We had a brief discussion last night with family about sin and if there were different levels of sin.  We, through our research, do believe that there are different levels of sin.  All sin is sin but some sin is worse than other sin.  This does not mean it is okay to do any of them.  Matthew 18:5-6, Matthew 10:14-15, Luke 10:13-14,  and Mark 3:28-30 are just a few verses that show that doing some sin is much greater than other sin.  There are also the sins that HE calls abominations.  Not every sin committed is in that category but we feel these are sins that HE feels we should be especially aware of not doing.  Again, we are not stating doing any sin is okay.

Then we came across this verse:

1 John 5:16   If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that. 17 All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.

We find it very interesting that many are taught that all sin is equal.  We believe that all sin is not equal.  While the sin itself will still be judged some sins just aren’t as bad as others.  Again, we need to state that no sin is good.  It’s as if we are taught that murdering another human is the same as getting in a fight.  It’s would be like teaching that raping another human is the same as stealing a lawn mower.  We believe HE clearly states what sins are considered to be of a harsher consequence than others.

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From the day you were born we knew you both were kind
We love how you’ve both grown and kept God on your mind
You’re children born of God and HE will always be there
To protect you during your life when life doesn’t seem fair
Always follow the guiding voice you will hear in your head
It is the voice of TRUTH and pray to HIM before you go to bed
There will be some that come along and try to lead you astray
But follow in HIS path and that is where you should stay
HE will hear your prayers and please don’t ever forget
To thank HIM for everything you have and erasing your debt
Eventually there will come a time that we are no longer around
Remember the lessons we gave about God and you will be found
There will be times in your life that the world’s people will judge
Remember to follow all HIS commands in Truth and never budge
Always show love to the ones that hurt you as they just don’t know
That God is inside of you watching you and them grow
When the day comes that you get to see HIM face to face
Will be the day you realize the meaning of the word GRACE
Stay true to yourself and God; never waiver in your belief
In the end our God will wipe away all of your grief
We love you boys more than you can even know
But no love is better than the love that God shows

According to Wikipedia Messianic Judaism is:

A term used generally describe someone who holds to the belief that Jesus is the Messiah and who embraces “the covenantal responsibility of Jewish life and identity rooted in Torah, expressed in tradition, and renewed and applied in the context of the New Covenant”. “Messianic Judaism” is a relatively new term, coined as recently as 1895 to help separate the practices of its followers from those of common Christianity as a whole, and in order to more closely align its faith with that of biblical and historical Judaism that was historical 1st century Christianity.

Often people want to label us here at Biblical Truth as Messianic Jews. Well notice it says that Messianic Jews are rooted in Torah (good) expressed in tradition (bad). That is the problem and always will be. TRADITIONS… There are commands in the Bible not traditions. We try to do the commands and eliminate any tradition.  Messianics adhere to the Talmud (Babylonian/Jerusalem Talmuds) which is oral and written traditions of Rabbis over the centuries but have faith in our Messiah. We as Christians know we are saved by Faith alone but then we as Christians squawk at the fact that a believer in the Messiah is following the Torah (divine instructions from Yahweh). Most of Christianity and most of Messianic Judaism follow traditions taught by man as time has gone on.  Both religions are stuck on following the traditions of men while believing and having faith in the Messiah. Messianic Jews follow Talmud (Jewish Traditions) and most Christians follow the Church (man’s tradition).

Dig in and look up if what you celebrate is commanded. You will be surprised. You will also find that everything Yahweh has told us to do has been thrown away since the end of the 1st Century. Speaking of 1st Century, notice in the opening statement it says that Biblical and historical Judaism was 1st Century Christianity.  Notice that it also says Judaism.  That is because Judaism (Talmud following) became the norm for the Tribe of Judah (Jews) and that is what Yeshua exposed.  Paul was a Jew but from the Tribe of Benjamin.  Actually more specifically he was a Pharisee.  He realized that we should not be following the Rabbinical Law (Talmud) but only follow Yahweh’s law (Torah).  Paul also had faith in the Messiah.  The oral and written traditions of Judaism (Talmud) are not to be followed but we are to follow HIS commands.

We are told by Yeshua we should never add or subtract anything from HIS commands (Matthew 5:18).  The Jews are famous for adding to HIS commands but at least they adhered to them from the beginning.  The Christians are famous for subtracting from HIS commands.  That leaves us to ponder the question, which is worse adding to them or subtracting from them?  In our opinion they probably are equally the same except when you subtract you never knew the Truth.  The Jewish religion doesn’t believe in our Messiah.  That is worse than anything.  In mainstream Christianity we have used what is called “Replacement theology”.  This is when man decides to replace commanded Holy Days with man’s tradition and this is the great failing of the Church and Christianity.  While the Jewish religion lacks faith in the Messiah, Christianity has taught to throw away most of HIS commands.

