Sunday, July 02, 2006
Yaua's Law (Torah) and the Spirit
Letter on the Nature of the Torah and what Yaua requires 30/06 2001
The Jewish community has in every synagogue on earth, a special cupboard called an ark. In this Ark is kept a book called a torah scroll. Three times a weeks this scroll is taken out and read with great honor. Over a period of a year the whole scroll is read and a celebration is done at the end of the period over the fact that the Torah has been read one more time and in thanksgiving to Yaua that he granted the Jewish people his Torah. The purpose of this paper is to look at the nature of the Torah Yaua gave to his people Israel and to try to see the Torah through the eyes of the prophets who gave it, instead of the eyes of Jewish and Christian tradition. This is important because it will help equip the peoples of Yaua, Jewish and Gentile (see Amos) to deal with the faith destroying liberal critics who shake peoples faith because they have been taught unbiblical traditions as part of their faith. When these unbiblical traditions are challenged in ignorant academia, they fall, but some of the peoples faith in Yaua and his word is shaken also as a result of the mixture. So by speaking out on how the Biblical writers use and see the bible we will take away the main weapons of the liberal scholars which is the ignorance of their students.
In the Bible the Torah is not only the five books of Moses.
If we read the Bible Old and New Testament, nowhere is it taught that Moses wrote five books. Nor for that matter are quotations from the work of Moses ever referred as a quote from Genesis/Bereshit, Exodus/Shmot, Leviticus/Vayikra, Numbers/ Bamidbar, Deuteronomy/Dvarim. These titles are placed on these writings by traditions. When a writer in the Bible quotes another part of the Bible he will use various statements but never “As it says in Genesis”. Now these five books are described as usually as Scripture, the scriptures also contain the Torah. The Torah appears to go under various titles, including, Torah, Torah of Moshe, Torah of Yaua and Torah of Elohim. The Torah is made up of various kinds of instructions. For in truth the word Torah itself means instruction. It is used in the plural torot, meaning instructions. However it is also used as a proper noun to describe a body of writing granted to Israel on Mount Sinai by Yaua, partly directly to the people of Israel and partly to Moshe and through him to the sons of Israel.
If we read Paul in Galatians he says the Torah came 430 years after Abraham received promises from Elohim that “All the Goyim shall be blessed in you” Now according to Jewish tradition this statement is written in the Torah. But according to Paul who wrote 150 years before the oral tradition was written down this statement was written in the Scripture. “And the Scripture foreseeing that Elohim would justify the Goyim by faith preached the Gospel beforehand to Abraham saying All the nations shall be blessed in you” So what Paul calls Scripture, present Tradition calls Torah or Genesis or Bereshit. So to see with Paul’s eyes we need to recognize that to him this statement was not part of the Torah. Also to him the Torah did not appear on the scene for another 430 years. The promises were spoken to Abraham and “The Torah which came four hundred and thirty years later , does not invalidate the Covenant previously ratified by Elohim”
So we see we have two sets of writing here. The Scripture and the Torah. However we need to be clear, the Torah is that which came 430 years later. According to the Prophets there would be at least one other Torah. For the Torah was given according to the calculations of Eugene Faustlich and his computer in 1461 BC. This would place the date of the promise as approximately 1891 BC. If we are using Solar years. (We should really use lunar years , but since the biblical years has to follow the seasons the solar and lunar calendars will in the end give us the same year.) Most importantly for our point is the fact that in the 8th century BC, about 700 years after the Torah of Mount Sinai Yaua promises through Isaiah “A Torah will go forth from me, and I will set my justice as a light for the Goyim”. And the persons we are too look to for this Torah are Abraham our father and Sarah who gave us birth in pain, and no where else. So we are looking at the seed of Isaac for this future Torah. The plain words of Isaiah make clear this is a future Torah not the Torah which went out 700 years before Isaiah wrote and which was present with Isaiah when he wrote.
The Scripture Paul refers to is no ordinary book. It has powers. (1) Firstly it has the power to foresee or see the future. For Paul says “the Scripture foreseeing” (Gal 3:8).(2) Secondly the Scripture has the power to preach or proclaim the gospel “the Scripture… preached the gospel before hand to Abraham saying “All nations shall be blessed in you”. (3) Thirdly the Scripture has the power to shut men up or lock them up. “The Scripture has shut up all men under sin”. (4) Fourthly the Scripture has authority to say or give commands. “But what does the Scripture say “Cast out the Bondwoman and her son” Gal 4:30.
As we can see this scripture or graphe ( a document) has some interesting powers. To Paul these are some of the powers of the graphe. Now if we look more closely at these scriptures we find this. Under the power to preach the gospel we find in Genesis where these words are recorded “All the nations of the earth shall be blessed in you” And the speaking is none other than Yaua himself in the Angel of Yaua. “By myself I have sworn”, declares Yaua. If we now turn to the third power which is ‘to shut up’. We find that whereas in Galatians it is the graphe that has shut men under sin, in Romans 11:32 it says “Elohim has shut up all in disobedience” a very similar power and activity. If we turn to the fourth power to say or command we find the words are Sarah’s. However immediately Yaua confirms to Abraham that Sarah’s counsel is Yaua’s counsel. “whatever Sarah tells you listen to her”. So we find that the powers the Scripture, which we now call Genesis and the Jewish tradition calls Torah, were powers being exercised or confirmed by Yaua himself. We must then see the nature of Scripture as Paul sees it. It is living and powerful and is Elohim speaking and doing.
Let us now see how Paul sees the Torah. Firstly like the Rabbis Paul sees the more than one Torah. He see the Torah that came in 1461 BC. Where as he generally quoted the Scripture as saying, proclaiming or preaching when he is quoting the Torah, he usually uses the clause “It is written”. The two Torahs Paul refers to are (1) The Torah received 430 years after the Covenant with Abraham.(Gal3:17) (2) The Torah of Mashiach (Gal 6:2)
The Rabbis agree that there is a new Torah after the Torah of Moshe and they also agree that this Torah will be expounded by Mashiach. The Midrash Talpiyot teaches “And the Holy one blessed be he will sit and expound the new Torah which he will give through the Messiah”. Paul is talking to the uncircumcised Gentiles in his letter to Galatians. He states that it was recognized by the Jerusalem Apostles and Elders, that “he who effectually worked worked for Peter in his apostleship to the circumcised effectually worked for me also to the Goyim” Gal 2:6. In other words Paul is expounding this Torah of Mashiach to the Goyim. Some Rabbinical traditions agree with this also regarding the New Torah, Genesis Rabbah states “Rabbi Hanina said ‘Israel will
not need the teachings of King Messiah in the future to come, for it is said, Unto him the Goyim will seek (Is 11:10) (the nations but not Israel) .’ If so, why will King Messiah come, and to do what will he come? To gather the exiles of Israel, and to give them 30 mitzvoth (Gen rabbah 98:9).
