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Yahushua came to… Make sure that we know that the Torah and Prophets is not abolished or destroyed (Part Two)

Shalom,

This is part two of the video. Transcript is posted below.

May YHWH bless you during this Shabbat.

Shalom,

Dirk

—-Transcript—-

The verse says that we must walk like Yahushua walked.  Paul was picked by

Yahushua to preach to the gentiles around the world and people in Church generally believe that Paul preached that we do not have to follow the Torah.

But this is not what Paul preached.   Peter, one of Yahushua’s 12 disciples, wrote cautioning readers to be careful when reading Paul’s writing because it is difficult to understand.  People will twist Paul’s writings for their gain.   I want to show you a verse from Romans 3:31which says clearly that Torah still is for today.

Slide: Romans 3:31

Paul wrote “Do we nullify (remove, do away with, not need anymore) the Torah through faith or belief?   Paul also wrote, “Nay, it is actually contrary (opposite), we actually establish the Torah” This is what Paul wrote.  What Paul meant was “When we have faith/belief does it mean Torah ends/is no more?  No, through faith we establish the Torah.”  This means Torah is still for today.  I do not mean that I believe in Yahushua, Torah is put aside or passed away.   Paul emphasized that this was not the case and that the Torah was still established.

After Yahushua was teaching about how precious children were, he was approached by a teacher who asked how he could have everlasting life.  I want you to see what Yahushua’s response was to this question.

Slide: Matthew 19:16-17

This person asked Yahushua, what good can I do to get everlasting life. Yahushua replied “Good?  There is no one here who is good except for Elohim—you want everlasting life—sure—guard His commands.  The word guard does not necessary mean protect as a shield, it means we adhere to it and by adhering to it, we are actually keeping the Torah alive.  We do not let it be destroyed.   We adhere to it.

Yahushua tells us that if we want everlasting life, we must adhere (guard) to  His commands.   In Proverbs 7:2 which says “If you want life, guard His commands”

Slide: Proverbs 7:2

Proverbs 7:2 tells us “Guard my (meaning YHWH’s) commands and live. This means with His Commands we do, do what we are supposed to do.  The Torah which is an apple of your eye (very precious/special) meaning the Torah is very previous/special.  This means YHWH looks at the Torah as a very important thing for you.  You should also look at the Torah and take it, look at it as very precious/special.    Church teaches that Torah is put away/done with; in the book of Revelation (the last book of the Bible) there are several verses tell us who will be there at the end.  Who the remnants are, those who do two things, the first being that they believe in Yahushua and the second being that they guard His commands.

Let’s look at the first verse from Revelation.

Slide: Revelation 12:17

Guard, which means adhere, the commands of Elohim and the witness of Yahushua the Messiah—the remnants at the end have both of them.  Guarding the commandments of Elohim and witness of Yahushua the Messiah, this means that the people believe in Yahushua.  Revelation 14:12 says that those who endure to the end, the set-apart (holy) ones believe in guarding/adhering to the commands of Elohim and the belief of Yahushua the Messiah.  Read the verse.

Slide: Revelation 14:12

At the end, it is the people who believe in both, guarding the commandments of Elohim and the belief of Yahushua.  Yahushua came to let us know that the Torah is still for today– I did not come to destroy the Torah.   The death penalty of us sinning against YHWH has already been nailed to the stake.  We now know that we can guard the commandments, adhere to YHWH’s commandments without fear of getting the death penalty if we believe in Yahushua the Messiah.

I am not here to tell you that what the Church is doing or teaching is wrong.  I want you to know the truth in the Bible that I have learned after years of studying and learning what is the truth.  There is a purpose for everything including why YHWH hid this information and not let the people know the truth.   I will elaborate more on this later but it is important that you know now.  Torah is still for us today.  This is what Yahushua came to let us know.

I will close with a last verse from Revelation in which Yahushua himself says, I am the Aleph and Taw.  In Greek, it is Alpha and Omega, but in Hebrew it is Aleph and Taw with Taw being the last letter of the Hebrew Alphabet.  I am the Aleph and Taw, the Beginning and End, the First and Last.  Yahushua said this, and then in the next verse has Yahushua saying that those who guard His commands will have access to the Tree of Life.  The emphasis here is belief in Yahushua the Messiah and guarding YHWH’s commandments.

You will have life.

Slide: Revelation 22:14

Yahushua came to… Make sure that we know that the Torah and Prophets is not abolished or destroyed (Part One)

Shalom,

Transcript of video is posted below.

Have a blessed Shabbat.

Shalom,

Dirk

—-Transcript—–

Hello, my name is Dirk.

In the previous vlog, I explained about what was nailed on the stake.  Our death penalty for sinning against YHWH is what is nailed on the stake.  Yahushua died so that our sins could be forgiven.  Churches teach Law, also known as Torah, is no more. If we believe in Yahushua, this means that we do not need to follow the Law.  We now have grace.

