40 This word means to give a mark of preservation (Rev 7:3).
41 Yehoshua is the I AM. He was also born in Beth/lechem meaning “House of bread”.
42 Taking the passover symbols of the bread and the wine once a year on passover is required to continue on covenant relationship.(Ex 13:10 Luk 22:19-20)
43 In the Aramaic this is written in the active participle form indicating that this was a Sabbath and Joh 7:14, shows that this was ½ way through the feast proving that set apart day Sabbaths do not always fall on the day of the weekly Sabbath, which lunar worshipers wrongly assume.
44 The eighth day
45 Chapter 8:1-11 is not in the Aramaic Peshitta nor the earliest Greek manuscripts.
46 A man cannot die for your sins, as the Torah states eye for eye, tooth for tooth, and life for life. One person can only save his own life by being sinless (Ezek 14:14). Only by being the eternal Co-Creator of everything (Joh 1:3) can His life be worth more than all that he created. Unless one believes in Yehoshua's preexistence, eternal state as Elohim he/she will die in their sins.
47 Speaking of being an indentured servant not a slave.
48 Yochanan more than any other scroll of the New testament shows Yehoshua's preexistence with Yehovah the Father as a heresy was already surfacing at that time that He did not preexist.
49 The clearest text given that Yehoshua claimed to be the preexistent “I AM” of Creation with Yehovah the Father.
50 An ancient sheepfold was enclosed with one opening were the shepherd would sleep in the doorway to protect the sheep. The top was opened to the sky but usually had thorns on the top of the wall so that foxes and other animals could not jump on the wall to come and attack the sheep. The shepherd at the end of each day would have each sheep pass under his staff and count and make sure all were there, as they passed into the sheep pen he would check for bugs on their skin and overall health.
51 The sheep did not need to see the shepherd to be comforted but merely to hear his voice.
52 This is a very telling statement as those who will not follow the leadership ordained by Yehoshua Messiah and follow false doctrine cannot be of the sheepfold of Yehoshua.
53 Sheep cannot survive on their own and are completely scared to the point of panic if they realize they are not with the shepherd, they will freeze and literally starve to death unless the shepherd finds them.
54 A true follower of Yehoshua will never follow anyone but Yehoshua and His ordained ministry.
55 He is speaking of the other tribes of Yisrael that He has commissioned His talmidim to find (Math 10:6).
56 This is a clear reference to the Messiah in Ezekiel 37: 15-28 collecting the two houses of Yisrael upon His return and making them into one fold.
57 This feast is Hanukkah, which means re-dedication.
58 The word here means they are united, but the neuter form of the word rules out the meaning that they can be one person or being. They are two beings but one in ruach and each has totally surrendered their wills to each other in love, goal and purpose. Although they both existed for eternity the Father is greater in judicial order and authority (Joh 14:28). The proof of this is right now in heaven there are 2 thrones one that the Father is sitting on and one to the right of the Father that the son is sitting on. (Ps 110:1, 1 Pe 3:22, Ro 8:34, Acts 2:33, 7:55-56, Heb 1:3, 8:1, 10:10-13)
59 Yehoshua clearly proclaimed that He was Elohim and preexisted (Joh 8:56)
60 This psalm is talking about mankind’s great potential to become a literal child in the family of Yehovah (Ro 8:11-17)
61 In scripture death is equated with sleeping not going to heaven. (Acts 7:60, 1 Thes 4:15, 1 Cor 15:51, Joh 3:13)
62 The eternal hope in scripture was always in the resurrection and the millennial Kingdom, not going to Heaven. Mankind was given dominion over the earth in Genesis 1:27, not heaven. Only The adversary tried to ascend to the throne of Yehovah and was cast down due to that. Is 14:12-15, Is 66:1
63 Again Yehoshua makes a clear dogmatic statement that He is eternal, and that to be resurrected and enter the Kingdom you must believe in Him.
64 He was not weeping due to the death of Eliezar, as He knew in a moment He would be resurrecting him. He was weeping due to their lack of belief in what He was about to do.
65 Prophesying about the re-gathering of all 12 tribes of Yisrael into one (Ezek 37:15-28)
66 Ephraim was the main tribe of Northern Yisrael and it is somewhat prophetic that after it is stated in verse 52 that He would gather all nations into one that He then stays in the city of Ephraim.
67 Approximately, a year's wage for a rural worker.
68 Means save us now. (Psa. 118:26)
69 Judgment is given by the Torah, so clearly it could never be done away with. (Rev 20:11-13) also see the next verse 50.
70 Math 19:16-17.
71 This is directly preceding into the Pesach
72 An Ancient Middle East custom one would wash the hands before eating, but here Yehoshua girds Himself with a towel to wash the feet of the talmidim. Wearing sandals would make the feet most dirty from a journey and truly shows the humility that was displayed and set for believers as an example.
73 This is typifying that through immersion or immersion one is cleansed of their sins, but still there are minor imperfections and each year at the Pesach the believer does not need to be re-immeresed but the foot-washing symbolically shows the believer trying to get the little spots and wrinkles out of their lives.
74 Here Yehoshua makes the foot-washing an official part of the Pesach ceremony.
75 The promise to the believer is not to go to heaven but that Yehoshua is coming back to earth for them.
76 Yehoshua is not saying that He is the Father, but that since they have the same ruach and have fully submitted to each other in love, goal and purpose that when you see Him it is the same as seeing the Father, since their actions would be exactly the same.
77 Love and obedience go hand and hand
78 The Aramaic word here literally means one who ends the curse, which is referring to the curse of Adam at creation for disobeying Elohim, and is lifted through the set apart ruach.
79 The responsibility of every true talmid is to be bearing fruit for the Kingdom.
80 This comes by 100% surrender and giving up our free will to Yehovah.
81 Yehoshua was a talmid of Yehovah and followed His will completely, and we are to be talmidim of Yehoshua and do the same.
82 Yochanan chapter 17 clearly divines the unity between the Father and the son. They are one (united) in thought, purpose and mind, but clearly two separate beings both with an individual will (Math 26:39) that has been fully submitted to each other in love and harmony such as should be between a husband and wife. It is hard for humans to understand of such a relationship as humans are inherently selfish and can't grasp the reality of such a union.
83 Both the Father Yah Yehovah and the son Yehoshua Yehovah existed from eternity.
84 Yehoshua preexisted (Joh 3:13)
85 The house of assembly was told to be kept in the name of the Father Yehovah. (Eph 3:15) (1 Chron 28:8)
86 The Father Yehovah and the son Yehoshua are one by the set apart ruach (Ruach H'Kodesh), but the set apart ruach is a not a separate being apart from Yehovah. Yehovah is ruach. If the set apart ruach was a separate being it is inconceivable that it would not be mentioned in this whole chapter about the unity of Yehovah and Yehoshua. Yehoshua only prays to Yehovah His Father in scripture never to the set apart ruach. Also, in all 14 epistles of the Apostle Paul, he greets the Father and son in the beginning of each epistle but no where ever does he greet the set apart ruach as a separate entity apart from Yehovah.
87 Yehoshua, clearly saw the importance of the name of the Father, Yehovah.
88 Whenever you see reverence to Yehovah the person is bowing and prostrating forward, but with demons they fall backwards.
89 Bar- Abbas means son of the father. He was an earthly messianic figure looking to take the kingdom by force whereas Yehoshua was the true son of the Father looking to bring an everlasting kingdom. Yisrael clearly chose the wrong figure as Bar-Raban was set loose and Yehoshua put to death.
90 The first letter of each line spells the tetregrammeton or name of Yehovah
91 This preparation day was not Friday, but was the preparation day for the set apart day that was coming at sunset. This was Thursday according to the biblical calendar and Friday was the set apart day and Saturday the Sabbath.
92 Refer to note number one next to this.
93 This was early morning on the first day of the week and the feast of firstfruits and the beginning of the 7 week count to Shavuot
94 In verse 22, Yehoshua breathes on the Sent Ones to receive the set apart ruach and is setting the stage for them to lay hands on brethren in the future for the imparting of the set apart ruach (Acts 8:12-19). Sins are forgiven through repentance and the ceremony of immersion to join the New Covenant. Here, Yehoshua is stating that He is giving His ministers authority to discern if someone is truly repentant and whether they should be immersed or not and have hands laid on them to receive the set apart ruach.
95 153 is the numerical value of Hos 1:10 which states that Yehovah will say to the dispersed Israelites that they are now 'sons of the living Elohim”. A hidden message here that the Sent Ones would be going to the lost tribes for redemption (Math 10:6).
96 In the Greek this analogy is mostly missed, but in the Aramaic it is very clear why Yahsha asks Keipha 3 times. Once He asks to feed His lambs (little ones), next His sheep (males) and next His ewes (females). As Keipha had denied Him 3 times now He had to redeem himself 3 times by these questions.
97 Congregational history tells us that the authorities were coming for the Apostle Keipha and the brethren convinced him to flee the town, but when he was leaving he saw Yehoshua who told him that He must be crucified again and Keipha realized that He was speaking about Keipha's death and Keipha went back and he asked to be crucified upside down as he did not feel worthy to be crucified in the same manner that Yehoshua was.
98 This is the Apostle Yochanan
99 The point is clear that all true talmidim through the ages need to follow Yehoshua and His requirements for discipleship and although believers are commanded to “watch” the times they are living in they should not be caught up in the timing that is left to Yehovah.
1 The Greek translates into the verse the phrase “A Sabbath’s day journey”
2 Aramaic term
3 Many of these people were displaced Israelites (1Pe 1:1)
4 There is a wordplay with the words loins and throne that can only be recognized in the original Aramaic language.
5 The reward of the saved is not heaven but eternal life in the Kingdom of Yehovah on the earth. (Rev 5:10)
6 Yehovah is a family name consisting of Yah Yehovah the Father and Yehoshua Yehovah the son. In Mathew 28:19 the talmidim are told to immerse or immerse in the 'name', it is singular in the original Aramaic. When one is immersed into covenant relationship it is done into the family name of Yehovah by the shed blood of Yehoshua, the son of Yehovah. The Peshitta clearly has the correct rendering of Yehoshua Yehovah here showing that Yehovah is a family name. You can never come to that proper conclusion when using the Greek translation with pagan titles inserted.
7 Keeping the proper doctrine that was taught by the elders was extremely important in the early house of assembly. Also, 'breaking bread' is an ancient phrase and simply means eating a meal together. (Acts 2:46)
8 This can only be done with a full 100% voluntary submission to Yehovah and each other, something that is sorely lacking in western culture today.
9 Deut: 18:15-16, 19
10 Clearly if there is only one name where people can be saved it is the name “Yehoshua” which means Yehovah’s salvation. (Ex 23:21, Phil 2:9, Joh 17:11, Math 1:21, 1Joh 2:12)
11 The point is that Khananyah did not have to dedicate all the proceeds to Yehovah, but claiming that he did and then lying about it brought his death. Interesting enough the name Khananyah means “grace of Yehovah”.
12 There is a word play here in the Aramaic between touch “qarab” and magnified “yarab”.
13 Yehoshua was crucified on a living tree (Luk 23:31), not a dead piece of wood. This typified the Garden of Eden with the tree of life compared to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
14 This man was a very famous Rabbi in the first century and he is exalted in the Jewish Talmud. It also states that he had 2 great students and one fell away, which most believe is referring to the Apostle Paul (Shaul) who was a student of Gamaliel (Acts 22:3).
15 Another clear indication showing the extreme importance of the name of Yehovah and Yehoshua.
16 The laying on of hands was a formal ceremony used with anointing oil to ordain deacons and elders and is consistent in scripture with the transferring of authority as with Mosheh and Yehoshua in Deut 34:9. It was also performed in elders praying for the sick (Jac 5:14). One would not be considered an elder if he was not ordained (Titus 1:5). Ordination is only for men not women, women leaders are forbidden in scripture (1 Tim 2:11-12)
17 Heb 1:3, Heb 8:1, Heb 10:10-13, 1Pe 3:22, Acts 2:33, Ro 8:34
18 History tells us this man was an evil deceiver and when he went to Rome he took the title of 'Pater' meaning 'father' and through antiquity, false Christianity has confused this Simon the Pater with Simon Keipha the Apostle. The reality is that The Apostle Keipha spent very little time in Rome, only at the end of his life.
19 He was taking a title only for Elohim
20 The set apart ruach is transferred through the laying on of hands of a true ordained elder of Yehovah. Notice that Simon Magus was asking to buy this 'authority' to be able to transfer the set apart ruach to someone. People who are immersed in water without the proper laying on of hands of a true ordained elder of Yehovah who was given the authority to do so by Yehovah are simply getting wet. Even being a deceiver and a sorcerer he knew only a true ordained elder with the authority from Yehovah could transfer the set apart ruach (Ruach H'Chodesh) to someone.
21 This verse is omitted from the Peshitta text and also the oldest Greek translated texts.
22 Shaul wanted official documents from the high priest in order to arrest any perpetrators and bring them back to Yerushalayim for trial.
23 Means “Grace of Yah”
24 Paul spoke Greek and different languages (1 Cor 14:18)
25 Means Gazelle
26 In verse 12, there are clean and unclean animals on the sheet. Keipha could have eaten a clean animal as all that was said to him was to eat. However, according to the Jewish oral law of the Rabbis, if something clean was on the same sheet or table as something unclean, then it became common and could not be touched or eaten. There is one word for “unclean” meaning defiled and another word for “common”, meaning used by everyone. If a gentile touched something of a Yehudi, then it became common and could not be used ever again. Yehudim in the 1st century would not even use olive oil that was crushed by a gentile.
27 Yehovah is using the analogy with food to tell Keipha not to call people who were now in the New Covenant common (vs 28,34,36)
28 This was unlawful according to the Rabbinical tradition (takanot) but not according to Torah. The whole vision is about changing from the old rigid way that the Jewish tradition (takanot) of the rabbis looked at non Jewish converts, but nowhere does it ever condone the eating of unclean food according to Lev the 11th chapter. This whole incident is taking place around 10 years after the resurrection and Keipha clearly said in chapter 10:14, that “he never ate anything unclean”.
29 The set apart ruach rested on them, meaning that it was guiding them, but they still needed immersion and the laying on of hands to enter covenant with Yehovah and have His ruach indwelling in them.
30 This confirms the above study note
31 This term was used by people living in the nations who referred to gentile believers as such, but was not used by believers in Yisrael. Later we get the universal term used today “Messianic”.
32 Many translations erroneously insert “easter” here but in the original Aramaic as well as even the Greek manuscripts it is the word “Pesach”.