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As time goes on and generational curse after generational curse affects us, we have to come to the decision to search DEEP into the Bible and find out what HE commands us to do.  WE can break this curse.  WE have to stay steadfast in our devotion to following HIS commands.  As a Christian we already have the FAITH part covered.  The next step in the process is to start doing things HIS way as commanded.  WE teach our children the TRUTH.  It is very hard sometimes and there are days that go by when we have an empty feeling inside because we have chose to quit following in the traditions of men that we were so attached to.  The things we have been taught are very hard to let go of.  WE know how it is.  WE still struggle with it sometimes yet we see the feedback we get and the “CHANGE” our friends and family around us are making.  There is nothing more rewarding than somebody contacting us and letting us know they have started to celebrate a FEAST DAY because of the research we post.  Believe us when we tell you that if you are following us and starting to realize what we have been taught over the years from our “RELIGION” is not what HE intended causing you to make changes, you will be rewarded.  HE will hear you and you will know immediately you are on the right path.

We need to realize that we have to put down our “RELIGION” and pick up our BIBLES.  This is the only way we will find the TRUTH and from our experience it will TRULY set you FREE.   We can no longer allow our children to be misled.  We need to teach our children the path that HE commanded our ancestors should take.  We can make a difference.  When we start to make the changes necessary to please HIM it is expected that society will point fingers.  We promise you that others will say you are Jewish or a Legalist.  They will continue following their “Religion” and close their eyes and ears.  Remember we are not here to point fingers, we are here to plant seeds.  The seeds will then grow.  If you don’t think it’s possible, we have proof that it is.  We have very close friends and family that have never once spoke about our Messiah to us that have recently started asking questions and changing how they go about their walk with HIM.  It’s AMAZING and it’s happening right in front of us at this very moment in our lives.

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Have you ever wondered what the 1^st Command Yahweh gave the children of Israel?  Well if you have, look no further.  It was the PASSOVER COMMAND and at the end of the instructions we are told this:

Exodus 12:14-15  “This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh; throughout your generations, as a statute FOREVER, you shall keep it as a feast. 15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

The full command is also mentioned in Exodus 12:1-28, Leviticus 23:4-8, Numbers 9:1-14, Deuteronomy 16:1-8.

This is HUGE folks.  We have proof that HE commanded us to keep Passover and the Feast of Unleavened.

According to the scriptures, this method of keeping the “Passover” in memory of his death once a year was ordained by HaMashiach Yeshua himself.  Yahweh already condemned the keeping of the customs of the pagan holiday “Easter.” The leaders of the 1st Century Church put in place a theology and they have deceived their followers into worshipping at “Easter” instead of “Passover” and the “Feast of Unleavened Bread,” to commemorate the “death, burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”  This is absolutely heartbreaking to HIM.

Many are taught that Yeshua nailed the Old Testament commands to the cross.  If we are told by HIS Father, Yahweh, to do something FOREVER and HIS Son deleted it from the commands that would be a SIN.  In fact, it would be a sin to not celebrate it as commanded.  Let’s look one step deeper.  Matthew walked with Yeshua.  Here is a verse about Passover/Feast of Unleavened Bread.

Matthew 26:17  Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Yeshua, saying, “Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?”

Keeping this verse in mind we can set a sort of timeline.  We know they celebrated it before HIS crucifixion but did they celebrate after?  That brings us to this next timeline of events.  Paul, the most prolific writer in the Renewed Covenant, converted about 30+ years after Yeshua died.   While Paul never walked with Yeshua, he was taught by Yeshua again, 30+ years after Yeshua died.  Paul writes in several different occasions they were celebrating the Feast Days.  Here is one occasion:

Acts 20:5-6  These [people] went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas, but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days.

And yet more proof:

1 Corinthians 5:7-8  Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Yeshua, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Remember, the Church in Corinth were new converts to belief in Yeshua.  Before they converted they were pagans.  To stay in context we need to move back earlier in this chapter to:

1 Corinthians 5:5  It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife.

So Paul is telling a predominately pagan people to throw away their customs, sexual sins,  and follow in the way of Yahweh through belief in Yeshua.  In fact Paul mentions that men are sleeping with their mothers and that isn’t even allowed in pagan customs.  In this verse shown in bold (1 Corinthians 5:8) we are told to keep the Feast not with old leaven (sinning ways of the pagans) but with new leaven (Yahweh’s way through HIS son Yeshua).  Leaven represents sin.  It is saying that Yeshua makes us unleavened (blameless without sin) but we must follow in HIS Father’s commands Torah (in sincerity and TRUTH).  Many believe Paul is writing to Christians.  While they are becoming Christians they were once pagans and didn’t know Yahweh commands or better known as His “Torah“.  So Paul has to make them realize they have to put down their traditions, learn the Torah (HIS divine instructions) and know they are only saved because of Yeshua.

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Did you know that when the New Testament was formed it was called the “RENEWED COVENANT”. We post that on our site when referring to which testament we are referencing. Think about that. It means to us that the OLD COVENANT was never done away with. It means that the OLD COVENANT is still in affect and was “RENEWED” by our Messiah and HIS followers. You may ask if we have some sort of proof? We like to use scripture to reproof scripture. So here is a verse about whether or not the New did away with the Old from the very popular Bible version called the NIV.

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

According to the NIV’s translation it seems like the “old” has been done away with completely.  But, we searched a little deeper and looked up another Bible version called the “The Scriptures” which we love.

