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Yeshua is our Pesach or Paschal Lamb so that we Pass from death to life. Yeshua is our passover lamb who also caused us to pass through the dead sea to life in the promised land. Yeshua is our Deliverer so we pass through the shadow deaths sea. Because we pass through the enemy no longer has a right to us. HaShatan’s power died in the sea with him. Yeshua rose on Nisan 17th, the feast of first fruits, the same day that Moshe passed through the red sea. Yeshua is the First Fruits of many bretheren. The First day of week following the deliverance of Passover, Yeshua made it so we can taste the fruit of the land.

In the Tabernacle was the Altar of Burnt Offering, where the sacrifices were made for the atonement of the people of Israel’s sins. This is the place where there is a clear picture of the atoning work of the Tree of Crucifixion. Yeshua died so we don’t have to sacrifice animals for the remission of sins. This is focal point of Passover is the Salvation message through Moshe and through Yeshua that Salvation message is seen in shed blood that causes us to pass over from death to life. In the tabernacle the pennant would place their hands on the head of the sacrificial animals to symbolize their transgression being transferred to the sacrifice for their sins. Then the priest would mediate the sacrifice, Yeshua is the sacrifice and High Priest of the New Covenant.

We personally applying the blood of Yeshua to our hearts through repentance and confession. Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. Yeshua fulfilled that once for all so that no one and nothing has to pass through fire for sin anymore. The focus was on the sacrifice not the altar, the sacrifice was for the remission of sin. Yeshua took on our sins, it was with great weeping and agony on Gethsemane that Yeshua received the wages of our sin that He bore on the Tree for us. The Tree or Cross doesn’t remove sin Yeshua blood does. Which He was on a Tree when He died for us. However the two guys crosses next to Him can’t save. Its Jesus blood that saves not the Tree. It is what was done on the Tree or Cross that saves.

Its time to come out of Egypt. Passover is a powerful time of year, the first time my wife and I observed passover, we we’re just dating at the time and Adonai did a miracle, he caused us to literally passover from a time of trial to a time of great peace. It was beautiful. Adonai is faithful. We must come out the pagan influenced practices that have infiltrated the Congregation’s of Adonai.

The following are excerpts of Articles I’ve written on the topic of the Observance of a Messianic Christian Passover.

Growing Closer To Yeshua Through Observing The Biblical Feasts

Until you experience the blessing for and from observing the Festivals in the light of Yeshua’s atoning work you don’t know the experience or its fruit. Before I experienced them I didn’t know I thought I did. Until I found out “how much” paganism was the “foundation” of many things that many do, I couldn’t leave “Egypt” because I didn’t realize how deep “Egypt” had infiltrated “America.” I thought my walk was “deep” but it was limited by the spiritual distraction that the European pagan influence had on my experience. I wrote about Messianic Jewish roots, even recommended them, and I thought I was alright as a Gentile because I didn’t have to do historical Biblical things or what people label as “Jewish” things. That was before I started to practice them, with the right intent its means so much more spiritually and its so much cleaner and free of question. If you asked me a few years ago I would have said you could go as deep as you wanted without following the traditions prescribed by G-d himself in Leviticus 23. If G-d laid out a blueprint on how to approach Him and we ignore major parts then we close ourselves off from the deeper, clean hand and pure heart experience. If you ignore G-ds blueprint how can you think you will be able to build His house. I thought I was deep, I thought I “knew” what the right “understanding” was until I experienced it, the mere “knowledge” didn’t do anything. Thus the “knowing” and “doing,” you can’t have one without the other. If you know and try “something else” in “faith” you won’t get the same fruit that if you “know whats right and do it” with the right intent.

Source: http://paradoxparables.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/growing-closer-to-yeshua-through-observing-the-biblical-festival/

From Shabbat To Eucharist To Communion Back To Passover (Which is Right)?

