By Jonah Doctura | 2015INTRODUCTION
Around 800 BCE, YHWH sent a warning via the prophet Hosea to the people of the northern tribes of Israel, commonly referred to as Ephraim. He said to them: Hosea 4:6 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your G-D, I also will forget your children. The Jewish people pray daily for justice to be restored. They know that one of the major factors causing such injustice in the land is a lack of Torah knowledge. If you’re going to have godly justice, you have to have a working knowledge of God’s laws. The Synagogue system was designed to provide and instill into the minds of the Jewish people a good working knowledge of His Torah. When we look on how the Synagogue operates, especially the roles of those who participate in it, and how it fit into the Jewish lifestyle, we can better understand How Yeshua walked in those days. Without the Temple, the Synagogue became the place to praise Abba Elohim Pray, read the Torah, the Psalms, and the Prophets, and to study His instructions, the Torah. In fact, at most Synagogues were an adjoining structure called the “beit midrash” or “house of study”. Watch the Message >>
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By Jaime Noriega | 2015INTRODUCTION
In order to follow the commandments of the L-RD, we need to acknowledge that are things that He commanded us to do and other things that He commanded us NOT to do. One of those things is not to worship Him in the way pagans worship their gods (Deuteronomy 12:29-32). Pagans worshipped all sort of things including sun, moon, stars, trees, animals and even man-made idols. However, sun-god worship was one of the most popular forms of paganism. Pagans believe that the sun was born or re-born right around December 25 each year. Real facts about Christmas This Pagan celebration was merged into Christianity hundreds of years after Yeshua died and it was know before as "midwinter", "yule", "saturnalia" and "Dies Natalis Solis Invicti" - (Birthday of Sol Invictus). The Protestant Reformation leaders wanted to abolish Christmas observance because of its deeply Pagan roots associated with the Birth of a variety of Pagan Sun-gods traced back to ancient Babylon and the cult of Nimrod. G-D detests the ways of the Pagans Yeshua was not born in December 25th; He was born in the time of the Feast of Tabernacles, according to the account of the Bible. The Christmas evergreen tree finds its roots in ancient Babylonian fertility-god worship. It is a symbol of the male reproductive organ and the wreath is the corresponding female reproductive organ. its balls represent fertility and tinsel, semen. When people bow down before these pagan idols to receive gifts from them, they are worshipping the sun-god. After having this evidence the question is, Is it right to celebrate Christmas? Also read Deut 12:2; 1 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 16:4, 17:10; 2 Chro 28:4, Isaiah 57:5; Jeremiah 2:20, 3:6,13; Ez 6:13. Notice that these passages make reference to Spiritual Adultery. Watch the Message >> By Jonah Doctura | 2015INTRODUCTION
"In the Beginning" is the foundation of everything that takes place afterwards. It is His foundation. Ancient Jewish experts underscored that in every letter -word- verse, we can derive 70 facets or meanings; hidden treasures "from the beginning". B´reishit - the Hebrew word for "in the beginning" - has many different meanings which point to Messiah Yeshua: Son Created Firstfruit Seth (the son of Adam and Eve who came in the place of Abel) Gift Head Thorns Tree House Covenant Flame/Foundation Aleph (First) In this one word, we have the Son of G-D (Aleph) crowned with thorns upon His head in a tree - the Grain of the First Fruit offering in the Temple with the fire that fell from heaven. The Son of Elohim is the "gift" of the Covenant. YHWH has stablished his Plan of Salvation in the first word of Torah! Also, according to Hebrew Aleph-Bet (Alphabet), Aleph is the first letter and Tav is the last one. The Scripture shows that Yeshua revealed Himself as the Alep-Tav, which means: The Beginning and the End, the First and the Last (Rev 22:13). The Covering For All Who Have Sinned - A Permanent Sacrifice The laws pertaining to blood atonement sacrifices were added because of the transgression of Adam and Eve. When the pre-incarnated Yeshua first made coverings (hebrew kaphar - "to cover, to make atonement", root word for Kippur) for them in the Garden of Eden, He was illustrating Yom Kippur tipology. However, not all animal sacrifices in the Bible were done for sin. There are other animal sacrifices that are done for offering and worship. Yeshua was the "lamb slain from the foundation of the world" (Rev 13:8) and this means that He was always that sacrifice in the eternity, Watch the Message >> INTRODUCTION
The Gospel according to Apostle John was the last of the four Gospels and was believed to had been written towards the end of the first century or early second century just before his death. This was written upon the request of the believers in Asia Minor. John’s gospel is one of the most profound and one of the greatest piece of literature from the first century. The purpose of the Book is "...that ye might believe that Yeshua is the Messiah, the Son of G-d; and that believing ye might have life through His Name.”, according to John 20:31. The message splits in two different messages compounded by seven topics, one for the Jews - to those who denies His Deity and the other for the Gentiles - to those who don´t know Torah. Enjoy watching "The Seven 7´s of John" from minute 1:13:00. Watch the Message >> By Jonah Doctura | 2015INTRODUCTION
