| a Orthodox
is the proper one; also, unlike the Reform movement, they do not demand
a denial of Jesus; thus your conscience won't be injured, until you understand
properly the difference between the TRUE Yeshua and the Jesus Rome created
[2 Corinthians 11:4]. |
| b Torah
is the standard of righteousness by which we are to conduct our lives and
daily affairs, in view of the fact that we have been justified and saved
by grace through faith in Messiah. Torah is the commandments of G-d. And
the love of G-d is to obey His commandments [see 1 John 5:3; 2 Jn 6; Jn
14:23-24; 15:10]. We are not to conduct our affairs as the people in the
days of the judges did, every man living according to what seemed right
to him [Judges 17:6; 21:25]. We are to live according to what is right
and good in the sight of G-d. |
| c But...
although there is no distinction between Jew or Gentile in regard to the
steps of salvation, there remains still one distinction as far as the observance
of Torah is concerned: the Jew was and remains the recipient and entrusted
guardian of the Law of G-d. Therefore he continues to keep the commandments,
but without fear of punishment! Because it is no longer the Law
who is his master and judge, but Messiah (Gal. 3:23-25; Ro 7:4, 6). He
obeys the commandments of G-d as was enjoined upon the House of Israel,
being G-d’s witnesses to the nations of His righteousness and coming Kingdom.
In the place of the unbending yoke of the Letter of the Law the Jew now
bears Messiah’s merciful yoke. He does not cast away Torah and becomes
“lawless”. He walks in the Law of liberty instead, upholding G-d’s standard
of righteousness based on love, which is no longer a yoke (Gal.
5:18; Ro 6:15-19; 7:12, 14, 22, 25; 8:1-2; 1 Pe 2:13-16, 24). |
| d It
is generally believed that “Adam” is derived from the word “a’dam’ah” (the
fem. form of “Adam”), which means “earth, soil, ground”, because of its
reddish characteristic implied by the word “dam”. Because “adamah” means
earth, soil, ground, the name "Adam" is believed to mean merely “man”,
since G-d created him from the dust of the earth. However, this seriously
impairs the relevance and importance of the blood, of which G-d repeatedly
states that in it is the life. When G-d’s breath entered the man’s nostrils,
life was somehow imparted into his blood and made him a living being [Gen.
2:7; 1Cor. 15:45]. Because G-d never says that He created man in the likeness
of His “ruach”, that is “breath, spirit, wind”, but in His “dam’ut”, that
is blood-likeness. Nor does our Redeemer ever suggest that man is redeemed,
or atoned for by [His] “breath”, but always and only by [His] “blood”,
for reason that in it is the life.
Hence the combination of the abbreviation with
the word “dam” spells “A-dam”, and means “G-d, or Lord of the Blood" in
Hebrew, not merely “man”. The woman also was a “G-d, or Lord of the Blood",
even though she was a female. She was taken from the man, therefore she
shared in his kind of nature and life. “Dam” is the Hebrew word for “blood”,
and the “A” is the abbreviation for “Adonai” [this word often appears in
Scripture in place of the unutterable Name of G-d, and means "Lord, Master"].
(The Hebrew scholar, Dr. Roy Blizzard of "Yavo" Inc., of Austin, Texas,
however, interprets "Adam" to mean “Blood-of-G-d.” Since Hebrew is written
and read from right to left, it reads "Adonai" - "G-d, Lord" first, and
then "dam" - "blood". Hence it is the more correct interpretation, which
does not necessarily disqualify Dr. Blizzard's interpretation.) |
| e
I realize that I am pretty alone with this view, to which I was originally
inspired by Dr. Roy Blizzard, founder of "Yavo", Inc., a Hebrew scholar
from Austin, Texas. But I find it to be the only one which really makes
sense when taking into consideration the vast amount of Scriptures pointing
to the blood as the redeeming agent,
and not to the breath nor to the earth. It is the DAM
that matters, not the dust of the earth. It was not the “dust” which got
corrupted, but the life. And the life is in the blood! |
| f See
also: Matthew 17:2, 5 *
John 1:1-2, (12-13), 14, 18, 34 *3:16-18,
34-36 *
11:27 *14:10-11,
20 *
17:1-5, 8, 11, 21-23 *
Romans 1:3-4 8:3 *1
Corinthians 15:47 *
Philippians 2:5-6 *Colossians
1:15-20; 2:9*
1 Timothy 3:16 *Hebrews
1:2-3, 4-6;
3:6; 5:8; 13:8; 2:9, 14, 17 does not indicate that He therefore
was not divine (verses 10 and 11 make that clear), but rather that He was
made to share in the nature of our body of flesh, so that by the death
of His body He may destroy the power of the devil to whom man is in bondage
due to the fallen nature *
1 Jn 1:1-3 *
3:8-10 *
4:9-10, 15 (2-3; 2:22-24) *
5:5, 8, 9-12, 13, 20 |
| g The
Roman Catholic Church teaches that Miriam was not contaminated by the first
sin. How this should have been the case in
view of the fact that Messiah had not yet come, and that she eventually
succumbed to death like all mortals, can only
be explained by the former heathen practice of ascribing to the divine
magical powers. It is wishful thinking, not
understanding the laws which govern G-d's entire creation, and which arexalso
the foundation for G-d's plan of salvation. |
| h The
blood of a mortal human being is composed of his father’s and mother’s
blood. In Yeshua’s case I don’t think that
G-d composed His Son’s blood after the same manner. I am no scientist,
and hold no degree in medicine, hence can’t
“prove” the validity of my statement. However, the letter to the Hebrews
already states that “by faith
we
understand that the world was created by the Word of G-d, so that what
is seen was made out of things which
do not appear [Hebrews 11:13].” Presumably no scientist will agree
with this Biblical statement, since he can’t scientifically "prove" it.
