Category: Visual Scripture

Torah obedience = blessing.

Over and over, Scripture attests that keeping Torah, obeying the everlasting commandments, leads to blessing.  How Christendom ever abandoned the things God calls a “blessing” is a mystery and a tragedy that is theologically indefensible.

May the people of God within the Christian religion have the humble audacity to read Scripture without deminational and doctrinal filters, then act on it.

Praise the Lord ! How blessed is the man who fears the Lord , Who greatly delights in His commandments. His descendants will be mighty on earth; The generation of the upright will be blessed. Wealth and riches are in his house, And his righteousness endures forever.
Psalms 112:1‭-‬3 NASB

http://bible.com/100/psa.112.1-3.NASB

Do you study the Scriptures Paul studied?

In 2 Timothy 2, Paul says, “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.”

Ever pondered what he considered to be Scripture?  Funny that most of Christendom majors on Paul instead of going to his source: Genesis to Malachi. 

Maybe, we need to spend more time in that which he calls Scripture so that we can rightly understand what he says…

In living color…

Someone recently intimated that I should leave behind all I have learned the last five years and return to the church….   I was speechless!  It would be like quitting high def color TV and returning to the monstrous black and white sets of two generations ago! 

Only when I began actually doing what the Torah says, i.e., keeping Shabbat and the feasts, eating clean, etc, did the Bible really come alive.  Then, like living color, I began to see and understand parts that I only thought I understood before.

Do you want blessings, wisdom and understanding?  Begin to walk Torah.  Anything else is just grainy black and white.

But his delight is in the Torah of Adonai, and on His Torah he meditates day and night. He will be like a planted tree over streams of water, producing its fruit during its season. Its leaf never droops— but in all he does, he succeeds.
Psalms 1:2‭-‬3 TLV

http://bible.com/314/psa.1.2-3.TLV

Zealous? For what?

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Acts 21:20 relates that a mark of the apostolic kahal/ekklesia/congregation was being zealous for the Law.

How does the Church today view those ‘zealous for the Law?’. How does God view those ‘zealous for the Law?’

If the Law, the Torah, defines sin and righteousness, how should we view those who denigrate or teach against lawFULL behavior?  Is it just possible that Christendom is wrong and walking contrary to God’s ways?  Is it possible that for the last 1800+ years Christian pastors and theologians commit the same error of the religious leaders Yeshua chastised for elevating their traditions above the simple written Word?

God’s Word says that the Torah brings life, righteousness, blessings and sanctification.  Are you keeping the Sabbath, His Feasts, a clean diet, etc?  Pete Rambo doesn’t say that is ‘the Way,’ God does.

Shema!!  Yeshua died to redeem you from lawLESSness so that you might walk lawfully.

… Messiah Yeshua… gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
Titus 2 NASB
http://bible.com/100/tit.2.14.NASB

Blood on NEW garment…

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Rereading Leviticus 8 this morning and pondering the pageantry of the consecration and ordination of the priests, but especially struck by Aaron. 

I have shared that Anita Heist is hand weaving a tallit for Kelly.  I am amazed at how much work and time goes into a simple garment.  Here, Aaron is dressed in a multilayer garment fit for a king, complete with jewels, inlay, etc.  I bet it was stunningly beautiful, the result of a ton of work by those who were Spirit filled.  Exactly what is required to stand in the Presence.

Yet, it still lacked something….

Imagine, this beauty, probably the most stunning garment any of the former Egyptian slaves had ever seen, being sprinkled with blood before it is ready to approach the Elohim of heaven and earth!!

There’s a lesson in here…

http://bible.com/12/lev.8.30.ASV

Torah in Genesis. Altar.

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Was Noah just lucky understanding not only the difference between the clean and unclean, but also the sanctity of the altar, OR did he have the Torah, handed down from the Garden of Eden?

Evidence throughout Genesis is that they had the FULL Torah, God’s Instructions in righteousness, from the beginning.  Therefore, the Torah, is for all mankind.

More evidences to come in this series.

Got Torah?

http://bible.com/1/gen.8.20.KJV

How did they know? Noah.

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How did Noah know what was clean and unclean?  Did he guess?

Christendom believes only two of unclean showed up and seven pair of the clean, however that doesn’t answer the specificity of God telling Noah to ‘take.’

When combined with the dozens of other Torah specific commands obeyed throughout Genesis the glaring conclusion is that Noah knew exactly what the Almighty told him because he had the Torah, handed down from his father’s.

Clearly, the Torah was in, even before, Gan Eden, and it is God’s instructions for righteous living to all mankind.

Got Torah?

http://bible.com/1/gen.7.2.KJV