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The following is a commentary on Leviticus 25 found in cave 11 of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It could have written by a Nazarene, except for the fact that it predates the birth of Yeshua.
The document is very interesting as it speaks of a Messiah who it identifies as “EL” and “ELOHIM”. It also quotes Isaiah 61:2 substituting “Melchizadek” for YHWH.
This Melchizadek figure “shall atone for all the Sons of Light” thus “releasing them from the debt of all their sins” in a fulfillment of the true meaning of Yom Kippur and “establish a righteous kingdom”. This will be the fulfillment of the “Salvation” (Hebrew: Yeshua) proclaimed from the mountains in Isaiah 52:7 (which in context would identify this Melchizadek with the servant of Isaiah 53. This figure is then identified with the Messiah who is “cut off” in Daniel 9:26. This makes the blocks of seven years in Daniel 9:24-27 to tie in with the “year of favor” of Isaiah 61:1-3 and thus as the ultimate fulfillment with Lev. 25:13 as a fulfillment of the Day of Atonement. Finally this connects to a prophetic fulfillment of the blowing of the trumpet in Lev. 25:9.
And now, without further adue, The Melchizadek Document:
The Melchizedek Document (11Q13) Translated by James Scott Trimm
And concerning what Scripture says:
“In this year of Jubilee you shall return, everyone of you, to your property” (Lev. 25:13)
And what is also written:
“And this is the manner of the remission; every creditor shall remit the claim that is held against a neighbor, not exacting it of a neighbor who is a member of the community, because Elohim’s remission has been proclaimed” (Deut.15:2)
The interpretation is that it applies to the Last Days and concerns the captives, just as Isaiah said:
“To proclaim the Jubilee to the captives” (Isa. 61:1)
(…) just as (…) and from the inheritance of Melchizedek, for (… Melchizedek) , who will return them to what is rightfully theirs. He will proclaim to them the Jubilee, thereby releasing them from the debt of all their sins. He shall proclaim this decree in the first week of the jubilee period that follows nine jubilee periods.
Then the “Day of Atonement” shall follow after the tenth jubilee period, when he shall atone for all the Sons of Light, and the people who are allotted to Melchizedek. (…) upon them (…) For this is the time decreed for the “Year of Melchizedek’sfavor“, and by his might he will judge Elohim’s holy ones and so establish a righteous kingdom, …as it is written about him [Melchizedek] in the Songs of David:
“Elohim has taken his place in the council of EL; in the midst of the ELOHIM he holds judgment” (Ps. 82:1)
Scripture also says about him [Melchizedek]:
“Over it take your seat in the highest heaven; EL will judge the peoples” (Ps. 7:7-8)
Concerning what scripture says:
“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality with the wicked? Selah” (Ps. 82;2)
The interpretation applies to Belial and the spirits predestined to him, because all of them have rebelled, turning from Elohim’s precepts and so becoming utterly wicked. Therefore Melchizedek will thoroughly prosecute the vengeance required by Elohim’s statutes. Also, he will deliver all the captives from the power of Belial, and from the power of all the spirits destined to him. Allied with him will be all the “righteous Elohim” (Isa. 61;3).
(The …) is that whi(ch …all) the Elohim. The visitation is the Day of Salvation that He has decreed through Isaiah the prophet concerning all the captives, inasmuch as Scripture says:
“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion “Your Elohim reigns”. (Isa. 52:7)
This scriptures interpretation: “the mountains” are the prophets, they who were sent to proclaim Elohim’s truth and to prophesy to all Israel. “The messengers” is the Anointed (Messiah) of the spirit, of whom Daniel spoke: “After the sixty-two weeks, a Messiah shall be cut off” (Dan. 9;26)
The “messenger who brings good news, who announces Salvation” is the one of whom it is written:
“to proclaim the year of the YHWH’s favor, the day of the vengeance of our Elohim; to comfort all who mourn” (Isa. 61;2)
This scripture’s interpretation: he is to instruct them about all the periods of history for eternity (… and in the statutes) of the truth. (…) (…. dominion) that passes from Belial and returns to the Sons of Light (….) (…) by the judgment of Elohim, just as t is written concerning him: “who says to Zion “Your Elohim reigns” (Isa. 52;7)
“Zion” is the congregation of all the sons of righteousness, who uphold the covenant and turn from walking in the way of the people. “Your Elohim” is Melchizedek, who will deliver them from the power of Belial.
Concerning what scripture says:
“Then you shall have the trumpet sounded loud; in the seventh month . . . “ (Lev. 25;9)
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The Book of Enoch- Key to Jude and 2nd Kefa By James Scott Trimm
The Book of Y’hudah (Jude) not only quotes the Book of Enoch (Jude 1:14-15) it is also a sort of short commentary on the Book of Enoch, with almost every verse referencing the Enoch material. This makes the Book of Enoch an invaluable source in understanding the Book of Y’hudah, and vice-versa.
Moreover much of the Book of 2nd Kefa (2nd Peter) is a commentary on the Book of Y’hudah. We know Kefa is commenting on Y’hudah and not the other way around, because Kefa often generalizes information that is more specific in Y’hudah. Since Kefa is commenting on Y’hudah, he is also indirectly commenting on the Book of Enoch, and so his book helps us understand both Y’hudah directly, and Enoch indirectly (and the other books help us understand 2nd Kefa as well.
So lets go you line by line through the Book of Y’hudah using 2nd Kefa and the Book of Enoch and related sources to help us better understand what Y’hudah is saying (and what the Book of Enoch is saying as well).
Y’hudah opens with:
1 Y’hudah, a servant of Yeshua the Messiah, and brother of Ya’akov: to those who arecalled; Set-Apart by Eloah the Father, and preserved in Yeshua the Messiah, 2 Mercy, shalom, and love, be multiplied to you. 3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you, concerning our common salvation, Ifound it necessary to write to you, exhorting that you should earnestly contend for theTrust, which was once for all delivered to the Set-Apart-Ones. 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed: who long ago were marked out for thiscondemnation; wicked men, who turn the grace of our Eloah into perversion, and denythe only Master and Adon, Yeshua the Messiah. 5 But I want to remind you, though you once knew this: that YHWH, having saved thepeople out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those, who did not believe. (Jude 1:1-5)
And Kefa comments on these verses saying:
1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be, false teachers among you–who will secretly bring in destructive sects–even denying the Adon who redeemed them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their destructive ways: because of whom, the Way of Truth will be blasphemed. 3 And by covetousness, they will exploit you with deceptive words; whose judgment for a long time has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber. (2Kefa 2:1-3)
Kefa understands the “certain men” of Y’hudah to be “false prophets” who are like false prophets of old. The subject of false prophets arises for Kefa from2Kafa 1:19-21.
