Showing posts with label revelation. Show all posts
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Friday, March 27, 2020

Fighting the Iniquity Force

Fighting the iniquity force  (with ideas from Dr. Michael Lake’s work The Sheeriyth Imperative)
          
Did one third of the angels fall when Satan did? Find out what Scripture says and doesn't say - Harbour Light Ministries

I’ve been reading The Sheeriyth Imperative by Dr. Michael Lake. 
I’d like to teach you a few things from that book….

So let’s go to:

Isaiah 14:12-15 p 306
“How are you fallen from the shamayim, O Heilel son of the morning-ben shachar!  How are you cut down to the ground, you who did weaken the nations!
13  For you have said in your leb, I will ascend into the shamayim, I will exalt my kesay (throne) above the chochavim (stars) of El (God):  I will sit also upon the Mount (Moeds) of the Congregation, on the sides of the north.
14  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;  I will be like El-Elyon.
15  Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the sides of the pit.”

Now go to:

Ezekiel 28:12-16 p 415
“Ben-adam, take up a lamentation for the melech of Tsor, and say to him, This says the Master YHUH; You sealed up a pattern, full of chochmah, and perfect in beauty.
13 You have been in Eden the Gan of Elohim;  ever precious stone was your covering, the ruby, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the turquoise, and gold:  the workmanship of your setting and your mountings was prepared for you in the yom that you were created.
14 You are the Moshiach-like cheruv that covers;  and I w had placed you upon the kadosh mountain of Elohim;  you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15 You were perfect in your halachot from the yom that you were created, until iniquity was found in you.
16 By the multitude of your trade they have filled your midst with violence, and you have sinned:  therefore I will cast you as the profane-one out of the mountain of Elohim:  and I will destroy you, O covering cheruv, from the midst of the stones of fire.”

So who is this about? Lucifer / hasatan.
           
-        So here’s a question…. That Dr. Lake asks about these two Scripture passages…

What is missing in these two Scriptures?

It’s interesting to think about, isn’t it?  I mean, do you read Scripture asking questions or do we just read the words on the page and not really think about them more than what the sentence means?

Could there be something missing in these verses?

At first glance it is easy to miss…or overlook.

Where are all the angels that fell with him?  Why aren’t they included in these two scriptures?

The fallen angels aren’t mentioned in either of these!

Now maybe we can say :

This is because  the prophets’ whole point was to just talk about satan.

OR
            Maybe it is a progressive falling away over time!

Well – you might recall that the Word says “1/3 of the angels fell WITH lucifer”!

So let’s look at that…

Revelation 12:1-9  p 918

12:4 “And his tail drew 1/3 part of the cochavim, of the shamayim, and did cast them to the olam (down to earth)

12:7-9 


            Dr. Lake says that from Rev 4 and following – the book of Revelation - seems to be sequential time.  (Meaning “the revelation of Christ and the end-time events do not skip back and forth in the story line.) 

            It was “like watching a movie” … Dr. Lake said.

            He goes on to say that –many think that  this part about the angels falling in 12:4 – well “that is just a flash back …  to the fall of Lucifer”. 

But he doesn’t agree… and I think his point is worth listening to.

Dr. Lake goes on to say that there are several points in history where “Immortals (are) conspiring against the God of heaven and earth.”
1.     Genesis 3 – the nachash (serpent)
2.     Genesis 6 – the sons of God (or watchers)
3.     Genesis 11 – the Tower of Babel – “where YHUH divides humanity into 70  groups that are placed under the leadership of members of the Divine Council.”

“Throughout time, these principalities yielded to the Iniquity Force, and God proclaimed their eventual judgement in Psalm 82.

Back to Revelation:

Revelation 12:1-9 is “prophetic imagery” that is “speaking of the nation of Israel during the Tribulation Period.” 

            Israel is the woman that produced the man child, which represents the true and only Messiah.”

            “What is apparent in these verses is that the attempt to destroy the woman is an event in which she finds safety in the wilderness for 1,260 days, or three and one-half years.  So the surrounding prophetic imagery is placed within the Tribulation period and not some event that transpired in the distant past.”

            So – “Why would God (YHUH) put this event” – the whole thing about the fall of the angels and satan – if it already happened? –

 in the middle of the time He is protecting Israel?

