How are Messianics different from Christians?
Both claim to follow the same Person, yet in practice differ in every way
WHO OR WHAT ARE MESSIANICS?

Messianics are followers of Yahushua of Natsarith, the Messiah of Israel, who also obey Torah (The Covenant with Israel).

Our belief is that all people outside the Covenant must engraft through the Covenant, written upon their hearts by the Spiritual indwelling of the Messiah.

DIFFERENCES:

Messianics:  the true Hebrew Name of the Creator is called upon: Yahuah (yod-hay-uau-hay).

The Messiah’s true Name is used:  Yahushua.

The weekly Sabbath is observed as a day of rest, according to the Commandment.

The 7 annual festivals commanded for Israel to observe are observed, and there is no observance of a single “Christian” festival, which are all derived from Pagan festivals.

 

Christians:  the Creator's Name is avoided, and instead "devices" or generic terms are used to refer to Him.  Examples are LORD, GOD, and the mongrelized hybrid, "JEHOVAH".  The Messiah's Name is corrupted beyond all recognition, to a meaningless Greco-Roman one.

The weekly Sabbath is NOT observed as a day of rest, but is thought to be moved to "Sun-day".

The 7 annual festivals commanded for Israel to observe are ignored, and replaced with 7 "sacraments", violating the command to not add or take away from Torah.

Examples of these differences:

Messianic                        Christian

Observe the Festivals

of Yahuah (Dt. 16, Lev. 23)

                                      Don't obey the Covenant,

                                      rather adhere to various 

                                      "sacraments".

Sabbath (7th day)

                                      Sunday (1st day)            

Passover

                                      Ash Wednesday

                                      Lent

                                      Easter

Matsah

Shabuoth

                                       Pentecost

Yom Teruah

                                       All Saints Day

Yom Kaphar

                                       Christmas

Sukkoth

                                       Epiphany

Hebrew calendar

                                       Roman calendar

Ultimate determination:

The Messiah of Israel observed all of these practices listed under Messianics.

 

 WHO OR WHAT ARE CHRISTIANS?

Without knowing it, Christians are followers of a Greco-Roman culture of names, terms, and festivals, all adopted intact from Pagan sources, yet adapted or mixed carefully with ideas and people from the Hebrew Scriptures. 

The mixing together of practices and beliefs is called syncretism.

Every detail of Scriptural observance was omitted, and replaced with new observances. With skillfully crafted reasoning over many centuries, the formerly Pagan observances were camouflaged or wrapped in new meanings.

Examples:

Sacraments  - Yahuah never commanded them, hinted at them indirectly, or mentioned any such thing.  They add to the Torah, against Dt. 12.

Sun-day - the Day of the Sun.

 

Easter Day - the Pagan festival of the impregnation of Mother Earth by the rays of the springtime sun. Ostara, Astarte, Eostre, Asherah, Eastron, and other names were used for this Pagan deity. It became adopted to refer to Yahushua’s day of resurrection.

 

Christmas - The winter solstice festival, commemorated as the nativity of the sun, re-thought by Dionysius Exiguus in 525 CE, now promoted as the birthday of the Messiah of Israel. Wreaths (wombs), trees (phalluses), tinsel (semen) & balls (testes) were used to observe the sexual aspects of this Pagan ritual. The tree was an altar where offerings were placed for the deity (Asherah).

The womb wreaths represented Baal, and the phallus trees represented Asherah. This is a practice inherited from the ancient Canaanites, specifically Jezebel.

 

Ultimate determination:

The Messiah of Israel observed none of these practices.

1 John 2:3-6
"We know that we have come to know Him if we obey His Commands.  The man who says, "I know him ," but does not do what He commands is a liar, and the Truth is not in him.  But if anyone obeys His Word, Elohim's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in Him:  Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Yahushua did." 

If we walk "as" Yahushua did, we do the things He did, and observe the observances He observed, according to the Word of Yahuah.  He lived as our example.  So, how does it become appropriate for us to ignore all the things He did, and embrace Christmas, Easter, and Sun-day, observances borrowed from Pagan cultures?

This brief comparison page is intended to EXPOSE the darkness and deception that has overtaken the world.

"For you were once darkness, but now you are LIGHT in (the Rabbi).  Live as children of LIGHT (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)  and find out what pleases (Yahuah).  Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them."   Eph 5:8-12

You may consider the darkness and Pagan practices exposed;  learn more, and how we are supposed to be living by reading your Scriptures, the Word of Yahuah, and order the book "Fossilized Customs" by clicking on the "CATALOG" button at the top of this page.

Find out what pleases Yahuah, your Creator.

Orthodox Rabbinical Judaism -  how about that?

BRIEF HISTORY LESSON

RABBI  is a term which the Pharisees were known by.

The Pharisees grew very powerful after the city and Temple of Yahuah was destroyed in 70 CE. 

The most powerful "rabbi" within Pharisaism arose in the early 2nd century, and he took it upon himself to put the "oral law" into a written form, called the Talmud.  His name was AKIBA. 

He perceived the Yahudim who followed Yahushua to be a serious threat, so he promoted a false Messiah (Bar Kochba) as a scheme to legally kill the Natsarim, the followers of Yahushua. 

As Bar Kochba rose-up as the false Messiah, his followers challenged the Roman occupation.  The Natsarim would not fight Rome over this false Messiah, and so this gave Bar Kochba (and the instigator, AKIBA), the legal authority to exterminate them - at least in their eyes. 

So, many Natsarim were killed, and even more driven away. 

Thus, Rabbinical Judaism (Pharisaism) took complete control over the early development of the post-Temple era, and it is still alive and well as an apostate form of religion, mostly due to this "Talmud", begun by AKIBA.  In it there are fabulous tales of AKIBA's greatness, and horrendous tales about Yahushua. 

The concept of "RABBI" is central to the Talmud's idea of eternal life.  Without a "RABBI", one cannot possibly acquire eternal life, according to Talmud. 

Talmud declares that all Rabbis are infallible. 

AKIBA's Talmud also declares that YAHUAH is but one of 70 rabbis, and He must go along with what the majority says.

Many Messianic leaders quote from this Talmud, unwittingly using AKIBA's rationalizations in their own teachings.  Since Yahushua was called a "RABBI" (my Teacher), it is likely that He was mistakenly thought to be a Pharisee, or the dominance of Pharisaism was so great that all who taught were customarily referred to by this term. 

The word "RABBI" is not found in the TaNaKh 

(commonly known as the O.T.).

This brief overview was prepared by Lew White, Institute for Scripture Research - USA

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