EXODUS 20.1-11
Shalom. Our study this morning will be from Exodus 20.1-11, the beginning of The Ten Commandments.
READ EXODUS 20.1-11
EXODUS 20.1-2 This is the first commandment of the ten. “I AM The LORD your GOD Who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.”
The Exodus out of Egypt marked the birth of Israel as a nation with The LORD GOD Almighty her King and Ruler. GOD gave the children of Israel His first Laws and Commandments in the form of The Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai. And all GOD’s laws, GOD gave to Israel during their forty year journey to The Promised Land, the land of Canaan. All GOD’s Laws are written in The Law of Moses.
Israel was a theocracy ruled by The LORD GOD of Creation until the people asked Samuel some 320 years after the Exodus to appoint us a king to judge us like all the nations. And by so doing, GOD told Samuel, “The people have rejected Me, The LORD their GOD from reigning over them.”. And The LORD appointed Saul to be king over Israel for 40 years. 1 Samuel 8.5-7, Followed by David, Solomon and the future kings.
The Exodus out of Egypt was an act of GOD’s grace, and not a reward for Israel’s righteousness. It was the fulfillment of GOD’s promise to Abraham some 721 years before the Exodus. GOD had promised Abraham that He would make of Him a great nation. That nation is Israel. That his descendants, the children of Israel will be strangers in a land not theirs. That land of course was Egypt. And the children of Israel would serve them, and they would be afflicted 400 years. And the nation whom they will serve, GOD said, I will judge. And they will come out with great wealth. And afterward they will take possession of the land of Canaan that GOD gave to Israel for an everlasting possession. And GOD renamed that land Eretz Y’Israel, The Land of Israel after Abraham’s grandson Jacob, the father of the 12 tribes of Israel.
Genesis 12.2, Genesis 15.13-16, Genesis 17.8
Israel owes its very existence to GOD. First, The LORD called Abraham out of the Gentiles to make of him a great nation. That nation is Israel. Then GOD called out Israel to be a holy people to The LORD their GOD, to be His witnesses, and His servant whom He has chosen, and to be a blessing to the nations.
Genesis 12.1-3, Deuteronomy 7.6, Isaiah 43.10
The great deliverance of the children of Israel out of Egypt came by GOD’s supernatural power. With a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, GOD appointed the children of Israel, the Jewish people to be a blessing to the world. How? Messiah came from the Jewish people in the flesh to make His soul an atonement for the sins of all mankind, and GOD’s Salvation for everlasting life.
GOD’s great deliverance of the children of Israel out of Egypt was also for the purpose of appointing the Jewish people to be His witnesses to the world, for all mankind to know Who GOD is, and for them to know and understand that there is only one GOD.
And GOD’s great deliverance of the children of Israel out of Egypt was also for GOD’s purpose to serve Him, to live according to GOD’s Covenant, His Word, His Law, and His Commandments. And as GOD’s witnesses, Israel is a light to the Gentiles, revealing to the nations GOD’s Words, and Laws, and Doctrine. And we have accomplished that by writing the entire Bible, revealing all that GOD would have us to know about Him. But everyone should do all the Words of His Law, GOD’s Law of Moses. As Yeshua The Messiah said in Matthew 4.4, “Man shall live by every Word that proceeds out of the Mouth of GOD”.
Deuteronomy 32.1-2, Deuteronomy 29.29, Isaiah 49.1-6
And in time, man will live by every Word of GOD. When The LORD GOD Almighty, Yeshua The Messiah returns at the end of this world age, and destroys all the enemies of the Jews, and sets up His Messianic Kingdom in Israel, the 1,000 year Millennium, whose original borders will again extend to the Euphrates River to include most of Syria and Iraq, and Jordan, and all Lebanon, and all Israel. And the end of Gentile rule in the earth will be fulfilled when The Messiah Yeshua, The Holy One of Israel returns, and The LORD will be King over all the earth. Yeshua is The LORD our GOD Who has brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Luke 21.24, Zechariah 14, Isaiah 9.5-6(6-7), Exodus 20.2
EXODUS 20.3 You shall have no other gods before Me, is part of the first commandment.
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines the word Contradiction as a statement that implies both the truth, and something false. A statement that implies both the truth and a lie. The trinity is a contradiction. The trinity defines the One GOD in three distinct persons. The truth is One GOD. The lie is one god in three DISTINCT, and DIFFERENT persons. The truth is One GOD. The lie is the One GOD is THREE DIFFERENT gods. The lie is that The Father, The Son Jesus Christ, and The Holy Spirit are three different gods. That is false, and a contradiction.
There is only one GOD. He is The Father, The Messiah Yeshua, and The Holy Spirit. These three are the ONE GOD of Creation. These three are ONE and THE SAME. The First Commandment is, “You shall have no other gods before Me”. The trinity places three gods before GOD.
EXODUS 20.4-5 This is the second Commandment, the law against idolatry. Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 10.14, flee from idolatry. And John writes in 1 John 5.21, keep yourselves from idols.
VERSE 5 Those who hate GOD, show it by disobeying GOD. Paul writes, they are at enmity which is hatred against GOD because they are not subject to The Law of GOD, neither indeed can be. ROMANS 8.6-7
The carnal mind is a person without the Holy Spirit. And The Holy Spirit is given to those who obey The Law of GOD, which is The Law of Moses. Acts 5.32.