33 Yehoshua was crucified on a tree (Luk 23:31)
34 In the Torah the sins of murder, idolatry, blasphemy and adultery held the death penalty. When Yehoshua magnified the Torah (Math 5:17) He showed that anger is murder, lust is adultery and in doing so, He revealed that all humans are under a death penalty according to the first covenant, which had no avenue to remove that death sentence. In the New Covenant, by belief in Yehoshua, He pays our death penalty by His death when we are immersed and enter covenant with Him (Col 2:12-14).
35 Another clear proof that the believers were meeting on the Sabbath and not on Sunday, for if the gentiles were meeting on Sunday, then why would they have to wait a whole week to hear Paul preach again, they simply would have continued the discussion the next day.
36 All early believers kept the 7th day Sabbath (Saturday). Sunday worship did not come about until it was instituted by the Roman Bishop Sixtus in around 116 A.D.
37 Clearly, the issue being discussed is 'does an adult gentile believer need to be circumcised to enter the New Covenant'. The issue is not whether the Torah has validity in a believer's life; this was clearly understood to be so.
38 Again, it is NOT the whole Torah at issue here, except whether an adult male needs to be circumcised to enter the New Covenant. It should also be noted that according to the Jewish tradition (takanot) of that time, there were other non-biblical oral law requirements of the Rabbis that needed to be observed before circumcision would be allowed.
39 Although, the Torah is set apart, just and good (Ro 7:12), human beings are not and according to the Torah (Deut 27:26) if one entered the first covenant, then they were obligated to observe every law of Torah and there was no way to have certain sins removed such as adultery, idolatry, blasphemy and murder. Yehoshua magnified the Torah to show that in ruach every human being has committed such sins. Since Circumcision is the sign of the first covenant in which you could not have the penalty of such sins removed, Keipha is clearly stating why would the elders want to put such a burden on new believers. Paul clearly expounds on this in the scroll of Galatians that if one is circumcised and joins the old covenant that Messiah will profit him nothing as there was no removal of sins but simply a hope of a better covenant to come with a more perfect priesthood in Melchizedek. Since immersion and not circumcision is the sign of the New Covenant, then a male gentile adult would not have to be circumcised to join. This did not change the Torah command for all believers to circumcise their male babies at 8 days to fulfill the law of clean and unclean.
40 It would be ridiculous to think that these are the only 4 requirements that a new gentile believer needed to follow, as it does not mention murder, blasphemy or even belief in Yehoshua. Since cultural issues such as not draining the blood correctly in animals was keeping Jewish believers from fellowshipping with gentile ones, the Sent Ones are simply making basic rules that will allow them to meet together with a clear conscience. These 4 points are not the only doctrine that a new gentile believer will have to learn, but they are a starting point, as the next verse clearly states that the gentiles will “hear the Torah each Sabbath that they meet” with the Jewish believers, clearly showing the still binding validity of the Sabbath and Torah, even after this decree.
41 Gal 5:1-7, Rom 2:28-29
42 It should also be noted that as well as the sign of the first covenant that circumcision was also a cultural issue in which a Yehudi would not sit and eat with someone who was not uncircumcised (Acts 10:28). This was not written in the Torah, but was part of the Jewish oral law and was overridden by the decree of the Sent Ones.
43 This verse is missing from the Aramaic Peshitta and also early Greek manuscripts
44 Paul kept the 7th day Sabbath
45 Rev 20:13
46 2 Cor 5:10, Rev 20:13, Psa. 9:8
47 Most likely this is referring to Pesach as this is the winter of the year 51 or 52 AD.
48 The set apart Days in scripture are used as time markers throughout the bible. It would be inconceivable to do so if they were not keeping these days. Clearly the 7th day Sabbath (Saturday) and the set apart Days were kept during the first century by talmidim of Yehoshua.
49 This was a Sabbath afternoon and since Paul was leaving the next day he preached until midnight. The fact that he was leaving on the first day of the week (Sunday) clearly shows that this day had no religious significance to the believers with him.
50 Breaking bread is an ancient Semitic term that simply means eating together.
51 This would have been the Roman fort called Antonia.
52 Some claim that fort Antonia only housed 600 soldiers; this scripture proves that false as the Roman centurion would never send close to 80% of all his troops to guard a basically unknown prisoner. Antonia housed more like 10,000 soldiers and at times even more. Josephus states it was the size of a large city.
53 The Apostle Paul was a former Rabbi and was Torah observant, kept the 7th day Sabbath and obeyed the rule of law. The false account that he was teaching against Torah observance is baseless and not in scripture.
54 1 Cor 15:23, Is 42:6
55 Another set apart day used as a time marker, which again proves the early believers were keeping this fast day.
56 Verse 27 spoke of the 14th night before the 14th day, showing that a biblical day begins at sunset.
57 These were the two sons of Zeus which the pagan zodiac Gemini displays.
58 There was no New Testament until the second century and Paul is teaching from the Torah and the prophets.
59 This verse is not in the Aramaic Peshitta or the earliest Greek manuscripts.
60 The message that Yehoshua proclaimed and also His talmidim after Him was the message of the restoration of the Kingdom of Yehovah to this earth, beginning at Yerushalayim and going throughout all the world when Yehoshua returns.
1 This epistle should be the letter from Ya'akov the half brother of Yehoshua. Later the king of England, James, changed the scroll to his name when the bible was printed in English. Also this letter is written to the House of Yisrael in Diaspora showing the tribes were not lost.
2 Sin brings death not eternal life in Gehenna.
3 Obedience is the evidence of one's belief. (Lev 22:31-32)
4 From Genesis to Revelation there are only blessings for obedience and cursing for disobedience.
5 The name of Yehovah is on true believers through His name on the house of assembly.
6 The adversary doesn't care if you keep most commandments perfectly as long as you consistently break one. That is all that is needed to keep you out of Yehovah’s kingdom.
7 Deeds are the evidence of your belief as Yehovah’s ruach is not barren and if there is no deed to back up your belief, then you don't have any belief.
8 One of the most portent descriptions of the wickedness of the tongue. (Ps 39:1, Ps 52:1-4, Pr 10:19, Math 12:34-37)
9 Gen. 1:26, Yer 9:4-9
10 The ruach of Yehovah is one of shalom and cooperation, yet the ruach in man is full of envy, jealously and contention, from The adversary.
11 Shalom doesn't just happen it has to be made. As Ambassadors for Yehoshua (2Cor 5:20) peacemaking needs to be upon our highest priorities.
12 1Joh 2:15-17
13 Full 100% surrender to Yehovah is a prerequisite for salvation.
14 Verse 3 shows this is for the latter days and is a warning to all those in western society who have lived in luxury as 75% of the world lives in poverty. Ps 24:1 states all belongs to Yehovah and whatever wealth one has is a blessing but must be used for the kingdom.
15 Every true prophet in the bible spoke only in the true name of the Creator Yehovah. Anyone who claims to being coming in the name of Elohim and uses false pagan titles for Yehovah cannot be truly sent by Him (Is 8:20).
16 Yehovah has believers go to the elders for anointing of the sick to show His judicial order. Only an ordained elder should anoint with oil as it is a sacred ceremony for ordination, and for healing the sick.
17 True believers' must pray without ceasing and this shows how important and powerful prayer is in the believers life. However, Pr 28:9 shows obedience must accompany it.
1 Historically these are all the areas that the Israelites went into in their Diaspora. Gal 2:8 shows that Keipha was sent to the Israelites and Paul to the gentiles. This confirms Yehoshua's command to the Sent Ones in Math 10:6. (Acts 2:8-10)
2 The believer's reward is being kept in heaven but the believer is never promised heaven as their reward. Gal 3:29 states that the believer has the same reward as Abraham, which is the physical land of Yisrael (Gen 15:18, 17:7-8) Joh 14:1-3 shows that Yehoshua is coming back to earth from heaven and His reward will be with Him to give to each true talmid (Is 62:11). Please see lesson 6 of the bible study course on line www.coyhwh.com.
3 Yehovah the Father raised Yehoshua Messiah, the son showing they cannot be the same being. (Math 27:46)
4 The intention of Yehovah when He took Yisrael out of Mitsrayim was to make a nation of priests (Ex. 19:5, 6). This did not happen due to the continual rebellion of the people, so in the New Covenant clearly the intention, as it originally was, is to make a kingdom of priests according to the order of Melchizedek (Heb 7:11, Heb 3:1)
5 As shown in 1Pe 1:1, this letter is written to Israelites living abroad and Keipha uses a direct quote from Hosea 1:6-10, to show through Messiah these dispersed Israelites are able to be rejoined to the covenant of Yehovah, even in their Diaspora.(Hos. 1:6, 9-10; 2:1, 23, Eph 2: 11-19)
6 He did not literally preach to these souls who are sleeping in the grave. Sheol is the grave (dirt), by Yehoshua qualifying to be judge of all by His perfect life, and His death and resurrection, He now has authority to judge these wicked people on judgment day. They were already warned by Yehovah’s servants while they were alive.
7 Baptism (full immersion) is the sign of the New Covenant agreement and when one enters the new covenant through immersion they go from death to life having their sins forgiven by the penalty of their sins being paid for by the blood of Yehoshua Messiah.
8 It was preached to them while they were alive, and now they are dead and waiting for judgment for rejecting the message.
9 'Messianic' was mostly a term used by westerners for believers, as where scripture does use this word 3 times, it refers to believers as talmidim more than 250 times.
10 Ya'akov 4:7
11 Where as Paul went to mostly western places from Yisrael, Keipha went to mostly the eastern places where many Yehudim and Israelites where residing. There were more Yehudim living in Babylon at this time then even in Yisrael.
12 This is an ancient Middle eastern custom of kissing a person on both checks when greeting them, Due to modesty men would only kiss men and women would kiss women.
1 (Psa. 2:7; Gen. 22:2; Isa. 42:1; Matt. 17:5)
2 Is 28:10 states “line on line precept on precept”, showing the bible interprets itself, but you may have to go to other scrolls of the bible transcribed by a different person, but Yehovah is the author of all of it.
3 They are not bearing any fruit but are only troublemakers.
4 The blood of Messiah pays the penalty of our sins, and the set apart ruach gives us a new ruach to reject sin and walk in newness of life. If we reject this ruach from Yehovah and go back to our old way of life, then we are blaspheming the set apart ruach and rejecting eternal life. (Heb 6:4-6)
5 Just as Yehovah created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th, Yehovah has given mankind 6,000 years to make his own government, education, religion and society, and at the end of the 6,000 yrs Yehoshua will return to earth to set up the Kingdom of Yehovah for the 1,000 yr millennial rule completing Yehovah’s 7,000 year plan. (Psa. 90:4) Then the new heaven and earth will be established and His Kingdom forever. (Rev 21:1-4)
6 The day of Yehovah is not a particular day of the week but the time period of His wrath on mankind for his continued sin and rebellion since the Garden of Eden. (Yoel 2:1-11)
7 Keipha is clearly supporting the Apostle Paul's epistles and teachings and also calling them part of scripture.
8 Keipha is accusing false brethren of perverting Paul's letters due to their lawless doctrines and also that they corrupt other scripture.
1 The verb tense here is clearly showing that Yehoshua “was' from the beginning. He did not come into being, but simply always existed with the Father.
2 Yochanan's epistle is written somewhere in the mid 90's AD and Yochanan is the last living Apostle and much heresy is taking place. This scripture is clear proof that anyone saying that he is a talmid of Yehoshua and not being obedient to the Torah and the commandments is nothing but a liar.
3 The Aramaic word used here for walk is “halach” which literally means “to go” or the way one should go, in which Rabbis get the term “halacha”, which is the way to go that is required to perform in order to be considered a talmid. Clearly part of that way included the Sabbath day, the Pesach and feast days of Leviticus 23 and the whole Torah, excluding the Levitical law that was added (Gal 3:19). The clear message is that any true talmid of Yehoshua needs to do the same things that He did, which was being fully Torah observant. Doing away with the Torah and commandments is not an option for a true believer in Messiah and is a litmus test to divide between a true talmid and one in name only. (Math 7:20-23, Is 8:20)
4 Acts 4:12 clearly states there is only one name that one can be saved by and that is “Yehoshua”, meaning Yehovah’s salvation.
( Math 1:21, Ex 23:21, Phil 2:9, 1Jn 3:23)
5 Yochanan is not stating that there is no need for pastors and teachers as outlined in Eph 4:11-14, and set up and ordained by Yehoshua Himself, but the problem was Gnostic teaching that one must have secret knowledge of hidden things. This is what Yochanan was speaking against.
6 Sin is clearly defined as the breaking of the Torah. The Christian argument against keeping the Torah is extremely weak and non-biblical as if there is no Torah, then there would be no sin, and then why would someone need a savior? It is utterly evil to preach a lawless message of salvation. (Math 7:21-23, Is 8:20, Pr 28:9, Rev 14:12)
7 Ro 8:7 tells us that before immersion and the laying on of hands to receive the set apart ruach that the carnal mind is hatred toward Yehovah’s Torah. It is the set apart ruach that changes our heart to write the Torah on our very hearts (Heb 8:10). Once someone does this he may still as a human being slip up and sin, but he would not practice sin as a lifestyle. Those saying the Torah is done away are proving (according to scripture) they still have the carnal mind of their wicked human nature and not the set apart ruach (Ruach H'Chodesh) of Yehovah.
8 (Ps 119:172) All the commandments are righteousness.
9 The commandments are a law of love and they teach us how to love Yehovah and how to love our neighbor as ourselves. The fact that verse 15 shows that murder brings death is proof of this as it is one of the commandments ( Deut 10:13).
10 It is a basic tenet of the true belief to use the blessings that Yehovah has bestowed upon a believer to help those in need.
11 The clear command is to believe in the true name of the son of Yehovah called Yehoshua. Acts 4:12 clearly states there is only one name that brings salvation. “Yehoshua” means Yehovah’s salvation, as where 'Jesus' has no entomology or meaning.
12 Obedience to the Torah is the evidence of one's belief and proof of the Ruach H'Chodesh (set apart ruach) being in him.
13 Is 8:20
14 Anti-Messiah means to be in the place of Messiah. Gnostic teaching at this time was teaching that since flesh is primarily evil that Yehoshua could have never come in a human body. Yochanan is refuting this false belief.
15 Yehovah’s character is only true love. His Torah and commands are only an extension of His character and love for mankind. One can memorize the bible from cover to cover but if he is not obedient to Yehovah’s Torah and does not have genuine Elohim guided love for his neighbor, then it is all vanity and meaningless and self righteous.
16 Yochanan 1:18
17 Fear is the opposite of belief and the acronym for fear is “false evidence appearing real.” Fear is from The adversary and only brings torment to a person. It should also be noted that statistically most fears of people will never actually come to pass.
