Written by: Damien Powell
Last week we discussed how Christianity says that Paul did away with the law, but it was proven from Scripture that not only did Paul keep the laws and holy Feast Days in Torah but also told the assemblies/churches who were not native-born Israelites to do the same. Paul said in Ephesians 4:4-6 “One Body, One Ruach (Spirit), One Master, One belief, One immersion (baptism) and One Father.” This alone debunks the 51,000 different denominations of Christianity!
YESHUA the Chief and Great Shepherd
Peter said in Acts 10:34-35 that ALL nations who revere Elohim and work righteousness which means obedience to the commandments will be accepted by Elohim! This is confirmed when we look at YESHUA the Great Shepherd!
Revelation 12:5
“And she bore a male child who was to shepherd ALL nations with a rod of iron. And her child was caught away to Elohim and to His throne.”
The Child is YESHUA who we know was “caught away” when He rose from the dead and now is sitting at the right-hand of YHWH on the throne. YESHUA is The Shepherd of ALL NATIONS, it does not say that He would shepherd the Jews only. This is for anyone who believes in Him and is obedient. In doing so they would be grafted in with the native-born just as Peter was shown not to call any man common or unclean.
John 10:14-16
“I am the good shepherd. And I know Mine, and Mine know Me, even as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep. And other sheep I have which are not of this fold-I have to bring them as well, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be ONE FLOCK, ONE SHEPERD!”
YESHUA said that there are other sheep that are not of this fold that He must bring in and there will be One flock and One Shepherd. The “sheep not of this fold” is the gentiles the non-native born Israelites that would be grafted in. They would hear His voice being called out of the darkness into the light and be obedient and follow Him. And as they are grafted in with the native-born, YESHUA said there would be ONE Shepherd (Himself) of ONE FLOCK which is one Belief, One Ruach, One Body, One Master, One Immersion, and One Father! Notice He did not say two flocks? That is because He is the Way, the Truth, and The Life and The Only Way, not 51,000 different denominations!
John 17:20-21
“And I do not pray for these alone, but also for those believing in Me through their word, so that they all might be ONE, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, so that they too might be ONE in Us, so that the world might believe that You have sent Me.”
Again YESHUA said that those believing in Him and not just His disciples would be One just as He and The Father are One. So if we cling to One Elohim of All then that means there is One faith.
Mathew 3:9
“And do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as father.’ For I say to you that Elohim is able to raise up children of Abraham from these stones.” So John The Baptist is saying being a native-born Israelite won’t save you if you don’t believe and keep the commandments. Elohim can raise up stones (the non-native born) to be the seed of Abraham which He did by grafting the gentiles in with the native-born.
1 Peter 2:4-5
“Drawing near to Him, a living Stone-rejected indeed by men, but chosen by YHWH and precious-you also, as LIVING STONES, are being built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual slaughter offerings acceptable to YHWH through YESHUA ha”Mashiach.”
One faith and obedience to His Word! What is the criteria?
Luke 11:27-28
“And it came to be, as He was saying this, a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which You nursed on!” But He said, “Blessed rather are those hearing the Word of YHWH and keeping it!” Again, this is a general statement to THOSE (ANYONE) who hear the Word of YHWH and DO the Word! Again how do we know this?
Mathew 12:50
“For WHOEVER (does not say just Jews) does the desire of My Father who is in the heavens is My brother and sister and mother.”
Revelation 12:17
“And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to fight with the remnant of her seed, THOSE guarding the Commands of YHWH and possessing the witness of YESHUA ha’Mashiach.”
Revelation 14:12
“Here is the endurance of the saints, here are THOSE guarding the Commands of YHWH and the belief of YESHUA.”
Revelation 7:9
“After this I looked and saw a great crowd which no one was able to count, out of ALL NATIONS AND TRIBES AND PEOPLES AND TONGUES, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Deliverance belongs to our Elohim who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” So here are people from EVERY nation and tongue before YHWH and YESHUA and notice they say “Deliverance belongs to OUR Elohim?” That is because there is ONE Elohim for ALL nations who revere Him and keep His commandments.
