The United States of American is being divided in two by design. Take your pick: Race, Ethnicity, Social Status, Political Views, and for many other reasons. This is plain to see. And as many know, “A house divided cannot stand” - Yahusha Marqos (Mark) 3:25.
Never the less, and more importantly, there is a deep divide with the body of messiah (the believers and Yahusha).
It’s an important issues in which many find themselves on one side or the other and once again this is by design. But this division is from Elohim (the Most High) as you will soon see.
This topic may be completely new to you as possibly a friend or family member has shared this with you to help you better understand. It doesn’t matter how you got here to this post...
IT’S FOR A REASON!!!!
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Today, you will see why many of us have been called out of mainstream “christianity” and “church” and it’s traditions and have decided to truly follow or savior the Way Scriptures tells us too.
We have a true desire to follow our Father’s eternal laws, precepts, set-apart days, and commandments. His instructions for life, the Torah.
While some may think this is going backwards, we couldn’t disagree more. This will be explained quickly, and not by lecture or fancy wording, but by the authority of His Living Word.
We have been labeled as “The Hebrew Roots Movement”, “Torah Observant”, “Sacred Namers”, “Pharisees”, “Heretics”, “Legalistic”, and much more. All to which we turn the other cheek... MattithYahu (Matthew) 5:39.
We are simply doing our best to be followers of the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Yahusha Ha’Mashiach (the Messiah).
Yoḥanan Aleph (1 John) 2:6
“The one who says he stays in Him ought himself also to walk, even as He walked.”
Please keep in mind, the information today will be barely scratching the surface of the innumerable amount of evidence, but in an attempt to keep this short we will just cover some of the basics.
THE LAW OF YAHUAH IS FREEDOM
Tehillim (Psalms) 19:7-11
7 The Torah of יהוה (Yahuah) is perfect, bringing back the being; The witness of יהוה (Yahuah) is trustworthy, making wise the simple;
8 The orders of יהוה (Yahuah) are straight, rejoicing the heart; The command of יהוה (Yahuah) is clear, enlightening the eyes;
9 The fear of יהוה (Yahuah) is clean, standing forever; The right-rulings of יהוה (Yahuah) are true, They are righteous altogether,
10 More desirable than gold, Than much fine gold; And sweeter than honey and the honeycomb.
11 Also, Your servant is warned by them, In guarding them there is great reward.
Tehillim (Psalms) 119:44:-45
44 That I might guard Your Torah continually, Forever and ever;
45 That I might walk in a broad place, For I have sought Your orders;
Romiyim (Romans) 7:12
“So that the Torah truly is set-apart, and the command set-apart, and righteous, and good.”
Romiyim (Romans) 7:14
“For we know that the Torah is Spiritual”
Ya‛aqoḇ (James) 1:25
“But he that looked into the perfect Torah, that of freedom, and continues in it, not becoming a hearer that forgets, but a doer of work, this one shall be blessed in his doing of the Torah.”
IS THE TORAH BURDENSOME OR BONDAGE?
Some will tell you that the Torah is bondage or burdensome mostly due to something Sha’ul (Paul) wrote in Galatiyim (Galatians) 5.
Galatiyim (Galatians) 5:1
“In the freedom with which Messiah has made us free, stand firm, then, and do not again be held with a yoke of slavery.”
Bible Colleges and Seminaries alike teach that this freedom was from the Torah and that the bondage is the Torah. Yet we can’t find any Scriptures that backs this.
I find it very interesting that the chapter prior Sha’ul (Paul) states what this bondage was.
Galatiyim (Galatians) 4:3
“So we also, when we were children, were under the elementary matters of the world, being enslaved.”
Is the Torah “elementary matters of the world”?
Just a bit further into chapter 4 we also see this.
Galatiyim (Galatians) 4:9
“But now after you have known Elohim, or rather are known by Elohim, how do you turn again to the weak and poor elementary matters, to which you wish to be enslaved again?”
I humbly ask you, as Sha’ul (Paul) was designated to bring the Besorah (gospel) to the Gentiles, or non-believers if you will, how is it possible that these men and women would be returning to the Torah if they never had it in the first place?