Why would he just throw this in there?

Dr. Lake said – the answer is “He would NOT.”

And the more I study the more I see what he is saying!

He goes on to say:

“there is a major conflict in the 2nd and 3rd heavens, during which the archangel Michael and the armies of heaven are commissioned by Almighty God to cast Lucifer and his cohorts out.”

So yes – that assumes Satan is still in the 2nd and 3rd heavens…

Dr. Lake goes on and explains that God will have them cast out of 2nd and 3rd heavens in the upcoming end of days…  for 2 reasons:

1.     “Mankind has rejected the worship of the One True God and has worshiped Lucifer and many members of the Divine Council that have ruled over humanity.  The almighty is having these immortals cast into the 1st heaven, so that all humanity can see what they were really worshiping.”

2.     “In casting these immortals into the 1st heaven, God has stripped them of their access to the higher spatial dimensions.  In fact, there is evidence by other researchers, such as Dr. Tom Horn, that these immortals have been seeking a way to produce a type of incarnation.  God grants their desire in an unexpected way, which results in these immortals having limited physical bodies just like you and me.  Such an event would fulfill the prophetic judgment God made in Psalm 82 against the members of the Divine Council that proved to be evil rulers;  God told them that they would die like humanity they ruled over.”


Lake writes:
            “We have Lucifer and company being cast out of the 2nd and 3rd heavens during the Tribulation period.  This even causes Lucifer to attack Israel in an unprecedented assault that results in divine protection for them in Petra. 
            Now there is an announcement from heaven that the accuser of the brethren has been cast down.   
            There are several implications in this declaration:
1.     Up to this event, Lucifer has been able to appear before the throne of God to accuse us;  and

2.     After this event, Lucifer no longer has that luxury and cannot access the 2nd and 3rd heavens.

 – at that moment, this fallen cherub realizes that his time is short and unleashes such a wrath upon the inhabitants of earth that it requires a prophetic pronouncement of ‘woe!’”

So it makes sense that this could still be a future event… And the falling away has been a progressive falling away…

Dr. Lake goes on…

“We have underestimated the power of the Iniquity Force in a time in history when we need to UNDERSTAND IT THE MOST.”

I finally understand at a completely different level – why YHUH had told Joshua that Yisra’el must kill all of the peoples living in the Promised Land. 
We have talked about before – that they were giants – Nephilim – even cannibalistic tribes. 
But having listened to SRA victims talk about their experiences with Nephilim… and that they are just pure evil – there is no love or kindness – even anything human-like in them… it makes even more sense now. 

Dr. Lake goes on

“While we are wrapped in complete biblical ignorance of this force, there are potions of humanity that have dedicated themselves to understand it and mastering its flow through their very hands.”

            And he goes on to talk about Manley P Hall and Free Masonry, and the Luciferian Elite.
And then he says –

“The enemy’s power has been identified and defined by the very Word of God.
The only defenses from this force of darkness have been revealed too:  The gospel must be heard and received, true repentance must be achieved, the blood of Christ must be properly applied, and biblical holiness must become the armor to withstand the enemy’s onslaught.
This is the task that lies before the Remnant in this hour…”

Do we see what is going on?
Do we see the Iniquity Force has been adding things to the air, to the water, changing the seed of the food and working very diligently to change the seed of our children with vaccinations and other means and GMO and other things….

Do we see the bigger picture?

The Iniquity Force - - what our FIGHT is really against - 

Ephesians 6:12 p 887
“Because we wrestle not against flesh and dahm (blood), but against principalities , against authorities, against the rulers of the darkness of this olam, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”

Do we know that because…

Romans 8:11
 “The same Spirit that raised Yahusha haMashiach lives in you…”

That we have (Luke 10:19) “power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”

Plus, consider what Yahusha said just before He ascended to the Father…
Mark 16: 15-18 p 723

Do we live like this?

Do we pray like this?

Are we intentional and offensive in our prayers?

Maybe we need to pay attention in the WORD – so that we can recognize when things are not of the Word and apply that to what is around us daily!

Shaul (Paul) gave instructions on how to live - to the believers Ephsiyah…

Ephesians 6: 10- 18 p 887

Luke 6:12 p 731 tells us that Yahusha prayed ALL night before He chose His disciples.

