Monday, February 2, 2015

Who Are The Gentiles?

Luke 2:32; Genesis 12:2, 17:4-5, 48:19; Ephesians 3:4-6; Genesis 20:4; Jeremiah 31:36; Genesis 14:9; Matthew 10:5, 24:7; Luke 21:24; Genesis 22:24, 22:18, 25:23; 1 Chronicles 16:24; Psalm 9:19-20; Matthew 24:9, 14, 28:19; Acts 10:35; 1 Corinthians10:32; Galatians 3:28; Colossians 3:11; Romans 2:9-10, 3:9; 1 Corinthians 12:19; Romans 11:25; Isaiah 25:7; Genesis 2:1-2; Acts 13:43-44; Acts 20:7; Exodus 16:23; Jeremiah 31:30-33; Hebrews 8:8-12; Matthew 5:17; Romans 10:4-8; Leviticus 23:31; Exodus 12:14; Acts 20:16, 28:17; Zechariah 4:16-21; 1 Timothy 1-4; Romans 3:31; Matthew 12:19; Mark 3:1; Luke 4:16; John 6:59; Acts 13:14, 18:4; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Exodus 20; Deuteronomy 5; Matthew 23:23; Hebrews 7:5; Isaiah 49:6, 42:6; Genesis 12:13; Acts 15:1-31; Matthew 5:18-20; Psalm 119:89; Isaiah 59:21; Revelation 21:1-2, 20:10-12, 10:1-7; Proverbs 4:3; Romans 11:11-12; Matthew 5:21; Acts 2:38, 21:20-24; Romans 7:7-14; 1 Corinthians 4:18; 2 Corinthians 11:13; Colossians 1:26

We are walking in today:  Who Are The Gentiles?

Witness filled with the spirit throughout the Bible: H4390 male' to fill, be full, fulness, abundance (participle), to be full, be accomplished, be ended
H7307 ruach wind, breath, mind, spirit
Exodus 28:3, 31:3, 35:31; Acts 2:4; Ephesians 5:18


Who are the Gentiles? 14
​Q​
uestions​ For Your Review​

​​

​1.​
​ ​
Was Jesus a Jew or a Gentile?

Answer: Yeshua was a Torah observant, tallit wearing, synagogue attending, Sabbath and feast-keeping, Kosher Jew who observed the Seven commanded Holy Days in scripture.
​​
Are today's Christians, for the most part, walking in Torah, keeping The Biblical feasts, or The Seventh Day Sabbath? (And please check your calendars to see that the 7th day falls on Saturday, not Sunday.) I am going to keep this real!!!! Fiveamprayer, various groups of Catholicism and m
​​
any Christian denominations claim to be the "true religion" that Yeshua established. Yet, modern day "Christianity" has very little in common with the founder of their "faith".


​2.​
​​
​ ​
Why do Christians refer to the Jewish Messiah as "Jesus" when Yeshua was His given Hebrew name? It's not that hard to pronounce
​,​
RIGHT
​!​
?

Answer: The Jewish Messiah's given name
​i​
s Yeshua. "Jesus" is the Hellenized-Anglicized form of "Yeshua". "Jesus" doesn't mean anything, while Yeshua means "Salvation". Yeshua never heard the name "Jesus" in His lifetime. Some people have said that this is irrelevant, but The question is this: If your name is "John" or "Mary", why would you answer to "Charles" or "Betty"? Yes, Yeshua knows who we are talking about when we call Him "Jesus", but it's a lot more rewarding to call Him by His given Name--the name that has a meaning.


​3. ​
Where in Scripture does Yahweh tell us to ignore the original, Seventh Day Sabbath--
​t​
he day He Himself blessed and made holy
​in ​
Gen
​esis​
2:1-2?

