THE GOSPEL IN YESHUA THE MESSIAH

       
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        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...”

         
                       
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