Messianic Torah Portion Pekudei

Messianic Torah Portion Pekudei: The transition from common to holy and the relationship between the tabernacle, Ezekiel’s temple, and when Jesus will drink the cup new with us in the kingdom.

A Reality Check on Restoring Language

A Reality Check on Restoring Language: Restoring a pure language – that’s not today and we’re not going to do that on our own.

Genesis 11:1 Trying to do this ourselves is likely prohibited. We know that when mankind tries to act like YHVH, He is not pleased. The verse from Isaiah about rebuilding Jerusalem better. Isaiah 9:8-11 when Ephraim and the Samarians say in their heart ehy will rebuild Israel better, it is considered from pride and self-will, thus YHVH sends adversaries to smite them more. By extension, we should realize that until He wants language restored, it will not happen.

That doesn’t mean we don’t try to learn what the ancients were communicating, but we need to be cognizant of pride, our motivations, and the reality of our present state. While we can learn a lot from studying, we need to realize they were in a state of flux as well. It’s Genesis 11 where mankind had a unified language. That means Moses did not.

Entropy is a word that means chaos or disorder always increases. This is often illustrated by dropping a perfect pile of marbles on the ground to see how the marbles that travel the furthest have the largest deviation from the original pile. Our present state of language is an enormous illustration of this. I recently found a fun YouTube channel called RobWords. This gentleman traces the history of languages throughout history. What I learned, and should have already known, is that our English alphabet isn’t the English alphabet at all. It’s the Latin alphabet. The English alphabet is a set of characters called runes. I know English is a mutt of a language, but I found the extent of this to be astonishing. I have put a link to one of Rob’s videos in the comments and hope you find time to watch. I’ve watched a number of his presentations and am floored each time. But it reminds me that for us in our present state of perpetual confusion to think we have some miniscule chance at restoring the pure language ourselves is absolute folly.

Rob Words video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4npuVmGxXuk

The other remarkable illustration of this is rooted in the restoration of the nation of Judah which is called Israel today. A member of our group sent this video to me about two years ago. When the Jews from all over the world returned to Israel, they set about recording how those who had kept Hebrew alive pronounced the language. Not surprising at all, but the different regions spoke the language significantly different from each other. This video illustrates some of the differences, which even persist to this day. Of course, we all know that languages are not static from English. The Australians and British have distinctly different accents and inside of the US, we have widely varying accents ourselves. Somehow, though, we get it into our minds that Hebrew is immune from change when it certainly is not.  

Hebrew spoken from Jews who returned to the land. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1ofUZB-76w

I hope you all find some time to watch these videos. A couple takeaways from today’s message are that we should really be aware of our present state and set realistic goals for our studies. The expectation that we get the pronunciations perfect today simply is not true. We also need to be wary of shunning legitimate scholars and history in our studies. We have a tendency to do this because of how skewed Christianity has become by academia and clergy, but let’s not throw out the baby with the bathwater. Good and edifying information is out there, even if it takes a bit of work to find it.

Have a blessed week as we begin or continue our preparations for this year’s Passover season. May Yahweh bless you and keep you in the Name of His Son, Yeshua.

Messianic Torah Portion Vayakhel

Messianic Torah Portion Vayakhel show us the Holy Spirit in action in the Old Testament with the building of the Tabernacle!

Why Jesus Matters

Why Jesus Matters

We’re about to commemorate the death of Jesus, whom we call Yeshua more accurately. This is an annual set of observances that are commanded for believers. This time of year, we often spend a lot of time discussing when to do what. Most of Christianity keeps a thing called Easter, which isn’t biblical at all. Then there are those of us who do what the Messiah commanded and Paul demonstrated. But there’s a third group of people who are increasing in numbers exponentially.

What about everyone who doesn’t know a thing about the bible? What about those who only know of Christianity because of culture? The folks who haven’t studied or given a second thought to the enormity of these observances and their eternal implications. How do we reach them and why does this matter?

Frankly, it’s about the afterlife. Where do you want to spend eternity? Because this is a binary decision. There are only two options.

Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. (Rev 20:11-15)

The two options are lake of fire or eternal life. The Gospel of Jesus Christ, the good news of Yeshua the Messiah, is that the invitation for all mankind to attain eternal life has been sent. It was sent by God sending His Son so that whoever believes in the Son may not perish. The bible is the story of God’s interaction with mankind. The New Testament is a continuation of this story. The Messiah, (Christ means Messiah, btw) died at the time appointed for the culmination of the Old Testament to then make a shift to the world. The Gospel, the good news, was spread to the known world through twelve men at the first, and then hundreds, then thousands, the tens of thousands, and so on.

This season matters because it’s our annual remembrance of the sinless Son of God who died to take away the sins of those who believe in Him. This grants us access to the kingdom of God.

Keep in mind, this isn’t about Yeshua being innocent of what He was accused of. Meaning, this is not about Him being executed unfairly. That happens a lot more often in history than we would like to think of. This is about a being, the very Son of God, coming to earth as a child, being raised as a man, being tempted in all ways, and not sinning one time. Because sin is the cause of death, God sent His Son to die sinless to bear the sins of those who accept Him. That’s what this season is all about. The sinless death of the Lamb of God and God’s subsequent resurrection of His Son, who now sits at God’s right hand and mediates for those who accept Him.

Please accept the invitation to enter into the kingdom, to enter into eternal life. Call to mind your sins, reconcile with those you may have wronged, prepare your homes, and enter this Passover season humbled by the death of our Messiah.

Moses Illustrates the Gospel

Moses Illustrates the Gospel: this Torah portion parallels Jesus’ (Yeshua’s) mission and role to a degree that must be miraculous. I open with a very broad overview of why to study the whole bible and the true goal of the Gospel. Highlights of this study are establishing the role of mediator, parallels between Moses and Yeshua, and the Book of Life.

Messianic Torah Portion Tetzaveh

Messianic Torah Portion Tetzaveh establishes anointing, Yahweh’s mechanism for identifying people He calls for specific missions. Anointing is associated with light, oil, high office, and specifically Yeshua the Messiah, Jesus the Christ. This Torah portion also establishes the concept of holiness, something our civilization has forgotten. Holiness is a hierarchal structure where believers must understand that certain things are off-limits, regardless of how much you may know or do.

History is Repeating: The Comeback of Totalitarianism.

History is Repeating: The Comeback of Totalitarianism.

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Did you know there are people who purposely want to erase history so that it does repeat? Do you know this was a very common weapon used against nations just a few decades ago?

Communism and Fascism were universally rejected in the 1990s. Somehow these are making a comeback and we have to stop it. These two terms refer to economic systems that bring about dictatorships where all commerce, thought, production, power, etc. become centralized in a government and the people do not possess any rights whatsoever. They are awful systems that bring death and oppression. Those of us who are in our 50s or higher were taught to loathe these systems and value freedom and the free market in school. We were taught this through books that showed the awful result of these systems of government. Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Atlas Shrugged, and other works were these books. If you’ve never read one of these, you really ought to.

Ask yourself a couple questions. Do you hold any beliefs today that are in direct opposition to something you believed recently? If so, how did that happen?

Do you hold any political beliefs that are completely incongruent? Meaning at total odds with each other?

If the answer is yes, you really want to keep listening. Because something has been done to you by outside forces to get you this way. Intentionally. And for sinister reasons.

Click to read the 45 communist goals of 1963

The goals of the societal takedown. Keep in mind they socialist/Marxist/communist people did not believe these points were valid for society. They used these to destroy existing societies so they could replace authority with themselves.

They had to get rid of religion, specifically Christianity, secondarily Judaism, to do this. That’s because adherents of these two faiths hold a morality that doesn’t come from mankind. And adherents of these two faiths are also educated. It’s hard to change society when the citizenry holds to a moral authority above the state and can also critically sift through information. These two religions also have educated leaders who can sway the populace, and the state can’t have that.

Well, religion is nearly gone from our society. We are two generations deep into a society that is largely unchurched. And that means any church.

Forgetting or rewriting history is also a component. That’s the reason for this post.

It’s all to condition us to believe lies. Today, with the internet being almost universally accessed several times a day by everyone in developed countries, lies spread like wildfire. Social media should be called socialist media at this point. Truth looks stranger than fiction, like understanding how communism comes in. And we lost truth in 30 years while, shockingly, at the same time we had an information revolution. Norway not refueling a nuclear sub is the latest whopper. For those who may not know, nuclear subs and ships only refuel every 20 years and it’s not done in a port of call.

