The Covenant between Yahuah and Yisharal
(PART 2)
If a person outside the Covenant picks up this book and wants to find their salvation, how are they to begin? Much of the effort behind the message in this book is directed at getting Yisharal to obey Yahuah and then in turn they are to teach the nations to obey, thus increasing Yisharal. The development of “replacement theology” caused a widespread deception that somehow gentiles “replaced” the original people of Yisharal and that gentiles are Yahuah’s new bride, called “the Church”. This entity usurped the name Yisharal and quickly caused the “falling-away” from Torah. The salvation plan became tied to “sacraments” and “sacramental grace” dispensed through the teaching of the Nicolaite priesthood. What you are holding in your hand (Yahuah’s inspired word) stands in direct conflict with the Catholic timeline of Dogmas and the establishment of the “priesthood-laity” division (Nicolaitanism). The fact that Shaul (Paul) was not called a ring-leader of the “sect of the Christians” (Acts 24:5) should be strong evidence that “Christianity” didn’t exist among the early believing followers of Yahusha. To get to the root of when “Gentiles” were first offered entry into the Covenant to become fellow citizens of Yisharal (Yisharal being the “Body” of Mashiach, not the “Church”), all a person must do is read Acts chapter 15 slowly and carefully. One of the logical questions this chapter addresses is whether or not an adult male convert must be physically circumcised; but there still remains another question.
Someone was moved to ask this: “I have been pondering over something for years and wonder if you might have the answer or can shed some light on it? It’s about the Jerusalem Council at Acts 15. Why did they only tell the gentiles to abstain from meats offered to idols, from blood and from things strangled and from fornication?”
Reply: The major issue at the Yerushalayim council was how to bring the former gentiles into the fold, especially considering these folks were steeped in all sorts of Pagan ideas and practices that needed to be halted entirely. The four things they needed to change right away were those practices that directly dealt with how they lived and worshipped their idols. They could not serve Yahuah doing those same things! The four things had to do with what was to be stopped and then they could continue to learn how to live according to Yahuah’s instructions by hearing “Mosheh” read in the synagogues. “Mosheh” is a reference to Torah and the opportunity to hear it would come every weekly Shabbath. Here is the KJV rendering of the area of the text that addresses these four things, with the concordance number for each Greek word used:
The Greek term “Hagios Pneuma” (Holy Ghost / Spirit) would be Ruach ha’Qodesh in Hebrew, of course. They turned single words into short phrases as their best-guess to the meaning for each Greek word. For one thing, the word “meat” is not in the sentence at all, but only the Greek terms “apechomai” (abstain) and “eidolothuton” (idol sacrifice/ service/offering). This would include a great deal, such as participating in ANY pattern of Pagan idol servitude, such as going to a party and lifting a cup to toast “the gods”, or celebrating on a day that is only derived from a Pagan background (such as Saturnalia), even if it had been “cleansed” and turned into another meaning. And, it would also include the offering of “meat” to an idol. But we know that Shaul explained that we could eat the meat that had been offered to an idol, but not if it caused a brother to stumble (1 Cor. 8:4). Eating meat and offering it to an idol are two different things.
The word “blood” (aima) can mean literally eating blood because an animal had been throttled and not properly “bled” before cooking it, but it can also be taken to mean “bloodshed”. Both interpretations are certainly applicable
To take this short message as it is without understanding the context and what the gentiles were used to doing and claim that people born out of the Covenant may do whatever they wish except for the four things, is misinterpreting a great deal. If this were the case, it would mean that former gentiles (who have become fellow citizens of Yisharal through the covenants) could covet, lie, misuse Yahuah’s Name (cast it to ruin), ignore Shabbath, bully and misuse their parents and still be fine with Yahuah. The four things all seem to point to the practices that went on at the Pagan temples, including “porneia”, which was central to idol-worship, through the temple prostitutes.
After stopping their idolatrous patterns of living, the next step for these who were “turning” to Yahuah was to hear the instructions of Yahuah:
It’s amazing that Christianity managed to miss this blatant reference to the weekly Shabbath. It must be a stronghold (teaching of error), because the word “Sabbath” is used over twice as much in the renewed Covenant Writings than in the other four-fifths of Scripture (known as the “Old Testament”). A former Gentile who repents of sinning against Yahuah’s Torah and accepts Yahusha’s blood offering as the permanent solution as payment for all their sins, then joins as a fellow citizen of Israel at the time of their immersion into Yahusha’s Name. All that is needed is the repenting person, water and the calling upon the Name of Yahusha for salvation. No organization or committee needs to approve the new convert; the approval can only come from Yahusha, Who called them to repentance. They have entered the Covenant and are no longer gentiles, but fellow citizens of Yisharal ~ Yahusha’s body, His wife and bride. Remaining in the Covenant means they continue to obey the Commandments (Covenant, Torah) and hold to the testimony of Yahusha.
hwhy: “Repent and turn back from your idols and turn back your faces from all your abominations. Cast away from you all the transgressions by which you have gone wrong and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die O house of Yisharal? I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies, so turn back to Me and live!”
“For the day is near, My day is near! It is a day of clouds and the time of the nations. I shall set fire and execute judgments and pour out My wrath on Sin. When I execute judgments all flesh shall know that I am hwhy. Now is the time that Yisharal should seek My face and My way. Now is the time to be instructed. O wrong one you shall certainly die!”
“I shall make My Set-apart Name known in the midst of My people Yisharal and not let it be profaned any more. The gentiles shall know that I am hwhy, the Set-apart One in Yisharal. They shall see My judgment which I have executed and My hand which I have laid on them. On that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Yisharal so that the fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping creatures that creep on the earth and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at My presence. The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places and every wall shall fall to the ground.”
It is not too late.
SOURCE BESORAH OF YAHUSHA PAGES 1016-1017
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