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Paganism in the Church

There are many verses that tell us that Yahweh’s Law is forever. In fact every Feast Day is commanded to celebrate FOREVER yet most of Christianity has “CHOSE” to celebrate man made holidays.  There are no verses that tell us “Just follow these things until the Messiah comes and goes and then you can do whatever you want”.  Keeping this in mind the “WAY” we worship our Elohim is also commanded and when we don’t do it HIS “WAY” we are failing HIM.  We are not supposed to do it “OUR” way.

Here is an example of two brothers thinking they are doing the right thing yet failing.

Leviticus 10:1-2  Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered “strange” fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them. 2 And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord

Think about that for a minute.  When a temple worships Ashtoreth aka Easter, green evergreens aka Christmas (winter solstice) they forsake the Torah (HIS Divine Instructions).  The temples that teach those things are offering up “strange fire” to our Elohim.  They are defiled temples. Many churches of today have giant crosses and statues of our Messiah in the building in which both are commanded never to do.  Many churches have become the church of the hypocrites by having offering plates passed around (Tithing) which comes from the Old Testament yet they teach we don’t have to follow the Old Testament stuff as it is only for the Jews.  Don’t get us wrong, not all Churches (Temples) are like that but 99% of them are.  Does your Church have a steeple?  If so, do you know what a steeple is?  If not click here and learn about steeples.  Most churches no longer teach Truth but rather teach a bunch of man made doctrine feeding their memeber LIES.  To allow our children to learn the lie is worse than not even telling them the Truth.  The way worship is taught in modern day Christianity is a way of worshipping HIM that HE has not asked for.  Take for instance Christmas and Easter as we mentioned earlier.  A believer that studies the scriptures can clearly see our Elohim does not want us to make up holidays or take pagan holidays and make them for HIMHE has already put in place on what days we are to celebrate.  To adopt a pagan celebration and try to make it mean something else is only for “man’s reasoning” and not HISHE has given us examples of what happens to those that worship HIM in the way the pagans did.  In fact, before they even started conquering land HE warned us to NEVER worship HIM in the way the pagans worshipped their gods.

Deuteronomy 12:29-32 When the Lord your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land, take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, “How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.” You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way; for every abomination to the Lord which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods. Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.

It is abundantly clear that our Elohim wants us to worship HIM in HIS way not our way and absolutely not in a way that pagans worshipped their gods.  We, as believers in TRUTH, have to get man’s tradition out of HIS worship.  Everybody says “That’s not what it means to me”.  Have you ever stopped to think that none of this is about us?  It is about HIM and HE put things in place for HIS own name’s sake not ours.

Psalm 106:8 Yet he saved them for his own name’s sake, to make known his mighty power.

When it comes down to it we have to ask ourselves if what we are doing has scriptural backing or man’s backing.  Everything about most churches comes from paganism.  We have just been misled over the last 2000+ years into thinking what we are taught is okay.  We are commanded to not have repetitious prayer, images of our Messiah, and constructing Obelisks on our buildings.  The church has failed us and now is the time to restore HIS sacred text before we stray even further.

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Bible Statistics

Biblical Statistics Lesson

Did you know that when Jesus or the Taught Ones spoke of Scripture they were referring to the Old Testament as the New Testament wasn’t around at the time. Have you ever wondered how much of the New Testament is actually new?  Well, wonder no more.

The Bible consist of 66 Books of which 39 of them come from the Old Testament. That is 59% of the entire Bible. Why would anyone believe or teach to throw out 59% of Yahweh’s words. Let’s take it one step further. We know that the New Testament quotes or refers to the Old Testament about 4000+ times. Keeping that statistic in the mix, and removing credit to those quotes from the New Testament and adding credit to those to the Old Testament, that means the Old Testament encompasses roughly 74% of the entire Bible.

