Zionist Christians Might Be From Israel's Ten Lost Tribes!

This is a repost from the Jerusalem Post. http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=189890

I didn't see any reason to rewrite it. So it may have wording I wouldn't use. It's really wonderful to see others getting the vision with their eyes being opened!

Shalom Here it is....

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Zionist Christians might be from Israel’s ‘Ten Lost tribes’ By BRIAN HENNESSY 10/02/2010 03:54

After nearly two millennia of animosity and distrust, we see large numbers of Christians loving Jews. Talkbacks (3)

We are witnessing an amazing turn of events in Jewish/Christian history. After nearly two millennia of animosity and distrust, we see large numbers of Christians loving Jews. And Jews worldwide are responding and appreciating Christians for their friendship and strong support of Israel. Perhaps no greater evidence of this new congeniality is the very magazine you are holding: a special monthly edition of The Jerusalem Post dedicated to Christian lovers of Zion.

This new mutual warmth has caused many Jews and Christians to remark that we have more in common with each other – in spite of our different beliefs regarding Jesus – than we do with many of our co-religionists. For we are as far removed from our Jimmy Carters and Reverend Wrights as the Jewish Zionists are from their Noam Chomskys and Richard Goldstones.

The swiftness of the change has also caused many within the Christian Zionist movement to wonder if there isn’t more going on here. Is our sudden passionate defense of Israel being driven by something deeper than just our common biblical heritage? Could we actually be witnessing the fulfillment of the most prophesied event in the Bible – the reunion of the House of Israel with the House of Judah? More to the point, could we Christians be actual descendants of the missing Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, captured by Assyria and scattered among the nations in 722 BCE?

More and more Christians (myself included), and even some Jews, have come to this startling conclusion!

Although the event is foretold by all of Israel’s prophets, none described it more graphically than Ezekiel. Given a vision of a valley covered with dry bones, he was asked by an angel, “Son of man, can these bones live?” When he could not answer, the angel told him to command the breath [Holy Spirit] to breathe “on these slain that they may come to life.” So he did, “and they came to life and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.” He was then informed: “Son of man these bones are the whole house of Israel” (Ezekiel 37:1-14).

This powerful vision was soon followed by a command from the Lord to join two sticks together, reemphasizing the reunion of Judah and Israel. “And I will make them one nation in the Land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations, and no longer be divided into two kingdoms... My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd” (Ezekiel 37:22,24).

For those a bit hazy on their biblical history, let me back up a bit.

The breakup of the united kingdom of Israel into two separate nations is told in 1 Kings 11 and 12. There we read of God’s judgment on the House of David following the reign of Solomon. God had warned Solomon to repent of his idolatrous ways, but the king ignored God’s command. Consequently, 10 of the 12 tribes were ripped away to become a separate nation known as the House of Israel (often called “Ephraim,” after its largest tribe). The two remaining tribes, Judah and Benjamin, formed the southern kingdom and became known as the House of Judah. Both continued as separate kingdoms for another 200 years, often actually warring with one another.

Eventually God’s judgment fell again, but only on the northern kingdom. After God “divorced” the northern kingdom by declaring it to be “not My people” via the prophet Hosea, Assyria swept down and carried them off into the nations, where they assimilated and disappeared. As gentiles, they were now “excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in this world” (Ephesians 2:12).

God’s judgment finally caught up with Judah also about 100 years later, when she was exiled to Babylon for 70 years (and where her people were first called “Jews”). She eventually returned to the Land and lived there long enough to birth the man we Christians worship as the Messiah. One hundred and thirty years later, Judah suffered a second exile, this time being scattered to the four corners of the earth by the Roman legions in about 135 CE.Now all 12 tribes were dispersed among the nations, until descendants of the House of Judah began to come home in the late 1800s. But the other 10 tribes of Israel are still missing.Some contend that enough representatives of the northern kingdom were absorbed into the House of Judah before the Assyrian exile to say the whole nation is today represented by “the Jews.” But why would the prophets, many of whom wrote long after the exile of the northern kingdom, talk of the glorious return of the 10 tribes and their reunion with Judah if it had already taken place?

The bottom line is that more than 80% of Jacob’s family is still missing and have had 2,700 years to intermarry with every nationality. Today they probably number in the hundreds of millions. Where are they? How will we know them? And if we are in the Last Days, as most of us believe, how will they be found in time to be reunited with Judah?

What of the New Testament? Are there any suggestions there that the non-Jewish followers of Jesus could indeed be physical descendants of the scattered tribes? Once you begin to look, the clues are everywhere!

Start with the inauguration of the New Covenant by Jesus. Most Christians and Jews think this was something Jesus created for Christians. But when you read the words of the covenant you see it was promised only to the descendants of Judah and Israel through Jeremiah’s prophecy.

“Behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them, declares the Lord.

“But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.” (Jeremiah 31: 31,32; Hebrews 8:8-13)

We also have the apostle Paul saying clearly to the believers in Galatia: “If you belong to Messiah, you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise” (Galatians 3:29).

To the believers in Ephesus he writes that “you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ [...] that in himself he might make the two into one new man” (Ephesians 2:13-15).

Doesn’t that sound like the two joined sticks of Ezekiel?

And in his letter to the Roman church, Paul applies to the gentile followers the very words of hope that the prophet Hosea spoke to the banished northern kingdom, saying: “I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people.’ And it shall be in the place where it was said to them, ‘you are not My people,’ there they shall be called sons of the Living God” (Romans 9:25,26; Hoseah 1:10). And are not the followers of Jesus called “sons of God” by the Jewish writers of the New Testament?

Then there’s Paul’s figurative analogy in Romans 11 of the gentiles being wild olive branches grafted into the cultivated olive tree of Israel. But notice that we too are olive branches. The “wild olive tree” analogy fits perfectly with the northern kingdom scenario of a people who were simply let go.

We also have the apostle James greeting the whole church in the opening of his epistle, both Jew and gentile, as “the 12 tribes who are dispersed abroad” (James 1:1). That’s puzzled scholars for centuries.And consider the statement by the author of Hebrews that, “Both he who sanctifies [referring to Jesus] and those who are sanctified are all from one [referring to Abraham], for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brethren” (Hebrews 2:11-16).

We also have John’s description of the heavenly city of Jerusalem in the book of Revelation having only 12 gates, each named after one of the 12 tribes of Israel (see Revelation 21:12). There is no gate marked “Christian.” Or any back door for “righteous gentiles.”

And of course there are these words of Jesus (who was of the tribe of Judah), spoken to his Jewish followers: “I am sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 15:24). Not much room there for anyone outside the chosen line of Isaac, is there?