The spiritually minded person has The Holy Spirit living in him or her because they believe in Messiah Yeshua, and are subject to GOD’s Law which is The Law of Moses. For to be carnally minded is death, Paul writes, but to be spiritually minded (having The Holy Spirit) is life and peace.
EXODUS 20.6 GOD also says in the Second Commandment that He shows mercy to thousands of them that love Him, and keep My Commandments. Unfortunately, very few love GOD and keep His Commandments. Yeshua The Messiah is GOD Almighty, The Creator of Heaven and earth. And Messiah says, “If you love Me, keep My Commandments”. That is obey My Law of Moses. John 14.15, 1 John 2.4-6
EXODUS 20.7 This is the Third Commandment, The Law against taking The LORD’s Name in vain.
The word vain in Hebrew is SHAV meaning evil, wickedness, lies and useless.
Thus you shall not use The LORD’s Name when speaking evil, wickedness, lies, or in useless speech. And The LORD has many Names.
Just as it is sin to disrespect GOD, and show hatred for Him by making an idol, or possessing an idol, it is also sin to disgrace The LORD by using His Name in vain for no valid purpose, or by usi
ng His Name falsely, or in speaking evil, or in lying, or in useless and empty speech.
For The LORD will not hold him guiltless that takes His Name in vain. Guiltless in Hebrew is NAHKAH meaning GOD will not leave that person unpunished.
In Judaism, to avoid taking The Name of The LORD in vain, the custom developed in pronouncing The LORD’s Name Yehovah as Adonai, or Ha Shem, meaning The Name. And names similar in sound but different in words such as Adoshem is used rather than Ha Shem, and Eloqim rather than Elohim. Thus avoiding taking The LORD’s Name in vain. LEVITICUS 19.12, PSALM 139.20, JAMES 5.12
EXODUS 20.8-11 The Fourth Commandment is The Sabbath. The weekly Sabbath is on the seventh and last day of the week, Saturday. The Sabbath is not Sunday or any day one chooses. GOD’s weekly Sabbath is Saturday, forever and ever.
VERSE 11 GOD blessed The Sabbath Day, and hallowed it. Hallowed in Hebrew is KAHDAHSH – meaning GOD set The Sabbath apart to be holy and sacred, devoted to Him.
GOD charges us to keep The Sabbath Day holy. Six days we are to labor and do all our work, but the seventh day Saturday is a Sabbath of The LORD your GOD. In it, you shall not do any work, you nor your son, nor your daughter, your servants or your animals, if you have any, and anyone in your employ, even if they are not Jewish. For in six days The LORD made Heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore The LORD blessed The Sabbath Day, and hallowed it.
Also the Saturday Sabbath on the seventh day of the week serves as a constant reminder that GOD alone is The Creator, Who created in six days and rested on the seventh. It is said, that The Sabbath observance bears testimony to GOD’s Creation in six days, and He rested on the seventh day. GENESIS 2.1-3, ISAIAH 56.6-8
(Isaiah 56.6-8) Also the children of the stranger, the non-Jewish people, that join themselves to The LORD to serve Him, and to love The Name of The LORD, to be His servants, everyone that keeps The Sabbath on Saturday from polluting it, and defiling it, and take hold of My Covenant, GOD’s Word, and Law of Moses (Psalm 105.8-10), even them will I bring to My holy mountain in Jerusalem, in the 1,000 year Millennium, and forever in Heaven. And make them joyful in My House of Prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices, that is Messiah Yeshua, shall be accepted upon My altar. For My House shall be called a House of Prayer for all people.
More on The Sabbath. Yeshua teaches, it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days.
MATTHEW 12.12 It is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days. And having The Holy Spirit because you obey GOD, you will know what is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days. For example, during sickness, or danger, or emergencies, etc.
MARK 2.27-27 VERSE 27 The Sabbath was made for man to rest from his labor and work. Man was not made for The Sabbath, but GOD made The Sabbath for man to rest and devote the day to The LORD.
VERSE 28 Therefore the Son of Man is LORD also of The Sabbath. Yeshua, Who is The LORD of The Sabbath, and The GOD of Creation, teaches mankind, His Creation what man can or cannot do on The Sabbath from His Law of Moses.
ACTS 13.14 The Sabbath Day before Yeshua’s birth, and after His death was Saturday, and it will always be on the seventh day Saturday, forever.
ACTS 15.21 non-Jewish Believers in The Messiah should go to the synagogue on The Sabbath Day, Saturday where The Law of Moses is taught. They should learn it, obey it, and do it.
COLOSSIANS 2.16-17 Let no one judge you, or condemn you because you are obeying GOD and living by GOD’s Law of Moses, along with your belief in Messiah. You are now observing GOD’s food Laws in Leviticus 11, and Deuteronomy 14. And His Holy Days and Sabbath Days in Leviticus 23, and all GOD’s Laws. Don’t let anyone criticize you for doing what GOD commands you to do. Now you are being righteous and law-abiding. That is the formula for eternal life.