It’s nonsense, yet this is taught as fact this very day.
YAHUSHA: HIS YOKE IS GENTLE AND HIS BURDEN IS LIGHT
MattithYahu (Matthew) 11:30
“For My yoke is gentle and My burden is light.”
It could seem that the Torah is burdensome if you have a love for the world and the things contained in it, but most have no idea that Yahusha is referring Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 30.
Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 30:10-14
10 if you obey the voice of יהוה (Yahuah) your Elohim, to guard His commands and His laws which are written in this Book of the Torah, if you turn back to יהוה (Yahuah) your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being.
11 For this command which I am commanding you today, it is not too hard for you, nor is it far off.
12 It is not in the heavens, to say, ‘Who shall ascend into the heavens for us, and bring it to us, and cause us to hear it, so that we do it?’
13 Nor is it beyond the sea, to say, ‘Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and cause us to hear it, so that we do it?”
14 For the Word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart – to do it.
LOVE IS FULFILLING THE TORAH
Yoḥanan Aleph (1 John) 5:3
“For this is the love for Elohim, that we guard His commands, and His commands are not heavy.”
Tehillim (Psalms) 1:1-3
1 Blessed is the man who shall not walk in the counsel of the wrong, And shall not stand in the path of sinners, And shall not sit in the seat of scoffers,
2 But his delight is in the Torah of יהוה (Yahuah), And he meditates in His Torah day and night.
3 For he shall be as a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That yields its fruit in its season, And whose leaf does not wither, And whatever he does prospers.
YAHUSHA HAD ONLY TWO COMMANDMENTS?
MattithYahu (Matthew) 22:37-40
37 And יהושע (Yahusha) said to him, " ‘You shall love יהוה (Yahuah) your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind.’
38 This is the first and great command.
39 And the second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’
40 On these two commands hang all the Torah and the Prophets.
My question to you, does HANG mean to replace or substitute? Not at all. When we look at what Yahusha said in MattithYahu (Matthew) 22 it’s clear that He was saying that the entire Torah can be kept by following on these two things, love Elohim and love others. When we look at the 10 Commandments the first 4 are about loving Yahuah and the next 6 are about loving others.
In my humble opinion we are seeing a division that Yahuah our Father, our Creator Himself is conducting. The WISE and the FOOLISH.
Remember what our Savior Yahusha Himself said,
MattithYahu (Matthew) 5:17-19
17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to complete.
18 For truly, I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one yod or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah till all be done.
19 Whoever, then, breaks one of the least of these commands, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the reign of the heavens; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens.”
Luqas (Luke) 12:51
“Do you think that I came to give peace on earth? I say to you, no, but rather division.”
There is a day coming when separation happens and the door is shut. This is the door to Renew Yerushalayim (New Jerusalem) and the millennial reign and not all make it in as we learn in the parable of the King, the wedding, and the guest. From that parable Yahusha said,
MattithYahu (Matthew) 22:14
“For many are called, but few are chosen.”
Some of you may be saying to yourself, “What about the verse in Romiyim (Romans) 10:13 and Yo’ĕl (Joel) 2:32 that say to call on His Name to be saved?
The Kingdom of Yahuah is coming soon and everyone who calls on the Name of Yahuah because of His Son Yahusha Ha’Mashiach will be saved from the second death. HalaluYah! But the resurrection of the dead doesn’t happen until after the Tribulation. We will be gathered from all corners of the earth. This is the same event the Sha’ul (Paul) spoke of in Tas`loniqim Aleph (1 Thessalonians) 4.
THE GATHERING
Yehezqĕl (Ezekiel) 20:33-36
33 “As I live,” declares the Master יהוה (Yahuah), “do not I, with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, reign over you?
34 And I shall bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the lands where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out.
35 And I shall bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and shall enter into judgment with you face to face there.
36 As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Mitsrayim (Egypt), so I shall enter into judgment with you,” declares the Master יהוה (Yahuah).
37 And I shall make you pass under the rod, and shall bring you into the bond of the covenant,
38 and purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me. From the land where they sojourn I bring them out, but they shall not come into the land of Yisra’ĕl. And you shall know that I am יהוה (Yahuah).
