Now that we have evaluated the blasphemy that
declares Yahuah came to Earth in the form of a sinful man and we killed
him for our sins… a doctrine of demons and “another Gospel” message
proclaimed at the end,
1 Timothy 4:1
The Spirit clearly says that in
later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and
things taught by demons.
let me explain the effects of this blasphemy. It is
said Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is unforgivable! That is true and I
will explain why in this chapter.
One of the most basic tenants of the Faith of the
Nazarenes, is that Yahusha was the fulfillment of the promise to The
House of Zadok to be the Eternal High Priest. Yahusha offered his sinful
life as a living sacrifice to live without sin as High Priest as he
entered into covenant with Yahuah in Zechariah Chapter 3. His life was
not taken unwillingly as a human sacrifice. He offered his life to save
his brothers willingly even to the extent of orchestrating the events
that led to his death:
·
Arranging his betrayal with Judah the
Scicarii
·
Going ahead of the High Priest riding
into Jerusalem on a donkey
·
Disrupting the “business” in the Temple
throwing out the money changers
·
Forbidding his followers for fighting for
his life and going willingly
·
Not standing up against the charges
against him which could have saved his life
We never quite get the real story from our
modern-day teachers, and anti-messianic “Jews” deny the Messiah leaving
us all “questioning the sacrifice of Yahusha”. We have erred in our
understanding the Plan of Salvation and run the risk of falling out of
Covenant with Yahuah in our ignorance (lack
of Knowledge). Worse yet, we are being led to commit blasphemy
against the Spirit of Yahuah by modern translations that have literally
written in the Spirit of the False Messiah.
Does Yahuah forbid one human from sacrificing
another human... yes. But as with everything in Scripture, we cannot
sound-bite that restriction! We must use Wisdom and seek out the
"intent" of that restriction, given that it appears the entire Plan of
Salvation depends on what "appears to be" a human sacrifice! Making
Yahuah out to be a hypocrite; or Yahusha's sacrifice ineffective and an
abomination.
There are several flaws that must be addressed:
1.
Blood does not cleanse of "sin"... WATER
does through Mikveh.
2.
Blood consummates marriage covenants (even
human marriage with breaking the hymen), and that is why Yahusha
shed his blood. To consummate a ‘Marriage Covenant’ whereby we through
Mikveh, are forgiven our sins in Covenant.
3.
Yahusha's sacrifice was not a "human
sacrifice" (where one man
sacrifices another), nor was it even a human sacrifice where Yahuah
sacrifices a man at all!
4.
Yahusha "willingly went to his death" to
save the lives of his Brothers! BIG difference. There is no greater
love. It was one man willingly ready to die and a choice by that man to
do so for the right reasons. He was not "sacrificed unwillingly" by
another.
5.
Yahusha's real sacrifice was his ‘entire
life’, not his death. His death was meaningless outside of his life,
living The Heavenly Scroll and walking The Way by example and giving his
life as a living sacrifice to his Father to consummate the ‘Marriage
Covenant’ by giving his life for his Brothers.
There is a reason why one man cannot
sacrifice another man. Man cannot (and did not) give "life” and is
forbidden therefore (a man) from taking a life... Man cannot promise
to raise another man from the grave (nor grant Eternal Life). This
is why "human sacrifice" is forbidden.
Let’s break down these flaws one-by-one and shed a
little more light on this topic.
Shedding blood
to Consummate Covenants is required...
The "shedding of blood" is required to consummate
any Covenant, including human marriage (which
is a shadow of the Covenant we enter into with Yahusha NOT Yahuah. We
enter into an Adoption Covenant with our Father). Yahusha's "blood"
does not cleanse from sin it consummates the relationship with Yahuah (required
to have our sin forgiven through Mikveh) by following Yahusha’s
Righteous example and walking ‘The Way’ ourselves!