The new moon, or the new month was celebrated as a festival for sacrificial offerings. But without a Temple and sacrifice today, the new moon festival has ended, but will be continued in The Millennium. NUMBERS 28.11, EZEKIEL 46.1-3
The prince is David. Messiah is The LORD GOD. EZEKIEL 34.23-25
COLOSSIANS 2.17 The shadow is from the body of Messiah Yeshua. And perhaps, the shadow of Messiah is a hint of great things to come at His return. And the focus is on Messiah concerning the Festivals of GOD in Leviticus 23.
The Sabbath, the seventh day of rest is perhaps seen in its fullness of the 1,000 year Millennium of peace and rest when Messiah is King over all the earth. Leviticus 23.3, Zechariah 14.9.
The Passover was The Festival Messiah was killed, the sacrificial atonement for mankind, buried and resurrected. Leviticus 23.5-14
Pentecost or Shavuot was the Festival 50 days after Messiah’s death when some 3,000 Jews were saved.
The Feast of Trumpets, The Jewish New Year Rosh Ha Shannah focuses on Messiah. At some future Rosh Ha Shannah, Messiah will return. The Resurrection will take place, those alive in Messiah will also rise to meet Him in the air. And Messiah will destroy all the enemies of the Jews and Israel. The times of the Gentiles will end, and we will return with Messiah to establish The Messianic Kingdom, the 1,000 year Millennium, and He will be King over all the earth, and we will be with GOD Almighty The Messiah Face to face forever. Leviticus 23.24.
The Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, ten days after Messiah returns, many unsaved Jewish people will be forgiven their sins by Messiah and saved, along with many Gentiles who blessed Jewish people.
Leviticus 23.25, Genesis 12.3, Matthew 25.31-46.
Tabernacles, Sukkot, five days after the Day of Atonement, we will reign as kings with our GOD and Father, Yeshua The Messiah for 1,000 years and forever. And Tabernacles might be the day of The Marriage Supper of The Lamb.
Leviticus 23.34, Revelation 20.6, Revelation 19.9
The eighth day of Tabernacles. GOD will be with us in Heaven forever, and we with Him. And GOD will wipe away all tears from our eyes, and there will be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither will there be any more pain, for those things will have passed away.
Leviticus 23.36, Revelation 21.4-5.
So in conclusion. GOD did not give us His Laws and Commandments in vain, nor did Messiah give His Life, and rose on the third day for no purpose. As GOD said in Isaiah 56.6 and 7, Those who keep the Sabbath from polluting it, and take hold of My Covenant, even them will I bring to My holy mountain, and your sacrifice will be accepted on My altar.
Shalom, Ira Weinstein
Month: April 2013
FLEE FROM IDOLATRY AND IDOLS. EXODUS 20.1-6
Shalom.
In the third month from the time of the Exodus out of Egypt, the children of Israel came into the wilderness of Sinai and camped before Mt. Sinai, some 3 million Jewish people, and a mixed multitude with them. And The LORD called Moses out of the mountain, and Moses went up to GOD. And GOD said to Moses, thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel, you have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I carried you on eagles wings, and brought you up to Myself.
Now therefore, if you will obey My Voice indeed, and keep My Covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people, for all the earth is Mine. And you shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.
And Moses called for the elders of the people, and told them all the words which The LORD commanded him. And all the people answered together, and said, all that The LORD has spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people to The LORD. And The LORD said to Moses, I will come to you in a thick cloud that the people may hear when I speak with you and believe you forever.
And The LORD said to Moses, go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. And be ready on the third day, for the third day The LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon Mt. Sinai. And you shall set bounds to the people round about, saying, take heed to yourselves and do not go up the mountain or touch the border of it. Whosoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death. Not a hand shall touch it, but he will surely be stoned, or shot through whether it is beast or man, it shall not live. When the blast of the shofar sounds long, they shall come to the mount.
And Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes. And he said to the people, be ready on the third day. Do not approach your wives. And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain, and the shofar sounded exceeding loud so that all the people that were in the camp trembled.
And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with GOD, and they stood at the lowest part of the mountain. And Mt. Sinai was enveloped in smoke because The LORD descended upon it in fire, and the smoke ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently. And when the shofar sounded long and louder, Moses spoke, and GOD answered him by a Voice.
And The LORD came down upon Mt. Sinai on the top of the mountain, and The LORD called Moses up to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. And The LORD said to Moses, Go down. Charge the people lest they break through to The LORD and gaze and many of them perish. And let the priests also which come near to The LORD sanctify themselves lest The LORD break forth upon them. And Moses said to The LORD, the people cannot come up to Mt. Sinai for you charged us saying, set bounds about the mountain, and sanctify it. And The LORD said to him, go down, and you shall come up, you and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to The LORD lest He break forth upon them. So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.
READ EXODUS 20.1-6
EXODUS 20.1 And GOD spoke, and the words He spoke were The Ten Commandments, and then GOD wrote them on two tables of stone, and delivered them to Moses. DEUTERONOMY 5.22
DEUTERONOMY 4.12-14 Ten Commandments in Hebrew is AHSRET HADVAREEM meaning the ten words. But when the words are GOD’s words, His words are His Commandments, His Decrees or Laws, His counsel, promises, and His messages.
