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Introduction

 

Before we journey through Sha’ul’s letter to the Nazarene assembly in Rome, there are a few things we must consider. In this Introduction, I will provide very short summaries of topics found in other books in my Original Revelation Series:

  • Sha’ul the Leader of the Nazarenes

  •  Book of Romans Twisted by Christian Translators

  • The Faith of Abraham” is based on The Ancient Path of Enoch

  • Sha’ul takes the Gospel The Lost Sheep of the House of Israel called “Gentiles”

Each topic above is covered in great detail in my book series. The truth of these topics will be critical to understanding the Book of Romans and providing an accurate “in context” rendering of the text. For that reason, you must read my book series as a study guide, or you will never fully comprehend the degree we have been misled concerning Sha’ul’s writings.

 

Rav Sha’ul was a Nazarene or Notsri not what we would consider a Christian. The fact that Sha’ul was not only a Nazarene, but the “Leader of the Sect of Nazarenes” indicates what Sha’ul believed and taught in the letters that survive today. We must go back to the first century to identify what the Nazarenes believed and put Sha’ul’s writings in that context.

 

Each letter we have written by Sha’ul to the Nazarene assemblies he established was written to a unique audience with unique challenges he addressed. When attempting to understand any one letter, we must put them into context of all his writings and teachings. What Sha’ul mentions in passing in one letter is explained in more detail in another. What the assembly in Rome faced, believed, and required was different than what the assembly in Galatia faced, believed, and required. We must assume there are many letters written to these assemblies we do not have. What he taught each assembly was most probably taught to all, we just no longer have those letters. For this reason, a solid understanding of all his surviving letters must be brought to bear on each individual letter.

 

Sha’ul was also a leading Pharisee of his day meaning he was an expert in the Torah and Prophets. Being a Pharisee, he was also intimately familiar with the oral traditions and human commands keeping the Jews (the House of Judah) in bondage to the establishment. Being mentored by Gamaliel who was the most famous Rabbi in Jewish history; there was no one more qualified to break these bonds and confront the establishment than Sha’ul.

 

All accusations that Sha’ul was a “false teacher” are based on mistranslated texts by the pagan Roman Christian Church. Please see my book The Law and The Pauline Doctrine for the truth of what Sha’ul taught and to overcome the twisted Greek appropriate lie that is … The Pauline Doctrine.  Sha’ul was not a Roman Hellenized Christian but a Hebrew Nazarene. This is stated clearly in the Book of Acts:

Acts 24:5-6
“For we have found this man to be a pest and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes: Who also hath gone about to profane the Temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law

 

 Sha’ul, like John and Yahusha, was the leading figure in defense of the Ancient Enochian Path (The Heavenly Scroll), the written Torah, Prophets, and Messiah. That is what being a Nazarene was all about 2000 years ago and remains true today. I will establish these beliefs in this book and then use that context to understand the Book of Romans.

 

All Nazarenes kept the hidden mysteries of Yahuah dating back to Enoch. They were to guard these mysteries, watch over and protect them! They were fierce opponents of all forms of paganism including the Babylonian Talmud and Hellenism (the worship of Greek gods and twisting of The Heavenly Scroll into what we know as the Zodiac today). The Nazarenes rejected Incarnation outright and any concept associated with Babylonian demi-gods:

  • They rejected the Virgin Birth and the Trinity

  • Proclaimed the Name of The Creator Yahuah and that He is the only God

  • followed the ancient Enochian Path (Enoch Calendar and Enoch Zodiac)

  • rejected the worship of the Messiah as a demi-god believing him to have been to two human parents a mother and a father

  • refused the label “Christians” outright and felt it slanderous

The word Nazarenes means “followers of the Branch” which was foretold in what the Bible calls The Heavenly Scroll given to Enoch. They “admit” the stars and constellations proclaim a message to all mankind and followed The Ancient Way of Enoch they called The Way. This ancient path was rejected by the Hebrew people over time and carried forward in secret by the Zadok Priesthood:

Jeremiah 6:16
This is what Yahuah says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient (Enochian) paths, ask wherethe good way” is, and walk in The Way (of Enoch), and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, 'We will not walk in it.'”