So we see that all are gathered but not all enter. Did Yahusha say the same, Yes!
THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH
MattithYahu (Matthew) 25:1-
1 Then the reign of the heavens shall be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
2 And five of them were wise, and five foolish.
3 Those who were foolish, having taken their lamps, took no oil with them,
4 but the wise took oil in their containers with their lamps.
5 Now while the bridegroom took time, they all slumbered and slept.
6 And at midnight a cry was heard, ‘See, the bridegroom is coming, go out to meet him!’
7 Then all those maidens rose up and trimmed their lamps.
8 And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out.’
9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, indeed, there would not be enough for us and you. Instead, go to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’
10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.
11 And later the other maidens also came, saying, ‘Master, Master, open up for us!’
12 But he answering, said, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’
Who wants to hear that? What was the difference between the wise and the foolish?
Mishlĕ (Proverbs) 6:23
“For the command is a lamp, And the Torah a light, And reproofs of discipline a way of life,”
Mishlĕ (Proverbs) 10:8
“The wise in heart accepts commands, But one with foolish lips falls.”
Tehillim 19:7
“The Torah of יהוה (Yahuah) is perfect, bringing back the being; The witness of יהוה (Yahuah) is trustworthy, making wise the simple;”
Again, we see that door being shut.
Ḥazon (Revelation) 22:14
“Blessed are those doing His commands, so that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of life, and to enter through the gates into the city.”
Yoḥanan Aleph (1 John) 2:3-4
3 And by this we know that we know Him, if we guard His commands.
4 The one who says, “I know Him,” and does not guard His commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Remember what we just read in the parable of the wise and the foolish and He said, “Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.” You will see the same in MattithYahu (Matthew) 7 and it clarifies what was missing.
MattithYahu (Matthew) 7:22-23
22 Many shall say to Me in that day, ‘Master, Master, have we not prophesied in Your Name, and cast out demons in Your Name, and done many mighty works in Your Name?’
23 And then I shall declare to them, ‘I never knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness!’
Continuing on in verse 24-27
24 Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does them, shall be like a wise man who built his house on the rock,
25 and the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
26 And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not do them, shall be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand,
27 and the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and great was its fall.
Have you decided to follow Yahusha Words and be likened to a wise man? Or you can listen to the doctrines of men that say the Torah was done away with when He died and that they are for the “Jews” only.
It’s up to you to decide.
Galatiyim (Galatians) 3:28-29
28 There is not Yahuḏi nor Greek (Gentile), there is not slave nor free, there is not male and female, for you are all one in Messiah יהושע (Yahusha).
29 And if you are of Messiah, then you are seed of Aḇraham, and heirs according to promise.
Here’s another confirming witness from 2 Esdras, and keep in mind this book was included in the 1611 KJV, the 1520 and 1599 Geneva Bibles, and was only removed as Scripture in 1881.
2 Esdras 15:24-26
24 Woe to them that sin, and keep not my commandments! saith Yahuah.
25 I will not spare them: go your way, ye children, from the power, defile not my sanctuary.
26 For Yahuah knoweth all them that sin against him, and therefore delivereth he them unto death and destruction.
27 For now are the plagues come upon the whole earth and ye shall remain in them: for Elohim shall not deliver you, because ye have sinned against him.
IS THIS A “WORKS BASED” SALVATION?
Please realize that not one of us say that you must keep the Torah to be saved but per our Messiah in Many Scriptural passage, not all will enter into the Kingdom, and not all will rule and reign with Him during the thousand year reign.
Ḥazon (Revelation) 2:26-29
26 And he who overcomes, and guards My works until the end, to him I shall give authority over the nations,
27 and he shall shepherd them with a rod of iron, as the potter’s vessels shall be broken to pieces, as I also have received from My Father.
28 And I shall give him the morning star.
29 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.
Remember, Kĕpha (Peter) warned us that many would use Sha’ul ‘s (Paul’s) words incorrectly and it seem especially rapid these days because most don’t even know the Scriptures.
