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The Hebrew Perspective
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We can add that pigs, rats, bats, vultures, spiders, flies,
maggots and cockroaches are not the only contaminated (unclean) things forbidden by Scripture for consumption. But that crabs,
lobsters, oysters, clams, shrimp and all other sea life that does not have both fins and scales are also forbidden fruit of
the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Crabs are nothing but sea spiders; lobsters - sea scorpions; and oysters,
clams and shrimp - sewage disposals and processors.
Has it occurred to you that when you eat these creatures you are
eating their intestines, and all the urine and feces within them; as well as all their internal organs and blood supply.
This
is utterly disgusting! These creatures are cooked and served with all their intestines and organs. When you eat them, you
are eating blood, feces and urine. How repulsive to think that some group of twisted theologians out there would insist that
our Holy Creator has cleansed such repulsive filth as food.
If I served them a plate of feces would they think that
was clean? Would they, or you, eat that? But then leaders turn around and teach their congregations that somehow our holy
Messiah has made it okay to eat a pile of sewage if it comes in the form of a crab.
Cursed are those who pollute the
gospel and Torah of our Holy Creator. Woe to anyone who teaches, and perverts, and/or corrupts the dietary laws of the Holy
Word of Yahuweh. The word of God is pure, enlightening the eyes. The Torah of Yahuweh perfect, converting the very soul. The
word of God has been here from the beginning, and forever shall be. He is the first and the last. And He, is, Holy.
In
an article published in 1953 in the bulletin of the history of medicine, published by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
in a study entitled “an experimental pharmacological appreciation of Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 by David I. Macht,
M.D.”
Dr. Macht tested extracts from the meats of the various clean and unclean animals as defined by the dietary
law, including 54 kinds of fish, using a standard toxicological test.
The results? Every single animal meat that Yahuweh
forbad as food in his dietary law tested out as toxic. And every single animal meat that Yahuweh allowed as food in his dietary
law tested out as non-toxic. There was a 100% correlation between Yahuweh’s dietary law and scientific study.
Now,
how is it that people have enough sense not to eat poisonous vegetation - but no sense at all about the poisonous flesh of
unclean animals? If all things are clean through Messiah then why aren’t people sautéing their toxic pork chops with
mounds of poisonous mushrooms?
Those who twist the Scriptures do so to their own destruction. Yea, let the word be
shown in truth and every human a liar who dares to boast their knowledge against the truth. Repent saith Yahuweh. Repent!
And let my people go!
Today, lets talk about the soul, the state of the dead, the Ruach Ha Kadosh (Holy Spirit), and
about the relationship of the Father to the Son - and explore them from a Hebrew perspective.
Hebrew, we say, because
the whole of Scripture from B’resheet (Genesis) to Revelation was written by Jewish people, in the language of Hebrew,
within the culture and background of the ancient faith of the Jewish people. And because, Yeshua and the apostles taught within
this same Hebrew context, as Jewish people, from within the culture and background of the ancient faith.
And our intent,
as was theirs, is to restore the gospel back to the pure faith of those who obey the commandments of Torah and have the Testimony
of Messiah Yeshua, the Son of Yahuweh.
The same faith of the early assembly which was based wholly and entirely on
the Hebrew Scriptures contained in the Tenach, contained between the books of B’resheet (Genesis) and Malachi.
The
commentary of which we have received in the form of a new covenant concerning sacrifices, which is contained between the books
of Mattit'yahu (Matthew) and Revelation; the books of which were written decades after the resurrection for the main purpose
of instructing us from the Tenach, that Yeshua was the expected Messiah of Israel to come. And to provide the early believers
with instruction on how to create and govern places of assembly for those kicked out of the synagogues for their belief in
Yeshua as that Messiah.
In fact, everything written from Mattit'yahu (Matthew) to Revelation is based entirely on
what was written in the Tenach - the erroneously entitled “Old Testament”, and was written in complete and utter
harmony with the writings contained within that so called “Old” Testament.
