This is such a great post! I am very excited so I hope I can collect my thoughts and write complete sentences� with out typos�(LOL).
The Law is so beautiful!!!!!!!!!! What a lot of people do not understand, yet I understand it�s because of �tradition� and just simply not understanding Jewish thought, is that YHVH entered into a marriage contract�. �These are my expectations� keep them.� He let us (whole of humanity know what He expects of His bride). Yet He is sooooo much more that grace is greater!!!! Have you ever read the Hebrew �Faith hall of fame�(chapter 12)? No Jew has ever (well I should rephrase) most Jews have never believed that it has ever been �works� we don�t just read Torah but all of the Tanakh (Old Testament), and know YHVH wants faith. What the Law is Him, are His likes and dislikes; just like a natural marriage. When you love Him you want to please Him; just like a natural husband.
My personal opinion is if people bothered to recognize that all 66 books ARE Him many would not be into porn, going to mediums (or psychics�), not voting for the president, governor, or state official that backs murdering children�. And so much mor then the �10 commandments��)
Following the Torah is being in love and wanting, needing to know His likes and dislikes just like a natural spouse, just like David. And wanting, needing to please the �Lover of my Soul�!!!!!
I can never believe that Y�shua only loved the Jews and Torah was just meant for us and the rest of you well it�s all good your getting to heaven but He doesn�t like you so much He doesn�t want you to know or follow the rest of His love letters to us.
Living in a self-centered world perverted or not is a hard �sin� to break� The truth is it is false pride. To answer your question no I do not turn away from someone in need (financially, emotionally, or mentally). I have a feeling this could be a loaded question so I will try to answer with the best discursion I can. I remember when G-d spoke to me and asked �Would you want your child to live this way�?
However, helping �my neighbor� I have a natural detachment to; simply because what they do really do not evolve me on a deep emotional level. Yet, I was still left with bragging rights if I helped. The point of the story is I do not tell my right hand what my left hand is doing. (To be honest� if I meet someone and they tell me how they give to the poor it�s a turn-off � that is NOT loving other people that is all about you!!!!!!). I use to be about �I� do this or but �I� do that to find esteem.)�
I wrote in another post once how I got �saved� a Torah observant girl. The post was �works or faith�. I keep reading the same kind of post and realize most people talk out of their�. I said that I observe Torah yet I did not realize I have to keep up with the �Christian� rules that will send me to hell� if I keep Torah it�s works but what �Christians� put on other �Christians I guess is scripture..(LOL). I simply got saved because Messiah Y�shua reviled Himself to me. I sail �L�rd save me��. I was saved. Y�shua is the Messiah period. I am rejected by most of my people for believing in Him and rejected by most �Christians� for believing in my Messiah because I follow Torah� I think He loves me and is pleased� really don�t care about your opinion if I�m getting to heaven or not that is between my Messiah and I just find you people funny!!!!!
now that;s a good word Lady Jude... but the problem lies in the "love your neighbor AS(meaning the same way you love youself... problem, many people DO NOT LOVE THEMSLEVES, and this is why their neighbors(fellowman) are not being or receiving love.
Where is it at in scripture that people do not love themselves? In fact according to the Word all people do. Now it can be a perverted love for self... as an ex-abused wife the world still rotated and revolved around my pain, I was still self-centered and absorbed, just in a negative light. The Word is never wrong. Everyone loves themselves weather in a "right", "healthy" way or perverted. The Bible says to esteem others higher than yourself. Do people need more self-respect? Yes. Loving yourself is... it's all about me (happiness or pain).
Does an infant have FAITH?? Heb 11:1,6: Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see..Without FAITH it is impossible to please God!"
Posted : 30 Aug, 2011 03:49 PM
David had a child die, and he comforted himself with the thought, �Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me� (2 Samuel 12:23). David knew that he would see his child in heaven one day.
Exodus 30:
11: And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12: When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
13: This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
14: Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.
15: The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
16: And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
God commanded those who were twenty years old and above to pay a ransom for their souls because anyone nineteen years and below were consider by God to be children and were under the protective head of the household. If he was only nineteen he was not old enough to pay a ransom for his own soul, he was still covered under his father�s ransom.
God will confirm this again in two other places of scripture. I am a firm believer in the "two witness theory," which is that there should be at least two scriptures to verify any Bible teaching that we use. Otherwise it could just be our own conjecture.
