By James Scott Trimm

One of the strangest and most beautiful threads that runs through both Scripture and science is the pattern of three. It’s as though creation itself was pressed with a threefold seal, leaving an imprint of divine unity on everything from the cosmos to the human soul.

The Zohar comments on the daily recitation of the Shema in just these terms:

The Zohar comments on the daily recitation of the Shema:

יחוד דכל יומא. איהו יחוד למנדע ולשואה רעותא.
יחודא דא. הא אמרן בכמה דוכתי יחיד דכל מא איהו יחוד דקרא. שמע ישראל יי קדמאח. אלהינו יי. הא כלהו חד. ועד אקרי אחד.
הא תלת שמהין אינון. היך אינון חד ואף על גב דקרינן אחד. היך אינון חד. אלא בחזיונא דרוח קודשא אתיידע. ואינון בחיזו דעינא סתימא. למנדע דתלתא אלין אחד.
ודא איהו רזא דקול דאשתמע. קול איהו חד.ואיהו תלתא גוונין. אשא ורוחא ומיא. וכלהו חד ברזא דקול.
ואף הכא יי אלהינו יי אינון חד תלתא גוונין דאינון חד. ודא איהו קול דעביד בר נש ביחודא ולשוואה רעותיה בחודא דכלא מאין סוף עד סופא דכלא. בהאי קול דקא עביד בהני תלתא דאינון חד.
ודא איהו יחודא דכל יומא דאתגלי ברזא דרוח קודשא.
וכמה גוונין דיחודא אתערו וכלהו קשוט. מאן דעביד האי עביד ומן דעביד האי עביד

The [profession of] unity that every day is [a profession of] unity is to be understood and to be perceived. We have said in many places that this prayer is a profession of Unity that is proclaimed:

”Hear O Yisrael, YHWH“ first, [then] “Eloheynu” [and] “YHWH” they are all One and thus He is called “One”.

Behold, these are three names, how can they be one? Is it because we call them one? (literally: And also concerning the proclamation that we call them one?). How these are one can only through the vision of the Holy Sprit be known. And these are through the vision of the closed eye (or the hidden eye) To make known that these three are one.
And this is the mystery of the voice that is heard. The voice is one. And is three GAUNIN: fire and air and water. And all these are one in the mystery of the voice.

And also here “YHWH, Eloheynu, YHWH” these are One. Three GAUNIN that are One. And this is the voice of the act of a son of man in [proclaiming] the Unity.
And to which he sees by the Unity of the “All” from Eyn Sof (the Inifinite One) to the end of the “All”. Because of the voice in which it is done, in these are three that are one.

And this is the [profession] of the daily profession of Unity that is revealed in the mystery of the Holy Spirit.

And there are many GAUNIN that are a Unity, and all of them are true, what the one does, that the other does, and what that one does, the other does.
(Zohar II:43a).

Here the Zohar marvels at the paradox of the Shema: three divine names (YHWH, Eloheynu, YHWH) that are nevertheless one. It explains this mystery through the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit), comparing it to the kol (“voice”), which is one yet expressed in three modes—fire, air, and water. The Hebrew/Aramaic word gaunin means “colors,” “aspects,” “hues,” or “tones.” The unity of the divine voice reverberates in a threefold resonance.

See also my Blogs on the Three Pillars of the Godhead:

Part 1 The Three Pillars in the Zohar

Part 2 The Three Pillars in Philo

Part 3 The Three Pillars in the Ketuvim Netzarim

The Hebrew language itself teaches us something very important. The common Hebrew word for “nature” is טֶבַע (tevaʿ), from a root that means “to stamp, to imprint, to sink in.” Nature is not a self-standing force, but the imprint of the Creator stamped into creation, like a seal pressed into wax. The word is used in just this way in the Tanak:

Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened (טבע)? or who laid the corner stone thereof; (Job. 38:6 KJV)

Before the mountains were settled (טבע), before the hills was I brought forth:(Proverbs 8:25 KJV)

The Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria used the same imagery. He said that God imprints creation by means of the Logos — like a seal stamping its form into matter. Creation, in other words, bears the mark of the divine pattern.

The Pattern of Three in Physics

This is not just poetry. Modern physics itself is stamped with this same threefold pattern:

• The universe has three dimensions of space.
• The strong nuclear force is built on three “colors” of quarks.
• Quarks carry electric charges in units of one-third of the electron’s charge.

In the Standard Model of physics, these three facts are unrelated. But in my recent paper, Triadic Resonance in GUFT: Linking Space, Color, and Charge, I argue that they all come from one underlying principle:

The Dark Energy Quantum Field (DEQF), the foundation of reality, resonates in a triadic mode that locks space, color, and charge together.

In other words: the threeness of the Creator has left its imprint on creation, right down to the deepest laws of physics.

Theology and Science Meet

• The Zohar says the daily union (yichud) is to know that “these three are one.”
• The Hebrew word tevaʿ reminds us that nature itself is the stamp of the Creator.
• Philo taught that the Logos impresses creation like a seal into wax.
• Physics reveals that the universe is structured around threes — space, color, charge.

All of these threads converge in a single truth: the unity of the Creator is expressed through a threeness that permeates creation.

What the Zohar calls the three gaunin of the voice, physics whispers back as the triadic resonances of the field. The very laws of nature are the tevaʿ—the stamped impression—of the One who is also Three.

Why It Matters

For us as Nazarenes, this is more than intellectual curiosity. It is a reminder that every time we say the Shema, every time we look up at the stars, every time we study the laws of nature — we are seeing the signature of the Creator.

Creation is not chaos. It is not random. It bears the imprint of the One who is Three, and whose unity sustains all things from beginning to end.

And this is where theology and physics clasp hands:

• The Shema reveals the mystery that “these three are one.”
• Hebrew itself encodes the Creator’s “stamp” in the word tevaʿ.
• Philo saw the Logos as God’s imprint on matter.
• GUFT uncovers that the universe itself is structured in triads, born of the DEQF’s resonance.

All these streams converge in a single river of meaning. The universe is not random noise, but a symphony tuned to a threefold chord. Every time we whisper the Shema, every time we look up at the stars, every time we write an equation on the chalkboard, we are tracing the same signature — the unity of the One who is Three, the pattern of the divine pressed into creation from Eyn Sof to the furthest reaches of the cosmos.

