Greetings:
Podcast XXXXIX: “Romans 3, 6 and 7- Putting the Torah in Its Proper Place” and Podcast L: “Walking in the Spirit with Torah – Romans 8” are both posted under Audio Teachings on comeenterthemikvah.com.
Please READ THE WHOLE OF THIS LETTER-it explains the podcasts, and corrects a couple of mistakes in Podcast L/50.
These podcasts speak of the inseparable unity of the Torah and Messiah, putting this unity into clear and simple words that can be used to share with Christians. But, also this will help Messianic people understanding how the two are totally united, intertwined as one, with no separation.
Many years ago, while under the anointing of the Spirit, speaking in a newly formed congregation in Tennessee, I came to realize that “to reject the Torah is to reject the Messiah, and to reject Messiah is to reject the Torah.” Messiah is the Living Word, the living Torah. He spoke the Torah on Mount Sinai. Torah simply means the teachings and instructions of a loving Abba, to align us to His rules for right standing in His Kingdom, and to prepare us to be a fit Bride for His Son. In Greek the word for teachings is “nomos,” but also means “to graze sheep,” i.e. John 21 – “feed My sheep.”
In these podcasts, I put things in child-like simplicity so that it can shared with others in like child-like simplicity. “Putting Torah in Its Proper Place” is my mini-book, published for Amazon Kindle, but it also can be found under the Mikvah of the Covenant.
Because our names were written in the Book of Life before the foundation of the world, He knew all about us in minute detail. His forgiveness was already extended to us. Messiah Yahushua agreed to be the Lamb to die in our place, so that our sin could be removed. He took our sin upon Himself. But, He chose to do so before the foundation of the world. Our names were written in the Book of Life before the foundation of the world – before Genesis 1:1. You were foreknown and chosen by His foreknowledge before Genesis 1:1. (I Peter 1:1-3 and Ephesians 1:3-5)
Rabbi Haim Richmond said in his book on the Temple that the ancient Jews from the time of Moses understood that taking a lamb, goat, or bull, before the High Priest for sacrifice was an act borne out of knowing, by faith, that their sin would be forgiven–that their sin would be transferred onto the sacrifice which brought them salvation. (Habakkuk 2:4)
Abba, by His foreknowledge, forgave our sin before the foundation of the world and wrote our names in His Book of Life because He knew we’d accept His Son’s blood sacrifice of Himself on our behalf. (II Corinthians 5:21) This is why in many Scriptures, like in Isaiah and Mikah, He speaks of forgiving our sin without mentioning the Temple sacrifices. Thus, Messiah died for those that His Father foreknew, and He foreknew. Psalm 139 speaks of this foreknowledge also. This makes our salvation more priceless and shows us who we really are to our Abba.
Read the article “Romans 11,” under the Mikvah of the Heart of Elohim, [I think I said Romans 12 in the podcast L] to understand the grafting in of the “wild” olive branch into the “natural” olive tree. He is restoring the House of Israel/Ephraim/Joseph, whom He had to send out of Samaria by 722 for hideous sin against Him, and bring them/most of us back in unity with the House of Judah, so that Ezekiel 37:15-28 is being fulfilled along with so many “Aliyah Scriptures”/Mikvah of the Heart of Elohim. You are a part of that restoration! This is the final restoration before Messiah comes!
There are those who heard the Good News of salvation in the nations, who had no connection biologically with the House of Judah or the House of Ephraim–real “gentiles.” But, as Ephesians 2 tells us, no one in Messiah is a gentile. Born again, former gentiles, were grafted into the Covenant of Yahuwah by faith, even as Rahab and Ruth were.
In Ezekiel 47-48, in the eternal distribution of the tribes, we see that He makes a place for those former “gentiles” within the inherited territories of the 12 tribes. This is His thinking from Exodus 12:48-49, that if the Egyptian “gentiles” wanted to guard the Passover, they had to be circumcised first – they had to become set apart from Egypt and united with Ya’cob’s sons.
These are symbolic of true “gentiles” who were saved by faith in Messiah and grafted in also into the natural olive tree. However, almost all who are truly born of the Spirit/born again, have biological lineage that goes back to Ya’cob/Jacob and his twelve tribes. Very few true “gentiles,” former true gentiles, are part of the family of Yahuwah. The other religions have been founded by true gentiles – for the word “gentile” means pagan, barbarian, heathen, foreigner, stranger, alien from the Covenant of Yahuwah.
Let us learn child-like simplicity and know our Abba and our Messiah instead of treating Them as a religion, a theology, a study, or a “thing.”
Please share these podcasts with others…
Please share the website and articles with others. I write under in alignment with Yahuwah and Yahushua, not for myself, thus They are speaking by Yahuwah’s Spirit, not me. If you have questions let me know. Be a good student. Yahuwah’s students all are taught the same things.
Shalom, blessing,
Yedidah
April 23, 2018
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