The Temple Scroll is TORAH!

The Temple Scroll was found in cave #11 amongst the Dead Sea Scroll finds; and has been revealed in the last days for the children of YAHWEH to return fully to the ancient path. We will be discussing supporting evidence as to why the Temple Scroll should not be avoided!

The Dead Sea Scrolls magazine (Special edition) page 12 says:

“This scroll (Temple Scroll), nearly thirty feet long, had been copied several times at Qumran, indicating that it was considered a KODESH (SET-APART) BOOK. It contains elaborate plans for the building of the Jewish Temple, and it’s overriding characteristic is STRICT ADHERENCE TO THE LAW, WHICH IS SPELLED OUT EXPLICITLY. The laws, pertaining to the city of the Temple, include instruction on furniture, utensils, sacrifices, personal hygiene, and separation of people according to gender, health, and standing with the community. The Temple Scroll also refers to some festivals and set-apart days not mentioned in scripture, such as the New Wine Festival, the New Oil Festival, and the Wood Offering Festival. The frequent use of the FIRST PERSON WHEN ELOHIM SPEAKS IS ANOTHER INDICATION that this scroll is related to the Pentateuch (The first five books of the Bible, called the Torah of Moses.)

TheTorah.com says:

“What is “Torah” in Second Temple Texts?”

“In the Second Temple Period, “Torah” was NOT LIMITED to the Five Books of Moses. The BOOK OF JUBILEES AND THE TEMPLE SCROLL saw themselves as “TORAH,” while Qumran’s Community rule and Damascus Document claim that their own sectarian rules likewise constituted Torah.”

An interesting article written in 1987 on the Temple Scroll says:

Is the Temple Scroll a Sixth Book of the Torah—Lost for 2,500 Years? Hartmut Stegemann, BAR 13:06, Nov-Dec 1987. : Center for Online Judaic Studies

The Dead Sea Scrolls

“The Temple Scrolls is the longest and, in my view, clearly the MOST IMPORTANT of the preserved Dead Sea Scrolls. It was composed, I believe as an addition or, still better, a supplement to the Pentateuch, as a SIXTH BOOK OF THE TORAH, ON THE SAME LEVEL OF AUTHORITY AS GENESIS, EXODUS, LEVITICUS, NUMBERS, AND DEUTERONOMY.”

I want to cover some evidence in support of the Temple Scroll and keep in mind that this is not an exhaustive list!

Firstly, we know YAHWEH says:

Deuteronomy 4:2 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“In order to obey the commandments of YAHWEH your ELOHIM which I am giving you, do not ADD to what I am saying, and DO NOT SUBRACT FROM IT.”

Most believers are quick to say that someone has “added” to the Torah when it’s something that is new to them! However, if the same statement is being made of us “adding” to the Torah, then the same question is equally as valid for them, how do you know that commands have not been TAKEN AWAY? Nowhere in scripture is it stated that the Torah is ONLY Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy! That is something we have all been taught and accepted as factual without even questioning it.

2 Kings 23:25 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“No previous king was like him; because he turned to YAHWEH with all his heart, with all his being and with all his power, in ACCORDANCE WITH ALL THE TORAH OF MOSES; nor did any king like him arise afterwards.”

Luke 24:44 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“YESHUA said to them, “This what I meant when I was still with you and told you that everything written about Me in THE TORAH OF MOSHE, the Prophets and the Psalms had to be fulfilled.”

Ezra 7:6

“this ‘Ezra went up from Bavel. He was a scribe, expert in the TORAH OF MOSHE, which YAHWEH the ELOHIM of Yisra’el had given…”

Nowhere in scripture does it say the Torah was limited to those five books, but rather the Torah of Moshe! The Book of Jubilees features Moses receiving the TORAH on Mount Sinai and the Temple Scroll features Moses again with the statement:

Temple Scroll Column 44:5 page 205

“All that is to the right and to the left of the gate of Levi, you shall allot to AARON, YOUR BROTHER…”

This is YAHWEH speaking first person to Moses whose brother was Aaron.

 And we know that the Zadok Priest in Qumran considered Jubilees and the Temple Scroll as TORAH! Again, “thetorah.com” says:

“What is “Torah” in Second Temple Texts?”

“In the Second Temple Period, “Torah” WAS NOT LIMITED TO THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES. The book of JUBILEES AND THE TEMPLE SCROLL saw themselves as “TORAH.”

In my opinion it would make sense that there would be 7 books of the Torah as we know that the number 7 represents perfection and completion.

Ponder upon this statement that YAHWEH makes to His people!

Hosea 8:12 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“I write him so many things from MY TORAH, yet he considers THEM FOREIGN.”

YAHWEH has written for us so many things from His Torah, yet they are foreign to many of us because they are written in other books like Jubilees and the Temple Scroll that garner no attention. This leads to people saying they are unclear on a lot of YAHWEH’s Torah, but the answers have been given to us in these other books, which is why the Zadok Priests say in the Damascus Document:

Damascus Document (Ken Johnson’s translation) page 31

“The Wall Builders blasphemy grieved the RUACH HA’KODESH when they spoke against the statutes of ELOHIM’s covenant, saying that they WERE NOT SPECIFIC ENOUGH. THEY CONSTANTLY SPEAK ABOMINATIONS AGAINST THE STATUTES.”

Damascus Document (Vermes translation) page 133, Chapter 5

“Furthermore, they DEFILE THEIR RUACH HA’KODESH and open their mouth with a blaspheming tongue AGAINST THE LAWS of the Covenant of ELOHIM saying, ‘THEY ARE NOT SURE.’

In other words, there are no gray areas in the Torah! YAHWEH has already told us what to do! Which again matches the Dead Sea Scrolls magazine I quoted in the introduction:

The Dead Sea Scrolls magazine (Special edition) page 12 says:

“This scroll (Temple Scroll), nearly thirty feet long, had been copied several times at Qumran, indicating that it was considered a KODESH (SET-APART) BOOK. It contains elaborate plans for the building of the Jewish Temple, and it’s overriding characteristic is STRICT ADHERENCE TO THE LAW, WHICH IS SPELLED OUT EXPLICITLY.”

Damascus Document (Ken Johnson)

“This brought down the ancient hills by departing from righteousness and moving the landmarks of the ancients in their inheritance. Then the curses of the covenant took hold on them, delivering them to the sword to avenge the breaches of the covenant. These “SEEKERS OF SMOOTH THINGS” chose DECEIT AND LOOPHOLES IN THE LAW.”

Damascus Document (Vermes) pg. 130

“For they SOUGHT SMOOTH THINGS and PREFERED ILLUSION (Isaiah 30:10) and WATCHED FOR BREAKS (Isaiah 30:13).”

Evidence for the Temple Scroll

Nehemiah 10:34-35 (Septuagint)

“And we cast lots for the office of WOOD BEARING, we the priests and the Levites and the people, TO BRING WOOD into the house of ELOHIM, according the HOUSE OF OUR FAMILIES AT CERTAIN SET TIMES, YEAR BY YEAR, to burn on the altar of YAHWEH our ELOHIM as it is WRITTEN IN THE LAW…”

Here we see that Nehemiah mentions a wood offering at a SET TIME, by families/Tribes, as it is WRITTEN IN THE LAW! The only question is, where in the first five books of Moshe is it written? It’s not! Where do we find it?

Vermes translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls version of the Temple Scroll is fragmented but still contains it on page 198-199 and 205. Page 205 is the clearest portion which reads:

“On the days of the firstfruits of the corn, of the wine, and the oil, and at the FESTIVAL OF THE OFFERING WOOD.”

The Temple Scroll (The Dead Sea Scrolls) translated by Charlesworth page 307

Column 23

“And AFTER the appointed time of the fresh oil (New oil), they shall present at the altar THE WOOD, the twelve clans of the sons of Yisra’el. And they shall be presenting (it) on the first day, the clans of Levi and Judah; and on the second day, Benjamin and the sons of Joseph together, Ephraim and Manasseh; and on the third day, Reuben and Simeon; and on the fourth day, Issachar and Zebulon, and on the fifth day, Gad and Asher; and on the sixth day, Dan and Naphtali…and they shall present upon the wood a burnt-offering for YAHWEH…”

So, we have a perfect match of what Nehemiah said was written in the Torah:

“And we cast lots for the office of WOOD BEARING, we the priests and the Levites and the people, TO BRING WOOD into the house of ELOHIM, according the HOUSE OF OUR FAMILIES AT CERTAIN SET TIMES, YEAR BY YEAR, to burn on the altar of YAHWEH our ELOHIM as it is WRITTEN IN THE LAW…”

We see that WOOD was brought during a festival at a SET TIME which was immediately after NEW OIL on the 22nd day of the 6th month and by FAMILIES as we saw that 12 tribes presented wood (2 tribes a day) for 6 days as it is WRITTEN IN THE LAW and that law is according to the TEMPLE SCROLL.”

Nehemiah 13:31 (Septuagint)

“And the OFFERING OF THE WOOD BEARERS was at CERTAIN SET TIMES and the in the times of the first fruits. Remember me my ELOHIM for good.”

Another witness if found in the Dead Sea Scrolls:

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls (Vermes translation) page 477 (Fragment 23)

“When you enter the land which I am giving to you as an inheritance, and you dwell upon it securely you shall BRING WOOD for a burnt offering and for all the service of the House of which you shall build for Me in the land, to lay it on the altar of burnt-offering, and the calves…for Passover sacrifices and peace-offerings and thank-offerings and free-will offerings and burnt-offerings daily…and for the doors and for all the service of the House you shall offer…THE FESTIVAL OF OIL, the twelve tribes THEY SHALL OFFER WOOD…Those who offer on the first day shall be Levi and…on the third day, Rueben and Simeon, and on the fourth day…”

Firstly, this fragment is acknowledges and confirms the Temple Scroll and we can easily fill in the fragmented portions with what we read from the Temple Scroll. AFTER “the festival of oil”, the twelve tribes they shall offer wood…those who offer on the first day shall be Levi and JUDAH…!

YAHWEH speaking in First Person

Nehemiah 1:8-9 (Septuagint)

“Remember please, the word with which you charged your servant MOSHEH saying, if you break covenant with Me, I will disperse you among the nations. But if you turn again to Me and keep My commandments and do them; if you are scattered under the utmost bound of heaven there I will gather them and I will bring them into the place which I have chosen to cause My Name to dwell there.”

Nehemiah is quoting Deuteronomy 30, except there is a difference. In Deuteronomy 30 records YAHWEH speaking in the THIRD PERSON, but Nehemiah is quoting YAHWEH as speaking in the FIRST PERSON! Again, the Special Edition magazine of the Dead Sea Scrolls said:

. “The frequent use of the FIRST PERSON WHEN ELOHIM SPEAKS IS ANOTHER INDICATION that this scroll is related to the Pentateuch (The first five books of the Bible, called the Torah of Moses.)”

Deuteronomy 30:1-4 (All translations)

“When the time arrives that all these things have come upon you, both the blessing and the curse which I have presented to you; and you are there among the nations to which YAHWEH your ELOHIM has driven you; then, at last, you will start thinking about what has happened to you; 2 and you will return to YAHWEH your ELOHIM and pay attention to what he has said, which will be exactly what I am ordering you to do today — you and your children, with all your heart and all your being. 3 At that point, YAHWEH your ELOHIM will reverse your exile and show you mercy; he will return and gather you from all the peoples to which YAHWEH your ELOHIM scattered you. 4 If one of yours was scattered to the far end of the sky, YAHWEH your ELOHIM will gather you even from there; he will go there and get you.”

How does it read in the Temple Scroll?

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls (Vermes) page 215 Column 59

“Afterwards they shall return to Me with all their heart and all their soul, in conformity with all the words of this law, and I will save them from the hand of their enemies and redeem them from the hand of those who hate them, and I will bring them to the land of their fathers. I will redeem them, and increase them and exult over them. I will be their ELOHIM and they shall be My people.”

Don’t come near a woman!

Exodus 19:14-15 (Samaritan)

“And Moshe went down from the Mountain to the people, and consecrated the people. And they washed their garments. And he said to the people, be ready for the THREE DAYS, DO NOT APPROACH A WOMAN.”

Exodus 19:15 (Septuagint)

“And he said to the people, Be ready: FOR THREE DAYS DO NOT COME NEAR TO A WOMAN.”

They were about to enter the presence of YAHWEH and were told not to have sexual relations with a woman because we know that the act renders one unclean.

Leviticus 15:18 (Samaritan)

“And a woman, that her husband will lie with her having a seminal emission, THEY shall both bathe in water and be impure until evening.”

What does the Temple Scroll say?

Temple Scroll (Charlesworth translation) page 347 verses 11-12

“A man who lies with his wife having an ejaculation of semen, he shall NOT enter the entire city of the Sanctuary in which I shall allow My Name to dwell for THREE DAYS.”

The Septuagint agrees with Exodus and the Temple Scroll!

1 Samuel 21:4-5 (Septuagint)

“And the priest answered David and said, there are no common loaves under my hand, for I have none but set-apart loaves: if the young men have been kept AT LEAST FROM WOMEN, then they shall eat them. And David answered the priest and said to him, Yes, we have been KEPT FROM WOMEN FOR THREE DAYS…”

This matches what Moshe said to the children of Yisra’el to not have sexual relations with their wives for THREE DAYS because they would have not been able to be in YAHWEH’s presence for THREE DAYS as He commanded.

Commands for a king

1 Samuel 10:24-25 (Septuagint)

“And Samuel said to all the people, have you seen whom YAHWEH has chosen for Himself, that there is none like to him among you all? And all the people took notice and said, let the KING LIVE! And Samuel told the people the MANNER OF THE KING and WROTE IT IN A BOOK AND SET IT BEFORE YAHWEH…”

Samuel told people the manner of a king meaning the laws of the king and wrote them in a book and we can see that Samuel already knew what they were. Where do we find the laws concerning a king? In Deuteronomy 17, but we don’t have them all because the rest are in the Temple Scroll!

Deuteronomy 17:18-20 (All translations)

 “When he (the king) has come to occupy the throne of his kingdom, he is to write a copy of THIS TORAH for himself in a SCROLL, from the one the priests and Levites use. 19 It is to remain with him, and he is to read in it every day, as long as he lives; so that he will learn to fear YAHWEH his ELOHIM and keep all the words of this Torah and these laws and obey them; 20 so that he will not think he is better than his kinsmen; and so that he will not turn aside either to the right or to the left from the mitzvah (commandment). In this way he will prolong his own reign and that of his children in Isra’el.”

This is exactly what Samuel the priest did! He wrote down the laws concerning the king to obey! However, the version we have is incomplete! If the king is to read from this portion of the Torah everyday, then that means there were more laws that he had to know than what we read in our version of Deuteronomy. The complete list is found in the Temple Scroll pages 213-215 and Chapters 56-58. I’ll give an example of a law of a king found in the Temple Scroll!

Complete Dead Sea Scrolls (Chapter 57:20 Temple Scroll page 214)

“And shall not COVET a field OR A VINEYARD, any riches or house, or anything desirable in Yisra’el. He shall not rob”

Isn’t there a king in scripture who coveted a VINEYARD something he desired which got a man killed?

1 Kings 21:1-8

“A while later, an incident occurred involving Navot the Yizre‘eli. He owned a VINEYARD in Yizre‘el, right next to the palace of ACH’AV KING of Shomron. 2 Ach’av spoke to Navot and said, “Give me your VINEYARD, so that I can have it as my vegetable garden, because it’s close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard; or, if you prefer, I will give you its monetary value.” 3 But Navot said to Ach’av, “YAHWEH forbid that I should give you my ancestral heritage!” 4 Ach’av went home resentful and depressed at what Navot the Yizre‘eli had said to him, since he had said, “I won’t give you my ancestral heritage.” He lay down on his bed, turned his face away and refused to eat. 5 Izevel (Jezebel) his wife went and said to him, “Why are you so depressed that you refuse to eat?” 6 He answered her, “Because I spoke to Navot the Yizre‘eli and said to him, “Sell me your vineyard for money; or else, if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard for it”; but he answered, “I won’t give you my vineyard.” 7 “Are you the KING of Isra’el or not?” asked his wife Izevel. “Get up, eat some food, and cheer up! I will give you the vineyard of Navot the Yizre‘eli.”

