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How did the Jews remain loyal to YHVH for more than 3500 years?

In the Hebraic thought there is an agreed upon system of interpretation of the Scriptures that has kept the Jewish people united in the way they understand the Scriptures for thousands of years. The Hebraic principles used for the interpretation of the word of Elohim have helped to maintain the Jewish people and the Torah for all times. Christianity have basically rejected the principles the Jewish people used to interpret the scriptures and substituted it with the principles of Greek mythology or Hermeneutics, since Clement of Alexandria (150 – 215 CE). Dogma after dogma was written until the theological system had the appearance of pagan Greek mythology rather than the historical faith of Yahshua and His disciples.

These dogmas and creeds were enforced and anyone who did not agree with them was branded a blasphemer, an apostate, a heretic or an infidel. In order for the ‘church’ to depart from the original faith of Messiah and His disciples, they had to depart from the Hebraic meaning of certain words. As a result they redefined certain words, so much so that the vocabulary of the Hebrew and Christian people became worlds apart. Words such as the Word, grace, redemption, salvation and Messiah have totally different meanings to the Hebrew mind and that of the average Christian. Theology is an accommodation of particular truths based upon the given meaning of terms into a system of dogmatic expression. It is an easy system to ‘educate’ or deceive a community with in a system that ignores the true inspired meanings of certain terms. This is why Churchianity has become divided and fragmented over doctrines and there are virtually 100’s if not 1000’s of different denominational groups of Christian believers. Satan has used theology as a tool that has been used to create division, and a very poor substitute for study and understanding Torah. To the Hebraic mind there is no such thing as theology, since Jews have a system for Scriptural interpretation making the development of theology not only unnecessary, but also impossible. Christianity not only believe that the Holy Spirit or the Ruach Hakodesh is an exclusive revelation to Christians and totally unknown to Hebrews, but the average Christian has also been taught that there is one and only one meaning to each prophetic word or passage. This despite Rav Kepha telling us in 2 Kepha 1: 20 & 21, saying: ‘But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, (21) for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Set-apart Spirit spoke from Elohim.’ Oddly enough the word ‘Hermeneutics’ comes from the meaning ‘speaking by the Spirit’. In Greek mythology Hermes was the speaker for the ‘gods’. The Greek word ‘Pneuma’ means spirit; therefore Hermeneutics is ‘speaking or interpreting the message of G-d by the spirit.’ The Ruach Hakodesh or breath of YHVH is a Hebraic concept and is never at variance with the written word. Each interpretation cannot violate the laws of the system and has to be in harmony with each other. The reason why these laws of interpretation were rejected by the church was that the church fathers viewed them as being too Jewish. Therefore, the rejection of the system of interpretation required a substitute to accommodate the ‘spiritual’ interpretation of the Scriptures in place of the literal.

The words and phrases from Hebrew took on new meaning totally unrelated to their Hebrew origins and meanings. The result was ‘dogmatic theology’ that was based upon Greek logic, which separated the ‘church’ from the Olive Tree of Israel even further. The Hebraic rules of interpretation are divided into four levels called PaRDeS; these four levels are ‘Pashat’ (literal), ‘Remes’ (hint), ‘Drash’ (allegory or parable) and ‘Sod’ (secret). A major reason the replacement theologians rejected the Hebraic system was that it created students that learned to think for themselves. Seminaries that would develop their students to learn to think according to the Hebraic way of interpretation, would create a clergy that was more interested in asking questions than giving their dogmatic learnt ‘cookie cut’ answers. Because many church members have started thinking for themselves, they are beginning to discover the truth about the Torah and have attempted to restore Hebraic thought into their minds. They are in the process of renewing their minds as Rav Shaul admonished us to do in Romans 12: 2, saying: ’And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of Elohim is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.’ Modern thinking believers are rejecting the views of the Catholic and Protestant ‘church fathers’ who led a Churchianity that was anti-Semitic and provided a blueprint for the Nazis. They recommended the burning of Jewish books, homes, synagogues and suggested concentrating the Jews into certain areas to labor for Christians. If all that did not work, then they suggested concentrating the Jews into certain areas so that they would not infect the purity of Christianity. It is very difficult to understand how people, who say they follow the Jewish Messiah Yahshua, could actually recommend that we adopt this viewpoint of the Scriptures and are fearful that Ephraim will become too Jewish. The biggest enemy Ephraim has is separate entity replacement theology by which they have literally been enslaved by Esau (Rome and its daughters) for the last 1800 years.