The Rabbis also agree with Paul when he teaches that the New Torah is not identical to the Torah of Sinai. For Rabbis Pinchas and R. Levi Yohanan in the name of R. Menahem of Galya: “In the World to Come all the sacrifices will be abolished, but thank offerings will not be abolished. All prayers will be abolished, but thanksgiving prayers will not be abolished” Lev Rab (9:7). As we can see that that part of the traditional Torah now called Leviticus will be seriously curtailed and half abolished after these words come into effect. We all know the teaching of the Apostle Paul on thanksgiving. “Give thanks in everything for this is the will of Elohim for you in Mashiach Yeshua”.
Regarding the obligation or requirements of the Torah, Paul states that regarding the Torah that anyone who gets circumcised is obligated to keep the whole Torah. However he also says “those who are circumcised do not keep Torah themselves”(Gal 6). This assessment agrees with Mashiach Yeshua who said to the Jews, “Did not Moshe give you the Torah and yet none of you carries out the Torah”(John 7) So although there is a big performance in getting people circumcised it is clear the Torah is not really being kept by anyman.
Paul states that the Apostles knew that “man is not made righteous or justified by the works of Torah (rather by faith in Mashiach)
Through Torah I died to Torah, that I might live to Elohim”. Paul understands that when he was under the Torah, he really should have been dead, because of not keeping the whole Torah. The sentence for disobedience to the Torah, for Israel, included death. Paul had been doing enough to deserve death. Therefore if he was really under the death sentence, how can he try to achieve, righteousness through that Torah which sentenced him to death, with no power to redeem him from that death sentence. He could not, he was convicted of sin and deserving of death. Paul explains this in Romans 1, where he lists a whole catalogue of sins and consequences coming from the suppression of the truth about Elohim. However the conclusion of the list is that the ungodly and unrighteous men are accused of knowing “the (dikaioma) judgement of Elohim, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, thay not only do the same, but alos give hearty approval to those who practice them”. The list of practices which Paul expounded could be found both Inside and outside of Israel. Indicating that all men and all communities, including Israel were found guilty under this justice of Elohim.” Paul in Romans states later on in chap 3:9 says “We have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin; and goes on to give a list of biblical witnesses to this fact . He quotes Psalm 14;1-3, 53:1-3, 5:9, 140:3, 10:7,Is 59,7, Ps 36:1. So he quotes 6 Psalms and one prophet to confirm the sinfulness of all men and specifically at that time Jews and Greeks. He intorduces his quote with “It is written” and doesn not tell us where he is quoting from. The conclusion is they are all “under sin”. We know from Rom 6 that the Wages of sin is death”. If then all are under sin that will all receive their just wages, sin. The alternative Paul lays out is the free gift of Elohim that is eternal life in Mashiach Yeshua.
If righteousness comes through Torah, then Mashiach died needlessly. Which in fact means that Mashiach’s death was necessary to produce righteousness. The way the righteousness is received is by faith in Mashiach.
The works of the Torah do not help us to receive the Spirit (Gal 3), rather the hearing of faith. An example of a work of Torah is circumcision of the flesh. This means that although a Jew or a Gentiles were fulfilling many many of the 613 mitzvoth, or the 7 mitzvoth for the Gentiles it would not meaning they would now be qualified to receive the Holy Spirit. So you could have a Jews who kept Shabbat every week and attended the three pilgrim fesitvals. He keeps Kosher every, even Pesach Kosher and wears Tzitiziot and Tefillin. But all of this would not qualify to receive the Spirit. And it is only with the Spirit of Elohim that one can life forever and enter Yaua’s Kingdom since his Kingdom is Spiritual. On the other side you could have a non Torah observant secular Jew or a Goy. Neither keep Shabbat, neither attend Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot, nor do they keep Kosher. And yet this would not disqualify them from recieveing the Holy Spirit, who is a guarantee of the future inheritance in Elohims Kingdom. The reason the Torah observant is not qualified by his works of Torah and the Secular Jew and Goy are not disqualified by their non observance, is because Torah observance in not the criteria Elohim has assigned for receiving the gift of the Spirit. We can give a parable to this effect. A student once turned up on time to his English exam. He filled in all the administration details correctly in perfect English. He did not cheat and get disqualified. He did not disturb the exam and get thrown out. However when he wrote the exam he wrote everything in French. He wrote the composition in French and the Comprehension questions he answered perfectly in french. Indeed it was a very easy exam for him and he was an A student. He went away very excited. He awaited the result and lo and behold he got zero. In fact his score was so low it was not even classified as a failure. It was called unclassified. So we see being brilliant in French does qualify you to pass and English exam. In the same way being brilliant in Torah Observance does not qualify you to receive the Holy Spirit, for the criteria Yaua has used to decide who gets the Holy Spirit is the hearing of faith. Hearing the good news of the redemption in Mashiach Yeshua and believing is the qualifying criteria for receiving the Holy Spirit and eternal life. In this life a Jew can observe Torah very well, and benefit from this. But this will not make him eternally righteous nor will it qualify him for eternal life.
The works of Torah deal with the perfection of the flesh, the hearing of faith and the Spirit address the perfection of the Spirit
The Works of the Torah do not produce the provision of the Spirit or works of power these come from the hearing of faith. Many Jews keep many mitzvot. Now I am not even saying that the mitzvot they keep really are fulfilling the Torah Elohim gave Moshe and Joshua. But with all this Torah observance, it still does not mean they have the Holy Spirit or see works of power happening in their lives. Whole communities have kept Torah and yet not been warned when danger was coming. Some communities keep Torah and yet are arrogant towards Goyim and hate Christians. This the Spirit of Elohim does not allow. Torah observance, does not produce Spiritual power, the hearing of faith does. You do not need to keep 300 mitzvot in a year to receive the Holy Spirit. But if you follow one instruction, Beleive on Yah Yeshua the Mashiach, you can receive the Holy Spirit.