Did Yahushua teach us this?  Did Yahushua tell us that we no longer have to follow the Torah/Law?  One of the verses that the church normally uses to teach that we do not need to follow the Law is from Matthew 5:17.  In the verse Yahushua says “I did not come to destroy the Torah or Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to complete”—other bible translations use the word fulfill.  Let’s look at the verse and we will discuss further.

Slide of Matthew 5:17

Yahushua said “I did not come to destroy but to complete (or fulfill)’’.  Church often use the sign for the word fulfill (see sign).  The sign indicates that it means it is finished, it is done, not needed any more.   But the problem here is, Yahushua says I did not come to destroy—but to—complete/fulfill.  If I am to say that it is done, finished and no longer needed, that means I must stop the Law, I must destroy the Law and make it no more.  Yahushua would not say that.  He would not say I come not to destroy and to end it. Stop the Law which means I must destroy it.  This does not make sense.

Let me give you an example, I tell my daughter, from now on, when you enter the house, you will take your shoes off so that the house will be clean.   My daughter follows my instructions and has never broken it.  What this means is that she fulfilled my instructions.  She acted on my instructions and obeyed me.   With this same context in mind, we understand that the word complete or fulfill means that we did what YHWH instructed us.  We acted on it.  We did it.  Yahushua says “I did not come to destroy but to do what the Father instructed me to do”.  This means that Yahushua obeyed the Father. To you and me, this means that the Torah still stands today. Torah did not stop.

I want you to really think about this deeply because this is very important and life altering change for you if you still feel that the Law does not apply to us because of grace.  But this is not what Yahushua taught us.  Yahushua taught that we must love and thus we are following what the Torah teaches us.

When we fulfill YHWH’s Instructions (this is what Torah means, it means Father’s Instructions to us).  We do what the Torah teaches us, this means we are obeying the Father, in other words we are fulfilling the Law.

Slide: Yahushua obeyed the Torah and Prophets

Do you understand?   Yahushua followed the Father, His expectations of us and of Him (Yahushua).   Following His Instructions, it is as simple as that.  Yahushua did not come to tell people that I did not come to destroy or stop the Torah, I came to follow the Father’s Instructions. This is what chapter 5:17 talks about.   Verse 18 goes one step further and tells us that the Torah itself is so big that it is more important than the heavens or earth. Go ahead and read verse 18.

Slide: Matthew 5:18

I want to talk about two things.  The first one is that this particular verse says that “heaven and earth will pass away (‘Pass away’ means destroyed) when every small part of the Torah is done.”   In the Torah are both Instructions and Prophecy, which means things that will happen in the future.  Has all the prophecy been met?  No.  This means that the heaven and earth must be destroyed before all parts of the Torah are met.   I open my window or go out of my front door in the morning and get my breath of fresh air. I can look up and see the heavens, beautiful blue skies, and beautiful clouds.  I can look down to the ground and see the green grass and trees around me.   This means that the heavens and earth are still here.  It has not been destroyed.  If that is true then it means logically that the Torah is still for today.   The Instructions still stand today.  Prophecies will still be met.

The second thing is about the words jot and tittle.  Jot means the smallest part, the smallest letter of the Hebrew language which is Yod.   YHWH’s name, the first letter of His name is Yod.  Tittle is even smaller than the jot.   If the smallest part of the Hebrew language that the Instructions that YHWH gave us is written in the Torah is not done or met.  This means that the Torah is still for today.

Remember our death penalty is already nailed on the stake. That one single thing allows us to face YHWH with Yahushua as our savior permitting us to face YHWH.   The Torah, our Father’s instructions for us still remains for us today.

There is another verse that explains clearly how important the jot and tittle is for today while the heavens and earth can easily be destroyed first before the jot and tittle.

Slide: Like 16:17

I will say this to you.  The Torah is still for us today.  It still applies in our lives.  YHWH’s instructions to us are very important in our lives.   Our guidance, what we are to do, how do we traverse through life are based on what?  It is based on His expectations, His guidance for us.   If the Father tells us how very important the Torah is, we are to agree and support it.

Is it right to say that if the Father says the Torah is very important, we are to say no, we have grace and that is enough?   We cannot have the Father telling us that the Torah is important and then the Father telling us that Grace alone is sufficient.  Both conflict each other.

The grace is that the death penalty is nailed on the stake allowing us to face the Father.  The grace is that we now can follow the Torah without worrying about the punishment.   Our hearts can now obey and proceed with joy.  Isaiah 42:21 explains what the Father feels about the Torah.  How important it is.  Go ahead and read it.

Slide: Isaiah 42:21

With Grace, our hearts know how blessed by YHWH we are to live without the death penalty.  Knowing Yahushua died for us so that our sins are forgiven, is a tremendous thing to behold.  With Grace, do we now try to figure things out on our own?  Reading New Testament only and trying to figure out what Yahushua is trying to say?  That is not so.  Torah itself is our guide, the information we need to know in order to behave in life according to Father’s expectation of us.   The verse in Psalms 119:105 very clearly says “The word (Torah) is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path”.  We have a lamp in our hand in front of us, which is the Torah.  Put it down to my feet and we can see where we are going in front of us.  We do not need to worry about what is right of us or left of us.  The light tells us where YHWH wants us to go—following the path.  Read the verse from Psalms 119.

