Tough Pill to Swallow

As I dig deeper into history and read the Bible something that has been off  to me is starting to become more and more clear we should’ve been following the Torah as written the New Testament bears this out.  Bear with me here and please if you don’t believe any of what I say here then do you’re own research and verify your beliefs before acting like an animal and attacking me.  

 

The truth is a tough pill to swallow especially when you’ve been told what your perceived to be truth your entire life just to find out it was lies piled upon with more lies.  Most “Christians”, (I put quotes around this word because we were never called to be Christians, we are called to be Israelites), live off of the teachings of their pastors and evangelical leaders and don’t test what these leaders tell them.  Here’s the problem some pastors do in fact test things before they preach them, others don’t and the ones that act this way that don’t test their own teachings, they aren’t following what the Bible itself tells them to do in 1 Thessalonians 5:20-21 where they are told by the Apostle Paul test everything the prophets or divine teachers tell them which ties directly into Deuteronomy 13:1-3 where it tells you again in the Old Testament to not believe anyone that teaches you or shows you something from the Bible that changes the Bible what it says and it’s meaning from God.

 

We have several doctrines in the “Church” today and they all say something different, they all interpret the Bible their own way therefore nullifying any teaching they are giving if we are holding them to the standards of 1 Thessalonians 5:20-21 and Deuteronomy 13:1-3 and we should.  Sadly this all started with the Roman Catholic church and their utter intolerance and hate of the Jews and not wanting anything to do with them and thinking the Old Testament was just a Jewish book.  Red alert right here, please wake up right now drink some coffee or an energy drink and understand this one thing the Old Testament is not Jewish.  This has translated into a poor mindset in the modern church of hating even mentioning feasts and laws because the modern church has taught us to hate the Jews and “Jewish” customs, sorry to burst your bubble but they aren’t Jewish at all.  The Jews, consisting of Judah and Benjamin,  are the ones to uphold the Torah the other 10 tribes have been lost to the nations.

 

  Ok, you’re mind is blown now and you might need some tylenol, I completely understand your bubble just got popped and you don’t know what to do now.  Well I do know what to do now, read your Bible again with the understanding that the ENTIRE Old Testament was divinely inspired by God and written down for all mankind to live by including every single law in the first 5 books.  Can we accomplish all of the laws written there  as of now, no and that’s simply because of two reasons.

 

1. There is no temple or tabernacle at this time to fulfill some of these laws
2. We are living in a land where the Torah is not the law of the land and therefore for some of these laws we would have to have special privileges from the government to do so just like the Muslims would in able for them to practice Sharia law.

 

We can still however accomplish much of the laws including God’s prescribed dietary guidelines and festivals.  In fact those are quite simple to do if you’re willing to obey the Father and if you are a follower of Yeshua the Christ then you should want to obey our Heavenly Father without question.

 

To find the truth of how the church ended up where it is now we must look at history and specifically the councils the Roman empire would hold where they would canonize what was and wasn’t allowed in the church.  For instance the Council of Laodicea moved God’s appointed time for the Sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday to the day of Sunday on the gregorian calendar in order to trick Christians into worshiping their sun god.  They also did away with the Israelite festivals, you notice I didn’t say Jewish festivals, and incorporated their holidays of easter and saturnalia renaming saturnalia Christmas.  Nowhere in the Torah or the entire Bible does God give man the authority to do this, in fact He curses men for doing this because He has already set apart days and times to gather with us and celebrate His feasts and Holy Days.

 

I could go into more detail but I will challenge you instead to test everything and to get proper insight into each book of the Bible before reading them.  For instance to know what is going on in Hosea’s time figure out who was ruling Israel and what was going on in that time.  Do you’re own research and let the Holy Spirit give you discernment.