Introduction
Been a good and keen reader of the Bible & classical literature of every sort.
I have decided to write an open thesis against some false teachings been taught in some churches today by so called acclaimed bible teachers and theologians.
This treatise is not anti-Semitic in nature, but rather an open refutation against ludicrous & God-damned Satan inspired teachings from the pit of hell that are attempting to bring Christians into perpetual bondage and servitude.
I want to use this media as an occasion to prove to every well meaning believer in Christ Jesus that Yeshua Hama-Shiach fulfilled the law and nailed it’s ritualistic demands to the cross, setting us free from the bondage of the law to live in the newness of life and walk in liberty by the Holy Spirit which He has given to us.
It is not mandatory that you must agree with everything that I am going to say, but rather prove all things & hold unto that which is true (1 Thessalonians 1:5).
- I will break the message into two or three parts as the Spirit gives utterance.
(1) Talmudizing Christianity To Agree With Judaism
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. (Galatians 5:1)
It is quite impossible to unite and knit together two things that do not agree, any attempt to do such would result into cataclysmic conflicts that would result death.
Times without number, I have come across on the Internet ministry websites that are advocating for Christians to keep and abide by some Old Testament laws and holydays.
They went to the extreme of saying that Christians should return back to their
Hebraic-Judeo Christian roots, after going through their teachings, I found out that these people are advocating nothing than a full come back to Judaism and to the keeping of its’ rules & regulations mixed with Christian beliefs and ethics.
But after going through the word of God, I found out that Christians are not meant to keep Old Testament traditions and laws which was why Apostle Paul wrote to the believers at Galatia to be careful of what they are trying to return back to, because it seems that these believers were trying to inter-mingle Christianity with Judaism.
Anyone advocating that Christian should keep Old Testament laws and traditions is saying that the death of Jesus Christ on Calvary is not sufficient to save man, and that God is not yet satisfied with the price that Jesus paid in ransom to our debt.
A believer is not called to keep and abide by the law; rather he is called to live unto righteousness in the newness of life by the Spirit, as it is written:
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (Romans 8:1-4)
When we talk about the law, we are talking about man meeting up to God’s righteous demand in one hundred percent certitude, but the question is, who on earth has been able to live up to God’s righteousness if not Jesus Christ?
Now a believer who walks according to the Spirit is free from the bondage of the law, because he by the power of the Holy Spirit through the righteousness of Jesus Christ lives in accordance with the will of God, such believer has no need of struggling to live a holy and sanctified life, but rather he allows Christ by the Spirit to live out God’s righteousness through and in him, he has totally submitted his wills to that of Christ, so that through the empowering of the Holy Spirit, he overcomes the flesh.
If we believe that Jesus is truly Christ, we are God's children. Everyone who loves the Father will also love his children.
It is not by keeping the law that we become God’s dear children, it is by believing in His Messiah that sets free from the bondage of the law, when we believe that Jesus is truly the Messiah it is then we can be able to overcome the flesh and its’ desire.
Every child of God can defeat the world, and our faith is what gives us this victory, No one can defeat the world without having faith in Jesus as the Son of God ((1 John 5:1, 4 & 5 CEV)
It is a futile attempt for a person to overcome this world by living according to the law, true faith in the Son of God gives us victory, we are cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ, not by the blood of bulls and goats and sheep, our righteousness is the one that comes through Christ Jesus not through the law, a person in Christ Jesus is a new creation, old things have been done away, such a person is no more judged from human perspective, because he has been born of the Spirit.
We are careful not to judge people by what they seem to be, though we once judged Christ in that way. Anyone who belongs to Christ is a new person. The past is forgotten, and everything is new (2 Corinthians 5:16-17 CEV).
The law has to with man’s outward appearance based on what he does and what he does not, because looking back at the Old Testament, we saw that everything that concerns the law is wholly outward, that was why people were condemned or acquitted based on the bad or good works that they had done, but in Christ Jesus such things do not exist, because man’s righteousness is as a filthy rag before God.
