We have been going through some heavy topics recently, trying to bring clarity on subjects where there seems to be a lack. I believe that Yah has me dealing with these things because of the times that we're in. I'm not special; I'm one of many that He's dealing with to warn and also teach.
There is so much confusion out here because of many different factors, but nothing is more influential than the false doctrine spread through mainstream Protestant churches. I have gone through a great deal of history in trying to expose this by explaining Martin Luther in the Protestant Reformation and showing how we got to the denominations that we have today. That teaching really isn't finished because I never got to the Church of England, from which the majority of the mainstream Protestant churches are influenced and controlled.
I have gone back to the Torah to break down what Yahweh has said on many things so that we all can do what He loves and not do what He hates. Recently, I've been covering the New Covenant by specifically going through the book of Hebrews. I must say I am very pleased about this series; though there are fewer people tuning in, I feel that those who are are getting fed, and this pleases me greatly.
I'm not here to tickle your ears and tell you what you want to hear, but what it is that you need to hear. Hopefully, if you truly love Yah and His word, it will be what you wanted to hear as well. I believe that it's still important that we continue to discuss this renewed Covenant because of the overwhelming importance of the subject.
This world is not without belief in the Messiah of the New Covenant, which the majority refer to as Jesus. Over a quarter of the world claims belief in Him—over 2 billion people. But if you believe that all these people will be coming to the kingdom, you're strongly mistaken.
Yahusha said, “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. ” That's Matthew 7:13-14.
You see, narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. So, a quarter of the world population coming into the kingdom because they believe in Jesus seems to be a contradiction to Yahusha saying a few will find it, especially when He says in that same chapter later, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Adon, Adon,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Adon, Adon, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?
’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness. ’” That's Matthew 7:21-23. So yes, there will be many people who call on Him as Master and say that they called on His name and done many wonders in His name, even casting out demons in His name.
But He will unfortunately say to them that He never knew them, and that is so scary to hear. To think that you've been practicing a religion all your life and claiming your faith in Him, but you never knew Him. What you actually knew was Satan's false version of Him that he deceived you into following.
That is the overall problem today in Christianity. Two billion people claim belief, but the majority don't truly know Him. There are many reasons for this, but one of the biggest reasons is these false institutions of men who have pushed their false teachings and false doctrines that have created a lawless faith that people believe in.
The problem comes from people learning the faith from their pastors first, or starting their understanding from the New Testament before they understood the Old, and then reading Paul's letters without understanding the foundation Paul started from and also the audience Paul was speaking to in each letter. So, as we have been discussing the New Covenant, there have been a lot of people that have come into a stronger understanding by just reading the book of Hebrews, which is precisely why the letter was written. I need to finish the last three chapters, but Yah willing, I will do it separately, because the main points about the New Covenant were given in those first ten chapters.
What needs to be done right now is to move on to the biggest challenge, and that is the Apostle Paul. Paul is someone who must be discussed in modern-day religion. It should not even be called Christianity, but "Panity," because it is Paul who seems to be the author of their faith.
Everything is held on Paul, which is why they don't particularly understand what he’s saying, so they apply what he’s saying falsely and then use it to contradict Messiah Himself. Paul has been used as a justification for a false religion, and his books are at the center of the controversy. Because of this, on the other side, there have been many who have gone so far as to reject Paul completely and to call him a false apostle.
So, the problem happens to be that both sides use Paul falsely, and for many, it's hard to get past the doctrines of lawlessness because they have not understood Paul from the foundation he started from. What needs to be done, in the same way we went through the book of Hebrews, is to deal with Paul and his letters. Before we do this, we need to start from the foundation; because if you miss this, you will not understand Paul.
So, before we go into his letters, we will discuss the Apostle Paul. Let's begin. Okay, so who is the Apostle Paul?
Before we get into the letters, it's important to understand him first. So we must start in the book of Acts. The first time we see Paul is in Acts chapter 7, when they are persecuting the first martyr, Stephen, for his belief in Yahusha.