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Who Is a Jew? Contesting the Identity Crisis
By
James Scott Trimm

In recent years I have noticed an identity crisis among many Torah-seeking believers. Some have developed a fear—or even an aversion—toward embracing a Jewish identity. Instead, they prefer terms like “Israelite,” “Ephraimite,” or “House of Israel.” Behind this hesitation lies a common claim: that the word Jew (Yehudi) only applies to one tribe (Judah), or at most the three tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi. According to this reasoning, the Ten Tribes and even Gentile proselytes to Torah and Messiah should never be called “Jews.”

This idea is not only historically mistaken, but also undermines the very restoration of Nazarene Judaism that YHWH is working in our day.

I myself came out of Rabbinic Judaism. When I accepted Yeshua as the Jewish Messiah, I did not leave Judaism to embrace some foreign religion. I remained a Jew, because Yeshua is the Messiah of Judaism, and His original followers were a sect of Judaism known as the Nazarenes (Netzarim). Our task is not to invent an Ephraimite alternative or some new hybrid faith, but to restore that ancient Jewish sect of Nazarene Judaism.

The Word “Jew” and the Ten Tribes

The Scriptures themselves use the term Jew far more broadly than just one tribe.

Take the Book of Tobit. Tobit was a faithful man from the tribe of Naphtali, carried away in the Assyrian exile (Tobit 1:1–2). He continued to bring his tithes and offerings to the priests in Jerusalem, keeping the Torah faithfully (Tobit 1:3–8). Later in the story, his people—exiles of the Northern Kingdom—are explicitly called “Jews”:

“And they and all the Jews who were in Nineveh rejoiced with great joy…”
(Tobit 11:17 HRV)

So here we have members of the Ten Tribes, in exile, faithfully serving YHWH—and they are called “Jews.”

We see the same in the Book of Esther. After the deliverance of Purim, we are told:

“And many from among the peoples of the land, became Jews: for the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.”
(Esther 8:17 HRV)

Here Gentiles themselves “became Jews” by joining themselves to the Jewish people and their faith.

Sha’ul (Paul) echoes this reality. He calls his readers “formerly Gentiles” (Eph. 2:11; 1 Cor. 12:2), implying that they too had joined Israel—and in the broad sense, had “become Jews.”

Judah’s Faith and the Rise of “Judaism”

After the kingdom split, the Northern Kingdom (Ephraim/Israel) rebelled. They rejected the Davidic king, the Aaronic priesthood, and the Temple, establishing their own counterfeit religion (1 Kings 12).

But Judah, though imperfect, remained tethered to the true faith. Hosea says:

“Ephraim has surrounded Me with lies,
and the house of Israel with deceit.
But Judah still walks with God…”
(Hosea 11:12)

Because Judah was the house that remained faithful, the true faith eventually came to be known as Judaism. Already by the time of the Maccabees, Jews were said to be those “who strove zealously on behalf of Judaism” (2 Macc. 2:21). Philo, Josephus, and Paul all use the term freely in the first century.

Paul—though from the tribe of Benjamin—calls himself a Jew (Acts 21:39; 22:3) and even insists in the present tense, “I am a Pharisee” (Acts 23:6). He refers to his own faith as “Judaism” (Gal. 1:13). Clearly, “Jew” had already become the umbrella identity for all who practiced the faith centered in Judah.

Messiah and the True Worshipers

Yeshua Himself confirmed this when He spoke with the Samaritan woman, an Ephraimite. She claimed Jacob as her father (John 4:12), yet Yeshua did not dispute her tribal lineage. Instead He told her plainly:

“You worship what you do not know;
we worship what we know,
because salvation is of the Jews.”
(John 4:22–23)

He did not say salvation was of Ephraim, nor of a “new religion,” but of the Jews who worship in spirit and in truth.

The Prophetic Future

The prophets are equally clear: the hope of Ephraim is not to establish a rival identity, but to be reunited with Judah.

• Ezekiel 37 speaks of the “two sticks”—Ephraim and Judah—becoming one in YHWH’s hand.
• Zechariah 8:23 envisions ten men (symbolic of the Ten Tribes) taking hold of the tzitzit of a Jew, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”

And Paul’s teaching of the olive tree in Romans 11 drives it home: Ephraimite branches are grafted into Judah’s cultivated tree, drawing nourishment from Judah’s root. The warning is clear: do not boast against the natural branches.

Conclusion: Nazarene Judaism and Jewish Identity

The House of Judah is not a dried-up olive tree. It is the cultivated tree into which Ephraim and the nations are grafted. Judaism is not a “tribal religion,” but the one true faith once delivered to the set-apart ones (Eph. 4:5; Jude 1:3).

Yeshua did not come to start a new faith. He is the Messiah of Judaism. The original believers were not “Christians,” but Nazarenes, described by Jerome and Epiphanius as Torah-keeping Jews who accepted Yeshua as Messiah.

Therefore, to embrace Yeshua is not to abandon Jewish identity, but to restore it. Ephraimites and Gentiles who take hold of the covenant are not forming something apart from Judaism—they are becoming Jews in the truest, prophetic sense.

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A Nazarene Perspective

One of the most persistent myths about the New Testament is that its canon was decided centuries after the apostles lived, in smoky councils of bishops, with heated debates over which books belonged and which did not. The truth, however, is both simpler and far more profound: the canon of the New Testament was recognized and preserved from the very beginning — by the emissaries (apostles) themselves — and it was the Nazarenes, the original Jewish followers of Yeshua, who safeguarded this inheritance.

Canonization in the First Century

Modern scholars such as Ernest L. Martin (Restoring the Original Bible) and apologists such as Josh McDowell (Evidence That Demands a Verdict) both argue for the same core reality: the New Testament writings were not late inventions of the church but were canonized in the first century.

Martin emphasizes that the apostles themselves, under divine inspiration, brought the canon together. Paul’s letters were collected and circulated during his own lifetime (Colossians 4:16), and already in the first century Kefa (Peter) refers to Paul’s writings as “Scripture” (2 Peter 3:16). Likewise, 1 Timothy 5:18 cites the Gospel of Luke alongside the Torah of Moses, treating both with equal authority as “scripture”. The Emissaries did not view their writings as casual correspondence, but as part of the unfolding Word of Elohim.