EXODUS 20.1-2 GOD’s authority and power Who is The High and Lofty One that inhabits eternity, Whose Name is Holy, are behind every word He speaks, and every Law He makes. And for obeying His Laws, The Law of Moses, GOD calls you My people. PSALM 78.1
EXODUS 20.3 Here is the first Commandment. You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall have no other gods before The GOD of Creation because there is only one GOD.
You have heard the expression, gold is distinct from iron. They are both different metals. They are not the same. The trinity describes GOD as being one, but in three distinct persons. The three are different from one another. They are not the same, but divine. They are three gods. The trinity defines the father, the son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit as being three different gods. Not only is the trinity not Biblical, the trinity violates the First Commandment.
EXODUS 20.4 This is the second commandment.
A graven image in Hebrew is FEHSEL meaning an idol, a carved, sculptured image of a physical likeness.
Idolatry can be defined as the worship of a physical representation of a god, or gods such as a statue of Jesus, or crucifixes, or any other god. 1 CORINTHIANS 10.14, 1 JOHN 5.21, REVELATION 21.8
If you have any doubt that such a thing is an idol, throw it out.
EXODUS 20.5 Avoid idols, such as statutes of Christ, and crucifixes, even paintings of Jesus, or any other gods.
PSALM 115, ISAIAH 44.6-23
Certain creatures were permitted such as cherubim
EXODUS 25.16-20
Cherubim in Hebrew is KEHROOVIM, perhaps being living creatures or meaning living creatures. It is believed these cherubim on the mercy seat had four faces each, and four wings each. The faces were of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle. These might have been the representations of what Ezekiel saw.
EZEKIEL 1.1-10
Also not considered idolatrous were the twelve sculptured oxen that supported the molten sea, at the Temple. It was a copper tank of water perhaps for ritual immersion for the priests. You might know the term immersion as baptism for the priests to confess their sins making them clean by washing their sins away.
1 KINGS 7.23-25, 2 CHRONICLES 4.6
Nor was the serpent on a brass pole considered idolatrous. NUMBERS 21.4-9
EXODUS 20.5 Hating GOD is evidenced by disobeying Him, disobeying His Covenant which is His Word, His Laws that are written in The Law of Moses, and His Commandments.
And GOD will punish the children for the sins of their parents, to the third and fourth generation of those who hate GOD. Those who hate GOD do not obey Him. They will be punished. The responsibility for sin is always on the individual who sins. And sin is breaking GOD’s Laws that are written in The Law of Moses, 1 John 3.4. GOD does not punish those who obey Him.
Scripture defines hating GOD as not being subject to GOD’s Law of Moses, not obeying GOD. ROMANS 8.6-7
The carnal mind is a person without The Holy Spirit because they do not obey GOD. They do not obey His Law of Moses. ACTS 5.32.
Enmity against GOD is hatred toward GOD because that person is not subject to The Law of GOD, The Law of Moses, neither indeed can be, Paul writes.
So those are the people GOD will visit in a bad sense because they exhibit their hatred toward GOD by not obeying Him. DEUTERONOMY 7.9-10, PROVERBS 8.36
EXODUS 20.6 Obeying GOD is proof you love Him. Obeying GOD’s Law of Moses is the evidence you love Him. GOD says, He shows mercy, and kindness to thousands of them (not very many) that love Me and keep My Commandments. Commandments in Hebrew is MEETSVOTE which are collectively The Law of Moses. EXODUS 20.6., DEUTERONOMY 7.9, JOHN 14.15, 1 JOHN 2.4-6, 1 JOHN 5.2-3
So in conclusion, having no other gods before GOD means you know and believe GOD, and understand there is only one GOD. The One GOD is The Father, The Son Yeshua The Messiah, and The Holy Spirit. And these three are one and the same.
The Bible teaches, keep yourselves from idols, and flee from idolatry.
And the proof of loving GOD is obeying Him. Obeying His Torah which are GOD’s Laws written in The Law of Moses. And The Law of Moses includes believing in Messiah Yeshua, Deuteronomy 18.18-19, etc., John 1.45, etc. For GOD will show mercy and kindness to you for loving Him, and obeying His Commandments, His Law of Moses. And He will give you His Holy Spirit.
Shalom, Ira Weinstein
Shalom, Ira Weinstein
THE TRINITY? NOT BIBLICAL.
EXODUS 19.5-25; 20.1-3
Shalom. Our teaching this morning will be from Exodus 19.5-25, and Chapter 20.1-3
EXODUS 20.1-3 VERSES 1&2 “I AM The LORD your GOD Who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” Thus GOD declared His authority, His great might and power TO Israel AND ALL THE WORLD. “I AM The LORD thy GOD Who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” Therefore, GOD’s Laws, Commandments, and Words are for all the nations, for every human being to hear, observe and obey.
VERSE 3 You shall have no other gods before Me is not only the first Commandment, you shall have no other gods before Me is of the utmost importance to believe and understand that there is only ONE GOD. You shall have no other gods before The LORD your GOD. These words are spoken by The LORD GOD of Creation.
DEUTERONOMY 6.1 Now these are the Commandments, the Statutes, and the Judgments which The LORD your GOD commanded to teach you. These words are spoken by The LORD GOD Himself, the Creator of the universe, the judge and ruler of history, and the maker of history, the supreme Lawgiver, and the supreme authority.