18 The later Latin manuscripts erroneously adds a verse that states there are three that bear witness in heaven, the Father, the word and the ruach. This verse is not in the Aramaic and is also not in any early Greek manuscript, but clearly a forgery that was added later.
The point of the verse is that Yochanan is dealing with Gnostics who did not believe Yehoshua was born in the flesh and Yochanan was showing that at conception it was the water and blood to make the fetus, at His birth since Miriam was a virgin her hymen was broken and Yehoshua was born through water and blood and at His death the soldier stabbed Him in the side and water and blood came out. Also, the ruach is the third witness of His human birth as He was conceived by the set apart ruach (Math 1:18), at His immersion the ruach came upon Him (Math 3:16) and at His death He gave up the ruach (Math 27:50).
19 Most testimony comes from men, but to deny the virgin birth and Yehoshua as Messiah and son of Yehovah is to deny the testimony of Yehovah Himself (Is 7:14), so to deny this is to call Yehovah a liar.
20 Believing in the name of Yehoshua is critical for salvation as the name of the Father Yehovah is in Yehoshua's name (Ex 23:21) and scripture states there is salvation in no other name (Acts 4:12)
21 The sin unto death is willful sin without repentance. It is blasphemy to pray for such an attitude and Yehovah will not hear it. ( Num 15:30, Heb 10:26-32, Heb 6:4-6)
22 The last thing Yochanan reminds the believers is to stay away from idolatry.
1 This letter is either written to the lead house of assembly or is simply a letter to the house of assembly as a whole.
2 The two overriding themes in all of the Apostle Yochanan's letters are love and obedience, which do not contradict each other but go hand in hand.
3 Yochanan is dealing with the same Gnostic false belief that Yehoshua did not come to earth born of a virgin as a fleshly human being. See note on 1 Joh 5:8.
4 To say that Yehovah the Father is the same being as Yehoshua the son is a false doctrine and heresy according to Yochanan and is the ruach of anti-messiah.
5 It was customary for believers to bless each other when they greeted one another. Many early houses of assembly also met in homes (Ro 16:5). Yochanan is commanding that if someone brings a doctrine that is in the place of the doctrine of Messiah that such a one should not be greeted with a blessing and also not allowed into the home for fellowship either.
6 Yochanan was giving a greeting from a sister house of assembly of fellow believers. Probably due to the persecution going on at that time to believers he is writing in somewhat of a concealed manner.
1 The epistles of 2nd and 3rd Yochanan are not in the original Aramaic Peshitta text but were installed in later editions. Also, the scroll of Yehudah, 2 Keipha and Revelation are not in the original Peshitta text. The reason for this most likely is that since the Peshitta is the original New Testament manuscript these 5 scrolls being the last 5 New Testament documents written, they simply were written after the original Peshitta text was being circulated. The Greek translations which probably came sometime in the mid second century A.D. Does have these 5 scrolls and also the later Peshitta translation also has them.
2 History tells us that Yochanan was the last Apostle alive and by the end of the 1st century A.D. The house of assembly was getting so splintered that some western bishops were actually treating the Apostle Yochanan as a heretic. Not long after Yochanan's death the western Roman bishops were openly supporting Sunday worship and changing from keeping the Pesach memorial from a yearly occurrence on the 14th of the first new moon of the Hebrew calendar Aviv, to a weekly celebration and a yearly ritual on Easter in honor of the spring goddess Istar. Polycarp, a talmid of the Apostle Yochanan kept a stronghold of the truth in Asia minor, but could not convince the Roman bishops of their errors. The house of assembly continued to splinter in the 2nd and third centuries, until Constantine the Great (a pagan Emperor) had a vision of a cross and a so called conversion and merged the pagan sun cult with some Christian beliefs and created what is called today as Christianity, a synchronization of the two beliefs with the majority coming from Paganism and sun worship.
1 Yehudah prophesies about the lawless gospel that is being preached today.
2 This is quite a sobering scripture considering almost 2.8 million people left Mitsrayim and only 2 (20 and above) entered the Promised Land.
3 These fallen messengers are in Tarturos waiting judgment day.
4 Yehudah is prophesying of the end time Laodicean attitude that is fully against Yehovah’s judicial order and ordained leadership.
5 They are led by a ruach of envy, jealousy and self-preservation.
6 Gen 5:22-24, Heb 11:5
7 If Yehovah is one's shepherd (Ps 23:1) then he should be happy, satisfied and content under Yehoshua's protection, but these people are miserable and unsatisfied.
8 The scroll of Yehudah is a prophecy for the end times.
9 Pr 18:1 states he who separates himself seeks his own desire, but these self-motivated wicked false brethren in the end time will refuse to be part of any house of assembly and to be under the judicial order ordained by Yehoshua (Eph 4:11-14), but will actually fight against it.
1 Yehoshua is not Yehovah the Father, but is Yehovah the son and is seated on the right hand of Yehovah in heaven. This clearly shows two thrones and two beings, being one or united in mind, thought and purpose. (Ro 8:34, Acts 2:33, 7:55-56, 1Pe 3:22, Heb 8:1, 10:10-13, 12:2, Ps 110:1)
2 All the Messengers such as Gabri-el, Micha-el, Rapha-el are named after the generic title of El, but Yeho-shua is named after the family name of Yehovah giving Him a better name.
3 This verse is quoted from Ps 45:6-7 and shows that the Messiah is called Elohim and also the Messiah is a different being than Elohim the Father.
4 Yehoshua was there at creation (Gen 1:26)
5 Messengers were not created to become literal children and heirs of Yehovah, but were created to be ministering spirits. Apparently this is part of the reason that pride entered Lucifer and he rebelled and became the adversary (Is 14:12-15, Ezek 28:14-17).
6 The important phrase “except Yehovah” is in the original Peshitta but is excluded in the Greek translation and shows the duality of the Yehovah family.
7 Isa. 8:17-18
8 Fear brings bondage of mind and soul. (1 Joh 4:18)
9 Isa. 41:8, 9, Gen. 12:1-2, Gal 3:29
10 The Aramaic word is 'qarya' which comes from the root of “varyikra” which is the name of the scroll of Leviticus. Paul is making a word play on the changing of the Levitical priesthood to Melchizedek.
11 Paul uses the Aramaic word Kumrea, instead of Cohen for priest showing that Yehoshua was a High Priest of Melchizedek not Levi. A large portion of this epistle is to show the change of priesthood. (1Pe 2:9)
12 Both Mosheh and Yehoshua were mediators, delivers, intercessors and prophets who got direct revelation from Yehovah without an intermediary.
13 Paul is showing the superiority of the Melchizedek order to the Levitical one.
14 Joh 2:18-21
15 Yehudah 5, Ex 16:2-8, 1Cor 10:1-12
16 Practicing sin without repentance will lead to the hardening of the heart and quenching of the set apart ruach (1Joh 5:16-18).
17 Obedience is the evidence of belief and both are needed to enter Yehovah’s kingdom. They go hand in hand and don't contradict each other. (Heb 11:6, Ro 3:31, Ro 4:3, 16-25)
18 There were 6 days for creation, the 7th day was the rest of the Sabbath, there is 6,000 yrs for mans' self motivated system, then the 7th millennium will be the rest of Yehovah and His kingdom to this earth. One must fully believe this and live for that rest (kingdom) each day. The Sabbath is a weekly reminder of that rest and kingdom. (Ps 90:4, 2 Pe 3:8)
19 The Sabbath has always been the 7th day, which is known as Saturday on the Roman calendar. (Acts 13:27,42,44, Acts 15:21, Acts 16:13, Acts 17:2. Acts 18:4, Is 56:1-8)
20 The Sabbath is still clearly a requirement in the New Testament as it is the very sign of identity to being a child of Yehovah (Ex 31:12-19). In both the Aramaic and the Greek text the word for Sabbath in this verse is used as a verb that it is something the believer must “be doing”, not simply believing. The word for Sabbath in Hebrew in Gen 2:1 is Shabbat and literally means to rest and Paul is equating the millennial rest and our rest from sin in Messiah with the Sabbath rest. It shows who the Creator is and gives Him honor for His creation.
21 In Leviticus 23:2 when it states to have ”a set apart gathering” on the Sabbath this word literally means a rehearsal and each Sabbath when we rest from our own works we honor Yehovah as Creator and rehearse for His soon coming Kingdom where He will be sovereign over all and mankind’s work of selfishness and envy and greed inspired by The adversary will have ceased forever.
22 Again comparing the weekly 7th day Sabbath with the 7th millennium and encouraging the believer to focus each Sabbath to be able to have the belief to enter Yehovah’s kingdom.
23 The Torah should convict us to both obedience and belief, as you need one to have the other. (Acts 2:37, Luk 2:35)
24 The Greek texts omits this phrase about humility.
25 Can also mean sickness. Is 53:3-4
26 Math 3:16-17, Joh 8:54
27 Melchizedek is an order and a title but not a personal name. Yehoshua is eternally the High priest of the order and we are training to be priests under Him (Rev 5:10).
28 1Pe 2:20-25
29 Discernment comes through experience and experience comes through habit. Repetition is the mother of skill, a true believer must be reading the bible daily, praying without ceasing, fasting often, and meditating on the word of Yehovah each day.
30 Paul is not saying to forget these basic doctrines but to build from them and move on to perfection. It is a mystery why many believers do not even believe these basic tenets of the one true belief.
31 Acts 2:37-38, Acts 8:12-19, 10:47-48, 16:22-33, 19:1-6, 1 Pe 3:21, Lk 13:1-5
32 1Cor 15:51-58, 1Thes 4:14-18, Math 22:23-32
33 Rev 20:10-15, 2 Cor 5:10
34 If you are blinded and don't know the truth, then Yehovah can judge your heart and intention on judgment day (Luk 12:48, Ro 2:14-16), but if you have been immersed into the New Covenant and have received His set apart ruach and your mind knows the truth and you willingly turn back on it and continue to sin, then that person would be so hardened by the sin that he would never repent and therefore go to the Lake of Fire.(Heb 10:26-32, Joh 9:39-41)
35 Melchizedek is a title and an order, but not a personal name.
36 Only Yehoshua holds these titles and is clearly Melchizedek (Gen 14:17-20, Yer 23:5-6)
37 We see this eternal priesthood even in the Garden of Eden as when Adam sinned, Yehoshua had to sacrifice the first animal showing that sin sheds innocent blood (Gen 3:21). The word “like” here means “the same”, Paul is revealing Yehoshua as Melchizedek.
38 Tithing was instituted way before the covenant at Mount Sinai and the Levitical priesthood (Gen 28:22, Gen 14:17-20), but Yehovah shared His tithe with Levi during the period of the Temple sacrifices, Num 18:6-14.
39 Showing the far superiority that Yehoshua as Melchizedek has to Abraham, a human.
40 Quoting from Ps 110;4, showing that Melchizedek is an eternal title and an eternal being.
41 Clearly as verse 19 will show the Levitical order with the added ceremonial law and sacrifices was simply a bridge to get the nation of Yisrael from Mount Sinai until the Messiah would come.
42 The issue on hand is tithing. Now that Melchizedek has taken over for Levi who receives the tithe? This verse is showing that there is not an abrogation of the tithing law, simply a change in the instruction on who is to receive the tithe. In the 1st covenant Yehovah allowed Levi a share of it, and now in the New Covenant the tithe is still to be for the building of the spiritual sanctuary and would be collected by the elders for the spiritual work of Yehovah. The principle is the same. Some have wrongly asserted that this is speaking of the whole Torah; when read in context nothing could be further from the truth, the issue at hand is simply where does the tithe go under the Melchizedek order.
43 The tithe is still a commandment but is now collected by the elders instead of the Levites.
44 This verse again shows that Melchizedek can only be Yehoshua as no other being except Yehovah is eternal and immortal (1Tim 6:16)
45 Speaking of the changing of the priesthood from Levi to Melchizedek. (Gal 3:19) Under the Levites the tithe went to buy the sacrifices and support a system that never removed the penalty of sin. Now the tithe would go to the building of the spiritual sanctuary, which removes all sin and brings the message of the good news of Yehoshua to the world.
46 This can only be Yehoshua who bears the title of “Melchizedek” meaning “King of Righteousness” as there is only one High Priest.
47 There is no need for a second high priest as the the first one is eternal.
48 Speaking about the oath in Ps 110:4, that Yehoshua is an eternal priest bearing the title Melchizedek. Ps 110:5 also calls Melchizedek Yehovah, as Yehovah is a family name. In Ps 110, there are clearly 2 Yehovah’s, one sitting on the eternal throne and in verse 5 of Ps 110 one seated next to Him.
49 Yehoshua is not the Father Yehovah but is seated at His right hand of power in Heaven. (Acts 2:33, 7:55-56, Math 26:64)
50 Heb 5:1
51 This is written in the present tense showing the temple was still standing at this time.
52 It is a better priesthood and we can have the penalty of our sins removed, something that could not happen in the first covenant which was only a shadow. In the first, the sins were simply laid on the altar and covered from year to year. The day of Atonement, which is Yom Kippur in Hebrew means covering, not removing. They were not removed until Yehoshua paid the penalty for all sin, when He was crucified. Clearly there are 2 distinct separate covenants and the New Covenant is superior (Heb 7:22)
53 The weakness of the first covenant at Mount Sinai was not the Torah, which is set apart, just and good (Ro 7:12), but the inability for the people to keep it since the Torah can tell you right from wrong (Ps 119:105) but it can't change your heart.
54 The Torah or instruction of Yehovah stays the same in any covenant of Yisrael. So does the people (Yisrael) and the land of Yisrael. These 3 aspects never change in any biblical covenant.
55 It is the Old Covenant or contract which had no avenue to forgive sin, which has grown old and is disappearing, not the Torah, which is forever (Psa. 111:7-8)
56 This verse states the altar of incense is behind the veil. There were doors between the set apart place and set apart of Holies and possibly the altar of incense could have been behind the veil but before the doors. 1 Kgs 6:22, 31-32.
57 On the day of Atonement or Yom Kippur
58 Clearly showing the ceremonial law of ritual clean and unclean with a ritual washing called a mikvah are superseded in the New Covenant by the ultimate one time Mikvah of immersion. Since the sacrifice of Messiah is in perpetuity (Heb 10:12), there is no need to be re-immeresed over and over. The ceremonial law was not part of the original covenant but was added with the Levitical order and thereby fulfilled its purpose and is superseded by the Melchizedek priesthood. This has nothing to do with the physical laws of clean and unclean in Leviticus 11 and 12.