Yahuah reserves the right to give life, take life,
and grant Eternal Life. The restriction on human sacrifice does not
apply to Yahuah, who has the Power to both raise from the dead and grant
Eternal Life (not to mention this
life we have is His Gift to us in the first place). Yahuah is
not "taking" anything that does not already belong to Him. He did not
even "take" that from Yahusha, it was willingly offered in Love.
Yahusha’s life,
not his death, is what pleased Yahuah
What very few people understand, is the “Covenant
of Peace” given to Yahusha was prepared for him through the line of
Zadok priests. Phineas was descended from Zadok the priest, the Zadok
Priesthood is the true line of High Priests (not some mythical priesthood outside of Aaron descending from the King
of Salem!). Yahusha inherited the office of Zadokite High Priest
from his mother Miriam (he
inherited the office of King through his father Joseph) making
Yahusha Melchi Tzedek or ‘The Ruling Zadok High Priest’. This is “how”
and “why” Yahusha became the “Eternal High Priest”!
Atonement was through a PROMISE as are all things
made by Yahuah through Covenants. It does not require a “god” or Yahuah
to come in the flesh to Atone (a
God cannot atone for a man), it took a human High Priest in the
Order of Zadok!
Numbers 25:13
Phineas the son of Eleazar the son
of Aaron the Priest. Behold I give to him my Covenant of Peace, and will
be his, and his progeny after him, Covenant of Everlasting Priesthood in
turn of his zealousness for his God, and he Atoned for the sons of
Israel.
Breaking the
Power of sin and death requires a “man” not a God
The Power of sin and death (that
it has over us) is The Law (because
we sin; and the Death Decrees in the Law demand our death), so if
one man ever died innocent of sin in the Eyes of Yahuah, by walking the
Path laid out by Yahuah, called The Way, then the Power of sin and death
would be defeated, because death has no sting where there is no sin; and
as Yahusha showed us, it is possible to be restored to perfection before
we die!
Yahusha defeated sin and death by living
Obedient as High Priest and dying innocent by walking The Way, and
Yahuah (as Promised) did not issue the final Death Decree (the
second death) over Yahusha, so the grave had no choice but to give
him up!
Yahusha’s sacrifice was not a human sacrifice, it
was one man laying down his life for his brothers, a willing personal
sacrifice to save his brother’s life (as Yahuah Promised in Zechariah
Chapter 3). Because Yahusha lived The Law completely (as High
Priest as required by Yahuah in Zechariah Chapter 3), then willingly
laid down his life. Yahuah promised to not only raise Yahusha from the
grave, but to grant him eternal life and forgive the debts against all
those who follow in his footsteps and give their lives too, as living
sacrifices.
By consummating the marriage (by blood not death), we all now are forgiven our sins through Mikveh
(in Covenant through Yahusha).
If we had better teachers, we would better understand the reality of the
Plan of Salvation, and we would realize Yahusha's sacrifice was neither
his "death", nor was it a "human sacrifice". Yahusha willingly shed his
blood to consummate a Marriage Covenant with Yahuah and gave his life as
a LIVING SACRIFICE to Yahuah. Then went to his death willingly to save
each one of us out of love not obligation.
To deny Yahusha that praise (he so deserves, by denying the point of his death and claiming him to be
a demi-god), robs both Yahusha and Yahuah their respective Glory in
the Plan of Salvation... and robs those who take this stance of their
gift of eternal life (it is
blasphemy against the Spirit of Yahuah to believe in Incarnation).
It was not a "human sacrifice" and it was never intended to be... it was
one amazing demonstration of faith and love by a human High Priest! Gods
cannot “die” and Yahusha did not “fake his death”, and Gods cannot feel
the pain of his beatings or those nails. If he was a “God” it meant
nothing, it was a cosmic JOKE... and we are dead in our sins because as
I am about to prove, it took a human being, not a god, to atone for sin!
A “God” cannot atone for the sin of a human, it must be done by a human
High Priest.
