Monday, June 6, 2016

Natsarim and Christianity - April 30

30 April 2016  ~  21 Abib (Nisan) 5776
Natsarim and Christianity  -(Resource - Lew White)
Natsarim - Harbour Light Ministries

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The Torah Parashah today is focused on Pesach (Passover), Chag HaMatzah (Unleavened Bread), and Yom HaBikkirim (First Fruits), with Shemoth (Exodus) 13:17-15:26; and Bamidbar (Numbers) 28:19-25
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Last week we talked about who we are = Natsarim.
Gilyahna (Revelation) 12:17 p 919
          “And the dragon was angry with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her zera (seed), that shomer (watch, keep, observe, guard) the mitzvoth (instructions) of YHUH, and have the testimony of Yahusha haMashiak.”

Gilyahna (Revelation) 14:12 p 921
          “Here is the endurance of the Yisharalite kidushim (saints): here are those that shomer (watch, keep, observe or guard) the mitzvoth (instructions) of YHUH, and the emunah (faith) of Yahusha.”

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YashaYahu (Isaiah) 49:6 p 331 RSTNE
          “And He said, It is a light, easy and small thing that You should be My Eved (servant) to raise up the tribes of Yakov, and to restore the preserved ones of Yisharal:  I will also give You for a Light to the heathen, that You may be My Yahusha to the ends of the earth.”
Who are these - “preserved ones of Yisharal” ??
 -- The foot note in our Scriptures for this verse (p 331) has a lot of information:
“The early believers in Jerusalem, Judah,, and Shomron (Efrayim’s former capital) were all called Notzrim, Notsraei, or Netsarim Yisrael.  They are the “preserved ones” from both houses, from both the 721 BCE and the 586 BCE exiles.  Believers are the preserved little branches, or notzrim of the main Vine, our Messiah Yahusha.  The Hebrew word for branches is netsarim, the same term used her for the “preserved ones”.  So we are all “preserved branches” of Yisharal. 
Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 31:6 p 372
          “For there shall be  a yom (day), that the called out Netsarim Notsrim the ones who watch on the Mount Efrayim shall cry, Arise, and let us go up to Tzion to YHUH our Alohim.”
          -- foot note....  “The word Notzrim speaks of watchmen (guards) appointed by YHUH and assigned to the task of watching over the restoration of all Yisharal.”
“ The word notzrim, and the root is natzar.  The real explanation of the word in Hebrew is to safe keep, to keep until a later time, to hide it in a way that will be revealed later.”
“The word netzer is used only three times in the Tanakh and everywhere it is mentioned it has to do ONLY with Efrayim.”

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 11:1 p 303
          “And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Yishai, and a Netzer-Branch shall grow out of His roots.”
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The first Natsarim were the early followers of Yahusha.
Please notice - I didn’t... and more importantly - the Torah does NOT say the first followers of Messiah were “Christians”.
I actually thought the scriptures said that!  I remember being in a class and getting told that!!! :(
The church fathers called the Natsarim heretics because they:
1.   Obeyed the Commandments
2.    While holding to the Testimony of Yahusha.
..... Basically - they didn’t just fit in and go alone with the popular culture!
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We are a sect named after the original followers of Yahusha of Natsarith (see Act 24:5).
Acts 24:5 p 803 In speaking about Shaul - “The Apostle Paul”
  “For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Yahudim throughout the olam (world), and a ringleader of the sect of the Notsrim (Natsarim).”
What was Shaul teaching? - Torah keeping and Mashiak.
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Lew White says...
“Our obedience perfects our belief. We guard two primary things:
1.  Yahuah's Name, and
2.  Yahuah's Word (His Covenant with Yisharal).”

He goes on to say...
“We have been pursued by the dragon from the beginning.
OUR CONTINUAL OPPONENT IS THE DRAGON.”
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What the early church fathers said about the original followers of Yahusha.