Those who are of the works (ergon) of Torah are under a curse. For it is written in the Torah Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the Torah to perform them” (Due 27:26) If this reading is correct, and we have every reason to believe it is so, then even if you kept all the mitzvot due you status and lacked one, you would come under the curse of the Torah. This was the state of first century Jewry. No one kept the whole Torah. The Romans were in charge in Judea, which was a clear indicator that the Jews were still under the curses of the Torah, which stated “The Alien who is among you shall rise aqbove you higher and higher, but you shall go down lower and lower…He shall be the head , and you shall be the tail..So all these curses shall come on you and pursue and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey Yaua your Elohim by keeping his mitzvot and chuqqim which he commanded you” Deu 28 When the New covenant community was born these conditions were already in play. From around 60 BC the Romans had entered Judea. And they were , at the time of Yeshua, administering Israel. So they were under the curse of the Torah, at that time. Most of Israel was also in exile, out among, the nations another sign of the curse of the Torah. “Moreover, Yaua, will scatter you among all peoples , from one end of the to the otherend of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you and you fathers have not known. And among these Goyim you shall find no rest, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there Yaua will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul” When Yeshua came much of Israel was already in dispersion. But as Mashiach Yeshua had the power to restore the desolate heritages and to gather in the outcast of Israel. When the exilic government of Israel refused the Mashiach, then the curse completed itself. Yeshua warned them and explained to his disciples in Luke 21 “There will be great distress upon the land and wrath to this people, and they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the Goyim; and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Goyim until the times of the Goyim be fulfilled” Yeshua spok in 30 AD. From 66 to 70, exactly forty years after Yeshua warnings, the Romans came and destroyed Jerusalem. Great wrtah was on the people then, for thousands were crucified. And hundreds committed suicide. Two generations late, Bar Kochba led a revolt and failed. The people were scattered from the land. Jerusalem was emptied of Jews as was the land. From that time to AD !948 there was not Jewish control in Israel. This is all part of the curse of the Torah. And even now with a government is Israel. They live on the loans and military gifts of America. The policies are affected greatly by the finances received from America. They are still borrowing from the Goyim which is a sign of the Curse of the Torah. It is this curse which Mashiach Yeshua redeemed the believer from.
Paul explains no one is made righteous by Torah before Elohim and the witness he gives is Habukuk 2 “The righteous man shall live by faith.” The witness of a prophet. Rabbi Simlai in one place teaches that Habukuk reduced the 613 Mitzvoth to one in this statement. Hence he agreed with Pauls understanding of the importance of Habukuks vision. Righteousness is the goal in Pauls mind, and whereas the gospel produces that the works of Torah do not. So Paul clearly reveals that Habukuk is saying all righteous men live the same way, by faith. And faith is not doing but believing, in line with Abraham believing Yaua and receiving righteousness.
(1.1) The Torah is not of emunah, faith. On the contrary “He who practices them shall live by them.” So to live by the practices of the Torah is not faith (Lev 18:5). Now Paul quotes from Leviticus as opposed to Deuteronomy this time. The passage Paul quotes is an important one.
(1.2) Speak to the Sons of Israel and say to them, I am Yaua your Elohim. Do not do what is done in the land of Egypt where you lived, nor are you to do what is done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you; you shall not walk in their chuqqim. You are to perform my mishpatim and keep my chuqqim to live in accord with them; I am Yaua your Elohim. So you shall keep my chuqqim and my mispatim, by which a man may live if he does them; I am Yaua”. The plan is clear these chuqqim and mishpatim are to be lived by. However it says noting here about being made righteous.
(1.3) And Paul is dealing with the issue of being made righteous. To Paul the source of righteousness and its perpetuation is faith, not the Chuqqim or Mishaptim. However it is clear that Paul is not saying the Torah will not be fulfilled. For he states in Gal 5 “For the whole Torah is fulfilled in one word, in the statement You shall love your neighbour as yourself” Here Paul again quotes Torah. It is from Lev 19:18. So to fulfill the Torah Paul is referring to, you need to fulfill one mitzvah from it. Lev 18:19. However it would appear that to be made righteous is one thing and to fulfill Torah another thing completely, and fulfilling Torah is desireable although not obligatory for the Goyim. It is also clear that Paul is dealing with the Torah regarding relationships of a man to his brother. He does not mention the Love of Yaua, which we know is the greatest Mitzvah. The basis of the Torah mention is to do and live. However the condition of living is the doing. If a man does not do the chuqqim, he comes under a curse. Ultimately he will die from the curse. However the first death is that of the relationship to the land of Israel. When Israel refuses to fulfill Torah in the land, the land after a time vomits them out. When they are vomited out a new set of conditions arise. They can know longer , in any sense whatsoever, keep the land based Mitzvoth. This puts them under the continual curse of the Torah, until they are redeemed from exile by the Mashiach. However this curse does not means they can not live a level of righteousness hwere they are, for the prophets gave specific instruction for the Jews to keep when they are in Exile. This is the exilic relationship of Israel to their Elohim. It is not a Torah relationship. They can, in exile call themselves Torah observant, but the truth of Paul and Yeshua, and the clear evidence of the practices themselves stands clearly, “Not one of you keep the Torah, In America in France, in Italy, you can not keep Torah. You can call what you are doing keeping Torah, but it is most certainly not keeping the Torah Yhawah gave through Moshe. For Moshe said to Israel in Deu 6 “Now this is the Mitzvah , the chuqqim and the mispatim which Yaua your Elohim has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it”. We see then from this point in the Torah Jews or Israel can only completely fulfil these mitzvot, which Moshe will teach them, in the land they were going over to possess. If they are living in Amrica or Russia, they simply can not fulfil these Chuqqim and Mishpatim, completely. The 10 sayings or commandments were given before the land based commandments and were spoken by the voice of Yaua to the nations of Israel directly. They were spoken outside the land, in the wilderness and were to be kept immediately. This was evidenced by the fact that, when the people made the golden calf, Moshe came down and executed justice on the community. Those who refused to repent at that time were cut down by the levites. This shows us that these mitvoth are not land based but universal. Of these mitzvoth a Shabbat was taught before the covenant of the 10 commandments was given. Also before the covenant Yaua taught them about assigning judges and policeman in all their communities, to ensure justice was done. The highest authority in the relationship was also laid down, This was the very ground of them being the people of Yaua. That was obedience to the voice of Yaua. This is higher than all the commandments of the covenants and underlay their authority. The 10 commandments had authority because they were spoken by Yaua, not because they made sense. Their authority stands whether a Jews live in America or Spain. However the highest authority obeying the voice, is also the authority upon which the New Covenant is based. That is why the New Covenant and the New Torah can free a amn from the curse of the Torah, because it is Elohims voice which is believed and Elohims voice which obeyes. And the New Covenant was given in exilic conditions where all the Jews were under the curse of the Torah, so it came proclaiming freedom from the curse and freedom from bondage and being made righteous from all the things that the Torah of Moshe did not have the authority or power to make a man righteous from. For example if a man committed a capital crime like murder or adultery, he had to die according to the Torah. If you are dead you under not under the authority of the Torah any more. The final sentence has been excecuted. If Israel does not have the authority to execute the sentence, it does not change the sentence. But it tells us that Yaua was so displeased with the behaviour of the Jewish people, that he withdrew their authority to execute people condemned in their courts. To Yaua judgements is based on truth and if the judges are as guilty as the judged, better to remove the authority to execute justice. So the death sentece stands but the man does not die. However as John says “the wrath of Elohim abides on him” It is this judgement of the Torah sin and death which Yeshua came to redeem man from. They died with him in immersion and came out new creations under the New Torah. The torah of the Spirit of life in Mashiach Yeshua. In this torah there is no curse, and it is the Torah of faith.
