WHO IS THE MESSIAH?
Do you really believe that the billions of stars in the heavens were made just for us to look at? The stars were not made just for us to look at, but, rather, contain the billions of beings and innumerable worlds in Yahweh’s perfect and unfallen creation.
The earth was reformed after the destruction of the great rebellion (in which, by the way, we were involved) as a prison and correctional facility for all the fallen spirits that participated in Satan’s rebellion when she offered us the knowledge of evil - the materialistic realm. Your heart may revolt at this, but let me assure you that it is the truth.
Have you ever met a man or a woman that did not have a character flaw? Why do we seek glory and desire to be worshipped, to have big jobs, big houses, fancy cars, and the admiration of others? Why do we crave perfection in our surroundings? Why can’t we find contentment in stuff, no matter how big the pile? The simple truth is that we once possessed glory and lived in total contentment, in Yahweh’s perfect universe, and now we seek these things in the materialistic realm of this world where they just do not exist.
Yahweh’s original creation is not just good; it is a perfect society, in which there is no crime, disharmony, or discontentment of any kind, and all that remain therein are sinless and perfect and everlasting.
You see, we (our spirits) have lived for many eons. We were created perfect, part of Yahweh’s perfect universe. But Satan became greedy, wanting to be Yahweh. Satan began deceiving the people, telling us lies about Yahweh and our condition in Heaven. Some accepted what she said willingly and joined in her rebellion. Others also accepted and joined in, but were deceived into doing so.
As Yahweh cannot allow sin in Heaven, all those that participated in the rebellion were cast out, into Hell – separated for the first time in our existence from Yahweh and all that we knew.
However, Yahweh being a merciful creator, made a way for us to be redeemed and to be enabled to return to our places in Heaven. It requires the trying of our spirits to see, if given the opportunity, we will REPENT of our rebellion and turn back to Yahweh and keep his laws. To give us this opportunity the earth was restored as a prison planet – a place to send our fallen spirits. God placed our spirits in animal bodies (intelligent evolution) and put us in the necessary circumstances to judge us and see what is in the heart of every man woman and child. To do this requires us to have the freedom to choose good or evil and this necessitates that both good and evil must be allowed to exist on the planet. Evil needs no explanation as it is ever present everywhere we look; however, good must be sought out.
Yahweh in His mercy gave mankind laws to follow in each dispensation to draw us closer to perfection. However, because fallen men’s minds are polluted, most men not only do not obey Yahweh’s laws, but many try to change or do away with them as they are able.
After Yahweh gave Moses His laws for His chosen people to follow, over time they, too, were corrupted by wicked men. This brings us to Yahweh’s son the Messiah, whose purpose in coming was to bring the perfect truth of Yahweh’s laws to His people.
Not many understand the sacrifice that Y’shua made when He allowed Yahweh to place his spirit in the womb of Mary to be born a human being, the son of Joseph and Mary and to live as all other men must live on this planet. He was the only begotten son of Yahweh as he was the only unfallen son of Yahweh to willingly leave his place in the heavens and come to earth even though he had no sin. He left the Glory that he had with Yahweh in his heavenly estate and came to earth to bring life and immortality to light.
Y’shua was prophesied to come in many Old Testament scriptures in the Bible. Some of these have also been altered by the Catholics. My favorite: Isa. 9:2, 6, "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined. - For unto us a child is born, and unto us A SON IS GIVEN; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty one, Father of the Age to come, Prince of Peace."
The purpose of his coming was to bring the perfect teachings of Yahweh’s laws to his chosen people and to not only teach these laws, but to actually live them as a witness to mankind that we can live sinless in this present world. He did not do away with Yahweh’s laws, but rather brought them to perfection by teaching us that if we love Yahweh with all our heart and love our neighbors as ourselves then we have kept all of Yahweh’s laws. If we love Yahweh with all our heart, then we will not worship any false Gods, Buddha, Jesus, Allah, etc. If we love our neighbor as ourselves, we will not bear false witness against him, nor will we commit adultery with his wife, nor yet fornicate with his daughter, nor yet will we covet anything that is his, so we will not steal from him, neither will we lie to him, nor do anything to harm him. If we, by the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit, keep these two laws then we have peace once again with Yahweh.