Now we need to understand this... these “church fathers” - are the “fathers” of christianity....  and NOT Torah keeping Mashiak following believers ....they were NOT Natsarim... We can see this clearly based on what they said about the Natsarim....
Lew White said these “church fathers” were...”The dragon's religious architecture of rebellion, and became an institution of deceit.” 
They became known as:
The Catechetical School of Alexandria, Egypt and the church fathers who taught there developed what ultimately became Christianity, and later Roman Universalism = Catholicism.
These early church fathers of Alexandria wrote about a certain sect, the Natsarim.
They worked predominantly with Greek texts, yet from reading their Greek letters, we quickly discern that they despised the Natsarim whose existence seemed to threaten their teachings.
One of these church fathers’ indicated that  - these Natsarim possessed the writings of MattithYahu (Matthew), and stated that they were in Hebrew letters, as they had been originally written.
These facts, and more to follow, clearly contradict what many people today have been led to believe about the original followers of Yahusha!!
~~~Nobody called the Natsarim - Christian!!

The Natsarim were spoken against by those in authority in the days of Paul:
Maaseh Shlichim (Acts) 28:22 p 807 RSTE
"And we think it right to hear from you what you think, for indeed, concerning this sect, we know that it is spoken against everywhere."
This sect  -  the NATSARIM  -- was suppressed by the early church fathers, and by the developing hierarchy at the earliest formal school of Christianity.
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So today let’s add to what we have learned:
(Again, using Lew White’s work)
CHRISTIAN: The origin of the term
The word christianos was used twice in the Greek text as a device of scorn, since in the ancient world it conveyeda much different sense than it does today.
The use of the word christianos did not “name” the sect, but it was a derisive, scornful label that meant they were like gullible, dumb beasts, or cretins.
The word christianos(Latin, Christianus) was a term of scorn, traced back through a related word which history never revised:
cre·tin (krt'n) n. 1. A person afflicted with cretinism. Slang: An idiot. [French crétin, from French dialectal, deformed and mentally retarded person found in certain Alpine valleys, from Vulgar Latin *christinus, Christian, human being, poor fellow, from Latin Chrstinus, Christian; see Christian.] Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language


Cretinism is dwarfism and or retardation.   Cretin is simply the word that is derived from the word CHRISTIAN, crestin.  

cre·tin   (krēt'n) n.  
1.  A person afflicted with cretinism.
Slang:  An idiot.
In their adherence to the Torah, a Christian might well be considered to be retarded;  but the actual word that means "retard" or "idiot" is derived from CHRISTIANIANOS:    cretin - a term of scorn.  (PLEASE READ THIS AGAIN:)




So are you hearing what I am saying??....

I just said the first followers of Mashiak who kept Torah - are the Natsarim...
but then I throw in this stuff from Lew White - that the word Christian was a SCORNFUL title...

Interesting, isn’t it - that the ones who scorned the Natsarim - later decided to keep a title that was about being scorned!!
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WHY THE TERM NATSARIM?
The foremost reason is prophetic. We are described as a remnant of the scattered tribes by many prophets, but in the last days we are called by the term NATSARIM as we cry out on the hills of Efraim at
YirmeYahu (Jeremiah)  31:6 p 372  “For there shall be a day when the watchmen cry on Mount Efraim, ‘Arise, and let us go up to Tziyon, to Yahuah our Alahim.’ ”
-Lew says - “Natsarim do not refer to Yahuah by any Pagan titles or names,  - they use His true Name, being careful to guard it and not allow it to be destroyed (not using it destroys it).”
“Torah is a relationship, not a religion.
This relationship is the code of conduct for the government or kingdom of Yahuah, to reign with His bride, Yisharal.”
Man’s religion whats to have relationship and worship and live how man decides is okay... and these ideas seem to most often come from Pagan cultures not ordained by Yahuah.
 (I don’t see people making up anything like what is in the Word.... twisting it yes - but the stuff they come up with ... well, find it in “new age” paganism!
Lew says - “Torah is the foundation for the relationship” (between Yah and man), -
          - while the YHUH and Torah consistently refer to Torah as a marriage Covenant between Himself and Yisharal.
