HEBREW ROOTS # 4 : Why Did Y’SHU+ THE MESHIKHA keep The LAW ?

Why Did Y’SHU+ THE MESHIKHA keep The LAW ? 

All the LAW in the First Covenant --- the TORAH, the law found in Proverbs, Psalms, and the Prophets --- HE+ flawlessly kept.

Y’SHU+ THE MESHIKHA was born under The LAW, into The LAW.

Galatians 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, GOD sent forth HIS SON+, made of a woman, made under the Law,

His+ birth mother and His+ earthly GOWRA (guardian, Aramaic text)  kept the LAW and raised HIM+ in it, as was their custom.

HE+ lived by The LAW.

When of age, HE+  kept the LAW and the feasts and paid the tributes, as required by the LAW of GOD.

 HE+ manifested The LAW and demonstrated a right application of it. Before the eyes of men,  HE+ healed the sick on the Sabbath, for instance, correcting the doctrines of the doctors of The LAW.

 HE+ instructed from The LAW about honoring one's parents, about tithing, about washing the inside of the cup, about immersion, about what to do with the sword. 

 HE+  instructed from The LAW, about correct judgments...  such as who gave most in the offering, who loved the most, which sinner returned to his house justified in the eyes of GOD.   

Why did  HE+ keep The LAW ?

Y’SHU+ THE MESHIKHA was The WORD+.  

HE+  was  all the LAW, both oral and written.  

HE+  existed in the Beginning with GOD and was made Adamic flesh, the ONE+ WHICH+ dwelt among us.

As the Living Word+, Y’SHU+ THE MESHIKHA was the LAW INCARNATE+. 

And, HE+ was clothed with a vesture 

dipped in blood: 

and His+ Name is called 

"The   WORD+  of  GOD. " 

Rev. 19:13

For Y’SHU+ THE MESHIKHA to deny the LAW+ 

---  the WORD+ of GOD --- 

would have been for Y’SHU+ THE MESHIKHA 

to deny HIMSELF+... 

which Scripture tells us 

that  HE+ cannot do 

... HE+ is not able to deny HIMSELF+ . 

2 Timothy 2:13

Something unexpectedly happened, however, when the Living WORD+ took flesh: 

HE+ died.

HE+  died while living under The LAW. 

HE+ died unto The LAW, suffering outside the camp.

HEBREWS 13: 10-13

We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the High Priest for sin, are burned without the camp.

Wherefore Y'SHU+ also, 

that HE+ might sanctify the people 

with HIS+ own Blood, 

suffered without the gate.

Let us go forth therefore unto HIM+ without the camp, bearing HIS+ reproach.

And, HE+  died for The LAW  .  

Yes,  HE+  died FOR The LAW  so that it could be established in our hearts , not as a list of covenant-rules to obey, but rather, HE+ established " THE LAW " as SOMEONE+ WHOM+ we would gladly and lovingly obey from our hearts!

HE+  HIMSELF+ was The LAW INCARNATE+. 

Now loving "the LAW" is so much the better Covenant through loving Y'SHU+ in a faith, obedient, loving relationship  with HIM+.  

This is why Evangelized tribal peoples or others who know nothing about the Old Covenant may enter into  the  NEW Covenant+ , the Commonwealth of Israel Proper,  and be received into the Heavenlies ! 

They have heard the GOOD NEWS about Y'SHU+ cleansing them from sin by HIS+ ONE SACRIFICE of HIMSELF+ ... and they turn, repent, and are converted unto the ONE true GOD:  The FATHER, the SON+ Y'SHU+, and the HOLY SPIRIT. 

Thus, The LAW is kept, INCARNATE+, and HE+ leads them into all righteousness 

because they heed 

" THAT " Voice+  behind them from " THAT " Prophet+  saying:  

"This is the WAY+; 

walk ye in it." 

Isaiah 30:21 

And thine ears shall hear a WORD+ behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. 

( courtesy of Bible Gateway.com )

and His+ Name is called 

"The   WORD+  of  GOD. " 

HEBREW ROOTS #3 --- The WITNESS of The FIRST

"For if this FIRST had been faultless, 

there would have been no place for this SECOND."

