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the ox worshipped as a god by the Egyptians, Apis, Plin. 8, 46, 71, § 184 sqq.; Ov. Am. 2, 13, 14.
Joseph Shulam: First Century Jewish Identity as a Model
If God turned the Israelites (later Jews) over to WORSHIP THE STARRY HOST because of musical idolatry of the always-pagan or Egyptian trinity, WHO are the "gods" worshipped by the Jews. Amos and Stephen give us some of the names of the gods: they even called Apis the golden calf their GOD(s).
The Old Testament hoped that the literal seed of Abraham would be a BLESSING to the 70 nations but they believed that made them superior and they, like David, wrote songs about shedding the blood of the Gentiles. God blessed all people (of one blood says Paul) based on the two "hang points" of Loving God and practicing social justice. God is not a juvenile girl who can be influenced by what He SEES or HEARS (Isaiah 11). Jesus said that the kingdom does not come with observation meaning RELIGIOUS SERVICES. The Service of the Jacob-cursed and God-abandoned Levites:
God in Christ made the only Spiritual Covenant with Abrahm: Abraham was a Gentile and his mission was to ALL nations.
*Messianic.Jews.Jewish.Pattern.For.Christianity
Abraham cursed Levi and God abandoned them back to worship the starry host at Mount Sinai.
The Law of Moses was given only to those God abandoned by sentencing them back to captivity and death in all the world.
Racial Nationalism has been the roots of most violent warfare but God has no superior races.
Joseph.Shulam.Jeremiah.A.Prophet.for.our.Time.Lipscomb
*Joseph Shulam Early Believers Worshipped at the Temple.
*Joseph Shulam First Century Jewish Identity as a Model.
*Joseph Shulam: First Century Jewish Identity as a Model Part Two -
*Joseph.Shulam.Netivyah.The.Way.of.The.Lord
*Joseph.Shulam.Yeshua.in.The.Talmud.One - Bible
A Church of Christ is built upon the Prophets and Apostles. ALL of the Prophets were pure Israelites and not Jews.
1Chr. 25:1 Moreover David and the CAPTAINS of the host separated to the SERVICE
of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun,
who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals:
and the number of the workmen according to their service was:
h5656. {abodah, ab-o-daw´; or {abowdah, ab-o-daw´; from 5647; work of any kind:—act, bondage, + bondservant, effect, labour, ministering(-try), office, service(-ile, -itude), tillage, use, work, x wrought.Jesus called the Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: in Ezekiel 33 Christ names speakers for HIRE, singers and instrument players: these were the MARKS of people who made every effort to "make the lambs dumb before the slaughter."
h10. abaddoh, ab-ad-do´; the same as 9, miswritten for 11; a perishing:—destruction.
h11. abaddown, ab-ad-done´; intensive from 6; abstract, a perishing; concrete, Hades:—destruction
Is. 28:14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men,
that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
Is. 28:15 Because ye have said,
We have made a covenant with death,
and with hell are we at agreement;
when the overflowing scourge shall pass through,
it shall not come unto us:
for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
Is. 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD,
Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation:
he that believeth shall not make haste.
Is. 28:17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet:
and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies,
and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
Is. 28:18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled,
and your agreement with hell shall not stand;
when the overflowing scourge shall pass through,
then ye shall be trodden down by it.
The right to LIVE in a small parcel in palestine which did not include Jerusalem until David stole it was conditioned on the the HANG POINTS of loving god and practicing social justice.Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these. Jeremiah 7:4
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings;
if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; Jeremiah 7:5If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow,
and shed not innocent blood in this place,
neither walk after other gods to your hurt: Jeremiah 7:6
Jer. 8:7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;
and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming;
but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. Jeremiah 7:7
Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Jeremiah 7:8
The LORD is his name. Amos 9:7 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD.
Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt?
and the Philistines from Caphtor,
and the Syrians from Kir?
Amos 9:8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom,
and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth;
saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
Amos 9:9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations,
like as corn is sifted in a sieve,
yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Amos 9:10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
In Romans 9-10 Paul debunks the Jew's claim of PREDESTINATION and uses the Fall from Grace as demon worship at Mount Sinai. The godly Israelites were QUARANTINED to their isolated towns so that the COULD NOT be around the Jacob-cursed and God-abandoned SABAZIANISM of the tribe of Levi.
Genesis 49.5 Symeon et Levi fratres vasa iniquitatis bellantia
Gen. 49:5 Simeon and Levi are brethren;
instruments of cruelty
are in their habitations.
(stabbing, dig through furnace, for burning
Bellor fight, carry on war,
Gen. 49:6 O my soul,
come not thou into their secret;
unto their assembly,
mine honour,
be not thou united:
for in their anger they slew a man,
and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
Gen. 49:7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel:
I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Divido I. To force asunder, part, separate, divide (very freq. and class.; cf.: distribuo, dispertio; findo, scindo, dirimo, divello, separo, sejungo, segrego, secerno).Is Jewish Identity, Jewish Roots or Hebraic Roots or Messianic Jews the Model for the Church of Christ? Paul spent his time and life trying to silence the Judaizers who tried to make The Christian System into a way to save Judaism: a system of the worship of the starry host to which God abandoned Israel where He permitted them to worship like the Babylonians and construct a temple which was a ziggurat. REV 8.30.14
Exodus 32- Instrumental Worship of the Egyptian Trinity: beyond redemption
Ex. 32:24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me:
then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
Ex. 32:28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses:
and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
Most Jews and Gentiles still believe that you toss gold INTO THE FIRE and "Out jumps this god."
It's false! God didn't command the Jacob-cursed and God-abandoned Levites to be "musical worship leaders." God''s command was that they STAND IN RANKS ready to execute any non-cursed Israelite who came NEAR their new holy meaning "quarantined" thing or place. Later they were under the King which God did not command and the commanders of the army. "Prophesying with instruments" means as soothsayer-sorcerers as the STAFF of the abandonedd-to-Babylon slaughter of innocent animals.
THE PATTERN OF THE ISRAEL'S COVENANT WITH DEATH AND HELL AT MOUNT SINAI
While God was giving The Book of The Covenant of Grace (Abrahamic) the Israelites were restoring their legalistic pattern they had learned in Egypt.
Moloch Worship in Amos
Amos 5:23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy [1] songs;
for I will not hear the [1] melody of thy [1] viols.
Amos 5:24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Amos 5:25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings
in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
No, he did not command animal sacrifices when He rescued them by grace against His righteous judgment when He saved them from the same ancient fire and sun worship. (Isaiah 1; Jeremiah 7). Stephen in Acts 7 agrees that it was because of musical idolatry of:
Euphrainō , Ep. euphr-, fut. Att.155.12, Pi.I.7(6).3
Pind. I. 6 Just as we mix the second bowl of wine when the men's symposium is flourishing, here is the second song of the Muses for Lampon's children and their athletic victories: first in Nemea, Zeus, in your honor they received the choicest of garlands,
Acts 7:42 Then God turned,
and gave them up to worship the HOST of heaven;
as it is written in the book of the prophets,
O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices
by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
and the star of your god Remphan,
figures which ye made to worship them:
and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.By the Keeping of Days and Seasons the "Jews" as opposed to the Godly Israelites worshipped and worshipped the CREATED universe rather than the CREATOR. Jesus was ordained to SPEAK the WORD or Logos which is God's Regulative or Creative and Teaching principle.
The Israelites and Jews were not sent BEYOND BABYLON meaning "a land of no return" to thrive and be the eternal enemy of the Word taking "gentile" money to defeat Jesus as the Abrahamic (A Syrian) blessing to all nations (Gentiles) and the much later Jews who obeyed the Abrahamic Covenant in Galatians 3. Abraham was SEPARATED from the Syrians and other Mesopotamian groups who made the seventh day a day of WORSHIP instead of a day of REST.Amos 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images,
the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,
saith the LORD, whose name is The GOD OF hosts.
Amos 6:5 That chant to the sound of the viol,
and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David; [Warrior shedder of blood]
Amos 6:6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments:
but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Amos 6:7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive,
and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
The Ghebers of Hebron 2 Hoaea, xii. 4 derives the name Israel from Sarah to contend, to fight, and El = God of Fire. — Gen. xxxii. '28. Asarians, Asriel, Israel, a name of the War god {Exodus, xiii. 21, 22, xiv. 25), Saturn [666] and the Sun. The Fire-god Azar was the God of war, and M'irs was the Sun. — Macrob. I. xvii. OS
But these fire-worshippers carried with them the arks of Moloch and Khiun (Life-god), their Adon, and they had, like the other peoples of the Delta, their Mysteries, which the priests instituted. They took with them from Phoenicia, probably, a certain knowledge of fixed vocal signs; and it would not be safe to deny to Syria the possession of some sort of (Syrian) hieroglyphs.
The Land of Canaan was/is populated by Phoenicians who came out of Carthage as the center of burning infants to the bull image of Moloch. That is why Isaiah 30 promises to drive the "Jews" as a religion into "hell" to the beat of wind, string and percussion instruments.
The Jews blew the trumpet on the newmoon, poured out libations and offered burnt sacrifices.
And for this duty the Lobii, Luim or Levites
were assigned to do just what the Brahmans did in India.
They ministered to la'hoh, Lord of Life, according to Exodus, iii. 14 ; xxxviii. 21; xl. 15; Jeremiah, xxxiii. 18. Hence the Jews were the Brahmaus of Palestine, as Josephus said, worshipping Brahma, whom, for their own political purposes, they chose to regard as Ab (Father) Ram (Most High) which title is not unsuitable to the Most High of the Hindu Gods. King states that the words brahrna and abrahm have the same numerical value.
Apis （*)=Apis), the Bull of Memphis, which enjoyed the highest honours as a god among the Egyptians. (Pomp. Mela, 1.9; Aelian, Ael. NA 11.10; Lucian, de Sacrif. 15.) He is called the greatest of gods, and the god of all nations, while others regard him more in the light of a symbol of some great divinity; for some authorities state, that Apis was the bull sacred to the moon, as Mnevis was the one sacred to the sun. (Suid. s.v. Ammian. Marcell. 22.14; Aelian, l.c.; Lutatius, ad Stat. Theb. 3.478.) According to Macrobius (Macr. 1.21), on the other hand, Apis was regarded as the symbol of the sun. The most common opinion was, that Apis was sacred to Osiris, in whom the sun was worsllipped; and sometimes Apis is described as the soul of Osiris, or as identical with him. (Diod. 1.21; Plut. de Is. et Os. 20, 33, 43; Strab. xvii. p.807.)
Plutarch QUESTION VI.: What they do within I know not; but it is very probable that they perform the rites of Bacchus. First they have little trumpets, such as the Grecians used to have at their Bacchanalia to call upon their gods withal.
Others go before them playing upon harps, which they call Levites,
` whether so named from Lusius or Evius,— either word agrees with Bacchus.
And I suppose that their Sabbaths have some relation to Bacchus; for even now many call the Bacchi by the name of Sabbi, and they make use of that word at the celebration of Bacchus’s orgies.
And this may be discovered out of Demosthenes and Menander. Nor would it be out of place, were any one to say that the name Sabbath was given to this feast from the agitation and excitement which the priests of Bacchus display. The Jews themselves witness no less;
for when they keep the Sabbath, they invite one another to drink till they are drunk;
or if they chance to be hindered by some more weighty business,
it is the fashion at least to taste the wine.
23. Sabazios, Sabaoth, or Sabbat, the god of the Planet Saturn, was better known as Bacchus or Dionysos, and was also styled in Semitic countries, Iao or Yava. His worship was more or less associated and identified with that of the Great Mother,
They called the Golden calf at Mount Sinai their GOD: Whatever Jehovah did for the Israelites they gave credit to the WORKS OF THEIR OWN HANDS.
JUDAIZERS MISSED
"The triumphal hymn of Moses had unquestionably a religious character about it; but the employment of music in religious services, though idolatrous, is more distinctly marked in the festivities which attended the erection of the golden calf." (Smith's Bible Dictionary, Music, p. 589).
Acts 7:37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel,
A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren,
like unto me; him shall ye hear.
Acts 7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness
with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers:
who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Acts 7:39 To whom our fathers would not obey,
but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
Acts 7:40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us:
for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days,
and offered sacrifice unto the idol,
and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Euphrainō , Ep. euphr-, fut. Att.155.12, Pi.I.7(6).3 II. Pass., make merry, enjoy oneself, to sing,Acts 7:42 Then God turned,
i. mēkhanēn, [sound, lights ]in the theatre, merriment of a feast
4. take up and bear, as a burden, “moron” A.Pers.547; “athlon” S.Tr.80; “algos” A.R.4.65.
2. raise by words, hence, praise, extol, E.Heracl.322, etc.; ai. logō to exaggerate, D.21.71.
mēkha^n-ē
Pind. I. 6 Just as we mix the second bowl of wine when the men's symposium is flourishing, here is the second song [ Moisaiōn meleōn] of the Muses for Lampon's children and their athletic victories: first in Nemea, Zeus, in your honor they received the choicest of garlands,Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. Rom 1:25
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: Rom 1:26
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. Rom 1:27
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Rom 1:28
This is the Crooked Race we are warned to save ourselves FROM.
Pind. I. 7 In which of the local glories of the past, divinely blessed Thebe, did you most delight your spirit? Was it when you raised to eminence the one seated beside Demeter of the clashing bronze cymbals, flowing-haired [5] Dionysus? [at Mount Sinai] Or when you received, as a snow-shower of gold in the middle of the night, the greatest of the gods, when he stood in the doorway of Amphitryon, and then went in to the wife to beget Heracles? [introduced sodomy in the worship at Tyre, practiced at Mount Sinai]
But since ancient grace [muses] sleeps, and mortals are forgetful of whatever does not reach the highest bloom of skillful song, joined to glorious streams of words, [20] then begin the victory procession with a sweet-singing hymn for Strepsiades;
Aristoph. Ach. 5 I was in ecstasy and I love the Knights for this deed; ‘it is an honour to Greece.’ But the day when I was impatiently awaiting a piece by Aeschylus, what tragic despair it caused me when the herald called, “Theognis, introduce your Chorus!” Just imagine how this blow struck straight at my heart!
Xen. Sym. 7.5 However, these questions also fail to promote the same object that wine does; but if the young people were to have a flute accompaniment and dance figures depicting the Graces, the Horae, and the Nymphs [brides in Revelation], I believe that they would be far less wearied themselves and that the charms of the banquet would be greatly enhanced.”“Upon my word, Socrates,” replied the Syracusan, “you are quite right; and I will bring in a spectacle that will delight you.”
Or, the Seasons. Or it may be used here in the Homeric sense of the maidens who kept the cloud gate of Heaven.
and gave them up to worship the HOST of heaven;
as it is written in the book of the prophets,
O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices
by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
and the star of your god Remphan,
figures which ye made to worship them:
and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
Jewish Encyclopedia Chiun Sakkut" and "Kaiwan" occur together in Rawlinson, "Inscriptions of Western Asia," iv. pl. 52, col. 4, line 9, in a list of epithets (compare Zimmern, "Beitr. zur Kenntniss der Babylonischen Religion," i. 10). Probably they were introduced together here through Babylonian influence in a verse regarded by Wellhausen ("Kleine Propheten," ad loc.) and Nowack, on the basis of II Kings xvii. 30, as a gloss. Budde ("Religion of Israel to the Exile," pp. 67 et seq.) regards the verse as genuine, and the Babylonian influence as potent in the wilderness.
Of course they are the same in origin. Christians do the same when they carry over pagan expressions such as Christmas, Easter, trinity, etc. Both Christians and Jews still worship in the names derived from ancient idols - baal-gadMoloch, Chiun and Remphan are all names for the star god, Saturn, whose symbol is a six pointed star formed by two triangles. Saturn was the supreme god of the Chaldeans.
Molech is the Ammonite name; Chiun, the Arabic and Persian name, written also Chevan. In an Arabic lexicon Chiun means "austere"; so astrologers represented Saturn as a planet baleful in his influence. Hence the Phoenicians offered human sacrifices to him, children especially; so idolatrous Israel also. Rimmon was the Syrian name (2Ki 5:18); pronounced as Remvan, or "Remphan," just as Chiun was also Chevan. Molech had the form of a king; Chevan, or Chiun, of a star [GROTIUS]. Remphan was the Egyptian name for Saturn: hence the Septuagint translator of Amos gave the Egyptian name for the Hebrew, being an Egyptian. [HODIUS II, De Bibliorum Textibus Originalibus. 4.115].
THE PATTERN OF THE JEW'S COVENANT WITH DEATH AND HELL
Moloch worship by Ahaz. The Assyrian worship in the temple and outside the gates to be exposed for its uglines.
2Chr. 28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom,
and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen
2Chr. 28:23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said,
Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them,
therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me.
But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
We sent them to youth rallies and Church of Christ events
with some of the finest Christian bands in the world.
We discipled our children to leave our Movement!
Jeff Walling 2 Chronicles 29
Ray Downen 2 Chronicles 29
As soon as Hezekiah died they began burning infants in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 33 Moloch as Prophetic Type of Hell in JerusalemAfter David sinned beyond Redemption rather than let him be killed He gave him an old Jebusite High Place already set up to worship the STARRY HOST. Jesuralem is called SODOM, a city set on seven hills and the Mother of Harlots where the Jews always murdered the prophet. Isaiah 30 Christ says that the MARKS of God beating His enemies into hell are the wind, string and percussion instruments which Lucifer the "singing and harp-playing prostitute brought into the garden.
Revelation 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
Revelation 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
The Beast or Therion means "A new style of music and Satyric (cappella) dram.Rev. 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image.These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
In Isaiah 55 He told us NOT to pay for the free water of the Word: He equates Spirit to Word
In Isaiah 58 restoring THE OLD PATHS outlaws seeking our own pleasure or speaking our own words.
Psa. 144:1 Blessed be the LORD MY strength, which teacheth MY hands to war, and MY fingers to fight:
Psa. 144:2 MY goodness, and mMY fortress; MYy high tower, and MY deliverer;
MY shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under ME.
Psa. 144:3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man,
that thou makest account of him!
Psa. 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Psa. 144:5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Psa. 144:6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Psa. 144:7 Send thine hand from above; rid ME, and deliver ME out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
Psa. 144:8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
WARRIOR MUSIC FOR A MAN DEVOTED TO SHEDDING THE BLOOD OF HIS PERSONAL ENEMIES.
Psa. 144:9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God:
upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
Psa. 144:10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
Psa. 144:11 Rid ME, and deliver ME from the hand of strange children,
whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE JEWS BUT THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. IT IS ABOUT THE PROPHETS AND APOSTLES AS THE ONLY FOUNDATION UPON WHICH THE CHURCH OF CHIRST IS BUILT (EDUCATED). THAT IS BECAUSE THE SPIRIT OF CHIRST SPOKE ONLY THROUGH THE PROPHETS AND THE PROPHECIES MADE MORE CERTAIN THROUGH JESUS OF NAZARETH.
MESSIANIC JEWS: BIBLE STUDIES TABLE OF CONTENTS
Exodus 32 They Sat Down to Eat and rose up to play: they repudiated The Book of The Covenant of Grace given by Christ to Abraham to ALL NATIONS.
Deuteronomy 32 They Rose Up To Play
1 Corinthians 10 They sat Down to Eat and Rose Up To Play God gave Israel The Book of The Covenant of Grace as that made by Christ to Abraham. The Israelites engaged in musical idolatry of the Egyptian trinity. God gave them The Book of The Law and Moses coultd not atone for them. The Angle (Christ) led them but God said nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
Christ came to give REST to those who were baptized into Christ: [Gal 3]. There can be no racial distinction in the body of Christ who rescued Jews along with the Abrahamic Gens who were not so burdened.Land and Spiritual Covenant deliberately forfeited.
The Book of The Covenant was given to Abraham by God in Christ. The Israelites now religiously Egyptians rejected DISCIPLINE and demanded the "gods" of Egypt which let them "run wild and naked."
The Gospel Promise: I Will Give you rest. Jesus also that the kingdom of God does not come with "ovservation." That word means "Religious Observations." Christ defined the Church of Christ in the Wilderness to give the godly people REST from the normal pagan seventh-day religious efforts to get their god's attention. The command was to READ the Word and Rehearse or discuss the Word as it was delivered to small group elders of 50s etc.
