05/23/2009 Comments, Questions & Answers Transcript

Today's Study Title: "Galatians Chapter 2 Verse by Verse"

EliYah:
- I think we'll go ahead and take that phone call by Sister Terry. Are you with us, Sister?

Terry:
- Yes, I am.

EliYah:
- HalleluYah.

Terry:
- HalleluYah. I wasn't sure what happened last week. I had gotten on. [inaudible] There was a couple of people [inaudible].

EliYah:
- So you were on the bus, and there were a couple of people on the back of the bus who were saying she needed money from her mother?

Terry:
- She called on the telephone and talked to her mother. She needed some money. I went and checked my wallet. [inaudible] From that point on, it just drove me nuts trying to get the money to them, at the same time letting them know who I was. When we got to the end of the bus line, I was able to give the money. [inaudible]

EliYah:
- HalleluYah.

Terry:
- I was able to give that to them. [inaudible] I was never able to do that before. [inaudible] I was told, "Oh, go out and spread the Word." [inaudible] Matthew tells us to go out and share the Word with the world. I was wondering, "What am I supposed to share with them?" That was the first time I really felt led to share something with someone.

EliYah:
- HalleluYah.

Terry:
- [inaudible]

EliYah:
- It says in scripture, "Whatsoever you do in word or deed, do it in the name of Yahushua the Messiah." You had that opportunity. There was somebody who was in need, and you were able to help them out and did it in Yahushua's name. That glorifies Him.

Terry:
- HalleluYah.

EliYah:
- HalleluYah. Great testimony. I appreciate you sharing that.

Terry:
- Yes, thank you. [inaudible]

EliYah:
- She's talking about the song, "Yah Is Good," that we had sung here a number of times when Sister Terry was at our home last Passover. We sang the song called "Yah Is Good," and she wanted to hear us all sing it here, but we have two or three guitars, and drums, and everybody singing, it's hard to get it all together.
- We're going to be getting some microphones. Maybe we could all plug it in, and it'll mix a little bit better. Hopefully, we'll be able to do that next week for you.

Terry:
- I hope so. [inaudible] You have a wonderful Sabbath.

EliYah:
- Thank you and thanks for calling in. Yahweh bless you. Shalom. Sister Terry from Delaware. She was a great blessing to us. She's been through a plane crash and survived it. She was the only survivor of the small craft that went down.
- She is a survivor and now a disciple of Yahushua the Messiah, a baptized believer. That's a great blessing to know that Yahweh has spared her life for that purpose, I believe. HalleluYah. We have another phone call that just came in. I invite anyone that would like to call in, questions, comments. Feel free to do so. I believe we have Brother Bill on the line. Is that right?

Bill:
- Yes. How are you doing today?

EliYah:
- Very well. How are you, sir?

Bill:
- Oh, good. I actually had a question. I was looking at the things you were saying, and there was something you mentioned in Zechariah. Was that 26? About the Spirit. I didn't get that.

EliYah:
- Ezekiel. Yeah, Ezekiel 36:27.

Bill:
- Oh, okay, yeah. Well, there was something that correlated with some things that He showed me how when people talk to me about the law--not about the law, but about faith and how the law is actually being disregarded, to them, I bring to their attention the importance of what it says in Galatians 4:19 where he says:

Galatians 4:19 - My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Messiah is formed in you,

EliYah:
- Exactly.

Bill:
- And the truth of Him forming the spirit of man within him, as He says in Zechariah 12:1, where He says:

Zechariah 12:1 - The burden of the word of YAHWEH against Israel. Thus says YAHWEH, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him:

EliYah:
- Right.

Bill:
- That's what He's showed me. I think it was a blessing when I came to that understanding. I share that with everybody that I talk to because of their reluctance to follow the law.

EliYah:
- Actually, he goes into detail. He discusses how the Messiah is formed in us, and the fruits of that Spirit of Yahweh that's dwelling in us, guiding us to keep His commandments, is that we have love, joy, peace, kindness, longsuffering, faithfulness, self control, all the good fruits.

Bill:
- Right.

EliYah:
- Of Yahweh's Spirit, which come out of that leading of His Spirit, which guides us into all truth, which we know that the Word of Yahweh is truth and that the law is spiritual, just, holy, and good, and that Messiah kept that law, and that we are called to walk in that example until He is fully formed in us.

Bill:
- Amen.

EliYah:
- The evidence of that is that we are keeping Torah. HalleluYah.

Bill:
- That's right. And also, where he talks about it in 1 John 2:5...

1John 2:5 - But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of Elohim is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.

EliYah:
- Amein. Excellent, brother!

Bill:
- Thank you, sir. I really enjoy your program, by the way. It's really a God-send, or I should say a blessing from Elohim. Amen.

EliYah:
- Amen! Yahweh bless you, brother. Thanks for calling in.

Bill:
- Thank you.