Isaiah 48:3-6
3 I foretold the former things long ago (written in the stars on Day 4 of Creation), My mouth announced them (to My Prophets who all read The Heavenly Scroll) and I made them known (to all mankind by the Word of My Testimony written in the stars Psalm 19, Enoch 35:3, given to all mankind Deuteronomy 3:19); then suddenly I Acted, and the Message proclaimed by the stars/constellations came to pass (at the end of the Age of Aries). 4 For I knew how stubborn you were; your neck muscles were iron; your forehead was bronze. 5 Therefore I told you these things (in The Heavenly Scroll) long ago (at Creation so that you are without excuse because Yahuah is known through His Handiwork Romans 1:20); before they were fulfilled I Announced the Plan of Salvation to you (in The Heavenly Scroll Psalm 19) so that you could not say, ‘My images brought them about; my wooden image and metal god ordained them.’ 6 You have heard these things (that the stars proclaim day after day, night after night to all mankind as a witness Psalm 19); look at all the stars/constellation (in The Heavenly Scroll). WILL YOU NOT ADMIT THEM (the Sun/stars/constellations are The Word of His Testimony called The Way)?

Isaiah 48:11-15
11 For My Own Sake, for My Own Sake I will do it; for how could dishonor come to My Name (Yahuah)? I will not give My Glory (as Creator) to another! 12 Listen to Me, O Jacob and Israel, My Called; I am He; I am the Aleph, I also am the Tav. 13 My Hand has laid the foundation of the Earth (by Himself Isaiah 44:24), and My Right Hand has spanned (Authored) The Heavenly Scroll; when I summon the Sun/stars/constellations together (i.e., the stars and constellations contain a Secret Message Enoch 6:9), they will minister together as a Divine Counsel to all mankind (to proclaim His Handiwork/The Messiah/Plan of Salvation Psalm 19). 14 All of you, gather yourselves together and hear (what the Sun/stars/constellations proclaim day after day, night after night Psalm 19, Enoch 35:3)! Who among them has foretold these things in the heavens/stars? Yahuah has Loved him (Spoken of in The Heavenly Scroll; Yahusha); He will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm will be on the Chaldeans. 15 I, even I, have Spoken (LOGOS/DABAR – ‘Spoken Promise in the beginning’ John 1:1-14); yes, I have called him (Yahusha Luke 4:18). I have brought him (forth as The Branch as My Eternal High Priest see Zechariah Chapter 3:8), and his example, The Way, (example of Mikveh, Circumcision, and Offering) will succeed (in producing Perfection and Resurrection CAPRICORNUS/AQUARIUS called “The Doctrine of Righteousness”).

Isaiah 40:26
Lift up your eyes and look to The Heavenly Scroll: Who created all these stars and constellations? He Who brings out the Starry Host (constellations ‘Host stars’) in order (of the Sun’s path) one by one and calls forth each of the constellations by name (called The Heavenly Host or Host of Heaven which witness of the coming Messiah). Because of His Great Power and Mighty strength, not one of them is missing (there are 12 major Signs along the ecliptic plane in every culture over the history of mankind). If you would admit they proclaim (Isaiah 48:3-6) my Father’s Testimony (in the stars which witness about Yahusha),

Enoch 35:3
I blessed Yahuah of glory, who had made those great and splendid signs (
of the Zodiac), that they might display the magnificence of his works (
The Plan of Salvation Psalms 19) to angels and to the souls of men; and that these (splendid signs in The Heavenly Scroll) might glorify all his works and operations; might see the effect of his power; might glorify the great labor of his hands; and bless him forever.

 

Sha’ul was a leader of the “sect of the Nazarenes” who followed The Way of Enoch:

Acts 24:14
However, I admit that I worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of The Way (
foretold in The Heavenly Scroll, the ancient Enochian Path), which they call a sect.

 



 

Beliefs of the Nazarenes

For more on this topic, read my book The Nazarene.


