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Are we teaching Scriptural truth?

Our world is in deep trouble and even though a large number of people are unaware of what mankind will have to go through in the near future there are some amongst us who are waking up realizing that the way we used to live is deteriorating very fast and that we have to start doing something about it. The problem is that we do not even understand what to do about it, or where to start fixing it. Mankind has been deceived by Satan and his agents for more than 1800 years and has come to believe the lies we do for so long, that we do not believe it to be lies any longer. Most of us have no idea what truth is, and most will define truth as being the opposite of a lie. However, the Scriptures give believers a more accurate definition of what truth is in Psalm 119: 142 (KJV), as follows: ‘Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Thy law (or Torah) is truth.’ In fact Yahshua confirmed this definition by making truth a bit wider, as being the entire Scriptures, or the word of YHVH, in John 17: 17, saying: ‘Sanctify them in the truth; Thy word is truth.’

As believers from the lost ten tribes who are returning to the covenant our forefathers made with YHVH at Mount Sinai, through Abraham’s one seed Yahshua, we must make sure that we teach fellow Israelites to come out of the falsehood we were taught by Christianity over the past 1800 years, but also that they replace it with truth. Even though this appears to be a simple task, we must not underestimate the depths to what most people from the house of Israel have been deceived. It was perhaps for this reason the Prophet Isaiah wrote in Isaiah 10: 20 – 23, saying: ‘Now it will come about in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those of the house of Jacob who have escaped, will never again rely on the one who struck them, but will truly rely on YHVH, the Holy One of Israel. (21) A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty Elohim. (22) For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant within them will return; a destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness. (23) For a complete destruction, one that is decreed, YHVH Elohim of hosts will execute in the midst of the whole land.’ Most believers, who claim faith in our Jewish Messiah, simply ignore what He taught and did whilst He was on earth, especially if they disagree with it. Nevertheless, Yahshua our Messiah warned those who wish to be His followers that His way of obeying Torah takes a tremendous amount of dedication in Matthew 7: 13 & 14, saying: ‘Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide, and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter by it. (14) For the gate is small, and the way is narrow that leads to life, and few are those who find it.’ In fact He emphasized this in Matthew 16: 24 – 26, saying: “If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. (25) For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake shall find it. (26) For what will a man be profited, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” A major lie perpetuated by Satan throughout the past 1800 years is that man has an eternal soul and upon death his soul goes to heaven, where it will live for all eternity. But the truth is that only Elohim has immortality as is confirmed in 1 Timothy 6: 16, in this way: ‘Who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amein.’ The reason why Satan succeeded in selling his own aspirations as well as his final destination to his deceived audience through the Roman Catholic Church and her protestant daughters is because he does not want them to receive the blessings to be had by obeying Torah. Satan wanted to go to heaven to take over Elohim’s throne in rebellion, as witnessed in Isaiah 14: 13 & 14 as follows: “But you said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of Elohim, and I will sit on the mount of assembly in the recesses of the north. (14) I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’” Most religions of the world believe that ‘good’ people go to heaven, beholding the face of Elohim for all eternity, at the time of their death. Do you also believe the lie that you are destined to go to heaven or be doomed to hell for eternity? The truth is that most believers, even their teachers, pastors and elders have been deceived to believe this false doctrine.

Because Satan hates the idea that mankind was specifically created to replace him to assist YHVH the Elohim of Israel to rule the world and ultimately the universe under Yahshua the Messiah, he is walking around like a lion, to deceive the house of Israel to believe the falsehood he is teaching through modern day Christianity, as Rav Kepha witnessed in 1 Peter 5: 8, saying: “Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” Even if one becomes a true believer of Messiah, a real danger is that he/she can be deceived by Satan and his many agents to go right back to where he/she comes from, or follow another counterfeit religion, slightly closer than Christianity to the one true faith once delivered to true believers, as Rav Shaul warned about in 2 Corinthians 11: 3 & 4, saying: ‘But I am afraid, lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds should be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Messiah. (4) For if one comes and preaches another Yahshua whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully.’ Rav Shaul could not believe how easily believers flung aside his teachings, instead of imitating him as he did Messiah; to embrace a counterfeit gospel together with a counterfeit Messiah. Satan as the master counterfeiter has managed to deceive the majority of believers to accept falsehood, even if some once embraced the truth. This happens time and time again; as people are called out of the counterfeit of the original Nazarene Jewish faith, namely Christianity, they are deceived to follow just another counterfeit faith, where people decide for themselves how and when to worship YHVH our Elohim. Even though it is very difficult to deceive those called out of the world, Satan and his agents are persuasive teachers peddling a counterfeit righteousness, as Rav Shaul continues his warning about such teachers in 2 Corinthians 11: 13 – 15, saying: ‘For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Messiah. (14) And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. (15) Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their deeds.’ No wonder so many varieties of what some call the truth and righteousness is taught under the name of Yahshua Messiah.

