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When asking most of today's Christians why they feel
the laws of YHWH (the LORD) have been done away with,
or why they feel that they don't have to keep or even
know all 10 of the Holy Commandments, the first thing
referenced is a quote from one of the letters written
by Paul.
Let's examine some of Pauls writings to see if we can
clear up the mystery and misunderstandings to uncover
what the brother was truly saying.
WHO
WAS PAUL?
Paul, a citizen of Tarsus by birth, but a Hebrew Israelite
by race and culture, was a “Jew" who not
only knew the law, but also OBEYED it! So why then would
he keep the law and have so many people believing that
it was done away with? Paul was called by Yahshua (so-called
Jesus), to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles (Europeans-Asians
-Gen. 10).
For this charge Paul caught much flack from the Hebrews
who regarded the Gentiles as unclean and knew that they
were cut off from the common wealth of Israel without
God In the world. But Paul says, "For I speak to
you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles,
I magnify my office, if by any means I may provoke to
jealousy them who are my flesh, and might save some
of them. (Rom.11: 13-14)" |
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""For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch
as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify
my office, if by any means I may provoke to jealousy
them who are my flesh, and might save some of
them. (Rom.11:13-14)" |
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"But this I confess unto thee, that after the way
which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers,
believing all things which are written in the law and
in the prophets:And have hope toward God, which they
themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection
of the dead, both of the just and unjust." Acts
24: 14-15
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Some people erroneously
think that Paul was a Gentile but he said himself, “For
I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe
of Benjamin. (Rom. 11:1)" All the Apostles, Prophets,
and even the Messiah Himself were of the House of Israel.
Paul explains himself that it Is the “Jews" (Israelites)
who are YHWH's
chosen people, They are the ones who were given everything:
"For I could wish that I myself
were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according
to flesh, who are the Israelites; to whom pertains the adoption,
and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law,
and the service of YHWH, and the promises; Whose are the fathers,
and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is
over all, YHWH blessed forever, Amen. (Rom. 9:3-5)"
But because of their sin, and stiff-neck, they received a
curse (for a
while) and Paul was sent to the Gentiles. WHY? "But I
say, did not Israel know? First Moses said, I (YHWH) will
provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by
a foolish nation I will anger you." Then Paul quotes
Isaiah when He said,
"I was found by them that sought me not; I was made manifest
unto them that asked not after me." Then Paul tells the
Gentiles, "I say then, Have they (the Israelites) stumbled
that they should fall? YHWH forbid; but rather through their
fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, to provoke them
to jealousy. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the
world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles,
how much more their fullness? (Rom. 11:11-12)"
The whole purpose was to get Israel to repent of all their
sinful ways and turn back to YHWH. YAH told the Israelites
through Moses in Deut.4:6-8,
"Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom
and your understanding in the sight of the nations, who shall
hear all these statutes and say, Surely this great nation
is a wise and understanding people. For what nation is there
so great, who has Elohim as near unto them as YHWH our Elohim
is in all things that we call upon Him for? And what nation
is there so great, that has statutes and judgments as righteous
as ALL this law, which I set before you this day?"
THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE
JUDGED BY THE LAW
But glory, honor, and peace, to every man that worketh good,
to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile; For there is no
respect of persons with YHWH. For as many as have sinned without
the law shall also perish without the law; and as many as
have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law For not
the hearers of the law are just before YHWH, but the do-ers
of the law shall be justified". (Rom 2:13-14)
There is a BIG difference in being judged by the law and perishing
without it!!!!!
Read
it for yourself
The deeds or gifts of the law (animal sacrifices) could not
offer eternal life - becoming that new creature that the Messiah
became - the same we're striving to obtain. It is when we
come under the covenant, by believing that Yahshua (which
means YHWH's Salvation) is the Messiah of Israel, that He
died and was resurrected, and be baptized in the NAME of YHWH,
Yahshua and The Holy Ghost believing that Yahshua died for
our sins that are PAST (Rom. 3:25) and strive to walk in His
footsteps (keeping the law), THEN hopefully YHWH will give
us grace and mercy and save us from this god-forsaken land.
The ministers of today make salvation sound so easy. All you
have to do is believe and you will be saved. But Yahshua said
in Matthew 10:22,
"And you shall be hated of all
men for my name's sake, but he that endures to the end shall
be saved." Those of us, who truly are ambassadors for
the Messiah, are hated of all men because we strive to walk
in the law. The world has been deceived into believing that
the Holy, and Righteous ways of The Creator of all things,
has been done away with. How could man think that he doesn't
have to obey the One who holds the very breath that he breathes?
Peter says,
"For the time is
come that judgment must begin at the House of YHWH; and if
it first begin at US (The House of Israel), what shall the
end be of them that obey NOT the gospel of YHWH? And if the
righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the
sinner appear? (1Pet. 4:17-18)
(End)
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