Amongst the replies I received in response to one of my recent blogs this statement was made:
"I HAVE BEEN SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB AND THAT IS ENOUGH FOR ME!"
I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with this statement:
It is the only way that we can be reconciled with The Father, Elohim of Avraham, Yitzchak & Ya'akov. But I have a theory which I would like to air in the light of day, it goes something like this:
Nothing ever happens unless YHWH allows it to happen, so YHWH allowed the rise of empires to achieve at least a twofold purpose. Firstly HE needed to use these Gentile Nations to chastise HIS Chosen People Israel: Secondly HE used HIS Remnant amongst the Covenant Israelites in the diaspora to show HIM and HIS Torah to the Gentiles.
YHWH allowed the Grecian and Roman empires to rise and suppress not only HIS chosen People, but basically the entire known world at that stage (As HE used Egypt at the time of the Exodus).
YHWH caused to be used the semitic Hebrew language to record the Tanakh (O/T), a language of pictures of physical objects - using a hieroglyphic alphabet - and HE allowed a Greek Brit Chadashah (N/T) to be handed down to us as far as we can establish at present, in a language of sounds - using a phonetic alphabet. Meaning we have a massive clash of two totally different mindsets, ideologies and cultures both claiming to represent the same "Deity"!
The Hebrew mindset viewing life and truth from the perspective of a singular materialistic world viewpoint, with true knowledge coming from YHWH through and by application of YHWH's revealed Torah (Instruction which they consider the Truth) - This school of Hebraic thought is known as block logic, linked to a specific Source often for a specific event and not necessarily given in a linear or chronological fashion.
The Greek/Western mindset view life and truth from the perspective of a dualistic worldly viewpoint, with true knowledge coming from a rationalised and logical philosophic base thus making truth a self-existent intellectually and logically linked set of facts not needing any source and thus available to any person willing to pursue it intellectually - linear or domino logic.
Now because Christian Denominationalism have been so massively impacted by the Greek Mindset of intellectual human reasoning, it has chosen to ignore the parts of the Block Logic Torah that do not line up with it's Linear Platonic philosophical impressions, interpretations and concepts with the result they have become like waves being tossed about on the sea shore; they are of unstable minds each offering their own humanistic viewpoint on a subject resulting in an inordinate amount of denominations; denominations all calling themselves Christian and expounding on a "Jesus" and His doctrines that accepts anything from Homosexulaity to Chrislam and everything in between.
Just as tragic as this confusion of denominations and sects is, is the fact that this "Christian" philosophy has meant that there is seldom attention paid to Scriptures such as those quoted by Rav Sha'ul in 1 Cor. 10 concerning the Torah and the forefathers coming out of physical and geographic Egypt; and if attempts are made to expound on such Scriptures, or any other Scripture, the Linear Mindset requires the human norm to align itself to it "default" thought process of a dualistic based rationally understandable worldly impressions and viewpoints achieved through allegorising abstract concepts and intellectual pursuits resulting in a replacement of true biological Israel by a "Gentile Church" giving very little, or no recognition to the Hebrew Tanakh (O/T) and its Block logic Hebraic interpretations. This Scriptural "cherry picking" has left the Word open to massive abuse and at best a twisting, or total rejection at worst of the warning that Kepha (Peter) gave us in 2 Pet. 3:15-16.
However allow us to briefly look at 1. Cor.10 with a Hebrew Mindset using the Torah as a foundation: 1 Cor. 10 admonishes us to pay attention to what happened to our forefathers when they were leaving Egypt and going in the Wilderness; the same forefathers:-
So if we adopt the Biblical Hebrew mindset we are able to see that our forefathers, to leave the slavery of Egypt, needed to physically apply:
Brethren, possibly we need to stop here for a moment and shelah! Think, contemplate.
The breaking of the Law/Covenant/Torah in the Garden instituted by default the "curse of the Law/Torah/Marriage Covenant" - which is DEATH FOR ALL OF MANKIND!
So hopefully we have made our case that:
The difference between the Holy and the Profane was required to be taught by the Priests of YHWH to YHWH's people SO THAT THEY KNEW WHAT SIN WAS so that they did not sin, or become slaves to SIN! (Deut. 18:9,12-13; Deut. 18:5 arw Eze. 44:23ff; 1 John 3:4; Rom. 6:14). Read into Rom. 6:14
Hallelujah, Thank you Father and Yeshua!
