Written by: Damien Powell
We have discussed how the Torah, commandments, laws apply to all believers in YESHUA and not just the Jews. Also, how our Messiah YESHUA The Son of YHWH never broke the Torah, because He is the Word that became flesh. He showed us how to walk in the laws and that we should keep them because the commandments are how we KNOW Him and how we LOVE Him! So are men commanded to have beards?
The Command!
Leviticus 19:27
“Do not round the corner of your head (bowl style hair cut), nor destroy the corner of your beard.”
So what constitutes as the corner of the beard? Where the hair meets the skin on the face from the top of ear through the jawline. In other words from the sideburns which is the strip of hair between the top of the ear and the bottom of the ear through-out the jawline and cheeks should not be shaved bald. The issue is not about trimming the beard, but completely destroying the corners by cutting all the hair off of the face. YHWH did not want His set-apart people looking like the pagan nations that He was driving out of the land. Which is why the goatee is forbidden by YHWH, but I will get to that in another section.
YHWH is perfect and He does everything by design and for a reason. Some benefits for beards from huffpost.com are:
· Provides sun protection. ...
· Helps prevent allergy-induced asthma attacks. ...
· Decreases facial bacteria. ...
· Serves as a filter to prevent irritants and allergens for getting into the skin
· Keeps you warm in winter
· A beard can ward off throat disease
· A beard can reduce the chances of bacterial infection.
Did YESHUA have a beard?
Mathew 5:17
“Do not think that I’ve come to destroy the Torah or the prophets, I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.”
Previously we discussed that YHWH commanded the children of Yisra’el to wear tsitsit/tassels/fringes in Numbers 15:38-39 and that YESHUA obeyed all the commandments in the Torah because He also wore tsitsit/tassels/fringes as found in Mathew 9:20, Mathew 14:36, and Luke 8:44. Therefore, we know that YESHUA would obeyed and had a beard as well.
Isaiah 50:6
“I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the BEARD, I did not hide My face from humiliation and spitting.”
Other men with beards
2 Samuel 10:2-5
“And David said, “Let me show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, as his dad showed kindness to me.” So David sent by the hand of his servants to comfort him concerning his dad. And when David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon, the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their master, “Is David esteeming your dad in your eyes in that he has sent comforters to you? Has David not rather sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it? So Hanun took David’s servants and shaved off half of their BEARDS, and cut off their garments in the middle, as far as their buttocks, and sent them away. And they informed David, and he sent to meet them, because the men were GREATLY ASHAMED. And the king said, “Wait at Jericho until your BEARDS HAVE GROWN, and then return.”
YHWH commands us to have beards and as we can see when the servants of David got half of their beards shaved off they were ashamed. And David a righteous man through his seed would come YESHUA understood this and told them to wait until their beards regrew! David himself had a beard:
1 Samuel 21:12-13
“And David took these words to heart, and was very much afraid of Akish the king of Gath, and changed his behavior before them, and feigned madness in their hands, and scratched on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva run down on his BEARD.”
Ezra 9:3
“And when I heard this word, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked out some of the hair of my head and BEARD, and sat down astonished.”
Satan leads the world astray again!
I say this frequently because it’s true, that Satan knows what is in the Bible, but the question is do us as believers? He tried using Scripture against YESHUA, but YESHUA being the Word replied back with Scripture. We defeat the enemy with the living Words of YHWH. Satan banks on the fact that we will say it either “applies to the Jews” or “that’s Old Testament”. Which is why I keep stressing that fact that there is only ONE belief for native-born and gentiles that are grafted in because we all become citizens of Yisra’el, followers of The Way, The Truth, and The Life, and seed of Abraham making us heirs according to the promise. With Satan armed with knowing the commandment of YHWH, he wants you to rebel against Our Father as he did. Sadly, he has gotten a majority of the world to destroy their beards with fashions like goatees, Elvis sideburns, or the Van Dyke, that YHWH never intended.
Where does the GOAT-tee come from?
Wikipedia says “Until the late 20th century, the term goatee was used to refer solely to a beard formed by a tuft of hair on the chin-as on the chin of a goat, hence the term goatee.”
First of all we notice that the goatee is not the biblical command by YHWH, because all the hair on the sideburns, cheeks, and jawline have been destroyed in favor of a design or hair around the mouth. And as we see the term goatee comes from replicating the chin hairs of a goat, so why a goat?
Mathew 25:32-34
“And all the nations shall be gathered before Him, and He shall separate them one from another, AS a shepherd separates his sheep from the goats. And He shall put the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. Then the King shall say to those on His right hand, Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the reign prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” Verse 41 He shall then also say to those on the left hand (goats), ‘Go away from Me, accursed ones, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his messengers.”
I want to make this clear that YESHUA was NOT saying that goats are evil because they are a clean animal, He was using sheep and goats for symbolism for the righteous and the unrighteous the accursed ones.
Exodus 12:5
“Let the lamb be a perfect one, a year old male. Take it from the SHEEP OR FROM THE GOATS.”
But notice how Satan has taken that symbolism and used the goat to represent his demonic agenda of unrighteousness and being accursed? He always used goats for demonic activity. The Baphomet has a GOAT head, Pan has the legs, hindquarters, and horns of a GOAT. They called the Baphomet the (Sabbatic goat) and I’ve pointed out before that YHWH has SHABBATS and Satan as sabbats (has no “H”) which means a pagan gathering of witches.
Look no further than Anton Lavey of the church of Satan. He purposely has a goat-tee because he knows the symbolism of unrighteousness that it represents. And being a member of the church of Satan he knows that YHWH requires a full beard, so they are intentionally rebelling, yet the world is doing this for style and are being deceived! (Refer to pictures of each one for references in the email.)
Remember we are created in ELOHIM’s image!
Genesis 1:26
“And ELOHIM said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and LET THEM RULE over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the livestock, and over all the earth and over all the creeping creatures that creep on the earth.”
1 Corinthians 11:7
“For a man indeed should not cover his head, since he is the LIKENESS AND ESTEEM of ELOHIM, but woman is the esteem of man.”
Wisdom 2:23
“For ELOHIM created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of His own immortality.”
Satan was created before humans and feels that he should be ruling over ELOHIM’s creation and not man, he wants to be worshipped as elohim.
Isaiah 14:12-14
“How you have fallen from the heavens, O Helel (Hey-lail), son of the morning! You have been cut down to the ground, you who laid low the gentiles! For you have said in your heart, ‘Let me go up to the heavens, let me raise my throne above EL (ALE), and let me sit in the mount of meeting on the sides of the north; let me go up above the heights of the clouds, let me be like the Most High.’
Wisdom 2:24
“Nevertheless death came into the world through ENVY of the devil, and those who hold to his side find it.”
So when Satan looks a mankind he is reminded of YHWH since we are created in His image, and Satan will do anything to make you destroy that image, and make you into something you were not!
And being that Satan is the elohim or god of this world he is always operating in the shadows to accomplish his goal of rebellion. Notice how the corporate world wants a clean shaven man because beards look to rugged for them and a majority of the time they are forbidden in that arena.
All men’s beards will not grow the same as ELOHIM created us differently. Some beards have patches in them and some have other issues, but you grow one the best you can and let it grow. The purpose is for those who can grow them but intentionally cut the beard off that this is deeper than fashion or a job, this is spiritual as always and being obedient to our Father YHWH and walking with YESHUA as He walked!