Hebrews 8:7

No "TANACH",  no "Old" Testament, no "Old Covenant."  Scripture calls it THE FIRST. 

The First WHAT ?

The Scriptural context leaves no doubt that COVENANT is the topic under discussion.  Furthermore, the topic has 2 items which are being compared:  the FIRST item as compared to the SECOND.

The FIRST  is dead, dying, and brings death; the SECOND is alive, living, and brings LIFE !  

Scripture does this in another place, also: the FIRST ADAM as compared to the SECOND ADAM+ : 

Y'SHU+ the MESHIKHA ( Aramaic), 

YESHUA+ HA MOSHIACH (Hebrew), 

or JESUS CHRIST (English). 

See I Corinthians 15:45-47

In both comparisons, the FIRST --- while very good and both created and established by GOD HIMSELF --- gave place to the SECOND item as to a SUPERIOR.

The FIRST  is dead, dying, and brings death; the SECOND is alive, living, and brings LIFE !  

 Now, to look at Scripture itself, starting in the book written DIRECTLY to and for the original Hebrew Roots Christians:

Hebrews 8:13  : In that HE saith, "A new," HE hath made  the FIRST old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. (KJV)

The New English Bible states this truth in this way:

By speaking of a NEW Covenant, HE has

pronounced the FIRST ONE "old" ;

and anything that is growing old and ageing

will shortly disappear.

Now enters the translation of Mr. Andrew Roth's Aramaic-English New Testament:

" In that HE said a RE-NEWED (Covenant ),

HE made the FIRST old;

and that which is old and decaying ,

is near to disappearing. "

Mr. Roth follows this verse with a lengthy commentary, footnote 45, explaining why  Hebrews 8:13 and its contextual verses are NOT meaning "COVENANT" at all ... but rather the "sinful predisposition" of mankind !

Thus, herein lies a great and grievous difficulty

when dealing with the Hebrew Roots leaders and teachers and translators:

they change the word meanings .

NEW means "new," not something old re-furbished.  New means "new" in the Greek and Latin and Aramaic / Syriac text.  Mr. Roth arbitrarily changes the meaning in his AENT... except when it comes to "NEW WINE !"

[  A NOTE...  on translating from the Aramaic /Syriac to English:  

In the Semitic languages, a word may change its meaning slightly when used in a different FORM.

Mr. Roth does not follow the rules for translating these forms and thus, adds confusion in his AENT translation .

   In the Peshitta, ( which Mr. Roth is translating ) there are ONLY 6 VERSES in which “renewed” or “renovated” is used. 

In five of those six verses, the Aramaic/Syriac word is a VERB in the ETHPAEL form. One time, the VERB is used in the Pael form, according to the analytical lexicon of Dukhrana.com.  

Now this is IMPORTANT:  if the VERB FORM is in the simplest format ( not Ethpael nor pael ), then it means “to be NEW”.  

However, if the verb form is in the ETHPAEL or PAEL format, then it means “renew.” 

The ADJECTIVE form of NEW ( CHaDaTa) ---  as in Hebrews 8:8,  8:13,  9:15, and 12:24 --- always means “NEW.”   The simple adjective form always means “new.”

Mr. Roth changes the simple adjective "new" to his un-authorized ( by any linguistic rule ) "renewed" when translating Jeremiah 31:31 as quoted in Hebrews 8:8. ]

In BOTH the Jeremiah 31 verses and the Hebrews 8 verses, the CONTEXT plainly states that the FIRST COVENANT was: 

·                     faulty

·                      old

·                     decayed

·                     disappearing

In Hebrews 7, the FIRST COVENANT  is described as :

·                     powerless (vs 18 )

·                     useless  ( vs 18 )

·                     made nothing perfect ( vs 19 )

• inferior to the SUPERIOR Covenant through Y'SHU+ (vs 22)

In Hebrews 10, the AENT, states: 

"For in TORAH there was a shadow of the good things to come; not the substance of the things themselves... "  in regards to the Blood sacrifices establishing the FIRST COVENANT.