EliYah:
- Brother Bill from the chat room. I'm not really sure what his nickname is offhand. But if you'd like to call in, the phone line is now open. The telephone number is 866-435-4924. That's easy to remember, 866-4EliYah. If you'd like to call in with your comment or your question.
- Looks like we've got another phone call that came in. We'll find out who that is. Looking down through the line here...

Q. If you're dead to the law, are you separated from the law? What is living to Yahweh?

EliYah:
- If we are dead to the law, that means as far as the law is concerned, we are dead. It has no power over us.
- It cannot condemn us any longer, the judgment that the law demands; however, if we live to Yahweh, that means that we are going to live the life of the Messiah Yahushua, because we are raised with Him unto Yahweh; therefore, we are going to start to walk in the Messiah's example, and we're no longer going to walk in the example of the Gentiles, the Gentile sinners.
- We've got, I think it's Brother Chuck who may have called in. Looks like we lost Brother Chuck or whoever that was. Please call back. It sounds like he is. This is who?

Chuck:
- Chuck.

EliYah:
- All right, Brother Chuck. Thanks for calling in, brother. You got a comment or a question?

Chuck:
- Yeah, I have a question. It's kind of off topic, but so am I. Yesterday when we were in the room, somebody in the room made a comment talking about Sabbath keeping and said something. I don't remember exactly word-for-word, but something about that law is kind of different, because it's part of the Ten Commandments.
- This kind of brought up something I've been thinking about lately, and I wanted to ask you. Reading the study in Exodus, chapters 20-34, I just want to tell you the way I take it, and then I want your comments afterwards.
- It seems to me that when Yahweh appeared in the cloud and He started giving the commandments, there was lightning flashing, thunder, horns blowing, and the people got scared. So they backed up, and they told Moses--they interrupted and told Moses to go get the laws and come back and tell them. They didn't want to talk to Him, because they were afraid they were going to die.

EliYah:
- Right.

Chuck:
- And then after the interruption, it seems like He gave them more commandments, so there were more than ten. Then when he broke the laws on the tablets--it said there were two tablets He wrote on front and back.

EliYah:
- Correct.

Chuck:
- And, of course, Moses busted them, and then He made more. Moses wrote the second set, right?

EliYah:
- Yahweh wrote them, but Mosheh formed the actual tablets.

Chuck:
- Right, okay. But my point that I was getting to was Exodus 34:28, I think. It says:

Exodus 34:28 - So he was there with YAHWEH forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

EliYah:
- Yahweh knew what they were going to do. He knew they were going to stop Him. They said they were too afraid. They thought they were going to die. It was such an awesome sight. They said, "Well, have Yahweh talk to Moshe, but for us to hear His voice, we're afraid we're going to die."
- From that point forward, Yahweh began to speak to the children of Israel through Mosheh. He actually desired that that fear of Him would be in them at all times, that they would keep His commandments, but He went ahead and heeded their request.
- From that point, He began to give Torah directly to Mosheh and then he, turn, would tell the children of Israel. A lot of people say, no, that other stuff is the added law, and the only thing we need to do is keep the Ten Commandments now.
- But that's not true; otherwise, you could be a homosexual. You could do all kinds of evil things.

Chuck:
- Right.

EliYah:
- That are wrong and that Yahweh had to tell the children of Israel to not do, and yet those are not in the Ten Commandments. But the Ten Commandments, I do think, have a special place in that they are ten very important commandments. It was the first thing Yahweh began to speak to them.
- They were pretty high on His priority list, being that they were written in stone with His own finger, and they were the first things that He began to tell them.

Chuck:
- So you're saying the original tablets contained only ten.

EliYah:
- I think so, and there was a book of the law inside the ark which contained other commandments. There are some who believe that, possibly, the entire Torah was written on the two tablets, but I would have difficulty going along with that belief. There's just too many volume-wise for them to fit inside the actual ark of the covenant, to fit all those words on two tablets.
- I think, actually, the way it worked was there was two tablets because there was one tablet for Yahweh and one tablet for the children of Israel, and they both said the same thing. They had the Ten Commandments on the front and back, but they each had a copy of that covenant.
- And then there was the book of the law and so on, on the side of the ark, but to fit the entire Torah on those two tablets, I think, would be a stretch.

Chuck.:
- Right. I was just a little confused. It seemed to say that He wrote all that He said on the tablets. But then later it said ten.

EliYah:
- Right. It's one of those things where you could probably go either way, but my own view would be it's just the Ten Commandments on the tablets at this point.

Chuck:
- Okay.

EliYah:
- Based on the fact that to fit the entire Torah on there would be very difficult. They had to fit inside the ark, which wasn't very big.

Chuck:
- Right. Okay. How are you and yours?

EliYah:
- We're doing great, doing fantastic. How about you all?

Chuck:
- We're getting there.

EliYah:
- All right. HalleluYah.

