Restoration Room

This is the weekly Torah Portion done live over a zoom meeting.  This weeks Portion Vayikra: Leviticus 1 to Leviticus 5.

This is a quick rundown of scriptures, remember to show yourself approved by studying scripture.

We’ve been lead to believe thanks to modern misinterpretation of the scriptures that we can have some sort of lawless behavior and get into the Kingdom of Heaven.  Sadly 99% of this belief system is from taking verses out of context and not connecting them to verses surrounding them in either previous chapters, passages, or even books of the Bible.  For instance in Romans chapter 3 he builds up a case for not needing the Torah it seems like but ends that thought in verse 31 by stating your faith should establish the Torah which ties into chapter 2 verse 13.  We must remember these letters weren’t written with verse and chapter, they were written in a free flowing message from beginning to end in reference to letters written to Paul that he had to answer.  We must also tie history and culture of the areas written to in to the context of the letter; for instance Galatia, Ephesus, and Colossae all had rampant pagan temple worship hence the Acts 15 council being held.  In fact believers converting from pagan practices and Jews were the minority in those areas so them not doing what everyone else was doing such as not participating in Saturnalia or Ishtar festivals, celebrating new moons, and seventh day Sabbath keeping was weird and questionable to the majority much like it is in today’s culture.  We also forget ALL men will be judged by the same measuring stick at the end and we have multiple witnesses to this throughout the Bible and this doesn’t even include the Apocrypha.

I read these Roman Road verses in the mainstream Christian way of thinking which is out of context and very easy to take out of context without a firm foundation on the Old Testament. You can’t read these verses and dismiss the rest of the letter Paul wrote. But to understand Paul you must know he was a Pharisee, raised in a Greek city, and knew Torah in and out. He also called the law a delight, not a burden. He told us to walk in the law out of love knowing we would screw up but not intentionally. He quoted the Torah and Psalms quite often to make his points but without studying those you’d never realize that. He points to the Torah over and over as something that’s good but as Peter warned us unstable men who don’t know the scriptures will pervert them for their own gain and the Roman Catholic Church and Protestant churches have done so with great abandon putting in place the teachings of men over the teaching of God.  Romans 3:23, Romans 5:8, Romans 6:23, Romans 10:9-10, Romans 10:13.  

https://www.ancient-hebrew.org/definition/faith.htm

https://www.ancient-hebrew.org/studies-interpretation/aman-believe.htm

This is the chapter where most Christians say following Saturday Sabbath and doing the Torah were done away with without ever having studied in depth the Torah.  Today we are going to dive into this and see point blank where understanding the Torah comes into play.   I will be using the Cepher and TS2009 translations for this study and it will include scriptures from other books so be prepared.

Starting in verse 1 it talks of the men of Judah teaching you must be circumcised first to be saved; I’m going to go out on a limb here and say this is true and false at the same time.  Please follow my logic here there are two types of circumcision in the Torah one is of the flesh the other of the heart; see Deuteronomy 10:16 where the ISRAELITES were instructed to circumcise the foreskin of THEIR hearts and to quit being stubborn and also Deuteronomy 30:6 where Yah(God) promises to circumcise our hearts himself which is a prophecy of the New Covenant.  This is the circumcision that must take place first.  Lets use human logic here if I walk in and say hey if you want to be saved I have to lop off some flesh from your male parts to do it you would tell me to go to hell; the first circumcision that is supposed to take place is the circumcision of the heart or in better terms the submission of your mind and soul to the will of the almighty.  Basically you’re allowing the want to heart not the I’m not gonna heart.

First things first we need to rethink everything we think we know about the Bible. We know nothing about the Bible except what the Holy/Set-Apart Spirit teaches us. First step of contention are you a Christian or are you an Israelite when you accept Messiah into your heart? (Don’t get confused with the nation that the United Nations setup in 1948, they call themselves Israeli’s). Let’s see what Paul says in Ephesians using the CEPHER Bible, Berean Study Bible, and the King James Bible.  We don’t want to be Israel because the Jews evil practices doing all they can against the Torah makes us run away thinking that’s what the god of the ”Old” testament wanted without reading it for ourselves. Paul rebuked them heavily in Romans 2:24 for this:

For the name of Elohiym is blasphemed among the other nations through you, as it is written.  For circumcision truly profits, if you keep the Torah: but if you be a breaker of the Torah, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.

Romans 2:24-25 CEPHER

As we clearly see here the Torah is profitable if we keep it but worthless to us if we don’t per Paul, and we should be keeping it out of love not duty.  Remember this when reading Paul’s letters and this is why we must build our foundations on the front of the Bible and let the back of the Bible give us the greater depth of what is being said in the front.  If we don’t have a solid foundation then we allow ourselves to be fooled into thinking we are something we are not called to be.  Sadly, that thing we get fooled into believing teaches us to hate our brother because they don’t think the same way that they do; I’ve seen this myself since starting to walk out the entire Word of God.  I’ve been ridiculed and told I’m not saved anymore when in all reality I’m just trying to walk like Yeshua/Jesus did when he was on the earth and that’s exactly how Paul told us to walk in 1 Corinthians 11:1 and he was without blemish walking out ALL the parts of the Torah he could perfectly.