19 We also have the prophetic Word made more sure, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in yourhearts. 20 Knowing this first: that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private, interpretation, 21 For prophecy never came by the will of man: but Set-Apart men of Eloah, spoke asthey were moved by the Ruach HaKodesh. (2Kefa 1:19-21)
As we will see as we continue, Kefa is talking about the prophets in general, ane the prophet Enoch in specific. Y’hudah says that these false prophets “turn the grace if our Eloah into perversion”, Kefa says that they “bring in destructive sects” and that because of these men “the way of truth will be blashphemed”. The way of truth is the way of Torah. The Tanak tells us that the Torah is truth (Ps. 119:142, 151). These false teachers will create sects that turn grace into perversion and blaspheme against the way of Torah.
Y’hudah continues:
6 And the angels who did not keep their first estate, but left their own habitation: He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, for the judgment of the great day; (Jude 1:6)
Kefa comments on this verse as follows:
4 For if Eloah did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to takh’ti, and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved for judgment, 5 And, did not spare the ancient world but saved Noach, one of eight people, a proclaimer of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the wicked, (2Kefa 2:4-5)
Kefa tells us only that the angels in question “sinned” however Jude says more specifically that they “did not keep their first estate, but left their own habitation”. Both 2Kefa and Jude (as well as 3Maccabees 2:4-5) immediately follow by paralleling their sin to that of S’dom and Amora “in similar manner having given themselves over to sexual immorality” (Jude 1:7). Thus making it clear that the angels sin was sexual. This refers back to the Book of Enoch:
1 And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. 2 And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: ‘Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.’ 3 And Shemikhazah, who was their leader, said unto them: ‘I fear you will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.’ 4 And they all answered him and said: ‘Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.’ 5 Then they all swore together and bound themselves by imprecations upon it. 6 And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Yared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by imprecations upon it. 7 And these are the names of their leaders: Shemikhazah, their leader, Ar’tekif, the second to him, Ram’tel, the third to him, Kokav’el, the fourth to him, Tami’el, the fifth to him, Ra’m’el, the sixth to him, Dani’el the seventh from him, Zik’el, the eighth to him, Barak’el, nineth to him, 8 Asa’el, tenth to him, Hermoni, eleventh to him, Matr’el, twelfth to him, ‘Anan’el, thirteenth to him, Sitwa’el, fourteenth to him, Shimsh’el, fifteenth to him, Sahr’el, sixteenth to him, Tamm’el, seventeenth to him, Tur’el, eighteenth to him, Yamm’el, nineteenth to him, Zohari’el, twentieth to him. These are their chiefs of tens. (1Enoch 6:1-7)
Y’hudah says that YHWH has reserved them in everlasting chains under darkness, for the judgment of the great day which Kefa interprets to mean that He cast them down to takh’ti, and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved for judgment, Kefa tells us that these chains are in Takh’ti. The Greek has “Tarturus” which is used in the LXX (Job 40:20, 41:21) as a translation of Takh’ti. Takh’ti indicates the lowest parts of She’ol, a place reserved only for the Fallen Angels. The word Tarturus is used in the Greek text of 1Enoch 20:2 where Uriel is the jailer of these 200 angels. In Greek mythology the Titans were cast down by the gods and imprisoned in Tarturus. The Greeks must have incorporated the story of the Nephilim into their pagan mythology. The reference is of course to the Book of Enoch which says:
4 And again YHWH said to Rafa’el: ‘Bind Azaz’el hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness: and make an opening in the desert, which is in Dudael, and cast him therein. 5 And place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness, and let him abide there for ever, and cover his face that he may not see light. 6 And on the day of the great judgment he shall be cast into the fire. 7 And heal the earth, which the angels have corrupted, and proclaim the healing of the earth, that they may heal the plague, and that all the children of men may not perish through all the secret things that the Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons. (1Enoch 10:4-7)
Y’hudah continues:
7 As S’dom and Amora, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality, and gone after strange flesh, are set forth asan example–suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. (Jude 1:7)
Kefa comments on this verse:
6 And, turning the cities of S’dom and Amora into ashes, condemned them to destruction; making them an example to those who afterward would live wickedly, 7 And, delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed with the filthy conduct of the wicked: 8 (For that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous nefesh from day to day, by seeing and hearing their unlawful deeds). (2Kefa 2:6-8)
This reference to the fallen angels event of Gen. 6 as detailed in the Book of Enoch which brought the birth of “giants” wiped out by the flood immediately followed by a reference to the judgment of Sodom certainly alludes to 3rd Maccabees:
It was you who did destroy the former workers of unrighteousness, among whom were the giants, who trusted in their strength and hardihood, by covering them with a measureless flood. It was you who did make the Sodomites, those workers of exceeding iniquity, men notorious for their vices, an example to after generations, when you did cover them with fire and brimstone. (3Macc. 2:4-5)
Notice also the common phrase “an example to after generations” (3Macc. 2:5) and “an example to those afterward” (2Kefa 2:6). Kefa and Y’hudah are definitely alluding to this material in 3rd Maccabees.
Y’hudah continues:
8 Likewise also, these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of rulers. (Y’hudah 1:8)
Kefa comments:
9 YHWH knows how to deliver the Set-Apart out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, 10 And especially those who walk according to the flesh, in the lust of uncleanness, and despise authority. They are presumptuous; self-willed: they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries. (2Kefa 2:9-10)
Kefa interprets “these dreamers [who] defile the flesh” in Y’hudah as “those who walk according to the flesh, in the lust of uncleanness”. Kefa interprets those who “reject authority” as those who “despise authority” saying that “they are presumptuous” and that the reason they “speak evil of rulers” is that they are “not afraid” and interpreting the “rulers” to be “dignitaries”.
