| (Copyright) by Avram Yehoshua (Flagstaff, Arizona) |
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| The two Triangles consist of three Scripture points each that the Lord Jesus, Paul, John, and the Book of Hebrews present concerning how Christians should walk out their faith in Jesus of Nazareth. The two Triangles reveal the biblical way to follow Jesus Christ that will challenge you, but hopefully you’ll see that the Lord has another Way for you to follow Him—His Way. The First Triangle deals with Jesus being our Example and the Second Triangle speaks of the Church (the Body of Christ). If you can, please try and disprove the concept that the six Scriptures within the two Triangles presents, not by bringing up Scripture outside the Triangles that you think negates it, but by trying to expose any flaw you see in my reasoning. If you cannot then my understanding is valid and should lead you to reconsider how you walk out your faith in Christ. The First Triangle contains three Scripture points: The Apostle Paul states, “And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.” (Colossians 1:18 NKJV) Hebrews declares, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8 NKJV) The Apostle John writes, “He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.” (1st John 2:6 NKJV) If Jesus is our Head and we are His Body, and He is the same today as He was back in Israel 2,000 years ago, and John states that we’re ‘to walk just as He walked,’ shouldn’t we be keeping Passover and the other Feasts of Israel, as well as the 7th day Sabbath, just as Jesus did, and not eating unclean animals like pig, shrimp, lobster and catfish? If Jesus had eaten bacon just once He would have been a sinner (Lev. 11:7). The Second Triangle speaks of the Gentiles being part of the Israel of God (Gal. 6:16), and so they should be keeping the same rules and laws that God gave to Israel, just as Jesus did (cf. Rom. 3:20, 31; 7:7, 12, 14; 11:13-29). Jesus says there are two Flocks and that He will make them one Flock: “And other sheep I have (Gentile Christians), which are not of this Fold (Jewish Christians). Them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice, and there will be one Flock and one Shepherd.” (Jn. 10:16; cf. Lk. 2:32; Is. 42:6; 56:6-8) The Apostle Paul writes that Gentile Christians are grafted into the Olive Tree known as Israel: “For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?” (Romans 11:24 NKJV) Paul also speaks to the Gentiles and says, “Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands—that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the Covenants of Promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.” (Ephesians 2:11-13) If there is one Flock composed of both Jewish and Gentile believers in Christ, and Paul states that the Gentiles have been grafted in among them in the domesticated Olive Tree (Israel; Rom. 11:17), and he writes that Gentile Christians are part of the Commonwealth of Israel, how is it that the Church meets on Sunday, Easter and Xmas, eats unclean animals that were, and still are sin for Jesus, and therefore His Body to eat? Why don’t Christians keep the days and ways of her Savior? 25 years after the resurrection (Acts 21:20) the Jewish Christians were keeping Mosaic Law. Are there two different sets of rules for the Lord’s one Flock? I know there are Christians who would try and counter what I’ve presented with other Scripture from the New Testament that they think would overthrow the implication of the two Triangles, like we’re “no longer under the Law,” but the problem with that is twofold. Aside from the pure simplicity of the Word that I’ve listed for you that presents Mosaic Law as God’s Way to walk out our faith in Christ, their understanding of what it means to no longer be under (Mosaic) Law is not biblical.1 If the 7th day Sabbath had been done away with by the resurrection of Jesus on Sunday, wouldn’t God have placed at least two Scripture witnesses to this monumental paradigm shift somewhere in the New Testament? Nowhere in the New Testament does it say that Sunday has replaced the Sabbath, something we’d expect since God had given it to Israel and She had been keeping the 7th day Sabbath since Exodus 16, which was even before Mt. Sinai and the Ten Commandments, in Ex. 20. Israel had kept the Sabbath for more than 14 centuries by the time of Christ. In Mark 2:28 Jesus states that He’s Lord of the Sabbath. What Scripture declares He’s Lord of Sunday?2 If Easter (or Resurrection Sunday as some like to call it, trying to distance themselves from Rome’s pagan Easter) has replaced Passover (and the other Feasts of Israel; Lev. 23; Mt. 26:1ff.; 1st Cor. 5:6-8), where does God say that in the New Testament? Easter isn’t even mentioned in the New Testament,3 let alone observed by anyone. The same holds true for Xmas. No mention of it whatsoever. That’s because Sunday, Easter