| by Avram Yehoshua (Flagstaff, Arizona) |
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 Christianity is the only religion in the world that does NOT emulate its Founder. Yeshua/Jesus rebuked Satan’s first temptation, to change the rocks into bread, by saying to the Devil: “Man does not live by bread alone, but by EVERY WORD that proceeds from the mouth of God” (Dt. 8:3; Mt. 4:4; Lk. 4:4). When did that change? When were Christians supposed to stop living according to the words of God that Yeshua lived His life by? Isn’t Yeshua our Example in all matters of faith and practice? The author of Hebrews says that, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever” (Heb. 13:8). This means that Yeshua is still a Sabbath keeping, Passover observing and pork abstaining Savior. Another thing it means is that what was sin for Jesus is sin for His Body (1st Cor. 12:27; Eph. 5:30; Col. 1:18). How could something have been sin for our Lord, but not sin for us? ‘Every word’ of God includes all the rules, statutes, and laws of Moses because they were first given to Moses and Israel verbally by God and then they were written down. Did it change with the crucifixion or with Paul, as Christianity teaches? No. The Apostle Paul makes it clear that Mosaic Law would teach Timothy ‘wisdom for salvation in Christ’ (2nd Tim. 3:10-17) and would make Timothy ‘fully equipped for every good work.’ Without Mosaic Law Christians are not fully equipped. They do not realize what the full extent of sin is in God’s eyes, and so, they sin against Jesus and themselves in ignorance, having been deceived about Mosaic Law by the Roman Catholic Church, even though they are not Roman Catholics. Jesus kept all the laws and rules of Moses that applied to Him, but the Church teaches that Jesus ‘did away with Mosaic Law at the cross,’ not understanding that what was done away with at the cross was our sin indebtedness to God (Col. 2:14), not God’s holy Law (Rom. 7:7, 12, 14). Christians have been wrongly taught that they do not have to keep things like Passover, the 7th day Sabbath and the Mosaic dietary laws. Yet, the Apostle to the Gentiles, 23 years after the resurrection, said that Mosaic Law reveals what sin is: · “Therefore, by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the Law is the KNOWLEDGE OF SIN.” (Romans 3:20) Without the knowledge of Mosaic Law, Christians miss many things that God wants them to walk in and are sinning against the Lord and not even realizing it. Great is the Deceiver and his deception! The God of Israel is wanting Christians to correct that and to walk out their faith in Yeshua the same way He did. Doesn’t that make sense? The Apostle John, 60 years after the resurrection, wrote, “He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked” (1st John 2:6 NKJV). *1* When we open the Gospels, we read that Yeshua kept all the laws of Moses that applied to Him. If He had not, He would have been a sinner, and His sacrifice of no consequence for us. We are to follow Him, not the Pope, in how we are to walk out our faith in Messiah Yeshua. Both Luke and Paul use the Feasts of Israel as time markers, telling us when an event would happen. This reveals that the Feasts of Israel were being kept by Christians for at least 34 years after the resurrection. *2* In other words, Mosaic Law was still God’s holy Standard that determined both what sin was and how to walk out a Christian’s faith in Jesus. The Holy Spirit is speaking to every Christian today and saying: · “Come out of her, My people! Lest you share in her sins and receive of her plagues!” (Revelation 18:4) The ‘her’ is the Roman Catholic Church (Dan. 7:25; Rev. 17:9; 19:2), the Harlot of New Testament Babylon, and all her Protestant daughter churches who have drunk deeply from her perverse anti-Mosaic Law theology and her foul anti-Semitic waters. Christians cause the Jewish people to stumble against their own Messiah, with their teaching against Mosaic Law and the Roman Catholic pagan practice of illicit SEX (Sunday, Easter, and Xmas) and the eating of pig, shrimp, catfish and other biblically unclean animals. This heretical teaching causes Christians to sin against their Savior by keeping days that Jesus has not authorized (illicit SEX) and eating foods which God calls unclean and an abomination (Lev. 11:1f.; 1st Tim. 4:4-5). With its anti-Mosaic Law theology the Church hides the Jewish Savior from His own Jewish people (Lk. 1:30-33; Rom. 11:25-29; Rev. 22:16), having made the Mosaic-Law-keeping Yeshua (Mt. 5:17-19) to be anti-Mosaic Law—a pig eating, Sunday keeping, Xmas gift-giving, Easter sunrise service attending Gentile pagan Christ. This