The Bible tells us that the “End (of the world) is declared from the “beginning” (Isaiah 46:10). Certainly, this means that the early Biblical record of human history bears End-time prophetic significance. But, it’s actually even more specific than that. The original Hebrew word translated as “beginning” in Isaiah 46:10 is תישאר (rê’shı̂yth). This is the root of Bereshith, which is the Hebrew name of the first Book of the Bible, “Genesis”. In other words, prophecies of the End of the World are found in the Book of Genesis.
The Torah is one of the five keys for unlocking End-time Prophecy… Prophecy is unlocked through the Statutes!
Things We've Studied/Proved so Far:
What is the Eden Torah?
It is the Torah, as it existed (before sin) in Eden – Eden Torah is Eternal.
When did Torah originate?
Torah (for earth) originated in Eden, but it existed prior because it is the Foundation of Yahweh's Government, on and off world.
To whom does Torah apply? How far-reaching is it?
Torah (for earth) applies to every created being (humans, angels...)
Two Views of Torah: View #1: Torah is Progressive...
This view is the commonly-held view of most Torah-keepers... But it does not hold up under the scrutiny of careful Bible study...
There is a teaching that Torah is progressive: which means that when something is added to the Torah (layers are added, due to sin), it stays forever… But this isn’t right. What stays forever is the original, Eden Torah… In the Torah is Progressive viewpoint, once something is added to the Torah, it continues forever…
So, this means the Levitical priesthood is eternal, eating meat will continue forever, animal sacrifices must go on endlessly, Jerusalem will always be the holy city, no matter what…
Two Views of Torah: View #2: Eden Torah is Eternal...
This view believes that layers are added because of sin, but these layers are not eternally binding. When the sin/cause is removed, so are the sin-addressing layers. We are being returned to (restored to) the Eden Torah.
Torah Principles (added layers) change as the Eras Change... We are being restored to Eden's Torah...
Myth
Busting Scriptures:
· Myth #1: Torah is to be kept by Jews
(Israel) – TRUTH is Torah is to be kept by
everyone
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Torah
was kept before the first Jew (Abraham kept Torah, long before Sinai) –
Genesis 26:5 (So, as Yahshua said, “if ye were Abraham’s seed – Israel – you
would do the works of Abraham”). Only Abraham’s seed is saved… Torah keeping is to be done by everyone who
would be a “son of God”.
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Satan
was the first to sin – Ezekiel 28:13-16 – “iniquity was found (founded,
originated) in him…”
§ Sin by definition is “transgression
of the Law (Torah)” 1 John 3:4
§ 1 John 3:8 “the devil sinneth from
the beginning” (was the first to do it).
§ If Satan can sin, it means that Torah
applies to him also.
§ Torah Judgments apply to Satan and
demons.
· Myth #2: When a layer is added, it
continues forever… TRUTH is that Eden Torah is Eternal, but layers added for
sin do not continue forever (ended at Calvary)
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Added layer: Animal
Sacrifices, means that killing animals goes on forever… –
Many who support the third temple as a place of worship do not know the primary reason for the temple’s existence.
The temple has two
primary purposes
Rambam (Rabbi Moses
Maimonides), a medieval Jewish philosopher and Torah scholar, wrote
in Hilchos Bais HaBechirah (The Laws of God’s Chosen House) that
the Temple had two primary purposes:
• To reveal to mankind
the Divine Presence of God, which dwelt above the mercy seat of the Ark of the
Covenant.
• To facilitate the
offering of the required sacrifices.
– “Since the destruction of the Second Temple in AD 70, however, the Jewish People can no longer offer these sacrifices. In fact, 202 out of the 613 mitzvot (commandments) in the Torah cannot be performed without a Temple.” (Temple Institute)
Did you catch that? One
of the two primary reasons for building a temple in Jerusalem is to facilitate
bringing back the animal sacrifices!
And so, as the plans to build the third temple are closer and closer to fruition, so desire for bringing back the animal sacrifices is quickly taking hold. In fact, the sacrifices were officially restarted in Jerusalem in 2018.
Hebrews 10:1-4 “For the Law having a shadow
of good things to come... can never with those sacrifices which ...they offered
year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered?
because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of
sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every
year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take
away sins.”
Abraham told Isaac: “My son, God will provide Himself a Lamb…” (Genesis 22:8)
When the true Messiah
died for us on Calvary, He was our Passover.
When the true Messiah
died for us on Calvary, He was our Passover.
When Messiah died on
Calvary, He was our Passover:
· 1 Corinthians 5:7 “Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.”
The animal sacrifices,
listed in the Old Testament, all pointed to Yahshua’s Death on Calvary. And
when He died, the sacrificing of animals ended.
Hebrews 10:17-18 "And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin."
· Daniel 9:26-27 “And after threescore
and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off (Calvary, Death of Yahshua)… He
shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease...”
· Hebrews 10:1-2 (AMP)“For since the
Law has only a shadow, just a pale representation, of the good things to
come—not the very image of those things—it can never, by offering the
same sacrifices continually year after year, make perfect those who
approach its altars.”
