermost reverence.

Why am I making such a big deal out of the reverence that must be shown when speaking the true name of God you may ask? Before I get into the technical part of the name of God, I feel the need to convey the importance of not taking His name in vain. I will in my meager knowledge of Scripture and biblical history, try to show that there is a reason for the great reverence that must be shown when speaking His name.

Exo 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

This is the first and most important reason why. He plainly says that He will not hold you guiltless if you take His name in vain. Now you will see maybe for the first time ever the true name of God written as I rewrite the Scripture posted before in the closest way I know how, to the original Scripture in its Hebrew form.

You shall not take the name of YHVH in vain; for YHVH will not hold him guiltless that would take His name in vain.

Now let’s explore the word phrase “in vain”. I was taught that this meant to not use His name in a curse word like the G.D. word, and as long as you didn’t say that, or a derivative of it, you would be all right. Well while we should never use such language, in a way it is using His name in vain. Let’s see if it is what He meant when he wrote these words with His own finger.

First I will give you the Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance definition of the word.

“שׁו    שׁואo (shâv’ shav) pronounced (shawv, shav) …the sense of desolating; evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjectively), uselessness (as deceptive, objectively; also adverbially in vain): - false (-lee), lie, lying, vain, vanity.” So let’s break this down with each one of these suggested meanings.

1. You shall not make desolate the name of YHVH (without substance or meaning).

2. You shall not destroy the name of YHVH (take it away).

3. You shall not morally ruin the name of YHVH through guile (deception).

4. You shall not falsely set up the name of YHVH as an idol.

5. You shall not lie about the name of YHVH.

Ok now apply all five of those definitions to the phrase “in vain” and you get something to the effect of you shall not hide, ruin, take away, lie about, or use the name of YHVH in any idol worship. Are you now beginning to see the importance of the name of YHVH?

Right about this point you are probably saying, ok you have still not told me the true name of God, all you have done is write four letters that have no real meaning because of the lack of vowels. The four letters are the true name of God, though it is without the vowel sounds added.

There are some things we must talk about before we get to the technical portion of the name of God. One thing is that Jew’s do not speak the name of God while reading Torah. Whenever they come to YHVH in the Torah reading, they will substitute the word Adonai for His true name, because they still to this day recognize the importance of His true name and in no way want to make it common or VAIN.

History teaches us that whenever the scribes are physically writing His true name they will say aloud “I am about to write the name of God in honor of His Holy Name.” even if a King should address him while writing the name of God, he is not permitted to stop and reply to the king. He must first complete the four letter name of God before he can address the king, even if this would mean death to him.

Also if a scribe were to make the slightest mistake while scribing the four letter name of God, he is not permitted to correct his mistake but the entire piece of parchment or scroll must be discarded and replaced. The name of God, YHVH is often referred to as the tetrogrammaton, which is a Greek word meaning “the sign of the four [letters].” And the Jewish believers often refer to the four letters as (ha-shim) which means simply the name.

While you will hear many people saying they have the true name of God in its entirety figured out, complete with the vowel sounds; no one knows this for certain because the name of God whenever it was written was never written with the vowel sounds intact. In Hebrew, the vowel sounds are made by a notation in the form of dots or dashes placed above or below the word that is being written. I realize this is a very simplistic way of putting it but bare with me.

This is a form of writing that was later added, but when the name of God was scribed no vowel sounds were ever added since no one knew how to pronounce it correctly for certain. So if someone is trying to tell you they have it figured out and this or that is the correct way to pronounce His name they are in error or have been informed by YHVH Himself of how to pronounce it. Just speaking for me here but when someone tells me “YHVH said” or told them this or that, I am all ears because either they are a Prophet and I need to hear what they are about to say, or they are a false prophet and they need to be marked as such.

Now in the spirit of full disclosure there are two men, one of which is a Methodist minister and the other being a Karaite Jew who does not believe in Yeshua at all. So I think their findings are suspect at best. They claim to have found some lost Text in which the vowel pointings were added to the name of YHVH. I have not seen this text nor to my knowledge has this been authenticated by anyone who does not have a dog in the fight.

What I will say is that their supposed finding very closely resembles what I believe the Father revealed to me in prayer. When I was first made aware that the Father did have a literal name and the controversy that surrounded His name because of the lack of vowel points; I began to pray and seek the Father asking Him to reveal to me His name. I believe He honored my prayer and spoke His name into my spirit. What I received was this. I will write it out in its syllable form. Before I do though I want to make it perfectly clear that YHVH did not tell me this audibly or even tell me to tell people that this is His name. I only right this to share with you how He stilled my spirit when it was in turmoil over this topic and here it is. Yah-ha-vah.

I know most people use the name Yahweh when referring to the Father and I do as well, if I am speaking in public. But in my prayer time I use the name that I believe He revealed to me almost fifteen years ago. Now these men’s findings state that the name found with vowel pointing intact is Yah-ho-veh. And while I would like to site it as validation, the jury is still out on this one.

Now let’s get into some technical stuff. Hebrew is not like English at all. Every letter in the Hebrew alphabet has the actual letter, then that letter has a name of its own and as with Hebrew names the names of Hebrew letters also have a meaning; such as Aleph which is the first letter in the Hebrew aleph bet.

It doesn’t stop there though every letter has a numerical value and is also used in math. That is still not the end of it though every letter also has a signification (a picture or meaning), such as the first letter in the Hebrew alphabet called the Aleph, which looks kind of like the English “X”. Its name is Aleph; it has a numeric value of 1 and has the signification of an Ox. The Hebrew alphabet has twenty two consonants and no vowels. The vowel sound comes from a later form of dots and dashes above or below the word as described previously.

So when someone that is fluent in Hebrew reads, they see so much more than you or I can see. They see a picture, a word and a number. Hopefully that makes some sense to you; I know it took me a while to wrap my mind around it. And if all that has not made it complicated enough for you, here is one more thing that was almost impossible for me to do. When reading Hebrew, you must read from right to left which goes against everything we have been taught about reading, because in English we read from left to right.

Now that we are totally confused, let’s try to apply all that to the four letter name of Godיהוה. Starting from the right, we have the first letter which is the YOD which has a numeric value of ten and a signification of a hand. It is always pronounced as an English “Y”.

The second letter is the HEI; it has a numeric value of five and a signification of a window. It is always pronounced as an English “H”.

The third letter is where it gets a little fuzzy in the pronunciation; it is the VAV, with a numeric value of six, and a signification of a hook. Unlike the YOD and the HEI though it can be pronounced as an English “V” or an English “W” with the “U” sound, but because we have no way of telling which one it was it is almost impossible to know what vowel sounds would have been applied to it.

The fourth and final letter is once again the HEI which has a numeric value of five, a signification of a window and is pronounced as the English “H”.

Now I’m going to write the name of God in its name form not its letter form YOD-HEI-VAV-HEI, but that is not the correct way to say His name that’s just the names of the letters in His name. Now I’m going to write His name in its picture form: hand, window, hook, window. Well that doesn’t make any sense at all to those of us who are not Hebrew scholars. Though some scholars will say that this is a picture of which He is first a hand to reach us with, then a window to see us through, and a hook to catch us with and finally a window that we can in part see Him. I quite like that explanation.

Now the numeric equation of His name, ten, five, six, five, for a total of twenty six; none of these tell us how to properly pronounce the true name of God, so the best we can do is make educated Guess’s.

One very educated guess is Yahweh which is the most common and the name that I personally use when talking to like minded believers. However, there is another derivative of that name that I use and personally think it is closer than Yahweh so this is the name that I use in my prayer time as stated previously.

The name I use in prayer time is Yahavah pronounced (Yah-Ha-Vah) I use this name in prayer time for no other reason than it annunciates all four of the letters in the four letter name of God. One Jewish teacher (I say teacher because Yeshua taught us to call no man Rabbi), that I have listened to talking on this subject says that it is correctly pronounced in one fluid motion and in one breath with no break for syllables. He had several reasons for coming to this conclusion and could be correct in his findings, but once again he had no real proof and by proof I mean cold hard facts.

I want to show you something I find very profound concerning His name though. Remember when scripture said that He made man in His own image. Watch what happens when we write His name from top to bottom in Hebrew:

י

ה

ו

ה

Now take all those letters and draw them right on top of each other, with each one touching the top of the other. What you should be looking at is a picture that resembles a man, with the Yod being the head, the first Hei being the shoulders and arms. the Vav being the torso, and the final Hei being the hips and legs. Not only are we made in His image we are made in the image of His very name and I don’t care who you are that’s pretty awesome.

Some Christian churches say that His true name is Jehovah, but this is not even a good educated guess. They came to this conclusion by taking the vowel pointing off of the name Adonai and placing them on the tetrogrammaton then once again falling back to the flawed Latin translation of a Greek mistranslation.

I’m not going to go real deep into proving the pronunciation wrong but will show that it has no validity just by the first letter and syllable which once again is just like the first syllable in the name Jesus. The first letter in Jehovah is J and we know there is no J or J sound in Hebrew.

Enough said about that; I think if you will refer to chapter one and apply the same principals to this name, you will see clearly that Jehovah is not even close. And also see why the supposed findings of these men are so suspect.

While we may have different opinions on the correct pronunciation of His True name, one thing is for sure He does have a literal name, and that name has been hidden from us for centuries. And now in these last days, just as He said He would do, He is making His name known again.

Jer 16:19-21 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and [things] wherein [there is] no profit. Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they [are] no gods? Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name [is] The LORD.

Notice in this passage of Scripture that the word lord is spelled with a capital L, capital O, capital R, and a capital D. Whenever the tetrogrammaton appears, they have replaced it with the capitalized title of the LORD. The LORD is not a name it is nothing more than a title that has been given to British land owners for centuries.

The title “God” is not a name either; it is a title that has been bestowed upon any entity that a person or a group of people have chosen to bestow their affection and worship upon. The last line of the Scripture above reads “and they shall know that my name is the LORD. (“Well ok, what is your name? I know it’s not the Lord.”)

He is this one time showing us His hand and His might and we now know His name is YHVH (Yahweh, Yahavah) He does have many other titles though, Abba, Adonai, Avienue, and Eloheem just to name few. And there are no doubts about the validity of those names so if you think you have to use His true name in public one of these should suffice.

Now here are some interesting facts to know. YHVH has a plan and his Word is the roadmap. We will get into that in some detail later, but for now I’ll just give you a taste. In the first two books of the Hebrew Bible if you will count fifty letters and then take that letter out and write it down and then count fifty more and write that letter down, and continue this process throughout the entire first two books of the Bible in Hebrew, you will find that you spell Torah over and over again.

In the third book of the Bible if you count seven using the same process, you will find YHVH over and over again. In the fourth and fifth book if you count 49 letters using the same process, you will again spell Torah… Only this time it is spelled backwards pointing you to the third book.

So look at this picture. The first two books of Torah spell out Torah correctly pointing to the third book in which the anomaly YHVH appears. And then in the fourth and fifth books of Torah again we see the word Torah spelled out but this time it’s backwards pointing back to the third book in which we find YHVH spelled out over and over. So the first two books point to YHVH and the last two books point back to YHVH (YHVH) so the whole of Torah points us to YHVH.

That’s a good point but an even better one is that there is also one letter that represents the name of YHVH. It is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, called the Aleph.

The Aleph in Hebrew is silent. It looks like the English X but don’t keep that in mind, keep this in mind; although the Aleph is a singular consonant, it is triune in nature. Now don’t think I am advocating a Trinitarian doctrine by making that statement. I’m just making the point that you can make the Aleph by using three Hebrew letters.

Ok now to those who are not familiar with Hebrew we are going to get real deep real quick so buckle up. Pay close attention to the Alephא diagram below as I try to explain how this letter represents the name of Yahweh, and not only His name but so much more.

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Look at the top right arm of the Aleph and separate it from the remainder of the Aleph, you will find that you have a YOD (י), now separate the remaining two portions of the Aleph you will find you are left with a VAV (ו) and another YOD (י). The last YOD is somewhat different though it is upside down. Now I’m just going to go through two meanings of the Aleph in its separated form but there are many others.

Meaning number one is a picture that I will try to verbally paint for you so please have a good imagination as I am not that great of a painter. Picture the first YOD in its signification of a hand, now picture the second portion the VAV in its signification of a hook. Finally, picture the third portion (the upside down YOD), in its signification of a hand, now put the three pictures together and hopefully you will see the picture of Yahweh’s plan to redeem humanity.

The picture you are viewing in your mind now should look like this:. You should be viewing Yahweh’s hand reaching down from the heavens with a hook and catching those on the earth who are reaching their hands up to Him. Pretty powerful picture isn’t it.

As for picture number two, imagine the first YOD once again as YHVH. The second portion, the VAV should be pictured as the Holy Spirit (“Ruach Haqodesh” in Hebrew), ascending from heaven to earth then returning again. The second YOD being upside down is in representation of Yeshua reaching up to heaven through the Ruach Haqodesh. Combine the pictures once again and you have the Godhead in plain view; the Father, Yahweh, the Son, Yeshua and the Ruach Haqodesh, all three in one.

So the Aleph is in my language, triune squared. It first of all is the representation of Eloheem (Yahweh, Yeshua, and the Ruach Haqodesh) or the Godhead as it would be referred to in modern Christianity. Secondly, it is prophecy that has already been fulfilled. Thirdly it is prophecy that is yet to be fulfilled.

So let’s even go a little deeper to prove this point. Yeshua said He is the Alpha and the Omega. Alpha in Greek is the first letter of the Greek alphabet, and Omega is the last. Now in Hebrew it would have been written “I am the Aleph and the Tav, the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

In fact, what every Hebrew speaking person who has ever read that statement has seen is this: In the beginning you did not know Me because I was silent and with My Father in heaven. That takes care of the Aleph, but how does the Tav play into this statement you might ask. Well it is simple my dear Watson (pun intended), just playing. It’s really not so simple unless youre Hebrew.

The signification of the Tav in the Hebrew language is the Cross. If you look at the last letter of the Hebrew Aleph Bet, you will see that it is in the shape of the cross.  So in the final part of His statement He said that because of the Cross He had brought the hope of salvation for those who will believe. So He was not just making a vague and generalized statement, He was preaching a very deep message.

Now let’s go even deeper down the knowledge hole and once and for all prove that the aleph is the one symbol that represents Yahweh. Remember Hebrew also has a numeric value and the true name of Yahweh (YHVH) has a numeric value of twenty-six.

Yod = 10,

Hei = 5,

Vav = 6,

Hei = 5

If you add them together you get a total of twenty-six.

Now with all three parts of the Aleph united it has a numeric value of one, but let’s separate it as we did before and see what the numeric value of it is.

Yod = 10,

Vav = 6,

Yod = 10

We once again get a total of twenty-six.  The same numeric value of the true name of Yahweh (YHVH). WOW, that is an eye opener, but that’s not as great of an eye opener as what I’m about to present.

In the Hebrew text if you start in genesis verse one at the first letter and count twenty-six you will find the Aleph, count twenty-six more you will find again the Aleph, twenty-six more you guessed it you will find the Aleph again. You will find this anomaly throughout all of the Torah ever twenty-sixth letter will be the Aleph.

Now for one final picture, use your imagination once again. Picture the Torah as a road and every time you walk the distance of Yahweh’s name you find Yahweh. Wooohooo!!! Man doesn’t that just make you want to shout, I know I sure do every time I think about it.

In summation, the question is does God have a name? The answer is yes. Now you know what His name is and how holy it is. It is so holy that He imbedded it into every chapter and every book in his word in such a way that only if you are truly seeking Him, are you able to walk the length of His name to find Yahweh waiting on you to take you further and further into His word so you can have a deeper love, respect, and relationship with Him.

As stated in chapter one, although you might call him God, or THE LORD, I am not saying you are calling on Baal or any other false god, but now that you know His name wouldn’t the proper response be to start using it when you are addressing Him? In not using it. you are making it vain and violating the commandment to not take His name in vain.

CHAPTER 3.

THE

TORAH

OBSERVANT

BELIEVER

Ok, now to explain why I prefer to call myself simply a believer rather than a Messianic or Hebrew roots, or a Nazarene believer. As I said earlier, I grew up in the Pentecostal Holiness Church which was very legalistic. I knew that doctrine inside out, but the legalism was just that, legalism, no holiness to it.

Well I don’t want to go that far because they thought they were doing what was right in the sight of Yahweh and some of the teaching that I received has brought me to the place I am today. And very often the Holy Spirit showed up for all to see with. We saw demonic deliverance, healings and miracles. For that I am very thankful but I always thought there must be more to serving YHVH than this.

While Christianity is very far off to the left of the straight and narrow path, with their overt practicing of the traditions of pagans. With their Easter, Christmas, Halloween, and Sunday worship, and their blatant disregarding of the Torah; (the first five books of Moses “the instructions”). Messianic Judaism is equally off base. They are clinching onto the man-made doctrines of the Talmud also forsaking the Torah.

There are several examples of how Messianic Judaism is off to the left of truth as much if not more than at least some denominations in the Christian faith. Messianic Judaism although Messianic in theory is nothing more than Rabbinical Judaism that has adopted the belief of Yeshua as Messiah. Messianic Judaism still clinches onto the doctrines of the Talmud that Yeshua the Messiah has set us free from.

I will in this chapter try to show how they have just switched from one legalistic form of worship to another. I will try to do this by pointing out some of the specific things they have derived from the Talmud and not the Torah.

One of the first things that comes to mind is the pushing of head coverings for men. Although subtle, it is clear where they stand on this issue. Many times they will ask a man if he would like to wear a Kippah or ask if He has forgotten his Kippah. While they may be concerned with you wearing a Kippah or not, you will almost never be asked if you would like to wear your Tallit (a prayer shawl that has Tiztzit tied on the four corners of it).

First of all I wear a servant’s hat, so I in no way want to seem condemning to someone that might fill they would like to wear a Kippah for what every reason they feel it necessary. The problem is not with the Kippah, it is with the condemning attitude you might receive if you chose not to wear one.

There is nothing wrong with wearing a Kippah, but the wearing of it is not commanded, nor is it contained in Torah. In fact, Yeshua condemned the scribes and Pharisees in the New Testament for following their traditions and making them into commandments while forgetting the true commandments.

Mat 15:1-3 then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread. But he answered and said unto them, why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?

While the previous passage is obviously not referring to the wearing of a Kippah (head covering) and Tallits (four cornered garment with tassels), The basic premise can still be applied to this matter.

Now when you go to a Messianic synagogue you will see the men of that congregation rigorously following the legalistic man-made doctrines of the Talmud (Oral law or traditions of the elders) by wearing a Kippah, but you will only find a few of them that observe the Torah by wearing the Tallit? Wearing a Kippah is a man-made tradition. However, wearing the Tallit is a commandment or instruction found in Torah given to us by YHVH.

Deu 22:12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest [thyself].

Now again I realize this verse does not say that you are commanded to wear a Tallit, But it is very much implied by stating that you are commanded to make fringes in the FOUR corners of you garment. Now a robe does not have four corners, and modern day clothing most certainly does not have four corners, so a Tallit is very much implied in this passage.

Here is one more thing that they are disobedient in if they are truly trying to live all of Torah and do not believe that the statutes of the law were nailed to the Cross by Yeshua. Where is the blue cords that are suppose to be tied in the Tzitzit (fringes, tassels) of the Tallit? It is one of the 613 commandments or instructions that we have a blue cord in the Tzitzit of our Tallit.

Num 15:37-38 and the LORD spake unto Moses, saying. Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribbon of blue:

I believe the reason for the absence of the blue cord in the Tzitzit is because today’s Messianic churches are more concerned with the traditions of man than they are with what the Torah says. Rome declared that the Jews could no longer wear the color blue and if they did they would lose their lives so the elders made a declaration that it was no longer required. Here is the awesome thing about that.

When the Jews were forbade wearing that color the snail that they used to extract the dye from to make the blue fringes, all but disappeared for almost two thousand years. When Israel became a nation again in 1948 the snails started reappearing. But Torah says absolutely nothing about where they had to get the dye from, it only states that the color must be BLUE.

One of the strangest man-made traditions of Rabbinical Judaism that Messianic Jews follow is refraining to wear a Tallit during evening services. This Rabbinical tradition is also derived from the Talmud. The Talmud in a round about way says since it is written in the Torah that we should see the Tzitzit (tassels) on the Tallit (four cornered garment) that we should refrain from wearing it at night. This is a direct and blatant twisting of Scripture.

Num 15:39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

YHVH was not saying not to wear your Tallit at night He was just saying that when you looked upon them you should remember His commandments.  This is the typical mindset of Rabbinic Judaism. They twist another Scripture that basically says that the Father gave the Torah to man to say that now He has no say in what the Torah means, and that they alone have the right to interpret it.

The Talmud says that since we cannot see in the dark that it is implied in the above passage that we are not suppose to wear the Tallit at night. They isolated a few words and have taken them out of context to make their own doctrine. The passage says nothing about only wearing the Tallit during the day or removing the Tallit at night. The passage simply gives the reason for making the Tzitzit, so when we see it, we remember. When you think about the structure of the passage in question, there is no way to word it any better.