There is also considerable
evidence now to show that the original writings of the renewed covenant to have been written entirely in Hebrew - the language
of our people. Which makes sense, for Yahuweh gave all the Scriptures through our prophets and leaders to receive, to preserve,
and to teach; and we received, preserved, and taught those Scriptures within the background of our Hebrew language and Jewish
culture.
And every one of those Hebrew leaders and prophets were likewise Torah obedient individuals. Every single
prophet and leader from Abel, to Noach (Noah), to Avraham, Moshe (Moses), Eli’yahu (Elijah), Yesha’yahu (Isaiah),
Yahchanan the Immerser (John the Baptizer), Yeshua, and the apostles, upheld, lived, and taught the commandments and Torah
of Yahuweh’s Law.
Likewise, the only people these prophets and leaders ever rebuked or spoke against were those
who violated the commandments and Torah of Yahuweh’s Law.
The Torah, and the Hebrew Scriptures that surround
them, are the standard of Yahuweh’s chosen people, the redeemed of Yahuweh through haMashiach Yeshua our King.
There
is no other standard for Yahuweh’s people. Yahuweh is one, His people are one, and His standard is one. And likewise,
there is only one acceptable commentary on the Tenach, and that is the writings - from the Hebrew perspective, of the renewed
covenant, renewed in the blood of Yeshua - the Lamb of God.
And there is no other Scripture or commentary outside
of the writings contained between B’resheet and Revelation that is inspired of God or authorized by God; for only that
which is written between B’resheet and Revelation is the inspired word of Yahuweh.
Ellen G. White’s writings
are not Scripture, Joseph Smith’s writings are not Scripture, Mary Baker Eddy’s writings are not Scripture, Jehovah’s
Witness’ writings are not Scripture, Billy Graham’s writings are not Scripture, and the Pope’s writings
are not Scripture. In fact, no writings outside of the Scriptures contained between B’resheet (Genesis) and Revelation
are Scripture. There is no word of God outside of the word of God.
And these Scriptures Yahuweh chose to present and
preserve through the Jewish people, the Hebrew speaking people of the nation of Israel. All the prophets of Scripture were
Hebrew, all the writers of Scripture were Hebrew, and all the Scriptures were written in Hebrew. So any and all interpretations
given to Scripture must be consistent with the Hebrew language and culture that it was written within.
And you may
not want to hear this, but we have yet to find a main stream English translation of Scripture that is in harmony with the
Hebrew language and culture of Scripture.
Why is that? It is because the organizations that create and publish these
English translations of the Hebrew Scriptures are not interested in preserving the nuances of the Hebrew language and culture
in their translations; because to do so would cause "the Church" to become more Jewish than the religious leaders of this
world are comfortable with promoting; and that includes the version of James the King.
But no responsible translation
can discount the nuances of the Hebrew language and be a true or reliable translation. The Hebraic thought and culture behind
the Scriptures cannot be ignored.
In fact, the Hebrew language cannot be ignored on any scale - for many linguist
and etymologists throughout the world are beginning to discover elements of Hebrew in every language of the earth, indicating
that Hebrew may very well have been the original language of the earth.
Within every language, whether in Russian,
Chinese, English, French, German, African, Indonesian, S. American - traces of Hebrew are being discovered. This cannot be
said of any other language. Hebrew so far is the only language that all other languages of the earth can be tied to as a common
root.
It all began at the tower of Babel, which, by the way, is where we get the English word “babble”
from (as just one example of the influence of Hebrew in a contemporary non-Hebrew language).
And at this tower of
Babel, which in Hebrew means confusion, God thwarted the evil plans of rebellious people by confounding their language into
multiple Hebrew dialects. These dialects were diverse enough to cause an inability of these rebellious people to communicate
effectively with one another, and to prevent them from bringing their evil plans to completion.
So ultimately, they
separated into their common dialects and left the city of Babel - which later became known as Babylon, to fill the earth and
populate it with those of their own respective dialects. These dialects eventually evolved into the diverse and distinctive
languages of today.
