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Messianic Torah Portion Vayechi (and he lived)
This Torah portion wraps up the book of Genesis with the death of Israel/Jacob (the person) and the end of Joseph’s life. This Torah portion contains big clues that salvation has always been available to both those of the nation of Israel and those of the nations. Specifically, Joseph’s sons Ephraim and Manasseh were mixed race, with their mother being Potifera, the daughter of an Egyptian priest. Jacob was embalmed as a Pharaoh while buried in the promised land, which also gives a hint to the future and how we live in Babylon today, but will ultimately be joined to Messiah in the true Israel.
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Before the assembly in antioch, all "Christians" were called Nazarenes and Jessaeans, according to the Roman Catholic Church. https://nazarenejudaism.com/?page_id=638 The Bible says Paul is the ringleader of the Nazarenes Acts 24:1-5. These Nazarenes and Jesseans obeyed the law of moses, kept the sabbath on the seventh day of the week, and read the tanach in hebrew. History shows this continued until the Roman Catholic Church made it illegal, and burned them at the stake. Both Protestants and Catholics murdered the first sects of Nazarenes and Jesseans, because they do not like torah observance or 7th day sabbath observance or the holy days, or circumcision... They tried to replace biblical and historical Nazarenes and Jesseans with Roman Catholicism and the Protestant reformation. Nazarenes and Jessaeans are still here today and we are a minority: https://old.bitchute.com/video/PAIae7A4jvyM/ Still persecuted by Catholics and Protestants. My Website is https://www.BibleCourts.com You can help me get back to jerusalem to be an example of true followers of yeshua hamashiach, by spreading our video, website, and sending us a donation https://www.paypal.me/JustUseLinux
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Heirs according to the promise.
Prelude – rebuilding the wall of separation. Attractive for both sides. One wants the commandments to be exclusive. The other wants nothing to do with the commandments. In effect, both sides want the law to be exclusive, I suppose. Out of pure practicality, this answer can’t be true. For people to accept anyone as Messiah, they must understand what a Messiah is. That is established solely though the Law and the Prophets. It’s not a concept for the nations. A Messiah is one who has been anointed by God for a mission. The Messiah, the Son of God, is the very image of God and our Mediator between us and God. It’s impossible for those who accept the Messiah to then not accept the law because there would be nothing to mediate. Let’s get into the details.
Ephesians 1: 3-7 Paul refers to “us”. He does not make a distinction. He includes himself in the adoption. This is strange as he was surely native born. Ephesus is where Paul started a riot preaching against idolatry so at a minimum it’s a mixed congregation of both native and grafted in.
The promise – Galatians 3: 26-29 Abraham was promised to be the father of countless people. This promise is fulfilled in this adoption. That through His seed, Yeshua, we have the opportunity to join the family of God. We do not replace that family, but we join in. We have the choice to accept adoption. The native born have the choice to also accept Yeshua.
The wall is broken down – Eph 2: 11-13 Commonwealth of Israel. You understand Paul is including gentile converts as Israel here. Not as a replacement for Israel, but a joining, a grafting in. Both groups into one. The gentiles who accept Yeshua as Messiah become part of Israel. Grafted in, not a replacement. Not a separate class of people, either. The goal here is unity.
Acts 15: 19-21. The gentiles are showing up at synagogue on Shabbat all over the world. They are accepting Yeshua as the Messiah and following the commandments. The question is whether conversion to Judaism is requires through circumcision prior to allowing them to commune and study. The answer is no. Many take this to mean that’s the end of the story, that these directives issued by the council of Jerusalem are the permanent ordinance and all people have to do to be consider Christians forever. That all who accepted Yeshua from the nations forever were to just stop right here and be done. Believe in the Messiah, learn, and basically continue to live as you did prior expect with these few requirements. This cannot be true because it would legalize sin for most of mankind. It would make the rest of the New Testament gibberish as there would be nothing for converts to learn or do. What would they be persevering in? If their behavior barely changed from prior, how would anybody even know they changed? It’s bizarre this concept keeps coming up on both sides. Mainstream Christians believe the law doesn’t apply to them and Jews concur. This is the divide between us and mainstream Christianity.