However, thinking in Hebraic though patterns and the use of the Hebraic system of interpreting the Scriptures will result in sacrificing the golden calf of Christian theology that will bring about the revelation of the Hebraic origins of the Scriptures and rediscovery of the validity of the Torah by all believers in Yahshua. They will leave the harlot mother and her daughters and realize they are part of the people of YHVH, Israel. Genesis is the book of beginnings and the other four books namely, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy contain Torah given to all twelve tribes of Israel at Mount Sinai. They comprise the teachings of Elohim given by the hand of Moses. There are four books or four levels of interpretation. There are also four books at the beginning of the Renewed Covenant or the Writings of the Nazarenes; each one of these writers and his account of the life and teachings of Yahshua, correspond to the four levels of interpretation:

The book of Mark is at the simple or ‘Pashat’ level; the book of Luke is the ‘Remes’ or hint level; the book of Matthew is at the ‘Drash’ or allegory level; and the book of John at the ‘Sod’ or hidden level. The book of Mark is an uncomplicated book to be read and understood at the plain literal meaning of the text. This book is a guide to the actions of the ordinary man and woman and represents Messiah as a suffering servant for them.
The book of Luke is at the ‘hint’ level and aimed at doctors, teachers, lawyers and those of the nobler class. The ‘Remes’ level does not replace the ‘Pashat’ level, but adds to it. Luke was a physician and an aristocrat and his account of the good news is more flowery. He uses more technical terms and represents Yahshua as the Son of Man. Luke could not have been a ‘Gentile’ since he uses more Hebraisms and rabbinical terminology than any other author of the Writings of the Nazarenes.
The book of Matthew is at the ‘Drash’ level. Matthew is from the tribe of Levi and he sees Yahshua through the eyes of the kingdom of heaven. In his genealogy of Messiah, he traces Yahshua through the line of David and represents Him as the King. Matthew stresses the parables of Yahshua as the other three writers of the good news could not do. Most of the parables of Yahshua have never been interpreted to their full Midrashim meaning, and will never be, until we begin to apply the rules of Hebraic interpretation to them in the Hebrew text from which they originally came.
The book of John is at the ‘Sod’ or concealed meaning – the highest and most complicated level of interpretation. It is more of a prophetic nature and the writer saw the material world through the miraculous. John or more correctly Yochanan presents Yahshua as the Son of Elohim, the Messiah. Yochanan is the Daniel of the Renewed Covenant and is a man of dreams and visions. He opens his account by quoting from the Oral Tradition, saying: ‘and the Word (Torah) became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory.’

Since the Christian church separated itself from Israel and from understanding Yahshua’s teachings and the way He lived (or walked out Torah) in the framework of the Hebraic method of interpretation of the Scriptures, they had to substitute the Greek philosophical logic way of dogmatic theology to the four good news accounts by Israelite writers. The result has been the invention of ‘Jesus Christ’ an anti-Torah, anti-Semitic, pig eating, long haired, blue-eyed, Sunday keeping, born on Xmas, Bible toting Christian who died on the cross and rose on Easter Sunday, to set His followers free from the Law of YHVH. This pagan image has been substituted for the true Yahshua and the ‘New Testament’ separated Him from the Olive Tree of Israel and the Hebraic thought and laws of Scriptural interpretation and study. One new translation are brought out after the other, each saying exactly the same thing, just adding new clichés and spins on the same old lies. In addition each new translation is more Anti-Torah than the previous one. This is in line with history, where Ephraim simply replaced what it thinks is better so that Israel will not follow Torah and worship YHVH any longer. The sin of Jeroboam continues unabated in Israel, as witnessed in 1 Kings 12: 19, as follows: ‘So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.’

