03/06/2009 Comments, Questions & Answers Transcript


Today's Study Title: "The Letter Kills..but the Spirit Gives Life"

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- Our first caller of the day, Brother Richard Rowe. Shabbat Shalom to you.

Richard:
- Shabbat Shalom to you. Boy, you had a real good message for us today, really great. I thought it was really exciting what you said.

EliYah:
- Well, praise Yahweh.

Richard:
- You really outlined things on the basis of 2 Corinthians 3--wonderful, very wonderful.

EliYah:
- HalleluYah.

Richard:
- I'd like to maybe add a point, if I may.

EliYah:
- Sure.

Richard:
- Maybe one or two small points. In Matthew 20:28, it says:

Matthew 20:28 - Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
- It clarifies here why we have our sins forgiven: because of the ransom of Christ Jesus. In fact, in 2 Timothy 2:6, I think it is, says, "who gave Himself a corresponding ransom for all." It says a little more than that, but that's the point I wanted to make.
- This ransom that Christ gave, He shed blood to cleanse us from all sin. I mean, all of us, not just you or me, or everybody living today, but as I understand it, people that have ever lived from Adam on will benefit by His shed blood.
- The way I understand it cleanses us is that faith in that ransom sacrifice He gave in His shed blood. If we have faith in that, and we confess our sins, when we do, then, and ask for His forgiveness, and our reliance upon His name, then on His blood He shed, on Yahushua's blood, then we will be forgiven, and we are clean from that second on.
- I understand this really mainly applies to those who believe in Yahushua. In order to do that, they have to know His Word, as you suggested many times. Maybe you mentioned this before, but I don't remember hearing you mention the ransom or the shed blood of Christ. Have you done that before?

EliYah:
- I touched on it a little bit today about the redemption. We sold ourselves into sin. He offered Himself to pay the price for that, so that we could bought back and be adopted sons and daughters of Elohim through Him.

Richard:
- And that price was?

EliYah:
- His life. He gave His life.

Richard:
- Was it His blood?

EliYah:
- Well, the life is in the blood.

Richard:
- That's why I say His blood cleanses us from all sin.

EliYah:
- Right, that's His life.

Richard:
- To me, that's important.

EliYah:
- Yeah, the life is in the blood; therefore, the blood cleanses us from sin. It was His life, His righteousness, which was in that life, that cleanses us from our sin.

Richard:
- And so our faith in that is what cleanses us from sin, I would assume you think.

EliYah:
- Absolutely.

Richard:
- Great. That's really wonderful to hear you say that. I notice that it says for us all. Out of the 27 billion people that have ever lived--if that's the right number--I would say more than 90% of them have never read the Bible, never heard of the Bible, never heard of the shed blood of Christ.
- So I'm looking forward to the time during Messiah's reign of 1,000 years, as mentioned in Revelation 20, when all these people are brought back and then be educated as to that ransom and the blood cleansing for them.

EliYah:
- That's--go ahead.

Richard:
- Is that a similar view you have, or is it something different?

EliYah:
- Yeah. Now we're getting into eschatology and prophecy, which is not my strong suit, but I've always held that was a possibility; although I've not clearly seen that in scripture.
- I've held that was a possibility. It said the rest of the dead did not live until the 1,000 years were finished. There's some who are not going to live until the 1,000 years are over, and it says, "Then Satan will be released for awhile."
- So possibly those will be resurrected at that time when Satan is released and be given the opportunity to serve Satan or serve us, and which many again will serve Satan instead, and they'll gather together, Gog and Magog and try to fight against Yahushua, then the judgment after that.

Richard:
- I enjoy hearing that from you. That's very good.

EliYah:
- Possibility--I'm not 100% on that.

Richard:
- Sure. I have a little bit different view, but maybe we can talk about this off the air sometime.

EliYah:
- Sure.

Richard:
- I certainly do appreciate it and want to thank you again for making this presentation. In fact, most of the times I've listened to you, I really thoroughly agree with everything you've said. So Yahweh bless you real richly on your trip to Israel.

EliYah:
- Thank you very much and you, as well.

Richard:
- One thing I'd like you to bring me back from Israel. Guess what that would be?

EliYah:
- What would that be?

Richard:
- "The Jerusalem Post."

EliYah:
- "The Jerusalem Post."

Richard:
- Yeah, right. I've heard it has no vowel points on it, not one vowel point in the whole paper.

EliYah:
- Oh, yeah. I think you can actually see it online, too.

Richard:
- All right. Well, I don't have a computer, so I'll have to get somebody that has a computer to look it up.

EliYah:
- Yeah, JPost.com I think is their website. That's the English version, and I think you can click somewhere there for the Hebrew version.

Richard:
- Oh, great. I'd love to see the same paper in English and Hebrew. That would be really be something, boy.

EliYah:
- That would help out a little bit, wouldn't it?

Richard:
- But have a great time on the Sea of Galilee and walk on water for me, would you? [laughs]

EliYah:
- Okay. [laughs]

Richard:
- Thank you now. Bye-bye.

EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom. Good to hear from Richard again. He's starting to become our regular caller for the broadcast. Somebody asked a question.

