164 The truth about Galations 4 revisit

The truth about Galatians 4 revisited.

The majority of the Christian world has been misled by the book of Galatians, due to the technical discussions regarding Scriptural topics ranging from circumcision to ‘so-called freedoms’ in Messiah. To begin with, they allege that this chapter does away with the need to keep the Torah, including the Feast Days of Elohim, which according to Leviticus 23 in the last part of both verses 21 & 31, ”..is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.” This in no uncertain terms informs us that these Feast Days are forever and part and parcel of Elohim’s Torah. Christianity believe that since Yahshua the Messiah died on the impalement tree, their followers are free from Torah (the Law) and need not any longer be enslaved by it.

Let’s therefore turn to Galatians 4 to see if this is true. We start by reading from verses 1 & 2 of Galatians 4, as follows: “Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from a slave although he is owner of everything, (2) but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by the father.” This is basically talking about a property, such as for example a farm, which a minor son of a farmer inherits when his father dies pre-maturely. In this case the father stipulated a date when the son turns 21 or 25, when he will officially become the owner of the farm. In the meantime the son is to work on the farm, to learn how to eventually, when he comes of age, become the farmer/owner. During the time that the son is under age, the father stipulated that guardians or managers be appointed to farm the land. During this period, the son does not differ from the slaves working on the farm, even though he being the heir of his late father is the legitimate owner of the farm. However, this talking about the way believers in Messiah from the lost sheep of the house of Israel (including a small number of real Gentiles), who lost their piece of the Promised Land because of spiritual adultery, become heirs according to the promise made to father Abraham, once again. We continue reading from verses 3 – 5, in this way: “So also we, while we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental things of the world. (4) But when the fullness of the time came, Elohim sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under law, (5) in order that He might redeem those who were under law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.” Even though some translations of The Scriptures, add the word ‘the’ before the final word in the 4th verse and also makes the ‘L’ in the word law a capital letter, the New International Version of the Scriptures has it correctly as given above. In The New American Standard version of The Scriptures, the final two words of verse 4 reads the Law, but the side note listed against it, states that it should read law only. This also applies to the word law in the 5th verse.

However, to fully understand what Rav Shaul is talking about in Galatians 4 we need to determine what it means to be under the law. As explained before the Law or Torah consists of commandments, statutes and judgments. Whereas the commandments give us a summary of all the rules and regulations according to which YHVH wants us to show our love and respect towards Him, as well as to our neighbors, the statutes provide additional details regarding the way we should obey each of the commandments and the judgments (or ordinances) specify the punishment due for transgressing the commandments. Accordingly, when you obey the commandments and statutes like the Torah observant members of the house of Judah have been doing since their return from captivity in Babylon about 2500 years ago, there are no curses, provided you repent and return to full Torah obedience, whenever you sin – you are therefore not under the (curses of the) law. On the contrary, the judgments due to us from the lost ten tribes for transgressing the commandments without understanding what sin was, after being scattered into the nations of the world because of idolatry and lost our language, faith and culture and deceived by the Roman Catholic Church and her (protestant) daughters came to believe Torah is obsolete, is death by stoning, but also the curses described in Deuteronomy 28, thus putting us under (the judgment of) the law. Once YHVH calls us out of the churches of the world and we are immersed into Yahshua’s saving name, accepting that His death atoned for our past sins, He redeems us from the curse of the law. Yahshua specifically came to bring us back into the faith into which He was born and the covenant that we made with Elohim, together with the house of Judah at Mount Sinai. We read accordingly from Galatians 3: 13, “Messiah redeemed us from the curse (penalty) of the Law, having become a curse for us – for it is written, ‘CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE.’” We have been redeemed from the penalty or judgments due to breaking Elohim’s commandments and are reconciled to the Father to once again become heirs of Abraham through faith in Messiah (as recorded in Galatians 3: 26 – 29), provided we obey Elohim’s commandments, statutes and laws as Abraham did (as witnessed in Genesis 26: 5), then we shall inherit the Promised Land (or Kingdom of Elohim) promised to him and his descendants forever.

