Nazarene Israelite Two House Congregation of Port Elizabeth

‘Do not look behind you.’

When the two angels who accompanied YHVH to visit Abraham our father in the faith, they spend the day with Abraham to tell him and Sarah that they will have a son, even though they were both beyond child bearing age, but the two angels who went on to Sodom in an effort to save Lot and his family from destruction by brimstone and fire. Although we are told that Elohim is invisible, He appeared to our patriarchs in the Tanach, one example being in Genesis 18: 1 & 2, where we read: ‘Now YHVH appeared to him (Abraham) by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day. (2) And when he lifted up his eyes and looked, behold, three men were standing opposite him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the earth.’ The three men who appeared to Abraham were two angels (as may be seen from Genesis 19: 1) who travelled with the Word of YHVH or the visible image of the invisible Elohim, since we know from 1 Timothy 6: 16, that no man has seen or can see Elohim. Kabbalists agree with John 1: 1 – 3 that Adam Kadmon (also referred to as the ‘memra’, which is Aramaic for the word of Elohim) was not only the image of Elohim, He was actually Elohim Himself. The ten sefirot do not only appear in the shape of the Tree of life, but also appear in the form of primal man known as the ‘Adam Kadmon’, (YHVH)’s model for earthly man.

 

The next morning the angels urged Lot and his family to leave, but they hesitated. So the angels pulled him and his family by their hands and took them outside the city.  We read in Genesis 19: 17 – 22 about Lot’s special request, as follows: ‘And it came about when they had brought them outside, that one said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the valley; escape to the mountains lest you be swept away.” (18) But Lot said to them, “Oh no, my lords!  (19) Now behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving-kindness, which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest the disaster overtake me and I die; (20) now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) that my life may be saved.” (21) And he said to him, “Behold, I grant you this request also, not to overthrow the town of which you have spoken. (22) Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the town was called Zoar (meaning small). We read in verses 24 – 26 of Genesis 19 that after Lot arrived in Zoar the next morning: ‘Then YHVH rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from YHVH out of heaven, (25) and He overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. (26) But his (Lot’s) wife, from behind him, looked back; and she became a pillar of salt.’ From the last sentence we learn that we need to follow (YHVH)’s instructions meticulously, if we want to be saved. In addition Yahshua told His followers in Luke 9: 62, saying: “No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of Elohim.’ However, the quoted section brings us to another much disputed or uncertain portion of scripture. There are those in the Messianic/Nazarene Israelite community, who insist that verse 24 (underlined above) proves without a doubt that there are two separate beings called YHVH. To the uninformed this seems to be the case, but those who are familiar with Torah, knows that YHVH answers these unbelievers Himself in Deuteronomy 4: 39, saying: “Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that YHVH, He is Elohim in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.” I do not believe that those who fully understand this, will be foolish enough to continue to contradict YHVH, by insisting that there are more than One YHVH.

 

Those of us whom YHVH has called out of the churches of the world to return to the covenant our forefathers from the house of Israel made with Him, together with the house of Judah need to make absolutely sure that we never go back to the falsehood where we come from, or we will like Lot’s wife be destroyed with the entire Babylonian system in the near future, as Yahshua showed Rav Yochanan in a vision in Revelation 18: 1 – 8 , saying: ‘After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illumined with his glory. (2) And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! And she has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird. (3) For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality. (4) And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you may not participate in her sins and that you, may not receive of her plagues; (5) for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and Elohim has remembered her iniquities. (6) “Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double according to her deeds; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her. (7) To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘I SIT AS A QUEEN AND I AM NOT A WIDOW, and will never see mourning.’ (8) For this reason in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for YHVH Elohim who judges is strong.”’ This agrees with Daniel’s prophesy in Daniel 7: 23 - 26, as follows: “Thus he said: ‘The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom on the earth, which will be different from all the other kingdoms, and it will devour the whole earth and tread it down and crush it. (24) As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise after them. And he will be different from the previous ones and will subdue three kings. (25) And he will speak out against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One, and he will intend to make alterations in times and in law; and they will be given into his hand for a time, times and half a time. (26) But the court will sit for judgment, and his dominion will be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever.’ It is certain, once we came out of the churches of the world, we need to persevere in obeying Torah and believe in the testimony of Yahshua, as Rav Yochanan confirmed in Revelation 14: 12, saying: ‘Here is the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of Elohim and their faith in Yahshua.’