Answer: You won't find anything in Scripture that references the changing of the Sabbath to Sunday. Some argue that it's because "Jesus rose on a Sunday"
​ B​
ut you need to ask yourself:
​w​
hy would that, in itself, change
​t​
he seventh-day Sabbath that Yahweh our God ordained "in the beginning"? Some argue that Constantine was responsible for changing the Sabbath because he hated the Jews.
​​
​​
​ ​
No matter who instituted Sunday worship, in Yeshua's time, both Jews and Gentiles alike, regularly attended the synagogue for worship on
​t​
he seventh day, and the fact that interested Gentiles in Antioch requested further instruction of Paul "on The next Sabbath" is irrefutable evidence that no separate Sunday (1st day) meetings were being held there by those early Christians:
​ t​
he Gentiles were willing to wait an entire week, till The next Saturday, for a meeting because they knew that Paul and his companions did not normally meet for worship on a Sunday. Acts 13:42-44 tells us that, on The next Sabbath (Saturday) almost the whole city arrived for the meeting.
Some insist that Acts 20:7 reveals Sunday worship, but this is not true. Fact is, Jewish believers in Yeshua continued meeting at synagogue
​​
​s​
(or the Temple) for Sabbath.
​The ​
​c​
ommon practice
​​
would be havdalah
​, the closing out of the sabbath with dinner where study and discussion would continue on in the the later evening.  This 
meeting in homes after sundown on Saturday to continue discussions and praise from
​t​
he Sabbath, which explains Paul "preaching until midnight" in Acts 20:7. The first day of the week for Jews (like Paul)
​ ​
began at sundown at the end of the Sabbath - Saturday evening - not "Sunday."
Furthermore, the fact is, neither the Father nor the Son has ever claimed the first day as His own in any higher sense than He has each or any of the other laboring days. Neither of them has ever placed any blessing upon it, or attached any sanctity to it. The Bible tells us Yahweh our God expressly reserved The Seventh Day
​ ​
to Himself, placing His blessing upon it, and claimed it as His holy day. (Genesis 2:1-3) Moses told Israel in the wilderness of Sin of the sixth day of the week, "Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Adonai." Exodus 16:23.

4. ​​
Christians insist that "the law" was abolished. How is that possible when sin is transgression of "the law"?

​Answer:  ​
When and by whom was it abolished? Certainly not by Yeshua! He said He came NOT to abolish but to confirm (Hebrew: koom which means "establish/confirm)". Why would Yeshua's role as FINAL SIN OFFERING (He martyred Himself!) in any way negate Torah--Yahweh's original teaching and instruction? Did He ever say, "I came to abolish Torah and render my original teachings void"? Yeshua is our "New Covenant" and "Sin Offering". Period. Yahweh gave us a New/Renewed Covenant, not a new Torah! Did He even mention Torah at all as He spoke about giving us a New/Renewed Covenant (Jer
​e​
​miah
​ ​
31:30-33
​ and ​
Heb
​rews
​ ​
8:8-12)? You won't find anything in Scripture to show that Torah was ever abolished.
​​

Yeshua said: Matthew 5:17-18 17 Don't think that I have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete. 18 Yes indeed! I tell you that until heaven and earth pass away, not so much as a yud or a stroke will pass from the Torah --not until everything that must happen has happened. If "ALL" hasn't happened yet, and heaven and earth have not passed away, then that must mean that His Torah is still valid.

​5. ​
Why do Christians insist that "the law" was "written on our hearts" (Jeremiah 31:33-34; Romans 10:4-8) but somehow, the "OT" no longer pertains to them?

Answer: Many Christians have decided that when Yahweh our God said, "I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts" He meant that His original Torah (teachings) would be rendered null and void and that they would somehow "just know" right from wrong. But since we are born into sin, that is impossible! Until one actually studies and understands Torah
​. ​
​Fiveamprayer, He tells us in Matthew 5:17-18 17 Don't think that I have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete. 18 Yes indeed! I tell you that until heaven and earth pass away, not so much as a yud or a stroke will pass from the Torah.  Nothing is to pass away until everything that must happen, has happened. If "ALL" hasn't happened yet, Fiveamprayer
, they can't possibly have His Torah "written on their hearts."
How many of today's people automatically know Yahweh's laws? NOBODY! How many actually keep his laws? If this were truly the case that Yahweh's laws were somehow imprinted in our hearts, there would be no adultery, divorce, murder, hate crimes, abortion, lying, stealing, coveting--things that many Christians are certainly guilty of.
Having "the law written on our hearts" means we now have the desire for Torah!
​ Fiveamprayer,
 
​t​
he heart is the "seat of desire". Why? Because it is the battleground over which Yahweh and Satan fight continually. Allegiance comes from the heart;
Fiveamprayer
​ ​
as do concepts such as honor, loyalty, and commitment. The heart,
it
sets apart greatness from merely "good". Without the heart no endeavor reflects the fact that we are created in the image of Yahweh.