However, as witnessed in Acts 15: 15 – 18 true to (YHVH)’s promise through the prophets, He started a process whereby He is again calling a remnant from the lost sheep of the house of Israel, in order to re-establish the commonwealth of Israel ruled by David once again, in this way: “And with this the words of the Prophets agree, just as it is written, (16) ‘AFTER THESE THINGS I will return, AND I WILL REBUILD THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID WHICH HAS FALLEN, AND I WILL REBUILD ITS RUINS, AND I WILL RESTORE IT, (17) IN ORDER THAT THE REST OF MANKIND MAY SEEK YHVH, AND ALL THE GENTILES WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME,’ (18) SAYS YHVH, WHO MAKES THESE THINGS KNOWN FROM OF OLD.” Those of us alive at this time praise YHVH for opening our eyes and for allowing more believers to ask: ‘what did Yahshua really say and taught whilst He was on earth?’ Most are beginning to understand that He was a born Jew and never became a Christian in His lifetime. As a result they are slowly but surely returning to the Hebraic laws and interpretation of the Scriptures. Yes, the eyes of many Israelites are being opened in fulfilment of the prophecy by Zechariah in Zechariah 8: 20 – 23, as follows: “Thus says YHVH of hosts, ‘It will yet be that peoples will come, even the inhabitants of many cities. (21) And the inhabitants of one will go to another saying, “Let us go at once to entreat the favor of YHVH, and to seek YHVH of Hosts; I will also go.” (22) So many peoples and mighty nations will come to seek YHVH of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of YHVH.’ (23) “Thus says YHVH of Hosts, ‘in those days ten men (meaning a remnant of the lost ten tribes) from (where they are dispersed is) all the nations will grasp the garment (Tzitzit) of a Jew saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that Elohim is with you. “’” For each one amongst the lost sheep of the house of Israel who is willing to think for him/herself and abandon the Greek according to the Hebraic method of interpretation, logic and theology of the ‘church fathers’ and start studying the Torah and the Writings of the Nazarenes’, a crown of Wisdom, Understanding and Knowledge that will lead to true faith in the one true Elohim, as Yahshua told those who believed in Him in John 8: 32, saying: “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

Another major mistake that most non-Jews make is that they do not understand that the Hebrew word Torah, does not mean law, but are the teachings or instructions of YHVH the Elohim of Israel to His people to give them freedom. The word Torah is etymologically (in the origin of the word) related to the Hebrew root ‘He-Resh-He’ and in the reflexive can mean ‘to be impregnated or to receive seed into oneself.’ Yahshua the Messiah used the concept of teaching Torah to His audience to ‘impregnate’ the listener with seed of ideas, concepts and themes from the Torah concerning the Kingdom of Heaven. In fact He explained this in a parable described in Matthew, Mark and Luke. In the parable of the seed, the seed is implanted in a receptive, fertile, nurturing environment in order to bring forth the fruit of the Kingdom in the life of an Israelite. The Torah’s ideas, concepts and ideals will flourish in the hearts and minds of the people in whom they have been implanted. These concepts of a better world that is coming when Messiah comes to rule us from Jerusalem, using the Torah as our constitution, will result in us becoming obedient to Elohim’ teachings that are for our good, from the heart and we will become ambassadors of the coming kingdom in this world, showing other citizens around us how to live in peace by serving YHVH. The Torah has the power to motivate in order that the Kingdom can be actualized and expressed in the thoughts and behavior just as the seed is destined to grow and bear fruit. The ideal dynamic of true Torah teaching is to implant seeds that are to be nourished within the listener, who themselves become integral to the nurturing process and ultimately expresses Torah’s genetic code or truths through mature thoughts and actions in obedience, when we begin to live the kingdom life-style taught by Messiah. It is all depended upon the condition of the hearts and minds of the recipients of the teachings as Yahshua taught in Matthew 13: 11 - 13, and 16 to the first part of verse 19, saying: ‘To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted. (12) For whoever has, to him shall more be given, and he shall have an abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him. (13) Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. (16) But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear. (17) For truly I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it; and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. (18) Hear then the parable of the sower. (19) When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart.”