Rav Shaul similarly warns us not to be enslaved by sin once we have been immersed in Romans 6: 12 – 16, saying: ‘Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts, (13) and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to Elohim as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to Elohim. (14) For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace[1]. (15) What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! (16) Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?’ On the contrary, Churchianity insist that once they came to believe in the false Messiah, they were set free from the bondage of Torah and often quote the very same Scriptural verses that we do, to try and prove their false doctrines. As I explained in a previous lesson, the Law of Elohim is made up of commandment, statutes and judgements. Whereas the commandments give us a summary of Elohim’s requirements to serve and obey Him, the statutes give us more details about individual commandments and the judgments specify the punishment due for the commandments and statutes that we transgress. In other words, if we obey Elohim’s commandments we are not under the judgements of the Law, but under the grace that YHVH gives every Torah observant servant of His. Rav Shaul continues his warning in Galatians 4: 9 saying: ‘But now that you have come to know Elohim, or rather to be known by Elohim, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?’ Let’s heed these warnings of Elohim and His servants so that we will indeed become kings and priests during Messiah’s millennial rule and beyond.

Even so, we live in awesome times; both exciting but also very dangerous at the same time.  In fact those of us alive at this time will see more miraculous events than any other generation before us has seen, as Yahshua told His followers in John 14: 12, saying: “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to the Father.” However, we read from Matthew 24: 21 where Yahshua said: ‘For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall.’ For this very reason both YHVH and Satan is presently busy preparing their people for things soon to come! Whilst YHVH is preparing His people by calling them to come out of the Babylonian systems of the world to become obedient to His Torah and the testimony of Yahshua the Messiah, Satan is preparing his people to receive him as the god and counterfeit messiah of the world by deceiving them to believe that the Torah was abolished by  the Messiah invented by Rome, as Rav Shaul wrote in 2 Thessalonians 2: 1 – 4, saying: ‘Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Master Yahshua Messiah, and our gathering together to Him, (2) that you may not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of YHVH has come. (3) Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, (4) who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of Elohim, displaying himself as being Elohim.’

But, because YHVH is calling people through different avenues to return to their Hebrew roots and understanding of the gospel of the coming Kingdom of Elohim, people are answering His call by coming out of the religions of the world, but mainly from Christianity finding consolation in many well-meaning groups who sometimes exist purely for financial gain and to further Satan’s work. The problem with most of these different alternative groups is that they are merely additional counterfeits to Elohim’s one true faith once delivered to the saints.  It is like most of the protestant groups, each time they accept a new section of the one true faith, they start another group which results in more division amongst believers, who major in minors that they themselves do not even understand. An example being groups who preach the true gospel, but insist in keeping their own so-called Biblical calendars and Sabbaths that start at different times; a way of getting true believers to keep their Feast Days and Sabbaths at different days and times to what Elohim ordained through Levi. This will eventually result in their followers being a few days out, when our Messiah returns one day on Yom Teruah to marry His one true bride chosen for Him by the Father. Such groups have always misinterpreted Romans 11, and do not understand what Rav Shaul meant in in verse 15, by saying: ‘For if their rejection be reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?’  I for one know that certain groups used to say that this verse is talking about the Last Great Day, when people will be resurrected just as they were before, as human beings, when the Scriptures will be opened to their understanding and they will be able to make an informed decision whether to follow Elohim’s way of life, or not, without any interference from Satan and his agents, as explained in Revelation 20: 12.