Revelation 22:14
“Blessed are THOSE doing His Commands, so that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of life, and to enter through the gates into the city.” Then in verse 15 part of those who will not make it into the Kingdom are those who practice “falsehood.” And we know that Psalms 119:142 says The Torah is Truth; therefore, if you don’t obey the Torah which is truth, then you are following falsehood by being lawless saying the law was done away with which leads to sin and unrighteousness.
Paul says this in Romans 1:18 “For the wrath of Elohim is revealed from the heavens against all wickedness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth (Torah) in unrighteousness (lawlessness).” Verse 25 “Who changed the truth (Torah) of Elohim into falsehood…” Revelation 12:12 “Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has little time.” Knowing that he has little time he has led the world astray with 51,000 denominations of lawless Christianity!
Notice how in these scriptures it never mentions Jews only? The saints and those who overcome, whether native born or nonnative born grafted in are those who keep the commandments and believe in YESHUA. There is no distinction, just simply those who are obedient until the end.
Revelation 3:10
“Because you have guarded My Word of endurance, I also shall guard you from the hour of the trial which shall come upon ALL the world, to try those who dwell on the earth.’
The church in Asia (Philadelphia) modern day location in Turkey. Is the assembly who YESHUA loved because they kept His Word and did not deny His only Name! We see they were not native born Israelites, yet by them being obedient they were grafted in and YESHUA said He would protect them for their obedience. Notice the other churches like Pergamos allowed the false teachings of the Nicolatians and Thuatira allowed false teaching of a false prophetess and YESHUA that led His servants astray. He did not applaud them for this, but instead He scolded them for it. It is no different today with the false teachings of Christianity! He told them to repent or else He would fight against them and slay the children with death.
Light to gentiles
Luke 2:32
“A light for the unveiling of the gentiles, and the esteem of Your people Yisra’el.” The gentiles would see the truth and be called out of darkness into the light of truth.
Acts 13:44-48
“But speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, “It was necessary that the Word of Elohim should be spoken to you first, but since you thrust it away, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, see, we turn to the gentiles. For so the Adon has commanded us, “I have appointed you to be a light to the gentiles, that you should be for deliverance to the ends of the earth!”
1 Peter 2:9-10
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that you should proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of the darkness into His marvelous light, who once were NOT a people, but now the people of Elohim; who had not obtained compassion, but now obtained compassion.”
Romans 9:24-26,
Even whom He called, not only us of the Jews, but also of the gentiles? As He says also in Hosea, “I shall call them My people, who were not My people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.” ‘And it shall be in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ there they shall be called sons of the living Elohim.”
Hosea 2:23
“And I shall sow her for Myself in the earth, and I shall have compassion on her who had not obtained compassion. And I shall say to those who were not My people, ‘You are My people, while they say, “My Elohim!”
This just further proves that YHWH always had a plan to bring in the gentiles to be grafted in with the native-born and be called One! Those who were not His people (gentiles) now grafted in would be His people! Acts 14:16 “Who in the past generations allowed all nations to walk in their own ways.” But not anymore because there is only ONE Elohim and ONE faith to us ALL!
Being One in Old Covenant
Elijah was not a native-born Israelite, he was a Tishbite. The name Tishbite is thought to be related to the noun תושב (toshab), meaning sojourner, and both to come from the verb ישב (yashab), meaning to sit, to remain or to dwell. The sojourner is the non-native born Israelite who joined themselves to the nation of Yisra’el. YHWH used and protected Elijah even though he wasn’t a native born to embarrass the 450 prophets of the pagan deity and the other 400 prophets of the female pagan deity in 1 Kings 18. And look was James 5:16-18 says
“The earnest prayer of a righteous one accomplishes much. Elijah was a man with feelings like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain. And it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heavens gave rain, and the land brought forth its fruit.”
Elijah the Tishbite the nonnative born, the sojourner, was righteous and YHWH used him for His esteem and was taken up in a whirlwind without dying. Ruth was a Moabite and said in Ruth 1:16 “But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you, or to go back from following after you. For wherever you go, I go; and wherever you stop over, I stop over. Your people is my people, and Your Elohim is My Elohim” And we know Ruth is in the line of YESHUA.