The Bible says in Isaiah 7:14 that the L-RD Himself shall give to the people of Israel a sign in order to let them know the Messiah: "The young woman shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name IMMANUEL"- which means G-D is with us. This prophecy reveals that Messiah wouldn´t be born of a man and a woman, but only of a woman. In Genesis 3:15, the First Messianic prophecy in the Bible, we read the promise given to Eve but when we understand that it is about Messiah too. "Her seed" means that the result of the Messiah being born through her is because of HaShem (and not because of Adam). The Messiah would be conceived completely of the woman´s seed alone, and not of the man. But, how can the woman would get pregnant without the help of a man but only with the help of YHWH? John 1:4 says that "...in Him was life." It is a scientific fact that women themselves cannot create life, because"the life of the flesh is in the blood...", according to Lev 17:11 and is the male sperm, when has been united with the female ovum, which gives to the egg the sustance to produce blood by itself. Elohim has wonderfully prepared the virgin birth of His Only Son! When He created woman He made her so that no blood would be able to pass from her to her offspring. That blood is the result of the male. Since Adam was the federal head of the race, it is His blood which transmits Adam´s sin. In order to produce a sinless man and yet be the son of Adam, Elohim must provide a way whereby the Second Adam would have a human body but have not a drop of Adam´s sinful blood. Here, in this panorama of proven scientific biological reason, we see the picture of the sinlessness of the man Yeshua HaMashiach! Watch the Message >> By Jonah Doctura | 2015INTRODUCTION
Heb 8:8 "For finding fault with them, He says, Behold, the days come, says YHWH, when I will make a Renewed covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah..." Jeremiah 31:31 "Behold, the days come, says YHWH, that I will make a Renewed covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah..." The word for "new" in this passage in Jeremiah is the Hebrew word, Chadash, which means to repair or renew. The Renewed Covenant will still have the Torah-Law as the terms of its agreement. Watch the Message >> By Jonah Doctura | 2015INTRODUCTION
The identity of the Gentile Believers is stated in the Bible, related to Israel being G-D´s chosen people. We totally reject the "theology of substitution"; the Gentile believers have not substitued Israel in G-D´s plan. They are grafted in the good olive (which is Israel) through Yeshua HaMashiach. And so if someone is no longer a stranger or a foreigner; that is, is no longer "a person of the nations (a gentile)", but a fellow citizen and member of the “household of Adonai Elohim”, then that makes a person - “an Israelite.” Grafted in as a wild olive branch into the natural olive tree… Read Romans 11:1-24 especially v24 By Jonah Doctura | 2015INTRODUCTION
Jeremiah 31:31-33 “Here, the days are coming,” says יהוה the L-RD, “when I will make a [Re]new [ed] covenant with the house of Isra’el and with the house of Y’hudah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers on the day I took them by their hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt; because they, for their part, violated my covenant, even though I, for my part, was a husband to them,” says יהוה the L-RD. “For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Isra’el after those days,” says יהוה the L-RD: “I will put my תורתי Torah within them and write it on their hearts; I will be their G-D, and they will be my people. No longer will any of them teach his fellow community member or his brother, ‘Know the L-RD’; for all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest; because I will forgive their wickedness and remember their sins no more.” The call for the true believers' return to the Torah is being orchestrated by Ruach HaKodesh: The Jewish people will never see Yeshua as the Christ except in our obedience and walk in the Torah by the Holy Spirit. When unbelieving Jews start to see that we are living out the faith and keeping the Torah, they will begin to turn their hearts toward the Messiah and they will begin moving in faith by the Holy Ghost. They will see that we are returning from exile. They will see our Messiah. And this will result in the Restoration of all Israel! Watch the Message >> By Richard Sison | 2015INTRODUCTION
Many of our detractors will dismiss these practices as not necessary and they believe that there are many Jewish practices that are strange and are quick to dismiss them or worse criticize them. In doing so, they lose some valuable lessons that the children of Israel are teaching us. After all, they were chosen to be a light to the nations (Isa 49:6) and a guide to Elohim´s precepts. Their rejection of the Messiah did not forever annul their calling as a light an a guide as the L-RD intended them to be (Romans 11:29). The ancient sages believed that the judgement has been declared for every human being in Yom Teruah while the verdict is given on Yom Kippur. If the judgement of G-D goes against a person, he has 10 days to amend his ways and repent and seek G-D´s forgiveness and mercy. At a qick glance, we may think that the G-D of Israel seem tough and hard to please and need several days of prayer before we can attain forgiveness. The problem is that Christian theology specially during reformation distorted the practice of repentance. We are being told that a simple sorry, some sort of confession of sin in prayer, we automatically receive forgiveness immediately and we are free of guilt. The verse they often quote is 1 Jn 1:9. The word confess there is "homologeo" in Greek which means "to speek agreeable to the fact and the truth". But what is the fact and what is the truth? The Word of G-D is in fact the Truth! Watch the Message >> By Jonah Doctura | 2015INTRODUCTION
There is a dearth of understanding baptism among Christianity and it is one of the most misunderstood teachings in the Scripture as "immersion". But immersion or the doctrine of washing (baptisms) is as important as knowing the commandment of Elohim. Baptism was and is a Biblical ritual called "tevilah", more commonly known as "mikvah", that has been practiced regularly by all Israel since the days of Moses. In Hebrews 6:1-2, the writer states that the teachings of the Messiah are:
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