Lets look at the historical practice of Shabbat that the Catholic hijacked and changed into Eucharist and was later again changed into Communion during the Protestant Reformation. Shabbat does mean rest, and is observed on the Sabbath. Sabbath is the Day of Rest on our Saturday which means Saturn-Day. When I was referencing Shabbat I mean the kindling of the Shabbat lights, Bore Pre (wine), Ha’Motzi (leavened Challah bread, Passover is the only time of unleavened bread), and Grace after meals. I am referring to the Friday Evening Shabbat in the family home done around meals which is the tradition the Catholic Church took and created a pagan infused service of Eucharist where they believed in Transubstantiation. The teaching of Transubstantiation says you where literally eating the godbody, which in effect would be crucifying the L-rd all over again, every time and comes from a pagan ritual of drinking the blood and flesh and a divine ritual where they thought they could invoke a pagan G-d to infuse the articles with deity (trans-substance-iation).

Many Christians misunderstand comments made by Rav Yeshua at a the “training seder” the night before Passover when He would be betrayed and sacrificed as our Paschal (Passover) Lamb. In addition the references to Paul’s Seder in 1 Corinthians 11 weren’t associated with the Eucharist (or its Protestant name Communion) until after the reformation. Paul’s comments most likely where in reference to comments to the Corinthians were likely in reference to the Afikomen (Three Matza’s) and its juxtaposition with the 3rd cup. The Eucharist was hijacked by the Roman Catholic priests from Shabbat and called the Eucharist, later protestants continued that tradition but called it Communion and tried to find proof text that they didn’t understand and thus stripped then of their right context. A oft misunderstood quote from Paul; “as often as you do this …” The whenever” was once a year never, randomly, Paul was speaking to Torah observant Natzerim and they understood it to mean when the met to observe the biblical feast of YHVH’s meal, not Shabbat or its Pagan Eucharist or Communion derivative. If one was unable to Observe Passover on the 14th day of the First Month called Nisan after the captivity in Babylon an exception was made for, due to ceremonial impurity or a distant journey that made it impossible, they were to observe it one month later according Numbers 9. This same thought was written in the Apostolic Constitution of the early centuries. In it, it stated if you did not observe Passover on Nisan 14th with the Hebrews you could not serve as a deacon, bishop or elder until you fulfilled that mitzvot (command) the only exception was for a family emergency or something that made it impossible, you we’re still required to observe YHVH’s Feasts of Passover. At the time of the writings of the apostolic constitutions, eucharist also called communion hadn’t been created yet.

The Eucharist was changed to a separate ceremony from Shabbat after Pagan Roman Priests who deliberately cut off the Hebrew roots for similar reasons that the rebellious king Jeroboam had done. The Catholic Church is a Pagan Universal Priesthood and is a foundation for much of Pagan Christianity or Cristos-Paganism. Actually, what is know called Communion comes from the Catholic Eucharist which was originally associated with Erev Shabbat, the kindling of the Shabbat lights, Borae Pre Hagaphen (wine commonly called the Kiddush) & the Ha Motzi (Leavened Bread). They high-jacked the Shabbat meal done in the home on Shabbat. They made it a part of their Sun-day worship and called it Eucharist which was done weekly and mediated by the priest instead of the Father of the home on Shabbat. Communion is the Christian version of the Eucharist, it wasn’t til after the Protestant Reformation that they started equating Communion to Passover. The Catholic Church still maintains Astarte (Easter) is still the festival they observe in the place of Passover not the Eucharist. Many Protestants lack a true foundation or understanding and distort and twist scripture worse than Catholics at times. I’ve done a lot of research I have over 500 pages of quotes from the Catholic Church, early Church leaders and from historical research. The Catholic Church says it outright what they took from the Jewish Tradition and why, without any support given as to who gave “them” the right to change things that Yeshua and His disciples didn’t. Before the Catholic Church there was a Christian Passover Seder done on the 14th day of the Month Nisan according to the Apostolic Constitutions and other testimonial writings from Church Fathers. That’s what is states in the Apostolic Constitution which is not the Didache and pre-dates it. There is no reference to communion as its done today til after / during the protestant reformation. Before that was the Eucharist and before than was a Christian Pesach Seder that was required on the 14 day of the first month on the Biblical calendar. The Puritans sought to do the biblical feasts, thanksgiving itself was based off of Feast of Sukkot (a fall harvest festival), the original date corresponded more closely to the biblical date. Later the date was change by one of our presidents. The first and second centuries where very Jewish / Hebrew / Biblical. The mid second to the third century became less so until Constantine and friends decided to completely hijack the early believers. They created a command and control structure through the papal system and removed Jewish / Hebraic / Biblical traditions. They did this because they felt that it opposed their national identity, so in order to keep the peace the “universal” priesthood was created to appease the people. How the Greco-Roman hand changed the church out of selfish national pride over biblical observance is disturbing.