59 Speaking of the ashes of the Red Heifer from Numbers chapter 19, which was placed in water and used for the ceremonial washings. The point being made is if ashes of an animal can ceremonially cleanse a person how much more should the actual blood of Yehoshua cleanse our conscience from dead works. The Red Heifer was the only sacrifice that was done at the third altar called the Miphkad altar across the Kidron valley on the eastern slope of the Mount of Olives. The very place where Yehoshua was crucified. This was also the only sacrifice that the Levites had to completely burn and had no authority to partake of because it was a Melchizedek sacrifice not a Levitical one (Heb 13:10-12)
60 It is impossible to be ceremonially unclean when you have been cleansed by the eternal sacrifice of Yashshua.
61 This word can also mean contract
62 Literally a will such as a last will and testament
63 There will be a judgment day when Yehoshua will judge the works of everyone. (2Cor 5:10, Rev 20:13, Acts 17:30-31)
64 Messiah already came to pay the penalty of sin to those who will accept it, but the second coming is about judging the world for their lack of repentance since His first coming and rewarding those who have followed His commands. (Joh 14:1-3, Is 61:1-2)
65 When Yehoshua magnified the Torah (Math 5:17-48) He showed that all humans by intent are murderers, adulterers, blasphemers, and idolaters, all which according to Torah bring the death penalty. Deut 19:21 states eye for eye, tooth for tooth and life for life. Killing an animal could not take away the penalty for those sins because an animal's life is not equal with a human life. Only by Yehoshua being the eternal son of Yehovah and creator of everyone can His one eternal sacrifice pay the penalty for all sin.
66 Quoted from Ps 40:6 and a most clear reference to the Messiah coming in an earthly body to die for the sins of the people.
67 Yer 7:21-23 Originally, Yehovah never gave command about the Levitical sacrificial system until after the golden calf incident. Up to then, Levi was to be a shadow of the High Priest and all 12 tribes were to be priests (Ex 19:5-6), after the golden calf, the Levitical order was set up as a mediator for Yisrael until Messiah would come and restore the Melchizedek order.
68 Clearly, there was a first covenant and there is a New Covenant. They are two separate covenants, although they have similar requirements. In the New covenant the priesthood and the agreements about sin are changed but the Torah, the people (Yisrael) and the land are the same.
69 Yehoshua's sacrifice is continual.
70 Since Yehoshua's sacrifice is in perpetuity there is no reason to have any other sacrifice of an animal to those under the New Covenant order.
71 Math 27:50-51, by Yehoshua paying the penalty for our sins, true covenant believers now have direct access to the throne of Yehovah when praying by Yehoshua's sacrifice. (Rev 8:3-4)
72 Heb 6:4-6, 1Tim 1:12-13
73 Num 15:30, Math 12:32, 1Joh 5:16-17, Heb 6:4-6
74 Faith is not blind belief, but is substance and evidence. (Rev 1:8, Ro 10:17, Jac 2:14-26).
75 This is proof from creation that time started at conjunction not 1 to 3 days later when the crescent moon would appear.
76 A shadow of Sukkot Lev 23:42-43
77 Gal 4:24-26
78 This would include Enoch who is mentioned in verse 5, who would have died and would not be in heaven as many wrongly assume.
79 The reward of the saved is earth not heaven. (Gen 15:18, Gen 17:7-8), these great men of belief are sleeping in the earth waiting the resurrection. (Acts 7:60, Joh 11:11, 1 Thes 4:15, 1 Cor 15:51, Eccl 9:5)
80 All true believers will receive their reward when Yehoshua returns to earth. (Joh 14:1-3, Is 62:11). Since no one has received their reward yet, talmidim today must show the same belief that these men of Hebrew 11 showed back then. The fact that it clearly states that none of these men received their reward shows that they are not in heaven but sleeping the earth awaiting the resurrection. Even King David, a man after Yehovah’s own heart is said to be sleeping in the earth and not in heaven. (Acts 2:29, 34)
81 Acts 7:55-56, Acts 2:33, Heb 8:1, Heb 1:3
82 Worldly sorrow is simply being sorry for not having what one wants and is bred from selfishness. True Elohim guided repentance is a 180% turn from sin, and showing the fruit of that repentance. Esau did not have this and was simply sorry that he lost his blessing (2 Cor 7:10).
83 Paul is speaking of the sacrifice of the Red Heifer from Numbers 19. This was the only sacrifice not done on the altar in front of the sanctuary, but was done across the Kidron valley at the Miphkad altar on the eastern slope of the Mount of Olives where Yehoshua was sacrificed. This was also the place where the ashes were taken of every sin sacrifice that was ever done at the sanctuary of Yehovah and placed right below where Yehoshua was crucified.
84 Paul is clearly stating that Yehoshua was crucified at this third altar called also the place of appointment where the Red Heifer was sacrificed.
85 Paul is teaching the benefit of proper judicial order and following the ordained elders that Yehovah has placed for the benefit of the brethren.
86 Normally, the Apostle Paul signs his letters with his name, but in this case due to the fact that this letter was primarily written to the Jewish brethren in Yisrael whom some were still suspect of Paul due to his persecution of believers before conversion, Paul probably decided not to put his name on it, or when the letter was copied it was left out for the same reason.
1 This describes the false evolutionists precisely.
2 Homosexuality is not natural and is sin. Lev 18:22, Lev 20:13
3 Even repentance is a gift from Yehovah, but as it states in verse 5 one must open their heart to receive it.
4 The standard of ones judgment is the Torah and it's the basis for righteousness Ps 119:172
5 This time is the white throne judgment (Rev 20:11-13) where each person will be judged by the accountability of what he knew and understood based on the 10 commandments (Eccl 12:13). There are many gentiles who have never understood the bible yet they have chosen not to steal or lie, or commit adultery and they will be rewarded at this time or punished if they are sinners.
6 The Third commandment states that you shall not take the name of Yehovah “in vain”. In vain in Hebrew means to change, falsify or make the name of Yehovah common. By Judaism totally never using the sacred name of Yehovah even when reading scripture or praying or singing they have made the name common as most do not even know that the Creator's name is Yehovah and gentiles have replaced the name of Yehovah with pagan titles such as 'god' which is the name of the Babylonian deity. (Is 65:11, Ex 3:15)
7 Circumcision is the sign of the Old Covenant, but immersion (full immersion) is the sign of the New Covenant. (Gal 5:1-7, Acts 15:24) However, male babies should still be circumcised on the 8th day for clean and unclean health laws (Lev 12:2-3).
8 Ps 14:1-3, Ps 5:9, Ps 10:7, Ps 140:3, Ps 36:1, Ps 53:2-3, Is 59:7-8
9 See note on Lev 16:2
10 Since every human being's deeds have been sinful in nature and punishable by death, no human can claim eternal life by his deeds but only by having belief in Yehoshua who has paid the death penalty for the unrighteous deeds of those who accept it and repent.
11 In all of Paul's epistles the argument is never whether one should obey the Torah. The argument is how do we get justified before Yehovah? Is it through the sacrificial system with ceremonial functions or is it strictly through the blood of Yehoshua? The Torah sanctifies a believer after he is justified and teaches him right from wrong, Ps 119:105. Obedience is the evidence of one's belief.
12 Circumcision was not the covenant itself, but was the sign of the covenant.
13 The point that is being made is that Abraham was not in a kingly line to simply inherit the promise of the covenant made with Yehovah, but had to take an action in belief in order for him to receive the promises. Faith is an action and his belief and obedience led to Yehovah making the covenant agreement with him because of his total trust in Yehovah and Abraham’s obedience to Yehovah’s Torah (Gen 26:3-5)
14 The penalty of our sins is forgiven though Yehoshua's death but we are saved through His life.
15 Paul makes a beautiful comparison how the first man Adam failed and how the literal seed of Adam (Yehoshua) succeeded. It is interesting to note that the place where Yehoshua was crucified was called the mount of offense and was at the same place that Adam was cast out of Eden when he sinned. This on on the southern slope of the Mount of Olives east of the true Temple Mount across the Kidron valley.
16 Sin is the breaking of the Torah (1Joh 3:4)
17 Col 2:11-14
18 The Old Covenant had no way to have your sins removed, they were simply covered from year to year on Yom Kippur, which means to cover not remove. Now in the New Covenant Yehovah gives a way through the shed blood of Messiah to completely have the penalty of your sins removed (Yer 32:33-34). However, if we willingly continue to obey sin after accepting this great sacrifice of the blood of the son of Yehovah, then we are mocking the ruach of grace and our sins will not be forgiven. (Heb 10:26-32, Ro 6:23)
19 The Torah does not justify us (make us right with Yehovah), as only the shed blood of Yehoshua can do this, but it sanctifies us (sets us apart for a set apart purpose) and that is why we need to follow it as it teaches us the character and will of Yehovah.
20 The blood of Yehoshua has freed a believer from the death penalty of their past sins, but now obeying the Torah will keep you free and where one slips up he has the blood of Messiah to make up for that. However if one continues to sin it will lead to death (Ro 6:23) and Keipha gravely explains this in 2Pe 2:22.
21 Sin still brings death
22 It is quite clear that if one leaves their spouse and marries another while their spouse is still alive it is called adultery.
23 The problem was never with the perfect Torah of Yehovah, but the inability of the people to keep it, (Heb 8:8) as it can teach you right from wrong but it doesn't change the heart; only the set apart ruach can do this.
24 The Torah was powerless because it can teach you right from wrong (Ps 119:105) but it can't change the heart, only the set apart ruach can do that.
25 Now with our sins forgiven and having the ruach of Yehoshua living in the true believer, they can keep the righteous demand of the Torah just as Yehoshua did.
26 Ro 6:23, Ezek 18:4
27 Whoever rejects the Torah cannot have the ruach of Yehovah.
28 There is one ruach, so the ruach of Yehovah is the same as the ruach of Messiah.
29 Sin is the breaking of the Torah (1Joh 3:4). If the ruach that is in Yehovah and Messiah is in the believer, the ruach will convict the believer to act just as Yehoshua did when He was on earth. (Ps 119:172)
30 The wages of sin (I Joh 3:4) which is the breaking of the Torah is death (Ro 6:23).
31 This most amazing verse shows that once the believer enters covenant relationship with Yehovah and is immersed and has the laying on of hands of a true elder of Yehovah and is impregnated with His ruach, the new believer is a literal child of Yehovah through being begotten by the Ruach H'Chodesh. That is why the Aramaic term Abba is used which is equivalent to daddy in the English and a term of endearment.
32 Another amazing scripture showing the believer's great potential to be an heir with Yehoshua of the universe. This concept is so wonderful it is even hard to fully grasp it.
33 When you look at verse 17 this is an understatement.
34 Mankind has destroyed the beautiful creation of Yehovah and even the creation itself is groaning and waiting for the children of Yehovah to overcome and make their garments white so the Kingdom can come.
35 Again, clearly indicating a literal Father/child relationship with Yehovah.
36 At times someone may be asked to pray for someone and don't know what to say. In these circumstances if the true believer yields to the set apart ruach, the set apart ruach will inspire the prayer as it is living in the true believer.
37 Showing the family relationship that is established with Yehovah and Yehoshua.
38 1Pe 3:22, Col 3:1, Heb 1:3, 8:1, 10:12, 12:2
39 Chapter 9, 10, and 11 are the clearest parts of any of Paul’s letters that he is writing to the Tribes of Yisrael also called the Northern House of Ephraim.
40 Paul is making the point that simply being born an Israelite does not make you a covenant child as spoken about in chapter 8, as out of 2.8 million who left Mitsrayim with Mosheh only 2 people over 20 yrs old actually entered covenant relationship with Yehovah and entered the Promised Land.
41 One must not simply just have the Israelite DNA for salvation but must actively and willingly submit to Yehovah in belief in all things as Abraham did and it was accounted to him for righteousness. (Gen 26:4-5, Rom 4:3)
42 All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of Yehovah (Ro 3:23), in His mercy Yehovah grants repentance to those of a humble heart who surrender to Him, but He doesn’t owe anyone anything as they caused their own destiny by freely choosing to sin.
43 Yehovah didn't cause Pharaoh to sin, but simply knew the nature of Pharaoh and allowed him in a situation that He knew how Pharaoh would react.
44 Every human being has free will, so no one has anyone to blame for their misfortune as each person simply reaps what he has sown.
45 This quote coming from Hosea 2:23 is about the redemption of the House of Ephraim (Northern tribes of Yisrael) in the latter days showing again Paul's intent in writing Romans chapters 9, 10, 11.
46 Paul again stresses the point that even though in the latter days Yehovah will awaken the Northern tribes of Yisrael to their true identity, that one must freely choose to accept this calling and repent of their former way of life and enter covenant, and as verse 27 somberly shows only a small remnant will accept the calling.
47 This will not be 2700 years as the House of Ephraim's Diaspora was, but the calling back will be less than a generation (Math 24:34).
48 Yehovah’s mercy to redeem the House of Yisrael in the end times is not due to their goodness but because of the faithfulness of Yehovah and the promises that He made to Abraham. (Ezek 36:24-36)
49 In the end it is through belief that people will come back to covenant relationship with Yehovah and understand their identity as Israelites.
50 The nation of Yisrael had come to believe as many do even today that the covenant promises of Yehovah are irreversible to Yisrael as a nation no matter what their conduct is. This was never the case as in a covenant, by definition, both parties have something to perform. They looked at their ritualistic law as an end in itself, keeping it in a self-righteous way instead of seeing the Torah as a menorah (Ps 119:105) to lead you to Yehovah and Yehoshua.
51 As a nation this has not been accomplished yet, but will be at the Messiah's return.
52 Paul once again showing his desire for the House of Yisrael to come back into covenant relationship.
53 The nation tried to establish righteousness by physical identity and also through the sacrificial system, which cannot clear the conscience, nor change the heart (Heb 9:13-14)
54 Many translations wrongly translate this word as 'end' bringing the false belief that the Torah is somehow ended. However, both in Aramaic and even Greek the word means “goal” or “end result”, and is showing that to the true believer “Yehoshua is the goal” in how we should strive to be and He kept the Torah perfectly.
55 This verse is not replacing the biblical mandate of immersion and the laying on of hands to receive the ruach of Yehovah and enter covenant relationship, but is establishing belief as a prerequisite to immersion (Acts 2:37-38).
56 When one is immersed in the name of Yehoshua it is a public confession of Him as Messiah and son of Yehovah to all.
57 In the New Covenant although it is still with the House of Yisrael and the House of Yehudah (Heb 8:8) a gentile can join this covenant as an equal full member of the Yehovah family being grafted in by the blood of Yehoshua (Gal 3:29). That is why a gentile does not need to be circumcised, which was the sign of the first covenant, as every covenant is ratified by blood (Heb 9:19-22) and if a gentile was circumcised to join the covenant he would be joining by his own blood and not Messiah's (Col 2:11-14) which he cannot pay the penalty for his own sins. Circumcision is a mute point for Israelites as according to clean and unclean laws (Lev 12:1-3) all Israelite males are circumcised on the 8th day of life.