This is the real question we are seeking to answer
in this chapter. We are taught in Christianity that “Jesus who is God in
the flesh paid the price for us, he bore our sin, he kept The Law so we
don’t have to keep it, he died so we can live”. Just like that, just
utter the name “Jesus” ... and you are in the clear, no need to do
anything else, you can be lawless and sin all you like, and Grace will
cover you. Jesus did it all!
This is simply not true. What Yahusha did do, was
he was obedient to his role as Messiah (defined
by Yahuah in Zechariah Chapter 3)
and show us The Way by example that we must follow ourselves. Yahusha
“bore our sin” in fulfillment of the scapegoat as a sin offering; he
didn’t “die for our sin” that is a violation of the Law that no man is
held to account for another’s sin. We
still have to die physically for the sin in our own bodies and he
didn’t do it all for us! WE have to follow in his example if we too, are
to defeat death like he did. We must follow his example of Mikveh
(ritual cleansing of sin),
Circumcision (of heart our
commitment to keep His Law) and bringing an Offering of our lives to
the Altar on Passover (we are
living sacrificial lambs).
John 14:6
Yahusha answered, "I am (his
example is) The Way and (his example is)
the truth and (his example is) the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me (he is the mediating High Priest; we must be in covenant with him by
following his example).
John 10:3-4
For I have given you an example (a
true way that leads to eternal life), that you should do as I
have done.
1 Peter 2:2121
But if you suffer for doing good (obey The Law)
and you endure it (you will be conformed to the
image of Yahusha, Romans 8:29 and 2 Corinthians 3:18, who was perfected
in Obedience through suffering discipline then washed clean of his past
through Mikveh), this is commendable before Yahuah. 21 To this (to
be conformed to the image of His son by walking The Way of Mikveh,
Circumcision, and Offering on Passover) you were called, because
the Messiah suffered (on Passover) for
you (and tore the Veil giving you access to the
Altar of Yahuah), leaving you an example (of
what to do as he fulfilled the Spiritual meaning of Passover, John 13:15),
that you should follow in his steps (being
Mikveh’d, demonstrating a Circumcised heart, and bring your own Offering
on Passover to the Altar of Yahuah).
Sha’ul understood The Way that Yahusha set by
example that we are to follow! Just like all the Prophets foretold,
which is washing away our sin through Mikveh, filling us as His Temple
with the Fullness of Deity, and forgiving our sin and remembering it no
more. This is the process called “being born again”; which is being
washed clean with Living Water and then having His Law written on our
heart by Fire and indwelling of the Spirit of Yahuah. It is The Way of
Mikveh, Circumcision, and Offering.
Colossians 2 – The Way
8 See to it that no one (Greek
Christian) takes you captive through philosophy (Logos)
and empty deception (sound bite implied
doctrine), according to the (pagan)
tradition of men (believe in demi-gods),
according to the elementary principles (false
spirits) of the world, rather than according to The Yahushaic
Covenant. 9 For in covenant with Yahusha all the fullness of Deity
dwells in bodily form (in our bodies),
10 and in The Yahushaic Covenant you have been made complete (in
fullness of Deity), and Yahusha is the head over all rule and
authority (as the Firstborn son of Yahuah
through inheritance);
******************** Circumcision
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11 and in The Yahushaic Covenant
you were also circumcised (in your heart)
with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of
the flesh by the circumcision of the same Spirit of Holiness (Righteous
keeping of The Law) that is in the Messiah;
********************** Mikveh
***************************
12 having been buried with Yahusha
in Mikveh, in which you were also raised up with Yahusha through faith
in the working of Yahuah, who raised Yahusha from the dead.