We therefore need to be very careful of those who come to us in the true name of Messiah, as Yahshua also warned His disciples, when He spoke to them privately in Matthew 24: 4 & 5, saying: “See to it that no one misleads you. (5) For many will come in My name (we need to realize that Yahshua knew His true name and did not ever refer to Himself as the ‘Christ’), saying, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will mislead many.” Like His false name, Yahshua’s true name serves as a façade or disguise for religious viewpoints that did not originate with Him. It was for this reason that He said in Matthew 7: 22 & 23, “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Master, Master, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ (23) And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’” If we practice lawlessness, which is the opposite of truth or Torah, we negate all other good deeds. As soon as we follow the teachings of teachers who contradict the words of Messiah and YHVH, we are not following truth any longer. It was for this reason that Rav Shaul asked the Galatians in Galatians 3: 1 (KJV), saying: ‘O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth (meaning Torah or the Scriptures), before whose eyes Yahshua Messiah hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?’ It is true that Yahshua Messiah paid the penalty for the house of Israel’s disobedience of Elohim’s Torah teachings and that He was cursed on our behalf, thus taking the punishment of the law due to us upon Himself as Rav Shaul further explained in Galatians 3. In doing so He abolished the Sacrificial Law which was introduced 430 years after the agreement YHVH made with our father in the faith Abraham, after the sin of the golden calf. Up to the time Messiah became the sacrifice for the sins of His people, the Sacrificial Law was our tutor showing that every time we sin, blood must be shed to atone for our sins. But, now that Messiah paid for the sins of those who return to the covenant they made with YHVH, they again become heirs of the promise made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and are required to remain loyal to YHVH and His Torah and as a sign of the covenant, again circumcise themselves and their sons at eight days old. This essentially means that we are not under the punishment of the law given in Deuteronomy 28, for disobedience to Torah any longer.

Teachers in Churchianity like to say that our Jewish Brothers are under the law, because they have no idea what they are saying. Those like our Jewish Brothers who obey the Torah teachings of Elohim, reap the blessings of Elohim for their obedience, whilst those who disobey the Torah teachings of Elohim, curse themselves and their children, by their disobedience and eventually reap the curses mentioned in Deuteronomy 28. What is currently happening in the world, but especially here in South Africa, has been prophesied to happen, but because Churchianity has been taught falsehood, they are not even aware of it. Instead they continue in their pagan ways of worshipping a false Messiah and a g-d (or Pope) who changed the laws and times, as prophesied by Daniel in Daniel 7: 25 – this despite the fact that most Christians vehemently deny that they are simply Catholics. Lawlessness is the main component in the counterfeit righteousness taught by these false teachers. Under Satan’s influence mankind has been blinded to the true gospel of Messiah, who is the image of Elohim. The problem is as identified by the prophet Jeremiah as human nature in chapter 17: 9, as follows: “The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick, (the KJV reads wicked); who can understand it?” Rav Shaul agreed with the prophet Jeremiah in Romans 8: 7 - 9, saying: ‘Because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward Elohim; for it does not subject itself to the law of Elohim, for it is not even able to do so; (8) and those who are in the flesh cannot please Elohim. (9) However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of Elohim dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Messiah, he does not belong to Him.” It is plain to see that alternatives to the true message of Yahshua our Messiah have been contrived to accommodate mankind’s natural unwillingness to obey Elohim. The sad thing about this is that most people who accept these false lawless ideas are totally sincere, as Rav Shaul explained in 2 Thessalonians 2: 7 - 12, saying: ‘For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. (8) And then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Master will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming; (9) that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, (10) and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as the be saved. (11) And for this reason Elohim will send upon them a deluding influence so that they might believe what is false, (12) in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.’