6​. ​
Since Yahweh said to celebrate the Biblical feasts FOREVER (Leviticus 23:21, 31, 41, Exodus 12:14), why do you believe He wants you to ignore them now, simply because His Son died on the Stake? Has "forever" come and gone, or
​His word ​
ended somehow?

Answer: No
​!​
​F​
oreve
​r​
has not come and gone.  Torah observant believers celebrate the Biblical feasts because it is instructed by Yahweh our God in the Torah for Israel ("Israel" includes EVERYONE who accepts the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob--Numbers 15:13-16) to observe these festivals forever (Leviticus 23:21, 31, 41, Exodus 12:14). Messiah Yeshua observed these festivals as did the early Messianic Jews and apostles such as Rabbi Shaul/Apostle Paul (Acts 20:16, 1 Corinthians 16:8, Acts 28:17). When Yeshua returns to this earth these festivals will be re-established worldwide (Zechariah 14:16-21). Yahweh has His appointed times, His moadim!  He does nothing without purpose.
​Fiveamprayer, we have got to know and believe that!
​ ​
What makes us think we can simply ignore what He says?
Here's something to ponder. Yeshua has only fulfilled the first four of the seven Biblical feasts. If He fulfilled the first four, what makes you think He won't fulfill the last three? If everything goes according to Yahweh's Plan and the first four feasts have been fulfilled, then the next feast to be fulfilled is Rosh
​ ​
​H​
ashana
​,​
the Feast of Trumpets. Most Christians choose to believe the entire "OT" has been "nailed to the cross".
​But was it a
​ ​
cross that Yeshua was nailed to in the first place?  There is a lot
 to be studied Five
​amprayer!​



​7. ​
Did Rav Sha'ul (Apostle Paul) actually say that, since Yeshua's death, we can eat whatever we want, meaning there is no more "Kosher"?

1 Timothy 4:1-
​5​
The Spirit expressly states that in the acharit-ha-ya-mim (Hal-lit-Ta-ya-mem) “In the last Days” some people will apostatize from the faith by paying attention to deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2 Such teachings come from the hypocrisy of liars whose own consciences have been burned, as if with a red-hot branding iron. 3 They forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods which Yahweh created to be eaten with thanksgiving by those who have come to trust and to know the truth. 4 For everything created by Yahweh is good, and nothing received with thanksgiving needs to be rejected, 5 because the word of Yahweh and prayer make it holy.
First of all we have to remember that Paul was talking to the Jews and Gentiles
​,
 who were
​ observing the laws of kashrut or eating
​kosher.  Which Yahweh gave to the people to know what is biblical food by His definition.  That which is
"clean and unclean"
​to eat.
They would
​ not have
​ ​
dream
​t​
of going against what Yahweh said in Leviticus concerning what He
​defined as food for us
 (
a
lthough many prefer to think otherwise, Paul constantly confirmed Torah
​​
Romans 3:31 Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law....)
​.​

This goes back to what Rabbi Messer taught in us in our last t
​w​
o class
es​
, that we couldn’t possibly
, understand what Apostle Paul was teaching and discussing if we do not develop a Hebraic mindset through study and being taught Yahweh’s teaching and Instruction.
****Paul tried to warn people against doctrines of demons which twist Yahweh's Word.
​ Fiveamprayer,
  Every creature is good and not to be refused
if
it is made holy by the Word of Yahweh and prayer (thanksgiving). The Word of Yahweh in Leviticus,
is what tells us what is
 
​holy
and
​unholy
​.​
That is what Kosher means, because it comes from the same root as kodesh, meaning holy. AMEN

​8. ​
Where in Scripture did Yeshua ever attend a "church"?

Answer: The Bible tells us that He attended "synagogues"
​.​
Matthew 12:9, Matthew 13:54, Mark 1:21, Mark 1:29, Mark 3:1, Mark 6:2, Luke 4:16, Luke 4:20, Luke 4:28, Luke 4:38, Luke 6:6, Luke 7:5, John 6:59, John 12:42, John 18:20, Acts 13:14, Acts 13:42, Acts 14:1, Acts 18:4, Acts 18:26, Acts 19:8--
​and that is just​
to mention just a few
​ scriptures​.