Speaking of not much room, many readers are no doubt thinking, “if this is true, how would so many Christians ever fit into Israel?” Although not all will come home, for only “a remnant will be saved” (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27), still the number would be quite large. That makes this prophecy by Isaiah all the more intriguing: “The children of whom you were bereaved will yet say in your ears, ‘The place is too cramped for me; make room for me that I may live here. Then you will say in your heart; Who has begotten these for me... Behold I was left alone, from where did these come?” (Isaiah 49: 20,21)

I guess the Lord Himself will eventually make it clear whether we Christian Zionists are the missing tribes. A recent news item even suggests a possible way. A new genetic study has shown that worldwide Jewry all share the same genome, proving they constitute “one family.” Maybe it’s time we non-Jewish lovers of Israel take the same test.The writer is the author of Valley of the Steeples. His writings can be found on www.bhennessy.com
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A final Note: I know that most of the Christian Zionist are Israel. They need to come back to Torah, all of it. In any marriage relationship you can't pick and choose what parts of the marriage covenant you want to keep. Christianity talks about how it a relationship. It really a Marriage relationship, very different. I guess I need to post something about this soon regarding how we are in a marriage with YHVH not just a relationship.

Shalom and Yah's Blessings
More Later...

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There is no Trinity - But there is Unity!

What do I mean by the title, no trinity.

There are those out there in the Christian community and even some Messianics who still hold on the idea of the "Trinity". I know this is a sacred cow to many Christians. But I must say Torah doesn't support that idea. The whole concept comes from Babylonian thought process. Nimrod, Ishtar, Tammuz: What am I talking about?

Well, for those who don't know the first time a Trinity was mentioned was back then. Ishtar's husband Nimrod died. When her son Tammuz was born she said he was the resurrected Nimrod. The Greeks follow the same route and then the Romans did the same thing with their pagan gods. They even followed through with idea of resurrection and aspiring to greatness; to include coming down to live amongst the people.

Well then the whole concept of Trinity transitioned into the Catholic Church. You may not know that Constantine started the Catholic Church. But he did and he didn't convert to Catholicism till his deathbed. He was pagan till then.

They then made it "Father, Mother, Son", from Nimrod, Izstar, Tammuz; to god our father, Mary the sons mother. Jesus her son and the son of god. Today many Christians try to say they are different than Catholic. But are they really. They still want a doctrine of Demons, namely the Trinity. Father, Son, and Spirit. No where in Torah(the Bible) have I found a single verse to support this claim.They are trying to make an idea fit into the Torah. That's called an agenda when you have an idea and try to prove something by a preconceived idea.

Note: there is even now a concept of taking into account the whole text of the Bible. Then you can find the Trinity from the Bible. But no where does it say three. You're suppose to use the whole Bible to realize that there is a Trinity. Yet not one verse says anything about three. Pretty slim pickings if you ask me.

But why would you want to limit Yahweh to three when he is so so much more. He is one, Echad in Hebrew. It is a unlimited number simply referring to the fact that Yahweh is unified.

As Netzarim we are to study Torah for its own sake, not trying to make it say something. The by product is we gain understanding of who Yahweh is. We grow closers to him. After all, "You Study Whom You Love". So if you love Yahweh then study him by his book, because it is him!

The word says numerous things about the Ruach(Spirit). It says Father and King, Spirit and Holy Spirit. It says the Spirit of Yahweh! But never does it say Trinity. The closest it says it "godhead". But that doesn't mean trinity. Yahweh is beyond the concept of three. He is everything so his number is limitless. The Spirit is very undefined.

Messiah is the father, the image of Yahweh, and his son.

"In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious full message of Messiah, who is the image of Elohim, should shine unto them." 2 Corinthians 4:4

"Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;" Hebrews 1:3

"Who is the image of the invisible Elohim, the firstborn of every creature:" Colossians 1:15

"Elohim is Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth." John 4:24

Adam, hence man was created in the image of Yahweh; who is Yeshua (Yahoshua). The fine line between Yeshua and Yahweh our Father is so blended; that its hard to tell who is who. Where one begins and the other ends other words.


HERE IS THE STRAIGHT TALK: When we see a person's body or face, that is not them. The real person is inside of them. It is spirit and flesh. The part we can see is just the image of the person. The real person that is in control of the flesh is not seen.

Yahweh our heavenly Father is not seen as stated in John 4:24 and Colossians 1:15. However Messiah is seen. As far as the Ruach (the spirit), it is an undefined portion of Yahweh. Yeshua is his image, the part we see. Not three personalities, or parts. That's the best way I can say it, with what Torah gives us.

More Later,

James

Month of AV

This is a month for a lot of things bad that happened; the month of Av!

Both Temples were destoryed in the month of AV 421 BCE and 70 CE, on the 9th of Av.

A lot more happened as Av has always been the month of tragedy.

I was wondering if anyone else noticed that the Month is often more agitated times for you.

The spirits that work for and with HaSatan (Satan) really get everything all worked up during this month. We are now past the worse I pray!

More Later!

Not much to say this day, Sabbath has begun. Blessings to all!

Shabbat Shalom!

Yahweh's Blessings and Shalom Alechem!

James

Palestine Betrayed!

This is a reposting from Daniel Pipes.
Mr. Pipes is a columnist for National Review Online, director of the Middle East Forum, and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Nakba, the Arabic word for "catastrophe," has entered the English language in reference to the Arab–Israeli conflict. As defined by the anti-Israel website The Electronic Intifada, Nakba means "the expulsion and dispossession of hundreds of thousands [of] Palestinians from their homes and land in 1948."

Those who wish Israel to disappear actively promote the Nakba narrative. For example, Nakba Day serves as a mournful Palestinian counterpart to Israel's Independence Day festivities, annually publicizing Israel's alleged sins. So established has this day become that Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations — the very institution that created the State of Israel — has sent his support to "the Palestinian people on Nakba Day." Even Neve Shalom, a Jewish-Palestinian community in Israel claiming to be "engaged in educational work for peace, equality, and understanding between the two peoples," dutifully commemorates Nakba Day.

The Nakba ideology presents Palestinians as victims without choices and therefore without responsibility for the ills that befell them. It blames Israel alone for the Palestinian-refugee problem. This view has an intuitive appeal, for Muslim and Christian Palestinians had long formed a majority on the land that became Israel, whereas most Jews were relative newcomers.

