As most of you know, I have been studying the Hebrew Roots of Jesus(Yeshua), and what it means to me, and how I am to live my life, since I proclaim Him as the Messiah, then I should walk like He did so many years ago. So a part of this journey I spoke about earlier in my blog heading, is this....and I am not perfect, til the day I die, I will be a student of the Most High.
1.We were all one people and one language before the Tower of Babel, right? And Yahweh got so perturbed at the people worshiping other gods other than Him.
Genesis 11:1 ~ Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.
Genesis 11:6-8 ~ And the Lord said, " Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do, now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. " Come let us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech ". So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over all the face of the earth.
2. And God's Covenant commands were made before that, right? The basics for rightful living in the Garden ~
Genesis 9:8 ~ God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him , saying "And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you...
Genesis 9:12~And God said, "This is a sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations.
3. His word, YHVH or Yeshua's, words do not change. He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. right?
Malachi 3:6 ~ "I am the Lord, I do not change"
4. The 10 Commandments were given at Mt Sinai, (Exodus 20) in the Torah(first five books of Moses) Genesis, through Deuteronomy.) many places we are told to keep them to all our generations...right?
Exodus 31:16 ~ "Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. ( before there was a Jewish religion, God's word was for everyone, still is, but Jews observe the Laws and covenants still to this day, when we all are supposed to according to the Bible/Torah.
Leviticus 18:4 ~" You shall observe My judgements and keep My ordinances, to walk in them ; I am the Lord your God" . Verse 5: "You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgements , which if a man does, he shall live by them. I am the Lord."
Leviticus 18:26 and 30 ~ "You shall keep My statutes and my judgements, and shall not commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation or any stranger who sojourns among you" Verse 30: "Therefore you shall keep My ordinance, so that you do not commit any of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the Lord your God"
Verse after verse after verse...it says to Keep them and observe them, whether in the nation or a sojourner....
5. Now I'm sure someone is going to say, or think "but when Jesus(Yeshua) came and died on the cross, didn't that get rid of that "Jewish stuff", all those laws and commands, I mean we aren't the children of Israel, are we???"
Luke 22: 8 ~ And He sent Peter and John, saying "Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat".
Verse 11: ..........."Where is the guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?" Why were the feasts done away with you say? They weren't. That came much later under church rule, by man, not of YHVH, God.
Acts 13: 10 ~ Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath(7th day). This is the story of the woman that had "osteoporosis",and Yeshua healed her on the Sabbath. This is what was taken from us, by the Cross, just the Pharisee/Sadducee way of observance.. We are supposed to use scripture only not to add to it or take away from it.
Just a side note on this subject. Why does the Christian church teach that Yeshua died on Friday and rose on Sunday??? Think about it, with a Hebrew mindset, as they thought with....
OK, the day is preparation day, right? as it says in Luke 23.:54.
Well, since they were in a Passover holiday there are two Sabbaths during this time, so the prep day would have been Wednesday,
so Wed-Th night, ONE, Thu to Fri night TWO and Fri-Sat night, THREE when Sabbath ended for them. as it says in
Luke 23: 54 ~ That day was the Preparation , and the Sabbath drew near. 55: And the women who had come with Him from Galilee, followed after, and they observed the tomb and how His body was laid. 56: Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils.(used for after Sabbath, called Havdalah, separating the sacred from profane.) {so they prepared them before the Sabbath} ...And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.
Luke 23: 54 ~ That day was the Preparation , and the Sabbath drew near. 55: And the women who had come with Him from Galilee, followed after, and they observed the tomb and how His body was laid. 56: Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils.(used for after Sabbath, called Havdalah, separating the sacred from profane.) {so they prepared them before the Sabbath} ...And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.
24:1 ~ Now on the first day of the week, (which by the calendar used by the Jews at the time, was first day is late Saturday night, as the days are evening to morning, not 24 hours as we keep now...(Remember in Genesis, when He is making each day, "the evening and the morning was the 1st day, etc...) Just for your thoughts.....
All throughout the New Testament, it says that Yeshua(Jesus) kept the Sabbath, Feast of Tabernacles, Feast of Ingathering, Feast of Weeks, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur, and even though not totally documented, except one verse in John 10:22, where it says: Now it was the Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah, my notation), in Jerusalem, and it was winter. 23: And Jesus(Yeshua) walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch. So it is not sure if He participated, but since He did in all the others, it was likely that He did. It is a minor holiday, not like Passover, or Yom Kippur, etc. but it is the Feast of Dedication, when the Temple was restored and cleaned once again, from the Greeks and their gods. Something to celebrate for sure.
John 14: 15 ~ "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments."
It is through Yeshua that we are given grace, and through Him that we are saved by His blood . But only the difference that I see in studying this, is that He died so we didn't have to die for our sinfulness, we still repent, but if repentance is true He will give you grace and forgiveness. IT didn't mean that all the rules got tossed out the window with the bathwater!! The church has taught this for ever, and it came from a man called Constantine...(translations are really bad at that part),. Look it up! Check out your history.....Don't take my word for it.
John 15:10 ~ "If you keep My commandments , you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love". Hmmmm? interesting....... just as you as a child were under rules in your Father's house, and when you grew up, you didn't disrespect them because of it, or did not respect their rules? something to think about...
Romans 3:28 ~ Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by FAITH apart from the deeds of the law. It doesn't say anywhere about the law being tossed out! Just that we are justified, as my Dad used to put it, the word justified, is "Just if I had died" on that cross. Our sins are all dirty, Romans 3:10 says, "There is none righteous, no, not one"
When it says in Romans 10:4 ~ that Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. That law would be the Pharisee/Sadducees laws/Oral vs written. just another thing through study I found by checking the scriptures against original language, and texts and information.
Romans 3:31 ~ Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! on the contrary, we establish the law
Romans 15:4 ~ For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope
6. Lastly, for this study tonight...
Mark 7:6-9 ~ He answered and said to them "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:
"This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me.
"And in vain they worship Me Teaching as doctrines the commandments of Men".
"For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men
And He said to them, " All too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep
your tradition".
I hope this has given you something to "chew" on.....
Shalom,
Shoshana
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Love it!!!
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