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Offering************************
13 When you were dead in your
transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, Yahuah made you
alive together with Yahusha, (a living
sacrificial offering Romans 12:1) having forgiven us all our
transgressions (by the blood of the Passover
Lamb),
Yahusha did not do it all for us, he obeyed Yahuah,
and set the Righteous example for us to follow. In doing so, Yahuah
Promised to forgive our sin and cover the Death Decree against us as
Sha’ul said... IF we follow his example! The Death Decree that Yahuah
covers is called ‘The Second Death’ (or
rather the final Spiritual Death Decree). He does not cover the
first physical death decree, we still die. The Spiritual Death Decree (or
second death) is ‘passed
over’ for all who follow Yahusha’s example and put their Faith
in (and properly celebrate)
Passover which is The Narrow Gate. Very few people know what I am
talking about and keep Passover properly. We follow the example of
Rabbinical Judaism in keeping the Feasts... not Yahusha. Yahuah does not
issue the final Death Decree and we then defeat death and live again if
we “do this in remembrance of his example”. So, we all, like Yahusha,
must physically die and pay the price of sin as we inherited death in
our bodies. It is Spiritual Death that we do not suffer.
This process is explained in my
book The Narrow Gate.
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Yahusha did not pay our penalty of sin in our body,
and he did not cover the first Death Decree… you are still going to die
(just like he did). Every physical body must die a natural death
due to sin (or be translated
through transposition which is just another form of physical death).
We know that Yahuah's Own Laws prevent anyone (including Yahusha)
from being judged for another man’s sin. Each man is judged for his sin
alone:
Deuteronomy 24:16
"The fathers shall not be put to
death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for
the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his
own sin."
Yahuah would never violate His Own Law and put
Yahusha to death for our sin! Yahusha died as all men do because
he was 0% Divine and 100% human in every way.
Hebrews 2
14 Since the children have flesh and blood (and
are held captive to the Law of Sin and Death), he too, shared in
their humanity (he was human too, and captive
to genetic death) so that by his death (the
death of a human not God) he, Yahusha, might break the Power of
him who holds the Power of death—that is, the devil— 15 and free those
who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
16 For surely it is not Angels he helps (Yahusha
was never an Angel!), but Abraham’s descendants (human
being from a specific Bloodline). 17 For this reason (to
break the Law of Sin and Death) he had to be made like them
fully human in every way (simply does not
get any clearer than that), in order that he might become a
Merciful and Faithful High Priest (who are chosen from
among men) in service to Yahuah (he is
the Mediating High Priest chosen from among men, he IS NOT Yahuah ‘in
the flesh’).
In fact, per
Zechariah Chapter 3,
Yahusha had his sin forgiven through Mikveh just like we do. Then
as High Priest he offered sacrifices for his own sin as well as the sin
of the people (Hebrews 5:3). The doctrine of Original Sin is a
false doctrine too but that is outside the scope of this book.
What the Bible teaches is that through one man’s
act of disobedience to The Law of Yahuah (Adam);
sin was brought into the world and as a result of Adam's sin his body
began to die. From that point forward, DEATH was passed to all men
genetically and sin was in the world.
Romans 5:12
"Wherefore, as by one man… sin entered into the
world, and death by sin (so death comes by you
own sin not genetically); and so death passed upon all men, for
that all have sinned (so our own sin justifies
our own physical death which is genetic)"
The Bible says that death
not sin is passed on in the body. We are not born into
“original sin” we are born into a body that is ‘predisposed or prone to
sin’ that is the definition of the word for ‘flesh’ in Greek. Sin was
brought into the world (not our
body) through one act of disobedience. Death however is passed to
all men genetically as we are all born to die because all have
sinned and fallen short no exceptions.
Romans 3:23
for
all (all means ALL including Yahusha)
have sinned and fall short of the glory of Yahuah (but
can be restored to perfection Hebrews 5:8),
Hebrews 5
8
though Yahusha was a (future) Son (of
Yahuah ‘upon’ Resurrection, Romans 1:3), yet he learned Obedience
(to his Father) by the things (discipline
Hebrews 12:5-6) which he suffered (due
to disobedience, Heb 12:6, Prov 3:12, Rev 3:19, Acts 17:11). 9
And having been perfected (through discipline
as all Children of Yahuah are), Yahusha became (was
not born that way) the
author of Eternal Salvation to ‘all’ who obey him.