Christians incorrectly interpret the curse of the law as Torah. However, both verses 4 and 5 are talking about ‘the law applicable to inheritance’, discussed in principle in verses 1 & 2 and definitely not about Torah. The phrase ‘under the elemental things of the world’ in verse 3 does also most certainly not mean YHVH’s Torah or the Law. Rav Shaul did not refer to the Torah or the Law as the elemental things of the world here and in Romans 7: 12 said: ‘So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.’ In addition he said in the first part of verse 14: ‘For we know that the Law is spiritual’, meaning it is eternal. Some go a bit further to say that this is saying that Yahshua was indeed born under Torah, because Miriam, His mother did not break Torah, since we know that she was pregnant as a result of what we read in Luke 1: 35 as follows: ‘And the angel answered and said to her, “The Set-apart Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you;”’ and not as a result of fornication. I agree fully that Yahshua’s mother did not violate Torah at all, but that is not what is being discussed in Galatians 4: 4. What verse 4 is really saying is that Yahshua was specifically born to redeem us, the wayward descendants from the lost ten tribes who made the covenant with Elohim at Mount Sinai from our curses of the law and therefore came under the law on our behalf. Even so, the entire chapter 4 of Galatians is about ‘the law of inheritance’ and talking about us becoming children of Elohim, because we like Isaac are children of promise, despite the fact that we were doomed to die as a result of the sins of our forefathers. A second point misunderstood by Christianity is: what these promises were, that we like Isaac will one day inherit? What were the promises made to Abraham? YHVH said to Abram in Genesis 12: 1 - 3, “Go forth from your country, and from your relatives and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you; (2) and I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing; (3) and I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” According to the transliterated Hebrew words for ‘Go forth’ namely ‘Lech lecha’, Abram was told to get out of the land of his fathers, for his own good. YHVH commanded Abram and on the condition that he obeyed, he was made an eternal two-fold promise. From this point forward YHVH started the world with an individual person who obeyed Him.

When YHVH told Abram to leave, he did not argue at all, but as we read from Genesis 12: 4, ‘(So) Abram went forth as YHVH had spoken to him.’ YHVH established Abram, whose name He later changed to Abraham, as the father of Israel, because he believed Elohim, and ‘it was reckoned to him as righteousness.’ However Abram had to obey and leave his country of origin, namely Ur of the Chaldeans, which was in the land of Babylon, as well as his family and friends behind. He had to go and start all over again in a country where YHVH told him to go. This is similar to the way that YHVH is calling us to come out of the false religious systems (the confusion of Babylon) that we served in the past, in order to qualify to eventually go and dwell in the land eternally promised to our fathers in the faith. YHVH promised the land of Canaan to Abram and his descendants, for an everlasting possession. YHVH said to him in Genesis 17: 10 & 11: “This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you; every male among you shall be circumcised. (11) And you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and you.” YHVH said of this new nation that He started in Isaiah 43: 21, “The people whom I formed for Myself, will declare My praise.” This specific prophesy will only truly come to fruition in the foreseeable future, when a remnant of Israel and Judah will be saved as first fruits to YHVH. Few people today realize that there is a principle of duality which runs throughout the plan that YHVH is carrying out here on earth. There was the first Adam, physical and earthly, and there is Messiah, who is the second Adam, who is spiritual and eternal. YHVH made man mortal from the dust of the ground and of the human kind; but by obedience to Torah (for the house of Judah) or through Messiah (the returnees of the lost ten tribes) we may be begotten immortal, spiritual and of the Elohim kind. Similarly there were two phases to the promises that YHVH made to Abraham; one being material and national, and the other spiritual and individual. Most students of the Scriptures are aware of the spiritual promise of Messiah and salvation through Him: Most realize that YHVH gave Abraham a spiritual promise of the Messiah to be born as his descendant, and that mankind will be saved through Him. Even so, most do not understand what salvation is, i.e. the promise that we receive through Messiah and how and when we receive it.