The bible made it clear that in the law man is daily reminded of his sins which were why it could not make the worshipers pure, in fact they had to perform daily, weekly, monthly and yearly sacrifices for the temporal atonement of their sins, I would love to elaborate little on Hebrews 9, to prove that no one is justified by keeping the law, and that Christianity é Judaism do not agree:
The first promise that was made included rules for worship and a tent for worship here on earth. The first part of the tent was called the holy place, and a lampstand, a table, and the sacred loaves of bread were kept there. Behind the curtain was the most holy place. The gold altar that was used for burning incense was in this holy place. The gold-covered sacred chest was also there, and inside it were three things. First, there was a gold jar filled with manna. Then there was Aaron's walking stick that sprouted. Finally, there were the flat stones with the Ten Commandments written on them.
In the first testament, everything was ritualistic, & every article or object points towards something better, all that we saw in the altar in the Old Testament is just a replica of the excellent things which we are enjoying today.
In the above portions of the scripture, the bible mentions some elemental objects of worship, each has their symbolic meaning and Jesus fulfilled them all.
I would not like go into theological treatise of it, time will not permit, there are many good books you can get hands on and read concerning those elemental objects.
Nevertheless, you must be careful concerning the books you read, some of them no matter how good they are, are sometimes misleading, theologians do not agree with one another, even though they may freely quote from other works.
On top of the chest were the glorious creatures with wings opened out above the place of mercy. Now isn't the time to go into detail about these things. But this is how everything was when the priests went each day into the first part of the tent to do their duties. However, only the high priest could go into the second part of the tent, and he went in only once a year. Each time he carried blood to offer for his sins and for any sins that the people had committed without meaning to.
During the Old Testament time, the priests go daily into the first part of the tent to perform their duties, what does this mean, where and whom is it pointing to, I will briefly balance it with the New Testament, but first of all you must understand that the priests who go daily into the first tent signifies believers of all age who go to God daily in prayers, lifting up holy hands before him in praise, worship, adoration and intercession, hear what the bible said:
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light (1Peter 2:9 KJV).
Halleluiah, we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, He (God) has granted us access into His grace through the cleansing & justifying blood of Jesus Christ, whoever advocating for a come back into the Old Testament practices is a fool.
Now the second part of it is that only the high priest can go into the second part of the tent, carrying blood to offer for his sins and for the sins of the people committed ignorantly, please underline, he would first of all confess his own sins, and secondly the sins of the people, which means both the high priest is incapable of securing the people’s redemption, since he himself must confess his sins.
Now the question here is this, how do those think that are advocating that Christians should return back to their so called Hebraic Judeo Christian root that one can be made perfect through those rituals?
Some of them are even saying that during Christ millennial rule, sacrifices would made once more, such teachings, have no root in the established word of God.
It is absolute nonsense to believe such things, no sacrifices would be made during that age, Christ has done away with them on the cross, so if you believe that, you should wait for another saviour who would come and die for you.
All of this is the Holy Spirit's way of saying that no one could enter the most holy place while the tent was still the place of worship. This also has a meaning for today. It shows that we cannot make our consciences clear by offering gifts and sacrifices.
Just as I said before, they were replica of the real thing to come, therefore we have no need of them again since they have been done away with, those who are still practicing the Old Testament laws combined with Christianity are still bond slave of the law, they are not the sons of God because the Spirit of adoption does not dwell in them, whereby they can cry Abba Father, for no slave can call his master father.
No living human being can be justified by offering gifts and sacrifices to God, read your bible God said that He has no pleasure in gifts & sacrifices, how then do you think He would have pleasure in them now that Christ Jesus has fulfilled everything.
The truth of the whole matter is that, no man can approach God on his own that is why Jesus became our mediator between man & God, it should be clear that any attempt to return to the Old Testament way of worship is an open rebellion against and trampling down of the precious blood of Jesus.