We'll start towards the end of Acts chapter 7: "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers, who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.
” When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart and they gnashed at him with their teeth. But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of Elohim and Yahusha standing at the right hand of Elohim, and said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of Elohim!
” Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord. And they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.
And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on Elohim and saying, “Adonai Yahusha, receive my spirit! ” Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Adon, do not charge them with this sin. ” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
(Acts 7:51-60). You see, Stephen was the first one to lose his life for the gospel. He was one of the seven men selected to take care of the needs of the neglected widows.
They accused him of blaspheming Moses and Elohim. The Yahudim there were resisting the movement of the Gospel but still thought they were serving Yah. And it's the same thing that the modern Church does today.
They feel like they're serving Yah, but they resist the true gospel at the same time; they reject and hurt those who want to actually stand in it. But it was at this time that we see the Apostle Paul, because he was a Pharisee and he, at one time, persecuted the early believers in Yahusha. If we keep reading in Acts chapter 8, we get more clarity: "Now Saul was consenting to his death.
And at that time, a great persecution arose against the Church, which was at Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. And devout men carried Stephen to his burial and made great lamentation over him. As for Saul, he made havoc of the Church, entering every house and dragging off men and women, committing them to prison.
" (Acts 8:1-3). You see, Saul was an enemy of the works of the early Church and he helped lead the persecution. He was a Pharisee.
He explains in Acts chapter 23: "But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, 'Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead, I am being judged. '" (Acts 23:6). Also, as he says in his letter to the Philippians: "Though I also might have confidence in the flesh, if anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so: circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the Church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
" (Philippians 3:4-6). And just remember that verse right there. But let us be clear: Paul was a Hebrew man from the tribe of Benjamin who grew up in a Pharisee household.
So what I think is important to do is that we understand the Pharisees. In order to understand them, we must go back in time, before Yahusha. We must go back to the times of Hellenism.
This is when Greece was an empire of the world and spread their dominance. The spread of the Greek culture is called Hellenism. Judea came up against this influence, and this is the period of the Maccabean Wars.
Y'all willing, I will visit this period, because the testimony of the people during those times can help build faith in understanding how we must deal with this world today. But I don't want to get off track dealing with that right now, so we will skip through this period and go to what happened after. You see, the Yahudim successfully fought off the Greeks and were able to maintain control of their nation for a time.
So after the Maccabean Wars, different sects arose within Judea, and from these sects there were two political parties that arose in Judea that were either for or against the ruling high priest at the time, John Hyrcanus. You see, when we hear about these two groups, we only know of them in regards to their religious beliefs, but that's because of what happens later. But when they formed, it was more political.
The party in control and in charge of the government during that time were the Sadducees. These were the upper Yahudim. They were a party who wanted the Yahudim to become a strong nation, gaining territory at the expense of Syria.
So they were the ones in favor of conquering Edom. And then, forcing them to convert to the faith they did, that their era is the major issue and reason why we have problems that we have right now. If you understand Edom, you understand what I'm talking about.
Remember, King Herod was an Edomite, but I can go off track if I continue with that, so let me get to where I was going. So, okay, we have the first sect, which was the Sadducees, and the other sect was, of course, the Pharisees. The name Pharisee is supposed to come from the Hebrew word "peros," which means "to separate.
" It is said that Henis separated these men from his council or Sanhedrin, choosing to rule only with the advice of those who favored his policy of expansion. They were called Pharisees because they were separate; they were the opposition party. Basically, the split was that during this period, Judea wanted to expand.
Both the Pharisees and Sadducees wanted to spread their faith, but the Sadducees wanted to do this by force, while the Pharisees wanted to spread it by persuasion and example. What is claimed about it is that the Sadducees were in favor of a strict interpretation of the Torah, and the Pharisees for a liberal interpretation of the Torah. If they could not find little support for their proposed laws in the written Torah, they argued that there was an oral Torah or teaching—a set of traditions, really—which had been handed down to them by the scribes of former days, who, in turn, received it by tradition all the way back to Moses.