Intuitive sense, however, does not equal historical accuracy. In his new tour de force, Palestine Betrayed, Efraim Karsh of the University of London offers the latter. With his customary in-depth archival research — in this case, relying on masses of recently declassified documents from the period of British rule and of the first Arab–Israeli war, 1917–49 — clear presentation, and meticulous historical sensibility, Karsh argues the opposite case: that Palestinians decided their own destiny and bear near-total responsibility for becoming refugees.

In Karsh's words: "Far from being the hapless victims of a predatory Zionist assault, it was Palestinian Arab leaders who, from the early 1920s onward, and very much against the wishes of their own constituents, launched a relentless campaign to obliterate the Jewish national revival which culminated in the violent attempt to abort the U.N. partition resolution." More broadly, he observes, "there was nothing inevitable about the Palestinian–Jewish confrontation, let alone the Arab–Israeli conflict."

Yet more counterintuitively, Karsh shows that his understanding was the conventional, indeed the undisputed interpretation in the late 1940s. Only with the passage of time did "Palestinians and their Western supporters gradually rewr[i]te their national narrative," thereby making Israel into the unique culprit, the one excoriated in the United Nations, university classrooms, and editorials.

Karsh successfully makes his case by establishing two main points: that (1) the Jewish-Zionist-Israeli side perpetually sought to find a compromise while the Palestinian-Arab-Muslim side rejected nearly all deals; and (2) Arab intransigence and violence caused the self-inflicted "catastrophe."

The first point is more familiar, especially since the Oslo Accords of 1993, for it remains today's pattern. Karsh demonstrates a consistency of Jewish goodwill and Arab rejectionism going back to the Balfour Declaration and persisting throughout the period of British rule. (To remind, the Balfour Declaration of 1917 expressed London's intention to establish in Palestine a "national home for the Jewish people," and the British conquest of Palestine just 37 days later gave it control of Palestine until 1948.)

In the first years after 1917, Arab reaction was muted, as leaders and masses alike recognized the benefits of the dynamic Zionist enterprise that helped revive a backward, poor, and sparsely populated Palestine. Then emerged, with British facilitation, the noxious figure who would dominate Palestinian politics over the next three decades, Amin al-Husseini. From about 1921 on, Karsh documents, Zionists and Palestinians had many choices to make; while the former invariably opted for compromise, the latter relentlessly decided on extermination.

In various capacities — mufti, head of Islamic and political organizations, Hitler ally, hero of the Arab masses — Husseini drove his constituents to what Karsh calls "a relentless collision course with the Zionist movement." Hating Jews so maniacally that he went on to join the Nazi genocide machine, Husseini refused to accept their presence in any numbers in Palestine, much less any form of Zionist sovereignty.

From the early 1920s, then, one witnessed a pattern still in place and familiar today: Zionist accommodation, "painful concessions," and constructive efforts to bridge differences, met by Palestinian anti-Semitism, rejectionism, and violence.

Complementing this binary dramatis personae, and complicating its stark contrast, stood the generally more accommodating Palestinian masses, the disgracefully anti-Semitic British mandatory authority, a Jordanian king eager to rule the Jews as subjects, feckless Arab state leaders, and an erratic American government.

Despite the radicalization of Palestinian opinion by the mufti and despite the Nazi rise to power, Zionists kept seeking an accommodation. It took some years, but the mufti's zero-sum policy and eliminationism eventually convinced reluctant Labor leaders, including David Ben-Gurion, that good works would not facilitate their dream of acceptance. Still, despite repeated failures, they continued the search for a moderate Arab partner with whom to strike a deal.

In contrast, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the forerunner of today's Likud party, already in 1923 understood that "there is not even the slightest hope of ever obtaining the agreement of the Arabs of the Land of Israel to 'Palestine' becoming a country with a Jewish majority." Yet even he rejected the idea of expelling Arabs and insisted on their full enfranchisement in a future Jewish state.

This dialectic culminated in November 1947, when the United Nations passed a partition plan that nowadays would be termed a two-state solution. In other words, it handed the Palestinians a state on a silver platter. Zionists rejoiced but Palestinian leaders, foremost the malign Husseini, sourly rejected any solution that endorsed Jewish autonomy. They insisted on everything and so got nothing. Had they accepted the U.N. plan, Palestine would be celebrating its 62nd anniversary this May. And there would have been no Nakba.

The most original part of Palestine Betrayed is the half that contains a detailed review of the flight of Muslims and Christians from Palestine in the years 1947–49. Here Karsh's archival research comes into its own, allowing him to present a uniquely rich picture of the specific circumstances of Arab flight. He goes one by one through the various Arab population centers — Qastel, Deir Yassin, Tiberias, Haifa, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Safad — and then takes a close look at the villages.

Israel's war of independence divides into two parts. Ferocious fighting began within hours of the United Nations vote to partition Palestine on Nov. 29, 1947, and lasted till the eve of the British evacuation on May 14, 1948. The international conflict began on May 15 (the day after Israel came into being), when five Arab state armies invaded, with hostilities lasting until January 1949. The first phase consisted largely of guerrilla warfare, the second primarily of conventional warfare. Over half (between 300,000 and 340,000) of the 600,000 Arab refugees fled before the British evacuation, and most of them in the final month.

Palestinians fled in a wide range of circumstances and for varied reasons. Arab commanders ordered noncombatants out of the way of military maneuvers; or they threatened laggards with treatment as traitors if they stayed; or they demanded that villages be evacuated to improve their standing on the battlefield; or they promised a safe return in a matter of days. Some communities preferred to flee rather than to sign a truce with the Zionists; in the words of Jaffa's mayor, "I do not mind destruction of Jaffa if we secure destruction of Tel Aviv." The mufti's agents attacked Jews to provoke hostilities. Families with the means to do so fled danger. When agricultural tenants heard that their landlords would be punished, they worried about being expelled and preempted by abandoning the land. Bitter internecine enmities hobbled planning. Shortages of food and other necessities spread. Services like water-pumping stations were abandoned. Fears spread of Arab gunmen, as did rumors of Zionist atrocities.

In only one case (Lydda) did Israeli troops push Arabs out. The singularity of this event bears emphasis. Karsh explains about the entire first phase of fighting: "None of the 170,000–180,000 Arabs fleeing urban centers, and only a handful of the 130,000–160,000 villagers who left their homes, had been forced out by Jews."

The Palestinian leadership disapproved of a population return, seeing this as implicitly recognizing the nascent State of Israel. The Israelis were at first ready to take back the evacuees but then hardened their position as the war progressed. Prime Minister Ben-Gurion explained their thinking, on June 16, 1948: "This will be a war of life and death and [the evacuees] must not be able to return to the abandoned places. . . . We did not start the war. They made the war. Jaffa waged war on us, Haifa waged war on us, Beisan waged war on us. And I do not want them again to make war."