But Yahuweh chose one group of people to preserve the original Hebrew language through, that the
purity of his word might be preserved. That group of people were the descendents of Noach - through Shem; which ultimately
led up to the lineage of Avraham, the father of our faith, and first to be called out from among the nations.
And
Avraham was called a Hebrew. Why? Because people then, as they are today, are identified by the language they speak. For example:
Russians are Russians because they speak Russian; Germans, German because they speak German. Likewise, Avraham was called
a Hebrew because he spoke Hebrew - the original language of the earth.
It was through the descendents of Avraham that
Yahuweh would choose to preserve His word through, and determined that the pure language of Hebrew would be the language that
His word would be preserved through.
Yahuweh caused our people, the descendents of Avraham through Yitz’chak
(Isaac), to record His word, and put it on our hearts to preserve His word through His language meticulously. Making sure
that not the least stroke of the pen in His word was lost, and that every jot and tittle of the Hebrew language would be preserved
in Scripture for future generations.
So what do the Hebrew Scriptures teach about the soul? They teach that the soul
is separate from the body and spirit. That man is composed of body, soul, and spirit. This is not a Greek concept. It is not
an Egyptian concept. It is not a pagan concept. It is a concept of the Hebrew language that was retained in the dialects created
at the Tower of Babel, that was ultimately incorporated into the religious practices of most all, if not all, the major religions
of early history.
In fact, one example in Scripture I can give of this concept is in relation to Yeshua Himself where
the Scriptures plainly state that at death His Spirit returned to His Father, Luke 23:46; that His body was placed in a tomb,
Mattit'yahu (Matthew) 27:57-60, and that his soul was temporarily in hell, in sheol, Acts 2:30,31.
During our life
our soul either attaches itself to the things of the flesh - to the things of darkness, which is like attaching oneself to
negative energy; or it attaches itself to the things of the Spirit - to the things of the light, which is like attaching oneself
to positive energy.
And at the time of death, if our soul is attached to the things of the flesh, then it departs
into the realm of darkness; but if at the time of death it is attached to the things of light, then our soul departs with
the spirit, to return to the Father who gave it - into the realm of light, Paradise.
The place where the soul departs
to is called sheol. Sheol has been translated in your bibles as grave, but does not mean grave. The Hebrew word sheol does
not mean grave - but means literally, the conscious underworld and dwelling place of the dead - including its prisoners and
accessories.
It is a place of consciousness, and no translation can nullify or render void that fact contained in
the nuance of this word of the Hebrew language. The Hebrew word “sheol” does not mean grave - does not mean a
hole in the ground. The Hebrew word for those meanings are “qabar” which means “buried”; “qibrah”
which means “tomb”; and “shachath” which means a pit or hole in the ground.
But sheol, which
has been translated as “grave”, means literally - the conscious dwelling place of the soul. To ignore this fact
is to ignore the Hebrew language that Yahuweh Himself chose to preserve His word through.
Let us provide an analogy,
sheol is similar to a battery in that one half of it contains pure positive energy, and the other half pure negative energy.
That is, sheol has two compartments, one containing pure light, and the other pure darkness; because in the spirit
world it is impossible for light and darkness to co-exist. It is only in the physical realm of things that light and darkness
can co-mingle, the physical world acting as a medium between the two. And this is what Yeshua was referring to when He related
to us the parable of the rich man and Lazarus.
But once the soul separates from the physical world, it separates immediately
into the realm that it has attached itself to at the time of death.
Sheol is a conscious place of existence, and the
soul, according to the Hebrew, is your consciousness. And there is a veil that separates the spiritual world from the physical
world that the soul passes through at the time of death; and even as we know nothing about what goes on in the spiritual world,
even so, those in sheol know nothing about what is going on in the physical world.