You can recall this like when Yahusha rebuked them when they challenged him on why the disciples did not wash their hands before they ate, and Yahusha said, "The tradition that they passed down may the word of Yah have no effect. " That's Mark 7:3. But eventually, when Rome gained power and Edom gained power over Judea through Herod, the two parties of the Pharisees and Sadducees no longer had a part in the government.
They had religious influence but not political. Herod did not interfere in this arena. The Pharisees lashed onto the Torah, and they taught an unwavering allegiance to it.
They taught that every single word of the Torah must be followed and that not the slightest command could be violated; that it was necessary to build a fence around the Torah, meaning adding rules over and above those contained in the Holy books, so that a person might feel that he was a sinner long before he even thought of acting contrary to biblical laws. You see this today in some older churches, like in the Pentecostal churches. I remember my grandmother's church in Jamaica had rules about everything.
It wasn't in the Bible, but what they were trying to do was teach a strictness that would stop people from sinning before it actually occurred against the Scriptures. Basically, I mean that's the idea. The Pharisees believed that, far from being a burden, the Torah was what distinguished a Yahudim from the other peoples around the world, which is why Yahusha said, "For I say to you that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
" That's Matthew 5:20. Really think about that verse, where our Messiah said you will not enter the kingdom unless your righteousness exceeds the scribes and the Pharisees. But ironically, the faith in Christianity today is not to exceed but to do far less, because they believe the Torah is done away with.
Adhering to the Torah was the very premise of the Pharisees; they believed that the Torah was what distinguished them from the other people around the world, and they were right. The problem that they had was that their hearts were uncircumcised, and therefore they were hypocrites. They were following the letter of the law without understanding the spirit behind it.
But Yahusha said that our righteousness must exceed their righteousness, and that's why it's important to understand who the Pharisees were. In reference to the Pharisees, this is where we will stop. This information about the Pharisees comes from Solomon's great book, The History of the Jews.
That's the Pharisees. I explained all this because this is what Paul was; he was a Pharisee, which meant that he was a strict observer of the Torah. I don't think that's news to anyone.
But here comes the first issue: People believe that they can understand Paul without understanding the foundation that he started from. It's like me talking about chemistry without knowing anything about the elements and the periodic table; it's like me talking about the current occupants in Israel today without understanding the events that got them there. You can never understand a subject without understanding the foundation of it.
So, it should be clearly understood that Paul was a Pharisee before he was an apostle of Messiah, and therefore anyone who claims to understand Paul must understand the foundation that he speaks from. It's not okay to just hear him say "the law" and then apply it to whatever you want it to mean; this is not proper. There is a reason why the Bible does not start from Acts or Galatians, but unfortunately, this is where many of you started in your understanding of the Covenant.
When you understand the Torah and you understand the Pharisees, you can understand why Yah chose Paul to be his messenger to the Gentiles. This was how the Pharisees began, by wanting to bring people into the Torah by being an example. The problem was they became self-righteous; they became just a bunch of rule followers and never really understood what Yah actually desired from them, which is why they rejected the Messiah when he appeared.
So, like I said, Paul was a Pharisee, and he was persecuting the church according to the Torah. They were. .
. Persecuting these believing Yahudi as blasphemers, let's keep reading. Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Adon, went to the high priest and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
As he journeyed, he came near to Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? " And he said, "Who are you, Adonai?
" Then the Adon said, "I am Yahusha, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads. " So he, trembling and astonished, said, "Adonai, what do you want me to do?
" Then the Adon said to him, "Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do. " And the men who journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice but seeing no one. Then Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one; but they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus.
And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank. Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias, and to him the Adon said in a vision, "Ananias! " And he said, "Here I am, Adonai.