KEPHA’S (PETER’S) WARNING
Kĕpha Bĕt (2 Peter) 3:14-17
14 So then, beloved ones, looking forward to this, do your utmost to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless,
15 and reckon the patience of our Master as deliverance, as also our beloved brother Sha’ul (Paul) wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,
16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them concerning these matters, in which some are hard to understand, which those who are untaught and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do also the other Scriptures.
17 You, then, beloved ones, being forewarned, watch, lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the delusion of the lawless,
WHAT ABOUT MA`ASEI (ACTS) 15?
Many sight Ma`asei (Acts) 15 as a foundation for a doctrine of casting away the Torah. Please release that the Apostle’s had to start somewhere with new converts. Just like today if we witness to an unbeliever to T’Shuva (repent) and believe the Besorah (gospel) of Yahusha Ha’Mashiach, do we tell them they must do everything at once, or would they learn as they continued in belief and as the Ruach Ha’Qodesh (Set-Apart Spirit) guides them?
This is the same situation and as we see here and in verse 19-21 it confirms that the new converts would hear the message weakly about the Torah during the Shabbat (Sabbath) and continued to grow.
Ma`asei (Acts) 15:19-21
19 Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the nations who are turning to Elohim,
20 but that we write to them to abstain from the defilements of idols, and from whoring, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
21 For from ancient generations Mosheh (Moses) has, in every city, those proclaiming him – being read in the congregations every Sabbath.
The Apostle’s had to start somewhere.
ARE YOU SAYING WE ARE TO BE PERFECT?
I can’t speak for all who observe and preach Torah, but I am far from perfect and know that perfection has been found in Yahusha alone. But, does that mean we don’t strive for it? No, that would be against the teachings of Yahusha.
Luqas (Luke) 13:24
“Strive to enter through the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, shall seek to enter in and shall not be able.”
Iḇ`rim (Hebrews) 12:1
We too, then, having so great a cloud of witnesses all around us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race set before us,
Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) 9:10
10 All that your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in She’ol (the grave) where you are going.
ROMIYIM (ROMANS) 12 THE LIVING SACRIFICE
Romiyim 12:1-2
1 I call upon you, therefore, brothers, through the compassion of Elohim, to present your bodies a living offering – set-apart, well-pleasing to Elohim – your reasonable worship.
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you prove what is that good and well-pleasing and perfect desire of Elohim.
He deserves every once of effort from us.
“WHEN YOU SIN YAHUAH ONLY SEES YAHUSHA” - DOCTRINE OF MEN AKA PHARISEES
Many of us are waking up and breaking free from the teachings of the real Pharisees, as we are normally labeled, that preach man made translations that contradict the True teachings of Yahusha.
Yoḥanan Aleph (1 John) 2:1-6
1 My little children, I write this to you, so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Intercessor with the Father, יהושע (Yahusha) Messiah, a righteous One.
2 And He Himself is an atoning offering for our sins, and not for ours only but also for all the world.
3 And by this we know that we know Him, if we guard His commands.
4 The one who says, “I know Him,” and does not guard His commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
5 But whoever guards His Word, truly the love of Elohim has been perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.
6 The one who says he stays in Him ought himself also to walk, even as He walked.
WHAT IS SIN?
Yoḥanan Aleph (1 John) 3:4
“Everyone doing sin also does lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.”
Listen, we know, none of us can keep it perfect. We completely understand and agree.
Eph`siyim (Ephesians) 2:8-9
8 For by favour you have been saved, through belief, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of Elohim,
9 it is not by works, so that no one should boast.
Romiyim (Romans) 3:31
“Do we then nullify the Torah through the belief? Let it not be! On the contrary, we establish the Torah.”
THE STRONG DELUSION
Tas`loniqim Bĕt (2 Thessalonians) 2:7-12
7 For the secret of lawlessness is already at work – only until he who now restrains comes out of the midst.
8 And then the lawless one shall be revealed, whom the Master shall consume with the Spirit of His mouth and bring to naught with the manifestation of His coming.
9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
10 and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth, in order for them to be saved.
11 And for this reason Elohim sends them a working of delusion, for them to believe the falsehood,
12 in order that all should be judged who did not believe the truth, but have delighted in the unrighteousness.