Exodus 12:49
“There is ONE Torah for the native-born and for the stranger who sojourns among you.” And remember we already defined Tishbite which Elijah was as a sojourner, and there is ONE Torah for ALL! ONE belief!
Leviticus 19:34
“Let the stranger who dwells among you be to you as the NATIVE among you, and you shall love him as yourself. For you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am YHWH your Elohim.”
Numbers 15:15-16
“ONE LAW is for you of the assembly and for the stranger who sojourns with you (the non-native born) a LAW FOREVER throughout your generations. As you are, is the stranger before YHWH.” Once grafted in you the non-native born have become just like the native born and have ONE LAW FOREVER!
Ezekiel 47:21
“And you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Yisra’el. And it shall be that you divide it by lot as an inheritance for yourselves, and for the strangers who sojourn in your midst and who bear children among you. And they shall be to you as NATIVE-BORN among the children of Yisra’el…”
Do not let anyone teach you a false Messiah!
1 Corinthians 10:17
“Because there is ONE BREAD, we, who are many, are ONE Body, for we all partake of the ONE BREAD.” Who is the One Bread to this One body and One faith?
John 6:33-35
“For the BREAD of Elohim is He who comes down out of the heavens and gives life to the world.” So they said to Him, “Adonai (My Master) give us this bread always.” And YESHUA said to them, “I am the BREAD of life. He who comes to Me shall not get hungry at all, and he who believes in Me shall not get thirsty at all.”
As we can see from Part 1 last week and Part 2 this week that there is only One Body, One Spirit, One Master YESHUA, One faith, One Immersion, One Father, One Shepherd over One flock over ALL nations who revere Him and keep His commandments. We are all One! Therefore, if someone teaches contrary than what YHWH, YESHUA, Paul, Peter, all apostles, prophets, just all the obedient servants in scripture, then they are teaching of another YESHUA!
Galatians 1:8
However, even if we, or a messenger out of the heavens, bring a ‘good news’ to you beside what we announced to you, let him be accursed.”
2 Corinthians 11:4
“For indeed, if he who is coming proclaims another YESHUA, whom we have not proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different Good News which you have not accepted, you put up with it well enough!” And no believer should ever put up with a false teaching of YESHUA!
2 John 1:9-11
“Everyone who is transgressing and not staying in the teaching of Messiah does NOT possess Elohim. The one who stays in the teaching of Messiah possesses both the Father and The Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house not greet him, for he who greets him shares in his wicked works.”
Conclusion
Which is why YESHUA said in John 5:45-47
Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, in whom you have put your expectation. For if you believed Moses, you would have believed Me, since He wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how shall you believe My Words?”
He says “If you do not believe his writings (Moses/Torah), how shall you believe My Words?” The last sentence is modern day Christianity who says the law or Torah is done away with, so they do not believe in the writings of Moses who wrote the Torah. So being that YESHUA is The Word, The Torah made flesh, how can the Christian believe any words that YESHUA spoke, if they did not believe the writings in the Torah?
Isaiah 8:20
“To the Torah and to the Witness! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because they have no light in them.”
YESHUA is the Torah the written words that became living flesh. And who is the Witness?
Revelation 1:5
“And from YESHUA ha’Mashiach, the trustworthy Witness, the first-born from the dead….”
Revelation 3:14
“And to the messenger of the assembly of Laodicea write, ‘The Ah-main, The Trustworthy and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of YHWH.”
My fellow brother sisters this prophecy in Isaiah says that if they don’t speak of The Torah which is YESHUA who is The True witness, it’s because there is no light/truth in them, and we know YESHUA is The Way, The Truth, and The Life and also the Light of the world. It’s time to wake up and come out of the lies! The Torah, Commands, Laws are NOT done away with and they DO NOT just apply to the Jews, but to ALL who proclaim to follow YESHUA! I pray this two part series has proven this and that if you are still in the lie that you repent and come out of it and follow the truth! HalleluYAH!