TORAHPHOBIA
THE FEAR OF INSTRUCTION
Ps 119:18:
“Open
my eyes, that I might see Wonders from Your Torah.”
RETURNING TO THE FATHER’S HOUSEHOLD, THE PRODIGAL SON
REPRESENTS THE
LOST TRIBES OF YISHARAL
(ISRAEL)
REALIZING THEIR NEED TO
RETURN TO TORAH.
THIS PARABLE WAS GIVEN FOR US TO UNDERSTAND IN THE LAST DAYS.
WALKING WITHOUT TORAH, WE ARE UNREPENTANT;
THEREFORE TO YAHUAH WE ARE
DEAD:
Luk 15:32
“‘And
we had to rejoice and be glad, for your brother was dead,
and is alive;
and was
LOST
and is found.’ ”
TORAHPHOBIA
-
the fear of instruction -
keeps many from
obeying
the Covenant. Read Ephesians
2:8-13, and a light will suddenly come on concerning the “works” about which
no man can “boast” about. Look
at this verse, and try to guess what “works” Alahim prepared beforehand that
we
should
walk in:
Eph 2:10:
“For
we are His workmanship, created in Messiah
Yahusha unto good works, which Alahim prepared beforehand that we should
walk in them.”
If you guessed the
Torah,
you are correct!
IT IS THE WATER OF LIFE ~
Rev 22:1:
“And
he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the
throne of Alahim and of the Lamb.”
Psa
119:160:
“The
sum of Your
Word
is
Truth,
and
all Your righteous right-rulings are forever.”
(Yahuah’s TORAH is eternal)
Psa 119:162:
“I
rejoice at Your
Word
as
one who finds great treasure.”
Joh 17:17:
“Set them apart in Your
Truth
– Your Word is
Truth.”
Also, at
Joh 18:37:
“Then
Pilate said to Him,
‘You
are a sovereign, then?’
Yahusha
answered, ‘You say it, because I am a sovereign.
For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, that I
should bear witness to the Truth. Everyone who is of the Truth hears My
Voice.’”
THERE IS A WAR AGAINST THE TORAH
We wrestle against spiritual powers (Eph. 6:12).
The Truth, Word, Voice, Will, and Commands of Yahuah have been under attack
from the beginning, and false teachers continually add to the momentum of
rebellion. There exists a
sophisticated religious architecture designed to promote a culture of
rebellion. Unknowingly, the
human combatants’ energies have been harnessed to perform the will of their
enemy -
a
classic
Sun Tsu
maneuver
(Art
Of War).
HOW ABOUT RABBINIC JUDAISM? Is this the faith once delivered to the saints?
No. It is a mixture of
Torah
plus
Talmud.
We must not
mix
anything with Torah.
Shaul tells us it was his “former” way of living:
Gal 1:13,14:
“For
you have heard of my
former
way of life in Yahudaism,
how intensely I persecuted the assembly of Alahim, and ravaged it.
And I progressed in Yahudaism
beyond many of my age in my race, being more exceedingly ardent for the
traditions of my fathers.”
SHAUL WAS ARDENT FOR THE TRADITIONS OF THE "FATHERS"
Torah
is a relationship, not a religion.
Human religion seeks to “re-bind” the rift between our Creator and
mankind with contrived efforts and rituals invented by men, often inherited
from Pagan cultures (not ordained by Yahuah).
Torah is the foundation for the relationship, and the Creator consistently
refers to
Torah
as a marriage Covenant between Himself and Israel.
He will never break it, and changes not.
All mankind
must engraft into Israel through
observance of Torah,
and
Yahusha
is the
Mediator
of the Covenant with Israel.
(see Eph. 3:8-13, Is. Chaps. 55 & 56, Jer. 3).
Ps.
1:1-3:
“Blessed
is the man who shall not walk in the counsel of the wrong,
and
shall not stand in the path of sinners,
and
shall not sit in the seat of scoffers,
but
his delight is in the Torah of
Yahuah
and he meditates in His Torah day and night.