and Xmas, the eating of unclean animals and anti-Mosaic Law theology came into Christianity by the fiat of Pope Sixtus in 120 AD—not Jesus nor any of His Apostles.4 Sunday, Easter, Xmas, and the eating of unclean animals is Roman Catholic tradition that nullifies God’s Word (cf. Mt. 15:1-3). Rome’s days and ways have nothing to do with Jesus and His Days and Ways. And yes, I know all about Peter’s Vision (Acts 10), and what Jesus allegedly said, “declaring all foods clean” (Mk. 7:19), and also, what Paul wrote about eating foods (Rom 14:1ff.; 1st Tim. 4:4-5).5 There is no biblical justification for eating unclean foods like bacon and pork sausage.6 Jesus is still Jewish, as He Himself declares to John 60 years after the resurrection: “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star” (Rev. 22:16 NKJV). It really doesn’t get ‘anymore Jewish’ than Jesus saying He is the Root and Offspring of King David. Concerning Mosaic Law and the Jewishness of Jesus, the angel Gabriel told Mary that Jesus would sit on the Throne of His Father David and rule over the House of Jacob (Israel) forever: “Then Gabriel to her, ‘Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Behold! You will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son and shall call His name Jesus. He will be great and He will be called the Son of the Most High God, and the Lord God will give Him the Throne of His Father David and He will reign over the House of Jacob forever, and of His Kingdom there will be no end!’” (Luke 1:30-33) Jesus will return to rule for a thousand years from this earthly Jerusalem (Rev. 20:4-6), and Mosaic Law will be the rules (days and ways) that all Christians will live by because as Paul states, Mosaic Law is holy and spiritual (Rom. 7:12, 14) and without it we don’t know the full extent of what sin is in God’s eyes (Rom. 3:20; 7:7). In the Lord’s Kingdom Mosaic Law will be established as the rules and laws for all the countries in His Kingdom (Rom. 3:31; cf. Is. 66:23; Ezk. 40:1–47:1f.; Zech. 14:16; Acts 21:20-24f.; 25:8). The two Triangles are New Testament Scripture after the resurrection that reveal that Jesus wants you to follow Him His Way—not the Pope’s Way nor the way of any pastor who teaches against this Way of Christ. It’s time for you to prayerfully consider changing your allegiance from Rome to Jerusalem. Jesus wants His Bride to throw off Rome’s days and ways. As He says about Rome: “Come out of Her, My people! Lest you share in Her sins, and lest you receive of Her plagues!” (Rev. 18:4) End Notes: 1 See No Longer Under the Law? at http://seedofabraham.net/No-Longer-Under-the-Law.pdf, and The Feasts of Israel and the Church http://seedofabraham.net/The-Feasts-of-Israel-and-the-Church.pdf. 2 See Why Sunday? at http://seedofabraham.net/Why-Sunday.pdf. 3 The KJV has Easter in Acts 12:4, but the Greek reads Paska (Passover). All other Bibles correctly have Passover. 4 A Snapshot of Church History and Mosaic Law at http://seedofabraham.net/A-Snapshot-of-Church-History-and-Mo- saic Law.pdf and Sunday—The Catholic Sabbath at http://seedofabraham.net/Sunday-The-Catholic-Sabbath.pdf. 5 See Romans 14 and the Dietary Laws at http://seedofabraham.net/Romans-14-and-the-Dietary-Laws.pdf. 6 See Law 102 at http://seedofabraham.net/Law-102.pdf. —————————————————————————— Reprinted with permission from: The Seed of Abraham https://www.seedofabraham.net/ —————————————————————————— |
| Iron Sharpening Iron In regard to: The Two Triangles of the New Testament Article by Avram Yehoshua Comments by Ray Daly (Lincoln, North Dakota) and Laura Lee (Bismarck, North Dakota) |
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| Ray Daly writes: This “response” is referring to the article by Avram Yehoshua on pg. 8 of the latest Newsletter, Issue #62, titled “The Two Triangles of the New Testament”. He makes it out to become three points, but I will basically respond to the first two. Dealing with Christ’s message to the “Israelite” believers, and the second to the “Gentile” believers. Consider the first point of Jesus message coming to the Israelites. Specifically, the ‘twelve and like followers”. Only a couple of hundred at the beginning. The question is just what message was it that Jesus taught. It obviously was not the “message of Moses”, since if he had delivered on that message, the ruling Pharisees would have welcomed his message. Laura Lee writes: Jesus taught the law/message of God. Moses taught the same law/message that Christ taught. The Pharisees also taught the law/message of God when they sat in Moses’ seat. Mat 23:1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Mat 23:2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: Mat 23:3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. Ray Daly writes: Thus, it seems that Jesus preached what his Father gave him to preach. That being, the message that his father had originally given to Israel at Mt. Horeb. The “Ten Commandment” covenant. The “voice from heaven” which all there heard said that the people should listen to Jesus Christ’s message. Note that they already knew Moses law. Laura Lee writes: The law/message of God is the same law/message that Moses delivered. Jesus was the God of the Old Testament, so Jesus was on Mt. Horeb talking to all first and then for 40 days to Moses. 