DEUTERONOMY 6.4 Hear O Israel. In Hebrew, Shma YIsrael, means, Hear O Israel and obey every word GOD speaks, Matthew 4.4, Luke 4.4, Mark 12.29, “The LORD our GOD is ONE LORD”. There is only ONE GOD, NOT three different gods as many teach. And since Israel, the Jewish people are chosen by GOD to be His witnesses and servant, this teaching of The LORD GOD is to be received and believed by all the nations because all the world is GOD’s Creation. For in six days, The LORD made Heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Is anything too hard for The LORD? Absolutely not.
GOD has appeared in many manifestations, but there is only One GOD. You shall have no other gods before Me, saith The LORD. GOD appeared to men and women on the earth, yet GOD is Spirit and fills Heaven and earth. He appeared to Moses as The Angel of The LORD, and a flame of fire out of a bush that did not consume the bush. GOD spoke to Moses Face to face as a man speaks to his friend. The LORD descended on Mt. Sinai in fire. GOD appeared as fire and a cloud to the children of Israel in the wilderness leading them in the day by His cloud, and in the night by fire. GOD manifested Himself as the glory of The LORD, Who appeared in the cloud in the wilderness that covered Mt. Sinai for six days. The sight of GOD’s glory was like devouring fire. GOD manifested Himself as a cloud that covered the Tabernacle in the wilderness, and filled The Temple with the cloud so that the priests could not stand to minister because the glory of The LORD had filled the House of The LORD, full of the brightness of The LORD’s glory, filled with His power. There is only one GOD, and He can manifest Himself any way He pleases.
Exodus 20.11, Genesis 18.14, Jeremiah 23.24, Exodus 3.2, Exodus 33.11, Exodus 24.15-18, 1 Kings 8.1-11, Exodus 40.34-38, Exodus 19.18, Ezekiel 10.4.
GOD sent Himself to us. He is The Promised Messiah to the Jewish people and all the world. ISAIAH 48.12, 13, 16, 17
Yeshua Whom the Christian world calls Jesus is The LORD our Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, The LORD our GOD, The ONE GOD of Creation. Messiah is the Child born to the Jewish people, the Son given to the Jewish people according to GOD’s prophecy in ISAIAH 9.6(5).
Is anything too hard for The LORD? Messiah will be King over all the earth at His return in the one thousand year Millennium in Israel. And His Name is called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty GOD, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Messiah is The Mighty GOD, The Everlasting Father Who has laid the foundation of the earth, and spanned the heavens. Messiah Yeshua is The LORD GOD Who is ONE. As Spirit, Yeshua fills Heaven and earth. As Messiah, GOD Almighty, I AM is The Messiah. Yeshua said, he that has seen Me has seen The Father. Exactly the prophecy of Isaiah 9.6(5), John 14.9.
And The Holy Spirit is GOD, the ONE GOD Who is Yeshua The Son, and He is also The Father. The Bible reads, and The Spirit of GOD moved upon the face of the waters, and GOD said, let there be Light. And the Light was GOD Almighty, Yeshua The Messiah, The Spirit of GOD, the ONE and only GOD, Genesis 1.2-3. That was the first day. On the fourth day, GOD created the sun and the moon, and the stars.
And GOD will only give His Holy Spirit to those who obey Him, Acts 5.32, to those who obey His Laws that are written in The Law of Moses. How can any know the will of GOD without studying and knowing The Torah, GOD’s Law of Moses, and obeying them. The will of GOD is doing His Law, Psalm 40.8.
Certainly understanding everything about GOD is beyond our knowledge. GOD says, the secret things belong to The LORD our GOD. Paul writes, His ways are past finding out. GOD Almighty has no limitations. His power has no boundaries. He is present everywhere, all the time at the same time. And He has perfect and unlimited knowledge and understanding. Who can hide from His Spirit? GOD appears in many manifestations, but there is only ONE GOD, and not three different gods as so many teach.
DEUTERONOMY 29.29 Secret in Hebrew is SAHTAHR meaning, Keeps secret. The LORD GOD keeps certain things secret, but doing all the Words of The Law of Moses is not kept secret.
ROMANS 11.33 GOD’s ways are past finding out. It is impossible to know everything about GOD. But this we do know from the Mouth of GOD, THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD.
Let’s look at some Scriptures that teach ONE GOD.
PSALM 86.8-10, PSALM 96.4-5, MARK 12.29, DEUTERONOMY 32.39
PSALM 83.18, ISAIAH 44.6, 8, ISAIAH 45.18, 21, 22, 1 CORINTHIANS 8.4
EXODUS 34.14, DEUTERONOMY 5.7, DEUTERONOMY 6.14, JOSHUA 24.18-24
ISAIAH 46.9, JEREMIAH 25.6, HOSEA 13.4, MATTHEW 4.10
However, contrary to the very Word of GOD, in A.D. 325, Christianity created something called the trinity; one god in three different persons. Meaning, one god in three DIFFERENT gods. Nowhere in the entire Bible is the doctrine of three different gods taught. But the trinity teaches that The Father is one god, the Son Jesus Christ is another god, and The Holy Spirit is yet another god. Three different gods which is in conflict with The Bible. It denies GOD’s Words that you shall have no other gods before Me, that there is only ONE GOD. Belief in more than one GOD is polytheism.
