In detail, IRENAEUS describes
the 5 points
of the CROSS
Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA
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The Brazen Serpent Monument
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IRENAEUS, ( c. 120 - 202 ), Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, Irenaeus Against Heresies , Book 2, Chapter 24, Section 4. ~ In dealing with heretics, "The Folly of Arguments Derived by the Heretics from Numbers, etc."
4. But that this point is true, that that number which is called five, which agrees in no respect with their argument, and does not harmonize with their system, nor is suitable for a typical manifestation of the things in the Pleroma, [yet has a wide prevalence,] will be proved as follows from the Scriptures.
Soter is a name of five letters; Pater, too, contains five letters;
Agape (love), too, consists of five letters; and our LORD, after blessing the five loaves, fed with them five thousand men.
Five virgins were called wise by the LORD; and, in like manner, five were styled foolish.
Again, five men are said to have been with the LORD when He obtained testimony from the FATHER, — namely, Peter, and James, and John, and Moses, and Elias.
The LORD also, as the fifth person, entered into the apartment of the dead maiden, and raised her up again; for, says [the Scripture], “He suffered no man to go in, save Peter and James, and the father and mother of the maiden.”
The rich man in Hell declared that he had five brothers, to whom he desired that one rising from the dead should go.
The pool from which the LORD commanded the paralytic man to go into his house, had five porches.
The very form of the cross, too, has five extremities, two in length, two in breadth, and one in the middle, on which [last] the person rests who is fixed by the nails.
Each of our hands has five fingers; we have also five senses; our internal organs may also be reckoned as five, viz., the heart, the liver, the lungs, the spleen, and the kidneys.
Moreover, even the whole person may be divided into this number [of parts], — the head, the breast, the belly, the thighs, and the feet.
The human race passes through five ages first infancy, then boyhood, then youth, then maturity, and then old age.
Moses delivered the law to the people in five books. Each table which he received from GOD contained five commandments.
The veil covering the holy of holies had five pillars.
The altar of burnt-offering also was five cubits in breadth.
Five priests were chosen in the wilderness, — namely, Aaron, Nadab, Abiud, Eleazar, Ithamar.
The ephod and the breastplate, and other sacerdotal vestments, were formed out of five materials; for they combined in themselves gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
And there were five kings of the Amorites, whom Joshua the son of Nun shut up in a cave, and directed the people to trample upon their heads.
Any one, in fact, might collect many thousand other things of the same kind, both with respect to this number and any other he chose to fix upon, either from the Scriptures, or from the works of nature lying under his observation.
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The folly of arguing that there IS NO "CROSS" upon which Y'SHUA+ the M'SHIKHA was crucified is apparent.
Is it not folly to CHANGE a word in the Holy Writ ... without some linguistic authority to do so ?
Yet, the Netzarim Publishing house's version of the New Covenant, translated by Mr. Andrew Roth , has done this very thing.
Is it not folly to IGNORE the Early Church apologists who wrote about Pre-Nicene Christianity in the 100 to 200's AD ... and pretend we know better than these early followers of Y'SHU+ who obviously were taught by men who were taught of the Apostles and Evangelists and Disciples of Y'SHU+ ... firsthand ?
Yet, the AENT published by the Netzarim Publishing House has done so.
Is it not folly to cast aside the wisdom of Justin Martyr, Ignatius, and Irenaeus .... and establish one's own doctrine which conflicts with these martyrs of Y'SHU+ ?
Yet, the Netzarim's AENT has done so.
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In the coming months and years, fellow followers of Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA, we will
ALL NEED TO ADHERE
to sound doctrine and to each other,
as the kingdom of the 10 Kings of Revelation 17:12 wreak havoc with us all... beheading us, driving us from our homes as the Syrians have been driven, marking us and our homes with the "N" for Nazarene , as has been done in Iraq.
Times are NOT going to become "better" but rather, worse as the time approaches of His+ 2nd Appearing.
Be wise, be wise. Tolerate only the TRUTH+... for in HIM+ will be our only place of safety on planet earth.
Thousands have already paid the price .... just like the Early Christians did .... for following Y'SHU+. Do not think for a moment that we will escape the wrath and demonized policies of the 10 kings, set to destroy the human race. Christians and Jews especially are targeted.
Maranatha, LORD Y'SHU+, Maranatha.
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