Another example of how traditional Judaism (man-made doctrine) prevails over Scripture in Messianic Judaism is the order of the blessings. Even though Yeshua was our example of how we should do things, in Messianic Judaism man-made tradition prevails. In Judaism it is traditional to bless the wine before the bread, but the Messiah blessed the bread before the wine. Should not He, our Messiah, be our example? Let us read a passage from Scripture.

Mat 26:26-27 and as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed [it], and brake [it], and gave [it] to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. and he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave [it] to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;

Although this is a minor matter, it is yet another example of how we are shown what to do and how to do it in the Scripture but in many cases Messianic Judaism in general will follow the traditions of men and the ways of Rabbinical Judaism over what we know as the truth. Now I am not saying we are commanded to do it one way or the other only that we were shown an example by our Messiah. And rather than follow His example, we follow the traditions of man.

Now for what I consider to be the most ridiculous of all the traditions carried over from the Talmud is the sacrificial chicken. The Talmud says that we have to replace the lamb used in the Passover seder with a Passover chicken. The reason for this is that the temple was destroyed, and without a temple for the priest to sacrifice the lamb it was impossible to keep that part of Torah. Yep you guessed it, the Messianic movement has adopted this tradition also.

Here is a little side note, there was no temple for the first Passover sacrifice. Now for the awesome part wrap your mind around this. The Jews have not had a legitimate Passover according to their own Talmudic traditions since Yeshua was crucified. If you remember when He was crucified the veil was rent into two pieces and this would have made it impossible for them to keep Passover according to their own traditions, because the temple was not fully intact.

History states that not only was the veil rent but a fisher went straight through the temple. Now that cannot be proven and the veil being torn into was enough to invalidate their sacrifice according to their traditions.  Of course we know that Yeshua is our Passover lamb and YHVH no longer requires the blood of bulls and goats. It is the shed blood of Yeshua that takes away our sins now.

Yeshua is not a chicken nor is He a turkey!  The only chickens I see around here are the cowards afraid to stand up to the leaders in the Messianic community that teach these false doctrines.  The turkeys I see are the cowards teaching these perverted doctrines.

This doctrine is an outright perversion, a disgrace, and wickedness is at its core. The lamb has always been the representation of Yeshua and Him alone being our Passover lamb. To remove the lamb and replace it with a chicken is a violation of the Torah in the very least; but is so much more than that in my mind. Ok now just for fun let’s look at a few scriptures with the word LAMB removed and the word Chicken inserted in its place.

Rev 5:6 and I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a chicken as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

Rev 5:8 and when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four [and] twenty elders fell down before the chicken, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of saints.

Rev 5:11-12  And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;  Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the chicken that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing.

Ok I think you get the point if you take the lamb away you have a weak perverted doctrine that is against all that we stand for as believers in Yeshua the Messiah. So if for no other reason than this one we as believers in Yeshua the Messiah must reject the perversely demonized, bastardized doctrines and traditions of man and cling only to the Torah and the physical representation of it, our Messiah Yeshua.

Oh and one more thing, why do we use the term Rabbi. The Scripture is very clear that we as believers are not to be called Rabbi. Yeshua said that we should not be called Rabbi. So why do the leaders in the Messianic Jewish community allow their congregations to address them as Rabbi? More importantly why do Messianic Jews insist on calling their leaders Rabbi? Let’s see what our Messiah Yeshua had to say about it.

Mat 23:5-8 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. but be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, [even] Christ; and all ye are brethren.

Yeshua told his talmadiem not to be called Rabbi. If they were not to be called Rabbi, the very ones that he chose, why do men who are following Him now only by faith think it necessary to take that title.

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Mat 23:3-8  So whatever they tell you, take care to do it. But don't do what they do, because they talk but don't act! They tie heavy loads onto people's shoulders but won't lift a finger to help carry them.  Everything they do is done to be seen by others; for they make their t'fillin broad and their tzitziyot long, they love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues, and they love being greeted deferentially in the marketplaces and being called 'Rabbi.' "But you are not to let yourselves be called 'Rabbi'; because you have one Rabbi, and you are all each other's brothers.

Even in the face of this Scripture which was a direct command from Yeshua, men who say they are following Him still desire to be called Rabbi. If they legitimately have the right to be called Rabbi, meaning they have successfully completed Yeshiva, I assure you that they know what Yeshua said concerning this title. So they are not doing it in ignorance.

So now that you understand that they know they are walking in disobedience to a command from the Messiah, you have to take a look at what is in that person’s heart that would make him desire to use the title Rabbi. You know the funny thing about it is this: 90% are not Rabbi’s even by man’s standards. They have had some guy who called himself Rabbi lay his hands on them and anoint them as Rabbi, who himself was not a real Rabbi ether. It really is laughable.

When I started writing this, it was because I saw where friends were referring to this one or that one as Rabbi. And I said that I refuse to call any man except the Son Of Man Rabbi.

I went to a Messianic Yeshiva for some time and people were already referring to me as Rabbi before I ever even completed it. I did not go so I could legitimately hold the title or because I wanted to be called Rabbi.  I always corrected them and said I am not a Rabbi; Yeshua instructed us to not be called Rabbi because we are all brothers. But I realized something even though I would explain this to them in detail, they would still call me Rabbi.

What I realized is this; it is not only the person who is carrying the title Rabbi who needs to be called Rabbi, but the people who follow him for some reason have a need to call him Rabbi. I am just speaking from my own experiences here. It really is about the state of a man’s heart. Will he seek his own crown, or will he lay it on the ground at Yeshua’s feet who is the only Rabbi we have ever had. The rest of this will be some technical stuff mixed up with my own thoughts, but hopefully when you get done reading you will never question again whether a man should be called Rabbi.

First of all, Rabbi is an English word and was not ever used in the Tenakh. It first appears in the B'riyt HaHhadashah (New Testament) in Mathew the 23rd chapter.  It was, however,translated off the Hebrew wordרב Rab (Pronounced Rav). It is thought to be one who is or was increased. Like one’s Master, or a Captain, the head of a household, or an elder. Many Messianics that use the word Rabbi will say that it only means teacher. But it does not, and this is ether ignorance on their part or outright deception.

Take a look at the Strong’s definition for this word, looking at it through the eyes of Yeshua and what He was instructing the disciples concerning men taking titles for themselves.

H7227

רב

rab

rab

By contraction from H7231; abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality): - (in) abound (-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great (-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, [time]), (do, have) many (-ifold, things, a time), ([ship-]) master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply (-tude), officer, often [-times], plenteous, populous, prince, process [of time], suffice (-ient).

As previously stated, many Messianics try to get by this and say well it only means teacher. But Yeshua clearly defined what it means to be called Rabbi in His statement. It means to take one who is not the Messiah, as your master. Now we know that the word Rabbi is no where to be found in the Tenakh. So let’s take a look at the Greek definition for the word. The first time we see it appear.

G4461

ῥαββί

rhabbi

hrab-bee'

Of Hebrew origin [H7227] with pronominal suffix; my master, that is, Rabbi, as an official title of honor: - Master, Rabbi.

See the Greek is very clear about the origins of the word, and clearly defines that it means “my master”. Yet so called Rabbis will tell you that it only means teacher. Do you see anywhere in this definition that you can draw the conclusion that it means teacher. In fact, the Hebrew word for teacher is something entirely different.

The Hebrew word for teacher isבּין biyn (pronounced bene) or the Hebrew wordירא    ירה yarah or yara (pronounced Yah-raw’). The definition or meaning of this word however may not be what you expect it to be either.

H3384

ירא    ירה

yârâh  yârâ'

yaw-raw', yaw-raw'

A primitive root; properly to flow as water (that is, to rain); transitively to lay or throw (especially an arrow, that is, to shoot); figuratively to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach: - (+) archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew, shoot, teach (-er, -ing), through.

This is the true teacher: One who’s words flow like water because they are truth. He is able to find his target and shoot that truth into a man. He has the uncanny knack to see an error and expose it. If there is no error, then there is no need to expose only to expound. However, if there is error, he is compelled to expose it. He cannot rest, it is what drives him.

This is the yara, not what we think of as teacher. Anyone that has knowledge on a subject that another does not can teach them concerning whatever the topic is. But a Yara looks for error and exposes the falsehood of it. It is not what he does for his profession; Yara is what he literally is.

In the same way we would say a man is blind, no matter what that man does to hide his blindness he is still blind. The same is true with a yara.

Another interesting fact concerning the word Rabbi is by putting the final “bi” tense on the word Rab you are changing the whole meaning of it. The “bi” tense means that it has now become possessive like putting an apostrophe  after someone’s name. You are in effect saying that this person is your master. There is no harm in one saying the word Rav when referring to someone that is in charge of another because he is that person’s master. He very well may be an elder, or the head of his house. It is the same thing as saying Mr. or Sir in English. It is declaring his station in life. But if you say Rabbi in the sense that it is used today, you are saying that this person who is teaching you is your master.

Yeshua said that we are His sheep, He alone is our master. And that He will instruct us in all of His ways. He alone has earned the title of Rabbi. He alone is my master, He alone is my raw-aw (shepherd) he alone is the protector and defender of my soul and I will not share His glory with any man.

The word Rabbi does not simply mean teacher like many people have been led to believe.  The word Rabbi essentially has the same meaning as Adonai. When you call a man Rabbi, or refer to someone as your Rabbi you are referring to him in the same way you refer to the Most High. You essentially are calling him your lord and your master. How much more irreverent could you ever be than while in your worship of the Messiah you or someone around you is in fact calling a man his God.

Do you think that Messianic Jewish leaders may be hanging onto some man-made tradition so that they can appear to be more “Jewish” in what is perceived as traditional Judaism? After all, they wouldn’t want to be called a Pastor, because then they would sound like Christians. Are they afraid of letting go of those man-made doctrines, fearing they will in someway loose the respect of those the Father has placed in their care?

Where did Christians get the idea to call their leaders Pastors anyway? Let us read another passage from the New Testament.

Eph 4:11 and he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

We see here where Christians get the term “pastor” from. The translation in the New King James version is however incorrect. The word pastor in this particular translation comes from the Greek word poimen

poy-mane

Strongs #4166 which means shepherd.

In fact this word is translated as shepherd seventeen times and only translated as pastor in this passage and no other.

The word that was translated as poimen in Greek and into pastor in English is the Hebrew word ra’ah

raw-ah

Strongs #7462 which also means shepherd.

According to Scripture the correct English title for the leader of a congregation would be shepherd or ra’ah if you were looking for a Hebrew title that sounded a little more Jewish. Would it be too much to refer to the leader of a congregation as Ra’ah or HaRa’ah? Or is that not traditional enough?

Now let us talk about second class citizens in the Messianic movement. Although it has been said time and time again that there are no such second class citizens in Messianic Judaism, actions often speak louder than words. Many native born Gentiles feel somewhat unwanted or unwelcome in the Messianic community, especially by Messianic leadership. I have personally witnessed and experienced their cold shoulder and lack of love for the native born Gentile. Even unbelieving Jews reach out more than some Messianic leaders.

I do not understand why Messianic leadership feels the need to make native born Gentiles the second class citizens of their synagogues. To be honest, I am not really sure if they do this intentionally or if it is purely unintentional.

I will give you some examples of this double standard by recounting the events of another believer who attended a Messianic synagogue near where he lived. As Passover was approaching, the Synagogue started to sell tickets for the Passover meal which was to be catered at a banquet hall. For members of the congregation tickets cost $22.00 each, but for a Jewish guest tickets were free. That same invitation was not extended for the native born Gentiles like him.

Later that same year, the sisterhood, which is the woman’s group in the congregation, was throwing a Hanukah party. Again, the Messianic leadership asked members to only invite Jewish women and women married to a Jewish man only; please do not invite your Gentile friends.

Long before he attended this particular Messianic synagogue, the problem existed. Several years back an organization called the World Wide Church of God split apart when their leader passed away. Many of these Torah observant Gentiles flocked to this Messianic synagogue in an effort to find a spiritual home, but they were shunned and basically told not to let the door hit your backside on the way out. This would not have happened if it were a Jewish synagogue that had split apart and if it were Jewish people trying to find a spiritual home.

I am simply pointing out the lies and hypocrisy. Messianic leadership can say they have no such second class citizens until they are blue in the face, but actions speak louder than words.  I can read between the lines and the writing is on the wall, especially when they are such big letters.

A prime example of how Messianic Judaism is in some ways worse than non-Messianic Judaism is when it comes to conversion. Out of the seven branches of Judaism, six allow conversion, only Messianic Judaism does not allow conversion. Messianic leaders will tell you that conversion is not Scriptural. They could not be more wrong, let us read some Scripture.

Est 8:17 and in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.

We see here that Gentiles were becoming Jews, they were converting to Judaism, and they became proselytes. Proselytes are mentioned throughout Scripture, especially the New Testament. Romans chapter-11 speaks extensively about the Gentile being grafted onto the olive tree the Messiah is called the Vine and the Father is the Vine Dresser pruning the dead branches.

We see that as far back as the exodus from Egypt that there was a mixed multitude with the twelve tribes of Israel. The very meaning of the word Hebrew means to cross-over; it is not exclusive to descendants of the twelve tribes. Judaism and being Jewish is a statement of belief or faith, it is not a statement of lineage such as being Israeli.

The solution is so simple, yet rabbinical Talmud observant Messianic Jewish leaders find it so hard to let go of the very pharisaic man-made doctrines that the Messiah set us free from. The reason is they want to be accepted as Jews by their counter-parts so they do what is traditionally known as Jewish. They will do what is perceived as the Jewish thing to do at all costs, even if it goes against Scripture. Is it better to be considered Jewish by men than to be considered righteous by our Father? Their feeble attempt to be accepted by their Jewish counterpart is a lost cause to begin with, as traditional Judaism will never accept this form of Messianic Judaism as a legitimate denomination of the Jewish faith, ever!

As I have stated several times before, I was raised in the Pentecostal denomination, and being raised in that denomination I have seen it all. The first big thing to hit the Pentecostal movement was the Charismatic movement. Then it was the “name it claim it” doctrine. Then the “word faith” movement, and now the “seed time” “harvest time” doctrine. These are people that I once respected and followed as spiritual mentors and leaders. I saw with my own eyes this once somewhat sound doctrine turn into this thing it is now.

A church that is so wrapped up in Scriptures that in their minds can manipulate and control YHVH to accomplish their will rather then His. They have forgotten the small portion of truth that was once taught from behind the pulpit, and replaced it with emotionalism, and greed. You do not reach the world by becoming like it; if you are becoming like it, then it has reached you. But yet we see almost everything that is considered to be fun in the world now made part of the Church and because you have applied the name Christian to it, it is now magically a holy thing. I do not understand this concept at all.

The same thing is happening in the Messianic movement. We all came out of the church because we realized that we had been lied to when the Father removed the blinders from our eyes. The reality is that for those who have been blind for so long, when they really start seeing the light, sometimes it is too bright for them and they want to return to the comfort of their blinders. But the old blinders will not do so they find a new one called rabbinic interpretation.

Now that Yeshua has begun to reveal His word to me, I see just how apostate the “worship of the masses” have become. Wheather knowingly or unknowingly there is coming a time when He will no longer wink at ignorance. We have forsaken what He has told us to do in regards to studying His word so that we can be shown approved unto YHVH. We no longer rightly divide His word; we no longer seek His truth. We may still be workman but we should be shame-faced for the perversion of His word that we have allowed and not stood against as He has commanded us to do.

I need to clarify myself on a matter that may confuse some people. Messianic Judaism is no longer a description of ones belief in the Messiah from a Jewish or Hebrew perspective. Messianic Judaism is now an official denomination with official man-made doctrines. There are two main organizations or bodies of Messianic Judaism. The MJAA (Messianic Jewish Alliance of America) and the UMJC (Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations). When referring to Messianic Judaism, I am referring to the official denomination of Messianic Judaism, not the belief in a Jewish Messiah by the early believers known as Nazarene Judaism (Acts 24:5).

I know that some people will have their socks blown right off their feet, amazed at what I have presented here in this chapter. Others might be somewhat sick to thier stomachs, as the realization sinks in, knowing they have been indoctrinated by lies… Again. But I also know that there are those who hate the truth and will do whatever is traditionally accepted as the Jewish thing to do whether right or wrong. The latter would no doubt bow down and worship Baal if Talmud instructed them to do so. A simple case of the blind leading the blind.

I hope that I have shown you some facts that will help you understand why I do not want to be labeled a Messianic believer. I follow the teaching of Yeshua the Messiah, not the teaching of man. Because He was a Jew and the majority of His instructions prior to His coming in the flesh was given to the Israelites who are now known as Jews. Although the way I worship may have the appearance of being Jewish or Messianic, it is my intent to not adopt the traditions of man that have been inherited by our father’s fathers to my worship of Yeshua. If I am trying to follow Him and His teaching, then I will do the things He did, say the things he said, and yes live as he lived. And I must do all of these things to the best of my ability and knowledge. So that is why I say I am just a believer and not “Jewish” or a “Messianic”.

When I first started writing this book in 1999, I did not know that I had Jewish heritage. Even though I suspected it, I did not have any real concrete proof. But in my course of study, I have found out that I have Jewish heritage on both sides of my family. My mother’s maiden name was Orman for whitch I was told growing up was a German name and it was. What I was not told was that it was a Jewish family who had been exiled to Germany during the dispersion. Because of anti-Semitic sentiments I guess they were driven to the USA, where they became immigrant farmers and no longer practiced Judaism.

Now on my father’s side you have to go back much further to the clan days when a clan called the Gills entered into a covenant by marriage with the Espy family who were Jews. They called themselves the Gillespie’s, and then later during a conflict in the family some decided to change the spelling of their name (to disassociate themselves from the trouble), to the name Gillispie.

As I stated in the preface, I have done extensive study on this now to the point of taking a DNA test and tracing some family members back to the Ghettos and Auschwitz where they lost their lives.  But I was not raised Jewish other than being circumcised on the 8th day and taught the Torah. Other than that, I was raised as any other Gentile.

The point I’m trying to make here is, now that I know this it does not make any difference to me other than showing me the fear that my grandparents had to live in as Jews in the 30’s and 40’s. I don’t think that I am any more special than any other believer that is seeking the truth. I know that no matter what blood is running through my veins unless I have made Yeshua the Lord of my life, I will in no way inherit the Kingdom of God.

There is no need for me to appear Jewish even though I am a Jew. I do not follow the teaching of a man. I follow the faith delivered to my fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I do not live my life by the writing or interpretation of men, but by the word written by the finger of YHVH and delivered to His servant Moses on Mt. Sinai.

Let us not try to be or appear to be Christian, Jewish, or even Messianic. Let’s just be believers who are walking out the Torah to the best of our abilities. Let us not take on the label of a man but let us aspire to be called after the name of our Messiah and show the fruit of our faith as true believers.

CHAPTER 4.

LEGALISM AND THE LAW

Legalist is a term that is often applied to those people who think there is more to following Yeshua than saying a two minute prayer. If the denomination that they are involved in does not hold to some of the guidelines of another denomination, you may hear such phrases as we are not under the law, or that’s legalism. You may also hear the law was nailed to the cross. There are  many other catch phrases rehearsed by those that reject the Torah. In fact, all of these terms are incorrectly applied in most cases.

Ok for starters let’s define legalism, “legal” is the root word and “ism”, means the practice or observance of the proceeding word. The root of the word legal is law, so a loose but accurate definition of the word would be keeping or practicing the law. I’m sure you have heard that term before. Webster’s definition of legal is as follows:

“Legal LE’GAL, a. [L. legalist, from lex, legis, law.]1. According to law; in conformity with law; as a legal standard or test; a legal procedure…”

Conforming to the law, let’s analyze that for a moment. The word law is often applied when discussing what the church refers to as the Old Testament, but more than that, it is used even when referring to some New Testament Scriptures as well.

The first five books of the Bible are called the Torah in Hebrew, translated to its English meaning it would be “teaching” or “instruction”, and not the often harsh oppressive word the LAW! So in the following Scriptures substitute the words “the law” and the words “a law” with “the instructions”, and you will start to see something amazing.

Rom 2:13-15 (For not the hearers of the law (THE INSTRUCTIONS) [are] just before God, but the doers of the law (THE INSTRUCTIONS) shall be justified. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law (THE INSTRUCTIONS), do by nature the things contained in the law (THE INSTRUCTIONS) these, having not the law (THE INSTRUCTIONS), are a law (TEACHING) unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law (THE INSTRUCTIONS) written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and [their] thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;).

This is what this passage says to me but you read it for yourself asking YHVH for His understanding. You can not be justified by just hearing Torah (THE INSTRUCTIONS), you have to practice it also. Now the Gentiles who have not been taught (THE INSTRUCTIONS) Torah are now practicing it by nature, even though they may not be able to tell you what the Torah (THE INSTRUCTIONS) says; they are doing it because they have been born again. Because they have truly been born again Yeshua has placed (THE INSTRUCTIONS) Torah in thier hearts not in their minds. The Jews practice (THE INSTRUCTIONS) Torah because they have knowledge of (THE INSTRUCTIONS) Torah. The Gentiles are doing it because they believe and love Yeshua and what ever He places on their hearts to do they will do. Because it is in their heart and not in their head it is not grievous because it was never presented to them as this horrendous thing (THE LAW) that it has been made out to be by the worship of the masses.