Class warfare and strawmen are how these violent revolutions get kicked off. What happened in the Bolshevik revolution, the revolution that turned Russia into the USSR (Soviet Socialist Republics) was one of class envy. The czars held all the wealth and property, everybody else was a servant, and the people had enough. Joseph Stalin, a dynamic leader, convinced everyone that they should rise up, kill the czars, take their wealth, and distribute it to the people based on a communist ideal: “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” And guess what? He would be the one to determine who needs something and who didn’t. It was a huge con to get him the wealth of the nation. And it led to the murder and starvation of millions of people.

Hitler used the Jews as strawmen for his socialist takeover of Germany. You heard that right, both of these countries were socialist. The USSR stands for the union of soviet socialist republics and NAZI stands for the national socialist party. Kristalnacht, the night of broken glass, was a staged event by the Nazis to make it look like the people had risen up against Jews. It was also a con. A state sponsored con. Used to incite violence and lead to a totalitarian takeover of the country and the murder of millions.

Class warfare doesn’t make sense anymore. Many wage earners have achieved parity with salary or commissioned people. This is due to the work unions and others have done to get fair wages. Compensation has been worked from a “total compensation” view for decades. This means base plus OT plus bonus plus health insurance and other benefits to represent a total package.

What this means is that a lot of people can afford middle class lifestyles today that could not when we rejected communism. Neighborhoods used to be based by class. This is not the case anymore. Your neighborhood probably has doctors, lawyers, accountants, sales reps, engineers, school teachers, truckers, welders, teachers, and firemen in it. Some hourly employees can clear $150K nowadays while many salaried chemists and accountants make half of that.

Kristalnacht happens almost daily on the internet. People who are popular and powerful don’t side with the accepted part beliefs of whichever party they associate with and are destroyed. Sometimes in an afternoon and almost always unfairly. And hating people who might make more than you or make the same as you in a different way is another trick to get you upset enough to do or believe things you would never normally do.

When this comes to the bible, let’s make it abundantly clear that you are not entitled to your neighbor’s stuff whether they make more than you or you just think they do. Hating people because you are told to do so by your political leaders is also a grievous sin. On the testimony of two or three witnesses shall each matter (of law) be decided. How many things do we believe today are true when they have never been adjudicated (meaning judged in an open court?). We can see online that the two brand new heads of justice in our country are being called publicly for dismissal because they could not release the Epstein files in their first week on the job. Tell me, would you treat your spouse like this? Your children? Your coworkers? If you found something awry in your household, do you jump to conclusions or do your give your friends and loved ones the benefit of the doubt? And when you do jump to conclusion and get mad, how often do you need to take it back and apologize? I know I have to eat crow more often than I should because I make rash judgments when I’m in a foul mood so I know the answer to this.

Friends, brothers and sisters, countrymen, if you are listening to this, please share it. The wheels are coming off society and many are cheering it on. We need a national, maybe an international, cooling off period. Our leaders are fanning the flames of conflict, both internally and internationally, and then making decisions based on the popular reaction to their fanning of the flames. This is mob rule on a scale never before seen. We need to cool off and make sound judgments before decisions are made that can’t be unmade and we lose the greatest country on earth.

Messianic Torah Portion Terumah

Messianic Torah Portion Terumah shows how the Hebrews overwhelmingly did not contribute to the making of the golden calf. The building of the temple included the work of the nations, showing Yahweh’s house was meant for all mankind. This all ties into the building up of the church, where each individual’s talents and expected to be used to edify the entire body of Messiah.

Do Not Follow the Masses in Doing Evil

Do Not Follow the Masses in Doing Evil

How this commandment is tied to the crucifixion of the Messiah, the problems in our society today, and the end of days.

Messianic Torah Portion Mishpatim

Messianic Torah Portion Mishpatim (Laws)

This is the section of Torah after the Ten Commandment but before the golden calf incident. The laws given to Moses are very fair and this shows the original intent was not to have a Levitical priesthood but for each man to be able to commune with YHVH himself through the altars of stone. Within this section, though, are specific commands that Sanhedrin broke in order to kill the Messiah. Most noteworthy were to give credence to false witnesses and to follow the masses in doing evil.