We have seen that there are at least two sets of mitzvoth or relations to Elohim. The unifying point and the highest authority behind these is the obedience to the voice of Yaua or the bvelieving of the voice of Yaua. This is witnessed to by the Scripture, the Torah and the Prophets and the Psalms. In Exodus 19 the essential principal is laid out “You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles wings, and brought you to myself. Now then if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall by my own segulah among all the peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation” These words were given by Yaua to Moshe to speak to the sons of Israel. Moshe only spoke the words to the elders of the people. It is clear then that the elders of the people are taken to represent the people them selves. We can leanr a lesson from this. When all nations flock to Jerusalem in the future, surely it will be the elders of the peoples who will comes. Those in authority and who are considered by Yaua as the representative of their particular people.
The authority of the voice then is laid down as the ground of all authority, in the kingdom of priests and in the set apart nation. But the whole thing is a process. If they obey the voice and keep the covenant, then they will be a Special treasure and a Kingdom of Priests. We do well then to ask the question, how does the voice come? This is answered in to parts. Firstly the voice came audibly from the mountain. The people heard the voice of Yaua himself. Yaua’s intention in this was so that the people would fear Moshe for ever. In understanding how to relate to Torah and Scripture we will do well to look at this word forever or Olam. One method the liberal theologians use to under mine faith is to show that what Scripture says it doesn’t fulfill. By this means they can undermine faith in the Scripture and faith in Yaua. We can answer them very simply. When Yaua speaks he fulfils just as he intends not as translators or man imagine he intends. So when Yaua here says to Moshe, That they may believe in you forever (leolam)” some one might argue that forever means for all eternity and then try to show that it didn’t happen that way. Then they might say so you see the Scripture is not true. So we will look at this word forever in this context and see how false concepts can give strength to the false arguments of the liberal theologians. I contribute this as part of the destruction of liberal theology in the future. Firstly if we look at the was le olam is used in the context it is absolutely clear that it can not mean forever, as in for all eternity. For it is referring to the people who were alive at the time when Yaua Spoke. They were the only ones who heard the voice. But we know already from scripture that at this point they were subject to death. And the scripture is quite free with its use of death. So the Scripture says those who hear will believe in Moshe le olam. It is clear then they will believe in Moshe to the end of their time. Not forever to all eternity, for they will die and he will die. Secondly the word Olam has a plural form. So if it is supposed to mean for all eternity, that is forever, how can you have more than one eternity? So it is clear it does not mean what those who read the word forever perceive it to mean. The word itself comes from the word alam (5956 strongs) meaning “to veil” or cover or conceal. It itself is said to mean to the vanishing point (Strongs 5769) or “It is what is hidden , concealed; time immemorial , time past, antiquity; eternity; distant furture; duration; perpetuity; duration; without end” The Hebrew Greek Study Bible gives many more words to translate this word. /However as I have pointed out, some meanings are not consistent with one another. You can not have two lots of unending eternity running together. Eternity is forever without end, it can not begin again at some point in the future. So to argue that David was promised he would have someone on the throne leolam and then to show there was a gap and a ending, does not prove anything. Le olam does not mean what you think it means it means what Yaua meant it to mean. And even if we go along with your intellectual grammatical lines we find “ There are four hundred and forty occurrences of olam in the Hebrew OT. More than 300 hundred of these instances indicated indefinite continuance into the very near future” However, the meaning of the word is not confined to the future. There are at least twenty instances where olam refers to the past, though rarely the limitless past” So we see Yaua said he would speak to the people so that they would believe in Moshe to the vanishing point to the concealed point. Not necessarily to eternity. And the same goes for all the promises of Yaua based on this word.
We return to the question how does the c voice of Yaua come.
Mashiach redeemed from the Curse (qalal) of the Torah. The Messianic redemption of Yeshua buys men back from having to walk under the curse written in the Torah. For the Torah is clear on the matter. If you keep it you are blessed. If not you are cursed. It is the negative side of the curse that Yeshua bore for us. He paid for us so that we no longer fall under the curses for disobedience. Since no man living in those days kept the Torah. But Yeshua became a curse for us. “Cursed is every one who hangs on wood” Because Yeshua took the judgment
So having been redeemed from the curse of Torah the blessing of Abraham can go to the Goyim. When the Blessing goes then we can receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
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The Final return of Israel to their God, Yaua and there Messiah Yeshua, son of David.
Men of Israel and the nations listen to the word of the prophet Hosea
“The sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince without sacrifice or pillar and without ephod or teraphim”
Afterwards the sons of Israel will return and Seek Yaua their God and David their king; and they will come trembling to Yaua and to his goodness in the last days”
We have two returns mentioned in the prophecy which we can expect in Israel in the (bacherit ha yamim ) latter days.
The first return is to Yaua their God. Now all Israel understands this return. A return to the covenant which took place on Sinai. That is essentially a return to the 10 sayings and the Mishpatim which are mentioned in Shmot or Exodus 20-24. This was the basis of the initial marriage between Israel and Yaua. Their leaving of this Brit and these Mishpatim (judgements) is seen by Yaua as adultery and harlotry. They went after other gods and other kings or Messiah’s instead of Yaua’s the true king and his Messiah son of David.
So Sons of Israel know and understand this you are called in these days to return to Yaua in his covenant where you love Yaua your God and have no god’s besides him. Gold and silver coins money, is not to be the reason you serve. These are not your God. As it says among the mishpatim “You shall not make elohim besides me, elohim of silver and elohim of gold, you shall not make for yourselves”. You are not to be ruled by money as the Mashiach said
“No one can serve two masters for wither he will hate the one and love the other or he will hold to one and despise the other. You can not serve God and mammon.
The final or ultimate return in Israel, will be that which is to take place in the last days. Hosea saw this. The ultimate restoration will be the restoration of the knowledge of God and the restoration of the Mashiach of Israel the son of David, to be king and ruler of Israel by their choice.