In sum, Karsh explains, "it was the actions of the Arab leaders that condemned hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to exile."

In this book, Karsh establishes two momentous facts: that Arabs aborted the Palestinian state and that they caused the Nakba. In the process, he confirms his status as the preeminent historian of the modern Middle East writing today, and extends the arguments of three of his earlier books. His magnum opus, Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923 (with Inari Karsh, 1999), argued that Middle Easterners were not, as usually thought, "hapless victims of predatory imperial powers but active participants in the restructuring of their region," a shift with vast political implications. Palestine Betrayed applies that book's thesis to the Arab–Israeli conflict, depriving Palestinians of excuses and victimhood, showing that they actively, if mistakenly, chose their destiny.

In Fabricating Israeli History: The "New Historians" (1997), Karsh exposed the shoddy work, even the fraudulence, of the school of Israeli historians who blame the 1948–49 Palestinian refugee problem on the Jewish state. Palestine Betrayed offers the flip side; if the earlier book refuted mistakes, this one establishes truths. Finally, in Islamic Imperialism: A History (2006), he showed the expansionist core of the Islamic faith in action over the centuries; here he explores that drive in small-bore detail among the Palestinians, connecting the supremacist Islamic mentality with an unwillingness to make practical concessions to Jewish sovereignty.

Palestine Betrayed reframes today's Arab–Israeli debate by putting it into its proper historical context. Proving that for 90 years the Palestinian political elite has opted to reject "the Jewish national revival and [insisted on] the need for its violent destruction," Karsh correctly concludes that the conflict will end only when the Palestinians give up on their "genocidal hopes."

Mr. Pipes is a columnist for National Review Online, director of the Middle East Forum, and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.

This Is Just The Beginning till...

This is just the beginning till we wake up!

There are those who would see any friend of Israel, or land that gives Jews freedom; a threat! That would be the Muslims! We must be ready for truth and how to understand it!

O' don't worry. The Muslim mind set is quite clear.

"Kill all the Saturday people and Kill all the Sunday people!" Think I am making this statement up. Mohamed said it himself. As posted elsewhere

Jews and Christians are the goal. They see us a infidels and they won't stop till we are dead or converted to Islam!

This maybe a hard message for some people to hear or believe. Islam has a long history of expansion by the sword. An exert form Wikipedia

Within Islamic jurisprudence, jihad is usually taken to mean military exertion against non-Muslim combatants in the defense or expansion of the Ummah. The ultimate purpose of military jihad is debated, both within the Islamic community and without, with some claiming that it only serves to protect the Ummah, with no aspiration of offensive conflict, whereas others have argued that the goal of Jihad is global conquest. Jihad is the only form of warfare permissible in Islamic law and may be declared against apostates, rebels, highway robbers, violent groups, and leaders or states, Islamic or otherwise, who oppress Muslims or hamper proselytizing efforts. Most Muslims today interpret Jihad as only a defensive form of warfare: the external Jihad includes a struggle to make the Islamic societies conform to the Islamic norms of justice.

Maybe only a few hundred thousand Muslims are dangerous. Then we have nothing to worry about or do we.

PALESTINIAN MUSLIM CLERIC URGES ALL ARABS TO KILL JEWS, CHRISTIANS, AND AMERICANS WHEREVER THEY HAPPEN TO LIVE! This was stated back in the year 2000! NEWS BRIEF: "PALESTINIAN INCITEMENT TO MURDER JEWS", Sunday, October 15, 2000.

"Palestinian Television continued over the weekend to re-broadcast excerpts from a Friday sermon in the Zayed bin Sultan Aal Nahyan mosque in Gaza. Translation supplied by The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI):

'The Jews are Jews, whether Labor or Likud... They do not have any moderates or any advocates of peace. They are all liars... they are the terrorists. They are the ones who must be butchered and killed, as Allah the Almighty said: 'Fight them: Allah will torture them at your hands, and will humiliate them and will help you to overcome them, and will relieve the minds of the believers...' "

Don't think it's just an American issue. Islamics have vowed to do the same everywhere!


We must pray against such hatred no matter what caused it!

"When your people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray, and make supplication unto you in this house: Then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which you gave unto their fathers." I Kings 8:33-34

Then YHVH (Yahweh) will save us from destruction and bring all of Israel back home!

What Is Peace To A Muslim?!

Recently I had someone commented on my posture towards Islam. for "Wife Beating and The Koran", click the linked words and follow the starting point.

There are only two things that that represent Peace to a Muslim.

1 "You convert to Islam and we have peace".
2 "I leave Islam and find the Prince of Peace."

Neither of them are compatible. I have heard much about Islam over the years being a religion of peace. But the Koran negates itself. In the first Half is says peace with all. In the Second half it says kill all who refuse to convert.

Often Islam is painted as a good thing by liberal media. They would be the first killed if they refuse to convert. After the Saturday people and the Sunday people.

What am I saying. Many Muslim groups have the posture or have stated that first "Kill all the Saturday people, then Kill all the Sunday People." They would agree as a whole.

I was clear and I say it again. I hate no one. I just don't see how wife beating and sexual contact with minor boys is good; let alone suppressing women.

Women in the Torah are not any less valuable than men. Aside from defined gender roles, they have the same right and status in Yahweh's eyes.

Back to my Title; Peace to a Muslim is everyone converts. Most people think peace is we get alone and coexist. They aren't the same thing.

The greatest peace for a Muslim is to leave their religion and have a relationship with the creator of the universe. "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long suffering towards us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." II Peter 3:9

He wants all man kind to be saved into his kingdom. But the truth is many won't, and the Muslims are just a small part that won't join his kingdom! That in itself breaks my heart!

Yah's Blessings and Shalom!!!

The Sader Symbols Song!

A fellow member of the covenant posted this on facebook. I thought it was right to repost it here!



Have a blessed Sabbath followed by Pesach(Passover)! Chag Pesach Sameach(happy Passover holiday)!

Yah's Blessings and Shalom!

The Glory of Pasech(Passover) is Near!

Keep in mind a Mikva is desirable if you want to fulfill Psalms 24:3-5 (3)Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? (4)He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. (5)He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

I will keep it short as we all have a lot to do to get ready for Pesach(Passover).

Messiah stated his feeling about the future. Matthew 24:29 "But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom." Note it was his father's kingdom. What great a day that will be to drink in our Abba Yahweh's Kingdom! Blessings as you celebrate Pesach(Passover)!