Question Why don't I use Christ?:

EliYah:
- Christ would be "anointed" in the Greek language. I don't know why I have to go through Greek to get myself to Hebrew. I just go direct to Hebrew and use Messiah, which really is not a very good transliteration of Mashiach. So either one, I guess, have their failings, but I'd say Messiah is closer to the Hebrew than Christos.
- It seems like there's some possible pagan connotations to that, if you do research into the word Christianos and so on. But no matter what, ultimately I would rather say Mashiach, if I felt enough people would know what I was talking about, or I might just rather say anointed, which is the accurate translation of Mashiach.
- I do think there is some confusion here that can occur by using the term Messiah. For instance, many would say Yahushua is our Messiah. Technically, He is not our Messiah. He is Yahweh's Messiah. What you think of as being a Messiah is not what's actually written in scripture.
- When we think of Messiah, we're thinking Savior, a King. He's our Savior. He's our King. He's our Messiah. But Hebraically, if we think Hebraically here and look at the translation, He is not our anointed one. He is Yahweh's anointed one. You ever thought about that?
- Brother Yirmeyah pointed that out to me one time. He is Yahweh's anointed. We didn't anoint Him. Yahweh anointed Him. We read the scriptures, for instance, where David would say, "I'm not going to stretch out my hand against Yahweh's anointed. The same Hebrew word there, Yahweh's messiah. I'm not going to come out and stretch His hand against Yahweh's mashiach.
- Saul, King Saul, was Yahweh's mashiach. He was anointed by Yahweh. If Yahushua was anointed, we can't say we anointed Him. We have to say Yahweh anointed Him. We trust in Yahweh's Messiah. If you look in the scriptures, I've not found a single place anywhere that ever referred to the Messiah as our Messiah. He's always referred to as Yahweh's anointed.
- You can find an example of that. Let me do a little research here. Acts 4:26 quotes Psalm 1:

Acts 4:26 - The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against YAHWEH, and against his Messiah.
- Revelation 11:15 says:
Revelation 11:15 - Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of this world have become [the] [kingdoms] of YAHWEH and of His Messiah, and He shall reign forever and ever!"
- So Yahweh has a Messiah. How about that? And Revelation 12:10:
Revelation 12:10 - Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, "Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our Elohim, and the power of His Messiah have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our Elohim day and night, has been cast down.
- There's some examples for you. I do think there can be some confusion sometimes when we think about that in English or American terms. The scriptures we're holding in our hands and reading from every day, it's not an American document. It is a Middle Eastern document. It is a Hebraic document, so we need to learn to think in those terms, don't we?

Question Am I correct in assuming that next Shabbat the broadcast will not have a call-in portion?:

EliYah:
- Actually, I'm working on finding a way to do that. So that might work. I might still be able to have you call in just like we normally do, make it work, so stay tuned on that. I'm going to try.

Question Can you please explain why John the Baptist said he did not know Yahushua in John 1:31?:

EliYah:

John 1:31 - And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
- I guess I have to look at the context there. Obviously, they're relatives. They knew each other. John 1:29:
John 1:29 - The next day John seeth Yahushua coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of YAHWEH, which taketh away the sin of the world.
- Obviously, he recognized Him at that point. He knew Him, he recognized Him.
John 1:30 - This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
- That's another one of those scriptures that demonstrate a pre-existence of Messiah. "He was before me." Because John was born first, right?
John 1:31 - And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
- I guess at one time he didn't know Him, but he knew Him now. Yeah, they probably did keep the holy days together, I would think. Otherwise, he wouldn't have recognized Him when He came up, right? Maybe I'm missing something here.

Question How are the other sheep in John 10:16?:

EliYah:
- Other sheepfolds He's talking about there, I believe, if I remember this correctly. John 10:16:

John 10:15 - As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
John 10:16 - And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
- Gentiles. That's the first thing that comes to my mind. He's calling Israel to Him, and He's calling Gentiles to Him, as well. So children of Israel after the flesh and the Gentiles, as well. He's calling them all to Him.
- It says that they are of a different fold. But guess what? When they hear His voice, they're of one flock and as one shepherd. We are one in the Messiah Yahushua. Jew and Gentile are one in the Messiah Yahushua.
- We are, through the Messiah Yahushua, we are Israel. Because what? We learned today, as we read today and saw today, it's no longer we who live. It's Messiah who lives in us. That being the case, we are Israel through Him. I believe that was the questions. One more question for Netzarim.

Question Why does Kerry Alexander say in that song, "The world is not our home." Is not the kingdom set up here on the earth?:

EliYah:
- Well, yes, but our kingdom is not of this world, this age, of this time and place. The world we are not to be conformed to. That's what we're not supposed to be a part of. This world is not where it's at. It's the world to come when Yahushua will set up His reign, yes, it will be on the earth, but will not be of the world. It will be of Yahweh.
- I hope that answers that question. This world is not our home. The world to come, the age to come, the kingdom to come, that rulership--Satan is the Elohim of this world. We're not part of that. We are called to be transformed, not conformed to the world.