· Hebrews 10:3-4 “For if it were
otherwise, would not these sacrifices have stopped being offered?
For the worshipers, having once-for all time-been cleansed, would no longer
have a consciousness of sin.”
· Hebrews 10:5 “Therefore, when Christ
enters into the world, He says, “Sacrifice and offering You have not desired,
But instead You have prepared a Body for Me to offer.”
· Hebrews 10:9-10 “…Then He said,
“Behold, I have come to do Your will.” And so He does away with the first
[sacrificial system as a means of atoning for sin based on animal
sacrifices] so that He may inaugurate and establish
the second [Atoning for sin by the Blood of the only Messiah].”
“And in accordance with this Will of God, we who believe in the message of
Salvation, have been sanctified-that is, set apart as holy for God and His
purposes-through the offering of the Body of Yahshua Christ-the Messiah,
the Anointed-once for all (all people, and all sacrifices).”
· The Myth is that the sacrificial
system ended when the Temple was destroyed…
Implies that when the Temple is built that the sacrifices should start
again. Actually, Yahshua’s Death (in Heaven’s Eyes) ended the Sacrifices…
· It is true that the Jewish leaders
who stubbornly rejected Yahshua as the messiah continued doing animal
sacrifices in the temple, even after He had died.
· But even the Jewish Talmud notes that
HEAVEN stopped honoring their sacrifices about 40 years before the temple was
destroyed. This is especially significant since Yahshua died about 40 years
before the Temple was destroyed.
· Both the Jerusalem and Babylonian
Talmuds tell of four supernatural events which took place 40 years BEFORE the
Temple’s destruction – which signified to them that there sacrifices were no
longer being accepted by Heaven.
· I share these things, not in support of the Talmud, but only to demonstrate that even in Jewish writings there is record of a drastic change in Heaven’s acceptance of their sacrifices – a change which occurred at the time of Yahshua’s Death.
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Added layer:
Levitical priesthood, replaced Melchizedek priesthood… so the Levitical
priesthood is eternal… –
§ Genesis 14:18-20 - “And Melchizedek
king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the
most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of
the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And blessed be the most
high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him
tithes of all.”
§ Melchizedek is introduced in Genesis
14:18 and is described as the king of Salem and “priest of God.” Abram
(later Abraham) offers Melchizedek a tithe and is blessed. The name Melchizedek is
the combination of the Hebrew words for “king” and “righteous,” making
Melchizedek a righteous, kingly priest.
§ Hebrews 7:9-10 “And as I may so say, Levi
also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham. For he was yet in the
loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.”
§ The Melchizedek priesthood is an
office that applies to Christ.
· In Matthew 22 Yahshua
debates the Pharisees. In verse 44 Yahshua cites Psalm 110:1,
stating that the Messiah is David’s “lord” in that verse. Melchizedek is
mentioned in the same psalm:
· Matthew 22:41-46 “While the Pharisees were
gathered together, Yahshua asked them, Saying, What think ye of Christ?
Whose son is he? They say unto Him, The Son of David. He saith
unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord (Sovereign),
saying, Yahweh said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make
thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call Him Sovereign,
how is he his son? And no man was able to answer Him a word, neither durst
any man from that day forth ask Him any more questions.”
· Psalm 110:1-4 “Yahweh said unto my Lord, Sit
thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Yahweh
shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine
enemies… Yahweh hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest
for ever after the order of Melchizedek.”
· “The Lord has sworn and will not
change his mind: ‘You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek’” (Psalm
110:4). So, the Messiah, David’s lord, was given Melchizedek’s priesthood.
Much of chapters 6 and 7 of the book of Hebrews is given to explaining why
Yahshua’ Melchizedek priesthood is superior to that of Aaron.
§ Hebrews 7:23–24 implies that Yahshua holds His
priestly office eternally, using a Greek word that suggests something that
cannot be passed down or changed. Hebrews 7:26 calls this priest “exalted” and sinless.
§ Hebrews 7:23-24 “And they truly were many
priests (Levitical), because they were not suffered to continue by reason
of death: But this Man, because He continueth ever, hath an
unchangeable priesthood.”
· DEATH ends the Levitical priesthood…
Whose death?
§ Hebrews 7:26-27 “For such an high priest became
us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made
higher than the heavens; Who needeth not daily, as those high
priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for His own sins, and then for
the people's: for this He did once, when He offered up Himself.”
§ Hebrews 7 it is Yahshua’s Death that
ends the Levitical priesthood.
§ At Yahshua’s Death, the sin is paid
(Levi became the priests because of sin) and He “restores” “all things”… His
Death restores the older (original priesthood):
· Exodus 19:6 “And ye shall be unto Me
a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words
which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.”
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Originally,
all of Israel (Abraham’s seed) was priest-kings…
· Revelation 1:6 “And hath made us kings and
priests unto God...”
· Revelation 5:10 “And hast made us unto our God
kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”
· Revelation 20:6 “Blessed and holy is he
that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no
power, but they shall be priests of God...”