The Scriptures define the Truth in two ways
Yoḥanan (John) 14:6
(Yahusha) יהושע said to him, “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
Tehillim 119:142
Your righteousness is righteousness forever, And Your Torah is truth.
Since Yahusha is the whole Word, He is both definitions.
Yoḥanan (John) 1:14
“And the Word became flesh and pitched His tent among us, and we saw His esteem, esteem as of an only brought-forth of a Father, complete in favour and truth.”
So we believe it is time to follow the whole Word.
DROPPING THE WORLD’S PAGAN HOLIDAYS FOR YAHUAH’S SET-APART FEAST
This would be way to long to explain each pagan holiday that has been mingled into “christianity” and the world. You can research in your own time the origin of “christmas”, “easter”, and others. This part is tough as most of us grew up as kids loving these days, unfortunately, not only are they unscriptural, but in direct opposition and a slap in the face to Yahuah.
Many of us are casting away these pagan days in favor of the seven Scriptural Set-Apart days of our Creator. Which are not “Jewish holiday’s” as we commonly hear, but are Yahuah’s Appointed Times.
Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 23:1-4
1 And יהוה (Yahuah) spoke to Mosheh (Moses), saying,
2 Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘The appointed times of יהוה (Yahuah), which you are to proclaim as set-apart gatherings, My appointed times, are these:
3 ‘Six days work is done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a set-apart gathering. You do no work, it is a Sabbath to יהוה (Yahuah) in all your dwellings.
4 ‘These are the appointed times of יהוה (Yahuah), set-apart gatherings which you are to proclaim at their appointed times.
You can read more about these appointed time in the rest of Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 23.
Bemiḏbar (Numbers) 15:15-16
15 One law is for you of the assembly and for the stranger who sojourns with you – a law forever throughout your generations. As you are, so is the stranger before יהוה (Yahuah).
16 One Torah and one right-ruling is for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you.
Even with that said most have no idea they can be grafted into the House of Yisra’ĕl. We are taught that there is a separation between the Gentiles and Yisra’ĕl, especially with the confusion surrounding the 1948 “State of Israel” and the “Jews” living there. These two set of Scripture is barely touching this topic, but the true Yisra’ĕl is not a “State” but His chosen people, those who are His Children, us, who believe in Yahusha and call on Yahuah.
Galatiyim (Galatians) 3:26-29
26 For you are all sons of Elohim through belief in Messiah יהושע (Yahusha).
27 For as many of you as were immersed into Messiah have put on Messiah.
28 There is not Yahuḏi nor Greek (Gentile), there is not slave nor free, there is not male and female, for you are all one in Messiah יהושע (Yahusha).
29 And if you are of Messiah, then you are seed of Aḇraham, and heirs according to promise. (The Children of Yisra’ĕl)
Eph`siyim (Ephesians) 2:11-19
11 Therefore remember that you, once nations in the flesh, who are called ‘the uncircumcision’ by what is called ‘the circumcision’ made in the flesh by hands,
12 that at that time you were without Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Yisra’ĕl and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no expectation and without Elohim in the world.
13 But now in Messiah יהושע (Yahusha) you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.
14 For He is our peace, who has made both one, and having broken down the partition of the barrier,
15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity – the torah of the commands in dogma – so as to create in Himself one renewed man from the two, thus making peace,
16 and to completely restore to favour both of them unto Elohim in one body through the stake, having destroyed the enmity by it.
17 And having come, He brought as Good News peace to you who were far off, and peace to those near.
18 Because through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens of the set-apart ones and members of the household of Elohim. (The House of Yisra’ĕl)
Mishlĕ (Proverbs) 1:5
“The wise one hears and increases learning, And the understanding one gets wise counsel,”
Mishlĕ (Proverbs) 1:7
“The fear of יהוה (Yahuah) is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and discipline.”
Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) 12:13
“Let us hear the conclusion of the entire matter: Fear Elohim and guard His commands, for this applies to all mankind!”
Again, this was barely scratching the surface, and a little longer than I originally intended. I pray this finds you well and pray that you test all things. In the Name of Yahusha Ha’Mashiach, Shalom!
Mishlĕ (Proverbs) 9:10
“The fear of יהוה (Yahuah) is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Set-apart One is understanding.”