McDowell reinforces this with historical evidence:

• Clement of Rome (c. 95 CE) quoted from several NT books, showing they were already authoritative in the generation immediately after the apostles.
• Ignatius of Antioch (c. 110 CE) and Polycarp (c. 110–135 CE) freely cited apostolic writings as binding.
• By the late 2nd century, the Muratorian Fragment shows nearly the full NT canon in circulation.

The cumulative picture is clear: the New Testament was not invented in the 4th century. It was recognized and canonized in the 1st century by the Emissaries themselves, and immediately preserved by their disciples.

The Nazarene Testimony

Here the testimony of the 4th-century “church father” Epiphanius becomes crucial. In describing the Nazarenes — the original Jewish followers of Yeshua — he wrote:

“They use not only the New Testament but the Old Testament as well, as the Jews do… They disagree with Jews because they have come to faith in Messiah; but since they are still fettered by the Law — circumcision, the Sabbath, and the rest — they are not in accord with Christians…. They have the Goodnews according to Matthew in its entirety in Hebrew. For it is clear that they still preserve this, in the Hebrew alphabet, as it was originally written.”
(Panarion 29)

Notice what Epiphanius does not say. He never accuses the Nazarenes of rejecting Paul, Hebrews, or Revelation. If they had denied any part of the canon, he would surely have wielded it as a weapon against them. Instead, he affirms that they accepted both the Old and the New Testament — and even preserved the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew in its original tongue.

Other witnesses, such as Jerome and Origen, confirm that the Nazarenes also used the Gospel according to the Hebrews. But again, this was not instead of the New Testament, but alongside it — an additional witness treasured for its Hebraic origins.

From the Nazarenes to the Gentile Church

This testimony shows that the Nazarenes possessed the same New Testament canon known to Epiphanius and the wider church. The difference was not in their canon, but in their way of life: Torah observance, Hebrew liturgy, and a Jewish lens for interpreting Messiah.

Thus, the canon of the New Testament did not emerge from Gentile councils centuries later. It was the inheritance of the Nazarenes, passed down from the Emissaries of Yeshua, and only later received by the wider Gentile church. The councils of the 4th century did not decide the canon; they merely confirmed what had already been handed down from the Jewish disciples of Yeshua.

Conclusion

From a Nazarene perspective, the canon of the New Testament is not the invention of a later “church,” but the living testimony of the emissaries themselves — preserved first by the Nazarenes, who read it in Hebrew, and then inherited by the wider body of believers. The continuity of this canon proves that the Word of Elohim was not subject to the whims of councils, but divinely ordered and faithfully guarded from the beginning.

The Nazarenes stand as witnesses: the New Testament was canonized by the apostles, preserved by their Jewish disciples, and then passed on intact to the nations.

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Chag Yeshua – The Feast of Deliverance

There is a powerful and prophetic festival on the biblical calendar—once lost to history, now being restored in our generation. This sacred time of celebration begins at sunset on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025, and continues for seven days, through sunset on Wednesday, September 10th. It is called Chag Yeshua—The Feast of Deliverance.

This is more than a commemoration of past events—it is a festival of faith, freedom, and forward-looking hope, rooted in a dramatic story preserved in the Third Book of Maccabees.

📖 The Biblical Background

In 217 B.C.E., following the Battle of Raphia, the Egyptian king Ptolemy IV attempted to enter the Holy of Holies in the Jerusalem Temple. But YHWH repelled him miraculously (3 Macc. 1–2). Enraged, he returned to Egypt and launched a violent persecution of the Jews living there—stripping away their rights, forcing pagan practices, and ordering mass executions (3 Macc. 3–5).

But one man—a faithful elder named Eleazar—stood up and prayed for deliverance. And YHWH answered. Through divine intervention, the king’s heart was changed, the Jews were spared, and a royal decree was issued granting them peace and honor once again (3 Macc. 6–7).

In response, the Jews in Egypt declared an annual festival, a seven-day celebration of salvation and divine rescue. They called it:

חַג יֵשׁוּעָה – Chag Yeshua – The Feast of Deliverance.
(3 Maccabees 6:36)

✡️ Why “Yeshua”?

In Hebrew, the word “Yeshua” (יֵשׁוּעָה) means deliverance or salvation—but it is also the very name of our Messiah.

This festival doesn’t just recall an ancient salvation—it points prophetically to the ultimate deliverance of Israel through Messiah Yeshua. For believers, Chag Yeshua becomes a summer festival of Messiah, rejoicing in what He has done and what He will do for the redemption of His people.

🎉 How Do We Celebrate Chag Yeshua?

According to 3 Maccabees, the original observance included:

1. 🍽️ A Banquet of Deliverance

A joyous feast known as Seudat Yeshua (The Banquet of Deliverance)—not a Passover seder, but more like a summer thanksgiving meal or barbecue (3 Macc. 6:31). Perfect for an outdoor dinner or picnic!

2. 🎵 Songs of Praise

The people sang “songs of their fathers”—traditional songs of salvation, praising YHWH as Deliverer and Defender (3 Macc. 6:32). Psalms and praise music focused on deliverance, hope, and Messiah are ideal.

3. 💃 Traditional Hebraic Dance

Dancing was part of the celebration (3 Macc. 6:35). Gather with friends and family, and dance like Miriam at the Sea!

4. 📖 Reading the Story

The events of 3 Maccabees should be retold or read aloud. This is central to the purpose of the feast—to remember and rejoice in YHWH’s salvation.

5. 🌸 Floral Crowns and Decorations

The text tells us the people were “crowned with all kinds of fragrant flowers” (3 Macc. 6:30)—a beautiful way to honor the joy of deliverance.

6. ☀️ Summer Festivities

Since it falls in early September (late summer in the Northern Hemisphere), modern celebrations might include barbecues, pool parties, outdoor gatherings, or community festivals.

📅 When Is It in 2025?

The original festival was celebrated from the 8th to the 14th of Epeiph on the Egyptian calendar, which corresponded to 12 Elul 3544 on the Hebrew calendar in 217 B.C.E.