Since Y’shua was tempted in all points as we, he has gained the experience to help each of us to live as he did without sin in this present world, which is the only way we can be allowed to return back home where we belong.
Enoch's description of Yahweh and of The Son of Man. Enoch 46:1, "There I beheld the Ancient of Days, whose head was like white wool, and with him another, whose countenance resembled that of man. His countenance was full of grace, like that of one of the Holy Angels. Then I inquired of one of the Angels, who went with me, and showed me every secret thing, concerning this Son of Man; who he was, whence he was, and why he accompanied the Ancient of days. (Jn.17:3, Dan. 7:9) He answered and said to me: This is the Son of Man, to whom righteousness belongs; with whom righteousness has dwelt; and who will reveal all the treasures of that which is concealed; for the Lord of Spirits has chosen him; and his portion has surpassed all before the Lord of Spirits in everlasting uprightness."
John 12: 46-50, “I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
John 8:12, “Then spake Y’shua again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”
John 9:5, “As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
Matt. 4:16-17, “The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. From that time Y’shua began to preach, and to say, REPENT: for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
John 1:4-5, “In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
John 5:24-25, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
Luke 1:73-79, “The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins, Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
Rom. 8:14, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of (Yahweh), they are the sons of (Yahweh).” In the Scriptures we find the record of Simon Peter, to whom Yahweh gave an amazing revelation in Matt. 16:13-17, "When (Y’shua) came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, who do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But who say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said; Thou art the Son of the living God. And (Y’shua) answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven."
1. THE SCRIPTURES DECLARE THAT THE MESSIAH IS YAHWEH’S SON, A CREATION OF YAHWEH THE FATHER AND SOPHIA THE MOTHER, WHOM THEY FORMED BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE EARTH.
Gen. 1:26-27, “(Yahweh) said let us make man in our image….in the image of (Yahweh) he created them; male and female created he them.”
Micah 5:2, "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose origin is from of old, from ancient days”.
Rev. 3:14, "And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of (Yahweh):"
Col. 1:15, "He is the image of the invisible (Yahweh), the first-born of all creation;"
Psa. 89:27, "Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth." Also see 1 John 5:18.
Heb. 2:11, "For He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified have all one origin. That is why He is not ashamed to call them brethren."
Isa. 48:16, "Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there, and now (Yahweh) has sent me and his Spirit."
Psa. 2:7, "I will declare the decree: The Lord hath said to me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee."
Matt. 3:16-17, “And Y’shua, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Holy Spirit (Sophia) descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
Heb. 1:6, "And again when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, and let all the angels of (Yahweh) worship him."
The word begotten is a form of the verb beget, which means to father, to bring into being. Thus begotten indicates a definite point in eternity; the point at which the Son was created. By definition, the begetter (father) always must exist before the begotten (offspring). There must be a point in eternity when the begetter exists and the begotten is not yet in existence, and there must be a point in eternity when the act of begetting occurs. Otherwise, the word begotten has no meaning.
So, the very words begotten and son each contradict the word eternal as applied to the Son of Yahweh. Only Yahweh is eternal. The Son of Yahweh had a beginning.
2. Y’SHUA, IN OBEDIENCE TO HIS FATHER, WILLINGLY LEFT HEAVEN AND CAME TO EARTH AND WAS ROBED IN HUMAN FLESH.
John 8:42, Y’shua said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from Yahweh; neither came I of myself, but he sent me."
John 6:38, "For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me."
Luke 1:30-31, "And the angel said to her, Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with (Yahweh), and behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name (Y’shua)."
Isa. 9:6, (From the Alexandrine Mss.) "For a child is born to us, and a son is given to us, whose government is upon his shoulder: and his name is called the Messenger of the great council, Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty one, Potentate, Prince of Peace, Father of the age to come."
God the Father cannot be tempted with evil, as He determines what is good or evil; however, since His Son Y’shua is created, he is a free moral agent as we. Therefore, he could be tempted in all points as we, to disobey his Father's commands, yet he did not sin.