The trinity describes the three distinct persons, or three different gods as co-equal, and co-eternal with one another. Co-equal, and co-eternal do not apply to The GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob because there on only ONE GOD. Yeshua said, “When you see Me, you see The One Who sent Me.” Who is co-equal with GOD? No one. GOD will not give His glory to another, Isaiah 48.11, John 12.45
GENESIS 1.26-27 GOD reveals Himself by
saying, LET US. GOD IS THE ONE GOD Who is The Father, Messiah The Son, and The Spirit. GOD declares Himself as Us even though He is ONE because He is GOD Almighty the Father, Yeshua the Messiah and the Spirit, and the Holy Spirit.
JOHN 17.1 Yes, The Son and Father speak to each other. Knowing, and believing, and understanding there is only one GOD may be difficult to grasp at times, but there is only ONE GOD, and The Father and Son speak to each other. PSALM 110.1, PSALM 45.6-7.
The trinity is taught this way. GOD is The Father, but The Father is not The Son or The Holy Spirit. GOD is The Son, but The Son is not The Holy Spirit or The Father. GOD is The Holy Spirit, but The Holy Spirit is not The Father or The Son. Thus the trinity teaches three different gods. That is contrary to The Word of GOD.
Let’s briefly look into the Council of Nicaea. The first Council of Nicaea took place in Turkey in A.D. 325. The Council consisted of some 250 to 318 bishops from throughout the Roman Empire. Not one Jew was invited, nor did any attend. Jews were the only people in the world who believed in ONE GOD. The nations believed in many gods. However, the bishops, under the leadership of Constantine, the Emperor of Rome at the time, set out to determine the Christological issue of the nature of The Son of GOD, Jesus Christ, and His relationship to GOD The Father. Christological means the theological interpretation of the nature and person of Jesus Christ.
And also the Council of Nicaea set out to calculate the date of Easter. And also to put into effect the Christian laws that were decided upon by the bishops to be the chief articles of the Christian faith. Thus the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325 decided Who Jesus Christ was. Thus the trinity evolved, as did the date of Easter, and Christian laws and beliefs for all Christiandom.
The Council of Nicaea resulted in the first uniform and unchangeable Christian doctrine called THE CREED OF NICAEA. The intent being to define unity of beliefs for the whole of Christiandom. But with Constantine the Emperor being an anti-Semite, the Nicene Council didn’t have a prayer to follow the Truth of GOD’s ways that GOD gave to His Chosen People, the Jewish people for Israel and all the world to follow. All GOD’s ways are written in The Law of Moses, and Christianity eliminated The Law of Moses from their faith. Maybe that Christian law of eliminating GOD’S Laws that are written in the Law of Moses came from the Nicaea Council also. Eliminating The Law of Moses is eliminating the Laws of GOD.
Constantine and the Bishops should have thought twice on that one.
Listen to the words of Constantine at the conclusion of the Council of Nicaea.
“At the Council, we also considered the issue of our holiest day Easter, and it was determined by common consent that everyone everywhere should celebrate it on one and the same day. For what can be more appropriate, or what more solemn than that this feast from which we have received the hope of immortality should be kept by all without variation, using the same order and clear arrangement? And in the first place, it seemed very unworthy for us to keep the most sacred feast following the custom of the Jews, a people who have soiled their hands in a most terrible outrage, and have thus polluted their souls, and are now deservedly blind. Since we have cast aside their way of calculating the date of the festival, we can ensure that future generations can celebrate this observance at the more accurate time which we have kept from the first day of the passion until the present time.” End of quote.
Unfortunately, the Emperor himself was blind. The Old Testament Scriptures teach and prophecy that Yeshua had to give His life as an offering for sin so guys like Constantine could be saved if indeed GOD will save anti-Semites, unless they repent and follow the ways of GOD.
ISAIAH 53, PSALM 22, PSALM 16.10
Upon having a little more understanding of the Council of Nicaea, and its doctrine of Christian laws that mostly oppose The Laws of GOD in The Bible, it saddens me to now realize that many of the Messianic Jews, and Christians and others have been swallowed up by the Nicene Creed’s false doctrine. And many of the Messianic Jewish leaders have attended Christian Bible colleges, and learned the Creed never heard before in Judaism. And unfortunately many teach the Nicene Creed’s false doctrine to their congregation, and call them themselves Rabbi which Yeshua says, Be not called Rabbi, for one is your Master, even Messiah, Matthew 23.8.
And some Christians come out of Christian Bible schools, and become leaders of Messianic Jewish congregations, put on a yarmulke, call themselves Rabbi, learn some Jewish terms, and festivals, and proceed to teach their congregation the false ways of the Nicene Council, three different gods, and The Law of Moses is no longer in force.
I have also come to the realization that it is the power of GOD, and His grace Who sets us on the right path, to know the errors of doctrine incorrectly taught outside The Bible. Who leads us in the ways of righteousness, in the way we should go that is pleasing to GOD. For it is The LORD Who has made all our works in us, Isaiah 26.12, to know that Yeshua is The Messiah, He is GOD Almighty, I AM. To believe and obey every Word of GOD which is The Law of Moses and to know and understand there is only one GOD.