Hebrews 10:9 states, in reference to Y'SHU+ the MESHIKHA:

" ...  Behold, I+ come to do Your Will, O ALAHA (GOD); HE+ abolished the FORMER that HE+ might establish the latter. "

The former, of course, is the FIRST COVENANT and its system of sacrifices, laws, and ordinances.  They were good and given to protect all who would take refuge in GOD.

But when the SUPERIOR COVENANT was given by GOD through His SON+, Y'SHU+ the MESHIKHA ( JESUS CHRIST ), the old has passed away .  The former sacrificial system is no longer valid in the eyes of GOD, ALAHA, The ELOHIM.

HEARKEN:

For the priesthood being changed,

there is made of necessity

a change also OF THE LAW.

Hebrews 7:12

The Righteousness which was found in keeping TORAH is gone now.

"... I do count them dung, 

that I may win CHRIST (MESHIKHA+) . 

And be found in HIM+, 

not having mine own righteousness, 

which is of the Law, 

but that which is through 

the faith of CHRIST, 

the righteousness which is of GOD 

by faith."

~ The Apostle Paul, Philippians 3:1-14

Yea rather, we ESTABLISH the Law

... the Law of CHRIST.

The FIRST  is dead, dying, and brings death; the SECOND is alive, living, and brings LIFE !  

HEBREW ROOTS #2 --- Do CHRISTIANS Disregard TORAH and the Law of the Old Covenant ?

 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: but rather, 

we ESTABLISH the LAW.

Romans 3:31

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All CHRISTIANS, 
so charged by all the various 
HEBREW ROOTS groups,  
disregard TORAH and the LAW 

of the Old Covenant .

Is this charge VALID ?  

Christians 

--- Followers of Y'SHU+ the MESHIKHA --- 

actually love the LAW  

because  we can see 

Our LORD and His+ Character in it.  

We see the RIGHTEOUSNESS and the HOLINESS of Y'SHU+ in all the ways of the Law of Moses, the TORAH.  We also see HIS+ Mercy. 

We would ALL agree with this Law: 

Thou shalt not curse the deaf, 

nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, 

but shalt fear thy GOD: 

I AM the LORD. 

Leviticus 19:14

Even in the defunct Temple Laws and ordinances, we see HIS+ Righteous Standards: HOLINESS before The LORD is a serious matter.  

According to TORAH, only the sons of Aaron, the great-grandson of Levi, were allowed to make an offering unto The LORD under the Law of Moses. 

Even at that, the sons of Aaron themselves were screened carefully. Only the BLEMISH-FREE were selected to serve before THE LORD, according to the Law of Moses, the TORAH.

For instance, in Leviticus 21 we are instructed in the Law of Moses that any man with a handicap or blemish in his body may NOT approach to offer bread or sacrifices unto The LORD.  

   

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 

Speak unto Aaron, saying, 

Whosoever he be of thy seed 

in their generations that hath any blemish, 

let him not approach 

to offer the bread of his GOD.

For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, 

he shall not approach: 

a blind man, 

or a lame, 

or he that hath a flat nose, 

or any thing superfluous,

Or a man that is brokenfooted, 

or brokenhanded,

 Or crookback, 

or a dwarf, 

or that hath a blemish in his eye, 

or be scurvy, 

or scabbed, 

or hath his stones broken;

No man that hath a blemish 

of the seed of Aaron the priest 

shall come nigh to offer 

the offerings of the LORD made by fire:

he hath a blemish, he shall not come nigh 

to offer the bread of his GOD.

 He shall eat the bread of his GOD, 

both of the most holy, and of the holy.

Only he shall not go in unto the vail, 

nor come nigh unto the altar, 

because he hath a blemish; 

that he profane not my sanctuaries: 

for I the LORD do sanctify them.

 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.

For those OUTSIDE of the NEW COVENANT,  this portion of the Law of Moses may seem cruel and hurtful.  