But, Rav Shaul was actually talking about our Jewish Brothers in verse 15 of Romans 11; saying, that whilst they are blinded to the identity of the true Messiah, whom they believe will bring back the lost sheep of the house of Israel and to usher in the coming Kingdom of Elohim when He comes, they will accept Him as their Master and Messiah at that time, when returnees from the lost ten tribes who died in their faith in Messiah, will be resurrected. This will happen when Messiah returns to defend the house of Judah against the attacks of all the nations, whom Satan and His demons will gather for the war of the great day of Elohim, the Almighty (described in Revelation 16: 13 & 14), as witnessed in Zechariah 12: 7 – 10, as follows: ‘YHVH also will save the tents of Judah first in order that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be magnified above Judah. (8) In that day YHVH will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like Elohim, like the angel of YHVH before them. (9) And it will come about in that day that I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem (most of us know that this is talking about the Feast of Trumpets or Yom Teruah upon which Yahshua will return one day soon). (10) And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace (through which we are saved) and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him, like the bitter weeping over a first-born.’ When Yahshua returns one day on Yom Teruah, He will go to the Jewish synagogues first, where they will be gathered for Rosh Hashanah. They will like Thomas see His hands and accept Him as their Master and Elohim and as a result the dead in Messiah will be resurrected as witnessed in first Corinthians 15: 51 & 52, in this way:  ‘Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, (52) in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.’  

Those alive in Messiah, at His return, who qualified to rule with Him as Kings and Priests will be changed into immortal Spiritual born-again children of Elohim. Then on the Day of Atonement Elohim will remarry a remnant from both houses of Israel, to assist Him in ruling the government of Elohim on earth, as recorded in Jeremiah 31: 31 – 33, in this way: “Behold, days are coming,” declares YHVH, “when I will make a new (marriage) covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, (32) not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares YHVH. (33) But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares YHVH, “I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.”  He only needs to write the Torah on the hearts and minds of the house of Israel, since the house of Judah always remained Torah observant. Satan has deceived many true believers to follow different Set-apart Days to what Judah is following, despite YHVH saying to Judah in Nahum 1: 15, ‘Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news (meaning the true gospel about the coming Kingdom of Elohim), who announces peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; pay your vows. For never again will the wicked one pass through you; he is cut off completely.”

At the heart of those who answer Elohim’s call, is a return to the covenant that YHVH entered into with both houses at Mount Sinai and believe in the true Gospel as it was proclaimed and understood by the congregation of Elohim, started in the wilderness when He led them out of Egypt and gave them His Torah. Through this understanding and return to the Hebrew roots of the gospel, people are coming out of the religions of the world by the hundreds, combining their faith in Yahshua with obedience to Torah. It is at the time of our return to the way of Elohim and His Torah, that those us from the religions of the world have to confess what is written in Jeremiah 16: 19 - 20, as follows: ‘O YHVH, my strength and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of distress, to Thee the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood, futility and things of no profit.” (20) Can man make gods for himself? Yet they are not gods!’  Those of us coming from the religions of the world have learned that the lies handed down to us by our forefathers were through tradition created by the Roman Catholic Church and perpetuated through protestant Christianity. We have discovered that Yahshua was a Jew and that the early congregation of called out believers were Jews, who did not celebrate Xmas and Easter, but rather the Feast Days of Elohim, given in Leviticus 23. We learned that Elohim’s Sabbath is still on the seventh day of the week, called Saturday. But also that a day starts in the evening at sunset and lasts until the next evening at sunset, when the next day starts and not at midnight, as we were taught by the church system and the calendar used in the western world. Similar to the way that YHVH called the ancient Israelites out of Egypt (which is likened unto sin in the Scriptures); He is calling us out of our personal lawlessness, to follow Him and His teachings or Torah, which He inspired to be written as a manual of how to live our lives for our good.