Shalom, Ira Weinstein
IF YOU OBEY MY VOICE, YOU SHALL BE A SPECIAL TREASURE UNTO ME ABOVE ALL PEOPLE
EXODUS 19.1-6
Shalom. Our teaching this morning will be from Exodus 19.1-6.
READ EXODUS 19.1-6
I’m going to focus on Verses 5 and 6 because these verses will be the central point of our teaching this morning, GOD’s mighty blessings for obedience to His Voice, and keeping His Covenant. So, let’s begin by reading VERSES 3-6.
Church doctrine teaches that all GOD’s Laws that are written in The Law of Moses are dead. The Law of Moses, the church teaches, is abolished and no longer in force. Church doctrine teaches that Jesus brought an end to GOD’s Laws that are written in The Law of Moses. And GOD’s Law of Moses, the church teaches, is a yoke of bondage. While many threaten that obedience to The Law of Moses will cause you to lose your Salvation. All totally, and in every way false. That is the greatest expression of unbelief in The GOD of Creation, and the act of enmity against The Messiah Yeshua Who Himself is GOD Almighty, The Maker of Heaven and earth, The Giver of The Law of Moses.
When Moses went up to GOD, and The LORD called to Him out of the mountain saying, thus you shall speak to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel, you have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto Myself; that was indeed Yeshua The Messiah, GOD Almighty The LORD speaking to Moses. EXODUS 19.3-4
Key to walking with GOD is, Hear O Israel, meaning obey The LORD O Israel in every Word He Speaks, The LORD OUR GOD is ONE LORD. Key to walking with our GOD and Messiah Yeshua is Obedience to GOD, and knowing and believing that The LORD our GOD is ONE LORD. Unfortunately church doctrine, when teaching of GOD’s Laws that are written in The Law of Moses, teach lawlessness, and lawlessness robs us of GOD’s extraordinary blessings.
GOD, Who is Yeshua The Messiah told Moses in Verses 5 & 6 saying, “Now therefore, if you will obey My Voice indeed, and keep My Covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people for all the earth is Mine. And you shall be unto Me a Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation. These are the words you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
Let me say this. The Word of GOD, and in particular these great words of GOD’s love belong to everybody, Jewish people and non-Jewish people. IF you will obey The Voice of The LORD your GOD. That is every Word GOD speaks. And keep His Covenant, His Word and His Law of Moses. Then GOD will make you a peculiar treasure, His treasured possession for Himself. Now listen to this, ABOVE all people, for all the earth is Mine saith The LORD. And you shall be unto Me, The LORD promises, a Kingdom of Priests, and a Holy Nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.
And since GOD appointed the children of Israel, the Jewish people, to be His witnesses and His servant whom He has chosen Isaiah 43.10, and as one of GOD’s witnesses, and His servant, I say unto you, these remarkable words apply to you IF you will obey The Voice of The LORD your GOD, and keep His Covenant, His Word and His Laws that are written in The Law of Moses. And you too will be a special treasure to The LORD your GOD above all people of the earth. And you will be unto The LORD fully part of His Kingdom of Priests, and fully part of His Holy Nation.
Peter was a witness and a servant for The Messiah Yeshua, and he was Jewish. Peter’s given Hebrew name was Shimone, and he taught the very same promises of GOD to non-Jewish Believers in Messiah as GOD taught the Jewish people and the mixed multitude in the Exodus. Peter taught this. IF you obey The Voice of The LORD your GOD, and keep His Covenant, His Word and His Law of Moses, GOD will make you a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a peculiar people.
1 PETER 1.1 Strangers are non-Jewish people. They were Believers in The Messiah Yeshua.
1 PETER 2.1-10
VERSES 1-2 VERSE 2 Newborn babes meaning newly turned to Messiah. Desire the sincere milk of The Word that you may grow by it. That is, desire GOD’s Word that is free of deceit. GOD’s Word is genuine, real, and pure. GOD requires you to obey His Word. Yeshua teaches, Beware of false prophets, or religious imposters which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. You shall know them by their fruits. Good fruits are obeying The Voice of The LORD, keeping His Covenant, obeying GOD’s Word and His Law of Moses. Bad fruits are not obeying The Voice of The LORD. NOT obeying His Word and not obeying His Law of Moses. Matthew 7.15-16.
1 PETER 2.3-5 VERSE 5 Lively stones is a metaphor, a figure of speech for a spiritual house, a holy priesthood of Believers in Messiah Yeshua who obey GOD’s Word, and keep His Law of Moses.
Spiritual sacrifices acceptable to GOD by Yeshua The Messiah are sacrifices of Obedience to GOD, obeying His Voice, and His Covenant, His Word and His Law of Moses.
1 PETER 2.6-8 VERSE 8 Interesting. The Bible teaches that the disobedient to GOD, those who disobey GOD’s Voice, the Words He speaks, and disobey and reject His Law of Moses are appointed by GOD to disobey Him.
1 PETER 2.9&10 As a result of obedience to GOD’s Words, and obedience to His Law of Moses, Peter teaches, “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people that you should show forth the praises of Him Who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”
Which in time past, you were not a people, but now you have joined in with the Jewish people and with them you are the people of GOD. You which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy from The LORD your GOD. So I must say, the church is way off the mark when they teach that The Law of Moses is no longer in force. And that’s a shame.
