Sh’ma
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4 Jan 2014 ~ 3 Shevat 5774
Torah parashah “Bo” ~ “Go” Sh’mot /Exodus 10:1- 13:6 cjb p 70
This parashah is about the last three plagues of Mitzreim and the very first Pesach / Passover... and the exodus of Mitzreim - the leaving Egypt....
In Sh’mot 12: 37-49...who left Mitzreim... “The people of Isra’el and vs 38 “a mixed crowd also went up with them.
(the Hebrew word for “MIXED” = “charab” = the word “arab” comes from in Hebrew ...
The Hebrew word for arab is “chabar” = and to get this word you have to switch the beit and the resh = which means you reverse the head of the house to get the Hebrew word for Arab.... do you get it!!??!!)
in 12:49 “The same teaching (Torah instructions) is to apply equally to the citizen and to the foreigner living among you.”
So if you think YHWH distinguishes - HE clearly does not... everyone has the same requirements.... doesn’t matter .... as we know in the Brit Chadasha...
Galatians 3:26-28 cjb p 1455
“For in union with the Messiah, you are all children of YHWH through this trusting faithfulness; 27 because as man of you as were immersed into the Messiah have clothed yourselves with the Messiah, in whom 28 there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor freeman, neither male nor female; for in union with the Messiah Y’shua, you are all one.” amein!
Today the sermon is called - TRUTH.
TRUTH.
We always thought we had it... and then we learned we didn’t....
and many of us can remember how hard that reality was .... and in some ways there have been many difficulties in changing and walking in TRUTH....
but we also have known that when YHWH gave us TRUTH we took it and have hung on to it ....
starving for most of our lives for TRUTH... answers to the things that just didn’t make sense....
and praise YHWH - baruch haShem YHWH that as we learn to study the WORD from the perspective of Hebrew in which it was written and to whom it was written... there is no confusion.
JOY is me!!
I have been study some teachings of Rav Matthew Moshe Nolan and want to share some basic things i am learning.
The last few teachings of his have been significant to me because he confirms things that i have been at first asking Yah about and then teaching!!
My hope is that this teaching is going to do several things for us....
That it will...
- Help us understand what the TRUTH is and says.
- Help us understand why so many do not get TRUTH.
In this, we will be....
- set free-er
- and we will have more empathy for those who are still bound...
- and we will have some significant tools in which to address their misunderstandings ... which were our misunderstandings not so long ago
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I want to start with some basic information so you can understand easier what i am saying....
I am going to start to refer to Mashiach / Messiah by His given name... Yahushua - not just Y’shua.
(We gave up “jesus” a long time ago... b/c that was never his name. There were no J’s until less than 800 years ago...and that name actually refers to the greek god Zeus.)
Yahushua (notice the Yah in the beginning) means “YHWH is salvation”.
Y’shua is a shortened form of Yahushua and it means “salvation.”
We could learn to use the honorary title of Messiah ...
Rabbi Melach haMashiach Yahushua.
Teacher - King - Messiah Yahushua
Instead of saying “God” or YHWH... i say sometimes say Elohiym which means ‘the God’ or ‘the great and mighty one’....
and i mostly say YHWH... the 4 Hebrew letters: Yod -Hey- Vav - Hey.... it can be pronounced Yahhaway or Yahhooah.
We know that YHWH has been removed from the christian bibles around 7,000 times and replaced with LORD.
LORD means ba’al.. you can look it up in Webster’s... or Strongs...
LORD is the title given to any lord or master.
it is a title the British gave to land owners around 1611 when the King James was established.
His name has also been substituted in the Tanakh with Adonai....which means - master, sovereign, or lord.
so when i read... Yochanan 17: 6; 26
where Yahushua says... “I made your name known to the people you gave me out of the world.”
I understand the importance of teaching His name YHWH to those that are his.
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Okay - so let’s start with...
Yirmeyahu / Jeremiah 16: 19-21 cjb p 577
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What is the prophet Yirmeyahu talking about here?... “our ancestors inherited nothing but lies, futile idols, completely useless.” ??
I used to think this was somebody who wasn’t christian.
oh really?
Who is Yirmeyahu writing about?
He is writing about Isra’el - both the Northern Kingdom of Isra’el/ also known as Ephraim, and the Southern Kingdom of Yahuda/ Judah.
and we know enough now to know that is US.