Chuck:
- Been a little under the weather lately, but I'm hanging in there.

EliYah:
- Good.

Chuck:
- Nancy is taking good care of me.

EliYah:
- So when are you coming out this way?

Chuck:
- I don't know. We're trying to work that out. We've got so many things we've got to get done.

EliYah:
- I hear you. Well, we look forward to meeting you all and doing some baptisms.

Chuck:
- Yeah.

EliYah:
- HalleluYah.

Chuck:
- Be careful, 'cause I can't swim.

EliYah:
- Okay. [laughs]

Chuck:
- All right. [laughs]

EliYah:
- All right, brother, anything else you wanted to add?

Chuck:
- No, that's it. Shalom to you and yours.

EliYah:
- Shalom to you.

Chuck:
- And everyone in the room, and I hope to meet you soon.

EliYah:
- All right, brother. Yahweh bless you all. Shalom to your home. Brother Chuck, a frequent visitor to our chat room. Let me look down through here. If there were any questions while we were on the phone, I'll go ahead and address those.

Q. Homosexuality wouldn't be allowed by thou shalt not commit adultery?

EliYah:
- Actually, adultery is not the same. It refers to having relations with a married woman. It actually doesn't even cover fornication, which is a different word altogether. We've got somebody else who has called in. It is Aholiab [phonetic]. I'll go ahead and take that phone call. Shalom, brother.

Aholiab:
- Shalom, brother. Jerry and Teshuah [phonetic] and I wanted to call and thank everybody for their prayers. We're finally about to make our move.

EliYah:
- HalleluYah.

Aholiab:
- We'll be leaving the middle of next week. We want everybody to continue praying for us, that we have an uneventful journey, as we move back to Tennessee. We just have been blessed by the way Yahweh has been moving, and His faithfulness, and all the prayers and encouragement we've received from everybody in the group.

EliYah:
- HalleluYah. That's great. You're finally fulfilling that desire you've had for awhile. There's going to be some fellowship in the area, I believe, with Lamb Fellowship.

Aholiab:
- Exactly.

EliYah:
- And so that's great, and they believe in Torah, call on the name of Yahweh. It's the middle of next week that you're going, correct?

Aholiab:
- Right. We will be packing the truck Wednesday and pulling out Thursday morning.

EliYah:
- That's not this Thursday. That's the following, correct?

Aholiab:
- That's this coming.

EliYah:
- This coming, okay. All right. So we will pray for you, brother, and for your wife, that you have a safe journey. We hope to see you, both of you. We'll be continuing to pray for that. Praise Yahweh for His faithfulness. Brother Aholiab came on here maybe four or five months ago.

Aholiab:
- Right around there, yeah.

EliYah:
- And was in need of some help, and the brethren came together and helped him out, and now he's at a point where Yahweh has blessed him, and he's moving to the great state of Tennessee. HalleluYah.

Aholiab:
- Amein.

EliYah:
- So was it Teshuah that went to California last week?

Teshuah:
- Yeah, I'm on the phone, too.

EliYah:
- Shalom, sister.

Teshuah:
- Shalom.

EliYah:
- And were you doing any testifying when you were out there?

Teshuah:
- Yeah, I've been talking to my son and my daughter. They're about six hours from us here, and I wanted to get a chance--they're not real receptive right now, but we're still praying for Yahweh to work in their lives.

EliYah:
- HalleluYah. We'll have to add that to the prayer request, as well. I've got the move. What are their names? Are you allowed to say that on the air?

Teshuah.:
- Oh, not a problem.

EliYah:
- Okay.

Teshuah:
- It's Tim and Becca, and then we're moving back to be close to our other two sons in Georgia, which are Jason and Daniel, and they are also unsaved.

EliYah:
- Okay. May Yahweh have mercy on them, and may He give you the words to speak in due seasons, and they'll be able to receive that good message of salvation.

Aholiab:
- Amein.

EliYah:
- HalleluYah. Any other questions or comments you wanted to add?

Teshuah:
- We just love the site and the messages and everything, and I'm glad that the fellowship we'll be attending, we'll be able to attend here and then go to there.

EliYah:
- Oh, fantastic.

Teshuah:
- So we're not giving up anything.

EliYah:
- Oh, great. HalleluYah. Well, you be sure and give Scott and his wife Jane a hello for us, a shalom.

Teshuah:
- We will.

EliYah:
- It's good to hear from both of us. Yahweh bless you and give you a safe journey.

Teshuah:
- Thank you.

EliYah:
- Thank you.

Aholiab:
- Yahweh bless you, brother.

EliYah:
- Thank you, brother. Shalom.

Teshuah and Aholiab:
- Shalom.

EliYah:
- Aholiab and Teshuah. Yahweh is having great abundant mercies toward them and showing them the way that they should go. It's good they are moving to a place where they can find fellowship. A lot of us don't have that luxury. That's one of the reasons we have this meeting here, in fact. We've got another phone call coming in. I do have a question that has been asked in the room.