Think of when you were a kid and you were learning to mow the lawn or do the dishes, and you couldn’t wait for mom or dad to show you how to properly accomplish the task, and when you were allowed to do it without supervision, oh man,  now you had arrived. You are now showing your parents that you can be trusted. Now months later, after you have proven your ability to accomplish the task to the standards of your parents, they ask you to take on this responsibility.

It becomes less fun at this point and has become burdensome to you. The same is true with the Gentiles. We are leaning new things and we love it but then someone steps up and tells us we have to do it this way or that way, and applies the term THE LAW to  it. Then they tell us that we will be held accountable if we break the LAW. Well of course we wouldn’t want anything to do with that.

If someone steps into a crowded room of people that are searching for answers and yells THE LAW, half of the room might disappear for fear of being arrested. Even if the room does not evacuate, it is almost certain that the room will grow extremely quite. Now, with that same group of people searching for answers, do the same thing. Only this time yell THE INSTRUCTIONS. I guarantee you will get a different reaction.

See just imagine that you are trying to assemble a swing set for the children of the most prominent family in town. There is a lot on the line by assembling this swing set. A great job will insure security for your family, but a poor job will make it almost impossible for you to ever work in that town again.

Imagine you go and buy the most extravagant swing set ever made. However, when you start laying it out to prepare it for assembly, you notice that the manual is missing. If someone were to show up and say that they had the instructions, you would be elated. But if someone yelled out THE LAW you might think you were going to be arrested for the poor job you were doing.

This is what the Torah is. It is YHVH’s instructions to His people on how they should live their lives as part of His kingdom, but we make it harder than it has to be. Instead of being excited that we don’t have to just muddle our way through this life, in fear that we will get it all wrong; we have the instructions but despise them because we have been convinced they are too hard to live by. At one point they were, but YHVH sent us His Son Yeshua.

When we allow Yeshua to do it His way by just allowing us to follow what He has written upon our hearts, and then drawing us into what He has written in Scripture in His own timing. We more times than not are fulfilling Torah unwittingly if we are truly following Yeshua and his teachings. We are living out the Torah and don’t even realize it. The only time we begin to question is when some man sticks his theological nose into it. Then as though it was through some form of magic, we now call the things that we once loved to do, because we were in a relationship with our Father, THE LAW.

Let us take a look at two other things now that will fit into the same context. The first being the word iniquity and the other being the sermon on the mount.

First let’s look at the word ( i niquity ). What do e s this word really mean? I as well as others, have been taught to think this word simply meant the worst part of sin. When in actuality the Greek meaning for this word is ( α ̓ νομία ) translated (anomia) w h ich is a compound word (a – meaning without ) and ( nomia – meaning instruction or teaching ) .

Let’s look at the word astronomy. Astro in Greek means Stars. And onomy means the study of. So when we see the word astronomy we know that its referring to the study of the stars. The same is true with the word iniquity. Remembering that the Greek word for iniquity is the word “Anomia” let’s follow that same process again. “An” in the Greek is denoting without something. And “nomia” is the Greek word for LAW. So when ever we see the word iniquity in scripture it should have been translated as without LAW or discarding the LAW.

We now know that T orah dose not mean law like we have been taught in Christian churches . I t actually means instruction s or teaching . It’s not something we should despise or reject, but rather it should be looked at as the most precious gift we have ever been given. That being said why would we ever want to commit anomia by living without the law or discarding it as though it were worthless.

Hear are some definitions of words that we know but have no real understanding of . The reason I am doing this is to show that there are some things we have been taught that are not exactly correct and are in some instances very misleading. With this in mind , remember this S cripture.

Jer 16:19-21 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and [things] wherein [there is] no profit. Shall a man make gods unto himself and they [are] no gods? Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I wil l cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name [is] The LORD.

Now keep this Scripture and the correct definitions of the words that will follow in mind as we discuss legalism.

Iniquity = without Torah

Torah = instruction

Law = Torah

Ok now that we have that cleared up let’s begin. Many Christian believers have been taught that we are not under the law (Torah) and that the law (Torah) was nailed to the cross with Yeshua. So therefore it is no longer a sin for us to not keep the law, because we are not under the law any more. The Scripture that will pop up right away when this is being discussed is:

Rom_6:14  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Now if one takes this single Scripture and builds a doctrine on it, it will appear that the previous assertion was correct. This is not how we are taught to study Scripture though. We are told that we must lay line upon line and precept upon precept. But even this is not an accurate quote of the Scripture being referred to. This is what that scripture actually says in complete context.

Isa_28:10  For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

See in this Scripture we are given a clue about how one should approach their study of His word. Humor me for a moment and let’s pick this Scripture apart because I think if we do some very important things will began to come into view. The verse starts out with the first principal word being precept. Now we all might have an idea what the word precept means, but so that we are all on the same page let’s look at the definition of this word from the Webster’s Dictionary.

Precept

PRE'CEPT, n. [L. proeceptum, from proecipio, to command; proe, before, and capio, to take.]

1. In a general sense, any commandment or order intended as an authoritative rule of action; but applied particularly to commands respecting moral conduct. The ten commandments are so many precepts for the regulation of our moral conduct.

No arts are without their precepts.

2. In law, a command or mandate in writing.

Now I know right away in reading this definition 90% of the readers have had their opinion changed on just what the word precept means. A precept is not just a general understanding or thought process. It is literally referring to the Torah (the LAW) but more specifically a commandment that is contained in the Torah. But it is much more than just the knowledge of that commandment. It is the knowledge and the application of whatever commandment is being discussed.

Now the next principal word in this Scripture is the word “line”. I will post the definition from Webster’s as well for this word even though I don’t believe it will be as grand of a revelation to you as the word “precept” was.

Line

LINE, n. [L. linea, linum; Gr. flax.]

7. In writing, printing and engraving, the words and letters which stand on a level in one row, between one margin and another; as a page of thirty lines.

8. In poetry, a verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure.

I only posted the two definitions that pertained to the context in which the word line was used in this Scripture, as the rest were referring only to a unit of measure and its various applications. But I think we can conclude by these two definitions that the word line means more then just a line like someone would draw in the sand. It is referring to a complete statement.

Now with the understanding of what just these two words really mean, in the context they were used, I will write what that Scripture is actually telling the reader to do.

Every commandment must be reconciled with any other commandment that deals with the same topic. Then that reconciled thought process must be weighed against all the other commandments, until there is no contradiction. After you have reconciled the commandments then look at the specifics of those commandments line by line and first reconcile all the specifics of how one would keep them. Then weigh the specifics of those lines against the precepts that you have just reconciled. If anything is contradictory then start the process again using a little here and a little there until the whole of the law has been reconciled within you.

This Scripture is not referring to the traditional church position that I can just take this Scriptur and then find a few more that fit into the same context and build a doctrine around that. This is the process that the church has used for the last 1700 years and the reason we have 1000’s of doctrines in the Christian faith alone. Now common sense tells you that if we are all reading the same book and claiming to be living by it. We should all believe the same thing.

On this same line of thought let’s take a look at one more Scripture that speaks to the way in which a true servant of YHVH should approach the word in his study.

2Ti 2:14-16  Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

This Scripture at the beginning instructs us to not be arguing about words. But is that really what it is referring to. Could it be that it is instructing us to not be arguing about one Scripture because you can always find one more Scripture that seems to contradict the one that was just stated. And thats the reason men do this because they are more concerned with being right in their own eyes rather then being right according to the whole of Scripture.

I’m going to stop there for a minute but come back to that Scripture because I need to make a point here. If you take a famous work of art like the Mona Lisa and only focus on let’s say the eyes, never even acknowledging that there is anything else to the painting, have you seen what it was that the artist was trying to portray. Sure you can comment about his use of line and the way he laid the paint in. You can comment about his brush stroke and the color pallet that he chose to use.

Even though you may be exactly right on all your assumptions regarding the artist’s technique. You have still not truly seen what it was the artist was trying to convey. Sure you have some knowledge of this work but you do not understand it in the context that the artist intended for you to.

The Torah is like that work of art. Picking a Scripture here and a Scripture there is like the person that only focuses on the eye. By focusing on the eye you miss the picture. Or as the old proverb says, you can’t see the trees for the forest.

So let’s focus on one of those proverbial trees in Scripture, but before we do I want to make a statement. And if you will let this statement sink into your heart, I guarantee you that it will change your life at least in the sense of your study and understanding His word.

Yeshua as the messiah. The twelve talmadim or (disciples) that He choose to follow Him and carry on His ministry were trained and taught by Him. If they taught anything contrary to what He taught them then they were false disciples. This is true even in the case of Paul.

Now if a person is trying to convince you that the Torah has been done away with, I guarantee you they will refer to the writings of Paul to do so. They will take you to Romans or to Galatians and pick a Scripture here and a Scripture there and begin to build their case.

Since this book is not about Paul I will just do what I do and tell you stories from the Scriptures. Paul said of himself that he was a Pharisee.

Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Then the next thing out of their mouth will be something similar to this “When Christ was nailed to the cross He fulfilled the law”, now using the definitions above replace law with Torah and read it again.  Now I’m going to give you the very next verse:

Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law (TORAH), till all be fulfilled.

Now this Scripture will be explained away saying “that when Yahshua was crucified it was fulfilled.” I guess they have thrown rational thinking out the window in the feeble attempt to make it fit with their doctrine. Has heaven and Earth passed away “NO!” Has all been fulfilled? “NO!” There are still several things spoken of by the prophets that need to be fulfilled such as the return of Yeshua for his bride. “DUH”! How they come up with this line of doctrine I will never know.

Now I will put these two Scriptures in my own words using the correct meaning: “Don’t even begin to think that I have come to take away the Torah (instructions) or what the prophets said would come to pass, I haven’t come to do any such thing; I have come to live the Torah (instructions) and to fulfill the words of the prophets when they foretold My coming. I’m here to tell you that heaven and Earth will pass away and all the words of the prophets will come to pass before anything happens to My Fathers instructions.”

Yeshua has fulfilled part of what the prophets foretold in so much as, where He would be born, what His name would be, and what He would do, etc., and He has fulfilled the spring feasts of YHVH. But He has more to do; He still has to fulfill the fall feasts. Remember He is our Passover lamb, our blood on the door post so we no longer have to offer the blood of animals for the remission of our sins.  The blood of the lamb spared the lives of the Israelites in Egypt but only for a season.

The blood of Yeshua the lamb of God has redeemed us from the curse of the Law (Torah). The Torah was not the curse, the breaking of it caused death, death was the curse. Death was always the curse God told Adam in the day you are disobedient to me by the eating of the tree that I forbade you to eat of you shall die. Death is the curse not the instructions. The instructions were placed their so you wouldn’t have to face the curse.

Yeshua said that he only does the will of the Father who sent Him right. What is the will of His (ABBA) Father? Well He makes that very plain, it is to love Him with all your heart and keep His commandments. One of the last things He had to say in Scripture was this.

Rev 22:14 Blessed [are] they that do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

“DO” is right now. “DID” is past and “GOING” to, is in the future. So, you are blessed if you are doing his commandments, and if you are then, and only then do you have the right to partake of the tree of life and enter into the gates of the city.

Mat 5:19 whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

That’s pretty point blank and self explanatory don’t you think.

Mat 15:9 but in vain they do worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.

Once again I will put this Scripture in the context that it was being spoken but in my own words “you say that you are worshiping Me but you’re not, you are following your church’s doctrines and not doing the instructions that have been given to you. You will gladly jump through your denominational hoops, but refuse and call it accursed, the things I have instructed you to do”.

1Jo 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

First John was written long after Yeshua had arisen from the dead and ascended to His Father in heaven, and He makes it very plain that if you are not keeping His commandments it doesn’t matter how much you say you’re a child of YHVH, or what preacher told you, you were saved, none of that matters because you are just lying to those you are talking to and deceiving yourself. So let the worship of the masses continue to call His instructions the law, and those that attempt to live it “legalist”. I think I will call it obedience.

Indulge me as I make a few final points about the law before we move on to the next subject. Why was the law given? The bible says in:

1Jon 3:4 whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

So what is sin using what you have already learned? Sin is disobedience to what He has instructed you to do, plain and simple. And we know that no sin will enter in to the Kingdom of heaven. We also know that there is only one penalty for sin and that is death. The grace that Yeshua has given us is not grace to live in rebellion to His Father’s instructions.

The grace that YHVH has given us is that if we will accept His Son, the penalty for our sins has already been paid, which was the death of Yeshua. If we do sin after we have accepted Him as Messiah we must ask for forgiveness. He said if we would be faithful to confess our sins He would be faithful to forgive us.That is grace, not this hap-hazard lifestyle that no matter what you do as long as you believe in Him you’re going to heaven. Scripture says that  even the demons believe, they believe so much that they fear and tremble. If I truly love my wife, I would not ever want to do things that I knew would displease her. And the same principle applies with our relationship with Yeshua.

I will never figure out how anyone could expect to have a relationship with Yeshua when they never talk to Him and knowingly are going against what He taught. This ideology in my mind says I know you’re God but I don’t have to do what You told me to because I said a two minute prayer and said I believe in You. When in actuality if you really believe in Him, then you would want to know what He said and when you knew what He said then you would do what He said.

Instead of just taking Him at His word we turn to our inspirational orators with their “psycho babble” and “feel good” sermons believing they have great insight and now know better than Yeshua what Yeshua was trying to say. Jumping through your denominational hoops in fear of loosing your job or being ostracized by the congregation is legalism. Believing the Bible and doing what YHVH said to do in it, well that’s called “obedience”.

I always find it funny how the church teaches that the Torah (LAW) has been done away with. They will quote Scripture that states “if you break any portion of the law then you have broken it all. So don’t live under the law and you are safe, because if you don’t live by it you cant break it,” is their rational.

These same preachers/teachers will say in one breath aren’t you glad Yeshua freed us from the law. Then in the next they will teach a message concerning tithes. Well the principal of tithing is found in the Torah and nowhere in the New Testament.

They will tell you the law is done away with, and then tell you it is a sin to tell a lie. They will say we don’t have to live by the law because it is nothing but condemnation and Yeshua came to set us free from that. Then if they are confronted with someone who has molested their own child, they will say they are going to hell. Well child molestation is mentioned no where in the New Testament. It is only found in the Torah. And the same is true with 90% of the things that the church uses to condemn its parishioners.

The fact is that they are double minded and Scripture says that a double minded man is unstable in all his ways. We can not teach that the law is done away with and then tell people they are going to go to hell for breaking the things contained in it. If the law is done away with then sin is done away with, because sin is transgression of the law. If there is no law, then you can not transgress something that does not exist.

There is not one sin in the whole of the New Testament that is not first mentioned in the Torah. When first coming to the knowledge of Yeshua, a pastor will normally point the new convert to the book of John and tell them that this is a good place to start on their walk with Yeshua. I could not agree more if they would teach it in its correct context.

The Torah is the WORD of YHVH these are the only words that He himself wrote. The rest were penned by men. He sat and spoke the Torah to Moses after the children of Israel ask Moses to be their mediator between themselves and YHVH. And as I have partially shown in the previous chapters,  there are anomalies in the Torah that are astronomically impossible for men to recreate.

Now in the very first chapter of John we are made aware that Yeshua is the WORD of YHVH made flesh to dwell among men. A better way to say it would be to say that He is the Torah made flesh to dwell among men. Around verse fourteen we see another profound statement being made. I will post the Scripture and then elaborate.

Joh 1:14-17  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Let us focus on verse 17. We see that the writer is drawing a clear distinction between Moses and Yeshua, saying the law was given by Moses but that truth and grace came through Yeshua. Is the writer saying that Moses was a liar, and that there was no grace under the law? No, because clearly there has always been grace under the law. We see the first presence of YHVH’s grace at the fall when Adam and Eve sinned against Him. And I could set here and sight time after time that the Father showed His grace to Israel when they had sinned against him. I mean the Father sending Moses Himself was an act of grace was it not.

So clearly the writer is not saying that there was no truth or grace before Yeshua. However before I go further into that dialogue, we must define what truth and grace is since we have already defined what the Law is. The only way we can truly define what truth is, is to go to the word and see how it defines the word truth.

The only place in Scripture that we can find the definition of what exactly truth means is in the Psalms when we see King David define it when he says that the Fathers LAW is truth.

Psa_119:142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

So with that information would it not be safe to say that through Yeshua came both the LAW (truth) and grace. But what is this grace that He brought that had not been here before He came to give it to us.

The Grace that He brought was of course Himself. It was through His selfless act of offering Himself as a supreme sacrifice that we all can be reconciled to the Father through Him. It was once again the grace of the Father to offer His only begotten Son so that we who have committed sin against Him could once again walk in union with Him.

The question was do we walk by the Law or do we walk in grace. So I will just make a final statement and let you answer that question for yourself. If we are living a life of sin breaking the Torah, then have we truly accepted the Torah who was made flesh to dwell among men. And if we have not truly accepted Him how can we walk in the grace that He came to bestow upon man?

CHAPTER 5.

ONCE SAVED

ALWAYS

SAVED

Ok this chapter is sure to make me some enemies, (like the last four haven’t). In this chapter we will show the foundation Scriptures used by the Calvinistic believers that are founded in their minds without a shadow of a doubt, proving that the “once saved always saved” doctrine is absolute truth.

Then we will show the Scriptures used by the Armenian Christian believers that prove their doctrine to be absolute truth. And finally we will use the Scriptures that both schools of thought hate that will prove both to be just outright false teaching… one in particular  I believe more so then the other. I will let you figure out which one it is for yourself.

First let’s start with the Calvinist view that says once you have received salvation through your belief that Yeshua was the Son of Yahweh, there is absolutely nothing you could ever do to loose that salvation.

Even the staunchest of the Calvinists somewhat recant when they are faced with the question of “If a man dies in the act of a known transgression, (sin) who has been saved, where does that man go on judgment day”. Thier answer more times then not will be, “that man was never truly saved.”

There in lies the problem if you go to a Calvinistic church and pray the sinners’ prayer. Undoubtedly you will be told by the minister you are now saved. But if you get shot in the back of the head later that night while in the act of committing adultery that same minister will say you were never saved. Pretty confusing isn’t it. Well let’s go to the Scriptures that they say prove once saved always saved is the truth.

John 5:24 – Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

John 10:27-28 – My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

John 17:12 – While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

Ephesians 1:13-14 – In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

1 Peter 1:5 – Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Romans 8:38-39 – For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Philippians 1:6 – Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

2 Timothy 1:12 – For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

2 Timothy 4:18 – And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Jude 24-25 – Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,  To the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

I know that was a lot of Scripture, but it is something we need to know if we are going to realize where they are coming up with this theology. They get it right out of the Bible, but the problem is how they are getting it. They pick and choose what Scriptures they are going to take literally and the Scriptures that are in opposition to those, well I guess they think those are hypothetical or figurative. This is what the Bible says, as I have stated previously.

2nd Timothy 2 – 15-16 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

Isaiah 28 – 10  For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

I think those must be figurative (just kidding), but clearly they have not done as commanded by Scripture or we would not have this haphazard religion telling people they’re saved and then telling them  you’re not saved. All the while every Sunday morning telling them there is nothing you can do to loose your salvation.

Let us stop there though for a minute and move on to the Armenian way of interpreting Scripture. I know I said “you decide,” but I just can’t stop myself. According to the word of YHVH this belief in my opinion is closer to what Scripture actually says than this loose goose, live it like you stole it, life style where anything goes, after you have said your five minute prayer.

The following doctrinal statements are made, following the beliefs outlined by Stephen M. Ashby (advocating Reformed Classical Armenianism) and Steven Harper (advocating Wesleyan Armenianism) respectively in Four Views on Eternal Security.

Classical Armenian Doctrine:

Classical Armenian theology holds to a perspective that would include the key attributes below:

God preserves all those who are saved through faith in Jesus Christ.

This divine preservation includes grace to overcome temptation, grow in righteousness, and endure persecution

This preservation is conditional upon continued faith in Jesus.

God will not force continued salvation upon those who deliberately renounce their faith.

The willful, deliberate act of apostasy is irrevocable; it is not possible to recover salvation once it has been lost.

Wesleyan Armenian Doctrine:

Wesleyan Armenian theology differs slightly in its understanding, disagreeing with the last two points above. Instead, Wesleyan Armenianism holds that:

Conscious, un-confessed sin (without any expression of regret), is the beginning point for the fall from grace.

Repentance (confession and change), is a necessary part of the Christian walk and restores holiness and salvation.

It is possible for long periods of backsliding to create a “shipwreck” of faith and loss of eternal life should it continue untended, but in spite of this God can radically call one back to saving grace.