" So the Adon said to him, "Arise and go to the street called Straight and inquire at the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus, for behold, he is praying. And in a vision, he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him so that he might receive his sight. " Then Ananias answered, "Adonai, I have heard many things about this man, how much harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem, and here he has authority from the chief priest to bind all who call on your name.
" But the Adon said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen vessel of mine to bear my name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel, for I will show him many things he must suffer for my name's sake. " And Ananias went his way and entered the house; and laying his hands on him, he said, "Brother Saul, the Adon Yahusha, who appeared to you on the road as you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit. " Immediately, there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he received his sight at once, and he arose and was baptized.
So when he had received food, he was strengthened. Then Saul spent some days with the disciples at Damascus. Immediately, he preached the Messiah in the synagogues that He is the Son of Elohim.
Then all who heard were amazed and said, "Is this not he who destroyed those who called on this name in Jerusalem and has come here for that purpose, so that he might bring them bound to the chief priest? " But Saul increased all the more in strength and confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this Yahusha is the Messiah. But their plot became known to Saul, and they watched the gates day and night to kill him.
Then the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall in a large basket. And when Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him and did not believe that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and he declared to them how he had seen the Adon on the road and that He had spoken to him and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Yahusha.
So he was with them at Jerusalem, coming in and going out. And he spoke boldly in the name of the Adon Yahusha and disputed against the Hellenists, but they attempted to kill him. When the brethren found out, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him out to Tarsus.
Acts 9:1-30 So we see Saul, who initially was zealously persecuting believers—they were referred to as disciples and those who were of the Way—but Yahusha appeared to Saul, and Saul had a miraculous change. He was met by a disciple, Ananias, who did as Yahusha commanded him. He met Saul, even knowing that Saul was killing these followers of the Way, but he listened and baptized Saul.
Saul was now filled with the Ruach and went preaching. Now the people in Damascus were amazed that Saul was preaching because Saul originally had come to kill the believers, not defend their faith. But we see instantly what professing belief in Yahusha does.
He was once on the chief priest's side, but because he was now preaching that Yahusha is the Messiah, they now wanted to kill him. So as we continue in Acts, we see Paul preaching in the synagogues on the Sabbath. Therefore, let it be known to you, brethren, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins, and by Him, everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you cannot be justified by the law of Moses.
Beware, therefore, lest what has been spoken in the prophets come upon you: "Behold, you despisers, marvel and perish, for I work a work in your days, a work which you will by no means believe, though one were to declare it to you. " So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath. Now when the congregation had broken up, many of the Jews and devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
Grace of Elohim, on the next Sabbath, almost the whole city came together to hear the words of Yahweh. But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy; and contradicting and blaspheming, they opposed the things spoken by Paul. Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold and said, "It was necessary that the word of Elohim should be spoken to you first; but since you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
For so the Adon has commanded us, 'I have set you as a light to the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation to the ends of the earth. '" Now when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of Yahweh; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed. And the word of the Adon was spread throughout all the region.
But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women, and the chief men of the city raised up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their region. But they shook off the dust from their feet against them and came to Iconium, and the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit. That's Acts 13:38-52.
Later on in Acts chapter 15, you see Paul and Barnabas come back to Jerusalem, where they were accepted by the brethren, and they told them the stories of the conversion of the Gentiles. As we continue to read the book of Acts, we see more about Paul and his journeys of preaching and teaching about Messiah. People say that Paul was a false apostle and not accepted by the brethren, but in Peter's second letter, we see him referencing Paul and his epistles.
It says, "Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless, and consider that the longsuffering of our Adon is salvation, as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures. " That's 2 Peter 3:14-16. So he's obviously referencing Paul.
I do not believe that the rejection of Paul is correct or that it should be done. The thing about Paul that needs to be understood is that he speaks a lot about the law. Like I pointed out, if you never really read the law and never really understood it—more than thinking it's just a bunch of rules and laws that were a burden—it's easy to understand why people are so quick to apply Paul's verses about the law in such lawless ways.