Y’hudah continues:
9 Yet Mikha’el the chief angel, in contending with Akel Kartza, when he disputed about the body of Moshe, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation: but said, YHWH rebuke you! (Y’hudah 1:9)
Kefa comments as follows:
11 Whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before YHWH. (2Kefa 2:11)
The so-called “Church Fathers” (Clement, Origin and Didymus) maintained that this was a reference to an account found in the Assumption of Moses which is now lost.
According to Targum Jonathan, Michael had charge over the grave of Moses. (Targ. Jon. Deut. 34:6) moreover the Midrash Rabba to Deut. records that YHWH sent Mikhael to collect the soul of Moshe and that Sammael (angel of death, often identified with Satan) also tried to collect his soul. (Midrash Rabba Deut. 183). Taking all of this material combined, it appears that Mikhael and Satan disputed over the body of Moshe, because Satan wanted to make Moshe’s body into an idol. YHWH sent Mikhael to bury Moshe’s body in such a way that its location could not be discovered by man or Satan.
Y’hudah then writes:
10 But these speak evil of whatever they do not know: and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things, they corrupt themselves. (Y’hudah 1:10)
Kefa Comments:
12 But these, like natural brute beasts, made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of thethings that they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption, (2Kefa 2:12)
Then Y’hudah writes:
11 Woe to them: for they have gone the way of Kayin; run greedily in the error of Bil’am for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korach. (Y’hudah 1:11)
On which Kefa comments (slightly out of order):
15 They have forsaken, the right Way, and gone astray, following the way of Bil’am ben B’or, who loved the wages of unrighteousness: 16 But he was rebuked for his iniquity. A dumb ass speaking with a man’s voice, restrained the madness of the prophet. (2Kefa 2:15-16)
What is “the way of Kayin”? The way of Cain refers here to being seduced by deceptive spirits. The Zohar paralles the seduction of Cain by k’lifah (a demon, a husk of darkness) to the seduction of “the sons of God” Uzza and Azael.
When Cain was born this k’lifah tried for a time without success to attach herself to him, but at length she had intercourse with him and bore spirits and demons. Adam for a hundred and thirty years had intercourse with female spirits until Naamah was born. She by her beauty led astray the “sons of God”, Uzza and Azael, and she bore them children, and so from her went forth evil spirits and demons into the world. She wanders about at night time, vexing the sons of men and causing them to defile themselves. Wherever these spirits find people sleeping alone in a house, they hover over them, lay hold of them and cleave to them, inspire desire in them and beget from them. (Zohar 1:19b)
The Zohar here refers to the fall of angels referred to in the Book of Enoch, in which Uzza and Azael are called “Shemikhazah” and “Azazel.”
What is the “error of Bil’am”? Kefa combines “way of Kayin” and “error of Bil’am (Balaam)” as “the way of Baalam”. The Zohar says that Balaam learned his magic from Uzza and Azael:
R. Jose further asked him: ‘In which place and from whom did Balaam derive all his magical practices and knowledge?’ R. Isaac replied: ‘He learned it first from his father, but it was in the “mountains of the East”, which are in an eastern country, that he obtained a mastery of all the arts of magic and divination. For those mountains are the abode of the angels Uzza and Azael whom the Holy One cast down from heaven, and who were chained there in iron fetters. It is they who impart to the sons of men a knowledge of magic. (Zohar 1:126a)
The “Church Father” Irenaeus (early 2nd century – c. CE 202), makes a similar statement. Irenaeus accuses a Gnostic of his time of deriving magical knowledge and powers form Azazel, saying:
…wonders of power that is utterly severed from God and apostate, which Satan, thy true father, enables thee still to accomplish by means of Azazel, that fallen and yet mighty angel. (Adv. Haereses; Ante-Nicean Fathers 1:340)
This also draws from the Book of Enoch, which relates that the Fallen angels taught sorcery to mankind (1Enoch 7:1; 8:2).
What does Kefa mean when he says “restrained the madness of the prophet.” Here Kefa refers to the Targum Jonathan which reads:
Wo to you, Balaam, you sinner, you madman: there is no wisdom found in you. (Targum Jonathan Numbers 22:28)
Y’hudah continues:
12 These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, tending only to themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit; twice dead, pulled up by the roots; (Y’hudah 1:12)
And Kefa (returning to the original order) comments:
13 And, will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you; 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable nefeshot. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children. (2Kefa 2:12-14)
Y’hudah then writes:
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. (Y’hudah 1:13)
Kefa comments:
17 These are wells without water; clouds carried by a tempest, to which the gloom of darkness is reserved forever. (2Kefa 2:17)
What does Y’hudah mean when he says “wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.”? Y’hudah refers again to the Book of Enoch where we read:
14 The angel said: ‘This place is the end of heaven and earth: this has become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven. 15 And the stars which roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the commandment of YHWH in the beginning of their rising, because they did not come forth at their appointed times. 16 And He was wroth with them, and bound them till the time when their guilt should be consummated (even) for ten thousand years.’ (1Enoch 18:14-16)
Y’hudah continues:
14 And Chanokh, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, Behold, YHWH comes with ten thousands of His Set-Apart-Ones: 15 To execute judgment on all, to convict all who are wicked among them of all their wicked deeds which they have committed in a wicked way, and all the harsh things which wicked sinners have spoken against Him. 16 These are murmurers; complainers: walking according to their own lusts. And their mouth speaks great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. (Y’hudah 1:14-16)
And Kefa comments:
10 But the day of YHWH will come as a thief in the night: in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it, will be burned up. 11 Seeing then, that all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought youto be, in Set-Apart conduct and upright; 12 Looking for, and hastening the coming of the Day of Eloah, because of which, the heavens, being on fire will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for a new heaven and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. (2Kefa 3:10-13)
Some commentators have tried to minimize the importance of thisquotation, claiming that Y’hudah was only quoting the Book of Enoch in the way that Paul quoted Greek philosophers. In fact there are two very important features in Y’hudah’s citation.
First of all, while the Book of Enoch is quoted (specifically 1Enoch 1:9), Y’hudah attributes his quote, not to the Book of Enoch, but to the man Enoch (Enoch, seventh from Adam). Since we have copies of the Book of Enoch which predate the Book of Y’hudah, this quote tells us that Enoch seventh from Adam wrote the Book of Enoch.