Q. The life which I know live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of Yahweh?

EliYah:
- The life that we're living, we're living by faith that Yahushua covers our sins, that we are raised with Him, spiritually speaking. We do that with our faith. We believe that. we are living unto Yahweh.
- We're not dead--to the law we're dead, but unto Yahweh, we are alive, because Yahweh sees our righteousness, which is the righteousness of Yahushua the Messiah. I hope that answers your question.

Q. Shacar asked, what does the mark of the beast refer to?

EliYah:
- When it comes to areas of prophecies and things along those lines, I prefer not to make any assumptions or too much in the way of public statements of things I'm not really that certain about. I'm kind of hesitant to give my thoughts on that in case I'm wrong. I don't want to be wrong about that.
- I'll tell you that I think it could go either way. When it comes to the way of the prophecies and how it all comes together, it's not an area I claim to have all the answers to. It's extremely complicated.
- It is one of those things I believe we need to keep in mind that even the disciples didn't know what was happening next when they were walking with Yahushua for three years.
- Even though He specifically spelled it out and told them, it was after it happened they remembered that Yahushua had told them this was going to happen.
- So for some of us that may end up being that way, for us to try to figure out what's going to happen--even 15 years ago, who would have thought of the internet? It's hard to say what life is going to be like in even ten years from now.
- To what extent is that going to influence our view of prophecy? I've been around this stuff for awhile now--I guess about 18 years--and I've seen many ideas come and go, and I just kind of listen.
- I file them in the back of my mind, but we do know this. We win. Yahushua is victorious in us. We need to seek righteousness and start walking in that. Let that be our focus.
- Yahweh, our mighty One, by His Spirit, will reveal to us what we need to know. I believe that with all my heart. We have Sister Kathy on the line.

Kathy:
- Hello.

EliYah:
- Shalom, sister.

Kathy:
- Shalom. I just wanted to say that I'm just so thrilled to find a group of believers that aren't afraid to say His name, Yahweh, and to recognize Yahushua as the Messiah.

EliYah:
- HalleluYah.

Kathy:
- And I'm just so, like I said, so thankful. But I have a question. I've been praying for months to be able to fellowship with believers that aren't afraid to say His name and that do recognize the name of Yahushua. I live in a small town. I haven't been able to find a group of believers in my area.
- I haven't been going to church, because I want to stick with the Messianic groups and keep following the Hebrew roots. Is it wrong not to go to church, or should I go?

EliYah:
- Well, I would be saying, as far as an answer to that, to what extent do we want to continue in fellowship with those that are extremely wrong on some foundational issues? I'm not going to say it's wrong to attend a church.
- I would say we have to keep in mind that our goal there is not to join with them in everything they're doing, but to try to influence them with some truth and maybe even glean some things, as well.
- But when it comes to the names, that makes it very difficult. They're all crying out Jesus, Jesus, and we're crying out Yahushua, Yahushua. They're calling on the Lord God; we're calling on Yahweh our mighty One. So there's some real challenges there and incompatibilities, and they're also, of course, keeping the wrong day holy, if they even keep one holy at all.
- So there's some real major things that are incompatible. Some of them have Christmas trees sitting in the front onstage and so on. At some point, we have to say, is it worth it having to put up with all this? That answer is not necessarily the same for everyone. There may be a place for somebody who's in those groups just for the purposes of reaching out to them.
- The disciple Paul went to the synagogues on a regular basis. They weren't all believers. His goal was to bring them to that point. I'm not trying to say all Christians are unbelievers, but there's going to be some, and you'll find this out. If you go into a church, you start proclaiming some truths, most people won't listen, but then a lot of times there will be a few that will.
- Those are the ones Yahweh is looking for. So I don't want to tell someone never go into a church or step into a Christian church, because there could be opportunities to do that. But at the same time, it can actually be a hindrance to our own walk, some compromising areas, and a lot of tests come as a result of those attempts.

Kathy:
- Right. And I also have to consider, I have two teenage sons, and I don't want them to be confused hearing--because I teach them that His name is Yahweh, and the Messiah's name is Yahushua.
- I'm teaching them the Hebrew roots of our faith in Him, and so I don't want to teach them all that at home and then take them in where they're, like you said, crying Jesus, Jesus. I just think that would confuse them.

EliYah:
- I'm sure it would confuse them and actually churches with their Sunday schools and different things are very, very skilled at making impacts on children to guide them into their churchianity, and so we have to be cautious about that. We know that they've got it down pat. You know they've been doing it a long time, so we've got to protect our children, as well. You're right.

Kathy:
- I'm so grateful that I've found this group of believers, like I said, and I'm just so thankful. I had found your website a few months ago, and then I lost your web address, and so I couldn't find the site.
- And I was praying, "Oh, Father, please help me to find it, please." And then I found it again about a week ago, and I just thank Yahweh that you're faithful and that the group of believers that assemble are faithful to His name and not denying His name.