Our Holidays or as some call them Holy Days can be summed up in one sentence!

“They tried to kill us, lets eat!”

Yah's Blessings and Shalom!

Fulfilling the Torah is important!

Matthew 5:17 "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill."

To destroy the law means badly interpretation, to fulfill means to give a proper interpretation.

“Rabbi I think the passage means this....”
“No student you have destroyed the Torah.”
“May be the text means this Rabbi...”
“Yes that is correct. Now you have fulfilled the Torah.”

Another Note: This was the perfect time for Messiah to say "I have a new thing." Instead he said what he said in Matthew 5:17 How could he change anything, its him!


Fulfilling the Torah is important! We can't live it out if we don't do that!

Yah's Blessings and Shalom!

What is Torah?

Just a quick question.

This question has be touted and asked throughout the history of Mankind! Don't get hung up in the word "Torah", it simply means learning, teaching, instructions and all that that entails. All and any of the Writings is Torah.

So with that in mind when was Torah first pasted down to us? I give you a hint before we were made from the dust of the earth. YHVH (Yahweh) began with Yeshua, Then came everything else! The first was establishing the days; even and morning day one.

Now it says that Yahweh walked with Adam in the cool the day, somewhere in the mix or before that. But we know that Eve (Havah) was not separated into a separate person just yet. Yahweh said don't eat of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil! That was more Torah and the second rule. First was 6 days of work, 1 day of rest Sabbath. Second was don't eat of the one tree.

I'm sure most of you know, be fruitful and multiply. Also is what qualifies as Torah? Remember that Constantine was responsible along with the Catholic fathers of setting what was in the "Bible"; not Israel or Jews.

So what is Torah?

Don't forget that Torah and in this case I am referring to the first 5 books is the meat of all we have as Torah. Nothing can go against "The Meat". Just like in Pesach(Passover) with out the Lamb its not a Seder.

So a safe start is No text may contradict the Torah hence the first 5 books. When you study the 66 books and do research; you find that those book are good. They don't really contradict each other! There are other text, each must not contradict Torah!

The Apocrypha, Jasher, plus others.

There a lot to this understanding that just "What is Torah?" Yeshua is Torah too.

Yah's Blessings and Shalom,
James

Authentic Netzarim (Nazarenes)

TEN HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE "AUTHENTIC" NETZARIM:

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Its very important to know where you are in life. With Pesach(Passover)coming near; as they are the only Holy Days that are closed to Non-Torah Observing individuals. I am not saying you have to be all the way in. What that means is you have taken the first step to being part of Israel hence through Messiah: Netzarim (Nazarene). If you were something else like Christan per say, and now you can now say you are not; even if you don't quite know what you are other than a Sabbath keeper and not Christian or some other religion.


TEN HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE "AUTHENTIC" NETZARIM: It links back to the original posting.

By James Scott Trimm

There are many organizations now claiming an identification with the ancient Sect of the Netzarim/Nazarenes. One even claims to be the only "authentic" representation of Netzarim Judaism. Many of these organizations differ substantially with what we know
historically about the ancient sect of the Nazarenes. The purpose of this article is to outline some of the historical characteristics which we know the ancient Nazarenes had, which many of these pseudo-Nazarene organizations lack.

Beware of so-called "authentic" Nazarene/Netzarim Judaism that does not have these characteristics. There is nothing historically "authentic" about these groups.


1. Did not call themselves "Christians"

These sectarians... did not call themselves Christians--but "Nazarenes,"... (Epiphanius; Panarion 29)


2. Accepted Yeshua as Messiah

The Nazarenes... accept Messiah in such a way that they do not cease to observe the old Law." (Jerome; On. Is. 8:14).

They have no different ideas, but confess everything exactly as the Law proclaims it and in the Jewish fashion-- except for their belief in Messiah, ... They disagree
with [other] Jews because they have come to faith in Messiah
(Epiphanius; Panarion 29)


3. Were Torah Observant

The Nazarenes... accept Messiah in such a way that they do not cease to observe the old Law." (Jerome; On. Is. 8:14).

They have no different ideas, but confess everything exactly as the Law proclaims it and in the Jewish fashion-- since they are still fettered by the Law--circumcision, the Sabbath, and the rest-- they are not in accord with Christians.
(Epiphanius; Panarion 29)

4. Used both the Tanak ("Old Testament") and the "New Testament"

They use not only the "New Testament" but the "Old Testament" as well, as the Jews do... (Epiphanius; Panarion 29)

5. Used Hebrew and Aramaic NT source texts.

They have the Goodnews according to Matthew in its entirety in Hebrew. For it is clear that they still preserve this, in the Hebrew alphabet, as it was originally written. (Epiphanius; Panarion 29)

And he [Heggesippus the Nazarene] quotes some passages from The Gospel according to the Hebrews and from "The Syriac" [the Aramaic], and some particulars from the Hebrew tongue, showing that he was a convert from the ` Hebrews, and he mentions other matters as taken from the oral tradition of the Jews.
(Eusebius; Eccl. Hist. 4:22)

6. Believed in the Virgin Birth of Yeshua.
they believe that Messiah, the son of God, was born of the Virgin Miriam,
(Jerome; Letter 75 Jerome to Augustine)


7. Accepted the diety of Messiah... teaching that Elohim is ECHAD but that there are "many (more than two) 'powers' in heaven" including the Messiah.

They...declare that God is one [ECHAD]...(Epiphanius; Panarion 29)

The Mishna states that the MINIM taught: "There are many `powers' in heaven"
(m.San. 4:5)

Clearly the MINIM in this portion of the Mishna were Nazarenes(1) and not Ebionites, since Ebionites clearly rejected the deity of Messiah.

In the Gemara to this portion of Mishna (b.San. 38b) the Talmud discusses various proof texts that the MINIM used to support their teaching of "many powers in
heaven" including the Messiah.