It was in Christ Jesus that God was pleased, if God was pleased in the blood of animals, why then did He sent His only begotten Son into the world?
These rules are merely about such things as eating and drinking and ceremonies for washing ourselves. And rules about physical things will last only until the time comes to change them for something better. Christ came as the high priest of the good things that are now here. He also went into a much better tent that wasn't made by humans and that doesn't belong to this world. Then Christ went once for all into the most holy place and freed us from sin forever. He did this by offering his own blood instead of the blood of goats and bulls.
Can someone say amen to that, Jesus used His own blood to free us from sin and its’ consequences which is death, He did this by entering into the most holy place not made by human hands, He went into the very presence of the Father and secured our eternal salvation, therefore we His people are free from every ritualistic demands of the law, we are free because the Author of our salvation was sinless, He fulfilled the righteousness of the law and offered up Himself on our behalf as the sinless Son of God, that through Him the righteousness of God might be made manifest in us, he took our place of suffering, guilt and eternal condemnation and mailed them forever to the cross, by this our sins are forgiven and forgotten, therefore let no man try to bring us back to bondage, we are free, halleluiah to the lamb, glory and honour, and power be unto Him now and forever, amen.
According to the Law of Moses, those people who become unclean are not fit to worship God. Yet they will be considered clean, if they are sprinkled with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a sacrificed calf. But Christ was sinless, and he offered himself as an eternal and spiritual sacrifice to God. That's why his blood is much more powerful and makes our consciences clear. Now we can serve the living God and no longer do things that lead to death. Christ died to rescue those who had sinned and broken the old agreement. Now he brings his chosen ones a new agreement with its guarantee of God's eternal blessings!
Glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, thank you Jesus, only you would have done it, no other man could have, we are grateful and forever indebted unto you and unto your Father, for you have redeemed us from wrath to a glorious and blessed hope which no other person can offer, we thank you, amen.
This God-Man Jesus has set us free from the law by establishing a new and more far exceeding excellent covenant whereby our sins are no more remembered, because under the old covenant the sins of the people are reminded daily, that was why they had to do those daily sacrifices, but in this new covenant, our sins are blotted our and are no more remembered, because the Author of our salvation need not to offer Himself continually, He did once and for all, that is why we call Him our faithful & merciful High Priest who has gone ahead of us to lay hold of the eternal promise.
This is why Christ did not go into a tent that had been made by humans and was only a copy of the real one. Instead, he went into heaven and is now there with God to help us. Christ did not have to offer himself many times. He wasn't like a high priest who goes into the most holy place each year to offer the blood of an animal. If he had offered himself every year, he would have suffered many times since the creation of the world. But instead, near the end of time he offered himself once and for all, so that he could be a sacrifice that does away with sin.
I don’t know what to say again, I don’t know how to elaborate on this any more, the word of God finalizes it, beloved it is a futile thing to think that sacrifices would be once again performed during the Kingdom reign, what God is doing is establishing His will in our lives through His Holy Spirit, you do not need to go back to those beggarly elements which are incapable of making the worshipper perfect.
We die only once, and then we are judged. So Christ died only once to take away the sins of many people. But when he comes again, it will not be to take away sin. He will come to save everyone who is waiting for him (Hebrews 9:1-28 CEV)
Listen, Jesus is not coming to take away sin; He is coming to save His people from wrath, if you are an orthodox Jew reading this, know that YESHUA is your Messiah, no other messiah can save you, and He is the one anointed by God to save Israel.
There have been many attempts by people to use the Talmud to interpret the New Testament, the Talmud cannot interpret the New Testament, that is a futile attempt, only the Holy Spirit interprets the word of God, the Talmud is nothing but collections of men’s traditional teachings which Christ vehemently condemned during His ministry here on earth, it was for this reason that the Pharisees & Sadducees wanted to do away with Him, how can you use a book that is full of uncertainties to interpret the new covenant, anyone who has read the Talmud would know that it is not the word of God, but a collection of rabbinical teachings based on man’s attempt to interpret God, such nonsense should never be used to evaluate the living word of God, if a person wants to read the Talmud, he should do that for scholarly reasons and not to interpreting the word of God, God’s word is interpreted by the Holy Spirit, we don’t need any rabbinical literature to doing that.
