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 UNDERSTANDING THE TORAH

Introduction to Torah

What Do I Do?

Problem: Many who begin to come to an understanding that the whole Word of God applies to their lives today soon come to ask themselves and others, “what do I do now?” without any clear guidelines.

Solution: There are only a handful of things we can strive to do when one begins to pursue obedience to His Torah, things that can be easily done.
1.) Begin to follow the Sabbath
2.) Begin following the dietary instructions found in Leviticus 11.
3.) Begin to wear the commanded tassels/tzitzit to help remind us of YHWH’s laws. (Numbers 15:38-41, Deuteronomy 22:12)
4.) Follow the appointed times the best we are able. (Leviticus 23, Deuteronomy 16)

Appointed Times of Yahweh (The Mo’edim)

Problem: Many believe the appointed times of the Creator no longer apply to us, or are only for the Jews. Others believe if the appointed times are not observed precisely as described in Scripture then we are sinning.

Solution: It’s important to study the Scripture to find out what precisely is required for each appointed time and to whom they were commanded. We have included a list of all Scripture verses in the Torah relating to the keeping of the mo’edim (appointed times) of Yahweh. We are told repeatedly the law is the same for the native and for the foreigner living among them, all who wish to follow Yahweh (Exodus 12:49, Numbers 9:14, 15:15-16, and Isaiah 56:6-7 to name a few). If one claims to be a child of Elohim, then they should recognize this means the Torah of Yahweh applies to them, the same as to the native born. For those not native born, we have been grafted into Israel, His chosen people; not the other way around. 
It’s important to note that many of the mo’edim require specific requirements (such as sacrifices or actions to be completed by the Levitical Priesthood) we are unable to observe today. Because of this, we cannot truly keep the feast days as biblically instructed, we can only do what we are able to in memorial, or remembrance, of the Scriptures. In fact, it would be sin for us to attempt to keep these mo’edim as described in Scripture. How could it be a sin? Here is one example; if we were to make the required sacrifice (such as on Yom Kippur) then we would be breaking the Torah because we do not have the Levitical Priesthood (including High Priest) here on earth, nor the altar and Tabernacle (or temple) at which to perform the sacrifice as required in the Torah.

Because we would not be doing it exactly as commanded, we would be sinning, breaking the Torah. Does this mean we should not still strive to observe the appointed times to the best of our abilities and simply ignore them? Of course not, but we need to be aware that when we do observe these times, it is done so out of a desire to be obedient but it is actually simply a memorial, or practice, for when we can once again fully observe them. Also note, there are really very few requirements given for many of the appointed times outside of when to observe them, resting when it is a day of rest, sacrifices to be performed by the Levitical priesthood, staying in a temporary dwelling, or sounding a shofar. This is not an all-inclusive list, but does cover a majority of the requirements given. In fact, we are really given very little on the “how-to” observe the feasts outside of the requirements given.

Because there is little given in way of instruction, there are myriads of different man-made traditions surrounding these times. We not endorse such traditions as being something that must be followed, but nor do we teach against them as long as they do not contradict Scripture or detract from the Torah. One example of a tradition that we see no problem with is the observance of Hanukkah. While Yeshua often railed against the Pharisees and their traditions, it was not because having traditions was bad. The problem with the Pharisees traditions were that they were being taught as either being from the Creator or even were practiced in preference to those of the Creator’s Torah thus making the Word of God null and void. Traditions are not bad in and of themselves unless they are contradicting or in opposition to the Word of God; they should never be considered Torah, they are simply man-made behaviors or actions.

What is the Ruach HaKodesh (Set-Apart or Holy Spirit)?

The Hebrew word for Spirit is “ruach.” It is composed of a resh, a vav, and a chet. The word itself literally means “wind” or “moving air.”

This of course paints a specific picture for us. “Ruach” includes an idea of an unseen power. For example, wind is not seen, but you can see the effects of wind.

Thus, “ruach” can be used for YHWH, or it can be used for spiritual beings, or it can even be used for emotions, such as the spirit of anger, or the spirit of lust…as emotions inside of us are not seen, but we can see the effects of our emotions in our behavior.

In other words, something that is “ruach” can cause something to occur, but we cannot necessarily see the cause itself…it is hidden from us.

The Holy Spirit is then the Set Apart unseen force sent from God. 

TANAKH/Old Testament

Exodus

EXODUS 20:4-6

Problem: You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands[a] of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Many understand this verse to mean one cannot have a piece of artwork of any type that is of anything of nature from the heavens, to the earth, to the waters.

Solution: The solution to understanding the second commandment is inclusive of reading the whole commandment, not just a portion of it in verse four. Are we to suggest that Yahweh Elohim would be a “jealous” God if we painted or took a photo of a bird? Those focusing ONLY on verse four would suggest so. Or, does it make more sense that if we painted or sculpted a bird, let’s say an owl in this case, and then bowed down to it as the false sun god Molech, then Yahweh would then be a jealous God? Those focusing on the whole context of the second commandment would find this example to be true and valid.

EXODUS 21:23-25

Problem: But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.Many interpret this Hebrew idiom, an “eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” to be quite literal and be all about revenge of like kind.

Solution: Exodus 21:33-34 When a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, the owner of the pit shall make restoration. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his.

The fact that the first instance in the Torah related to the concept of an “eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” is embedded in the context of reconciliation, not retribution, helps us understand the actual intent behind this commandment.

We need to examine this under a judicial system of fair and equal counter measures. The idea is to make things even, in such a way that reconciliation is reached by all parties. The idea is to neutralize offenses. This understanding is supported by Yeshua in Matthew 5. It is more about responsibility and doing what is right when something has gone terribly wrong. If we would simply keep reading the context following the idiom of “eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth” we would see this idea of reconciliation and responsibility really begin to present itself. Outside of the scope of the capital punishment system, nearly all examples are about making things even through monetary compensation. Consider reading on further till chapter 22, verse 16 to really see the context.

The three times in the Old Testament where the phrase “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth” is mentioned all relate to a civil situation, something being judged before a duly constituted authority: a judge, a magistrate, etc. “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth” is not a statement that is in any way related to personal relationships. 

Leviticus

LEVITICUS 15:19-24

Problem: These verses refer to the laws of niddah, the time of menstruation for women.
The reason there is even a debate about these verses is because some Jewish traditions go to extremes to avoid becoming unclean…even building a separate house for his wife for her to reside in during this time. This is commonly referred to as the “red tent”. Not that this is necessarily wrong, but it is certainly not necessary.

Solution: The context here can be seen in Leviticus 18:19 and 20:18; the intent is surrounding intimate relations. Keep in mind, that being unclean is not necessarily a sin. Becoming unclean happens. But, knowing when you are unclean is important, because it dictated when one was permitted to enter into the temple. Since there is no physical temple today, this matter is much less of an issue as to whether or not you are unclean.

However, there are direct commandments as to things that are forbidden during this time such as the passage being addressed here. “Uncovering her nakedness” is a Hebraic way of saying intercourse. Husband and wife are to remain separate from each other in this way. This is what is meant in Leviticus 15:19 in the sense of not “touching” your wife during her menstrual cycle.

The Hebrew word for touching can carry the meaning of literally just touching, all the way to intimate relations. We can see from Leviticus 18:19 and 20:18 that the intent is surrounding intimate relations.

The means to becoming unclean during this time is a matter of being exposed to blood. Not to be gross, but during a woman’s cycle, especially during ancient times, a bed or chair, could easily become exposed to blood given the way it was managed…and of course, intimate relations would most certainly exposing the husband to blood. 

LEVITICUS 25:1-7

Problem: We are commanded to let the land rest every 7 years.
Some ask whether farmers or gardeners should let their land rest every seven years.

Solution: We are still scattered among the nations. The context is for when we are in the land. So the Sabbath year for the land is recognized once we are in the land according to YHWH’s own words. Spiritually, the land resting in the 7th year likely stands for the 7,000th year, in which our Messiah is Lord on Earth with us for 1,000 years…and we rest in the land with Him.

Numbers

NUMBERS 15:38-41

Problem: There is a command to wear tassels, or tzitzits, but what does that mean and who should wear them?
Some will tell you that tassels or tzitzits must be worn, braided, or made a certain way, if they agree they should be worn at all.

Solution: Many understand that there are to be four tassels. The reason for this is because the commandment speaks of attaching the tassels to the four corners of our garments so it is inferred that there are to be at least four tassels (Deuteronomy 22:12). Whether or not that is exactly right, we know for sure that there are to be at least two, because the word “tassels” is plural. He simply said attached tassels containing a strand of blue to the four corners of our garments. In Hebrew, the word corners and edges are from the same word.