In 2025, this aligns with:

📆 Wednesday, September 3rd (at sunset) through Wednesday, September 10th (at sunset)
🗓️ Corresponds to Elul 12–18, 5785 on the Hebrew calendar

🌍 Join the Global Restoration

As part of the greater restoration of biblical truth in our day, Chag Yeshua is being revived and remembered once again—a celebration of YHWH’s faithfulness and the coming salvation of Israel.

Let us raise our voices, lift our hands, and rejoice with all our hearts in the Feast of Yeshua!

“Let all flesh bless Elohim’s name continually with awe and thanksgiving, because He is the savior of Israel!”
— 3 Maccabees 6:36 (adapted)

📣 Spread the Word. Celebrate the Deliverance. Rejoice in Yeshua.

Let 2025 be the year that you and your community step into this forgotten festival and help restore it to its rightful place on the biblical calendar.

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By James Scott Trimm

Abstract

Galileo once said that the universe is written in the language of mathematics. Modern physics has confirmed this, revealing that even the “extra” particles and constants not needed for ordinary matter encode values that hover between profound Hebrew integers.

• The bottom/strange quark ratio lies between 44 (blood) and 45 (Adam, man / Mah, “what?”).
• The muon/electron ratio lies between 206 (word) and 207 (light).
• The top/charm quark ratio lies between lies between 136 (voice) and 137 (Kabbalah, reception, Sinai). (136 is also the inverse Ration of the Fine Structure Constant 1/136)

Taken together, these thresholds form a ladder: Blood → Man, Word → Light, Voice → Revelation.

Most astonishingly, when the lower values are summed, we obtain what may be called the Deep Constant: D=44+136+206=386\mathcal{D} = 44 + 136 + 206 = 386D=44+136+206=386

386 is the exact gematria of יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshua).

The odds of this convergence by chance are astronomical — between one in two million and one in a hundred million. The message is clear: creation itself bears a signature, a seal inscribed in the numbers that govern the universe.

“The universe… is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.”
— Galileo Galilei, Il Saggiatore (1623)

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Introduction

The heavens declare the glory of Elohim — and modern physics has revealed far more than ancient stargazers could have imagined. Deep in the fabric of matter, in the “surplus” particles and mysterious constants of the Standard Model, numbers appear that are unnecessary for the mere functioning of atoms. These values hover between integers with profound meanings in Hebrew gematria, as if they were letters in the alphabet of God.

When read in light of Torah and Zohar, they form a ladder of mysteries that culminates in a signature: |The name of Yeshua, encoded in creation itself.

Crowns Upon the Torah of Creation

The universe needs only a handful of particles to sustain matter — up and down quarks, electrons, photons, gluons, and the Higgs field. Yet we also find heavier “copies”: strange, charm, bottom, and top quarks; muon and tau leptons; extra neutrinos.

These are unstable, transient, and not part of ordinary matter. They resemble the zerim — golden crowns that adorned the Ark, the Table, and the Altar in the Tabernacle (Ex. 25:11, 25:24, 30:3). Not required structurally, yet placed there as ornamentation of glory. So too, these surplus particles may be crowns upon the Torah of Creation, encoding a hidden message.

Numbers That Hover Between Worlds

Unlike the stable electron or proton, the ratios of heavy particles often fall between integers. This “liminal” quality mirrors the Zohar’s teaching on Mi (“Who?”) and Mah (“What?”), where mysteries lie in the space between questions.

Blood → Adam (44 ↔ 45)

• Physics: The bottom/strange quark mass ratio ≈ 44.4–45.1 (PDG 2024).
• Hebrew:
  • 44 = דם (Dam, blood)
  • 45 = אדם (Adam, man); מה (Mah, “What?”)
• Message: Adam = Dam + Aleph. Humanity is blood infused with the divine spark. Man is defined by the question Mah — “What is man that You are mindful of him?” (Ps. 8:5).

Independent echo: The atmospheric neutrino mixing angle θ23 hovers near 45°, another witness to Adam/Mah written in physics.

Word → Light (206 ↔ 207)

• Physics: Muon/electron Mass ratio ≈ 206.77.
• Hebrew:
  • 206 = דבר (Davar, word)
  • 207 = אור (Or, light); also אדון עולם (Adon Olam), אין סוף (Ein Sof), זר (Zer, crown), זקנים (Zekenim, elders)
• Message: Creation is the Word flowing into Light, crowned by Infinity.

Voice → Kabbalah (136 ↔ 137)

• Physics: The Top/charm Quark Mass Ratio ≈ 136.142 (Also the fine-structure constant α ≈ 1/137.036.)
• Hebrew:
  • 136 = קול (Kol, voice)
  • 137 = קבלה (Kabbalah, reception); also סיני (Sinai), לקח טוב (Good Teaching)
• Message: The coupling constant of light and matter lies where Voice becomes Reception. Revelation itself is encoded in the laws of electromagnetism.

The Zoharic Frame: Mi and Mah

The Zohar (1:2a) meditates on Isaiah 40:26: “Lift up your eyes on high and see: Who created these?” (Mi bara eleh).

• Mi (מי, “Who?”) = the hidden dimension of God.
• Mah (מה, “What?”) = the revealed world and humanity.
• Together, Mi + Eleh = Elohim.

Our physics ladder reflects this same mystery:

• Blood → Adam (Mah)
• Word → Light
• Voice → Kabbalah (Reception)

Creation is designed to provoke the questions Who? and What?, leading man back to the Infinite.

The Deep Constant

We may now give this convergence a name. Define:

where each term is the “lower integer neighbor” of a fundamental ratio:

• m_b/m_s​ (bottom-to-strange quark mass ratio),
• m_μ/m_e​ (muon-to-electron mass ratio),
• m_t/m_s (top-to-charm quark mass ratio).

Evaluating: D=44+206+136=386

We call this the Deep Constant, because it lies hidden in the depths of creation, only visible when these three thresholds are considered together.

And the value it yields — 386 — is the gematria of יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshua), the Seal of the Message.

The Odds Against Chance

Could this be coincidence? The mathematics say otherwise.