Question 1 Corinthians 11:3-15, specifically verse 15, talks about a woman's hair given to her as a covering, which sums it up, that a woman's hair is her covering. Why must women wear another manmade covering when Yahweh gave her the original covering, her hair?:

EliYah:
- Well, there is a multitude of problems with that understanding that seem to make that very difficult to make that argument. I encourage you to read the study on the website, which I'll give you the link here on the chat room. EliYah.com/talmidim/headcovering.html.
- To sum it up, why I do not believe the hair is the covering, number one, it's not just hair that it's covering. It's supposed to be long hair that's the covering. Correct? But long hair doesn't really cover the head. It covers the neck. It covers the back at best. Whether you have long hair or short hair, the hair still covers the same region of your head.
- Long hair doesn't cover your head anymore than a man's short hair would cover his head. I don't see how it even covers the head, except that Paul is using an illustration of nature here that the hair is given for a covering. Also, if long hair is a head covering, it says if a man wears a head covering, then he dishonors Yahweh, dishonors the Messiah.
- So if a guy took a Nazarite vow and grew his hair out like Paul did in Acts 18:18 and that hair was the covering, then he wouldn't be able to pray, because Nazarite vow meant you could not cut your hair. He would be dishonoring the Messiah every time he prayed, because he has this long hair.
- We see Paul took a Nazarite vow. With the long hair as the covering, then he's in trouble. He can't pray. He's dishonoring the Messiah. Also, there's other reasons.
- Those are a few. Even so, if the hair is given as a glory to her, then the hair is supposed to be a woman's glory, I don't think it would be a good idea for either Adam or Eve's glory to be manifest in the presence of Yahweh, but the glory of Elohim. Let that be manifest and not our own glory.
- Those are some of the reasons. 1 Corinthians 11:5-6 makes it very difficult. Every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered--in other words, if she wore short hair--dishonors her head, the man. That's one and the same as if she was shaved.
- If a woman is not covered, wearing short hair, let her also be shorn, wearing short hair. That doesn't make sense. If shaven hair is not the same as short hair, then it says if she wore short hair, let her be shorn. They're not the same.
- Since they're different, why would Paul say they're one and the same? I don't know. There's some difficulties there with the hair being the covering.

Question What is your opinion on the Peshitta, Aramaic New Testament?:

EliYah:
- I wonder. It's quite possibly more accurate. I recently picked up a copy of that. I'm looking into it. From what I've seen so far, it's just almost identical to the Greek. That's something I'm researching more. I don't see too much of a difference between the two at this point--maybe a little bit of color added to it or something.

Question Do the scriptures say a man can't have long hair?:

EliYah:
- No, it does not say that. That's one of the other points is if you can't find a barber, you're dishonoring Yahweh. That just doesn't make any sense to me. I think the comment about we have no such custom is referring to the custom of long hair and short hair, not the custom of head coverings.
- How can you say we have no custom of honoring the Messiah? We have no custom of making sure we don't dishonor the Messiah. If it dishonors the Messiah to violate this precept here in 1 Corinthians 11, no matter what you believe it is, to turn around and say we don't have any custom, don't worry about it. You can dishonor the Messiah if you want to.
- That doesn't seem to line up very well. I believe we have Sheila on line 2. Shabbat Shalom to you.

Sheila:
- Oh, hi. I'm really enjoying you talk. On the internet, I've been talking to Christians, and some do say that because Paul said that the law is fulfilled in love, love fulfills the law, we're no longer under any sort of law whatsoever.
- I showed them the scriptures you brought out, that sin is lawlessness. There is law. We are under law to a certain degree, but not a written law like inscribed on stone, but in the heart.
- My question I have is, Abraham was considered righteous. Is that right?

EliYah:
- Yes, he was.

Sheila:
- But yet he was not under law. He did not have, at that time, it was before Sabbath was given. If it was so important to observe the Sabbath, why didn't God give it to Adam and Eve? Why didn't He give it to the prophets or Noah? He didn't give it to Abraham. Yet, Abraham was considered righteous through faith, but it wasn't through law or through his observance of the Sabbath.

EliYah:
- Okay. Well, in response to that, I would say He did give it to man. It says the Sabbath was made for man. It doesn't say the Sabbath was made for Jews. It says the Sabbath was made for man. Yahushua taught us that. When was it made for man? In Genesis 2, I believe it is, it says the seventh day, verse 2:

Genesis 2:2 - And on the seventh day Elohim ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Genesis 2:3 - And Elohim blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which Elohim created and made.
- So at that time, the seventh day was sanctified. I really doubt that escaped Adam's attention, if He sanctified a specific day of the week. We read later in Exodus 20:8:
Exodus 20:8 - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
- We keep that day holy by refraining from labor. Six days you shall labor, do all your work. The seventh day is a sabbath of Yahweh. In it, you do no work.
- Was that day desecrated until Exodus 20 when Yahweh said I want you to keep it now? Was it desecrated and violated and not kept holy? I doubt that.
- There were actually commandments, statutes, and laws that Abraham did keep. In fact, it talks about that in the book of Genesis 26, verse 5. Start at verse 4. It gives the reason why Yahweh made this promise. He said:
Genesis 26:4 - And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
Genesis 26:5 - Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
- He's talking to Isaac here, because Abraham, Isaac's father, obeyed my voice, kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. What were Yahweh's commandments, statutes, and laws before they were given at Sinai? They were there. What were they?
- For instance, we know Yahweh must have given some kind of commandment or law somewhere that we weren't supposed to be Sodomites, homosexuals. He destroyed Sodom for that reason, partly, that they were committing that sin and other things they had done.
- He definitely sent out His judgment to them. There were expectations Yahweh had. I think at those times, it was a lot more easy to understand what the expectation of Yahweh was, because we have, for instance, Noah.
- He lived--if you were to go into the scriptures and try to figure out how long did each person life and whose lives overlapped each other--Noah was born in a time when Adam's son Seth was still alive, because they lived much longer in those days. Noah lived, some timelines would show his life going all the way into Abraham's life before he died.
- Other timelines show him dying maybe 75 years prior to Abraham's birth. So here we have Adam to Seth to Noah to Abraham, just about four generations. The way of righteousness was well known. Obviously, Adam had it. He knew how to live. He knew the right way to live, and he taught his son Seth, and Adam lived a long time into Seth's life, obviously.
- Seth lived a long time into the life of Noah. The way of right was well known, including the Sabbath, including what Yahweh's plan for marriage is, be fruitful and multiply, all kinds of things that were known. They were commanded by Yahweh.
- Abraham knew them and obeyed the voice of Yahweh, kept His charge, His commandments and His laws. I think the Sabbath would have been included in that, because I don't see Yahweh saying, "Yeah, go ahead and violate my day until one day I create Jewish people, and then I'll have them keep it, and then I'll take it away again after my Son dies."
- That doesn't fit well with any of the other commandments Yahweh expects us to keep. They are for all of us. The Sabbath is made for man, and He wanted the foreigners to keep His Sabbath in Isaiah 56. He says, "To the foreigners who keep my Sabbaths, even them I'll bring to my holy mountain."
- Yahweh always wanted the children of Israel and Gentiles to keep His Sabbath day. As far as whether we're under the law, we're not. We are not under the law, period. If we were under the law, then what that means is we would be held to keeping that law in order for us to gain eternal life.
- We are under grace. That means that we are not held to keeping the law in order for us to inherit eternal life. However, this is where many get confused. The next conclusion many will come to--and this is a typical conclusion found in mainstream Christian teachings is that since we don't have to keep the law to gain eternal life, let's not keep it.
- The truth is we cannot rely on our law keeping to be saved. We stand before Yahweh and say, "Hey, I kept your law," He'll say, "No, you didn't." We can't keep the law to be saved, but we do have to repent, to turn away from breaking the law.

Sheila:
- I don't mean to interrupt, but when it says the Sabbath was made for man, there's several places--Exodus 23:12, when God was telling them about this stuff, the reason why He was giving them the Sabbath, He says:

Exodus 23:12 - Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
- In the other scripture, if I recall--I don't have it on hand right now--but He was telling the Jews, giving the Sabbath because they were under such a heavy hand in Egypt under the Egyptians, and He was giving them rest for their benefit. Here He's giving them the Sabbath to benefit their animals, to even let them to have a rest, and their servants, that they can be rested.
- The Jews didn't have any rest at all under the Egyptians. In that sense, I would say the Sabbath was made for man and even for an animal I guess.

EliYah:
- It sure is. It was made for all of us. I think we all could use some rest. If you look at the correlation between the children of Israel and what they endured, which we're going to talk about next week quite a bit, in the Exodus and everything Yahweh brought them out of, He saved them by the blood of the Lamb, the Passover Lamb. They were saved by the blood of the Lamb.
- He brought them into this wilderness time, and He commanded them to keep His Sabbath day; whereas, they were under the hard yoke of bondage under Pharaoh. And in the same way, we're under a hard yoke of bondage under Pharaoh in the sense of Satan being a type of Pharaoh and the taskmasters being the type of demons.
- The world and its slavery of sin being something we need to be set from. The same way they were set free, we were set free. In the same way they're saved by the blood of the Lamb, Yahushua being killed on Passover day at the exact day the Passover lambs are sacrificed, we are also saved by the blood of the Lamb.
- The same He brought them into a life of rest every seven days, so that they may rest, we obviously all worked hard and generally worked every single day until we came into this faith and understood that Yahweh wants our bodies to rest every seven days.

Sheila:
- Just real quick, I have another question. How do you view Hebrews 4, where it speaks as if the ones who were given rest were the ones who had faith and obedience, and those who did have faith and obedience like they had already entered into the rest.
- It seems to me Christ is also the Lord of the Sabbath, that Christians have desisted from the bad works. They're rested from their bad works. But when you're in Christ, we have resisted or have stopped sinning or becoming a slave of sin. So actually Christ is our Sabbath. We are at rest in Him.