YHVH made a dual promise to Abram in Genesis 12: 2 & 3, saying: ‘And I will make you a great nation (a promise of race), and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing; (3) and I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed (a promise of grace or unmerited pardon).’ This last promise is repeated in Genesis 22: 18, as follows: “And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.” It is at this point where Christianity has fallen into error, or spiritual blindness. As already mentioned, they understand the promise of spiritual salvation through Messiah, but miss the point that YHVH gave Abraham promises of both physical race and spiritual salvation in the Land of Israel. They incorrectly assumed that believers are promised eternal life in heaven after death. However, the promise of ‘a great nation’ refers to race and not only to the one ‘seed’ spoken about in Galatians 3: 16, in this way: ‘Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as referring to many, but rather to one, “And to your seed,” that is, Messiah.’ Messiah became the Son of Elohim after His resurrection, but He was also born as the Son of Man, a descendant of Abraham. It was Elohim’s intention for Israel to become a multitude of nations as witnessed by the promises given in Genesis 17: 1 - 5, as follows: ‘Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, YHVH appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Elohim Almighty; walk before Me, and be blameless. (2) And I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.” (3) And Abram fell on his face, and Elohim talked with him, saying, (4) “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. (5) No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.” Also understand that this promise was conditional upon Abraham’s obedience and blameless living. At this time the ‘great nation’ becomes a ‘multitude of nations’ and can definitely not refer to a single seed, namely Messiah only.

We read from verse 6 of Genesis 17, “And I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come forth from you.” This tells us that Abraham’s offspring will become many nations with a number of kings ruling them, but it also tells Abraham about the first-fruits who will become kings and priests during Messiah’s Millennial rule, ruling over nations and cities, as Yahshua promised in Revelation 2: 26, in this way: ‘And he who overcomes, and he who keeps My deeds until the end, TO HIM I WILL GIVE AUTHORITY OVER THE NATIONS.’ We read further from verses 7 and 8 of Genesis 17, YHVH saying: “And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be an Elohim to you and to your descendants after you. (8) And I will give to you and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their Elohim.” Note that the land promised to the numerous descendants of whom YHVH is ‘their’ and not ‘his’ Elohim. The future of all the important nations of the world depended on the promises that YHVH made to Abraham. The hope of life after death for the lost sheep of the house of Israel at Messiah’s return, depends upon the spiritual promise of mercy and favor through Messiah, the ‘one seed’ of Abraham, through whom the rest of mankind will also eventually be saved after the second resurrection. Because the house of Judah only believe in the Tanach, they correctly believe in the coming Kingdom of Elohim on earth ruled by a Messiah (as prophesied in the Tanach), Christianity have been led to believe that the promise to Abraham was eternal life (salvation), but they have no idea where it will be spent. It is because they do not fully grasp what was promised to Abraham, that they do not understand the Gospel of the Kingdom of Elohim.