It is time to question our beliefs and make certain that we do not mislead anyone, as Yahshua also warned in Matthew 18: 6 – 7, saying: “But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it is better for him that a heavy millstone be hung around his neck, and that he be drowned in the depth of the sea. (7) Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes!” This is clearly talking about people who put stumbling blocks in the way of children, such as the belief in Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny, but it also refers to people who make new believers in Yahshua the Messiah doubt about the Set-apart Days of Elohim given in Leviticus 23, or whether the food laws given in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 are still applicable. We need to understand that Satan was perfect in all his ways prior to his rebellion (as per Ezekiel 28: 12 – 15). Satan is a spirit being who sinned with full knowledge and can therefore not repent. Being a spirit being Satan cannot die. Yahshua clearly said in Luke 20: 36 that angels cannot die and Satan being a fallen angel can therefore also not die. The Scriptures refer to angels as stars (see Revelation 1: 20). When Satan and his angels sinned who deceives the whole world was thrown down to the earth and his angels were thrown down with him as per Revelation 12: 9. Satan and his angels sinned and they are now known as fallen angels or wandering stars as may be seen in Jude 13 “…wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam, wondering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.” Satan and his demons will be tormented forever, knowing what they’ve had before their rebellion against the Most High. A second witness to the fact that Satan will be tormented forever may be found in Revelation 20: 10, where we see that the devil that deceived mankind was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone and will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Yahshua is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, according to Hebrews 13: 8; He did not change His mind after His impalement, but He laid down his life for His people and became a sacrifice for our past lawlessness. That was the only part of the law that He essentially fulfilled; the law of clean and unclean food given in Leviticus 11 is still in effect, so is the law prohibiting incest still intact. The law of not eating fat or blood is still applicable and all the sexual laws are still in force and so is the Sabbath still in effect today, as may be read in Hebrews 4: 4 and 9: ‘For He has thus said somewhere concerning the seventh day, “AND ELOHIM RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS WORKS.”’ (9) “There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of Elohim.” YHVH our Elohim is very specific about which day we are to keep. He does not merely instruct us to keep one day in seven, or a Sabbath day. We are clearly told to keep the Seventh Day. Is keeping the Seventh day an impossible request that YHVH require of us? Can we know which day is the seventh day after all the past centuries? How can we be certain that Saturday is the seventh day, designated by YHVH as Set-apart? If we look at history, we see evidence about the observance of the Sabbath by faithful Jews, who kept the Sabbath without missing from one generation to the next. Even though we know from The Scriptures that the Sabbath is not for Jews only (see Leviticus 23: 2 – YHVH says that these Set-apart days, including the Sabbath are His appointed times), the Orthodox Jews are a very good source for discovering which day is the seventh day from a historical perspective. The Orthodox Jews have been keeping the seventh day Sabbath from the time that YHVH gave it to them at Mount Sinai, until this very day. They have kept the Sabbath day, week after week and generation after generation. Christians and those of us who came from Christianity are aware of at least one calendar change in the past that could affect the days that we are keeping today. Some assume that one cannot for certain say that the Sabbath remains on the seventh day. However, let us examine the evidence before we reach the wrong conclusion. Truth is that there was only one calendar change to effect the dates as we know them today. This happened in October 1582 when Pope Gregory XIII reformed the Julian calendar by removing 10 days. By this change he intended to synchronize the calendar with the seasons, planets and stars. The change effected only the dates of the month and not the order of the days of the week. The depiction below shows in detail how this was done: October 1582

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(From the book – “Seven Mysteries Solved” Volume 2)

After the calendar change by Pope Gregory XIII, Sunday was still followed by Monday and the weekdays continued in progression in the same way. In addition we see from Mark 16: 1 - 2 that Mark still referred to the seventh day as the Sabbath and not Sunday after Yahshua’s impalement: “And when the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the Mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint Him. (2) And very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.” Most of us know that Saturday is the Sabbath and not Sunday, which is clearly already the 1st day of the next week. So there is no argument here. But, when does the Sabbath begin and when does it end? We all know that according to the way we calculate time today, that a day starts and end at midnight. However, we are fully aware of the fact that this was not always so and that scripturally time is calculated differently.