R. Johanan sad: In all the passages which the Minim have taken [as grounds] for their heresy, their refutation is found near at hand. Thus: Let us make man in our image, (Gen. 1:26) And God created [sing.] man in His own image; (Gen. 1:27)

Come, let us go down and there confound their language, (Gen. 11:7)
And the Lord came down [sing.] to see the city and the tower; (Gen. 11:5)

Because there were revealed [plur.] to him God, (Gen. 35:7)
Unto God who answereth [sing.] me in the day of my distress; (Gen. 35:3)

For what great nation is there that hath God so nigh [plur.] unto it, as the Lord our God is [unto us] whensoever we call upon Him [sing.]; (Deut. 4:7)

And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, [like] Israel, whom God went [plur.] to redeem for a people unto himself [sing.], (2Sam. 7:23)

Till thrones were placed and one that was ancient did sit.
(Dan. 7:9)

Why were these [plurals] necessary? To teach R. Johanan's dictum; viz.: The Holy One, blessed be He, does nothing without consulting His Heavenly Court (literally "Family") , for it is written, The matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the sentence by the word of the Holy Ones.(Dan. 4:14)

Now, that is satisfactory for all [the other verses], but how explain Till thrones were placed? (Dan. 7:9) One [throne] was for Himself and one for David [Messiah]. Even as it has been taught: One was for Himself and one for David: this is R. Akiba's
view. R. Jose protested to him: Akiba, how long will thou profane the Sh'kinah? Rather, one [throne] for justice, and the other for mercy. Did he accept [this answer] from him or not? Come and hear! For it has been taught: One is for justice and the other for charity; this is R. Akiba's view. Said R. Eleazar b. Azariah to him: Akiba, what hast thou to do with Aggada? Confine thyself to [the study of]
Nega'im and Ohaloth [civil issues]. But one was a throne, the other a footstool: a throne for a seat and a footstool in support of His feet (Is. 66:1).


This section of Talmud tells us that the MINIM used Tanak passages in which Elohim was referenced in a plural form as proof texts for their teaching of "many powers
in the heavens". Among their proof texts were Gen. 1:26; 11:7; 35:7; Deut. 4:7; Sam. 7:23 & Dan. 7:9).

The Rabbinic Jews dismissed these as examples of Elohim speaking to "His Heavenly
Court" (literally "Heavenly Family") i.e. the "watchers" of Dan. 4:14.


8. Accepted "Jewish Tradition" but not Rabbinic Halachah

They have no different ideas, but confess everything exactly as the Law proclaims it and in the Jewish fashion... (Epiphanius; Panarion 29)

And he [Heggesippus the Nazarene] quotes some passages from The Gospel according to the Hebrews and from "The Syriac" [the Aramaic], and some particulars from the Hebrew tongue, showing that he was a convert from the Hebrews, and he mentions other matters as taken from the oral tradition of the Jews.
(Eusebius; Eccl. Hist. 4:22)

There are preserved for us five fragments from an ancient Nazarene Commentary on Isaiah in which the fourth century Nazarene writer makes it clear that Nazarenes of
the fourth century were not following Pharisaic Rabbinical Halakhah. The following is taken from the Nazarene commentary on Isaiah 8:14:

And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel…

The Nazarenes explain the two houses as the two houses of Shammai and Hillel, from whom originated the Scribes and Pharisees… [they Pharisees] scattered and defiled the
precepts of the Torah by traditions and mishna. And these two houses did not accept the Savior…



9. Accepted Paul as an emissary to the Ephraimites and Gentiles.

The Nazarenes, whose opinion I have set forth above, try to explain this passage in the following way: When Messiah came and his proclaiming shone out, the land of Zebulon and Naphtali first of all were freed from the errors of the Scribes and Pharisees and he shook off their shoulders the very heavy yoke of the Jewish traditions. Later, however, the proclaiming became more dominant, that means the proclaiming was multiplied, through the Goodnews of the emissary Paul who was the last of all the emissaries. And the goodnews of Messiah shone to the most distant tribes and the way of the whole sea. Finally the whole world, which earlier walked or sat in darkness and was imprisoned in the bonds of idolatry and death, has seen the clear light of the goodnews.
(Jerome on Is. 9:1-4)


10. They wore Head Coverings

...false teachers, who, seeing that none of the emissaries any longer survived, at length attempted ***with bare and uplifted head*** to oppose the proclaiming of the truth...(Eusebius; Eccl. Hist. )




Footnotes

(1) It is important to define an important Talmudic term MIN (singular) / MINIM (plural).

The fourth century "Church Father" Jerome writes of the Nazarenes and Ebionites:

What shall I say of the Ebionites who pretend to be Christians? Today there still exists among the Jews in all the synagogues of the East a heresy which is called that of the Minæans, and which is still condemned by the Pharisees; [its
followers] are ordinarily called 'Nazarenes'; they believe that Christ, the son of God, was born of the Virgin Mary, and they hold him to be the one who suffered under Pontius Pilate and ascended to heaven, and in whom we also believe."
(Jerome; Letter 75 Jerome to Augustine)

Now Ebionites and Nazarenes were two distinct groups with varying beliefs (the Ebionites split off from the Nazarenes round 70 C.E.) but both of these groups were
known by Rabbinic Jews as "Minim" or as Jerome calls them in Latin "Mineans".

According to the Dictionary of the Targumim, Talmud Babli, Yerushalami and Midrashic Literature

Marcus Jastrow defines MIN "…sectarian, infidel… a Jewish infidel, mostly applied to Jew

Christians". Jastrow uses the term "Jew-Christians" to refer to Ebionites and Nazarenes although these groups did not call themselves "Christians".

Many scholars believe that the term MIN began as an acronym for a Hebrew phrase meaning "Believers in Yeshua the Nazarene".


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Wife Beating and The Koran

Algeria Top Islamic Cleric Outraged At Proposed Law To Jail Men Who Beat Their Wives This Goes Against the Koran!

The Koran Clearly states that Islamic law allows for wife beating. Of course this is the same religion that has special rules sexually about pre-adolescent boys.

Let's not forget Islam means submission. They made people submit and still do it at the point of a sword! These are the descendant of Esau who despised his family. These are also the descendants of Ishmael. "And he will be a wild man; his hand [will be] against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren." Genesis 16:12

So need I say more about the Arabs and Islam and all the people who embrace it!

Final Note on this subject: Most of the Muslims in the world aren't Arab. Some of the races that are against Israel have forgotten who they really are. They are lost Israel. But some day that will change.

Amos 9:9 "For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as [corn] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth."

Yah's Blessings and Shalom!

A quick note: Texts

I recently started a Blog just for Nazarene (Netzarim) texts

The first post was for Counting the Omer!

Let me know if there are any other texts you would like to see. I don't alter a text except in format.

Here's the easy way to get there! Great Nazarene Texts

Yah's Blessings and Shalom!

Nazarene Goals #2

The first post on this subject is here. Nazarene Goals

Something I ran across recently again is the misunderstanding of the "Whole House of Israel".

It's interesting in the first verse in Yaakov 1:1 (James 1:1) then he stated in his address; "Yaakov, a servant of YHVH and of The Messiah Yeshua, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting."