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Concerning the Nazarenes in the first century, The Christian Church Father Epiphanius tells us:

Epiphanius; Panarion 29:9:4, A.D. 374.
“But these sectarians… did not call themselves Christians – but “Nazarenes” [Natsarim] . . . However, they are simply complete Jews. They use not only the New Testament but the Old Testament as well, as the Jews do… They have no different ideas but confess everything exactly as The Law proclaims it and in the Jewish fashion – except for their belief in Messiah, if you please! For they acknowledge both the Resurrection of the dead and the Divine Creation of all things, and declare that God is One, and that His son is Yahusha The Messiah. They are trained to a nicety in Hebrew. For among them the entire Law (Torah), the Prophets, and the… Writings … are read in Hebrew, as they surely are by the Jews. They are different from the Jews, and different from Christians, only in the following. They disagree with Jews because they have come to Faith in Messiah; but since they are still fettered by The Law – Circumcision, the Sabbath, and the rest – they are not in accord with Christians . . . they are nothing but Jews… They have the Gospel according to Matthew in its entirety in Hebrew. For it is clear that they still preserve this, in the Hebrew alphabet, as it was originally written.”

 

Based on the above historical account, a Nazarene was what Epiphanius called “a complete Jew”. But what else did they believe? John the Baptist rose to the position of Zadok High Priest with the Spirit of Elijah, the “Great Nazarene Teacher of Righteousness”, and those of who followed John were originally of the Sect of the Essenes. This new sect who followed John the Baptist became known as Nazarenes. We know more about the Nazarenes by examining their origin as Essenes and Ebionites.

From “Ebionites & Nazarenes: Tracking the Original Followers of Jesus” by James Tabor:

This Ebionite/Nazarene movement was made up of mostly Jewish followers of John the Baptizer and later Jesus, who were concentrated in Palestine and surrounding regions and led by “James the Just” (the brother of Jesus), and flourished between the years 30-80 C.E. Non-Jews were certainly part of the mix but the dominant ethos of the group was an adherence to live according to Jewish law (Galatians 2:14). They were zealous for the Torah and continued to observe the mitzvot (Commandments) as enlightened by their Rabbi and Teacher…

     - Nazarene comes from the Hebrew word Netzer (drawn from Isaiah 11:1 and the Constellation VIRGO) and means “a Branch”—so the Nazarenes were the “Branchites” or followers of the one they believed to be the Branch–that is the Davidic Messiah…

    - Referred to themselves as The Way, Perhaps their most common designation was the Yachad–the brotherhood

     - They were bitterly opposed to the corrupt Priests in Jerusalem, to the Herods, and even to the Pharisees whom they saw as compromising with that establishment to get power and influence from the Hellenistic/Roman powers.

     - They had their own developed Halacha (interpretation of Torah)

   - They accept Paul (with caution) and believe in some aspect of the divinity of Jesus (after his resurrection), even possibly the virgin birth (as simply a sign), but viewed him as “adopted” as Son of God at his baptism.

     - Belief that Jesus as a human being with a  father and a mother

     - Sought out the “Path” reflected in the pre-Sinai revelation, especially the time from Enoch to Noah.

     - Dedication to following the whole Torah, as applicable to Israel and to Gentiles, but through the “easy yoke” or the “Torah of liberty” of their Teacher Jesus, which emphasized the Spirit of the Biblical Prophets in a restoration of the “True Faith,” the Ancient Paths (Jeremiah 6:16; Matthew 11:28-30; James 2:8-13; Matthew 5:17-18; 9:13; 12:7), from which, by and large, they believed the establishment Jewish groups of 2nd Temple times had departed.

     - Rejection of the “doctrines and traditions” of men, which they believed had been added to the pure Torah of Moses, including scribal alterations of the texts of Scripture (Jeremiah 8:8).

 

From these historical records combined with the proper interpretation of the Scriptures, we can confidently say Sha’ul:

  • Put his faith in The Heavenly Scroll called the ancient path where the Plan of Salvation is laid out and Yahuah bears witness of Yahusha

  • Believed in the intent of the written Torah and rejected the human traditions of Rabbinical Judaism known today as The Talmud.

  • Believed that Yahusha the Nazarene was the Messiah.

  • Rejected the labels “Jew and Christian”

  • Rejected the worship of the Messiah and later the name “Jesus”

  • Believed the Messiah was born to two human parents

  • Rejected the efforts of the Christopagans to drag believers into Lawlessness and pagan rituals.

  • Called upon and spoke the full Name of the Creator Yahuah.