Slide: Psalms 119:105

I feel that this is very important that you understand this.   If you struggle with this, I understand completely.  I used to go through this myself.   After reading the bible for many years as a Christian, I too believed the Torah was not needed to be followed.  Yet I struggled.   After years of studying, I came to understand that the Torah is still a very important part of our lives.  Many people in Church may not understand or be resistant because their pastor or their parents tell them that following the Torah is not necessary.   I understand this.

I ask that you pray on this, ask the Father to guide you, show you the truth because we are supposed to use Yahushua as an example for our lives.  First John 2:1-6 clearly states how important it is for us to follow His commandments.  Verse 6 sums it very well.  We are to walk like Yahushua walked.   How did Yahushua walk?  Obeying His Father and loving others.   What more can we say about that?

Pray deeply about this very important thing.

Yahushua came to make it possible for us to have eternal life

This video is closed captioned. There is also a transcript of the video below.

Shalom,

Dirk

—–Transcript—–

Hello, my name is Dirk.

For the last several vlogs, I have been talking about the name of the Father and of the Son; YHWH and Yahushua.   The next several vlogs will focus on the reason why Yahushua came.  It was not just for one reason but for several reasons. This is the first vlog discussing about the reason that many people are familiar with.   Yahushua came so that our sins could be removed and provide us with the possibility of having eternal life.

The first verse that I want to talk about and substantiate this is from Colossians 1:14.  Go ahead and read the verse then I will discuss this further.

Qolasim/Colossians 1:14

In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

We already know that Yahushua died on the stake.   Church often uses the term  ‘cross’ but if we look closely on the term used for cross where the Greek term actually means stake so we will stay with that term.

Yahushua died on the stake and his blood shed so that our sins could be forgiven.   The verse is accurate in that, now, how do we know that our sins are forgiven? Is it because of the blood alone?  No, there is more to it than that.  I want you to read Colossians 2:14 which explain what was nailed on the stake.  That is the reason why we have the possibility of having eternal life.

Qolasim/Colossians 2:14

Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to the stake.

The blue highlight on the words “handwriting of ordinances”, which the church often explains as the Law, the Torah, and Sabbath all of those were nailed on the “cross” and this means that they no longer matter to us.   This is not what this means.   When analyzing the Greek term, understanding what Paul was trying to explain, especially in context of the verses in Chapter 2, before and after the verse I am talking about.  We understand that what is being talked about pertains specifically to the list of each of our sins, those that we have done wrong against YHWH, against the Torah, every single sin written down.   When we die, that list will be used when YHWH judges us.  The punishment is death.  We will not have everlasting life.

Yahushua himself being perfect and without sin was put on the stake with our list of sins nailed on the stake.  This means what I owe to YHWH, what I have done wrong against Him is paid for.  Our sins have been taken away meaning that we no longer sin against YHWH.   We owe nothing.    This is what that verse means.

I want to give you a few verses from other bible translations, specifically what the translations use instead of handwriting of ordinances.   Those translations are more accurate in their translation.

List of various translations of Colossians 2:14

Charges, which are the list that is against us– what kind of list?  Our Sins that is against YHWH.  What I have done wrong. Not obeying YHWH, Not following the Torah, not doing Sabbath, etc, being against YHWH, disobedience.  Each one on the list and when we die and we face YHWH, this list already makes me guilty and Yahushua being perfect, remember?, perfect and without sin being put on the stake, all out sins, yours, mine, people from the beginning of time up to those at the end of time, all of our sins were nailed to the stake.  What we owe for our sin, which is death was nailed on the stake.   No longer will be punished for our sins, our sins are forgiven.   We do not have to die for our sins.   Yahushua took it all.

This is a great blessing.   Many people do not realize this, passing this off as the Law being nailed to the “cross”.   It is the punishment, Death–which we die for our sins, that was removed.

How do we know that the punishment for our sins is death?  It is from Romans 6:23 that explains clearly that our punishment which is death.  But Yahushua’s death forgave us of our sins so we could have eternal life.

Romiyim/Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the favourable gift of Elohim is everlasting life in Messiah Yahushua our Master.

This precious gift from Elohim—everlasting life.   If we continue to be stubborn and not accept Yahushua, the list of sins will not be put on the stake and our punishment is death.   Elohim with his compassionateness granted us a gift of everlasting life.  We must know that what we do that is against YHWH—there is only one punishment—one, and that is death.   We cannot try to avoid this and get everlasting life ourselves.

The next few vlogs will explain other reasons why Yahushua came.  This is the first one. There will be several more reasons.   The Church explains only one reason that Yahushua came and that we can get everlasting life is that “Jesus” died on the “cross.”  I will say this, this is not the only reason.  Yes, Yahushua died for us so that we can have everlasting life plus several other reasons.  I will discuss these more later.