It is very important that we understand what is being said here, as it implies that the Torah’s teachings are not presented to the listener as finished ideas that are mindlessly accepted by the recipient of the seed. The true teaching of Torah can withstand the test of critical thinking and reasoning and the more study we put into it, the more profound wisdom of YHVH is revealed, as confirmed by David in Psalm 19: 7, saying: ‘The law (or more correctly Torah) of YHVH is perfect, restoring the soul (meaning if we keep it we can have eternal life); the testimony of YHVH is sure, making wise the simple.’ A second more detailed description of this is given in Psalm 119: 98 – 100, as follows: ‘Thy commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever mine. (99) I have more insight than all my teachers, for Thy testimonies are my meditation. (100) I understand more than the aged, because I have observed Thy precepts.’ True Torah living is not mindless ritualistic living of a religion. This seed principle that Yahshua spoke about in the parable of the sower imparts the truth that Torah study and practice requires personal incorporation and participation of the student’s heart (belief system) and mind (thinking), in the growth of ideas and behavior. The commandments expressed by our behavior are symbolized concepts that need to be understood as well as practiced. True Torah based behavior is a meaningful expression of (YHVH)’s whole purpose for the nation of Israel made up of all twelve tribes – it is not only a Jewish thing. In our observance of Torah we need to know the difference between the reason for and the purpose of a command. To help us understand the concept of kosher, niddah, circumcision, tefillin and tzitzit, we should not ask why? Instead we should perform the action required by the command, asking what is the true purpose expressed by these commandments. We cannot answer the question why YHVH gave certain commandments, since the answer is not always given, especially in the case of chukim (laws that do not specify the reason for keeping them). Even so we are beings that need to understand what we need to do to develop and maintain our relationship with YHVH through Torah obedience. It is therefore our task to determine the purpose of a command so that we may practice it in the true spirit and meaning intended by Elohim.

The truth is that every command that YHVH gave, has a purpose behind it. Our ignorance of the purpose of a specific command does not cancel its purpose for our lives. If we are new to the faith and start keeping the Sabbath and the annual Feast Days of Elohim, we might initially perform these commandments simply because we are told to do so by YHVH. It is only later that we learn they are signs that identify us as Elohim’s people, but also that He is our Elohim. In addition by keeping the Feast Days of Elohim, we learn about Elohim’s plan of salvation for all mankind, and the good news of the coming kingdom of Elohim, help us to learn to fear YHVH only, but also to rid our minds of the falsehood about heaven and hell, and other false doctrines we learnt from the churches of the world. Once we know the purpose of a command, then we can fulfill the meaning YHVH has placed behind its observance. Finding the purpose is the key to its fulfilment in your life. The covenants YHVH made with our forefathers are what maintain, sustain and also produce purpose of the Torah. Purpose is a priority to the promises because the promises are made to enable Israel to fulfill (YHVH)’s plan and purpose for us as a people. The Torah provides Israel with a moral system within which we can function to fulfill its full potential and purpose from the start. What makes Torah different from the laws of the people around us is that YHVH is its giver. When we obey Torah we live within its boundaries and counteract the oppression, sin and chaos resulting from mankind’s perception as the source of all power, separate from the Creator. Torah is the solution to all the problems in the world and Israel was chosen to represent Elohim’s Divine and ethical system to the rest of the world, by being the models that YHVH intended us to be from the time He brought us out of Egypt and gave us His Torah at Mount Sinai. In every generation we are to live within society while imposing the Torah teachings of Elohim in the way we live our lives. Even though we are living in the world, we are not of the world, as we maintain the true perspective as YHVH as the Master of the Universe and Master of our lives. We will not be the center of the universe, as those in the world would like to be, but Torah will be the center of all our thoughts and actions. Now, we can understand why we need to be educated in the Torah and its Halachic standards for our lives. By walking in Torah Israel sets the moral and ethical standards as a model within today’s society.