Mark 1:27 p 707
“And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this?  What new teaching is this? For with authority HE commands even the shedim (demons), and they obey Him.”

Dr. Lake says
“Jesus was different than the religious leaders of His day.  These religious leaders may have trusted in their family’s name or even in their schooling as their source of authority among the Jewish  people. Jesus’ authority flowed from His fellowship with His Heavenly Father.  This fellowship was so intimate and so powerful that Jesus declared:”

John 8:28-29 p 763
“Then said Yahusha to them, when you have lifted up the Ben Ahdahm (son of man), then shall you know that I am, and that I do nothing by Myself:  but as My Abba has taught Me, I speak these things.
29 And He that sent Me is with Me: and Abba has not left Me alone; for I do always those things that please Him.”

Lake says
“Jesus was our example, and His life was empowered by two things: 
1.     His fellowship with the Father, and
2.     His faithfulness to His Father’s instructions (commands)”

This sounds like Revelation 12:17 and Revelation 14:12 to me!
Those who keep the commands and have their faith in Yahusha!


So if the falling is a progressive thing – and one third of them will fall in the end…  does that change our perspective?

Does that bring up the old phrase – “Baby you ain’t seen nothing yet”?

It should!

We have to be always on alert for the thief that comes to steal, kill and destroy.
The one who prowls around like a roaring lion…

1 Peter 5:8-9 p 827

Because there is an iniquity force…. And we have to be in the Word  - daily increasing our understanding

That the same Spirit / power that raised Yahusha from the dead lives in us!

I struggle sometimes – with teaching things… hard things… because so many times I wish the world was what I was told it was when I was a kid.

I’d even be thrilled with what I learned it was as an adult from the media (Okay well sort of!) J 

But if we don’t know what to expect…  then dismay and deception can easily happen. 

Remember when Disney seemed like just nice stories for kids?...  But now as we learn to see what is really in them…. Oh my!

So we have to talk about the things of the iniquity force…

But we have to go back to…

The same Spirit that raised Yahusha from the dead – lives in us!
We have to learn how to live!
We have to be in His Word….

Last week we talked about our calling being – knowing His Word…  and walking in it…
This is why.
This is why we fight…

The Word says .. “your enemy satan, as a roaring lion, walks around on earth, seeking whom he can devour.”
Well as a roaring lion is NOT thee Roaring Lion of Judah!! 
And I’m going with what HE says!

But I have to know what He says!

May we learn how to fight!

Sh’ma Yisra’el.

Friday, May 13, 2016

Who We are: Natsarim - Torah Portion M'tzora - April 16

Natsarim    April 16, 2016
Torah Parashah - M’tzora ~ “Person afflicted with tzara’at
Uyiqara (Leviticus) 14:1- 15:33  p 90 RSTNE
Who we are ....    Natzarim   ....


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Torah - Uyiqara 14:1-15:33 p 90




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From time to time we have talked about what to call ourselves...

When we first left the Sunday realm...we went by “Messianic” - because that is all we knew...

.....and then we stopped being that when we learned what that was...  and
then we’d just say “Torah observers who follow Mashiak” ...  or just “studying from the Hebrew”....

Finally I understand the NAME we are...

Over and over and over again YHUH has taken me to two different Scriptures in the book of Gilyahna (Revelation)

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.”

And I read those a long time ago... and I thought - “That’s who we are!!”

But what do you call these people??? 

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.”

in the BYNV (Besorah of Yahusha Natsarim Version)
          “and He says, “Shall it be a small matter for You to be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Yaaqub, and to bring back the preserved ones of Yisharal?  And I shall give You as a light to the gentiles, to be My deliverance to the ends of the arets!”.

Who are these - “preserved ones of Yisharal” ??

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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 here 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.”

          This is a prophecy of Yahusha haMashiak ... and here He is called a Netzer!

Mattityahu 2:23 p 678
          “And he came and dwelt in a city called Natzereth:  that it might be fulfilled what was spoken by the navi, He shall be called a Natzereth.”

-    Again Messiah is called a Netzer
-    and the foot note says “so naturally he came and dwelt in a city called Natzeret - or Netzer.” :)  - amazing! :)

Yahukanon (John) 15:5 p 771
          “I am the Vine, you are the netsarim; ....”