It should probably be noted that the overwhelming majority of Armenians deny any accusations of “works-based salvation.”

Below are some Scriptures that are universally used to both defend and challenge the doctrine of Conditional Perseverance.

Scriptures used to support:

Heb 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

Heb 3:12-14  Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end;

Heb 6:4-6  For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Heb 10:26  For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

Heb 10:23, 35-36, 38-39 NKJV Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

2Pe 2:20-22  For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

John 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

Rev 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

There are also a group of Scriptures that use the present participle of the word “believe”, implying a continual, progressive nature. Thus, according to the original Greek, these verbs should be translated “is believing” or “is continuing to believe”.

Below are some of these verses, commonly cited by proponents of Conditional Preservation. The present participle interpretation is noted in brackets such as believe [is believing]. Taken from the NKJV which I seldom use but for these particular passages I think it relays the thought behind the Armenian point of view.

John 3:16 – For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes [is believing] in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

John 3:36 – He who believes [is believing] in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe [is not believing] the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.

John 5:24 – “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears [is hearing] My word and believes [is believing] in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

John 6:35 – And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes [is believing] in Me shall never thirst.”

John 6:40 – And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes [is believing] in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 10:27-28 – My sheep hear [are hearing] My voice, and I know [am knowing] them, and they follow [are following] Me. And I give [am giving] them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.

Ok I once again I apologize for all the Scripture but it is necessary to understand the mind set of the Armenian belief. I find more often times than not Scripture is on their side when stating their belief system. But they just as the Calvinists have made some crucial errors. We must do as scripture commands us to do and study to show ourselves approved to God rightly dividing the word of truth.

Notice that it did not say the words of truth (“plural”) meaning many truths. There is only one truth and the only way we can find it is to lay line upon line, line upon line, precept upon precept, precept upon precept. Here is what that means to me, check it, check it again, check it one more time and then check it again. After you’ve done that check your theology, then check it again, then check it one more time, then check it again. After you fill confident you have done all of that if you find one Scripture that can punch a hole in your theology repeat the process all over again.

YHVH’s Word is absolute truth it does not contradict itself and it will never lie, so if there is any of that going on, you just haven’t studied it enough. I am guilty of that myself on various subjects but on salvation which is the very beginning of our faith we had better be sure.

Now we will poke some holes in both of these theology pails and see what comes out. Classical Armenian belief stat’s that once one has transgressed the law (Torah) there is no hope of regaining salvation. Calvinism states that once one has received salvation there is nothing one might do to loose it. Wesleyan Armenian belief states that salvation is not lost when one breaks God’s commandments it is only the beginning of the process of loosing salvation.

Classical Armenian doctrine in fact negates the work that was preformed by Yeshua going to the cross. Calvinists deny the very teachings of the one they claim to be their Messiah by saying it was all done away with at the cross. And Wesleyan Armenian doctrine also denies Scripture that states that there are sins that cause immediate loss of salvation.

I could go on and on proving why all three of these beliefs are a fraud by giving you Scripture after Scripture that flies in the face of them. But I do not want to insult your knowledge of Scripture and I want to give you an opportunity to start on your journey of finding the lies of each man-made doctrine. Once you become familiar with the tactics used to gain trust by them, you for yourselves will be able to see right through the lies.

The main point I want to make here is concerning the word saved. Now understand that this word saved is a finished work. You can not be saved and still be in the process of being saved. The very word salvation implies that it is a process. Scripture states again and again that if we do this or that then we will be saved. He that endures to the end shall be saved. No one that is still alive is saved. We are redeemed and in the process of being saved called salvation.

If I would have fallen down a well and could not free myself, would I be saved when I started yelling for help? No, I would not right. Would I be saved when you heard my cries for help? No, I would still be in the well right. I would now have started the process of salvation, but I am not saved. Would I be saved when you drop me a rope? Again no the rope only provides me an avenue to get out of the well.  I would not be saved even when I had climbed the rope 3/4ths of the way out. I am not saved until I am completely free from the well and my feet are on solid ground.

The well that I referring to is the life of sin that we have been living in. When we recognize that we do not have the ability to free ourselves from that life of sin, we begin to call out for help. Yeshua hears our cry and starts the process of salvation. The rope that He throws us is His Torah. If we will grab on to that rope and begin to climb (trusting him to hold that rope securely until we are free), we are in the process of being saved. This is salvation. When we have climbed the rope to the top of the well completely extricating ourselves from the life of sin and hear His voice say well done my good and faithful servant, then and only then are we saved.

When we look at salvation in its correct context, we begin to realize this. Yes, Yeshua has redeemed us by providing a way for us to be completely delivered from a life of sin that has separated us from the Father. He will be faithful to continue the process of salvation in our lives even if we stumble along the way. And as long as we hold onto the truth that He has brought into our lives, the end result will be that we are saved.

CHAPTER 6.

TRUTH

AND

OUTRIGHT

LIES

I would like to start this chapter with a verse from Jeremiah the sixteenth chapter verse nineteen through verse twenty-one. I know I have used this Scripture a couple of times before but the whole point of this book is to point out lies or the gray areas of doctrine in the church, so please indulge me once more.

“O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods? Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD”.

Ok first of all let’s realize who is speaking here. It is not Jeremiah, although his hand has put it to parchment. It is the Father clearly speaking and telling Jeremiah what is going to happen in the last days. He said in the day of affliction the Gentiles would come from the ends of the earth. Let’s keep the context right so they are coming to who? They will be coming to Him, right, with an explanation of why it was almost impossible for them to do all that He had commanded them to do.

If you read the preceding verses you will realize that He is speaking to Israel and explaining what will take place when He restores the house of Israel to the land. The Gentiles will come unto YHVH and do what, repent and ask to be taught not because of anything that they themselves had done, but because of that which was done by their fathers, and their father’s, fathers. Their fathers, father’s had inherited lies, and not only lies but vanity and other things that were not profitable.

This is what we need to focus in on, the lies and vanity, and to do that I’m not going to give you my own words but the words of my good old friend Webster’s Dictionary.

First let’s take a look at the word “lies”. We all know that lies is the plural of the singular verb lie, so I will give you what Webster’s Dictionary says about the word lie rather than its plural form, lies. I will not, however, be giving you the entirety of this definition as it is quite lengthy, but I suggest you read it on your own, because little words that are common to every day speech really require us to give no in-depth thought.

If I were to ask you what the word “lie” meant, you would probably give me a short answer resembling this: Well it means to say something that is not true. So indulge me and let’s take a closer look at what it really means.

LIE, n.

1. A criminal falsehood; a falsehood uttered for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth. Fiction, or a false statement or representation, not intended to deceive, mislead or injure, as in fables, parables and the like, is not a lie. It is willful deceit that makes a lie. A man may act a lie, as by pointing his finger in a wrong direction, when a traveler inquires of him his road…3. (False doctrine. 1st John 2). (4. An idolatrous picture of God, or a false god. Rom 1. 5.) (That which deceives and disappoints confidence. Micah 1.)To give the lie, to charge with falsehood. A man's actions may give the lie to his words. (To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive, or with an immoral design.)( Thou hast not lied to men, but to God. Acts 5.) To exhibit a false representation; to say or do that which deceives another, when he has a right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation.

We can now see that, that little word “lie” means more then to just tell something that is not true. We tell things all the time that are not entirely truth that are not necessarily a lie. We may have been misinformed ourselves or just may not have known the intricacies of the subject matter. It becomes a lie when you know it is not truth and for whatever reason you are motivated to do so, you go ahead and state a falsehood as absolute truth.

Another way to lie is to try to find things that give validity to a lie. This is the most common way we see it being done in the church, rather than stepping back and taking a new look at the problem that has presented itself and having to say that our doctrine and theology is wrong, we will time and time again seek out those that have ran across the problem before and draw from their knowledge of how to explain the dilemma, rather than just getting into the word and finding out what the Father says about the situation.

I will give you a warning before you go any further in this chapter, although my prayer is that you read it to its completion, this chapter is going to tear down most doctrines and traditions that are taught in the church today. There is one that it will not though, and it is the doctrine that states that Yeshua (Jesus) is the Son of God and that without Him no man will inherit the kingdom of heaven.

This chapter will point out how paganism has infiltrated the church to the point that it is being preached from behind the pulpit like it was the absolute word of God. So my warning is that if you like your holidays and church traditions and don’t want to know the truth about their pagan origins then skip the rest of this chapter until you have finished the rest of the book. You are going to read things here that you will more than likely never hear taught at your church.

Let’s now go back to the Scripture in Jeremiah where it said “…our fathers have inherited lies and vanity…” If when you were a baby just beginning to learn and your parents taught you that black was white and white was black, and no one ever proved to you that your parents had taught you a lie, you would grow up thinking that black was really white and vice versa.

Now let’s put it on a grander scale. Suppose you live in a town where every one thinks that black is white. There would be no opposition to challenge that thought  process and you would probably grow old and die never knowing that you were wrong, and of course you would have taught your children and grand children the same lie. I state openly and unequivocally that this is what has happened in the Protestant church.

As a side note for those of you who might not understand how large of a group that is, if you are Christian and are not Catholic, Lutheran or Messianic you are Protestant. The lies that were handed down to us had no ill intent; the people who taught us thought they where giving us absolute truth. I’m sure they were sincerely trying to teach us what they thought was right, they were just sincerely wrong.

We have already covered some lies taught in the church, like when I showed clearly that Jesus’ real name was Yeshua, and God does have a name and it is not God. We have even covered a few of the denominational lies. I do not want to make you not ever want to go back to a church again, so I will try not to address any more of those but will rather focus on the traditions that we practice in churches every year.

The first one we practice every week, and that is calling Sunday the Sabbath. What day did YHVH say was the Sabbath? You are exactly right the seventh day of the week. Now please look at a calendar and count the days of the week from left to right until you reach the number seven. You are now looking at the day we call Saturday not Sunday.

Sunday is the first day of the week not the seventh. And believe me I have heard it all about how it got changed here or there, but the one thing that no one has ever been able to do is to show me where YHVH or Yeshua ever changed it or for that matter where any one in Scripture has ever changed it. But yet we all sit in pews and listen to the preacher tell us that Sunday is the Sabbath. What I find astounding is how no one ever questions this. So I am going to make a lot of people mad right here and tell you how the day got changed.

Around 325 of the Common Era or 325 AD as we say here in the United States, Constantine the Roman emperor was praying to his god, the sun god on the venerable day of the sun, Sunday as he was praying, he looked up at the sun squinting, thinking that he had been shown the sign of a glowing cross. He said that this was a sign that he should adopt the Christian religion into the worship of his Gods.

He then made the cross the official symbol of the Christian religion and it still remains the Christian symbol to this day.

Constantine then began merging Roman worship with the faith of the early believers. This mingling is  what we now know as mythology. He decreed that Sunday was the holy day because that was the day of the God he worshiped.

As a Zeus or sun god worshiper he would have, on the first day of the week (Sunday) at sunrise, been on his knees at the temple of Zeus praying for his favor. By seeing the sign of the cross, he thought that it was Zeus that had revealed this to him. It was not that he had embraced the faith of the early believers in Yeshua. By his later actions, we see that he clearly thought Yeshua was the son of Zeus. As the son of Zeus, he was a Demigod and deserved worship but he was not the one we as believers know him to be.

There is much more to the story but that is a book in itself so please read as many books as you possibly can on Constantine. You will find that what I have told you is absolute truth because I don’t want you to just take my word for it. It is always best to have two, three or even more references to site when confronting an issue like this.

Now that you know how and why the Sabbath got changed, let me tear down another church high holy day, namely Easter. This one is like a no brainer though they didn’t even change the name.

Easter comes from the Latin name Ishtar which was the goddess of fertility. The goddess Ishtar was said to have landed in the Euphrates River in a giant egg, bursting out as the bare breasted goddess of Easter. To proclaim or prove her divinity, she changed a bird into an egg laying rabbit. Every year at sunrise on the vernal equinox, the occultic priest of Babylon would rape young virgins on the altar of Easter.

That’s not even the really bad part of the story though. They would take the children that were conceived from these rapes and raise them until the next years celebration of Easter.  The following year the priest would slit their throats of these three month old babies and drain all the blood out into a caldron of some type, as a sacrifice to the goddess Ishtar.

The priest of Easter would then take eggs and dip them in the blood of these murdered infants and hide them around the city. If you found one of these eggs and ate it, you were promised fertility and male offspring in the coming year. This pagan ritual is no doubt played out in your church every year probably without the rape and murder but it is still the same ritual.

Let me explain how it is the same even though you are not raping virgins and killing babies. Most churches have Easter sunrise services, or a morning service or both. Most of them have Easter lilies on the altar which is the flower that represents fertility. Then after the Lie-verse (Service) where you are told that this is the celebration of Yeshua raising from the grave, you then take your children and let them hunt dyed eggs that were supposedly placed there by this bird that had been turned into an egg-laying rabbit.

Easter falls on the first Sunday after the vernal equinox, and the services are normally at sunrise. The really sick part is that we still hide colored eggs and have the children make a sacrifice to look for them.

Some churches go as far as dressing someone up in a rabbit suit and then calling him the Easter bunny. There is one church to this day that will only die their eggs one color… blood red. But we will sit there and listen to the pastor tell us how this is the day that Yeshua arose from the grave and “Amen” him as he does it.

The Bible tells us exactly when Yeshua was crucified and when He arose from the grave and it certainly was not Easter. He was crucified on Passover, laid dead for three days and three nights, and arose on the third day.

Now I’m going to give you a math problem that even Einstein himself couldn’t figure out but I don’t know maybe you can. How do you get three days and three nights from Good Friday until Easter Sunday morning? Let’s see if the math works out. We will count Friday as one day and one night, Saturday as two days and two nights.  However, according to their story, he arose at sunrise on Easter Sunday morning. Even if we could count Sunday morning, we could not count Sunday night.

When you look at your calendar, you will often see Easter and Passover a week or so apart. The Scriptures tell us exactly when Passover is in Lev 23:5  “In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's Passover.” Not at the vernal equinox, and not in the morning at sunrise, but rather it clearly states at the evening or the setting of the sun.

Is not this the sickest thing you have ever heard? I know growing up that I had read these Scriptures but had never sat down and put them together; I do remember asking about it one time though. I think I ask my grandmother something to the effect of why we called it Easter and not Passover and her reply was something like “it’s the same thing; we call it Easter and the Jews call it Passover”.

Now I in no way think she would have ever told me a lie knowingly, as she loved the Father with every fiber in her. She among only a handful of others like my uncle James, my mom and dad, and a few others do I consider real men and women of Yahweh. But Easter and Passover are not the same thing; they are not even close to the same thing.

The Pagan worship of Easter is alive and thriving today in Christian churches around the world and because something is said about Yeshua (Jesus) and his death and resurrection we accept it as worship unto YHVH.

Isn’t it time that we as believers start to stand up to these religious bullies and tell them that they are teaching a lie? Some may do it unaware and when confronted with the truth will repent and start to correct their error.  I will tell you though that many of them already know the truth. They will not change nor will they teach the truth to those who are in their congregation. They will not because they are afraid of loosing their position and or their income from the assembly they preside over.

Remember reading in the bible where the Children of Israel were led out of Egypt, and while Moses was away receiving instruction from YHVH, Aaron made a golden calf and said tomorrow we will have a feast day unto YHVH. When Yah saw what they had done and that they were trying to worship Him through the pagan idol of a golden calf He wanted to destroy them and raise up a nation unto Moses. Moses then pleaded with Yah to spare them and in the Fathers mercy we received the Ten Commandments, as we call them today.

Let’s take a closer look at this story though. Why did Yah want to destroy them? Certainly not because they wanted to make a feast day to Him, He wanted to kill them because they were mixing paganism (the worship of false idols) in with their worship of Him.

Now that I know this is the true Easter story, I have tried to share it with others so they to can be brought out of their pagan worship. In doing so, I normally get a reply to this effect, “Well that’s not what I’m doing, or that’s not what it means to me”.

It does not mater what you think you are doing, and it does not matter what it means to you. It only maters what Yahweh thinks you are doing and what it means to Him. He thinks you are ignorantly taken part in a pagan ritual and if it were not for the shed blood of Yeshua, He probably would have long ago put an end to your life and mine as I once too celebrated Easter.

For years I stood behind a pulpit and told people about the resurrection of my Savior, Yeshua ignorantly in a service filled with pagan worship… mixing paganism with my worship of the Almighty. It was no easy task for me when I heard this truth. I first sought out people to tell me that it was alright and explain it away but I’d always return to the thought process of “It doesn’t matter what it means to you it only matters what it means to God”.

The realization that I had been participating in paganism and lies, and not only participating, but teaching others how to do the same hit me very hard. I had given the Christian thesis on why we attend service on Sunday and told people it was the Sabbath. I had lead them in Easter sunrise services. I had even hidden eggs for the children to hunt and lied to them and told them they were put there by the Easter bunny. And when the realization that I was the biggest sinner of all hit me, it struck me to my knees in a true heart of repentance.

Ok now that I have completely ruined Easter for you. let me pick on the biggest Christian “high holy day” of them all.

Da-ta-da-daw CHRISTMAS!!!  I’m not going to go into great detail about this subject I am just going to point out the obvious, because I plan on writing a short book dedicated to this one subject. Ok I have decided, on this subject, I am going to leave it up to you to prove me wrong. This will get you into studying your Bible and that is what the whole purpose of this book is about. It’s not intended to make myself look smarter than you or better than you but to provoke in you a hunger to lay down traditional church doctrine and get into the word of Yah and study it for yourself.

In this portion, I will just make the statements, you will be left to prove them right or wrong. Yeshua was not born on December 25th around the winter solstice. However, several pagan gods were. Pagan gods like Nimrod, Zeus, and Tamuz were all said to have been born on that day. I’ll give you a little hint in your study though.

The shepherds where still in the fields grazing their sheep and this would have not been the case if it would have been near the end of December. I will give one passage of Scripture to you but only because it will show you how we take a day that was dedicated to false god worship and make it pagan idol worship.

Jer 10:2-4  Thus saith Yahweh, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Yes you have guessed it, it is the Christmas tree. The Christmas tree is the symbol of the uncircumcised penis of Nimrod who was said to have been castrated or to have castrated himself for some reason.

Now every year at the winter solstice we bring in an evergreen tree in effigy of his penis and hang gold and silver balls on it. Oh this is only the beginning of this atrocity. There are hundreds of evil things surrounding this holiday, and this is just one of them. Remember once again, concerning this holiday, it doesn’t matter what it means to you; it only matters what it means to the Father. And look for my next book “Jesus And Santa In A Slay.

Before we move on though, I would like you to know that it was supposedly on December 25th that Titus sacked the temple in Jerusalem and desecrated the altar by burning a pig on it. Just know that out of all the days in the year, this day alone stands above the others as one of the most evil days of the year.

Now that I have completely ruined Sunday, Easter and Christmas for you, I will close this chapter by saying if you think these are the only two pagan rituals celebrated in the church today, you are sadly mistaken. This is just enough to get you started on the path to kicking paganism out of your life and your worship of Yahweh.

And yes while some pastors and teachers instruct those that will listen to them to celebrate these days out nothing more then ignorance, there are those that do it with their eyes wide open. They are not just practicing pagan holidays though, they are using spiritual manipulation and out right occultism, which leads us to the next chapter in which I will point out some of this spiritual manipulation.

CHAPTER7.

WOLVES

IN THE

PASTURE

In this short chapter I will use the words of the greatest Shepherd who ever lived, our Messiah Yeshua, and a few of my own to describe why we are surrounded by wolves in sheep’s clothing. In my book I point out some of the tactics of these wolves, but these wolves are easily spotted by those of us who believe that Yeshua did not come to abolish the law (Torah or Instructions), but to establish it in the very hearts and minds of men.

My spirit has been very troubled lately as I have been seeing more and more wolves creeping in around the sheep. I wonder why others do not see them. My conclusion is that if I see the proverbial sheep’s wool myself… others must also. However some are having it literally pulled over their eyes. So hear the shepherd’s call WAKE UP!!! SHAKE OFF YOUR SLUMBER!!! There are wolves in the pasture and they mean to devour you.

First let’s address the shepherd before we get to the wolves. It all begins with him anyways.  Most shepherd’s have either come into the flock as a hireling or by their own devices have made themselves hirelings. And yes some shepherd’s are wolves themselves.

Yeshua warned against this in John 10:7-18. Then said Jesus unto them again; verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is a hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is a hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

There are actually two messages in this portion of text. The first one is that Yeshua is the Good Shepherd and that He would lay down His life for His sheep. Not only the known sheep of His flock, but those of another flock that would hear His voice and follow Him.  He will make one flock out of the two.

This being the Jew and the Gentile (the lost sheep of the house of Israel) coming together as one flock again just as they were when we were led out of Egypt by the power and might of the Father. We were then a mixed multitude and we once again will be the same.