A Torah student has to learn to objectively collect data from the text of the Torah, since one cannot impose your own subjective perspectives, intentions or interpretations to the Torah texts. A verse has to be studied within the context of the text itself, reflecting on the writers intentions. If we do not do this, then the Torah that we learn and the seed that we implant is not from YHVH, but a reflection of our own subjectivity imposed on the text and not from the sower Yahshua, the Son of Man. Symbols can be used to obtain information from the text. Symbols are powerful in the communication of ideas, because words are limited in their ability to supply the information required to form the final concept. Torah uses many symbols (such as seeds) in the commandments in order to impress their required intention on us. We therefore have ritual objects and symbols to continually reveal the symbolic nature of some of the commandments. Tzitzit and tefillin are good examples. In Scriptural times tassels were a symbol of status or ones tribal affiliation. However, we know the purpose of the tassels being that when we feel it against our legs or look upon it, we will be reminded to obey Elohim’s teachings. It is clear therefore that we must interpret symbols by the conditions of time and place, and any explanatory text that accompanies the symbols given in the text. Given these rules for interpretation, ritual objects such as Tzitzit, tefillin, shofar, the four species of leafy tree branches and the etrog used in celebrating Sukkot, offerings, etc. can be understood so that their true meaning and purpose can be imparted to us by the Set-apart Spirit, and observed in the meaningful way as they were purposed by YHVH, thereby imparting to us the spiritual meaning to connect us on a higher spiritual level with YHVH. In the same way circumcision, eating Matzos, keeping the Sabbath and the Passover are all very symbolic acts that represent ideas and concepts that must be understood out of Scriptural symbolism to be meaningfully understood and practiced so that it may convey to us as Israel, their true purpose as intended by YHVH. Remember that we need to seek the meaning and purpose of the symbol, rather than the reason for it. By seeking the purpose we can truly experience a deepening in our relationship with our heavenly Father and His Torah. It is only by observing these commands that we water the soil of our heart, fertile for the seed to grow and bring forth spiritual fruit in our lives.

Yahshua taught in Matthew 13: 23, saying: “And the one on whom seed was sown on the good soil, this is the man who hears the word and understands it; who indeed bears fruit, and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.” We also read from Genesis 26: 12, ‘Now Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And YHVH blessed him.’ Yahshua understood this concept of Torah being a seed that was sown by the speaker into the hearts of the listeners or his disciples. His words which were all Torah and from the Father that could fall on the various types of hearts. Whether the words took root and bore fruit was all depended upon the listeners ability to truly hear (Sh’ma) the parables and truth that He taught, as He also explained in Matthew 13: 14 & 15, saying: “And in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, ‘YOU WILL KEEP ON HEARING, BUT WILL NOT UNDERSTAND; AND YOU WILL KEEP ON SEEING, BUT WILL NOT PERCEIVE; (15) FOR THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE HAS BECOME DULL, AND WITH THEIR EARS THEY SCARCELY HEAR, AND THEY HAVE CLOSED THEIR EYES LEST THEY SHOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES, AND HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, AND UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART AND RETURN, AND I SHOULD HEAL THEM.’” This quote from Isaiah the Prophet is followed by an end time prophecy applicable specifically on those of us from the lost ten tribes alive at this time in Isaiah 6: 11 – 13, as follows: ‘Then I said, “Adonai, how long?” And He answered, “Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant, houses are without people, and the land is utterly desolate, (12) YHVH has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. (13) Yet there will be a tenth portion in it, and it will again be subject to burning, like a terebinth or an oak whose stump remains when it is felled. The holy seed is its stump.”’ Yahshua’s parables are intended for soil that is receptive and could hear and understand His words. They were to become the children of the Kingdom of Elohim. In gematria the letter (ק) transliterated as ‘Qof’ is 100. It is a symbol of ‘growth cycles’ and holiness (transliterated as kedushah). All the cycles of the universe teach man that everything in the universe has purpose and a plan. We have the cycle of seven repeated in Torah. The gematria of 100 is a cycle of 10 x 10. The millennium is on the same cycle of seven, the seventh millennium, the millennium of the Kingdom age is a cycle of 10, also 10x10x10 = 1000 years.

A seed must follow the natural cycle in order to bear fruit in the life of the Israelite. It must be sown, watered, grow, bear fruit and be harvested. The Sower, the Son of Man is sowing the seed of Torah into the fertile hearts of Israel; it needs to be watered by prayer, hearing the Torah, performing the commands, and studying to grow in grace and knowledge, as Rav Kepha taught in 2 Peter 3: 14 – 18, 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 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. (17) You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard lest, being carried away by the error of unprincipled men, you fall from your own steadfastness, (18) but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Master and Savior Yahshua Messiah. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amein.’ The good fruit that we bear is the fruit of the Set-apart Spirit given in Galatians 5: 22 & 23, as follows: ‘But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, (23) gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no (punishment of the) law.’ The end result will be a harvest into the coming Kingdom of Elohim, when Messiah returns. Let’s all determine to remain loyal to YHVH and His Torah teachings, like our Jewish Brothers did ever since they received the Torah at Mount Sinai. Think about it!