Secondly Y’hudah uses the word “prophecy”. Y’hudah tells us that this quote from Enoch which comes from the Book of Enoch is “prophecy”. That is a very important statement.
As we saw above Kefa (Peter) wrote specifically about prophecy, and particularly about the Book of Enoch when he said:
knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation; for prophecy never came by the will of man, but set-apart men of Eloah spoke as they were moved by the Ruach HaKodesh. (2Kefa (2Pt.) 1:20-21 – HRV)
So if, as Y’hudah tells us, the Book of Enoch is “prophecy” then Kefa tells us that it was inspired by the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit).
Paul has some important words for us about Scripture that is inspired:
Every writing which was written by the spirit is profitable for teaching and for reproof and for correction and for instruction in righteousness, that the son of man of Eloah may be complete and whole for every good work. (2Timothy 3:16-17 – HRV)
So if the Book of Enoch is prophecy then it was inspired by the Ruach HaKodesh. And if Enoch was inspired by the Ruach then it is profitable for teaching and for reproof and for correction and for instruction in righteousness. In other words, if Y’hudah is telling the truth then we should be using the Book of Enoch as Scripture and not taking it lightly!
Enoch prophecies “Behold, YHWH comes with ten thousands of His Set-Apart-Ones”, to Y’hudah the “coming of the Lord to judge the earth” is the coming of YHWH to the earth. There is little doubt that for Y’hudah the return of Messiah is the same “coming of the Lord” as this coming of YHWH to judge the earth.
Enoch says that He comes “to convict all who are wicked among them of all their wicked deeds which they have committed in a wicked way” to judge men according to their deeds.
But there is more, He will also hold them accountable for their words “…and all the harsh things which wicked sinners have spoken against Him. These are murmurers; complainers: walking according to their own lusts. And their mouth speaks great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. “
Here Y’hudah speaks of a last days judgment on the “false prophets” of whom he has been speaking. These are the teachers of Torahlessness. According to Enoch (as shown above) they have given ear to the teachings of the Fallen Angels and are themselves following in their footsteps of doing their own will apart from the will of YHWH. They speak “harsh words” concerning the Torah, falsely characterizing the Torah as “bondage” and promising “freedom” to their followers. But unfortunately they will only take them down the same path as Shemikhazah and Azazel.
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Saved by Water? A Look at 1Kefa 3:20-21 by James Scott Trimm
In a recent discussion 1Kefa 3:20-21 came up. This passage is a stock “proof text” used by the “Church of Christ” (i.e. “Cambelites”). Those of this movement often use this verse to “prove” their doctrine that a person cannot be saved unless they have been water baptized.
This false doctrine is rooted in the KJV wording of these verses: 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: (1Peter 3:20-21 KJV)
The key phrases that these “Water Works” Salvationists home in on are “were saved by water” and “baptism doth also now save us”. Now it is very interesting how quickly this “proof text” evaporates when we look at it in the original Aramaic.
First of all lets look at 1Kefa 3:20 and at the Aramaic which correspond with the phrase “were saved by water”. The Aramaic word for “were saved” is CHAYA (Strong’s Heb. no. 2418) “to live:– live, keep alive” which is often used to mean “salvation”. The word for “by” is the Aramaic preposition B’ which can have a wide variety of meaning “in, at, on, by or with”. Now the Aramaic phrase in 1Kefa is best translated “were kept alive on the water” as it reads in the HRV rather than “were saved by water” as the KJV (and the Greek) reads. The Greek translator misunderstood the word CHAYA to mean “saved” and the preposition B’ to mean “by” or “through” resulting in the errant translation meaning “were saved by water”. On the contrary Noah and his family were not “saved by water” but were saved FROM water BY their trusting faithfulness. As we read in Hebrews:
By a work of faith Noach honored Elohim and prepared an ark to save his house by which he was given a warning from Elohim from which was yet not seen by which he condemned the world and inherited righteousness by a work of faith. (Hebrews 11:7 HRV)
Thus we see that Noach and his house were saved BY faith FROM the water.
Let us next examine the phrase “The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us…”. The HRV reads here “For also you live by the same type, by immersion…”. Again the word “saved”/”live” is CHAYA (Strong’s Heb. 2418).
This immersion was distinct from water immersion. Yochanan stated:
Behold I am only immersing you in water to repentance, and he that comes after me us mightier than I, whose sandles I am not fit to carry, and he will immerse you with the fire of the Ruach HaKodesh. (Mt. 3:11 HRV; See also: Mk. 1:8; Lk. 3:16 and Acts 11:16)
In Acts 19:2-4 Paul met some persons who had been immersed in water but had not experienced this immersion of the Ruach HaKodesh. We have been immersed into Messiah (Rom. 6:3-4; Gal. 3:27), we all have “the Spirit of Messiah”, which is the Spirit which raised Messiah (Rom. 8:9-11) in our hearts (Gal. 4:6; Eph. 3:17). This is the “Spirit of Eloah” (1Jn. 4:12-13), or the “Holy Spirit” (1Cor. 6:19; 1Thes.4:8). Thus we were all saved by receiving the “baptism of the Holy Spirit” by faith. (see also Jn. 7:37-39; 14:7; Acts 10:44; 11:15-17; 15:8-9).
Kefa is actually referring to an allegory found in 4th Maccabees. Unfortunately the Aramaic text of 4th Maccabees has never been translated into English, all English texts to date have been translated from the Greek version.
However part of our work here at the Worldwide Nazarene Assembly of Elohim has been to recover the books of the “Apocrypha” (a small collection of Tanak books which were taken out of your Bibles) from the original Hebrew and Aramaic and publish a reliable English translation (A Hebraic Roots Version Apocrypha).