The Covenant, which has supposedly been annulled, is the very Document that is the prophetic plumbline by which YESHUA and HIS VERY CODE OF CONDUCT CAN BE DEFINED AND BY WHICH WE CAN RECOGNIZE HIM AS THE TRUE MESSIAH, THE ANOINTED ONE, AND NOT AN IMPOSTER OR ANTI-CHRIST!! (Deut. 18:15-18).
I say again: The Covenant/Torah/Law DEFINES THE VERY PERSON OF YESHUA AND HIS HALACHA, HIS WAY! The Torah/Covenant/Law shows us, as a potential candidate for the Bride, how we are to act to come into line with Yeshua so we can become ONE with our Heavenly Bridegroom - SO WHY THEN ARE WE TOLD WE MUST WE BE TOTALLY DIFFERENT TO YESHUA AND DO INSTEAD WHAT PAUL TELLS US? Why in heaven's name should we think we can become His Bride when we walk in a path that HIS Word clearly defines as SIN? Does this make any sense at all? Of course not, and to even suggest it is heretical and false doctrine! Yet the denominational systems teach this!
Please consider for a moment if you will, we have the 5 wise and 5 foolish bridesmaids (Matt.25:1-14). We have the Bride and the Guests (Matt. 22:10-12): Now consider the Words of Yeshua spoken in Matt. 5:19 about those who break the least of the Torah/Covenant/Law and teach others the same will be "called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven."
Have you ever thought that there are those who are "citizens" of the Commonwealth of Israel - just guests at the Wedding! And there are those who are The Bride of the Lamb and rule with HIM over the Commonwealth of Israel for eternity?
The Covenant required the Death and BLOOD of Yeshua to empower it.
The Blood required from Yeshua was minutely detailed as instructions to us as how to enter the presence of The Father still to this very day - Albeit definitely not by the blood of bulls and goats - but by the Blood of Yeshua. In the so called Sacrificial System recorded in Leviticus, we are taught the protocol required to enter before the Father by the Blood of Yeshua AS DEFINED AND ESTABLISHED IN HEAVEN FOR ETERNITY AND AS SEEN BY MOSHE:
The Blood has released us from the Curse of death because of SIN; but to enter the Audience of The Father we need to search out and learn HIS Protocol as described to us in Leviticus!
HOWEVER - We need to physically apply the Covenant/Torah/Law as applicable in our lives so that it leads:
So, yes the Blood of the Lamb is more than enough to get us redeemed and out of Egypt into the Wilderness where we shall die if we reject or rebel against The Covenant/Torah/Law; (Eze. 20:33-38): BUT THE ACCEPTANCE, APPLICATION AND OBEDIENCE OF YESHUA'S BRIDAL COVENANT THROUGH A REDEEMED AND CIRCUMCISED HEART LEADS US INTO THE PROMISED LAND, ALLOWS US TO RULE WITH YESHUA AND BE HIS "NEW JERUSALEM", HIS SPOTLESS, VIRGINAL BRIDE!
Shabbat Shalom,
Bo'az.
The Hebrew mindset viewing life and truth from the perspective of a singular materialistic world viewpoint, with true knowledge coming from YHWH through and by application of YHWH's revealed Torah (Instruction which they consider the Truth) - This school of Hebraic thought is known as block logic, linked to a specific Source often for a specific event and not necessarily given in a linear or chronological fashion.
The Greek/Western mindset view life and truth from the perspective of a dualistic worldly viewpoint, with true knowledge coming from a rationalised and logical philosophic base thus making truth a self-existent intellectually and logically linked set of facts not needing any source and thus available to any person willing to pursue it intellectually - linear or domino logic.
Now because Christian Denominationalism have been so massively impacted by the Greek Mindset of intellectual human reasoning, it has chosen to ignore the parts of the Block Logic Torah that do not line up with it's Linear Platonic philosophical impressions, interpretations and concepts with the result they have become like waves being tossed about on the sea shore; they are of unstable minds each offering their own humanistic viewpoint on a subject resulting in an inordinate amount of denominations; denominations all calling themselves Christian and expounding on a "Jesus" and His doctrines that accepts anything from Homosexulaity to Chrislam and everything in between.