For he shall be as a tree planted by the rivers of water, that yields its
fruit in its season, and whose leaf does not wither, and whatever he does
prospers.”
THE GREAT COMMISSION
Mat 28:18-20:
“And Yahusha
came up and spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority has been given to Me in
Heaven and on Earth.
Therefore, go and make taught ones of all the nations, immersing them in the
Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Set-apart Spirit, teaching
them
to guard all that I have commanded
you.
And see, I am with you always, until the end of the age.’” Amen.
OUR JOB IS TEACHING TORAH TO THE NATIONS.
Not many people seem to get what these words mean, because they are
Torah-phobic.
When they say “Gentiles don’t have to obey, the Torah is for the ‘Jews’,
they have been influenced by false teachings that keep them imprisoned in a
stronghold (mental fortress of false belief, all of which stems from
Replacement Theology, a foundational error seen in Christianity’s
teachings). Many believe all
they have to obey are the “Noachide Laws”.
Others put their trust in “sacraments”, believing they must receive
“grace” through a false priesthood set up to dispense favor toward them.
Shaul tells us that a person without belief (living solely in a
perspective
of the flesh) doesn’t want anything to do with obeying.
Our “mind” indicates our
perspective
or
point-of-view:
“For
those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the matters of the
flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the matters of the
Spirit.
For
the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and
peace.
Because
the mind of the flesh is
hatred
towards Alahim, for it
does
not
subject itself to the Torah of Alahim, neither indeed is it able;
those who are in the
(mind of the)
flesh are unable to please Alahim.
But
you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of Alahim
dwells in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Messiah, this one
is not His.”
Rom 8:5-9
The “mind of the flesh” is hatred toward Yahuah, BECAUSE it
does
not
subject itself to
His
Torah.
There are plenty of preachers who do not want anyone to submit to the Torah
of Yahuah,
and they tell us this quite often.
Their “eye” is darkness, searching Scripture for proof that the Torah is not
for them, and yet they believe they are still to be delivered and to inherit
eternal life. Seeing only from
the perspective of the flesh (as opposed to the Spirit), they walk in
darkness without Torah.
Mat 5:16-19:
“Let
your light so shine before men, so that they see your good works and praise
your Father who is in the heavens.
Do
not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets.
I
did not come to destroy but to complete.
For truly, I say to you, till the
Heaven
and the
Earth
pass away, one jot
(YOD)
or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah till all be done.
Whoever, then, breaks one of the least of these commands, and teaches men
so, shall be called least in the reign of the
Heavens;
but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the reign of
the heavens.”
THE TORAH OBJECTIVE
The objective of Torah is to teach us LOVE for Yahuah, and LOVE for our
neighbor. Torah is a
relationship. Those of us who
are teaching others to obey Torah are doing it out of love.
If people ignore Torah, they reject what Yahusha would bring to them and
write upon their hearts.
Allowing Him to write the love for Torah upon our hearts is what the
“Renewed Covenant” is. It is
receiving a love for the Truth, and we are then circumcised in our hearts
and want to obey. We are not
only free from the penalty of our former sin, but free of it’s power over
us; our inner nature is changed
by the indwelling of Yahusha, and His seed (Torah) grows within us.
On the day of our redemption, we will be grateful that Yahusha gave
us His Spirit so we could see His point of view, and we could walk before
Him daily showing our love for Him through our obedience.
Rom 6:16:
“Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves servants for obedience,
you are servants of the one whom you obey, whether of sin to death, or of
obedience to righteousness?”
There is no middle-ground;
either we are obedient, or we fail as our first parents did in Gan Eden.
The final outcome for those who reject Torah will be catastrophic!
Rom 2:12,13:
“For
as many as sinned without Torah shall also perish without Torah, and as many
as sinned in the Torah shall be judged by the Torah.
For
not the hearers of the Torah are righteous in the sight of Alahim, but the
doers of the law shall be declared right.”