EliYah:
- In one sense, we are at rest in Him, and it's a beautiful illustration. The Sabbath is a beautiful illustration of our rest in the age to come that we receive when we enter the promised land. We are called to not harden our hearts like they did and be disobedient to Yahweh.
- We don't want to harden our hearts like they did in the rebellion and say, "I don't want to obey Yahweh's commandments." We are called to be obedient to Yahweh's commandments. He says, "Whom did He swear they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey."
- They did not enter because of unbelief. Belief and obedience are tied in together. If we don't obey, we don't really believe. If we're called to believe, that means we're called to obedience.
- The fact we have an illustration of the Messiah and the Sabbath doesn't mean we disobey the Sabbath. In the same way we have an illustration of the Messiah and baptism doesn't mean we do away with baptism.
- Ultimately, the true baptism is when the corruptible has put on incorruptible, and we get that baptism in the Spirit, in that we are made a new man in Messiah. That doesn't mean that the picture of that is done away with. In fact, it ought to even more so be kept as an illustration of what Messiah is really about.
- The same way, the Sabbath, Yahushua bringing that into that rest, that eternal rest. He is the way, the truth, and the life. The fact that He brings us to rest doesn't mean we do away with the Sabbath, anymore than we do baptism.

Sheila:
- Just another quick question. I don't mean to take up so much time.

EliYah:
- No problem.

Sheila:
- How would you explain what Paul wrote in Colossians when he was saying, "Let no man judge you of Sabbath days, or new moons." It's like no one is to be critical of anyone if they did want to celebrate it, observe those days, or if they didn't.

EliYah:
- Yeah, I've got a full study on that whole chapter at EliYah.com/col2.htm.

Sheila:
- I'm sure it isn't anything new that you've had to come up with.

EliYah:
- We kind of covered this a little bit last year, late last year. We went into Ephesians 2, which talks about the same kind of thing. What we're looking at here in Colossians 2 is Paul saying, "Don't let anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the traditions of men and principles of the world, not according to the Messiah."
- Then he compares the principles of the world and the sin in it with the Messiah. In part of that comparison, he's comparing the doctrines and commandments of men with the doctrines and commandments of Yahweh. So the ones who are saying let's keep the doctrines and commandments of men were keeping people in bondage.
- They were telling those who were keeping the commandments of Yahweh to turn away from keeping those commands.
- So he said to them, "Don't let anyone judge you for keeping the Sabbath day." Basically. So he said, if you look at the context, that the things that were nailed to the tree were the sinful things, the commandments and doctrines of men.
- Through that, he disarmed principalities and powers. Because of that, don't let anyone judge you in your keeping of Yahweh's Sabbath day, which is a shadow. It says it is a shadow of things to come, but the body of Messiah.
- So don't let any outsider, who's not a believer, who's trying to bring you into these doctrines of men and commandments of men, judge you for keeping the commandments of Yahweh, which are an illustration of the Messiah.
- Don't let anyone cheat you of your reward in taking delight in what? In the Sabbath? No. In false humility, worship of angels, things that are never even mentioned as anything we should ever do in scripture.

Sheila:
- What do you think about this? In the whole law, including the Ten Commandments, not one law was saying you must not lie, but yet we know that's a sin. In fact, it's something God absolutely is totally against, but it's not in the law.

EliYah:
- It's not in the law to not lie?

Sheila:
- I didn't see it in the law.

EliYah:
- It's definitely in there.

Sheila:
- We know it's wrong.

EliYah:
- Do not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Sheila:
- Yeah, but you can lie in other areas, too.

EliYah:
- There's also Leviticus 19:11:

Leviticus 19:11 - Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

Sheila:
- Oh, okay. Well, there you go. And that was one of the laws, right?

EliYah:
- Oh, yeah.

Sheila:
- Okay, well, that's good. I must have missed that one, but it's not in the Ten Commandments though.

EliYah:
- Do not bear false witness against your neighbor would be lying.

Sheila:
- Yeah, but some people absolutely have no truth whatsoever. Not just slandering their neighbor, but anything to their advantage they would twist to lie, to not speak truth.

EliYah:
- Right.

Sheila:
- We know from scripture that God is a God of truth, and that we're to be truthful at all times.

EliYah:
- Absolutely. Yahweh wants us to walk in truth, no question about that. It's written all over the Torah. Yahweh is an Elohim of truth. Deuteronomy 32:4:

Deuteronomy 32:4 - He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: An El of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
- We're called to be men of truth. In Exodus 18:21:
Exodus 18:21 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear Elohim, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
- You don't have to look far into the Old Testament to see that Yahweh wants us to be people of the truth.

Sheila:
- Why in the Greek they didn't retain Jesus--I don't like to use the name Jesus--Christ real given name? Also in the Hebrew scriptures, it said His name would be Emmanuel, which means with us is God--the child's name. I wonder why they didn't use the name Emmanuel instead of Jesus.