Jas. 1:13, "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of (Yahweh): for (Yahweh) cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:"
Luke 4:1-2, "And Y’shua being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the devil."
Heb. 4:15, "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." (Also see: Isa. 28:16)
3. Y’SHUA IS OUR SOON COMING KING.
Rev. 19:11-16, "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of (Yahweh). And the armies, which were in heaven, followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of (Yahweh). And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."
ADDITIONAL IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT THE MESSIAH.
FIRST
HIS NAME IS NOT JESUS. We must understand that when Paul brought his corrupted Gentile version of Y’shua’s teachings to Rome, although there were still temples to Diana and Zeus, the main religion already in place was Mithraism which was the culmination of and included all of the Pagan worship and false deities that had come before it. In what became the norm in latter Catholicism, the old religion was simply melded with the new religion. See Paul.
It is believed that the Hebrew name of our savior Y’shua was changed into the Greek “IESOUS” at this time. Their false God could not be called by a Jewish name because it would not be acceptable to Paul’s New Greek religion, nor to the Romans who considered the Jews slaves.
“The Greek name for Jesus, IESOUS (Savior), shows a remarkable similarity to the masculine form of the name of the healing goddess IASO, pronounced IESO in Ionic Greek. There is also a strong connection with the names of the sons of Zeus (IASUS, IASION, AND IASIUS). Another spelling of the name is IHSOUS, the IHS became associated with IESOUS as Savior of humanity, but IHS was already a title of Bacchus. The Romans further corrupted the name to IESUS, which was later altered to Jesus after the letter J was added to the English Language, about 500 years ago. The Master said “I come in my Father’s name”… (in Hebrew the Father’s name is YAHWEH and the Son’s name is Y’SHUA)...” Michael Robison
“THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY IS TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE MESSIAH'S NAME NEVER WAS ‘JESUS’ AND THAT THE NAME ‘JESUS’ IS ACTUALLY AN INVENTION OF MAN.
“In the King James Version of the scriptures, we find an interesting problem in its translation:
“In Luke 4:27 we find Elisha’s (Eli’Shuah) name changed to El-I-se’us (Eli’Zeus) meaning (My god is Zeus). If they will corrupt a Prophets name how much more the name of Y’shua?
“’Je-SUS’ is pronounced Gee-SOOCE and this is from the Latin word/name ‘Ie-SUS’ pronounced Ee-SOOCE.
“Sadly, a case can be made that ‘Jesus’, in Latin, actually means 'Pig'. In Greek, the messiah’s name is Iesous. Iesous or ‘hey-soos’ in Hebrew it means “hey leaping horse’. Just look at this example: Ps.33:17, ‘a horse (Strong’s Heb. word 5483) (Heb. hey-soos/Grk. Iesous/ Eng. Jesus) is a vain hope for safety; neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.’
“Jesus is a corrupted name derived from the Greek IESOUS. Ies, or iysh in Hebrew means man, while sus -soos means leaping horse, so when you speak that name, you are referring to the Messiah as ‘man horse’ or ‘man beast’.
“The name Jesus in Welch is IESU. Jesus in Romanian is ISUS. Jesus in Polish is JEZUS.
“Did you know that there was a Celtic demon god by the name ‘ESUS’ pronounced Ee-SOOCE also known as ‘HESUS’, pronounced He or Hey-SOOCE. This god was worshipped by the ancient Druids. This ‘ESUS’ was found on a relief on an altar of ZEUS that was found in Paris in the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Notre Dame. (Encyclopedia Britannica Macromedia page 575) On this relief you can see that on ‘ESUS’s chest there is a CROSS.” (Dictionary of Pagan Religions page 117 and page 152).
I THINK IT IS MORE THAN OBVIOUS THAT JOSEPH AND MARY DID NOT NAME THEIR HEBREW SON AFTER A GREEK GOD NAMED ZEUS.
EVEN THOUGH THE VARIOUS CORRUPTIONS OF THE MESSIAH'S NAME HAVE BEEN INGRAINED IN PEOPLE FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS, HOW CAN WE, IN GOOD CONSCIENCE, FAIL TO TEACH THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS NAME?