1Co 10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;1Co 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 1Co 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;1Co 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ (Jesus). Ray Daly writes: Thus, if Christ was sent to deliver The Almighty’s message to all peoples on earth (via his faithful followers), then does it not make sense that Jesus only championed the message of the Ten Commandments. And he ordained the twelve to carry out his message to all of Israel. Also keep in mind that Moses’ book of the law was that which represented the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil that was in the Garden. That which Eve ate of and got Adam to eat of. Thus, does it not make sense that Jesus message of the Ten Commandment’s covenant represents the Law of the Tree of Life? Laura Lee writes: This is nothing but pure nonsense. There is only one law of God, and it is the same law that Moses recorded for God in the first 5 books of the Bible. Moses never had his own law apart from God’s Law. And Eve did not get Adam to eat from the tree of good and evil. Adam chose to eat of it all on his own even though he knew better. 1Ti 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Ray Daly writes: Now, on to point #2. That being the message being carried out to the Gentiles. What they heard, and a few responded to, was the same message that the apostle Paul, and his followers taught. The message of the Ten Commandments. Laura Lee writes: There is a lot more to the law of God then the ten commandments. God’s whole law can be found in the first five books of the bible. Ray Daly writes: But the point is, that at the time when Christ sits on his throne to rule, the message he will teach will be that of the “Two Tablets of Stone” which will be beneath his Mercy Seat Throne. The original Ten Commandment’s given by his Father from Horeb. As says in one place, “The Law shall go forth from Zion [the Ten Commandments], and the word of the LORD (an Angel) shall go forth from Jerusalem”. Or the latter being the book of the law, which will go out to all that have not yet been called to the Law of the Ten Commandments. In Other Words, all the earth will have a “choice” as to whether they will follow the “LAW, or the law”. Laura Lee writes: This is pure nonsense. There is no “law” there is only God’s Law and no other. And if you are saying Christ is an angel, that is also pure nonsense. 1Co 10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;1Co 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 1Co 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;1Co 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ (Jesus). Ray Daly writes: But as to the faithful Gentiles which will be amongst the faithful Israelites that will be resurrected at the time when Christ will sit on his throne. Note what it says in Mat. 25:32, where it says that one of the first things Christ will do when he returns is “to separate the nations”. Meaning he will have all nations to return to their original homes given them after their leaving Shinar. Each of the sons of Japheth will go to their lands. As with Ham and Shem. Those of “mixed bloods” will not be among those of original DNA. The “mixed” races will go to the “four corners”. At least until the time they become “pure again”. Laura Lee writes: Where on earth are you getting this nonsense from because that is exactly what it is. God considers all people to be equal: Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Ray Daly writes: What does the above mean for the Gentiles? Well, the “faithful Gentiles” who are in the first resurrection will go to “their Gentile families” to witness the Gospel message. In other words, all Israelite saints will witness anew to Israelites, and all Gentile saints will witness to their Gentile families. Laura Lee writes: Do you have a scripture to show this? Ray Daly writes: As to point #3 brought out in the article. While Moses will be taught, it will only come through Jerusalem, and not Zion. And “all nations” will be given the opportunity to either continue to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Moses law) or the Ten Commandments (The Almighty’s Law). Laura Lee writes: Moses Law and God’s Law are the same law and includes the ten commandments as well as the statutes and judgements etc. There is only one reason why anyone would separate the law of God like this and that would probably be because they don’t want