In Hebraic thought, the whole function
of the Torah and the Testimony is to turn the soul away from the things of the flesh - to circumcise it if you will, away
from the things of the flesh, in order to unite it - that is, in order to make it one, to make it “echad” with
the spirit. For the soul is not only the seat of our consciousness and emotions, it is also the place of our will, and the
soul must choose between the way of the flesh and the way of the Spirit.
Another form of expression of the Hebrew
Scriptures is the presentation of things in terms of marriage and conception, birth and death, of planting and harvesting,
of fruitful and unfruitful, of pure and impure, and so on.
You also have patterns of 3 in the Hebrew Scriptures. For
example, you have a tree; the fertilized seed of the tree; and the resulting fruit of that tree. This concept parallels the
virtuous woman; the fertilized womb of the virtuous woman; and the resulting fruit or child of that virtuous woman.
Another
parallel of three is that of a father, a mother, and of the offspring of the father and mother; which in Hebrew parallels
the concept of Yahuweh the Father, Wisdom (Chokmah) the Ruach haKadosh (Holy Spirit), and Yeshua the Son;
There are
also 3 strands that make up DNA; and 3 components of an atom: the proton, the neutron, and the electron.
The time
of day, likewise, has 3 components, the components of seconds, minutes and hours. And the time of year made up of 3 components
- days, weeks and months.
The biblical cycles of Jubilee are likewise composed of 1 year cycles, 7 year cycles, and
50 year cycles; and the minimum number of people required to create a biblical family unit is - that’s right, 3.
Now
we're going to take this concept of 3 related in the Hebrew Scriptures and share with you about the Ruach haKadosh (the Holy
Spirit), as Yeshua, the Apostles, and the believers of the early assembly understood the Ruach haKadosh (the Holy Spirit).
Did you know that the Hebrew word for spirit cannot be translated as “He”? That Hebrew, like Spanish and
other languages, contains masculine and feminine tenses within the words themselves that indicate and determine the gender
of those words?
In the Hebrew language, the word translated as spirit comes from the Hebrew word “ruach”
- which is feminine tense.
Based on the Hebrew language of Scripture that Yahuweh gave us to write and preserve His
word through, the Spirit (Ruach) is clearly identified by Her gender and character traits as our spiritual mother. Even as
Yahuweh is our spiritual Father, and Yeshua is the spiritual Son of the Mother and Father.
Have you ever wondered
how it is that we can have a heavenly Father, who has a heavenly Son - but no Mother? No one fluent in Hebrew ever had to
ask that question.
The Hebrew language itself defines clearly the Ruach haKadosh - the Holy Spirit, as our spiritual
Mother that we must receive rebirth through her in order to enter into the kingdom of Yahuweh.
Like Yeshua said, “Unless
you are born of the Spirit and of water, you cannot enter the kingdom of Yahuweh.” And this is what Yeshua’s conversation
with Nicodemus was all about in the gospel of Yahchanan (John) 3:1-9.
Yeshua goes on to say in that passage “For
that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
And when Nicodemus
feigns ignorance of this concept, Yeshua calls his bluff by stating
“...You are a teacher of Israel and do not
know these things?”
You see, these concepts were no mystery to the teachers of Torah, and as such, Nicodemus
would have had no difficulty whatsoever understanding what Yeshua was saying, and so Yeshua said, “...You are a teacher
of Israel and don’t know these things?”
Yeshua was speaking to Nicodemus that which was common knowledge
among the teachers of Torah.
The knowledge that, to enter the kingdom of Yahuweh we had to first advance beyond the
stage of human birth through fleshly mothers, and as sinful individuals, and advance to the stage of spiritual birth through
our spiritual Mother where we will receive a spiritual nature. For that which is born of the flesh is flesh and the which
is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Even creation itself teaches that all things are born of the mother - never of the
father, and that all plant, fish, human, and animal life are a result of communion between male and female of the species.
In fact, to the best of my knowledge - all life on earth has some form of mother and father except for viruses and bacteria.