The cross, it turns out, come also from Paganism. The worship of Asherah, which Yahweh dealt with repeatedly in Israel, was called an abomination and involved the use of a cross to determine the solstice days with its shadow. On these solstice days, different aspects of the story of Nimrod and Semiramus were played out. The first solstice involved intercourse between a chosen man and the current temple priestess. The next solstice showed the death of Nimrod (which included the actual death and bloody dismemberment of the chosen man which was accomplished in front of the cross (The Crucifixion). The next solstice day, the winter solstice day (Christmas), A baby was born in front of the cross (Tammuz). These Asherah crosses or poles were even set up in Yahweh’s temple courtyard and were called an abomination by Yahweh. Have you ever seen a Babylon temple that did not have crosses or a steeple? Also, are you aware that the origin of steeples or obelisks comes from the death of Nimrod, when Semiramis recovered his male part and set these things up in his memory? Ask your Pastor what scripture his steeple comes from.
SECOND
He was not born of a virgin. This myth is found in most of the pagan god mythologies and in the case of Jesus, came from Mithraism. There are no less than sixteen god-man redeemers recorded in history all of whom were born of a virgin on or around the day of winter solstice.
The Virgin Birth - in our discussion of this subject, let me say that for thirty years I believed the orthodox position. I simply never questioned it. Now however, I must respond to what I believe are Yahweh's promptings to discard this position in favor of the truth. It is obvious even with just a precursory look at this to see that like so many other Catholic teachings it is error.
IF Y’SHUA WAS BORN OF A VIRGIN, THEN HE IS NOT A SON OF DAVID OR THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH AS MARY WAS THE COUSIN OF ELIZABETH WHO WAS OF THE TRIBE OF LEVI, LUKE 1:5.
The book of Matthew begins with the genealogy of Y’shua, which lists Joseph’s ancestors from Abraham on down, not Mary’s. (Also see Acts 2:30 and Rom. 1:3)
If you stop at verse 17 in chapter 1 and pick up again at the beginning of chapter 2 you will see that it fits together like a glove. Verse 18 through verse 25 tells the Catholic story of Joseph and Mary and the miraculous impregnation of Mary by God, this being required to fulfill the supposed prophecy of Isaiah in chap. 7:14. However, if we really look at this prophecy we find that it has nothing whatsoever to do with the Messiah. This child was a sign from Yahweh that the enemies of Ahaz, Ephraim and Syria, would be defeated before this child was old enough to choose good from evil. In the very next chapter of Isaiah we find another child given for a sign from God. This is not including the fact that the word translated ‘virgin’ in Isa. 7:14 is a mistranslation of Strong’s word 3959 (which occurs only one other time in the Bible - in Gen. 24:43 (RSV), concerning Isaac’s future wife, and was translated as a ‘young woman’). The translation of this word as ‘virgin’ in Isa. 7:14 is very strange considering there is a Hebrew word for ‘virgin’ that is used twenty-four times in the scripture. That word is Strong’s word 1330.
This error has been corrected in most other modern Bible translations where it is translated as young woman. We cannot find any prophecy anywhere that requires that Yahweh impregnate Mary who, by the way, is a man’s wife.
We do not have to look far to find the reason for this corrupt teaching and its result. It is none other than the unholy Catholic Church whose primary reason for existence is to restore again the false religion of Paganism. Many of the gods and goddesses of paganism, including its founder Semiramis, were all involved with ‘virgin’ births. In her case, Tammuz was born of an ‘immaculate conception’ between her and her dead husband Nimrod which is, of course, where the Catholics found the teaching of God manifest or incarnate as His own son.
As to the result of this false teaching of the Virgin Birth and all that follows it - the Immaculate Conception, the Deification of Mary as the Mother of God, and the ascension of Mary into Heaven, we need look no further than the fact that one-sixth of the population of the planet worships Mary as the mother of God, which is actually Satan worship and the very pinnacle of Pagan idolatry. See image of Jealousy - Ezek. 8:3, 5, Dan. 11:31, 12:11.
For an exhaustive treatise on the subject of Catholic Paganism and Mariology please read Alexander Hislops “Two Babylons”.