Those who are trying to use the Talmud to interpret the scripture should consider the following verses of the scripture; I will add a little note on each verse:
And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of ELOHIYM.
The Apostle Paul never used an intellectual approach to communicate the gospel to the Corinthian brethren; rather he approached them on a simple platform, relying heavily on the Holy Spirit to use him (Paul) to freely and humbly communicate the word of God to them (the Corinthians) in style and simplicity.
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save YAHSHUA MASHIYACH, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of ELOHIYM.
Paul’s concern was to preach the Messiah, His cross, death and resurrection, which is the power of God unto salvation, in fact he (Paul) was so careful as not to use eloquent enticing words as we can see today among many so called bible teachers to preach the word to the Corinthian brethren, he never wanted their faith to be built on man’s philosophical ideologies and manifesto, but on the unshakable and sure foundation word of God which is able to transform any man, it is on this word that our hope rests, not on some religious artificial proficiency of man’s philosophy.
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of ELOHIYM. Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: But we speak the wisdom of ELOHIYM in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which EL ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the ADONAY of glory.
Amen, my faith is not standing based on the wisdom of men, but it stands on the power of ELOHIYM which is able to keep me till the end, it was the same power that kept the righteous men of old, the same is available today, to keep anyone who believes and publicly confesses that YASHUA is the Son of ELOHYIM.
It does not stop there, this wisdom of God is a mystery, that is why the world cannot comprehend it, because it came from above, this mystery was made manifest in Christ Jesus, to those who believe it is a revealed mystery, but to the perishing, it is an absurd foolishness, after all how can you say that you are washed by blood?
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which ELOHIYM hath prepared for them that love him. But ELOHIYM hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of EL.
Here rests the hope of the Saints, through the Holy Spirit the manifold wisdom of God has been revealed unto us, therefore it should no more be mystery but a revelation, because the Spirit of prophecy is the testimony of YASHUA.
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of ELOHIYM knoweth no man, but the Spirit of EL. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of ELOHIYM; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of EL. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Please, do not destroy yourself with religion, God by His Spirit has revealed them to us, that was why I said; it is no more a mystery but a revelation, this revelation was given to us by YASHUA through His Holy Spirit, is it not high time we stop wandering about and come home?
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of EL: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Do not think that we can understand the things of God through religion; in fact God hates religion, because it deprives man of his rightful place with God.
Religion tells you that no man can approach God, but Christianity lets you know that through MESSIAH, you have peace with God and He is your Father.
Christianity is not about religion, but about relationship.
I well remembered during my infanthood, we were told in the Catholic church that no one can approach God except the fathers, bishops and the pope, we were taught to read and recite the rosary and pray to Mary, because only her can approach Jesus, they made God seem very far away from man, before you qualify to take the so called holy communion, you must undergo some uncountable recitation classes, to us, God was unreachable except you go through the fathers (i.e. the catholic priests).
We were told to pray to the Saints for intercession on our behalf, everything was carnal and ceremonial; it was not until 1989 when Christ arrested me that I came to know that I have a Father who loves me more than my earthly parents, it was then I came to know that you can have Father-son relationship with God.
That same day, I received the Holy Spirit and spoke with new tongues, while in the catholic we were told that ordinary people cannot receive the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit was only reserved for the pope, only he (the pope) can operate in the spirit with the fathers and cardinals and the bishops & whatever.
We were told never to look into the bible because doing so, would result into incurable madness, only the fathers have the right to read the bible and then tell us what to do and what not to do, it was then that I started questioning myself about God, I had so many confusions in my heart, but thank God for saving me, today I now know that He is a peace making Father, He loves just as I am.
