You might be thinking that with all the Bibles in existence today, and the billions of people who read it, how is it possible that God’s word cannot be sent out?
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Well, the answer is simple: if his word is preached incorrectly, then it hasn’t been sent out.
What do I mean when I say his word isn’t preached correctly? How about Christianity’s position that Yeshua did away with all of God’s laws and commandments (except for the Big Ten, which they’ve change), be good and love your neighbor is all you have to so to be saved, and be faithful (which they don’t correctly teach, leading people into rebellion).
Right, I need give a deeper explanation of what I just said.
First off, what they changed in the Big Ten was to remove an essential part of what God did, which is the freeing of his people. In the original Ten Commandments, the first commandment is this (CJB):
I am Adonai your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the abode of slavery.
That is it- the entire first commandment as God gave it. But if you ask Google or do an Internet search for the Ten Commandments, in order, you will mostly find this Christianized version of the first commandment:
I am the LORD your God; you shall not have strange gods before me.
The reference to saving his people from slavery in Egypt is gone, and why? If you ask me (which is what you have to do since this is my ministry), I believe it is to remove any reference to Judaism. And when they took that line out, they had to fill it with something, so they took part of the second commandment and made it the first.
Next, many Christians have been taught that when Yeshua lived the law (meaning Torah) perfectly, with his death he completed it so it was no longer necessary. All that was needed was to be a good person, faithfully believe in Jesus (whatever the heck that is supposed to mean), and love your neighbor.
That means when the person stopping at the stop sign ahead of you does what the law requires, you can just drive right on through because the law was completed. And since the person ahead of you in line waited for their turn, you can just cut ahead of everyone else from now on.
No? Really? You still have to obey the law even though someone has already completed it?
That’s right, and the same goes for the Torah, even after Yeshua’s death and resurrection. The reason he lived the Torah completely was to be an acceptable sacrifice, and not to ever even suggest no one else to do it anymore.
C’mon, people, get real! He obeyed the Torah as an example to show us how to do it so that we wouldn’t have to do it? I mean, why bother? If he was showing what to do but then telling us not to do it, where’s the sense in that?
The word of God that did not go out correctly is that the Torah is no longer valid; at least, not for Gentile believers. God’s word is to obey the Torah, and Yeshua confirmed anyone following him is to still obey the Torah (Matthew 5:17), yet Christians are told they should follow in Yeshua’s footsteps but not to do anything Yeshua did. That is not God’s word, or Yeshua’s, for that matter; the real word of God was not sent out, and that is why God’s word retuned void- it was never sent out!
Being a good person is impossible for us since the son of God, himself, said that no one is good except God (Mark 10:18). Now, in the Tanakh we are told, more than once, that we are to be holy as God is holy, but that, too, is impossible. However, it isn’t meant to be taken literally, only that God is the example, the ideal, the ultimate form of holiness, and we are to strive to be as close to that as possible. Being holy actually means to be separate, and since God is separate from sin, maybe what that command really means is that we are to be separate from sin, as well.
Now you may be saying, “Okay, Steve, try to explain how being taught to be faithful is not sending out God’s word.”
I will. And I’ll start by reminding us of what James, the brother of the Messiah himself said in James 2:14:
Faith without works is dead.
Works means doing what is right in God’s eyes, and what is right in his eyes is doing what HE said to do, not what some religion says. If any religion tells you to ignore anything God said to do, then you are being misled and the word of God is NOT going out correctly- it is void before it even rebounds off the wall!
By the way, if you are wondering where in the New Covenant God said what to do, you are looking in the wrong end of the Bible. The only place in the entire Bible where God, himself, tells us directly what he wants us to do is in the Torah. There is no where else, anywhere, where you read anything even close to this phrase:
“And God said to Moses, tell the children of Israel that the Lord, God says …… “
I don’t even like the term “Law of Moses” because it isn’t his law, it is God’s law!
When an executive dictates corporate policy to his secretary, who then writes it up, initializes it at the bottom and distributes it throughout the company, no one says it is her policy. When Moses took dictation from God and wrote the Torah, those are God’s laws, not Moses’.
There are other examples of God’s word being misstated and sent out incorrectly, but these three are enough for you to get the idea. What is left now is for you to consider what your religion has told you, then verify it in the Bible using more than just a sentence here and there- read the entire sentence, sentence within the paragraph, paragraph within the letter (or chapter), who was writing to whom, and why.
That’s called using “Circles of Context”, and you also need to check that whatever interpretation you believe is validated within the rest of the Bible (this is called Hermeneutics). In other words, if the Bible says this was an apple, but later says it is an orange, one of those two interpretations is wrong.
And be careful when reading the Epistles from Shaul (Paul), because if you are careful to read them with an open mind, you will find he says different things to different people which often seem to contradict each other, and the reason it seems that way is because….THEY DO! Remember he said that he will be whatever he has to be to get the word out (1 Corinthians 9:19). What that means is that he works his audience, teaching God’s word as he thinks they will want to hear it, presenting himself as one of them, which means he doesn’t always say what God said as God said it. That is not the Word of God going out, it is Shaul putting his own spin on it based not on God’s truth, but on who he is speaking to.
Hey, that’s what he said he does, not me.
If you do not challenge everything anyone has ever said, does say, and will say to you about the Word of God (and yes, that includes me), then you are most probably already on the wrong path to salvation and God’s word has never really reached your ears- only what some religion says.
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That’s it for this week, so L’hitraot and (an early) Shabbat Shalom!
Oh, yeah, I almost forgot- to those in the United States, Happy Thanksgiving! (now we enter the season of turkey leftovers.)