Source: http://paradoxparables.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/right-foundations-from-shabbat-to-eucharist-to-communion-back-to-passover-which-is%C2%A0right/

Should New Covenant Believers Observe Biblical Holy Days or Pagan Festivals

Originally the New Testament Church Observed the Jewish Feasts, being that the New Testament church was founded in the Messianic Jewish movement. Jesus, The Disciples and Paul observed Passover, Pentecost, Hanakuh, Sabaath among the other accepted biblical traditions. The Nazerene’s where an accepted Jewish sect along with the Pharisee’s, Saducee’s, Ebonite’s, etc… Over the centuries many Jewish sects have been accepted. The plurality of the Godhead was accepted through the sixth century by Orthodox Jews. As a reaction to Catholicism (Roman Universalism) a popular Jewish rabbi used the Roman numeral for One to redefine the unity of God, instead of the Hebrew word Echad which is plural, as in “two shall become one.” It wasn’t until the exile of the Israelites around 135 CE that the body of believers who followed Yeshua the Messiah forced to stop meeting in the Jewish Synagogue though they continued observing Jewish traditions. Orthodox Universalim (catholicism) started around the council of Nicea in the mid 300′s as the one holy catholic and universal church. During the Bynzatine Empire they started to blend Catholicism (Universalism) with Platonianism, Mythraism and Christianity, while removing the historical and cultural Hebraic influences. The Jewish roots and foundations were not acceptable for Roman culture and became less popular for foreigners as saw others choosing to not follow the biblical traditions.

Throughout the centuries, fragments of God’s church scattered here and there among the nations have continued to observe God’s weekly Sabbath and the biblical festivals, (Leviticus 23). Some of them have been led to remain faithful in keeping His annual Sabbaths; the annual festivals of Passover, Days of Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonement, the Feast of Tabernacles, and the Last Great Day along with Purim and Hanakuh.

The Jewish celebration of the Passover Sidur, according to the OT is the day that the Jewish people escaped from Egypt. The Apostolic constitution required Deacons and Bishops to observe Passover on Nisan 14 along with the Jews or they would be removed from leadership. Jesus is the messianic Passover lamb, who died once for all sins that we might pass over from death to life. Jesus died on the Jewish Passover and rose on the day that Moses crossed through the red sea making a way for us to get from sinful Egypt to Gods promised land. Jesus fulfilled the Old Covenant. Colossians 2:16 tells us that we are not to judge celebration of holidays if it does not cause our brother to stumble and it exalts God.

Source: http://paradoxparables.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/should-new-covenant-believers-observe-jewish-holy-days-festivals/

Are Protestant’s A Diluted Form Catholicism? (Did The Reformation Complete Its Goal? How Do We Reconcile The Historical Facts?)

There are facts about the content and context of G-ds word and the trail of history stained with the blood shed by those who’ve sought to alter and corrupt G-ds word that we must seek to unveil and understand. Some questions we need to ask are: Did the Protestant Reformation actually accomplish its goals? Or did it just start something it didn’t finish? Why is the story of the Puritans and Quakers the most neglected portion of Protestant history? These questions we must seek answers to. People need to have to right understanding and context for many things they believe. Many have right “ideas” and miss right “context.” What is interesting about the most ignored story of the Puritans is that they journey was foundational in the movement to come to the new world of the Americas. We know of them in name only and only partake in their most famous meal at Thanksgiving but don’t even thank them for their contributions to our freedom. Worse yet we don’t honor the beliefs that set them on the journey to seek freedom from the Church of Rome and purify themselves from the stains of paganism that where still in the protestant reformation.

