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Weekly portion of the Torah divided into seven sections corresponding to each day of the week.What is the parasha?
OK, We are not like the Christians who believe the New covenant replaced the Tanakh or it's observances.
There is a timeframe where the sacrifices are made of our lips, and our lives; but the time is coming where again there is a Temple and sacrifice. There was always grace and salvation; but it was not realized until the death and resurrection of the Messiah.
As our ancestors looked forwards; we look back and forward. Back to our spiritual redemption and forwards to the redemption and rejouvenation of the world.
By divorced from it's roots... I would say read up on Church History.
People decided things were "Too Jewish" and removed themselves from the context of worship and made something different.
Messianics use both the OT and NT. Most study the Torah (first 5 books of OT which were written to Moses under the inspiration of YHVH). I know that I read through the scriptures somewhere between 1 and 3 times a year.Sorry NT means New Testament. I understand the Jews only use the NT because they don't believe in Jesus being the son of G-d because they think he still hasn't came yet. So, what I was wanting to know was do Messianic use both the OT and NT but believe that these days are the NT days and the laws of the OT have been written over so to speak by the NT?
What do you mean faith was divorced from it's roots?
Exactly!So, you saying that Christians have forgetton the law of the OT and determined they are not worthy because we have the NT now? And in doing so we have lost part of our own heritage?
I have read the first 3 books of Moses and have to admit that it it sometimes hard to follow and alot to remember when it gets to all the temple practices and what is clean and unclean.
Messianics use both the OT and NT. Most study the Torah (first 5 books of OT which were written to Moses under the inspiration of YHVH). I know that I read through the scriptures somewhere between 1 and 3 times a year.
The NT writers' message has lost it's Hebrew flavor when written/translated/whichever into Greek. Greek is a completely different mindset philosophically and theologically to Hebrew which I believe is a language created by Abba. Once I began understanding the Hebrew mindset, the NT opened to me in ways I can't even describe!
BTW, I've seen and admired your posts for quite a while, Snowy. It's not much of a surprise to me that you are interested in Israel and things Jewish!
Exactly!
IMHO the above verses is the L_RD calling out the true believers from out of the Church. The reason I say this is the church still celebrates Sunday worship and pagan holidays (Xmas and Easter).Rev 18:1 After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory.
2 He cried with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Bavel (Babylon) the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!
3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."
4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don't receive of her plagues,
It is my opinion that when God said "this is unclean" that He was saying "this is not food". God pointed out what was considered food and what was not. He did not point to a pig and say "that's food but I don't want you to eat it". He said, "that's unclean, therefore it's not food" If it's not food, it's not food. No matter what is done to it in this day and age. Peter was only doing what God had said. I don't see that Peter was being corrected on his eating habits but on his attitude toward the Gentile. "THEY" were not unclean. That does not change however what God Himself said was not food (but man has chosen to eat anyway) and what was.The next day as Corneliuss messengers were nearing the town, Peter went up on the flat roof to pray. It was about noon, and he was hungry. But while a meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw the sky open, and something like a large sheet was let down by its four corners. In the sheet were all sorts of animals, reptiles, and birds. Then a voice said to him, Get up, Peter; kill and eat them." No, Lord, Peter declared. I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure and unclean." But the voice spoke again: Do not call something unclean if G-d has made it clean. Acts 10:9-15
Do not destroy the work of G-d for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. Romans 14:20
G-d says all food is clean so why do you worry about what you eat unless it causes someone else to stumble which I really don't understand how it could. If G-d said something is ok to eat then doesn't that make it ok as what happened in Acts?
What is D4H2?
I really have no clue if there is a Messianic Jew group near me.
I fought it for a long time too but yet I found myself seeking for it.And if that is the case then why aren't more Christians going back to their heritage?
It seems like I'm the only one who feels the way I do but then again I haven't talked to any of my Christian friends about any of this either.
I have been asking God to show me what I was missing and I really believe he was pointing here but I was ignoring him and kept asking for something more. I keep wandering back here to wander away and come back again. I have been fighting it for so long but it is getting to where I can't any longer. The more I learn about God the more I want to know. The more I experience him the more I want to. He has really got me this time and the weird thing is I'm not trying to fight him on it.
To quote my elders and teachers....Kabbala is a mixed bag. Some is spooky; other is simply knowledge that is hidden or secret and not spooky at all. Madonna is into some sort of New Age mishmash of Kabbala.
Anyone else?
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