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So let’s look at what Lew White says because he explains it so well....


WHO ARE THE NATSARIM?

The first Natsarim were the early followers of Yahusha.

The church fathers called the Natsarim heretics because they obeyed the Commandments while holding to the Testimony of Yahusha.
 Here in the last day, we are reappearing on the Earth just before Yahusha’s return. “And those who have insight shall shine like the brightness of the expanse, and those who lead many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever." Daniel 12:3
 We reject the leaven of men’s teachings, and hold to Yahusha as our teaching authority. A yoke is a body of teachings. (No wonder Messiah said His yoke is easy!)
In the last days, during the Great Distress, we will have a literal glow about us when the sun darkens and the moon glows blood-red. People will be howling in all the lands.
The powers (authorities) of the heavens will be shaken, because there will be a "changing of the guard" taking place, referred to as birth pangs.
The powers currently having sovereignty over the Earth will be shaken from their moorings when the children of Yahuah are revealed -
-   the universe groans in expectation of our birth. We have been "begotten" from above, but our actual birth will occur at the return of our Creator, Yahusha ha'Mashiak, after the "distress" of those days (Mt. 24:29-31).

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE NATSARIM
We were given the commission to teach all nations to obey all that we were commanded to obey.
We occupy our post,
protecting that which we were commissioned to cherish.

The thing we guard is not only discarded as rubbish by most, but it is the reason we are so despised.
The term for us is commonly misspelled "Nazarenes"  - should be = (NATSARIM).
We are a sect named after the original followers of Yahusha of Natsarith (see Act 24:5).
Acts 24:5 p 803  “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).”

We are guardians,  -- Natsarim literally translates as watchmen, guardians, protectors; it also means branches, as in off-spring or descendants.
          The idea of branches being off-spring or descendants indicates that we are continuing contact with the ROOT, so we live in the teachings that provide the nourishing life the ROOT provides.
 We are referred to as first-fruits having been sealed with the Father's Name (Yahuah) in our foreheads.
Our obedience is evidence of our belief.
 Gentiles graft into the commonwealth of Yisharal through the Covenant (Eph 2:8-13).
Our obedience perfects our belief. We guard two primary things: Yahuah's Name, and Yahuah's Word (His Covenant with Yisharal).

Rev. 14, which describes the first-fruits and you will notice we ABOUT 2 things: "obey the Commandments of Alahim AND hold to the Testimony of Yahusha".

We have been pursued by the dragon from the beginning.
OUR CONTINUAL OPPONENT is THE DRAGON
What the early church fathers said about the original followers of Yahusha.



The dragon's religious architecture of rebellion became an institution of deceit.  =
= 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. Many of these early Christians were former sun-worshippers that adopted a belief in the Mashiak (Messiah) of Yisharal, Yahusha.
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!!

Due to the church fathers, the Hebrew roots of the faith were suppressed, and only Greek roots developed.
The 2 most uniform traits among all the church fathers was their condemnation of the Natsarim, and their rabid anti-Semitism.
Modern seminaries (seed-plots) promote the teachings of the church fathers, the Greek and Egyptian men that sought to eliminate the former Natsarim.
The Natsarim were spoken against by those in authority in the days of Paul:
"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." (ACT 28:22).
This sect, the NATSARIM, was suppressed by the early church fathers, and by the developing hierarchy at the earliest formal school of Christianity:

THE CATECHETICAL SCHOOL OF ALEXANDRIA
This school at Alexandria was founded in 190 CE by headmaster Pantaenus of Alexandria, and funded by the Fiscus Judaicus (Jewish tax started by Vaspasian in 70 CE).
The term by which the early followers of Yahusha of Natsarith were called is found at Acts 24:5, misspelled Nazarenes.
 The reason they were so despised by everyone is simple to understand. ...
          This entire planet is under the influence of a supremely dark force that has been in charge over mankind for the last 6000+ years, since Adam and Chava lost sovereignty over Earth. This dark force is called “the dragon,”  --- and we see in the following verse two reasons for the dragon’s hatred of the Natsarim:
“And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to fight with the remnant of her seed, those guarding the commands of Alahim and possessing the witness of Yahusha Mashiak.” Rev 12:17
The dragon is enraged at the woman Yisharal, and fights against a remnant of her seed (off-spring of those who obey the Covenant), who guard the Covenant, and possess belief in Yahusha.
          ...Obeying the Commandments and possessing the witness of Yahusha are not what the church fathers did, and they weren’t going to stand for anyone else doing so either.
          The 4th-century church father known as Jerome described the Natsarim as “those who accept Messiah in such a way that they do not cease to observe the Old Law.”
          This was in stark contrast with them! They followed Constantine’s order to have nothing in common with the hostile rabble of the Yahudim. Rather than live by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of Yahuah, they lived by every word that proceeds from the mouth of Constantine.
          -They want nothing to do with the old paths (Yir. 6:16).
What they call the “Old Law” is the Torah, the 10 Commandments, guarded by the Natsarim.
The dragon (Rev 12) pursues the offspring (Natsarim) of the Woman (Yisharal) through systematic persecutions because of doctrinal competition and control.
The Hebrew roots of the fig tree (Yisharal) remain a threat to this dragon’s bad tree, but Yahusha has given His Natsarim His Torah, and this is the axe (Sword, His Word) that will become the downfall of the false system (Roman beast) ridden by the Great Prostitute, which has made the nations drunk from the golden cup of abominations (like sacraments).
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( Notice it says in White’s work - “Roman beast”... and I am learning/ seeing - that Islam is a force used... by Rome...  Rome and the demonic may just be the head of it)

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She (The great prostitute)  is the teaching authority (Greek, Didascalia, Latin, Magisterium) controls all beliefs.

Yahusha’s cousin, Yahukanon, said:
“And even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.” Luke 3:9
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).
Our condemnation will be derived from our own words.
-Let’s examine what the early church fathers had to say concerning Natsarim.
The fourth century Church Father, Epiphanius, gave a detailed description of the Natsarim:
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.”
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Now doesn’t this sound like who we are becoming!! ???!!!
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In stark contrast to the Natsarim, Epiphanius would forbid the Law, Prophets, and Writings (TaNaK), often referred to by Yahusha.
He mentions how the document of MatithYahu is written in the Hebrew script. The Sabbath observance (the weekday blessed at Creation) was observed by Yahusha, yet those who walk as He walked, are heretics.
This record hits on how doctrinally arrogant things had become very early, and why Christian doctrines are so different from the REAL first followers of Yahusha.
After Irenaeus, a new flagrant error crept in called “Apostolic Succession” along with the idea that the “church” hierarchy could supersede any Commandment, and usurp the name Yisharal  for itself.
There is evidence the Natsarim sect continued to exist until at least the 13th century.
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The Catholic writings of Bonacursus entitled Against the Heretics refers to Natsarim who were also called Pasagini. This term meant they lived in the passes and cliffs, hiding from the cruelty of the church (circus) :) fathers.
Waldensians was another term for us, a reference to the valleys (walled hills) in which we hid away from those hating us.
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WE know from other reading that Mennonites were earlier known as Waldensians!
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Bonacursus says: “Let those who are not yet acquainted with them, please note how perverse their belief and doctrine are. First, they teach that we should obey the Law of Moses according to the letter - the Sabbath, and circumcision, and the legal precepts still being in force. Furthermore, to increase their error, they condemn and reject all the Church Fathers, and the whole Roman Church."
We were still around in the 13th century!
 Today we who are Natsarim still obey that “Old Law” (the Covenant, as it is written), and we still “reject all the church fathers, and the whole Roman church.”
We are accused of being “Jewish” but we are really made up of all the lost tribes in captivity among the nations, as the Prodigal Son found himself and returned to the Covenant, the Father’s household (Torah- observant ones).
We are those described at Rev 14:12;
1. We hold to the testimony of Yahusha
2. We obey the Commandments of Yahuah.
For these we are branded as perverse heretics.
We call on the true (and only) Name, Yahuah, each time we utter the Deliverer’s Name, Yahusha ha’Mashiak.
We have never been part of the broad road.
Tertullus, a hired accuser of Paul, spoke these words at Acts 24:5:
“For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Yahudim throughout the world and a ringleader of the sect (G139, hairesis) of the Natsarim (G3480) . . .”
The Greek word hairesis above gives us the word heresy, translated sect. We are sure the sect being spoken of was not the Christians, because Christians developed later.
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Amein.