A Modern Protest?

The modern Protestant Church in America has come from the Reformation that was attempting to come OUT OF the Catholic Church. Where many have succeeded to get free others have still clung to unholy beliefs that come from the unholy Roman Empire. Many have sought to leave the Catholic way while holding unto other Catholic ways they consider to be right. There is a lot that Protestants take from Roman Catholics and the Orthodox community for example; Sunday worship instead of Sabaath rest, Communion instead of the Shabbat meal, Easter instead of Passover meal, Alms / Giving upon Request or by taking Offering instead of giving voluntarily via T’zdaka box, etcetera. I’m not saying that Protestant don’t try to find philosophical or biblical reasons that seem right for what they do. Yet, many Theological (Discourses on G-d) and Philosophical ideas come from the theology of Platonist and Mithras. They take from scripture and use Mithraism and Platonist ideas to explain something that in its original form was a Hebraic or Jewish thought that has a “little” different meaning in its original context. They aren’t always wrong and many times are close to right practice but many times with wrong understanding.

Some IdioUnsyncrasies

For example the Eucharist is a distortion or change of Shabbat meal and blessing of the Challah bread and wine. If you study the history that’s where it comes from. Communion is the Protestant version of the Eucharist, as there was no form of Eucharist or Communion before the Catholic Church created the Eucharist from the Shabbat meal. The Protestant movement re-envisioned the Eucharist as Communion instead of returning to the traditional practice of Shabbat. As far as blessing the Bread and Wine in Remembrance of the L-rd death, G-d honors that. If they were doing it as the New Testament it would be Shabbat not Eucharist or Communion. I’m not saying its wrong to take Bread and Wine, its okay, and G-d accepts, the fact remains that doing it as Communion comes from the Eucharist, Shabbat is the original form, the Ha’Motzi (Leavened Bread) and Bore Pre (Wine). I know when I used to do communion G-d accepted it because my heart. Its not wrong to do it in the simplified Communal form its comes from Shabbat though traditionally. That’s just a point. I’m not arguing for or against. Just saying that’s how we got the modern Communion practice versus the traditional Shabbat. The change in worship to Sunday is a Catholic tradition. I’m not judging just stating a fact about the formation of the traditions. I choose one others may choose the other. I’m not saying its wrong, just know how it came about. That’s all I’m saying.

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Having A Right Understanding

“As he thinketh in his heart so is he” Proverbs 23:7

Lets look at some right understandings of words that are misused and their meaning in the context of this discussion. Having a right view of G-d is essential to having a right view of ourselves in relation to G-d. For example Grace means spiritual Spiritual Enablement or G-ds ability. For example 1 Corinthians 12:1 “Now, concerning Spiritual (Charis) Gifts (Mata) I do not want you to be ignorant.” This is where we get the term Charis-mata, the derivative of the term used for modern Pentecostal calling them Charismatics. In the context of Ephesians 4 we are predestined to do good works Ephesians, yet we are not saved by works. How does that work? Lets look at a right view of Grace. Graces teaches us through G-ds ability and the Holy Spirit how to come under the protection of G-ds instructions that are meant to keep us healthy and safe. The word that is translated Love from Hebrew also translates to Mercy. G-d has always been merciful and full of loving-kindness. Torah means Instruction or Teaching, yet many wrong make associate it with Law or Legalism. G-ds instruction are out of love for our benefit not harm. G-d made food and holidays a non-issue because he choose to remove those stumbling blocks. We must avoid the doctrine of Balaam that teaches that if your elect its okay to sin since your elect. Grace isn’t a license to sin. Martin Luther was Catholic and was literally beating himself when he read Ephesians 2:8 and realized beating himself wasn’t going to save him, faith and Grace where. Some of Protestantism’s main players are a divergent form of the Catholic movement which is rooted in Mithra and Platonist. Not all are, but some do and where they agree with Catholicism is where you should be wary. If you don’t understand that you can get let into Doctrine of demons unbeknownst. We need to understand the priestly order of Melchizedek who you are under through Yeshua. Rightly understanding such words as Grace and Torah is crucial to right understanding of the New Testament writing. Another important word clarification for me is understanding the word Righteous, which comes from the old English phrase Right-Just. Yeshua became the right-justness of G-d for us and justified us before G-d. Right-Just-ness is not something we do for G-d its something Yeshua did for us.