The portions Kefa was drawing from are as follows: 7:1 For like a swift ship captain, thus was the mind of the aged Eleazar. By way of the steering of the fear of Eloah, his thought was leading, over the great sea of torture and emotions. 7:2 And while threats and tortures of the Tyrant were coming upon him, and tumultuous waves of tribulation. 7:3 And in no way did he turn the rudder from fear of Eloah until he voyaged and arrived to the haven of victory that does not die. 7:4 No city besieged ever held out against mighty vassals coming against its walls and its various parts like this. He was dressed in all the armor. For while his soul was suffering, consumed by torture, and by tribulation, and by burning, he conquered the tribulation because of his mind was fighting with the shield of truth. (4th Maccabees 7:1-4 HRV) 15:31 For like the ark of Noach, in the flood of all the world, were the throes within him. And he kept to the covenant and was sustained, and his strong word was fixed. 15:32 Thus also you keeper of the Torah, from every way overwhelmed with emotion you are drawn in and the violent winds of the torture of your sons, here and there weeping they blow. Strong is hope [over] the storm against shield of truth. (4th Maccabees 15:31-32 HRV)
From these passages we see that the “water” represents “torture and emotions” with “waves of fear” and the Ark represents “the fear of Eloah” “the covenant” “Hope” and “the shield of truth” which in Ephesians 6 is called “the shield of faith”.
Note that 1Kefa 3:21 refers to “the resurrection of Yeshua…” while 4th Maccabees 7:3 refers to “the haven of victory that does not die”.
Lets look again at 1Kefa 3:20-21 in context from the Aramaic:
20 Those who previously were disobedient in the days of Noach, when [in] the longsuffering of Eloah he commanded that an ark be made, upon the hope of their repentance, and only eight nefeshot entered it and were kept alive on the water. 21 For also you live, by the same type–by immersion: not when you wash the body of filth, but when you confess Eloah with a pure conscience, and, by the Resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah, 22 Who is raised up to heaven and is at the right hand of Eloah: and the angels, and authorities, and powers, are subject to Him. CHAPTER 4 1 If the Messiah therefore, suffered for your sake in the flesh, also arm yourselves with this same mind: for whoever dies in his flesh has ceased from all sins, 2 That from now on, he should not live for the lusts of the sons of men for what time that he is in the body, but for the will of Eloah. 3 For the time that has passed by, is sufficient–when you served in the will of the heathen–in excesses, and in drunkenness, and in filthiness, and in music, and in the service of shadim. 4 And behold, now they marvel and blaspheme against you, in that you do not burn with passion [emotion] with them, in that previous excess— (1Kefa 3:20-4:4 HRV)
Clearly Kefa refers to the material in 4th Maccabees:
1:1 The word of philosophy that I am about to discuss before you: If the true mind of shalom (peace) is sovereign to the fear of Elohim. I am an upright adviser to you, that you should pay earnest attention in philosophy. 1:2 For it is also necessary for all men to suffer, more especially these are steps to virtue. 1:3 For I bear a good report: If the mind of balance is over the emotions that stand against temperance, showing that the mind of virtue rules over gluttony [and] over lust. 1:4 And it is not only over the walk, but also over the other emotions that hinder righteousness. It is shown to be sovereign, over fornication [and] evil and over other emotions that impede courage, over rage, and that a man be not soft before tribulation, and over fear. (4Macc. 1:1-4 HRV)
Note that the these of 4th Maccabees in general is “the true mind of shalom” While 1Kefa goes on to say: “If the Messiah therefore, suffered for your sake in the flesh, also arm yourselves with this same mind…” (1Kefa 4:1 HRV). Both passages focus on self control and especially over the emotions/passions.
1Kefa 3:20-21 has been totally misunderstood by the KJV and by “Water Works Salvationists” such as the “Church of Christ (Cambelite). But when we look at this passage in the original Aramaic in light of 4th Maccabees, suddenly the true meaning and depth of this passage emerges.
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How do we know the difference between the leading of the Ruach HaKodesh and our own emotions? How do we distinguish the guidance of YHWH from a warm fuzzy feeling?
The Two Souls
To begin with it is important to know that man has two inclinations, an evil inclination called the “Yetzer HaRa” and a good inclination called “Yetzer Tov”. The unusual spelling of Yetzer (“formed”) in Gen. 2:7 points us to the fat that man has within him two such inclinations. As we read in the Talmud:
R. Nahman b. R. Hisda expounded: What is meant by the text, Then the Lord God formed [va-yetzer] man? [The word va-yetzer] (Gen. 2:7) is written with two yods, to show that God created two inclinations, one good (tov) and the other evil (ra). (b.Ber. 61a)
It has been taught: R. Jose the Galilean says, The righteous are swayed by their good inclination, as it says, My heart is slain within me. (Ps. 109:22) The wicked are swayed by their evil inclination, as it says, Transgression speaks to the wicked, methinks, there is no fear of God before his eyes. (Ps. 36:1) Average people are swayed by both inclinations, as it says, Because He stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from them that judge his soul. (Ps. 109:31) Raba said: People such as we are of the average. (b.Ber. 61b)
Likewise we read in the Wisdom of Ben Sira:
It was He who created man in the beginning. And He left him in the power of his own inclination (Heb: yetzer). If you will, you can keep the commandments, and to act faithfully is a matter of your own choice. He has placed before you fire and water: Stretch out your hand for whichever you wish. (Sira 15:14-16)
The word for “average” above (in b.Ber. 61b) is “benoni” referring to an “intermediate one”, one who is caught in the conflict between these two inclinations.
Paul writes of this conflict in the benoni as follows:
14 For we know that the Torah is of the spirit, but I am of the flesh and I am sold to sin. 22 For I rejoice in the Torah of Eloah in the inward son of man. (Romans 7:14, 22 HRV)
Because of this, we are not weary, for even if our outer man is corrupted, yet that which [is] inside is renewed day by day. (2Cor. 4:16 HRV)
for the flesh desires a thing which is opposed to the Spirit and the Spirit desires a thing that is opposed to the flesh and the two of these are opposed to each other, that you do not do the thing which you desire. (Gal. 5:17 HRV)
And as we read in the Tanya:
Just as two kings wage war over a town, which each wishes to capture and rule, that is to say, to dominate its inhabitants according to his will, so that they obey him in all that he decrees for them, so do the two souls— the Divine and the vitalising animal soul… wage war against each other over the body and all its limbs. (Tanya Chapter 9)
Elsewhere the Tanya says:
The second soul of a Jew is truly a part of G-d above, as it is written, “And He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,” (Gen. 2:7) and “Thou didst breathe it [the soul] into me.” And it is written in the Zohar, “He who exhales, exhales from within him,” that is to say, from his inwardness and his innermost, for it is something of his internal and innermost vitality that man emits through exhaling with force. (Tanya 2)
This Second Soul that each believer has is a spark of the divine. In the Tanya this second soul is called the Nefesh Elohit. This spark of the divine is the Ruach HaKodesh:
21 And Yeshua said to them again: Shalom to you. As My Father has sent Me, also I send you. 22 And when He had said these things, He breathed on them, and said to them: Receive the Ruach HaKodesh. (John 20:21-22 HRV)
The Anatomy of the Soul
The next thing we need to know is a little basic anatomy, not anatomy of the body, but anatomy of the soul. By “soul” I refer to the incorporeal self.