to keep the Law of God. Ray Daly writes: Spiritual salvation is a personal point and must be chosen by each individual. The only “ordained ministers” will be those in the first resurrection. Both Israelites and Gentiles. For the second “judgment”, that of the 100-year period of the 8th millennium, those that believe and accept the Ten Commandment Covenant during the 7th 1000-year period, they will do for all that have ever lived, that which the faithful of the first resurrection will do for them. Laura Lee writes: This whole response by Ray Daly is pretty much all nonsense and cannot be backed up by scripture which is why he generally doesn’t use scripture to back up his points. The bible speaks of only two ways: God’s way which is defined by God’s law. Anything outside of God’s law which is being taught by Ray and many others is Satan’s way. God’s way is life and Satan’s way is death and the Bible asks everyone to choose life and not death. And yes, we are all to work out our own salvation, but let’s make sure that when we do that it is in the Bible, because if it is not, you are on your way down the path of death and not life. There are many nice people in the world but if they are not teaching from scripture, they are leading you down the wrong path and you will end up in the ditch with them. |
| Iron Sharpening Iron In regard to: The Two Triangles of the New Testament Article by Avram Yehoshua Comments by Avram Yehoshua (Flagstaff, Arizona) |
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One of many problems with Ray Daly’s response to my article, The Two Triangles of the New Testament, is that Ray doesn’t once speak of where my reasoning is wrong about any of the six Scriptures that make up the Two Triangles. Ray gives us a lot of his own opinion about End Time events, but I won’t go into it in this venue because there are too many outrageous and unbiblical fallacies within it, and this isn’t the place to even begin to address the errors. Mr. Daly’s response is an all-too-common problem I find among many Christian pastors and people alike. They love to play Whack A Mole. Have you ever played it? If so, you understand my use of it, but if not, it’s a game found in restaurants where kids put 50¢ in, here is a level platform area with about 12 large holes. A mole suddenly comes up from one of the holes and you have to whack it with a mallet to get points. If it goes back into the hole before you whack it, you don’t get any points, but immediately after it goes back into the hole, another mole springs up from a different hole, and so the game goes on and on until the 50¢ is used up. It’s a great game for reflexes, but it’s not what a Scripture response should be because presenting Scriptures and opinions that don’t address the six Scriptures can go on forever. For example, I brought up six Scriptures that fit into Two Triangles, which contain three Scriptures each and form a conceptual presentation on how the Lord Jesus wants all Christians to walk out their faith in Him. Today, and for more than 1500 years, the Church teaches illicit SEX, which is an acronym for Sunday, Easter, Xmas, which also includes the eating of unclean animals and a contempt for Mosaic Law. On the other hand, what I’ve come to see as God’s Will for us is the walking out of our faith in Christ through all the laws of Moses that apply to us (e.g. the 7th day Sabbath and the Feast of Passover/Unleavened Bread; Lev. 23:5f., apply to all of us [see 1st Cor. 5:6-8 where Paul exhorts his Gentile Corinthians to keep the Feast [of Passover/Unleavened Bread]]), but the laws of menstruation only apply to women, and the laws for farming only apply to farmers, etc.). In other words, we’re to walk out our faith in Jesus the same way He walked out His faith in His Father. There is no Jew or Gentile difference when it comes to our faith walk, for the Gentile is part of the Olive Tree (i.e., Israel), and part of the Commonwealth of Israel (see Eph. 2:11f.), and Jesus said the Two Flocks would be One Flock. How can we be one Flock if there are different rules/commandment/laws for Jew and Gentile? “And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.” (John 10:16 NKJV) Mr. Daly thinks the only laws we need to keep are those of the Ten Commandments, and even that is optional for Mr. Daly, but what of the two Great Commandments that Jesus Himself spoke of? Neither one of them is found in the Ten. As a matter of fact, Jesus says that all the other laws, rules, commandments, etc., of Mosaic Law actually define HOW to love God and Man: “Then one of them, a Scribe, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, ‘Rabbi, which is the great commandment in the Law?’ Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”” (Matthew 22:35-40 NKJV; the Two great Commandments are found in Dt. 6:4-5 and Lev. 19:18c, respectively) Obviously, Jesus didn’t think that the word “law” meant only the Ten Commandments, but Mr. Daly does (quote from Mr. Daly’s response: “The Law shall go forth from Zion [the Ten Commandments].” Actually, the Hebrew word for “law” there is Torah, whether in Isaiah 2:3 or Micah 4:2, where the phrase is seen repeated. Torah is Hebrew for Mosaic Law, not the Ten Commandments. No one who knows Hebrew would say that Torah means the Ten Commandments. Mr. Daly is quite wrong here, and in most of his response, but I really don’t want to deal with that now. Back to Jesus and God’s definition of love of Him and Man. Jesus defines love as obeying Mosaic Law: “On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets” (Matthew 22:40). In other words, the REASON for all the other commandments and rules of Moses is God’s Way of defining what love is. If we had a divine Tree with only two branches; one branch would say to love God and the other branch would say to love Man. Hanging from those two branches would be all the other laws and rules of Moses, helping Israel to define love God’s Way. For example, if you love God you will keep His Sabbath day holy, for even as Jesus said, He is Lord of the Sabbath: “Therefore, the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath” (Mark 2:28), and you’ll keep His Passover holy; not just “communion” whenever, but Passover once a year, on the 15th night of the first biblical month. This is God’s Truth for us, and for all Christians who walk contrary to the Way that Jesus walked. It’s really simple to see this unless one is blinded by the Christian Tree of Tradition that nullifies the Divine Forest beyond it. You might like, Law 102 at http://seedofabraham.net/Law-102.pdf, where I speak of the Vision of Peter in Acts 10, which Christians use to justify the eating of unclean animals, any one of which would have made Jesus a sinner, and also Paul’s word in 1st Tim. 4:4-5 (“all animals are good”), and what many Bibles wrongly attribute to Jesus in Mark 7:19 (“thus He declared all foods clean”), but the KJV has it right: “Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?” It’s not just the Sabbath and the Feasts of Israel. Please think of it: If it was sin for Jesus, how could it not be sin for His followers…those who are supposed to imitate Him? (cf. 1st Cor. 4:16-17; 11:1) Christianity interprets the Vision in Acts 10 literally, but since when are visions or dreams in the Bible (or anywhere else for that matter) literally interpreted, for if they were, Pharaoh’s dreams of cows eating other cows would have meant just that, but even Pharaoh knew it didn’t mean that (Gen. 41ff.). How can Christians, filled with the Holy Spirit and having many Bibles in their homes, interpret Peter’s Vision literally, especially as Peter himself gives us the interpretation of the Vision, and it’s confirmed by the Elders in Jerusalem in the next chapter; Acts 11: “Then he said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.” (Acts 10:28 NKJV) “Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him.” (Acts 10:34-35 NKJV) The Vision had nothing to do with eating unclean animals, but of God using Peter as a Bridge of Fellowship into the Gentile community, for Cornelius and Friends were the first Gentiles to come into the Kingdom of Messiah Yeshua (Jesus). Acts 10 is seen by Christian theologians to have taken place about 8 to 10 years after the Resurrection or about 38-40 AD. “When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.” (Acts 11:18 NKJV) Another scriptural article that reveals that Christians should be keeping the rules of Mosaic Law that apply to them as their Christian lifestyle, is The Feasts of Israel and the Church http://seedofabraham.net/The-Feasts-of-Israel-and-the-Church.pdf. It’s only two pages long, but a Gem from Above. By the way, I’m not your average Christian as you can see, nor a Messianic, nor a Hebrew Roots or One Law movement person. I teach The Hebraic Perspective (the biblical perspective). I teach that Jesus wants us to walk out our faith in Him through all the laws and rules of Moses that apply to us after we’ve been Born Again, just as Peter, Paul and John did all their Christian lives: “He who says he abides in Him ought himself also TO WALK JUST AS HE WALKED….Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND the faith of Jesus” (1st John 2:6; Revelation 14:12 NKJV). That’s the Word of God, not Christian tradition that nullifies God’s Word. For more on this please see Grace, Holiness and the Pharisaic Church at http://seedofabraham.net/Grace-Holiness-and-the-Pharisaic-Church.pdf. |
| Iron Sharpening Iron In regard to: The Two Triangles of the New Testament Article by Avram Yehoshua Comments by Avram Yehoshua (Flagstaff, Arizona) |
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| Wow, Laura! I must commend you on your honest and straightforward replies/comments to Mr. Daly. |
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