This final return is prophesied by Hosea in chapter three and refers to these days. We can expect a massive turning in Israel to the Mashiach and to the knowledge of God in these last days.
The Jewish community has in every synagogue on earth, a special cupboard called an ark. In this Ark is kept a book called a torah scroll. Three times a weeks this scroll is taken out and read with great honor. Over a period of a year the whole scroll is read and a celebration is done at the end of the period over the fact that the Torah has been read one more time and in thanksgiving to Yaua that he granted the Jewish people his Torah. The purpose of this paper is to look at the nature of the Torah Yaua gave to his people Israel and to try to see the Torah through the eyes of the prophets who gave it, instead of the eyes of Jewish and Christian tradition. This is important because it will help equip the peoples of Yaua, Jewish and Gentile (see Amos) to deal with the faith destroying liberal critics who shake peoples faith because they have been taught unbiblical traditions as part of their faith. When these unbiblical traditions are challenged in ignorant academia, they fall, but some of the peoples faith in Yaua and his word is shaken also as a result of the mixture. So by speaking out on how the Biblical writers use and see the bible we will take away the main weapons of the liberal scholars which is the ignorance of their students.
In the Bible the Torah is not only the five books of Moses.
If we read the Bible Old and New Testament, nowhere is it taught that Moses wrote five books. Nor for that matter are quotations from the work of Moses ever referred as a quote from Genesis/Bereshit, Exodus/Shmot, Leviticus/Vayikra, Numbers/ Bamidbar, Deuteronomy/Dvarim. These titles are placed on these writings by traditions. When a writer in the Bible quotes another part of the Bible he will use various statements but never “As it says in Genesis”. Now these five books are described as usually as Scripture, the scriptures also contain the Torah. The Torah appears to go under various titles, including, Torah, Torah of Moshe, Torah of Yaua and Torah of Elohim. The Torah is made up of various kinds of instructions. For in truth the word Torah itself means instruction. It is used in the plural torot, meaning instructions. However it is also used as a proper noun to describe a body of writing granted to Israel on Mount Sinai by Yaua, partly directly to the people of Israel and partly to Moshe and through him to the sons of Israel.
If we read Paul in Galatians he says the Torah came 430 years after Abraham received promises from Elohim that “All the Goyim shall be blessed in you” Now according to Jewish tradition this statement is written in the Torah. But according to Paul who wrote 150 years before the oral tradition was written down this statement was written in the Scripture. “And the Scripture foreseeing that Elohim would justify the Goyim by faith preached the Gospel beforehand to Abraham saying All the nations shall be blessed in you” So what Paul calls Scripture, present Tradition calls Torah or Genesis or Bereshit. So to see with Paul’s eyes we need to recognize that to him this statement was not part of the Torah. Also to him the Torah did not appear on the scene for another 430 years. The promises were spoken to Abraham and “The Torah which came four hundred and thirty years later , does not invalidate the Covenant previously ratified by Elohim”
So we see we have two sets of writing here. The Scripture and the Torah. However we need to be clear, the Torah is that which came 430 years later. According to the Prophets there would be at least one other Torah. For the Torah was given according to the calculations of Eugene Faustlich and his computer in 1461 BC. This would place the date of the promise as approximately 1891 BC. If we are using Solar years. (We should really use lunar years , but since the biblical years has to follow the seasons the solar and lunar calendars will in the end give us the same year.) Most importantly for our point is the fact that in the 8th century BC, about 700 years after the Torah of Mount Sinai Yaua promises through Isaiah “A Torah will go forth from me, and I will set my justice as a light for the Goyim”. And the persons we are too look to for this Torah are Abraham our father and Sarah who gave us birth in pain, and no where else. So we are looking at the seed of Isaac for this future Torah. The plain words of Isaiah make clear this is a future Torah not the Torah which went out 700 years before Isaiah wrote and which was present with Isaiah when he wrote.
The Scripture Paul refers to is no ordinary book. It has powers. (1) Firstly it has the power to foresee or see the future. For Paul says “the Scripture foreseeing” (Gal 3:8).(2) Secondly the Scripture has the power to preach or proclaim the gospel “the Scripture… preached the gospel before hand to Abraham saying “All nations shall be blessed in you”. (3) Thirdly the Scripture has the power to shut men up or lock them up. “The Scripture has shut up all men under sin”. (4) Fourthly the Scripture has authority to say or give commands. “But what does the Scripture say “Cast out the Bondwoman and her son” Gal 4:30.
As we can see this scripture or graphe ( a document) has some interesting powers. To Paul these are some of the powers of the graphe. Now if we look more closely at these scriptures we find this. Under the power to preach the gospel we find in Genesis where these words are recorded “All the nations of the earth shall be blessed in you” And the speaking is none other than Yaua himself in the Angel of Yaua. “By myself I have sworn”, declares Yaua. If we now turn to the third power which is ‘to shut up’. We find that whereas in Galatians it is the graphe that has shut men under sin, in Romans 11:32 it says “Elohim has shut up all in disobedience” a very similar power and activity. If we turn to the fourth power to say or command we find the words are Sarah’s. However immediately Yaua confirms to Abraham that Sarah’s counsel is Yaua’s counsel. “whatever Sarah tells you listen to her”. So we find that the powers the Scripture, which we now call Genesis and the Jewish tradition calls Torah, were powers being exercised or confirmed by Yaua himself. We must then see the nature of Scripture as Paul sees it. It is living and powerful and is Elohim speaking and doing.
Let us now see how Paul sees the Torah. Firstly like the Rabbis Paul sees the more than one Torah. He see the Torah that came in 1461 BC. Where as he generally quoted the Scripture as saying, proclaiming or preaching when he is quoting the Torah, he usually uses the clause “It is written”. The two Torahs Paul refers to are (1) The Torah received 430 years after the Covenant with Abraham.(Gal3:17) (2) The Torah of Mashiach (Gal 6:2)
The Rabbis agree that there is a new Torah after the Torah of Moshe and they also agree that this Torah will be expounded by Mashiach. The Midrash Talpiyot teaches “And the Holy one blessed be he will sit and expound the new Torah which he will give through the Messiah”. Paul is talking to the uncircumcised Gentiles in his letter to Galatians. He states that it was recognized by the Jerusalem Apostles and Elders, that “he who effectually worked worked for Peter in his apostleship to the circumcised effectually worked for me also to the Goyim” Gal 2:6. In other words Paul is expounding this Torah of Mashiach to the Goyim. Some Rabbinical traditions agree with this also regarding the New Torah, Genesis Rabbah states “Rabbi Hanina said ‘Israel will
not need the teachings of King Messiah in the future to come, for it is said, Unto him the Goyim will seek (Is 11:10) (the nations but not Israel) .’ If so, why will King Messiah come, and to do what will he come? To gather the exiles of Israel, and to give them 30 mitzvoth (Gen rabbah 98:9).