In Genesis (B'resheet), it plainly states, “Let us make humans in our image”. Your bible probably says
let us make man in our image”, but the Hebrew word Adam, means “human”, which is more accurately and responsibly
translated as “mankind” or as “humans”. So God said, “Let us make humans in our image”,
and so God made them male and female - in their image.
This is interesting to note also because the Hebrew word Elohim,
and translated as God is actually plural - not plural in the sense of being multiple deities, but plural in the sense of multiple
expressions of the one deity - Yahuweh. Even as Adam, Havah (Eve), and Abel were all expressions of Adam.
Yahuweh,
who is God, is the Father; as such, His first created being on earth was Adam, who was also a Father. But from Yahuweh proceeded
forth His Spirit, who is Chokmah (Wisdom), His wife, and the Mother of all spiritually living; as such, He caused Havah (Eve)
to proceed forth from Adam’s side to be Adams’ wife, and caused her to be the mother of all the physically living.
As it is written, “Let Us make humans in Our image” and so He made them male and female - in “their”
image.
And Yahuweh, through consummation with the Ruach haKadosh (the Holy Spirit), produced Yeshua their Son. In
like manner, when Adam and Havah (Eve) came together they produced Abel, who was the image of Yeshua the Son, who would be
murdered by his brother for offering up a better sacrifice.
To clarify this one step further, Yahuweh is God, even
as Adam was human. So when Chokmah (Wisdom) was brought forth from Yahuweh, She was a complimentary expression of God as well;
even as Havah (Eve) when brought forth out of Adam was a complimentary expression of Adam - and of the exact same flesh and
bone as Adam.
And when Yahuweh and Chokmah (Wisdom) came together, Yeshua came forth from them and so was also a complimentary
expression of God; even as when Adam and Havah came together, Abel, who was a picture of Yeshua, came forth, and was human
just as his parents, and of the same flesh and bone as his parents. A fully complimentary expression of them.
All
three from Yahuweh proceeded forth from Yahuweh, but are all distinctly different and separate from one another. Even so,
all three from Adam were expressions of Adam - yet all distinctly different and separate from one another.
If that
is difficult to comprehend, let me reword it this way. Adam was created from the dust of the earth. Out of Adam came Havah
(Eve) who was of identical genetic makeup as Adam with the exception of being female.
Havah (Eve) was flesh of his
flesh and bone of his bones. In essence, Havah (Eve) was a female clone of Adam. So Adam and Havah (Eve) were literally one
flesh. And they came together and produced children, who were, likewise, one flesh with them. All came from Adam. All were
Adam. And in fact, we are all copies of Adam ourselves - damaged, inferior, copies of Adam that is.
And if this still
does not make sense, here is a final example. You have one tree, like we have one God, one Elohim. But from that one tree
can be produced many fruits. All of the fruits will be the same kind of fruit, but each fruit will contain within itself the
seeds to produce other trees in the likeness of the original tree.
Likewise, each tree produced from the original
will be a uniquely different, though similar expression of the first. All are "echad" with the first tree, they are all one;
and all one expressed as many.
This is Hebraic thought - not catholic thought or protestant thought. Likewise, it
is not Trinitarian thought; Yahuweh our God is echad, is a plural Unity, a united One, even as Adam, Havah (Eve), and Abel
were echad, in unity, and one.
This is Hebrew thought. And this concept of one being expressed as 3 can be explained
as follows.
In Yahchanan (John) 1:1 it says,
1:1 “In the beginning was the word [Yahuweh], the word
[Chokmah (Wisdom)] was with God, and the word [Yeshua] was God.”
So where do we learn about the beginning in
Scripture? In B'resheet, Genesis, which means “beginning”. So in Yahchanan (John) it is saying that the word spoken
in B'resheet (Genesis) which means beginning, was God. That the word spoken in Genesis was God. That God was the word.
And
what do the Scriptures relate the word to? They relate the word of God to water. Ephesians 5:26 says,
5:26 “...
so that He might set us apart and cleanse us with the washing of water by the word.”