58 Again showing the importance of the family name of Yehovah, which in the end time will bring salvation (Yoel 2:32).
59 Yehoshua has ordained a ministry (Eph 4:11-14) to guide and lead His work throughout the ages. In this end time Laodicean period (Laodicean means ruled by the people) many in western society do not want to be under any form of leadership and many do not even want to be part of local houses of assembly any longer.
60 To practice one's belief there must be daily study of the the word of Yehovah.
61 Today, Yehovah has a spiritual nation of ruach led believers who are ambassadors for His kingdom all over the world and He also has physically restored the nation of Yisrael after more than 2500 yrs without having full sovereignty over the land. In chapter 11 Paul will compare the physical nation to the spiritual nation.
62 Paul is an Israelite from the tribe of Benjamin and was not a Yehudi. He is making the point that even though Yehovah has a spiritual nation through the body of messiah worldwide, that it did not nullify His promises to the physical nation of Yisrael for restoration. (Ezek 36:24-28, Amos 9:14-15).
63 All those living in this amazing last generation have witnessed the living proof of this scripture by the physical nation of Yisrael being restored after more than 2,500 years.
64 Speaking of the remnant of Israelites who were scattered in their Diaspora (Ro 9:29). They were not redeemed due to their physical heritage, but due to the grace of Yehovah (Ezek 36:17-22)
65 By the physical nation of Yisrael rejecting the message of salvation, Yehoshua sent His talmidim to the lost sheep of the House of Yisrael abroad and opened salvation for all people (Math 10:6).
66 An extremely important prophetic verse showing that when people worldwide who had thought they were gentiles start to understand that they are actually Israelites this is when Messiah will return and the resurrection will take place. (Ezek 37:1-28)
67 A word of caution to true believers in the end time who find out their Israelite heritage and mentally are antagonistic toward the physical, unconverted nation of Yisrael, which was restored physically, but not spiritually yet.
68 A true believer must endure till the end and can fall away and be in the same state as the defiled unconverted if he is not careful.
69 Jac 4:6, Yehovah resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. It has nothing to do with any individual or their action that Yehovah is restoring people in the end time to their Israelite heritage, but it has to do with His grace and name and promises to Abraham, so only those who stay humble and give Yehovah all glory will continue in the true way and the prideful of heart will fall away.
70 Yehovah has restored the physical nation of Yisrael in 1948 in their unbelief, but when Yehoshua returns their eyes will be open and they will also join the New Covenant. (Zech 12:10, Ezek 36:24-28).
71 By this analogy it is clear that all those Paul is referring to are Israelites as they are all from the same olive tree, which represents Yisrael. Some are from the physical nation of Yehudah and some (The wild olive branches) are from the dispersed House of Yisrael.
72 Refer to Gen 48:8-19, clearly the House of Ephraim (Northern tribes of Yisrael) are the fulness of the nations. Meaning, that in the end time Yehovah has set a number of a remnant according to His grace (Rev 7:5-8) and when that number is full, Yehoshua will return.
73 Not every last person of every tribes; as it has already been established that only a small remnant would be saved from this large group of Israelites (Ro:9:27-29), but that every tribe of Yisrael will be represented.
74 Speaking of the physical nation in the end that is still in unbelief, but that will change at the coming of Messiah.
75 If the physical nation of Yisrael never disobeyed it would not have brought opportunity for the worldwide preaching work over the last 2,000 yrs and the many people who have come to salvation among the nations. (Ro 11:11)
76 It is the job of the true believer in these end times not to condemn the physical nation that Yehovah has restored because of their unbelief, but for the true believer to show love and kindness to the nation of Yisrael that they may see the Ruach H Chodesh living in the true believer by their love and kindness.
77 Yehovah’s ways are so supreme that humans cannot concept His mercy, love and grace. It is not for humans to judge why Yehovah will call some now and some later as only He knows what is best for everyone, but simply to bear fruit for the kingdom and be an example by their love and integrity as an ambassador for Messiah for the truth.
78 Whereas the Levitical priesthood was a shadow and had its focus on the sacrificing of animals, the Melchizedek priesthood is about being a living sacrifice. Once a year on the Pesach on the 14th day of the first new moon of Aviv, the true believer reflects on the dying Messiah and renews his covenant agreement by taking the symbols of the unleavened bread and wine, but the other 364 days of the year he is focusing on the living Messiah who is living in Him and bearing fruit through His ruach.
79 Yehovah through His ruach divides and gives the spiritual gifts throughout the body as it pleases Him. As one body with many diversified gifts it makes each true believer fully dependent on Yehovah and co-dependent on each other. Those who will not submit themselves under Yehovah’s judicial order and set themselves apart from the body simply seek their own desire (Pr 18:1), and have too much pride to function in a community setting.
80 You bless them by not giving them back evil for evil, but a believer does not give a blessing upon evil. (Ro 12:20-21)
81 Yehovah set a judicial order from creation and all those who have been put in authority are ultimately there due to Him. To be prideful and self-willed and resist the authority ordained by Yehovah, whether in the house of assembly or civil government it makes no difference, the person is resisting Yehovah, the one who gave the authority to him. It stands to reason that Yehovah is the ultimate authority and if someone whether it be in the house of assembly or civil authority would want a believer to violate one of Yehovah’s commands, then they would not submit to such an injunction.
82 All authority set up by Yehovah is for the service of the people.
83 Many under the false grace try to purport that this golden rule replaces the Torah when in fact it is written in the Torah (Lev 19:18). Paul’s whole point is that every law written in the Torah is to show love, either to Yehovah or our fellow man.
84 It was reported in early 2012 that for the first time in the USA more than 50% of couples are cohabiting instead of getting married, clearly a sign of the times we are living in.
85 Since some of the meat that was sold in the meat market could have been sacrificed to an idol, some brethren decided not to eat meat at all and were judging the ones who were eating meat.1Cor 8:7-8, 1Cor 10:25-32
86 Some have wrongfully tried to use this verse against Sabbath observance, yet the Sabbath is not even mentioned once in the whole chapter and the context is clearly on food. The subject here is about setting a a day apart for fasting as we see in the next verse.
87 The point being discussed is about someone dedicating a personal fast to Yehovah. The brethren who were fasting are judging the ones who were not fasting and Paul is making the point that if you fast you dedicate the day to Yehovah, but if you eat and bless Yehovah for the food you are also dedicating the day to Yehovah. There is only one commanded fast and that is on Yom Kippur (Lev 23:26-32)
88 By Yehoshua living a perfect life and dying for the sins of humans and then being resurrected by Yehovah, He has qualified to take the family name of Yehovah as He truly is the word of Yehovah and the exact representation of the Father in Heaven.
89 We are to discern between right and wrong but all judgment (condemnation) belongs to Yehovah and there should be no such judgmental ruach in the House of assembly of Yehovah. (Math 7:1-2)
90 The word used here even in the Greek text is 'common' NOT 'unclean'. Unclean foods are mandated in Leviticus the 11th chapter. This is speaking of clean meats that were sacrificed to idols and had become common, meaning used by all, not set apart any longer. Paul is stating that no clean food is common by itself simply because it may have been used in an idol sacrifice. This could not have been speaking about unclean meat, such as pork, as unclean animals were not used even in idol sacrifices and unclean animals such as a pig were not even considered as food to Israelites.
91 Some translations use the word 'clean” falsely misrepresenting that Paul is speaking of all meat being clean to eat. The word is 'pure' and has nothing to do with clean or unclean meat.
92 True believers must be mature enough not to put stumbling blocks before new or weaker brethren that are not mandated by scripture, but are only coming from pride and self righteousness.
93 Faith is between the believer and Yehoshua Yehovah his Master, but some want to exploit their so-called belief by coercing others to do what they want them to. This is not belief but pride and self righteousness.
94 Although a believer should not judge his brother, he must also act on his convictions not to put a stumbling before himself.
95 Paul was primarily sent to the nations as where Keipha and the Sent Ones were sent to the House of Yisrael (Gal 2:7-8). However, Paul's commission was also to go before Kings and the sons of Yisrael (Acts 9:15), which he did later in his ministry, even going a s far as Great Britain.
96 Many early houses of assembly met in homes after being expelled from the house of assembly. Church buildings did not originate until around the third century and mostly came after paganism crept into the house of assembly. Today most church buildings with steeples etc are mostly pagan and steeples represent a phallic symbol.
97 These relatives of Paul were not Sent Ones but were known by the Sent Ones, also by the verb tense they are males not females.
98 An ancient Middle eastern greeting of kissing someone on each cheek. Men kissed only men and women kissed women.
99 People who brought false doctrine and did not follow the judicial order ordained by Yehoshua through His ordained ministry were to be marked and brethren were to have no fellowship with them until evident repentance would be made. It was pivotal for brethren to abide by this for the safety of the house of assembly from false teachers and also to ostracize the false person in hopes that they would repent.
100 These type of false people simply bear no fruit and are only self serving to themselves.
1 Paul beseeching for unity through the sacred name of Yehoshua.
2 This can only happen when the believers are fully 100% voluntarily submitting their will to Yehovah, His judicial order and His set apart ministry that He has ordained to keep order and proper doctrine in the house of assembly. The judgment would always be rendered from the principles of the Torah.
3 Some erroneously translate this word as gentiles but the scope that Paul is referring to is much narrower, as the Arameans where the people and relatives from the area in Mesopotamia where Abraham came from in northern Syria, Eastern Turkey and were Semites, not simply gentiles.
4 This scripture is not saying that no people of name or wealth would be called, but they would be few due to the fact that many when given a position of authority or great wealth allow it to fill them with pride and only those of a humble contrite ruach can receive the calling of being a first fruit.
5 The mind of Messiah is the same mind of Yehovah’s ruach (Ro 8:9-10) and if the mind of Messiah is in you, then you should think and act exactly as He would, but you must submit to that ruach and allow it to work in you.
6 2 Cor 5:10
7 Rev 20:13
8 1 Cor 16:19
9 Let 15:25-31
10 Deut 22:30
11 The brethren here already had taken the physical leaven out of their houses according to the command for the days of unleavened bread, (Ex 12:15) and Paul is using that analogy to teach them that a little sin as with leaven will go through the whole lump or house of assembly.
12 Yehoshua is the New Testament Pesach lamb (Joh 1:29) and His sacrifice replaces the killing of an additional lamb for passover (Ex 12:3).
13 This word literally means to perform with joy and shows that the set apart Days were being kept almost 30 yrs after the death of Yehoshua in a primarily gentile area.
14 To have a covetous ruach is put in the same group as prostitutes and extortionists.
15 An ancient Middle Eastern term used simply for eating together with.
16 In Hebrew there is one word for judging “condemning” and another word for judging “discerning”. We are to discern matters of sin and unrighteousness but all condemning is left to Yehovah for judgment day. (Math 7:1-2)
17 People who are practicing sin are to be put away from the house of assembly (Deut 17:7).
18 Gen 2:24
19 In cases were abuse or other vile sins are involved there is a clause for separation but never is it stated that a spouse can divorce and marry another person while the original spouse is still living.
20 The bondage is that Yehoshua stated that if a man would leave his spouse he is causing her to commit adultery (Math 5:32) and even if he stayed unmarried he would be accountable for the wife's adultery because he left her. Here, Paul is stating in the case of an unconverted mate, if they leave due to the converted mate's belief, the converted mate would have no accountability to the departed mate's adultery if they remarried. No where does it state the believing mate can remarry while their unconverted mate is still living.
21 Clearly encouraging spouses to stay together regardless if one is a non believer, as Deut 24:1-4 states that if the wife would leave and marry another, they can never come back to the original spouse as they would be defiled due to their adultery.
22 In Jewish oral law when one was circumcised he had to adhere to many other oral rituals. Here Paul is stating that all that matters is Yehovah’s commandments and not man-made oral traditions.
23 Since there is no directive for divorced spouses who have re-married this scripture indicates that if one has married a second spouse, then they should not leave that spouse, but if they are divorced and single then they would not be able to re-marry while their spouse is alive (1Cor 7:39)
24 Paul discussed widows, married couples and from here to the end of the chapter he will give advise to virgins, those never married before.
25 Engagement in ancient times dealt with the bridegroom coming and signing a formal contract with the father of the bride. This contract was binding and only unfaithfulness during the betrothal period could break the agreement (Math 1:18-19). Paul is stating it is not sin for someone who had a betrothal canceled to marry another individual.
26 Paul is stressing throughout the chapter that due to the current times, as he thought Yehoshua's return was imminent and there was much persecution, that even married couples had to put the work of Yehovah first.
27 Paul stated earlier this was his opinion (vs 25-26).
28 Paul confirms Yehoshua's words that if you leave your spouse and marry another it is adultery. Also, he adds the believers' responsibility to marry in the belief.
29 The subject of whether one should eat meat that is scarified to an idol is the same subject brought up in Romans 14.
30 Keipha and other Sent Ones were married.
31 Paul is speaking of his right as a worker for Yehovah to receive money to pay expenses.
32 Every answer in life always goes back to the Torah. If it was done away with, as so many wrongly assume, why would Paul consistently use it as his example of authority.
33 Deut. 25:4
34 Again, Paul is speaking about receiving tithes for living expenses.
35 Paul claims this as a right, but also states that he has by-passed this right not to cause an offense to the brethren.
36 Paul now goes further and states that the giving of tithes for ministers to live on is a mandate directly from Yehoshua. Many have abused this mandate and instead of taking simply living expenses have taken exuberant salaries with excessive luxuries. This was never mandated by Messiah.
37 Although it is biblical for a true minister of Elohim to be able to receive minimal tithe money for living expenses if needed, the good news of Yehoshua should never be sold and is a free gift from Yehovah (Math 10:8, Pr 23:23).
38 Paul is asserting here to the newly converted (who never knew the Torah before) that he would very gently instruct them, so as for them to be able to understand.
39 It is a law of building instant rapport to try to relate to each person in the understanding that they have.
40 The physical comes before the spiritual and a believer must be able to physically control his body from lust, greed, covetousness and addiction or he will never walk in the spiritual realm.
41 Ps 106:24-25
42 In Jewish transition from the time of Messiah 4 cups were drank at Pesach each having a special meaning. The third cup was called “the cup of blessing”.