(If you don’t understand your identity ... please ask me for a teaching on the Northern and Southern Kingdoms.)
and notice, it is the “ancestors”... not our parents... they did what they were taught. Nor our grandparents... or great grandparents... it goes back and back and back. Paganism has been taught in our families for a long long time. This is not about pointing fingers.
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The next thing we need to understand is that the authorized version of the King James.... which Rabbi Nolan calls “The King Jimmy”...
was translated in the context of anti-Semitic, reformation England.
It was published 2 years after King James kicked out the last Jews from England in 1609.
Did you know that?
I didn’t until this study.
Nobody is talking about this fact.
This is a big deal b/c it sets the tone for the environment which tells us the translators’ perspective...
They were in an anti-semitic land... where anyone Torah observant had just been kicked out....
Do you think they were going to keep semitic and Torah words in the text??!!!
and...
Rav Nolan says...
“It is 2 or 3 languages removed from the... Hebrew, YHWH inspired originals
...and 1600 years down the road of ‘churchy tradition’.”
The King James was translated not just so everyone could have a copy...
which - isn’t that what you were taught?
That’s what i knew from history class....
King James was such a nice and insightful king that he just that nice to help every home have the scriptures... Isn’t that nice.
BUT the real reason was for the purpose of establishing control, and authority over a new denomination trying to pull away from Catholic doctrines of men.
We also know that King James - wanted a book named after himself... so the book of Ya’Akov - Jacob, became the book of James!
How much of your life did you think some guy named James wrote that book? !! Well, nope, it was Ya’Akov /Jacob who wrote that book.
Rav Nolan also said... “History also paints a sordid picture of this particular king... which brings me to the conclusion that he was NOT a disciple of the Jewish Messiah.
So when we read - if we read- the King James.. we need to read it in light of all this, “rather than blindly as many sheep have been taught to do by their leaders”...
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So all that said....
We know that if we go pick up a Tanakh (=Old Testament in Hebrew) - it says almost perfectly what it has always said....
They have taken out of few references (38 i think) to Yahushua and they have taken out “YHWH” and replaced it with Adonai or Elohiym... or LORD... but the Scribes/ Rabbis have done an incredible job of keeping it nearly unchanged - just as it was written.
In fact we believe it is the least changed thing on the earth.
But the Brit Chadashah (the New Testament) is a completely different story...
it has been changed so much that most christians believe that it was written originally in greek!
That’s what we were taught too. That the OT was written in Hebrew and the NT was written in Greek. And that is not true. The whole book was written in Hebrew - first.
We know it was originally written in Hebrew - for a lot of reasons....
especially like there have been parts of it found in Hebrew with the Dead Sea Scrolls etc...
We also know that the christian world continually rewrites it...
and to get a copy right - the book must be changed by at least 20%.
If this doesn’t start to flash some warning lights....
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In this teaching about the TRUTH,
i want to look at the RENEWED COVENANT - the Brit Chadashah - the New Testament...
in its “hate-Hebrew” setting, and remember the New Covenant - the New Testament was written by Isra’elites for returning Isra’elites from the nations.
Make sure you got that.... it was written by Isra’elites/ Hebrews for returning Isra’elites/ Hebrews from the nations.
And we are also going to look at some of the apostate renderings... Flat out wrong translations of the New Testament.
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The Greek word - “apostia” = apostate... which means
= “a standing away from”.
This is very important... the use of this word here. I learned it in this context from Rav Nolan.... and i am using it on purpose... Because i am not just saying they are “mistranslated”... i am saying that much of the Scripture than most christians read ... read apostate scriptures...
not “kind of messed up” or a little bit changed.... but a STANDING AWAY FROM TRUTH mess, which completely changes the meaning.
So you can see ... when i say “the apostate scriptures”... many of your translations... especially the New Living Translation and the New International Version
which are the most popular translations used by evangelical christians, are actually apostate renderings in the New Testament...
meaning they are trying to stand away from the TRUE record of the Renewed Covenant - both the plan of YHWH and the New Testament - either way you look at it.
The TRUTH.... is the TRUE record of the RENEWED COVENANT.... the Brit Chadashah .... and it is always...
... Pro - Torah
... Pro - Jewish
... Pro - Isra’elite
and it always paints an exemplary picture of Yahushua of Nazareth ...
... as a Torah observant Jew.
While the renderings of the New Testament - which have been tampered with way back in the 2nd century show...the apostate Scriptures teach of a
... a lawless jesus / Torahless
... a replacement of Isra’el
... and are anti-Semitic
-- We were even warned about this by the writers of the New Testament themselves!!