 Mixed worship is as adultery to Yahuah.
Our commission as Natsarim =
          =is teaching Torah to the nations, thus increasing Yisharal.
This is NOT Christianity. 
For many of us - hearing this might feel awful....  But what part of DOING christianity - do you want to do?
What celebrations would you choose?
What practices and behaviors would you choose?
Frankly I don’t see much that lines up with Torah... and so I don’t want it. 
It is a mixed up mess of Paganism...
But I believe the dragon is very happy with the mixed-up mess... because - as we know - they are accepting more and more mess... and many are now saying God is God - no matter what you call him...
and choosing to unite faiths.... 
Never does YHUH say this is okay!
Lew says:
The dragon hates this idea that,  our commission as Natsarim =
= is teaching Torah to the nations, thus increasing Yisharal.
 and ... the Covenant, and the Natsarim.
The Covenant is between Yahuah and His bride (Yisharal); it’s a marriage.
Lew says: The dragon hates Yisharal, and this sentiment was present in the church fathers and those doctrinal descendants of them.
When false teachers say, “Gentiles don’t have to obey, the Torah is for the Jews,” they have been influenced by false teachings keeping them imprisoned in a stronghold.
          A stronghold is a mental fortress of false belief, stemming from Replacement Theology and supercessionism ...
... both huge errors of Christianity!
Yahuah does not change.
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Lew says.....  A sophisticated religious architecture exists, designed to promote a culture of rebellion to YHUH.

THE GREAT COMMISSION: WITNESS OF YAHUSHA -
Mattithyahu 28:18-20 p 706 RSTNE
          “And Yahusha came and spoke to them, saying, All power is given to Me in the shamayim and in the earth. 19  Go therefore, and make talmidim of all nations, doing mikvah upon them in My Name. 20  Teaching them to shomer all things, which I have commanded you: and see, I am with you always, even to the end of the olam hazeh.”
Please note that in most Scriptures out there - it doesn’t read like ours...  it says something like:
“immersing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Set-apart Spirit”
The RSTNE makes it clear it is about the NAME of YHUH... and the Aramaic English New Testament says in foot note:
          “Aramaic has “name” - singular - which does not support the traditional trinity theology.”
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“Which I have commanded YOU...”
“YOU” = *His Natsarim, those following Him, the Mediator of the Covenant = Mashiak.
           Any who obey Torah become citizens of Yisharal, Yahuah’s Covenant people.
White then adds:
ROMAN CATHOLICISM IS MODERN MOLOK WORSHIP
The Covenant is a marriage between Yahuah and Yisharal, His bride; and Natsarim Yisharal (Nazarene Yisharal) represents the first-fruits of a great harvest.
Yisharal is the chosen nation, and the Natsarim are an elect group within Yisharal, called by Yahusha as workers in His end-time harvest of mankind.
 Yahusha removed His menorah (lampstand) from the 1st assembly in Ephesos, Rev. 2:5. It has been restored to Natsarim Yisharal today.
The menorah is a symbol of the TORAH, and it also is the most widely known symbol for YISHARAL.
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Lew says
Worldwide, there are about 1 billion people living (producing bad fruit) according to the doctrinal errors (a bad tree) of a few men called the “church fathers.” These men molded the patterns of early Christianity, and in their own words declare they were not Natsarim, but rather
suppressed the Natsarim as heretics and accused them
of perversion for obeying the Commandments.
These church fathers were men who failed to adopt the Covenant, but instead pursued control over doctrines as they interpreted them.
Some castrated themselves and others, became monks, took vows of poverty, celibacy, silence, and condemned the Natsarim for holding to the Torah while professing belief in Yahusha.
Celibacy is a Hindu thing. Mixed teachings are the leaven that’s filled the whole Earth (the whole lump of dough).
Those whose thinking has been affected by the false doctrines of these early apostates view the Natsarim today as heretics also, and it is the same “spirit of error” that possessed the church fathers that is at the root of the bad tree, producing bad fruit.