Just as it is a Hebraic idiom to understand that the four corners of the world relates to the whole world (i.e. Isaiah 11:12), the four corners of our garments implies that we are to be fully clothed in the Word of God. The point is that we wear tzitzits to help us visually remember the commandments of God, which does imply of course, that they are visible and to be worn as often throughout the day that one wants to be reminded to keep the commandments of God…we would expect that one would want to be reminded all day of course. Therefore, not wearing them would be considered a sin. 

Deuteronomy

DEUTERONOMY 14:21

Problem: You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
It is commonly misunderstood to mean that it is not appropriate to mix both meat and milk-based items in the same food or dish.

Solution: Look at the Hebrew words used and the context. The commandment specifically mentions the milk of the mother, not just milk in general. The statistical chances of the dairy from the mother, the meat from the young of the very same mother, and then those two products making it to the same distributor, then the same store, and then into the same customer is nearly impossible. Despite the musings of ancient Jewish rabbis, multiple times our Creator used the word for a young goat that is not to be boiled in its mother’s milk. If our Creator meant the generic form of meat, there is a word that would have been used to refer specifically to generic meat.

The spiritual teaches the physical and the physical teaches the spiritual. In our understanding, this commandment specifically refers to goat’s meat and to goat’s milk.

This commandment is repeated three times and thus the commandment should not be expanded to include all meat and dairy products; especially when the Torah explicitly forbids the adding to the law of God (Deuteronomy 4:2)

Furthermore, it is extremely important that the law speaks about the meat being cooked and today’s interpretations also banned un-cooked food which further suggests that these traditional Jewish interpretations are just plain wrong. The message behind this specific law of goat’s meat and goat’s milk has to do with forbidding the attempt to combine deceptive teachings by mixing them through “cooking” with the Torah which we received through a medium, which is Moses.

The law about not seething a kid in its mother’s milk has to do with making deceptive teachings about the Law of God and not so much to do with eating a cheeseburger at McDonald’s. 

DEUTERONOMY 21:18-21

Problem: Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.Many people jump to this Scripture indicating we can’t follow the law otherwise we would have to stone our children.

Solution: There are parameters and criteria that we need to consider. It is only when the parents decide that their child is not correctable and continuously refuses to walk in God’s ways that the situation is elevated, or escalated, to the elders for review and a decision, which may still not result in stoning. What is the established process of the elders?

There is a court system for all capital punishments that exists at the city gates. The Biblical capital punishment system requires a specific governmental structure founded on Biblical (Torah) based principles and guidelines. There is not a country currently on planet Earth, including Israel, that is currently employing the true Biblical structure and process necessary to carry out this commandment.

It is these courts (not us directly) that are commanded to carry out the Biblical capital punishment cases. As a consequence, all believers are currently subject to the governmental authority of their respective nation as there is no alternative.

The persons Biblically mandated and accountable to the capital punishment commandments currently do not exist in its true commanded form. Thus, there is no group established to be obedient to these commandments. 

DEUTERONOMY 22:11

Problem: You shall not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together.
This has been interpreted to mean no type of fabric blend should be allowed because Leviticus 19:19 is not as specific as Deuteronomy 22:11.

Solution: While that might be the case, we suspect that Yah was referring specifically to wool and linen as indicated in Deuteronomy 22:11. If we look at Leviticus 19:19, we find the wording says two kinds of material and not specifically wool and linen. The Hebrew word in question here is sha`atnez. Strong’s analysis renders it as a wool and linen garment:

1) mixed stuff, fabric of mixed weave, linsey-woolsey

  1. a kind of cloth forbidden for garments
  2. cloth made by weaving linen and wool together

Thus, it appears that the focus of the commandment is for us not to mix wool and linen and not concern specifically with other threads. The issuing of this commandment is in the same context of not mixing other things, one of those being seeds.

The spiritual understanding is that we are not to mix things. We are to not mix the ways of God, His seed, with other ways or instructions. 

Ecclesiastes

ECCLESIASTES 12:13-14

Problem: Verse 13 – Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. Some might say, “Well, this is the Old Testament. We don’t have live under that anymore.”

Solution: Verse 14 – For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.The solution begins with verse 14 as it tells us that every deed of man will be judged. With those who say this we are not under the Old Testament anymore, we need to see if we have any verses in the New Testament that tells us that all our deeds will be judged. We also need to see if we have anything in the New Testament that tells us we are to be keeping the commands of God as established in the Old Testament. The sentiments of Ecclesiastes 12:14 are echoed here:

Revelation 22:12 – “Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done.” They are also related in Revelation 20:12-13, Jude 1:14-15, 2 Corinthians 5:10, and Romans 2:6. 

Isaiah

ISAIAH 58:13-14

Problem: verse 13 – “If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure[c]on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of theLordhonorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways,Some understand “doing your pleasure” to mean we cannot do anything we enjoy on Shabbat.

Solution: Genesis 15:13 and Leviticus 23:26-32, along with several other verses, defines what it means to refrain from doing one’s own pleasure, or humbling one’s self on the Sabbath. This is not working, so we are not to work nor have other’s work for us on the Sabbath. Just before in the same chapter (verses 3-4) we have Yahweh defining what He wants done, and how we are to fast versus what the Pharisees were doing. Doing their own pleasure had to do with working or having others work for them. So, here in verse 13 we are told if we keep ourselves from working on the Sabbath, not keep ourselves from doing something we enjoy whether it be relaxing, crocheting, or something else. We are to love the Word of God and it should be a joy and pleasure to read, study, and learn. If doing such is a pleasure for us, should we refrain from it on Shabbat as well? 

Jeremiah

JEREMIAH 3:8

Problem: I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery.

Not everyone understands what it meant for the Creator to create a certificate of divorce to the House of Israel.

Solution: Deuteronomy 24:4 indicates that once a man has divorced his wife, he cannot remarry her. This is part of the great mystery that the Jewish rabbis wonder about, how is it that YHWH will be able to reconcile, or remarry Israel since He divorced her. He promised He would bring them back in Deuteronomy 30:3-6 and Ezekiel 37:15-30 and they would be one again, and be His people. The house of Israel was divorced for their spiritual adultery in going after other gods; they are the 10 “lost tribes”, or as Yeshua called them, “lost sheep of Israel”. The Torah tells us YHWH cannot remarry them, so how would he bring them back? She had to die through the substitutionary sacrifice of Messiah.

JEREMIAH 31:31-33

Problem: Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was an husband unto them, says the LORD (Yahweh): But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD (Yahweh), I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.Some teach that what it means for the law to be on their hearts, indicates the Torah in the Old Testament no longer applies. Others state this covenant is with the church, not Israel, and that Israel is not included in this new covenant (replacement theology).

Solution: There are two things to note here, both verses 31 and 33 indicate who the “new covenant” is with, it’s the House of Israel. So, unless you are already part of, or grafted in, to the House of Israel, then the covenant is not for you. The covenant specifically states “house of Israel” and “house of Judah”, it does not say to all of the unbelieving gentiles nor to gentiles who have replaced His chosen people of Israel. Contextually speaking, it only applies to the House of Israel and the House of Judah of which we can now be grafted in to if we are/were of the nations, or gentiles. If a person claims this covenant, they claim to be of Israel and all that it entails. This leads to the second part. The covenant, the promises, etc., are all made to and with Israel. This is true from the beginning all of the way through Revelation. The Torah, or instruction, was given to Israel on how to live set apart as His people. If the Torah is just for Israel, and a person is grafted into Israel, then the Torah is for them. Therefore, clearly, if one is a part of the New Covenant established by Yeshua then one is grafted into the House of Judah or the House of Israel and is thus part of Israel. The new covenant is not stated to be made with anyone else. One either becomes part of the one holy nation, as Peter said, Israel, or one is not part of the new covenant. In addition, God said that He would write His law on the hearts and minds of His people (which, by the way, is the exact opposite of abolishing it. He established it).

According to the Bible (John 3:20-21, Psalm 119:142, Proverbs 6:23), the law is the way, the truth, and the life, and the light. That sounds exactly like Jesus or, Yeshua. YES!!! That is 100% right! So many miss this! HE IS THE WORD IN THE FLESH!

John 1:14 – And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
So, if the Yeshua is the Word, and we have Yeshua in our heart, and the Word is written in our hearts under the new covenant, then what we are saying is the eternal law of God, the same taught in the Torah, is applicable to us today and written in our hearts. Out of our hearts come our words and actions. Our actions should show the Torah in our hearts; we should be living the Torah. 

Ezekiel

EZEKIEL 11:19, 36:26

Problem: I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit inside you; I will take the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
A common misconception from some Christians is that we have a new spirit in the NT, but not the old law.