The Rabbis also agree with Paul when he teaches that the New Torah is not identical to the Torah of Sinai. For Rabbis Pinchas and R. Levi Yohanan in the name of R. Menahem of Galya: “In the World to Come all the sacrifices will be abolished, but thank offerings will not be abolished. All prayers will be abolished, but thanksgiving prayers will not be abolished” Lev Rab (9:7). As we can see that that part of the traditional Torah now called Leviticus will be seriously curtailed and half abolished after these words come into effect. We all know the teaching of the Apostle Paul on thanksgiving. “Give thanks in everything for this is the will of Elohim for you in Mashiach Yeshua”.
Regarding the obligation or requirements of the Torah, Paul states that regarding the Torah that anyone who gets circumcised is obligated to keep the whole Torah. However he also says “those who are circumcised do not keep Torah themselves”(Gal 6). This assessment agrees with Mashiach Yeshua who said to the Jews, “Did not Moshe give you the Torah and yet none of you carries out the Torah”(John 7) So although there is a big performance in getting people circumcised it is clear the Torah is not really being kept by anyman.
Paul states that the Apostles knew that “man is not made righteous or justified by the works of Torah (rather by faith in Mashiach)
Through Torah I died to Torah, that I might live to Elohim”. Paul understands that when he was under the Torah, he really should have been dead, because of not keeping the whole Torah. The sentence for disobedience to the Torah, for Israel, included death. Paul had been doing enough to deserve death. Therefore if he was really under the death sentence, how can he try to achieve, righteousness through that Torah which sentenced him to death, with no power to redeem him from that death sentence. He could not, he was convicted of sin and deserving of death. Paul explains this in Romans 1, where he lists a whole catalogue of sins and consequences coming from the suppression of the truth about Elohim. However the conclusion of the list is that the ungodly and unrighteous men are accused of knowing “the (dikaioma) judgement of Elohim, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, thay not only do the same, but alos give hearty approval to those who practice them”. The list of practices which Paul expounded could be found both Inside and outside of Israel. Indicating that all men and all communities, including Israel were found guilty under this justice of Elohim.” Paul in Romans states later on in chap 3:9 says “We have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin; and goes on to give a list of biblical witnesses to this fact . He quotes Psalm 14;1-3, 53:1-3, 5:9, 140:3, 10:7,Is 59,7, Ps 36:1. So he quotes 6 Psalms and one prophet to confirm the sinfulness of all men and specifically at that time Jews and Greeks. He intorduces his quote with “It is written” and doesn not tell us where he is quoting from. The conclusion is they are all “under sin”. We know from Rom 6 that the Wages of sin is death”. If then all are under sin that will all receive their just wages, sin. The alternative Paul lays out is the free gift of Elohim that is eternal life in Mashiach Yeshua.
If righteousness comes through Torah, then Mashiach died needlessly. Which in fact means that Mashiach’s death was necessary to produce righteousness. The way the righteousness is received is by faith in Mashiach.
The works of the Torah do not help us to receive the Spirit (Gal 3), rather the hearing of faith. An example of a work of Torah is circumcision of the flesh. This means that although a Jew or a Gentiles were fulfilling many many of the 613 mitzvoth, or the 7 mitzvoth for the Gentiles it would not meaning they would now be qualified to receive the Holy Spirit. So you could have a Jews who kept Shabbat every week and attended the three pilgrim fesitvals. He keeps Kosher every, even Pesach Kosher and wears Tzitiziot and Tefillin. But all of this would not qualify to receive the Spirit. And it is only with the Spirit of Elohim that one can life forever and enter Yaua’s Kingdom since his Kingdom is Spiritual. On the other side you could have a non Torah observant secular Jew or a Goy. Neither keep Shabbat, neither attend Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot, nor do they keep Kosher. And yet this would not disqualify them from recieveing the Holy Spirit, who is a guarantee of the future inheritance in Elohims Kingdom. The reason the Torah observant is not qualified by his works of Torah and the Secular Jew and Goy are not disqualified by their non observance, is because Torah observance in not the criteria Elohim has assigned for receiving the gift of the Spirit. We can give a parable to this effect. A student once turned up on time to his English exam. He filled in all the administration details correctly in perfect English. He did not cheat and get disqualified. He did not disturb the exam and get thrown out. However when he wrote the exam he wrote everything in French. He wrote the composition in French and the Comprehension questions he answered perfectly in french. Indeed it was a very easy exam for him and he was an A student. He went away very excited. He awaited the result and lo and behold he got zero. In fact his score was so low it was not even classified as a failure. It was called unclassified. So we see being brilliant in French does qualify you to pass and English exam. In the same way being brilliant in Torah Observance does not qualify you to receive the Holy Spirit, for the criteria Yaua has used to decide who gets the Holy Spirit is the hearing of faith. Hearing the good news of the redemption in Mashiach Yeshua and believing is the qualifying criteria for receiving the Holy Spirit and eternal life. In this life a Jew can observe Torah very well, and benefit from this. But this will not make him eternally righteous nor will it qualify him for eternal life.
The works of Torah deal with the perfection of the flesh, the hearing of faith and the Spirit address the perfection of the Spirit
The Works of the Torah do not produce the provision of the Spirit or works of power these come from the hearing of faith. Many Jews keep many mitzvot. Now I am not even saying that the mitzvot they keep really are fulfilling the Torah Elohim gave Moshe and Joshua. But with all this Torah observance, it still does not mean they have the Holy Spirit or see works of power happening in their lives. Whole communities have kept Torah and yet not been warned when danger was coming. Some communities keep Torah and yet are arrogant towards Goyim and hate Christians. This the Spirit of Elohim does not allow. Torah observance, does not produce Spiritual power, the hearing of faith does. You do not need to keep 300 mitzvot in a year to receive the Holy Spirit. But if you follow one instruction, Beleive on Yah Yeshua the Mashiach, you can receive the Holy Spirit.