43 Deut. 32:17
44 It is unacceptable to Yehovah to enter covenant relationship with Him and to continue with pagan practices such as Christmas and Easter. Christmas is a pagan ceremony coming from the worship of the winter solstice and “Easter” is the name of the Babylonian goddess 'Istar' and is steeped in paganism.
45 Yehovah has judicial order in all things and the family structure is the core of society.
46 The subject here is “head” coverings, not “hair” coverings.
47 The reason why Paul is writing about this subject was that women in this mostly pagan area were wearing a piece of cloth to cover their hair and since the hair was not seen, they were cutting the hair very short against scripture.
48 Malakim most times in scripture is referring to messengers, but sometimes it can also be referring to a human being sent on an official delegation (2Sam 11:19-23). Whenever you are seeing the term “The Messenger (Malak) of Yehovah” it is referring to one specific messenger, namely Yehoshua. Yehoshua is not a messenger (Heb 1:4), but eternal and the commander under Yehovah of His heavenly host (Jos 5:13-15).
49 Paul is not referring to judicial order here, but that all believers male or female have the same potential to become a child of Elohim.
50 Paul, being a Jewish Rabbi is using a typical rabbinical way to midrash this subject. He is mentioning their argument, then he will tell both sides of the argument and in the following verses he will explain the answer to the argument.
51 He used their own argument to give them the proper answer. Should a woman have her head (not hair) covered? Yes, she should, they were right, but Yehovah has already taken care of this naturally, as a woman's long hair is given to her instead of a veil. Some falsely purport that it should state “as an additional covering”. This is not in the translation at all and the phrase used is “instead of a veil”. Up to this point the word used by Paul was “to cover” never even mentioning the word “veil” up until this verse. Clearly, he states the long hair is given instead of a veil.
52 The custom he is speaking about is whether a woman needs to wear a veil, and the answer is simple. The houses of assembly of Yehovah DO NOT have this custom.
53 Referring to Pesach on the 14th of Aviv (Luk 22:7-20)
54 This is the 14th of Aviv, the night of Pesach
55 Luke 22:19, 20
56 The Pesach is only to be taken once a yr in its season (Ex 13:10). All yr long believers proclaim a living Messiah, but on the passover each year the believer reflects on the death and suffering of Yehoshua. It is also a renewal each year of the covenant that was made at immersion.
57 Pesach is a very solemn time for the true believer to extensively reflect about the sacrifice that Yehoshua made for them and also how his life is glorifying that sacrifice. Yehovah is a family name and this is referring to Yehoshua Yehovah who died for sin.
58 People were getting sick and even dying because they were not taking the passover ceremony serious enough.
59 The celebration seder should be done the night after Pesach commemorating the joyous time in leaving Mitsrayim (Ex 12:41-42)
The passover night should only be for the renewing of the covenant by the symbols of the bread and the fruit of the vine and also the foot-washing (Joh 13:1-17)
60 It is the Ruach H'Chodesh (set apart ruach) that reveals the nature of Yehoshua (Joh 6:44).
61 Workings by force done supernaturally by means that only Yehovah could perform not humans. Demons can also falsify a work of power, but with the ruach of Yehovah the miracle will always be something within the plan and will of Yehovah.
62 This is speaking about real languages and not some babbling in a repetitive mantra.
63 Each member in the body of Messiah has spiritual gifts from the set apart ruach and each member is placed where it pleased Yehovah. If a member is discontent with their position in the body and gifts given to them and they are coveting the position of gifts of others it is the root of envy, strife and jealously and not motivated by the ruach of Yehovah.
64 Some falsely put the gifts of speaking in another language as a litmus test to whether one has received the set apart ruach or not, but clearly here we can see that not all members will receive this gift.
65 Paul is not introducing the subject of Messenger languages but is simply making an overstated emphasis on how important love is.
66 Yehovah’s very nature and character is based on true genuine Elohim guided love, which is unconditional, all empowering, and unending.
67 The Aramaic word here is “gowra” which means a protective guardian.
68 If someone was gifted from the set apart ruach and could speak in another language but no one knew what he was saying, it would have no value except to him and Elohim.
69 This gift of being able to speak another language immediately through the set apart ruach without formal teaching of the given language has no meaning to it without there being someone able to interpret what is being said.
70 Paul spoke Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic and possibly other languages.
71 It can be a point of vanity if someone starts to rattle on and on in a foreign language they don't know, but it will have no edification. However, even five words of true encouragement will be worth more than a myriad of words that no one knows.
72 It is a punishment of Yisrael's Diaspora that the good news message will come to Yisrael by foreign brethren in the end times who do not speak Hebrew. We have seen the fulfillment of this verse worldwide in the times we live in.
73 All spiritual gifts are for the building up of the body of Messiah and not for vanity.
74 Clearly, the false babbling of hundreds of people screaming and chanting as is done in many religious circles today is not scriptural, but is chaotic and demonic .
75 Anyone who is not in control of himself is not being led by the ruach of Yehovah. Yehovah’s ruach gently guides and leads but the ruach of The adversary possesses. With the ruach of Yehovah one would never be out of control or not know or remember what he is doing.
76 False tongues in many religious circles today is confusing and not at all peaceful to one's ruach and is not being led by the ruach of Yehovah, but demons.
77 Women are not to be ordained leaders or teachers over men in the house of assembly (1Tim 2:11-15)
78 In the early house of assembly where they were meeting in Synagogue type setting, men and women were seated across from each other and there would be haranguing sessions on the teachings of that day. It would not be proper judicial order for a women to be openly haranguing with her husband in public but if she disagreed she should question her husband at home..
79 Speaking about if Yehoshua has not been raised from the dead why would we be immersed for a dead person.
80 You will be like the people who you associate with. (Pr 13:20)
81 Adam became a living soul but did not give of that life to others, as where the second Adam (Yehoshua) came to give life to all.
82 Yehovah the son, Yehovah being a family name. From the context of 1Cor 15 there is no doubt that two separate beings are being spoken of verse 24, 27-28.
83 Elohim was supposed to be made in the image, and likeness of Yehovah (Gen 1:26). Although he was made in his image, as man has eyes, hands, legs and feet, but one must grow into His likeness, which is His character of love. Only through the set apart ruach can a human transform from their selfish, earthly human nature to the pure likeness of Yehovah.
84 Death in scripture is equated to sleep as the dead person’s body is sleeping in the grave until the resurrection. The resurrection is the hope of the true believer and reigning with Yehoshua on earth with Him during the millennial kingdom (Rev 5:10 Rev 20:4), not going to heaven,
85 The resurrection happens at the 7th trumpet debunking the false pre-tribulation rapture theory.
86 Sin is the breaking of the Torah (1Joh 3:4) that is why Paul states this.
87 The reward of the believer is based on the fruit he is bearing now. (Joh 15:1-8)
88 This is the feast of firstfruits. The time element around Paul's letter is Pesach (1 Cor 5:6-8). He is stating to start to collect for the poor set-apart ones after the feast of firstfruits and their obligation to Yehovah, so that a collection would not have to be taken while he was there. There is nothing in this context that would promote a normal, weekly collection all year long.
89 Many early houses of assembly met in houses. Church buildings did not come until around the 3rd century or later as the original belief was outlawed by the Roman Empire with much persecution, and had to for the most part be underground.
1 At immersion a believer receives a down payment of the set apart ruach and will receive the fullness of it at Yehoshua's return.
2 Those who market and sell the good news of Yehoshua are not true servants of His but are hirelings (Math 10:8).
3 The Torah teaches right from wrong but cannot change the heart, but through the New Covenant and the receiving of the Ruach H' Chodesh (set apart ruach) ones heart is changed from enmity toward the Torah and mind of Yehovah, to being obedient and gives back life (Ro 8:6-11)
4 It was the agreement about the contract or covenant that caused death because of the inability of the people to keep it and there was no avenue to have the penalty of your sins paid for. It was not the Torah that caused death as there are only blessings in scripture for obedience to the Torah.
5 The shine that glowed on Mose's face when he came back with the 10 commandments, which was so bright he had to wear a veil over his face, also ended and Mosheh also died, but the glory of the New Covenant through the blood of Messiah to forgive sin and the receiving of the set apart ruach for eternal life will go on forever. It is the difference in the covenant agreements that is being contrast here not the Torah as both covenant agreements contain obedience to the Torah (Heb 8:8-12).
6 Ps 119:172
7 The first covenant has been superseded by the eternal New Covenant (Heb 10:4-18).
8 The veil is there to those who read the Torah and are blinded to the some-odd 300 Messianic prophecies that Yehoshua has fulfilled and to repenting of their sins and joining the New Covenant or contract. Christians also have a blinder to the fact that in that new contract sin still brings death (Ro 6:23) and obedience to the Torah still brings life (Math 19:16-17, Math 7:22-23)
9 Only by the ruach of Yehovah can someone come to the understanding of the truth (Joh 6:44).
10 By our living example we proclaim the glory of the life of Yehoshua.
11 The dead are asleep in the earth (Acts 7:59-60, 1Thes 4:13-15) awaiting the resurrection.
12 We receive a down-payment of the set apart ruach at immersion and will receive the fullness of it at Yehoshua's return.
13 The home and promise to the true believer is to be a priest and king and reign with Yehoshua on the earth (Rev 5:10, Rev 20:4).
14 When Paul died it will be as the blink of an eye and he will be resurrected in the Kingdom of Yehovah. There is no consciousness in the grave (Eccl 9:5) and it will seem as a split second from the time he died to when he is resurrected.
15 Everyone that ever lived will be judged by Yehoshua. To those who are the firstfruit, immersed believers now they will be in the first resurrection at His return (Math 24:30-31 Rev 20:4-6). The rest of the people who ever lived will be resurrected after the millennium and will be judged then (Rev 20:11-15 Heb 9:27, Acts 17:30-31, 1Cor 3:13, Eccl 12:14). Yehoshua will judge all people by the commandments (Eccl 12:13) but will search the hearts and judgment will depend on how much they knew (Luk 12:46-48). Many people are keeping the commandments without even truly understanding them (Ro 2:11-16), these people will be rewarded at the white throne judgment.
16 As ambassadors for Yehovah one must uphold this honor in the greatest regard and realize that an ambassador does not bring his own message or come in his own name but is the representative of His given state.
17 Num 11:4, Num 25:1-3, Ez 9:10-14. Neh 13:23-27
18 Ex 9:27
19 Pr 22:8
20 Yer 9:24
21 Paul, although a very humble man was willing to use the authority that Yehovah gave him when needed.
22 The authority of an elder comes from Yehovah Himself.
1 2 Cor 1;1
2 The Aramaic word for exiles is 'galut' and this letter could be written to the dispersed tribes of Yisrael.
3 1 Cor 1:3
4 Paul states his authority is from Yehoshua, Himself.
5 Circumcision was the sign of the first covenant. If someone was circumcised to join the covenant he would be joining the old covenant where there was no way to have the penalty of your sins removed, only covered from year to year on Yom Kippur (Gal 5:1, Ro 2:25-29)
6 The Aramaic word here is “sevartha” meaning hope, but a hope that is an 'anticipation with surety'.
7 Ro 3:5, 31
8 If one could be justified (made right before Yehovah) by an animal sacrifice, then there would be no necessity for the Messiah to come.
9 The works of the law as defined in also the Dead Sea scrolls were the animal sacrifices with the Jewish oral and ceremonial laws that went with it.
10 No one can be justified by the Torah because all humans have broken the Torah and are under the penalty of their lawbreaking.
11 The curse is for disobeying the Torah, there are only blessings for obedience.
12 This can only be referring to the Levitical law and Not the whole Torah as when the covenant was made with Abraham 430 years before the Sinai covenant, Abraham had and obeyed the Torah and commandments (Gen 26:4-5). Only the Levitical law with the ceremonial rituals and sacrifices were added 430 years later as this scripture states.
13 Paul cannot possibly be talking about the whole Torah here, as he plainly states that whatever law was added, that it was not there 430 years previously when Yehovah made covenant with Abraham, but Gen 26:4-5 clearly shows that the reason Yehovah made covenant with Abraham was because Abraham obeyed and preserved His statutes, commandments, and Torah. The only law that was added to the Torah at Mount Sinai was the Levitical priesthood with its sacrifices, which was temporarily set next to the Torah for the Levitical priesthood to be a temporary mediator for Yisrael until the reality of the Melchizedek priesthood would come through Yehoshua. The Levitical sacrifices could not take away the penalty of sin, but merely remind them of it. (Heb 10:1-4)
14 The Levitical law was added due to the sin of Yisrael and the golden calf, but was only a trainer to Yisrael to remind them daily of their sinful nature until Messiah would appear and replace the temporary Levitical order with the eternal order of Melchizedek.
15 Paul is using a play on words here in the Aramaic for tutor “taraa”, contrasting that although the Torah is still binding and necessary for the New Covenant believer, that the oral traditions of the Perushim was not.
16 An Aramaic idiom also used in Eph 6:14. (Is 59:17)
17 The promise to Abraham was the physical land of Yisrael not heaven (Gen 13:14-18, Gen 17:7-8). All true believers in Messiah have this same promise.
18 Luk 2:6-7, 21-24,
19 Ro 8:12-17
20 1Thes 4:5,
21 These were people who were before patterning pagan temple practices and now came to belief in Yehovah and are now known by Yehovah and were turning back to the former pagan practices.
22 Referring to the false worship of verse 8.
23 Paul did have some type of health issue, but this verse does not prove that it was bad eyesight, (although it could have been) as it is simply an idiomatic phrase. (2Cor 12:7, Ga 6:11)
24 This Aramaic word “tzeba” means to have a strong focused will.
25 Paul discusses this in 2Cor 3, that the reason that the Sinai covenant brought bondage was that it had no avenue in which to have one's sins paid for and removed, only covered from year to year on Yom Kippur. It has nothing to do with the validity of the Torah, which is binding in both covenants (Heb 8:10).
26 Mount Sinai is not in the Sinai Peninsula, but is in Saudi Arabia across the Red Sea. In recent yrs this has been proven by finding the chariot wheels of Pharaoh in the Red Sea between Sinai and Saudi Arabia. Paul went there at the beginning of his ministry (Ga 1:17-18).
27 This word 'shalma' from the root of Shalom is a peaceful surrender from Sinai and the first covenant with the levitical order to Yerushalayim, Yehovah’s eternal capital where He placed His name under the Melchizedek order.
28 The bondage is that the physical nation has not accepted salvation yet. This bondage will end when Messiah returns and redeems Yerushalayim (Zech 14)
29 This Yerushalayim comes down to earth after the millennium (Rev 21:1-2)
30 This is speaking that the number of Israelites who were thought to be lost in Diaspora was much higher than the number of Yehudim that were currently living in the land. This shows again that Paul is writing to a primarily Israelite audience who had been living among gentiles for many years.