IT IS ALSO VERY INTERESTING THAT JOSEPH’S AND MARY’S CHILD WAS NOT NAMED IMMANUEL.
The miracle in Y’shua's birth was that Yahweh took the unfallen spirit of his Son Y’shua, who was with Yahweh at the creation of the earth, and placed it in that little body that was conceived by Joseph and Mary. If you remember, the Messiah is called both the son of Yahweh and the son of man. How could this be if a man was not involved in his conception? Yahweh was the father of his spirit and Joseph the father of his body.
THIRD
He did not die as a human sacrifice to an angry God. He was crucified but he died as a political offering to Rome as a Zealot against the Roman occupation of Israel; did not Pilate, supposedly, place a sign on his tree saying this is the King of the Jews? This myth of his death for our salvation also comes from Paganism and was blended in with the teachings of the early church. The need for a man to die in our place comes from the erroneous teaching of Paul that we are accounted sinners because of the sin of Adam (our great grandfather). See Ezek.18. We are fallen because of our own personal sins in the heavens in the rebellion, and we must work out our own salvation by repentance and walking righteously before Yahweh. As the scripture says, “Come let us reason together, though thy sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow”.
IN THE O.T. YAHWEH ABSOLUTELY FORBIDS HUMAN SACRIFICE.
Lev. 18:21 “AND THOU SHALT NOT LET ANY OF THY SEED PASS THROUGH THE FIRE TO MO’-LECH, neither shalt thou profane the name of God: I am the Lord.”
Jer. 32:35, “And they built the high places of Ba’al, which are in the valley of the son of Hin’-nom, TO CAUSE THEIR SONS AND THEIR DAUGHTERS TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE UNTO MO’-LECH; WHICH I COMMANDED THEM NOT, NEITHER CAME IT INTO MY MIND, THAT THEY SHOULD DO THIS ABOMINATION, to cause Judah to sin.”
ARE WE TO BELIEVE THAT YAHWEH ACTUALLY COMMANDED HIS SON TO DIE AS A HUMAN SACRIFICE AFTER CALLING THIS ACT AN ABOMINATION AND A SIN???
YAHWEH IS THE SAVIOUR.
YAHWEH CALLED MEN WHOM HE SENT TO HELP ISRAEL “SAVIOURS” IN BOTH THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD WHO IS THE SAVIOUR OF MEN, EVERYONE ELSE INCLUDING Y’SHUA IS A MESSENGER.
Isa. 45: 21, “Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? Who hath told it from that time? Have not I the Lord? AND THERE IS NO GOD ELSE BESIDE ME; A JUST GOD AND A SAVIOUR; THERE IS NONE BESIDE ME.”
Isa. 43:11, “I, even I, am the Lord; and BESIDE ME THERE IS NO SAVIOUR.”
Hosea 13: 4, “Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: FOR THERE IS NO SAVIOUR BESIDE ME.”
Jude 1: 25, “TO THE ONLY WISE GOD OUR SAVIOUR, BE GLORY AND MAJESTY, DOMINION AND POWER, BOTH NOW AND EVER. AMEN”
Luke 1: 47, “And my spirit hath rejoiced in GOD MY SAVIOUR.”
1 Tim 4: 10, “For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living GOD, WHO IS THE SAVIOUR of all men, especially of those that believe.”
Titus 1: 3, “But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of GOD OUR SAVIOUR;”
Titus 2: 10, “Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of GOD OUR SAVIOUR in all things.”
Isa.49: 26, “And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I THE LORD AM THY SAVIOUR AND THY REDEEMER, THE MIGHTY ONE OF JACOB.”
Titus 3: 4, “But after that the kindness and love of GOD OUR SAVIOUR toward man appeared”
Isa. 60: 16, “Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I THE LORD AM THY SAVIOUR AND THY REDEEMER, THE MIGHTY ONE OF JACOB.”
1 Tim. 2: 3, “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of GOD OUR SAVIOUR;”
DOES THE N.T. SUPPORT THE NEED FOR A BLOOD SACRIFICE?