In this way, the Law of sin and you die by decree
called The Law of Sin and Death in the Mosaic Covenant reigned over
humanity and we lived in bondage to the ‘fear of death’.
Hebrews 2:14-15
14 so that by his death he, Yahusha,
might break the Power of him who holds the Power of death—that is, the
devil — 15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by
their ‘fear of death’.
The Law was weakened by our flesh, it is ‘we’ who
are not perfect and like Yahusha must be perfected! We are the weak link
in The Law and our weaknesses made The Law incomplete and prevented The
Law from delivering eternal life as promised. The Law had to be made
complete through Grace (by
covering the Death Decrees) for The Law to achieve its Righteous
outcome which is eternal life.
Proverbs 3
1My son,
do not forget My Torah, but let your heart keep My Commandments;
2 For length of days and years of life And Peace they will add to you.
Deuteronomy 11
20"You shall write them (The Torah) on
the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 so that your days and
the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which Yahuah swore
to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens remain above the
Earth.
It is in this way Yahusha “fulfilled” the Law by
walking The Way, set an example for all of us to follow as he bridged
the gap of our own weaknesses by covering the Death Decrees. But we
have to walk The Way in his footsteps. We must have our bodies cleansed
of sin through Mikveh, then filled with the Ruach which circumcises our
hearts, and the give our lives as a living sacrifice.
Now, in Covenant with Yahusha, The Law is complete
and delivers eternal life for obedience as Promised to all who obey
Yahusha example as we read in Hebrews 5:9. However, this fleshly body
which is predisposed to sin and designed genetically to die must pay the
price for our sin, this includes Yahusha. Although Yahuah wiped away
Yahusha’s sin through Mikveh (and
ours too), this flesh cannot live Eternally and must be put to death
so the Spiritual Body can live.
1
Corinthians 15
45 So it is written: “The first man Adam
became a living being” the last Adam BECAME a life-giving
spirit (by the Power of the Resurrection
Romans 1:2-4 he did not preexist). 46 The spiritual (body),
however, was not first, but the natural (body),
and then the spiritual (body). … 50
Now I Declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit
the Kingdom of Yahuah, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
John 3
6 That which is born of the
flesh (human birth), is flesh (that
includes Yahusha who was born “according to the flesh,”
Romans 1:3); but
that which is born of the Spirit, is Spirit. 7 Do not be surprised that
I said to you: You must be reborn from above.
2 Corinthians 5
5 For we know that if the
earthly tent (Sukkot) we live in is
destroyed, we have a Temple from Yahuah, an eternal house proclaimed in
The Heavenly Scroll (the 3rd Temple made up of
the sum total of His Children), not built by human hands (there
will never be another 3rd physical temple). 2 Meanwhile we
groan, longing to be clothed instead with our Spiritual dwelling (as
Yahusha showed us the Power of the Resurrection), 3 because when
we are clothed, we will not be found naked. 4 For while we are in this
Sukkot (temporary dwelling), we groan
and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be
clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may
be swallowed up by life (physical then
Spiritual). 5 Now the one who has fashioned us for this
very purpose is Yahuah, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit (just
like Yahusha who was filled with the Ruach when he was born-again
through Living Water and adopted Matthew 3:14-16),
guaranteeing the Spiritual Body that is to come (AFTER
our physical bodies not before)
This cycle of “being born to die and dying guilty
of sin to justify that death” had to be broken by a man just as it began
with a man. If Yahusha was a demi-god, the entire concept of overturning
Adam’s act would have no value. In order to defeat death, a man whose
body was genetically engineered to “die” (which
was justified because “all have
sinned”) had to die innocent in the eyes of Yahuah by walking
The Way.
Hebrews 10:22
Let us draw near to Yahuah (properly
presenting ourselves) with a sincere heart (True
Circumcision) and with the full
assurance that Faith (in the example set by
Yahusha) brings (…
that we can offer our own lives as living
sacrifices because Yahusha has torn the Veil in two giving us access to
the Mercy Seat of Yahuah), having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse
us from a guilty conscience (circumcision of
heart) and having our bodies washed with pure Living Water (Mikveh).