The Levites Almost all Messianic Jewish and Christian "worship" and money is devoted to the belief that God commanded instrumental worship in the sacrificial system. They claim that "Since He has not changed His mind, what Christ ordained as A School of His Word has been turned into "theaters for holy entertainment."
The Kingdom of God does not come with Religious Observations or Services
Don't pay for people to force you to violate that Gospel promise.
Joe Shulam: First Century Jewish Identity as a Model Joseph claims that Jesus and the first churches were 100% based on the Torah.
Joseph Shulam: First Century Jewish Identity as a Model Part Two We have added a bit of "Old Testament" which the later Jews seemed to have missed as they came to be the oppressors of the Gentiles with whom Christ made the Abrahamic Covenant which never ceased.
Joe Shulam: The Way of the Lord is not Jewish Genesis 18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; THAT the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. Acts 10:35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Joseph Shulam: was Jesus and the church "Torah" observant and worshipped at the temple.
Messianic and musical christians insist that: Jesus Came Not to Destroy the Law but to Fulfil it. The prophecies are defined by Jesus as "CONCERNING ME." Fulfil is the prophecy that A NEW NATION WOULD BE BORN IN ONE DAY. This purpose would be neither Jewish nor Gentile in a racist sense but that ALL people be one.
Messianic Judaism like all religions believes (some) that the Christian System is based on what they call the Torah and Gentiles cannot understand what we call the Old Testament without the help of the traditions of the elders. There is no reason that those Jesus called "the doctors of the Law who take away the key to knowledge" were the basis of the teachings of the New Testament. Over and over the Church of Christ is said to be built on "the prophets and apostles with Jesus Christ being the chief corner stone." The writing prophets spoke by the Spirit OF (preposition) Christ. Jesus of Nazareth was "made to be both Lord and Christ" to make those prophecies more certain.
The Jews were sentenced to worship the starry host, given the Law and sentenced to be returned to Babylon. In Babylon these same people and others wrote their version of the word. Not only does Jesus repudiate the traditions of the elders, the prophecies of Christ could not even be interpreted by the prophets.
1Peter 1:9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.That prophecy concerning the promised Abrahamic Blessing could not be known unless you think that Jesus and the apostles were false witnesses.
1Peter 1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently,
who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
1Peter 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time
the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify,
when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
1Peter 1:12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves,
but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you
by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost
sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
2Peter 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ,There is no evidence that these common men had attended Rabbinic University. None of the writers depend at all on the traditions or Jewish fables which were the property of the clergy. There is nothing helps us escape the corruption in the "religious world" that came from Babylon.
to them that have obtained like precious faith with us
through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
2Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you
through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2Peter 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us
all things that pertain unto life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Peter 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:
that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Peter 1:14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle,
even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
2Peter 1:15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease
to have these things always in remembrance.
2Peter 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables,
when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2Peter 1:17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory,
when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory,
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
2Peter 1:18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard,
when we were with him in the holy mount.
2Peter 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed,
as unto a light that shineth in a dark place,
until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2Peter 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
2Peter 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man:
but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD
List of Excerpts
This paper is an attempt to establish an event line: it begins with God in Christ making a covenant with Abraham as the father of the "gens--goyim." Christ did not promise just these pre-Jewish descendants but of all nations. The "Christ" Covenant was promised all of the "nations" which were post flood. The Israelites were estranged from the Abrahamic Gentile Covenant. That did not leave the Gentiles without God and without hope as the Jews Claimed. This iscertified by Paul in Galatians 3.
JEWISH ROOTS IS A DETOUR FROM THE CHRISTIAN THREAD: ALL OF ISRAEL WAS ABANDONED TO WORSHIP THE STARRY HOST AND SENTENCED TO RETURN TO ASSYTIA AND BABYLON. I take Joe's article as a way to explain what most Christian scholars wrote about the two threads in the Old Testament. First, Christ's Covenant with Abraham which continued in The Book of The Covenant, the Church of Christ (the Rock) in the wildernes and to the time of Jesus and the Prophets by Christ in Spirit only in the prophets.
THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IS BUILT UPON THE PROPHETS AND APOSTLES WITH CHRIST BEING THE AUTHOR OF BOTH.
The Epistle of Barnabas and the Lord's Day
Messianic Jews can be Jews but they cannot be Christians and still defend the Law added because of transgression. They might believe that the Apostles were not honest but being a Christian is based on the Prophets by the Spirit OF Christ and the Apostles who were guided into all truth when Jesus of Nazareth was transfigured or changed int His Holy Spirit form. Christians base their future on going through the same transformation beginning by following the the teachings of Christ.For the Lord hath made known to us by the prophets
Chapter II.-The Jewish Sacrifices are Now Abolished.
both the things which are past and present,
giving us also the first-fruits of the knowledge 10 of things to come, which things as we see accomplished, one by one, we ought with the greater richness of faith 11 and elevation of spirit to draw near to Him with reverence. 12 I then, not as your teacher, but as one of yourselves, will set forth a few things by which in present circumstances ye may be rendered the more joyful.
Since, therefore, the days are evil, and Satan 13 possesses the power of this world,
we ought to give heed to ourselves, and diligently inquire into the ordinances of the Lord.
PAUL'S TESTIMONY
2Corinthians 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament;
not of the letter, [The Law of Moses]
but of the spirit: [The gospel prophesied by the Spirit OF Christ in the prophets]
for the letter killeth, [The Law]
but the spirit giveth life. [The Gospel]
CONFIRMING STATEMENTS:
John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth;The Law of Moses given because of transgression prophesied of "another prophet like me" when the Israelites totally rejected The Book of The Covenant of Grace or the Abrahamic Covenant and therefore FORFEITED the Land Promise: God sentenced the Hebrews to return to Assytia and Babylon from which the masses came. Only the tiny remnant who accepted Jesus Christ who made the covenant with Abraham would be "reserved" and Hebrews says that "who had not bowed to Baal." Proof texting lets the "Messianic Jews" who are Jews miss the point of fulfilled prophecy.
the flesh profiteth nothing: [The Law]
the words that I speak unto you,
they are spirit, and they are life. [The Gospel]
2Corinthians 3:7 But if the ministration of death,
written and engraven in stones, was glorious,
so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance;
which glory was to be done away:
2Corinthians 3:8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
2Corinthians 3:13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face,
that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
2Corinthians 3:14 But their minds were blinded:
for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away
in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
2Corinthians 3:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
2Corinthians 3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
2Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
2Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord,
are changed into the same image from glory to glory,
even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
1Peter 1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently,
who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
1Peter 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify,
when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
2 Pet 1:18 And this voice which came from heaven
WE heard, when
WE were with him in the holy mount.
2 Pet 1:19 WE have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto YE do well that ye take heed,
as unto a light that shineth in a dark place,
until the day dawn,
and the day star arise in your hearts:2Peter 3:2 That ye may be mindful of the words
which were spoken before by the holy prophets,
and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first,
that there shall come in the last days scoffers,
walking after their own lusts,
Empaig-ma , atos, to, A. jest, mocking, delusion, LXX Is.66.4; magikês empaigmata technês
-Prospaizô , 2. abs., sport, jest, 3. laugh at, make fun or sport of, sing to the gods, sing in their praise or honour, 2. banter, tous rhêtoras
-Pl.Epin.980b Plato Epinomis, or Nocturnal Council: Athenian
[980b] and honoring the gods, with high tribute of his hymns and affluence throughout the period of his own life.
Cleinias
Well spoken, indeed, good sir. Yes, may you have this consummation of your laws, after making fine sport in praising the gods and having passed a purer life, to find thereby the best and fairest end!
Athenian
Then how, Cleinias, do we state it? Do we honor the gods, think you, to the utmost with our hymns, praying that we may be moved to speak the fairest and best things about them? Do you state it so, or how?-Paig-ma , atos, to, A.play, sport, lôtoshotan . . paigmatabremêi whene'er the pipe sounds its sportive strains, E.Ba.161(lyr.); Ludia p. luras
Revelation 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me,
See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant,
and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus:
worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
1John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit,
but try the spirits whether they are of God:
because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Luke 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning meThe Monarchy did not follow the Law of Moses because they had been turned over to worship the starry host: demon worship.
JESUS REPUDIATES THE DOCTRINES OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES AND JEWISH FABLES HAVE NO CONNECTION TO THE CHURCH OF CHRIST
Jesus came and died to free godly Israelites and all nations from the heavy burden laded by the Jews who went astray from the Covenant made by God in Christ to Abraham and practiced by the synagogue, ekklesia or Church of Christ in the wilderness. The same religious if not genetic descendants of Judah is imposed by so-called Messianic Judaism which claims that the New Testament was built on the foundation of Jewish or Hebrew roots: that was the folly of the first century.
NOTHING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IS BUILT ON OR ENHANCED BY THE JEWISH COMMENTARY OR THE LAW OF MOSES. IF YOU GRASP THAT YOU WILL NOT JUDAIZE AND REPUDIATE CHRIST ORDAINED FRROM THE FOUDATION OF THE WORLD.
Luke 11:46 And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers!Christ in the prophets (only) repudiated the Jewish Roots and defined both inclusively and exclusively. \the true REST which Joshua could not give them both inclusively and exclusively.
for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne,
and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
Luke 11:47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets
and your fathers killed them.
Luke 11:48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers:
for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
Luke 11:49 Therefore also said the wisdom [Mind, Spirit} of God,
I will send them prophets and apostles,
and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
Ephesians 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,Those still trusting the Law have a right to claim that Paul was just "Christianizing" but the Church of Christ is NOT built on any Jewish tradition or fable: Abraham was not a Jew.
Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Ephesians 3:5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men,
as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; [Christ, Word]
Hebrews 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers mannersChrist the Rock spoke through the Abrahamic Covenant. After the rejection of that Covenant at Mount Sinai, Christ spoke only through the prophets to instruct the godly children of Abraham..
spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hebrews 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,
whom he hath appointed heir of all things,
by whom also he made the worlds;
Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person,
and upholding all things by the word of his power,
when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
The Son of God was God's WORD as in Speaking. The office of Christ was fulfilled in many ways, but it was CHRIST IN SPIRIT who directed the godly people and quarantined them from the Civil-Military-Clergy complex which Christ in the prophets calls robbers and parasites: why not, God through Samuel promised that as a way to carry out the captivity and death sentence.
2Peter 1:14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle,
even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
2Peter 1:15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease
to have these things always in remembrance.
2Peter 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables,
when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Paul excluded any of the Talmud which nullified the Old Testament. While they are correct in not listening to what Christ in the prophets calls "the lying pen of the Scribes," the Church of Christ as well defined by Paul "leapfrogs" all of the Law of Moses and reconnects with the Abrahamic Covenant made by Christ. Jewish Roots may build on the extra Biblical traditions of the elders, simple Bible reading, Jesus and Paul repudiated these opinions of men.
Titus 1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.It is probable that the fishermen and other common men Christ picked were not "observant Jews."
Titus 1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure;
but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Mark 7:12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
Mark 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition,
which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
Mark 7:14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
Para-dosis 2. transmission of legends, doctrines, etc., tradition, treatment, expositionThe acted parables of Jesus "repudiated" all of the Babylonian additions.
Paradidōmi 4. hand down legends, opinions, etc., by tradition, “phēmēn” Pl.Phlb.16c; “paradedomena kai muthōdē” D.23.65; “hoi paradedomenoi muthoi” A
OF THE PHARISEES
Matthew 15:1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees,
- They changed the Laws of God: by teaching THEIR doctrine instead of God's. their worship was VAIN.
- They changed God's Word so that they COULD IGNORE the Words of God.
"seeking scriptural support for their actions through a ramified system of HERMENEUTICS. It was due to this PROGRESSIVE tendency of the Pharisees that their interpretation of the Torah CONTINUED to develop and has remained a living force in Judaism. Catholic Encyclopedia, Pharisees.- They make NEW RULES. One of them was MOUTH RELIGION which is attached to Ezekiel 33 and the self-preachers, singers and instrument players. Jesus used the performing musicians to describe them.
- They make long prayers which was for performance and not for instruction using the hymns.
- As Scribes they wrote books and peddled them workshop to workshop.
- They liked to SIT UP front in the Holy Place pew.
- They loved STANDING in the synagogue while they performed. Jesus read then sat down.
- They pretended to be Mediators The definition of a Pharisee in that world meant that they claimed some spiritual connection with the Spirit world.
- And they did this so that they could EAT UP or steal the houses of widows.
- They were EVANGELISTIC but made converts more evil than themselves
- They were HYPOCRITES also in that they were trained in DRAMATIC PRESENTATION. Hypocrites are still ACTORS
which were of Jerusalem, saying,
Matthew 15:2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?
for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
Matthew 15.1 Tote proserkhontai tō Iēsou apo Ierosolumōn Pharisaioi kai grammateis legontesMatthew 15:7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
More: Para-dosis , eōs, hē, 3. that which is handed down or bequeathed, tradition, doctrine, teaching, “hē p. tōn presbuterōn” Ev.Matt.15.2, Ev.Marc.7.3, etc.; grammateisJeremiah 8:8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain
Jeremiah 8.8 quomodo dicitis sapientes nos sumus et lex Domini nobiscum est vere mendacium operatus est stilus mendax scribarum
Mendax a liar should have a good memory
II. Transf., of inanim, and abstr. things, lying, false, deceptive; feigned, fictitious, counterfeit, not real,
Scrība , ae, m. scribo
2. (Eccl. Lat.) A doctor of the Jewish law, one whose duty it was to guard and expound the sacred text, Vulg. 2 Reg. 8, 17; id. Matt. 23, 2 et saep.
Luke 11:43 Woe unto you, Pharisees!
for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues,
and greetings in the markets.
Luke 11:44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
for ye are as graves which appear not,
and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
Luke 11:45 Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him,
Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.
Luke 11:46 And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! [rabbi]
for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne,
and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
Luke 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Matthew 15:8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth,
and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Matthew 15:9 But in vain they do worship me,
teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
1. cŏlens , entis, P. a., honoring, treating respectfully; subst., a reverer, worshipper; with gen.: “religionum,” Cic. Planc. 33, 80.—
Matt 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites for ye devour widows houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Prophasis (g4392) prof'-as-is; from a comp. of 4253 and 5316; an outward showing, i.e. pretext: - cloke, colour, pretence, show.
Skhēma 2. appearance, Opposite the reality, ouden allo plēn . .Pl.R.365c; show, pretence, “ēn de touto . . s. politikon tou logou” Th.8.89; ;
“skhēmasi kai khrōmasi mimeisthai” esp. outside show, pomp,
Khroma ornaments, embellishments,X.Smp.7.5; en . . mousikē [hēs to kitharizein kai to adein kai to embainein orthōs;] kai skhēmata . . kai melē enesti figures and tunes, Pl.Lg.655a 10. = to aidoion LXXIs.3.17.
3. in Music, a modification of the simplest music: “ta melē metabolais kai khrōmasin hōs eu kekratai” Antiph.209.4; “khrōmata eukhroa ekitharise” Philoch.66:but esp.b. chromatic scale or music, “oute khrōma deilous oute harmonia andreious poiei
Mimeomai II. of the arts, represent, express by means of imitation, of an actor, Id.R.605c, cf.Ar.Pl.291 (lyr.); of painting and music, Pl.Plt.306d; “tēn tōn melōn mimēsin tēn eu kai tēn kakōs memimēmenēn” Id.Lg.812c;
Mousi^kos Music you think is speaking
more accomplished in speaking before a mob,
Melos, eos, to, lyric poetry, choral songs, opp. Epic or Dramatic verse, Pl.R.379a, 607a, al.; [m. ek triōn sugkeimenon, logou te kai harmonias kai rhuthmou ib.398d.
2. music to which a song is set, tune, Arist.Po.1450a14; opp. rhuthmos, metron, Pl.Grg. 502c; opp. rhuthmos, rhēma, Id.Lg.656c; Krētikon, Karikon, Iōnikon m.,
2 Peter 1
2Peter 1:17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory,
when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory,
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
2Peter 1:18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard,
when we were with him in the holy mount.
2Peter 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed,
as unto a light that shineth in a dark place,
until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2Peter 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy
of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Epilusis (g1955)ep-il'-oo-sis; from 1956; explanation, i.e. application: - interpretation.
Epiluo (g1956) ep-ee-loo'-o; from 1909 and 3089; to solve further, i.e. (fig.) to explain, decide: - determine, expound.
Epi-lusis A. release from, e. phobôn [fear] didou A.Th.134 (lyr.): abs., exemption from banishment, [purgatory?]. The word dissertio also carries the idea of trying to REMOVE fear by explaining away any worry about keeping laws.
2. . solution, “sophismatōn” S.E.P.2.246; explanation, 2 Ep.Pet.1.20,
Sophisma A.acquired skill, method, stage-trick, claptrap, rhetorikos 2. of persons, skilled in speaking, fit to be an orator Pi.O.13.17 2. in less good sense, sly trick, artifice, dikên dounai s. kakôn E.Ba.489 , cf. Hec.258; eph' hêmas tauta paronta s. Th.6.77, cf. D.35.2; stage-trick, claptrap
4. spell, Magic:
g4486 rhegnum to sunder by separation of the parts, a shattering to minute fragments; but not a reduction to the constituent particles, or disrupt, lacerate; by implication to convulse (with spasms); figuratively to give vent to joyful emotions:
1Peter 1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently,2Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people,
who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
1Peter 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify,
when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
1Peter 1:12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves,
but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them
that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven;
which things the angels desire to look into.
1Peter 1:17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons
judgeth according to every man’s work,
pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
1Peter 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things,
as silver and gold,
from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
1Peter 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ,
as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
1Peter 1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world,
but was manifest in these last times for you,
2Peter 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man:
but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
even as there shall be false teachers among you,
who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them,
and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2Peter 3:2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets,
and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets;
for God hath avenged you on her.
This paper is a summary of the Bible and not directed to any person. God does not want either earthly Jews or Gentiles to be call back to the bondage of the Civil-Military-Clergy worship of the starry host. Jesus cured the dilema by denying that there is any racial distinction now or never.
TORAH: I believe that Messianic Jews call all of the "old testament" the Torah. However, the Old Testament is a library and not a book. Christ AS spirit spoke through the Prophets all of whom repudiate the Law and Monarchy as God's abandonment to the worship of the starry host.
Jesus said that God had hidden the truth in parables "from the foundation of the world" to those of the world for which He would not even pray. He warned about the Lying Pen of the Scribes who kept the journals for the Civil-Military-Clergy complex. Jesus called the Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: in Isaiah and specificially Ezekiel 33 He identified speakers, singers and instrument players: these were MARKS that people had no intention of obeying the Word of God. Therefore, failure to understand the difference between the RELIGIOUS (synagogue) thread and the CIVIL-MILITARY-PRIESTLY class will always lead to jumbling the two together. God understood this and commanded that the Word be PREACHED by being READ: this would instill the values of the great Epics and give no room for anyone to invent a list of dogma or AIDS for God.
The godly people always assembled for instruction and were quarantined from the idolatry at the Temple.
God through Jacob made it virtually impossible for any godly person to ever get trapped in the "Jewish" system which had been abandoned to worship the starry host like other nationals.
A QUICK SUMMARY OF GOD'S ABANDONMENT OF ISRAEL TO WORSHIP THE STARRY HOST: IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THE HEBREW ROOTS CONNECT TO ABRAHAM AND THE COVENANT MADE BY GOD IN CHRIST. IF YOU FOLLOW THE MONARCHY YOU WILL GET YOUR ROOTS TRIMMED IN BABYLON.
God promised Satan (Nachash=Musical Enchanter):
and between thy seed and her seed;
it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
This was fulfilled by the Birth of Jesus of Nazareth and the woman. God made Jesus to be both Lord and Christ. There is no Biblical authority for "observation" which has not been taught through Christ in the Prophets and to the Apostles in the New Testament.
Speaking to the religious Jews
"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." John 8:44The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Serpent Worship.