31 Again, contrasting the two covenants.
32 The slavery would be if they were circumcised and joined the Sinai covenant they would be obligated to keep every law of Torah (Deut 27:26) and there was no way to pay the penalty of breaking them.
33 The blood of Messiah was only 'a hope to come' in the Sinai covenant but 'a reality' in the New Covenant. If they joined the Sinai covenant they would not have had the blood of Messiah to pay the penalty for their sins. Circumcision was the sign of that covenant but not the sign of the New Covenant (Ro 2:28-29, Acts 15:24)
34 Gal 3:10 quotes Deut 27:26, which states "Cursed is he that does not do every law of Torah." The Torah is perfect but humans are sinful. Paul is not speaking against the Torah here, but merely showing that circumcision is the sign of the Old Covenant in which there is no way to have the penalty of your sins removed, only death; whereas Immersion is the sign of the New Covenant where the blood of Yehoshua pays the penalty for the sins we committed. Therefore, if you would be circumcised to join the covenant instead of immersed you would be joining the Old Covenant where Messiah’s blood does not forgive your sins. Paul is not condemning circumcision of our male children according to Torah on the eighth day from birth as he affirms in verse 11.
35 Circumcision of all male boys on the eighth day of birth was for clean and unclean and still binding. It is amazing that only on the eighth day of a male child's life does the vitamin k rise in his body for clotting after the circumcision is performed.
36 Extremely strong idiomatic statement Paul makes and also makes it clear that he is not advocating circumcision in any form to male adults to join the New Covenant.
37 Every instruction of Torah is to teach us how to love and worship Elohim and how to love our neighbor as ourselves.
38 This is the crux of a true believers' calling, which fruit are you bearing. If you are bearing the fruit of the flesh than you will reap what you sow, but if the set apart ruach is truly in you and you are surrendering to it, then the fruit of the ruach will be evident to all.
39 Both those who are Israelites by birth and now also those who have been grafted into the covenant by immersion and belief in Yehoshua Messiah.
40 Paul had the physical marks of torture that he bore in his flesh for the belief and belief that he had in Yehoshua and he is contrasting this to the physical mark of circumcision that some were trying to coerce gentile believers to perform.
1 Yehoshua is not the Father in Heaven but is seated next to the Father in heaven. (Math 26:64, Heb 1:3, Heb 8:1, Heb 10:12 1Pe 3:22, Acts 2:33, Acts 7:55-56)
2 Heb 1:4,
3 Acts 4:12, Phil 2:9
4 These were primarily Israelites whom Paul was writing to and because they were so long outside of the land of Yisrael and without the covenant promises in their Diaspora according to the oral rabbinical law these Israelites were now being considered gentiles.
5 This is speaking about the time of their Diaspora after they were exiled from Yisrael in 721-718 B.C.
6 One of the main jobs of the Messiah is to unite the Northern House of Yisrael, called the house of Ephraim in scripture, back with the southern House of Yehudah and make them one nation again at His return Ezek 37:15-28. Through accepting the blood of Yehoshua, these Israelites from the house of Ephraim are now brought back into the covenant of Yisrael with the hope of returning back to the land of Yisrael.
7 This was a literal separation wall at the temple or sanctuary of Yehovah, that separated the Yehudim from the gentiles. Due to The House of Yisrael being so long in Diaspora they had to stay on the other side of the outer wall in the court of the gentiles.
8 This word is not the word for Torah and even in the Greek it is “dogma” which are man-made laws and regulations made up by the Rabbis, separating the exiled Israelites.
9 Through Messiah whether one is a Yehudi, an Israelite or a gentile they are all one in Him. He will also unite Yehudah and Ephraim at His return (Ezek 37:15-28). The word for shalom in Hebrew is “shalom' and one of the titles of the Messiah is 'Sar Shalom', meaning Prince of Shalom (Is 9:6).
10 Is 11:12-13
11 Yehudah and Ephraim (Math 10:5-6)
12 The word used here can not refer to Yehudi and cannot refer to a gentile but only to an Israelite who is living in Diaspora and shows that clearly Paul is writing to exiles from the Northern House of Yisrael.
13 The house of assembly is named after Yehovah the Father. (Joh 17:11-12, 1 Chron 28:8, 2 Chron 6:33, 2 Chron 7:14)
14 Ps 68:18
15 Joh 3:13
16 It is Yehoshua Himself who has established the judicial order in the house of assembly by ordaining elders and leaders to serve the brethren and keep order and proper doctrine in the house of assembly. Yehovah has given these ordained men authority to render judgments in the house of assembly according to the Torah (Deur 17:8-13)
17 It is these elders' job to make sure there is proper doctrine in the house of assembly. It is not the individual members' responsibility to decide doctrine in the assembly, as this only brings confusion and heresy..
18 Is 60:1
19 The believer is told to pray to the Father Yehovah in the name of Yehoshua the son (Joh 14:13-14, Joh 15:16)
20 Today in western society there is an extremely self-willed prevalent attitude, yet scripture shows we must submit all one to another in the unity of the belief of Yehoshua.
21 It is the wife's responsibility to be a helpmate, like a hand to a glove with her husband in all things (Gen 3:16)
22 Husbands in return are to give unconditional love to their wives always looking at what is best for them as their protector as Yehoshua is to the house of assembly.
23 It is a falsehood that people have low self-esteem. It is the opposite, people love themselves too much. Some may have low self-confidence, but no human has low self-esteem.
24 The marriage relationship is a foreshadow of Messiah with His bride for eternity and all true believers must give the highest degree of sanctity to the marriage covenant. Please see lesson 18 on line at www.coyhwh.com.
1 The dead are asleep and there is no Consciousness in the grave, so from the time that one dies to the time of the resurrection it will seem like a second, even though it could actually be thousands of yrs. (1 Cor 15:51-52, 1 Thes 4:13-18, Eccl 9:5, Yob 14:13-14)
2 This scripture shows that Yehoshua and Yehovah the Father are two separate beings, who are both Elohim and always existed together in love and harmony. (Zech 13:7)
3 Yehoshua temporarily laid aside His divinity and came to earth as a human being.
4 There is only one name given to the son of Yehovah and it is Yehoshua, which means Yehovah’s Salvation. (Acts 4:12, Ex 32:21, Math 1:21)
5 Yehovah is a family name consisting of Yah Yehovah the Father and Yehoshua Yehovah the son.
6 Doubt is the opposite of belief and will destroy your belief (1 Joh 4:18)
7 Paul is stating that he has not received his reward yet but is waiting for the resurrection and the kingdom of Yehovah to come.
8 Although as human beings true believers carry passports showing the nationality to which they were physically born, their real citizenship is in heaven and as ambassadors for the Heavenly kingdom (2 Cor 5:20), they do not partake in worldly politics.
9 If believers could focus on this one verse daily, what a difference it would make to the body of Messiah.
1 Yehoshua is the first being to literally be born again from the dead and He has the right of the first born for eternity.
2 Yehoshua was with the Father at creation and was a part in creating everything that was ever made. (Gen 1:1, 26, Eccl 12:1)
3 Yehoshua is the reason that any believer can receive eternal life and He will have this predominance for eternity.
4 This is the great mystery of the good news message that through the Rucah H' Chodesh (set apart ruach) Yehoshua is literally living in the talmid and if the talmid surrenders his will to the will of Yehoshua, then the set apart ruach can literally transform the person into a new creation.
5 Circumcision was the sign of the first covenant and to enter covenant relationship you need the shedding of blood (Heb 9:18, 22). If someone was circumcised to join the New Covenant he would be joining by his own blood. This scripture is showing that the new believer when he is immersed that he is being circumcised by Messiah by the cutting off of the sins of his flesh by the Messiah's shed blood.
6 This word in both Aramaic and Greek is a legal contract that we owe Yehovah for the penalty of our sins. When someone was crucified in ancient times they would literally carry the cross beam to the crucifixion site and it would be nailed above them to the tree that was being used. The penalty of what they were being crucified for was written on the beam for all to see (Joh 19:19-20). This scripture is stating that as we are buried with Him in our immersion, He is also taking the penalty for our sins and applying His sacrifice to our penalty, so when we come up from the water our sins are completely paid for by the shed blood of Yehoshua Messiah..
7 Referring to anyone outside the body of Messiah
8 To create a disturbance
9 Paul is stating since Yehoshua died for your sins and the Sabbaths and set apart days and new moons are shadows of His death and resurrection and return to earth and His kingdom, do not let anyone who is not a believer judge you for the way you are keeping them. The question here is not whether to keep them or not, but the talmidim being judged by pagans for 'how' they were keeping them. Gnostics believed that anything dealing with the flesh was evil and they were judging the brethren for feasting during the set apart days and having fellow-ship meals etc on the Sabbath and New Moon.
10 The Sabbaths and set apart Days “remain shadows” and are not done away with.
11 Let the body of messiah judge a believer not pagan outsiders.
12 Here Paul is speaking about ascetics who were claiming messenger revelations about themselves to bring a false spiritual superiority that was not true.
13 Clearly Paul is speaking of pagan gnostic and ascetic rituals as they are “the commands of men” not Yehovah.
14 In the Garden of Eden there were not all the stereo-types that developed later, but simply a choice to obedience that brought eternal life and disobedience that brought death.
15 Eph 5:22
16 Eph 5:25
17 Eph 6:1
18 Eph 6:4
19 Eph 6:5-8
20 Many early houses of assembly met in homes.
1 Speaking of the judgment of Yehovah
2 The dead in scripture are equated with being in an unconscious state of sleep.
3 The hope of the good news of Yehoshua is the resurrection from the dead and eternal life in the Kingdom of Yehovah.
4 All those who accepted the blood of Yehoshua and entered covenant with Yehovah, who have died and are now sleeping in their graves will be resurrected at Yehoshua's return and will meet Him in the air.
5 Rev 20:4-6, 1 Cor 15:50-52
6 Speaking of His wrath and the Lake of Fire
7 The dead are asleep in the grave not in heaven
8 Once something has been proven to be the truth the true believer must cling to these biblical truths. (Jac 1:8)
1 Literally means a defection from truth
2 Believers should shun false brethren bringing false doctrine.
1 The doctrines of the house of assembly were set down by Yehoshua and then extended to the house of assembly by the Sent Ones and ordained elders down through the ages.
2 This is the desire of Yehovah, but each human being has free will and must decide for themselves and accept the wonderful gift of Salvation that Yehovah is offering.
3 The word one is “echad” and can mean unified, Gen 2:24.
4 The mandate given here is that only men not women are to pray publicly over the house of assembly and that the men should be lifting up their hands to heaven when praying to receive the blessing that Yehovah has (1 Kgs 8:22).
5 According to Yehovah’s judicial order women are not to take the position of authority that is set for a man and not to be teachers in the assemblies over men.
6 The woman has the blessing of raising up Elohim guided children and then, seeing the fruit of her labor as they grow and have their own families later.
7 The letters of first and second Timothy are often referred to as Paul's pastoral epistles as he lays the foundation for the leadership in the house of assembly.
8 Someone who is divorced and remarried and has 2 living spouses would not be eligible for ordination.
9 A true elder of Yehovah should not be marketing the good news of Yehoshua or be money driven.
10 Deacons had primarily the same requirements for the office of a deacon but there job was primarily serving where the elders job was more shepherding. A deacon did not have the authority for the laying on of hands (Acts 8:12-19)
11 The elder and the deacon both had to prove themselves and mature in the belief before ordination would be considered. Ordination was not with the hope that someone would fulfill a particular job, but was a recognition of someone who was already fulfilling the job of an elder or deacon.
12 Although women are not ordained, since the wife is “one” with her husband, in order to receive recognition for ordination a man's wife also had to have righteous character for him to be considered. (Pr 31:23)
13 Yehovah gives His ordained elders the authority to administer His judicial order in the house of assembly.
14 There are churches today who require a celibate priesthood and also other religions who make food such as eating meat a doctrine in their house of assembly. Paul is warning against these false unbiblical teachings.
15 Paul is speaking about clean kosher foods laid out in Leviticus the 11th chapter. Pork and other unclean meats are NOT sanctified by the word of Yehovah.
16 One becomes an elder through ordination of another elder with the laying on of hands (Acts 6:1-6 Deut 34:9)
17 Doctrine in the true house of assembly of Yehoshua is extremely important and must be held firm by true elders of Yehovah.
18 As in English an elder can be an ordained office or a title for an older person who is not ordained, but given respect for his age.
19 Even a widow asking for relief help must have adhered to the sanctity of the marriage covenant.
20 It is the right of an elder working full time in the work of Yehovah to be able to receive tithes for his living substance. Paul waived this right not to put a stumbling block before some of the believers.
21 Speaking of an ordained Elder
22 Ordination should only occur when someone has already been fulfilling the role of an elder or deacon for sometime in the house of assembly and is recognized as doing such.
23 In ancient times wine was mixed with the water to kill bacteria and helped against stomach problems.
24 It is noteworthy that shelter is not even included here.
25 It is not money that is the root of all evil, but “the love of money,” which ultimately will lead to greed and dishonestly and selfish ambitions.
26 Currently, only Yehoshua has immortality. The true first fruit believer who has been immersed in His name has eternal life, but he can lose that eternal life if he turns back from the truth (Heb 10:26-32, Heb 6:4-6). However, when Yehoshua returns to the ones overcoming and enduring til the end He will give immortality (1Cor 15:50-54).
1 Timothy was ordained by Paul.
2 There are 18 wicked characteristics showing how evil people will be in the end times.
3 It is frightening to think that these characteristics are defining people who are supposed to be brethren.
4 How true is this today in the Internet laden spiritually empty arena of such people.
5 The key to this is that these false teachers have not been ordained by Yehovah and have no authority for the heresies that they purport.
6 Paul is speaking of the end time Laodicean era that is now present.
7 Apparently Paul was reconciled to Yochanan Mark, who had deserted him on the first missionary journey. (Acts 15:37-39)
8 These were most likely the New Testament parchments. Since Paul now realized that his time was short until death he apparently saw the need to assemble all the New Testament for distribution first.
1 To keep judicial order in the house of assembly Paul had Titus go and ordain elders in each city where there were houses of assembly.
2 See notes on 1 Tim 3
3 When you look at the proper biblical woman compared to western society today you almost can't believe how The adversary has corrupted the family structure by eroding the role of the biblical wife and mother. Biblical women cared for the home and their husbands and children.