Another example of a law for the king that is in the Temple Scroll but not in Deuteronomy 17 is:

Temple Scroll (Complete Dead Sea Scrolls) page 215

“If he (the king) goes to war against his enemies, one fifth of the people shall go with him, the warriors, all the mighty men of valor. They shall avoid everything unclean, everything shameful, every iniquity and guilt. He shall not go until he has presented himself before the HIGH PRIEST who shall inquire on his behalf for a DECISION BY THE URIM AND TUMMIN. It is at his word that he shall go and at his word that he shall come, he and all the children of Israel who are with him. He shall not go following after his heart’s counsel until he (the High Priest) has inquired a decision by the Urim and Tummin. He shall (then) succeed in all his ways in which he has set out according to the decision which…”

Notice that the king could not act independently in making a decision to go to war? He had to go to the high priest for a decision first, which matches what Judah said:

Testament of Judah 21:1-4 (12 Patriarchs)

“And now, my children, I command you, love LEVI, that you may stay, and do not exalt yourselves against him, lest you be utterly destroyed. For YAHWEH gave the kingdom to me, and the priesthood to him, and HE SET THE KINGDOM BENEATH THE PRIESTHOOD. He gave the things upon the earth to me; and the things IN THE HEAVENS TO HIM. As the heaven is higher than the earth, so IS THE PRIESTHOOD OF ELOHIM HIGHER THAN THE EARLTHLY KINGDOM, unless it falls away from YAHWEH through iniquity and is dominated by the earthly kingdom.”

Marrying a niece is forbidden

Rabbinic Judaism says that it is lawful for a man to marry his niece because it is not specified in Leviticus 18 laws, but that is NOT the case in the Temple Scroll.

Temple Scroll Column 66 page 220

“A man shall not take his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother, for this is abominable. A man shall not take his father’s sister or his mother’s sister, for this is immoral. A man shall NOT TAKE THE DAUGHTER OF HIS BROTHER OR THE DAUGHTER OF HIS SISTER for this is abominable.”

Again, the Zadok Priest in the Damascus Document understood this:

Covenant of Damascus 5:7 (Compete Dead Sea Scrolls page 133).

“And each man marries the DAUGHTER OF HIS BROTHER OR SISTER, whereas Moses said, You shall not approach your mother’s sister; she is your mother’s near kin (Leviticus 18:13). But although the laws against incest are written for men, they also apply to women. When, therefore, a brother’s daughter uncovers the nakedness of her father’s brother, she is also his near kin.”

Clean birds to eat!

In Leviticus 11 YAHWEH tells us what cattle and fish are clean and unclean, but we aren’t given a list of clean birds, but rather a list of the unclean only. We know for certain that in Exodus 16 and Numbers 11 YAHWEH sent quail into the camp for the Israelites to eat. However, the Temple Scroll lists two outside of quail:

Temple Scroll (The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls) page 203

“…There they SHALL EAT…THE BIRD, THE TURTLE-DOVE AND THE YOUNG PIGEONS…”

Temple Scroll (Charlesworth) pg. 333, Column 38:10

“There they SHALL EAT the purification-offerings of the fowl-TURTLE DOVES, AND THE YOUNG DOVES.”

This makes complete sense because only clean birds and animals can be sacrificed to YAHWEH and if they can be sacrificed, they are permissible for food:

Genesis 8:20 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Noah built an altar to YAHWEH. Then he took from every CLEAN ANIMAL AND EVERY CLEAN BIRD, and he offered BURNT OFFERINGS ON THE ALTAR.”

Only clean animals and birds can be offered as a sacrifice to YAHWEH because unclean animals were forbidden for sacrifice. For example:

Exodus 13:13 (Septuagint)

“Every offspring opening the womb of the DONKEY you shall CHANGE FOR A SHEEP; and if you will not change it you shall redeem it: every firstborn of man of your sons you shall redeem.”

Exodus 13:14-15 (Septuagint)

“And if your son asks you hereafter saying, What is this? Then you shall say to him, with a strong hand YAHWEH brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. And when Pharaoh hardened his heart so as not to send us away, he killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast; there I SACFRICE EVERY OFFSPRING THAT OPEN THE WOMB, THE MALES TO YAHWEH and every firstborn of my sons I will redeem.:

The donkey is unclean and cannot be sacrificed to YAHWEH which is why the donkey had to be exchanged for a sheep which is a clean animal. So, what were the clean birds that Noah sacrificed in Genesis 8:20?

Jubilees 6:1-3

“ And on the new month of the third month he went forth from the ark, and built an altar on that mountain.

 And he made atonement for the earth, and took a kid and made atonement by its blood for all the guilt of the earth; for everything that had been on it had been destroyed, save those that were in the ark with Noah.

 And he placed the fat thereof on the altar, and he took an ox, and a goat, and a sheep and kids, and salt, and a TURTLE-DOVE, and the YOUNG OF A DOVE, and placed a burnt sacrifice on the altar, and poured thereon an offering mingled with oil, and sprinkled wine and strewed frankincense over everything, and caused a goodly savor to arise, acceptable before YAHWEH."

Genesis 15:7-10 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

 7 Then he said to him, “I am YAHWEH, who brought you out from Ur-Kasdim to give you this land as your possession.” 8 He replied, “YAHWEH, ELOHIM, how am I to know that I will possess it?” 9 He answered him, “Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a DOVE and a YOUNG PIGEON.” 10 He brought him all these, cut the animals in two and placed the pieces opposite each other; but he didn’t cut the birds in half.”

Leviticus 1:14-17 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

‘If his offering to YAHWEH is a BURNT OFFERING OF BIRDS, he must offer a DOVE OR A YOUNG PIGEON. 15 The cohen (priest) is to bring it to the altar, snap off its head and make it go up in smoke on the altar; its blood is to be drained out on the side of the altar. 16 He is to remove the food pouch and its feathers from its neck and discard it on the pile of ashes just east of the altar. 17 He is to pull it open with a wing on each side, but without tearing it in half. The cohen is to make it go up in smoke on the altar, on the wood which is on the fire, as a burnt offering; it is an offering made by fire, a fragrant aroma for YAHWEH”.

Leviticus 12:6-8 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“‘When the days of her purification are over, whether for a son or for a daughter, she is to bring a lamb in its first year for a burnt offering and a YOUNG PIGEON OR DOVE for a sin offering to the entrance of the tent of meeting, to the cohen. 7 He will offer it before YAHWEH and make atonement for her; thus she will be purified from her discharge of blood. Such is the law for a woman who gives birth, whether to a boy or to a girl. 8 If she can’t afford a lamb, she is to take TWO DOVES or TWO YOUNG PIGEONS, the one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering; the cohen will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’

Luke 2:22-24 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“When the time came for their purification according to the Torah of Moshe, they took him up to Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) to present him to yahweh 23 (as it is written in the Torah of YAHWEH, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to yahweh”[a]) 24 and also to offer a sacrifice of a pair of DOVES or TWO YOUNG PIGEONS,[b] as required by the Torah of YAHWEH.”

The Torah has been lost before!

These are a few examples of the authority of the Torah in it’s fullness! Has the Torah been lost before? YES!

2 Kings 22:8-12

8 Hilkiyahu the cohen hagadol said to Shafan the secretary, “I have found the scroll of the Torah in the house of YAHWEH.” Hilkiyah gave the scroll to Shafan, who read it. 9 Then Shafan the secretary went back to the king and gave the king this report: “Your servants have poured out the money found in the house and handed it over to the people supervising the work in the house of YAHWEH.” 10 Shafan the secretary also told the king, “Hilkiyah the cohen hagadol gave me a scroll.” Then Shafan read it aloud before the king. 11 After the king had heard what was written in the scroll of the Torah, he tore his clothes. 12 Then the king issued this order to Hilkiyah the cohen, Achikam the son of Shafan, ‘Akhbor the son of Mikhayah, Shafan the secretary and ‘Asayah the king’s servant: 13 “Go; and consult YAHWEH for me, for the people and for all Y’hudah in regard to what is written in this scroll which has been found. For YAHWEH must be furious at us, since our ancestors did not listen to the words written in this scroll and didn’t do everything written there that concerns us.”

We all should tear our clothes and weep because we had not been obeying all of YAHWEH’s Torah! We now about the first day of the first month being a high-Shabbat, New Wine, New Oil, Wood offering, and the strict guidelines of YAHWEH’s Torah. But just as it was discovered during the days of Josiah, so has the full Torah been restored to us in these last days, which includes Jubilees and the Temple Scroll!

Even in the Damascus Document we see the Torah was sealed up in the Ark of the Covenant and was not available!

Covenant of Damascus 5:3

“David could not read the Book of the Law because it was SEALED IN THE ARK after the death of Eleazar and Joshua by those elders who worshipped the elohim Ashtaroth. It remained HIDDEN until it was discovered by Zadok the priest. They esteemed the deeds of David, except the murder of Uriah, but ELOHIM forgave him for that.”

The complete Torah will be given to YAHWEH’s children in the last days so that we can return back to the ancient path.

Enoch 104:12-13

“Then, I know another mystery, that BOOKS will be given to the righteous and the wise to become A CAUSE OF JOY AND UPRIGHTNESS AND MUCH WISDOM. And THE BOOKS will be given to them, and they will BELIEVE IN THEM AND REJOICE OVER THEM, and then all the righteous who have LEARNED FROM THEM ALL THE PATHS OF UPRIGHTNESS WILL BE REPAID.”

As always may YAHWEH bless you in YESHUA’s Name!

Skin color and Torah? Huh?

Exodus 20:13

“Do not MURDER.”

1 John 3:15 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Everyone who HATES HIS BROTHER is a MURDERER, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.”

Deuteronomy 23:8 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“But you are not to DETEST an EDOMITE, because HE IS YOUR BROTHER.”

How many black Hebrew Israelites hate white people whom they falsely call Edomites? This puts you in violation of Torah twice in Exodus and Deuteronomy. Anyone who does the will of YAHWEH is your brother (Matthew 12:46-50) including the white man you hate so much. I did a message 3 years ago titled “Salvation is NOT just for Black Hebrew Israelites!” But as I anticipated the racism within the Torah community continues to rage on! Skin color is something that is worldly and used to divide people and should never be discussed amongst the Torah observant because YAHWEH’s people are everywhere! YAHWEH sent His Son YESHUA to die for ALL people not SOME! We will discuss who the real Jews, the real meaning of Revelation 2:9, and again show the Edomite doctrine to be false!

Even those who say they are not racist but still hold onto to the skin color doctrine put skin color at the forefront of their ministry! As a matter of fact there are some ministries out there whose sole mission is to talk about black people being the “true Jews!” Did you not know that there are Black Jews such as Beta Yisra’el which are Ethiopians and also the Lemba tribe, but there are also Sephardic (Spanish) Jews, Kaifeng (Chinese) Jews, Yemenite Jews, and Ashkenazi Jews! In other words, YAHWEH’s people are scattered to the four corners of the earth.  I have said it before and I will say it again, if your identity in this walk is based on your skin color and not in serving YESHUA then you are already lost! The ONLY color you should be focused on is the color RED which is the blood that YESHUA SHED for the entire world! I don’t care about skin color because I know that ANYONE no matter what color can be saved if they keep the commandments of the Torah and believe in YESHUA!

Furthermore, we all have transgressed and fallen short of ELOHIM’s esteem including black people! The point is that it’s never been about US, rather it’s always been about HIM!

2 Corinthians 5:15 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“For the Messiah’s love has hold of us, because we are convinced that one man died on behalf of ALL mankind (which implies that ALL mankind was already dead), and that He died on behalf of ALL in order that those who live SHOULD NOT LIVE ANY LONGER FOR THEMSELVES BUT FOR THE ONE WHO ON THEIR BEHALF DIED AND WAS RAISED.”

1 Peter 1:18-20 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“You should be aware that the ransom PAID TO FREE YOU from the worthless way of life which your fathers passed on to you did not consist of anything perishable like silver or gold; 19 on the contrary, it was the costly bloody sacrificial death of the Messiah, as of a lamb without defect or spot. 20 ELOHIM knew Him before the founding of the universe, but revealed Him in the last days for your sakes. 21 Through Him you trust in ELOHIM, who raised Him from the dead and gave him glory; so that your trust and hope are in ELOHIM.”

We are to tell the world about Him and the Good News!

Matthew 24:14 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“And then the GOOD NEWS will be preached in ALL THE WORLD as a testimony to ALL THE PEOPLES and then will the end come.”

The Good News shall be preached to the ENTIRE WORLD, not those whom you deem to be worthy! But instead of preaching the Good News of YESHUA, your “good news” is the color of your skin as you continue to bask in the flesh! But for those who boast in skin color as if they are automatically saved should let these words that YESHUA spoke humble you!

Matthew 8:11-12 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“And I say to you that many will come from sun-rising and from sunset, and will rest with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heavens, BUT MANY OF THE SONS OF YISRA’EL WILL BE HUMILIATED OUTSIDE IN DARKNESS. And there will be weeping and trembling from EL.”

Many who call themselves “The True Jews”, “The True Israelites”, “The Chosen People” will not be in the kingdom, but only those of any color who keep the commandments and believe in YESHUA!  Did you not know that the very ones you claim will not enter the kingdom will be considered more of a native-born if they do YAHWEH’s will, then those of you who claim they are native-born but do not do His will? So what does Revelation 2:9 that is used so much really mean?

Revelation 2:9 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“I know your works and your sufferings, and the reproach of those who SAY THAT THEY ARE JEWS WHILE THEY ARE NOT, but are of the SONS OF HA-SATAN.”

Revelation 3:9 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“Look, I will give that those who are the company of Ha-Satan, WHO SAY THAT THEY ARE JEWS WHILE THEY ARE NOT-ONLY DECEIVERS-look, I am pleased to make that they will come to do supplication at your feet, and to acknowledge that I have loved you.”

John 8:44 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“You are the SONS OF HA-SATAN your father, therefore you take pleasure in doing the WILL OF YOUR FATHER. He was a murderer at the beginning, and did not abide in truth, for there is no truth with him. For everything which he speaks is a lie; he speaks which that which is nigh to him; for he is its father, and he is a liar.”

So, who claim they are JEWS and are NOT?

Romans 2:25-28 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Then, you who teach others, don’t you teach yourself? Preaching, “Thou shalt not steal, do you steal?. Saying, “Though shalt not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? Detesting idols, do you commit idolatrous acts? You who take such pride in Torah, do you, by DISOBEYING TORAH, DISHONOR ELOHIM? As it says in the Tanakh, “For it is because of YOU THAT ELOHIM’S NAME IS BLASHPHEMED by the gentiles.” For circumcision is indeed of value IF YOU DO WHAT TORAH SAYS. But if you are a transgressor of Torah, your circumcision has become uncircumcision! Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the Torah, won’t his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? Indeed, the man who is physically uncircumcised BUT OBEYS the Torah will stand as a judgment on you who have had circumcision and have Torah written but violate it? For the REAL JEW is not merely Jewish outwardly: true circumcision is not ONLY external and physical. On the contrary, the REAL JEW is one INWARDLY; and true circumcision is of the heart, spiritual not literal; so that his praise comes not from other people but from ELOHIM.”

Paul is saying that the REAL JEW is the one who obeys the Torah and is not a hypocrite in it! You see, the gentile who obeys the Torah, his gentile status becomes native-born status, but the native-born who disobeys the Torah, his native-born status becomes gentile status. The one that is hypocritical in Torah is a deceiver because he tells others to obey Torah and YET calls himself a real Jew, but is the main one transgressing the Torah. So, these are those who “SAY THEY ARE JEWS AND ARE NOT!” As its written in Revelation.

Paul mentioned in Romans 2 about obedience to Torah and not being hypocritical in it; and what does the Torah teach us? TO LOVE!! WHICH IS SOMETHING YOU AREN’T DOING!