"Traces of this superstition are thought by certain critics to be discoverable in the religion of Israel. Stade mentions that W. R. Smith supposed the serpent to be the totem of the house of David (Geschichte, I, 465). H. P. Smith says: "We know of a Serpent's Stone near Jerusalem, which was the site of a sanctuary (1 Kings 1:9), and this sanctuary was dedicated to Yahweh" (Hist of Old Testament, 239, 240). Special reliance is placed on the narrative of the brazen serpent, which Hezekiah is recorded to have destroyed as leading to idolatry, (2 Kings 18:4). "In that case," says H. P. Smith, "we must treat the Nehushtan as a veritable idol of the house of Israel, which had been worshipped in the temple from the time of its erection. Serpent worship is so widespread that we should be surprised not to find traces of it in Israel" (ut supra). In the same line, see G. B. Gray, Nu, 275-76. The fancifulness of these deductions is obvious. See NEHUSHTAN. James Orr
BRAZEN Serpent
As the Hebrew words for serpent and brass are the same when the Massoretic points are omitted (N H SH), some have sought for an interpretation by referring to the Evil One, called by the later Jews the Deprived (Nahash), but the fiery serpents "were the Seraphim, each one of which, as Isaiah shows (6:2), 'had six wings.'
Just as the serpent is connected with knowledge, wisdom, and magic, so likewise has copper or brass since immemorial time in all mystic schools been a metallic compound supposed to be under the particular governance of the planet Venus, (Lucifer, Zoe) which is the ruler or controller of the human higher manas -- manas being at once the savior as well as the tempter of mankind,
for it is in the mind (nous) where temptation and sin or evildoing ultimately arise.
Nahash and Lahash make a close connection between the tempter in the garden of Eden, the offspring of Lamech (reincarnated as Ea) and the musical enchanters of Mesopotamis.
Genesis 18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him,
and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment;
that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
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This
would have been a Synagogue of Christ in the wilderness: the synagogue
was the antithesis to the Jewish king, kingdom, temple, animal
sacrifices or exorcism instrumental sounds under the king and
commanders of the army.
Exod 32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings;
and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play
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THE LATIN: Exod 32:[6] surgentesque mane obtulerunt holocausta et hostias pacificas et sedit populus comedere ac bibere et surrexerunt ludere [Ludo is PLAY]
Surgo they rose up in insurrection AGAINST God.
Hêdonais 3. Pl., desires after pleasure, pleasant lusts, X.Mem.1.2.23, Ep.Tit.3.3,
WORD DEFINITIONS IN LATIN
Ludo A. To sport, play with any thing, to practise as a pastime, amuse one's self with any thing, B. To sport, dally, wantonly Esp., to play on an instrument of music, to make or compose music or song: “carmina pastorum,”
-jūcundus (jōcundus ),dv.: jūcundē, agreeably, delight fully: “vivere,” Cic. Cael. 6, 13: “cantare et psallere,” Suet. Tit. 3: “jucundissimi ludi,”
Suet. Tit. 3 very ready in the Latin and Greek tongues, both in verse and prose; and such was the facility he possessed in both, that he would harangue and versify extempore. Nor was he unacquainted with music, but could both [1] sing and [2] play upon the [3] harp sweetly [iucunde] and scientifically-lūdĭus , ĭi, m. ludus.I. A stageplayer, pantomimist: “fite caussā meā ludii barbari,” Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 63: “ipse ille maxime ludius, non solum spectator, sed actor et acroama,” Cic. Sest. 54, 116; id. Har. Resp. 11; Plaut. Aul. 2, 9, 6: “ludius aequatam ter pede pulsat humum,” Ov. A. A. 1, 112: “triviales ex Circo ludios interponebat,” Suet. Aug. 74; cf. ludio.—II. A gladiator: “comitata est Hippia ludium ad Pharon,” Juv. 6, 82.
-lūdo , si, sum A. To sport, play with any thing, to practise as a pastime, amuse one's self with any thing: “illa ipsa ludens conjeci in communes locos, Cic. Par. prooem.: Prima Syracosio dignata est ludere versu Nostra ... Thalia,” Verg. E. 6, 1.—Esp., to play on an instrument of music, to make or compose music or song:
B. To sport, dally, wanton (cf. "amorous play," Milton, P. L. 9, 1045): “scis solere illam aetatem tali ludo ludere,Vellem a comedy which wishes (i. e. is meant) to be in demand, b. Of the wishes of those that have a right to command, the gods, masters, parents, commanders, etc., I want, wish, will, am resolved, it is my will:
Canto I. Neutr., to produce melodious sounds (by the voice or an instrument), to sound, sing, play, Less freq. of instrumental music, and only with abl. of the instrument, in comedy, to sing and play while the actor accompanies the song with gestures or dancing,
Tuba war trumpet, Apart from military purposes, it was used on various occasions, as at religious festivals, games, funerals, a signal for war, exciter, instigator.
The Greek used MANY times in the New Testament
Empaizō , fut. To be deluded 2. euphem. in mal. part., LXXJd. 19.25.II. sport in or on, hôs nebros chloerais e. leimakos hêdonais E.Ba. 866 (lyr.); tois choroisin e. to sport in the dance, Ar.Th.975; tôi Luc.Lex.5Jdg 19:25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
Paig-ma , atos, to,A. play, sport, lōtos hotan . . paigmata bremē whene'er the pipe sounds its sportive strains, E.Ba.161(lyr.); “Ludia p. luras” Lyr.Alex.Adesp.37.15.II. 'child's play', to toiouto p. tōn logōn
Paig-ma , atos, to,A. play, sport, lōtos hotan . . paigmata bremē whene'er the pipe sounds its sportive strains, E.Ba.161(lyr.); “Ludia p. luras” Lyr.Alex.Adesp.37.15.II. 'child's play', to toiouto p. tōn logōn
THE PENALTY FOR THOSE WHOSE LAND PROMISE HAD BEEN FORFEITED EXCEPT FOR A TINY REMNANT WHO TURNED TO CHRIST.
Exod 32:34 Therefore now go,
lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee:
behold, mine Angel shall go before thee:
nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
Deut 32[17] They sacrificed to demons, [which were] no God, To gods that they didn't know,
to new [gods] that came up of late, Which your fathers didn't dread.
Deut. 32:18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful,
and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
Deut. 32:19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them,
because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
Provoco To call out, challenge to a game. invite one to any thing (as to play, sing, drink, fight, etc.)Deut. 32:20 And he said, I will hide my face from them,
Plautus, Curculio 2, 3, 75 “aliquem cantatum,” Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 53
I will see what their end shall be:
for they are a very froward generation,
children in whom is no faith.
Isaiah 5:10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,
and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
Isaiah 5:11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning,
that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
Isaiah 5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts:
but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Isaiah 5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity,
because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished,
and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Isaiah 5:14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure:
and their glory, and their multitude,
and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
Amos 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images,
the star of your god,
which ye made to yourselves.
Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,
saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
THE JEWS WORSHIPPED THE STARRY HOST: NOT THE GOD OF HOSTS
Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch,Amos 8:3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day,
and the star of your god Remphan,
figures which ye made to worship them:
and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
Amos 8:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD,
that I will cause the sun to go down at noon,
and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
Amos 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation;
and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head;
and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD,
that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the LORD:
Amos 8:12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east,
they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
Amos 8:13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
Amos 8:14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say,
Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth;
even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
When they made SAMSON GRIND or SPORT they sexually abused him
Judges 16:25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport [h7832]. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport [h6711]: and they set him between the pillars
Judges 16:21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza,
and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
2912 tachan, taw-khan´; a primitive root; to grind meal; hence, to be a concubine (that being their employment):—grind(-er).Job 31:10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
From Hebrew: H2912 ṭâchan taw-khan'A primitive root; to grind meal; hence to be a concubine (that being their employment):—grind (-er).
scortum, II. Transf., a harlot, strumpet, prostitute Of a male prostitute, Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 12; Cic. Sest. 17, 39; id. Phil. 2, 18, 44;Lamentations 5:13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
From Hebrew: H2912 ṭâchan taw-khan'A primitive root; to grind meal; hence to be a concubine (that being their employment):—grind (-er).
Latin impŭdīcus (inp- ), a, um, adj. 2. inpudicus. Shameless, impudent
II. Unchaste, immodest, lewd to rob of chastity adulteri,
“intolerabile est servire impuro, impudico, effeminato,” “mulieres,” id. Cat. 2, 5, 10;
B. Transf.: “digitus,” i. e. the middle finger, Mart. 6, 70, 5: “si fur veneris, impudicus ibis,” violated, Auct. Priap. 60: “odor impudicus urcei,” disgusting, filthy, ăb-ūtor ,
lignum , E A staff, club (eccl. Lat.): “cum gladiis et lignis,” Vulg. Marc. 14, 43 and 48.
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David went naked and PLAYED the harp and played with the camp followers: He confessed that he made himself VILE that hale or "praise word" people grasp without knowing what it is they are holding in their hands.
1Chronicles 13:8 And David and all Israel played [H7832] before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
Ephraim Syrus On Our Lord While God was feeding the flock with all delights, it chose for itself as its Shepherd the calf, which was not able even to eat. Moses who kept them in awe was removed from them, that the idolatry might cry aloud in their mouths, which the restraint of Moses had kept down in their hearts. For they cried: Make us gods, to go before us.
19. But when Moses came down, he saw their heathenism revelling in the wide plain with drums and cymbals.
Speedily, he put their madness to shame by means of the Levites and drawn swords.
So likewise here, our Lord concealed His knowledge for a little when the sinful woman approached Him, that the Pharisee might form into shape his thought,
........ as his fathers had shaped the pernicious calf
Serpent-Bull Worship Wak, Staniland Thus also the Kinibri "adored their principal God under the form of a brazen bull ;" as the ancient Colchians worshipped brazen-footed bulls which were said to emit fire from their nostrils, which has reference to the sacrifices with which they were propitiated. [infant inside: the Jews worshipped Molech]
Dr. Faber says as to the Great Phoenician God, called by the Greek translator of Sanchoniatho Agruerus, from the circumstance of his being an agricultural God, that he " was worshipped by the Syrians and their neighbours the Canaanites, under the titles of Baal and Moloch ; and, as his shrine was drawn by oxen, so he himself was represented by the figure of a man having the head of a bull, and sometimes probably by the simple figure of a bull alone.
Comments from the Sirit OF ChristThe Persian Mithra is also represented as a bull-god, and it ishighly suggestive that in one of the carved grottos near the CampusMarjorum he is figured under the symbol of the phallus. Hebrews themselves the golden calf was, under the authority of Aaron, used as an object of worship, a form of idolatry which was re-established by Jeroboam, if it had ever been abandoned.
Amos 5:21 I hate, I despise your feast days,
and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Amos 5:22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings,
I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings
of your fat beasts.
Amos 5:23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs;
for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
Amos 5:24 But let judgment run down as waters,
and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Amos 5:25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Amos 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
Isaiah 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?
saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams,
and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks,
or of lambs, or of he goats.
Isaiah 1:12 When ye come to appear before me,
who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
Isaiah 1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me;
the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with;
it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Isaiah 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth:
they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Jeremiah 7:14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
Jeremiah 7:15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
Jeremiah 7:16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
Jeremiah 7:17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Jeremiah 7:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
Jeremiah 7:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
Jeremiah 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
Jeremiah 7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Jeremiah 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Jeremiah 7:25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
Jeremiah 7:26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
Jeremiah 7:34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
Dr. Faber, indeed, thinks that the calves worshipped at Samaria were copies of the kerubimJerusalem. If we turn to peoples kindred to the Hebrews, we find that the Phoenician Adonis was sometimes represented as a horned deity, as were also DionysosBacchus, who were, in fact, merely the names under which Adonis was worshipped in Thrace and Greece. Plutarch says that " the women of Elis were accustomed to invite Bacchus to his temple on the seashore, under the name of ' the heifer- footed divinity,' the illustrious bull, the bull worthy of the highest veneration."
Hence in the ceremonies, during the celebration of the mysteries of Bacchus and Dionysos, the bull always took a prominent place, as it did also during the festivals of the allied deity of Egypt — the bull Apis being worshipped as an incarnation of Osiris. In India the bull is still held sacred by the Brahmans, and in Hindumythology it is connected with botli Siva and Menu. 1 A superstitious veneration for this animal is in fact entertained by all pastoral oragricultural peoples who possess it bodies. 1 The bull, like the goat, must have been a sacred animal in Egypt before it was declared to be an embodiment of the sun-god Osiris. In some sense, indeed, the bull and the serpent, although both of them became associated with the solardeities, were antagonistic. The serpent was symbolical of the personal male element,or rather had especial reference to the man, 2 while the bull hadrelation to nature as a whole, and was symbolical of the general ideaof fecundity. This antagonism was brought to an issue in the struggle between Osiris and Seti (Seth), which ended in the triumph of the god of nature, although it was renewed even during the Exodus,when the golden calf of Osiris or Horus was set up in the Hebrew camp.
The reference made to the serpent, to the tree of wisdom, and to the bull, in the legend of the " fall," sufficiently proves its Phallic character, which was, indeed, recognised in the early Christian church. 3 Judging from the facts above referred to, however, we can hardly doubt that thelegend was derived from a foreign source. That it could not be original to the Hebrews may, I think, be proved by several considerations. The position occupied in the legend by the serpent Like Satan himself even, surmounted by the head of a bull. Even among then in the Temple and is quite inconsistent with the use of this animal symibol by Moses. 4"professional musicians emerged in Israel about the time of David and Solomon. From then on, we have abundant historical evidence of the role which the professional musicians played in the organization of the temple ritual." (International Dictionary of the Bible, p. 461, Abingdon). "the testimonies of neighboring civilizations are of little value, as they concern chiefly the music of courts or temples, which in Sumer, Babylon, and Canaan was then in the hands of professional priests-musicians. We have only a few remarks of Herodotus about Egyptian practices, which were similar to those of ancient Hebrew popular singing. He refers to the 'lament for Linos, also to women's chants in procession of the cult of Osiris and the Diana of Bubastis. "In Phoenicia and Syria almost all popular music reflected the worship of Ishtar, the goddess of fertility.
Thus, popular song was usually a prelude to sexual orgies in honor of the goddess, led and organized by her thousands of hierodules." (Interpreter's Dict of the Bible, Music, p. 461).
who came near or into any of the closed temple spaces. [Their instruments induced terror]
Stephen affirmed that this was the ekklesis and denounced king, kingdom, temple, sacrifices and the pagan rejoicing
Neh. 8:1 And all the people gathered themselves together as one man
into the street that was before the water gate;
and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring
the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
Neh. 8:8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly,
and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Neh 9:36 Behold, we are servants this day, [and so are you]
and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof,
behold, we are servants in it:
Neh 9:37 And it yieldeth
much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us
because of our sins:
also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle,
at their pleasure,
and we are in great distress.Je.12:1 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns:
they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit:
and they shall be ashamed of your revenues
because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
1Samuel 8:5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways:
now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
1Samuel 8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us.
And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
1Samuel 8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel,
Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee:
for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me,
that I should not reign over them.
According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day,
wherewith they have forsaken me,
and served other gods,
so do they also unto thee. 1 Samuel 8:8
And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you;
and the Lord will not hear you in that day. 1 Samuel 8:18
The Land Promise did not extend to those not of The Faith of Abraham.
Psa 106:32 They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
Psa 106:33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
Psa 106:34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them:
Psa 106:35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
Psa 106:36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
Psa 106:37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto DEVILS,
Paul warned about the musical Idolatry at Mount Sinai and called it Devil or Demon worship.Daimonios possessed
Ecclesiasticus 48:
Apollon, ephē, daimonias huperbolēs ! Id.R.509c.
2. Of persons, “tō d. hōs alēthōs kai thaumastō” [Lying wonders, untruth, magical operation,]
Id.Smp.219b; ho peri toiauta sophos [mostly of poets and musicians,
enchanters en kithara s. E.IT1238
d. anēr lokhos gunaikōn, of the Furies, A.Eu.46;
Lokhos 1. a place of ambush, place for lying in wait, Hom., Eur.2.
the act of lying in wait, lokhon heisai to place an ambuscade,
Ezekiel 20:23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness,
that I would scatter them among the heathen,
and disperse them through the countries;
Ezekiel 20:24 Because they had not executed my judgments,
but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths,
and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
Ezekiel 20:25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good,
and judgments whereby they should not live;
Ezek 20: 32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all,
that ye say, We will be as the heathen, [nations]
as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
Ezek 20:33 As I live, saith the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand,
and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
Hos 13:4 Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt,
and thou shalt know no god but me:
for there is no saviour beside me.
Hos 13:5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
Hos 13:6 According to their pasture,
so were they filled; they were filled,
and their heart was exalted;
therefore have they forgotten me.
Hos 13:9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.
Hos 13:10 I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities?
and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?
Hos 13:11 I gave thee a king in mine anger,
and took him away in my wrath.
Hos 13:12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
1. Then the prophet Elijah arose like a fire, and his word burned like a torch.
2. He brought a famine upon them, and by his zeal he made them few in number.
3. By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens, and also three times brought down fire.
4. How glorious you were, O Elijah, in your wondrous deeds!
And who has the right to boast which you have?
5. You who raised a corpse from death and from Hades, by the word of the Most High;
6. who brought kings down to destruction, and famous men from their beds;
7. who heard rebuke at Sinai and judgments of vengeance at Horeb;
8. who anointed kings to inflict retribution,
and prophets to succeed you.
Jerusalem, which was taken over by the Amorites in Abraham's time, later became a citadel of control by the aristocracy of rulers and court priests. These are the ones who killed the true prophets as Jesus mentioned in Matthew 23. The prophet Jeremiah refers to Jerusalem as the harlot in Jeremiah 3:1. Ezekiel refers to Jerusalem as the harlot in Ezekiel 16:15 and 16:35. When Jesus pronounced God's judgement upon Jerusalem, he said there are days of vengeance and great wrath upon it (Luke 21:22.). And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. Revelation 11:8 [The Second Babylonian Beast, David L.E.]
- I In Isaiah 1 Christ defined washing or baptism in a form parallel to Mark 16.
In Isaish 50 Christ warned against the musical mocking like that of animal sacrifices as Star worship or Exorcism
In Isaiah 55 Christ warned us not to give our food money for the FREE water of the Word. [Spirit Word Identity]
2 Hosea 6:9 And as troops ofrobbers wait for a man,
so the company of priests murder in the way by consent:
for they commit lewdness.
Hosea 7:1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered,
and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood;
and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without
John 10:8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
Acts 19:37 For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
A In Isaiah 58 defining the spiritual sabbath or rest He outlawed seeking our own pleasure or even speaking own words.
Jesus Christ made these prophesies more perfect: stood up to read the word and decently sat down.
Paul outlaws SELF-pleasure (all of the performing arts) and said to use one mind and one mouth
To teach that which is written for our learning.
While God in Christ gave Abraham the commission to bless and teach the Gentiles, David was abandoned to worship the starry host and boasted that he had shed the blood and put his foot on the necks of the Gentiles. That did not change.
The Gentiles continued to live as they had before God gave the Jews The Law of Moses because of transgression. He did not give the Gentiles The Law of Moses because they did NOT as a TRIBE deliberately reject The Book of The covenant of Grace as the Covenant made by Christ to Abraham.
Psalms 15:1 LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
Psalms 15:2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
Isaiah 64:4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Isaiah 64:5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
Acts 10:35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Psalms 15:2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
HOWEVER, THE JEWS WHO HAD FORFEITED THE LAND AND SPIRIT PROMISE.
Acts 15:1 And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren,
and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
Acts 15:24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us
have troubled you with words,
subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law:
to whom we gave no such commandment:
Galatians 6:12 As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh,
they constrain you to be circumcised;
only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith;
and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Ephesians 2:9 Not of works [The Law], lest any man should boast.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works,
which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them
BUT THE JEWS SAID:
Ephesians 2:11 Wherefore remember,
that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh,
who are called Uncircumcision by that
which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
This was a false charge!
John 7:48 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?
John 7:49 But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
legō choose for oneself, pick out, 10.hōs legousi as they say, boast of, tell of,
That was the Jewish opinion not fact: The Circumcision demanded that the Gentiles be circumcised and keep the Law of Moses before they could be baptized into Christ. The Commission given by God in Christ had not been carried to all nations. Therefore, they simply did not know about their heritage and fell--like the Jews--into the worship of idols.