There is also another message being taught in this passage to those of us who are called to be Shepherd’s. We are to learn by example from the Good Shepherd (Yeshua), who was not a hireling but was the Owner and being such cared for the sheep so much that He was willing to do whatever it took to insure their safety, so much so that He was willing to give His own life for them. Yeshua was the only one also at this point who had received the commandment from the Father to raise again. While we see clearly now what was so unclear to the apostles in this passage, we for the most part, are still blinded to the entirety of what is being said.

We all have one Master and one Head, we also have one Shepherd who is Yeshua. We also see that He has appointed some of us that remain to walk in the office of the shepherd as well as many other offices. We as shepherds are not to be hirelings that only care for the flock until real danger comes, and then run in fear.

The problem is that some shepherds who once were really good shepherds have allowed wolves in with the sheep. These wolves look like sheep and act like sheep, well as much as a wolf can. To the untrained eye the flock seems to grow with them. The wolves are there and now pretending to be protecting the flock… allowing the shepherd more time to tend to his own needs.

The shepherd begins to labor in comfort not realizing that he has become a hireling more concerned with the wool than the sheep. Now without all the pictures of sheep and shepherds that I’ve been painting in your mind, I’ll just simply state it in plain English.

Once true men of Yahweh, many have turned their concern away from accomplishing the will of the Father, and are now concerned with whatever snare the enemy has set for them (Money, Stature, Position, Image,etc.) than they are with tending to the task that the Father has given them.

These men get so caught up in these devices of Satan that they become unreachable and hardened to a warning from the Father, and now that they are not being lead by Him have no meat to give those who are in their care. Because of this, they turn to the only other source available. They turn to a man and began to follow his teaching and his commandments, because they have no real food to feed them.

They  then pass these false teachings and commandments on to those who are in his care as though they were from the Father. Forget ever trying to question one of these men on this subject, because you will be ostracized or excommunicated from the body. We are to be as sheep that follow the Shepherd where ever He leads, but we are not to be blind sheep following a blind shepherd. So if your shepherd has made himself beyond contestation and hardened himself against the word of YHVH, he has more than likely come as a hireling or made himself one.

Now on the flip side of this we must realize because of the position the Father has placed true shepherds in, they must at times make decisions that to the flock, may not seem right at the time, but unless you can see clearly in the word where he is in direct violation, be patient and wait for the outcome. He may have seen a potential wolf that he is steering the flock away from. What I’m saying is don’t be petty if the pastor has made a decision that dose not sit right with you, but he is not in error to the word of YHVH, just be a good sheep and follow and quit trying to be the Shepherd.

Let us now began to take a look at some of the wolves that have crept in to many flocks in the Messianic faith. The wolves I’m referring to are doctrinal wolves. Many of these wolves are traditions. We are trying on our own to live like pharisaic Jews who now believe in the Messiah Yeshua.

One example is that it is not a sin to wear a kippa. I myself wear a servant’s hat from time to time. It is however a direct violation to command one to be worn or to make people feel obligated to wear one. We are command to not add to or take away from the Torah of YHVH.

We are all growing and are finding new things out in the Torah on a daily basis, but we should never stand in judgment over another because they are not walking in the knowledge that the Father has led you to. You and I did not come to this understanding in a day so why do we expect others to.

The next portion of Scripture is a very well known Scripture in the Messianic movement. It is Yeshua addressing those who might think that He had come to do away with the Torah of YHVH given to Moses. It’s found in Matthew the fifth chapter starting at the seventeenth verse and continuing thru the twentieth verse.

Mat 5:17-20 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you. Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Although you have probably read this Scripture a hundred times, I want to go through it step by step and see if we have understood it or just been using it as a doctrinal whiping point.

First He says “Think not.” What does that phrase (think not) mean? I think it means do not even let the thought enter into your mind. Then He says “that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets.”. Let’s take the word destroy next. It means to 1.) to demolish 2.) to ruin 3.) to lay to waist 4.) to kill 5.) to take away.

Ok, so far we have… don’t let it even enter your mind that I have come to take away the law (instructions) or what the prophets foretold. Let’s keep on going though. The next word we need to take a look at is the word “fulfill”. The word fulfill means 1.) to accomplish 2.) to perform 3.) to complete, and 4.) to execute.

So now we have this sentence. Don’t even let it enter your mind that I’ve come to take away the law or the prophets because I have not come to take it away but I have come to accomplish it. Verse one is now complete and there is a point I have to make here before we can go on any further.

Yeshua (Jesus) did not break any of the law, He fulfilled it. He did not change the law, He accomplished it. He did not take anything away form the law, He preformed it. He did not add anything to the law he completed it. If Yeshua in life or death added to the law or if He took away any part of the law, then He was not the messiah because by doing so He would have broken the law and been found guilty of sin. Just as every man has been since creation. Deu 12:32 What thing so ever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

This is what man does, he has always been deceived by his sinful nature, and is still contemplating the age old question “hath God said”. We know YHVH said “do not add to or take away from the commandments that I have given you.”

Let me explain how adding anything to the Torah or taking anything away from it would have disqualified Yeshua as the messiah. First John chapter three verse four says. 1Jn 3:4  Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. If Yeshua took away anything from the law or added to it in any way, He would have transgressed the law (broken it). The transgression of the law is the very definition of sin. So if Yeshua did either one of these things, He would have committed a sin. He then would have been a sinner just like you and me and disqualified Himself from being the supreme sacrifice.

Now let’s get back to the passage in question. Ask yourself has heaven and earth passed away, and if you can say with some certainty that they have not then you must believe that not one jot or one tittle of the law has in any way been done away with. And if so, we do not have the right to add anything to it or take anything away from it. This is what the Scribes and Pharisees were doing in the time of Yeshua and was the main reason why He was continually rebuking them.

Mat 15:3-9 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Who so ever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; And honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoreth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

This is a clear example of the wolves that have crept into the Messianic movement. We are forsaking the commandments of YHVH for the traditions of man. We are not to practice Jewish traditions; those are the traditions of man, such as the washing of the hands, or wearing of a kippah, saying prayers out of some prayer book as a ritual or any other goofy thing that is being taught that is not clearly defined in Gods word.

That is not to say that you cannot wash your hands, read a book, or wear a hat. It means that you can not teach men to do these things like they are commanded to do it by YHVH in the Torah, or make it seem like you are somehow more holy or enlightened because you do.

Now let’s go back to another thought process expressed in an earlier chapter about calling a man Rabbi. Yeshua says to call no man Rabbi for we all have one Master. Look it up Mathew 23-8. They do this for the same reason now that they did it in Yeshua’s time, for stature. They would rather be master than shepherd. Masters get acknowledgement, shepherds get heartache, sweat, and tears. I will end this by letting Yeshua speak on this subject for Himself.

Mathew chapter 23

Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein. And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zechariah son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

I posted that whole chapter because it is the Messiah Himself speaking right to the heart of this topic. Anything I could add would pale in comparison, I only want to make the point that the very same thing that He was rebuking them for in His day is still happening today.

Understand that the Father has appointed shepherds over us to lead us and guide us into His righteousness. But also understand that if these men in anyway subvert what He has commanded of us, then they are false shepherds and one of the ones that He speaks about in the prophets that have scattered the sheep. They are wolves and not true shepherds appointed by the Father.

Now we are all human and being such are apt to make some mistakes. And not every mistake moves your shepherd into the category of a wolf. If you see him in error, go to him privately and explain your concerns to him showing him in the word where you believe he is in error. Then allow him a sufficient amount of time to correct the error.

If he does not make an attempt to correct it, then go to the elders of the assembly and make them aware of the error, in the same manor that you approached the shepherd. Get their insight as to why they believe it to be happening and ask them if they will go with you to address this with the shepherd if you have to go again.

If you are met with ridicule or excuses and no plan of change after you have clearly shown them in the word where he and or they are in error, then and only then, mark him a wolf and search for a new assembly to be part of.

CHAPTER 8

ARE YOU A JEW NOW

OR ARE YOU

STILL A GENTILE

We are going to explore another false teaching going on in the Messianic movement now that has been subverting the minds of rational human beings. I call it the want-to-be Jew syndrome.

I have researched my heritage and can find where I may have some Jewish blood in me. The Jewish “Espies” moved to Scotland after their expulsion from Israel where they allied themselves with a failing tribe/clan called the “Gills” who were thought to have Jewish heritage also, but were not living in Israel for whatever reason. They united the two clans and became the Gillespie’s who later had a black mark put on the name so some of them changed their name from Gillespie to Gillispie to distance themselves from the black mark on the other side of the family. This is on my father’s side of the family.

On my mother’s side they have the name of Orman this name also is Jewish in its origin. They were Jews who had migrated to Germany, but during the holocaust they gave up everything Jewish about themselves to escape the wrath of Hitler and his mounting army and the destruction of all Jew’s.

So if I wanted to I could prove my heritage and have a place in Israel, but honestly none of that matters to me. what matters to me is that I  am counted as one of the tribes of Israel for which this chapter will make plain. And by the end of it you will know what sect you belong to because whether you think that you belong to one of them or not you are part of one or two of them.

First of all, let’s take a look at the sect most Christian’s classify themselves in. They more times than not identify themselves with the sect of the Gentile. How many times have you heard a believer state I am a Gentile saved by grace. If you have been “saved” (born again) for any length of time, I’m sure you have heard this catch phrase more than once.

Let us take a look at what Gentile means. First I will give a definition then an explanation according to what I understand about what Scripture has to say on the subject. I will do this with all three sects for you to analyze and began to familiarize yourself with and then identify yourself with.

H1471

גּי    גּוי gôy  gôy  or go'ee, go'-ee

Apparently from the same root as H1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts: - Gentile, heathen, nation, people.

Gentile in modern language means a pagan or heathen nation or people, or a non-Jew.

While the church is very pagan in its actions, they do for the most part realize that there is some separation from themselves, the pagans, and heathen they refer to as the “world”, although it seems hard to tell the difference at times. I am just joking with that statement, but it does have a lot of truth in it.

A Jew would call a non-Jew in Hebrew a “Goim”. In the Scriptures, the same person would be known as a pagan or  a worshipper of false gods. The word Goim applies to any person who is not a Jew or a part of Israel as a whole. The Jews of today would  label them as heathen. The Hebrew children that have been dispersed, would be included in the term goim or nations. All men who had not received the true faith, (Which is Judaism in their minds) and were not circumcised would be considered a Goim to a modern Jew.

The Christian faith was born from Judaism, hence the term “Judeo-Christian”. Yeshua was a Jew in the literal sense. He was a Jew by blood and by the practicing of the faith delivered to us By YHVH through our forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Meaning that in every way he kept the commandments that were given him by his father. He would be classified by a modern Jew as a Goim today because he rejected the authority of  the Rabbis when they contradicted the Torah.

We have somehow strayed from what He believed, lived, and taught. But we are still born again. The thing is, that nowadays we are not taught what it means to be a separated people. When one is truly born again they are created a new creation in Yeshua the Messiah as stated in Eph 2:10-13 for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

This is history repeating itself again. When we were enslaved in the land of Egypt the Father sent us a deliverer then as well known as Moses. After the Father had brought the plagues and delivered us with a mighty hand, it was not just the descendants of Israel that left the land of Egypt; there was a mixed multitude that left everything they knew and followed this Prophet who had shown them  the power of the one true Eloheem.

These men and women in Scripture are referred to as strangers or sojourners. While they were  not natural born or decedent from our forefathers the Father provided a way for them too to be counted among the house of Israel. Let’s take a look at some of these Scriptures that show clearly who they are and what was expected of them to become part of Israel. They too were grafted into the vine.

Exo 12:48-51  And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

I could show numerous scriptures that speak to this fact. When a person makes a decision to fallow Yeshua and believe in the one true Eloheem of the children of Israel,  they themselves become part of Israel. I chose this passage because it speaks clearly about Yeshua in the since that he is our Passover lamb. And that the blood of the Passover lamb has always pointed to our messiah Yeshua. That it was his shed blood that would save us from true death. Scripture tells us to not fear him that can destroy the body but fear him who can destroy both the body and soul.

There are some very specific requirements concerning a person being eligible to partake of the Pesach (Passover Lamb). Now when a Christian talks about the feasts that YHVH established in the Tenakh they will more than likely refer to them as the feasts of the Jews. Here we see clearly they are not the feasts of the Jews they are meant for anyone who claims to follow the Creator of the universe. We’ll get into that more later for now just understand that these feast are prophetic pointers to us as a people and if we exclude them it will be a hard task to understand who we are to the Father.

We know that Yeshua is our Passover Lamb and if we truly want to take part of His sacrifice there are some things that are required of us. In this passage, it mentions circumcision as the requirement to partake of the Passover Lamb. Now the topic is not circumcision so we will leave that alone for now and just focus on the fact that He says once we have partaken of the Passover Lamb that we are now as one who is natural born. That means there is absolutely no difference made between you and a direct descendant of  Israel.

The other potion that we do not need to loose focus of is that He declares that there is one law for all. This law is for both the natural born, the stranger (gentile) and the sojourner. So when the church tells you that the law is meant for the Jews, they are telling you an outright LIE.

I can go on and on proving in Scripture that if you are born again you are no longer a Gentile. You are not a Gentile saved by grace or any other nonsense resembling that. You have had a supernatural blood transfusion and are now part of the commonwealth of Israel. Your blood no longer remains, you now have the same blood right as the undefiled blood of the Lamb. So if you are a believer, please take the phrase “Gentile saved by grace” out of your vocabulary. That Gentile is dead and gone to be remembered no more.

Now let’s take a look at the Jew. A Jew without Yeshua is just as lost as a Gentile. However, those who have that physical bloodline and choose to receive Yeshua as their Messiah have what I like to call a little edge on the those who are non-Jew’s, as we see clearly in Scripture that salvation comes unto the Jew first then the Gentile or Greek. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” Rom 1:16

Also we see that in tribulation anguish comes upon the Jew first then the Gentile. But the main reason a Jew has an advantage here is because to them alone where committed the oracles of YHVH. Rom 3:1-2  What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?  Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

Now I realize that right about this point you may be saying, what are the oracles of YHVH? The oracles of YHVH are the commandments and statutes that He has given man to live by and without the Jews preserving that knowledge it would be lost to man unless YHVH chose to intervene.

Now because we clearly see that the Jew has some advantage, those that recognize that advantage have become as the rabbis that covet the chief seats and the high places so they will, if they can not find it in the family heritage, claim one of two things.

1. They are spiritual Jew’s or

2. that they have been told from heaven that they are Jew’s.

Yeshua clearly warns about this in Rev 3:9  Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

The reason they are made to come and worship before them and are made the synagogue of Satan is not because they were not Jews. It is because they are trying to steal a heritage that is not theirs, for what ever reason has motivated them to do so… whether that be pride, arrogance, or ignorance.

We must understand that there is a big difference between a person who says they are Jewish and a person who is a Jew. I have proven through great research that I am a Jew but I have never been Jewish. Being Jewish denotes your religion, however saying I am a Jew only denotes your ancestry.

I was not raised as a Jewish boy. My grandparents for fear or shame or what ever other reason you can think of chose to hide our heritage. Even though we were taught the Torah (oracles) so we could in turn teach them to our children, we were not raised Jewish. And now that I know that I am a Jew nothing has changed for me. I am still the same person I was before I came to this knowledge. Just because I’m a Jew does not give me mystical powers. It simply means that I have more responsibility. Maybe more so than a person who was raised Jewish because now I have to learn my heritage from others.

I know many Jews now who have left their rabbinic traditions of man and are now following the Messiah Yeshua and this is an awesome sight to see. Now they not only have the heritage they also have the truth that their Messiah has come, and I love to just set and learn from them about our heritage as a people.

Now on to the final sect of believers. This is the category that the majority of all believers in the Messiah Yeshua fall into.  The category is Israelite. Even though I think I have found what tribe I belong to, I identify with the house of Israel more then I do with Judah.  This may be do to the fact that like them I too  lost my heritage and my identity of being a Jew.

Israelites are those who have for whatever reason lost their heritage. Most do not even realize that they are of the house of Israel. This has happened for various reasons of which I will name a few.

First of all, we see in Scripture that ten of the twelve tribes where dispersed into all the nations. This happened for two reasons, first they transgressed YHVH’s commandments, and secondly YHVH was fulfilling a prophecy given to our father Abraham that He would make of his seed many nations.

Jer 29:14-15  And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive. Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;

Joe 3:2  I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

Gen 17:4-5  As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

There are several Scriptures dealing with the dispersing of the ten tribes but the good news is that we are all being called back to one nation truly by YHVH, the seed of Abraham united.

Before closing this chapter, I would like to analyze one more Scripture. This Scripture is Yeshua talking about the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Its found in Mat 15:24  “But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel”.

This is a very familiar passage of Scripture. It is the story of the Canaanite woman pleading with Yeshua for the deliverance of her daughter who was possessed by demons. His disciples ask Him to send her away. I believe she was not of the house of Israel but was in fact a true Gentile, but we see because of her faith in Him that He made provision for her also.

So whether you are of the blood lineage of the lost sheep of the house of Israel or you are a true Gentile, Yeshua has made provision for you. All you have to do is believe, pick up your proverbial cross and follow Him. He is the Good Shepherd and He will lead you into His righteousness in His timing one step at a time. By reading this book I believe you are being drawn by His Spirit to walk in His truth.

CHAPTER 9.

WHERE THE

“CHURCH”

CAME FROM

ORIGINS

The church and the assembly are in fact two totally separate things. The assembly is what we all are as one body, but the church at its core is something totally different. I will make this chapter as short as possible while still trying to convey the difference in the church and giving the history of its origins.

This entity we refer to as the church came about in the time of Constantine. It was Constantine’s Ideal of how to co-op the faith of the early believers and merge it with Roman polytheistic pagan god worship. If he could unite these two religions and merge them as one religion that he could govern, he would become the most powerful emperor ever.

But to explain it to you I need to tell you the story of Constantine, as well as I can remember it that is. I will try not to omit anything as I have loaned out my books dealing with him and no one seems to have them. So I will just highlight the points that need to be made here showing that Constantine was not a believer nor did he have the best interest in preserving the truth of our Savior Yeshua at heart.

In or about the year 325 of the Common Era, Constantine was the emperor of Rome. Constantine was a pagan worshiper who had many gods. The school of thought is that he realized by embracing Messianic believers and legalizing what is now known as the Christian religion, he would gain a victory that none of his predecessors were able to accomplish. By legalizing the worship of Yeshua he gained a three fold victory.

1. He now made those he had been persecuting his allies.

2. By making the Messianic believers allies they would now fight with him to overthrow his co-emperor Licinius

3. By adopting Messianic beliefs into his pagan worship of the sun god and his wife Easter, he now could establish a moral standard for all of Rome, and put an end to the moral decline of Rome.

Constantine claimed to have had a divine vision in which he saw a cross and was told to stop the persecution of what he called Christians. This vision only came after his sister had become an embarrassment by becoming a believer, for which he had her married off to his co-emperor.

The final blow was realizing that his sister had shared the Gospel with his mother and she also had now become a believer in the Messiah. After his supposed vision, he adopted the symbol of the cross as the symbol of his new religion Christianity.

He then began to undertake the daunting task of adopting his pagan worship into the Messianic belief system or vise versa. He changed the names of some of his gods to the names of those being referred to by the Messianic believers. He believed Yeshua to be the Son of the sun god Zeus, who was previously known as Nimrod. A simple modification was implemented in the name of Yeshua in its Latin translation, as to resemble the name of Easter’s fallen son, Tammuz, whom Constantine believed Yeshua to truly be.

After Nimrod had been killed by the descendants of Shim one of Noah’s son’s, in paganism he is believed to have ascended into the heavens and became the sun god. Then Nimrod’s wife Samurais, who was left behind, claimed that she had been magically impregnated by the rays of the sun. After this suspicious pregnancy, she brought forth a son whom she named Tammuz.

Tammuz was a mighty hunter himself following in the footsteps of his father Nimrod, but an ill fated hunt and his love for the hunt ultimately cost him his life. It is said that at the age of forty he was gored to death by a wild bore while on one of these hunts.

This is where we get the forty days of lent from. The women would weep one day for each year of his life every year on the anniversary of his death. This is also why we eat ham on Easter Sunday.

When Samurais died, it is said that she also ascended and became the goddess of heaven. To prove her ascension, she is said to have ascended from heaven in a giant egg landing in the Euphrates River and bursting out of the egg she presented herself as the bare breasted goddess of fertility to be known as Easter.

Constantine adopted Mary, the mother of Yeshua, to this position and then promoted her to a place of reverence. She would take the place of samurais (Easter), the mother of Tammuz. This is why you see such a focus on mother Mary in the Catholic Church.

Most of the statues that were being worshiped in that day were not even removed; the names were just changed to some saint or something else and are now widely accepted as Christian antiquities. From this paginated worship of the Messiah, was born what we now know as the Catholic Church.

This worship continued and was modified over the next eleven hundred years or so, to suit the times. This continued until a German monk  named Martin Luther began to question the tenets of the Catholic Church. This angst continued to grow to the point he wrote out ninety-five points of contention that he had with church theology and nailed it to the popes door.