The soul of man has two major parts, the mind (sechel) and the emotions (middot) as we read in the Tanya:
Similarly is it with the human soul, which is divided in two— sechel (intellect) and middot (emotional attributes). The intellect includes chochmah, binah and da at (ChaBaD), whilst the middot are love of G-d, dread and awe of Him, glorification of Him, and so forth. ChaBaD [the intellectual faculties] are called “mothers” and source of the middot, for the latter are “offspring” of the former. (Tanya Chapter 3)
And as we read in 4th Maccabees:
21 Now when Elohim fashioned man, he planted in him emotions and inclinations, 22 but at the same time he enthroned the mind among the senses as a sacred governor over them all. 23 To the mind he gave the law; and one who lives subject to this will rule a kingdom that is temperate, just, good, and courageous. (4Maccabees 2:21-23 RSV)
But now that we have laid this ground work, let us return to our original question:
How do we know the difference between the leading of the Ruach HaKodesh and our own emotions?
How do we distinguish the guidance of YHWH from a warm fuzzy feeling?
The Torah Inside
We read in the Talmud:
The Holy One, blessed be He, speak unto Israel: “My children! I have created the yetzer hara and I have created the Torah as its antidote” (b.Kiddushin 30b)
The Torah is the Wisdom of YHWH. When we receive a precept of the Torah as Wisdom and then we subject that precept of Torah to Understanding, exploring every nuance to the best of our intellectual ability, this results in Knowledge, in that the given precept of the Torah become part of our own Knowledge and thinking. As we read in the Tanya:
Now, when an intellect conceives and comprehends a concept with its intellectual faculties, this intellect grasps the concept and encompasses it. This concept is [in turn] grasped, enveloped and enclothed within that intellect which conceived and comprehended it.
The mind, for its part, is also clothed in the concept at the time it comprehends and grasps it with the intellect. For example, when a person understands and comprehends, fully and clearly, any halachah (law) in the Mishnah or Gemara, his intellect grasps and encompasses it and, at the same time, is clothed in it. Consequently, as the particular halachah is the wisdom and will of G-d, for it was His will that when, for example, Reuben pleads in one way and Simeon in another, the verdict as between them shall be thus and thus; and even should such a litigation never have occurred, nor would it ever present itself for judgment in connection with such disputes and claims, nevertheless, since it has been the will and wisdom of the Holy One, blessed be He, that in the event of a person pleading this way and the other [litigant] pleading that way, the verdict shall be such and such— now therefore, when a person knows and comprehends with his intellect such a verdict in accordance with the law as it is set out in the Mishnah, Gemara, or Posekim (Codes), he has thus comprehended, grasped and encompassed with his intellect the will and wisdom of the Holy One, blessed be He, Whom no thought can grasp, nor His will and wisdom, except when they are clothed in the laws that have been set out for us. [Simultaneously] the intellect is also clothed in them [the Divine will and wisdom].
This is a wonderful union, like which there is none other, and which has no parallel anywhere in the material world, whereby complete oneness and unity, from every side and angle, could be attained. (Tanya Chapter 5)
Moreover Torah study and observance brings forth the offspring of emotions (the middot) within us. As we read in the Tanya:
Da’at (knowledge), the etymology of which is to be found in the verse: “And Adam knew (yada) Eve,” implies attachment and union. That is, one binds his mind with a very firm and strong bond to, and firmly fixes his thought on, the greatness of the blessed En sof, without diverting his mind [from Him]. For even one who is wise and understanding of the greatness of the blessed En Sof, will not— unless he binds his knowledge and fixes his thought with firmness and perseverence— produce in his soul true love and fear, but only vain fancies. Therefore da’at is the basis of the middot and the source of their vitality; it contains chesed and gevurah, that is to say, love with its offshoots and fear with its offshoots. (Tanya Chapter 3)
Specifically: the faculties of ChaBaD in his soul are clothed in the comprehension of the Torah, which he comprehends in Pardes, to the extent of his mental capacity and the supernal root of his soul. And the middot, namely fear and love, together with their offshoots and ramifications, are clothed in the fulfilment of the commandments in deed and in word, namely, in the study of Torah which is “The equivalent of all the commandments.” For love is the root of all the 248 positive commands, all originating in it and having no true foundation without it, inasmuch as he who fulfils them in truth, truly loves the name of G-d and desires to cleave to Him in truth; for one cannot truly cleave to Him except through the fulfilment of the 248 commandments which are the 248 “Organs of the King,” as it were, as is explained elsewhere; whilst fear is the root of the 365 prohibitive commands, fearing to rebel against the Supreme King of kings, the Holy One, blessed be He; or a still deeper fear than this— when he feels ashamed in the presence of the Divine greatness to rebel against His glory and do what is evil in His eyes, namely, any of the abominable things hated by G-d, which are the kelipot and sitra achra, which draw their nurture from man below and have their hold in him through the 365 prohibitive commands [that he violates]. (Tanya Chapter 4)
Thus when we have the Torah, the mind of Messiah within us, we have an outpouring of joy that others cannot comprehend.