Ephesians 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ,
being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel,
and strangers from the covenants of promise,
having no hope, and without God in the world:Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off
are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one,
and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Ephesians 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity,
even the law of commandments contained in ordinances;
for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
THE JEWS NEVER WANTED THE CITY WITHOUT WALLS AS JUST BELIEVERS.
Romans 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
Romans 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law:
and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
Romans 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, [JEWS}
but the doers of the law shall be justified. [GENTILES]
Romans 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law,
do by nature the things contained in the law,
these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Romans 2:15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts,
Their conscience also bearing witness,
and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
Romans 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men
by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Romans 2:17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
Romans 2:18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
Romans 2:19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
Romans 2:20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes,
which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
Romans 2:21 Thou therefore which teachest another,
teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
Romans 2:22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery?
thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Romans 2:23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law,
through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Romans 2:24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you,
as it is written.
Romans 2:25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law:
but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Romans 2:26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law,
Shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
Romans 2:27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
Romans 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly;
neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Romans 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Romans 4:1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
Romans 4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works [The Law], he hath whereof to glory;
but not before God.
Romans 4:3 For what saith the scripture?
Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Romans 4:4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
Romans 4:5 But to him that worketh not,
but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, [ceremonially pure]
his faith is counted for righteousness.
Romans 4:6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man,
unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, [The Law]
Romans 4:7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Romans 4:8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Romans 4:9 Cometh this blessedness then
upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also?
for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
Romans 4:10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision?
Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
Romans 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision,
a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised:
that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised;
that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
Romans 4:12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only,
but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham,
which he had being yet uncircumcised.
Romans 4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world,
was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law,
but through the righteousness of faith.
Galatians 3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
Romans 4:14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void,
and the promise made of none effect:
Romans 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath:
for where no law is, there is no transgression.
WHO KILLED JESUS? BECAUSE THE GODLY JEWS WERE TOTALLY OPPRESSED THERE IS NO POINT IN DODGING IT and no blame on modern Jews. The Monarchy was just as much the enemy of godly Jews and Gentiles.
Matthew 20:17 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way,
and said unto them,
Matt. 20:18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem;
and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes,
and they shall condemn him to death,
Matt. 20:19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him:
and the third day he shall rise again.
Matthew 20:18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem;
and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes,
and they shall condemn him to death,
Matthew 20:19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock,
and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
The loud music by the Levites (Parasites in Greek systems) was not worship but exorcism: they made the lambs dumb before the slaughter and were mocking them consistent with ancient paganism of mocking the god-king. Psalm 41 Prophesied that the Jews would do it to Messiah:
The word Prophesying as with instruments was "soothsaying." In Revelation 18 music is called sorcery.
Empaizō , fut.A. “-xomai” LXXHb.1.10: pf. empepaikha ib.Nu.22.29:— mock at, mock, “tini” Hdt.4.134; “tina” ., S.Ant.799:—Pass., “psukhē hupo sōmatōn kai pragmatōn empaizomenē”2. euphem. in mal. part., LXXJd. 19.25.
Judges 19:25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
Isaiah 1:10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. Isaiah 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Revelation 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
3. Pass., to be deluded, Ev.Matt.2.16, AP10.56.2 (Pall.), Vett.Val.16.14; to be defrauded, of the revenues, Cod.Just.1.34.2.II. sport in or on, “hōs nebros khloerais e. leimakos hēdonais” E.Ba. 866 (lyr.); tois khoroisin e. to sport in Ar.Th.975; “tō gumnasiō” the dance,
Galatians 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:29 And if ye be Christ’s,
then are ye Abraham’s seed,
and heirs according to the promise.
Genesis 26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed,
I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
Genesis 26:4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven,
and will give unto thy seed all these countries;
and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
Genesis 26:5 Because that Abraham
obeyed my voice,
and kept my charge,
my commandments,
my statutes,
and my laws.
Galatians 3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made.
He saith not, And to seeds, as of many;
but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
Abraham was not a Jew but a Gentile (the only kind).
God in Christ made the promise to Abraham
Abraham's seed line comes through Jesus Christ
There is no land promise to a nation of Jewss still hostile to "Gentiles."
John 1:16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses,
but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
The Demonstrations OF Aphrahat or Aphraates
19. Now thus is faith; when a man believes in God the Lord of all,
Who made the heavens and the earth and the seas and all that is in them; and He made Adam in His image;
and He gave the Law to Moses;
He sent of His Spirit upon the prophets;
He sent moreover His Christ into the world.
Galatians 3:6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Galatians 3:7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith,
preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
Galatians 3:9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse:
for it is written, Cursed is every one that
continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Galatians 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Galatians 3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Galatians 3:22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin,
That the promise by
Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
NOW LOOK IN SOME MORE DETAIL
JACOB'S WARNING AGAINST LEVI AND PROMISE OF MESSIAH
h3627 instruments of cruelty under the King and Commanders of the Army.
Genesis 49.5 Symeon et Levi fratres vasa iniquitatis bellantia
Gen. 49:5 Simeon and Levi are brethren;
instruments of cruelty
are in their habitations.
(stabbing, dig through furnace, for burning
Bellor fight, carry on war,
Iniquitas. Unfairness, injustice, unreasonableness: luxuria, ≈, unreasonable demands in the shape of taxes,Gen. 49:6 O my soul,
Both the Sabbath and the tithe or "taxes" came from Babylon.
Cruelty h2555 unjust gain Habitations h4380 Stabbing, a sword a furnace, boiling
Instruments: 7015. qiynah, kee-naw´; from 6969; a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments):—lamentation.
6969. quwn, koon; a primitive root; to strike a musical note, i.e. chant or wail (at a funeral):— ament, mourning woman [from CAIN]
Remember That Cain was of the wicked one and Paul said that Eve was totally deceived as a wife is taken before her husband
Also, Acts 7 God turned them over to the worship of the starry host. This was the prevailing paganism well documented in Greek and Latin text who understood the BABYLON ROOTS to which the Jews were abandoned.
The Levites--an old Egyprian infant burning sect--were under the KING and commanders of the Army.
The Worship of the Starry host is well defined in the Greek and Latin literature.
Verg. A. 11.660
Swift through the midmost slaughter proudly strides
the quiver-girt Camilla, with one breast
thrust naked to the fight, like Amazon.
Oft from her hand her pliant shafts she rains,
or whirls with indefatigable arm
a doughty battle-axe; her shoulder bears
Diana's sounding [sŏno] arms and golden bow.
Sometimes retreating and to flight compelled,
the maiden with a rearward-pointing bow
shoots arrows as she flies. Around her move
her chosen peers, Larina, virgin brave,
Tarpeia, brandishing an axe of bronze,
and Tulla, virgins out of Italy
whom the divine Camilla chose to be
her glory, each a faithful servitress
in days of peace or war. The maids of Thrace
ride thus along Thermodon's frozen flood,
and fight with blazoned Amazonian arms
around Hippolyta; or when returns
Penthesilea in triumphal car
'mid acclamations shrill, [Ulŭlo halal] and all her host
of women clash in air the moon-shaped shield.
Fēmĭnĕus , II. Transf., with an accessory notion of contempt, womanish, effeminate, unmanly
Clash: exsulto (exult- ), to run riot, to revel; 2. Of an orator or an oration, diffuse, prolix: “fiunt pro grandibus tumidi ... laetis corrupti, compositis exsultantes,”
THIS IS PLAYED OUT THROUGHOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT: NO JEW SHOULD SEEK TO GO BACK
2Kings 23:11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun,
at the entering in of the house of the LORD,
by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs,
and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
"Ezekiel was particularly aghast at the sun worship there and a Canaanite fertility cult, which he calls 'weeping for Tammuz. The Tammuz cult in the temple was being practiced by women, and it appears that they must bear their full share of responsibility for introducing heathen practices into Israel... to the bad record of women may be added the activities of Solomon's wives who imported worship of the gods of Moab and Ammon, and of Jezebel, the wife of Ahab, who brought with her from Phoenicia the cult of the Tyrian Baal." (Heaton, E. W., Everyday Life in the Old Testament, p. 231-232, Scribners)H8612 tôpheth to'-feth The same as H8611 ; Topheth, a place near Jerusalem:Tophet, Topheth.
H8608 tophaph taw-faf' A primitive root; to drum, that is, play (as) on the tambourine: taber, play with timbrels.
H8610 taphas taw-fas' A primitive root; to manipulate, that is, seize; chiefly to capture, wield; specifically to overlay; figuratively to use unwarrantably: catch, handle, (lay, take) hold (on, over), stop, X surely, surprise, take.
Gen 4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
2Kings 23:12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made,
and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD,
did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence,
and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
(3) Chamman ("sun-image"):
chamman, the King James Version "images," "idols"; the Revised Version (British and American) "sun-images" (Leviticus 26:30; 2 Chronicles 14:5; 34:4,7; Isaiah 17:8; 27:9; Ezekiel 6:4,6):
Isa 17:8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
Isa 27:9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
2 Chr 34:4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
This worship may originally have come from Babylonia, but the reverence of the sun under the name Baal-hamman had long been common in Palestine before Joshua and the Israelites entered the country. These sun-images were probably obelisks or pillars connected with the worship of some local Baal. The chariot and horses of the sun, mentioned (2 Kings 23:11) as having an honored place at the western entrance of the Jerusalem Temple, represented not a local but a foreign cult. In Babylonian temples, sacrifices were made to the sun-chariot, which seems to have had a special significance in time of war (Pinches, HDB, IV, 629; see also CHARIOTS OF THE SUN).
RSV translation in 2 Kings 23:11 for a sculpture that Josiah removed from the Jerusalem Temple. Other translations speak of horses the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. The Assyrians called the sun god, “chariot rider,” so this could represent statuary introduced when Judah began to pay tribute to the Assyrian kings. Deuteronomy 17:3 records God's injunction to Israel not to worship the sun, but Ezekiel attested to persons in the Temple worshiping the sun (Ezekiel 8:16). Holman
See how the women wept for Tammuz in the temple and the men bowed to the sun in the east.
come not thou into their secret;
unto their assembly,
mine honour,
be not thou united:
for in their anger they slew a man,
and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
Gen. 49:7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel:
I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Divido I. To force asunder, part, separate, divide (very freq. and class.; cf.: distribuo, dispertio; findo, scindo, dirimo, divello, separo, sejungo, segrego, secerno).NOW THAT YOU HAVE THE PROPHETIC WARNING NOT TO GET ENTANGLED WITH THE LEVI TRIBE
THE RULE OF CHRIST IN PROPHECY.
Gen. 49:17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way,
an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels,
so that his rider shall fall backward.
Gen. 49:18 I have waited for thy salvation [yeshû‛âh], O LORD.
Gen. 49:19 Gad, a troop [of robbers] shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
Gen. 49:20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
Gen. 49:21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
Gen. 49:22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well;
whose branches run over the wall:
Joseph and Jesus (summary)
Gen. 49:23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
[23] sed exasperaverunt eum et iurgati sunt invideruntque illi habentes iaculaex-aspĕro , āvi, II. Trop., to irritate, provoke, exasperate: “durati (Gallograeci) tot malis exasperatique,” made savage, Liv. 38, 17, 17: “exasperavit animos ferocia nimia Harpali,” id. 42, 14; so, “animos,” id. 28, 25; 33, 39; Cels. 3, 5 fin.; cf.: “animum hoc criminum genere,” Liv. 40, 20 fin.: “Ligures exasperati,” id. 42, 26: “majorem civitatis partem,” Val. Max. 6, 5, 3: “canes,” i. e. to incite, set on, App. M. 4, p. 143; cf. “apes,” Col. 9, 15, 4 et saep.: “rem verbis exasperavit,” exasperated, made worse, Quint. 4, 2, 75.
Āpis , is (abl. Apide, Paul. Nol. 85), m., = Apis,cănis (cănes , Plaut. Men. 5, 1, 18; id. Trin. 1, 2, 133; . Chariscăno , cĕcĭni, cantum (ancient canta pro cantata ponebant; “once canituri,” Vulg. Apoc. 8, 13), 3, v. n. and a. [cf. kanassō, kanakhē, konabos; chanticleer; kuknos,
inritata canes, Lucil. ap. Charis. 1, p. 100 P.: “canem inritatam imitarier,” Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 2
“canibus circumdare saltus,” Verg. E. 10, 57: “hos non inmissis canibus agitant,” id. G. 3, 371: “leporem canibus venari,”
a. A shameless, vile person,
2. As the regular designation of the hangers-on or parasites of an eminent or rich Roman; a follower, dog, creature:
Echidnaea. Ov. M. 7, 409; cf.: “infernae canes,” Hor. S. 1, 8, 35; Verg. A. 6, 257; Luc. 6, 733. —
D. A Cynic philosopher: “Diogenes cum choro canum suorum,” Lact. Epit. 39, 4.
C. Transf., of the instruments by which, or (poet.) of the places in which, the sounds are produced, to sound, resound: “canentes tibiae,” Cic. N. D. 2, 8, 22: “maestae cecinere tubae,” Prop. 4 (5), 11, 9. “frondiferasque novis avibus canere undique silvas,”
Grieved
Jurgo , A. To quarrel, brawl, dispute, scold: “cedo, quid jurgabit tecum?”
II. Act., to chide, censure, blame: “haec jurgans,” Liv. 8, 33; 10, 35: “istis Jurgatur verbis,” Hor. S. 2, 2, 100.
Shot
In-vĭdĕo , vīdi, vīsum, 2, v. a. “poëta jus suum tenuit et dixit audacius,” Cic. Tusc. 3, 9, 20
D. To hinder, prevent; to refuse, deny
Apollo: “tibi laude, nobis voluptate,” Plin. Ep. 2, 10, 2.
bask-ainō , fut.A. “-a^nō” LXX De.28.56: aor. “ebaskēna”—Pass., aor. ebaskanthēn (v. infr.):—bewitchevil eye, etc., Arist. l.c., LXX De.28.56: metaph., Ep.Gal.3.1; “ebaskēne panta . . tukhē” Hdn.2.4.5:—Pass., “hōs mē baskanthōsi” Arist.Fr.347; “hōs mē baskanthō tris eptusa” Theoc.6.39.
Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth,
before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Galatians 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law,
or by the hearing of faith?
Galatians 3:3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Gen. 49:24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the STONE of Israel:)
1Corinthians 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink:
for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them:
and that Rock was Christ.
24] sedit in forti arcus eius et dissoluta sunt vincula brachiorum et manuum illius per manus potentis Iacob inde pastor egressus est lapis Israhel
arcus , A. For shooting: intendit crinitus Apollo Arcum auratum, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. v. 54 Müll.): “arcus intentus in aliquem,” Cic. Sest. 7: “haec cernens arcum intendebat Apollo Desuper,” Verg. A. 8, 704; 9, 665; so Vulg. Psa. 10, 3; 36, 14: “arcum tendere,” ib. 3 Reg. 22, 34; ib. 4 Reg. 9, 24: “adductus,” Verg. A. 5, 507: “remissus,” Hor. C. 3, 27, 67: “arcum dirigere in aliquem,” Pers. 3, 60: “quom arcum et pharetram mi et sagittas sumpsero,” Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 98; so, “arcum suscitare,” Vulg. Hab. 3, 9 et saep. —Genesis 49:25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee;
and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lieth under,
blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
Genesis 49:26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed
above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills:
they shall be on the head of Joseph,
and on the crown of the head of
him that was separate from his brethren.
Genesis 49:27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey,
and at night he shall divide the spoil.
THE WARNING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WHICH IS THE RESOURCE FOR CHRISTIANS
After the demise of the sacrificial system after the Return the people continued to assemble in the Synagogue which was the Church of Christ in the Wilderness. It's only role for those baptized unto Moses and who did not fall into musical idolatry is defined and never changed:
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time
hath in every city them that preach him,
being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
In the New Covenant we are baptized into Christ and assemble (ekklesia, synagogue) for the same purpose.
Romans 15:1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak,
and not to please ourselves. [this excludes all of the hypocritic or performing arts0
Romans 15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
Romans 15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself;
but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning,
that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Romans 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
Romans 15:6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 15:7 Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
The writers of the epistles commanded that they be READ and not disected into songs and sermons.
However, as Christ warns about the "Lying pen of the scribes" writing about the temple, the same groups not only refused to listen to Christ in the Prophets they murdered the prophets.
Luke 11:44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
for ye are as graves which appear not,
and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
Jesus quoted Isaiah and Ezekiel to give the hypocrites NAMES.
Ezekiel 33:30 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy peopleLuke 11:45 Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him,
still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses,
and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying,
Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD.
Ezekiel 33:31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh,
and they sit before thee as my people,
and they hear thy words,
but they will not do them:
for with their mouth they shew much love,
but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
Ezekiel 33:32 And, lo, thou art unto them
as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice,
and can play well on an instrument:
for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Ezekiel 33:33 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,)
then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.
Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.
Luke 11:46 And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! f
or ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne,
and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
Luke 11:47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Luke 11:48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers:
for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
Luke 11:49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God,
I will send them prophets and apostles,
and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
Luke 11:50 That the blood of all the prophets,
which was shed from the foundation of the world,
may be required of this generation;
Luke 11:51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias,
which perished between the altar and the temple:
verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.
Luke 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge:
ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Luke 11:53 And as he said these things unto them,
the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently,
and to provoke him to speak of many things:
Luke 11:54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
God abandoned the Civil-Military-Clergy complex over to worship the Starry Host: that is what they worshipped even if they called the golden calf their "god." They burdened both Jews and Gentiles with ceremonial legalism and stealing the work product of people to support the sacriificial system which God did not command but permitted as He was transporting them back to Assyria and Babylon.
However, the ROOTS are in the Covenant made to Abraham by God in CHRIST: The Qahal or synagogue was The Church of Christ in the Wilderness. This quarantined all of the godly people and many Gentiles from the Sun and Astrial deity worship at the Temple. The only thing Jesus changes was to prescribed the Reading Resource and to add the Lord's Supper as a teaching act confessing that He died for us.
The "corner stone" among the Religious Pagans was an inner corner: that is where all of the secret rituals took place hidden from the people they fleeced to satisfy their flesh and blood lust. No citizen--not even Jesus--could see what went on from the inner court into the holy place and most holy place. They would be defined by the Levites who were Soothsayers making instrumental noise to hide the evil cries of the innocent lambs which God never commandef from the priests.
Jesus became the CHIEF or HEAD stone and He declared that there was nothing hidden from the common people. Jesus NEVER used rhetoric, singing or instruments to CLOUD the mind so that they could not properly judge the moronic rituals the merchants of the Word pour forth.
Ephesians 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,Peter defined the building or teaching resources as the PROPHETS by the Spirit OF (preposition) Christ and the prophecies made more perfect by Jesus Christ, revealed to the apostles with signs and wonders, and the apostles left us their "memory" declared that not subject to private interpretation (further expounding) and MARKED as false teachers those who do not teach The Prophets and Apostles where Christ left the ANTITHESIS to the Law of Moses.
Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Ephesians 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Ephesians 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. [ours]
Ephesians 3:5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men,
as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, [The "Babylon" mother of harlots]
and ye holy apostles and prophets;
for God hath avenged you on her.
www.netivyah.org"Joseph Shulam was born in Sofia, Bulgaria on March 24, 1946. His family immigrated to Israel in 1948, where they settled in Jerusalem." Because of the dispersions most are not semites. At any rate there is nothing in the Jewish blood line that would give them superiority in reading and teaching the Word of God. Christianity is commanded to teach what Jesus comanded to be taught: Peter identifies that as the Prophets inspired by the Spirit OF Christ and the prophecies made more certain. Those who are not satisfied with that should not pretend that "Jewish Fables" have any authority in the School of Christ.
Joseph Shulam: Every person has a variety of identities, particularly their personal and national identities. Neither of the two offers a lot of room for maneuvering, despite the fact that since the Enlightenment in Europe and the Declaration of Independence in the United States, there is a strong feeling in the West that identity is a private issue, open to free choice any time of the day or night. In fact, a person’s identity is primarily determined by his national, cultural, ethnic, linguistic and faith affiliations. Most of these affiliations are attributed to a person, regardless of his personal preferences, before he ever draws his first breath.