EliYah:
- HalleluYah.

Kathy:
- And I just thank you.

EliYah:
- I appreciate your faithfulness, as well, and for calling in today. It's certainly good to hear from you and your testimony.

Kathy:
- Thank you.

EliYah:
- Encouragement is appreciated. HalleluYah.

Kathy:
- HalleluYah.

EliYah:
- Yahweh bless you.

Kathy:
- Thank you. Yahweh bless you, as well.

EliYah:
- Shalom.

Kathy:
- Shalom.

EliYah:
- Good to hear from Sister Kathy. Everyone wants to know what town you're in, sister. I forgot to ask that. If I'm not mistaken, she may be the same lady that is from Indiana, but I don't know for sure.
- Looking through the list here, if there are any more questions, I can take another phone call, if you'd like, if you have a testimony, something Yahweh is doing in your life, or just want to call and say hello to the brethren. Feel free to do that. Our telephone number again, 866-435-4924, 866-4EliYah.
- Always good to get the interaction amongst the brethren out there. What a blessing. HalleluYah.

Q. Did I miss the answer, Ab asks, of Shacar's question?

EliYah:
- You must have missed it, brother. Feel free to call me, if you'd like. You've got my phone number. We can talk about it sometime. Meanwhile, I'm going to play another song for us. This is another song by Tammy Robinson, and it's called, "I'm Nothing Without You." HalleluYah.
- [Music Ministry: "I'm Nothing Without You"]

EliYah:
- HalleluYah. I accidentally had the phone still on the hook throughout that song, so if you were trying to call in, I apologize. I forgot to hit the "call drop" button here.
- If you'd like to call in, the phone number is 866-435-4924. I think Brother Yisrael is going to call. Feel free to call in, brother. I'd be more than happy to answer the call. That may be him right there. HalleluYah.
- The person who was on the phone earlier, Kathy, in case you're wondering, lives in Marblehead, Ohio, 60 miles from Cleveland. So if you're anywhere near Marblehead, Ohio, which is sixty miles west of Cleveland, please let us know. She would like fellowship in that area in the Sacred Name.
- I think we've got Brother Yisrael who is on the line with us. Shalom, brother.

Yisrael:
- Shabbat Shalom. How are you doing today?

EliYah:
- Very well. Shabbat Shalom to you. I'm glad you could call in.

Yisrael:
- Yes. I was calling in, because I've been fellowshipping with Yohanan and Tahar, and they convinced me to call in. I would like to sing a song for you guys today.

EliYah:
- Great! HalleluYah!

Yisrael:
- I don't know the name of it, but it goes something like this.
- [Music Ministry by Yisrael]

EliYah:
- HalleluYah! Thank you for sharing that, brother, a testimony of Yahweh's grace, a good song. I understand you're going to be baptized tomorrow.

Yisrael:
- Yes. I am so excited about that. I'm like yes! I'm going to be baptized correctly.

EliYah:
- HalleluYah. For those of you who don't know, Brother Yisrael, that is his actual name, Israel. I think your brother's name is Judah. Is that right?

Yisrael:
- Actually, I'm the oldest of six, and we all have biblical names. Israel, Abraham, Abigail, Judah, Lydia, and Luke.

EliYah:
- Beautiful. HalleluYah. He is near Y & T in the chat room. In fact, they're in the same house now, I think.

Yisrael:
- Yes.

EliYah:
- They're connecting together and listening to the study. He's going to be baptized by Brother Yahosef tomorrow. That's the plan. Is that right?

Yisrael:
- Tomorrow afternoon about 3:00, I believe.

EliYah:
- HalleluYah.

Yisrael:
- HalleluYah!

EliYah:
- We'll continue to keep you in prayer, as well, brother, and so glad to hear of another person coming to the knowledge of the truth. We trust that Yahweh will continue to guide you and lead you into His awesome ways.

Yisrael:
- Thank you, thank you.

EliYah:
- HalleluYah.

Yisrael:

EliYah:
- Shalom to you.

Yisrael:
- Shalom.

EliYah:
- Yisrael, that's a great name to have and a great song, too, he shared, an important message there for all of us. It's through Yahushua HaMashiach that we all have salvation. Blessed be His name.
- Looking now, let's see if there were any other questions while we were waiting. I can go ahead and take some prayer requests at this time, while we're waiting, if you'd like. If you have a prayer request, feel free to post that to the chat room, and we'll do what we can to put that on the list and offer a prayer up to Yahweh together, as Yahweh's people. HalleluYah.
- I think it might be Brother Bill again.

Bill:
- Yes, it is.

EliYah:
- Shalom, brother.