EliYah:
- That's a good question. If you look at what He's looking at here, what He's quoting from, He is quoting from Isaiah. Isaiah 7, He's using this scripture in Isaiah 7 as a proof text as to why Yahweh gave the Messiah the name Yahushua.
- On the surface, you'd wonder why would He use Isaiah 7, where it said to call His name Emmanuel, to say that's why we should call Him Yahushua. It says in Matthew 1:21:

Matthew 1:21 - And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Yahushua : for he shall save his people from their sins.
- Call His name Yahushua, Yahweh Saves, for He will save His people from their sins.
Matthew 1:22 - Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of YAHWEH by the prophet, saying,
Matthew 1:23 - Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, Elohim with us.
- So why would Matthew use Isaiah 7:14 here as a fulfillment text for the Messiah having the name Yahushua? First, we have to understand Matthew obviously understood and knew Emmanuel and Yahushua were two different names.
- He would also know Isaiah 7:14 is literally, if you look into it, is literally speaking of Isaiah's own future son. But symbolically, it is a foreshadowing of the Messiah, if you compare Isaiah 9:6, where it says:
Isaiah 9:6 - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty El, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
- So Matthew uses this text here to support this understanding the Messiah is going to have a name which indicated Elohim is with us. If that's the reason given for Yahweh giving the name Yahushua, which means "Yahweh Saves," He's going to save His people from their sin--in fulfilling that symbology there in Isaiah 7, Yahushua had a name indicating that Elohim is with us, as opposed to against us.
- Because Yahweh saves us, He is with us. He's not against us. He's using that illustration and pulling out this symbolical foreshadowing of Isaiah's son called Emmanuel, having a name meaning Elohim is with us, in the same way Yahushua had a name meaning Yahweh is with us, as well.

Sheila:
- I just don't like the name Jesus, because it's Ieosus. It's just too much like the Zeus, the false god Zeus. [laughs]

EliYah:
- I hear what you're saying.

Sheila:
- I have scholars that I know are very well studied, and they still think that because it's in the old Septuagint in the Greek, that that is the name to hold on to. The Septuagint is a translation also, so we still have to be careful.

EliYah:
- The way I look at it, if the Greek don't do it right, just go the Hebrew.

Sheila:
- I agree. I cannot understand the Christian scriptures without a good, thorough knowledge of the Hebrew.

EliYah:
- One thing a lot of us have to...

Sheila:
- I mean scriptures.

EliYah:
- A lot of us have to be aware of that we either learn the Hebrew ourselves or trust somebody else to have done it for us. Since we have the opportunity to learn it here, why not take advantage of that?

Sheila:
- It is good. Knowledge is good and important, but like I tell some Christians, we do need to keep taking in knowledge and advance from the milk to discerning right and wrong. Salvation, what saves us is having faith, as Paul was bringing out, or the writer of Hebrews. Faith and also, as James was bringing out, we show our faith by our works.
- In other words our deeds--not that we have to earn it, because it is a free gift--but faith and how we treat one another, our deeds, and it looks like that's basically it. And listening closely and following closely God's Word that He gave Christ.

EliYah:
- Through Yahushua is salvation, and His life illustrates the way in which we should walk. He is the living Word made flesh and dwelt among us. Whatever He did, that's what we ought to do, because He lives in us. To me, that's the bottom line. It's all about Him.
- If we walk out His life, we will keep the Sabbath. We will keep His laws.
- It doesn't mean we do it because we're going to earn salvation through it. We do it because we are saved in Messiah when we repent and turn to Him and receive Yahushua into our life.

Sheila:
- Yahushua said that not one letter of the law would go unfulfilled until...

EliYah:
- Yeah, not one jot or tittle would pass from the law until all is fulfilled.

Sheila:
- Until all is fulfilled. Does that mean that when things are fulfilled, then we won't be, that Sabbath would be done away with?

EliYah:
- Just because something is fulfilled doesn't mean done away with. In other words, we see, for instance, that we are called to fulfill the law. Not only Yahushua was called to fulfill the law, we are also called to fulfill the law.
- Look, for instance, Romans 13:8:

Romans 13:8 - Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:10 - Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
James 2:8 - If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well;
- That's all true. We're supposed to fulfill the law just like Messiah fulfilled the law. Once we fulfill the law, ultimately, in the age to come, when we have fulfilled the law through Messiah, there is no more need for a law anymore, because we've fulfilled it. We've done it.
- But as long as there are people who are not fulfilling the law, we're going to need a law to straighten us out and show us, hey, don't do that anymore.

Sheila:
- As far as the Gentiles having to come under the Sabbath, when Paul and the ones in Jerusalem were trying to figure out what to tell the Gentiles, what do they need to do, they sent them, told the Gentiles to keep free from blood, I guess from blood guilt, and to keep free from fornication, and from...

EliYah:
- Sexual immorality, from things strangled, from blood.

Sheila:
- Yeah, right. Yeah, right, okay. Why wouldn't they say to keep the Sabbath, if they were under obligation to keep the Sabbath?

EliYah:
- Why wouldn't they say a lot of other things? Don't bribe people. Don't steal from people. There are lots of others. Make sure you honor your parents. Why didn't he include those? Does that mean those commandments are null and void?

Sheila:
- I knew you were going to say that. [laughs]

EliYah:
- He didn't say a lot of things he told them to do later. We can't say that was the only thing they were ever expected to do. In fact, it said the Gentiles are going to go to the synagogue and learn more about the law.
- So give them an opportunity here. We're talking about whether or not--the question was, we're going to accept them into our brotherhood here. They need to at least do some necessary things to demonstrate their repentance.
- Those were four necessary things. Don't go to the temple and have relations with temple prostitutes, and drink their blood, and do all the disgusting things, food offered to idols and things they're doing there. Refrain from idolatry.