Leviticus 19:18 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Don’t take vengeance on or bear a grudge against any of your people; rather, love your neighbor as yourself; I am YAHWEH.” Verse 33-34 “If a FOREIGNER stays with you in your land, do not do him wrong. Rather, treat the foreigner staying with you LIKE THE NATIVE-BORN among you—you are to LOVE HIM AS YOURSELF, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt; I am YAHWEH your ELOHIM.”

Who are the chosen people of YAHWEH?

Revelation 14:12 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“Here is the hope of the set-apart ones, and here are THOSE (ANYONE) who do the commandments of YAHWEH, AND believe in YESHUA.”

Ephesians 2:17-19 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

17 Also, when he came, He announced as Good News shalom to you far off (Gentiles) and shalom to those nearby (Native-born),[a] 18 news that through him we BOTH have access in one Spirit to the Father.19 So then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers. On the contrary, you are fellow-citizens with ELOHIM’s people and members of ELOHIM’s family. 

And before someone tries to say that Paul taught against circumcision see: Romans 3:1, Galatians 5:11, and Romans 4:11. Paul is emphasizing the fact that a gentile will be considered a native-born by his obedience to Torah and not his hypocrisy in it.

1 Timothy 1:3-4 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“As I counseled you when I was leaving for Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus, so that you may order certain people who are teaching a DIFFERENT DOCTRINE TO STOP. Have them stop devoting their attention to myths and NEVER-ENDING GENEALOGIES; THESE DIVERT PEOPLE TO SPECULATING INSTEAD OF DOING ELOHIM’S WORK, which requires trust.”

What Paul said is correct, so many are concerned about what tribe they are from and looking at another’s skin color that they do more speculating on things that don’t matter instead of doing the work that YAHWEH has called us to do which is to reach the lost, teach them the commandments and tell them about the Good News of YESHUA! They are teaching “another doctrine” by proclaiming that certain races cannot be saved!

Titus 3:9 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“But AVOID stupid controversies, GENEALOGIES, quarrels and fights about the Torah; because they are WORTHLESS AND FUTILE.”

John 6:63 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“It is the Ruach (Spirit) that makes alive; THE FLESH DOES NOT BENEFIT ANYONE. The words that I spoke to you are Spirit and life…”

YESHUA says that the flesh will not benefit anyone, yet many are looking at the fleshly skin color of another to determine whether they can be saved or not! This is carnal thinking and opposed to walking in the Spirit!

1 Corinthians 15:50 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Let me say this, brothers: FLESH AND BLOOD CANNOT SHARE IN THE KINGDOM OF ELOHIM, NOR CAN SOMETHING THAT DECAYS SHARE IN WHAT DOES NOT DECAY!”

Thanksgiving Hymns (Dead Sea Scrolls Penguin Classics) page 266

“And the gates of Hell shall open on ALL THE WORKS OF VANITY; and the doors of the Pit shall close on the conceivers of wickedness; and the everlasting bars shall be bolted on the ALL THE SPIRITS OF NAUGHT.”

Oxford languages defines Vanity as “excessive PRIDE in or admiration OF ONES OWN APPEARANCE OR ACHEIVEMENTS.”

Sounds like many have excessive PRIDE in the appearance of their own skin color which is a work of vanity and many take pride in their own achievements when YESHUA says:

John 15:4 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch is not able to make fruit of itself-except it abides in the stem—so you are NOT ABLE TO MAKE FRUIT, EXCEPT YOU ABIDE IN ME. I am the stem, and you are the branches who abide in Me, and I in him. It is he who bears much fruit. FOR YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO DO ANYTHING WITHOUT ME. If one does not abide in Me, he is sent outside like the branch, and it dries out. Then they gather it and keep it in the fire, and it burns.”

Thanksgiving Hymns (Hymn 10) page 267

“And yet I, a creature of clay, WHAT AM I? Kneaded with water, WHAT IS MY WORTH AND MY MIGHT? For I have stood in the realm of wickedness and my lot was with the damned…”

The writer of the Thanksgiving Hymns says “What am I?” “What is my worth and might?” He even says that he was headed to the place of the damned; in otherwise he is not basking in the flesh because none of us is worthy! So how can the color of your skin suddenly make you worthy? You should be adopting the same mentality as him and humble yourselves, repent! We are nothing without YESHUA, yet many think that they are something because of the color of their skin! This line of thinking will have you being the branch that is dried up and thrown into the fire. Knowing what the scriptures say about how flesh and blood do not profit and will not enter the kingdom, why spend all your days talking about it? Your skin color will NOT SAVE YOU! Save your energy and efforts doing what YAHWEH wants and not what you “think” is important!

Matthew 3:9 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“And you must not say in your hearts, ‘Abraham is our father’, for I say unto you that EL is able to make alive sons of Abraham out of these stones.”

John 8:39 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father!” So YESHUA said to them, “If you are the sons of Abraham, DO THE WORKS OF ABRAHAM!”

What are some of the works of Abraham?

Jasher 22:11-14

11 And Abraham planted a large grove in Beersheba, and he made to it four gates facing the four sides of the earth, and he planted a vineyard in it, so that if a traveler came to Abraham he entered any gate which was in his road, and remained there and ate and drank and satisfied himself and then departed.

12 For the house of Abraham was always open to the sons of men that passed and repassed, who came daily to eat and drink in the house of Abraham.

13 And any man who had hunger and came to Abraham's house, Abraham would give him bread that he might eat and drink and be satisfied, and any one that came naked to his house he would clothe with garments as he might choose, and give him silver and gold and make known to him YAHWEH who had created him in the earth; this did Abraham all his life.

14 And Abraham and his children and all belonging to him dwelt in Beersheba, and he pitched his tent as far as Hebron.

 Are you doing the works of Abraham? As we see, Abraham showed LOVE! I never saw Abraham running around starting a race movement and promoting hatred! You should be concerned for bringing in the lost sheep that are in ALL different colors over the world!

A note about Edomites!

As I explained in the message three years ago is that Esau was named Esau because he was born hairy and he was called an Edomite because of the red lentil soup neither had to do with the color of his skin, but since that is the basis for your entire doctrine, we will deal with it again!

Obadiah 1:8-10 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“When that day comes,” says YAHWEH, “wont I destroy all the WISE MEN of Edom and leave no discernment on Mount Esau? Your warriors, Teman, will be so distraught that everyone on Mount Esau shall be slaughtered. For the violence done to your kinsman Jacob, shame will cover you; and you will be forever cut off.”

Were all Edomites warriors? Were they all wise men? The answer is no! How about verse 18?

“The house of Jacob will be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame, setting aflame and consuming the stubble which is the house of Esau. NONE OF THE HOUSE OF ESAU WILL REMAIN, FOR YAHWEH HAS SPOKEN.”

Obadiah 1:18 (Septuagint)

“And the house of Jacob shall be fire and the house of Joseph a flame and the house of Esau shall be stubble; and Yisra’el shall flame out against them and shall devour them and there shall not be A GRAIN FIELD LEFT TO THE HOUSE FROM ESAU; because YAHWEH has spoken.”

The Septuagint says “grain fields” will not be left from the house of Esau and not “none of the house of Esau will remain”. But let’s say for arguments sake that the popular translation that “ALL” the Edomites would be destroyed. Does that literally mean every one of them? Let’s look at an example from the Dead Sea Scrolls!

Testament of Naphtali 4:1-3

“I say these things to you, my children, for I have read in the writing of Enoch that you yourselves will also depart from YAHWEH, walking according to all the lawlessness of the nations, and you will do according to all the wickedness of Sodom. And YAHWEH will bring captivity upon you, and you will serve your enemies there, and you will be bowed down with every affliction and trial, until YAHWEH CONSUMES YOU ALL. And after you have become REDUCED AND MADE FEW, you will return and acknowledge YAHWEH your ELOHIM; and He will bring you back into your land, according to His abundant kindness.”

So, in verse 3 it says that YAHWEH will “consume them all”, but then in verse 4 it says “after you become reduced and made few”! So all doesn’t mean “total” or “complete”, which we can apply to Obadiah as well.

It is said that Obadiah and Jeremiah were contemporaries. The definition of contemporary according to Oxford languages is “living or occurring at the same time”, which means that their messages had to match and we see that a remnant will be left!

Jeremiah 49:7-11 (Aramaic)

“Concerning Edom, thus says YAHWEH of Hosts: There is no more wisdom in Teman; the counsel is perished from the prudent; their wisdom is taken away. Flee, turn back, dwell in deep crevices, O inhabitants of Deran! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time of his punishment, says YAHWEH. If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleaning grapes? If thieves came by night, they would destroy till they have enough. But I have searched out Esau, I have uncovered his secret places, and he tried to hide himself but could not; his DESCENDANTS ARE DRIVEN AWAY, and his brethren and his neighbors are no more. Leave your FATHERLESS CHILDREN, I WILL PRESERVE THEM ALIVE; AND LET YOUR WIDOWS TRUST IN ME.”

YAHWEH at least preserved the orphans and widows and even said that they would trust in Him, which means that there would be Edomites who believed! And who do we see following YESHUA?

Mark 3:7-8 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“But YESHUA went to the sea with the disciples, and many people followed with Him from Gelilah and from Jerusalem- and from Judah, and FROM EDOM, and from the other side of the Jordan river, and from Syria and from Sodom- for they heard people telling the wonders which He was doing, so they came unto Him.”

And just to be sure about this, lets look at the KJV which is used by most Black Hebrew Israelites:

Mark 3:8 (KJV)

“And from Jerusalem, and from IDUMEA, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things He did, came unto Him.”

The etymology for the word “Idumea” is G2401 and defined by Strongs as “Of Hebrew origin H123; Idumea (THAT IS, EDOM), a region East and South of Palestine: - Iduma.

So, you have to ask yourselves, why didn’t YESHUA turn around and say “Why are you white devils following Me? Don’t you know you can’t be saved?” That’s because you are promoting a false doctrine! We already saw that YAHWEH said He would leave a remnant in Jeremiah and He also said that the Edomites would be able to enter into His assembly!

Deuteronomy 23:7 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“But you are NOT to detest an EDOMITE, because he is your brother; and you are not to detest an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land. The third generation of children born to them MAY ENTER THE ASSEMBLY OF YAHWEH.”

Deuteronomy 23:8-9 (Samaritan)

“You shall NOT detest an Edomite, for he is YOUR BROTHER, and you shall not detest a Egyptian, because you were a sojourner in his land. The SONS of the THIRD GENERATION WHO ARE BORN TO THEM MAY ENTER THE ASSEMBLY OF YAHWEH.”

Sounds to me that many humans think they no better than the Creator and have the right to judge who can enter the kingdom and who can’t, when YAHWEH has already declared that they can enter in, and we see them following YESHUA! Furthermore, does ELOHIM hear the prayers of an Edomite?

Jasher 63:20-28

“And when Tsepho heard the words of his brethren the CHILDREN OF ESAU he withdrew from them, and Tsepho was greatly afraid of Angias. And Angias and Lukus his brother arrayed all their forces, about eight hundred thousand men, against the children of Kittim. And all the children of Kittim said to Tsepho, “PRAY FOR US TO THE ELOHIM OF YOUR FATHERS; perhaps He may deliver us from the hand of Angias and his army, for we have heard that He is a great ELOHIM and that He delivers all who trust in Him.” And Tsepho heard their words, and Tsepho sought YAHWEH and He said, ‘O YAHWEH ELOHIM of Abraham and Isaac my fathers: today I know that You are a true ELOHIM, and all the elohim of the nations are vain and useless. Remember now Your covenant with Abraham our father, which our fathers related to us, and act favorably with me today for the sake of Abraham and Isaac our fathers, and save me and the children of Kittim from the hand of the king of Africa who comes against us for battle.”  And YAHWEH LISTENED TO THE VOICE OF TSEPHO, and He had regard for him on account of Abraham and Isaac, and YAHWEH delivered Tsepho and the children of Kittim from the hand of Angias and his people. And Tsepho fought Angias king of Africa and all his people on that day, and YAHWEH gave all the people of Angias into the hands of the children of Kittim.”

Jasher 64:5-6

“But Tsepho DID NOT REMEMBER YAHWEH and did not consider that YAHWEH had helped him in battle, and He had delivered him and his people from the hand of the king of Africa; but he still walked in the ways of the children of Kittim and the wicked children of Esau, to serve other elohim which his brethren the children of Esau had taught him; it is therefore said, “Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness.”

As we see, Tsepho the Edomite prayed to YAHWEH and YAHWEH delivered him; however, Tsepho quickly forgot what ELOHIM did and continued to walk in the ways of wickedness! Any Edomite today that prays to YAHWEH and trusts in Him will be heard and saved, as long as they serve YAHWEH only, which Tsepho failed to do.

I pray that anyone who follows this doctrine repents and accepts the truth! Love all your brothers, reach the lost, and focus on keeping the commandments and faith in YESHUA, and let the things of the flesh go!

As always may YAHWEH bless you in YESHUA’s Name!

BIBLE DEFINTIONS: THE TRUTH!

Over the past few years, I have noticed that many people with good intentions are not letting the scriptures interpret the scriptures but are giving their own opinions on what words mean based on what a pastor taught them or not doing a thorough investigation of the scriptures! This a not a light matter because our souls depend on knowing the truth and most people are complacent in their walk with YESHUA and have no desire to learn, they would rather continue voicing their opinions that will ultimately lead to their destruction.

Proverbs 18:2 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“A fool takes no pleasure in trying to understand, he only wants to express HIS OWN OPINION.”

For example, people will say “We have to walk in righteousness!” But, when asked how the scriptures define righteousness it is not based on how the scriptures define it, but rather it is based on their own idea of what it is; likewise with words such as: Sin, Grace, Righteousness, Knowledge, Understanding, Evil, Wisdom, How to love YAHWEH with all your Heart, Soul, and Might, Love, How do we Know Him, Way, Truth, and Life. This message is important so that believers will know the true definition of the words that are commonly used according to scripture and see what they ALL point to!

Before defining the words, I would like to ask you, what is the purpose of your life? How do the scriptures define it?

Ecclesiastes 12:13 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Here is the final conclusion, now that you have heard everything: fear ELOHIM AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS; THIS IS WHAT BEING HUMAN IS ALL ABOUT.”

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“I call on heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have presented you with life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore, choose life, so that you will live, you and your descendants, LOVING YAHWEH (John 14:21, 1 John 5:3) your ELOHIM, paying attention to what He says and clinging to Him----FOR THAT IS THE PURPOSE OF YOUR LIFE! On this depends the length of time you will live in the land YAHWEH swore He would give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”

SIN

The first word I would like to define is the word “sin”. I have heard it said by several Christians “We don’t have to keep the Law, we just can’t continue to sin!” So, how do the scriptures define sin?

1 John 3:4 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

4” Everyone who keeps SINNING is VIOLATING TORAH — indeed, SIN is VIOLATION of TORAH.”

SIN is the very reason why YESHUA died for us!

Titus 2:14 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

14” He (YESHUA) gave Himself up on our behalf in order to free us from ALL VIOLATION OF THE TORAH and purify for himself a people who would be his own, eager to do good.”

So, scripture defines sin as transgression/breaking the Torah/Law! So going back to the statement that is made by Christians, we can see that it doesn’t make sense when they say, “We don’t have to keep the Law, we just can’t continue to sin!”  If we translate their statement using the scriptural definition of sin, what they are saying is this: “We don’t have to keep the Law, we just can’t continue breaking the law!”  Which means that is a contradictory statement! When we let the scriptures speak for itself, we will avoid all of these apparent contradictions.

Romans 6:23 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

23 “For what one earns from SIN IS DEATH; but eternal life is what one receives as a free gift from ELOHIM, in union with the Messiah YESHUA, our Master.”

So, what is Paul saying? Paul is saying the wages of breaking the LAW is death!

GRACE

Many will quickly say we are saved by grace; therefore, there are no works needed as believers! We are saved by grace because of YAHWEH’s love for us by sending His Son YESHUA to die for us! Grace involves YESHUA shedding His blood for us and YAHWEH’s mercy towards all who repent and keep the commandments of the Torah!