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of YHVH, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of MASHIYACH, 1 Corinthians 2:1-16 (Sacred Name King James Version).
A religious man always lives in guilt, he is a slave to the Devil, the spiritual man is not like that, he walks in the fullness of the Spirit, Jesus compared him to the wind, you don’t where it is coming from and you can’t tell where it is going to, so is every man born of the Spirit.
(2)Terrorizing Christianity
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our ELOHIYM into lasciviousness, and denying the only ADONAY YHVH, and our ADONAY YAHSHUA MASHIYACH, Jude 1:2-4 (Sacred Name King James Version)
Once again Christianity is been terrorized from all corners, not by Islamism, Hinduism or other world religions, but by so called liberals who masquerade under the name of orthodoxy seriously attempting to destroy our glorious foundation.
These men as Apostle Jude said, have been beforehand ordained for condemnation, because they are turning the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ into lasciviousness, they preach another gospel, but you may ask; why be concerned?
The answer is simple, because of our children, there is a great war going on in the intellectual zone, i.e. in the schools, higher institutions, universities, etc.
Failure to arm our children beforehand would result calamity, it is our duty to tell our young ones where they should stand, the basics of our Christian hope.
I remember a couple who never had time for their only child, they came back one day to discover that he had became an atheist, they did everything they could to convince him of the reality of God, but everything seemed futile.
This is one of the examples of families who do not spare the time to tell their children whom they are and where they belong, in fact feminism and equality has caused lots of damages in the family, in a case whereby the two have become breadwinners, who would be there to take care of the children, Satan is fighting every means necessary to reduce and destroy every family values, adultery, fornication, homosexuality, same sex marriage is now the order of the day, Christian values & ethics are constantly under attack, in the face of all these, we should give our children the protection they need, by giving them every necessary Christian education that would equip them to face the contemporary world and its’ challenges.
And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God (Joshua 24:1)
Oh!! How many parents have failed in presenting the two choices before their children, had they done that, things would have never be the same.
Many parents find it difficult to fellowship with their children before leaving for work, everyone is meant to fend for him or herself spiritually.
If you do not know, children are influenced by the love and care you show them.
This takes me back in those days when I was staying with my mother and her husband, though we do have fellowship together, but it was done religiously.
During time for exhortation, the husband would be the one to do it; in fact all he does was to point out our every fault and uses them as a message for the day.
At times we would be told how ugly & stupid we are, we were oftentimes called monkeys and bingos (meaning white man dogs), we were also called wacky heads and to deliver us from our empty headedness, the morning family devotion would end up with everyone receiving some strokes of fine whipping, because it is his duty to deliver us from the demon of empty headedness by so doing he would present us to God pure, chaste and disciplined.
Now to bring everything home, instead of changing us, we became dummies, idiots and cowards, very odd in behavior, why, because we never received the love we needed, this should be a lesson to any parents reading this article, do your best to give your children the love they need, let them know that they are special.
Never form the habit of calling your children names, it would destroy their future and harm their lives in return, and they will grow up to be unhappy and unfit for the society, in fact if you happen to be alive by then, they will hate you.
Joshua never gathered the children of Israel and say to them; hey momma monkeys, if you don’t serve the Lord, am gonna lay some curses on you, don’t ya know me be a prophet of God, bastard idiots, go to hell and burn to ashes motherfuckers.
No, he treated them with love and godly discipline, he humbly presented the two choices before them, serve God and leave, forsake Him and perish.
Where are the Joshua fathers today, we need them, may the Lord send them again.
To end this long article I would love to quote two portions of the scripture:
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise ELOHIYM our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen, Jude 1:24-25 (Sacred Name King James Version)
Now the EL of peace, that brought again from the dead our ADONAY YAHSHUA, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through YAHSHUA MASHIYACH; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen, Hebrews 13:20-21 (Sacred Name King James Version).
God Bless You Real Good. Amen
Evangelist. Ilona Henry Afamefuna