Ephesians 5
25 Husbands, love your wives, just
as the Messiah loved the body and gave himself up for her (as
The Passover Lamb) 26 to make her holy, (ritually)
cleansing her by the washing with Living Water (Mikveh),
through the Commandments (Circumcision)
27 and to present her (properly) to
himself as a radiant assembly, without spot or wrinkle or any other
blemish (as spotless Passover Lambs of Yahuah),
but Holy and blameless (Offerings).
Death then cannot hold an innocent man who has been
ritually cleansed with Living Water through Mikveh and given an earnest
guarantee when Yahuah breathes life back into his Spirit… because
death is the penalty of sin; and Yahuah has to issue the final
death decree for them to stay dead (the
Second Death). So Yahuah Predestined a human Messiah, to come and
live and serve as High Priest in complete obedience to His Law (after
he was Mikveh’d and his sin taken away Zechariah 3). That is how
Yahusha defeated death… He walked The Way laying down the example we all
follow to defeat death. Yahusha accomplished his role defined in
Zechariah Chapter 3… he mediated as High
Priest then Yahuah honored His Promise, and death was defeated in ONE
DAY and Yahuah forgave the sins of the land. We see Sha’ul stress this
very thing:
Hebrews 5:8-9
8 though Yahusha was a Son, yet he
learned Obedience (to Yahuah) by the
things which he suffered. 9 And having been perfected (by
Yahuah through Obedience and suffering throughout his life and
ultimately washed clean, being Circumcised, and giving his life on
Passover), Yahusha became the Author of Eternal Salvation (Forefather
of Everlasting Life) to all who obey Yahuah (and
follow Yahusha’s example). -
In other words, Yahusha’s life of being perfected
by The Law of Yahuah then walking The Way to be cleansed with living
water then reborn with fire became the example and the true way
that leads to Eternal Life.
The Truth, The Way, and The Life. The Messiah Yahusha was that
man to break the Law of Sin and Death and then die innocent and
defeat death in the process. Through the Messiah, one act of the
obedience of one man (not God) resulted in Salvation from death for
all who follow his example.
We see that DEATH not "sin" came through Adam
genetically... and by "man" not "God" came the Resurrection of the
dead!
1 Corinthians 15
20 But now the Messiah is risen from
the dead (by Yahuah), and has become the
Firstfruits (through Resurrection) of
those who have fallen asleep (Firstborn Son of
the Resurrection i.e., Eternal Creation not physical Creation, Firstborn
of the dead, Revelation 1:5 and Colossians 1:18). 21 For since by
man (Adam) came death, by Man (not
God) also came the Resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in (one
human) Adam all die, even so in (one
human), the Messiah, all (the Children
of Yahuah from the first to the last, Revelation 22:13)) shall be
made alive (Begotten/Adopted by Yahuah as sons
through Resurrection).
The Law of the Spirit of Life i.e., a man living in
complete obedience to The Law; having his sin forgiven through Mikveh,
demonstrating a contrite Spirit and Circumcised heart, and giving his
life up to serve Yahuah has received the promise of Eternal Life.
Yahusha, that man, became the example for all the Children of Yahuah and
he is called the "Forefather of Everlasting Life" and made Righteous in
the eyes of Yahuah.
Now, to all of us who follow in his footsteps in
obedience to Yahuah, we too, are declared Righteous. Not by Faith alone,
but by a process of obedience to The Law, suffering through Faith, and
expressing our faith by keeping Passover in light of Yahusha’s
sacrifice. In doing so, Yahusha’s blood or sin offering is accepted by
Yahuah to cover the second Death Decrees on our behalf and we too, are
found innocent after we die… and we too, will defeat death through
Resurrection:
James 2:16-26 – we must walk
The Way … “deeds”
16 Faith and Deeds (walking
The Way). Faith alone does not save, nor does
deeds alone. You must have both. …17 In the same way, Faith by
itself, if it is not accompanied by action (you
must follow in Yahusha’s footsteps), is dead. 18 But someone
will say, “You have Faith; I have deeds.” Show me your Faith without
deeds, and I will show you my Faith by my deeds. 19 You believe that
there is one God (The Shema). Good!