But there simply are things between heaven and earth which are far
beyond the capacity of human understanding, and can only be grasped by
faith. Such is the case with the composition
of Yeshua’s blood. For although we all know that G-d is Spirit and not
flesh and consequently would not have blood
as we have, YET G-d named the male and female He created Blood-of-God,
namely ADAM. And He based the salvation of
the fallen human race on the blood, not of sheep, goats and oxen,
nor of any man no matter how wise and anointed.
He based it on the blood of His Son. |
| i Israel
has been punished time and again for transgression. The Gentiles would
see it and conclude to be superior, since
they did not suffer in like manner. However, without knowing it they
were even worse off, since they were without
G-d or hope in this world (Ephesians 2:12). They were neither the recipients
nor guardians of Torah, therefore transgression
of it effected no discipline. Whereas the curse
of transgression has crushed Israel repeatedly
--- until Yeshua HaMashiach came. He kept all the commandments perfectly
in the spirit in which G-d gave them, and
was guiltless of transgression. He also observed Hanukkah (John 10:22-23),
even though this is no "Torah-commanded" festival. |
| j See
John 19:30; Revelation 16:17; and 21:6 --- these are three “It is finished!”
The first, uttered by Yeshua on the cross, ended the era of the “lordship
of the Law” from Moses until Messiah’s work of redemption, inaugurating
the “Age of Grace”. The second, uttered by G-d, concludes the “Age of Grace”,
the era from Yeshua’s Ascension until His Return, and inaugurates the Messianic,
or Millennial Reign. The third, again uttered by G-d, concludes the Millennial
Reign and initiates the new heaven and the new earth, G-d’s everlasting
Kingdom. |
| k However,
there IS a way by which the genuine children of G-d may be perceived and
seen by the world --- by obeying the Lord Yeshua’s chief commandment: “A
new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as
I
have loved you, that you also love one
another. By THIS all men
will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another...
Greater
love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends...
(John 13:34-35; 15:12-13).” |
l “Religion”
is: rites; doctrines and traditions of men; secret initiations; worship
of things or persons besides G-d, idolizing places and articles such as
burial places, an “authentic” wooden piece of Messiah’s cross, figurines
of saints, pictures of revered rabbis, etc. Pure “religion” is to provide
for the poor and needy, the sick, the homeless, for widows and orphans,
to lift the yoke of oppression and set the captives free (see Isaiah 58;
Galatians 2:10; and James 1:27).
Salvation,
however, is more than religion: it is the power of G-d which destroys the
power and works of the evil one. It rescues man from his clutches to live
again in fellowship with G-d our Creator, immortal, imperishable. All memory
of the knowledge of good and evil, sin, transgression, etc. gets canceled.
Salvation is not a religion, it is our eternal life in a new world purged
of all evil. Faith in Yeshua, the Son of G-d and Messiah of Israel, is
not a religion, but the way -- the only way -- to eternal life in the City
of G-d, the Heavenly Jerusalem. |
| m It is not
Israel by whom we have salvation. She is the channel, the agent through
whom G-d is raising up a new race of immortal men. Within her, and
her alone, is Messiah. As a fetus does
not grow and develop separate from the womb but rather within
her, so does the Body of Messiah not
grow and develop separate from Israel, but withinher.
Israel and Messiah are an integral part of each other until the time of
Birth
has come --- the birth of the fully completed Body
of Messiah and therewith of the Kingdom of G-d (Romans 11:11-12).
Israel and Messiah may also be compared to a nut: the nation is the
Shell,
Messiah the
Seed within
that shell. They belong together. Therefore G-d also sowed them
together.
For this reason a Gentile must be ingrafted (through his faith in
Messiah) into Israel (see Romans 11:13-24) to share ultimately in the inheritance
of G-d's promises. For this reason Yeshua said to the Samaritan woman at
the well, "salvation is of, comes from the Jews" (John 4:22).
Because Israel is a people of mortal Adam,
while the Gentiles are of the mortal race of Enosh
(human flesh - Psalm 9:19-20).
The Adamic race is the
cultivated
olive tree Israel; while Enosh
is the wild olive
tree. Apart from this cultivated
tree and Adamic people,
the Jews, the Gentiles are no
people of G-d. They need to be "fused" into the Jews' tree in order to
share its richness and become children of Abraham and co-heirs with Messiah
(Romans 11:16-18, 24).
When Jacob went into exile to Mesopotamia, he crossed the river Jordan
alone, with but his staff. When he returned after 20 years (or today, 20
centuries) to the promised land, he had become two companies: in the one
camp was his immediate family, in the second those who were joined to his
household (Genesis 31:38; 32:10). In Messiah, a “second company” of believing
Gentiles has been joined to Jacob, forming “Klal Yisrael”/“the Commonwealth
of Israel” together with the Jews.
I write about these things in greater detail in my books, “GENESIS
II”, and “The Threefold Remnant of Israel...” |