Gentiles have the same false view that their culture and preferences have a way of trumping what is defined in the Bible. Whatever you think of the collected books they are defined by Scripture as the commanded resource to edify or educate people. Great epics are cantillated to tell the recorded history of people and in the telling and retelling a nation absorbs the qualities of justice and righteousness. There is no way to compose jigsaw songs and sermons without radically changing the Word which claims to be from God.
Individual believers are grafted into the roots of the Abrahamic covenant made by God in Christ. The blessing to all nations involved teaching and not binding them to a sacrificial system to feed the priesthod. Since Abraham was a Gentile and Paul declares that after baptism we become a son of Abraham, there can be no DETOURS into any personal experience. Paul outlawed doubtul disputations which are private opinions and commanded us to "use one mind and one mouth to speak that which is written for our learning." This is the ONLY way to glorify or praise God.
Abraham was a Gentile as were all of the descendants of Noah: Jew first appears in Esther 2:5 and Jews first appears in 2 Kings 16:6
Jacob never ceased being a Chaldean to becoming a "Jew" or Judean. I think that means that the people of Judea were the Jews and those who swarmed over them were Gentiles.
- Abraham was a Chaldean from Ur: he was a "national" or Gentile.
- "Isaac was Abraham's son. Isaac was a Shemite and a Hebrew, but not an Israelite or a Jew because neither existed yet.
- A vitally important fact in understanding Bible Prophecy is that while all Jews are Israelites, not all Israelites are Jews. All are Hebrews, but only the descendants of Judah are Jews."
- The word "Judean" (later shortened to "Jew) refers to those who lived in this area. The term "Jew" is from the Greek word "ioudaios" (Strong's no. 2453). It is actually short for the word Judean or, more accurately, Ioudas, pronounced ee-oo-dah-yos. A person is termed Jewish:
- Later, the Israelites intermarried with pagans of various nationalities. It is evident that "Jewishness" is not a matter of genetics. There actually is no distinct Jewish race; rather, there is a Jewish culture. The origin of the Jews / Israelites is not a matter of race. Resource
Baptism or Conversion or Regeneration means TO MAKE A NEW MAN: we cannot be a nationalistic Christian. You can't remove the circumcision of the flesh but you can remove the Leaven of the Jews. Paul said that you must put the fleshly body to death before you can be baptized into Christ.
Titus 1:12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.Vocal and Instrumental music was produced by the Levites "to make the lambs dumb before the slaughter." This was outlawed for the Synagogue. Jewish Fables were musical productions in order to fleece the godly lambs. Jews who become Christians or "disciples of Christ" do not engage in anything that detracts from the Word. While "messianic Jews" claim the right to violate that law of common decency, Disciples understand that they need to sit down and shut up:
Titus 1:13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
Titus 1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
THESIS: The SOLE role of an Ekklesia or Synagogue of Christ.
2Timothy 4:2 Preach the WORD; be instant in season, out of season;
reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
TO PROTECT AGAINST THE PAGAN ANTITHESIS
2Timothy 4:3 For [I mean that] the time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine;
but after their own lusts
shall they heap to THEMSELVES teachers, having itching ears.
Hugiano 2. to be sound of mind, teachings
3. of soundness in political or religious matters, esp. in part., “to hugiainon tēs Hellados” Id.7.15; hoi hugiainontes,
Opposite. turbulent agitators, Plb.28.17.12;
Opposite Kamno work
“hopē anthrōpos ekame” Berl.Sitzb. 1927.158 (Cyrene).--The pf. is always intr. (Cf. Skt. śamnīte 'work hard', 'serve zealously', śamitár- 'sacrificing priest', Gr. eiro-komos, komeō, komizō.)
[looking for sexual love ; epithumia [boy love]by passion,
Opposite. pronoia [forthought, learning]
Teaching to scratch:
knēth-ō , later form of knaō, A. scratch, “hōs legetai, knēthein oiden onos ton onon
Onos , 1. o. luras (sc. akouōn), of one who can make nothing of music, o. luras ēkoue kai salpiggos hus; 2. peri onou skias for an ass's shadow, i.e. for a trifle,
an ass in the rain, of being unmoved by what is said or done,
2. the upper millstone which turned round, “o. aletēs” X.An.1.5.5 ;
Xen. Const. Lac. 2.13 But if it was clear that the attraction lay in the boy's outward beauty, he banned the connexion as an abomination; and thus he caused lovers to abstain from boys no less than parents abstain from sexual intercourse with their children and brothers and sisters with each other.THE ABSOLUTE IDENTIFYING MARK OF THE HISTORIC CLERGY
2Timothy 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth,
and shall be turned unto fables.
FABLES TO FOOL: Fābŭla , ae, f. fari,
B. Of particular kinds of poetry.1. Most freq., a dramatic poem, drama, play (syn.: “ludus, cantus, actio, etc.): in full, fabula scaenica,” “or, theatralis,” id. 14, 6, 20: “fabula ad actum scenarum composita, ”fabulam, quae versatur in tragoediis atque carminibus non a veritate modo [melod]
FABLES TO FOOL: Cantus , ūs, m. id., I. the production of melodious sound, a musical utterance or expression, either with voice or instrument; hence, song, singing, playing,
1. With the voice, a singing, song; in full, cantus vocum, Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 134: “fit etiam saepe vocum gravitate et cantibus ut pellantur animi, etc.,
2. With instruments, a playing, music: “citharae,” “horribili stridebat tibia cantu,” Cat. 64, 264: “querulae tibiae, “lyrae,” Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 72: “tibicine
FABLES TO FOOL: Scaenĭcus (scen- ), a, um, adj., = skēnikos, I. of or belonging to the stage, scenic, dramatic, theatrical (class.) stage-plays, theatrical representations, “fabula,” a drama, Amm. 28, 1, 4: “organa,” Suet. Ner. 44: “coronae,” id. ib. 53: “habitus,” id. ib. 38: “gestus,” Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 220: “modulatio,” Quint. 11, 3, 57:
Gestures of an ōrātōrĭus , a, um, adj. orator. . Of or belonging to an orator, oratorical II. Of or belonging to praying; hence, subst.: ōrātōrĭum , ii. n. (sc. templum), a place of prayer, an oratory1. scaē-nĭcus , i, m., a player, actor, Cic. Off. 1, 31, 114: “orator plurimum aberit a scaenico 2. scaenĭca , ae, f., a female player, an actress,
THE MOST POWERFUL WEAPON TO FOOL:Orgănum , i, n., = organon,Of musical instruments, a pipe, Quint. 11, 3, 20; 9, 4, 10; Juv. 6, 3, 80; Vulg. Gen. 4, 21; id. 2 Par. 34, 12 et saep. an organ, water-organ: “organa hydraulica,” Suet. Ner. 41: aquatica, Mythogr. Lat. 3, 12.—Of a church-organ, Cass. Expos. in Psa. 150; Aug. Enarr. in Psa. 150, n. 7.— B. Transf.: organum oris, the tongue of a man, Prud. steph2Timothy 4:5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions,A CHRISTIAN IS MADE INTO A NEW BEING: THERE CAN BE NO GENETIC BIAS WHERE WORSHIP IS IN THE PLACE OF THE HUMAN SIRIT.
do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Titus 3.5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy,The washing of water was at baptism. Therefore, it is important to define the meaning of words. We are baptized and added to the Church as disciples OF Christ and BY Christ. Our spirits are translated into a heavenly kingdom and we seek to sacrifice our flesh so we can worship rationally (of the Word) which is in our own spirit or mind.
he saved us,
through the washing of regeneration
and renewing by the Holy Spirit, [giving us A holy spirit or A good conscience]
Pa^lig-genesia , hē,A. rebirth, regeneration, of the world, paliggenesias hēgemones, of Noah and his sons, Id.2.144; “hē anaktēsis kai p. tēs patridos” J. AJ11.3.9; renewal of a race, Corp.Herm.3.3; of persons, beginning of a new life, “eis p. horman” Ph.1.159, cf. Luc.Musc.Enc.7: hence of restoration after exile, Cic.Att.6.6.4; transmigration, reincarnation of souls, Plu.2.998c; cf. metempsukhōsis fin.
2. regeneration by baptism, “dia loutrou paliggenesias” Ep.Tit.3.5.
1Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust,
that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
1Peter 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1Peter 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient,
when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah,
while the ark was a preparing,
wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
1Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us
(not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,
but the answer of [request for] a good conscience toward God,)
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
1Peter 3:22 Who is gone into heaven,
and is on the right hand of God;
angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
Rĕgĕnĕrātĭo , ōnis, f. regenero,I. a being born again, regeneration (eccl. Lat.), Aug. Civ. Dei, 20, 5; Vulg. Matt. 19, 28; id. Tit. 3, 5: lavacrum regenerationis, of baptism, Aug. Civ. Dei, 22, 8, 5.
Rĕnŏvātĭo , ōnis, f. id..I. In gen., a renewing, renewal (Ciceron.): “mundi,” Cic. N. D. 2, 46, 118: “doctrinae,” id. Brut. 71, 250: “timoris,” id. Fam. 11, 18, 3; Vulg. Tit. 3, 5.—
Eph. 5:26WEB That he might sanctify and cleanse it
with the washing of water
[INTO] the word, (In Verbo, En, Eis)
Into Converto , epistles of a writer, to be occupied in, Into —
In eccl. Lat., to convert to Christianity, etc.: “aliquem ad fidem Christi,”
2. Pregn., to change the nature of a thing; i. e. to change, alter, transform, turn.
En en paidotribou, en kitharistou, at the school of Ar.Nu.973,That was the Covenant made by God in Christ to Abraham: we are baptized into Christ and enabled to hear the Word of Christ.
Why would anyone who is baptized into a NEW NATION born in one day and made into a NEW PERSON need to hold on to Jewish prejudices which also plagued the early church.
Joseph Shulam: Imagine a tall, blond, blue-eyed man enters this auditorium and in a perfectly clear voice declares: “I am a black African.” I have no doubt that all the eyes in the room will raise their eyebrows in bewilderment and interpretations will begin to circulate, such as: “He only thinks that he is black!”
Imagine a tall, blond, blue-eyed man declares "I am a Jew." Well, we know that he is not a semite. If he is connected to the Law, the Temple and Jerusalem then we know that he may be an Edomite when Jesus came to save us from that crooked race.
The Black African thesis seems to continue so that if you have a tiny fraction of black blood then you classify yourself and others classify you as Black. The same thing happens in the so-called "Jewish Identity." No one can define a Jew but generally a Jew is one who practices the religion of the Jews. The fact is that people still clinging to Jewish superiority may have little to no Semite Blood out of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob.
We have shown and will continue to show that the lawless people legislated to control them and which are defined by what Christ calls Hypocrites and "the Lying Pen of the Scribe" are NOT part of the WAY. The WAY of the Lord was always secreted and protected from the Jesish (Edomite etc) roots.
CHRISTIAN ROOTS ARE FIRMLY BASED ON THE COVENANT BY GOD IN CHRIST TO ABRAHAM
The word ISRAEL defines the believers who are under the covenant made by God in Christ to Abraham 430 years BEFORE the Law of Moses and was NOT affected by the Law as a curse to legislate the lawless and protect the poor.
Spiritual Israel comes from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Gen 25:19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac:
Gen 25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife,
the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
Gen 25:21 And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren:
and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceive
Gen. 25:22 And the children struggled together within her;
and she said, If it be so, why am I thus?
And she went to inquire of the LORD.
Gen. 25:23 And the LORD said unto her,
Two nations are in thy womb,
and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;
and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;
and the elder shall serve the younger.
CHRISTIAN ROOTS INCLUDE THE NEW TESTAMENT.
Not just "arabs" were the bad nation: as Esau is defined as a nation..
Hagar actually includes the Law of Moses given at Mount Sinai where
God turned them over to worship the starry host. She represents the JEWISH thread running through the Old and New Testament in contrast to the godly people under the Abrahamic covenant which was the God in Christ or Christian roots.
Christ warned that truth had been hidden from the foundation from the Jewish clergy of His day (Matthew 13).
Now, fast forward to Paul who connects THE FAITH to Abraham and NOT to the Law which was HAGAR and ESAU and SINAI and JERUSALEM and SODOM and the end time harlot religion with her musical locusts trying to silence the Isaacs of the world.
The SEED (singular) of Abraham either nationally or specific is not connected this race of people.
FULFILLED: Jacob was not a Jew and he warned and prophesied for the godly people:
Gal. 4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law,While claiming that the Arabs are the mortal enemy, since God often speaks in parables to fool the clergy and in allegories, HAGAR is the mother of everything defended as Jewish Roots.
do ye not hear the law?
Gal. 4:22 For it is written,
that Abraham had two sons,
the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
Gal. 4:23 But he who was of the bondwoman
was born after the flesh;
but he of the freewoman was by promise.
Gal. 4:24 Which things are an allegory:This repudiates Joe Shulam claiming that the most important thing is the fact that the first congregation in Jerusalem, as described in the pages of the New Covenant, was a Messianic Jewish congregation, which was 100% faithful to our Lord Yeshua and 100% faithful to the Torah of Israel.
for these are the two covenants;
the one from the mount Sinai,
which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Gal. 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia,
and answereth to Jerusalem which now is,
and is in bondage with her children.
THERE IS NOT A SINGLE THING COMMANDED FOR A CHURCH OF CHRIST OUT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT BUT THE SYNAGOGUE OF CHRIST ORDAINED IN THE ONLY SPIRITUAL COVENANT MADE BY GOD IN CHRIST.
There is not a single example anywhere of the godly Jews engaging in congregational singing with instrumental accompaniment. By absolute command they would PREACH the word by READING the Word and discussing it: they were disciples and not ceremonial legalists.
CANCEL JERUSALEM AND ALL OF ITS WORSHIP THE STARRY HOST: Jesus was murdered in Jerusalem but He often went OUT of the Jew''s territory.
After David numbered the people and could not be redeemed, God did not let him be killed: He gave David an old Jebusite High place alreaddy operating as a center for the worship of the starry host. Therefore, if you try to restore JERUSALEM ROOTS you are not under the Covenant made by God in Christ to Abraham. The godly Jews did not go to Jerusalem on the sabbath or REST day but rested from pagan worship of the Starry Host always on the superstitious seventh day. They attended synagogue while the Jewish Roots were profaning the Sabbath (Rest, not Saturday).
Gal. 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free,Jewish Identity, Hebraic Roots and other forms of Judaism is Mount Sinai, bondage, Hagar, and Jerusalem SHALL NOT be heir of those under the Covenant made with Abraham by God in Christ and therefore the Church of Christ in the wilderness The godly people had God deny "faith only" but were told to walk through the Red Sea where they were baptized INTO the school of Moses. The Holy Spirit of Christ followed them as the Pillar and the Rock.
which is the mother of us all.
Gal. 4:27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry,
thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
Gal. 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
Gal. 4:29 But as then he that
was born after the flesh
persecuted him that was born after the Spirit,
even so it is now.
Gal. 4:30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture?
Cast out the bondwoman and her son:
for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
Gal. 4:31 So then, brethren,
we are not children of the bondwoman,
but of the free.
JEWISH ROOTS APPEALS PRIMARILY TO THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM OPERATED BY THE TRIBE OF LEVI
Christian Roots from Abraham were then and after Christ "outside the walls" or "outside the camp."
National or Racial identity was not something established by God: Abraham was a Gentile and there were no other distinctions based on accidental DNA--real or pretended. God in Christ commanded Abraham to be a Blessing to all nations which spread out into the world. That Covenant made by God in Christ was given by God in the form of The Book of The Covenant. The separation of some Israelites from godly humanity happened because of musical idolatry of the same STAR worship or Sabazian always practiced by the Civil-Military-Clergy complex. God gave The Book of The Law because the "Jews" refused to obey the Covenant of Grace to all nations. At the same time He sentenced them to captivity and death in Assyria and Babylon. The land promise was forfeited then and there because it was a CONDITIONAL promise.
This separation was made clear after the musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. God ordained the Levites to stand in ranks to make a loud noise to warn the godly peoplle away from the HOLOCAUST inside the walls of Jerusalem. When they prophesied with instruments the meaning is that they were SOOTHSAYERS with noise NOT PERMITTED in the Church of Christ in the Wilderness.
The Spirit of Christ wrote the ANTITHESIS to the Jewish THESIS which was identical to the Egyptian, Greek, Canaanite and Babylonian NATIONAL system to which God abandoned them and promosed no redemption. See First Samuel Eight
Isa 28:14 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
Is.28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death,
and with hell are we at agreement;
when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us:
for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
"A vital focus of questioning was the world of the dead. The recently deceased might exert influence on the living for good or for bad. Offerings to the dead, which were required by custom, were intended, among other purposes, to make them well disposed. People occasionally deposited with their offerings a letter telling the deceased of their problems and asking for assistance. A few of these letters are complaints to the deceased person, alleging that he or she is afflicting the writer. This written communication with the dead was confined to the very few literate members of the population, but it was probably part of a more widespread oral practice. Some tombs of prominent people acquired minor cults that may have originated in frequent successful recourse to them for assistance. Britannica Online
See The Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem
"The marzeah had an extremely long history extending at least from the 14th century B.C. through the Roman period. In the 14th century B.C., it was prominently associated with the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra), on the coast of Syria...[note the source of many of the warrior chant psalms]
The marzeah was a pagan ritual that took the form of a social and religious association... Some scholars regard the funerary marzeah as a feast for--and with--deceased ancestors (or Rephaim, a proper name in the Bible for the inhabitants of Sheol)." (King, Biblical Archaeological Review, Aug, 1988, p. 35, 35)
"These five elements are: (1) reclining or relaxing, (2) eating a meat meal, (3) singing with harp or other musical accompaniment, (4) drinking wine and (5) anointing oneself with oil." (King, p. 37).
"we recognize the same elements: the sacrifices and libation, the cultic feast in which the congregation gets a share of food and drink after it has been blessed by the king, and the merry-making, now in the form of instrumental and vocal music. But the central act of the ritual, which was performed by the king, is called literally 'drinking' the god (Gurney, O. R. Some Aspects of Hittite Religion, p. 33-34, Oxford University Press, 1977)
"The normal order of events was a meal, followed by a drinking party. Entertainment might include anything from a rhetorcian or philosopher discoursing on some topic, to musical entertainment, to sexual dalliance."
"Plutarch implicitly contrasts a serious dinner featuring a sage as the after-dinner speaker with the other sorts of dinners--where sexual play with the girl flute-players or hetairae was common." (Witherington, Ben, Why Not Idol Meat, Bible Review, June 1994, p. 41-42).
The Battle of Baal and Yahm Aloud they [summon the assembly of the gods/ do cry to those near]. They invite
the distant ones/ those far away, to the assembly of `El
they summon/do cry: "`El remains seated
[in his marzeah/banqueting hall/among his cult-guests (dM)] . . .The shame of the Eternal One/The shameful conduct of the usurper . . .
O gods, (to) the house of your lord . . .
[Who surely travels (S)/lest he go (D/G) quickly/the Runner will not walk (dM)] through the land, . .who goes in the dust (of) destruction/a mess of mud on the ground . . .Comments: Smith believes lines 7-8 should be interpreted "Either literally, as `El walking through the underworld,
or an allusion to `El being "dead drunk," or both metaphorical,
and ironic, as the marzeah serves as the setting
for feasts for the dead and for the living mourning the dead (p. 145).
Isa 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone,
a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Festīno , (b). With acc. (not in Cic.): festivum festinant diem, hasten to celebrate “ad singulare Antonii factum festinat oratio,” Cic. Phil. 1, 1, 3: “ad probationem,” Quint. 4, 3, 8; cf. id. 4, 5, 10: “quis te festinare jubet?” Juv. 14, 212
hastily, speedily, quickly (class.): “improbe, turbide, festinanter, rapide omnia videtis esse suscepta, Cic. Scaur. § 37: nimium festinanter dictum,” id. Fin. 5, 26, 77.—Comp.: “compositius cuncta quam festinantius agerent,” Tac. A. 15, 3: “factum quid,” Gell. 10, 11, 8: “publicatum,” Suet. Aug. 29
- God permitted lost David to build a TENT on Zion when he sinned without redemption.