Rav Shaul (Apostle Paul), speaking to those dispersed in the nations...says....in
Galatians 1:6-7 cjb p 1452
“I am astounded that you are so quick to remove yourselves from me, the one who called you by the Messiah’s grace, and turn to some other supposedly “Good News,” 7 which is not good news at all! What is really happening is that certain people are pestering you and trying to pervert the genuine Good News of the Mashiach.”
Do you see how he warns us that there is “another gospel”... ?
and i suggest to you that “other gospel” / “other good news” - is a gospel of lawlessness... which means Torahlessness.
it’s also a gospel that replaces Isra’el with a gentile church
it’s a gospel that replaces the Jewish Messiah with a lawless/ Torahless Greeko-Roman christ
and we need to go back to the original to find out TRUTH.
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Ma’sey hash - Sh’liyechiym - the Emissaries of Yahushua the Messiah /Acts 20:27 cjb p 1389
“For I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the whole plan of YHWH”... or better translated... “the whole counsel of YHWH.”
What is “the whole counsel of YHWH”?
That would be the Tanakh - the TORAH..... and this is according to the pharisee of pharisees....the Rav Shaul / apostle Paul. The Tanakh was all the Scripture they had then, so it had to be the Tanakh aka Torah.
Acts 20:28-31 cjb p 1389
He’s saying... watch out... there are bunch of “savage wolves” among you ... they are coming from within the assembly...
and they “teach perversions of the truth.” !!
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Now before we go further ...
we need to learn about a different man... a heretic of the 2nd century... his name was Marcion...
If you studied a lot... you would find out that especially the NIV and the New Living Translations ... have gone WITH the edits that Marcion did in the 2nd century!
Remember i told you which were the popular translations by christians today.... This is what most christians read.... and this is what most sincere christians study....
This is important to know and remember.
Nobody has fact checked even just back to the Greek texts...
We know that Greek is not the original ... Hebrew is... but even the Greek read differently than the English translations since King James.... especially the apostate gospels of the NIV and the NLT versions.
Marcion edited 10 of Shaul’s letters and the book of Luke.
Marcion did not believe in the Tanakh - (Old Testament).
Marcion did not believe in the Elohiym -the God of the Old Testament - the Tanakh.
Marcion said - “that god was too harsh and a new god had come in the form of jesus who remained hidden until the revelation.”
Marcion also said that - this new god in the form of jesus was full of grace and mercy and Paul (Shaul) was his apostle who opposed the Law of Moshe / The Torah... and preached grace and mercy and no other disciple had the same authority as that of Paul.
- Does this sound familiar to what any of you grew up hearing??!!
- This is what i was taught.... that jesus came and we don’t have to keep Torah any more and that Paul is the disciple that has all the authority.
Marcion published his New Testament text and he altered it to remove ... quote-- “Jewish corruption” -- end quote.
When one studies the book of Galatians in its original - it is the most pro Torah = Torah upholding book in the Brit Chadashah...
but when you read it today in the King James and forward... it is very confusing, and the most anti-Semitic and Anti Torah book....
We need to really get this...
... It is no wonder that especially the sincere christians don’t believe in Torah... and think we are really messed up.... b/c most just study the New Testament.... They know the “stories” of the Tanakh.... but they think it ended.... because that is what they are taught.... and then they read apostate Scriptures... that is what they study... no wonder they don’t get Torah!! They not only read but STUDY apostate scripture.... and don’t know it.
Let’s look at what the Word says....
Yirmeyahu /Jeremiah 31:31 cjb p 601
“Here, the days are coming says YHWH, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Isra’el and with the house of Y’hudah.”
but even this is not translated correctly....
It should read....
“Here, the days are coming, says YHWH, when i will CUT a RENEWED covenant with the house of Isra’el and with the house of Y’hudah”...
and he goes on to write... in
31:32-33... “It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers on the day I took them by their hand and brought them out of the land of Mitzreim / Egypt; because they, for their part, violated my covenant, even though I, for my part, was a husband to them, says YHWH. 33 For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Isra’el (Efraim and Y'hudah) after those days, says YHWH , I will put my Torah with in them and write it on their hearts.”
This is not throwing away Torah... this is not something NEW....
He is not doing away with Torah - He is writing it on our hearts!!
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Let’s go to the Brit Chadashah - New Testament....