Solution: Ezekiel 11:20 and 36:27 – I will put my Spirit inside you and cause you to live by my laws, respect my rulings and obey them.What does it mean to have a stony heart? It’s a heart that is hard, stubborn, unyielding just as the pharaoh’s was in Exodus. As humans, our hearts are hard and wicked wanting our own way, but YHWH will give us a heart of flesh, one that is pliable, soft, one that seeks Him and His ways, not our own way. This is further evidenced in verses 20 and 27 referenced here; we are given a spirit from God that will cause us to live by His Laws, His Rulings, and obey them. This is not living our way, but God’s way. What is God’s way? The Torah, the instructions He gave us to live by. John 14:26 tells us the Spirit will teach us everything, reminding us of what Yeshua taught. John 16:13 further clarifies what the Spirit will teach, all truth. What is truth? Psalm 119:142, the law/Torah is truth. So the Spirit will guide us into and teach us all truth, the Torah of God, which is simply reminding us what Yeshua taught, the Torah of YHWH. This is what Ezekiel tells us as well.

Brit Hadasha/New Testament

Matthew

MATTHEW 5:17-20

Problem: Verse 17: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Yeshua says He came to fulfill the Law and the Prophets; it is often taught or understood that “fulfill” means to come to an end, it is finished.

Solution: Verse 18: For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.Nothing from the Law changes until heaven and earth pass away. Therefore fulfill cannot mean “to be completed” or “finished”. Instead it means to be made full, filled full of meaning, fully preached. Yeshua was the Word made flesh who taught and showed by example what the Law meant in its fullness and how it was to be applied. 

MATTHEW 5:38-42

Problem: Matthew 5:38-42 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.This saying of Yeshua is generally interpreted as criticism of the Torah based commandment, given to us by our Creator, and often taken as implying that “an eye for an eye” encourages excessive vengeance rather than an attempt to limit it.

Solution: The context of eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth involves the reconciliation of circumstances related to permanent consequences to the victim…whether that be losing an eye, or having scars from burns or by other means. A slap on the cheek causes no permanent consequences. It is not to be included in the context of “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”

Yeshua basically says, “get over it”, as there is nothing there to reconcile. However, on the flip side, there are circumstances in which the threat of real permanent damage could occur to us or our family. Such circumstances merit protecting and defending ourselves.

In addition, sometimes those circumstances become a reality and real permanent harm results. In such situations, as the “eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth” model teaches in the Torah, the offender needs to take responsibility, exercises humility and servanthood, and make things even with the victim. On the other side, the victim needs to realize that it the Torah is a system that facilitates love and reconciliation, not retribution and revenge…thus it needs to be treated as such…a system of equal weights and measures.

MATTHEW 7:15-23

Problem: Verses 15-16: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?It is not always clear what fruit is and how to tell a false prophet. Some are taught that fruit is a large congregation, feelings of love, or only the Fruit of the Spirit.

Solution:
1 John 3:9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
1 Peter 1:23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
1 John 3:4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.
The fruit that we are to watch out for is the choosing to disregard God’s law. Everything else can be blended but there is no blending the desiring to obey and the desiring to disregard God’s Law. You either desire to obey it OR you desire to disregard it. It’s one or the other in the eyes of the Father. And remember, breaking one law is like breaking all of it. 

MATTHEW 12:1-8

Problem: Verses 1-2: At that time Yeshua went through the grain fields on the Sabbath, and His disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat. 2 But when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples do what is not lawful to do on a Sabbath.”
The Oral Law/Traditions says you can’t rub grain between your fingers because it is considered threshing which is work on the Sabbath.


Solution: Verses 3-5: 3 But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions, 4 how he entered the house of God, and they ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone? 5 Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent?Feeding the hungry is greater purpose than rolling oats, when no actual work/profession is being accomplished.

MATTHEW 15:10-11

Problem: 10 After Jesus called the crowd to Him, He said to them,“Hear and understand.11 It isnot what enters into the mouththatdefiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”
These verses are used to indicate Yeshua did away with the dietary instructions.

Solution: Verses:1-3 – Then some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesusfrom Jerusalem and said,2 “Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For theydo not wash their hands when they eat bread.” 3 And He answered and said to them,“Why do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
The context of those verses in regard to Yeshua’s disciples not performing the ceremonial washing of their hands before eating. This was a “tradition of the elders” that the Pharisees. If one did not wash their hands a certain way and say a specific prayer, then supposedly what went into their mouth via their hands was not clean. This had nothing to do with the dietary instructions of the Creator who declared what was food and what was not food. This was only about man’s traditions to make something clean verses what the Creator had already declared as clean. The Pharisees weren’t confused about the dietary instructions, they already knew what was clean to eat and what was not, they were questioning why Yeshua’s disciples were not following the traditions of the elders. 

MATTHEW 16:18-19

Problem: 18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
There are two things here that are questioned, one is the understanding that Peter is the rock Yahweh builds a new church on; the other relates to binding and loosing and what authority is being given here and what the keys to heaven are.

Solution:
Regarding Verse 18-
Amos 9:11 11 “In that day I will raise up the fallen [b]booth of David, And wall up its breaches; I will also raise up its ruins And rebuild it as in the days of old;

Joel 2:32-3:1It will so happen that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be delivered. For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who survive, just as the Lord has promised; the remnant will be those whom the Lord will call. For look!In those days and at that time I will return the exiles to Judah and Jerusalem.Yeshua is the only rock upon which anything is built, He is the cornerstone, the foundation (The Word). The nation of Israel is the only institution which the prophets mention that God would restore and build back up. There is no mention of any other structure that God would “build” in the “last days” except for the house of Israel.

Regarding Verse 19-The grammatical construction in the Greek manuscripts is very important to the understanding of the meaning of this instruction. “Shall be having been bound” and “shall be having been loosened”. This is very awkward English, but it accurately renders the periphrastic future perfect tense. . It essentially means, “when this judgment is ‘bound,’ it shall already have been bound in heaven,” and “when the judgment is ‘to loose’ (release), it shall already have been released in heaven.” What Messiah was actually saying was, “the judgment which you render shall have already been rendered.” Why? Because the Law of Messiah’s reign is the Law of Moses. Any loosing or binding must be done in accordance with what has already been decided by God and written in the Law. Thus, when the elders decide to “bind” in accordance to the dictates of the judgments of the Torah, then heaven has indeed already decided the case and has been “bound.” 

MATTHEW 23:1-4

Problem: “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do,This is understood by some to mean to follow what the Pharisees teach, including their oral law and traditions.
Solution: When sitting in Moses’ seat, the people were only allowed to read from the Torah. So, Yeshua is saying when they are sitting in the seat and reading from the Torah, do what they say. However, the rest of verse 3 says to not do what the Pharisees do, they teach the Torah in Moses’s seat but then do not practice it. 

Mark

MARK 3:29

Problem: “but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation”If Yeshua’s sacrifice allowed forgiveness of all sins, then how, or what is the “unpardonable sin”?

Solution: Hebrews 10:26-28 – For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Blaspheming is to “revile” or “despise”, so one who blasphemes the Holy Spirit is one who reviles or despises the Spirit of Yah. It does not state that the one who “blasphemed” (past tense) the Spirit never has forgiveness. At one time, we all blasphemed the Spirit because we all hated the Word of God…until we came into the faith, and start growing to love the Word of God. There is a difference between currently being unrepentant and blaspheming the Spirit or hating the Word of God….that person never has forgiveness….and then the person that blasphemed the Spirit but repented, and loves to walk in His Torah just as our Messiah taught and practiced…it is he that has forgiveness. 

MARK 7:15

Problem: There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”Many understand this verse to mean Yeshua made all things clean

Solution: There are 2 things with this. 1. The audience Yeshua was speaking to was made up of Jews, including some Jews who already understood the dietary law restrictions and they were not in question here. 2. The context of the verse is regarding the disciples not washing their hands before eating, a rabbinic tradition not something from the Torah; he was not being accused of breaking the Torah. The rabbinic teaching was that if a person did not wash their hands a certain way before eating, then what was being eaten was not ceremonially clean, thus it would defile them. 

Luke

LUKE 16:16-17

Problem: 16 “The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John; since that time the gospel of the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it. 17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail.
Many understand these verses to mean once John the Baptist came the law and the prophets no longer applied. The problem lies in the translation of the word “until” and meaning that it ceased once John the Baptist arrived.

Solution:
The Greek may be rendered this way as well: The law and the prophet up to John, since then the kingdom which God evangelizing and all into it forcefully urged.

The message of this passage appears to be saying you had the Law and the Prophets telling you how to live, act, and warn you about the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven. Then there were no prophets for a time period until John the Baptist, then he arrived and began strongly proclaiming the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven again, the need for repentance and turning back to God and His ways, not man’s ways.

John

JOHN 3:16-17

Problem: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.Many misunderstand what the word “believe” means.