- But, Solomon built God a HOUSE on Moriah where God had already PROVIDED the sacrifice.
- But, God does NOT live in houses built by human hands NOR by the works of human hands (Acts 7)
Isa 28:17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet:
and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies,
and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
Isa 28:18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled,
and your agreement with hell shall not stand;
when the overflowing scourge shall pass through,
then ye shall be trodden down by it.Jesus came to PUT DOWN the Jewish claim to superiority so that everyone can be ONE IN CHRIST. We might say, I am different: I am a Messianic Frenchman. Wow, that still hurts like all of the people were hurt before Jesus came to disabuse the Jews that they were chosen because they were superior. The command to Abraham was that his disciples (not Jews) be a BLESSING to all nations. The promise made to Abraham in the sense of a Land Promise expired the day the Israelites ROSE UP against God at Mount Sinai in the musical idolatry of Apis the Calf an image of the Egyptian Trinity. The Levites were priests of the worship of Molech in Egypt and never ceased.
Joseph Shulam: “Maybe he was born in Africa and his parents gave him the name ‘Black’.” “Perhaps he’s impersonating a black person?” “He’s only teasing us!” However, it would be clear to all of us that regarding the question of identity, here we are talking about something peculiar and irregular.
Maybe he says that he is a "Jew" but a Jew is a religious distinction: the people in Canaan are not Semites to any extent. Assuredly at the time of Christ many Israelites had fled Jerusalem. If he says that he is a Jew but his DNA says that he is a German then he has no claim to the Land Promise and God proved it by destroying the not-commanded temple three times.
Joseph Shulam: Every person has different types of identity:
a) His national identity, which is usually not acquired: a child who is taken from his parents in infancy and raised by strangers acquires the identity of his adoptive parents and the place where he is raised.
b) One’s personal identity is given to acquisition and change. For example, a person may study a profession and add another characteristic to his identity. A son is born to a man and he becomes a father, thus acquiring another characteristic of his identity and even a new name. A person receives a doctorate from university and his identity changes, etc.
The School of Christ which has no "religious observations" to find the kingdom is COUNTER-CULTURAL. If you think that your culture can change a jot or tittle of the Word of God then you are in a lot of trouble.
Joseph Shulam: An individual’s personal identity derives from the following sources:
Ephesians 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity,a) The history that a person shares in common with his environment, including culture, language, and national and personal vision.
b) The public opinion that shapes the character and behavioral patterns of the individual.
c) The willingness of a person to live in society and participate in community life and the personal sacrifice of the group to which he belongs. This might be the Lutheran, Methodist or Catholic Church or perhaps Islam, Buddhism or Judaism. A person’s professional association, his guild, also attributes identity to a person; at times even the clothes that he wears are part of his identity.
even the law of commandments contained in ordinances;
for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
If Joe wants to live like a first century Jew there is no objection. If he takes pay to teach the Word or uses music to "make the lamb dumb before the slaughter" or observes festivals which were Warrior Aged Musters, then maybe the enmity is still there.
The Synagogue was popular with all nations because it was distinct from all animal slaughter religions where the priests lived off YOUR land and was A School of the Word as a system of EDUCATION ONLY. Romans 14 insists that your IDENTITY be left in the marketplace so the synagogue could take place in Romans 15 which was reading "that which is written for our learning."
THAT IS THE THESIS OF THE JEWS, JESUS AND PAUL REPUDIATED: the rituals under the Law had NO redeeming or Spirit cleansing power. If you return to Jewish Roots you will return to a Civil-Military-Clergy complex Christ called robbers and parasites. Those oppressed were the godly Jews which had no role to play in the abandonment to blood and flesh lust.
Acts 15:9 And put no difference between us and them,
purifying their hearts by faith.
Romans 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ
unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Romans 10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek:
for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
The National Identity of the People of God in the Holy Scriptures must be turned loose. That was the plague in the first century church.
Joseph Shulam: The Bible recognizes the identity of the people of Israel as the people of God. In no place in the Old or New Covenants is there a divesting of the Israeli nation from their position as the people of God – in the past, the present, or the future. The same principle applies to all of the Land of Israel, and particularly to Jerusalem.
The northern tribes of Israel were taken into Assyrian captivity and evaporated off the pages of Scripture and history.
The tribe of Judah was worse than Israel in the worship of the stars and were later taken into captivity where the death sentence imposed at Mount Sinai was consumated. National Judaism has no claim on the land of Canaan especially where the Semite blood is about as thin as my French blood. Being chased out of France does not give me any land claim by now.
Israel does not means Jews: Israel spaks of those under the Covenant God in Christ made with Abraham. Only those who are baptized into Christ connect to the Abrahamic Covenent (Gal 3)
Isaiah 4:2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious,
and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
Isaiah 4: 3 And it shall come to pass,
that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem,
shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
Isaiah 4: 4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion,
and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof
by the spirit of judgment,
and by the spirit of burning
Isaiah 4:5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion,
and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day,
and the shining of a flaming fire by night:
for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
Isaiah 4:6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat,
and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Dwelling: 168. ohel, o´-hel; from 166; a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance):—covering, (dwelling)(place), home, tabernacle, tent.
Assembly: 4744. miqra, mik-raw´; from 7121; something called out, i.e. a public meeting (the act, the persons, or the place); also a rehearsal: assembly, calling, convocation, reading.
Of those who returned there was only a tiny remnant which were "still alive in Jerusalem" at the time of Christ. Israel is now a spiritual nation where the kingdom of God cannot be located on the earth. The land covenant was conditional: the nation of Israel violated the covenant before the ink could dry on The Book of the Covenant.
The only spiritual covenant was made by God in Christ to Abraham. Abraham was not a "Jew" and he was justified by keeping the laws of God in effect at that time. God turned the national system over to "worship the starry host" because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. The Bible and the Jewish Encyclopedia agree that the sacrificial system which God had not commanded at a literal temple God did not command was the "worship of the starry host." If God abandoned them to worship the starry host just what are the nameS of the starry host worshiped at the Temple from which the godly Israelites were quarantined. They attended the Qahal, synagogue or Church of Christ in the wilderness.
THE JEWISH ROOTS WAS A FATAL DETOUR FROM THE GODLY CLASSES STILL TAUGHT BY CHRIST IN THE SYNAGOGUES.
HOW CAN YOU BE A DISCIPLE AND MISS IT:Under "Star Worship" the Jewish Encyclopedia states:
"Star Worship" is perhaps the oldest form of idolatry practiced by the ancients. The observation of the stars in the East very early led the people to regard the planets and the fixed stars as gods. The religion of the ancient Egyptians is known to have consisted preeminently of Sun-worship. Moses sternly warned the Israelites against worshipping the Sun, Moon, stars, and all the hosts of heaven (Deuteronomy 4:19; 17:3). The Israelites fell into this kind of idolatry and as early as the time of Amos they had the images of Siccuth and Chium, 'the stars of their god' (Amos 5:26); the latter name is generally supposed to denote the planet Saturn. That the Kingdom of Israel fell earlier than that of Judah is stated (II Kings 17:16) to have been due, among other causes, to its worshipping the host of heaven.
But the Kingdom of Judah in its later period seems to have outdone the Northern Kingdom [Israel] in star-worship." Of Manasseh it is related that he built altars to all the hosts of heaven in the two courts of the house of YHWY, and it seems it was the practice of even Kings before him to appoint priests who offered sacrifices to the Sun, the Moon, the planets, and all the hosts of heaven. Altars for star-worship were built on the roofs of the houses, and horses and chariots were dedicated to the worship of the Sun. (II Kings 21:5; 23:4-5, 11-12) Star-worship continued in Judah until the 18th year of Josiah's reign (621 B.C.) when the King took measures to abolish all kinds of idolatry. But although star-worship was then abolished as a public cult, it was practiced privately by individuals who worshipped the heavenly bodies, and poured out libations to them on the roofs of their houses (Zephaniah 1:5; Jeremiah 8:2; 19:13) Jeremiah, who prophesied in the sixth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin (591 B.C.) describes the worship of the Sun as practiced in the court of the Temple (Ezekiel 8:16) and that even after the destruction of the Temple the women insisted on continuing to worship the Queen of Heaven.
"The ancient Hebrews, being nomads like the Arabs, favored the Moon, while the Babylonians, who were an agricultural nation, preferred the Sun. But, as appears from Ezekiel 20:7-8 the Moon-worship of the Israelites, even while they were still in Egypt was combined with Sun-worship."
> For I spake NOT unto your fathers, nor commanded them
in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22> But this thing commanded I them, saying,
> But they HEARKENED NOT, nor inclined their ear,
Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people:
and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you,
that it may be well unto you. Jeremiah 7:23
but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart,
and went backward, and not forward. Jeremiah 7:24
Euphrainō , Ep. euphr-, fut. Att.155.12, Pi.I.7(6).3> Acts 7:42 Then God turned,
Pind. I. 6 Just as we mix the second bowl of wine when the men's symposium is flourishing, here is the second song of the Muses for Lampon's children and their athletic victories: first in Nemea, Zeus, in your honor they received the choicest of garlands,
Pind. I. 7 In which of the local glories of the past, divinely blessed Thebe, did you most delight your spirit? Was it when you raised to eminence the one seated beside Demeter of the clashing bronze cymbals, flowing-haired [5] Dionysus? Or when you received, as a snow-shower of gold in the middle of the night, the greatest of the gods, when he stood in the doorway of Amphitryon, and then went in to the wife to beget Heracles?
But since ancient grace sleeps, and mortals are forgetful of whatever does not reach the highest bloom of skillful song, joined to glorious streams of words, [20] then begin the victory procession with a sweet-singing hymn for Strepsiades;
and gave them up to worship the host of heaven;
as it is written in the book of the prophets,
O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts
and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. Ezekiel 20: 7
But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt:
........... then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them,
........... to accomplish my anger against them
........... in the midst of the land of Egypt. Ezekiel 20: 8But I wrought for my names sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were,
in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt. Ezekiel 20: 9
........... Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt,
........... and brought them into the wilderness. Ezekiel 20:10
THE NEW TESTAMENT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TRIBE OF LEVI:
John knew that the Jewish Roots were an evil detour from the Church of Christ ordained by the Rock to be a School of the Word and quarantined from the Levite roots at the slaughter pits.
Matthew 3:5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,The sign in the upper room was of Wind (spirit) and Fire: this was a judgmental sign that God made Jesus of Nazareth to be the sole king and priests over HIS kingdom. This was to proovide REST from the laded burdens and burden laders of the Jewish clergy.
Matthew 3:6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism,
he said unto them, O generation of vipers,
who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Matthew 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
Matthew 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father:
for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Matthew 3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees:
therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Matthew 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance:
but he that cometh after me is mightier than I,
whose shoes I am not worthy to bear:
he shall baptize YOU with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
History says that a million Jews who still refused to listen to God in Christ experienced a holocaust at the garbage pit called "HELL."pneuma A. blast, wind, 2. metaph., thalerōterō p. with more genial breeze or influenceMatthew 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand,
II. breathed air, breath,
Isaiah 4: 2 In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious,
and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely
for them that are escaped [remnant] of Israel.Isaiah 4: 3 And it shall come to pass,
that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem,
shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
Isaiah 4: 4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion,
and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof
by the spirit of judgment,
and by the spirit of burning
and he will throughly purge his floor,
and gather his wheat into the garner;
but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Jesus affirms the Covenant made by Christ (the Rock) made with Abraham: He does not say that he is the God of the nation because he sentenced them to Assyria and Babylon to captivity and death.
Matthew 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?Christ speaks through the prophets and apostles: in the prophets he warns about the Lying Pen of the Scribes and calls them hypocrites.
God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
The Jews treated Jesus as a mortal enemy:
John 8:59 Then took they up stones to cast at him:Why would anyone think that Jesus continued to worship like the Jews?
but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple,
going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
John 10:31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Acts 3:25 Ye are the children of the prophets,
and of the covenant which God made with our fathers,
saying unto Abraham,
And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
PROVEN BY PAUL:
Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you,
that ye should not obey the truth,
before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Galatians 3:2 This only would I learn of you,
Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Galatians 3:3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit,
are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Galatians 3:4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
Galatians 3:5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit,
and worketh miracles among you,
doeth he it by the works of the law,
or by the hearing of faith?
Paul continued to connect the Christian Roots to Abraham and not to the cursed detour of the Jews where "Jew" does not necessarily define a semite or a descendant of the sacred blood line from Abrham downward.
Gentiles were never under the Law of Moses which engendered pride and prevented them from being grafted into the Abraham-Christ stock.
Galatians 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law,
shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Phrour-eō ,II. trans., watch, guard, keep watch over itGalatians 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ,
custōdĭo ,b. hold in subjection, opp. paraphulattein, Plb.18.4.6.c. Astrol., occupy, in Pass., Vett.Val.106.18.d. bind, “halusesi pephrourēmenos” PMag.Par.1.3093.
II. With the access. idea of hindering free motion,
B. Esp., to hold in custody, hold captive: “noctu nervo vinctus custodibitur,” Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 71; Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 9, 3, 50: “ducem praedonum,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 27, § 68: “obsides,” Caes. B. G. 6, 4: “Domitium,” id. B. C. 1, 20: “bovem,” Verg. A. 8, 218 et saep.—Hence, * cu-stōdītē , adv. (acc. to I.), cautiously, carefully: “ut parce custoditeque ludebat!” Plin. Ep. 5, 16, 3.
Shut Up
sug-kleiō
2. generally, of straits or difficulties, “tina eis agōna” Plb.3.63.3; “eis ton eskhaton kairon” Id.11.2.10:—Pass., sugkleiesthai hupo tōn kairōn, tōn pragmatōn, Id.2. 60.4, 11.20.7; eis khalepon . . sugkekleismenos bion 'cabin'd, cribb'd, confined', Men. l.c.3. pit against one another, set to fight as in the lists , “hoi se kai Hermionan eridi . . xuneklēsan” E.Andr.122 (lyr.).
that we might be justified by faith.
A schoolmaster is not a good term: in the Greek educational system this slave often abused the young boys which was and is a habit of all known priesthoods.
The synagogues were more devoted to reading the Law and specificially the prophets: there is nothing in the cursed kingdom period which contributed one bit to the moral development of the people.paida^gōg-os , ho,A. = paidos agōgos, slave who went with a boy from home to school and back again, Hdt.8.75, E.Ion725, El.287, Antipho 3.3.7, Lys.32.28, Pl.Ly.208c: coupled with titthē, trophos, Id.R.373c; with hēgemōn, ib.467d; with didaskalos, X.Lac.3.1; of Phoenix, as the p. of Achilles, Pl.R.390e, etc.; Fabius is called the p. of Hannibal, because he always followed him about, Plu.Fab.5:
Metaphor., ho nomos p. eis Khriston has guided us until attainment of faith in Christ, Ep.Gal.3.24: generally, leader, dēmokratias, turannidos, Plu.Arat.48, Galb.17.
Galatians 3:25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Galatians 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:27 For [what I mean is] as many of you
as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female:
for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:29 And if ye be Christ’s,
then are ye Abraham’s seed,
and heirs according to the promise.
Romans 4:13 For the promise,
that he should be the heir of the world,
was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law,
but through the righteousness of faith.
Joseph Shulam: The national identity of “God’s people” is always Israel.
It remains Israel in the New Covenant and also at the second coming of the Messiah. According to the prophecies, the return of the Messiah is a return to Israel, the people of Israel and to Jerusalem. The Gentiles join the people of Israel. In the parable of the olive tree, the Gentiles are grafted on to the natural, cultivated tree, but not in place of the pruned and burnt branches.
The Gentiles were not grafted into Judaism but THE FAITH of Abraham: that's why Paul leapfrogs the whole Monarchy and reconnects to the Covenant made by God in Christ to Abraham.
The Covenant made with Abraham preceded the Law and later Jewish traditions. Jesus fulfilled the terms of the law by being murdered by the Jews using the Romans. We must DIE to thelaw so that we may be joined to Jesus.
Galatians 3:6 Even as Abraham believed God,
and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Galatians 3:7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith,
the same are the children of Abraham.
Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith,
preached before the gospel unto Abraham,
saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
Galatians 3:9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
The Christian Gospel give REST from the laded burden and burden laders. If you conduct synagogue or School (only) of the Word (only) then no godly disciple could object to assemblying with Gentiles where all doubtful disputations or personal opinions are silenced in Romans 14 so you can use ONE mind and ONE mouth to speak "that which is written for our learning." (Romans 15
Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse:
for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Galatians 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
THE FAITH was pronounced by God in Christ to Abraham. The Christian system was alwatys ANTITHETICAL to THE LAW.
Galatians 3:12 And the law is not of faith:
but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,
being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Galatians 3:14 That the blessing of Abraham
might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ;
that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
As long as THE LAW continued then all Gentiles knew that they were held captive by the pedagogues or tyrants.
THE FAITH or the Christian System was violently opposed by the Jews who killed the Prophets who spoke by the Spirit OF CHRIST.
God made Jesus of Nazareth to be both Lord and Christ so that the fulness of Deity dwelled in him. The cross was the final sacrificial act which proved to the Jews that the virtual sacrifice of their "gods" really happened when they murdered Jesus. This defanged the Jewish Roots and proved that they were NOT by God's command but a curse.
Romans 10:1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
Romans 10:2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Romans 10:3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness,
and going about to establish their own righteousness,
have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Romans 10:5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law,
That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
The Gentiles were grafted into is Abraham and Israel which is spiritual Israel: the Jews were PRUNED AWAY from any Abrahamic Root to prove that they were NOT superior but rested on their own self-righteousness.
Romans 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid.
For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Paul connects his Israelite roots to ABRAHAM and not to the tribe of Levi.
Romans 11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.
Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias?
how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
Romans 11:3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars;
and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
See the prophecy of Jacob above.
Romans 11:4 But what saith the answer of God unto him?
I have reserved to myself seven thousand men,
who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Romans 11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Romans 11:6 And if by grace,
then is it no more of works: [The Law]
otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works,
then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Romans 11:7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for;
but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
Romans 11:8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber,
eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
Romans 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree,
wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Romans 11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
The Jews were BROKEN OFF and Gentiles were grafted into the ROOT: Gentiles are not grafted into the Jews once they have been deprived of connection to the root. if a Jew wants to be spiritual Israel they must be baptized into Christ to become a son of Abraham.
Romans 11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief,
shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
Romans 11:24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature,
and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these,
which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
Gentiles were not LOST because they had never been under the JUDGMENT of the Law of Moses. They were not natural seed of Abraham
THE UNBELIEVING JEWS ARE NOT AND NEVER WERE SPIRITUAL ISRAEL.
Romans 9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
Romans 9:2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
Romans 9:3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren,
my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Most were only Israelites according ot the flesh which counted for nothing
Romans 9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants,
and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
Romans 9:5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came,
who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Romans 9:6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect.
For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
Romans 9:7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children:
but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Romans 9:8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh,
these are not the children of God:
but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
JEWS ARE GRAFTED INTO ABRAHAM ON THE SAME TERMS AS GENTILES
Galatians 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:27 For [what I mean is] as many of you
as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female:
for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:29 And if ye be Christ’s,
then are ye Abraham’s seed,
and heirs according to the promise.Joseph Shulam: Jewish identity should be defined by the Jewish People and not by a group of Gentile missionaries disguising themselves as Jews
That's true: but the Bible is defines the experience of MANY nations with God. There is no DNA so superior that it can change the Word of God. Church or Synagoge is a school (only) of the Word of God in Christ (only). This SEPARATED the godly Israelites from the Jacob-Cursed tribe of Levi. One's identity cannot modify the Old and New Testament.
However, in Romans 14 you have to set aside your doubtful disputations or cultural preferences which have nothing to do with edifying or educating God's children.
Joseph Shulam: Jewish identity should be defined by the Jewish People and not by a group of Gentile missionaries disguising themselves as Jews.
Evangelical Missionary Building Boon in Jerusalem
But here’s the catch… Shulam doesn’t think Jews need missionaries…well…sort of…
“We all appreciate what the missionaries have done. Most of the Jewish believers in my generation became believers through a Christian missionary, pastor or individual. And we appreciate it very much. But now we have matured. But the Christian missionaries have never said ‘now you are on your own, you can make your own decisions, we trust you’. That has happened in Africa, in China, but not with the Jews. So the best thing is that they go home now. And I believe that we can present Jesus to our people just fine…I think it is a primary thing, for Christians to support Israel, but is a different thing than sending missionaries, dominating the local believers but rather dealing with them as brothers in Yeshua.”