Just as tragic as this confusion of denominations and sects is, is the fact that this "Christian" philosophy has meant that there is seldom attention paid to Scriptures such as those quoted by Rav Sha'ul in 1 Cor. 10 concerning the Torah and the forefathers coming out of physical and geographic Egypt; and if attempts are made to expound on such Scriptures, or any other Scripture, the Linear Mindset requires the human norm to align itself to it "default" thought process of a dualistic based rationally understandable worldly impressions and viewpoints achieved through allegorising abstract concepts and intellectual pursuits resulting in a replacement of true biological Israel by a "Gentile Church" giving very little, or no recognition to the Hebrew Tanakh (O/T) and its Block logic Hebraic interpretations. This Scriptural "cherry picking" has left the Word open to massive abuse and at best a twisting, or total rejection at worst of the warning that Kepha (Peter) gave us in 2 Pet. 3:15-16.
However allow us to briefly look at 1. Cor.10 with a Hebrew Mindset using the Torah as a foundation: 1 Cor. 10 admonishes us to pay attention to what happened to our forefathers when they were leaving Egypt and going in the Wilderness; the same forefathers:-
- Who were under the protection and guidance of YHWH:
- Who were "baptised" after a Spiritual Re-birth in Egypt:
- Who ate of the same Spiritual Word as we have today (Yeshua) NB: this statement by Rav Sha'ul taken in context means that they to whom Sha'ul addressed this letter to were using the Torah that the forefathers used:
- Who drank from the same Spiritual Source we have today (Yeshua)
So if we adopt the Biblical Hebrew mindset we are able to see that our forefathers, to leave the slavery of Egypt, needed to physically apply:
- by faith (Greek - Pistis - fidelity, loyalty to the Torah through belief in its authenticity) the covering of The Blood of The Lamb (Shadow, copy of Messiah Yeshua's eternal sacrifice, established in Heaven before the foundations of the world were laid) over the lintel of their homes SO THAT THEY COULD BE RECONCILED BACK TO ABBA BY THE ATONING BLOOD OF THE SAVIOUR THUS MEETING THE FATHER'S JUST AND RIGHTEOUS REQUIREMENTS OF DEATH FOR THEIR SINS!
We really need to remember that NO MAN HAS EVER BEEN JUSTIFIED BY THE BLOOD OF BULLS AND RAMS, THE LEVITICAL SYSTEM WAS A FORESHADOWING OF MESSIAH HIMSELF (Heb.10:3-7).
We need to "bust this myth" once and for all: No person who has ever lived, or will ever live has been saved by any other way than through "Faith attributed to us by Grace". We, by looking back to Messiah and The Stake (Cross) through faith by unmerited grace and our forefathers, by looking forward to Messiah and The Stake (Cross) by unmerited grace. The Levitical priesthood with its system of "substitution" (Sacrifices) of innocent lives for sin was all pointing forward to Messiah Yeshua and HIS Perfect Atonement, Substitution for the SIN (breaking of Covenant/Torah/Law) of the entire world! Gen. 15:6 -
Avraham "believed in YHWH and HE counted to him for righteousness."
(H539 - aman = believed but also translated in KJV as - establish, believe, trust, verified, continuance, nurse, steadfast, stand, trusty - again we see the Hebrew mindset portrayed by actions and not concepts) See also Gal. 3:6-9 and you see that the Gospel was preached to Avraham so that the heathen (Abraham) could be saved by faith through grace BEFORE MESSIAH DIED ON THE STAKE, BEFORE MOSHE AND SINAI BUT HE SAW THE DAY OF YESHUA AND REJOICED! John 8:56
Brethren, possibly we need to stop here for a moment and shelah! Think, contemplate.
The breaking of the Law/Covenant/Torah in the Garden instituted by default the "curse of the Law/Torah/Marriage Covenant" - which is DEATH FOR ALL OF MANKIND!
"And YHWH Elohim commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the Garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, for in that day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" (KJV. Gen 2:16-17)Another acceptable translation of "thou shalt surely die." is "Dying thou shalt die."
So hopefully we have made our case that:
- The Blood of the Innocent Lamb perfectly met the price of that curse of Death we are all under.
- The Blood of the Lamb released us from the slavery of SIN and began to lead us out of Egypt (World Systems we are enslaved in still to this day which go against Torah causing us to all SIN) into the Wilderness. (H4714 - mitsrayim = Egypt from H6696 primitive root, cramp, confine, assault, besiege, adversary, hostile, distress)
- The Blood of the Lamb entitled us to now receive the Betrothal Covenant at Mt. Sinai from our Heavenly Bridegroom, an apparent pre-incarnate Yeshua HaMashiach, The Atoning Lamb Himself.