Sheila:
- That was it, yeah, refrain from idolatry.

EliYah:
- You demonstrate Yahweh is the choice you're making here as your Elohim. At that point, we can say you're saved. We're going to accept you into the brotherhood. That was the question being proposed there in Acts 15. What do we have to do to be saved?

Sheila:
- Jesus said that the Holy Spirit would come and guide His disciples to all truth.

EliYah:
- Right.

Sheila:
- Because they would come to understand more and remember what Christ had taught them and also guide them into further what God expects of us.

EliYah:
- Amein.

Sheila:
- Okay, I'm through. Let someone else talk.

EliYah:
- All right. Okay, good questions.

Sheila:
- Thank you very much.

EliYah:
- All right, shalom to you.

Sheila:
- Bye-bye.

EliYah:
- HalleluYah. I think that will be our last phone call. I don't think anybody else called in. That will be our final phone call of the day. In the meantime, I want to get to a song here in the library. After that, we want to take prayer requests, as well. Please go ahead and do that. Make your prayer requests known here in the chat room.
- Looking at the library here, we're going to pick a song from Tammy Robinson, "Like an Eagle." Blessed be Yahweh.
- [Music: "Like an Eagle," "You Are the King of Righteousness"]

EliYah:
- HalleluYah. Amein, the King of righteousness wants to dwell in you. He wants to be on the throne of our hearts at all times. He wants to be the King. Actually, He is the King. He wants to recognize He's the King. HalleluYah.
- A few more questions came in here in the chat room, which we have collected here.

Question There are some books written that are not part of the current scriptures. Why?:

EliYah:
- I don't know. They're just not. They're not there. You read that sometimes. They'll say, oh, if you want to read more about that, just go check this other book out over here. You can read more about that, for instance, in Chronicles and Kings. Are they not written in this other book?
- I'd sure like to have those books to get more information, but for some reason Yahweh did not include that, did not preserve that book for us.
- There's books like that in scripture where they mention books, but they're not included. They were lost somewhere. So Yahweh allowed that to happen. The same is true of the New Testament. There are some books that Yahweh did not preserve. They're not there.
- There are some who say we need to read the book of Jasher. We've got this book and that book.
- I don't know. There's some things in those books that seem to be questionable to me. I just have a hesitancy myself to put a lot of confidence in those things. I've got a lot to learn with what I know is scripture. So for me to figure out all these other things, I've got enough to learn already with what I know is His Word than to hang my hat on something I'm not really sure about.
- For some reason, Yahweh didn't preserve those things. Maybe there are some books that would be rejected because they had too much in there that's pro-Torah maybe. At any rate, I think we can come to salvation, and there are a lot of things we need to overcome still of what we know is already in the Word. So, Yahweh help us.

Question Is there any mention of women wearing head coverings while praying and worshiping in the Torah? If there is no mention of head coverings prior to Yahushua, it seems strange for head coverings to be only mentioned after Yahushua.:

EliYah:
- I think once we understand what the head covering is supposed to represent, it wouldn't seem too strange that it's not mentioned prior in the same way it's mentioned afterward, in the same way baptism we recognize is something that is mentioned afterward, or Yahushua being our Passover Lamb, something that's mentioned afterward.
- Yahushua is definitely intricately linked with this head covering, He being the glory of Messiah living in us. And so I think that would be one of the things that would be mentioned afterward more heavily, although there is an example of the woman standing before Elohim to take the bitter water that causes a curse.
- She had to have her head covering pulled off in order for her to partake of that, and the reason I think was that her husband, being her covering, couldn't do anything to annul the vow. So she's going directly to Yahweh.
- That's in the Torah in the book. I think it's Numbers. You can look that up. But it doesn't seem too strange to me. I just would encourage you to read the study on the head covering. I address that somewhat in the beginning of that study.

Question Why are they called the little flock, and who are they in Luke 12:32?:

EliYah:
- If you look in the context of that, it's talking about those willing to lay aside the cares and riches of this world to cleave to the truth and follow Yahushua. Not too many people are going to do that.
- Yahushua said how hard it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Yahweh. So the context here, Luke 12:29:

Luke 12:29 - And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
Luke 12:30 - For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
Luke 12:31 - But rather seek ye the kingdom of YAHWEH; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Luke 12:32 - Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
- He's going to give you a whole lot more than these things, right?
Luke 12:33 - Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
Luke 12:34 - For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
- We've got to put our treasure in the heavens, and that's what will be added unto us, that treasure in the heavens that we're looking for. Not too many people are willing to do that. Little flock--not a big crowd--a little flock willing to do that.
- Yahweh is going to give you the kingdom. Don't worry about these other things. If we perish from this earth, then we inherit a thousand times a thousand more than we could ever hope for.