Solution: John 3:20-21 – For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who DOES THE TRUTH comes to the LIGHT, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.” Walking as Yeshua walked means walking the same instructions that Yeshua walked (1 John 2:6). This is why ALL Scripture is instructions in righteousness (not just some of it) (1 Timothy 3:16). 

JOHN 13:34-35

Problem: “A new command I give you. Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” Many use this verse to show that Yeshua added to the Torah and what He commanded was different from what was in the Torah.

Solution: Leviticus 19:18 – “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD”
Yeshua is simply expounding, further explaining the commandment already given in the Torah. If Yeshua added to the Torah, then He sinned (Deuteronomy 4:2). 

Acts

ACTS 10:15

Problem: 15 And again a voice came to him a second time, “What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.”
Many understand this to be saying God has now made all food clean, the dietary laws no longer exist.

Solution: Acts 10:28 28 … But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.
The vision Peter had was about not disassociating with Gentiles or considering them unclean. 

ACTS 15 OVERALL

Problem: Many understand Acts 15 to be teaching against circumcision and whether we need to follow the law of God, the Torah.

Solution: We need to understand what parties are involved in this debate and what the topic of the debate is really about. The parties involved are: 1)The Circumcision Party (must be circumcised in order to be saved – identified in verse 1) 2) Jerusalem Council (first century church leadership – identified in verse 4) 3) Believing Sect of the Pharisees (Believers saved by faith and thus they know they cannot be saved by keeping the Law, but they still keep the Law out of obedience – just like Paul, also a Pharisee. – identified in verse 5) and 4) New Gentile Converts (This group has recently come into the faith but many are still deep into their pagan false god worship traditions per verse 20. – identified in verses 7, 12, 14, 17-20, 23). The debate is about whether the Gentiles should be keeping the Law of Moses as a means to salvation (vs. 1) or be keeping the Law of Moses as a matter of obedience as a result of faith (vs. 5). The debate is between one of these two choices. No one suggests anywhere in chapter 15 or even throughout the rest of scripture that there is a third option in which the Law of Moses has been abolished, in whole or in part. 

ACTS 15:18-20

Problem: 18Known to God from eternity are all His works. 19Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to God, 20but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.It is often taught that the only thing the Gentiles have to do are these 4 things.

Solution: Verse 21 – 21For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”The first thing the new converts had to do was to stop following the pagan practices associated with worshiping other gods (the 4 things). They would then learn how to live by going to the synagogue on the Sabbath in order to learn the law of God so they could then properly worship Him and live according to His ways, not man’s ways. Verse 20 is straight out of the Law of Moses (Leviticus 17:12-16; Deut. 32:17). 

ACTS 20:7

Problem: On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.Many use this verse to defend having Sunday as the “new” Sabbath.

Solution: Verse 6 – But we sailed from Philippi after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and five days later joined the others at Troas, where we stayed seven days.Verse 6 needs to be looked at for context and the time frame. We note that the Feast of Unleavened Bread has just occurred. This means we are now in the timeframe of the “counting of the Omer”, or “Counting of Weeks”, before Shavuot/Pentecost (Leviticus 23:4-6, 15). The Counting of Weeks involves counting out 7 Sabbaths. So, back to verse 7, if we go to the Greek where verse 7 says “first day of the week”, the Greek says, actually…mia ton sabbaton. The Greek word mia means “one,” not “first” … it is the Greek word ‘protos’ that means “first,” which is not present in the text … we cannot make it say something that it does not. It actually translates as “one of the Sabbaths”. Plural. Not “First day of the week”. Singular. The word ‘day’ does not even exist in the Greek, making it all the more difficult to understand the translation being “first DAY of the week”. When connecting this back to verse 6 we can better see what is going on and the timing makes more sense as they were counting the Sabbaths for the counting of the Omer, not the first day of the week.

Romans

ROMANS 6:14

Problem: 14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.This verse is used by many to say the Law of God, the Torah no longer applies to us.

Solution: Romans 6:8-9 – Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.
Therefore, according to the context related to not being “under the law” we learn that both sin and death do not have dominion over us. Sin and death are no longer over us…at least according to the context at hand. So, Paul is not teaching that we are no longer under the Law of God, but instead, is teaching that we are not under the “Law of Sin and Death”. 

ROMANS 7:6

Problem: But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.This is understood by many to mean that we are no longer under the law, that we are dead to the law.

Solution: Romans 6:10-12 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
With closer examination of the context, we see he is referring to the law of sin and death – disobedience. What have we truly died to? The law? Or the law of sin and death? Was it the law that bound us? Or was it our sin? Compare what is said in Romans 6:10-12 shown above. It is to sin that we are to die to. Sin. That which is defined as breaking God’s law in 1 John.

1 John 3:4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.

All too often, because Paul lets the context determine what law he is referencing, people mistake him for meaning the law of God instead of the law of sin and death. This cannot be stressed enough. Simply because Paul lets the context determine what law he is referencing, people mistake him for meaning the law of God instead of the law of sin and death. 

ROMANS 10:4

Problem: For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.Many use this verse to say that Paul is saying that Christ did away with the Law, saying that Yeshua brought it to an end, thus saying He is the end of the Law. However, if this is the case, then Paul himself is contradicting the very words of Christ in Matthew 5:17-18 where Yeshua tells us he did not come to abolish (bring an end to, get rid of) the law.

Solution: Here in verse 4, Paul is simply saying that Christ is the end of the law similar to the end zone of a football field, meaning He is the goal of the law. He is the living example of that which we strive for. Just like Revelation is the end of the Bible, Christ is the end of the law. And just as Revelation didn’t do away with all of the rest of Scripture, Christ didn’t do away with the Law. The Greek for “end” is Telos. It can also carry the meaning of end by way of being the goal. 

ROMANS 13:1-7

Problem: Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from Elohim, and those that exist have been instituted by Elohim.When we read Romans 13, it has been interpreted that we are to submit ourselves to any random government.

Solution: While we do promote being a good citizen in the eyes of a secular government, it is not likely that Paul was only speaking of governments that teach and obey the Torah. There are a few things to look at.

1.) All prophets and teachers must be tested to the Torah. If they add or subtract from the Torah (Deuteronomy 4:2, 12:23) then they are to be considered false.

2.) Romans 13:3 tells us the rulers ought to do good. What is good or bad (sin) is defined by the law of God, the Torah (i.e.1 John 3:4).

3.) We are to do what is “good” and “good” is defined as obedience to the law of God (Torah). The leader put into place by YHWH also carries a “sword.” The “sword” in Scripture metaphorically refers to the “Word of God” in judgmental action (see Hebrews 4:12). Leadership must be following the Word of God for us to submit to them. Until that day, we should strive to obey the governments where they do not force us to break the Torah. 

Galatians

GALATIANS 3:25

Problem: But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.Many assume he is referring to the law of Moses here.

Solution: Romans 6:14-15 – For sin (breaking the law – 1 john 3:4) shall not be your master , because you are not under law (the curse), but under grace. What then? Shall we sin (break the law) because we are not under law (the curse) but under grace? By no means!The tutor came after the law as a result of our disobedience to the law. Thus the curse of the law (the tutor, the penalty of death) came because of disobedience to the law (of Moses). So it is the curse of the law, as mentioned in verse 13, that we are no longer under as mentioned in verse 25. The focus of tutor was to point us to Christ who would deliver us from it. Remember, Christ IS the Word. The law, Torah, is a part of the Word. He didn’t come to do away with part of Himself. He came to do away with our disobedience. He’s saying “just because you are not under the penalty breaking the law, should you abuse the gift of grace and break the law anyway? By no means! 

GALATIANS 5:1, 4

Problem: 1It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. … 4You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.Some teach that Christ freed us from the law of God.

Solution: Psalm 119:44-45 – So I will keep Your law continually, Forever and ever. And I will walk at liberty, For I seek Your precepts.

James 1:25 – But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.The law is liberty. The law is the Word of God. Christ is the Word of God, thus, Christ is freedom. James agrees with Psalm 119, also stating that the law of God is freedom. So our Messiah did not free us from the law of God. He came to free us by teaching us to follow the freedom of the law of God because that is also what he practiced and what he taught as our example. Christ is freedom because He brings us into the Law of God, because the Law of God is freedom. The law is freedom, and thus, doing anything different than the same law that Psalm 119 describes is bondage. Paul is teaching against the Pharisee understanding of circumcision being part of the salvation process, something that Paul, as a Pharisee, also used to preach (verse 11). If circumcision is being kept for salvation, then, of course, it negates grace and it becomes bondage instead of freedom. 

GALATIANS 5:18

Problem: But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

It is often misunderstood that this verse is stating if you are led by the Spirit of God then you are no longer under the law of God.

Solution: Ezekiel 36:26-27 – I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.