(See
also Mt.
7:21-27, James 2:14-24).
Even the demons believe; but
they won’t OBEY.
On that note, consider this multiple choice snap-quiz:
At Rev 12:17, the
Dragon
is enraged at
those who hold to the Testimony of Yahusha,
and:
1. Observe Valentine’s Day 2. Obey Yahuah’s Commandments
3. Obey 9 Commandments 4. Work
on Sunday 5. Trust in the sacraments 6. Baptize babies 7.
Erect Christmas trees
This war is raging
now,
and those who are too drowsy (drunk on false teachings) need help to wake
up. The question above might
sober up a few to realize that something’s wrong, that people could be
obeying the wrong leadership.
Being very religious only impresses men, not Yahuah.
Meditating day and night upon the Torah, we possess a treasure
greater than gold. Ex. 20 and
Dt. 5 both declare the Covenant for us, and when we carefully read the whole
context of Dt. Chapters 4, 5, & 6, we find the Ten Commandments given
“again”
for the scattered tribes of Israel in the last days.
We are to teach them to our children and grandchildren.
Notice how He
knew
we would turn aside, be
scattered,
then
remember
the Words of the Covenant in our captivity in the last days:
Deu 4:27-31:
“And
Yahuah
shall
scatter
you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the
Gentiles where
Yahuah
drives you. And there you shall serve mighty ones, the work of men’s hands,
wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. But
from
there
you shall seek
Yahuah
your Alahim, and shall find, when you search for Him with all your heart and
with all your being.
In your DISTRESS*, when all these Words shall come upon you in the latter (LAST) days, then you shall return to Yahuah your Alahim and shall obey His voice. For Yahuah your Alahim is a compassionate El, He does not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the Covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.”
*(REFERENCE
TO THE
GREAT TRIBULATION
IN THE LAST DAYS)
Deu 5:29 “‘Oh, that they* had such a heart in them, to fear Me and to guard all My commands always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever!’”
*
(ISRAEL)
THE MESSAGE OF ELIYAH:
REMEMBER TORAH
Mal 4:4,5:
“Remember the Torah of Mosheh, My servant, which I commanded him in Horeb
for all Yisra’el
– laws and right-rulings.
See,
I am sending you
EliYah
the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of
Yahuah.”
Let’s consider some specifics. The fact is, the Name of Yahuah is not well-known because the 3rd Commandment has been distorted. It declares we are not to “cast” His Name to ruin (Hebrew, “shoah”, meaning destruction). If we lay-waste to His Name, we aren’t using it. We have been programmed to replace it with other words, like LORD, HaShem, Adonai, and so on. This is the ultimate blasphemy; to never call upon the one true Name of the Creator, we transgress the Torah. His Name is revealed in the Hebrew text at least 6,823 times in the four letters, YOD-HAY-UAU-HAY. There is no letter “J”, nor a letter “W” in Hebrew. Consequently, we have not been able to keep the Messiah’s one true Name intact either: YAHUSHA. The Name of the Creator, YAHUAH, is contained within the Name YAHUSHA, which means “Yah is our Deliverer” (YOD-HAY-UAU-SHIN-AYIN).
Exodus 23:13 prohibits us from taking the names of Pagan deities on our
lips. With that in mind, the origin of the term GOD will exempt it
from our use.
The 1945
Encyclopedia
Americana
has this to say under to topic "GOD":
"GOD
(god) Common Teutonic word for personal object of religious worship,
formerly applicable to super-human beings of heathen myth; on
conversion of Teutonic races to Christianity, term was applied to Supreme
Being."
The 4th Commandment is likewise ignored, and yet it is
the
SIGN
of the Eternal
Exo 31:16,
17:
“‘And
the children of Yisra’el
shall guard the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations
as an
everlasting
Covenant.
Between
Me and the children of Yisra’el
it is a
sign
forever.