God delivered Israel out of the bondage of Egypt taking them almost immediately to the Promised Land. In just a few weeks they had tempted God ten different times provoking him to anger. The straw that broke the camel�s back was when they refused to enter the Promised Land after all he had gone through to get them there. He had promised to deliver them and bring them to it, but it was up to them to obey his will and go in, they refused.
He decided to punish them by allowing them to die in the Wilderness. Israel was condemned to wander for the next forty years in the Wilderness while these people died. But God did not sentence everyone to die in the Wilderness. Along with Joshua, Caleb and their families he spared the children of those that had sinned against him. Anyone who was twenty years and older was condemned to die in the Wilderness because God held them accountable for their sin against him. But God in his mercy spared the children. Anyone who was nineteen years and under were spared and not held accountable because God saw them as children. Here are some of the scriptures to confirm this.
Num 14:29: Your carcasses� shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
We can tell that he would destroy those who were twenty and older and spare those who were nineteen years and younger but, how does this prove accountability? Maybe he just picked a random number to spare and went by that? Well let�s look in Deuteronomy and see what it says concerning their accountability.
Deu 1:39: Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
This scripture is speaking of the same time that we just read about in Numbers 14:29. It is speaking of all Israel who was considered by the Lord to not be held accountable for the sins of Israel. In this verse he says because they had no knowledge between good and evil. This clearly shows us that in God�s view anyone who is under twenty years old is insufficient when it comes to making decisions about what is good and evil. He did not hold them accountable for themselves, but why so old? Nineteen years old, isn�t that stretching it a little bit? Before we are finished we will explain why, but God is telling us in these scriptures that a "child" is a person who is age 19 or younger.
In recent studies on the human brain they have made some amazing discoveries. One of these discoveries pertains to teenagers and the development of their brains. The physical development of the teenager�s body seemed to tell us that they are almost adult but this fact can be very deceiving when it comes to the way we treat our children. Many young boys and girls at sixteen at often times are taller and bigger than their own parents which can cause us to think that they are a lot more mature than they really are. According to recent discoveries in medical science they have proven that the brain of a teenager, no matter how much they seem to mature in appearance, doesn�t completely develop until they are almost twenty years old. This occurs because of the development of the prefrontal lobe of the brain.
Justification of sinners by trusting Yeshua 'ONLY;
Posted : 13 Aug, 2011 02:43 PM
It took me a second to understand what you were really saying in your post, but when I thought back to my own �conversion� I realized you were right.
I am a Jewish girl who ever year faithfully �suffers my soul� on Yom Kippur with fasting and repenting for 24 hours. But the day I was �saved� I only called upon the name of the Lord. I was with my parents in a restaurant. Now my father being the good rabbi that he is, he and my mother were talking about YHWH. However first I must mention that my boyfriend of 5 years was murdered in December of 1990 and now this was February of 1991. As my parents were talking and like a normal 18 year old I was not paying much attention to what they were saying but I heard something in my head and He said �If you die today you will go to hell�. I honestly do not know how I know it was Y-shua but I did. Maybe the fact that Alex (the boyfriend) and I were invited to a Baptist church in June of 1990 the only time I had ever gone to a �Christian� church; we went to be polite. During the alter call Alex looked at me and said �I want to go down�. I thought he was crazy but I said ok so he went down and I stayed in my set. Maybe that is why I know it was Y-shua may be just because He is G-d and He is just like tat� nevertheless, right then and there in the restaurant I asked Him to be my Lord and Savior�under my breath of course� so no one could hear� I did not repent of any sin I just said �Please come into my heart and save me Y-shua!� No repentance of this sin and that sin my sin that was going to send me to hell was rejecting my Messiah. Now I still suffer my soul ever year on Yom Kippur and I do a lot more repenting then once a year but I know it was my rejection of Messiah that was going to send me to hell not all of my other my sins.