This brings us to the same question. Why would anyone believe or teach to do away with 74%+ of entire Bible because the Messiah died and supposedly we don’t have to do any of that stuff anymore. We have all been misled and it’s time to right the wrong. Yeshua (Jesus) didn’t die for us so we could throw away 74% of what was put in place for us. HE died for one reason and one reason only. To allow us to come before the judgment seat as we will never be worthy enough to do it alone. It’s time to “claim” your spot on the seat of judgment through Faith in Yeshua (Jesus) and obedience to HIS commands.

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Matthew 15:1-7 Yahweh’s (God’s) Law not Law of Moses

We are often taught to throw away all the Jewish Laws of the Old Testament including but not limited to Dietary Law and Feast Days.  Did you know that the New Testament quotes those “Jewish Laws” over 4000+ times.  In fact the Law isn’t Jewish at all it is Yahweh’s (God’s) Law. This is eye opening to us and hopefully to you.  Notice in the next verse what Yeshua (Jesus) says to the Pharisees.

Matthew 15 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Yeshua (Jesus) from Jerusalem and said, “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.”  He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of Yahweh (God) for the sake of your tradition? For Yahweh (God) commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’  But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to Yahweh (God),” he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of Yahweh (God).

Bet you still didn’t catch that.  We have read this verse a 100 times and just realized it.  Notice that Yeshua (Jesus) refers to the commandments as Yahweh’s not Mosheh‘s (Moses’) commands.  Notice HE actually says it 4 times throughout those verses.  The LAW was Yahweh’s (God’s) Law, not Mosheh‘s (Moses’).  So when we see our Messiah referring to the “commandments” He is talking about all of them, even the commandments given to Moses.  And John quoted Yeshua (Jesus) about keeping ALL OF THEM.

John 14:15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. Again, Yeshua (Jesus) is referring to all of them.

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1 Peter 1:15-16 Be Holy as I am Holy

Many have read the following verse before and so have we.  We never put it together with where it came from.  Peter is reflecting upon Dietary Laws from Leviticus.

1 Peter 1:15-16 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

Did you know that Peter is quoting from the Torah (Old Testament)?  Did you know that when the words “it is written” are seen that it always comes from the Torah (Old Testament)?  Did you know that Peter is directly quoting from the food laws in the above mentioned verse?

Leviticus 20:25-26 You shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold UNCLEAN.  You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.

Dietary Law has nothing to do with health as some try to point out.  It has everything to do with separating us from the rest of the nation(s).  In the Bible the word GENTILE is used often.  This word never existed in the original text and is a mistranslation of the word Goy(singular) and Goyim(plural) which just means other nation(s).  HE wants us separated.  We can easily achieve separation.

 

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Yahweh’s (God’s) Law vs Rabbinical Law example

There is a difference between Yahweh’s Law given to Mosheh and Rabbinical Law created throughout time and documented in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmud.

Here is an example: Numbers 15:37-39 Tassels on Garments   The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a co…rd of blue on the tassel of each corner. And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after.

The lesson to learn here is the difference between what Rabbinical Law teaches and what Yahweh teaches. Rabbinicaltzittzit Law demands the “BLUE DYE” used to color the thread in the tassels (TzitTzit) is to come from a snail referred to as Chilazon.   There is not one verse in the Bible that commands the use of a certain snail for the coloring of the blue thread. Jewish Law (aka Rabbinical Law) commands there is a certain snail that has to be used to make the blue thread. Our Messiah came and did away with all this Rabbinical Law while establishing HIS Father’s Law called Torah. The Torah does not command us to use a certain snail for the coloring of the blue thread to make the tassels. We have to learn there is a difference between “HIS LAW” and “JEWISH LAW” and not disregard HIS Law because we think or we are taught it is Jewish.  The traditions of man (Rabbinical Law) even went so far as to not have the “Commanded” blue thread when the snail could no longer be found.  They actually believed it went extinct.  They chose to disobey Yahweh’s Law.  They then started putting the blue thread on their TzitTzit  when they learned the snail wasn’t extinct and became available again.  It is important that we learn the difference between HIS commands and Jewish Law.