So where does Peter teach that non-Jewish people who believe in Yeshua The Messiah must obey GOD’s Word and His Law of Moses? 1 PETER 1.2
Elect means chosen by GOD, selected by Him, the elect.
The foreknowledge of GOD is predestination. GOD chose you to be His peculiar treasure, above all people before the Creation, at some moment in eternity.
Through sanctification of The Spirit. GOD has made you holy and pure by obedience to The LORD through The Spirit. The Spirit is GOD Almighty, Yeshua The Messiah.
Unto obedience. Here it is. Non-Jewish Believers in Messiah Yeshua who obey GOD’s Voice, and keep His Covenant, His Word and His Law of Moses, you are a special treasure unto The LORD, above all people because you obey The LORD your GOD, and believe in The Jewish Messiah Yeshua.
And the sprinkling of the blood of Yeshua The Messiah. Your belief in Messiah forgives you all your sins. That is New Covenant teaching taught in The T’Nakh, The Old Testament in Jeremiah 31.31-34.
You are a special treasure unto The LORD your GOD, above all people, for the earth belongs to GOD. You have joined in with the Jewish people having become a Priest unto The LORD, and you are holy unto The LORD your GOD because you believe in Messiah Yeshua, and you obey every Word GOD speaks, and you know and believe there is only one GOD. PSALM 105.8-10, ISAIAH 43.10-11, PHILIPPIANS 3.20
Being a peculiar trea
sure to The LORD, above all people, GOD has a very special love for you. He loves you as He loves His Son Yeshua. And Yeshua The Messiah is Himself GOD Almighty The Father. GOD loves you as He loves Messiah Himself. That is special, beyond our imagination.
JOHN 17.6, 8, 14, 17, 20-23
By obeying GOD, His Word, His Commandments, and His Law of Moses, GOD assures you that blessings will come upon you, and overtake you IF you obey The voice of The LORD your GOD. DEUTERONOMY 28.1-15
VERSES 1-3 VERSE 3 You will be blessed everywhere, in the city, in the field, and in the country, if you obey The Voice of The LORD your GOD and observe to do all His Commandments.
Commandments in Hebrew is MEETSVOTE which are collectively all The Laws of Moses. Field in Hebrew is SADEH meaning the field, country, and land.
VERSE 4 Your children and your work will be blessed.
VERSE 5 GOD will bless your food, and you will have plenty.
VERSE 6 You will be blessed in your comings and goings, whenever and wherever you go.
VERSE 7 GOD will punish and defeat your enemies.
VERSE 8 The LORD will bless you in everything you do, wherever you may be.
VERSE 9 The LORD will establish you to be a holy person unto Himself, IF you keep the Commandments of The LORD, and walk in His ways. A holy person is a special treasure to The LORD, above all people.
VERSE 10 People will see that you are called by The Name of The LORD, that you are special and called by The LORD, and they will be afraid of you.
VERSE 11 You will have plenty of all the good things. Things that are beautiful, cheerful, and joyful. Things that are pleasant, and pleasing, and precious.
VERSE 12 The LORD will bless your work, and you shall lend and not borrow.
VERSE 13 The LORD will make you the head and not the tail. You will only be above, and not beneath, IF you obey The Commandments of The LORD your GOD which GOD commands you to observe, and do them.
VERSE 14 You shall not go aside from any of the Words which GOD commands you. Aside in Hebrew, as in You shall not go aside from any of the Words which GOD commands you is SOOR meaning, you shall not turn from GOD’s Words, nor depart from them. The Hebrew word for words, especially GOD’s Words is DEHVAREEM which means His Words, His Commandments, and His Decrees, His Law of Moses. Do not go aside from them.
And do not go after other gods to serve them. The trinity teaches three different gods. The trinity teaches that The Father is one god, Jesus is another god, and The Spirit is another god. That is polytheism, the belief in more than one god, or the belief in many gods. The word trinity is not found in The Bible nor is it taught in The Bible because there is only one GOD. The trinity is unlawful, unscriptural and wrong. The GOD of Israel, the one GOD is The Father, The Messiah, and The Spirit. One and the same GOD. There is no mystery because there is only one GOD.
Yeshua The Messiah is GOD Almighty. He is The Father, The Messiah, The Spirit, even The Holy Spirit. When you will see Messiah Yeshua, you will see The Father. John 14.9, Isaiah 9.6(5).
VERSE 15 Not obeying GOD’s Commandments and Laws will bring curses that will come and overtake the disobedient. Without question, it’s a whole lot better to obey GOD.
So to summarize this morning’s message, The LORD GOD teaches us in Exodus 19.5&6 these words. Now therefore, IF you will obey My Voice indeed, and keep My Covenant, His Words and His Law of Moses, then you shall be a special treasure unto Me above all people, for all the earth is Mine. And you shall be unto Me a kingdom of Priests, and a Holy Nation. So now you have a choice. Do you want to continue disobeying GOD’S Law of Moses, which in fact are GOD’S Laws, or do you want to repent and turn to the LORD Your GOD and start to Obey Him? The decision is yours.
Shalom, Ira Weinstein