There is word that is commonly used in the New Testament ...
and it is translated into the English phrase - “works of law”
That Greek word is “Ergon nomo”
Ergon = works of
nomo = law
Marcion, when he edited the Word, he removed the word Ergon.
so now, instead of “works of law” , all you have left is “the law”.
Romans 6:14 cjb p 1408
in King James: “For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under law, but under grace.”
NIV: “For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.”
NLT: “Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace.”
Marcion tampered with this... he made it say a lie... It doesn’t say... “You are not no longer under works of law”... it says “you are not under law but under grace.”
Marcion removed “the works of”
The Dead Sea Scrolls were found and translators came across the word “works of law” ... proving that this particular phrase means ...
“works of the laws of men” = legalism.
It is not talking about Torah/ instruction /law
You can find this in Manuscript # 4QMMT
= “works of law” is regarding the oral law.
Do you get this?
If it says “Ergon nomo”... it should be translated as “works of law”.... and if it just says “law” - people think it means the Torah or law of Moshe.
We know that throughout the New Testament - apostate versions that we grew up with - King James, NIV, NLT etc... it says.. “law,” “law,” “law”......... and everyone thinks it means the law of Moshe / Torah...
but according to the Hebrew Dead Sea Scrolls in Manuscript # 4QMMT - “works of law” is regarding or about the oral law... AKA ...
....“the traditions of men”.
Let’s look at...
Galatians 3:1 cjb p 1454 Rav Shaul says..
“You stupid Galatians! Who put you under a spell? Before your very eyes Y’shua the Messiah was clearly portrayed as having been put to death as a criminal!”
or in, i believe it’s the Renewed Covenant version it says...
“Oh, foolish Galatians... who has bewitched you that you should not obey the TRUTH?”
I invite you to go back and look at Mizmor/ Psalms 119... because that clearly establishes that Torah is TRUTH
Mizmor 119:1 cjb p 911 “How happy are those whose way of life is blameless, who live by the Torah of YHWH.”
Mizmor 119:9-12
Mizmor 119: 33 “Give me understanding ; then I will keep your Torah.
Just read the whole chapter... it is all about the goodness of Torah!
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Rav Shaul called the Galatians foolish and asked how bewitched them....
Galatians 3:10 cjb p 1454
“ For everyone who depends on legalistic observance of Torah commands lives under a curse, since it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the Scroll of the Torah.”
The (I think it is the) Renewed Covenant version (Rav Nolan uses) says Gal 3:10 “For as many that are under the works of law are under a curse.”
Remember “works of law” - actually means what??
“works of the laws of men” - the oral tradition - traditions of men
= legalism!!
Do you hear this... This is saying that it is those who keep the traditions of men who are cursed.... Torah does not bring a curse...
YHWH never changes... Read D'varim /Deuteronomy 26,27, and 28.... He says...IF we keep Torah we are blessed and if we do not - then we are under a curse.
So Galatians 3:10 in Compete Jewish - says that traditions of men bring curses....
but...
The that same verse in the NIV and the NLT does not say what the Complete Jewish or the Renewed Covenant says...
in fact - they say something completely different.
Gal 3:10 NLT = “But those who depend on the law to make them right with god are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the commands that are written in God’s Book of the Law.”
Gal 3:10 NIV = “For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law”...
and the NIV goes on to say in Gal 3: 13 “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law ..”
and in CJB it says in Gal 3:13 “The Messiah redeemed us from the curse pronounced in the Torah ...”
These are not the same !!!
Are you starting to see why someone who reads the New Testament that comes from Marcion believes that the law/ the Torah is bad?!!
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i just read the
Gal 3:10 NLT = “But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse...”
okay ... wait a minute...
“Those who depend on the LAW to make them right with God are under his curse...”
Does this bother anybody??
at first you can do the christian thing and try and say... “well this means to be saved”....
Let’s go to
1 Yochanan /John 3:4 cjb p 1526
“Everyone who keeps sinning is violating Torah -- indeed, sin is the violation of Torah.”
SEE this? !!... “sin is violation of Torah”.... so if we are not keeping Torah we are in sin...
So then if you say with the christians who read a modern translation of the NLT - you are saying... “those who depend on the LAW to make them right with God are under a curse”
You know what... i am ‘right with YHWH’ when i am not sinning... and
Yochanan tells us that if we are not keeping the WRITTEN law of YHWH - the TORAH - we are in sin.
Are lights coming on?