Martin Luther was born November 10th 1483 and died February 18th 1546. He was not only a Monk but a catholic priest, professor, theologian, and church reformer. His teachings inspired the Reformation and deeply influenced the doctrines and culture of the Lutheran and Protestant traditions, as well as the course of Western civilization and their concept of separating themselves from the oppressive doctrines, public law, and government of the Catholic Church.

“The Disputation of Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences, known as the ninety-five Thesis, challenged the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church on the nature of penance, the authority of the Pope and the usefulness of indulgences.”

They sparked a theological debate that would result in the Reformation and the birth of the Lutheran church, the Reformed church, and the Anabaptist traditions within Christianity. Which we now know commonly as the Protestant belief system.

If you are “Christian” and not Catholic or some will say Lutheran, then you are Protestant. To be in the Protestant movement meant you were starting to think outside the Catholic box. Example: Pro-test-ant meaning that you were protesting not only the Catholic Church, you were somewhat a protestant of Martine Luther himself, and his ideology.

Then we see others began to emerge… people like John Calvin. Doctrines were changed, minds opened, but the anti-Semitism from Constantine had carried down throughout the years all the way to Martin Luther and beyond, even now it still remains in some scope.

Ok now here’s a clue for those who may not realize it as of yet. Yeshua was a Jew. He walked like a Jew, talked like a Jew, and worshiped like a Jew. The only thing that His peers had against Him was that He was trying to tear down their man-made traditions; traditions that gave the religious leaders of that day almost the same authority the Catholic Church had during the Dark Ages.

That is what the biblical Torah observant movement is doing today. It is saying we do not need your man-made doctrines, your theologies, or traditions, we only need the word of YHVH. It alone is sufficient to lead us and guide us to the truth that Yeshua came to reveal to us.

The Catholic Church alone is responsible for what we now refer to as the Dark Ages; nine-hundred to twelve-hundred years of absolute domination, control, oppression, slavery, and murder. This is their history and what they are truly known for, not the media image they have tried to project over the last 100 years or so.

Now I’m just going to break it down for you. As I said before, if you are a Christian you are part of the Protestant faith no matter what denomination you claim to be part of. It does not matter if you claim to be Baptist, Pentecostal,  Lutheran, Methodist, LDS, Mormon, Nondenominational, or any other denomination that you can think of. If you are part of any of these, you really are just a Catholic, you’re just a protesting Catholic. That is what the word protestant means after all.

You are just protesting some of the tenets of the Catholic church. You still worship on the Catholic Sabbath and not the Sabbath established by the Father. You still worship on their holidays such as Christmas and Easter in spite of Scripture condemning the observance of these rituals. This is not the religion that the Bible teaches. It is not the observance of what the Father has instructed us to do. It is the worship of the Catholic church and their authority over religious institutions, even when they appear to be separate.

CHAPTER 10.

HEBREW

AND

ENGLISH

First, let’s discuss the differences between Hebrew and English. In doing so I have to let the reader know that I am in no way claiming to be a linguist. I do, however, have some knowledge of the topic being discussed. I speak amateur Hebrew and read even less than that. The only reason I have any knowledge of it at all is that I am an avid researcher and I love getting to the bottom of any given topic.

I have read many books on the subject which in no way would qualify me to be an authority on the subject; at best I am a novice. So with that said, I would have the reader keep this in mind when reading this chapter. It will in no way go into depth, but should give you a working knowledge or the differences in the two languages and should make for a short chapter. And if nothing else, to those that are linguists, it should give you a chuckle as I try to explain.

Hebrew is different in every way from English, I touched on this in the previous chapters but felt like it needed to be addressed further. Hebrew reads from right to left the direct apposite of how we westerners were taught to read. And if that is not enough to confuse you, the letters look more like hieroglyphs than letters. I call them symbols, which I think is a very appropriate word for them.

I will give you the whole Hebrew alphabet in this chapter to show you what I’m talking about. But now that the backwards reading and symbols have you confused it gets even worse. Each letter has a numeric value and has a picture to identify the letter with.

When a person who is fluent in Hebrew is reading, they see a three dimensional aspect of the language that a novice would be hard pressed to see. When they are reading they see a word, and equation, and a picture. These pictures are not left to the imagination as they are with the English language; they are clearly defined by the sequence on the letter’s arrangement. This is why even scholars sometimes debate the intrinsic meaning of any given passage of Scripture.

It can become quite confusing at times well at least to me because I have to rely on other resources to translate Hebrew into English. I have, however, researched the sources that I use and there are many good ones out there but as I do not think there will be mass linguists reading this, I will mention the one that I find to be the most accurate and easy to use. It is called the Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance and you can learn how to use it in about thirty minutes or less.

This is a very necessary tool for any true student of the word. It doesn’t have to be a Strong’s but should be some reputable exhaustive concordance.

All of these charts may mean nothing to you, but when you start to study Hebrew for yourself, you will find them quite useful.

While the language in itself is quit fascinating, its fascination for me was personified when I read the book titled “In his own words” Messianic Insights into the Hebrew Alphabet by L. Grant Luten. I would like to share with you some of the facts expressed in it, and though it may not be as eloquently written I’m sure you will find them as fascinating as I did when I found them out.

If you were to read the Hebrew text of the Torah and understand that the Aleph (א) thought to be the singular letter for the name of God (YHVY) while that is mind boggling; that is not the most astounding fact I’m getting to. The Hebrew name for God is  YOD HEI VAV HEI. In Hebrew it would look like this but is not normally written   י ה ו ה , I right that name with the deepest of respect and only for informational purposes.

Now if you were Hebrew, you would not only see the name you would also see a number and a picture. The YOD would represent the number ten the HEI would represent the number five, The VAV would represent the number six, and the final HEI would represent again the number five. We have discussed this previously, but I want to revisit this topic to drive a point home about the language.

If you where to then add the numbers together in a simple equation you would get the number twenty-six, and with that sum if you count from the first letter twenty-six letters you will find the Aleph (א). You will not only find the Aleph the first time you count to twenty-six, you will find it each and every time you count to twenty-six throughout the entire Torah.

The significance of that one thing alone is astounding. The chances of this anomaly just occurring in any language has to be one in a billion, but for it to happen with the significance of it representing YHVH himself and still making sense to the reader is an impossibility for any other language.

This is how we know without a shadow of a doubt that the language YHVH spoke to Moses and that the children of Israel have been preserving until now, will be forever.

That fact alone should for any rational mind proclaim the fact that the Word has been established and committed unto the hands of the Jews forever.

I know we have talked about both of these anomalies, but indulge me as I explore it one more time and expound on it a bit further. If you start at the first letter in the first two books of the Hebrew Bible and count to fifty over and over again, you will spell out TORAH over and over. In the third book of the Hebrew Bible (Leviticus) if you count YHVH’s favorite number 7 you will spell out YHVH over and over again. And in the finial two books of the Torah if you count forty nine you will spell out HAROT or Torah backwards.

I know I have stated that previously, but I wanted to use it again here to show that the Father’s Torah is without compromise. It has been preserved throughout history and reads the same today as it did the day it was given to Moses on Mt. Sinai. Yeshua is the physical representation of this word. In being such. He is uncompromised as well.

His word is spirit and truth and it flow’s freely from His thrown and if any man is athirst, let him ask of YHVH who gives it liberally to them that seek him. The Torah is the word of YHVH made flesh in Yeshua. It was lived out through his life and his example to us, so that we could follow his example and walk in the very words that created both heaven and earth.

If we are walking in the Torah as Yeshua did, then we are truly walking in Him. It is through Him that we live and move. Scripture tells us in the book of John that Yeshua was both the light and the life of man. If Yeshua was the word made flesh, then it is safe to say that the Torah is the light and the life of man as well.

It is also safe to say that without the Torah we are in darkness and dead. When we start to walk in the Torah, we begin to come alive, and as He begins to reveal it to us our eyes begin to come open so we can truly see the light which is the Father. Those that say that the Torah is done away with are condemning the hearers to walk in darkness and death.

It is not the hearers of the law who are justified before the Father but the doers of the law.

CHAPTER 11.

Remember

The

Sabbath

To

Keep

It Holy

Now I hear this phrase tossed around all the time. I hear it from those who claim to be MESSIANIC and those who claim to be Christian. But what does it mean to keep His Sabbath Holy. I know most Messianics think that they have this figured out. Likewise most Christians do as well. Let’s explore this topic together and see if we do have it figured out and if we are truly keeping his Sabbath HOLY.

First of all, let’s explore the importance of the Sabbath and see why it is so imperative that we keep it holy. Now most of us realize that Ha’Satan (the Devil, Lucifer) has a “Mark” (sign) that his people will be known by. We almost flippantly call it the “mark of the beast”. What we Should know is that his sign is nothing more than a counterfeit of the (mark) sign that the Father has placed on His people.

Remember that we are instructed in the Torah to confirm everything in the mouth of two or three witnesses. As I share this very important teaching with you in this chapter. When I come to the things that maybe every one has not been made aware of, I will support it with not only  one Scripture as a witness, but I will show a second and sometimes even a third witness depending on the emphasis I want to convey.

As previously stated, the Father has a mark as well that He has placed upon His people. Most do not really understand how significant this mark is, so let’s take a look at the witnesses in Scripture first that confirm this to be a fact.

Exo_31:13  Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.

Eze_20:12  Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.

Eze_20:20  And hallow my Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.

Clearly, the Father has established His Sign between Himself and His set apart people as His Sabbath. But let’s take a step back and look at the sign HaSatan has or will seal his people with.

Rev 13:16  And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

The second witness for that is in the very next chapter.

Rev 14:9-10  And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

So clearly we see now that Ha’Satan has a mark (sign) that his people will be sealed with. And it is very clear that they will be sealed with it in their foreheads or in their hands. Now many think that this is going to be a literal mark and they very well may be right at least for the physical application of it.

The physical implementation would make it impossible for those that refuse to worship the image of the beast, to buy, or sell. But there is a spiritual application to this as well that most never explore while discussing this topic.

See the Father talks about the foreheads of His set apart people as well. Let’s take a look at that before we get into what it truly means to keep the Sabbath holy.

Rev_7:3  Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

Rev_9:4  And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

Ok now there are many other Scriptures where the Father talks about sealing His set apart people with His name as well. The root of this though is His Sabbath. It is the sign by which we are known as His people. It is the way that we are identified with His name. I do not believe that He is literally going to come and tattoo His name on our foreheads.

This is nothing more than symbolic that He alone is at the forefront of our minds hearts and spirits and I can prove that with Scripture, but that is another teaching within its self. The point is that His Sabbath is His sign between Himself and His people and that if they are sealed by His name then the physical representation of being sealed by His name is that they will be keeping his Sabbath holy.

So how does one truly keep His Sabbath holy? There are many thought processes on this, but we cannot rely on what a man has interpreted the Scriptures to say; rather we must allow scripture to interpret itself finding the first and second witness to every thought process that may be derived from a concept or doctrine. Let’s begin to do that and see if we can allow the Scripture alone to define what it means to truly keep His Sabbath holy.

Let’s start trying to do that by going back to the very first time that we see the Sabbath mentioned. In doing so, I think we will not only discover the way to keep the Sabbath holy but we will also see the spiritual application of the enemy’s mark as well.

The first time we see the Sabbath confirmed is by the father himself in the book of Genesis.

Gen_2:2-3  And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Now let’s make a list of the things the Father did on the seventh day which made it holy. The first thing He did was end his work. Then He rested. The third thing He did was to bless the seventh day. The fourth thing He did was that He sanctified it. So there are four elements that the Father used to set the Sabbath apart from all other days so let’s make that list and then start to explore what it was that He actually did to make this day holy above all others.

1.       He stopped work

2.      He rested

3.      He blessed the day

4.     He sanctified it.

Let’s start with number one. He stopped His work. This is only one of the elements to keeping the Sabbath holy but let’s look at how important He makes this element.

Exo 20:8-11  Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Now if one is looking at this Scripture alone they may think that all they have to do to keep the Sabbath holy is not to work on it. But there were four elements that the Father showed us at creation in how to keep the Sabbath holy… work was just one of them. But let’s make another list here concerning item one on the Fathers list of keeping the Sabbath holy.

Item number one. He stopped His work.

1.       Six days we shall labor and do all our work just as he did.

2.      The Sabbath does not belong to us it belongs to YHVH

3.      We are forbidden to do ANY work

4.     We first of all can’t do any work

5.      Our Son’s can’t do any work

6.     Our daughters can’t do any work

7.      Our man servants can’t do any work

8.     Our women servants can’t do any work

9.     Our cattle can’t do any work

10. Any stranger that is only our land can’t do any work.

If we have insured that we ourselves, and every one, and every thing that has been committed to our charge will not do any work, then and only then have we fulfilled the first element of keeping the Sabbath holy.

Have we completely fulfilled the commandment to keep the Sabbath holy though by insuring that no labor is done by anything or anyone that is in our charge? No, there are three more elements to keeping the Sabbath holy so let’s explore the second one.

The second element to keeping the Sabbath holy is that we rest. Now this seems pretty self explanatory but is it really. If your mind is filled with the things that you did not get done in the six days prior, are you truly resting? If you are planning what you have to get done when the Sabbath has ended, are you truly resting? If you are worried about events that occurred before the Sabbath or might occur after the Sabbath, are you truly resting?

The point of truly resting is realizing that you are not in control of anything. The Father is truly the only one who is in control and all of those things are under His charge. If you have done all that you can do to finish your work week, then He will insure that it will keep until you can return to it after the Sabbath.

If you have done all that you can do to resolve any conflicts before the Sabbath, then He will give you favor when you address them after the Sabbath or show you your wrong doing so you can make it right.

We have to release our minds of the cares of the week totally to Him and focus on Him alone; this is truly resting in Him. It is the only way to truly find rest and fulfill the second portion of keeping the Sabbath holy.

The third element of keeping the Sabbath holy is to bless the Sabbath. Now what does it truly mean to bless something? Most do not really even understand what it means to bless something. So I will give you some definitions of the word bless.

1. To pronounce a wish of happiness to one; to express a wish or desire of happiness.

2. To make happy; to make successful; to prosper in temporal concerns; as, we are blest with peace and plenty.

3. To make happy in a future life.

4. To set apart or consecrate to holy purposes; to make and pronounce holy

5. To consecrate by prayer; to invoke a blessing upon.

6. To praise; to glorify, for benefits received.

The Hebrew word for bless is בּרךor Barak in its English transliteration. It is pronounced Baw-rak’ and literally means to kneel as in an act of adoration. So with the definitions and the actual word itself one is left to believe to truly bless something they would have to make a declaration that they are under the authority of the Father and that they have set this day aside to walk in obedience to Him, because it is only through Him that our blessings flow.

Even when we have done all three of these elements, we have still not fulfilled the commandment to keep it holy. There is yet one more element that must be fulfilled to truly keep the Sabbath holy.

The fourth element that the Father did to hallow the Sabbath day was that He sanctified it. Hear again we must explore the word sanctify as it is not a word that is common to us today, at least in its correct interpretation. Again, I will give some definitions of the word and then give its Hebrew and literal meaning.

1. In a general sense, to cleanse, purify or make holy.

2. To separate, set apart or appoint to a holy, sacred or religious use.

3. To purify; to prepare for divine service, and for partaking of holy things.

4. To separate, ordain and appoint to the work of redemption and the government of the church.

5. To cleanse from corruption; to purify from sin; to make holy be detaching the affections from the world and its defilements, and exalting them to a supreme love to God.

The Hebrew of the word sanctified isקדשׁ with its English transliteration being qadash, pronounced kaw-dash. Now this word closely resembles the word holy in Hebrew which is pronounced kaw-doshe’. While these words are very similar, they are not the same and do not have the exact same inference when spoken.

Qadash is the word used in Exodus when we are told to remember the Sabbath to keep it holy. It literally should have been translated to remember the Sabbath and keep it sanctified, because of when we think of the word Holy in English our definition goes more along the lines of the Hebrew word Qadosh.

The meaning of that word is a sanctified person such as YHVH, Yeshua, or a messenger sent by them. It can also be used when speaking about a place such as the temple.

The word sanctified though literally means to pronounce something clean, to consecrate or dedicate it to the father. And this is what the father did when he sanctified the Sabbath he took it unto himself to be his position for ever.

When we sanctify it, we are really sanctifying ourselves unto Him to be his position through His Sabbath. We are dedicating ourselves as clean and set apart to His name.

Ok now that I have shown the four elements that it takes to truly keep the Sabbath holy before the Father there is one element that I did not mention and that is the day its self. The Father said that it was the seventh day, not the last day of the week or the first day of the week.

Those of you who are learned concerning history know that a week was changed on more then one occasion. A week at one point was changed to eight days and at another point it was changed to consist of ten days. This is why the Father made it very specific that it was the seventh day that He hallowed.

Now some people will use this fact to say well we can celebrate the Sabbath on any day we choose as long as every seven days we observe that it is a set apart day. This is simply humanism seeping into our worship of the Father and is lawlessness to do so.

The Father established the seventh day and hallowed it unto Himself. It is not man’s possession to do with as he will. He has not changed or become confused about what day it was that He separated out unto Himself to be holy, and the sign that would be between Himself and His people.

For the sake of not having to rewrite an article that I wrote some time back, I am just going to post it here as part of this chapter. And although it is not written on the same format trying to prove how to keep the Sabbath holy it does define without a shadow of doubt what day we should be celebrating as the Sabbath.

At the end of that article, I will make my closing thoughts on the topic of keeping the Sabbath holy. I know this is a bit longer than the other chapters that I’ve written, but this really is as short as I can make it and keep the elements that show how important the Sabbath is to the father.

If we want to be called by His name. let’s discus what we have to do to receive his mark, and be sealed by his name.  So here is the previous article that proves both the sighted new moon and that the day we call Saturday is the biblically correct days we should observe if we truly want to keep the Sabbath Holy.

Ok recently I have been having people come and try to correct me for sighting the first sliver of the new moon as the beginning of the biblical month and the establishing factor that marks the feast days. So after some of my typical SLIDE moves trying to avoid a debate with people who already had their minds made up to what it was that they believed, I finally broke down and let them have it.

Then I got to thinking that people may need this information who are struggling to answer these questions concerning just when does a biblical month begin. So here you go. I will try to provide you all the information you should need to stop the debate and maybe even teach someone some Scripture at the same time.

The debate is this: Does the new moon begin at the conjunction, the full moon, or the first sliver? The fact is that if a person does not know the history of sighting the new moon it can be a daunting task going through the Scripture to figure out which one it is.

To be perfectly honest, I could sit here and make a convincing argument for any one of the three beliefs using Scripture. The reason I say who is that I want you to realize that to someone that has not spent countless hours on this topic it can be quite confusing and with an intelligent dialogue they could be convinced of any one of them.

So I will do something that I almost never do and that is use sources other then Scripture to make my argument. I could do it  using Scripture alone, but that would only lead them to post Scriptures that they believe to be contradictory and we would just fall into the Hebrew whipping game and no one benefits from that.

I will support my claim by using the Talmud, the Encyclopedia Judaica, and several other encyclopedias and language concordances, along with some historical references.  I know this is not what you typically expect from one of my articles, but please bear with me, as I believe it necessary in this case.

Historically, the Sanhedrin would send several new moon spotters out on the hills of  Israel to watch for the thin crescent so they could establish the beginning of each month. Once these new moon spotters had seen the new moon, they would then report their sighting to the Sanhedrin.

“Originally, the New Moon was not fixed by astronomical calculation, but was solemnly proclaimed after witnesses had testified to the reappearance of the crescent of the moon,” Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 12, p. 1039.

The changing from watching for the first visible crescent to calculating conjunctions to determine the month’s beginning came with Hillel II calendar revisions in the 4th century C.E.

“By the middle of the fourth century, the sages had established a permanent calendar and the public proclamation of the New Moon was discontinued”  (ABID).

It was not until the fourth century that anyone relied on a conjunction moon as a factor in determining when a new moon had occurred. Well at least among those that claimed to be following YHVH. If we go back to Nimrod and the historical evidence, there we will see so much more, and maybe I will do that in this article but for now just know Yeshua was on a seven day Sabbath cycle and a sighted crescent new moon observance and He never rebuked anyone for doing it this way.

Those that would have you believe that the conjunction is the proper new moon observance will give you arguments from Scripture to make their case, but I have never seen one try to make the argument without sighting Jonathan and David’s conversation concerning David not going to diner until after the new moon.

There is an easy answer to this and it is as valid as their argument. The answer is that David knew the new moon was going to be tomorrow because he had already been through two days of no moon. Now Scripture does not say that but neither does it say that it was the conjunction on the next day.

Most of them will make grand gestures and say things like if you can show me even one Scripture that says we must sight the new moon they will repent and return to watching for the crescent moon. Well I am about to give you that Scripture and it is beyond contestation. It proves without a shadow of a doubt that we are commanded to sight at least the first new moon of the year even though I think it implies that we should physically sight everyone of them.