But, the question is: How is it that we who have responded to Elohim’s calling and have forsaken the pagan ways of the religions of the world, where we came from, sometimes desire to return to them for instruction and for healing?  These religions which worship a false messiah according to Deuteronomy 13: 1 & 2, who they refer to as Christ; who taught His followers to discard Torah and has cleaned all food for them and justified the eating of pig and other unclean meats listed in Leviticus 11, whom they say, nailed Torah to the cross, and was resurrected on a Sunday, thus justifying their worship services on Sunday. These religions who reject the Torah as Elohim’s standard of what sin is; who defile the inspired teachings in the Scriptures with the teachings of men, do not realize that the Torah is Spiritual and only those who received a portion of Elohim’ Set-apart Spirit because of obedience from the start or at immersion for returnees are really able to keep and understand it. It is only those who have a portion of Elohim’s Set-apart Spirit indwelling them, who is capable of obeying and submitting to Torah. We also see that Elohim only gives His Set-apart Spirit to those who continue to obey Him, as witnessed in Acts 5: 32, in this way: “And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy (Set-apart) Spirit, whom Elohim has given to those who obey Him.” But, the point  is: once we receive the Set-apart Spirit we do not belong to ourselves any longer, as is recorded in Romans 8: 14, as follows: ‘For all who are being led by the Spirit of Elohim, these are sons of Elohim.’  Therefore, why after coming out from among those who are bitterly opposed to Torah, who strongly disagree with those who obey it, saying it is ‘legalism’ and who do not understand who Messiah is and what He taught whilst He was on earth, do we want to return to them?  It is important to understand that once we are betrothed to Elohim, we need to recall His words in Exodus 20: 5 & 6, saying: “You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, YHVH your Elohim, am a jealous Elohim, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, (6) but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.”

Do we not understand the plain language given in Numbers 15: 15, where we read: ‘As for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the alien who sojourns with you (those who accepts Elohim’s way of life), a perpetual statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the alien be before YHVH.’ This is the exact opposite what some Messianic congregations teach their non-Jewish members. They hold that ex-Christians may join them in their Feast Days and Sabbaths, but are free to attend Sunday, Xmas and Easter sunrise services in the Christian Church.  Yahshua did not send His disciples to learn from unbelieving priests and pagan sorcerers how to serve the Father, no He taught that unless we believe Torah, we cannot believe in Him as in John 5: 46 & 47, in this way: “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?” He said further in Matthew 5: 17 – 20, “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. (18) For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Law, until all is accomplished. (19) Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and so teaches others, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (20) For I say to you, that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.’ Pagan teachers and those who are presently in the Babylon of confusion called Christianity, reads about the resurrection of the dead in the Scriptures, but do not understand when it will happen, simply because they refuse to obey Elohim’s Torah and His ordained Feast days. They also do not understand that there will be two resurrections, one when Messiah returns and one after Messiah’s thousand year rule on earth. Most believe that the New Jerusalem will come down to earth, when Messiah returns to earth one day soon. They do not even realize that a general resurrection of all who ever lived will only occur after the Great White Throne Judgment depicted in Revelation 20. These Christian teachers do not even believe in the Messiah whom they claim to follow. They claim to be filled with the Set-apart Spirit, but do not even obey the Torah that the Scriptures mention as a prerequisite to receiving the Set-apart Spirit ensuring eternal life. The point is, not only do they not keep it, but they also actively reject and oppose it, and by so doing they curse themselves and their children. Yahshua therefore said about such people in Matthew 7: 21 – 23, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Master, Master,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. (22) 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.’”

Even though many in Christianity, Messianic Judaism and even some Nazarene Israelites believe that Rav Shaul taught contrary to Yahshua’s teachings, that Torah is abolished, he knew that he had no right to do so and was really teaching about the importance of all the commandments, including those viewed as least, or the ones that people believe they need not keep any longer; stressing that the Set-apart Spirit is the necessary agent for enabling righteousness. Rav Shaul did not teach that Torah is done away with as is also confirmed in Acts 25: 7 & 8, in this way: ‘And after he had arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him which they could not prove; (8) while Shaul said in his own defense, “I have committed no offense either against the Law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.” However, lawless Christianity and many Messianic believers who distort Rav Shaul’s words claim that he taught against Torah, as Rav Kepha also warned in 2 Peter 3: 14 – 16, saying: ‘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 Paul, 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.’