I am a Messianic Jew who does not believe in the �Christian� doctrine of your �trinity�. Yet, Y-eshua is my Messiah�. Will I go to heaven YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Hear O Israel, YHVH is G-d, YHVH is ONE." (Deut 6:4)
I do not subscribe to trinitarian/tri-unitarian doctrines which attempt to define G-d as three Persons in One. YHVH is One. I am convinced one reason why a trinitarian doctrine was incorporated into Christianity was to explain the 'person' of Yeshua; to explain how he could be G-d. That G-d could take on human form as an earthly Messiah isn't difficult to accept -- afterall -- He'd previously supped with Abraham (Gen 18) and He had wrestled with Jacob (Gen 32) while also in human form. Our powerful G-d can manifest Himself in many forms; there is no need for these weak doctrines that attempt to sub-divide the godhead in attempts to explain "how" He does it. Trinitarians start dividing up the godhead so that the Father is one person, the Son/Yeshua is a second person, and then the Ruach (spirit) is a third person. Scripture never says G-d is divided up into three persons! The word 'trinity' isn't even Scriptural. Scripture tells us G-d is One not three. Ultimately the trinity doctrine seeks to limit our heavenly Father to merely one-third of the godhead. Isn't it easier to just accept Scripture at Its Word? We have One G-d, and He can manifest Himself in any form He chooses without needing to be subdivided to fit the manmade doctrines.
"Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost." Matthew 1:20 Who's the Father? The Father or the Ruach (Holy Spirit)? Are there two Fathers in the Trinity? Who Is The Ruach (Spirit)? Ruach is the Hebrew word for 'spirit,' it is defined as 'breath' 'air' 'strength' 'wind' 'breeze.' It's Greek equivalent used in Brit Chadasha (new testament) is pneuma also meaning 'the wind' 'to breathe' or 'blow.' Clearly the Ruach is the breath of G-d and can not be a separate person within the godhead. "Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters. Genesis 1:2 "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." 2 Cor 3:17 "For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Yeshua HaMashiach" Philippians 1:19 "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." 1 Cor 15:45 In the above passages we see the 'spirit' is easily applied to either the "Father" and the "Son." It's not a person in its own right within the godhead -- it is the outward breath and strength of YHVH.
Let's look in Scripture, starting with the most famous messianic prophecy:
"For unto us a child is born .., and His Name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty Almighty, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." Isaiah 9:6 Where is the trinity? Did G-d forget that Yeshua was to be only the Son, not the Father? Let's re-word some Scriptural passages to emphasize how the trinity doctrine affects their reading:
Yeshua said "I and the Father are One." This flat out disputes the concept of Yeshua being the 'second person of the trinity' since He is identifying Himself as the Father.
Mix in trinity doctrine, it should read: "I and the Father comprise two-thirds of a three person deity." Yeshua said "he that hath seen me hath seen the Father."Allow for the trinity doctrine, that would read: "He who has seen me has seen one-third of the godhead which is sort of like seeing the Father who is a different one-third of the godhead." It doesn't work. Yeshua is the Father as well as the Son. No separation or division is mentioned, therefore, no trinity! G-d is One, and only One. He is not a collection of personages. He can manifest Himself in many forms but He is always One. "Thus saith YHVH, thy Redeemer, and He that formed thee from the womb: I am YHVH, that maketh all things; that stretched forth the heavens alone; that spread abroad the earth by Myself" Isa. 44:24
Compare Isaiah 44:24 above with Colossian 1:15-18 regarding Yeshua:
"Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him (Yeshua) were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Now the Father YHVH created all things by Himself and yet Colossians attributes these acts to the Son, Yeshua. It is clear that Yeshua is not relegated Scripturally to only being the Son, the second person of the godhead, but that Yeshua is the Father too!
How can we know YHVH meant the Father and not a pre-incarnate Messiah? "For Thou art our Father ; for Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us; Thou, O YHVH, art our Father, our Redeemer from everlasting is Thy name." Isaiah 63:16 YHVH is the Father -- YHVH is also the Redeemer! "I, even I, am YHVH; and beside Me there is no saviour." Isa. 43:11 These show clearly that YHVH is the Father, our Redeemer and Saviour. Yet the trinity doctrine tries to split up G-d into divisions, assigning the Father one role, and the Son a different role of Saviour/Redeemer. It will not work! These problems cease to exist if we acknowledge that YHVH is G-d, and Messiah is YHVH, and therefore YHVH and Messiah are one and the same. The trinitarian distinctions between Father, Son and Ruach conflict with Scripture which make no such subdivisions within the godhead. There is One G-d, YHVH. Period. Who was the pre-incarnate Messiah? It's the same as the incarnate Messiah -- it's YHVH, our sole Father, Creator, L-rd and G-d.
There is so much more to debate however that would be a 1000 pages long�lol. My salvation is in YHVH /Y-shua and Him alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