Hebrews 8:13  By saying, “renewed,” He has made the first old. Now what becomes old and growing aged is near disappearing.

Take a look at that.  Completely different meaning.  So we went one step further and looked up the word “NEW” in Strongs and found this.

(New) comes from the Greek word (Kainos) which means:
a) as respects form
1) recently made, fresh, recent, unused, unworn
b) as respects substance
1) of a new kind, unprecedented, novel, uncommon, unheard of

All covenants with Yahweh (God) are renewed not just new.  While each covenant comes with an agreement, none of them throw away the old.  All covenants are recently made, fresh, unused, unworn, of a new kind, uncommon, but they ALL keep in place the agreement from before. As with ALL covenants between Yahweh (God) and HIS people there is a new covenant that occurs throughout time.  When Abraham received his covenant he didn’t throw away the rules of Noah’s covenant.  When Mosheh (Moses) received his covenant with Yahweh (God) he didn’t throw away the rules of Abraham’s covenant.  When Yehoshua (Joshua) received his covenant with Yahweh (God) he didn’t throw away the rules of Mosheh‘s (Moses) covenant. And the pattern continues on throughout history until we get to HaMashiach Yeshua (Jesus).  When Yeshua (Jesus) gave us HIS covenant HE never threw away the rules of His Father’s covenant that he gave every covenant receiver before Himself.  Look at what HE speaks verbally to Mattithyahu (Matthew).

Matthew 5:18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the TORAH until all is accomplished.

So if this isn’t convincing enough to see that the TORAH still exists and us as believers are expected to follow it we will give you one more reference.  It shows us that HE promised to give a “renewed” covenant in which he will attach his TORAH in our inward parts and attach it to our hearts and therefore NOT ONE person can say they don’t know HIM.

Jeremiah 31:33 For this is the covenant I shall make with the house of Yisra’?l (Israel) after those days, declares Yahweh (God) , I shall put My Torah (Law)  in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts. And I shall be their Elohim (God), and they shall be My people.

When Yahweh (God) sent His Ru’ach HaKodesh (Set Apart Spirit) to live inside of us HE didn’t do away with Torah.  HE actually raised the BAR to an even greater standard as now we have NO excuse for not following HIS Torah.  When we fail, we repent and that is what the “renewed” covenant is about.  Yahweh (God) did not drop the standard of Torah because Israel chose disobedience; rather, He installed a Renewed Covenant to write Torah upon the heart through the work of the Ruach haKodesh (Set Apart Spirit), according to Mashiyach (Messiah).

Yahweh (God) gave us the Spirit to glorify HIM so HIS people would stay on a path HE commands.  HE didn’t do it for our sake, HE did it to prevent from being shamed by us.  He sent HIS son for our sake.  HIS son was the living, talking, breathing Torah.  .  HIS son “magnified” Torah by living perfectly.

Isaiah 42:21 The Lord was pleased, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious.

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We had this thought about our search into the Sacred Text known as the Bible.

We often post things that most of mainstream Christianity has either never heard of or were taught a different way.  We do this because we would rather tell somebody the Truth of what we find through our research, have them get upset because it goes against everything that person was taught, rather than to face our Messiah knowing we taught the wrong thing.

James 3:1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness

It isn’t a matter of teaching what somebody believes, it matters that we teach what God believes… To teach doctrine is not teaching His word. It is simple; If we teach something that goes against scripture then we are teaching against HIM regardless of our intentions.

For example, if we were to ask a Pastor, Priest, or Rabbi about something and he says “we teach” it this way but that isn’t necessarily what the Bible says, it is wrong. Just like man-made Holy Days.  It is taught as scriptural and for HIM, yet the Bible says it isn’t that way. So if one is teaching that way they are teaching against HIM even if they have the best of intentions.  So many people are given knowledge from HIS Ruach HaKodesh (Set Apart Spirit) yet they ignore it because it isn’t what they want to hear or in most cases what they were taught.  We have to open up our eyes as believers and spread the TRUTH not some man-made theology or ideology.

Jeremiah 5:21 “Hear this, O foolish and senseless people,
who have eyes, but see not,
who have ears, but hear not.

Mainstream Christianity is doing the same today that the Israelites did during their days. They are not “hearing” his message and we are “blinded” by 1900+ years of teachings. We are told to search the scriptures for the TRUTH… In the Bible the Bereans were the best at searching the scriptures to make sure the message given by Paul was the message given by Yahweh in the Sacred Scrolls.

Paul and Silas in Berea
Acts 17″10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. 11 Now these Jews(Bereans) were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so….

If we truly want to learn HIS way we have to open our lives up and live the way HE wants us to.  We have to show obedience to HIS commands and precepts and show Faith in HIS son, the one True Messiah.  If we do this we receive all the blessings HE promises.  We, at Biblical Truth, never lived our lives HIS way until about 2010.  When we opened up and let HIM lead and then studied HIS text we learned a different message than what we were taught.  Our lives have been transformed and we just want to get the info out there so everybody can learn what we have learned.  We don’t charge money and we don’t expect anything for putting our research out there.  We just want more believers to know that HIS way is much different than mainstream Christianity teaches.

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