Even the demons believe that—and
shudder. … 24 You see that a person is considered Righteous by what
they ‘do’ and not by Faith alone…26 As the body without the
Spirit (does not walk Th e Way) is dead,
so Faith without works (walking The Way)
is dead.
Yahusha being fully human denied the fleshly desire
to sin after his Mikveh into the office of High Priest where he
was forgiven and perfected, and obeyed Yahuah even to the point of
willingly going to his own death (which
was not Yahusha's own will). It is the ultimate demonstration
that Yahusha set aside his selfish will to live, and obeyed Yahuah's
Will that he die IF he loved his Brothers enough to pay that price.
This was Yahuah’s Plan from the Beginning! Written
in the stars before the foundation of the world... To literally perfect
a human being (Yahusha)
through suffering, making Yahusha our "Pioneer of our Salvation" our
"Forefather of Everlasting Life" our ultimate example… all meaning the
same thing.
Yahuah orchestrated our Salvation through His Human
Messiah which was His Plan from the Beginning written in the stars,
prophesied in Genesis where the seed of a woman would crush the head of
the serpent, and foretold through all his Prophets, His Ordained Times,
and countless shadow pictures such as Joseph, David, Joshua, Sampson,
and so forth. That Plan of Yahuah’s was fulfilled in Yahusha:
Hebrews 2
14 Since the children have flesh and blood (and
are held captive to the Law of Sin and Death), he too, shared in
their humanity (he was human too, and captive
to genetic death) so that by his death (the
death of a human not God) he, Yahusha, might break the Power of
him who holds the Power of death—that is, the devil— 15 and free those
who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
16 For surely it is not Angels he helps (Yahusha
was never an Angel!), but Abraham’s descendants (human
being from a specific Bloodline). 17 For this reason (to
break the Law of Sin and Death) he (Yahusha)
had to be made like them fully human in every way (simply
does not get any clearer than that), in order that he might
become a Merciful and Faithful
High Priest (who are chosen from
among men) in service to Yahuah (he is
the Mediating High Priest chosen from among men, he IS NOT Yahuah ‘in
the flesh’).
Sha’ul
is teaching in Hebrews 2, the exact same message I am trying to convey.
Since the Children of Yahuah are Firstborn flesh and blood, the Messiah
had to be born flesh and blood to ‘atone’ for them and break the
Power of death.
Nowhere in Scripture does it say it takes ‘God’ to
die
to save us. Nowhere in Scripture did Yahuah Promise to come to Earth
and die; that is
impossible.
For this reason (to defeat death), the Messiah HAD TO BE HUMAN not
God or a demigod. A man, like Adam, had to undue the effects of what
Adam brought into the world. A “God” cannot ‘Atone’ for a human
being.
He
could not have been Yahuah in the flesh. He had to be and was human....
fully human in every way, so says Sha’ul in Hebrews 2:17. Because if he
were not, he could not undue what was done by Adam who was human.
Yahusha is the “second chance Adam” not “God in the flesh”. As I said
previously in the last chapter:
A man brought sin and death
into the world... it would
take a man to take it
out of the world.
Hebrews 5
12 Therefore, just as sin entered
the world through one man, and death through sin, and in
this way, death came to all people, because all sinned (no
exceptions not even Yahusha)— 15 But the gift is not like the
trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man,
how much more did Yahuah’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of
the one man, Yahusha the Messiah, overflow to the many! 18
Consequently, just as one man’s trespass resulted in
condemnation for all people, so also one man’s Righteous
act resulted in justification and life for all people. 19 For just as
through the disobedience of the one man the many were made
sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the
many will be made Righteous.