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Hebrews 8:13

Hebrews 8:13 (NIV) By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.

Hebrews 8:13 (AENT) In that he said a Renewed (Covenant), he made the first old; and that which is old and decaying, is near to disappearing.

What is “near to disappearing” is the how man has broken TORAH, not the instructions/commands/precepts that Torah sets in place.  We, as people, have broken Torah not YahwehYahweh  did not decide to drop HIS divine instructions because we chose to quit following HIS commands.  HIS purpose was to install a Renewed Covenant to write Torah upon the heart through the work of the Ruach haKodesh (Jeremiah 31:31-34) , according to our Messiah. If we look at it this way we can see that the Torah wasn’t done away with it actually had its bar raised by Yeshua as HE magnified it (pleroo in Greek or Fulfilled in English).  HE does it for HIS sake (Isaiah 42:21). When our ancestors decided to break Torah, Yahweh stepped in and gave us HIS son to show us what to do.  By supplying us with the final sacrifice Yahweh showed mercy on us through the shed blood of the Messiah presenting us Spotless and Blameless before our Elohim.  The problem is that Yahweh’s part of the covenant has never changed; our’s has.  We are to restore ourselves to obedience through Faith in HIS son and insertion of the Ruach HaKodesh inside of us.  Because mankind broke the Covenant, Yahweh requires complete renovation on our part, not HIS part of the Covenant. This verse has become the “centerpiece” of a Torahless Christianity and that is a dangerous path to take.

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Titus 3:8 Do Good Works

It is often taught that works do not get us anywhere. While works do not save us they are commanded to do and they please HIM.

Titus 3:8 Trustworthy is the word, and in this regard I wish you to strongly affirm, that those who have believed in Elohim should keep their minds on maintaining good works. This is good and profitable to men.

Remember. We are saved by Grace alone but this doesn’t mean we don’t have to follow HIS commands and do good works all the time. The Grace vs Law all started with a man name Ignatius of Antioch.  He wrote in his letter to the Magnesians: around 100 A.D.

“Let us not be persuaded by strange teachings, nor by fables that have no truth in them. If we still live by the Jewish law we confirm that we have not received grace; the old is gone and all has been renewed. For if we are still living in accordance with the Jewish law and it’s circumcision of the flesh, then we deny that we have received grace. All then who have been brought up under the old have to come to a new hope and therefore no longer keep the Sabbath, but the day of the Lord.”

This folks is where it all started. Grace vs Law, Christianity vs Jews. As knowlegable as Ignatius of Antioch might have been he has one HUGE error in his letter. The Torah that he spoke of was never and still isn’t JEWISH. It is Yahweh’s Torah given to Mosheh (not a Jew) for our benefit. This teaching of Ignatius of Antioch (aka Theophorus) has held strong for over 1900+ years.  Note:  the word Day at the end of that verse was incorrectly translated as late as the 19th Century. The end of that sentence is correctly translated as “living according to our Lord s life”.

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Boston Bombing 2013

BostonWe don’t usually watch any news. We don’t usually post pics of people. With that being said we feel everyone should stare at this pic for a bit. In the background you have HaSatan (the enemy) in a white hat. If you look down on the ground… HaSatan (the enemy) has dropped a backpack with a bomb in it. Take a good look.  HaSatan (the enemy) can manifest himself in any form he wants.  He is all around us.  He is the authority of the air.

(By Grace Through Faith) Ephesians 2:1-3  And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, FOLLOWING THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Towards the forefront of the picture circled in blue is the boy who lost his life due to the enemy’s work. Up to the point of the explosion everyone in that picture is excited and smiling. One second of time changed the life of everyone in this picture. ONE SECOND!!! There is no way for any of us to prevent everything all the time. All we can do is have Faith and know we are protected by HIM. Although that boy has lost his life, he is now peacefully resting waiting for the day our Messiah will bring him into the Kingdom. That child will get into the Kingdom as HE has always told us to be like the children.