Matt. 9:12-13, “But when Y’shua heard that, he said unto them, they that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I WILL HAVE MERCY, AND NOT SACRIFICE: FOR I AM NOT COME TO CALL THE RIGHTEOUS, BUT SINNERS TO REPENTANCE.”
From the Epistle of Barnabus - “For He hath made manifest to us by all the prophets that He wanteth neither sacrifices nor whole burnt offerings nor oblations, saying at one time; What to Me is the multitude of your sacrifices, saith (Yahweh) I am full of whole burnt-offerings, and the fat of lambs and the blood of bulls and of goats I desire not, not though ye should come to be seen of Me. or who required these things at your hands? Ye shall continue no more to tread My court. If ye bring fine flour, it is in vain; incense is an abomination to Me; your new moons and your Sabbaths I cannot abide. These things therefore He annulled, that the new law of our Lord (Y’shua), being free from the yoke of constraint, might have its oblation not made by human hands. And He saith again unto them; 'Did I command your fathers when they went forth from the land of Egypt to bring Me whole burnt offerings and sacrifices? Nay, this was My command unto them, Let none of you bear a grudge of evil against his neighbor in his heart, and love you not a false oath.' So we ought to perceive, unless we are without understanding, the mind of the goodness of our Father; for He speaketh to us, desiring us not to go astray like them but to seek how we may approach Him. Thus then speaketh He to us; 'The sacrifice unto (Yahweh) is a broken heart, the smell of a sweet savor unto (Him) is a heart that glorifies its Maker.”
DOES THE O.T. SUPPORT BLOOD SACRIFICE?
It is obvious that Yahweh never commanded Israel to offer animals for sacrifices. It appears that he endured their Pagan sacrifices for a while just like he endured us calling Him and Y’shua by pagan names in our ignorance, but he hates it, just like he hated their Sabbaths and their sacrifices and feast days then and now.
Jeremiah 7:21-23, “Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.”
Psa. 51:15-17, “O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of Yahweh are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O Lord, thou wilt not despise.”
Psa. 34:18. “The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”
Psa. 50:7-13, “Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings to have been continually before me. I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? Offer unto (Yahweh) thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:”
Isa. 1: 11-13, “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.”
Amos 5:21-23, “I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.”
Psa. 40:6-10, “Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: BURNT OFFERING AND SIN OFFERING HAST THOU NOT REQUIRED. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest. I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. “ This is believed to be a prophecy of the coming Messiah.
WE BELIEVE THAT THE SOURCE OF THE BLOOD SACRIFICE TEACHING COMES STRAIGHT FROM PAGANISM.
Prometheus of Greece
“The Greek god Prometheus has been claimed to have come from Egypt, but his drama took place in the Caucasus Mountains. Prometheus shares a number of striking similarities with the Christ character.
• Prometheus descended from heaven as God incarnate as man, to save mankind.
• He was crucified, suffered and rose from the dead.
• He was called the Logos or Word.
“Five centuries before the Christian era, esteemed Greek poet Aeschylus wrote Prometheus Bound, which, according to Taylor, was presented in the theater in Athens. Taylor claims that in the play Prometheus is crucified "on a fatal tree" and the sky goes dark:
"The darkness which closed the scene on the suffering Prometheus, was easily exhibited on the stage, by putting out the lamps; but when the tragedy was to become history, and the fiction to be turned into fact, the lamp of day could not be so easily disposed of. Nor can it be denied that the miraculous darkness which the Evangelists so solemnly declare to have attended the crucifixion of Christ, labours under precisely the same fatality of an absolute and total want of evidence.”
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There is no historical record of an earthquake or an eclipse or any daytime darkness in Israel during the time of the supposed crucifixion.
THERE ARE NO LESS THAN SIXTEEN GOD-MEN REDEEMERS FOUND IN PAGANISM, ALL OF WHOM WERE BORN AROUND OR ON WINTER SOLSTICE DAY, OF A VIRGIN, AND WHO ALSO DIED ON A CROSS AS A BLOOD SACRIFICE FOR THE SALVATION OF THEIR FOLLOWERS.
Y’SHUA CAME TO THE EARTH TO BE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, NOT TO DIE AS A HUMAN SACRIFICE TO APPEASE THE VENGEANCE OF AN ANGRY GOD.