Nevertheless, we see according to Hebrews 11: 8 - 10, that Abraham and his descendants have not yet inherited the promises made to them yet, even though they fulfilled their side of the covenant agreement, as follows: ‘By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going. (9) By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise (eternal life through Messiah in the promised land); (10) for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is Elohim.” We know that this is talking about the Kingdom of Elohim which will come to earth when Yahshua returns to rule the world from Jerusalem one day, but also ultimately when Elohim will come to dwell on earth in the New Jerusalem, which will come down from heaven, to tabernacle among His people (who will by that time all be spiritual born-again children of Elohim) as we read from Revelation 21: 1 – 3. Turning to verses 39 & 40 of Hebrews 11 we see the reason why they did not receive the promises made to them yet, in this way: ‘And all these (our fathers and mothers in the faith listed from verses 8 – 32), having gained approval through their faith, did not receive what was promised, (40) because Elohim had provided something better for us (the latter day descendants of Abraham who now also believe in the two fold promises made to Abraham, namely eternal life in the coming Kingdom of Elohim), so that, apart from us they should not be made perfect.’ That is also why we cannot inherit the Promised Land before our father in the faith gets the inheritance promised him by YHVH, as a son cannot inherit anything which does not belong to his father, yet. The ‘us’ mentioned in verse 40 are a remnant of the twelve tribes of Israel, plus a small number of Gentiles who are at this time called out of the churches (or religions) of the world and came to believe in Messiah Yahshua (as Yahshua explained in John 6: 65) to be saved during the first resurrection, as witnessed from Romans 9: 27, ‘And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “THOUGH THE NUMBER OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL BE AS THE SAND OF THE SEA, IT IS THE REMNANT THAT WILL BE SAVED”’ But, similar to the conditions which Abraham had to fulfill to ultimately at Yahshua’s return receive the promises made to Him, we the ‘remnant according to Elohim’s gracious choice’ have to go back to the faith of the fathers in the faith, before the coming of the great and terrible day of YHVH as recorded in Malachi 4: 4 – 6. The question is: What was the faith of the fathers in the faith? Let us at this point consider the faith of our fathers (in the faith), namely Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Firstly we understand from verses 8 – 11 of Hebrews 11 (quoted earlier), that our fathers in the faith were fully aware of the coming Kingdom of Elohim. In other words they believed in the true gospel of Elohim, as proclaimed by Yahshua the Messiah in amongst other Mark 1: 14 & 15. They not only believed in the Gospel of Elohim, they also believed that they would be part of it when they are in the first (better) resurrection!

Apart from believing the Gospel of Elohim, our father Abraham also knew about and believed in the saving work that Yahshua was going to do in what was yet future to him. We read part of Yahshua’s answer to the Jews in John 8: 56 – 58, as follows: “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.” (57) ‘The Jews therefore said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”’ (58) ‘Yahshua said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.”’ We know that Yahshua was telling the Jews here that He was the Eternal I am. From reading Hebrews 11: 17 – 19, we understand that Abraham believed in the resurrection of the dead, in this way: ‘By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac; and he who had received the promises was offering up his only begotten son; (18) it was he to whom it was said, “IN ISAAC YOUR DESCENDANTS SHALL BE CALLED.” (19) He considered that Elohim is able to raise men even from the dead; from which he also received him back as a type.’ As we’ve seen before, Abraham knowing that Yahshua was going to be impaled and resurrected in what was future to him, received Isaac back as a type of Yahshua. Lastly our father Abraham also obeyed YHVH and kept Torah (without the sacrificial laws which was added 430 years later because of the sin of the golden calf as witnessed in Galatians 3: 17) as we read from Genesis 26: 5, as follows: “because Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws.” This included the covenant that YHVH made with Abraham and his decedents or heirs of the everlasting covenant to inherit the Promised Land in Genesis 17: 9 & 10, where Elohim said to Abraham: “Now as for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations. (10) This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: every male among you shall be circumcised.” Believing In Yahshua means that we believe in His saving name, but also do what He did whilst He was on earth. He was the perfect example that YHVH sent us to conform to and since He was both circumcised and immersed, we should do likewise. Faith in the salvation of YHVH saves us from eternal death, when we are immersed into His saving name, but it does not fulfill the second part of what was promised to Abraham, namely eternal life in the Promised Land (the Kingdom of Elohim), if we do not perform our part of the agreement made between YHVH and Abraham in Genesis 17: 6 – 8 (already quoted), i.e. to be circumcised (as male descendants of Abraham) and obey the rest of Torah to retain Elohim’s Set-apart Spirit and qualify to live in the Promised Land with Abraham as children of Elohim eternally.