Bill:
- I have a question concerning talking to other people in churches about Yahushua. As far as some places, the name is not really received, and other places they're not sure about it. I feel that there's a chance for us to get His real name out there. That's what He calls us to do.
- I just want to ask you, what do you think about us going into churches that are Jesus churches and talking about Yahushua to people and witnessing and maybe even bringing people to that truth concerning His real name?

EliYah:
- I think it's a fantastic idea. We know, as I was saying, the apostles, particularly Paul, several times he went into synagogues and tried to bring people who were unbelievers into a saving faith and knowledge of Yahushua the Messiah, to a higher way of truth. And as long as we're strong in Yahweh and those who are with us are strong in Yahweh, then I don't see anything wrong.
- In fact, I think it's great. In fact, you could actually, if somebody had the time, I think, they could actually go from town to town, speaking in various assemblies or just sitting there and finding out who the seekers are.
- Where are Yahweh's people? I think a lot of people that are in the churches today are Yahweh's people indeed. They believe in the Messiah. They just haven't come into some of these other areas of understanding that we've come to and are just ignorant.
- But Yahweh has accepted them, and we need to reach them with this truth, and there will be a few--there won't be many. Don't expect a crowd, but there will be a few who are willing to hear what we have to say.
- Even if they don't follow it right away, a seed is being sown, which another person may water later. As long as we're strong in Yahweh and that's our calling, that's what we feel He wants us to do, I think it's great.

Bill:
- That's what I feel He's calling me to do in many different locations. I lift up the name everywhere I go, and I guess I would ask for prayer in that matter, because I do pray for those that are in the Jesus name movement to come to the enlightenment of the real truth, that there would be an increase in the body of Yahushua, and the enlightenment would be spread for His glory and His purpose.

EliYah:
- Absolutely.

Bill:
- So I do ask for a lot of people to pray for me in that fashion. I believe He's opened the door for me to do it in a few places and especially a couple of churches. My question is I have children, and I take them to those churches, just for that reason, because they say the name Yahushua.
- I just wanted to know your opinion on that. Do you think that's wrong, having them in Sunday school to speak Yahushua?

EliYah:
- I certainly would be very, very cautious about taking them to Sunday school. I don't even agree with the whole idea of Sunday school to begin with. I believe children need to be with their parents and listen to the message the way the parents listen to the message and participate in that.
- To send them off somewhere else, I just don't feel that's of Yahweh to begin with. But you've got to realize that those Sunday schools, the people in the various churches, they all have the big smiles, and they all have got the big front, and they're all so friendly. They want you to be a part of their church.
- So that can be very alluring to children. We've got to be careful and realize that behind those smiles is some real falsehoods. Children aren't necessarily of age to where they're able to handle that kind of thing, and we have to be real cautious about that.
- The way I believe an assembly should operate, to begin with, is that the children are taught in front of everyone right there. Sit them all up front and have a special 20-minute teaching or something for them, and then they go back with the adults.
- I think that's good. If you need to keep their hands busy or something, maybe they're coloring or doing something during the message, they could actually concentrate better, and a lot goes into their minds when they're working with their hands doing something.

Bill:
- I guess that's what I needed to hear.

EliYah:
- Yeah. If you're going to go into those--I've seen this happen, I don't know how many times, where someone says, "We're going to keep going to this church, even though we don't agree with them." And then when their children get older, they don't want to leave that church.

Bill:
- Oh, yeah, that's not good.

EliYah:
- So they get kind of mix-matched, one foot on one side and one foot on the other, sitting on the fence. So it can really--you come in, you share what you need to share, you see who sticks with it, and move on. I'd be very cautious about bringing the children in.
- We actually did that in a church up here on the hill a few years ago. We went up to Friendship Baptist Church. Of course, I had quite a few things to say to them. The first week we were there, the pastor was talking about how he was saved and everything, and it actually was a pretty good message. I kind of enjoyed it.
- Then the next week we went, the pastor there was talking about how he was saved. Then I said okay. The third week we went there, the pastor was talking about how he was saved. The fourth week I went there, he was talking about the same thing.
- I thought, how can people come here and listen to this broken record? It's great that you're saved, but what's next? Let's move on in the Spirit.
- So I shared with them the truth about the Sabbath, and he let me pass it out to everybody there. Of course, it was a pretty tough crowd, because one lady had been going there 70 years.
- It was difficult, but he said, "You're not going to change us." Okay. So I asked him if he believed in keeping the Ten Commandments, and he said, "Yes."
- I said, "Well, what about the fourth one?" He said, "Well, we keep Sunday." I said, "Well, what does the Ten Commandments say?" "Well, the seventh day of the week." I asked, "But what do you do?" He said, "Well, I keep Sunday." I said, "That isn't the right day. It doesn't say that." He said, "I know."
- I said, "So what are you trying to say, that you don't follow the Ten Commandments or you do follow them?" He said, "Well, I do follow them." I said, "But you're not keeping the right day of the week. That's not the day set apart as being holy." He said, "Yeah, I know."
- So it kind of went back and forth until finally he basically admitted he didn't follow the scriptures. So we actually can go into some places. This group was real small, maybe ten people were going there, and they were all older folks and kind of tough to change them.
- There was one younger lady that was there I think that actually got some conviction. So we can do that. I think it's a good way to witness. They won't come to us; we'll go to them.