Physical, or fleshly, obedience has been replaced by obedience of the heart, leading to perfection, by following Y’shua and his teachings. Rather than trying to atone for sins by killing animals, we are to stop sinning and repent from the heart, obeying laws for our spirit to follow, not just our hands.
In the following scriptures we find that life is received by believing and obeying Y’shua’s teachings rather than being the beneficiaries of his torture and death.
Y’shua states in Matt. 5:17-20, That he upholds the Judaic Law, however according to Paul’s writings in Romans 5:6-11, Y’shua’s death was sacrificial. Now the Judaic law forbade human sacrifice; so if Y’shua’s death was sacrificial then he broke the very Law he said he upheld. Human sacrifice is scripturally untenable. This teaching was added by Paul or the Catholics to God’s word.
Matt. 9:13, “But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Heb. 10:5-7, “Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.”
John 8:12, “Then spake Y’shua again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”
John 9:5, “As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
John 12: 46-50, “I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.”
Matt. 4:16-17, “The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. From that time Y’shua began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
John 1:4-5, “In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
John 5:24-25, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
Luke 1:73-79, “The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins, Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
IN THE FOLLOWING VERSES, MOSES PROPHESIES THE COMING MESSIAH WHO IS TO BE A PROPHET - NOT A HUMAN SACRIFICE OR GOD IN HUMAN FLESH.
DEUT. 18:18-19 “I WILL RAISE UP FOR THEM A PROPHET LIKE YOU FROM AMONG THEIR BRETHREN, AND WILL PUT MY WORDS IN HIS MOUTH, AND HE SHALL SPEAK TO THEM ALL THAT I COMMAND HIM. AND IT SHALL BE THAT WHOEVER WILL NOT HEAR MY WORDS, WHICH HE SPEAKS IN MY NAME, I WILL REQUIRE IT OF HIM.”
In this scripture, Y’shua is known as a Teacher.
John 3:2, “Rabbi, we know (the Sanhedrin knows) that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except that God be with him.”
In this scripture, Y’shua is known as a Prophet.
Matt. 21:46, “They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet.”
Matt. 4:17, "From that time (Y’shua) began to preach repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand."
“This Doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of (Y’shua), and which plays so small a part in the Christian creeds, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. ...It is small wonder if the hesitating convert and disciple presently went back to the old familiar ideas of temple and altar, of fierce deity and propitiatory observance, of consecrated priest and magic blessing, and-- these things being attended to reverted back to the dear old habitual life of hates and profits and competition and pride. For the doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, as (Y’shua) seems to have preached it, was no less than a bold and uncompromising demand for a complete change and cleansing of the life of our struggling race, an utter cleansing, without and within. ...Men belonged to the Kingdom; all their personal possessions belonged to the Kingdom. The righteous life for all men, the only righteous life, was the service of God's will with all that we had, and with all that we were...(Y’shua) had called men and women to a giant undertaking, to the renunciation of self, to the new birth into the kingdom of love.
"The line of least resistance for the flagging convert was to intellectualize himself away from this plain doctrine, this stark proposition, into complicated theories and ceremonies--that would leave his essential self alone. How much easier it is to sprinkle oneself with blood than to purge oneself from malice and competition; to eat bread and drink wine and pretend one had absorbed divinity, to give candles rather than the heart, to shave the head and retain the scheming privacy of the brain inside it!
"...What is clearly apparent is that the teaching of (Y’shua) was a prophetic teaching of the new type that began with the Hebrew prophets. It was not priestly; it had no consecrated temple and no altar. Its sacrifice was "a broken and contrite heart." Its only organization was an organization of preachers, and its chief function was the sermon. But the fully-fledged Christianity of the fourth century… was mainly a priestly religion of a type already familiar to the world for thousands of years. The centre of its elaborate ritual was an altar, and the essential act of worship the sacrifice, by a consecrated priest, of the mass. And it had a rapidly developing organization of deacons, priests, and bishops. ...Its wide-spread altars were all addressed to the unseen universal Trinity..."
The Outline of History
H. G. Wells
Page 499-523
The Macmillian Co
New York 1921