Armed with this understanding of Galatians 4, let us read again from verse 4 to 8: “But when the fullness of the time came (the set date mentioned in verse 2), Elohim sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under (the curse of) law, (5) in order that He might redeem those (of the house of Israel) who were under (the curse of the) law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. (6) And because you are sons, Elohim has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Avinu! Father!” (7) Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through Elohim. (8) However at that time, when you did not know Elohim, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods.” Do you get that; when we did not know Elohim, we were slaves to the elemental things of this world – those which by nature are no gods. In verse 9, 10 and 11 of Galatians 4, Shaul exhorts us who are now heirs of Elohim to not go back to our old ways of life and worthless elemental things and be enslaved by them all over again. These things are pagan holidays such as birthdays, Easter, Christmas and New Year’s Day, not the Feast Days of Elohim as Christianity assume. Shaul carries on exhorting the Galatians (and us) to remain loyal until verse 20. From verse 21 at the end of the chapter, Shaul explains the law of inheritance again as follows: ‘“Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law (Torah)? (22) For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondwoman (Hagar) and one by the free woman (Sarah). (23) But the son by the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise (That is why father Abraham was circumcised: so that he might know that Isaac was his child through promise and not through his own strength). (24) This is allegorically speaking: for these women are two covenants, one proceeding from Mount Sinai bearing children who are to be slaves; she is Hagar. (25) Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. (26) But the Jerusalem above is free; she is our mother. (27) For it is written, “REJOICE, BARREN WOMAN WHO DOES NOT BEAR; BREAK FORTH AND SHOUT, YOU WHO ARE NOT IN LABOR; FOR MORE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE DESOLATE THAN OF THE ONE WHO HAS A HUSBAND.” (28) And you brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise. (29) But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh (Ismael) persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit (Isaac), so it is now also. (30) But what does the Scripture say? “CAST OUT THE BONDWOMAN AND HER SON, FOR THE SON OF THE BONDWOMAN SHALL NOT BE AN HEIR WITH THE SON OF THE FREE WOMAN.” (31) So then, brethren, we are not children of a bondwoman, but of the free woman.”’

If you read the entire chapter in the light of what is explained in verses 1 & 2 you will agree that this Chapter has nothing to do with the abolition of Torah or the Feast Days of YHVH our Elohim. We know that the Torah is Spiritual and will never pass away. In this chapter Shaul is explaining ‘the law of inheritance’ to us, the children of promise. We read further from Galatians 6: 16, ‘And those who will walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of Elohim.’ Now, what is the rule spoken about here? We get the answer in Romans 9: 6 & 7, as follows: “But it is not as though the word of Elohim has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel; (7) neither are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants, but: “THROUGH ISAAC YOUR DESCENDANTS WILL BE NAMED.”’ For further confirmation let’s read from verse 26 through 29 of Galatians Chapter 3 as follows: “For you are all sons of Elohim through faith in Messiah Yahshua. (27) For all of you who were immersed into Messiah have clothed yourselves with Messiah. (28) There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Messiah Yahshua. (29) And if you belong to Messiah, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.” And yes, therefore according to the covenant made with father Abraham in Genesis 17, to be able to live in the land promised to Abraham and his descendants, we have to do our part in the covenant agreement, and let all our male children be circumcised at 8 days old. But this does not end there, since before we may partake of the Passover, where we accept Yahshua Messiah as our Passover lamb we need all be circumcised in heart (immersed) and flesh(for male members of the congregation only), as recorded in Exodus 12: 47 - 49, “All the congregation of Israel are to celebrate this. (48) But if a stranger sojourns with you, and celebrates the Passover to YHVH, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it. (49) The same law shall apply to the native as to the stranger who sojourns among you.” Our father in the faith, Abraham was circumcised at a very old age, but, in his case he believed YHVH before he was circumcised. When he was circumcised as a sign of the covenant between him and YHVH, his name was changed to Abraham. Since then all Israelites and their children were circumcised at the age of eight days old. However, many of us who lost our identity as Israel, became like Gentiles and stopped circumcising our children, because we believed that the Torah was done away with. In some of our cases, our renewed belief in Yahshua our Messiah also came first and we were circumcised later, as we learnt to obey all of Torah. Since repentance is a process as Rav Shaul also explained in Galatians 5, new believers are required to meet the initial four requirements given in Acts 15 first, then as they attend services in a synagogue or ministries like ours, they will learn to obey Torah fully and out of their own will come to the decision to be circumcised, as may be understood from reading Acts 15: 21. Nevertheless, we do not do it for salvation, but to show our Father that we love Him and eventually as heirs of Abraham to inherit the Promised Land. In agreement with this Yahshua’s disciples understood and believed the restoration of the two houses of Israel to be synonymous with the coming Kingdom of Elohim, hence their question to Yahshua in Acts 1: 6 before He ascended to heaven, as follows: “Master, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”