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What Is Shabbat? Where Did Communion Come From?

Lets look at the historical practice of Shabbat that the Catholic hijacked and changed into Eucharist and was later again changed into Communion during the Protestant Reformation. Shabbat does mean rest, and is observed on the Sabaath. Sabaath is the Day of Rest on our Saturday which means Saturn-Day. When I was referencing Shabbat I mean the kindling of the Shabbat lights, Bore Pre (wine), Ha’Motzi (leavened Challah bread, Passover is the only time of unleavened bread), and Grace after meals. I am referring to the Friday Evening Shabbat in the family home done around meals which is the tradition the Catholic Church took and created a pagan infused service of Eucharist in which they believed in Transubstantiation. The teaching of Transubstantiation says you where literally eating the G-dbody, which in effect would be crucifying the L-rd all over again, every time and comes from a pagan ritual of drinking the blood and flesh and a divine ritual in which they thought they could invoke a pagan G-d to infuse the articles with deity (trans-substance-iation).

Source: http://paradoxparables.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/are-protestants-a-diluted-form-catholicism-did-the-reformation-complete-its-goal-how-do-we-reconcile-the-historical-facts/

Safe In My Tents (Restoring The Biblical Role Of Manhood As Father, Priest & King)

Most of us have read the prayer in which Jabez prayed “enlarge the boundaries of my dwelling.” What is missing a lot of times is an understanding of what was meant and “whose” duty it was to set the tent stake borders or boundaries, (Isaiah 54:2). Let’s start by looking into what the context of the time period was. In the nomadic period when the children of Abraham wandered the wilderness they dwelled in. The Tabernacle of HaShem was a special tent made for the Dwelling place of G-d. Each tent was to be representative of the Temple, in each the father was the priest. In the Renewed Covenant we see Yeshua teaching us when we enter our “Prayer Closet,” he was referring to the “Prayer Tent” or what is commonly called a Talit. Peter blessed a “Prayer Cloth” or possibly a Talit and blessed it releasing healing in the person who received it. Paul who was a traditionally trained rabbi made prayer “Tents” for a living. One of my favorite biblical feasts is the “Feast of Tabernacles” (Leviticus 23), it an entire week dedicated to remembering the time in the wilderness and staying in “Booths” or “Tents.”

Meditating on this subject HaShem put this phrase in my heart, “safe within my tents.” The L-rd desires to make us safe in the secret shelter of His tent He will hid me in the time of great trouble, (Psalms 27:5). Our homes must reflect that, a safe dwelling place in a harsh wilderness. We must desire to set boundaries so our families can say they feel “safe in our tents.” Many wives and children desire to feel secure. We must seek to set safe boundaries and lead as a g-dly priest who leaves Patriarchal legacies.

The role of the father has been lost in modern society; there are too many fatherless homes, too many independent women. Even married men defer to their wives for decisions and spiritual leadership, as many more women attend Church than men. The art and lifestyle of becoming a patriarch and priest has been lost. We must take back our strength by becoming the priests and patriarch’s of our homes.