The good fruit is the obedience of the set-apart ones, because obeying the Covenant produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. This tree will not be cut down by the reapers.
The tree that is against the Covenant (lawless) will be eliminated, and be left with neither root nor branch (offspring).

A STATE-IMPOSED RELIGION
The teachings hatched at the Catechetical School of Alexandria persist in every modern seminary today. The apostasy (falling-away from Torah) became institutionalized, and men’s traditions were set up to conceal their former Pagan origins. The doctrinal descendants of the church fathers still use the title “father.”

A STATE-IMPOSED RELIGION
The teachings hatched at the Catechetical School of Alexandria persist in every modern seminary today. The apostasy (falling-away from Torah) became institutionalized, and men’s traditions were set up to conceal their former Pagan origins.
The doctrinal descendants of the church fathers still use the title “father.”
For centuries after the resurrection of Yahusha, false teachers arose to draw away disciples after themselves, just as Paul predicted would occur (Acts 20).
Today we look back and call these men the church fathers.
Pantaenus, Augustine, Tertullian, Jerome, Epiphanius, and a dozen others guided the doctrines, and a great falling-away occurred through these elders (bishops, overseers).
They do nothing Yahuah said, and everything he said not to do.
Yahuah tells us not to learn the ways of the heathen, nor serve Him in their way (Dt. 12:30-32).
Yahusha told us "Man does not live by bread only, but by EVERY WORD that proceeds from the mouth of Yahuah."
With this in mind, we see the world learning the opposite:
 We revise the Paganism, and do it anyway;
EGGS, RABBITS, TREES, STEEPLES, STATUES, HOLY WATER, WREATHS, EASTER, CHRISTMAS, SUN-DAY, MONKS, and more.
He tells us to rest on the 7th day, so we rest on the 1st day and work on the 7th.
He tells us what we may eat; we tell Him we’re going to eat everything we want to eat. He tells us to call on His Name, Yahuah; instead, we call Him by generic terms, even former pagan proper nouns: (GOD; BAAL = LORD)
He tells us to observe specific appointed times, so we use our own reasoning, mostly based on formerly Pagan observances we've adapted to fit what we want them to mean.
We follow men who scorned the Natsarim and wanted nothing in common with the Yahudim, admitted to by their own words.
Yahuah’s festivals reflect the redemption plan for Yisharal, but were forsaken (Dan 7:25).
All the nations of the Earth are invited to engraft into the commonwealth of Yisharal through the Covenant (Eph. 2:8-13), but it’s called legalism when anyone obeys - legalism equates to heresy.
If we are legal then we are true citizens of Yisharal; if we practice lawlessness, we are impostors, and usurping what is not ours to claim.
We cannot simultaneously claim to be Yahusha’s followers and not obey Torah.
If we claim to know Him, then we obey the Commandments (1 Yn. 3).
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The fourth century Church Father, Epiphanius, gave a detailed description of the Natsarim:
Listen to this very carefully...
“We shall now especially consider heretics who call themselves Natsarim; they are mainly Jews and nothing else. They make use not only of the New Testament, but they also use in a way the Old Testament of the Jews; for they do not forbid the books of the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings ... so that they are approved of by the Jews, from whom the Nazarenes do not differ in anything, and they profess all the dogmas pertaining to the prescriptions of the Law and to the customs of the Jews, except they believe in Messiah. They preach that there is but one God, and His Son Yeshua the Messiah. But they are very learned in the Hebrew language; for they, like the Jews, read the whole Law, then the Prophets...They differ from the Jews because they believe in Messiah, and from the Christians in that they are to this day bound to the Jewish rites, such as circumcision, the Sabbath, and other ceremonies. They have the Good news 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.”
Now let’s switch gears and talk about the mess/stuff from other religions....
Muhammad is not a Hebrew name, it is a form of a Hindu
title = Mahadeva,
          and referred to Shiva the destroyer deity.