1 John 4:9-10 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Here is how ELOHIM showed His love among us: ELOHIM sent His only Son into the world, so that through Him we might have life. Here is what love is: not that we loved YAHWEH, BUT that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atonement for our sins.”

As I explained in a previous message is that many will quote Paul in Ephesians which says:

Ephesians 2:8-9 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

8 “For you have been delivered by GRACE through trusting, and even this is not your accomplishment but ELOHIM’s gift. 9 You were not delivered by your own actions; therefore no one should boast.”

Paul is not saying that we are saved by grace and therefore we do not have to keep the commandments of the Torah! Paul is saying that WE ALL have transgressed against the commandments of YAHWEH and have fallen short of His esteem see: (Romans 3:23, Isaiah 53:4-6, 1 Kings 8:46, Enoch 81:5, Sirach 8:5) and being that we all have broken the commandments and deserve to die (Romans 6:23), we need a Savior in YESHUA (Titus 2:14). Paul is saying that none of us can save ourselves by our own actions because we all have failed! But, since YESHUA died because we broke the law, how do we continue to break the law when that is the reason why He died? The commandments are how we know Him (1 John 2:2-4) and how we love Him (John 14:21, 1 John 5:3).

Let’s look further at the word grace according to scripture!

Matthew 4:3-4 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“Satan came unto him and said to Him, “If you are the Son of ELOAH, say to these stones that they must turn into bread.” Then He answered and said to him, “It is written, “man will not live by the bread alone, but by the GRACE OF YAHWEH.”

There is a footnote attached which says “grace” is a SYNONYM FOR TORAH which is of course also a synonym of “word”. See e.g. Ps 119:29, and Exodus 33:13.”

This is correct because we see this in many other places such as the 10 commandments!

Exodus 20:5-6 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“5 You are not to bow down to them or serve them; for I, YAHWEH your ELOHIM, am a jealous ELOHIM, punishing the children for the sins of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but displaying GRACE to the thousandth generation of those who LOVE Me and OBEY my mitzvot (COMMANDMENTS).”

As we see, YAHWEH’s GRACE is contingent upon you keeping His commandments, they are connected!

2 Esdras/4th Ezra 7:132-133

“I answered and said, “I know, O YAHWEH, that the Most High is now called ‘merciful,’ because He has mercy on those who have not yet come into the world; and ‘GRACIOUS’, because He is GRACIOUS TO THOSE WHO TURN IN REPENTANCE TO HIS TORAH.”

Daniel 9:4 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

4 “I prayed to yahweh my ELOHIM and made this confession: “Please, YAHWEH, great and fearsome ELOHIM, who keeps His covenant and EXTENDS GRACE to THOSE WHO LOVE HIM AND OBSERVE HIS COMMANDMENTS!”

Wisdom Literature (Complete Dead Sea Scrolls) page 435

“And as for you, search His judgements from all your accusers with all…love Him, and with eternal loving-kindness, and with MERCY TOWARDS ALL WHO KEEP HIS WORD.”

Psalms 103:17-18

“But the MERCY of YAHWEH is on those who fear Him from eternity past to eternity future, and his righteousness extends to his children’s children, PROVIDED THEY KEEP HIS COVENANT AND REMEMBER TO FOLLOW ALL HIS PRECEPTS.”

John 1:17 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“For the LAW was given through Moses, truly, GRACE AND TRUTH CAME THROUGH YESHUA.”

As we already see is that “Grace” is synonymous and connected with the Torah and truth by scriptural definition is the Torah (Psalms 119:142), so this scripture isn’t what Christianity thinks it means, as they say “Moses gave the law, but YESHUA freed us from it through grace.” On the contrary it means that Moses received the WRITTEN TORAH from YESHUA WHO IS THE LIVING TORAH on Mount Sinai!

Acts 7:38 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“This is the Moses who said to the people of Yisra’el, ‘ELOHIM will raise up a prophet like me from among your brothers’ This is the man who was in the assembly in the wilderness, accompanied by THE ANGEL that had SPOKEN TO HIM AT MOUNT SINAI and by our fathers, the man who was given LIVING WORDS to pass on to us.”

The Angel of YAHWEH was ONE of the manifestations of YESHUA in the Old Testament see (Exodus 23:20-21) and this Angel spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai and gave Him the Torah.

John 1:29 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“Behold, this is EL (God), who takes away the iniquities from the world.”

John 1:35-36 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“And on another day, John and two of his disciples stood again, looking at YESHUA as He walked, and said, “Behold THE ANGEL OF YAHWEH.”

RIGHTEOUSNESS

Deuteronomy 6:25

 “It will be RIGHTEOUSNESS for us IF WE ARE CAREFUL TO OBEY ALL THESE COMMANDMENTS before Yahweh our ELOHIM, just as he ordered us to do.’”

1 John 2:29 (Aramaic)

“If you know that HE IS RIGHTEOUS you know also that every one WHO DOES RIGHTEOUSNESS IS OF HIM.”

We know that YESHUA obeyed the Torah perfectly when He walked the earth and said He did not come to do away with it (Matthew 5:17) and we are commanded to walk as He walked (1 John 2:6), so everyone who does righteousness (obeys the Torah) belongs to YESHUA!

Many will then point to Paul using:

Romans 3:22-23 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“And it is a RIGHTEOUSNESS that comes from ELOHIM, through the faithfulness of YESHUA the Messiah, to all who continue trusting. For it makes no difference whether one is a Jew or a Gentile, since all have transgressed and come short of earning ELOHIM’s praise.”

Yes indeed, we are made righteous by the blood of YESHUA as He died for us and made many righteous (Daniel 9:24, Isaiah 53:10), but again, He died because we broke the law, so how do we continue to break the law when that is the reason why He died? See Paul understood that which is why 9 verses later he states:

Romans 3:31 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Does it follow that we abolish Torah by this trusting? Heaven forbid! ON THE CONTRARY, WE CONFIRM TORAH.”

Which matches what YESHUA said:

Matthew 5:17 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“Moreover YESHUA MASHIACH said to His disciples, “Do not think that I came to throw down the Torah and the Prophets, ON THE CONTRARY, I came TO CONFIRM.:

KNOWLEDGE

Malachi 2:7 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“A priests lips should safeguard KNOWLEDGE, and people should seek TORAH FROM HIS MOUTH.”

Hosea 4:6 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“My people are destroyed for want of KNOWLEDGE. Because you rejected KNOWLEDGE, I will also reject you as priests for me. Because you FORGOT THE TORAH OF YOUR ELOHIM, I will also forget your children.”

UNDERSTANDING

Proverbs 13:15 (Septuagint)

“Sound discretion gives favor and to KNOW THE LAW is the part of a SOUND UNDERSTANDING.”

Psalms 119:73 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Your hands made and formed me; give me UNDERSTANDING, SO I CAN LEARN YOUR COMMANDMENTS.”

Job 28:28 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“And to human beings he said, ‘Look, fear of YAHWEH is wisdom! SHUNNING EVIL IS UNDERSTANDING!’”

In order to understand how shunning “evil” is understanding, we must first know the scriptural definition of evil.

2 Kings 17:13 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

13 YAHWEH had warned Isra’el and Judah in advance through every prophet and seer, “Turn from your EVIL WAYS; and OBEY MY COMMANDMENTS AND REGULATIONS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ENTIRE TORAH which I ordered your ancestors to keep and which I sent to you through my servants the prophets.” 

Temple Scroll (The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls) Column 59 page 215

“They shall cry out but I will not listen; they shall scream but I will not answer them because of their EVIL DOINGS. I will hide My face from them and they shall become food, plunder and prey. None shall save them because of their WICKEDNESS, because they have BROKEN MY COVENANT AND THEIR SOUL LOATHED MY LAW until they have incurred every guilt.”

Psalms 119:53 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Fury seizes me when I think of the WICKED, because they abandon your Torah.”

So, not keeping the commandments is defined as EVIL and WICKED! And Job says to shun breaking the commandments is understanding! So again, just like all the definitions in scripture, understanding is connected to the Torah!

Deuteronomy 4:5-6 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

5” Look, I have taught you LAWS AND RULINGS, just as YAHWEH my ELOHIM ordered me, so that you can behave accordingly in the land where you are going in order to take possession of it. 6 Therefore, observe them; and follow them; for then all peoples will see you as having wisdom and UNDERSTANDING. When they hear of all these LAWS, they will say, ‘This great nation is surely a wise and UNDERSTANDING people.”

WISDOM

The same scripture from Deuteronomy applies here for wisdom as well!

Deuteronomy 4:5-6 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

5 Look, I have taught you LAWS AND RULINGS, just as YAHWEH my ELOHIM ordered me, so that you can behave accordingly in the land where you are going in order to take possession of it. 6 Therefore, observe them; and follow them; for then all peoples will see you as having WISDOM and understanding. When they hear of all these LAWS, they will say, ‘This great nation is surely a WISE and understanding people.”

Psalms 119:98 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“I am WISER than my foes, BECAUSE YOUR COMMANDMENTS ARE MINE FOREVER.”

Proverbs 24:7 (Septuagint)

“WISDOM AND GOOD UNDERSTANDING are in the gates of the wise; THE WISE DO NOT TURN ASIDE FROM THE MOUTH OF YAHWEH…”

Sirach 9:15

“Let your talk be WITH THE WISE AND ALL YOUR COMMUNICATION IN THE LAW OF THE MOST HIGH.

Sirach 24:23-26

“All this is the BOOK OF THE COVENANT OF THE MOST HIGH ELOHIM, THE LAW THAT MOSES COMMANDED US as an inheritance for the congregations of Jacob. It overflows, like the Pishon, WITH WISDOM, and like the Tigris at the time of the first fruits. It runs over, like the Euphrates, with UNDERSTANDING, and like the Jordan at harvest time. It pours fourth INSTRUCTION like the Nile, like the Gihon at the time of vintage.”

Sirach 33:2

“The WISE WILL NOT HATE THE LAW, but the one who is hypocritical about it is like a boat in a storm.”

2 Baruch 77:15-16

“And I answered and said to them: “Shepherds and lamps and springs come FROM THE TORAH. And though we pass on, the TORAH ABIDES. If, therefore, you LOOK to THE TORAH AND WILL BE HEEDING WISDOM, the lamp will not be wanting and the shepherd not departing and the spring not drying up.”

Loving YAHWEH with HEART, SOUL, AND MIGHT

2 Kings 23:25 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“No previous king was like him (Josiah); because he turned to YAHWEH with all of his HEART, with all His BEING (SOUL) and with all HIS POWER, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL THE TORAH OF MOSES.”

Temple Scroll (The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls) Column 59 page 215

“Afterwards they will return to Me with all their HEART AND ALL THEIR SOUL, IN CONFORMITY WITH ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW, and I will save them from the hand of their enemies and redeem them from the hand of those who hate them, and I will bring them to the land of their fathers. I will redeem them, and increase them and exult over them. I will be their ELOHIM and they shall be My people.”

Deuteronomy 10:12-13 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“So now, Yisra’el, all that YAHWEH your ELOHIM asks from you is to fear YAHWEH your ELOHIM, follow ALL HIS WAYS, love Him and serve YAHWEH your ELOHIM with ALL YOUR HEART AND ALL YOUR BEING (SOUL); to OBEY for your own good, the COMMANDMENTS AND REGULATIONS of YAHWEH which I am giving you today.”

LOVE

John 14:21 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“He who keeps My COMMANDMENTS, is He who LOVES ME. And whosoever loves Me, will be loved by My Father; and I will love Him and will reveal Myself to him.”

1 John 5:3 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“For LOVING ELOHIM MEANS OBEYING HIS COMMANDS. Moreover, His commands are not burdensome…”

Testament of Joseph 11:1

“Therefore my children, you also have the fear of ELOHIM in all your works before your eyes, and honor your brothers. For EVERYONE who DOES THE TORAH OF YAHWEH WILL BE LOVED BY HIM.”

Testament of Naphtali 8:10

“Therefore be wise in ELOHIM, my children, and prudent, understanding the order of His COMMANDS, and every WORD OF THE TORAH, THAT YAHWEH MAY LOVE YOU.”

1 Epistle Clement of Rome Chapter 49

“Let him who HAS LOVE in Messiah KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF MESSIAH.”

Thanksgiving Hymns (Complete Dead Sea Scrolls) Hymn 8, page 258

“Grant me the place of Thy loving-kindness which Thou hast chosen for them that LOVE THEE AND KEEP THY COMMANDMENTS, that they may STAND IN THY PRESENCE FOR EVER.”

Those who show YAHWEH they love Him by keeping His commandments will live forever!

How do we KNOW HIM?

1 John 2:3-4 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

3” The way we can be sure we KNOW HIM is if we are obeying his commands. 4 Anyone who says, “I KNOW HIM,” but isn’t obeying his commands is a liar — the truth is not in him.”

2 Thessalonians 1:7-8 (Aramaic)

“And to you who are oppressed He shall grant to be at peace with us when our Master YESHUA HA’MASHIACH shall be revealed from heaven with the host of His angels. At which time He will avenge with flaming fire those who KNOW NOT ELOHIM and those who do not acknowledge the gospel of our Master YESHUA HA’MASHIACH; for they at the judgment day, shall be rewarded with everlasting destruction from the presence of our Master and from the esteem of His power…”

In these two verses Paul is saying that those who do not keep the commandments and believe in YESHUA just as Revelation 14:12 says, will be rewarded with everlasting fire!

Matthew 7:21-23 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Master, Master!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, only those who do what my Father in heaven wants. 22 On that Day, many will say to me, ‘Master, Master! Didn’t we prophesy in your name? Didn’t we expel demons in your name? Didn’t we perform many miracles in your name?’ 23 Then I will tell them to their faces, ‘I never KNEW YOU! Get away from me, you workers of LAWLESSNESS!’

YESHUA’s words are a perfect match to what we read in Psalms!

Psalms 119:118 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“You REJECT ALL WHO STRAY FROM YOUR LAWS, for what they deceive themselves with is false.”

Psalms 119:155 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Salvation is far away from the wicked, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT SEEK YOUR LAWS.”

WAY

Psalms 103:7 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“He made HIS WAYS known to Moses.”

What was given to Moses on Mount Sinai? The 10 commandments which are YAHWEH’s WAYS!

Psalms 119:1 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“How happy are those who WAY OF LIFE is blameless, who LIVE BY THE TORAH OF YAHWEH!”

Malachi 2:9 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Therefore I have in turn made you contemptible and vile before all the people, because you did not KEEP MY WAYS but were partial in applying THE TORAH.”

Revelation 15:3 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“And they sang the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb, and said, “Great are the works of YAHWEH ELOHEI Ha-Tseva’ot! Righteousness (Deuteronomy 6:25) and truth (Psalms 119:142) are YOUR WAYS O King of kings!”

1 Kings 2:1-3 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“The time came near for David to die; so he commissioned Solomon his son as follows: “I am going the way of all the earth. Therefore, be strong; show yourself a man. Observe the charge of YAHWEH your ELOHIM to go in HIS WAYS and KEEP HIS REGULATIONS, COMMANDMENTS, RULINGS AND INSTRUCTIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH WHAT IS WRITTEN IN THE TORAH OF MOSES; so that you will succeed in all you do and wherever you go.”

Isaiah 64:4 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“You favored those who were glad to do justice, those who remembered you in YOUR WAYS. When you were angry, we kept transgressing; but if we keep Your ANCIENT WAYS, WE WILL BE SAVED.”

TRUTH

Psalms 119:142 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Your righteousness is eternal righteousness, and Your TORAH IS TRUTH.”

Psalms 119:151 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“You are close by, YAHWEH; and all Your COMMANDMENTS ARE TRUTH.”

Psalms 119:160 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“The main thing about Your WORD is that IT’S TRUE; and all Your just rulings last forever.”

John 17:17 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“Sanctify them IN TRUTH- YOUR WORD IS TRUTH.”

2 Baruch 44:14

“They are the ones who have acquired for themselves reservoirs of wisdom and with whom treasures of understanding are found. From mercy they have not withdrawn, and they have kept THE TRUTH OF THE TORAH.”