In the Writings we find G-d “searched for a man” because He sought someone who could be an “intercessor” one who “stands in the gap” but He “found none” (Ezekiel 22 :30). Intercession is a priest’s duty, in general anyone can intercede. Intercession, standing in the gap is the duty of a priest, to bridge the gap between men and G-d, to make reconciliation. A mans’ duty is to pray and be a spiritual priest and having a daily time and place for prayer and worship is vital. Even generational iniquities are transmitted through the mans’ seed (Duet 28). We must man up and take responsibility for the right and wrong we lead our families into.

One of the lost arts of biblical priesthood is setting the Shabbat table (or Sabbath meal). One thing we have sought to restore in our home is a day of Rest and the Shabbat blessing. This is the original form of what’s commonly called Communion. Basically its “communion” plus, where you light the Shabbat candles, bless and drink the wine (or grape juice), break Challah bread, speak blessings over spouse and children, attend Congregation and enjoy the rest G-d made for us. I read some marriage material from Gary Smalley, founder of the Smalley Relationship Center, in which he stated that they had a family day every Tuesday in which they had a family devotional time. As a family you should decide when and how you want to have family time that’s spiritual and restful. As gentiles we are not required to follow the ancient traditions and we’re forbidden from judging in regards to festival or celebration. The word says to set one day out of seven, as a day of rest, it’s the intent of the heart, not the day that matters.

Another important duty is to set the L-rds Table and remember the L-rds Supper. This is different than Shabbat (communion), this is the annual remembrance of Yeshua’s death as our Passover lamb. Whether you remember this as a traditional Christian Passover meal or having a family meal on Resurrection Sunday this is important to collectively remember that it is Yeshua’s blood that has caused us to Passover from death to life. The word declares there is life in the blood. We must set a holy table to declare G-ds goodness and love in our family’s lives. In Revelation we see the Saint overcome through the Blood of the Lamb, their testimony and the confession of their mouths.

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The art of becoming a patriarch and priest seems to be a lost heritage that society needs us men to man up and find again. Our families need the healing and blessing G-d has ordained us to bring, if we don’t no one can take our place, as a husband to one wife and father to our own children. This is a duty no one else can do; we have to own our responsibility as family patriarch. Live a legacy, and leave an impact.

Source: http://paradoxparables.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/safe-in-my%C2%A0tents-restoring-the-biblical-role-of-manhood-written-for-marital-bliss/

Its time to Perpare For Passover to get the Hametz (Sin Out).

The back story: Moshe (Moses) was delivered from the hands of death as an infant in the Nile, so he could deliver the Children of Israel from Egypt. Passover is the remembrance of the Deliverance from Egypt in the light of Yeshua passing us over from death to life. Yeshua is our passover lamb.

We’ve already started preparing for passover getting the leaven/sin out doing early spring cleaning.

The parable about a little leaven fermenting the whole lump is very fitting to reflect upon during passover. Leaven = sin. Clean the sin out. During passover, you have the feast of unleavened bread. Part of the preparation is to go through your whole house and remove all the leaven and un-kosher foods. This is where the idea of spring cleaning comes from. Its like the ritual Mikvah (bath = which must be done in living=running water, not stagnant water) for cleansing, when you do it with the right (devotion / intent) the act of obedience activates faith to cleanse you because without faith the water can’t cleanse your soul. Its an outer symbol of an inner working. As is the habit of cleansing the house of leaven and filth we need to purge our souls of the leaven and lint, to remove the spots (sin) and wrinkles (religion) and seek to live holy (set apart), pure and ready.

Source: http://paradoxparables.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/preparation-for-passover-get-the-hametz-sin-out/

As we do spring cleaning it’s also good to clean our spiritual house to remove the Leaven of the Pharisee’s and the Doctrine of Balaam.

The Leaven of Pharisee’s
Pharisees were the religious leaders of Jesus day, who had a form of Godliness yet denying its power. We must repent and renounce religious spirits and attitudes connected to the Doctrine of Balaam, Nicolatins and the Leaven of the Pharisee’s. The Pharisee’s had a set of Oral Traditions that they upheld over the word. Holding and opinion over the word of G-d as dogma or religion is the leavening agent or the yeast of the Pharisees. We must remove the leaven of oral tradition, dogma and denomination. Let the word of G-d be true and every man a liar.