Maha+deva literally means “great (maha) god (deva)” in
Hindi. Many Arabic words are derived from Sanskrit.
MAHADEVA = ALLAH AKBAR
The Islamic faith derives an enormous amount from the
previous Indian presence in the region.
The chant allahakbar, “allah is great,” did not arise from a vacuum.
Reverse-translating allah akbar into Hindi we get mahadeva.
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Islam’s ideas... and the Hindu Shiva shrine’s design, the black stone and yoni, the crescent and star, the circumambulation, and other features are shared with the worship of the Hindu deity Shiva.
The most sacred ceremony in Hinduism is called Shivaling.
It is performed with a stone object inserted in the hole of an oval object called a yoni.
-   The ceremony is conducted inside the Shiva shrines. The new ramps installed for worshippers at Makkah resembles this object perfectly.
-   The shape of the area in front of the Cathedral at Rome appears to have all the ingredients of a Shiva shrine, ready for Shivaling.
In both cases, the people become the unwitting participants in the ceremonial worship of the Destroyer, Shiva. - and they don’t even know it!!
The Islamic shrine at Makkah (Mecca) originally contained 360 deities, reflecting a close kinship with eastern cultures and the worship of the heavens.
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This is very important:
The Muslims circumambulate counter-clockwise,
the Hindus clockwise, and
 those who serve Yahusha stand still and He delivers us.
          ~~ The practice of circumambulation, the crescent & star, the shape of the shrine, the black stone object and its relationship to the opening of metal at the corner are among many distinctive traits associated with the worship of the Hindu deity Shiva.
The world is thoroughly defiled by objects of fertility which Yahuah calls an abomination. Babel the great is called a “mother of harlots” for a very good reason.
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Think how some buildings relate to this... shivaling...
The Shiva Shrine, the U.S Capitol, the Hindu Shiva Shrine, and the golden dome temple of Islam....
they all look similar  a base - a yonis - with a round part going into it.
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There is correlation between a hindu prayer mat and an yoga mat!
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How did all the Hinduism reach the Middle East so long ago?
Lew White says....
Shiva worship and shivaling (the most sacred Hindu ceremony) began at least as early as the 8th century BCE in India.
By the 2nd century BCE, the famous “Silk Road” out of India had reached the Middle East and Mediterranean Sea.
This is one of the most famous of all ancient trade routes. This trade route brought incense, spices, silk and other items in caravans over vast distances.
In addition to items of trade, these caravans brought the culture of Hinduism
--and Shiva shrines to all places along the route.
The shrine at Makkah is one of those ancient Shiva shrines.
An Islamic teacher (Mufti Mohammad Ilyas Qasmi) in India is teaching his understanding of the Hindu roots of the Islamic faith.
This Muslim cleric claims that Lord Shiva was the first prophet of Islam.
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The teachings of men blocked the identity of our Creator by substituting His Name.
          Read the preface of any NIV, and you'll see they admit removing it and inserting the device LORD. LORD is the definition of the Hebrew word “BAAL.”
Yahuah's people struggled with mixing together (syncretizing) practices from paganism with the directions Yahuah gave them. One was the omission of the Name. Pagans would not use the name of the deities they worshipped, but substituted those names with theonyms.
In contrast, Yahuah said His Name was to be proclaimed and the knowledge of the esteem of Yahuah would fill the Earth as the waters cover the sea.
The women of Moab enticed the men of Yisharal through sexual worship of their deity Molok (vicariously Nimrod).
Christians and Muslims mindlessly do the same through the symbols, objects, observances, and terms they adopted from pagans.
We must work to open the eyes of the blind, and not excuse the traditions inherited from the land of Nimrod.
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I see so much in what is going on in the world now...  so much more clearly.... it is the dragon...
But if I see the situation better than I see my Mashiak so much better as well.
So...
What are we called?
 From all I read in Torah - YHUH calls us Natsarim.
May we carry the testimony of Yahusha HaMashiak and always keep Torah (instructions)... may we finish strong.
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