LIFE

Proverbs 14:27 (Septuagint)

“The COMMANDMENT of YAHWEH is a FOUNTAIN OF LIFE.”

John 12:49-50 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“For I do not speak of Myself; but the Father who sent Me, He commanded Me to speak and to command and I know that HIS COMMANDMENT IS EVERLASTING LIFE. And that which I speak is identical to that which The Father speaks—so I speak.”

Deuteronomy 32:45-47 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“When he had finished speaking all these words to all Yisra’el, he said to them, “Take to heart all the words of my testimony against you today, so that you can use them in charging your children to be careful to OBEY ALL THE WORDS OF THIS TORAH. For this not a trivial matter for you; on the contrary, IT IS YOUR LIFE!”

2 Esdras 14:29-30

“At first, our fathers dwelt as aliens in Egypt, and they were delivered from there, and received the LAW OF LIFE, which they did not keep, which you also have transgressed after them.”

2 Baruch 38:2

“Your TORAH IS LIFE, and Your wisdom is uprightness.”

There can be no doubts that all these words and their definitions point to the Torah! So how can the law be done away with? This should be an eye-opening message and you should now be armed with the complete truth! The scriptures and the definitions point for us to do this:

Revelation 14:12 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“Here is the hope of the set-apart ones, and here are those who DO THE COMMANDMENTS OF YAHWEH, AND BELIEVE IN YESHUA.”

So, when YESHUA says He is the Way, The Truth, and the Life in John 14:6, He is saying that He is the LIVING TORAH! The scriptures exhort us to obey the written Torah and have faith in YESHUA the Living Torah for they are the same thing! From now on when you see the words: Sin, Grace, Righteousness, Knowledge, Understanding, Evil, Wisdom, how to love YAHWEH with all your heart, soul, and might, Love, How do we know Him, Way, Truth, and Life, know that they all point to the TORAH that we must be obeying!

As always may YAHWEH bless you all in YESHUA’s Name!

You are the INSTRUCTION OF THE WORLD!

As always, the words that YESHUA spoke from the original Hebrew manuscripts carry more weight and meaning as we can see what He truly taught! We as His priests and disciples have a job to do, which is to be a light and instruction to the world.

Matthew 5:13-16 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“And it happened furthermore, that YESHUA MASHIACH said unto His disciples, “YOU ARE THE INSTRUCTION OF THE WORLD, but the instruction is cut off by them who are not saved, and nothing else is fit, except to cast them to the street and trample them. The LIGHT OF THE WORLD is not able to hide the city that rests on the mountain. No man lights a lamp in order to set it under a covering, but to set it upon the menorah, in order to give light to all those who are in the house. So let your lamp shine before all, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father who is in the heavens.”

Philippians 2:14-15 (Aramaic)

“Do all things without disputing and doubting, that you may be sincere and blameless, like the innocent children of ELOHIM, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you SHINE AS LIGHTS IN THE WORLD; for you are to them the LIGHT OF LIFE, for my pride and esteem in the day of Messiah; for I have not run in vain nor labored in vain.”

Matthew 28:19 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“Therefore go preach to ALL THE PEOPLES, and immerse them in the Name of the Father and the Son and of RUACH HA’KODESH (The Set-Apart Spirit), AND TEACH THEM, AND KEEP ALL THAT I COMMANDED YOU.”

Matthew 5:17 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“Moreover YESHUA MASHIACH said to His disciples, “Do not think that I came to throw down the Torah and the Prophets, on the contrary, I CAME TO CONFIRM.”

In the Community Rule which was the FIRST PHASE of the Zadok Priests BEFORE the arrival of the Teacher of Righteousness and the Damascus Document says this in Ken Johnsons translation of the Damascus Document page 66 titled the Fruit of the Spirit-Spirit of Truth:

“The Way of Light in this world is to ENLIGHTEN THE MINDS OF ALL MEN by making straight the PATH OF TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS and TEACHING THEIR HEART TO REVERENCE ALL THE COMMANDS OF ELOHIM!  Men should have a spirit of: Meekness, patience, gentleness, eternal goodness, intelligence, understanding, potent wisdom, knowledge, enthusiasm for righteousness, set-apart purpose, kindness, magnificent purity (hating all unclean idolatry), temperance, self-control. These are the foundation fruit of the Spirit for the Sons of Truth in this world. The reward for those who walk in these will be healing and peace with long life. They are spiritual sons with all the eternal blessings. They will receive joy with eternal life, and a crown of esteem clothed in light.”

Community Rule (Complete Dead Sea Scrolls) page 102

“These are their ways in the world for the enlightenment of the heart of man, and so that all the paths of true righteousness may be made straight before him, and so that the FEAR OF THE LAWS OF ELOHIM MAY BE INSTILLED IN HIS HEART…

YESHUA says that we are the instruction of the world, which is a perfect match to what we read in the Dead Sea Scrolls which is to enlighten the minds of ALL MEN and teach them to reverence ALL the commandments of ELOHIM! Plus, if you notice that Paul’s description of the fruits of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22-25 is a match to what was written in the Dead Sea Scrolls! The Good News is to be preached, which is that YESHUA delivered us from our transgressions by dying for us on the execution stake and saving us from the punishment that we deserve, but also to tell the world about the Torah!

Wisdom of Solomon 18:4

“For their enemies deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness, those who had kept your children imprisoned, through whom the imperishable LIGHT OF THE LAW WAS TO BE GIVEN TO THE WORLD.”

Ecclesiastes 12:13 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Here is the final conclusion, now that you have heard everything: Fear ELOHIM and KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS; this is what BEING HUMAN IS ALL ABOUT.”

Testament of Levi 14:4

“But if you are darkened through transgressions, what, therefore, WILL ALL THE NATIONS DO, WHO LIVE IN BLINDNESS? Yes, you will bring a curse upon our race, because THE LIGHT OF THE TORAH-which WAS GIVEN TO LIGHTEN EVERY MAN…”

4th Ezra 5:27

“And from all the multiple of peoples, thou has gotten for thyself one people; and to this people whom thou hast loved, thou hast given THE TORAH, WHICH IS APPROVED BY ALL.”

To sum it all up I’ll say this, we are priests under YESHUA’s order of Melchizedekian priesthood, if you have not seen the message I did on this topic please view it here: https://youtu.be/RZtI7sfXDx0?si=GpYtVyHQH-TxSaoQ.

Peter and Paul both understood this:

1 Peter 2:9 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

9 “But you are a chosen people,[e] the King’s Cohanim (PRIESTHOOD),[f] a set-apart nation,[g] a people for ELOHIM to possess![h] Why? In order for you to declare the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”

Romans 15:16 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“To be a servant of the Messiah YESHUA for the Gentiles, with the PRIESTLY DUTY of presenting the Good News of ELOHIM, so that the Gentiles may be an acceptable offering, made set-apart by the RUACH’ HA’KODESH.”

The Levites and priests operated inside the physical temple, but we are priests who operate outside of the physical temple because we are the temple filled with the RUACH HA’KODESH (1 Corinthians 3:16). The priesthood still exists, there was just a transformation of the priesthood, the same way there was a transformation of the Torah from being written on the tablets of stone to being written on our hearts!

And what was one of the duties of the priests and Levites? It was to teach the Torah!

Deuteronomy 33:8-10 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

Of Levi he said: “Let your tumim and urim be with your pious one, whom you tested at Massah, with whom you struggled at M’rivah Spring. 9 Of his father and mother he said, ‘I don’t know them’; he didn’t acknowledge his brothers or children. For he observed your word, and he kept your covenant.10 They will TEACH JACOB YOUR RULINGS, YISRA’EL YOUR TORAH. They will set incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.”

Malachi 2:7-9 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“A PRIESTS lips should safeguard knowledge, and people should SEEK TORAH FROM HIS MOUTH, because HE IS THE MESSENGER OF YAHWEH-TZVA’OT. But you turned away from the path, you caused many to fail in the Torah, you corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says YAHWEH-TZAV’OT. Therefore I have in turn made you contemptible and vile before all the people, because you did not keep MY WAYS but were partial in APPLYING THE TORAH.”

Testament of Levi 14:3-4

“For as the heaven is purer in the sight of YAHWEH than the earth, so also you should be, as the LIGHTS OF YISRA’EL, purer than all the nations. But if you are darkened through transgressions, what, therefore, WILL ALL THE NATIONS DO, WHO LIVE IN BLINDNESS? Yes, you will bring a curse upon our race, because THE LIGHT OF THE TORAH-which WAS GIVEN TO LIGHTEN EVERY MAN-you desire to destroy by TEACHING COMMANDS CONTRARY to the judgments of ELOHIM.”

Nehemiah 8:9 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Nehemiah the governor, ‘Ezra THE PRIEST and TORAH-TEACHER and the LEVITES WHO TAUGHT THE PEOPLE said to all the people, “Today is consecrated to YAHWEH your ELOHIM; don’t be mournful, don’t weep.” For all the people had been weeping when they HEARD THE WORDS OF THE TORAH.”

Leviticus 10:8-11 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“YAHWEH said to Aaron, “Don’t drink any wine or other intoxicating liquor, neither you nor your sons with you, when you enter the tent of meeting, so that you will not die. This is to be a permanent regulation through all your generations, so that you will distinguish between the set-apart and the common, and between the unclean and the clean; and so that you will TEACH THE PEOPLE OF YISRA’EL ALL THE LAWS OF YAHWEH has told them through Moses.”

2 Chronicles 17:7-9 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“In the third year of his reign (Yehosaphat) he sent his leading men, Ben-Chayil, ‘Ovadyah, Z’kharyah, N’tan’el and Mikhayahu TO TEACH in the cities of Judah: with them were the LEVITES Sh’ma’yahu, N’tanyahu, Z’vadyahu, ‘Ash’el, Sh’miramot, Y’honatan, Adoniyahu, Tuviyahu and Tov-Adoniyah, THE LEVITES; and with them Elishama and Y’horam THE PRIESTS. THEY TAUGHT in Judah, HAVING A SCROLL OF THE TORAH OF YAHWEH with them; they circulated through all the cities of Judah, TEACHING AMONG THE PEOPLE.”

We are in the instruction of the world; and what are we to teach the world as priests in the order of YESHUA’s Melchizedekian priesthood?

Revelation 14:12 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“Here is the hope of the set-apart ones, and here are those who DO THE COMMANDMENTS OF YAHWEH, AND BELIEIVE IN YESHUA.”

As always may YAHWEH bless you all in YESHUA’s Name!

Spiritual meaning of Tsit-Tsit (Fringes)!

Matthew 9:19-21 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“So YESHUA stood up and He went-and His disciples with Him. And behold, a woman who flowed with blood for twelve years came behind Him and touched the TSIT-TSIT of His garment, saying in her heart, “If only I could touch His garment I would be healed immediately.”

Mark 6:56 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“In whatever city or town He entered into, they passed by the ways and entreated His face that they might only touch the BORDER OF HIS GARMENT, for all those who TOUCHED WERE HEALED.”

Luke 8:43-48 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“As he went, with the crowds on every side virtually choking him, 43 a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone, 44 came up behind him and touched the tzitzit on his robe; instantly her hemorrhaging stopped. 45 YESHUA asked, “Who touched me?” When they all denied doing it, Kefa said, “Rabbi! The crowds are hemming you in and jostling you!” 46 But YESHUA said, “Someone did touch me, because I felt power go out of me.” 47 Seeing she could not escape notice, the woman, quaking with fear, threw herself down before him and confessed in front of everyone why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed. 48 He said to her, “My daughter, your trust has saved you; go in peace.”

Sirach 38:1-7

“Honor a physician with the honor due to him for the uses which you may have of him: for YAHWEH has created him. For from the ELYON (Most High) COMES HEALING and he shall receive honor from the king. The skill of the physician shall lift up his head: and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration. YAHWEH has created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.”

Holistic doctors do serve a purpose and can help, but as with the woman with the flow of blood for 12 years no one could help her, which shows that healing comes from YAHWEH and the physician is a vessel. So, we see that those who touched the tsit-tsit that YESHUA wore were healed! So, firstly we have to remember what the tsit-tsit is for!

Numbers 15:38-41 (Septuagint)

“Speak to the children of Yisra’el and you shall tell them; and let them make fringes (tsit-tsit) for themselves on the BORDERS OF THEIR garments throughout their generations; and you shall put on the fringes of the borders a lace of blue (etymology says purple). And it shall be on your fringes and you shall look at them and you shall remember ALL THE COMMANDS OF YAHWEH AND DO THEM: and you shall not turn back after your imaginations and after the sight of your eyes in the things after which you go fornicating; that you may remember AND PERFORM ALL MY COMMANDS AND YOU SHALL BE SET-APART TO YOUR ELOHIM. I am YAHWEH your ELOHIM that brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your ELOHIM: I am YAHWEH your ELOHIM.”

So, the tsit-tsit are a reminder to keep the commandments of YAHWEH, which means that they are a physical reminder of the commandments themselves! And what does obeying the commandments in the Torah do?

Leviticus 18:5 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“You are to observe My laws and rulings; if a person DOES THEM, HE WILL HAVE LIFE THROUGH THEM; I am YAHWEH.”

Ezekiel 20:11 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“I gave them My laws and showed them My rulings; if a person OBEYS THEM, HE WILL HAVE LIFE THROUGH THEM.”

Ezekiel 20:13 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“But the house of Yisra’el rebelled against Me in the desert. They did not live by MY LAWS; and they rejected My rulings, which, if a PERSON DOES, HE WILL HAVE LIFE THROUGH THEM; moreover, they greatly profaned My Shabbats. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the desert, in order to destroy them.”

Ezekiel 20:21 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“But the children too rebelled against Me. They did not live by My laws or observe My rulings, TO OBEY THEM, which, if a PERSON DOES, HE WILL HAVE LIFE BY THEM; and they profaned My Shabbats. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them and spend My anger on them in the desert.”

And yes, Paul who observed the Torah calls the Torah righteous and gaining life through it!

Romans 10:5 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“For Moses writes about the RIGHTEOUSNESS GROUNDED IN THE TORAH that the person WHO DOES THESE THINGS WILL ATTAIN LIFE THROUGH THEM.”

Damascus Document 3:14-15 (Complete Dead Sea Scrolls pg. 131)

“But with the remnant which held fast to the COMMANDMENTS OF ELOHIM He made this covenant with Yisra’el forever, revealing to them the hidden things in which all Yisra’el had gone astray. He unfolded before them His set-apart Shabbats and His esteemed feasts, the testimonies of His righteousness and the ways of His truth, and the desires of His will WHICH A MAN MUST DO IN ORDER TO LIVE.”

The scriptures testify multiple times that those who keep the commandments will have eternal life by keeping them! Knowing this we can see that in the “Peshat” the literal meaning of the scripture is that YESHUA wore tsit-tsit according to the command in the Torah and that people touched them.

 In the “Remez” the hint to a deeper spiritual meaning: They reached out and touched the commandments of the Torah which were on YESHUA the Living Torah and were healed, because YAHWEH’s commandments bring forth LIFE!

Hosea 6:1-3 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Come, let us RETURN TO YAHWEH; for He has torn, and He will HEAL US; He has struck, and He will bind our wounds. After two days, He will revive us; on the third day, He will raise us up; and we will LIVE IN HIS PRESENCE. Let us know, let us strive to KNOW YAHWEH (1 John 2:3-4). That He will come is as certain as morning; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rains that water the earth.”

Let us return to YAHWEH and obey the written Torah and believe in YESHUA the Living Torah! As always may YAHWEH bless you in YESHUA’s Name!

Instructions AFTER Feast of Unleavened Bread!

Leviticus 23:9-14 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“YAHWEH said to Moshe, 10 “Tell the people of Yisra’el, ‘After you enter the land I am giving you and harvest its ripe crops, you are to bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the cohen (priest). 11 He is to wave the sheaf before YAHWEH, so that you will be accepted; the cohen (priest) is to wave it on the day after the Shabbat. 12 On the day that you wave the sheaf, you are to offer a male lamb without defect, in its first year, as a burnt offering for YAHWEH. 13 Its grain offering is to be one gallon of fine flour mixed with olive oil, an offering made by fire to YAHWEH as a fragrant aroma; its drink offering is to be of wine, one quart. 14 You are NOT TO EAT BREAD, DRIED GRAIN or FRESH GRAIN until the day you bring the offering for your ELOHIM; this is a permanent regulation through all your generations, no matter where you live.”

