Messianic Torah Portion Beshalach (When He Sent)
The Song of Moses and the Song of the Lamb
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Messianic Torah Portion Bo
Messianic Torah Portion Bo (Go) Establishing the Lamb of God
Coming to the Faith Once Delivered
Coming to the faith once delivered
These things take time. My testimony. 3-4 years of unraveling stuff.
Videos make it much more difficult today. Very hard to tell the wheat from the chaffe.
Read the whole bible first. Then set boundaries for what you will study. If it goes against the fundamentals, it’s probably not worth your time. If it becomes ridiculous when taken to it’s logical conclusion, it’s probably not worth your time. You need a mechanism to quickly differentiate falsehood from something to be considered.
Paul, being as educated as a man could be on the Torah in his day, had to go away for three years to relearn. This is seldom mentioned.
Today, we learn something new and immediately broadcast it. Technology doesn’t discriminate between someone who’s off their rocker and sound teaching. In fact, it often puts the most outrageous stuff at the top of the queue because that’s what gets the most clicks and eyeballs. Sound teaching is boring.
The Sabbath is most often the truth that gets people into this walk. Genesis 1 defines a day as an evening and a morning. Sunday is never defined like that. Those who keep Sunday holy don’t know which hours to keep holy.
Genesis 1
Creation started in darkness then there was light. Once that first light faded into darkness the first time, God called it a day. Yom achad. An evening and a morning, one day. This is the end of that discussion. That’s the definition of a day right in the first part of the bible. Later on, the bible authors use common parlance when talking about time, just like we do today. Those things can get confusing if you try to define a day from later scripture. Knowing where key things are defined is foundational to your study.
The Sabbath was sanctified at the end of creation. When Jesus says later that the Sabbath was made for man, the Greek word was anthropos – mankind. It’s a double entendre because anthropos is the same Greek word use for adam here Genesis 1:26. Show that. So the Sabbath was made for Adam the man but that also meant for all of mankind from the start.
Keeping the Sabbath from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset connects us to the first Sabbath of creation. It shows our fidelity to the Creator of the universe. In fact, the commandment says that’s a reason for keeping it.
Exodus 20: 8-11 For in six days YHVH made the heavens and the earth and then rested on the seventh.
This right here, the fourth commandment, is what very often brings people into the light. And it’s shocking information because it’s right here, plain as day. Christianity used to put a ton of focus on the Ten Commandments, rightfully so. But when it comes down to it, they only honor 9. Why is that? Do they have the authority to correct God? No, no they don’t.
This information leads us to question all of mainstream Christianity. If the pastors, priests, ministers, and professors can be convinced this commandment is no longer relevant or has changed, what else is wrong? This is where it becomes crucial to read your bibles and go directly to the source. The Spirit will lead you into all truth, so read with an open mind. Some hints: the chapters and verse aren’t really there. Ignore them if you can. The original books were not written with those aids. They were added, shockingly, about 1200-1300 AD. Yes, a thousand years after the close of scripture.
Acts 17: 10-12 Study to show yourself approved. Back then, the bibles were almost exclusively at the synagogues. This goes hand in hand with acts 15, which shows the Moses is read in the synagogues every Sabbath. The first century believers, both Jew and Greek, kept the Sabbath. It makes sense as that is all of mankind, right? And they tested what Paul taught against the scriptures. We need to do that to!
Shalom
The One Word the “Torah” Teachers won’t Teach
The One Word the “Torah” Teachers won’t Teach
What the Torah Teachers won’t Teach
James 3:1-5
The responsibility when a man thinks he knows the bible enough to start talking about it is enormous. We most often invoke this passage when speaking about bad teaching, but there’s another type of bad teaching that needs to be addressed today – omission.
Lots of folks sound like me but I’m afraid once we peel back the layers, we find they are still in that Babylonia system, especially when it comes to the identity of the Son of God. When people get into this walk, we often spend a TON of time learning about the Names Yahweh and Yeshua. However, the word we need to clearly define is neither of those. The word we need to define is Christ.
Matthew 16:16
Christ is not a last name. Yes, I’m afraid most of the world thinks His first Name is Jesus and His last name is Christ. Not the case, Christ is a title, not a name, and one that has a specific definition.
Part of the definition is right here in front of us. Son of God. And Yeshua blesses Peter for this being revealed to him by Yeshua’s Father, who is a completely different being that was in heaven at that moment in time while His Son was on earth.
The teachers never teach this one. They love to talk about calendars, ancient alphabets, pronunciations, or impossible to reconcile doctrines, but this right here is salvation.