And water takes on how
many forms? Three. That’s right. God is the word, and the word is the water that washes us; and water, like God, takes
on three forms. The forms of liquid, steam, and ice. And it just so happens that every living thing on earth contains what?
Water.
Steam, liquid, ice. Father, Son, Ruach haKadosh (Holy Spirit). One expressed as three. And even as ice is not
steam or liquid, neither is the Father the Son, or the Son the Father. Each expression of God - like water, has its own unique
set of characteristics that makes it distinct from the other two expressions, yet all is the same substance. All are the same
source.
And when people teach that Yeshua is the Father, and Yahuweh is the Son - this is not Hebrew thought,
that is Babylonian thought, Babylonian religion. The religion that taught that Nimrod - the husband of Semiramis the mother,
was reincarnated as Tammuz, the son of the mother. That is, that the father and the son were the same person; that the son,
was in effect - his own father.
But the Torah teaches Yahuweh is the Father, that Yeshua is the Son, and that the
Ruach haKodesh - the Holy Spirit, is the mother; and that all three proceeded forth from one Elohim (one God) - Yahuweh. Just
like when Adam and Havah (Eve) united and become one flesh in Abel, but all 3 were the same flesh and bone of Adam.
This
very same concept is expressed in B'resheet (Genesis), in the beginning, in Adam and Havah (Eve) who were made in the image
of God. That is, you had Adam the father, Havah (Eve) the mother who proceeded forth out of Adam the father, and you had Abel
the son who proceeded forth as a result of consummation between Adam the father and Havah (Eve) the mother.
All three
are expressions of Adam, all three proceeded forth from Adam. Yet they are all distinctly different, but uniquely the same;
and they are all human (Adam means human), like the Father, the Son, and the Ruach haKadosh are all Elohim (all God), the
same God.
And just like the water, the liquid is not the ice or steam, and the ice and steam are not the liquid, but
all three are expressions of water - the same water. And so it is with God.
Yahuweh the Father, Yeshua the Son, and
Chokmah (Wisdom), the Ruach haKadosh (Holy Spirit) the Mother. All distinct from one another, yet all expressions of the one
God, the same God - thus the reason for the plurality of the word “Elohim”.
So is Yeshua the Son of Yahuweh?
Yes. Is He God? Yes. But Yeshua is not the Son of God anymore than Yahuweh is the Father of God. Both are God.
But
the Greek manuscripts have replaced the Name of Yahuweh with the general title of “theos” which is translated
as God in English; so that we get the erroneous impression that Yeshua is the Son of God, when in fact it should have been
translated to declare Him as the Son of Yahuweh. But both Yahuweh and Yeshua are expressions of the same God, of Yahuweh,
of El Shaddai (God Almighty).
Yahuweh, El Shaddai (God Almighty) is like the water expressed as the ice - the strong
rock and firm foundation who is forever the same and never changing; Chokmah (the Holy Spirit) - the steam that fills the
space between heaven and earth, connecting the human with the divine; and Yeshua the liquid - the river of life that cleanses
the earth and brings life to all that lies within it.
So what do the Hebrews believe about the soul, about the state
of the dead, about the Ruach haKadosh (the Holy Spirit), and about the relation of Yeshua to the Father?
Concerning
the soul, that the soul is one of three components of a conscious being. The soul of man being represented by the Father,
the spirit of man being represented the Ruach haKadosh, and the flesh of man being represented Yeshua, the second - and eternal
Adam.
And all animals and humans have souls. Just look into their eyes and you will see the life of the soul within
them. Or compare the eyes of a living human or animal with the eyes of a corpse which are just blank - like that of an insect.
And concerning the state of the dead? Sheol, commonly translated as grave in the non-Hebrew translations of the Tenach,
and as hell in the Brit Chadasha (the renewed covenant), is literally, the conscious dwelling place of departed souls. That’s
what the word in Hebrew literally means.