Romans 8:2 – Because through Christ Jesus (Yeshua) the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

Remember, that going after God’s law is the whole purpose of the Spirit of God, being spiritual is going after God’s law (Ezekiel 36 & Romans 8:2). We are no longer under the law of sin and death, but instead, we go after God’s law as being led by the Spirit. This is also what Galatians 5:18 is about; the same thing! We are led by the Spirit and thus we are no longer under the law of sin and death. 

Colossians

COLOSSIANS 2:16

Problem: So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.
Some read this verse then say, “You don’t have to let someone judge you because you’re not following the Sabbath on Saturday now. Now it’s all about following Christ”

Solution: Colossians 2:8 – See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on HUMAN tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.Colossians 2:16 is actually Paul encouraging the believers to not let people judge them because they ARE observing the right day as found in the instructions of the Lord. We must not forget the instructions of Paul just 8 verses before in Colossians 2:8, it’s the context…The instructions of the Lord are not even close to being hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world. 

James

JAMES 2:14-26

Problem: verse 24 – You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. Some believe James is saying salvation comes only by faith AND works.

Solution: Reread verse 24, it is not saying anything about salvation. This subject of this verse is justification, being shown as righteous. According to Deuteronomy 6:25 righteousness is observance/walking in/obeying the Torah. James identifies this as the “works”. One is not saved by what they do. One is saved by faith as explained Ephesians 2:8-9 and Romans 4:5. What one does, their works, proves their faith. Thus, if someone has no works in their “faith,” then that faith is dead. As we often say, “Faith is the root. Obedience is the fruit.”

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Our Ministry operates under the leadership of Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus The Messiah). He is our Heavenly Rabbi and High Priest and we strive diligently to allow to lead, guide and direct this ministries every step, by allowing HIM to instruct, empower and fill us with his Ruach (Spirit), restoring us back to the ancient paths. This Ministry focuses on the the Full Besorah (Gospel) message, which starts in Genesis and end in Revelation, approaching and studying the scriptures from a 1st Century Hebraic Mindset. We are a Worldwide Online Community, therefore we are not limited to a physical location, which allows us to take the Good News of a NEW LIFE in Messiah Yeshua to a lost a dying world. We are both natural branches (House of Judah) and wild branches (House of Israel, Joseph, Ephraim, also referred to as the Goyim [Gentiles], when they were outside of The Covenant), who believe Yeshua (Jesus) is the Messiah and savior of the world. We believe the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) is in the process of bringing these two groups (which Ezekiel 37 refers to as the two sticks) together into One New Man (Ezekiel 27:19b ‘Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph—which is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel joined with him—and I will put them together with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick. They will be one in My hand). 

Being Torah Observant means that we obey the Torah (613 Mitzvot) (English Law-YHVH's Commandments, Statutes and Decrees, which are found in the Books of Moses [Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Numbers]), while observing the Shabbat (7th Day Sabbath), as well as YHVH's Holy Set-Apart Moedim (The Feast Days of the YHVH) and abstaining from foods that YHVH has deemed as unclean.  We obey the Torah not because we are trying to earn our Salvation, rather we keep the Torah because we have Salavation and because we love YHVH with all our heart and soul and our neighbor as ourselves. 1 John 5:2 We know that we love God’s children by this—when we love God and obey His commandments. 3 For this is the love of God—that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. 4 For everyone born of God overcomes the world. And the victory that has overcome the world is this—our faith.

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At The Restoration of the True Faith Ministries we believe that all believer's are in different places when it comes to their spiritual walk.  We believe in restoring the faith once delivered to the saints, but doing so with love and compassion.  Too many in the HRM and in Christianity want to cause division because they are in different places, when it comes to their walk with Messiah Yeshua (Jesus).  I simply do not see the Scriptural basis for hating our brother who believes in the same God, but does not follow the same theology as we do.  We can do everything in the Bible correctly, yet if we do not love our fellow brothers and sisters in the faith, it's all worthless. 

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2 If I speak YHVH's (God) Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing. 3 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

Let us all learn to respect the honest convictions of our brethren and not be so quick to condemn those who have a different understanding. There is so much yet to learn, so much growing that must take place before our Messiah returns. Indeed, we will never arrive at all of the truth as long as we are clothed in mortality. Although we do have the earnest payment of the Holy Spirit, we still see through the eyes of human flesh. Let us therefore commit to doing the following:

"... grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Y'shua HaMashiach." (II Peter 3:18)

At "The Restoration Of The True Faith Ministries", we believe that YHVH our Elohim is fulfilling His Promise of "The Restoration Of All Things", which is found in Acts 3:21" Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets." and this is happening NOW!  We clearly see in this verse that YHVH is revealing His plan of restoration of all things (Acts 3:21). Our responsibility is to return to the ancient ways walk according to His Way, just as Yeshua did, as well as did all the apostles and prophets.  as we are convinced that salvation is by our Heavenly Father’s grace through faith, and is the fruit of Teshuvah (Repentance and turning back to YHVH) that leads to following the Messiah Yeshua's example of obedience and love. We consider that studying the Hebraic roots of the Faith, will help us to better understand Abba’s [Father’s] Word, His Name (YHVH), His Re-newed Covenant, His Feasts, the ministry of His Messiah Yeshua, His Gospel of the Kingdom and His People Israel. We aim to provide Resources, Events, Torah Studies, Video teachings and to equip disciples, teaching them to become set-apart believer in Messiah Yehshua. 

Much of the teaching taking place in the Seminaries, which in turn has filtered into the ekklesia (congrgation) AKA the church today ignores the fact that Yeshua is not only our promised Messiah, He was also a first century Hebrew/Aramaic speaking Israelite, from the tribe of Judah. He was raised following the Torah/Law and He fulfilled every Feast Day, Sabbath Day, Commandment and Statute perfectly.  To fulfill in Hebrew means to lead by example, not to do away with.  If He had taught others that the Torah was no longer to be followed, then the pharisees would not have had to devise a plan to kill Him, because He would have been considered a false prophet and been put to death according to His own Word in 

Deuteronomy 13  If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee 

 Many believe that the Apostle Paul did away with the Hebraic Roots of the Old Testament and began a new religion (called Christianity) based totally on the New Testament. Nothing could be further from the truth, for near the end of his ministry Paul stated very clearly that he still considered himself to be a member of the sect of the Pharisees:

"But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, 'Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; ... '" (Acts 23:6)

It is our belief that as we learn to study the Scriptures more effectively our differences in interpretation will begin to disappear. Remember what the Apostle Paul wrote:

"For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known." (I Corinthians 13:12)

And Peter warned us that Rabbi Sh'aul writings were hard to understand and many would take them the wrong way and twist them 

2 Peter 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; 16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.


"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."(II Timothy 2:15 KJV)

"... receive(d) the word with all readiness, and search(ed) the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were [are] so." (Acts 17:11)

"The fear of the LORD [YHVH] is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments. His praise endures forever." (Psalm 111:10)


 SABBATH TRUTH

In America There are at least 5,000 federal criminal laws, with 10,000-300,000 regulations that can be enforced criminally. Yet the majority of Americans are considered Law Abiding Citizens, so when people say there is no to keep YHVH’s Law or Torah, which has 613 Laws, yet only about 210 pertain to us today due to the other laws or directions in the Torah were for the Levitical Priesthood (Which no longer exists), for the foreigner living in the land, and some were laws pertaining to the Temple when it was in Jerusalem. So If you can keep 5000 laws in America and can’t keep the 200 and some odd laws or directions in Torah something is wrong. We have to abandon these lies, which have been fed to us through the doctrines of men because they keep the scales on our eyes when we read YHVH’s Word. Yeshua (Jesus) is supposed to be our Rabbi, Hense call no man Rabbi because we now have Him to teach us the truth, which sets us free from the bondage of Religion & doctrines of men. Now Torah Means Instructions, Directions, and there are many words which are used for YHVH’s Torah(many of which are found in Psalm 119, which is I think the longest of the Psalms and it is explain the writers love for the Law or Torah and is pretty much all about the Torah). These synonyms include: word, commandments, statutes, judgments, precepts, testimonies, etc. (Torah/Law literally means to “Hit The Mark” Sin means "To Hit The Mark") - 1 John 3:4 defines sin as lawlessness. When we see “Sin” mentioned in the Bible it almost every-time points to Torah. Another tidbit is when we see “It is written” - Every time a Brit Ha'Dasha (New Testament) author says “it is written”, they stand on the authority of the scriptures that come before them, i.e.. the Old Testament.