is not the Jesus of the New Testament who never once intimated, let alone taught, that Christians would not keep Mosaic Law after the resurrection. As a matter of biblical fact, Jesus taught just the opposite (Mt. 5:17-19; 22:35-40; 24:20; Mk. 2:27-28; Luke 16:17). The Roman Catholic Church is not a Christian church, *3* and the conundrum for biblical Christians who walk in Roman Catholic anti-Mosaic Law theology and practices is that they cannot justify (support) those pagan practices from New Testament Scripture. Yes, they have Scripture which they think validates their not keeping of Mosaic Law, but when properly understood, those Scriptures don’t mean that. The enormity of the problem is seen when the Roman Catholic Church is compared to ancient paganism, revealing no character or personality difference between the two except for the names of Adonis and Diana being exchanged for Jesus and Mary. Yes, it is that perverse. The Roman Catholic Church is the Babylon of the New Testament, as all the Reformers knew and taught (Rev. 14:8; 16:19; 17:5). *4* True biblical Christianity was changed by the nascent Roman Catholic Church in 120 A.D., when it threw out Mosaic Law and brought in illicit SEX, anti-Mosaic Law theology and anti-Semitism. Yes, Christian churches today have their interpretations of Paul’s phrases about the Law that they think come against Mosaic Law (e.g. you are ‘not under the Law;’ Gal. 5:18),*5* but a true reading of the New Testament cites dealing with Mosaic Law reveal that Mosaic Law is still valid for Christians because it is God’s holy Standard that reveals both the full extent of sin (Rom. 3:20) and what love is (Mt. 22:35-40). Most Christians do not realize that they are walking out their faith in Jesus through Catholic theology that nullifies New Testament Scripture concerning Mosaic Law. By 120 A.D., due to the Roman Empire’s persecution of the Jewish people; both believing Jews and non-believing Jews, and all Gentile Christians (because they walked like Jesus had; keeping the 7th day Sabbath, the Feasts of Israel and the Mosaic dietary laws, etc.), the Bishop of Rome (whose office would later become that of the Pope), not wanting to be persecuted ‘as a Jew,’ threw out Mosaic Law and replaced it with pagan days and pagan ways. This stripped his Christians of their biblical heritage. Many Christians fought back, but when Constantine made Catholicism his state religion (323 AD), the Popes were able to use murderous force to destroy her enemies (i.e. true Christians). Today, God is calling Christians back to His way of walking out their faith in Messiah Yeshua; through all the rules, laws and statutes of Moses that apply to them. *6* My doctrine is not mine, but His who sent me. If anyone seeks to do His will, he will know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from the Lord Yeshua or whether I speak on my own authority (cf. John 7:16-17). We are not to bend God’s Word to our lives, but to bend our lives to God’s Word. *1* Compare Dt. 4:5-8; Psalm 119:142, 151, 160; Isaiah 2:3; 66:22-23; Jer. 31:31-34 (where the English word for ‘law’ is Torah, which is Mosaic Law); Ezk. 11:19-20; 36:25-27; 43:7-9, 18-20, 25-27; 44:2-5, 23-24; 45:16, 21-22; Zech. 14:10-20; Mt. 5:17-19; 22:35-40; Acts 21:20-21; 22:12; 25:7-8; 26:19-23; 28:17-23; Rom. 3:31; 7:12, 14; 8:7; Heb. 4:9; 8:10; 13:8; James 2:9; 4:11-12; 1st Jn. 3:4; 5:2-3; Rev. 12:17; 14:12. *2* Luke wrote Acts about 64 A.D. For a fascinating biblical study, see The Feasts of Israel as Time Markers After the Resurrection at http://seedofabraham.net/The-Feasts-of-Israel-as-Time-Markers.pdf. *3* See The Ultimate Enigma at http://seedofabraham.net/The-Ultimate-Enigma.pdf and Sunday—The Catholic Sabbath at http://seedofabraham.net/Sunday-The-Catholic-Sabbath.pdf. *4* For two excellent and complementary Christian books on why the Roman Catholic Church is not a Christian church, read The Two Babylons—The Full Hislop at http://seedofabraham.net/The-Two-Babylons.pdf and Dave Hunt’s, A Woman Rides the Beast (Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 1994). *5* See No Longer Under the Law? at http://seedofabraham.net/No-Longer-Under-the-Law.pdf, Law 102 at http://seedofabraham.net/Law-102.pdf and Law and Grace at http://seedofabraham.net/Law-and-Grace.pdf. *6* See Seven Ways Yeshua Fulfilled the Law at http://seedofabraham.net/Seven-Ways-Yeshua-Fulfilled-Law.pdf, Take the Quiz! Five Quick Questions about the New Testament at http://seedofabraham.net/Take-the-Quiz.pdf, and The Lifting of the Veil—Acts 15:20-21 at http://seedofabraham.net/The-Lifting-of-the-Veil.pdf. |
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