But Joseph Shulam exposes a problem that runs very deep. The many millions of dollars in funding for all of these missionary messianic institutions in Israel is coming from the evangelical “Christian Zionist” communities in America. And they just won’t go home and leave Israel alone…ever.
It is possible to be a religious Jew but not be a Semite: Most are probably Europeans.
A person cannot say that he is a “carpenter” if he has never held a hammer, nail, saw or awl in his life. If a person has never in his life made a bureau or wardrobe or table or door or any other thing that carpenters make in their daily labor, he cannot call himself a“carpenter.”The Apostle Shaul, in a biting argument with his opponents, said: “But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Messiah. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Messiah Yeshua my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Messiah” (Philippians 3:7-8).
But at the same time, he knew who he was and his identity: “I was circumcised on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the Torah, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the Torah, blameless” (Philippians 3:5-6).
- Paul was of the tribe of Benjamin
- The northern tribes of Israel had been scattered just as God promised.
- The tribe of Judah continued a bit longer but also went into captivity and only a few retruned.
- Paul's religion was of Judah, that is, he was, by religion, a Jew.
- "Jew" had meaning only as a religion of very impure genealogy.
- Paul lived in the kingdom Kingdom of Judah, which was politically composed of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and part of Levi
- However, he was NOT a Jew in a nationalistic, racist sense
- "Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia" (Acts 21:39 KJV)
- "I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin." (Romans 11:1 KJV)
JOE MISSED THE FIRST PART OF THE CHAPTER:
Philippians 3:1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord.
To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
Philippians 3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
Those once of the circumcision NOW Worship God IN THE SPIRIT and not IN THE FLESH. The mutilators took pride in extreme circumcision. The human spirit is a PLACE which replaces Gerezim and Jerusalem.
For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. Phil 3:3
Philippians 3:4 Though I MIGHT also have confidence in the flesh.
If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
Philippians 3:5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin,
an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
Jesus called the Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: in the Ezekiel 33 version Christ named rhetoricians, singers and instrument players. The Pharisees specificially taught their own doctrine rather than teach the Word.
Philippians 3:6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church;
touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Philippians 3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Paul was such a prideful Israelite and the sect of the Pharisees that he thought that killing Christians was doing God's will. Paul had to repent of his racism.
Philippians 3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss
for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord:
for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
It would not be wise to suggest that Paul still defends his wholly erroneous faith system as a Jew.
IF PAUL COUNTED HIS ROOTS LOSS IN ORDER TO HAVE A HOLY SPIRIT AND LEARN OF CHRIST WHY ARE SO MANY TRYING TO UNDO THE CHRISTIAN ROOTS WHICH WAS TO THE COVENANT MADE WITH ABRAHAM AND NOT WITH THE JEWS?
Philippians 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven;
from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Philippians 3:21 Who shall change our vile body,
that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body,
according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
PAUL WAS APOLOGIZING NOT BOASTING OF SUPERIORITY.
IN ROMANS 9-11 PAUL REPUDIATES THE SUPERIORITY AND PREDESTINATION OF THE JEWS.
After being saved by Grace and receiving The Book of the Covenant the Jews fell back into their past and future Sabaxianism: Paul uses this event to prove that the Jews were neither superior nor predestinated:
The Jews denied that the Gentiles were "pure" enough to be baptized and insist that they be circumcised and keep the Law of Moses. They believed that they were PREDESTINATED just because God ELECTED them for a purpose.
However, the Law of Moses did not produce salvaton because it was ADDED when the nation fell from grace at Mount Sinai.Paul's ONLY issue in discussing THE FAITH and THE LAW is to prove that there is no predestinated class. All are sinners and they all need to have their sins REMITTED. No one has their sins remitted without Baptism. Therefore, because the Gentiles are not less worthy than the Jews, they could not FORBID baptism for the Gentiles. This conflict PROVES that Baptism is that time and place where people are elected (invited) and become the elect ONLY if they are baptized. This puts them under the only covenant of Grace given to Abraham in promise and fulfilled by Baptism INTO Christ.
Rom. 9:29 And as Esaias said before,
Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed,
we had been as Sodoma,
and been made like unto Gomorrha.
Isaiah 1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant,The Gentiles and the godly Israelites practiced personal righteousness and social justice: God did not command anything associated with the "Jewish" worship. He imposed that because they had sinned beyond redemption.
we should have been as Sodom,
and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
Is. 1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom;
give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Rev. 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city,
which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Is. 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD:
I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts;
and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Is. 1:12 When ye come to appear before me,
who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
Jer. 7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying,
Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people:
and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Jer. 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear,
but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart,
and went backward, and not forward.
They were nor reserved because of the Law but because BY FAITH they refused to bow to Baal.
At the same time the godly Jews and Gentiles attended the synagogue which was to REST from the horrors of animal slaughter, to READ and to REHEARSE the Word of God as delivered in the Covenant and later in the prophets. The Gentiles and a tiny remnant of Jews were prepared when Christ came to stop the Jew's "Covenant with death."
The Apostles being guided by the Spirit in the Word do not appeal to the Law of Moses but to the synagogue as the place of assemble to quarantine the godly people from the sacrificial system.
THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN THE WILDERNESS ONWARD AS QAHAL OR SYNAGOGUE QUARANTINED FROM THE JEWISH ROOTS.
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old timeOne's Jewish Roots or Arab roots can never be used as a way to interpret the Word of God
hath in every city them that preach him,
being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
To repudiate the Judaizers along with Peter, he said;
Acts 10:35 But in every nation he that feareth him,
and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Christ in Isaiah said:
Isaiah 64:4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard,
nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen,
O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Isaiah 64:5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness,
those that remember thee in thy ways:
behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned:
in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing,
and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;
and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities,
like the wind, have taken us away.
Rom. 9:30 What shall we say then?
That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, [The Law of Moses]
have attained to righteousness,
even the righteousness which is of faith.
pist-euo trust, put faith in, rely on a person, thing, or statement
2. comply, hôs ouch hupeixôn oude pisteusôn legeis; [625] Are you resolved not to yield or believe
A. pepisteukein Act.Ap.14.23 : ( [pistis] ) :--trust, put faith in, rely on a person, thing, or statement, tini Hdt.1.24 ; tôi logôi Id.2.118 2. comply, OPPOSITE to APISTEO
Those who COMPLY NOT Apist-eô to be apistos, Apist-eô I. disbelieve, distrust, was distrusted, i.e. no one could be sure of knowing,
II. = apeitheô, disobey, to be DISOBEDIENT, they refuse to comply, They are not to be trusted, and so of persons and their acts, not trusty, faithless, Act., mistrustful, incredulous, suspicious, Treacherously, cause to REVOLT from. also kleptô meaning: seize or occupy secretly, effect or bring about clandestinely, gamon, to be 'smuggled in' get rid of imperceptibly
Joseph Shulam: I am not opposed to my Gentile brothers having their own identity, their own culture, and a style of worship that differs from mine, and even that they be Pentecostals, Lutherans, Baptists, or Afro-Americans. But as for me, the most important thing is the fact that the first congregation in Jerusalem, as described in the pages of the New Covenant, was a Messianic Jewish congregation, which was 100% faithful to our Lord Yeshua and 100% faithful to the Torah of Israel.
That is not a fact: Christ ordained the synagogue or Church of Christ (the Rock) in the wilderness. The Law of Moses and the national Jews were the COVENANT WITH DEATH which burdened all people so that the nobility could live at ease. The meaning of salvation is salvation FROM the Crooked Race of vipers. The first people to be FREED from Judaism were the godly Jews who always attended synagogue. The first asssemblies were defined.
GIVING HEED TO THE WORD OF GOD IS THE ONLY WORSHIP CONCEPT IN THE CHURCH OF CHRIST. The Synagogue for the godly Jews and Gentiles is the eternal pattern: it is in the words of everyone including the Campbells A School of Christ. Worship is reading and musing the Word of God.
Joseph Shulam: By the same measure, Shaul the apostle was totally faithful to the Lord Yeshua, who revealed Himself to him on the road to Damascus, and also 100% faithful to the Torah of Moses and Israel.
The Sabbath means REST: the faithful Jews never held 'worship services' on the Sabbath: they synagogued to read the Word of God.
In fact the "Jewish roots" profaned the Sabbath and got away with it because they had been abandoned to Sabazianism beyond redemption.
After the resurrection--still hiding from their Jewish Roots--Jesus synagogued with the disciples two first days of the week in a row.
John 20:19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week,
when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews,
came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
Acts 20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
Sunagō from which synagogue is derived.
John 20:26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them:
then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
John 20:30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:
John 20:31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God;
and that believing ye might have life through his name.
If the Christians were worshipping like in the Torah (just the law) then why were the fearful of the Jews seeking the Messiah so that they could murder Him consistent with all sacrificial systems which began with the Sacrifice of Kings yearly, then the sacrifice of a surrogate and finally the sacrifice of animals along with infants.?
Paul had to repent of a religion which gave him authority to murder believers.
Joseph Shulam: The most important thing is the fact that the first congregation in Jerusalem, as described in the pages of the New Covenant, was a Messianic Jewish congregation, which was 100% faithful to our Lord Yeshua and 100% faithful to the Torah of Israel
The Prophecies by Christ and the prophecies made more certain by Jesus constituted the Christian teaching resource.
That's not a fact: Christ in Spirit, the Rock, ordained the Qahal, Synagogue or Church of Christ in the wilderness. This QUARANTINED the godly Jews from the sacrificial system and the curse of Jacob on the tribe of Levi specificially.
Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized:
and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Acts 2:42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship,
and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Jesus never went beyond the outer court of the Temple and would have been executed if he went into the inner court where the Jews slaughtered innocent animals to satisfy a blood and flesh lust. Jesus never "worshiped" in anything similar to The Law of Moses but in the synagogues which are defined in the Torah but not remotely similar to Israel's abandonment to "worship the starry host." Stephen repudiated the Jewish system because the promise when they practiced musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.
The synagogue continued parallel to the temple and sacrificial system which effectively died after the Jews returned from Babylon with a NEW STYLE OF WORDHIP. The acted parables of Jews were to repudiate the rituals learned and practiced in Babylon.
The SYNAGOGUE was ANTITHETICAL to the Sacrificial system: Jesus and the early disciples came togther two FIRST DAYS OF THE WEEK IN A ROW. The Synagogue had just ONE ACT: Reading and discussing the Word:
Qahal (h6951) kaw-hawl'; from 6950; assemblage (usually concr.): - assembly, company, congregation, multitude.
"A community, qahal in Hebrew, is a Jewish community of any size. The qahal was a well established concept and was called an ekklesia in the Nazarean Codicil. In English we translate the Greek ekklesia as church. So, whenever we see the word church in our Nazarean Codicil's, we should have in mind the concept of a qahal, a community or congregation.
The Septuagint uses the word Ecclesia seventy times when it translates the Hebrew word: kve (qahal could also be spelled Cahal), from which we get our English word call. It means to call together, to assemble, or gather together.
The synagogue serves the same purpose for a community that the Temple served for the nation. (Greg Killian)
From this midrash we learn that the study and application of the scriptures and the oral law, are the work that a group of people put in to establish a qahal. However, without a structure to impart this wisdom, the qahal will not prosper. The structure that establishes and prospers a qahal is the synagogue.
The LXX uses the word ekklesia to translate the Hebrew qahal. Qahal means to call, to assemble, and the noun form means a congregation or assembly. Solomon is called koheleth the Preacher, translated by the LXX ekklesiastes. The earliest known occurrence of the word is found in Job 30:28, ‘I cried in the congregation’. In the books of the law, qahal is rendered by the Greek word sunagoge, showing that the synagogue is the beginning of the New Testament church. Stephen in his speech which ended in his martyrdom referred to the history of Israel, and dwells for considerable length upon the one great leader Moses, saying in Acts 7:38:
- The church #1577 ekklesia - assembly, called out ones, set apart ones, congregation; in Hebrew this word is #6951 qahal (kahal) - a "synagogue" (E. W. Bullinger, Commentary on Revelation, p. 165-166), an assemblage, congregation, company from the root #6950 qahal meaning specifically a coming together, an assembling, a convocation, congregation; this word is used mostly for religious purposes (see William Wilson's Old Testament Word Studies, p. 92)
And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you. Ex.12:16
Miqra (h4744) mik-raw'; from 7121; something called out, i. e. a public meeting (the act, the persons, or the place); also a rehearsal: - assembly, calling, convocation, reading.
And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law. Ne 8:3
Read is:
Qara (h7121) kaw-raw'; a prim. root [rather ident. with 7121 through the idea of accosting a person met]; to call out to (i. e. prop. address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications): - bewray [self], that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim (- ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.
And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam. Ne 8:4
And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up: Ne 8:5
And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen,
with lifting up their hands:
and they bowed their heads,
and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground. Ne 8:6Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place. Ne 8:7
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. Ne.8:8
Sekel (h7922) seh'-kel; or sekel say'-kel; from 7919; intelligence; by impl. success: - discretion, knowledge, policy, prudence, sense, understanding, wisdom, wise
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)
Thus these meetings, which at first were only held on Sabbaths and feast days,
came also to be held on other days, and at the same hours with the services in the temple.The essential aim, however, of the synagogue was not prayer,
but instruction in the Law for all classes of the people.Philo calls the synagogues "houses of instruction, where the philosophy of the fathers and all manner of virtues were taught"
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. Lu.4:16
This was Christ's command for the Synagogue or church of Christ in the wilderness but this was ANTITHETICAL to the worship of the Jacob-cursed tribe of Levi.
And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on. Ac.13:15
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 1Ti.4:13
"The word that is employed for this "anaginosko, anagnosis) is the technical term for the cultic reading aloud of the Old Testament in the synagogue. By applying this terminology to the reading of his own epistles he not only ascribes the same authority to the apostolic word as to the Old Testament writings...he also combines a quotation from the Old Testament with a word of Jesus and introduces the whole with the familiar formula: 'for the Scripture says.'" (Ridderbos, Hermon, Paul, P. 483 an Outline of His Theo., Eerdmans)
"Anaginosko--of written characters, know them again, and so, read, 6. Med., attach oneself to a thing, cling, cleave to, 7. Pass., to be held fast by a thing
1. know well, know certainly, “ou gar pō tis heon gonon autos anegnō” Od.1.216, cf. 21.205, Il.13.734.
b. perceive, Theoc.24.23.
2. know again, recognize, Od.4.250; once in Hdt., acknowledge, own, “anagnōnai tous suggeneas” Hdt.2.91, cf. Pi.I.2.23: aor. Pass. once in E., “ei men gar ezē posis, anegnōsthēmen an” Hel.290.
II :—of written characters, know them again, and so, read, first in Pi.O.10(11).1, cf. Ar.Eq.118, 1065, Th.3.49,
books read aloud, hence, published, opp. ta anekdota, [unpublished] Lycon ap.D.L.5.73.
Homologia (g3671) hom-ol-og-ee'-ah; from the same as 3670; acknowledgment: - con- (pro-) fession, professed.
Of the unconverted Jews in Rome:
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. 2Co.3:15
Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) Ep.3:4
And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea. Col.4:16
I charge you by the Lord, that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren. 1Th.5:27
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. Re.1:3
And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. Re.5:4
WHEN THE JEWS FELL INTO IDOLATRY AT MOUNT SINAI MOSES PROMISED ANOTHER PROPHET LIKE HIM WHO WOULD BE HEARD.
Acts 3:22-23 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, [that] every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.That means that when the Jews were abandoned to worship the starry host the DID NOT hear the Word of God anymore.
Acts 7:37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
Deuteronomy 18:15 Masoretic (AV) The Lord thy God shall raise up to thee a prophet of thy brethren,
like me; him shall ye hear:
Deuteronomy 18:18-19 I will raise up to them a prophet of their brethren, like thee;
and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them as I shall command him.
And whatever man shall not hearken to whatsoever words that prophet shall speak in my name,
I will take vengeance on him.
Jesus spoke only what He heard from the Father and Jesus didn't hear any message about saving Judaism.Jesus didn't teach or quote favorably anything of the Jewish Roots spread in Jerusalem
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and [A] teach all nations,
[B] baptizing them in the name [singular] of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matthew 28:20 [C] Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Joseph Shulam: Please refer to the following selections from the New Covenant Scriptures:
1. Matthew 5:17-20: “Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah [Law] or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the Torah till all is fulfilled.
The so called Torah five books defines the history of the Hebrew people and their utter rebellion against God. Thse books contain many things ANTITHETICAL to both the Law of Moses and warn against new Laws defined by David and others for the not-commanded king, kingdom, temple, sacrificial system or slaughter of others to get their income producing property.
The Law would be in effect until the Church came with POWER on the day of Pentecost. The Law regulated the outward flesh but the Spirit or Truth or Gospel will allow the law to abide in the hert or spiriMatthew 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
The Law of Moses would pass out of force WHEN the new state of being came into existence.gignomai, come into a new state of being. come into being opposite to "that which exists." To be born.
The TORAH or first five books of Moses is not The Law of Moses which was given because of transgression.
Luke 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words
which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled,
which were written in the law of Moses,
and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
plēr-oō 2. fill full of food, gorge, satiate, Pass., to be filled full of, satisfied,
CHRIST PROPHESIED OF THE END OF THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM AND THE BIRTH OF A NEW NATIONMatthew 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets:
I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Hebrews 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers mannersTHE LAW WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL: gignomai, come into a new state of being. come into being opposite to "that which exists." To be born.
spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hebrews 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,
whom he hath appointed heir of all things,
by whom also he made the worlds;
Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory,
and the express image of his person,
and upholding all things by the word of his power,
when he had by himself purged our sins,
sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Hebrews 1:4 Being made so much better than the angels,
as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Hebrews 1:5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time,
Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?
And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
1Peter 1:17 And if ye call on the Father,
who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work,
pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
1Peter 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed
with corruptible things, as silver and gold,
from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
1Peter 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ,
as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
1Peter 1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world,
but was manifest in these last times for you,
Isaiah 66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man;Joseph Shulam: Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.”
he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck;
he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood;
he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol.
Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
Isaiah 66:4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them;
because when I called, none did answer;
when I spake, they did not hear:
but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
Isaiah 66:5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word;
your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake,
said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
Isaiah 66:6 A voice of noise from the city,
a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
Isaiah 66:7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
Isaiah 66:8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things?
Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day?
or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
The Law of Moses spoke only of the kingdom of IMPOSED on those who refused to obey the Word of God. The kingdom of Chrst on the other hand was the Church of Christ which makes one dead to the Law. Even demanding circumcision would repudiate the work of Christ and put Messianic Jews back under the Covenant with Death.
James makes the point that if one shows partiality they are guilty of all of the tenets of the Law of Moses. Anyone without baptism into Christ would would be Apistos or treacherous to Christ. That left them under the 613 rules of the Law of Moses. Anyone
Matthew 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:20 For I say unto you,
That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness
of the scribes and Pharisees,
ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Matt 5:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matt 5:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matt 5:20 Teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway,
even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Peter Prophets by Christ and prophecies made more certain.
Mark as false teacher.
Matthew 28:19. Now thus is faith; when a man believes in God the Lord of all, Who made the heavens and the earth and the seas and all that is in them; and He made Adam in His image; and He gave the Law to Moses; He sent of His Spirit upon the prophets;
He sent moreover His Christ into the world. Furthermore that a man should believe in the resurrection of the dead; and should furthermore also believe in the sacrament of baptism. This is the faith of the Church of God. And (it is necessary) that a man should separate himself from the observance of hours and Sabbaths and moons and seasons, and divinations and sorceries and Chaldaean arts and magic, from fornication and from festive music, from vain doctrines, which are instruments of the Evil One, from the blandishment of honeyed words, from blasphemy and from adultery. And that a man should not bear false witness, and that a man should not speak with double tongue. These then are the works of the faith which is based on the true Stone which is Christ, on Whom the whole building is reared up.