Now,
having proven himself as a human that could obey and withstand the
temptation of his flesh (while in the desert for 40 days/nights of
severe temptation before being consecrated High Priest) ... Yahusha
was chosen by Yahuah from among all mankind as High Priest to serve Him
for Eternity (fulfilling the Promise to the House of Zadok... see my book,
“Melchizedek and the Passover
Lamb”). Yahusha HAD to die, not only for us but for himself (to pay the price of the genetic structure he inherited from Adam, he was
100% human and his death
proved it). He too, was in a human body predisposed to death
genetically and that body had to be put to death for Yahusha to enter
The Kingdom of Yahuah which is a Spiritual Kingdom. He had to make that
sacrifice as the human High Priest out of love for his brothers and in
order to enter the Kingdom.
Let us
look at Hebrews 5 in more detail to show that Yahusha had to make the
Passover Sacrifice for himself as well. We see that Yahusha as
High Priest is chosen from among men in vs. 3 "he is obligated to offer
sacrifices for sins, as for the people, so also for himself".
Hebrews 5
1 For every High Priest (Yahusha
was the High Priest of Israel by bloodline of Zadok, consecrated High
Priest by Yahuah, Zechariah
Chapter 3) taken from among
men is appointed on
behalf of men in things pertaining to Yahuah, in order to offer both
gifts and sacrifices for sins; 2 he can deal gently with the ignorant
and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weakness; 3
and because of it he is obligated to offer sacrifices for sins, as
for the people, so also for himself. 4 And no one takes the honor to
himself, but receives it when he is called by Yahuah, even as Aaron was.
5 So also Yahusha did not Glorify himself so as to become a High Priest,
but Yahuah Who said to Yahusha "YOU ARE MY SON, TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN
YOU"; 6 just as Yahuah says also in another passage, "YOU ARE A PRIEST
FOREVER ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK." 7 In the days of
Yahusha’s flesh (when he was
fully human in every
way), Yahusha offered up both prayers and supplications with loud
crying and tears to the One (God, Yahuah, The
Shema) able to ‘save’ Yahusha from death (Yahusha
did not rise from the dead, he was risen by Yahuah),
and Yahusha was heard because of Yahusha’s piety (NOT
because he was a demi-god! But because of his reverent Obedience to The
Law, see Zechariah Chapter 3).
8 Although Yahusha was a Son (not Yahuah),
Yahusha ‘learned’
Obedience (to the ONE GOD) from the
things which he suffered (Yahuah is Unity and
Perfection ‘Aleph/Tav’ He needs no perfecting! Absolute proof that
Yahuah is NOT Yahusha). 9 And having been
made perfect (Yahusha
was NOT born perfect being simply a man), Yahusha became (he
was not always, he BECAME after his submission and death on Passover)
to all those who obey Yahuah and follow Yahusha’s example, the source of
Eternal Salvation (his example is our source,
Yahusha is the Forefather of Everlasting Life), 10 being
designated by Yahuah as a High Priest (from
among men verse 1) according to the order of Melchi Tzedek (see
the chapter on Melchi Tsedek). 11 Concerning Yahusha we have much
to say, and it is hard to
explain, since you have become dull of hearing. (that
is a true statement especially today)
So, what Sha’ul is saying above, is that it took a
human High Priest to offer the final sacrifice for himself and for all
those in covenant with him. As we read in Zechariah Chapter 3, Yahusha
fulfilled his responsibility to show The Way by example and be obedient
to his role as The Branch. As a result, Yahuah too, fulfilled His
Promise (in Zechariah Chapter 3)
and “forgave the sin of the land in one day”. When Yahusha said “it is
finished”, Yahuah covered the Second Death Decree and released all those
being held in bondage to death.
If Yahuah is Yahusha as the false doctrine of
Incarnation teaches, then we are dead in our sin. Because it does
not take a “god” to come to Earth to save us, it takes an obedience
human High Priest to offer the final sacrifice of his life as the
Passover Lamb to Yahuah, who is eternal, invisible, and incapable of
coming in sinful flesh and dying.