Andrew Gabriel Roth's Aramaic English New Testament - translated directly from the original Aramaic into English - never mentions
​he word ​
"church"
​Fiveamprayer, ​
but rather uses the words congregation or community. This is a good place to mention that Messiah Yeshua was
nothing with the
 modern New Testament representation, that most Christian denominations have made Him into. The apostle Paul warned against what was already beginning to happen 1,900 years ago - the world had already embraced "
Another Jesus
",
​ ​
a totally different person from the One revealed in Scripture! Paul warned the Corinthian church:
​2
Corinthians 11: 2-
​4 2​
For I am jealous for you with Yahweh's kind of jealousy; since I promised to present you as a pure virgin in marriage to your one husband, the Messiah; 3 and I fear that somehow your minds may be seduced away from simple and pure devotion to the Messiah, just as Havah (Eve) was deceived by the serpent and his craftiness. 4 For if someone comes and tells you about some other Yeshua than the one we told you about, or if you receive a spirit different from the one you received, or accept some so-called "good news" different from the Good News you already accepted, you bear with him well enough!

​9. ​
If as you believe, the Torah was "abolished" and the "Old Testament" is to be ignored--why are
​some ​
Christians still teaching the Ten Commandments or telling church members to tithe? Isn't it hypocritical to pick and choose what we want to believe of the "Old Testament?

Answer: The Ten Commandments appear in two places in the Bible: Both are in the "Old Testament" - Exodus chapter 20
​ ​
and Deuteronomy chapter 5.  Neither version conveniently lists the commandments from one to ten, which is presumably how they would appear when posted. In the most commonly referenced passage, Exodus 20, the commandments cover 17 verses and encompass at least 14 imperatives.  Concerning tithing, in the New Testament tithe and tithing are found eight times (Matthew 23:23; Luke 11:42; 18:12; Hebrews 7:5-6,8-9). But all of these passages refer to the Old Testament usage "under the law!"
​With this concept in mind, ​
it seems that today's church pastors should never ask for tithes because, according to the Christian train of thought, tithes are "old testament"
​and have been done away with.


​10. ​
Does Scripture command us to celebrate the birth or resurrection of the Messiah
​with the holidays of
 Christmas and Easter?
​ Or would it be
okay to lie to your children about the existence of Santa Claus and egg-laying rabbits? What do these things have to do with Yeshua's birth and death? For those who want to answer
​ that with​
: "It's fun; it's tradition"
​.​
​T​
hen please check the Bible to see what Yahweh says about man-made traditions.

Answer: You won't find Christmas and Easter anywhere in the Bible. Those "h
​olidays
" were strictly man's idea - in the same way that Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, decided to offer a sacrifice with "unauthorized fire before Adonai," thus disobeying His instructions. For that, they were immediately consumed by God’s fire.  So what makes us today think it's okay to "add or subtract" anything to the commands to keep His seven holy feast days? (Please see The Pagan Origins of Christmas and The Pagan Origins of Easter.)  Is human tradition worth the cost of making us guilty of sinning in Yahweh's eyes?

​11. ​
When exactly did Gentiles come into faith, and how can they claim that
their
"church" is the "original church that Jesus built" when none of them observe Torah,
​many
​ ​
of them ignore The Seventh day Sabbath and the Biblical feasts!  Does
your
church in any way resemble anything that Yeshua originally taught?  Please check the Bible thoroughly before answering.

In the beginning, Gentiles were considered to be immoral heathens and Pagans because they worshiped every kind of "god" except Yahweh. But yet, it was always YWHW's will for the Gentile nations to receive His Salvation (Isaiah 49:6, 42:6). Yawheh told Abraham that through him all the nations of the earth would be blessed (Genesis 12:1-3). Early Messianic Jews did not understand that this was Yahweh's will and proclaimed the Good News of the Messiah only to Jewish people. The controversy in the first century was not if it was Jewish to believe in Yeshua but whether Gentiles could be included without having to become Jewish. This was addressed by the Jerusalem council (Acts 15:1-31).
​​
​​