And as Yeshua pointed out in His parable about the rich man and Lazarus,
sheol is composed of two main compartments - one for the evil dead where the rich man was at, and one for the righteous dead
where Lazarus was at, with the two compartments separated by an un-crossable canyon.
Yeshua described this place of
Lazarus’ dwelling as Avraham’s bosom. Other Scriptures refer to it as Paradise. And Avraham’s bosom - Paradise,
is not heaven.
Many people who do not believe in a literal "hell" (Sheol) declare Yeshua's parable to be fictional.
There are two main errors in this thinking however. The first being that the Pharisees did believe in a literal "hell" and
"Paradise"; but the Scribes did not believe in these either.
The consequence? If Yeshua's parable had been fictional,
then His parable would have inadvertently endorsed a lie believed and perpetuated by the Pharisees, and cast down a truth
believed and perpetuated by the scribes. However, Yeshua never endorses lies or speaks against truth.
This brings
us to our second point. Yeshua never lies. He stated, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except
through Me."; Yahchanan (John) 14:6.
Yeshua speaks truth only. This means that every parable He taught was a true
story of an actual event in history that ran parallel to another truth He was presenting.
So what is Paradise? It
is not the place of eternal life where we forever live in the presence of our Creator, but is merely a place of transition
for departed souls until the time of the resurrection.
This is not to be confused with “purgatory” which
is the demonic counterfeit of this truth, even as the “Mother in Heaven” that is worshipped by Catholics and pagans
throughout the world is the demonic counterfeit of the Ruach haKadosh (Holy Spirit).
Likewise, the spirit and the
flesh of the dead depart to different places. Like I stated earlier concerning Yeshua, that when He died on the execution
stake His spirit departed to the Father, Luke 23:46; His body was laid in a tomb, Mattit'yahu (Matthew) 27:57-60; and His
soul departed to sheol Acts 2:30,31 where He preached to those still imprisoned, I Kepha (I Peter) 3:18-20 & 4:6; and
then entered into Paradise, Luke 23:43, and all this prior to His resurrection.
All Hebraic terms and concepts. So
why do the theologians run around giving these concepts meanings outside of their Hebraic context? Outside of the context
of the Hebrew language that they were written in?
It is because these concepts go against the traditions of the pagan
universal church of Rome from which a large part of protestant theology was adopted. Yes, that’s right, the protestant
reform movement did not weed out all of the pagan doctrines of the catholic church, but in fact, perpetuated many of them.
For example, E-ster, which is the celebration of the fertility goddess Isht-r, who was celebrated with temple prostitution
to ensure fertility of the crops; and honored with rabbits because of their reproductive abilities; and with eggs dipped in
the blood of sacrificed infants to represent rebirth from the dead.
But now, thanks to the deceptive workings of the
universal (catholic) church of pagan Rome, and of the ignorance of the protestant church, this foul and indecent festival
has come to represent the resurrection of our Messiah.
And do you know what the sad thing is about all this corruption
of the Hebrew Scriptures? It is that the protestant theologians are no longer ignorant about these things.
This is
why we have things like Messianic movements rising up, because this age of information is causing the ignorance of these things
to be stripped away and enabling people to reach for, and grasp, the higher truth.
But if the theologians are no longer
ignorant of these things then why are they not changing the theologies and doctrines of the churches to keep up with the newly
rediscovered truths?
It is because the church is too heavily invested in the traditions of the past; and because the
leaders are more concerned about pleasing the masses, maintaining the status quo, organizing events, and in raising money,
than they are about learning or revealing what the Hebrew Scriptures truly teach.
And it is also sad that most people
today are more interested in watching a football game, or an evening soap/sitcom than they are in reading their dusty bibles.
And those who do manage to crack open a bible on occasion get one of those study bibles that are full of biased cross
references and study notes that don’t require them to actually think - or study! This is not the way to gain spiritual
knowledge, or the way to growing into a spiritual being, a workman equipped for use by God. You must study, study, study.