For in six days
Yahuah
made
the Heavens and the Earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was
refreshed.’ ”
The Torah (Covenant) is a
SIGN
(OR MARK)
upon the seed of Israel forever:
Dt
28:46:
“And they shall be upon you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed,
forever.”
Gentiles must “engraft” into the Covenant, and join Israel.
There is to be
one
flock, and
one
Shepherd. Israelites
aren’t to become “Christian Torah-breakers”.
Yahuah has consistently said
(on many occasions)
the following:
Jer/YirmeYahu
9:13,14:
“And
Yahuah says, ‘Because they have forsaken My Torah which I set before them,
and have not obeyed My voice, nor walked according to it
(see 7:23),
but they have walked according to the stubbornness of their own heart and
after the Ba’alim, which their fathers had taught them.’”
He
scattered
the tribes of Israel, then over many generations
increased
their numbers among the Gentiles, and will ultimately
re-gather
them to have a wedding supper (for those wise maidens who awaken with
sufficient oil in their lamps).
Stumbling blocks, strongholds of thought, and false expectations are
more the norm among people of faith.
Understanding
is hampered because
Wisdom
and
Knowledge
are kept from people. The whole
of “Ezekiel” is about the scattering and ultimate re-gathering of Israel;
it’s not about Christianity.
The letter to the Galatians is about circumcision, the matter of
“law” that was settled for Gentiles by the council of elders (see Acts 15).
The Sabbath Day, blessed by Yahuah, is still the only day blessed now, and
is set-apart for us to rest in our home:
Ex.
16:29:
“See, because
Yahuah has given you the Sabbath, therefore He is giving you bread for two
days on the sixth day. Let each one stay in his place, do not let anyone go
out of his place on the seventh day.”
Notice there is a
distance factor
we have to keep in mind on the Sabbath:
Act 1:12:
“Then
they went back to Yerushalayim from the Mount of Olives, which is near
Yerushalayim, a Sabbath day’s journey.”
(1000 CUBITS)
Shaul (Paul) also obeyed Torah:
Act 25:8
“.
. .
while Sha’ul said in his own defense,
‘Neither
against the Torah of the Yahudim,
nor against the Set-apart Place, nor against Caesar did I commit any sin.’”
Whatever you may have thought about Shaul, this settles the matter.
Rom 7:12:
“So
that the Torah truly is set-apart, and the command set-apart, and righteous,
and good.”
OUR OBEDIENCE
WILL
BRING US PERSECUTION BY RELIGIOUS MEN.
Either we choose to obey, or compromise.
THE SIMPLE CHOICE:
REPENT, OR PERISH
TORAH TEACHES US HOW TO LOVE
REJECTING YAHUAH’S TORAH ONLY SHOWS OUR CONTEMPT FOR HIM
Choose wisely.
Do you pray to Yahuah, yet not obey His Commandments?
Pro 28:9 informs us:
“He who turns away his ear from hearing the Torah,
Even his prayer is an abomination.”
Proverbs 28:9
See
also 15:29, Isa. 59:1-2,
Check Ex. 16:4 to learn how Yahuah tests us to see if we will obey His
Torah!
FOOL ME ONCE,
SHAME ON YOU;
FOOL ME
TWICE, SHAME ON ME
The
test is not new.
The first Adam did not follow the instructions of Yahuah, and
became subject to death as a direct result.
The loss of eternal life (he could eat from the Tree of Life,
remember) was enormous, but sovereignty over the Earth was also lost, and
the adversary has been in charge since the Fall.
Failure to obey Torah resulted in death, banishment, and loss of
sovereignty;
many tears have been shed by man because he is “wired” to disobey, but by
choice he can overcome this.
Yahusha won back the authority over the Earth for mankind, but it
is still an open, personal choice to obey and inherit it to reign with Him,
or disobey and be banished into the Lake of Fire, a second death.
Please don’t be fooled
- deception is seen everywhere.
Our most important work during the time of Distress will be to help people
be
restored to the Covenant of Yahuah
-
His
Torah
-
the message of AliYahu!
(See Mal 4:1-6)