I mean, I know the verses, like in Galatians 3:10, where Paul writes, "For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse. " Galatians 3:10 also says, "For Messiah is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. " Romans 10:4 states, "For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law but under grace.
" Romans 6:14. But hold up! Paul also writes, "Do we then make void the Torah through faith?
Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the Torah. " Romans 3:31.
Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the Torah), that the Torah has dominion over a man as long as he lives? Romans 7:1. So, yeah, there seems to be some mixed messages here; and perhaps it's just isolating verses that say the law or the Torah.
What's happening is that it's not truly understood what it is that Paul is saying. For instance, like I said in Romans 10:4, that I just used, "For Messiah is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. " People love to use this scripture to say that Yahusha's sacrifice ended the law, but if we dig just a little deeper, maybe the understanding is lost in translation.
Let me show you the word "end" that's used in this scripture. If you use the Strong's Concordance, it says the Greek word for "end" is "telos," and telos in the Strong's Dictionary is found under number 5056, and it means "to set out for a definite point or goal. " This is why when I read this verse in the Sepher or the Hallelujah Scriptures, I read it as, "For Messiah is the goal of the Torah for righteousness to everyone who believes.
" You see, that's the difference. There is a real misunderstanding here, and if you started from the foundation and understood where Paul started from, and understood the renewed covenant and what was promised, you would not be expecting that Paul was saying to reject the Torah, unless you make him out to be false, which again is another thing I deal with here. But the truth is that Paul quotes from the Old Testament many times; many of those references are from the Torah itself, and it's repeating instructions to believers in the renewed covenant.
For instance, "Children, obey your parents in Yahweh, for this is right. Honor your father and your mother, which is the first commandment with promise. " That's Ephesians 6:1-2.
You see, Paul was quoting from the Ten Commandments directly in Deuteronomy 5:16. If he were saying that you don't have to practice the law, he would not be quoting from it. Or look at this: "And what agreement has the temple of Elohim with idols?
For you are the temple of the living Elohim, as Elohim has said, 'I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their Elohim, and they shall be My people. '" Therefore, come.
. . "Out from among them and be separate, says Yahweh.
Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says Yahweh Almighty. " (2 Corinthians 6:16-18) Look at these verses: "I will dwell in them and walk among them.
I will be their Elohim,"—in this, He is quoting Exodus 29:45 straight from the Torah—"and they shall be My people. " He is quoting Leviticus 26:12. Therefore, "Come out from among them and be separate, says Yahweh.
Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you," quoting from Isaiah 52:1. "I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters," says Yahweh Almighty—this comes from Jeremiah 3:19. He quotes from the Law and the Prophets.
Or what about this one? "For he is not a Yahudi who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Yahudi who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter, whose praise is not from men but from Elohim. " (Romans 2:28-29) This is another concept directly from the Torah about what Yah truly desires from us, and that is for us to have a circumcised heart.
It reads: "And that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they accept their guilt. " (Leviticus 26:41) Or also, "Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of your heart and be stiff-necked no longer. " (Deuteronomy 10:16) Do you understand what I'm getting at here?
He was quoting directly from the Torah; he's speaking directly from the Torah. You cannot understand Paul without understanding his foundation, which is the Torah. He is referencing concepts from the Torah that you all are saying he is rejecting or saying that it doesn't apply any longer.
He's going back and referencing Old Testament scripture, and many do not know it because they don't have the foundation of the word from the Old Testament first. They just read it as if it's just Paul saying these things, but that is not true. He's going back to scripture from his foundation.
Like when Ephesians 6:1 says, "Obey your parents, for this is right. " Before I actually ever read my Bible, when I used to read those scriptures, I thought it was just Paul speaking doctrine. But when you actually go back and read the scriptures from the beginning, you see that he's referencing the Torah; he's referencing his foundation.