  • Kept and taught his assemblies to keep the Sabbath and Holy Days.

  • Observed the sacred Enochian calendar not the solar calendar.

  • Rejected Incarnation.

  • Taught the ‘intent’ of The Law over the letter.

  •  Believed that Yahusha is Yahuah’s Firstborn AGAIN Son, adopted upon his Mikveh!

  • Rejected the Greek Hellenistic Mindset.

  • Kept Circumcision, the Sabbath, and Holy Days

Scholars Admit Sha’ul’s Writings were Twisted

What we find today is a "movement" among almost all Scholars who have come to recognize that Sha'ul's writings were twisted, mistranslated, and intentionally altered by Christianity to "do away with The Law"! Textual Critics are finding many instances in the modern English translations as well as with the Greek copies of the original Hebrew scripts, where the translators subtracted words and then added words and phrases to twist Sha’ul’s writings to create The Pauline Doctrine.

 

It is admitted among Scholars that Sha'ul did not intend to teach against ‘The’ Law, Feasts, and Sabbaths of the Most High. Let me quote from The Jerusalem Perspective which is a Christian site of true scholars and textual critics:

Source: ‘The Western Captivity of the Apostle Sha’ul’ by Jack Poirier columnist for The Jerusalem Perspective.

"No area of modern textual criticism is more prominent, and theologically momentous, than the developments that have taken place in the past forty years concerning our understanding of what the books of Romans and Galatians are all about.

"It is now a commonplace observation among scholars that Sha’ul’s most basic convictions were misrepresented by the most dominant streams of Western theology. Although a more detailed discussion would include a number of lesser figures as well, it is significant that the principal culprits in the Westernization of Sha’ul (e.g., Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Karl Barth, et al.) are all deserving of chapter (on how Sha’ul's was misrepresented in their teachings) in a general history of the Church. This shows how central the interpretation of Sha’ul is to the Christian history of ideas. As it goes with Sha’ul, so with the Church."

 

And there you have it... Sha'ul's writings were twisted by the Greek ‘exactly’ as Jeremiah, Peter and Sha'ul warned us they would be.

1 Corinthians 1:23
but we preach the Messiah crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Greeks---

2 Peter 3:16-17
 He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable (Greek) people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. --- Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the ‘Lawless’ and fall from your secure position.


Jeremiah 8:7-9
7 But My people do not know the ordinance of Yahuah (Eternally preserved in the stars Psalm 119:89). 8 How can you say, we are wise men (h2450 chakam - 'astrologers' and know ‘the secrets preserved in The Heavenly Scroll which men were striving to learn’ Enoch 6:9), And the Word of Yahuah's Testimony (that Yahusha is The Branch foretold in The Heavenly Scroll) is with us? But behold, the ‘lying pen of the scribes’ has made My Word (LOGOS/DABAR - 'Spoken Promise in the beginning' Eternally preserved in The Heavenly Scroll Psalm 119:89) into a lie (by removing The Word of His Testimony). 9 The wise men (h2450 chakam – ‘astrologers’) are put to shame (for twisting The Heavenly Scroll into Incarnation the 'Mystery' of the Babylonian Zodiac called The Way of the Gentiles), They are dismayed (by the constellations/stars/Sun to worship them Jeremiah 10:2 – "Do not learn the way of the nations (corrupted Babylonian Zodiac), and do not be dismayed at the signs/constellations/stars of The Heavenly Scroll) and caught (in idolatry Deuteronomy 4:19 – “When you look to the heavens and see the sun, moon, and stars—all the stars in the sky—do not be led astray to bow in worship to them and serve them.”); Behold, they have rejected the Word of My Testimony (The Heavenly Scroll), And what kind of wisdom (Spiritual Understanding of The Plan of Salvation written in the stars which proclaim The Glory of Yahuah Psalm 19:1, which is Yahusha Hebrews 1:3, and declare His Handiwork Psalm 19 and Enoch 35:3 and many more Scriptures) do they have (because the Scriptures are literally based on The Heavenly Scroll/Plan of Salvation/LOGOS written in the stars at Creation which is what Yahusha came to fulfill Hebrews 10:7 and Matthew 6:10)? 

 

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