Do you see how these Scriptures that are the most popular today in christianity are apostate?... significant changes have been made to make them say something completely different than even the GREEK said.... let alone the Hebrew.
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Galatians 3:5 in NLT says... “I ask you again, does God give you the Holy Spirit and work miracles among you because you obey the law? Of course not! It is because you believe the message you heard about christ.”
The correct renderings are......
The Renewed Covenant .. “Therefore, He who supplies the Ruach to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the WORKS OF THE LAW or by hearing of faith.”
(remember that Works of Law is man’s oral tradition / traditions of men / legalism)
The CJB says... “What about YHWH, who supplies you with the Spirit and works miracles among you - does he do it because of your legalistic observance of Torah commands or because you truth in what you heard and are faithful to it?”
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The NLT clearly is saying... it is not about keeping Torah...and the better translations are saying.... it is not about the legalism - of obeying the oral law....
These are NOT speaking negatively about Torah.
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The definition of anti-Semitism = a dislike or ill treatment of Jews.
And in Romans 11:11 cjb p 1415.... we are to “provoke them ( Judah / the Jews) to jealousy
In Romans 11:28 of the NLT
“Many of the people of Isra’el are now enemies of the Good News ...”
The implication here - how christians read it ..... is saying that the Jews... “are now enemies of the Good News.”
Further more... what do we know is meant by the “Good News” in Scripture??....
We used to think that the “Good News” was JUST that Yahushua died for our sins and we could repent and be born again and have eternal life...
BUT now we know that it is that... AND it is also that ... because the Bride Groom died... and rose... He can remarry the Bride and the Northern Kingdom can come back into covenant... and the Bride can be whole - so HE can return!!
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What does Romans 11:28 say in CJB ?
“With respect to the Good News they are hated for your sake. But with respect to being chosen they are loved for the Patriarch’s sake.”
and in the Renewed Covenant (the version Rav Nolan reads)?...
“Concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election, they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.”
...... NOT at all what the NLT says... that they are “enemies of the Good News”.
and further more... is Shaul talking about the Yahudeans - Jews?
No
Shaul is talking about Isra’el - the WHOLE HOUSE - ONE... Ephraim and Judah combined... one stick in the hand of the Shepherd of Yechezk’el / Ezekiel 37.
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But sadly - “most christians have not been exposed to the beauty of the pro Isra’el, pro Torah... that was delivered and fulfilled by the Torah observant Jew from Nazareth and His Torah observant disciples”....
so they don’t understand.
Frankly - most people don’t even understand the Northern Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom and how YHWH divorced the Northern Kingdom.... and what that means... so they don’t understand 7/8ths of Scripture in the first place...
and then when you throw in the mess from Marcion and king james and then the NIV and the NLT... not to mention The Message....
they completely lose all connection with TRUTH....
... and this is what they study!!
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It always goes back to TORAH and if it doesn’t line up with Torah... it can’t be true.
If one approaches the New Testament - the Brit Chadashah - with anything but Torah - the Hebrew mindset... one gets... the hellenized, corrupted theology of the “study of god.”
It’s how you approach the Scriptures that determines what you get out of it...
it is all about perspective.
Does your perspective come from the front of the book and the Hebrew mindset... that Torah is TRUTH - ???
... Or do you start in the back of the book and make it say what fits into what you like... which is NOT Torah - ???
Rav Nolan says “we’ve got a bunch of brethren walking around with binoculars and they’ve got them back to front (backwards) and the look in the OT and say ... “where’s jesus.. he’s got to be back there somewhere”
NO.
Turn your binoculars around the right way and have a Tanakh / Old Testament approach and you will see the Mashiach everywhere ...
and if you don’t go from front to back... what you get is ...
... “another gospel”... that has been “perverted by wolves from among you”.
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So i hope you are starting to see....
that in the 2nd century Marcion rewrote the scriptures that made it clear that we are to keep Torah.... funny how hasatan works.....
and now most christians believe what they read in their book that says “HOLY BIBLE”...is TRUTH....
BUT it was tampered with... and most people are reading apostate scriptures... and they say “Holy Bible”...
Are you starting to get the picture here of why especially sincere christians don’t understand that Torah is not done away with??
So i take you back to the pray that YHWH has had his Torah keepers praying nearly since the beginning of time....
Sh’ma Isra’el....
Wake up Isra’el and know that YHWH is our God and that HE is ONE.... and if you believe that... you know that His instructions are to be kept - always.
Sh’ma Isra’el.
AMEIN and AMEIN.
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