So the Torah within us tells us not to sin, as we read in Romans:
7 What therefore are we saying? Is the Torah sin? Absolutely not! But I did not learn sin except through the Torah. For I had not known covetousness, except that the Torahsaid, Do not covet. (Romans 7:7)
Thus we also read in 4th Maccabees:
9b In all other matters we can recognize that reason rules the emotions. 10 For the law prevails even over affection for parents, so that virtue is not abandoned for their sakes. 11 It is superior to love for one’s wife, so that one rebukes her when she breaks the law. 12 It takes precedence over love for children, so that one punishes them for misdeeds. 13 It is sovereign over the relationship of friends, so that one rebukes friends when they act wickedly. 14 Do not consider it paradoxical when reason, through the law, can prevail even over enmity. The fruit trees of the enemy are not cut down, but one preserves the property of enemies from the destroyers and helps raise up what has fallen. (4Maccabees 2:9b-14 RSV)
The 4th Book of Maccabees gives us an Example in Joseph:
2 It is for this reason, certainly, that the temperate Joseph is praised, because by mental effort he overcame sexual desire. 3 For when he was young and in his prime for intercourse, by his reason he nullified the frenzy of the passions. 4] Not only is reason proved to rule over the frenzied urge of sexual desire, but also over every desire. 5 Thus the law says, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife…or anything that is your neighbor’s.” 6 In fact, since the law has told us not to covet, I could prove to you all the more that reason is able to control desires. (4Maccabees 2:2-6 RSV)
The Ruach HaKodesh is guides us to observe Torah as we read in Ezekiel:
17 Therefore say, Thus says the Adonai YHWH: I will even gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered: and I will give you the land of Yisra’el. 18 And they shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof, and all the abominations thereof, from thence. 19 And I will give them–one heart–and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will remove the–stony heart–out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh, 20 That they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances, and do them: and theyshall be My people, and I will be their Elohim. 21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way upon their own heads, says the Adonai YHWH (Ezek. 11:17-21 HRV)
25 And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean. From all your uncleannesses and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you. And I will take away, the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you, a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put My spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall keep My ordinances, and do them. (Ezekiel 36:25-27 HRV)
And as our Messiah Yeshua taught us:
But when the Spirit of Truth has come, She will lead you in all Truth, for She will not speak from the mind of the nefesh:… (Jn. 16:13a HRV)
And what is truth? The Torah is truth (Ps. 119:142, 151)
So how do we know if we are being led by the Holy Spirit and when we are only being led by our own warm fuzzy feelings?
Shalom Chaverim, This month has been an absolute whirlwind. In mid June my wife was hospitalized for several days. Then on June 22nd, she had a personal crisis. Her daily chronic pain was getting to her and she just could not deal with it anymore. And now, in just the last few days, two of her immediate family members who live in another state, were hospitalized with Covid-19 with Pneumonia (both within 24 hours of each other). Due to other people’s privacy, that is about all I can say about that right now (and why I am not, at this point, naming the state in question). I can only say that it became necessarily to go out of state for a few days, since these immediate family members lives were in question. (One of our daughters is house sitting for us). Fortunately a friend in the state we are visiting, has given us a place to stay while we are here. Please keep my wife (who has been under enough stress as it is) and her immediate family in your prayers. Despite having a place to stay, we have faced a lot of added expenses this month, including gas for this trip and food away from home). All of this and the rent is due tomorrow! If you can donate, today is a great day to do so.
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But I also realize that it is not the activity of James Trimm alone who is responsible to do this work, it is all of us together who are charged with the responsibility of accomplishing this work. I very much look on the efforts of this restoration work as a cooperative one with each one of you. We are all joint heirs with Messiah and should always be about our Father’s business. I am honored to be able to be partnered with truth seekers as this restoration of Scripture moves forward in fulfillment of prophecy.
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Is the Torah an Unbearable Yoke? (Acts 15:10-11 & Matt. 11:28-30) By James Scott Trimm
Often when I share with Christians that the Torah is everlasting, for all generations, they respond by saying something like, “The Law was an unbearable yoke, the Messiah’s yoke is easy and brings rest to our souls.” By this they allude to Acts 15:10-11 and Matthew 11:28-30, two passages which have been very misunderstood.
Lets begin by looking at Acts 15:10-11 and Matthew 11:28-30 as they read in the KJV:
10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? 11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they. (Acts 15:10-11 KJV)
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. (Matt. 11:28-30 KJV)
Now many of the teachers of Torah-lessness use these passages as proof texts. To them these passage refer to freedom from the bondage of Torah. However the “yoke” which is unbearable in Acts 15:10-11 cannot be the Torah.
In fact this is clear by comparing with, and closely examining Matthew 11:28-30. A portion of Yeshua’s statement in Matthew 11 is a quotation from the Tanak. A quotation which gives a great deal of context to Yeshua’s statement. Lets look at this Tanak passage:
Thus said YHWH, stand you in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, we will not walk therein. (Jer. 6:16)
Notice that this “way” which gives “rest” is “the old path”. Now lets read a little further down in Jer. 6 to obtain more context:
But they said, we will not walk therein (Jer. 6:16)… …they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my Torah, but rejected it. (Jer. 6:19)
Notice that the “old path” that brings “rest for your souls” to which they said “we will not walk therein” (Jer. 6:16) is identified by YHWH as “my Torah”. This takes us up a bit further in the text of Jeremiah:
…they are foolish, for they do not know the way of YHWH, the requirements of their Elohim. So I will go to the leaders and speak to them; surely they know the way of YHWH, the requirements of their Elohim.” But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke and torn off the bonds. (Jer. 5:4-5 see also Jer. 2:20)
Here we find that the “yoke” which brings rest is the yoke which was being rejected. The yoke of Torah. The yoke that Messiah asks us to take on ourselves, the yoke that will give us rest for our souls is the Torah. The Torah is freedom from the bondage of Torah-lessness. The freedom of Torah is freedom from the bondage to sin that results without Torah. Without Torah there is no true freedom, only bondage. True liberty does not include a license to sin. As Paul writes:
And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just. (Rom. 3:8 KJV)
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?… What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. (Rom. 6:1-2, 15 KJV)
And as we read elsewhere:
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. (1Jn. 3:4 KJV)
The Scriptural definition of sin, is transgression of the Torah, and the freedom of being under grace does not include a freedom to trangress the Torah.
The easy yoke of Messiah that brings rest to our souls is the Torah, and therefore the Torah cannot be the yoke that we are not able to bear in Acts 15:10-11. The yoke that we are not able to bear in Acts 15 is the false teaching that salvation can be earned through Torah observance (including the act of circumcision) and not Torah observance itself, which is an easy yoke and light burden which brings rest to our souls.