To respond to the question concerning at what time the Sabbath day begins and ends; let us go right to the beginning in Genesis. We see from Genesis 1: 5, “And Elohim called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.” We see here that the 1st day consisted of a dark or evening part as well as a light or day part. In the same way the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth days consisted of an evening part and a day part as is recorded for us in Genesis 1: 8, 13, 19, 23, and 31. There is no reason to think that the seventh day was any different, i.e. it consisted of an evening (or dark) part and a day (or light) part. So we may therefore safely assume that the Sabbath starts at sunset on a Friday (the sixth day) evening to sunset on a Saturday (the seventh day) evening. However, we know that the proponents of the day time Sabbath will not be satisfied with this answer alone. Let us therefore continue in Leviticus 23: 27 where we read: “On exactly the tenth day of the seventh month is the Day of Atonement; it shall be a Set-apart convocation for you, and you shall humble your souls and present an offering by fire to YHVH.” To discover when the 10th day of the seventh month begins, we continue reading until verse 32 where it reads: “It is to be a Sabbath of complete rest to you, and you shall humble your souls; on the ninth of the month at evening, from evening until evening you shall keep your Sabbath.” So clearly here we see that the tenth day of the month commences at the evening of the ninth day and continues for 24 hours until the evening of the tenth day. It is at this point then fairly safe to say that any day starts in the evening, when the sun goes down (twilight) until the next evening when the sun goes down.

We see in The Scriptures that even a new month, i.e. the first day of any month starts the evening after the new moon (which is essentially a concealed moon). The moon is renewed immediately after the shadow of the earth, between the sun and the moon, covers the moon and commences towards renewal. If you compare a Gregorian calendar which shows the positions of the moon, with a Jewish calendar (obtainable from the local Rabbinical synagogue in your area), you will notice that according to the Jewish calendar, the Rosh Chodesh or the New Month is always the next evening after the Gregorian calendar shows the New Moon - which is in essence a dark moon or no moon. Now if the first day of the month starts at evening, then surely the seventh day will also start at evening. We see according to the Jewish calendar that Rosh Chodesh is one day during some months and two days during other months. This is totally in line with the Scriptures. In 1 Samuel 20 verse 5, 27 and 34 we read: ‘So David said to Jonathan, ”Behold tomorrow is the new moon, and I ought to sit down to eat with the king, But let me go, that I may hide myself in the field until the third evening. (Why the 3rd evening – because we see from the next quoted section that the new moon lasted two days for that particular month).” (27) ’And it came about the next day, the second day of the new moon, that David’s place was empty; so Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why has the son of Jesse not come to the meal, either yesterday or today?” (34) ‘Then Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did not eat food on the second day of the new moon, for he was grieved over David because his father had dishonored him.’

Now if at this point the proponents of the day time Sabbath still argue about it, I would like to go to the first part of Nehemiah 13: 19 where it reads: “And it came about that just as it grew dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and that they should not open them until after the Sabbath. Then I stationed some of my servants, at the gates that no load should enter on the Sabbath day.” We see that it grew dark immediately before the Sabbath – that means that the Sabbath day like any other day starts with a dark or evening part, which is followed by a light or day part. The Scriptures tell us that we need two or three witnesses to prove a point. If this is not enough for those who believe differently, then nothing will satisfy them. All Elohim’s commandments were given for our good, including the food laws given in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14. Elohim who created both mankind as well as what kind of foods are suitable for human consumption, knows that certain foodstuffs are harmful to us, as much as the manufacturer of any motor vehicle, specifies the fuel required to make such vehicle run optimally. However, Satan has since the very beginning been mankind’s adversary as Rav Kepha identifies him in first Peter 5: 8, has been deceiving the whole world to do just the opposite of what Elohim requires of us. By convincing one of the biggest religious groups who confess faith in Yahshua, that Torah is not applicable to them any longer and that He has made all foods clean, he has ensured that their followers and their children remain cursed, under the laws of cause and effect, despite the fact that Yahshua redeemed us from the curse of the law in respect of our past sins. Since Elohim’s Torah is spiritual and cannot disappear, what Messiah has done for us can be compared to when a friend pays a traffic fine for us for speeding in a built up area. The fact that our debt in respect of our traffic offense has been paid, does not abolish the traffic ordinance against exceeding a certain speed in a built up area – similarly did Messiah’s death pay for our past sins, but if we continue to sin, we either have to repent by asking YHVH to again forgive us our sins in Yahshua’s name and stop breaking His commandments, or eventually be consumed in fire that will leave us neither root or branch (as per Malachi 4: 1).