The original covenant made with Abraham is the same covenant made at Mount Sinai with Moses and the Israelites. The only difference being, that because of sin, the Sacrificial Law practiced by the Levitical Priesthood was added. The only thing that was different is not Torah, but how the administration for the remission of sins was carried out. The sacrificial law, the tutor mentioned in Galatians 3: 16 - 19, was then added to the covenant to attend to the problem of sin, until Messiah became the sacrifice – the lamb who died for the sins of the world. The sacrificial system was changed and not Torah. Circumcision was never part of the sacrificial system. The book of Hebrews explains this and is a key to understanding the book of Galatians, showing how remission of sin through the payment of debt through animal sacrifices was replaced with justification through the blood of Yahshua. This means that anyone who comes to believe in Yahshua as Messiah has to be immersed to receive the promise of the Set-apart Spirit. We know that both Yahshua our Messiah and Rav Shaul, being Jewish were circumcised when they were only eight days old and that both of them were also immersed. We read accordingly from Matthew 3: 16, in this way: ‘And after being immersed, Yahshua went up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of Elohim descending as a dove, and coming upon Him.’ We also read about Rav Shaul’s immersion in Acts 9: 18, as follows: ‘And immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he regained his sight, and he arose and was immersed.’ Rav Shaul was taught for three years after his immersion, to become one of Yahshua’s apostles as witnessed in Acts 9: 22 – 23, in this way: ‘But Shaul kept increasing in strength and confounding the Jews who lived at Damascus by proving that this Yahshua is the Messiah. (23) And when many days had elapsed, the Jews plotted together to do away with him.’ We see that the many days spoken about here, are in fact three years as recorded in Galatians 1: 1, 2 & 15 – 18, as follows: ‘Rav Shaul, an apostle (not sent from men, nor through the agency of man, but through Yahshua Messiah, and Elohim the Father, who raised Him from the dead), (2) and all the brethren who are with me, to the congregations of Galatia.” (Rav Shaul was an apostle to the exiles of Yah or the lost ten tribes dispersed throughout the nations.) (15) But when He who had set me apart, even from my mother’s womb, and called me through His grace, was pleased (16) to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood, (17) nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away to Arabia, and returned once more to Damascus. (18) Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas (Rav Kepha), and stayed with him fifteen days.’ It took three years for Rav Shaul to learn the Way of Elohim (Halacha) that Yahshua taught, even though he was a Jew by birth. The other apostles were similarly taught by Yahshua for about three and a half years, before they were ready to immerse other believers and teach them the Halacha that Yahshua taught them – bearing in mind that they were also mostly Jews by birth (and therefore already circumcised).

But, why is the requirement of circumcision only applicable to males? The reason is as Rav Shaul taught in 1 Timothy 2: 15, saying: “But women shall be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint.” Obviously this is talking about a woman believer in Messiah, who regards marriage as sacred and will during the consummation of her marriage to a fellow believer lose her virginity, in the process to have children. We see further that no uncircumcised individual will be able to enter the capital city of the world to come, namely Jerusalem, when Yahshua returns one day, as we read from Isaiah 52: 1 as follows: “AWAKE, awake, clothe yourself in your strength, O Zion; clothe yourself in your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city. For the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.” Believers in Messiah must get away from those who preach against Torah and distort the Scriptures to continue to deceive their followers as Rav Kepha warned in 2 Peter 3: 13 – 16, saying: ‘But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. (14) Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, (15) and regard the patience of our Master to be salvation; just as also our beloved brother Shaul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, (16) as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.’ Think carefully about it!