4 Clearly showing Yehoshua's deity as being Elohim.
5 Yehoshua redeemed believers from “lawlessness”, not “law.”
1 What a beautiful example of Yehovah’s judicial order, which is always voluntary and reciprocal.
1 Revelation is a scroll of prophecies for the end time. It is the Revelation of Yehoshua, not Yochanan. Yochanan is simply the messenger who transcribed the scroll from a messenger.
2 This is not a particular day of the week, but the time period of the wrath of Yehovah on the earth, (Yoel 2:1-11).
3 Yehovah the Father, raised Yehovah the son from the grave, (Ps 16:9-11, Joh 5:21,26).
4 The 7 houses of assembly mentioned in chapter 2 & 3 were 7 literal houses of assembly that made up a mail route in Asia Minor. They are Historical prophecies of what the 7 houses of assembly will be like, as well as 7 literal end time houses of assembly and prevalent spirits present in the last days.
5 'Nico' means conqueror and 'Laitan' means the common people. So the ruach of the Nicolaitans was a controlling, hierarchical structure over the people.
6 Smyrna was the persecuted house of assembly and comes from the word myrrh. Myrrh had to be beaten and crushed in order to bring out the fragrance and was used as a perfume for preparation of one's burial.
7 This could mean 10 literal days or ten time periods. There were 10 pogroms against believers during the Roman Empire from Nero to Diocletian.
8 Pergamos means fortified
9 There is an overall message of repentance to 5 of the 7 houses of assembly mentioned and shows the overall problematic nature of believers in the last days.
10 This verse shows that in the end time there will be a rise of false women claiming to be prophetesses, yet in reality they are outside of Yehovah’s judicial order and rebellious as Yezebel.
11 Verses 26-27- See Ps 2:8-9
12 A reference to Yehoshua, (Rev 22:16).
13 Philadelphia means brotherly love and is the only house of assembly that holds no type of rebuke, but has been faithful, even though they have had little strength and have not denied the only true name of the Creator Yehovah.
14 Laodicea means “ruled by the people” and is the common thread of the last days where people in general have turned rebellious against any type of authority and are self-willed and full of pride, 2 Tim 3:1-4. The Laodiceans get the strongest rebuke from Yehoshua.
15 Cold water is useful to quench one's thirst, as where hot water is useful in bathing and warming one with tea etc, however lukewarm water is only good for one thing; inducing vomiting.
16 The Laodicean, due to his physical life of money and pleasures, is blinded to his spiritual condition of being void of the set apart ruach and not having any congregational roots but simply wandering from meeting place to meeting place and never being spiritually fulfilled or satisfied. The most dangerous aspect of the Laodicean is that because they think they are so spiritually superior and cannot see their miserable spiritual state, they refuse to take any correction and will not repent. Sadly, this describes much of western society today.
17 The main characteristic that the halfhearted Laodicean lacks is zeal and fervor for Yehovah and His work.
18 Eze 2:9-10- This comes at a time of great rebellion.
19 We should never take for granted the great privilege that a covenant believer has to be able to come before the throne of Yehovah in our prayers, Ps 141:2, Luk 1:10, Rev 4:8-11.
20 The firstfruit believers will reign with Messiah during the 1,000 yr millennium and into eternity on the earth, (Rev 20:4-6, Math 5:5, Dan 7:18, Pr 11:31, Gen 13:14-18, Gal 3:29).
21 Verses 12-14 shows universal sovereignty over all the earth when the Kingdom of Yehovah comes.
22 This is the first horse of what is traditionally called the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse. The white horse represents a false messiah bringing a false shalom and false doctrine. The true Messiah also comes on a white horse later, (Rev 19:11-16). This anti-messiah will delude the people with flattering words and deception, (Dan 7:20-21, Dan 8:9-11, 20-25, Dan 9:27). He will also have the ruach of The adversary, and will greatly persecute the believers, Dan 11:30-39, Rev 13:7, Dan 7:21.
23 The second red horse signifies world war.
24 The black horse is showing the great famine to come by the consequences of world war. Grain, oil and wine were the three main objects for substance, prosperity and blessing and all three are in scarcity during this time, Neh 10:39, Yoel 2:19, 24.
25 The pale green horse signifies death from the famine and disease created by the war.
26 Undoubtedly, this is metaphoric, as Revelation has not even happened yet since Yochanan is seeing a future vision and the people have not even been born or died yet at the time of the vision.
27 When the beast power takes it reign for 42 new moons (Rev 13:5) then the 144,000 are taken to a place of protection (Rev 12:13-16) and then there will be a great persecution of the believers who are left all around the globe (Rev 12:17, Dan 7:21, Rev 13:7, Math 10:16-23).
28 Mysteriously, the tribe of Dan is missing from the list. The theories as to why, range from Dan's idolatry, to the anti-messiah possibly being from the tribe of Dan, but no theory is conclusive. Dan is mentioned in the millennial land allotment in Eze 48:1-2.
29 Long hair on a male is a shame (1 Cor 11:14) and a sign of rebellion.
30 This is exactly what was seen at the birth of Yehoshua, as the moon was in the mid section of the constellation of Virgo (the virgin) and the moon under the feet. You can read about this amazing event in Ernest Martin's scroll called “The star that astonished the world”. Martin shows through the planetary action of what is known as the star of Bethlehem that Yehoshua was born on the feast of Trumpets in 3 B.C.
31 The adversary is displayed as the accuser of the brethren. When brethren attack and falsely accuse each other they are actually working for The adversary and doing his job and Yehovah hates such action, (Pr 6:16-19, Zech 3:1-2, Yob 1:10-11).
32 The 144,000 faithful servants of Yehovah are taken to a place of protection, and the rest of the Laodicean believers will have to go through a purification through fire due to their halfheartedness and lack of zeal for Yehovah’s end time work in redeeming Yisrael.
33 The patience and belief of the set-apart ones is fully trusting in Yehovah and not taking matters into one's own hands, as everyone will reap what they sow.
34 See note on 1 Kgs 10:14
35 To have something written on the forehead shows that it is forever in their mind (Deut 6:8). Whereas with the mark of the beast in the right hand (right signifies strength and action) and the forehead (where our thoughts originate) is giving allegiance to the anti-messiah, the true believers have the name of Yehovah inevitably written in their minds and have surrendered their wills to Him and are fully servants of Yehoshua.
36 Verses 9-11- It is frightful to think that in Revelation 13:16 that most of all the people on the earth had taken the mark of the beast and here it quite plainly states that whoever takes the mark will go to the lake of Fire. Very few will be saved in the end days. ( Math 7:13-14)
37 It is quite clear that at this time the true believers in Yehoshua are keeping the Torah in belief and obedience to the one who wrote it, (Rev 19:13, Joh 1:1-3, 14).
38 Where normally in scripture wine is associated with happiness and blessing, here Yehovah uses the illustration of wine and grapes being crushed as blood being poured out from the rebellious, prideful people inhabiting the earth at this time and He connects the corrupted state of the people due to the influence of end time Babylon in verse 8.
39 The anger of Yehovah is called in scripture “The Day of Yehovah” (Yoel 2:1-11, Yer 25:30-33) although the actual length of time is not listed, probably due to the great intensiveness of the punishment that it will have to be shortened (Math 24:22).
40 Over and over in Revelation it is stated that the true end time believers are both keeping the Torah and giving glory to the name of Yehovah. (Rev 14:12, 22:14)
41 As defiled human beings with a corrupted human nature, one cannot even conceive what it would be like to be in the presence of the set apart, Glorious, Powerful, Eternal, Creator.
42 This shows the decrepit state of people at this time as there is no fear of Elohim nor His judgments, but the pride and bitterness of the people has hardened their unrepentant hearts to blasphemy.
43 El Shaddai means El Almighty
44 This is a Hebrew idiom as in the time of the sanctuary in Yerushalayim priests on duty during set apart Days would have to stay awake all night while on watch. They would even walk barefoot on the cold stone floor not to fall asleep, but if they did fall asleep, the High priest would enter in the night unexpected and light on fire his priestly robe and the next day the priest who was sleeping would not have his priestly garment on the High Day and all would know his unfaithfulness during his watch.
45 The Greek Armageddon comes from the Hebrew name of “Har-Megiddo”or mountain of Meggido. Meggido is located just south of the Yezreel valley in the land of Manasseh.
46 The golden cup represents that Babylon at one time was a servant of Yehovah and had worth, but due to their abundance of wealth and pleasure seeking, they became defiled and fully corrupted, (Yer 51:7, Rev 18:16).
47 Mountains in scripture represent large land masses and the fact that Babylon sits on 7 mountains is showing she is controlling the world, which is made up of 7 continents. Seven is also the number of completeness, showing Babylon's total control over the world economy and social system.
48 Although Babylon is a physical country in the end time, there have been 7 world empires of trading that Babylon has represented.
49 Babylon is a great melting pot of immigrants from many countries, Yer 51:13.
50 End time Babylon controls a global world system in which all the other nations assemble in her (Yer 51:44). Only the USA with the United Nations in New York fits this criteria.
51 Undeniably Babylon is a physical land and not a church or simply a system (Yer 50:3,8).
52 Babylon is the world's engine of the economic machine and the biggest importer and exporter nation. Only the USA fits this criteria (Rev 18:7, 9-11).
53 There are 7 direct commands to the end time remnant to flee the land of Babylon as the wrath of Yehovah is coming on her for her luxurious and immoral lifestyle and for the oppression that world democracy has brought to the rest of the world (Yer 51:6, 8, Yer 50:8, Yer 51:44, Zech 2:7).
54 Verses 9-11- The merchants of the earth are weeping and wailing because no one is buying their merchandise. The United Staes of America is the only country in the world that if they were destroyed overnight it would completely crash the world economy. The USA imports about 25-30% of the whole worlds' good and is by far the greatest consumer nation on earth. If one is honest with themselves no other nation on earth even remotely fits this scripture but the USA.
55 Verses 12-19 specifically names 25 items that Babylon trades more than anyone in the world. Only in the USA can you trade all 25 items on the commodities exchange that Babylon has put in place for global trading daily of these goods.
56 Verse 23 states that the voice of the bride and bridegroom will never be heard in Babylon again; this was the punishment of Yehudah that was transferred to Babylon who caused Yisrael's woes (Yer 7:34, Je 25:10, Yer 33:10-11)
57 Babylon's merchants are the rich men of the earth. There are more millionaires in the USA than virtually every other nation on earth combined.
58 The work used here in Greek is “Pharmakia” where we get the word for pharmacy. Babylon has deceived the people through trust in medicine instead of trust in Yehovah.
59 Although the USA fits the criteria of end time Babylon and has created the global trading system outlined in chapter 17 & 18, Babylon has been a trading system (Rev 17:9) controlled by other nations almost since the fall man in the Garden of Eden (Eze 28:1-4, 13-16) and has been the number one enemy against the Elohim guided ruach of love and outward giving and concern and has caused the death of untold millions throughout history. Due to the global world government set up by end time Babylon (America) many untold millions will be martyred by the beast system instituted by Babylon.
60 Messengers are not to be worshiped
61 Whereas the white horse in Rev 6:2 represented the false anti-messiah, here it is Yehoshua returning on a glorious white horse.
62 Verses 17-18 see Eze 39:17-19
63 The adversary is not just a symbol of evil but is a real ruach being who is also a fallen messenger, Eze 28:11-18.
64 Yehovah being completely fair and just will allow The adversary loose after the millennium to test the people born during that time, so that all humans would have been tried under similar circumstances to have the responsibility to resist evil and choose the way of Yehovah, (Ja 4:7).
65 Verses 4-6 is about the first fruit resurrection. These covenant believers of Yehoshua now will reign with Him during the 1,000 yr millennium and have a glorified spiritual body (1Cor 15:23, 44, 50-53. Their judgment is now and they have no part in the white throne resurrection of all other humans after the millennium, but reign with Messiah, Yehoshua, forever.
66 These are the scrolls of the bible.
67 Everything that everyone ever did was written in these scrolls and people were judged by their deeds according to the standard of the 10 commandments, (Heb 9:27, 2 Cor 5:10, Ro 2;1-16, Eccl 12:13).
68 Those with evil hearts and intent in their life will go to the Lake of fire and burn and cease to exist. The wages of sin are death (Ro 6:23, Eze 18:4, Gen 2:17) not eternal life in an uncomfortable place
69 The New Yerushalayim in the Kingdom is the dowry from Yehovah the Father to His son Yehoshua and His bride (Is 62:1-12)
70 During the millennium Yehovah the Father will still be dwelling in heaven and Yehoshua Elohim will be dwelling and reigning for Yehovah the Father on the earth in Yerushalayim. Then, after the millennium with every enemy being conquered (Ps 110:1-6), the last enemy being death (1 Cor 15:54-55) Yehovah the Father will actually come to earth to dwell with His people with Yehoshua sitting at His right hand, (Ps 110:1, 1 Cor 15:24-28).
71 Yehovah will wipe away the tears (and memories) of loved ones who perished in the Lake of Fire in the White throne judgment who did not make His kingdom. Believers will not have to go through eternity, agonizing over lost love ones, but simply will have no memory of them again.
72 As the message to the 7 houses of assembly in chapters 2 & 3, the ones who repent and overcome and truly 100% surrender their lives to Yehovah in belief will be His children in His kingdom, forever. The prideful and self-seeking will perish.
73 This scripture very clearly shows the responsibility to those receiving salvation that they must cleanse their hearts and minds and produce good fruit (Heb 12:14, Math 5:48, Joh 15:1-8). It is fear, which is the opposite of belief that leads one into following his own deceitful heart that will lead to sin and death.
74 See note for Rev 21:2.
75 In the eternal Kingdom, as it was in the Garden of Eden, there will be no need for a sanctuary to draw near to Yehovah, because both Yah Yehovah the Father and Yehoshua Yehovah the son will be present.
76 In Gen 1:3 when Yehovah said “let their be light”, the light was formed by His and Yehoshua's presence as the sun, moon and stars were not created until day 4.
77 Ps 119:105 states that the Torah is a menorah to the feet and a light to one's path. Here all people living in the New Kingdom will be following the Torah as a way of life, not for justification which came by the blood of Yehoshua, but simply as a way of life distinguishing between right and wrong, Lev 18:5.
78 These all perished in the Lake of Fire, Rev 20:15.
79 As where most trees only bear fruit once a year this tree bears fruit each new moon. Also, there is healing power in the leaves. Interestingly enough in recent yrs there has been an amazing interest in using essential oils for healing, which is extracted from leaves .
80 Whereas other prophesies in scripture were given over centuries or even millennia, Yehoshua stated in Math 24:34 that all the things in the end time would happen in one generation.
81 The believer’s reward is based on the fruit that he bears now (Joh 15:1-8, Luk 19:12-26).