Bill:
- Right.

EliYah:
- But just be real careful. Don't be condemning. You're not going to get anywhere with that.

Bill:
- I've been prayed out at churches and actually told to leave, too, not because I was being condemning or anything, but I was just bringing up the name Yahushua, and a whole bunch of stuff spiritually came at me that was really just unbelievable.

EliYah:
- Yeah.

Bill:
- So we have to be careful there. You're right.

EliYah:
- That's great, brother, that you're doing that. We're going to pray for you today.

Bill:
- Well, thank you.

EliYah:
- That Yahweh will be effective in you, and He'll prepare the hearts of those to receive the word that you're going to share.

Bill:
- I appreciate that. That's good, thank you.

EliYah:
- Good to hear from you again. Yahweh bless you and your family.

Bill:
- Bless you. Thank you. You, too.

EliYah:
- Shalom.

Bill:
- Bye-bye.

EliYah:
- Brother Bill. Good to hear from you, brother. We're going to pray for him. Looks like we've gotten some other prayer requests while we were on the phone. I think that will probably be our last phone call. We may take one more. If somebody has something they would like to share, we might take one more.
- The subject matter today, the book of Galatians, we're going to continue that next week into Galatians 3. Then the following week, we're going to look at chapter 4 and possibly 5 together.
- I don't see any other questions. Meanwhile, I'm going to share another song, so I can compile the different prayer requests that have come in. This one is called, "Give Thanks." This is by the Rocheport folks there. I think this is one of the Wilson boys and his wife singing, YAIM, Yahweh's Assembly in Messiah.
- [Music Ministry: "Give Thanks"]

EliYah:
- HalleluYah. Give thanks unto Yahweh for His goodness toward us. We are so very blessed to have salvation through Yahushua our Master. Yahweh just pours out the blessings on us continually. The day is going to come, brethren, when--we're talking about being able to go out and reach people with the things we have been learning in the Torah and His Word, the New Testament, too.
- We have an opportunity right now to really reach people without having to get a whole lot of persecution for it. Any work we are doing, it's just like a golden opportunity. It really is. It says in the book of Daniel--we were looking at that this week--Daniel 12, it says:

Daniel 12:3 - Those who are wise shall shine Like the brightness of the firmament, And those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars forever and ever.

Victorah:
- Yes.

EliYah:
- All right, brother. Thanks for calling in. You might want to turn down your volume, because there's a delay.

Victorah:
- Shabbat Shalom. Yeah, I'm going to go in the other room.

EliYah:
- Okay.

Victorah:
- Shabbat Shalom, EliYah.

EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom to you.

Victorah:
- I just wanted to say something towards the study that we had today.

EliYah:
- Okay.

Victorah:
- I don't know if it's really relevant or anything, but you were talking about the Pharisees and the false Pharisees coming in teaching their version of the good news.
- It's my understanding there was division among the Pharisees. Some were somewhat willing to open their hearts and believe some of the things, and then some were very stubborn-hearted. Yahushua called them vipers, and their father was of the devil, and that sort of thing.
- Then Saul was approached by Yahushua and then became converted. Was there possibly other conversions of the Pharisees? Or do you think, because of their sort of like devilish cult, they never actually humbled their hearts to the true good news?

EliYah:
- Okay. I'm looking for a scripture here. This will help us to get a perspective. It's in the book of Acts, chapter 21, verse 20.

Acts 21:20 - And when they heard [it], they glorified YAHWEH. And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many myriads of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law;

Victorah:
- Yeah.

EliYah:
- But I think what happened was they cleaved to the Torah, and a lot of them became Nazarenes, if you read through history. They were Torah-keeping Jews who also believed in Yahushua, but they received a tremendous amount of persecution, particularly after the temple was destroyed.
- They were getting it from both sides. The Jews hated them, because they believed in Messiah, and then the Romans in the Gentile world hated them, because they acted like Jews keeping Torah. So what emerged out of that was Christianity, which believes in keeping certain commandments, except for the ones that make you look Jewish.
- So that's how all that came about, but I think there was a tremendous amount of believers. So that's one of the reasons why Paul was facing that kind of pressure that some of them were not really coming out completely for Yahushua. They were more so afraid they might get persecuted by their fellow Pharisees. That's pretty much happened in Galatians 2.

Victorah:
- That would have made more sense why Paul was persuading Peter, Kepha, not to be doing what he was doing, because he wouldn't be of no use helping, saving any Pharisees at all.