When it comes to keeping The 7th Day Shabbat/Sabbath, YHVH’S Holy Feast Days, Dietary Commandments and being obedient to the entire Torah is very controversial subject among many of our New Covenant believer’s today.  At the front of this list of controversial Eternal Commandments is YHVH’s Seventh Day Shabbat/Sabbath. Many people today believe the Sabbath was changed to the first day of the week Sunday, due to their belief that Messiah Yeshua (supposedly) dying on Friday and raising on Sunday. In Luke we  This is very easy to disprove, by simply doing basic math.  But let'sllok at the scriptures in order to settle this false teaching. Matthew 12:38 shows some of the scribes and Pharisees asking Yeshua for a sign to prove He was the Messiah. Yeshua told them that the only sign He would give was that of the prophet Jonah: “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:40).

But can we fit “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” between a Friday-afternoon crucifixion and a Sunday-morning resurrection? The traditional view of the crucifixion and resurrection only allows for Yeshua to have been entombed for a day and a half.

Many New Covenant believers have been deceived into believing HaSatan's twisting of scriptures, which is the belief in a Friday crucifixion and Sunday resurrection and they do this by rationalizing Yeshua's “three days and three nights” statement  and ignoring the literal span of 72 hours. They reason that a part of a day can be reckoned as a whole day. Hence, since Yeshua died in the afternoon—around “the ninth hour” after daybreak, or about 3 p.m. (Matthew 27:46-50)—they think the remainder of Friday constituted the first day, Saturday the second and part of Sunday the third. However, they fail to take into consideration that only two nights—Friday night and Saturday night—are accounted for in this explanation. After all, the Bible is clear that Jesus had already risen before the daylight portion of Sunday (John 20:1). Something is obviously incorrect in this common conclusion regarding when Messiah was in the tomb.

Jonah 1:17, to which Messiah referred, states specifically that “Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.” We have no reason to think these days and nights were fractional. Nor is there any basis for thinking that Yeshua meant only two nights and one day, plus parts of two days, when He foretold the length of time He would be in the grave. Such rationalization undermines the integrity of Messiah Yeshua's Words.

According to the Law of Moses (The Torah), the day following Passover was specified to be the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. That day was always a Sabbath day, a day of rest in which no work was to be done, in the same way the weekly Sabbath was observed on the seventh day. (Read Leviticus 23:4-8, Numbers 28:16-18, and take special notice of John 19:31 again.) The Sabbath that occurred immediately following Jesus' crucifixion was not an ordinary Sabbath day, but instead was an annual Sabbath that began the week-long observance of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. 

If Yeshua were in the tomb only from late Friday afternoon to sometime early Sunday morning, then the sign He gave that He was the prophesied Messiah was not fulfilled. The claim of His Messiahship rests on the fulfillment of His words—it’s that serious a matter.

When we allow the Scriptures to interpret themselves, all four Gospel accounts accurately harmonize and attest to the validity of Yeshua's promise that He would be in the grave three days and three nights—not just part of that time.

According to the Jewish calendar, certain feasts were to be held on the same date of the month, but that did not mean they would fall on the same day of the week every year. In the particular year that Yeshua was killed, the Passover occurred on what corresponds today to Wednesday. According to the Jewish calendar, the 14th day of the first month was Passover Day, and the 15th day was the annual Sabbath, which began the week-long Feast of Unleavened Bread (Leviticus 23:1-8).

To understand that Yeshua was crucified on the day of Passover (Wednesday of that year), solves what some people consider to be a conflict in scriptural records. Luke 23:55, 56 say that the women (Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James) went and prepared anointing spices and oils BEFORE the Sabbath. In Mark 16:1 it says that they bought the spices AFTER the Sabbath. The answer to what seems to be differing accounts is in the fact that there are two different Sabbaths being spoken of in these verses. The women both bought and prepared the spices on the same day (Friday), which just so happened to fall between the two Sabbaths on Thursday and Saturday. When Mark says they bought the spices AFTER the Sabbath, it was the special annual Sabbath on Thursday, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. When Luke says they prepared the spices and then rested on the Sabbath, this particular Sabbath was the usual weekly Sabbath that always occurred on the seventh day of the week, which was Saturday.

There is also proof that there were two Sabbaths in Matthew 28:1. Since the word "Sabbath" is mentioned in the singular form in most modern language Bible translations, this could be taken to mean that the traditional Friday crucifixion scenario would be referenced. However, Greek manuscripts render the word "Sabbaths" in the plural form. This fact of the use of plural Sabbaths can be verified using a Greek interlinear translation of the Bible. Therefore, for all of the scriptural records to add up, it has to be concluded that Jesus was crucified on the day that we know now as Wednesday.

Exodus 20:8-11 8 Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or your sojourner who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Ezekiel 20:12-13 Moreover I gave them My Sabbaths to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them. 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes, and they despised My judgments, which if a man does them, he shall live. And My Sabbaths they greatly polluted. Then I said I would pour out My fury upon them in the wilderness to consume them.

Exodus 31:12 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 13 Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, “You must surely keep My Sabbaths, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

Hebrews 4:9 So there remains a Shabbat or Sabbath rest for the people of YHVH.

About 100 years before Christianity, Egyptian Sun-god worshippers introduced the festival of Sunday, dedicated to worshiping the sun or Mithra, into the Roman Empire. Later, as Christianity was on the rise, much like today the Ecclesia or church leaders were looking to increase their church body numbers. Just as the prosperity preachers & those who only preach love/grace, while skipping repentance or anything in which cause people to feel convicted of sin and started to make the gospel more attractive to non-Christians, so they combined & incorporated pagan customs into their ceremonies. The custom of Sunday worship was welcomed by Christians who desired to differentiate themselves from the Jews, whom they hated because of the Jews’ rejection of the Savior (the term for a person who kept true Bible teachings like Sabbath, YHVH’s Holy feast days etc they called Judaizes). The first day of the week began to be recognized as both a religious and civil holiday. By the end of the second century, Christians considered it sinful to work on Sunday.

The Roman emperor Constantine, a former sun-worshiper, professed conversion to Christianity, though his subsequent actions suggest the “conversion” was more of a political move than a genuine heart change. Constantine named himself Bishop of the Catholic Church and enacted the first civil law regarding Sunday observance in A.D. 321.

On the venerable day of the sun let the magistrate and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country however, persons engaged in agricultural work may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits; because it often happens that another day is not so suitable for grain growing or for vine planting; lest by neglecting the proper moment for such operations the bounty of heaven should be lost. —Schaff’s History of the Christian Church, vol. III, chap. 75.

Don’t take my word for it, as we will see here the Roman Catholic Church knows what they did and openly admit it and boast about what they did. The Catholic Church claims responsibility for the change from seventh-day to first-day Sabbath. First lets look at their explanation of why they changed it, which is found in The Catechism of the Catholic Church Section 2 Article 3 (1994):

Sunday – fulfillment of the Sabbath. Sunday is expressly distinguished from the Sabbath which it follows chronologically every week; for Christians its ceremonial observance replaces that of the Sabbath... The Sabbath, which represented the completion of the first creation, has been replaced by Sunday which recalls the new creation, has been replaced by Sunday which recalls the new creation inaugurated by the Resurrection of Christ... In respecting religious liberty and the common good of all, Christians should seek recognition of Sundays and the Church’s holy days as legal holidays.

Now the problem with this thought process is that Messiah would have rose on the Sabbath not Sunday. We know he was in the earth 3 days and 3 nights. This does not fit with a Sunday Resurrection. Matthew 12:40 says the following: "For as Yonan [Jonah] was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, likewise will the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights." Ok, so the three days MIGHT be explained by what my pastor said, if you were to stretch it a little. But, no matter how hard you try and stretch it, a Friday death and Sunday resurrection does NOT equal three NIGHTS! See, Yahshua died right before "the Sabbath" started. He also rose right after Sabbath ended (or as it was ending). I am sure you are wondering how can that be that two? Because we do not celebrate His feast day’s any longer and have adopted man made Holidays, we don’t understand that some of YHVH’S Holy Days call for a Sabbath Rest as well.

"And when evening had come, and because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath; Yosĕph of Ramathayim, a prominent council member, who was himself waiting for the reign of Elohim; came, and boldly went in to Pilate and asked for the body of Yahshua." -Mark 15:42-43

"And when the Sabbath was past, Miryam from Maḡdala, and Miryam the mother of Ya'akov, and Shelomah bought spices, to go and anoint Him. And very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen." Mark 16:1-2

YHVH’s Feast days have certain days throughout the year where He commands His People to rest....and those are the Annual Holy Days or HIgh Sabbaths. Passover, when we all know Yahshua died, is one of those periods of Annual Sabbaths. Passover or Pesach was celebrated in conjuction with the Holy Feast of Unleavened Bread. According to Scripture, the passover lamb was slaughtered on the 14th of Abib in the afternoon, and eaten that inmediate evening after, which would technically be the 15th (the Hebraic day starts at sundown and ends on sundown 24 hours later----more on that below).