Those that would go by the calculated lunar conjunction contradict the command in

Deuteronomy 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

Now you should know that both the word for moon and month are the Hebrew word chodesh [new moon/month]. You should also know that the word for observe is the Hebrew word Shamar and in the Hebrew, Shamar means “look narrowly for, search” (No. 8104 in Strong’s).

The Holladay Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon defines it as watching in the sense of looking. Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words includes the definitions “mark, watchman, wait, watch, look narrowly.” The command is to look for, wait for, watch and mark the new moon.

So with that information let’s correctly insert those two truths into that verse and see what it says.

Deuteronomy 16:1 Look for the moon of Abib, and keep the Passover unto YHVH your Eloheem. Because it was at the month of Abib that YVHV brought you forth out of the land of Mitzriem (Egypt) at night.

Now you may say why did I change one to moon and leave the other as month. Those that understand Hebrew will get this right away. It is called a Hebrew word pun or Hebraism. This is where the same word is used to describe two different things. This is also done at times by using two different Hebrew words to describe the same thing. This however was not the case here because of the syntax of the language being used.

The big problem with the conjunction folks is that you cannot see a moon that is completely black or dark, as it is during a conjunction. It would be lunacy (pun intended) to send out new moon watchers on the night of a conjunction to look for a moon they cannot see.

I will clearly show that sighting the crescent moon was what was being done when Yeshua was here. To visually confirm the new moon, there must be something to identify. Obviously, the invisible conjunction is not that something.

Now the conjunction people will play upon our hubris and say the Jews where not ignorant people; they knew how to calculate the conjunction. And our pride wants to agree and say yeah that’s right we are smart people.

The Fact is that Father made His calendar so simple that even a little child could look at the sky and tell you when the new moon was. Remember every thing that is very important to YVHV for us to observe He has made so simple that we will have no excuse.

He gave us ten fingers and ten toes so that even if a catastrophe happened and we lost thirteen of them we could still count to seven and know when His Sabbath was. And He gave us this big ole moon in the sky that when we saw the first sliver we would know that a new moon had occurred and we needed to celebrate and sound the Shofars.

Another predicament is created by the use of the conjunction because during the period surrounding the conjunction there are as many as two or even three nights when no moon is visible. This leads us to wonder which three invisible moons are we commanded to “look narrowly for”?

On which of three invisible starting points does the month begin? Yahweh’s calendar is based on observation. Man’s calendars are based on calculation.

There was no U.S. Naval Observatory existing in the time of the Prophets or Apostles. The ancients had to have something tangible to go by that was visible on only one day each month. They needed to see the first thin crescent of a moon as it began its building or waxing phase. It was on this first glimpse of the moon they would declare throughout the land of Israel that a new moon had been sighted and that a new month had began.

Let’s go back to the point that Yeshua was observing the first sliver as well, and never rebuked anyone for doing it wrong. Philo was a prominent Jewish leader who lived in Alexandria from about 20 B.C.E. to about 50 C.E. and was a contemporary of both Yeshua the Messiah and Paul. He was aware of what the Messiah and His followers considered the new moon.

In his Treatise on the Special Laws, Book II, XI (41), Philo discusses the Biblical observances. Note below how he describes the new moon. But let’s make this clear someone that was the contemporary of Yeshua living at the same time, and was aware of how the Messiah and His followers observed the new moon made the claims that follow.

This is a first hand account but they would have us to believe a rabbi in the fourth century who was afraid of losing the biblical calendar altogether because of their disobedience to YVHV, should be trusted more then this first hand account.

“[It] is that which comes after the conjunction, which… [is] the day of the new moon in each month.”

In his detailed discussion of the new moon, Philo describes what constitutes a new moon:

“…at the time of the new moon, the sun begins to illuminate the moon with a light which is visible to the outward senses, and then she displays her own beauty to the beholders.”

As Philo noted, the new moon follows the conjunction but it is not the conjunction itself. His observation reveals to us what was considered the new moon in Yeshua’s day and what the Savior Himself also observed as the new moon.

That is all we need to know to realize what still constitutes the Biblical new moon today. Now I can go on and on ripping this garbage to pieces, but I have wasted enough time on it, and if this will not convince them of the truth, I doubt me writing ten more pages of historical references and word studies would do it either. But if you really want to drive the point home about the conjunction being false, you should really look into the pagan origins of it.

This puts me in mind of two people in history the first being Constantine and the second being Martin Luther, both of whom said they would not be made to worship like a damnable Jew and that the Jews were a parasite that should be wiped off the face of the earth.

These people who buy into this normally have such hatred in their heart for the Karaites and Muslims that they would rather celebrate the new moon on a false day than to observe it on the same day as they do. Ninety percent of the time this is what it boils down to, the other ten percent is just miss teaching.”

Ok so now that we know when exactly the correct day is and how  to truly keep it holy and set apart. Isn’t it only right that if we are His people and we want to be called by His name that we should do all that is within our power to keep His set apart day just as He told us to.

I know we can get into the whole Ox in a ditch scenario, but that’s not the point I’m making here. This is to show clearly how important the Sabbath is and how we, his set apart people, should be keeping it.

Living in these last days, we will have a sign (mark) on our foreheads and it will either be the name of our Eloheem whether that be the enemy’s name or the name of the Creator of heaven and earth.

Either we will discard His Sabbath and walk after the lust of our flesh, or we will cling to His Sabbath showing His sign in our lives. Just as Ha’Satan has a physical mark so does YHVH and that mark is His Sabbath. Wear it proudly in righteousness and live for Him all the days of your life.

CHAPTER 12.

The

Creator’s

Calendar

Now first of all I need to tell you there are some very difficult mathematical equations that you need to know if you want to properly understand the Creator’s calendar. Not only do you need to understand this equation, you also have to be able to go outside and do a very difficult ritual.

Here is the mathematical equation you must learn. You must be able to count to seven. And the ritual that you have to do is to walk outside and look at the evening sky. I know, I know this is very difficult and is more then most will be able to do, so if you can’t do that than you will just have to rely on those who can.

Ok, ok, sorry for the sarcasm, but seriously the Father made his calendar so simple that most three year olds can understand and keep it. The problem is that we have all these people out there trying to make a name for themselves off of one teaching or another. Here is your first clue about how to recognize a false teacher. If 100% of what they say is not total plagiarism they are a false teacher.

So here is my attempt at plagiarizing the father to help you understand the Creator’s calendar. But before we get into the mechanics of it, we really need to take a look at the teaching that spurred me to write this article. The teaching that I am referring to has developed into many false teachings, but it all goes back to what we refer to as the “Lunar Sabbath”.

The Lunar Sabbath keeper believes that their Sabbaths revolve around the different amounts of light that are shed on the moon. Their Sabbaths fall on the waxing quarter moon, the full moon, the waning quarter moon, and their final Sabbath goes from the final sliver to the first sliver.

Now this last Sabbath can last three to four days. So every month their Sabbath changes in what day of the week it is celebrated. If it is on Saturday one month then the following month their Sabbath will be on a Tuesday or Wednesday. I know this sounds crazy to most, but this deception is growing because some are twisting some Hebrew words to say something that they do not say.

I am not going to focus on these Hebrew words or the command that three times a year we all have to present ourselves at Jerusalem and how that has to line up on a full moon. I am going to dispel this false teaching in such a simple way it will be irrefutable. And it will not cause you hours and hours of study to be able to prove them wrong when they approach you.

The prophet Isaiah said in 46:10  Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure… He said that He declared the end from the beginning. And believe it or not you can prove most heresies wrong from the first part of Genesis. Well if we take a look at creation week we can do just that.

But before we get into that, we need to understand some very concrete fundamentals in Scripture. First of all YHVH is not a man that he should lie. Which means that He cannot break His own word. He is also bound by it, because He is the word, He has bound himself to it, and revealed Himself to us, through it.

The Father cannot sin, and 1 John 3:4 tells us that transgressing the Torah is sin. That is the definition of sin… not that you can’t do this or that you can’t to that but that you must be obedient to the Torah or you are sinning. Ok with that said, I will show you the simplest way to show any lunar Sabbath keeper that they are not keeping the Creator’s calendar, and that they are not honoring His Sabbath.

Now first of all I think you need to understand how they get mixed up on this and it could happen to any one of us if we are not diligent. The Sabbath is a Mo-ed and all of the other mo-ed’s are established by this sighting of the moon. So since all the other mo-ed’s are contingent upon sighting the moon, it only makes since that the Sabbath should fall into suit and do the same. But does this ring true with Scripture? We know that He set the Sabbath apart and that He hallowed it. He set it apart from all the other days of the week.

While the Sabbath is an appointed time, there is nothing in Scripture that ties it to the sighting of the moon. In fact, there is nothing that ties a Yom (DAY) to the moon either. Scripture says and the erev (evening) and the boker (morning) where the first day and so on and so forth. Nothing was said about the sun or the moon, only a dark cycle, and a light cycle.

So let’s get into the simple answer that took us so long to get at. It all has to do with creation week. YHVH created the sun and the moon on day 4. We know that the moon can not give light for a maximum of 2 days even though in some cases it may not be visible for up to three days.

I personally believe that the sliver was seen that evening as it was created to give light upon the earth. Some will say that it was a full moon giving all of its light upon the earth and they could be right as well. Then the third perspective is that the moon was created at the conjunction.

Ok now hear we see three very valid points to which no one can refute any of the other ones. However, there is a fourth perspective and in the spirit of fairness we have to take a look at that one as well. And that perspective is that it was set into motion on the first of a two day kosheck (dark moon). Ok now we have four perspectives, but none of them fit into a lunar Sabbath.

If it was the sliver as I suggest, then the lunar Sabbath would have been on the fourth day. If it was the full moon, then again the lunar Sabbath would have been on the third day. If it was on the conjunction, then the lunar Sabbath would be on the fifth day, and if it was at the beginning of the kosheck, then the lunar Sabbath would have been on the sixth day.

Any one of these theories dispels the idea of a lunar Sabbath. If it was any one of them, and I believe it only could have been either the sliver or the full moon. But that does not matter because none of them fit. The Father would have been breaking His own Sabbath if we are to observe the lunar Sabbath keepers understanding. And we know that He can not violate His own word. It was not by chance that He created the moon on the fourth day.

The second point is that lunar Sabbath keepers consider these dark days a Sabbath as well. So by their own thinking the Father did not only violate His Sabbath once but twice in the same week. I could go further and talk about the manna week, or any host of other things that prove the lunar Sabbath to be a false teaching but creation itself speaks against it so I don’t believe I need to go any further.

I have put a creation calendar below for you to view and do the calculations yourself. And then we can move on to the rest of the Mo-ed and discover their place on the Creator’s calendar

Creation week

Day one: YHVH created heaven and earth, He also made light on this day and divides it from darkness.

Day two: YHVH created a firmament in the earth to divide the waters above from the waters below.

Day three: YHVH made dry land appear and divided the land from the sea. He also created seed and made it to grow, herbs and fruit trees and green trees.

Day four: YHVH made the sun, moon and stars and set them in the heavens to establish time as we know it.

Day five: YHVH created fish and fowl and told them to be fruitful and multiply on the face of the earth

Day six: YHVH created the beast of the fields and the creeping things. He also created man on this day.

Day Seven: The Sabbath and the day that the Father rested.

Remember that a Lunar cycle is 29.5 Yom’s (Day’s)

Remember also that the moon can only not give light for a maximum of 2 Yom’s, (Day’s)

One Yom (DAY) consist of the following four elements and not just two of them:

Erev—Dusk

Kosheck — Darkness

Boker— Dawn

Ore—Light

Ok now that we have the Sabbath figured out and we can count to seven, we can finally say for certain what makes one week. Now we need to explore the other half of being able to understand the Creator’s calendar; which is being able to go outside and look up at the evening sky. Since we have determined what makes up a week we now need to define what makes up a month, and a year.

To do this we have to use the second requirement that the Father requires us to do to understand His calendar. This requires us to go out side and look at the sky and view the moon. Now most of us realize that the light on the moon moves from one side to the other. When the light is starting to light up the moon it begins with us being able to view a small sliver.

On each consecutive day, that light grows and covers a larger portion of the moon until it becomes what we refer to as a full moon. This is when the moon is fully illuminated. The cycle leading up to the full moon is referred to as the waxing of the moon. Each consecutive day following the full moon, the light begins to dissipate off of the moon and we refer to this as the waning of the moon until it disappears.

Now the time between the waning of the moon and when it reappears is referred to in the Scripture as the day and the hour that no man knows. And we wait every evening scanning the sky for the moon to reappear. When the moon reemerges, this is a new moon and the first day of the month.

Here again, we run into another doctrinal issue. Now I’m not going to go into all the nuances of these doctrines, but I think I should at least touch on the core precepts of their belief.

The fist one is, some believe the new month begins at the very minute the moon makes its transition from waning to waxing. This is referred to as the conjunction, the problem is that no one in the history of humanity has been able to spot the conjunction. And if we are to celebrate the new moon, how do we really know when it is if we can’t see it. Now we can calculate sure but we can’t sight a conjunction and I don’t think the Father in His infinite wisdom would make something so complicated for his children.

The second and less popular doctrine is held by those who believe the full moon is the new moon. These are the same ones who believe when the Father created it on day four that it was created as a full moon. But I think the father does everything in decency and in order so it can not be a full moon. Now you might say, how can I come to that conclusion. Well it’s elementary my dear Watson. By the time we see the full moon, we have been viewing it for fourteen or fifteen days. Now something that is half way through its life cannot be considered new can it.

When we refer to the new moon as Hebrews or Israelites, we say Rosh Chodesh. Chodesh means new moon or new month and Rosh means the head of or the beginning of. There is no beginning to something that you can’t see. And you can’t say that fourteen days after something has been in plain sight it is the beginning of it.

I think you get the point and now can understand why we believe the first day of a new month begins at the sighting of the first sliver. So every month at the sighting of the first sliver we have entered into a new month. But now we need to figure out what determines a year or how will we know what month we are in.

This two requires the second principal to understanding how the Creator’s calendar is to be implemented. You must go outside and look for something. Every time we go into captivity we loose our calendar and are made to abide by whatever calendar our captors are following. And when the Father delivers us, one of the first things He reestablishes with us as a people is His calendar. So to find this pointer, we need to go to where He delivered us from the land of Egypt.

Now when you read the story of us coming out of Egypt, you see the Father making a very definitive statement concerning when the year would begin for Israel and His calendar would be reestablished.

It comes after the plague of hail had destroyed the barley and the flax, but did not destroy the wheat because it had not grown up yet. When this event happened, YHVH told Moses that this will be the beginning of months to him and all of Israel. In the month of Abib.

Abib means to be green and in the ear. Now we know that the wheat was not green and in the ear because it was not grown to the place that it could be beaten down. So we have to go out and look for the first signs of barely becoming green and in the ear, meaning forming a bud.

When we see the barely green and in the ear, then we wait until we see the next sliver of the new moon. This is Rosh Hashanah the head of the year, or the beginning of the year to us as a people who follow the Creators calendar. If we don’t know how to count to seven or look at the moon and the grain we can not possibly keep the Fathers Mo-ed (appointed times, or feast days).

If we don’t keep these appointed times on the exact right day then we are breaking the Sabbaths that He established which are contained within them as well. And if we don’t get the Yom Kippur Sabbath right, it holds some very serious consequences.

So now that we understand how to determine the Sabbath, the new moon, and the new year we can begin to understand on what day we are to keep the Mo-ed of YHVH.

After we have sighted the barely and ensured that it is in the ear (green bud), then we look for the first sliver. When we see the first sliver of the new moon, we know we have now arrived at Yom (day) one of the first month. We are to count ten days and take a lamb of the first year into our house. On the fourteenth day at evening we are to sacrifice that lamb and celebrate the Passover. The very next day is a Sabbath to you and the first day of unleavened bread. We are to celebrate it seven days and the seventh day is a Sabbath as well. This is besides the weekly Sabbath as these feast day Sabbaths can fall on any day of the week.

On the first day following the weekly Sabbath we are to offer the first fruits of the land as a wave offering before YHVH. This starts the counting of the omer. We are to count seven weeks from that Sunday and then on the following Monday we are to celebrate the feast of Shavuot (Pentecost or feast of weeks). On first-fruits we waved unprocessed sheaves of grain, on Shavuot we wave baked loves of bread before YHVH. All the while counting every moon, at Shavuot we should be in the third month of the biblical year.

We continue counting until we reach the sixth month then we wait until the moon disappears at the end of the sixth month and then we wait for the sighting of the new moon beginning the seventh month. This is Yom Teruah (the feast of trumpets), and also a Sabbath no matter what day of the week it falls on. We count nine days and on the evening or beginning of the tenth day we afflict our souls because it is a Sabbath day and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement).

Now you have no excuse for not keeping YHVH’s reckoning of time. You are bound by the Creator’s calendar. and you can fulfill easily all of His mo-eds without having to rely on a man or a man’s wisdom to tell you when the right day is. I really hope this has made it clear to you all joking aside, because we as a people need to start coming togather especially on these things that are simple to be understood. We really need to quit trying to out think Yah and just look at the simplicity of His word.

You will never be able to keep these feasts properly on a calendar that has been calculated by a man using his own equations. The Gregorian calendar will never line up, and the calendar created by Rabbi Hillel 2 will not work either. YHVH’s calendar has been painted in the sky and on the earth, he revealed it to us in His very creation.

Chapter 13

A little bit

of “this”

and

A little bit

Of

“That”

In this chapter I want to do something that I do not believe has ever been done before. I wrote this book for those that are just coming to the faith, but tried to make it informative enough for someone who has been in the faith for some time.

I have purposely tried not to get real deep into the hidden mysteries  in Scripture because I wanted the reader to only have the facts readily available to show anyone who is searching for truth that they have been lied to and equip them with the evidence to prove it.

I am going to stray from that hear and reveal the real birthday of our Messiah Yeshua. I will then post a couple of articles that I wrote on the pagan origins of church holidays. I realize that we already covered them in part, but since I am doing a partial rewrite on this book I wrote in 1998 I thought I would just add them at the end.

I want you to understand that during the time of year that their holidays occur you will undoubtedly be faced with the argument of why you don’t celebrate the Messiah’s birthday when you claim to be a believer in Him. This will equip you with the evidence to show them that Dec 25th  is not His birthday, and that this holiday has nothing to do with Him and everything to do with paganism.

It seems that around that time of year there is always a debate going on about the birth of our Messiah Yeshua commonly referred to as Jesus. The problem is I don’t see anyone talking fact or trying to show through Scripture when He was born or not born.

It is all about tradition, opinion and speculation. So I decided to go through Scripture on Christ-Mass and show through Scripture alone when our Messiah was born. Scripture teaches that if any man lacks knowledge let him ask of Yahweh who gives it liberally. This seems to be a question running through the body and it seems that many don’t even want to look at Scripture to see if their traditions and suspicions are true.

It is my contention that we can know exactly when our Messiah was born, using only the details outlined in Scripture. So let’s look at the Scripture concerning the events that surrounded the birth of our Messiah and see if we can start to bring His birth into view. Scripture tells us in Luke 1:5 that in the time of Herod the king, Zacharias who was to make attendance at the altar in the course of Abijah.

Luke 1:5  There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

This tells us what priestly division that John the Baptist’s father beloned to and gives us a very important clue. With this information we can find through Scripture exactly what time of the year it was when Zacharias would have had duty in the temple.

We can do this because in First Chronicles we see that the son’s of Aaron were divided into 24 groups and that each group had a set time for service in the temple.

1Ch 24:10  The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah. So Zacharias would have been serving in the temple at the same rotation as Abijah, who scripture states he was in the same cycle.

As Scripture clearly shows the biblical calendar begins in the spring when we see the barley abib (green in the ear) we sight the first sliver of the moon and this begins the new year for YHVH’s people. This is when the priests’ cycle of duties would begin again. Those who Served in the cycle of Jehoiarib would have been ready and awaiting the sighting of the first sliver and at the end of that week would be ready to take over for seven days.

The third week would be the feast of Passover and Unleavened Bread. All the priest, would be present to serve at this time. Then the schedule would resume with the third division of priests. So those that served in the cycle of Abijah would have had duty on week nine.

This would have made Zacharias’ temple duty fall during the week of, or the week following the feast of Shavuot (Pentecost or the Feast of Weeks) Luke  also tells us that after he had preformed his duties he returned home and Elizabeth became pregnant.

Luke 1:23-25  And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house. And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying, Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.

So shortly after his temple service. Zacharias returned home and conceived his son. John. This would have been in the 3rd month either the 2nd or 3rd week of the biblical year. Now at this point you may be asking yourself, “I thought this was about the birth of Yeshua not the birth of John the Baptist.” If we want to see a clear picture of when Yeshua was born the evidence that clearly defines the time of his birth is found in the story of John’s birth.

As the Scripture defines in the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, the angel came to Mary the Mother of Yeshua and she conceived our messiah of the Ruach (spirit) . This would have been the ninth month of the year, the second or third week of the month.

Luke 1:36  And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.