Temple Scroll Column 18, page 295 (Charlesworth translation)

“…for this ram. And the BREAD and PARCHED GRAIN and FRESH GRAIN you SHALL NOT EAT UNTIL THAT SAME DAY; and they shall present…and a billy-goat for a purification-offering in order to atone for all the people of the assembly. And its meal-offering and its liquid-offering shall be according to the precept a tenth of the semolina mixed with oil, a fourth of a hin, and wine for a liquid-offering, a fourth of a hin. (VACAT) And he shall atone for the people of the assembly from all their guilt and it will be forgiven them. For their generations this shall be for them ETERNAL STATUTES…in their dwellings. And afterwards they shall offer up a ram once in a year ON THE DAY OF ELEVATING THE SHEAF.”

Leviticus 23:14 (Septuagint)

“And you SHALL NOT EAT BREAD OR THE NEW PARCHED GRAIN, until this same day, until you offer the sacrifices to your ELOHIM: it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.”

Leviticus 23:14 (Samaritan)

“And until this same day, until you have brought in the sacrifice of your ELOHIM, you shall eat NEITHER BREAD NOR ROASTED GRAIN NOR NEW GROWTH. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.”

Leviticus 23:14 (Concordant version of the Old Testament)

“NO BREAD OR TOASTED GRAIN OR GROATS of the crop shall you eat until this very day, UNTIL you bring the approach present of your ELOHIM. It shall be an eonian statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.”

This command is referring to AFTER the completion of the Feast of Unleavened Bread because during the Feast of Unleavened Bread we are commanded to eat unleavened bread for 7 days. The Feast of Unleavened Bread this year is from April 3rd-9th, which means starting on the 10th-13th no bread is to be eaten until that Sunday April 14th, which is the 26th day of the 1st month, when we begin counting the 50 days to get to Shavuot. No bread, roasted grain or new growth is to be eaten until the first fruits have been given to YAHWEH. This will also make us appreciate His provision for the abundance of wheat He has given when we go without it for four days. 

In connection with the FOUR-day period leading up to firstfruits is that YESHUA is the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep in righteousness, which again points to Him. The number FOUR in the Otiot is “Dalet” which means door, entrance, hang, or move. YESHUA is the DOOR and the ENTRANCE way to YAHWEH the Father! He HANG on the execution-stake for our iniquities, rose from the dead, and will grant those who belong to Him eternal life at the resurrection.

1 Corinthians 15:20-22

“But now Messiah has been RAISED FROM THE DEAD, and has become the FIRSTFRUITS of those HAVING FALLEN ASLEEP. For since death is through a man, resurrection of the dead is also through a Man. For as all die in Adam, so also all shall be made alive in Messiah.”

2 Baruch 30:1-3

“And after these, when the time of the advent (the coming) of the Messiah will be fulfilled and He will return in esteem, then all those who have FALLEN ALSLEEP IN HOPE OF HIM WILL RISE. At that time, those reservoirs will be opened in which the number of the souls of the righteous have been preserved, and they will come out, and the abundance of the souls will appear in one assembly, of one mind. The first will rejoice, and the last will not be saddened, for they know that the time has arrived of which it is said that it is in the consummation of times.”

First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians Chapter 24 verses 101-103

“Let us consider, beloved, how YAHWEH continually proves to us that there shall be a FUTURE RESURRECTION, of which He has rendered the Master YESHUA HA’MASHIACH THE FIRST FRUITS BY RAISING HIM FROM THE DEAD. Let us contemplate, beloved, the resurrection which is at all times taking place. Day and night declare to us a resurrection. The night sinks to sleep, and the day arises; the day again departs, and the night comes on. Let us behold the fruits of the earth, how the sowing of grain takes place. The sower goes forth, and casts it into the ground; and the seed being thus scattered, though dry and naked when it fell upon the earth, is gradually dissolved. Then out of its dissolution the mighty power of the providence of YAHWEH raises it up again, and from ONE SEED MANY ARISE AND BRING FORTH FRUIT.”

Just as YESHUA rose from the dead, so will those who have been sold out for Him in this life by keeping the commandments of YAHWEH and believing in Him! If you have not seen or read the message I did titled “The Firstfruits Timeline” you can view it here: https://youtu.be/on97EydCs6M?si=cfiwavIjKTbbb-uL

This is also further confirmation that the Zadok Priestly Calendar is the true ancient calendar outlined in the Temple Scroll, Jubilees, Enoch, and other sources in the Dead Sea Scrolls, because Judaism mixes the wave sheaf (firstfruits) and begin the 50-day count to Shavuot DURING the Feast of Unleavened Bread when we are COMMANDED TO EAT BREAD, which would contradict YAHWEH’s command in Leviticus 23:14 where He commands us NOT to eat bread, so there is no way first fruits can occur during the Feast of Unleavened bread. The Zadok Priestly Calendar separates the two and leaves no room for contradictions. To reconcile this apparent contradiction commentators have said that this command is referring to “New grain”, because the Jews had to eat unleavened bread at this time, but that cannot be correct because YAHWEH has already eliminated that option by saying “NOR fresh grain” or “New growth”. The only way this command works is by it occurring AFTER the Feast of Unleavened Bread for four days leading up to FirstFruits.

There has been much debate about when we should begin the 50-day count to Shavuot, and the biggest part of the debate is whether we should begin counting after the first day of unleavened bread (a High-Shabbat) or on Sunday after the weekly seventh day Shabbat. It’s critical to know that the Appointed Times are separated and do not mix or overlap. Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread are connected, which means that firstfruits should come after the Feast of Unleavened because first fruits is connected with Shavuot. Not separating them would create a contradiction and a violation of the command. Let’s view some ancient texts to arrive at the answer.

Leviticus 23:16 (Aramaic Peshitta)

“Even to the morrow AFTER THE SEVENTH SHABBAT (The weekly 7th Day Shabbat) you shall count fifty days; and you shall offer a meal offering of a new wheat to YAHWEH.”

Leviticus 23:15 (Samaritan)

“And you shall count for yourselves from the DAY NEXT TO THE SHABBAT (Sunday), from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering, there shall be seven complete Shabbats.”

Temple Scroll Column 19:11-16

“And you shall count for yourselves from the day you bring in the new meal-offering to YAHWEH, the bread of the firstfruits. SEVEN COMPLETE WEEKS there shall be until the day you bring the sheaf of the elevation-offering, you shall count the morning AFTER THE SEVENTH SHABBAT, YOU SHALL COUNT FIFTY DAYS…”

The Aramaic Peshitta, Samaritan Torah, and Temple Scroll all clarify that firstfruits is AFTER the weekly 7th day Shabbat which is a Sunday and no other day; and this is when we begin the 50-day count, so clears up any confusion and contradictions when we return to the ancient path!

As always may YAHWEH bless you in YESHUA’s Name!

New Priesthood means NO LAW?

The book of Hebrews has caused a lot of confusion and false doctrine, just as the letters of Paul have. So, this message is to clear up the misinterpretation of Hebrews 7 and break it down verse by verse, so that prayerfully many will repent and follow the outline that the scriptures set forth which is:

Revelation 14:12 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“Here is the hope of the set-apart ones, and here are those who DO THE COMMANDMENTS OF YAHWEH, AND believe in YESHUA.”

Hebrews 7:6-28 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

6 “But Malki-Tzedek, even though he was NOT descended from Levi, took a tenth from Avraham.”

Genesis 14:18-20 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Malki-Tzedek KING OF SALEM (JERUSALEM) brought out bread and wine. He was a COHEN (PRIEST) of EL’ELYON (EL Most High), so he blessed him (Abraham) with these words: “Blessed be Abram by EL’ELYON, maker of heaven and earth. And blessed be EL’ELYON, who handed over your enemies over to you.” Abram gave him a TENTH OF EVERYTHING.”

Hebrews continued:

“Also, he blessed Avraham, the man who received ELOHIM’s promises; 7 and it is beyond all dispute that the one who blesses has higher status than the one who receives the blessing.”

We know that Abraham became a father of a multitude and that all nations would be blessed through him, and what the writer of Hebrews is saying is that, even though Abraham was great, that Malki-Tzedek the one Abraham tithed to and the one who blessed Abraham is greater! Malki-Tzedek was a KING AND PRIEST! There is only ONE other that can claim the titles and offices of KING, PRIEST, AND PROPHET at the same time. Keep this context in mind for the later verses.

Hebrews continued:

8 Moreover, in the case of the Cohanim (priests), the tenth is received by men who die; while in the case of Malki-Tzedek, it is received by someone who is testified to be still alive.”

This is very important as the writer is showing the superiority of Malki-Tzedek’s priesthood as he still lives, yet the Levites who were men died because they were human.

Hebrews continued:

9 “One might go even further and say that Levi, who himself receives tenths, paid a tenth through Avraham; 10 inasmuch as he was still in his ancestor Avraham’s body when Malki-Tzedek met him.”

Numbers 18:21-28 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“21 “To the descendants of Levi I have given the entire tenth of the produce collected in Isra’el. It is their inheritance in payment for the service they render in the tent of meeting. 22 From now on, the people of Isra’el are not to approach the tent of meeting, so that they will not bear the consequences of their iniquity and die. 23 Only the Levites are to perform the service in the tent of meeting, and they will be responsible for whatever they do wrong. This is to be a permanent regulation through all your generations. They are to have no inheritance among the people of Isra’el, 24 because I have given to the Levites as their inheritance the tenths of the produce which the people of Isra’el set aside as a gift for YAHWEH. This is why I have said to them that they are to have no inheritance among the people of Isra’el.” 25 YAHWEH said to Moshe, 26 “Tell the Levites, ‘When you take from the people of Isra’el the tenth of the produce which I have given you from them as your inheritance, you are to set aside from it a gift for YAHWEH, one tenth of the tenth. 27 The gift you set aside will be accounted to you as if it were grain from the threshing-floor and grape juice from the wine vat. 28 In this way you will set aside a gift for YAHWEH from all your tenths that you receive from the people of Isra’el, and from these tenths you are to give to Aharon the cohen (priest) the gift set aside for YAHWEH. 29 From everything given to you, you are to set aside all that is due YAHWEH, the best part of it, its set-apart portion.’

So again, he is stressing the importance of the SUPERIOR PRIESTHOOD, by saying that the Levites who received tithes, technically gave a tithe to the more superior Malki-Tzedek priesthood through Abraham before the Levites even existed! We know the order of the patriarchs was Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and through Jacob came the 12 Tribes of Yisra’el, and his third son was Levi who was given the priesthood, so Abraham was here before Levi was. The author of Hebrews is setting everything up to introduce YESHUA and His more superior Priesthood!

Hebrews continued:

11 “Therefore, if it had been possible to reach the goal through the system of Cohanim (priests) derived from Levi (since in connection with it, the people were given the Torah), what need would there have been for another, different kind of cohen (priest), the one spoken of as to be compared with Malki-Tzedek and not to be compared with Aharon?”

We see here again that the context being spoken of is the priesthood! So, the priests were Levites who came through the line of Aaron, Moses’ brother, but this new priesthood isn’t compared to Aaron, rather this priesthood is compared to Malki-Tzedek, as it is written:

Psalms 110:1, 4 (Complete Jewish Scriptures) (Parenthesis mine)

“YAHWEH says to MY MASTER (YESHUA), “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” Verse 4 “YAHWEH has sworn it, and He will never retract ----- “You ARE A COHEN (PRIEST) FOREVER, TO BE COMPARED WITH MALKI-TZEDEK.”

Levi himself understood this prophecy:

Testament of Levi 8:11-15 (Parenthesis mine)

“And they said to me, ‘Levi, your seed will be divided into three branches, for a sign of the esteem of YAHWEH WHO IS TO COME. And the first portion will be great; yes, none will be greater than it. The second will be in the priesthood. And the third will be called by a RENEWED NAME (In order of Malki-Tzedek), because a KING WILL ARISE IN JUDAH, and will establish A NEW PRIESTHOOD, after the fashion of the nations to all the nations. And His presence is beloved, AS A PROPHET OF THE MOST HIGH.”

This was a prophecy concerning YESHUA and the Superior Priesthood of Him being King, Priest, and Prophet! The priests and Levites were not kings, the same way Ezekiel was a prophet and priest, but not a king! David was a king and prophet, but not a priest! In other words, YESHUA compared to Malki-Tzedek is ALL 3 AT ONE TIME! All throughout scripture the only one was king and priest was Malki-Tzedek, the one YESHUA is compared to! This is the point the writer is making in this letter.

Hebrews continued:

12” For if the system of cohanim (priests) is TRANSFORMED, there must of necessity occur a TRANSFORMATION OF THE TORAH. 13 The one about whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar; 14 for everyone knows that our Master arose out of YEHUDAH (JUDAH), and that Moshe said nothing about this tribe when he spoke about cohanim.”

This point is critical to understand! How was the priesthood transformed? He explains that the priests were from the tribe of LEVI, but YESHUA is from the tribe of JUDAH a tribe which never served on the altar in the Old Testament. He says it is evident that YESHUA came from Judah, which is testified to in the scriptures!

Micah 5:2 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“But you, Beit-Lechem near Efrat, so small among the clans of JUDAH, out of YOU will come forth to Me, the FUTURE RULER OF YISRA’EL, WHOSE ORIGINS ARE FAR IN THE PAST, BACK IN ANCIENT TIMES.”

This scripture was quoted earlier and necessary here as well:

Testament of Levi 8:11-15

“And they said to me, ‘Levi, your seed will be divided into three branches, for a sign of the esteem of YAHWEH WHO IS TO COME. And the first portion will be great; yes, none will be greater than it. The second will be in the priesthood. And the third will be called by a RENEWED NAME, because a KING WILL ARISE IN JUDAH, and will establish A NEW PRIESTHOOD, after the fashion of the nations to all the nations. And His presence is beloved, AS A PROPHET OF THE MOST HIGH.”

Genesis 49:10 (Aramaic)

“The scepter shall not depart from JUDAH, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, UNTIL THE COMING OF THE ONE to whom the scepter belongs, to whom the gentiles shall look forward.”

1 Chronicles 5:2 (Aramaic)

“For from JUDAH SHALL COME FORTH MESSIAH THE KING…”

And with the transformation of the priesthood from Levites to YESHUA from the tribe of Judah in the Melchizedekian priesthood, comes a TRANSFORMATION OF THE TORAH! This was also a prophecy which YESHUA fulfilled in the New Priesthood! What does this mean?

Jeremiah 31:31-33 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Here, the days are coming,” says YAHWEH, “when I will make a NEW COVENANT with the house of Yisra’el and with the house of Yehudah (Judah). IT WILL NOT BE LIKE THE COVENANT I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS on the day I took them by their hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt; because they, for their part, violated My covenant, even though I, for My part, was a husband to them,” says YAHWEH. For this the COVENANT I will make with the house of Yisra’el after those days,” says YAHWEH: “I WILL PUT MY TORAH WITHIN THEM AND WRITE IT ON THEIR HEARTS; I will be their ELOHIM, and they will be My people.”

The New Covenant writes the commandments on our hearts versus the tablets of stone, YESHUA is our High-Priest in the order of Melchizedek and does not die nor commit iniquity. As we can see the transformation of the Torah went from being written on TABLETS OF STONE that were given to Moses on Mount Sinai to being WRITTEN ON OUR HEARTS! Which means the form of it changed, not doing away with the Torah! So, this is about a New Priesthood and has nothing to do with doing away with the law as Christianity as said! As I explained in a previous message, how can you get rid of something that is on your heart? If you get rid of your heart YOU WILL DIE; likewise, if you get rid of the Torah/Law that is written on your heart then YOU WILL DIE!