Joseph Shulam: 2. 1 Corinthians 7:17-20: “But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the congregations. Was anyone called while circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised. Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters. Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called.”
A person who was mutilated at birth often sought to have the evidence removed. Circumcison had to do with the flesh only. Being a Christian did not demand that a person seek to redo that which was related to the flesh and not the conscience. However, Paul made it certain that if a person insists on circumcision repudiates Christ: we are spiritually circumcised at baptism.
Circumcision was given to Abraham as a sign of the Covenant made with GOD IN CHRIST.
Galatians 3:17 And this I say, that the covenant,This was not the Temple but the Tabernacle: it was important to have a central sanctuary which bound all of the tribes together: this had nothing to do with the weekly asssembly of the godly people where Sabbath meant REST and not a "worship service" which means a laded burden. The people remained in their own area and were to read and rehears the Word of God. This was not a Jewish institution but a Christ-ordained institution.
that was confirmed before of God in Christ,
the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after,
cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Acts 7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness
with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina,
and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Acts 7:39 To whom our fathers would not obey,
but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
Acts 7:40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us:
for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt,
we wot not what is become of him.
Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days,
and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Acts 7:42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven;
as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel,
have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices
by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan,
figures which ye made to worship them:
and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
"the star of your god--R. ISAAC CARO says all the astrologers represented Saturn as the star of Israel. Probably there was a figure of a star on the head of the image of the idol, to represent the planet Saturn; hence "images" correspond to "star" in the parallel clause. A star in hieroglyphics represents God (Nu 24:17). "Images" are either a Hebraism for "image," or refer to the many images made to represent Chiun.
Acts 7:44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness,Remphan, (hrem-fan') is the King James Version of the Bible's rendering of the Greek word variously appearing in Acts 7 verse 43 as Ρομφα, Ρεμφάν, Ρεμφαμ, Ραιφαν, and Ρεφαν. It is part of a quotation from Amos 5 verse 26 where the Septuagint's reading raiphan or rephan stands the Hebrew Chiun or Kewan. The Greek forms are probably simple mistakes for the Hebrew, k (qoppa) having been replaced by r (resh) and ph substituted for v (yod). Kewan is probably the Old Babylonian Kayawanu, the planet Saturn, another (the Akkadian) name for which is Sakkut, which appears as Siccuth in the earlier part of the verse.
By incorrect transliteration for a word of Hebrew origin [H3594]; Remphan (that is, Kijun), an Egyptian idol: - Remphan. In the book of the Acts of the Apostles chapter 7 Stephen points about this deity Remphan the star of your god whose images you made to worship.(verse 43)
as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses,
that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
Acts 7:45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in
with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles,
whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
Acts 7:46 Who found favour before God,
and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
Acts 7:47 But Solomon built him an house.
Acts 7:48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Hebrews 9:1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service,
and a worldly sanctuary.
Hebrews 9:2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first,
wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
Hebrews 9:3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
Hebrews 9:4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
Hebrews 9:5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
Hebrews 9:6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
Hebrews 9:7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year,
not without blood, which he offered for himself,
and for the errors of the people:
Hebrews 9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying,
that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest,
while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
Hebrews 9:9 Which was a figure for the time then present,
in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices,
that could not make him that did the service perfect,
as pertaining to the conscience;
Hebrews 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks,
and divers washings, and carnal ordinances,
imposed on them until the time of reformation.
Hebrews 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come,
by a greater and more perfect tabernacle,
not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves,
but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place,
having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Hebrews 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats,
and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean,
sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ,
who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God,
purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Hebrews 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament,
that by means of death,
for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament,
they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,
and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Galatians 5:2 Behold, I Paul say unto you,
that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Galatians 5:3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised,
that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
Galatians 5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you,
whosoever of you are justified by the law;
are fallen from grace.
The New Testament makes many contrasts between THE LAW and THE FAITH or FLESH and SPIRIT.
Galatians 5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
Galatians 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything,
nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
Galatians 5:7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
Galatians 5:8 This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.
Galatians 5:9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
1Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.Galatians 5:10 I have confidence in you through the Lord,
that ye will be none otherwise minded:
but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
Galatians 5:11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision,
why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.
Galatians 5:12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
Galatians 5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty;
only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word,
even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Joseph Shulam: 3. Acts 21: 17-24: “And when we had come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly. On the following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present. When he had greeted them, he told in detail those things which God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord. And they said to him,
‘You see, brother, how many myriads of Jews there are who have believed,
and they are all zealous for the Torah; [Me too! The Torah defines the synagogue or Church of Christ]
but they have been informed about you that you teach all the Jews
who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses,
saying that they ought not to circumcise their children nor walk according to the customs.What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.
Therefore do what we tell you:
We have four men who have taken a vow.
Take them and be purified with them,
and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads,
and that all may know that those things of which they were informed
concerning you are nothing, but that you yourself also walk orderly and keep the Torah.’”
LOOKING AT THE WHOLE PURPOSE
Acts 9:14 And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.
Acts 9:15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me,
to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
Acts 9:16 For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.
Paul had been given a true sanctifying act by Jesus Christ Who as Spirit appeared to Paul and let him hear His voice to qualify as an apostle.
Acts 21:10 And as we tarried there many days,
there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.
Acts 21:11 And when he was come unto us,
he took Paul’s girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said,
Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem
bind the man that owneth this girdle,
and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
Acts 21:12 And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place,
besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.
Acts 21:13 Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart?
for I am ready not to be bound only,
but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Acts 21:14 And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.
The Jews in Jerusalem practiced ceremonial washings over and over but none of them or anything under the Law of Moses had any redemptive value. Paul went to Jerusalem not to confirm the practices of the Jews but to Preach baptism. He clearly understood that the preaching of the Gospel instead of the Law imposed on them would bring on the wrath of the Jews in Jerusalem.
Paul was a devout Jew and knew the Law but he DID NOT know God's will. Paul gave notice of men taking a vow but Paul did not keep the Law of Moses. Here he is in Jerusalem preaching a REAL method of cleansing which repudiated all that the Jews knew or had been taught.
Acts 21:26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.
They served notice: they had to wait for 7 days. Paul served notice of the Jews whom he knew would not hear about Baptism as a TRUE method of cleansing. Sure enough the Jews were incited and:
Acts 21:27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia,
when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
The Jews did NOT believe that Paul was a Legalist: Paul had to be rescued from the Jews
Acts 21:40 And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
Paul then preached the sermon which he knew would get him murdered or taken captive: His statement was that he was Zealous toward God.
Acts 22:1 Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.The Old Testament is for our learning: the synagogue read it and discussed it: they did NOT look for a MODEL to replace Christ.
Acts 22:2 (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them,
they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
Acts 22:3 I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
Jesus Christ now The Holy Spirit picked Paul to know His Will: Paul was an educated Jew but he did NOT know God's willd.
Acts 22:14 And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee,
that thou shouldest know his will,
and see that Just One,
and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.
Acts 22:15 For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
Acts 22:16 And now why tarriest thou?
arise, and be baptized,
and wash away thy sins,
calling on the name of the Lord.
Acts 22:17 And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem,
even while I prayed in the temple [court], I was in a trance;
As a good Jew:
Acts 22:18 And saw him saying unto me,
Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem:
for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.
Acts 22:19 And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue
them that believed on thee:
Acts 22:20 And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed,
I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death,
and kept the raiment of them that slew him.
Acts 22:21 And he said unto me,
Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
Joseph Shulam: 4. Acts 24: 14-18: “But this I confess to you,
that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers,
believing all things which are written in the Torah and in the Prophets.
Acts 24:14 But this I confess unto thee,
that after the way which they call heresy,
so worship I the God of my fathers,
believing all things which are written in the law
and in the prophets:
The Law is not the five books: Both Moses and the Prophets defined the future REST the Jews never entered because they were unbelievers.
Paul worshipped as a Christian: he did not worship according to the Torah: he believed what was written in the Torah and the Prophets. The worship of the godly Jews under the Law was at the synagogue which quarantined them from participating in the worship of the sacrificial system
Joseph Shulam: I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust. This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men. Now after many years, I came to bring alms and offerings to my nation, in the midst of which some Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with a mob nor with tumult.”
Bringing offerings to the hungry Jews was the only "lay by in store" commanded in the Bible. The poor box was for the poor.
Joseph Shulam: 5. Acts 28: 17: “And it came to pass after three days that Paul called the leaders of the Jews together. So when they had come together, he said to them:
‘Men and brethren, though I have done nothing against our people
or the customs of our fathers,
yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.’”
When Paul claim to be an inspired apostle and contradicted the Jewish washings for purification this was NOT against the people but against the Jewish clergy. Paul had to repudiate everything connected with the Law of Moses only when the first century Judaizers persecuted Christians to their death.
Acts 22:14 And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee,
that thou shouldest know his will,
and see that Just One,
and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.
Acts 22:15 For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
Acts 22:16 And now why tarriest thou?
arise, and be baptized,
and wash away thy sins,
calling on the name of the Lord.
There is nothing in the Jewish Roots which could cleans the conscience. There is no example in the New Testamentof any church doing anything similar to the Jewish sacrificial system.
The Church of Christ and real baptism into Christ was not contrary to the Law of Moses. This certainly enraged all of those with a vested interest in keeping the den of thiever or house of merchandise operating like a mega-church.
Dialogue of Justin Martyr to Trypho, a Jew Jesus Christ is God Chapter
Chapter XVII.-The Jews Sent Persons Through the Whole Earth to Spread Calumnies on Christians.
"For other nations have not inflicted on us and on Christ this wrong to such an extent as you have, who in very deed are the authors of the wicked prejudice against the Just One, and us who hold by Him. For after that you had crucified Him, the only blameless and righteous Man,-through whose swipes those who approach the Father by Him are healed,-when you knew that He had risen from the dead and ascended to heaven, as the prophets foretold He would, you not only did not repent of the wickedness which you had committed, but at that time you selected and sent out from Jerusalem chosen men through all the land to tell that the godless heresy of the Christians had sprung up, and to publish those things which all they who knew us not speak against us
XVIII.-Christians Would Observe the Law, If They Did Not Know Why It Was Instituted.
"For since you have read, O Trypho, as you yourself admitted, the doctrines taught by our Saviour, I do not think that I have done foolishly in adding some short utterances of His to the prophetic statements.
- Wash therefore, and be now clean, and put away iniquity from your souls,
- as God bids you be washed in this laver,
- and be circumcised with the true circumcision.
For we too would observe the fleshly circumcision, and the Sabbaths, and in short all the feasts, if we did not know for what reason they were enjoined you,-namely, on account of your transgressions and the hardness of your hearts. For if we patiently endure all things contrived against us by wicked men and demons, so that even amid cruelties unutterable, death and torments, we pray for mercy to those who inflict such things upon us, and do not wish to give the least retort to any one, even as the new Lawgiver commanded us: how is it, Trypho, that we would not observe those rites which do not harm us,-I speak of fleshly circumcision, and Sabbaths, and feasts?
Moreover, all those righteous men already mentioned, though they kept no Sabbaths, were pleasing to God; and after them Abraham with all his descendants until Moses, under whom your nation appeared unrighteous and ungrateful to God,
Chapter XXI.-Sabbaths Were Instituted on Account of the People's Sins, and Not for a Work of Righteousness.making a calf in the wilderness:
wherefore God, accommodating Himself to that nation,
enjoined them also to offer sacrifices,as if to His name, in order that you might not serve idols. Which precept, however, you have not observed; nay, you sacrificed your children to demons.
And you were commanded to keep Sabbaths, that you might retain the memorial of God. For His word makes this announcement, saying, "That ye may know that I am God who redeemed you.'
"Moreover, that God enjoined you to keep the Sabbath, and impose on you other precepts for a sign, as I have already said, on account of your unrighteousness, and that of your fathers,-as He declares that for the sake of the nations, lest His name be profaned among them, therefore He permitted some of you to remain alive,-these words of His can prove to you: they are narrated by Ezekiel thus:
"I am the Lord your God; walk in My statutes, and keep My judgments, and take no part in the customs of Egypt; and hallow My Sabbaths;and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.
Notwithstanding ye rebelled against Me , and your children walked not in My statutes, neither kept My judgments to do them: which if a man do, he shall live in them.But they polluted My Sabbaths.And I said that I would pour out My fury upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish My anger upon them; yet I did it not; that My name might not be altogether profaned in the sight of the heathen.
I led them out before their eyes, and I lifted up Mine hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries; because they had not executed My judgments, but had despised My statutes, and polluted My Sabbaths, and their eyes were after the devices of their fathers.
Wherefore I gave them also statutes which were not good, and judgments whereby they shall not live. And I shall pollute them in their own gifts, that I may destroy all that openeth the womb, when I pass through them. Ezek. xx. 19-26. '
The Covenant made by God in Christ to Abraham and Jacob who were Gentiles. That covenant never changed to the time of Jesus Christ. His mission was to dismantle the Temple and the curse of the sacrificial system. That was the only way His "school of the Word' could be somewhat safe from the pseudo Jews and their synagogue of Satan.
FULFILMENT OF ISAIAH 3 AND END TIME DELUSIONS
You simply cannot be a Christian or disciple of Christ commanded to observe what HE commanded to be observed and seek to Judaize again after these 2,000 years. Some few churches of Christ have fallen into the Levites as authority for musical worship: seeking to AID Christ as our only Teacher is of course blasphemous and the answer to Isaiah 3 warning about the rise of women and effeminate men.
Psa. 81:2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
[3] sumite psalmum et date tympanum psalterium iucundum cum cithara
"Hebrew music... was used in the luxurious times of the later monarchy the effeminate gallants of israel, reeking with perfumes, and stretched upon their couches of ivory, were wont at their banquets to accompany the song with the tinkling of the psaltery or guitar (Am. v1. 4-6), and amused themselves with devising musical instruments while their nation was perishing... music was the legitimate expression of mirth and gladness, and the indication of peace and prosperity." (Smith's Bible Dictionary, Music, p. 590)
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Moreover, we must take into consideration the facts that the compass of the tenor extends even into the soprano, that the singers were of different ages down to twenty years of age, and that Oriental, and more particularly even Jewish, song is fond of falsetto singing. We therefore adopt Perret- Gentil's rendering, chant avec voix de femmes, and still more readily Armand de Mestral's, en soprano; whereas Melissus' rendering, "upon musical instruments called Alamoth (the Germans would say, upon the virginal),Tympanum
A. Esp., as beaten by the priests of Cybele, Lucr. 2, 618; Cat. 63, 8 sq.; Verg. A. 9, 619; Ov. M. 3, 537; 4, 29; 4, 391; id. F. 4, 213; Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 38; Caes. B. C. 3, 105; Curt. 8, 11, 20; 8, 14, 10; Tac. H. 5, 5, —Also by the Bacchantine females, Ov. M. 11, 17.—Beaten by the Parthians as a signal in battle in place of the tuba, Just. 41, 2, 8.—B. [select] Trop., a timbrel, etc., as a figure of something effeminate, enervating: “tympana eloquentiae,” Quint. 5, 12, 21: “in manu tympanum est,” Sen. Vit. Beat. 13, 3.—
Tympanotriba , ae, m., = tumpanotribês,
I. a taborer, a timbrel-player, a term of reproach for a soft, effeminate person (alluding to the priests of Cybele), Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 49; cf. tympanum.T. Maccius Plautus, Truculentus, or The Churl
STRATOPHANES (to PHRONESIUM.) What say you? Why have you dared to say that you love another man?
PHRONESIUM I chose to.
STRATOPHANES Say you so, indeed? I'll first make trial of that. Do you, for the sake of such a shabby present, vegetables, and comestibles, and vinegar-water, bestow your love upon an effeminate, frizzle-pated, dark-haunt frequenting, drum-drubbing debauchee
(608)
7 , a fellow not worth a nutshell?
GETA What new thing's this? Do you dare, you rogue, to speak ill of my master, you spring-head of vice and perjury?6 Is he deranged: "Hariolus." Literally, "a soothsayer," or "diviner." In their prophetic frenzy, these persons often had the appearance of being mad, and were so considered.
7 Drum-drubbing debauchee: "Typanotriba." Literally, "drum," or "tambourine beater." He alludes to the eunuch-priests of Cybele, who used to beat tambourines in her procession-probably in allusion to debauchees, emasculated by riot and dissipation"Women and girls from the different ranks of society were proud to enter the service of the gods as singers and musicians. The understanding of this service was universal: these singers constituted the 'harem of the gods'." (Quasten)
-Psaltērĭum , ĭi, n., = psaltērion (e scanned short, Ven. Fort. 2, 19, 43).
I.A stringed instrument of the lute kind, a psaltery, Varr. ap. Non. 215, 16; Cic. Har. Resp. 21, 44; Verg. Cir. 178; Quint. 1, 10, 31; Arn. 6, 209; Aug. in Psa. 32; 70; Tert. Cor. Mil. 9; Vulg. 1 Par. 13, 8; id. Psa. 56, 8.—
Cic. Har. 21.44 All these men had a reason,—not an adequate one, indeed, (for no one can have an adequate reason for proving a bad citizen to the republic,) but still they had a serious reason, and one connected with some indignation of mind not unbecoming to a man. Publius Clodius came out as a popular character from saffron gowns and turbans, and woman's slippers, and purple bands, and stomachers, and singing, and iniquity, and adultery. If the women had not caught him in this dress, if he had not been allowed to escape by the indulgence of the maid servants, from a place which it was impious for him to enter, the Roman people would have lost their devoted friend, the republic would have been deprived of so energetic a citizen. It is in consequence of this insane conduct, amid our dissensions, for which we are by these recent prodigies admonished by the immortal gods, that one of the patricians has been taken from their number to be made a tribune of the people, in direct violation of the laws."The name of psaltery entered Christian literature in the 3rd century B.C. translation of the Old Testament called the Septuagint where, in the Psalms, nebel was translated psalterion. Thus, Nebuchadnezzar's idolatrous ensemble included the Aramic psantria. Notice, also, that the book of Psalms has also become known as the Psalter (or psalterium), from the hymns sung with this harp. Source
"Allegory and metaphor elevated the art over the humdrum of life. The Baroque belittled theatrical realism and dramatic truth as commonplace.
It created the castrato, a creature without sex but with a heavenly voice instead.
It saw the emergence of virtuosity which transported the listener into a world of marvels."The Baroque invented sentimental shepherds and shepherdesses with salon manners and salon language.
It created melodies with virtuoso ornaments and opera became a theatre in which singing replaced ordinary speech.
"It invented the wig and female knickers with flounce, lace and ribbons, all of which was to imbue reality with a more poetic character. It created the gallant style and the theory of affections, which isolated and catalogued human emotions and feelings. The opera was the most eloquent manifesto of the escape from reality into a better world.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits (60), and the breadth thereof six (6) cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura (circle), in the province of Babylon. Dan 3:1
-jūcundus (jōcundus ),dv.: jūcundē , agreeably, delight fully: “vivere,” Cic. Cael. 6, 13: “cantare et psallere,” Suet. Tit. 3: “jucundissimi ludi,”That at what time ye hear the sound of the (1) cornet, (2) flute, (3) harp, (4) sackbut, (5) psaltery, (6) dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: Dan 3:5
-lūdĭus , ĭi, m. ludus.I. A stageplayer, pantomimist: “fite caussā meā ludii barbari,” Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 63: “ipse ille maxime ludius, non solum spectator, sed actor et acroama,” Cic. Sest. 54, 116; id. Har. Resp. 11; Plaut. Aul. 2, 9, 6: “ludius aequatam ter pede pulsat humum,” Ov. A. A. 1, 112: “triviales ex Circo ludios interponebat,” Suet. Aug. 74; cf. ludio.—II. A gladiator: “comitata est Hippia ludium ad Pharon,” Juv. 6, 82.
-lūdo , si, sum A. To sport, play with any thing, to practise as a pastime, amuse one's self with any thing: “illa ipsa ludens conjeci in communes locos, Cic. Par. prooem.: Prima Syracosio dignata est ludere versu Nostra ... Thalia,” Verg. E. 6, 1.—Esp., to play on an instrument of music, to make or compose music or song:
B. To sport, dally, wanton (cf. "amorous play," Milton, P. L. 9, 1045): “scis solere illam aetatem tali ludo ludere,
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