Here Yaakov the Tzadik(James the Just)knew the goal of the Netzarim was to be about the restoration of the Whole House of Israel. We must look for all of Israel.

Messiah said it best. Mark 16:15 "And he said unto them, Go you into all the world, and preach the full message to all creation."

Why didn't he just say go tell the Jews. Its real clear all the tribes, all twelve. Restoring them to Yahweh!

As Netzarim that is our goal or you're not netzarim. You are likely just messianic, and hence need to learn more.

Yah's Blessings and Shalom!

Living In Darkness.

I am remembering a time or two how I was living in darkness. What am I talking about. Two types of darkness.

1. Spiritual Darkness

It was when I was in my 20's. I thought I knew everything about Torah. Boy was I young. I also felt there was more to the Bible than I found in it.

Later when I was in my late 30's I found out there was more. We attended a Messianic Congregation. It was more like a Reformed Jewish congregation. I feel that Yahweh is there. Yet it wasn't enough for me. After a year or so I was starving for deeper truths of Torah.

2. Physical Darkness

It was when the power out and we had no lights or anything. We were blessed to have enough battery powered items. My work was across town on a different power grid. So we went there and recharged our battery items.

But it was so like Torah how we felt.

"Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:" Isaiah - Chapter 55 verse 6.

"You lust, and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not."

In the mist of our real darkness or our spiritual darkness remember "Be still, and know that I [am] God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." Psalms 42:10

Back in Isaiah 55 verse 7 is clear about getting out of darkness. "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto YHVH, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our Elohim, for he will abundantly pardon."

Hope is there.

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:" Matthew 7:7

"And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you". Luke 11:9

Remember the words of 2nd Samuel 22: "For thou [art] my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness." Verse 33 also "Elohim [is] my strength [and] power: and he maketh my way perfect."

"Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." Psalms 119:105

That is how we get out of Darkness. Yahweh's word is the answer, all of it not the parts we want. "All scripture [is] given by [the] breath of YHVH, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" 2nd Timothy 3:16

Romans 10:17 "So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of YHVH."

His word is the way; all spoken, written and breathed.

Yah's Blessings and Shalom!

Clearly Sabbath Was Never Changed!

Why is Sabbath so important? Does it matter what day we worship. No, but it does matter what day we keep as our day of rest hence Sabbath and special worship.

If we look at the word given by Yahweh it clearly says in Genesis 2:2-3 “And on the seventh day Elohim ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And Elohim rested the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which Elohim created and made.“

Exodus 31:13 says “Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths you shall keep: for it [is] a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that [you] may know that I [am] YHVH that does sanctify you.”

This is repeated in Ezekiel 20:20 “And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I [am] YHVH your Elohim.”

What about Messiah regarding the sabbath.

“And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing [him] were astonished, saying, From whence hath this [man] these things? and what wisdom [is] this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?” Mark 6:2

“And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.” Luke 4:16

Clearly the sabbath was never changed, any day won't just do.

A final word: Exodus 8:20 "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy"


(This is from NC Radio heard on messianicvoice.com)

Tying The Tzitzi! Additional Thought!

Some of you may remember when I posted "Tying The Tzitzi" on June 9th of last year.

Its great as I walked throught the thought process I was tying a set. As Netzarim you may have wondered how we veiw Tzitzi. But as I was tying a new set recently and I thought about how Messiah and Torah are the same. (Plus any words Yahweh or Yeshua said. They are all Torah.)

(38)"Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:(39) And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:" Numbers 15:38-39

The Blue thread is Messiah because it is for the Torah hence the commandment and the Statutes. So when you kiss the Tzitzi where they are on the corners of a talit (male) or a veil (female); you are kissing the Son and ultimately his face.

"Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what [is] his name, and what [is] his son's name, if thou canst tell?" Proverbs 30:4

"Serve YHVH with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish [from] the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed [are] all they that put their trust in him." Psalms 2:11-12

What better way to kiss the face of Yeshua than to look upon the Tzitzi and kiss them. They are Torah and The testimoney.

"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in them." Isaiah 8:20

Happy TziTzi making...Yah's Blessing and Shalom!

The Best Text To Use...

There is no all one answer for this thought.

I like the King James Version (KJV)for when I am dealing with Christians as most still see that as the Authority. Also the New King James works too.

The New International Version (NIV) is fine with most Christians as well.

If a Christian can find it in there own Bible, then it must be true. What I might say to someone...."You tell me this is the (KJV) or (NIV) version; I didn't write either."

If you are looking for yourself I would recommend A Hebrew Version or one that is translated with Hebraic eyes. "The Scriptures" is good, "The Hebraic-Roots Version" is good. The Stones Edition is in the ballpark. It only comes with the "Old Testament" but the one I have has Hebrew on one page and across from it on the other page is the English translation.

I can not stress enough the importance of learning Hebrew. I know enough to see a bit here and there...I have quite a ways to go to read it fluently. It's also good to have a Sage (scholar who know Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek)

Getting yourself an "Interlinear Bible" would be good too. Don't worry if it's a (KJV) the English should be a reference only. It is important to have several Texts to compare. The Interlinear has the language in English above the Hebrew and Greek. If you know the language then you know if the English on the the page itself is translated proper.

If you know the language then there is no filter of a translator telling you what the text says. No one who has an agenda can't trick you.

When I study, I don't look to fit the text into my thinking as most faiths do. The Netzarim Faith is about reading the Text and asking what does it mean.

Bottom line...for yourself a text that is translated from Hebrew sources and with Hebraic Eyes.

The Scriptures, or The Hebraic-Roots Version, or even The complete Jewish Bible is OK. Even the Stones Edition isn't bad with Hebrew on the opposite page. There might be others. Ultimately you are the best translation with knowing what the language of text itself.

Note: Study of the Torah is best done in the language you understand best!

I have all the mentioned texts and some that can't be gotten anymore. Don't be afraid to look for used copies of Bibles.

Yah's Blessing and Shalom!

Lent - The Weeping for Tammuz

On the 17Th of February was the beginning date this year of Lent. It goes for 40 days. I didn't remember when it started as I don't celebrate theses unholy holidays and wrong time of denying ones self.

Thought most people who celebrate the Holiday don't realize that Lent is mention in the Torah It is called by its Pagan name!

"Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which [was] toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz." Ezekiel - Chapter 8 verse 14.

This is not what Lent keepers want to hear, but wait their more with this offer.

Verse 15 "Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater abominations than these." So clearly Yahweh see it as an abomination to keep Lent. No matter what reason you might give.