Those who are of the works (ergon) of Torah are under a curse. For it is written in the Torah Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the Torah to perform them” (Due 27:26) If this reading is correct, and we have every reason to believe it is so, then even if you kept all the mitzvot due you status and lacked one, you would come under the curse of the Torah. This was the state of first century Jewry. No one kept the whole Torah. The Romans were in charge in Judea, which was a clear indicator that the Jews were still under the curses of the Torah, which stated “The Alien who is among you shall rise aqbove you higher and higher, but you shall go down lower and lower…He shall be the head , and you shall be the tail..So all these curses shall come on you and pursue and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey Yaua your Elohim by keeping his mitzvot and chuqqim which he commanded you” Deu 28 When the New covenant community was born these conditions were already in play. From around 60 BC the Romans had entered Judea. And they were , at the time of Yeshua, administering Israel. So they were under the curse of the Torah, at that time. Most of Israel was also in exile, out among, the nations another sign of the curse of the Torah. “Moreover, Yaua, will scatter you among all peoples , from one end of the to the otherend of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you and you fathers have not known. And among these Goyim you shall find no rest, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there Yaua will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul” When Yeshua came much of Israel was already in dispersion. But as Mashiach Yeshua had the power to restore the desolate heritages and to gather in the outcast of Israel. When the exilic government of Israel refused the Mashiach, then the curse completed itself. Yeshua warned them and explained to his disciples in Luke 21 “There will be great distress upon the land and wrath to this people, and they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the Goyim; and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Goyim until the times of the Goyim be fulfilled” Yeshua spok in 30 AD. From 66 to 70, exactly forty years after Yeshua warnings, the Romans came and destroyed Jerusalem. Great wrtah was on the people then, for thousands were crucified. And hundreds committed suicide. Two generations late, Bar Kochba led a revolt and failed. The people were scattered from the land. Jerusalem was emptied of Jews as was the land. From that time to AD !948 there was not Jewish control in Israel. This is all part of the curse of the Torah. And even now with a government is Israel. They live on the loans and military gifts of America. The policies are affected greatly by the finances received from America. They are still borrowing from the Goyim which is a sign of the Curse of the Torah. It is this curse which Mashiach Yeshua redeemed the believer from.
Paul explains no one is made righteous by Torah before Elohim and the witness he gives is Habukuk 2 “The righteous man shall live by faith.” The witness of a prophet. Rabbi Simlai in one place teaches that Habukuk reduced the 613 Mitzvoth to one in this statement. Hence he agreed with Pauls understanding of the importance of Habukuks vision. Righteousness is the goal in Pauls mind, and whereas the gospel produces that the works of Torah do not. So Paul clearly reveals that Habukuk is saying all righteous men live the same way, by faith. And faith is not doing but believing, in line with Abraham believing Yaua and receiving righteousness.
(1.1) The Torah is not of emunah, faith. On the contrary “He who practices them shall live by them.” So to live by the practices of the Torah is not faith (Lev 18:5). Now Paul quotes from Leviticus as opposed to Deuteronomy this time. The passage Paul quotes is an important one.
(1.2) Speak to the Sons of Israel and say to them, I am Yaua your Elohim. Do not do what is done in the land of Egypt where you lived, nor are you to do what is done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you; you shall not walk in their chuqqim. You are to perform my mishpatim and keep my chuqqim to live in accord with them; I am Yaua your Elohim. So you shall keep my chuqqim and my mispatim, by which a man may live if he does them; I am Yaua”. The plan is clear these chuqqim and mishpatim are to be lived by. However it says noting here about being made righteous.
(1.3) And Paul is dealing with the issue of being made righteous. To Paul the source of righteousness and its perpetuation is faith, not the Chuqqim or Mishaptim. However it is clear that Paul is not saying the Torah will not be fulfilled. For he states in Gal 5 “For the whole Torah is fulfilled in one word, in the statement You shall love your neighbour as yourself” Here Paul again quotes Torah. It is from Lev 19:18. So to fulfill the Torah Paul is referring to, you need to fulfill one mitzvah from it. Lev 18:19. However it would appear that to be made righteous is one thing and to fulfill Torah another thing completely, and fulfilling Torah is desireable although not obligatory for the Goyim. It is also clear that Paul is dealing with the Torah regarding relationships of a man to his brother. He does not mention the Love of Yaua, which we know is the greatest Mitzvah. The basis of the Torah mention is to do and live. However the condition of living is the doing. If a man does not do the chuqqim, he comes under a curse. Ultimately he will die from the curse. However the first death is that of the relationship to the land of Israel. When Israel refuses to fulfill Torah in the land, the land after a time vomits them out. When they are vomited out a new set of conditions arise. They can know longer , in any sense whatsoever, keep the land based Mitzvoth. This puts them under the continual curse of the Torah, until they are redeemed from exile by the Mashiach. However this curse does not means they can not live a level of righteousness hwere they are, for the prophets gave specific instruction for the Jews to keep when they are in Exile. This is the exilic relationship of Israel to their Elohim. It is not a Torah relationship. They can, in exile call themselves Torah observant, but the truth of Paul and Yeshua, and the clear evidence of the practices themselves stands clearly, “Not one of you keep the Torah, In America in France, in Italy, you can not keep Torah. You can call what you are doing keeping Torah, but it is most certainly not keeping the Torah Yhawah gave through Moshe. For Moshe said to Israel in Deu 6 “Now this is the Mitzvah , the chuqqim and the mispatim which Yaua your Elohim has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it”. We see then from this point in the Torah Jews or Israel can only completely fulfil these mitzvot, which Moshe will teach them, in the land they were going over to possess. If they are living in Amrica or Russia, they simply can not fulfil these Chuqqim and Mishpatim, completely. The 10 sayings or commandments were given before the land based commandments and were spoken by the voice of Yaua to the nations of Israel directly. They were spoken outside the land, in the wilderness and were to be kept immediately. This was evidenced by the fact that, when the people made the golden calf, Moshe came down and executed justice on the community. Those who refused to repent at that time were cut down by the levites. This shows us that these mitvoth are not land based but universal. Of these mitzvoth a Shabbat was taught before the covenant of the 10 commandments was given. Also before the covenant Yaua taught them about assigning judges and policeman in all their communities, to ensure justice was done. The highest authority in the relationship was also laid down, This was the very ground of them being the people of Yaua. That was obedience to the voice of Yaua. This is higher than all the commandments of the covenants and underlay their authority. The 10 commandments had authority because they were spoken by Yaua, not because they made sense. Their authority stands whether a Jews live in America or Spain. However the highest authority obeying the voice, is also the authority upon which the New Covenant is based. That is why the New Covenant and the New Torah can free a amn from the curse of the Torah, because it is Elohims voice which is believed and Elohims voice which obeyes. And the New Covenant was given in exilic conditions where all the Jews were under the curse of the Torah, so it came proclaiming freedom from the curse and freedom from bondage and being made righteous from all the things that the Torah of Moshe did not have the authority or power to make a man righteous from. For example if a man committed a capital crime like murder or adultery, he had to die according to the Torah. If you are dead you under not under the authority of the Torah any more. The final sentence has been excecuted. If Israel does not have the authority to execute the sentence, it does not change the sentence. But it tells us that Yaua was so displeased with the behaviour of the Jewish people, that he withdrew their authority to execute people condemned in their courts. To Yaua judgements is based on truth and if the judges are as guilty as the judged, better to remove the authority to execute justice. So the death sentece stands but the man does not die. However as John says “the wrath of Elohim abides on him” It is this judgement of the Torah sin and death which Yeshua came to redeem man from. They died with him in immersion and came out new creations under the New Torah. The torah of the Spirit of life in Mashiach Yeshua. In this torah there is no curse, and it is the Torah of faith.