Question Are the Jews in Israel the fake Jews of Revelation?:

EliYah:
- I think you're talking about the ones who say they are Jews and are not in Revelation 2:9 and 3:9, talking about those who are of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews and are not.
- There were some who said they were Jews and were not, according to Yahushua. John 6, He's having a discussion. They claimed they were never in bondage to anyone. Actually, it's John 8:39:

John 8:39 - They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Yahushua saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
John 8:40 - But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of YAHWEH: this did not Abraham.
John 8:41 - Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even Elohim.
- So Abraham was not their father. Their father is the devil, He told them in verse 44. They are of the synagogue of Satan, the ones who fit this description--not all Jews and not necessarily Jews who don't yet know Messiah.
- I wouldn't classify all Jews in that category. I think there are lots of children of the devil amongst Gentiles, as well. In fact, we see this, 1 John 3:10:
1John 3:10 - In this the children of YAHWEH and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of YAHWEH, nor is he who does not love his brother.
- That sums it up right there. Who are the children of the devil, the synagogue? It is the ones who do not practice righteousness. Again, we're talking about murder here in the context of this one.
- Cain was of the devil and murdered his brother. The sons of Abraham in the flesh were children of the devil, because he said Yahushua told him, "You seek to kill me, you seek to murder. You're children of the devil."
- It's not our lineage that determines whether or not we're children of the devil. It's our actions and what we do. You claim to be a Jewish man, claim to be Israel, replacement theology, if you will--Israel is replaced by the church and so on--if you want to be Israel, you've got to act like Israel.
- If you want to be an Israelite, you've got to act like an Israelite. If you want to be a son of Abraham, you need to act like a son of Abraham. That's exactly what Yahushua was telling them.
- Paul confirmed that in Romans 2:28:
Romans 2:28 - For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Romans 2:29 - But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of YAHWEH.
- So I think that's the kind of line of thinking and belief being spoken of there in Revelation 2:9 and 3:9.

Question What is the relevance of speaking in other tongues for today?:

EliYah:
- I'm sure Yahweh's Spirit can dwell in a person and cause him to speak in a language he does not know if, particularly, the intent was to speak to someone who speaks a foreign language so they are able to hear the wonderful works of Yahweh. I think that would be great. I don't have that gift, not everybody does.
- According to Paul, do all speak in tongues? No. Some have different gifts doing different things. I think it can be relevant if there is a reason for it. Tongues were for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers, according to 1 Corinthians 14.
- Look at the context of that. I can turn there, if you want me to. Touchy issue here, I realize. 1 Corinthians 14 says:

1Corinthians 14:20 - Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
1Corinthians 14:21 - In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith YAHWEH.
- Who are "this people"? The men of Judah, if you look at the context.
1Corinthians 14:22 - Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
- The men of Judah who were standing in Jerusalem there in Acts 2 were unbelievers, and the tongues were used as a sign to them, that they will come and believe. Some did not hear them obviously, but 3,000 did, so that's the intent.
1Corinthians 14:22 - Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
1Corinthians 14:23 - If therefore the whole assembly be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
- If tongues are for unbelievers, why, when the assembly comes together in one place, everyone speaking in tongues, unbelievers come in and say you're crazy? How does 22 and 23 come together?
- The ones who tongues are for a sign to specifically were those children of Judah who were there in Yerushalayim. So they're speaking in a language they understood.
- But when you have a whole assembly come together, and a bunch of people are speaking an unintelligible language that nobody understands, they're just going to think you're crazy. There's a difference.
- It doesn't mean tongues can't be used in other ways. Personally, I don't think a prayer language necessarily is provable in scripture. I think Yahweh can speak English just fine. He doesn't need us to speak a foreign language.
- We want to have the element of faith in our prayers, as well, that things we're praying will come to pass. That takes the element out when you don't even know what you're saying.
- I don't know. There's some things there I don't have a complete comfort level with, but I know a lot of people do, and I'm not here to judge anybody.
- The point is when we're all together in one place, let's edify one another and glorify Yahweh. If we're all speaking a foreign language, it doesn't appear to me it edifies anybody.
- But if somebody understands a language--I've heard of this--where a lady came into an assembly and told them about the truth of Yahweh, and she did not know a lick of Spanish and spoke perfect Spanish to this Spanish-speaking congregation she was attending. I heard they were converted. I think the gift can work. It needs to be used properly though.
- I think that is the last question of the day. We'd like to go ahead and take the remainder of your prayer requests at this time and offer prayer together as Yahweh's people. In the meantime, we'll pick another song from the library, this one "Yom Kippur."
- [Music: "Yom Kippur"]

EliYah:
- HalleluYah. Praise Yahweh for His awesome, awesome reward, which is very great. He is our shield, our strength, our righteousness, our everything. HalleluYah. Which reminds me a little bit of Psalm 19. We read earlier today:

Psalms 19:10 - More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Psalms 19:11 - Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
Psalms 19:12 - Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
Psalms 19:13 - Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Psalms 19:14 - Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O YAHWEH, my strength, and my redeemer.
- HalleluYah.
- [Music: "Lead Me to the River of Your Healing Waters"]

EliYah:
- HalleluYah. May Yahweh fill you with His Ruach HaKodesh as you go out once more into the work week to come and the remainder of this Shabbat. It was a blessing to be with all of you once again on this glorious Shabbat day. We thank you for joining us.
- Looking forward to another broadcast next week, Yahweh willing, from the City of David, Yerushalayim. HalleluYah. Let it be so, in Yahushua's name.
- Shabbat Shalom to your home. We love you all. Looking forward to hearing from you again next week. Shalom.