Verses read in this episode: Ephesians 2:8-13, Romans 9:6-9, Galatians 6:16, 1 Corinthians 12:2, Ephesians 4:17-18, 1 Corinthians 11:1, Mark 16:14-15, 1 John 2:3-6

We live in a society that picks and chooses how it wants to define and interpret scripture without letting Yah interpret it by what was said in these compilations of books called the Bible from front to back.  We aren’t allowing the Author of the Scriptures speak through it by letting scripture define scripture.  Instead modern churchianity uses the first 1/3 of the Bible as fire starter, fancy book ends, or toilet paper by most quote believers unquote.  There are several things that need to be defined scripturally as we go through this.  This is not the Bible per AW, no this is scripture defining scripture from Genesis to Revelation leaving no scriptural stone unturned and not omitting verses because I don’t want to admit they’re true.  Seeing how the world is turning out we know the entire Word is true so let’s dive in and destroy dispensationalism with looked over and omitted verses and seek Truth.  So lets start by defining Truth Biblically.

Joh 14:6  Yeshua said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Psa 119:142  Your justice is righteousness forever, and Your Torah is truth.

Psa 119:160  Truth is the essence of Your word, and all Your righteous rulings are eternal.

Joh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Elohim, and the Word was Elohim.

Joh 1:14  And the Word became flesh and pitched His tent among us, and we saw His esteem, esteem as of an only brought-forth of a father, complete in favour and truth.

Here we see the Truth is the Torah and the Torah is Messiah Yahusha or Jesus if you’re more comfortable with the English transliteration.  This is something we overlook because we start in the back of the book and don’t search the entire Word, we see the Word is Yahusha and he came and dwelt or tabernacled with us in a flesh suit.  So we can’t just use these verses to define the Truth we need to use the entire Word to do so from Genesis to Revelation.

This isn't what I was planning but when the Father says do this then do it; these are notes I wrote the other day that go with this episode.

Call me crazy, call me fallen from grace, call me a Judaizer, call me whatever your heart desires it won’t offend me. I’ve been doing as the Bereans did and found God’s Law, the Torah, is good, isn’t far from my heart, and brings life just like it says it does in Deuteronomy, the Psalms, and Proverbs. The Apostles even said it brings life and walked it out.

This walk of salvation I’m walking in fear and trembling has brought me to studying history, looking deeper at what Messiah said, learning context, understanding Biblical culture, and lead me to someone who grew up in Orthodox Judaism and left it, which is what Messiah was fighting against during his ministry, and walks out Torah and professes Messiah loudly and proudly. He fights against what is now called the Talmud, which is the oral law that Messiah fought against, that Orthodox Jews claim is above the Word of God and we know that’s not the case.

This I do know, the modern day church is following in the footsteps of Ephraim/Israel under Jeroboam and doing violence to the word by claiming its dead, done away with, and nailed to the cross without actually studying it and digging into history and culture of the Bible then it just makes stuff up. If we were being honest and actually studying the Epistles of Paul and teachings of Messiah in context from understanding the Torah and the prophets we would see more clearly but we’ve allowed the very wall the Jews built in the temple to keep the Gentiles out to remain standing and the hatred towards each other is growing deeper and deeper.

We aren’t called to be Pentecostal, Baptist, Methodist, non-Denominational, Messianic Jews, Christians, or any other name you can throw out there. We are called to be followers of Messiah which means we do what Messiah taught and did and from reading what he taught and did and seeing Isaiah 42:21, Matthew 22:37-40, Luke 16:17, and Matthew 5:17-21 know he magnified Torah and brought deeper meaning to it not abolish it. I’ve pulled these from the Peshitta Bible because they say the same thing as your Bible but with greater depth and understanding.

21The LORD was pleased, for his righteousness’ sake,

to magnify his law and make it glorious. Isaiah 42:21

17Do not think that I have come to revoke The Written Law or The Prophets; I am not come to revoke but to fulfill. 18Amen, I say to you that until Heaven and earth will pass away, one Yodh or one Taag and will not pass away from The Written Law until everything will happen. 19Everyone therefore who violates one of these small commandments and will teach thus to the children of men will be called small in the Kingdom of Heaven, but everyone who will do and will teach the same will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

20For I say to you, that unless your goodness will exceed that of the Scribes and the Pharisees, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Matthew 5:17-20

37Yeshua said to him, “You shall love THE LORD JEHOVAH your God from all your heart and from all your soul and from all your power and from all your mind.” 38“This is the great and the first commandment.” 39“And the second which is like it is, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' 40On these two commands depend all The Written Law and The Prophets.”

Matthew 22:37-40

I'm not expert but we are living in the last days and many are going to be deceived in these times if they haven't already.  It's time we dig into the Word and quit cherry picking scripture to fit what we want to believe.  If you are ignorant of what the entire Word says then you can be deceived into obeying the Man of lawlessness  This episode is just diving into the Word and letting scripture define scripture.  I pray it blesses you.

It's been a few months and part of the journey we're all on in life as I've been on a path to the Truth.  There will be tons of scripture this episode and we will tackle what Yahusha/Jesus was really tackling when taking on the Pharisees and what our Messiah actually embodied and pointed us to.  It's time people to exit Babylon and get back on the narrow path and to put politics, religious traditions of men, our thoughts on who the Messiah and the Father off to the side and to get into the truth.  May this bless you.