Leviticus 18:5

“You are to observe My laws and rulings; if a person DOES THEM, HE WILL HAVE LIFE THROUGH THEM; I AM YAHWEH.”

Hebrews continued:

15 It becomes even clearer if a “different kind of cohen,” one like Malki-Tzedek, arises, 16 one who became a cohen not by virtue of a rule in the Torah concerning physical descent, but by virtue of the power of an indestructible life. 

YESHUA’s Priesthood is in the order of Malki-Tzedek and not concerning physical descent as the human Levites were! So again, the writer shows the superiority of YESHUA’s PRIESTHOOD predating that of the Levitical priesthood! Unlike, the human high-priest YESHUA DOES NOT DIE because He is eternal, EL the Son of YAHWEH! And unlike the human high priest, YESHUA does not have to make continual slaughter offerings for transgressions, because He was perfect! This makes for the perfect priesthood!

Hebrews continued:

17 For it is stated,

“You are a cohen FOREVER,
to be compared with Malki-Tzedek.”[b]

18 Thus, on the one hand, the earlier rule is set aside because of its weakness and inefficacy 19 (for the Torah did not bring anything to the goal); and, on the other hand, a hope of something better is introduced, through which we are drawing near to ELOHIM.

YESHUA is the goal of the Torah as He is the written word that became flesh, He is the Living Torah! The writer isn’t saying the Torah is done away with he is simply explaining what is written in

Romans 8:1-4 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Therefore, there is no longer any condemnation awaiting those who are in union with the Messiah Yeshua. 2 Why? Because the Torah of the Spirit, which produces this life in union with Messiah YESHUA, has set me free from the “Torah” of INIQUITY AND DEATH. 3 For what the Torah COULD NOT DO BY ITSELF, because it lacked the power to make the OLD NATURE COOPERATE, ELOHIM did by sending his own Son as a human being with a nature like our own sinful one [but without sin]. ELOHIM did this in order to deal with transgression, and in so doing he executed the punishment against sin in human nature, 4 so that the just requirement of the Torah might be fulfilled in us who do not run our lives according to what our old nature wants but according to what the Spirit wants.”

In other words, the Torah on its own is good:

Romans 7:12 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

 “So the Torah is set-apart; that is, the commandment is set-apart, just and good.”

Paul acknowledged that the Torah was good, but the Torah by itself cannot make anyone change their nature, it cannot make someone cooperate to obey the laws that YAHWEH has given! The Torah is a mirror that you can look into, and it shows that you need to wash your face, but the Torah is not going to wash your face FOR YOU! You have to want to get the rag to wash your face; likewise, you have to want to change your mindset, circumcise your heart, and be no more stiff-necked and submit to the will of YAHWEH and let the RUACH HA’KODESH lead you. If you are led by the RUACH HA’KODESH (The Set-Apart) then obedience to the Torah can be accomplished with Him leading you and dying to your fleshly desires aka the old nature. Once you are led by the Spirit, He leads you into all truth which is the Torah and sets you free from only ONE LAW, WHICH IS FROM THE LAW OF INIQUITY AND DEATH! Why? Because you will no longer be walking in rebellion to YAHWEH’s Torah which leads to death!

John 16:13 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“But when that RUACH (SPIRIT) OF TRUTH will come, He will TEACH YOU ALL TRUTH. For He will not speak of His own heart, only the words which He hears He will speak, and make known to you those words.”

The RUACH HA’KODESH (The Set-Apart Spirit) will teach us all TRUTH! And what is the truth according to the scriptures?

Psalms 119:142 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Your righteousness is eternal righteousness, and Your TORAH IS TRUTH.”

Psalms 119:151 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“You are close by, YAHWEH; and ALL YOUR COMMANDMENTS ARE TRUTH.”

For this is the desire of the RUACH HA’KODESH and what He wants to accomplish in us, which is what Paul mentioned in:

 Romans 8:4

4 so that the just requirement of the Torah might be fulfilled in us who do not run our lives according to what our old nature wants but according to what the SPIRIT WANTS.”

Paul just confirmed that the Torah is a REQUIREMENT and will be fulfilled in our lives once you crucify the desires of the flesh and let the RUACH HA’KODESH lead you!

Hebrews continued:

20 What is more, ELOHIM swore an oath. For no oath was sworn in connection with those who become Cohanim (priests) now; 21 but YESHUA became a cohen by the oath which ELOHIM swore when he said to him,

“YAHWEH has sworn and will not change his mind,
‘You are a cohen (priest) forever.’”[c]

22 Also this shows how much better is the covenant of which YESHUA has become guarantor.

23 Moreover, the present Cohanim (priests) are many in number, because they are prevented by death from continuing in office. 24 But because he lives forever, his position as cohen (priest) does not pass on to someone else; 25 and consequently, He is totally able to deliver those who approach ELOHIM through Him; since he is ALIVE FOREVER and thus forever able to intercede on their behalf.

He again is stressing the fact that human priests were many, because they would die and have to pass the priesthood down to their sons, but YESHUA does not die, and He continues to serve as High Priest forever!

Exodus 29:29 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“The set-apart garments of Aaron will be used BY HIS SONS AFTER HIM; they will be anointed and consecrated in them. The son who comes PRIEST IN HIS PLACE, who comes into the tent of meeting to serve in the Set-Apart Place, is to wear them for seven days.”

John 1:9-10 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“He is truly a lamp; and He illuminates every man in this world. He IS ETERNAL; and the world was made by Him; but the world does not recognize Him, neither the power of His words – even those who do not receive Him.”

Hebrews continued:

26 This is the kind of cohen gadol (High-Priest) THAT MEETS OUR NEED — set-apart, without evil, without stain, set apart from transgressors and raised higher than the heavens; 27 one who does not have the daily necessity, like the other high priests, of offering up sacrifices first for their own iniquities and only then for those of the people; because he offered one sacrifice, once and for all, by offering up Himself. 28 For the Torah appoints as high priests men who have weakness; but the text which speaks about the swearing of the oath, a text written later than the Torah, appoints a Son who has been brought to the goal forever.”

What are human priest weaknesses? They fall short of the esteem of ELOHIM (Romans 3:23, Isaiah 53:4-6, 1 Kings 8:46) and commit transgression and they die! But the perfect covenant with YESHUA in the order of Malki-Tzedek reaches the perfect goal that was prophesied in the Old Testament! As we can see this is all about a New Priesthood and has nothing to do with getting rid of the law, because again, with this New Priesthood writes the law on your heart, and if you get rid of your heart you will die! Let that sink in! In conclusion, I would like to add this:

Genesis 14:18-20 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Malki-Tzedek KING OF SALEM (JERUSALEM) brought out BREAD AND WINE. He was a COHEN (PRIEST) of EL’ELYON (EL Most High), so he blessed him (Abraham) with these words: “Blessed be Abram by EL’ELYON, maker of heaven and earth. And blessed be EL’ELYON, who handed over your enemies over to you.”

Matthew 26:26-29 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“And when they sat to eat YESHUA took THE BREAD, and blessed it, an did a prayer of thanksgiving, and broke it and said, “Take and eat, for this is My body.” And afterwards He took the cup, and did a prayer of thanksgiving, and gave it to them, and said, “Drink this --- all of you, for this is the blood of the new, which will be shed to atone your iniquities. And I say to you faithfully that from now and onward, I will not DRINK of this smoothness OF THE VINE until that day that I will drink it with you anew in the kingdom of My Father.”

Now consider after all the scriptures discussing the superior priesthood and how YESHUA is the Priest prophesied after the order of Malki-Tzedek, then we can see the parallels! Malk-Tzedek was King Jerusalem and and Priest and he brought out bread and wine; likewise, YESHUA is King of Jerusalem and Priest and blessed the bread and wine! I personally don’t find that to be coincidental, but amazing!

As always make YAHWEH bless you in YESHUA’s Name!

Morning and evening sacrifice fulfillment!

YESHUA made it abundantly clear that the scriptures pointed to Him and that the animal sacrifices were a foreshadow of the ultimate sacrifice through His atonement for the world on the execution stake!

Luke 24:44 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“YESHUA said to them, “This is what I meant when I was still with you and told you that everything WRITTEN ABOUT ME IN THE TORAH OF MOSES, THE PROPHETS AND THE PSALMS HAD TO BE FULFILLED.”

Today I would like to talk about one of these that is in the Torah:

Numbers 28:1-4 (Samaritan)

“And YAHWEH spoke to Moses, saying, My command to the sons of Yisrael and say to them, you shall be careful to present My sacrifice, My food for My offerings by fire, of a sweet savor to Me, ON ITS TIMES. And you shall say to them, this is the fire which you shall offer to YAHWEH, two male sheep one year old WITHOUT DEFECT, two per day, A CONTINUAL BURNT OFFERING. You shall offer the one sheep IN THE MORNING, and the other sheep you shall OFFER BETWEEN THE SUNSETS.”

Numbers 28: 4 (Septuagint)

“You shall offer one lamb in the morning and you shall offer the second lamb TOWARDS EVENING.”

YAHWEH required perfect lambs without blemish for the sacrifice and YESHUA was perfect and without blemish and gave Himself up for us for all violation of the Torah:

Titus 2:14 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“He gave Himself up on our behalf in order to free us from ALL VIOLATION OF TORAH and purify for Himself a people who would be His own, eager to do good.”

1 Peter 2:22-24 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“He COMMITED NO INIQUITY, nor was any deceit found on His lips.” When He was insulted, He didn’t retaliate with insults; when He suffered, He didn’t threaten, but handed them over to Him who judges justly. He Himself BORE OUR INIQUITES IN HIS BODY on the stake, so that we might die to iniquities and live for righteousness---by His wounds you were healed.”

Isaiah 53:9 (Septuagint)

“And I will give the wicked for His burial and the rich for His death; for HE PRACTICED NO INIQUITY NOR DECEIT WITH HIS MOUTH.”

2 Corinthians 5:21 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“ELOHIM made this SINLESS MAN to be a iniquity offering on our behalf, so that in union with Him we might fully share in ELOHIM’s righteousness.”

Morning and evening sacrifice

We also see in Numbers 28, that there was a morning sacrifice and one in between the sunsets that same day.

Numbers 28:4 (Samaritan)

“You shall offer the one sheep IN THE MORNING, and the other sheep you shall OFFER BETWEEN THE SUNSETS.”

The morning sacrifice was at the third hour of the day which is 9 a.m. and the evening sacrifice was at the 9th hour which is 3 p.m., which matches the crucifixion of YESHUA!

Mark 15:25-37 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“Now it was the THIRD HOUR (9 A.M.) when they HANGED HIM UP. And they set a writing over Him, “This is YESHUA Notsri (Nazerene), the king of the Yehudim (Jews).” Then they hanged up two thieves with Him, one to the right and the other to the left. Then the scripture was fulfilled, which says, “He was numbered with the wicked ones.” And those were passing by that place, were cursing Him, shaking their head, saying, “You, were saying that You would lay waste the Sanctuary of YAHWEH—and You, after three days You would build it—save Yourself! Come down from the warp and woof (execution-stake)!” And like this the highest priests were speaking, jesting with each other and with the scribes, “He made others saved ones, but He is not able to save Himself!” If you are the Messiah of Yisra’el, come down from the warp and woof that we may see it and believe in You!” And those who were hanged up with Him made funeral speeches. And around the SIXTH HOUR (NOON), there came darkness in all the land until the NINTH HOUR. And at the NINTH HOUR (3 P.M.) YESHUA called out with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli! Why did You forsake Me?! And some of those who were standing there, when they heard it said, “See how He calls Eli-Yahu (Elijah).” Then one of them ran quickly, and bound a sponge onto a reed, and filled it with vinegar, and they gave to Him to drink. But some said, “Leave Him, and let us see if Eliyahu will come to deliver Him.” Then YESHUA called out with a loud voice, and blowed with His ruach (spirit and breath).”

YESHUA was crucified at 9 a.m. and died at 3 p.m. time of the morning and evening sacrifices! YESHUA also fulfilled the requirement for the continual offering because again, He is the offering, as Numbers 28:2 says:

“My command to the sons of Yisrael and say to them, you shall be careful to present My SACRIFICE, My food for My offerings by fire, of a SWEET SAVOR to Me, on its times.”

Ephesians 5:2 (Aramaic)

“And walk in love, as Messiah also has loved us and has given Himself for us, an OFFERING and a SACRIFICE to ELOHIM for a SWEET SAVOR.”

The Creator became a human being to suffer and die for His own creation! He fulfills the requirement for the CONTINUAL BURNT OFFERING just as the shedding of His blood CONTINUALLY COVERS those who accept His free gift of atonement, and confess YESHUA as their Messiah and Savior!

Daniel 9:24 (Septuagint)

“Seventy sevens have been determined on your people and on the set-apart city, for OFFENSES to be ENDED and to SEAL UP TRANGRESSIONS AND TO BLOT OUT THE INQUITIES AND TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR INQUITIES AND TO BRING IN EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS and to seal the vision and the prophet and to anoint the set-apart of set-apartness.”

John 8:36 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“But if the SON MAKES ATONEMENT FOR YOU with haste, you will BE FREE MEN.”

Which perfectly matches Hebrews saying we are set free forever!

Hebrews 9:11-14 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“But when the Messiah appeared as High Priest of the good things that are happening already, then, through the greater and more perfect Tent which is not man-made (that is, it is not of this created world), He entered the Most Set-Apart Place ONCE AND FOR ALL. And He entered not by means of the blood of goats and calves, but by means of HIS OWN BLOOD, THUS SETTING PEOPLE FREE FOREVER. For if sprinkling ceremonially unclean persons with the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer restores their outward purity; then how much more the BLOOD OF THE MESSIAH, Who, through the eternal Spirit, offered Himself to ELOHIM as SACRFICE WITHOUT BLEMISH, will purify our conscience from works that lead to death, so that we can serve the living ELOHIM!”

Isaiah 53:4-8 (Septuagint)

“He bears our iniquities and is pained for us: yet we accounted Him to be in trouble and in suffering and in affliction. But He was wounded on account of OUR TRANGRESSIONS and was bruised because of OUR INIQUITIES: the chastisement of our peace was on Him; AND BY His bruise we were healed. All we as sheep have gone astray; everyone has gone astray in his way; and YAHWEH GAVE HIM UP FOR OUR INIQUITIES. And He, because of affliction, does not open His mouth: He was led as a SHEEP to the slaughter and as a LAMB before the shearer is dumb, so he does not open Hs mouth. In His humiliation His judgement was taken away: who shall declare His generation? For His life is taken away from the earth: BECAUSE OF THE INIQUITIES OF MY PEOPLE HE WAS LED TO DEATH.”

John 1:29 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“And on the next day John saw YESHUA who came unto him; and he said, “Behold, this is EL, WHO TAKES AWAY THE INIQUITES FROM THE WORLD.”

YESHUA died for the whole world and the Torah, Prophets, and Psalms testify of Him just as He said; and without accepting His free gift of atonement you will die in your transgressions! Accept Him as your Savior and live!

John 8:24 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“Because of this have I told you that you will die in your iniquities—unless you believe that I AM HE, YOU WILL DIE IN YOUR INIQUITY.” Then they said to Him “You, who are You?! So YESHUA answered and said to them, “THE ANICENT ONE, WHO SPEAKS many things unto you, and speaks of you, and judges.”

As always may YAHWEH bless you in YESHUA’s Name!

Genesis: ELOHIM is 3 in 1!

 In a previous message titled “ELOHIM is 3 in 1”, I pointed out that YAHWEH, YESHUA and the RUACH HA’KODESH are 3 operating as 1 united ELOHIM! And today I would like to share another witness!

Genesis 15:17 (Septuagint)

“And when the sun was about to set there was a flame and see a SMOKING FURNACE AND LAMPS OF FIRE which passed between these divided pieces. In that day YAHWEH MADE A COVENANT with Abram…”

What pieces were these that the Smoking Furnace and Lamps of Fire passed through?