EliYah:
- Right. Not only was he hindering Gentiles, he was also hindering the work of Messiah in Judaism. The truth is that there was an overall cultural pressure, even in the first century, as we quoted in Acts 10, where they felt it was unlawful for a Jewish man to go to one of another nation or to keep company with them, let alone eat with them.
- So they were very much against that, and so when it came time to eat there in Antioch, Peter really didn't have any problem eating with Gentiles until these other folks came along that were of the circumcision, and then he was kind of acting in fear of man.
- That's when Paul had to reprove him, and it was very huge pressures happening there in Antioch and elsewhere, because a lot of them were coming to faith.

Victorah:
- I didn't understand why any one of the Pharisees arose, like Paul, was known. I didn't know where they went, because I knew they had to be convicted in their hearts somewhere down the line, some of them anyway.

EliYah:
- Yeah. I think that's where they all ended up, eaten by lions or something like that.

Victorah:
- Oh, really?

EliYah:
- Because if you think about the culture--and I've mentioned this before. Imagine if all of the African Americans all joined together in Georgia and decided they're going to separate from the rest of the United States, and they all joined together. Of course, this wouldn't happen, but suppose they did. Then we had to go to war against them, and there was a huge amount of conflict there. And suppose the United States won?
- What do you think would happen, most white people, what kind of attitude they would have toward African Americans? It would be pretty negative. Anything dealing with African American culture. The same was true in first century when Jews rose up against Rome and against that government.
- So afterward, even though they defeated the Jews, they had to do it twice. There was a lot of anti-Jewish anything, and so a lot of those people that cleaved to things that appeared to be Jewish, keeping kosher, keeping Sabbath, keeping feast days and so on, wearing tassels, anything that made you look Jewish, there was a tremendous amount of persecution toward Jews.
- The question for Gentiles, when they came into the faith, are they going to join that and get persecuted and killed? Or are they going to continue to--it was kind of half-heartedly follow the Torah. And that's where it's at.
- You've got Jews that some of them were keeping Torah and focused on the Torah, and Yahushua is sort of in the background. Then there was Gentiles who were Yahushua everything, but then Torah is sort of in the background.
- What we need is a right balance, Revelation 14:12

Revelation 14:12 - Here is the patience of the saints; here [are] those who keep the commandments of Elohim and the faith of Yahushua.

Victorah:
- Right. Well, that's great. I'm glad you put a little insight there. I'd like to say to everybody there, Shabbat Shalom, and I like your little jingle about shalom in the home.

EliYah:
- HalleluYah.

Victorah:
- You have a great one. It's been a pleasure speaking with you.

EliYah:
- Thank you, brother. Thanks for calling in. Shalom to your home.

Victorah:
- Okay. Bye-bye.

EliYah:
- HalleluYah. F. Victorah. I like that name. Pretty ingenious little title there. Victorious from the Torah and Yahushua. HalleluYah. Looking down through the line here, if there was any other questions. I don't think I see anything. I think we've got all the prayer requests. I'm going to share one more song. That will be our last phone call, by the way.
- We're going to need to close out the meeting here soon. If you have any more prayer requests, feel free to post that to the chat room. We'll certainly include you in prayer after this next song.
- I think we'll go ahead and play a song from my library here. I think there have been several requests for Kara to play a song, as well, so we're going to give her the opportunity to do that. HalleluYah.
- This song is called "Im Ta Amdo Bevari [phonetic]." What that means in Hebrew is "If you abide in my word, you are my disciples, and the truth shall set you free, and you shall be free indeed." This is a Hebrew song that is based on that scripture. This is sung by... I don't know how that got on there. Sorry about that.
- We got this new program called Sam something, and for some reason, when I click that song, it has some other kind of funny little riff. [laughs] But that was kind of funny. I'm going to try it again. Hopefully, it doesn't do it again. This is called "Im Ta Amdo Bevari." Hopefully, it doesn't do it again.
- Well, pardon me here. We're going to try it again. I don't know, I'm not clicking a button right or something, so I'm going to get out my trusty Windows Media Player, like I normally do, and try to play this song. This is a little crazy today, but this is by Elisheva Shomron. "Im Ta Amdo Bevari." HalleluYah.
- [Music Ministry: "Im Ta Amdo Bevari"]

Kara:
- Hi, I'm going to sing the same song I sang last week called "Shine a Light."
- [Music Ministry by Kara: "Shine a Light"]

Kara:
- HalleluYah! Yah bless y'all. Shabbat Shalom.
- [Music Ministry: "Lead Me to the River of Your Healing Waters"]

EliYah:
- HalleluYah. Yahweh is faithful. He is true. HalleluYah. I appreciate every one of you. I look forward to seeing you again next week. Yahweh bless you and keep you. Yahweh make His face shine upon you and be gracious unto you. Yahweh lift His countenance to you and give you His shalom. Shabbat Shalom. Everyone have a great week. We love you all.

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