So the 15th of Abib was the official start of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and this day, no matter what day of the week it fell on, was to be a Solemn Sabbath day of rest and "holy convocation." Likewise, the last day of the feast was also to be a Sabbath day. These Sabbaths are precisely what are called "High Sabbaths" in Scripture.

"In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, there shall be a passover offering to YHWH, and on the fifteenth day of that month YHWH's Feast of Unleavened Bread. You shall eat unleavened bread for seven days.

"On the first day you shall celebrate a sacred occasion: you shall not work at your occupations. Seven days you shall make offerings by fire to YHWH. The seventh day shall be a sacred occasion: you shall not work at your occupations." Leviticus 23:5-8

By knowing that Yahshua was to be our Passover Lamb for eternity, then it would only make sense that He would have been killed on 14 Abib, on passover, right before the high sabbath of 15 Abib, which is the beginning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Then, two days after this high sabbath was the regular weekly Sabbath, the one at the end of which Yahshua rose from the grave. Yahshua was killed on 14 Abib, and put into the grave right around the dawn of 15 Abib, which we would consider the evening of the day he was killed. Then he stayed in the grave the evening (end) of the 14th to the evening (end) of the 15th-one day, which was the high Sabbath-the evening (end) of the 15th to the evening (end) of the 16th-two days-the evening (end) of the 16th to the evening (end) of the 17th, which was the weekly Sabbath----"three days" ("and three nights" too, exactly like Scripture requires, because these 24 hour periods include their corresponding night-times). So, Yahshua was in the grave ALL of the 15th, ALL of the 16th, and ALL of the 17th of Abib ... and he rose from the grave at the end of the 17th of Abib; just as 18 Abib, the first day of the week, was beginning. Yahweh and the children of Israel keep day does not go from "midnight to midnight" as we keep our day today, but it is "sunset to sunset." This is why our Shabbat starts Friday at sunset ands Saturday at sunset. Yahshua resurrected as the (weekly) Sabbath was ending and the first day of the week was starting. So, that means He rose at the end of Saturday/beginning of Sunday. Counting back three full 24 hour periods, this means he was placed into the grave at the beginning of Thursday. Remember now, Thursday would have started in the evening, as the sun set, not at midnight! All of this means that Our Master and Saviour Yahshua was killed on the afternoon of a Wednesday. And although He was placed into the grave only a few hours later, the Hebrews (and Yahweh) would have considered this the beginning of a new day---"Thursday"!

 And we are about to see various Catholic sources claiming the Sabbath change was the doing of the Roman Catholic Church and their reasoning was that Yeshua was resurrected on Sunday and the fact that the Pope is allowed to change that Sabbath, but we will see in just a few minutes where Daniel tells us who truly changed times and Laws/Torah.

Cardinal James Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (Ayers Publishing, 1978): 108:

But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.

The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine (1957): 50:

Q. Which is the Sabbath day?

A. Saturday is the Sabbath day.

Q. Why Do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?

A. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.

Chancellor Albert Smith for Cardinal of Baltimore Archdiocese, letter dated February 10, 1920: If Protestants would follow the Bible, they should worship God on the Sabbath day by God is Saturday. In keeping the Sunday, they are following a law of the Catholic Church.

Stephen Keenan, Catholic—Doctrinal Catechism 3rd Edition: 174: Question: Have you any other way of proving the Church has power to institute festivals of precept?

Answer: Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her, she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the 1st day of the week, for the observance of Saturday the 7th day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.

 Our Sunday Visitor (February 5, 1950):

Practically everything Protestants regard as essential or important they have received from the Catholic Church... The Protestant mind does not seem to realize that in accepting the Bible and observing the Sunday, in keeping Christmas and Easter, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the church, the Pope.

Louis Gaston Segur, Plain Talk about the Protestantism of To-Day (London: Thomas Richardson and Son, 1874): 213:

Thus the observance of Sunday by the Protestants is a homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the (Catholic) Church.

The Catholic Mirror (September 23, 1893):

The Catholic Church, for over one thousand years before the existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday...

Catholic Priest T. Enright, CSSR, Kansas City, MO:

It was the holy Catholic Church that changed the day of rest from Saturday to Sunday, the 1st day of the week. And it not only compelled all to keep Sunday, but at the Council of Laodicea, AD 364, anathematized those who kept the Sabbath and urged all persons to labor on the 7th day under penalty of anathema.

John Henry Newman Catholic Priest T. Enright, CSSR, lecture at Hartford, KS, Feb 18, 1884:

I have repeatedly offered $1000 to anyone who can furnish any proof from the Bible that Sunday is the day we are bound to keep...The Bible says, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy,” but the Catholic Church says, “No, keep the first day of the week,” and the whole world bows in obedience.

 Now The Bible tells us in Daniel that a persecuting power would change YHVH’s times, which it did when the Seventh Day Sabbath became the first day sabbath without God’s approval. The book of Daniel also refers to this change of YHVH’s Torah/law by the antichrist power as reaching to the host of heaven and trampling the heavenly sanctuary under foot. We find the same expression used in Hebrews chapter ten in reference to willful sin.

Hebrews 10:26-29 “For if we sin WILFULLY after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins, … He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?”

This passage warns us that there remains no sacrifice to cover willful sin and to continue in willful sin is to trample the Son of God under foot and to treat Christ's work on the cross as an unholy thing despite being under grace. This is a warning we should take very seriously.

Jude warns us that there would be teachers who would take the Grace of YHVH and pollute it. This is the Hyper Grace teaching, which had infiltrated churches in the 1st century. The Bible talks about the “true grace of YHVH” in (1 Peter 5:12) as opposed to the false grace or Hyper Grace being preached so prevalently today, by preachers and teachers, who are causing many to live lawless or Torahless lives, while taking the True Grace of YHVH and trodding it underfoot. The Bible teaches that the grace of Elohim may be received in vain. Therefore, Paul says, we “beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of YHVH in vain” (2 Corinthians 6:1). Many in our day have done this and turned the grace of YHVH into lawlessness/Torahlessness. This Hyper-Grace message was started back in the first century as we see the disciples warning against it and a man named Marcion, who was a gnostic, was the one who kept this teaching going in the 2nd century and it has continued until today. We see Jude warns us about this false Grace is Jude 1:4.

“For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only YHVH our Elohim, and our Lord Messiah Yeshua” (Jude 1:4)

 Here is an example of what YHVH’s Grace really is. Imagine the law in America states you that if you get caught speeding 5 times in your life, then you lose your license permanently because this is considered being willfully disobedient to the traffic laws of America. Now imagine you just got pulled over and this will be your 5th speeding ticket, when the police officer comes back he says” I pulled up your driving record and see this will be you 5th speeding ticket, so I am supposed to take your drivers license and take you to jail, so they can suspend your license forever. But I am going to rip this ticket up, as well as have the other 4 tickets wiped from your record. Does this mean that you can speed anytime you want now without getting a ticket, due to this one cop showing you grace? This is no different than YHVH’s Grace. From the very beginning man has continued to whore after other gods, though they were considered a wife or Bride to YHVH. YHWH and the children of Israel entered into a marriage covenant in the Exodus on Mount Sinai on Shavuot. Now you may be asking how do we know that “Old Covenant” was a marriage covenant?. We know they were married because we see YHVH divorce the 10 tribes of Israel (Aka Northern Israel, Ephraim, Joseph Jacob or Israel) who split from Judah and Benjamin, during the book of Kings, after Solomon’s reign “is not My wife, nor am I her Husband!” (Hos 2:2a) Yahweh could only divorce Israel if He had once been wed to her. In Jeremiah, Yahweh specifically stated that He gave the northern Kingdom of Israel a certificate of divorce and put her away.

Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also. (Jer 3:8)

YHVH own law states in in Deut. 24:1 When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it cometh to pass, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house, 2and she departeth out of his house, and goeth and becometh another man’s wife, 3and the latter husband hateth her, and writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife; 4her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the Lord, and you must not bring sin on the land, which the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

This is what Sh’aul or Paul was talking about when he said” we are dead to the law”. The law which said that if a wife (Us) gets a letter of divorce due to their whoring after other gods, then the husband YHVH can no take her again to be His bride due to the fact that she is defiled. This is the Grace of YHVH, that He would send His only Son, who came down and gave up His life, which allows us to have our sins forgiven for our adultery and again be the Bride of YHVH. 