The specific TORAH  --- given by the Hand of GOD --- may seem to be discriminating against the handicapped, who through no fault of their own, have been born with the effects of the Adamic curse MORE VISIBLE than the curse which remains upon the rest of mankind.  

This is a strange passage and it casts aspersions on the character of The LORD. 

HOWEVER.... After The LORD became flesh and dwelt among us, this portion of the Mosaic Law is much better understood. Followers of Y'SHU+ the MESHIKHA  know this portion of the Law is in keeping with BOTH the Holiness and the Loving-kindness of Our LORD. 
  

This very portion of the TORAH 

was given 

to GIVE THE HANDICAPPED PERSON 

HOPE ...    

In JESUS, 

in Y'SHU+, 

in YESHUA+ , 

Because 

EVERY PERSON IS MADE WHOLE again

through the Life-Giving BLOOD 

of The LAMB+ of GOD. 

When THAT happens, 
that person --- handicapped or not handicapped --- 
is invited to come BOLDLY

BEFORE THE THRONE OF GRACE...

From Hebrews 10... 

For the LAW having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

...

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

.

Wherefore when HE+ cometh into the world, HE+ saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast THOU prepared ME+:
.

In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

.

Then said I+, Lo, I+  come (in the volume of the book it is written of ME+ ,) to do Thy Will, O GOD.

.

Above when  HE+ said, 
Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings 
and offering for sin thou wouldest not, 
neither hadst pleasure therein; 

which are offered by the LAW;

.

Then said HE+, 
Lo, I+  come 
to do Thy Will, O GOD. 
.
HE+  taketh away the first, 

that he may establish the second.

.

 By the which Will we are sanctified through the offering of the Body of JESUS CHRIST, Y'SHU+ the MESHIKHA, YESHUA+ HA MOSHIYACH, once for all.

...

...THIS MAN+, after  HE+ had offered ONE+ sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of GOD;

...

For by ONE+ offering  HE+ 

hath perfected for ever 

them that are sanctified.

.

Whereof the HOLY SPIRIT also is a witness to us: 

for after that HE had said before... 

.

This is the covenant that I+ will make with them after those days, saith the LORD,  I+ will put My+ LAWS into their hearts, and in their minds will I+  write them;
.

   And their sins and iniquities will I+ remember no more.  Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

.

    Having therefore, brethren, 

boldness 

to enter into the Holiest 

by the BLOOD 

of JESUS, (Y'SHU+, YESHUA+)

.

   By a new and living way, which HE+ hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, HIS+ Flesh;

.

   And having an HIGH PRIEST+ over the house of GOD;

.

   Let US draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

.

  Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for HE+ is faithful that promised;)

.

By following Y'SHU+ the MESHIKHA

JESUS CHRIST,

YESHUA+ HA MOSHIYACH

with our WHOLE HEARTS,

we ESTABLISH the LAW! 

Therefore, the HANDICAPPED and blemished are NOT discriminated against in a cruel way in the LAW of Moses.  

No indeed. 

Instead, this is what occurs in the Mosaic LAW: 

The PICTURE ever before everyone's eyes in the Temple --- which is a pattern of the HOLY things in the Heavenly realm ---  is that of a WHOLE PERSON, 

unblemished, 

un-handicapped, 

.

making his offerings unto The LORD,

. 

which is how 
every single Christian stands before HIM+. 

.

TORAH 

is totally fulfilled 

in Y'SHU+ ( JESUS, YESHUA+) ,
which is what gives EVERY handicapped person

great good HOPE ... 

and an INVITATION 
to each handicapped person

---  ( and also to those 

whose blemishes may not be so apparent  ) --- 

  

to come 
and stand 
before HIM+ NOW, 
being made every whit WHOLE before GOD

.

through the BLOOD+ of our Ever-Lasting

HIGH PRIEST+. 

+  +  +

Yes, Followers of Y'SHU+ do indeed ESTABLISH the LAW of Moses because the LAW is fulfilled to the uttermost in HIM+... and HE+ is the Living LAW in our hearts. 

.

Amen and thankfully so !