And then live out what you learn.
So in conclusion, who is the Holy Spirit - the Ruach haKadosh?
To the Hebrew,
She’s our spiritual mother, and we must be born of Her to become spiritual beings, even as we must be born of an earthly
mother in order to become a fleshly being. And the reason we must be born as spiritual beings is because Yahuweh’s Kingdom
is a spiritual kingdom, governed by a spiritual Law - the Torah, which is the Law of the Ruach (Spirit) and of spiritual beings.
Yeshua says to His disciples, in Mattit'yahu (Matthew) 28:19
28:19 “...go and make disciples of all
the nations, immersing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Ruach haKadosh (Holy Spirit).”
Yeshua
told His disciples to go and immerse people in the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, and in the name of the Ruach
haKadosh (Holy Spirit). Many people know the name of the Father, and many people know the name of the Son, but how many people
know the name of the Ruach haKadosh (Holy Spirit)?
For a Hebrew this is no mystery. Her name is Chokmah, which in
Hebrew means Wisdom, and which has been translated as wisdom in your English translations. You can read about her more directly
in the Book of Mishlei (Proverbs), chapter 8, which reveals to us Her character, position, and role She played in the creation
of the earth. And also in parts of chapters 2, 3 & 4. Please see our study "Who is the Holy Spirit?".
And Yeshua?
He is the Son of Yahuweh. He is not Yahuweh Himself, for Yahuweh is God expressed as the Father, but Yeshua, God expressed
as the Son; and Chokmah (Wisdom), the Ruach haKadosh (the Holy Spirit), God expressed as the Mother.
All God, but
all 3 expressed in different form and characteristic; just like steam, ice, and liquid can all be made up of the same batch
of water, but be all completely different in form and characteristic from one another.
And it is important to maintain
the distinction between the three, because it is part of the Testimony, that Yahuweh - the Father, sent His only begotten
Son to die for us; for whoever does not believe that Yeshua is the Son of Yahuweh is not born of the Spirit of Yahuweh. The
Scriptures say so.
And yes, Yahuweh is spirit, but there is distinct difference in the Hebrew between being a spirit
being, and being the Spirit; for in the next life we will all be spirit beings, as Yahuweh Himself is a spirit being, but
that will not mean that we are the Spirit.
No, the Spirit, the Ruach haKadosh, is Chokmah, Wisdom, the wife of Yahuweh,
and Mother of all the spiritually living; even as Havah (Eve) is the mother of all the physically living. And likewise, even
as the Scriptures state that Havah (Eve) proceeded forth from Adam, even so, the Scriptures state that the Spirit proceeds
forth from Yahuweh.
You see, all things in the physical world are patterned after the things of the spiritual world.
In fact, the physical world is a precise reflection of the spirit world. And all creation prior to the entry of sin was a
perfect reflection of the kingdom of God, but since the entry of sin, the earth has come to include a perfect reflection of
haSatan’s kingdom co-mingled within it.
Before sin, the world was complete light; but since sin, the world has
become a mixture of light and darkness. Darkness has entered this world because of our disobedience to the Torah of God. And
every time we violate Torah, we bring a little more darkness, a little more of haSatan’s kingdom into our world.
The
only way to overcome haSatan’s authority and influence in our lives is to obey the Torah as Yeshua also did - and overcame.
We are slaves and servants to whoever we obey. To obey Torah is to obey God, and to violate Torah is to obey haSatan.
We
must make our choice, and understand that our choice is of eternal consequence. We must choose between light and darkness.
If we choose to walk in shades of gray we will be spit out like lukewarm water. We can continue to follow the theological
lies of tradition, or we can embrace the truth and live.
Come out of her my people and live. Precious flock, obey
the commandments of Yahuweh, and believe the Testimony of haMashiach Yeshua and live. Forsake the world and the things therein,
and continue in no doctrine that is not consistent with the Hebrew language, culture, and background that it was written within.
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