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Preface: Clearly the Emissary Paul died many centuries ago. This is a hypothetical simulated interview. I will do my best job to draw Paul’s words directly from Scripture.
Interviewer: Now you have been said to be a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes. Is that an accurate statement?
Paul: Yes, I am a follower of that Way which you call a “sect”. (Acts 24:5, 14)
Interviewer: Some have called you a “Christian” is that accurate?
Paul: I wrote two thirds of what has since come to be called the “New Testament” and in all of that material, I never even used the word “Christian” not even once to describe myself or anyone else. That word is not even part of my vocabulary. I am a Jew, a Pharisee, and a follower of that Way which is called the Sect of the Nazarenes.
Interviewer: So then, in your own words, how would you describe yourself? Paul: I am a Jew, a Pharisee of Pharisees. (Acts 21:39; 22:3; 23:6)
Interviewer: Some have accused you of being a Hellenist. Is that accurate?
Paul: Not at all. I am a Hebrew of Hebrews. (Phil. 3:5; Acts 6:1)
Interviewer: Some have said that you wrote your books in Greek. Do you even know Greek?
Paul: I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia. I speak Hebrew. (Acts 21:37-40)
Interviewer: It has been said by many that you taught that the Torah had been abolished. Is that true?
Paul: Absolutely not! These reports are slanderous. Neither against the Jewish Torah, nor against the Temple have I offended in anything at all. I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers. Its not the hearers of the Torah that will be just before Elohim,but the doers of the Torah. We maintain the Torah! (Rom. 3:8; 6:1-2, 15; Acts 25:8; 28:17; Rom. 2:13; 3:31)
Interviewer: It has been said that you opposed Circumcision. Do you think there is any advantage to being circumcised?
Paul: Yes, much in every way! (Rom. 3:1-2)
Interviewer: Some have sought to incorporate pagan holidays into the faith, what do you say about this?
Paul: These persons have turned back to weak and elemental spirits which they had been in bondage to before they knew Elohim (or at least before Elohim knew them). It makes me wonder if I have wasted my time in teaching this message. (Gal. 4:8-11)
Interviewer: So what is your opinion of the Torah then?
Paul: The Torah is set-apart, just and good. (Rom. 7:12)
I hope that this brief interview with Paul will prompt you to study the Scriptures cited above, and get a true view of the real Paul.
We need your help today! Our rent is due in just two days, and we do not have it!
I want to thank all of you supporting this work. I literally could not do it without you!
This work takes hours of my time. As many of you know, my wife is very ill, and I spend most of my time at home as her caretaker. So I am in a position to dedicate many hours to this important work that I have been directed to do.
But I also realize that it is not the activity of James Trimm alone who is responsible to do this work, it is all of us together who are charged with the responsibility of accomplishing this work. I very much look on the efforts of this restoration work as a cooperative one with each one of you. We are all joint heirs with Messiah and should always be about our Father’s business. I am honored to be able to be partnered with truth seekers as this restoration of Scripture moves forward in fulfillment of prophecy.
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For those who have asked for an update, we are home. On Tuesday they gave her a cardio stress test and she had a seizure during the test. This prompted them to bring in a neurologist and run a number of neurology related tests as well. In the end, they believe that the problems she is having are related to some of her past problems, complications of complications and one medical problem leading to another. The issue is not resolved, but at this point, they do not think it is life threatening that she needs to be in the hospital. They have her following up with four different specialists as well as her primary care physician, in coming days.
As our 31st anniversary approaches in July, I am reminded just how much our lives have changed over those 31 years. Thirty one years ago, Inga “Kitty” was very healthy. We rode bikes together, went hiking in trails together and even did archery together. All that has changed.
As I have said, one of the hardest parts about being married to my wife, is seeing her in pain, and not being able to help. My wife suffers from chronic pain every day. The extensive abdominal surgeries she had from 2015 to 2018, and the septic shock in 2018 have left her in chronic pain. Every morning, when she can no longer sleep through it, pain wakes her up. And each night she cannot sleep until she is so exhausted that she can sleep through the pain. And so I am her constant caretaker. If she drops something on the floor, I go over and pick it up, because it is to painful for her abdomen to bend over and pick it up. Just getting up and going to the bath room or taking a bath is a matter of playing through the pain for her. Pain follows her everywhere and is her constant companion, she can never completely get away from it. She once kept up on the house, cooked meals etc. But she can no longer do any of those things. I keep the house and cook the meals, and I work at a desk just a few feet from her bed.
We are now home. Finances are tight. There were added expenses and co-pays due to the hospital stay, and we are facing more as she follows up with a multitude of doctor appointments in coming days. All of this and bills are due.
Now that I am home again, I have a lot of catching up to do.
I want to thank all of you supporting this work. I literally could not do it without you!
This work takes hours of my time. But I also realize that it is not the activity of James Trimm alone who is responsible to do this work, it is all of us together who are charged with the responsibility of accomplishing this work. I very much look on the efforts of this restoration work as a cooperative one with each one of you. We are all joint heirs with Messiah and should always be about our Father’s business. I am honored to be able to be partnered with truth seekers as this restoration of Scripture moves forward in fulfillment of prophecy.
Donations can be sent by Paypal to donations@wnae.org.
We need your support in the next 48 hours especially. Several bills, including our electric will be hitting our account soon, and my wife’s recent hospitalization has cost us in copays and my meals at the hospital.
I want to thank all of you supporting this work. I literally could not do it without you!
This work takes hours of my time. As many of you know, my wife is very ill, and I spend most of my time at home as her caretaker. I work at a desk less than six feet from her bed. So I am in a position to dedicate many hours to this important work that I have been directed to do.
But I also realize that it is not the activity of James Trimm alone who is responsible to do this work, it is all of us together who are charged with the responsibility of accomplishing this work. I very much look on the efforts of this restoration work as a cooperative one with each one of you. We are all joint heirs with Messiah and should always be about our Father’s business. I am honored to be able to be partnered with truth seekers as this restoration of Scripture moves forward in fulfillment of prophecy.
Donations can be sent by Paypal to donations@wnae.org.
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