We have seen that there are at least two sets of mitzvoth or relations to Elohim. The unifying point and the highest authority behind these is the obedience to the voice of Yaua or the bvelieving of the voice of Yaua. This is witnessed to by the Scripture, the Torah and the Prophets and the Psalms. In Exodus 19 the essential principal is laid out “You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles wings, and brought you to myself. Now then if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall by my own segulah among all the peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation” These words were given by Yaua to Moshe to speak to the sons of Israel. Moshe only spoke the words to the elders of the people. It is clear then that the elders of the people are taken to represent the people them selves. We can leanr a lesson from this. When all nations flock to Jerusalem in the future, surely it will be the elders of the peoples who will comes. Those in authority and who are considered by Yaua as the representative of their particular people.
The authority of the voice then is laid down as the ground of all authority, in the kingdom of priests and in the set apart nation. But the whole thing is a process. If they obey the voice and keep the covenant, then they will be a Special treasure and a Kingdom of Priests. We do well then to ask the question, how does the voice come? This is answered in to parts. Firstly the voice came audibly from the mountain. The people heard the voice of Yaua himself. Yaua’s intention in this was so that the people would fear Moshe for ever. In understanding how to relate to Torah and Scripture we will do well to look at this word forever or Olam. One method the liberal theologians use to under mine faith is to show that what Scripture says it doesn’t fulfill. By this means they can undermine faith in the Scripture and faith in Yaua. We can answer them very simply. When Yaua speaks he fulfils just as he intends not as translators or man imagine he intends. So when Yaua here says to Moshe, That they may believe in you forever (leolam)” some one might argue that forever means for all eternity and then try to show that it didn’t happen that way. Then they might say so you see the Scripture is not true. So we will look at this word forever in this context and see how false concepts can give strength to the false arguments of the liberal theologians. I contribute this as part of the destruction of liberal theology in the future. Firstly if we look at the was le olam is used in the context it is absolutely clear that it can not mean forever, as in for all eternity. For it is referring to the people who were alive at the time when Yaua Spoke. They were the only ones who heard the voice. But we know already from scripture that at this point they were subject to death. And the scripture is quite free with its use of death. So the Scripture says those who hear will believe in Moshe le olam. It is clear then they will believe in Moshe to the end of their time. Not forever to all eternity, for they will die and he will die. Secondly the word Olam has a plural form. So if it is supposed to mean for all eternity, that is forever, how can you have more than one eternity? So it is clear it does not mean what those who read the word forever perceive it to mean. The word itself comes from the word alam (5956 strongs) meaning “to veil” or cover or conceal. It itself is said to mean to the vanishing point (Strongs 5769) or “It is what is hidden , concealed; time immemorial , time past, antiquity; eternity; distant furture; duration; perpetuity; duration; without end” The Hebrew Greek Study Bible gives many more words to translate this word. /However as I have pointed out, some meanings are not consistent with one another. You can not have two lots of unending eternity running together. Eternity is forever without end, it can not begin again at some point in the future. So to argue that David was promised he would have someone on the throne leolam and then to show there was a gap and a ending, does not prove anything. Le olam does not mean what you think it means it means what Yaua meant it to mean. And even if we go along with your intellectual grammatical lines we find “ There are four hundred and forty occurrences of olam in the Hebrew OT. More than 300 hundred of these instances indicated indefinite continuance into the very near future” However, the meaning of the word is not confined to the future. There are at least twenty instances where olam refers to the past, though rarely the limitless past” So we see Yaua said he would speak to the people so that they would believe in Moshe to the vanishing point to the concealed point. Not necessarily to eternity. And the same goes for all the promises of Yaua based on this word.
We return to the question how does the c voice of Yaua come.
Mashiach redeemed from the Curse (qalal) of the Torah. The Messianic redemption of Yeshua buys men back from having to walk under the curse written in the Torah. For the Torah is clear on the matter. If you keep it you are blessed. If not you are cursed. It is the negative side of the curse that Yeshua bore for us. He paid for us so that we no longer fall under the curses for disobedience. Since no man living in those days kept the Torah. But Yeshua became a curse for us. “Cursed is every one who hangs on wood” Because Yeshua took the judgment
So having been redeemed from the curse of Torah the blessing of Abraham can go to the Goyim. When the Blessing goes then we can receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
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The Final return of Israel to their God, Yaua and there Messiah Yeshua, son of David.
Men of Israel and the nations listen to the word of the prophet Hosea
“The sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince without sacrifice or pillar and without ephod or teraphim”
Afterwards the sons of Israel will return and Seek Yaua their God and David their king; and they will come trembling to Yaua and to his goodness in the last days”
We have two returns mentioned in the prophecy which we can expect in Israel in the (bacherit ha yamim ) latter days.
The first return is to Yaua their God. Now all Israel understands this return. A return to the covenant which took place on Sinai. That is essentially a return to the 10 sayings and the Mishpatim which are mentioned in Shmot or Exodus 20-24. This was the basis of the initial marriage between Israel and Yaua. Their leaving of this Brit and these Mishpatim (judgements) is seen by Yaua as adultery and harlotry. They went after other gods and other kings or Messiah’s instead of Yaua’s the true king and his Messiah son of David.
So Sons of Israel know and understand this you are called in these days to return to Yaua in his covenant where you love Yaua your God and have no god’s besides him. Gold and silver coins money, is not to be the reason you serve. These are not your God. As it says among the mishpatim “You shall not make elohim besides me, elohim of silver and elohim of gold, you shall not make for yourselves”. You are not to be ruled by money as the Mashiach said
“No one can serve two masters for wither he will hate the one and love the other or he will hold to one and despise the other. You can not serve God and mammon.
The final or ultimate return in Israel, will be that which is to take place in the last days. Hosea saw this. The ultimate restoration will be the restoration of the knowledge of God and the restoration of the Mashiach of Israel the son of David, to be king and ruler of Israel by their choice.
This final return is prophesied by Hosea in chapter three and refers to these days. We can expect a massive turning in Israel to the Mashiach and to the knowledge of God in these last days.