These same lawless people proclaim to be full of the Set-apart Spirit, since they have the ability of speaking in tongues and the gift of healing. But without even realizing it, these are in their case the deceptions of Satan. Whereas the gift of tongues as described in the Scriptures is a gift of understanding/speaking and interpreting foreign languages without learning it. It is not something learned through a seminar; it is not something that can be coaxed through the rubbing of one’s chest or throat or by learning to mumble a few foreign sounding syllables. The same can be said about healing – it is not something that you learn at a seminar. Rav Yaa’cov states clearly in James 5: 14 - 16, ‘Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the ecclesia, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Master; (15) and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Master will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him. (16) Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.’ When Yahshua send His disciples out He gave them certain powers as may be read from Matthew 10: 5 – 8, saying: “Do not go in the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter any city of the Samaritans;  (6) but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. (7) And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ (8) Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons; freely you received, freely give.’”  

We need not go to Christian healers who claim to have the Set-apart Spirit, who will at their so-called healing campaigns, where they babble in tongues and miraculously ‘heal’ some by deception of the devil and his demons, then claim a contribution from the people as a love gift towards their work, since they are doing the exact opposite of what our Master and Savior taught. These people are the same as their originator Simon Magus, who in Acts 8: 17 – 23, tried to buy the Set-apart Spirit from the apostles, to enable him to perform the same miracles that they did, as follows: “Then they began laying their hands on them, and they were receiving the Set-apart Spirit. (18) Now when Simon (Magus) saw that the Spirit was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles hands, he offered them money, (19) saying, “Give this authority to me as well, so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Set-apart Spirit.” (20) But Kepha said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of Elohim with money! (21) You have no part or portion in this matter, for your heart is not right before Elohim. (22) Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray the Master that if possible, the intention of your heart may be forgiven you. (23) For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.” Yahshua spoke saying in John 8: 12, “I am the light of the world; he who follows Me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.”  Rav Yochanan therefore wrote in first John 1: 6 & 7, saying: ‘If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; (7) but if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Yahshua His son cleanses us from all sin.’

We conclude by reading Rav Kepha’s words from first Peter 2: 21 – 25, as follows: ‘For you have been called for this purpose, since Messiah also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, (22) WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS ANY DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH; (23) and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously; (24) and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. (25) For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.’ It is therefore clear, if we pray for the sick, Yahshua whose body was bruised for our healing and whose blood was shed for the forgiveness of our sins, will heal those who are ill. We should therefore stay away from the religions of the world and since we have been called to come out of Babylon (their confusion), we should not be learning from them any longer, as Rav Shaul states in 2 Corinthians 6: 14 - 18, saying:  ‘Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? (15) Or what harmony has Messiah with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? (16) Or what agreement has the temple of Elohim with idols? For we are the temple of the living Elohim; just as Elohim said, “I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR ELOHIM, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. (17) Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE,” says YHVH. “AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN; and I will welcome you. (18) And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to Me,” says YHVH Almighty.’ Halleluyah!

 

[1] If we obey Elohim because of faith, we do so because we have come to the knowledge of truth (meaning Torah) and believe that He will deliver on the promises that He made to our Fathers in the faith: that those from the house of Judah who remain loyal to His Torah teachings will receive eternal life in the Promised Land because of obedience and that those of us who returns to the covenant through Abraham’s one seed Yahshua, will receive  a pledge to eternal life after immersion in Yahshua’s saving name and the laying on of hands by a teaching elder. If they remain obedient to Torah,  they will retain the set apart Spirit until Messiah’s return, or when they die, whichever comes first, as their key to eternal life (as per Romans 8: 11).