1 John 5: 11-12
If you have the Son, you have life. If you do not, you don’t. You can have the Father and deny the Son, by the way. And you can deny the Son by making Him out to be His own Father or making Him out to not be who He really is, the Son of God who is subordinate to His Father, who He Himself identifies as God.
From Matthew, we know the Christ is synonymous with the Son of God. Is there anything more to that definition? Yes, look at Matthew again and scroll through the definitions.
Anointed. That means somebody else anointed Him. Anointing is a calling, or an appointing, for a mission, specifically by Yahweh. Yeshua is not the only person to have this title, however He is THE Messiah while the others were just “a” Messiah.
The word Christ is not a random word. In Greek, it means to put oil on something. It was chosen as the direct translation for the word Messiah in Hebrew. Understand, there is nothing pagan about this word and it was chosen to be used for Messiah when the LXX was made – 150 years before Yeshua.
Switch to Brenton, search Christ, find Psalm 2, read, then switch to NASB95. Explain the word Messiah or Christ should be there, as well as other places. I don’t know why the English translators never do this.
Make it clear there is YHVH and there is His Anointed. It’s two. Not some incomprehensible amalgamation. Not a mystery. Yahweh anointed Yeshua to be His servant. Down to verse 7 and we see this Anointed one is Yahweh’s Son. He’s not another Yahweh, but the Son of God. I am not making it up, folks, but this is the stuff your “Torah teacher” won’t touch because they are terrified to teach you the truth and break with Trinitarianism. They need to realize they were not given the gift of speech so they can teach secondary and tertiary things.
Acts 2: 22-24 this is why it’s so important. God really did send His Son. His Son really did die. And God resurrected Him. These are not my words, friends. I have to tell you the truth lest I suffer judgment.
Acts 2: 32-26 God made Him the Messiah. Again, not my words. These are Peter’s words given to him by the Ruach ha Kodesh, the Holy Spirit.
Acts 3: 13-15 Again, testifying that God raised Yeshua.
Acts 4: 8-12 Finish here. Peter and John called as two witnesses to testify in front of the Sanhedrin. They said what they said. This is the Gospel. The most important information mankind can know, that God sent His Son, the Messiah, to pay the price for our sins. Do you accept Yeshua as the Messiah, the Son of God?
Messianic Torah Portion Vaera
Messianic Torah Portion Vaera (I appeared) chronicles the beginning of the Exodus. In our study, we parallel the plagues of Exodus with those in Revelation 6 and contrast the purposes of each set of plagues.
Do You Know What Time it is?
The recent history of time keeping can make it very difficult for us to understand how those who wrote the books of the bible kept time. When you stop to think about it, can you even relate to how we kept time just thirty years ago?
Messianic Torah Portion Shemot
Messianic Torah Portion Shemot is the beginning of the book of Exodus. This study is prefaced with the origin of the word Exodus and how there will only every be the one Exodus. We spoke about the remarkable parallels between Shemot and the end times. And, as always, why the Torah is so important to the New Testament.
Messianic Torah Portion Vayechi
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.
Our study was long and included much discussion. Please enjoy this discussion and feel free to join us each Shabbat!
Mainstream versus First Century Christianity
Mainstream versus First Century Christianity
| Mainstream Christianity | First Century Christianity |
| Go to church on Sunday | Keep the Sabbath |
| Sunday, Christmas, Easter | The Holy Days of the Bible |
| Dead people are now spirits | Dead people are dead awaiting resurrection |
| Trinity is mandatory | Accepting Yeshua as the Messiah and Son of God is the key to life |
| Works optional/not required | Repentance and change mandatory |
| Goal of life is going to heaven | Being in a better resurrection/the kingdom of God/ the Olam Haba |
| Old Testament for reference only | The Old Testament was the only bible they had for decades |
| Christianity is a different/new religion | Christianity is the continuation of the faith of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob |
Messianic Torah Portion Vayigash
Messianic Torah Portion Vayigash (and he approached)
The Torah portion is about Joseph’s revealing of himself to his brothers and bringing Israel into Egypt. The parallels between these scriptures and the New Testament are plentiful. Our discussion covers the despair of Jacob and parallels this to the grief of Yeshua’s disciples and the despair of the world as it awaits Yeshua’s return. We also discuss the joy Jacob experiences when he learns Joseph is alive and compare this to the resurrection of the Messiah. The theme established that Joseph’s brothers meant it for evil when they sold him into slavery but God meant it for good compares remarkably with the resurrection of the Messiah and the sermon given by Peter in Acts 2. We also touched on topics of end times studies and how the concept of the Noahide laws are folly.