• For any single quantity, the chance of falling within ±0.5% of one of two meaningful Hebrew integers is about 2%.
• For three independent quantities (quark ratio, muon/electron ratio, and fine-structure constant), the odds shrink to about 1 in 125,000.
• Then add the fact that their “lower values” sum to 386 = Yeshua. Depending on whether we count any 386 sum or the specific (44+136+206) triple, the probability drops to between:
  • 1 in 2 million, and
  • 1 in 125 million.

In simple terms: astronomical.

Conclusion

The “extra” particles and constants of physics are not meaningless detours of nature. They are zerim — crowns upon the Torah of Creation. Their numbers hover between worlds, encoding transitions of life, light, and revelation.

At the heart of it all, hidden in the depths, is the Deep Constant: D=386=יֵשׁוּעַ

Creation itself proclaims the Torah of the Creator, not only in words and light, but in the very numbers that govern the cosmos. The message is encoded in creation so that those who seek may find it: a signature written in the alphabet of physics, pointing to the Eternal Word.

“Come and see: the Blessed Holy One looked into the Torah and created the world.”
— Zohar I:134a

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When people speak of the “restoration of Nazarene Judaism,” many assume we are reviving something long extinct. Church history paints the Nazarenes — Torah-observant Jews who followed Yeshua as Messiah — as a small sect that vanished in the fourth century, erased by Rome and rejected by the synagogue.

But history, as written by the victors, conceals more than it reveals. When we examine the sources — the writings of the early church fathers, Jewish records, medieval chronicles, Renaissance manuscripts, and even modern testimonies — a different picture emerges. The truth is that Nazarene Judaism never died. It has always existed.

In the Beginning: Far From Rejection

The popular claim that “the Jews rejected Yeshua” is simply false. The evidence shows that the first-century Jewish response to Yeshua was the opposite: they embraced him by the tens of thousands.

The Gospel according to the Hebrews records that at the crucifixion, when Yeshua prayed, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do,” many thousands of Jews standing around the execution site became believers. Medieval commentators preserved this tradition, noting that these converts correspond to the three thousand added at Pentecost (Acts 2:41) and the five thousand more shortly afterward (Acts 4:4).

The Book of Acts itself records exponential growth:

• 3,000 added (Acts 2)
• 5,000 more (Acts 4:4)
• “Multiplied” again and again (Acts 6, 9, 12)
• “Thousands more” continually added (Acts 13:45)

Even by conservative estimates, there were at least 213,000 Nazarenes by 45 CE, perhaps as many as 426,000 by 63 CE. By comparison, Philo tells us there were about 4,000 Essenes at the time. Within a generation, the Nazarenes had already become one of the largest Jewish sects.

So no — the Jews did not reject Yeshua. The majority of Jews who heard the message embraced him as Messiah, until persecution, division, and Roman oppression fractured the movement.

Rejected by Both Sides

The Nazarenes, however, were soon caught in the crossfire:

• 70 CE: They obeyed Yeshua’s warning and fled to Pella before the Temple fell, sparing their lives but earning suspicion from other Jews.
• 90 CE: The Rabbis at Yavneh formalized the Birkat haMinim, cursing the Nazarenes by name.
• 132 CE: During the Bar Kokhba revolt, they refused to follow a false messiah, and were branded traitors.
• 325 CE: At Nicaea, Constantine outlawed Torah-observance, Passover on the 14th, and Sabbath-keeping. He declared, “Let us have nothing in common with the detestable Jewish crowd.”

By the fourth century, the Nazarenes were anathematized by both synagogue and empire. Historians declared them extinct. But scattered evidence shows otherwise.

Hidden Survival Through the Ages

Far from Rome’s centers of power, Nazarene traditions endured:

• 7th Century: Bede records believers in Ireland and Scotland keeping Passover on the 14th of Nisan, resisting Rome’s Easter until the Synod of Whitby in 664.
• 9th Century: Irish scholars still cited the Gospel according to the Hebrews, Jerome’s “Nazarene Gospel.”
• 11th Century: Cardinal Humbert describes the “Nazarenes” (likely the Pasagini), Torah-keepers who believed in Messiah.
• 14th–15th Centuries: Medieval manuscripts continue to quote the Nazarene Gospel.
• 16th Century: Hebrew Matthews surface in Europe, preserved not by Christians but by Jews themselves — clear evidence of Jewish followers of Yeshua guarding their texts underground.

Even in modern times, a remnant surfaced: rabbis such as Isaac Lichtenstein in Hungary, Yehiel Tzvi Lichtenstein in Eastern Europe, and Daniel Tzion in Bulgaria, who all bore witness to Yeshua while remaining Torah-faithful Jews.

The “Jesus” Judaism Rejected

The Jewish people never rejected their Messiah. They rejected the “Jesus” of Rome — the lawless, Hellenized figure who supposedly came to abolish Torah. And they were right to do so. An anti-Torah messiah is no messiah at all.

What the Jewish people have not seen — at least not widely — is the real Yeshua: the Torah-faithful Messiah of Israel. Many Orthodox Jews (even rabbis) quietly confess him today, waiting for “the right time” to reveal their faith. As more encounter Yeshua in his original context, they recognize that the Ketuvim Netzarim (“Writings of the Nazarenes,” i.e., the New Testament) are as Jewish as the Tanakh itself.

Restoration in Our Day

In the mid-1990s, when the Internet was new, small groups in Texas, Georgia, Michigan, and Colorado each had independently been calling themselves “Nazarene Judaism.” None knew of the others, yet all were seeking the same restoration. There is every reason to believe that the same would have been true in the 1980’s or 1970’s. Pockets of Nazarene Jews always existed. There have always been Jews who were Torah observant, and believed Yeshua was the Jewish Messiah of Judaism, even if they were not networked with others.

This modern rediscovery confirmed the ancient truth: the Nazarenes never vanished — they were always here, hidden, preserving Torah and Messiah, waiting for the appointed time.

Today, through the Worldwide Nazarene Assembly of Elohim and other faithful communities, that scattered remnant is reconnecting, rebuilding, and carrying forward the work begun two thousand years ago.

Conclusion: Always a Remnant

Nazarene Judaism has always existed. It began as the fastest-growing sect of Judaism in the first century, survived curse and persecution, hid in manuscripts and remote communities, whispered through rabbis across the ages, and reemerged in our day.