He's going back to the scriptures from his foundation, which is why Paul said, "All scripture is given by inspiration of Elohim and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of Elohim may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. " (2 Timothy 3:16-17) Get this: he wasn't talking about his own writings when he wrote this. His letters were not collected as a part of scripture at that time; he's referring to his foundation—all the scriptures of the Torah and the Prophets.
He also says this: "But this I confess to you, that according to the way which they call a sect, so I worship the Elohim of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets. " (Acts 24:14) He believes all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets. He also says, "Therefore, the Torah is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
" (Romans 7:12) Paul was a Pharisee; he never went against the law. He had great respect and love for it. He realized, as many of us also who have come back to Yah, that the law was given for our good and the only way to know right from wrong was by Yahweh's righteous standards, which is the Torah.
Another important thing to note is that Paul kept the feast. "Therefore, purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed, Messiah, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. " (1 Corinthians 5:7-8) As you're reading that, he's telling you, "Let us keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. " He's not telling you to not keep the feast; he's actually writing to you, "Let us keep the feast.
" It says it right there. Also, "So Paul still remained a good while. Then he took leave of the brethren and sailed for Syria; and Priscilla and Aila were with him.
He had his hair cut off at Centria, for he had taken a vow. And he came to Ephesus and left them there; but he himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews. When they asked him to stay a little longer with them, he did not consent but took leave of them, saying, 'I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you, Yahweh willing.
' And he sailed from Ephesus. " (Acts 18:18-21) This is after Yahusha! He said, "I must by all means keep this coming feast.
" Another one: "For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he would not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hurrying to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost. " (Acts 20:6) Now, when much time had been spent and sailing was now dangerous because the fast was already over, Paul advised them, saying, "Men, I perceive that this voyage will end with disaster and much loss, not only of the cargo and ship but also of our lives. .
. " Lives Acts 27:9-10. The fast that was emphasized was speaking about the fast of the Day of Atonement.
Why was Paul still observing all these feasts years after Messiah's death, if they were abolished and no longer needed? It's because it's his foundation. He never went against his foundation.
It's just that people don't understand Paul; they don't know him. And so they read these words, and they assume that he's saying that you don't have to do these things any longer. And that's not the New Covenant.
You need to really understand this New Covenant, and that's why I'm emphasizing this. There's a lot of references that I can bring up here, but the problem comes down to the abundance of false teachers and false doctrines that have taught the word and have people isolating scriptures without really understanding what has been said. So instead of me doing a video justifying what Paul is really saying in general, Yah is leading me to cover these Epistles and go over them so that there is clear teaching that can always be referred back to.
Listen, I do not desire to argue about the law, and I'm not claiming that the law and our works bring us salvation. Everybody keeps bringing that up when they keep saying that I'm talking about the law. I've never said that we're justified to Yah by the law.
If this is your argument when you're talking about these videos, you are purposely misrepresenting what I'm saying. When I speak about the law and the Torah, it's because I do know that our Father has declared a way that is right for us. And today, living in a satanic world where they want us to do what thou wilt, I want to be one that declares to do what Yah wants.
And we know what it is because He has clearly stated it. So I want to do what Yahweh wants us to do, and I want you to do it as well. I wanted to bring this teaching out to begin the study on Paul so that we understand Paul's foundation as a Pharisee.
We understand his conversion; we see that the disciples at first did not accept him, but later on they did. And we see that he referenced the Torah often as he taught people about the way. So please, instead of holding on to pride about what you think you understand about Paul, take the time to be humble and to go back to the beginning, and admit that there may be things that you have missed.
This was my process, and I am only speaking from experience. Yah has a perfect way for us to live, and if you love Him, trust Him, and follow Him, He will lead you in peace and true understanding. At times like this, you must go back to His word.
Do not forsake or reject His commands; guard them and keep them, and you will be blessed. This is His will—be blessed! Hallelujah!
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