The Doctrine Of Balaam
The Doctrine Of Balaam teaches that the elect can sin because they are the elect and not subject to the right-just law everyone else is. The Catholic Church continued the Doctrine of Balaam through allowing Indulgences, The Rosary and priestly confession. Many teach a false view of disobedience and grace thus misunderstanding. We have yet Grace, many don’t teach it right because they are influenced by the Doctrine of Balaam. The Patriarchs lived by faith, Hebrews 11 shows this. G-d is the same yesterday today and forever. When people speak of law that’s vague if you mean legalistic work or oral traditions of the Pharisees or the Levitical priesthood then yes those have been removed. The blessings of obedience have not you can choose disobedience, yet you miss out on the blessings of obedience. The law of G-d has and always will be the same. Just as a parent doesn’t want a child to put his hand in the fire or step in front of a car. G-d wants to protect you from Satan’t acid rain that falls on those who submit to Satan’a evil reign. Its that simple. Galatians chapter 5 tells us that if you walk in the spirit you will fulfill the law because you can not do it without the Holy Spirit, its impossible, Yeshua died for our sins, to release the Holy Spirit to help us to overcome and while abolishing the Levitical priesthood he reestablished the Melchezidek Order. The Doctrine of Balaam is a corrupting factor in the world of faith today. To say it succinctly the Doctrine of Balaam teaches that because your Christian you can serve sin because your a believer and grace covers you. Some try to use semantics to hide that truth. Yeshua teaches obedience to Torah.

Corrupted From Within
Balaam knew no one outside Israel could curse Israel and G-d wouldn’t curse His people. The doctrine of Balaam is the trick to get G-ds people to curse themselves. We can not be taken from G-ds hand and that G-d won’t reject us but we can choose to walk away from obedient service to G-d and bring sickness and curses on ourselves. Satan can’t corrupt you from without he corrupts you from within sending fiery darts disguised as your emotions and thoughts.

A Right Understanding Of Grace
Having a right view of G-d is essential to having a right view of ourselves in relation to G-d. For example Grace means spiritual Spiritual Enablement or G-ds ability. For example 1 Corinthians 12:1 “Now, concerning Spiritual (Charis) Gifts (Mata) I do not want you to be ignorant.” This is where we get the term Charis-mata, the derivative of the term used for modern Pentecostal calling them Charismatics. In the context of Ephesians 4 we are predestined to do good works Ephesians, yet we are not saved by works. How does that work? Lets look at a right view of Grace. Graces teaches us through G-ds ability and the Holy Spirit how to come under the protection of G-ds instructions that are meant to keep us healthy and safe. The word that is translated Love from Hebrew also translates to Mercy. G-d has always been merciful and full of loving-kindness. Torah means Instruction or Teaching, yet many wrong make associate it with Law or Legalism. G-ds instruction are out of love for our benefit not harm. G-d made food and holidays a non-issue because he choose to remove those stumbling blocks. We must avoid the doctrine of Balaam that teaches that if your elect its okay to sin since your elect. Grace isn’t a license to sin. Martin Luther was Catholic and was literally beating himself when he read Ephesians 2:8 and realized beating himself wasn’t going to save him, faith and Grace where. Some of Protestantism’s main players are a divergent form of the Catholic movement which is rooted in Mithra and Platonist. Not all are, but some do and where they agree with Catholicism is where you should be wary. If you don’t understand that you can get let into Doctrine of demons unbeknownst. We need to understand the priestly order of Melchizedek who you are under through Yeshua. Rightly understanding such words as Grace and Torah is crucial to right understanding of the New Testament writing. Another important word clarification for me is understanding the word Righteous, which comes from the old English phrase Right-Just. Yeshua became the right-justness of G-d for us and justified us before G-d. Right-Just-ness is not something we do for G-d its something Yeshua did for us.

Source: http://paradoxparables.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/the-doctrine-of-balaam-the-leaven-of-the-pharisees/

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