It gets worse...verse 16 "And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, [were] about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east."

Any one who worships on Sun-day as their Sabbath is worshiping in regards to the Sun god, there are a number of them throughout history. Pick your favorite one be my guest.

"And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." Joshua 24:15 (I love this verse!)

Yah's Blessings and Shalom!

Harry Potter and Pagen Holidays

This one might give you a chuckle

OK So I'm not condoning or condemning the Harry Potter books. Granted the Author is a publicity hound. Whatever, But I have problems with books that talk how bad they are. These same people still celebrate the pagan holidays of Christmas and Easter. They still have no problem with Halloween. Whatever.

I just can't take them serious. They think that books like these are about getting people into witchcraft.

Well the word says "For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of YHVH, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king." 1 Samuel 15:23

Those who refuse to give up pagan holidays and call them holy are showing rebellion. The word says its the same as witchcraft. So they are worried that books like this will get kids into witchcraft.

They and their parents are on the same level with witchcraft. So what's more important. Not reading bad fantasy books or stopping unholy holidays(Christmas and Easter).

"Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." Matthew 7:5

"Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye." Luke 6:42

Also many of these proponents of alerting people to dangerous books are also guilty of much of what is Galatians 5:19-21 "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of YHVH."

Most of those who appose such types of meterial Like Harry Potter are far more guilty of greater sins.

Matthew 5:17 "(17)Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. (18)For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (19)Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."

By the way Lent is going on...Need I say more?
Yah's Blessings and Shalom!

When Did The Faith Change?

I asked a trick question to those of you who know where I am going.

I am addressing the whole of when did "The Faith" change. It never changed a new religion was formed by usurpers.

The faith of The Torah has always been about Israel the Nation. So now as Netzarim we are doing the same; working to find Israel amongst the Nations. Messiah said it himself.

"These twelve Yeshua sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into [any] city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand." Matthew 10:5-7

"But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast [it] to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.Then Yeshua answered and said unto her, O woman, great [is] thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour." Matthew 15:24-28

Both examples clearly state who Messiah came for. Again Messiah clearly state in two different places who he came for.

"For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost." Matthew 5:18 same in...
"For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." Luke 19:10

Its very clear he came for what was lost...Israel. He state what was lost not who was lost.

Christianity came along with a leader called Simon The Magi as mention in Acts 8:9 "But there was a certain man, called Simon, which before time in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:"

He was the Peter who went to Rome. Kefa in Hebrew went else were never going to Rome. By the time of Constantine in 325 Nicean Accord clearly stated what was Christian. Constantine himself was never christian till his death bed.

Never in the Torah, the Haftorah, Psalms, or Bri Hadasha is there any mention of changing anything. Matthew 5:17 "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil."

In Nazarane Judism and as in any sect of Juadism we know what this phrase mentioned means. It uses Jewish Idioms. Let me give you an example.

Rabbi I have a question: says the student.
Yes what is it?: Rabbi
Well Rabbi I was reading this portion of the Torah and I think it means this....

The Rabbi thinks for a moment and he frowns on his student then he spoke: No student you have abolished or destroyed the Torah. That's a bad interpretation.

Well Rabbi what about this....: Student

Yes that is right student. Now you have fulfilled the Torah. That is a good interpretation.

This one example is why Christiana have trouble translating the Torah or any of the Bible. The don't know the culture or the language at all. So naturally they can get it wrong.

More to come on this.

Next Time: The Torah is the Faith!


Yah's Blessings and Shalom

Answers To How One Might Conduct Oneself In A Very Christian Environment.

Remember that in a world of Christians what better way to reach them then to know them. If you came from a church environment or church background it may have been Yahweh's will. You received knowledge of how to reach them. Many a good Nazarene Rabbi who knows the word will often still use the King James Bible to reach a Christian. This is so because most of them see it as still being the Authority regarding the Bible.

The fact that you see the world outside of Christianity is a Blessing. You were called out of Babylon. Still you may have been put there to learn what Christians think at the deepest level. I'm not saying go back to believing that. I am saying that if you know how they think and what the standard dogma is as well as them; then you can know the areas you need to be armed in. We don't deal with dogma just the word. Much in the way a true Statesman isn't really a politician.

Learn what you need to know to give an answer to all who ask. Most Christian today are as the woman at the well. Yeshua address the woman who had multiple men in her life, the one she was with wasn't even her husband. He was direct in his speech in John 4:22 “You worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.” (KJV) Here Yeshua was referring to the old ways of the replacement of the faith by the kings of Israel (the northern one - House of Israel) from years past. Messiah was making it clear where the real faith was.

“But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him. Elohim [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.” John 4:23-24 hence it is a spiritual battle. “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].” Ephesians 6:12 That's why a person may become angry when they can't combat the truth.

Your daily prayer should be that YHVH is leading you all in you ways. Psalms 37:23 “The steps of a [good] man are ordered by YHVH: and he delights in his way.”

Remember also what Proverbs 3 says starting with verse 1 “My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to you. Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them about your neck; write them upon the table of your heart: So shalt you find favor and good understanding in the sight of Elohim and man. Trust in YHVH with all Your heart; and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes: fear YHVH, and depart from evil.” Proverbs 3:1-7

People may not agree with you but they will respect you when they realize that you have truth. Learning what you need to know will help in speaking the truth and looking back to where you came from can remind you of Romans 8:28 "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love YHVH, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose." None of us live in a bubble. The real world has so many people looking for truth. Let Scripture be the authority. "All scripture [is] given by inspiration of Elohim, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" 2nd Timothy 3:16

There is plenty of truth to learn. Learn the true way of the Netzer The Branch Messiah and his teachings Nazarene Judaism. You may know a lot already but there is so much to know. I myself constantly study to know more. "Study to show yourself approved unto Elohim, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2nd Timothy 2:15

Basically I would be as Rabbi Shual (Paul) told us to be. “But sanctify YHVH Elohim in your hearts: and [be] ready always to [give] an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:” I Peter 3:15

Love always, asking questions of a friend in stead of telling. Keep in mind its a spiritual battle you are fighting and YHVH is doing most of the fighting if you let him.

Here's a good example of a question to ask a christian to make them think. Let scripture do the talking. When was the sabbath established as Saturday? Most Christian's forget that it was establish in Genesis 2 "And on the seventh day Elohim ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And Elohim blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which Elohim created and made." Genesis 2:2-3

That's just one example that most Christians don't realize is in the Torah(Bible). Messiah used this approach. what's good enough for him is certainly good enough for me!

Shalom and Yah's Blessings