A very interesting fact to note here is that the Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah) falls towards the end of the nineth month. It is entirely possible that Yeshua was conceived by the Ruach on the Feast of Dedication. Now that is great information but I don’t want to rabbit trail on all the spiritual implications of this event happing on Hanukkah, but just want to stick with the plan of seeing if we can find out exactly when our Messiah was born.

This would have made John the Baptist’s birth somewhere around the middle or end of the first month of the biblical year if Elizabeth’s pregnancy was a normal one, and Mary would be ending her first trimester. Also noting that John’s birth would have been during Passover or Unleavened Bread, another rabbit trail that we may explore in a separate article but for now let’s keep pressing on.

Around six months later Mary would have been giving birth to Yeshua. So if John’s birthday is on the 15th day of the first month (the first day of Unleavened bread), we only need to count six full months, to find out the birthday of our Messiah Yeshua. Counting six full months, we arrive at the 15th day of the 7th month of the biblical calendar.

A very important event takes place on the 15th day of the seventh month on the biblical calendar. It is the last feast of YHVH, Sukkot (the Feast of Tabernacles). This would fully explain why their was no room for them in the Inn because all of Israel is commanded to present themselves in Jerusalem three times a year; not to mention that Rome had declared that a census be taken and every man return to the city of his father.

So now there should be no question in your mind using scripture only to prove when Yeshua was born and it was definitely not even close to December 25th. This date of December 25th is the believed birth date of Nimrod, his son Tammuz, and the day that they burnt a pig on the altar in the temple desecrating it.

If you look at the facts and not at opinion, you should put away the dead traditions of man and follow the one whom you say you serve. The Roman Catholic Church is the one that established how we should worship our Messiah on their god’s birthday. They mingled the two religions together to make one. But the Father is calling His set apart people out of the dead traditions of man into walking after Him alone.

I know I said I would post two articles here but now I’m thinking that it will not be necessary to do so since I believe I have absolutely proven that Yeshua’s birthday was not December 25th and the day we refer to as Christmas has nothing to do with His birthday. And I realize that we  have already talked about Easter as well, but I posting this article here for no other reason than to maybe say it in a different way.

My hope is those who did not get it the first time I talked about it will be struck by something in this article that will help them make the decision to separate themselves from the pagan worship of pagan deities.

The Easter Story you were never told:

Easter is fast approaching, mama’s are buying their babies all the best clothes for this day. No doubt many of you have picked out your Easter lilies already. You have bought extra eggs, dye’s, stickers, and shrink wrap, in an attempt to not be outdone by all the other mothers and families that will be sharing in your festivities.

This one day a year you will convince family members that have not darted in the church door all year to attend the service. Many of you will gather at a specific location at sunrise for a symbolic reference to the Messiah raised from the grave. You will hear the preacher teach that on good Friday they crucified the LORD and laid Him in a borrowed tomb. And then early on Easter Sunday morning He was raised from the dead.

I could give you the whole message that will be preached around the world on this day because I myself delivered it for several years. But I don’t think you need me to do that, because no doubt you have heard it before as well.

Now this message (moving and very emotional in the hands of a skilled orator), can bring even the strongest of sinners to tears. But let’s take a look at this message and all the traditions that surrounds the day referred to as Easter.

I realize right there many of you will quit reading because you have closed your mind and no one is going to mess with this sacred cow. But for those of you who are still reading I will now tell you the Easter story you were never told. And you will begin to see why you are doing all the things that surround this day, and have been doing just because that is what everyone else is doing. Or you are doing it because some man, who  claims to have been appointed by YHVH, told you it was the proper thing to do.

Now I'm going to play your momma for a minute. If everyone was going to jump off a bridge would you do it too, even if the President of the United States told you it was the right thing to do? Of course you wouldn’t. Would you put a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger just because everyone in your family decided to do it? Again of course you wouldn’t. Now I know those are extreme analogies, but I think you will see that they are no more extreme than some of the things we have been convinced are the right things to do.

I will give you some Scripture throughout this section but first I just want to tell you the TRUE Easter Story. Now most of you have heard about some of the key players in the True Easter Story. People like Nimrod, you will remember him from the Tower of Babel in the Bible. He is the one that shot the arrow into the heavens. There are two other key players though that while they are a little less known then Nimrod are very key players in this Easter Story. The first would be the wife of Nimrod named Samurais the queen of Babylon. There is one more key player, but we will get to him in just a bit, for now let’s focus on these two.

Now we all know the story… Nimrod was a great hunter, and he became the king of Babylon where they built the tower of Babel. This is where YHVH (God) confused the language of the people. But the story of Samurais was not told in Scripture. Before becoming the wife of Nimrod, she is actually referred to as Samurais the second to whom the hanging gardens of Babylon were built.  This character is a little hard to trace, but we know that she was later called the queen of heaven, and this is the only clue we have to her in the bible. {Found in Jeremiah 44:15-19).

Now when Shem killed Nimrod and sent his body parts to the lands in the religion that he had formed with Samurais it is said that he ascended into the shy and became the sun god, and later formed a religion called Mithraism. This is the Religion Constantine the great  was involved in. The one referred to as the first Christian emperor. In fact, he was said to have been praying to this sun god on SUNday when he saw the sign of a cross and formed the religion now known as Catholicism, from which all Protestant religions where birthed. This is not about him though so I will leave it at that.

After Nimrod died, years later Samurais was said to have been magically impregnated by the rays of the sun, and bore a male child which she named Tammuz. You can find him in Scripture as well in Ezekiel 8:14. Now for the really sick part. Samurais married her son Tammuz. Tammuz, Like his father, was a great hunter but at the age of forty while on a hunt he was gored to death by a wild boar. This is why we have 40 days of lent and also why we eat ham on Easter Sunday. It was this abomination that is being referred to in Ezekiel 8:14.

But let’s get back to our key player Samurais the queen of heaven. After Tammuzs’ death Samurais is said to have grieved herself to death. But at her death, she is said to have also ascended into the sky to become the moon god and earn the tile “Queen Of Heaven”. Now we know Nimrod proved his divinity by impregnating his wife years after his ascension. So how ever would they know that Samurais had really become “Queen of Heaven”.

Samurais not to be out done, is said to have descended from heaven in a giant Egg, landing in the Euphrates river and bursting out as the bare breasted goddess ISHTAR… later known as Easter. To prove her divinity, she turned a bird into an egg laying rabbit and promised that anyone who found one of these eggs would bare male children in the coming year.

Now that’s pretty sick, but you have not heard the sick part yet. A religion was formed, complete with priest and sacrifices. Every year on the first SUNday after the vernal equinox they would have a day of worship and celebration and call it Easter.

On this day at SUNrise, the cultic Priest would take virgins and rape them on the altar of ISHTAR. Pretty bad huh, but again not the worst part of it. Now by the sheer number of women being raped there would be children born from those rapes. These priest would take the now three month old babies born from the previous year’s rape, cut their throats and drain their blood into a bowl.

They would then take eggs and dip them in the blood of these sacrificed babies and hide them about the city. Again, promising that if you were to find one of these eggs that you would bare male children. And that is the true “Easter Story;” it has nothing to do with the resurrection of our Messiah Jesus (Yeshua).

So now that we have shown why you are preparing buying cloths, lilies, eggs, die, and hiding eggs, and coming to gather at SUNrise on SUNday, let’s go to Scripture and see what it has to say about the resurrection of our Messiah Yeshua.

We all know that Yeshua was our Passover Lamb, and being so was crucified on Passover. Without quoting a bunch of Scripture, I will give you the references at the end. I will just tell you the Passover story.

On the Erev (when the sun starts it decent in the sky around 3pm) on the 14th day of the first month of the biblical calendar, the priest at the temple would start sacrificing the Passover Lamb. The exact same time Yeshua was being hung on the Cross. When the Sacrifice and ritual was complete the priest would come out and declare with a loud voice “IT IS FINISHED” at the exact same time Yeshua declared “IT IS FINISHED” and redeemed all who would believe in Him.

What most people do not know is there were two lambs selected but only one would be the Passover lamb. The other would be released into the wilderness as the scape goat.

Yeshua was chosen to be the sacrifice and Barabas released. I could go on and on showing you how Yeshua fulfilled every detail of becoming our Pesach (Passover Lamb), but I want to show you how Easter has nothing to do with his resurrection.

Now the Church says He was crucified on Friday and they call this day “Good Friday” because Scripture declares they had to get Him in the grave because the Sabbath was coming. They did not even have time to clean the body and anoint it. Yet we see in Scripture that early on the first day of the week after the Sabbath Mary came to anoint His body and perform the burial  ritual but He was already risen.

So ask yourself if they had to put Him in the grave because the Sabbath was coming, and the morning after the Sabbath He was already risen how was He in the grave for 3 days and 3 nights. Better yet, let’s use their math. If He was crucified on Friday and laid in the grave at sunset, then risen from the grave on Sunday morning, remembering that He said He would be in the Grave three days and three nights; Lets count:

Ok lets say they are counting Friday as the first day then that is day one. Friday night would have been night one. Saturday would have been day two and Saturday night would have been night two. Now when Mary came at the dawning of the day on Sunday he was already risen right. So where is day three and night three. You’re right, it does not add up.

So now let’s do the real math and solve this equation. Remember Passover is on the 14th day of the biblical month and the 15th day of the same month is the first day of Unleavened Bread and Scripture declares that the first day of Unleavened Bread is a Sabbath (not a weekly Sabbath, a feast day Sabbath). This is the Sabbath that was coming and the reason they had to get Him in the grave. According to the year he was killed this would have been a Wednesday. So let’s count from there.

He was laid in the tomb before sunset so Wednesday night would have been night one. Thursday would have been day one. Thursday night would have been night two. Friday would have been day two. Friday night would have been night three (Beginning the Sabbath). And Saturday (the Sabbath), would have been Day three. We know by Scripture at some point that evening that the tomb was opened and the guards fell down as though they were dead. And this is the reason when Mary came to the tomb at sunrise on the first day of the week he was already risen because He had arisen exactly three days and three nights from when He was laid in the tomb just as He said.

Now that you know the truth; does Easter even remotely resemble the events of his resurrection or his crucifixion for that matter? If it doesn’t, then why are you participating in pagan rituals. Because everyone else is doing it? Because some man who claims to be a spiritual leader has told you it was right to do so? Remember the bridge scenario laid out earlier. I know all the arguments, “Well that’s not what it means to me” and “I'm doing it in remembrance of His resurrection not paganism”. Well I have one more story to tell you, then you can make up your own mind if this is something you should ever participate in again.

Remember after the children of Israel crossed the Red Sea and Moses had gone upon the mountain for forty days, the people became restless and ask Aaron to make them an Idol, the golden calf. Aaron agreed, but then he told them tomorrow we are going to have a feast day to the LORD (YHVH).

Moses comes down in the middle of their wickedness and breaks the Ten Commandments. At that point, YHVH said He was going to kill them all and raise up a nation to Moses. The people had made this “Calf” as a representation of their Eloheem YHVH and were going to have a feast day to Him the next day yet YHVH was going to kill them all for doing so.

The moral of this story is it does not matter what Easter means to you, it only matters what it means to GOD (YHVH). He said He would have no other gods before Him and everything about an Easter celebration originated in the false worship of a false god.

I hope you have enjoyed and learned something here because now that you know you have been made accountable. You will not be able to stand before Him on judgment day and blame someone else. If you continue to celebrate Easter from this point on; you are participating in the false worship  of a false Eloheem and He will have no other Eloheem of your own will before him.

Scripture references: Mathew chapters 26-28, Mark chapters 14-16, Luke 22-24, John 18-20  Exodus Chapter 32

Chapter 14

You cant have

It

both Ways

First of all I want to tell you I am writing this chapter for the Christian believer who has seen some hypocrisy in their clergy.

As a kid growing up in the Christian church, I was told that the law had been done away with and that we no longer had to live by it because Yeshua had fulfilled it on the cross. I remember every time I would hear this statement it was like something was tearing inside me. I heard over and over again that if you tried to live the law and broke any part of it you where guilty of breaking it all.

Jas 2:10  For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

I feel at this point I have to point something out for context. Now I want you to understand I'm not going to tell you this to try and boast in myself at all, but to give praise to the Father. However, the context is going to be about me and I don’t want it to be misconstrued as boasting.

As a very young child the Father started using me in great and mighty ways, but I'm not going to go into all the details here because it really had nothing to do with me, and all honor and glory belongs to the Father.

But as a young child when I first learned to read, the only thing that ever really captured my attention was the Bible. The first birthday present I ever ask for was a Bible, and I wore that thing out.

When I got my first job I took my first check and bought a Bible, not the one I wanted though but a good one that would do until I could save the money to get the one I wanted… a Thompson Chain Reference Bible which I got a few weeks later, and I still have both of them to this day. They are worn out with the binding going bad in them, some torn pages and maybe even a page or two missing.

Now there have been many Bibles since then but my passion for them has remained the same. I remember Sunday school teachers asking me to sit in the adult class because I would not just buy into what they were teaching.

I would quote Scripture to them showing that what they were saying was not in line with the Scriptures. As I grew up I was always pushed aside for questioning and quoting Scripture that showed whatever was being taught to not be in line with what Scripture said. I was taught early on the aspect of keeping your mouth shut and not rocking the boat.

The problem is that no matter what denomination we were attending at the time there was always this theme of the law being done away with and my spirit was groaning inside me even as a young child. This led me to being in and out of church throughout my adolescent years; because no matter how hard I tried, I could not play the game by their rules. We were supposed to be playing it by the rules the Father had established in His word.

This led to the church labeling me as unstable in the faith. But see I was never unstable in my faith. I never wavered in my belief in Yeshua, I just could not conform to theirs. I tried to play the game and even became a pastor of a Christian church. Even then the constraints of their false teaching griped me, and tried to keep me confined to their rules, which were not in line with what the Bible actually said.

About sixteen years ago, I finally realized that the only way for me to truly change what was going on in there was to separate myself from the church totally. I may not ever change the “Game” as a whole but I can change one life at a time by showing that the rules to their game are corrupt and designed to keep you under their rules instead of walking in obedience to what the Father has commanded of His people.

Back to the first paragraph and the intent of this article. Jas_2:10  For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

The answer to this Scripture is not to discard the Law. The answer is “Duh”, all sin will send you to hell. And the writer’s intent is not to convince people that the law is done away with but to show that we are all in need of a Savior. We have all sinned and fallen short. It is for this reason that the Father sent His Son Yeshua to show us His grace. His grace provides forgiveness for sin, if it is committed unintentional, and unknowingly.

If sin is committed with intent, then you have trodden the blood of Messiah Yeshua under your feet and you must repent and do your first works again. When the knowledge of a sin that you committed unaware is made known to you, you have to repent then as well but it is not like knowingly committing a sin. It is like the deference between premeditated murder and murder in our courts. All sin will reap its just reward.

So let’s take a look at some of these rules the church has made up and show some contrast to them. Now the core of the church’s faith is that Yeshua came to bring salvation and this is true. Where we start getting into some problems is when they describe to you how He accomplished this feat.

They say that He paid the price by fulfilling the law and then dying and being resurrected on the third day, and that now He sits at the right hand of the Father making intercession for them. Now on the surface all of this appears to be correct as well but “still waters run deep” is what my grandmother would say. And there is a whole lot going on under the surface of that water.

So let’s start with the one word they like to focus on when talking about the Law and that is the word “fulfilled”. The meaning that they have applied to the word fulfilled, is that there is no more need for it, and that it has been done away with. Even though Yeshua said that not until heaven and Earth passed would not even the smallest part of the law be done away with. Now we know there is still a heaven and an Earth.

What if we applied the same definition to the word “fulfilled” when we look at some other Scriptures like this one: Php_2:2  “Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.” Now does this mean we don’t have to love or try to be in one accord or of one mind anymore. Of course not. The fact is that this word fulfill means to accomplish or establish, not to do away with.

Now this creates some big issues for the church. If Yeshua fulfilled the law in the sense that they say He did, then He lied in Mathew 5:17, when He said that as long as heaven and earth existed not one jot or tittle would ever be done away with from the Law. Again, heaven and earth still exist even while they are saying that He made it possible for them to break the law without consequence. And not keeping the law is breaking the law, just in case you did not know. We are commanded to obey and DO; all that He has commanded us.

If Yeshua took away or added anything to the law, then he could not have been the Messiah. In the very act of doing so he would have been breaking the law and committing sin in doing so according to Deu: 4:2. 1john 3:4 says that ….. SIN IS TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW.

But this is not the end of their hypocrisy. Now they will tell you that we don’t live by what they refer to as the Old Testament. “We live by the New Testament”! Ok but do they really believe that statement. The same Pastor that told you that you don’t have to live by the law and if you do then you are condemning yourself, will tell you that you should not lie cheat or steal, and show you this in the new testament. Yet when the funds get low in the church, they will break out Mal_3:8  “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.”

Oh they will tell you that the reason you are not being blessed in your finances is because you are not tithing. But you should know something tithing is the law, and can be found no where in the New Testament. And if you have a rebellious child they will hit you with Pro_22:15  Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.  They use the law to Scripture-whip you into conforming to their religious system, but they reject the law when it stands against them.

They will talk to you about faithfulness to the church, but there is an ulterior motive here as well. You need to show up for your weekly indoctrination so they can collect their fee for doing so. They will use the law to convince you of this by stating that the Father requires us to keep His Sabbath, and that we should not forsake the assembling of ourselves. But that only goes as far as you coming to their service. As soon as you leave you can go work on your house, mow your lawn, or go to your normal job with absolutely no consequences. Not even as much as a word or a look because most of them are doing the same thing.

The commandment is that not you, not you’re wife, not you’re children, not you’re hired servants, not you’re  animals, or any servant that is within you’re gates can do any work.

The bigger issue here is that they are lying to you from the get go just by telling you that the Sabbath is on Sunday. The Sabbath has always been on what we refer to as Saturday. I mean just go look at the calendar on your wall start counting from the left and when you reach seven what day are you on. SATURDAY!!!!! They will make excuses and say that it was changed because Yeshua rose on Sunday. That is a lie as well. The apostles still kept in on Saturday long after Yeshua had arisen from the grave and taught us to do the same.

The fact is that it was on Saturday until Constantine changed it to Sunday (325 years after Yeshua rose from the Grave), because he was a SUN GOD worshiper and they worshiped on the day of the SUN the first day of the week SUNDAY. Ask them to show you even one place in Scripture where YHVH (GOD), Yeshua or any prophet or apostle ever authorized the Sabbath to be changed.

They will tell you to celebrate Christmas and Easter but reject the feast days that the Father has established in the law. The fact is the Christian religion is bound up in LIES, hypocrisy, and false teaching. They do all this when they claim to be reading and living by the same Bible you and I have.

This is the short version of how we got to this place and hopefully it will show you why there is such a need to return to the faith of our fathers, and not continue in the corrupted doctrines being spewed behind pulpits, microphones, and television cameras.

Constantine formed a new religion called the Christian religion, which up until that point was used as a derogatory term to describe the believers in Messiah. He took the faith that had been delivered by Yeshua and corrupted it. Changing the feast days to fit the days that he worshiped the sun god (all centered on the equinox’s.) He also changed the Sabbath to the day he worshiped the sun god. His exact words were he would not be made to worship like a damnable Jew.

This later grew into the religion we call Catholicism. Catholicism flourished and created what we refer to as the Dark Ages: Killing all believers that did not conform to Catholic doctrine and labeling those who did not as heretics. This continued for almost 1200 plus years until Martin Luther nailed his ninety-six thesis to the pope’s door and started the reformation.

The problem is that even though Martin Luther had ninety-seven problems with papacy he did not call into question their feast days or Sabbath. So there was no return to the true faith of our fathers. We were still considered Catholics though we where just labeled Protestant, meaning protesting the papacy and their control. If you are not Catholic, then why do you keep their Sabbath and worship on their feast days.

The church teaches all these things that are contrary to what the Bible actually says, and then they wonder why teenage sex is the same or greater in the church then in the world. Why adultery is the same or greater in the church than it is in the world. Why the divorce rate is the same or greater in the church than it is in the world. Why their children leave the church and become homosexuals, drug addicts, prostitutes and, in general, why there’s no difference between them and people who have never attended CHURCH.

The reason for all of these is they have rejected YHVH’s law. I guarantee you that if they were following and teaching men to follow his law, none of these things would be the same. Sure they would still happen, but they would not be happening like they are now. You can not say you love God and then reject what he told you to do. You can’t have it both ways. Or as the old timers would say, “You cant have your cake and eat it too”.

To summarize do not believe anything that you are told concerning following the Messiah. Study it out yourself and prove it beyond contestation. Only when you have done this will you be able to stand before the Father on judgment day and give an account of your actions that will be in your favor. Blaming the pastor, the teacher or even me will not secure you a place in His kingdom.

Shalom and be blessed is my prayer for you.

James Gillispie

I would like to give a special thanks to Craig and Murline Mills. This work would not have been possible had it not been for both of you. I want you to know how special you guys are to me and not just because you helped me edit this book and helped me find a publisher. You two are truly servants of the father, and I know he will bless you far more then anything I could do or say just for being who you are to him.