Events like this “TEST” our Faith on a daily basis. Events like this “TEST” our ability to promote our Savior as protecting and loving. Events like this “TEST” everyone involved. We just have to remember that no matter what happens, HE will be there in the end if we have Faith in HIM and try our best to follow in HIS commandments. We can’t imagine what emotional scars were developed by all those involved but we do know whom can heal them and his name is HaMashiach Yeshua.

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Exodus 12:23

We know HE says we are saved by Grace and that Faith is what we must have. Does this mean we can be disobedient and not follow HIS LAW because it got nailed to the cross??? Let’s go back and look at the beginning.

When the Israelites where let out of Egypt, Yahweh promised to send death to the 1st born Male child of the Egyptians. He then gave a command!!!

Exodus 12:23 Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23 For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.

CHECK THAT OUT!!! Read again and look at what happened. We all know they had FAITH but they were also given a command. If the Israelites did not have Faith they would not have put the blood on the doorpost. We know they did believe in HIM and they had Faith in HIM but their first born children were not saved on their Faith alone; they were saved on their obedience through their Faith to the command of putting blood on the doorpost. They didn’t base their salvation on the fact that they believed because the LAMB was SLAIN!!! Get that??? If they would have just said “We have Faith HE won’t harm us” and failed to put the blood on the door posts and their 1st born male sons would have been consumed.

So another tidbit:  We all know that there are plenty of verses that say we are “saved” by Faith.  This is true and does not contradict our point on this verse.  Even Abraham had faith but then was told to show Obedience.  Salvation will come through our Faith in the Messiah but and a BIG BUT, how can one claim to have Faith in our Messiah and then not do any of the works? 

James 2:20  But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead

NOW REVERSE THAT.. All of Israel was left in the desert because they didn’t have FAITH.  They did all the WORKS but had no FAITH.  The generations had to die off before they could enter the Promised Land.  WOW HUH?  You either have Faith and do works, or you do works without FAITH.  You can’t have one without the other no matter what anyone tells you…

Our Lamb has been slain. HIS name was HaMashiach Yeshua. We can’t and shouldn’t base our belief in salvation because the LAMB was slain. We should base our belief in salvation by our Faith and OBEDIENCE to HIS Torah. How powerful is that? Did you see that just as we did? In the beginning they all had to have Faith. The entire Old Testament tests their Faith over and over again and yet they were Faithfully obedient to HIS commands and not just 10 of them.

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1 Samuel 15:20

Well we found another eye opener. We have to explain one thing first. The sacrificial system was done away with through Yeshua (Jesus). Actually though through HIM the sacrificial system is still in place. WE still have sin, need blood to atone for them, and an altar. When we sin we have to come before the altar (pray) with a blood offering (Jesus) and ask for forgiveness (repent).   Now onto to …what we found. Many, many are taught to throw away the Old Testament commands. By this theology we are taught we don’t have to obey ALL the commands just some of them. Well look at what Yahweh (God) says through HIS prophet Samuel about obeying HIS commands; ALL OF THEM.

1 Samuel 15:22 “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices   as much as in obeying the Lord?   To obey is better than sacrifice,   and to heed is better than the fat of rams.   23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination,   and arrogance like the evil of idolatry.   Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,   he has rejected you as king.”

Shown to us again here:   Hosea 6:6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice,   and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings

And again here:   Matthew 9:13 Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Yahweh (God) tells us through Samuel he demands we OBEY HIM. It is better than anything we can do. Take a minute to think deeply about that. Are we obeying HIS commands in mainstream Christianity? By obeying HIS commands we show the most important thing we can and that is FAITH. Through Faith we are compelled to obey.

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John 14:15 IF you love ME you will keep MY commands