Romans 7:4 7 Do you not know, brothers (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? 2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law regarding her husband. 3 So then, she will be called an adulteress if she marries another man while her husband lives. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she would not be an adulteress if she marries another man. 4 So, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Messiah, so that you may be

 Many think The Ten Commandments are the commandmnents, which YHVH is speaking about when He says obey My Commandments yet the name 10 commandments can not be found in in the bible, instead they are called the “Ten words” or “Ten matters” and are mistranslated as the commandments. Like we described earlier the name Law is in (Heb. Torah, Grk. Nomos) are not used in reference to the 10 commandments but rather all instructions given by YHVH and written down by Moses in the first 5 books of the Bible, which make up the total Torah.. For example:

Joshua 1:7-8 Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the Law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Matthew 5:17-19 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. 18 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the Law till all is fulfilled. 19 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.

Matthew 7:21-23 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

Matthew 15:1-9 Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying, 2 “Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.” 3 He answered and said to them, “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? 4 For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ 5 But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God”— 6 then he need not honor his father or mother.’ Thus you have made the commandment[d] of God of no effect by your tradition. 7 Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: 8 ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And[e] honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. 9 And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”

Matthew 19:17 17 So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

Matthew 23:23 23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

 Luke 10:25-26 And behold, a certain lawyer (more accurately: Law-teacher) stood up and tested Him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?”

Luke 11:42 “But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass by justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

Luke 16:29-31 29 Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’”

Acts 15:19-21 19 Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to God, 20 but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood. 21 For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

(Implying that the gentiles will hear Moses in the synagogue every sabbath and learn over time

from it.)

Acts 21:21-24 21 but they have been informed about you (Paul) that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs. 22 What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come. 23 Therefore do what we tell you: We have four men who have taken a vow. 24 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 law.

Slide 10 Romans 2:26:27 26 Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? 27 And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, judge you who, even with your written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law?

Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the Law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.

Romans 7:12 Therefore the Law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

Romans 7:1 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.

Romans 7:16 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the Law that it is good.

Romans 7:22 For I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man.

Romans 7:25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the Law of sin.

Romans 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the Law of God, nor indeed can be.

1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.

1 Timothy 1:8 But we know that the Law is good if one uses it lawfully

Slide 11 2 Timothy 3:15-17 and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

James 1:25 But he who looks into the perfect Law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

James 2:8-9 If you really fulfill the royal Law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well; but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the Law as transgressors.

1 John 2:3-7 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.

1 John 3:4-10 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

 1 John 3:22 And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.

1 John 5:2-3 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.

2 John 1:6 This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.

Revelation 12:17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

Revelation 12:17 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.

 WEEKLY TORAH PORTION &YHVH'S HOLY FEAST DAYS (2018)


Below are YHVH'S Holy Moedim/Feast Days, which are dress rehersals for all YHVH'S Bride, who have been Born Again through Messiah Yeshua's  Sacrifice and have again been restored back to the First Born blessing, which was made to our forefather Abraham.  His Shabbat (Sabbath), Moedim (Feast Days), and His Mitzvot (Commandments/Torah) are for all who been born again into the Common wealth of Israel.  Here are the Feast Days for 2018 & New Moon dates for 2018, as well as the Lion and Lamb Calendar for this year's Feasts.  Yah's (Shortened form of YHVH Pronounced: Yahveh) Holy Feast Days are EVERLASTING dress rehearsals, for the Bride of YHVH/YHWH, which are Prophetic, pointing to the first and second coming of Messiah Yahshua/Yeshua (Jesus).  The detailed account of when and how to keep these Feast Days is found in The Torah (First Five Books of The Bibles, also referred to as the Books of Moshe/Moses) and can be found being followed by Children of Yah, in both the Tanakh/Old Testament & the Brit Hadasha/New Testament.  Many believers today think they are just for the Jews, but that is a LIE, because we find they are truly called "the appointed moadim (meaning festivals or appointed times) of YHVH" in Leviticus 23:2,  YHVH/YHWH says, “Speak to Bnei-Yisrael, and tell them: These are the appointed moadim of YHVH, which you are to proclaim to be holy convocations—My moadim.” They are YHVH's specially appointed times available to all His followers. Mark your calendar and plan ahead to participate with Yehovah on His Holy Days!


Feast (English) - Feast (Hebrew) - Gregorian Calendar - Hebrew Calendar 

On the Hebrew/Biblical calendar a day begins and ends at dusk (See Genesis 1).

Accordingly, each of these Feasts begins and ends at sundown.

7th Day Sabbath - Shabbat - 7th Day Of The Week Each Week - Sundown Sat. - Sundown Fri.

Purim (Lots) - March 12, 2017 - Adar 14

Passover- Pesach -March 31 – April 1, 2018- Nissan 14

Feast of Unleavened Bread - Chag HaMatzot - April 1-8, 2018 - Nissan 15-21

First Fruits – Yom Bikkurim - April 7-8, 2018 - Nissan 21

Counting of the Omer (For 49 Days) - Lag B’Omer - April 8 to May 26, 2018  - Nissan 21 to Silvan 10

Feast of Weeks – Shavuot - May 26-27, 2018 - Sivan 6

Day of Trumpets - Yom HaTeruah - September 10-11, 2018 - Tishrei 1

Day of Atonement - Yom Hakippurim - September 19-20, 2018 - Tishrei 10

Feast of Tabernacles (Booths) – Sukkot - September 24 to October 1, 2018 - Tishrei 15-21

Feast of the Eighth Day - Shemini Atzeret - October 1-2, 2018 - Tishrei 22 

Feast of Dedication - Hanukkah - December 2 to December 10, 2018 - Kislev 25 to Tivet 2

The following attachment includes this list of Feasts, plus Purim and Hanukkah. It shows the Hebrew and Gregorian dates, the Hebrew names, the purpose of the Feasts and Biblical instructions for observing them from a Messianic understanding:

CLICK HERE: 2018 BIBLICAL CALENDAR

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Our Vision At ROTTF Ministries Is Equipping The Saints Of YHVH

  • To Make Disciples of Yahshua (Jesus) from People of All Nations (MATTHEW 28:19-20)
  • To Teach the followers of Messiah (Christ) Yahshua How to be True Worshippers (JOHN 4:23-24)
  • To Prepare Yahshua’s Followers How to be Effective in Evangelizing In Their Community (ACTS 2:42-47)
  • To Equip the Followers of Messiah to be Able Ministers of the Renewed Covenant (EPHESIANS 4:12)
  • To Make Worldwide Ministers through Yahshua Messiah Who Would Teach Others As They Have Been Taught (ACTS 1:8)

Our Mission Is In The Restoration Of The Five Fold Ministry

It is our mission at Restoration Of The True Faith Ministries to be a bridge to a balanced spiritual walk between Judaism and Christianity in a way that is loving, understanding, and gracious. We will accomplish this through:

-Restoring the Hebrew roots of the Christian faith

-Being a living testimony and witness that Yahshua (Jesus) is the Messiah of Israel

-Guarding the Feasts of the Lord as shadows of the Messiah

-Being doers of the word and not hearers only, mixing the word of God with faith

-Restoring the Gifts of the Ruach to the Body of Messiah

-Reaching the lost with the Gospel of the Kingdom

-Remembering the poor, the widow, and the orphan

-Restoration of the Five Fold Ministry

[Isa 54:2-3 KJV] Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; 3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

Yahshua… “gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare YHVH's people for works of service, so that the body of Messiah may be built up” (Ephesians 4:11-12). The Bible speaks of 5 offices which are given by Yahshua to the church in order that the church may be well equipped (prepared for service) and built up in Him. Here at ROTTF Ministries, we are committed to the Restoration Of All Things, which includes The Restoration Of Yahshua's TRUE Church through His original design of The Five Fold Ministry Ministries.

ROTTF Ministries believes this includes the restoration of Apostles and Prophets and the integration of those ministries within the overall restoration of all 5 ministry positions are mentioned in Ephesians 4, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. (Eph. 4:11-12), the time when the saints are being activated and released to do ministry in the workplace, public places, and within their own homes

The 5-fold Ministry must include the restoration of Yahshua's Church to the ancient and original Hebrew Roots of the church. These positions are for those called and chosen by YWVY, who have laid down their own live and become set-apart through true faith in Yahshua and walking in obedience to the Commandments of YHVH (Found in The Torah, Tanakh and Apostolic Scriptures).

Though we do not want to oversimplify, here are one sentence summaries of the 5-fold offices:

-Apostles – those “sent by Yahshua to breakthrough in spiritual warfare, establish Ruach Ha Kodesh (Holy Spirit) led ministers and ministries, who have been called-out and set-apart to disciple believers into living Righteous live, through repentance, faith, prayer, obedience and worship ”

-Prophets – those who “hear, release, and activate in others the voice of the Lord.”

-Teachers – those who “release and activate revelation knowledge as well as a hunger for it.”

-Evangelists – those who “release revival.”

-Pastors – those who “shepherd the flock of YHVH,”

Always keep in mind, the Five Fold Ministry is all about “equipping the saints for the work of the ministry and building them up for the unity of the faith.

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