Genesis 15:7-10 (Septuagint)

“And He said to him, I am ELOHIM that brought you out of the land of the Chaldeans, so as to give you this land to inherit. And he said, My Master YAHWEH, how shall I know that I shall inherit it? And He said to him, take for me a HEIFER in her THIRD year and a ram in his THIRD year and a dove and a pigeon. So he took all these and DIVIDED THEM IN THE MIDST AND SET THEM OPPOSITE TO EACH OTHER, but the birds he did not divide.”

Notice that a Smoking Oven and Lamps of Fire passed between these pieces in order to make a covenant with Abraham! We see this again in:

Jeremiah 34:18 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“As for the men who violated MY COVENANT by not living up to the conditions of the COVENANT which they made in My presence WHEN THEY CUT THE CALF IN TWO AND PASSED BETWEEN THE PARTS…”

A covenant was made when the animal was divided and they walked between the divided pieces! So, who was it that passed between the pieces and made a covenant with Abraham? After the Smoking Furnace and lamps pass through it says that YAHWEH made a covenant with Abraham, so YAHWEH is the Smoking Furnace as He is a consuming fire!

Exodus 19:18 (Septuagint)

“The mount of Sinai was altogether in smoke because YAHWEH descended on IT IN FIRE; and the smoke went up as the SMOKE OF A FURNACE and the people were exceedingly amazed.”

Deuteronomy 9:3 (Septuagint)

“And you shall know today, that YAHWEH your ELOHIM He shall go before your face: He is a CONSUMING FIRE; He shall destroy them and He shall turn them back before you and shall destroy them quickly, as YAHWEH said to you.”

Psalms 97:3 (Septuagint)

“FIRE SHALL GO BEFORE HIM and BURN UP His enemies round about.”

Who are the Lamps?

Most translations say, “A smoking oven and flaming torch”, but again, the Septuagint says “LAMPS of Fire”, so it’s plural! YESHUA called Himself the LAMP of the World!

John 1:1-4 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“In the beginning the Son was ELOAH (Mighty One). The Son of EL (Mighty One) was both with EL, and the Son of EL was ELOAH. This One was in the beginning with EL. All things were made by Him; and without Him nothing was made, of that which was made. For He is life—this life is the lamp of men. And the LAMP does shine in the gloom; but the gloom and darkness do not have power over it.”

John 8:12 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“And YESHUA said, “I am the LAMP of the world; whosoever comes after Me will not walk in darkness and gloom; but he will indeed have life.”

John 12:35-36 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“Then YESHUA said to them, “There is still a LAMP among you—walk while the LAMP is among you that you do not fall in darkness and gloom. For whosever walks in darkness does not know where he is going. While you have THE LAMP, BELIEVE IN THE LAMP in order that you may becomes SONS OF THE LAMP.” YESHUA said these words to them and went and hid Himself from them.”

John 12:46 (Hebrewgospels.com)

“I am the LAMP Who came in the world so that everyone Who believes in Me will not abide in gloom.”

Proverbs 20:27 (Septuagint)

“The spirit of man is a LIGHT of YAHWEH, who searches the inmost parts of the belly.”

However, Clement of Rome in his 1st Epistle to the Corinthians seems to have had older version of the Septuagint that makes this scripture ever clearer.

1 Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians 21:89

“Take heed, beloved, lest His many kindnesses lead to the condemnation of us all. [For thus it must be] unless we walk worthy of Him, and with one mind do those things which are good and well-pleasing in His sight. For [the Scripture] saith in a certain place, “The SPIRIT OF YAHWEH IS A CANDLE searching the secret parts of the belly.”

Candle is defined by Oxford languages as: “a cylinder or block of wax or tallow with a central wick that is lit to PRODUCE LIGHT AS IT BURNS.”

So, we have YAHWEH Who is the Smoking furnace and consuming FIRE, YESHUA the Lamp/Light, as lamps produce FIRE for light, and the RUACH HA’KODESH (The Set-Apart Spirit) is the Candle/Light as candles produce FIRE for light! So, YAHWEH, YESHUA, AND THE RUACH HA’KODESH the One United ELOHIM, the Triune-EL, is The Smoking Furnace and Lamps of Fire that passed between the pieces making a covenant of Abraham!

May YAHWEH bless you all in YESHUA’s Name!

Head Coverings Part 2

Over the past 6 months to a year, I have heard the same arguments regarding 1 Corinthians 11:4 to say that Paul was contradicting the scriptures, or that he was referring to something other than head coverings or used as an excuse for women not to cover their heads while in the assembly. This verse has caused much confusion and dissension amongst the Body of Messiah, and I would like to bring some clarity to Paul’s words, as we have already been warned by Peter that his words are hard to understand. So, this is a good question that needs to be addressed.

The two main arguments used is that the priests cover their heads with turbans and David worshipped with his head covered, and if they covered their heads while doing so, then Paul has contradicted the scriptures. As I always say, the scriptures cannot contradict themselves, if the scriptures appear to be contradicting then that means that there is something wrong with our interpretation of it.

In the last message on head coverings, I showed that Paul was referring to a literal head covering:

1 Corinthians 11:10 (Lamsa’s Aramaic)

“For this reason the woman ought to be MODEST and COVER HER HEAD as a mark of respect to the angels.”

So, in the Aramaic it is clear that this is a physical head covering, which will help us to better understand what Paul is saying in verse 4; that the man should be doing the opposite of what the woman is doing. So being that Paul cannot be contradicting the scriptures he must be saying the same thing in Aramaic and Greek with the information that we have.

It's clear that priests wore turbans as a head covering while in the presence of YAHWEH:

Exodus 29:5-6 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Take the garments, and put on Aaron the tunic, the robe for the ritual vest, the vest itself, and the breastplate. Fasten the vest on him with its belt. PUT THE TURBAN ON HIS HEAD and attach the set-apart ornament to the TURBAN.”

Ezekiel 44:17-18 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Once they (The priests and Levites) enter the gates of the inner courtyard, they are to wear linen clothing; they are not to wear any wool while serving at the gates of the inner courtyard or inside it. They are to wear LINEN TURBANS ON THEIR HEADS and linen underclothes on their bodies, and they are not to wear anything that makes them sweat.”

2 Samuel 15:30-32 (Septuagint)

“And David went up by the ascent of Zeitim, ascending and weeping and had HIS HEAD COVERED and went barefooted: and all the people that were with him COVERED EVERY MAN HIS HEAD; and they went up, ascending and weeping. And it was reported to David saying, Ahithophel also is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, YAHWEH ELOHIM, disconcert please, the counsel of Ahithophel. And David came as for as Rosh where HE WORSHIPPED ELOHIM…”

Daniel 3:21 (Septuagint)

“Then those men (The 3 Hebrews) were bound with their coats AND CAPS and tunic and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.”

Daniel 3:21 (Aramaic)

“Then the mighty men bound them in their trousers, their undergarments, their robes, and THEIR HATS, and cast them into the fiery furnace.”

Though the three Hebrews were not worshipping at the time of being thrown into the furnace, it clearly shows that they were wearing men’s hats or caps. And we clearly see that many Israelites cover their heads today. So, did Paul contradict the scriptures and speak against all 3 of these scenarios of men wearing turbans or caps? Now let us examine Paul’s words:

1 Corinthians 11:4 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“Every man who prays or prophesies wearing something DOWN OVER HIS HEAD brings shame to his head.” Verse 7 “For a man indeed should not have his HEAD VEILED, because he is the image and esteem of ELOHIM…”

The etymology for “to cover” in verse 7 concerning the man is G2619 “katakalupto” defined by Mounce as TO VEIL, to VEIL ONE’S SELF, BE VEILED OR COVERED. 1 Corinthians 11:6-7 and Strongs defines it as from G2596 and G2572; to cover wholly, THAT IS, VEIL:- cover, hide.

Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “veil” as a length of cloth WORN BY WOMEN AS A COVERING FOR THE HEAD AND SHOULDERS and often especially in EASTERN COUNTRIES for the face.

This would definitely qualify as “something DOWN OVER HIS HEAD” for a veil as its translated in the Complete Jewish Scriptures verse 4.

David stern the translator of the CJB writes in his commentary on this verse:

4. Every man who prays or prophesies wearing something down over his head brings shame to his head,
Every man who prays in public worship meetings or prophesies (see 12:10).
Wearing something down over his head. This is the literal translation, and it is used here to show that Sha'ul is talking about wearing a veil, not a hat. The usual translation, "with his head covered," obscures this fact, and as a result an issue has arisen in Messianic Judaism that should never have come up at all, namely, whether it is proper for a Messianic Jewish man to wear a kippah ("skullcap" or, in Yiddish, yarmulke) in public worship. Of course it is proper, since objection to it is based only on a MIS-TRANSLATION of this verse. For more, see my Messianic Jewish Manifesto, pp 170-171.

Studylight.org by living by faith writes:

 “We may have a better insight about ancient head coverings by comparing some of the words Paul used elsewhere in this chapter. For instance, in verses 6 and 7 of this chapter Paul used a word (katakalupto) that is translated “veiled.” Thayer (p. 331) said that from the time of the Greek poet Homer (about 900 B.C.) DOWN VEILED meant “to cover up.” In fact, VEILED in verses 6 and 7 is a compound word. The first part of the term (kata) meant “down” and the remainder of the word (kalupto) meant “cover.” When combined, the two parts of this word form the idea of “cover down, OVER, COMPLETELY, adequately.”

In the LXX VEILED (katakalupto) is used in Numbers 4:5 to describe the covering of the ark with a curtain. It is also used in Isaiah 6:2 to describe the seraphim covering their faces and feet with their wings. A related form of this word (kalupto) is used in Matthew 8:24 to describe a ship covered with waves. This related term (kalupto) is also used to describe the covering of sins in James 5:20. Peter said love covers (same word-kalupto) a “multitude of sins” (1 Peter 4:8). For the other places where kalupto (cover) occurs, see Matthew 10:26; Luke 8:16; Luke 23:30; 2 Corinthians 4:3.”

 The following is stated about the Expositor’s Greek Testament:

“The 5-volume Expositor’s Greek Testament ranks among the most important commentaries on the Greek text of the New Testament from the 19th century, drawing from the scholarship of twenty contributors under the editorship of William Robertson Nicoll. In addition to the Greek text, this massive reference work contains textual, literary, and grammatical commentary on nearly every Greek word in the entire New Testament. The Expositor’s Greek Testament also includes lengthy introductions to each of the books in the New Testament, surveying the literary and interpretive history, along with an introduction to the historical context of each book and an extensive bibliography.”

These scholars in 1897 understood what Paul was saying in 1 Corinthians 11 and understood the literal meaning of the verses which agrees with the literal translation of this verse from the Complete Jewish Scriptures. The scholars of this important commentary agreed that women should wear a literal head covering well before the feminist movement to stop wearing head coverings occurred 70 plus years later in 1969, only then did the opinion about head coverings begin to change. Plus, they understood linguistically what Paul was saying regarding the men in verse 4. So, what did they to say regarding 1 Corinthians 11:4? The Expositor’s Greek Testament says:

“The high doctrine just asserted applied to the matter of FEMININE ATTIRE. Since man qua man has no head but Messiah, before whom they worship in common, while woman has man to own for her head, he must not and she must be veiled . The regulation is not limited to those of either sex who “pray or prophesy”; but such activity called attention to the APPAREL, and doubtless it was amongst the more demonstrative women that the impropriety occurred; in the excitement of public speaking the SHAWL might unconsciously be thrown back. προσευχόμενος κ . τ . λ ., “when he (she) prays or prophesies,” in the act of so doing. κατὰ κεφαλῆς ἔχων , “WEARING DOWN FROM THE HEAD (A VEIL”: κάλυμμα understood), the practice being for the WOMAN in going out of the house to throw the upper fold or lappet of her robe over her head so as to COVER THE BROW.”

And for verse 7 they state:

 ἀνὴρ (not ὁ ἀνὴρ ) μὲν γὰρ κ . τ . λ .: “For man indeed (being man) ought not to have his head VEILED” ( καλύπτεσθαι , pr [1634] inf [1635] of custom ), in contrast with woman who ought (1 Corinthians 11:5 ; 1 Corinthians 11:10 ) this is as wrong on his part as it is right on hers…”

So, these scriptures cannot be used to say that priests have their head covered and that Paul is contradicting the scriptures, because priest wore TURBANS AND NOT VEILS, nor a woman’s headscarf or any type of women’s headdress! And we can also conclude that David would not be wearing a woman’s veil either as was shown by Daniel 3:21 that men wore hats or caps. The FEMALE VEIL is the issue that Paul is addressing not a turban or hat.

The Aramaic English New Testament has a footnote #48 concerning 1 Corinthians 11:15 which says “Or rather, as an ADDITIONAL COVERING, i.e, ON TOP OF PROPER CLOTHING for worship and having HER HEAD COVERED. This DOES NOT MEAN A WOMAN’S HAIR IS IN PLACE OF A HEAD COVERING.” And a note is attached saying “See Head Coverings in Appendix” which states the following:

The Aramaic English New Testament pg. 843 dealing with verse 4 says:

“Greek scholars point out that the use of katakalupto for the male “covering” and peribolaion for the female “covering” may have indicated something beneath the text. Apparently, men would WEAR VEILS WHEN WORSHIPPING PAGAN FEMALE DEITIES TO LOOK FEMININE; and Paul, of course, taught against this practice. Pagans were known to wear clothing OF THE OPPOSITE SEX (Deuteronomy 22:5) while performing perverse sexual rituals. In this passage, Paul does not distinguish the type of head coverings the men were wearing or the reason they were wearing long hair, but given the culture they came out of it is easy to see that what they were doing had nothing to do with Jewish practices. Also, he would have been a hypocrite if on one hand he renounced all long hair on men while also participating in Nazirite offerings (Acts 21:24) “In Reality Paul would have appealed to James the Righteous and other apostles in Jerusalem to establish such a directive. But in fact, just a few verses later Paul issues this statement: “But if anyone is contentious about these things, we on our part have no such custom, nor has the assembly of ELOHIM”. In other words, whatever these people were doing it had not been a custom of the Jews, or any assembly of ELOHIM prior to this.”

Paul did not want men believers to be following the way of the pagans by them trying to look like women in the presence of YAHWEH! By dressing as a female, he would bring shame to his head (YESHUA) Who is not a woman. It is the pagans that wore female veils to look like women to worship a female deity!

And we also should remember who the leader of the Messianic Assembly was because Paul went to James and the assembly in Acts:

Acts 15:1-3 (Aramaic)

“And certain men who had come down from Judea taught the brethren, unless you are circumcised in accordance with the custom of the law you cannot be saved. And there was great dissension and controversy between them and Paul and Barnabas, and it reached such a point that it was necessary for Paul and Barnabas and others with them to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this question.” Verse 13 “Then JAMES arose up and said, men and brethren, HEAR ME….”

Acts 21:17 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)

“In Jerusalem, the brothers received us warmly. The next day Paul and the rest of us went in to JAMES, and all the elders were present”

Then we see James endorse Paul in verse 24 saying:

“Take them with you (Paul), be purified with them, and pay the expenses connected with having their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is nothing to these rumors which they have heard about you; but that, on the contrary, you yourself STAY IN LINE AND KEEP THE TORAH.”

 Then Paul mentions James again in Galatians 1:18-19, which shows that if Paul were wrong about any point on doctrine including head coverings, that James would have corrected him as the leader. And again, 1 Corinthians 11:16 shows that James was in approval of the veils on women and no veils on men, since all the Messianic communities had women wearing head coverings! Which also means James had no problem with turbans or hats being worn by men either.

Acts 12:17 (Aramaic)

“But he (Peter) motioned to them with his hand to keep quiet; then he entered and related to them how YAHWEH had brought him out of the prison. And he said, tell these things to JAMES and to our brethren. And he went out and departed for another place.’

So again, James as the leader was also in approval of head coverings being that all the messianic assemblies had their women veiled (1 Corinthians 11:16). And James supported Paul because Paul spoke the truth, which matches with the entire first message I did on why women should wear head coverings. And now we can see that Paul did not contradict the scriptures at all; rather it was a translation issue. Paul was telling men and women how to conduct themselves and dress in public worship when they assembled together!

As always may YAHWEH bless you all in YESHUA’s Name!