1 Cor 5: 4-8 become a new lump. Written to a gentile area in the Name of Yeshua. Assuming a mixed group of prior Jew and Gentile. And they are expected not only to know Torah but to be keeping ULB. Does this sound like this group stopped at the few things commanded in Acts 15? Of course not. Because Acts 15 is just a starting point. The believers were expected to keep attending Shabbat, hearing Moses, learning, and doing as they learned.
Rev 14:12 – the remnant are those who keep Torah and believe in Yeshua. You want to be the remnant.
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The Torah is the Foundation
The book of Revelation quotes or alludes to the Old Testament no less than 505 times. The book of Revelation only has 404 total verses. Did you know this? Did you know that to understand what the future holds we must study the bible from Genesis 1 all the way through?
This path we are on is a fundamental re-orientation of our thought process with respect to Christianity. Almost all of us learn the NT first then think the OT is like a glossary of terms or just a place to look to bolster the information in the New Testament. This is backwards. The Torah is the foundation that informs the NT. Learning the bible in the order in which things happened, i.e., starting in Genesis and really learning the Tanakh, then learning the New Testament, is what the first century Christians did. The Messiah did not come to start a new religion but to build on existing faith of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Isaiah, Ezekiel, etc.
As we discussed in last week’s Torah portion, the order Paul refers to in Romans 13 was established through the Torah. When Paul wrote that people must be subject to governing authorities, we see that begin when Abraham gave a tenth to Melchizedek. Abraham was a known leader who had just won a military battle and still gave proper respect to one whose rank was higher than his. Abraham also made the deal for Sarah’s tomb in a public setting, insisting on paying full price with witnesses, so there would be no doubt of his ownership of that land.
When Paul went on to talk about honoring authorities for the sake of conscience, that also harkens back to Abraham’s servant who was trusted to bring back a bride for Isaac. Abraham could not do this work himself, so he made his servant swear to do it. His servant could have gone rogue, kept the camels and gold, and never came back. Or came back and lied. But that’s not what happened. Abraham’s servant did what was right in the sight of YHVH and Abraham even when nobody would have known he did wrong.
You see that honoring authorities is a virtue established in the earliest parts of the Old Testament. Paul was not issuing some new edict but rather re-iterating an existing biblical truth. Those of us who study the Torah while believing in Yeshua the Messiah have put the truth back in the proper order. The Torah informs the rest of the Old Testament, the Old Testament in total informs the New, and we look for the return of the Messiah who will establish peace by ushering in an orderly kingdom based on the truths we hold dear that are established from Genesis to Revelation.
Our challenge, though, is re-orienting our minds. Most of Christianity has been taught the New Testament is the foundation and the rest of the bible is just handy to have when it bolsters a point of doctrine or makes a point we want to make. It’s incredibly difficult to rebuild a foundation, especially one that is this ingrained into us. It’s akin to learning a second language. For many years, everything you learn of the foreign language will be compared to your native tongue. In fact, you may never get to the point where you can completely break from using your native tongue as the foundation.
Remember how I said that the book of Revelation quotes or alludes to the Old Testament at least 505 times? This is not unique to the book of Revelation. The Gospels refer to the OT almost constantly, too. So do the letters and epistles. If you want to understand the New Testament, you must first understand the Old. This is a tall task, but as the Messiah said, believing in Him is founded on Moses…. Because Moses wrote of Him! Shalom and have a blessed week!
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Messianic Torah Portion Vayera is the foundation for John 3:16 that God gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him may not perish but have everlasting life. This truth is founded upon Abraham’s willingness to slay Isaac, the son of the Promise and God substituting the ram for Isaac. In this discussion, we show how Abraham’s obedience foreshadowed the Messiah and the many direct parallels from this Torah portion to New Testament scripture.
Congregational discussion on the Torah portion called Noach November 2, 2024. Verses discussed:
Genesis 6:9-11:32
Isaiah 54:1-55:5
Luke 1: 5-11, 2Peter 3:9-13
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Selichoth Prayers - Are They Relevant to You? - read by Yochanan
Selichoth means "forgivenesses". If ever there was a time to wake up and call upon the Name of YHWH, it is now.
In keeping with the idea of being "set apart", the question arises regarding our walk. Who are we? This week we'll look at that. We'll examine some basic ideas regarding the Messianic walk. Call it "foundation work". What are we based on? What do we believe? How do we demonstrate that?Lots of questions to look into this week.