• They fled to Pella and endured.
• They resisted Rome’s Easter in the Isles.
• They preserved Hebrew gospels underground.
• They multiplied in Acts, rivaling every other sect.
• They remained faithful to Torah while proclaiming Yeshua.
• They rise again today.

The Nazarenes were not destroyed — only hidden. And now, in our generation, the ancient remnant is restored.

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For centuries, Christian tradition has leaned heavily on the idea that Yeshua’s public ministry lasted three to three and a half years. In more recent years, some have pushed back, proposing a one-year or even seventy-week model. However, a careful reading of the Gospels—especially the Gospel of John—shows that both of these extremes overlook a more plausible and historically grounded answer.

This article will demonstrate that Yeshua’s ministry lasted approximately two and a half years, supported by internal Gospel sequencing, the Hebrew calendar, and sound manuscript data.

❗ The Chronology Debate

The Three-Year Theory:

• Based on the presence of three Passovers in the Gospel of John (John 2:13, 6:4, and 11:55)
• Sometimes inflated to 3½ years through theological typology (e.g., Daniel 9:27, Elijah’s drought)

The One-Year Theory:

• Based on Luke 4:19 (“acceptable year of the Lord”) and the absence of more than one Passover in the Synoptics
• Attempts to compress all Gospel events into a single spring-to-spring cycle

But both models require forcing the text to fit theology, rather than letting the text speak on its own terms.

📖 The Key Turning Point: John 6:4

“Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.” — John 6:4

This verse is often the linchpin for dating Yeshua’s ministry. Some have questioned its authenticity in order to preserve a one-year model, but the textual evidence overwhelmingly supports its inclusion:

✅ Manuscript Support for John 6:4:

• Included in all major Greek uncials: ℵ (Sinaiticus), B (Vaticanus), A, C, D
• Present in early versions:
  • Old Syriac (SyrS and SyrC)
  • Peshitta
  • Latin Vulgate
  • Coptic
• Nestle-Aland 28 lists only “pc” (a few minor manuscripts) as omitting it—hardly significant textual weight
• Papyrus 66 and 75 both include the passage, contrary to earlier speculation

🧭 Chronological Sequence Disproves Compression

The biggest issue for the one-year model is this:

This proves John 6:4 is not the same Passover as John 13. They are separated by at least six months, confirming that John references three distinct Passovers, not two.

📚 The Three Passovers in John’s Gospel

1. First Passover – John 2:13
   Yeshua cleanses the Temple shortly after His immersion and calling of the first disciples.
2. Second Passover – John 6:4
   Occurs around the time of the feeding of the 5,000; leads into major teaching and rejection narratives.
3. Third Passover – John 11:55 – 13:1
   Yeshua’s final entry into Jerusalem, crucifixion, and resurrection.

Thus, we have:

• Two full years between the first and third Passovers
• Ministry beginning in the fall before Passover 1
• Crucifixion in the spring of Year 3, making the ministry approximately 2½ years

🧮 Constructed Timeline of Yeshua’s Ministry

✔️ This matches:

• All calendar and feast references in John
• Luke 24:21 (“today is the third day since these things were done”)
• Halachic Passover timing
• Astronomical new moon data (Nisan 14 = April 6, 30 CE = Thursday)

🔍 Why Not 3½ Years?

• John does not mention four Passovers
• No Gospel refers to a fourth spring
• The tradition of 3½ years is allegorical, not textual
• Daniel’s “half a week” and Elijah’s 3½-year drought are types, not timelines

🕯️ Why Not 1 Year?

• John 6:4, followed by Sukkot and Hanukkah, then another Passover, proves that more than one year passed
• Luke’s reference to “the acceptable year” (Luke 4:19) is theological and symbolic, not a precise chronological limit
• A one-year model fails to reconcile John 6:4 with John 13, unless the narrative is viewed as non-sequential—which contradicts the clear seasonal progression

✅ Conclusion: The 2½-Year Ministry Best Fits All Evidence

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בברכת שלום ובשם המשיח,
James Scott Trimm

For nearly two millennia, believers have debated the precise timing of Yeshua’s death, burial, and resurrection. Many are familiar with the traditional “Good Friday” view. Others advocate for a Wednesday crucifixion to make room for “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” But when we examine the Hebrew and Aramaic texts, Second Temple halacha, and astronomical data together, a clearer picture emerges—one that powerfully supports a Thursday crucifixion on April 6, 30 CE.

❗ The Problem with Traditional Timelines

1. Friday Crucifixion?

The most common Christian tradition places the crucifixion on a Friday. However, this creates a numerical conflict: from Friday afternoon to Sunday morning does not equal three days and three nights in any sense—literal or idiomatic.

2. Wednesday Crucifixion?

Some propose a Wednesday crucifixion to accommodate 72 hours, but this introduces other issues:

• It requires four days before Sunday (not three)
• It conflicts with Luke 24:21, which says “today is the third day since these things were done,” spoken on Sunday

📖 What the Scriptures Actually Say

Luke 24:21 — A Clear Chronological Marker

“Today is the third day since these things were done.”

Spoken on Sunday, this verse provides a mathematically precise window for counting backward:

No mental gymnastics are needed. Luke 24:21 makes it explicit: the crucifixion took place on Thursday.

Matthew 12:40 — The “Three Days and Three Nights” Dilemma

“For as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth…”

This phrase, while meaningful, poses complications:

• It does not appear in Luke’s version (Luke 11:29–32)
• Some ancient Greek manuscripts note that the Jewish version of Matthew lacked this phrase: το ιουδαικον ουκ εχει τρεις η [μερας και τρεις νυκτας]
  “The Jewish version does not have ‘three days and three nights’ here”

Whether or not the phrase is original, it’s worth noting that in Semitic idiom, “three days and three nights” could still refer to parts of three days, not a literal 72-hour period. (Compare Esther 4:16–5:1.)

📚 Halachic and Linguistic Factors

What Is “Passover”?

• Nisan 14: Day of slaughtering the lambs
• Nisan 15: Begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread (an annual Sabbath)
• The Gospels often call the entire 8-day period “Passover,” creating apparent contradictions that vanish with a Hebraic understanding.

