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Does Ephesians 2:15 say that the Torah-law Has Been Abolished?

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In the comments section of this blog, someone just asked the question whether Ephesians 2:15 is referring to the Torah, as the Christian church typically teaches. Here is what it says:

For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. (Ephraim 2:14–16)

Here is my explanation:

What does Ephraim 2:15 really say? Does it say that Yeshua abolished the law? NO! How could it say this when Yeshua said he came to establish the Torah-law and to bring it into its fuller dimension (Matt 5:17), and that not one jot or tittle of it would pass away as long as heaven and earth are here (Matt 5:18), and that the saints would be rewarded eternally based on their obedience to the Torah-law (Matt 5:19)? And then Yeshua goes on to explain the importance of obedience to both the spirit and letter of the Torah-law in the rest of his Sermon on the Mount (Matt 5–7). 

Moreover, how could Ephesians 2:15 mean that YHVH’s Torah-law was done away with when in numerous places Paul upholds the law and declares that he is obedient to it and that he has not violated even one jot or tittle of it, just like Yeshua said? 

Think people think! Let’s not let the silly, illogical, twisting of Scripture and cherry-picked out of contest out arguments of our somewhat biblically ignorant Christian friends dictate our understanding of the Word of Elohim. For example, would you go to a first grader to answer your questions about advanced mathematics or physics. Would you seek a child’s advice and expertise on how to build a house are rebuild an engine? I think not. Sadly, and in reality, most Christians are babies when it comes to understanding the details of Scriptures. All that most of them know how to do is to regurgitate the lies that they have heard from the pulpits. Beyond that, they have little or no knowledge or skill when it comes to rightly dividing the Word of Elohim. So, again, let’s not let these neophytes interpret Scripture for us. 

Not only that, when we repeat faulty interpretations of Scripture, we run the risk of making ourselves look like the same childish fools as those who proffer such lies and misinformation about Scripture. So instead of repeating the lies, let’s step back and logically think our way through the issues, just as I have taught the reader how to do above.

So what does Ephraim 2:15 mean if it is not referring to the Torah law? In reality, this verse says nothing at all about the Torah-law. It simply mentions that Yeshua abolished “commandments” and “ordinances”. Whose commandments and ordinances? Those of Elohim’s or men? We have just proven above that Elohim’s laws have not been done away with, so what is left? It’s a simple process of elimination. This is simple syllogistic logic. 

So what is the real issue in Ephesians chapter two? Paul is making the point that the Gentiles are now part of the nation and covenant promises of Israel through Yeshua. (For context, go read Eph 2 starting in verse 11.). He is battling the Jewish idea that the Gentiles were second class citizens and had no place with Israel and no relationship with Elohim unless they endured an elaborate conversion process including physical circumcision. As such, the Jews looked down on the Gentiles as second class citizens because they were not ethnic or biological Jews. This is the enmity that Paul is talking about in this verse. These are the traditions and dogmas of men (not of Elohim or the Bible) that Yeshua came to obliterate, so that the Gentiles could now receive the gospel message and be part of the kingdom of Elohim where there is neither Jew nor Greek (Gal 3:28), but “the one new man” as Ephesians 2:15 states. 

Actually the Old Testament was very inclusive of Gentiles, if those Gentiles chose to sojourn with Israel and worship and obey the Elohim of Israel. For example, Ruth was a Moabitess. Rahab was a Canaanite. Caleb was an Amalakite. Ephraim and Manasseh were half Egyptian. Moses married a black Ethiopian woman. Moreover, the Torah states in numerous places that there was one law for both the Israelite and the foreign Gentile that chose to become part of Israel. This is because a mixed (non-Israelite) multitude come out of Egypt at the exodus with Israel. This is also because when Israel conquered its enemies, some of the conquered people chose to become part of Israel, and the Torah makes allowances and provision for this. 