This week, we look at an overview of the Biblical Spring Feasts.
Did you know that there's much more to this topic than simply Passover? This season is a very powerful one Biblically and Prophetically. Let's unravel some calendar issues, look at some historical background, and dig in to the Word of God.
Do you struggle with life's problems? Do you feel like this life is hopeless?
Did you know that the patriarchs sometimes felt the same way?
Our Heavenly Father wants us to live a life that is full. Yet it seems like the problems of "every day" can wear us down. Is there an answer?
This week was our Midrash service and we discussed this week's Torah portion. Join in the conversation. Leave a comment.
Exodus 25:1 - 27:19
1 Kings 5:26 - 6:13
2 Corinthians 9:1 - 15
Matthew 5:33 - 37
Moses is in the cloud receiving the rest of the Torah instruction. Is this the beginning of the "Oral Torah"? Where does the Oral Torah stand against the Written Word? That's something to look at. We'll also start digging into some of the instructions contained in this week's portion.
Moses descends from the cloud and gives the people the words of Adonai. Their answer? "What the LORD has said, we will do". How did that work out? How does it work out for us when we profess obedience?
Please join us as we dig into the word of Adonai.
Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
Romans 7:1-3 ESV
Related passages from the Old Testament (re the High Priest and levirate marriage) as well as the Greek word for a woman "which has a husband" (KJV) in Romans 7:2 shed significant light on Paul's meaning in this passage. Here's a hint: It does not say that the Law dies or that the commandments in the Law are not for all Christians today. It's about authority relationships, not the applicability of Torah.
Deuteronomy 25:5-10 and Leviticus 21:4.
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This message is for all people to hear, even if you think you know that you are a true believer in Yeshua. On the one hand you should always be making your calling and election sure, never assuming that your position is safe. On the other hand, if you are not confirming your commitment with all others you find to be having the commitment, how can we be united, knowing each other and knowing that you welcome us to call you to account? You need to inform us. Send your response to thatbeliever@outlook.com and let's get confirming you and us in the Commitment of Yeshua's Body.
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The Way of the Master has been Usurped by Imposters
2022:12:7:GG
There is a Way of the Master Yeshu` -a faith once for all delivered to the saints-
a Commitment, a Partnership, an Agreement, a Yoke, a Concord, an Allegiance,
a Fellowship of Yeshu`’s Pupils, His People, His Body
-a Commitment that existed during His life with mortal flesh, and which exists today
in the hearts of His humble, true followers,
and is expressed in their accountable interaction with each other
and in their enforcing of the received minimum standards of purity among themselves.
Since early times outsiders have added names to this people of Yeshu`.
The Yehudaye called them “Nazoraye” and the Hellenes called them ”Christianous”.
People lacking the Commitment have appropriated these names to themselves,
and added many other names of their own design,
as each person sets himself up as a teacher of a faith he crafts to his own liking,
whilst claiming to be true to Yeshu`, claiming to be of His Body, presuming that it is so.
On the one hand, with a loud voice they speak much truth about Yeshu`, ‘Yeshua’, ‘Jesus’,
telling multitudes that they must submit to the true King that Father Yah has appointed.
On the other hand, they themselves enter not in,
but by their divisiveness and their immorality and their lack of accountability,
they are keeping themselves outside and are imposters.
Yet there is hope for these imposters and their hearers, IF THEY REPENT,
turning from the sins and fabrications of their minds and hands
to embrace and hold fast the Commitment of Yeshu`’s One Body.
May Yah Almighty complete your repentance in you, friend,
stirring you -with us- to humbly ‘make [our] calling and election sure’
and may we confirm ourselves in the Commitment of Yeshu`s One Body.
Are you decided to be answering Yeshu`'s brothers and confirming yourself in the Commitment of His Body as long as you live?
Welcome to Hebrew School! Today we learned how to make the sounds of more consonants in the Hebrew alephbeit:
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For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
Romans 2:12 ESV
Paul and John said that the Law defines sin, so how is it possible for people who have never known the Law to be guilty of sin? Actually, all people know enough of the Law to be guilty of breaking it. The Law is in our DNA and all people know most of it without ever having to be told.
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