What Is “Evening”?

The Hebrew word ערב (erev) marks a transition, not a time range. Every day has two evenings—at sunset and just before nightfall. This adds complexity to interpreting “evening” events in the Gospels.

🗓️ Astronomical Evidence for 30 CE

Using Crescent-Sighting Calendar (not modern astronomical conjunctions):

• Astronomical New Moon (conjunction): March 22, 30 CE
• Likely Crescent Sighting: Evening of March 24, 30 CE
• Therefore:
  ➤ Nisan 1 = March 24 at sunset
  ➤ Nisan 14 = April 6 at sunset, beginning Wednesday night and continuing through Thursday

This timeline places:

• The Last Supper (Seder): Wednesday night (Nisan 14, sectarian reckoning)
• Crucifixion: Thursday afternoon (April 6)
• Annual Sabbath (Nisan 15): Friday, April 7
• Weekly Sabbath: Saturday, April 8
• Resurrection Discovered: Sunday, April 9 (Nisan 17)

This model matches the Gospels exactly when understood in their Second Temple Jewish context.

🛡️ Harmonizing John and the Synoptics

The Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke)

• Present the Last Supper as a Passover meal
• Use terms like “first day of Unleavened Bread,” reflecting a Pharisaic calendar

The Gospel of John

• States that the crucifixion happened on the day of preparation for Passover (John 19:14)
• Implies that the Temple authorities’ Passover occurred on Friday evening

Resolution:

Multiple calendars were in use.

• Yeshua may have followed a sectarian or Galilean calendar (e.g., Essene or Zealot), celebrating Passover a day earlier.
• The Temple calendar, possibly controlled by Sadducees, had Nisan 14 fall on Friday, hence the slaughter of lambs occurring after Yeshua’s death.

This calendar divergence explains why:

• Yeshua could keep a Passover Seder with his disciples
• Yet also die at the same hour Temple lambs were being slain the following day

✅ Summary: Why April 6, 30 CE Is the Most Plausible Date

🔚 Final Thought

Yeshua did not die in a theological vacuum. He died as Israel’s Passover lamb, within a halachic, calendrical, and liturgical framework rooted in the Torah. Recognizing the Thursday crucifixion on April 6, 30 CE, restores both the historical and Jewish integrity of the Passion narrative.

✡️ And perhaps that is the greatest sign of all:
The Lamb of God was offered at the very time appointed—
Not according to the convenience of later tradition,
But according to the rhythms of God’s moedim.

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בברכת שלום ובשם המשיח,
James Scott Trimm

Introduction

Many of us in the modern restored Nazarene movement know the story we’ve been told by church history: the Nazarenes — Torah-observant followers of Yeshua — disappeared from the earth by the 4th century. Rome absorbed their congregations, suppressed their writings, and replaced their festivals with foreign ones.

But history is written by the victors. And when we go back to the sources — the writings of Bede, the medieval Irish scholars, and the scattered quotations of our ancient Gospel According to the Hebrews — a different picture begins to emerge.

That picture suggests that in the remote British Isles, in Ireland and Scotland, the voice of our fathers may have echoed far longer than anyone has admitted.

The Nazarene Gospel in the Isles

Jerome, writing in the 4th century, tells us plainly:

“The Gospel which the Nazarenes and Ebionites use is the very Hebrew Gospel we have recently translated.”

Epiphanius even distinguishes between two versions — the Nazarene text (whole and unaltered) and the Ebionite text (shortened and altered).

Our own research — and the “Notes” preserved in my recently published The Gospel According to the Hebrews — document that quotations and citations of this Gospel survived even into the Middle Ages. And here is where it gets interesting:

• Medieval Irish and Scottish sources explicitly name the Evangelium secundum Hebraeos.
• Sedulius Scotus, a 9th-century scholar, cites it directly in his commentary: “…sicut in evangelio secundum Hebraeos legitur…” (“…as is read in the Gospel According to the Hebrews…”).
• Irish monastic libraries treated it as a familiar text, not a strange curiosity.

Meanwhile, across the Continent, medieval writers are largely silent about this Gospel. Why would it survive in the Isles and not elsewhere? Isolation — and perhaps a remnant who guarded it.

Passover vs. Easter: The Old Dispute

We Nazarenes know that the 14th of Nisan is not just a date — it is the appointed time to remember Yeshua’s last Passover, just as He told us: “Do this in remembrance of Me.”

Bede’s Ecclesiastical History records that in 7th-century Scotland and Ireland, there was a heated dispute between believers who kept Passover on the 14th of the month — no matter what day it fell on — and those who followed Rome’s Sunday Easter and weekly communion.

This “Quartodeciman” calculation is exactly what the earliest Nazarenes did. While Rome saw it as a “Jewish” practice to be stamped out, some in the Isles refused to let it go.

Shared Marks of Identity

When we compare what we know of the ancient Nazarenes to the medieval Celtic believers who preserved the Gospel according to the Hebrews and the 14th of Nisan, the similarities stand out:

How Could It Have Survived?

If there was indeed a remnant of our people in the Isles, how did they get there? A few possibilities:

• Trade routes – Jewish merchants carried tin from Cornwall and lead from Wales since ancient times. These routes connected the Mediterranean world with the far West long before the Roman conquest.
• Joseph of Arimathea tradition – Early British and later Celtic lore tells of Joseph of Arimathea — the very one who laid Yeshua in the tomb — as a tin merchant who traveled to the Isles. While historians debate the details, the tradition fits the known trade network, and it’s worth noting that one fragment of the Gospel According to the Hebrews preserved in Ireland contains an account of Joseph’s imprisonment and miraculous escape. If that text came west through the same channels as the trade, Joseph’s connection to the Isles may have been remembered for generations.
• Monastic networks – Early monks from the East, possibly with Jewish-Christian roots, could have brought manuscripts, including GH, into Irish scriptoria.
• Refugees from Roman control – Believers fleeing imperial pressure, especially after the suppression of Jewish and Nazarene practices in the 4th century, may have found safe haven in Ireland’s independent churches, far from the reach of Rome.