Why did Elohim make distinctions between clean and unclean foods? Because many people in society enjoy eating pork and other unclean meats and at the same time experience no immediate ill effects and not many have looked for scientific evidence for reasons why Elohim forbid the eating of certain foods. Some believe that Elohim forbid the ancient nation of Israel to eat pork because they did not have refrigerators and researchers had not until then warned consumers of pork meat to be cooked thoroughly in order to kill any dormant disease-carrying organisms. Even so, research has convinced a few medical doctors to recommend that some of their patients with particular allergic conditions should avoid eating pork and shellfish, but not as a rule for everyone else. Theologians from especially Christianity have simply assumed that the laws of clean and unclean foods given in the Tanach (or the ‘Old Testament’ as they refer to it), came to an end with the establishment of the so-called ‘New Testament’. Many believe that Rav Shaul confirmed this move towards abolishing the clean and unclean food laws of the Tanach when he wrote in Romans 14: 14, saying: ‘I know and am convinced in the Master Yahshua that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.’ But, does this mean that he abandoned the laws of clean and unclean foods discussed in Torah? We know that Rav Shaul did not change or abandoned any command given by YHVH in the Torah and to explain this particular verse from the Scriptures, we need to familiarize ourselves with the various Greek words used in the Renewed Covenant, to fully understand what Rav Shaul was saying regarding food in Romans 14. In addition we need to be ever mindful of the principle, to let the Scriptures interpret the Scriptures. It is further important to understand that there were two concepts of ‘unclean’ referred to in the Renewed Covenant, with different Greek words to communicate these concepts. Firstly, ‘unclean’ could talk about animals not fit for human consumption, as listed in Leviticus 11 & Deuteronomy 14, but could also refer to something which is ceremonially or ritually unclean. The Greek word used by Rav Shaul in Romans 14, was ‘koinos’ meaning common or ordinary. The word ‘koinos’ is also used in Acts 2: 44 (‘And all those who had believed were together, and had all things in common.’); Acts 4: 32; Titus 1: 4; and Jude 3 (‘Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation…’). The same word was also used for things considered polluted or defiled – where it came in touch with for example dead bodies. This word is also used in its form as a verb, namely ‘koinoo’ in Mark 7: 2, as follows: ‘and had seen some of His disciples were eating their bread with impure hands, that is, unwashed.’ These two words (‘koinos’ and ‘koinoo’) are in fact used throughout the Renewed Covenant to refer to ceremonially uncleanness and not to unclean meats or animals. Consequently, something could be considered common or ceremonial unclean, yet be in the prescribed list of ‘Kosher’ foods given in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14. The very same word used in the Septuagint version of the Torah, namely ‘akatharos’ is also used in the Greek translation of the Renewed Covenant for unclean meats. In Acts 10 both the words ‘koinos’ and ‘akatharos’ describe Rav Kepha’s vision of the sheet filled with all kinds of animals of the earth. Rav Kepha distinguished between the two concepts of unclean by using both words in verse 14 of Acts 10. Most translations of the Scriptures distinguish between the meanings of the two words used here. Rav Kepha used the same terminology in verse 28 and Acts 11: 8 (KJV) in discussion of his vision, saying: “But I said, ’Not so, Master: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.’”

Where Rav Shaul said in the first part of Roman 14: 14, ‘I know and am convinced by the Master Yahshua that nothing is unclean in itself’, he was in fact making the same point as he did in 1 Corinthians 8: 4, where he explained that even if clean meat was offered to idols, the so-called pagan god had no influence on whether the meat was suitable to be eaten or not, saying (in the last part): ‘we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no Elohim but one.’ But the question is: What was Rav Shaul’s point in Romans 14? He was essentially saying that depending upon their consciences, early believers in Messiah had several options open to them whilst traveling or living in certain communities. If they did not want to eat meat that had been sacrificed to idols, they could choose to eat only vegetables (as may be seen from verse 2). Nevertheless, if there was not a regular source of kosher meat available, believers could eat meat described in Leviticus 11 as ‘clean’ slaughtered by Muslim butchers, since they also know how to bleed the animal in the prescribed way, even though they offer such meat up to their Deity. Romans 14 is all about a person’s conscience within the context of the Torah. Rav Shaul was not discussing Scriptural kosher laws in this section, but as we see from verse 20 where the word clean is ‘katharos’, meaning free from impure mixture or spotless: The word ‘katharos’ is used in the Scriptures to describe all kinds of cleanliness, including clean dishes (Matthew 23: 26), clothing (Revelation 15: 6; 19: 8 & 14), and pure religion (James 1: 27). We need to understand that the word food or meat was not in the original wording of either verse 14 or 20 of Romans 14. It is therefore clear that Rav Shaul was definitely not giving believers in Messiah the go ahead to eat whatever they desire. All the Torah teachings of Elohim (truth) remain applicable to those who claim faith in Yahshua the Messiah, including circumcision if they as Abraham’s heirs want to inherit the Promised Land or kingdom of Elohim eternally. This was confirmed by Yahshua in John 5: 46 & 47, saying: “For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote of Me. (47) But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” Think carefully about it!