The difference between the Holy and the Profane was required to be taught by the Priests of YHWH to YHWH's people SO THAT THEY KNEW WHAT SIN WAS so that they did not sin, or become slaves to SIN! (Deut. 18:9,12-13; Deut. 18:5 arw Eze. 44:23ff; 1 John 3:4; Rom. 6:14). Read into Rom. 6:14
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the (condemnation) of the Law (Torah) (KJV - emphasis added by me when read with Gal. 3)Verse 23 of Galatians 3 does not speak of the Tanakh (O/T) versus the Brit Chadashah (N/T) it speaks of each of us who have not yet come to Salvation through Faith by Grace in the Messiah's perfect atonement - thus we are under the "Rod of the Law - The Curse of Death" which verse 13 states The Messiah has redeemed us from!
Hallelujah, Thank you Father and Yeshua!
The Covenant, which has supposedly been annulled, is the very Document that is the prophetic plumbline by which YESHUA and HIS VERY CODE OF CONDUCT CAN BE DEFINED AND BY WHICH WE CAN RECOGNIZE HIM AS THE TRUE MESSIAH, THE ANOINTED ONE, AND NOT AN IMPOSTER OR ANTI-CHRIST!! (Deut. 18:15-18).
I say again: The Covenant/Torah/Law DEFINES THE VERY PERSON OF YESHUA AND HIS HALACHA, HIS WAY! The Torah/Covenant/Law shows us, as a potential candidate for the Bride, how we are to act to come into line with Yeshua so we can become ONE with our Heavenly Bridegroom - SO WHY THEN ARE WE TOLD WE MUST WE BE TOTALLY DIFFERENT TO YESHUA AND DO INSTEAD WHAT PAUL TELLS US? Why in heaven's name should we think we can become His Bride when we walk in a path that HIS Word clearly defines as SIN? Does this make any sense at all? Of course not, and to even suggest it is heretical and false doctrine! Yet the denominational systems teach this!
Please consider for a moment if you will, we have the 5 wise and 5 foolish bridesmaids (Matt.25:1-14). We have the Bride and the Guests (Matt. 22:10-12): Now consider the Words of Yeshua spoken in Matt. 5:19 about those who break the least of the Torah/Covenant/Law and teach others the same will be "called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven."
Have you ever thought that there are those who are "citizens" of the Commonwealth of Israel - just guests at the Wedding! And there are those who are The Bride of the Lamb and rule with HIM over the Commonwealth of Israel for eternity?
The Covenant required the Death and BLOOD of Yeshua to empower it.
The Blood required from Yeshua was minutely detailed as instructions to us as how to enter the presence of The Father still to this very day - Albeit definitely not by the blood of bulls and goats - but by the Blood of Yeshua. In the so called Sacrificial System recorded in Leviticus, we are taught the protocol required to enter before the Father by the Blood of Yeshua AS DEFINED AND ESTABLISHED IN HEAVEN FOR ETERNITY AND AS SEEN BY MOSHE:
The Blood has released us from the Curse of death because of SIN; but to enter the Audience of The Father we need to search out and learn HIS Protocol as described to us in Leviticus!
HOWEVER - We need to physically apply the Covenant/Torah/Law as applicable in our lives so that it leads:
- Firstly into a life of blessings, conversely breaking it leads to curses (Lev. 26:1-3 & 14-16; Deut. 28:1-2, 15ff).
- Secondly into a deeper and more intimate relationship with our future Bridegroom, Yeshua, The Salvation of YHWH AND it begins to set us apart (Sanctify, make Holy) from the world by our very actions as inspired by and orchestrated through The Ruach HaKodesh of YHWH so as to give HIS SON a spotless and clean Bride robed in White. (Deut. 26:17-19; 30:6; 30:15-20).
So, yes the Blood of the Lamb is more than enough to get us redeemed and out of Egypt into the Wilderness where we shall die if we reject or rebel against The Covenant/Torah/Law; (Eze. 20:33-38): BUT THE ACCEPTANCE, APPLICATION AND OBEDIENCE OF YESHUA'S BRIDAL COVENANT THROUGH A REDEEMED AND CIRCUMCISED HEART LEADS US INTO THE PROMISED LAND, ALLOWS US TO RULE WITH YESHUA AND BE HIS "NEW JERUSALEM", HIS SPOTLESS, VIRGINAL BRIDE!
Shabbat Shalom,
Bo'az.
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