What This Means for Us

For those of us seeking to restore the faith once delivered to the saints, this isn’t just an academic curiosity. It’s a reminder that YHWH’s remnant can survive in the most unlikely places — a windswept island, a monastery library, an old calculation for Passover that refuses to bow to the “new” way.

It also calls us to action:

• Preserve our texts — just as they preserved GH when others forgot it.
• Guard the appointed times — just as they refused to abandon the 14th of Nisan.
• Hold fast to Torah and the testimony of Yeshua — no matter the pressure to conform.

Conclusion

History says we were gone by the 4th century. The evidence says otherwise. The Gospel According to the Hebrews was still being read in the Isles centuries later. The Passover was still being kept on the biblical date. The echoes of our fathers were still heard.

We may never have the smoking-gun manuscript that says “We are the Nazarenes,” but in the words of Polycrates to Rome: “We ought to obey God rather than man.” And perhaps, so did they.

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Brothers and sisters, the story we’ve just traced — of the Gospel According to the Hebrews, of the faithful who clung to the 14th of Nisan, of our heritage preserved in distant corners of the earth — is not just about the past. It’s about us, right now.

Just as those medieval believers safeguarded the words of Yeshua and the appointed times in the face of pressure, we are called to safeguard and restore the fullness of Nazarene Judaism in our generation. The work of Scripture Restoration — recovering lost texts, preserving the pure Word in its original context, and making it accessible to all — is the modern continuation of that same mission.

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The last days restoration of Nazarene Judaism would not be complete without the restoration of the lost Gospel according to the Hebrews!

The Gospel according to the Hebrews is a lost apocryphal Gospel, used by the ancient sect of the Nazarenes, which exists today only in about sixty quotations scattered throughout the writings of the ancient “Church Fathers”,

The Nazarenes

The first believers in Yeshua were a Jewish sect known as  “Nazarenes” or in Hebrew “Netzarim” (Acts 24:5). The “church father” Jerome (4th Cent.) described these Nazarenes as those “…who accept Messiah in such a way that they do not cease to observe the old Law.” (Jerome; On. Is. 8:14).

Elsewhere he writes:

Today there still exists among the Jews in all the synagogues of the East a heresy which is called that of the Minæans (1), and which is still condemned by the Pharisees; [its followers] are ordinarily called ‘Nazarenes’; they believe that Messiah, the son of God, was born of the Virgin Miriam, and they hold him to be the one who suffered under Pontius Pilate and ascended to heaven, and in whom we also believe.”
(Jerome; Letter 75 Jerome to Augustine)

The fourth century “church father” Epiphanius gives a more detailed description:

But these sectarians… did not call themselves Christians–but “Nazarenes,” … However they are simply complete Jews. They use not only the New Testament but the Old Testament as well, as the Jews do… They have no different ideas, but confess everything exactly as the Law proclaims it and in the Jewish fashion– except for their belief in Messiah, if you please! For they acknowledge both the resurrection of the dead and the divine creation of all things, and declare that G-d is one, and that his son is Yeshua the Messiah. They are trained to a nicety in Hebrew. For among them the entire Law, the Prophets, and the… Writings… are read in Hebrew, as they surely are by the Jews. They are different from the Jews, and different from Christians, only in the following. They disagree with Jews because they have come to faith in Messiah; but since they are still fettered by the Law–circumcision, the Sabbath, and the rest– they are not in accord with Christians…. they are nothing but Jews…. They have the Goodnews according to Matthew in its entirety in Hebrew. For it is clear that they still preserve this, in the Hebrew alphabet, as it was originally written. (Epiphanius; Panarion 29)

The Gospel According to the Hebrews

The fourth Century “Church Father” Eusebius writes about the Nazarenes:

“And among them [doubted books] some have placed
the Gospel according to the Hebrews which is
the especial delight of those of the Hebrews
who have accepted Messiah.”
(Eusebius; Eccl. Hist. 3:25:5)

And as Jerome frequently mentions:

In the Gospel according to the Hebrews,
which is written in the Chaldee and Syrian language,
but in Hebrew letters, and is used by the Nazarenes
to this day…
(Jerome; Against Pelagius 3:2)

And in the Gospel according to the Hebrews,
which the Nazarenes are accustomed to read,…
(Jerome; Commentary on Ezek. 18:7)

Hugh Schonfield wrote of this Gospel:

The Gospel according to the Hebrews is a literary outlaw with a price on its head; but in spite of the scholarly hue and cry it still evades capture. Neither monastic libraries nor Egyptian rubbish heaps have so far yielded up a single leaf of this important document….
For behind Hebrews lies the unknown potentialities of the Nazarene tradition, which may confirm or contradict some of the most cherished beliefs of Orthodox Christianity. It is useless for certain theologians to designate Hebrews as “secondary” on the evidence of the present fragmentary remains preserved in quotation. …
Judged by ancient testimony alone it is indisputable that Hebrews has the best right of any Gospel to be considered a genuine apostolic production;…
Here is obviously a most valuable witness, perhaps the most valuable witness to the truth about [Yeshua] whom even a jury composed entirely of orthodox Christians could not despise, and who ought to be brought into court. But the witness is missing, and all that we have is a few reported statements of his taken long ago…
(Hugh Schonfield; According to the Hebrews; 1937; pp. 13-18)

The witness has finally arrived!

The Gospel according to the Hebrews is now published—a full reconstruction of the original Hebrew with a literal English translation on facing pages, plus detailed notes tracing the sources behind every surviving fragment. This is the original Jewish Gospel used by the original Jewish followers of Yeshua as the Messiah! This is a very important work of last days Scripture Restoration and the result of forty years of work!

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Reconstructed from ancient sources and presented bilingually for serious study and devotion.

Prophecy is being fulfilled:

But when they write down truthfully all my words in their languages, and do not change or diminish ought from my words but write them all down truthfully –all that I first testified concerning them. Then, I know another mystery, that books will be given to the righteous and the wise to become a cause of joy and uprightness and much wisdom. And to them shall the books be given, and they shall believe in them and rejoice over them, and then shall all the righteous who have learnt therefore all the paths of uprightness be recompensed.’
(1Enoch 104:10-13)

The work of restoring the books of the original Hebrew and Aramaic New Testament with literal English translations continues! The restoration of the ancient sect of Nazarene Judaism continues!

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