When the early Messianic Jews took the Good News of the Messiah to the Gentiles, a great number were brought into the Messianic faith. By the end of the first century A.D., the number of Gentile believers outnumbered the Jewish believers by a ratio of two to one! This occurred primarily because there were (and still are) more Gentiles in the world than Jewish people. Through the years, as the number of Gentile believers increased, they began to dominate this Messianic faith. Some Gentile believers, not understanding the Jewish roots of their faith and Yahweh's eternal covenant with Israel, wanted to split off and form a separate religion divorced from their Jewish roots (Romans 11:1-2). This "de-Judaizing process" continued until Gentile Christianity emerged as the dominant representative faith in the Messiah. In one of the greatest paradoxes in history, it became alien for a Jew to believe in Yeshua as his Messiah!
Yeshua said He came NOT to abolish but to fulfill/establish/confirm (Matthew 5:17). He also said that until all has been accomplished, and heaven and earth have passed away, not one "jot or tittle"/the smallest letter or stroke would disappear from the Torah (Matthew 5:18). Has ALL been accomplished yet?  Have heaven and earth passed away yet?
​​
​​
​​
​​
​If not then why are you ignoring the Torah?
Since Yeshua said He did
not
come to abolish Torah, we
must
adhere to Torah! The Bible clearly shows that Yeshua was a devout Jew who did not come to abolish the Torah of His Father and bring a New "Religion"; but to
​m​
agnify,
​e​
stablish, and
​c​
onfirm it! As we continue to read Matthew 5, verse 19 and 20 clench the previous two:
​​
19 So whoever disobeys the least of these mitzvot (words/commands) and teaches others to do so will be called The least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But whoever obeys them and so teaches will be called Great in the Kingdom of Heaven. 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness is far greater than that of the Torah-teachers( the scribes) and P'rushim,( Pooh-a- Sheem) Pharisees you will certainly not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

​12. ​
The Bible in several places states that Yahweh's Word is FOREVER. "Forever, O Adonai, Your word is settled in heaven (Psalm 119:89).
​ Fiveamprayer,
​ d​
id "
​forever
" end at the beginning of the "New Testament"? Has "
​forever
" come and gone?

Answer: Yahweh said His Word is FOREVER. "Forever" didn't end last Tuesday, so why are Christians negating His Torah NOW? "Forever, O Adonai, Your word is settled in heaven (Psalm 119:89). "As for Me, this is My covenant with them," says Yahweh: "My Spirit which is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your offspring, nor from the mouth of your offspring's offspring," says Yahweh, "from now and forever." (Also see Isaiah 59:21 and 1 Chronicles 16:15.)
"FOREVER" hasn't come unless "everything has happened that must happen" and "heaven and earth have passed away" (Rev.21:1). Has the heavenly Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) already come down from heaven to the earth (Rev.21:2)? Has Satan already been punished and cast into the lake of fire? (Rev.20:10.) Has the Great White Throne Judgment
​ ​
(Deliverance) occurred already? (Rev.20:11-12) Has Yeshua already returned and established the Kingdom of Yahweh (Rev. 10:1-7, 19:6, 11-16)?

​13. ​
Yahweh said in Proverbs 4:2 "I give you good instruction: Do not forsake my Torah (teaching, instruction, law)." What makes you think
​Yeshua
abolished that command?
​Answer: ​
Yahweh clearly told us NOT to ignore His teachings! The overwhelming decadence of today's world is clear evidence as to how much we have strayed from Yahweh our God’s Word.

14. ​​
Do you really believe that by ignoring Torah you are provoking the Jews to jealousy (Romans 11:11:12)?  
​Fiveamprayer, let's be honest
--
​d​
o you think they're going to be really jealous of the Christians who ignore The True Sabbath and The Biblical Feasts
​?  And then proceed to
 ask the Jews to give up the first two-thirds of the Bible (which contain all of Yahweh's "forever" commands) and adhere to the last third only?

Answer: Christians have killed millions of Jews and been responsible for persecuting them in one way or another for centuries. And now you want to tell them that the God you borrowed from them, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,  has come in the form of a man, they are supposed to worship now, and who demands, they throw away His Torah because Jesus' death on the Stake automatically negated all of Yahweh's original teachings?

You want them to believe they should throw out the original God-breathed Word and adhere to "New Testament" writings only? You want them to give up the idea of the original Sabbath and Biblical feasts found in the Torah.  These very feasts that Yeshua is still in the process of fulfilling??? 

Please think about how you would feel if someone came and told you to throw Yeshua out the window and start believing in some strange god that teachings conflict with Yahweh's original Word!  Known fact, Fiveamprayer, in order to win the heart of a Jew, you must first remember the correct Name of "Yeshua" who was Torah observant, and realize that the reason the Jews do not and cannot believe in your "Jesus" is because (1) Jesus was NOT The Torah observant Messiah who actually walked this earth; and (2) their "spiritual eyes" have not yet been opened to the Truth of Yeshua. Yahweh Himself will open their eyes in due time.  To hear more of this teaching click here.

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