Moreover, YHVH commanded the Israelites to be a spiritual light to the nations around them (Deut 4:6), so that the Gentiles would come to the light of YHVH’s Truth (Isa 60:1–3). Additionally, when Israel fulfilled its divine mission to evangelise the Gentiles, not only would the foreigner be able to join himself to Israel because they came to the light of YHVH’s truth (Isa 56:3ff), but that same foreigner would actually eventually have the opportunity and privilege of serving in YHVH’s temple as priests (Isa 66:19–21 cp. 1 Pet 2:9; Rev 1:6; 5:10; 20:6).

Thus, the fulfillment of YHYVH’s greater plan for evangelizing the whole world was being thwarted in Paul’s day by unbiblical and man-made Jewish traditions, dogmas, commandments and rituals that hindered if not prevented Gentiles from coming to the glorious light of the gospel Truth and coming to know Elohim (1 John 2:3–6), and learning how to love him by keeping his Torah commandments (John 14:15, 21; Rom 13:8–10). 

This is what Paul is really saying in Ephesians 2:15. And, as they say, now you know the rest of the story—the whole truth and nothing but the truth!

 

Vayikra-Tzav on True Holiness, YOU & the Sacrificial System, & Origins of Communion

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Have YOU Fallen for the Church’s BIG Lie?

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For certain, you will never hear this message preached in your church, but your salvation and eternal depends on knowing the truth of what the Bible calls “the lie”. If you fall for this BIG LIE, it can damn you eternally. The message of this video is backed up by the Truth of the Scripture, the Word of Elohim. Ignore it at your own peril. This is neither understatement nor hyperbole. It is not fear porn, because I have nothing to sell you, and there is nothing in it for me personally by preaching this message. It is simply the Truth that needs to be heard. Period.

 

Bible Truths the Mainstream Church Fails to Teach (Pt 1)

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In this video, we bring to your conscious awareness a number of fundamental and important Bible truths that mainstream Christianity largely fails to teach. They include, among others things, a fundamental aspect of the basic gospel message, the false Jew-Gentile paradigmatic view of the New Testament, the truth of the kingdom of Elohim (God) and the Millennium, some things Elohim said NOT TO FORGET, but that the church has forgotten, as well as what Elohim’s chief attribute is (it’s not what you’ve been incorrectly taught!). Part two of this subject will follow shortly with more Bible truths the church conveniently overlooks. So stay tuned…

 

Frauds in the Messianic, Hebrew Roots Movement Exposed

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WARNING! THIS IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART OR RELIGIOUS GAME-PLAYERS. IT IS FOR THOSE WHO ARE SERIOUS ABOUT THEIR SPIRITUAL WALK. In this video, Nathan Lawrence calls out fakers, frauds, talkers and white-washed sepulcher hypocrites who are part of the so-called Messianic or Hebrew roots movement. This is a call to repentance and for everyone everywhere to get right with YHVH-Yeshua in preparation for his second coming and to stop playing nefarious games with His Torah-Word.

 

YHVH’s Torah-Law: Yeshua and the Apostles Versus the Church

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What the Mainstream Christian Church Teaches

If you have spent anytime in the mainstream Christians church, you have heard taught that the law of Moses (YHVH Elohim’s Torah-law) was “done away with” or words to that effect. Is this what Yeshua the Messiah and his apostles really taught? How do those who teach that the law of Elohim has been annulled, replaced by the New Covenant and is thus, to a large degree, no longer applicable to Christians reconcile this view with the plethora of Scriptures that say otherwise? They cannot. 

No! The false teachers in the Christian church who teach that the law or commandments of Elohim have been done away with have spread before the people of Elohim a table full of vomit and are encouraging, no brainwashing, the people to eat of their fare. 

These doctrines and teachings of the mainstream church are nothing more than the traditions of men by which the clear, unchangeable and indisputable Word of Elohim has been made of none effect, which is something for which Yeshua castigated the religious leaders of his day (Mark 7:8–13; Matt 15:3–9), which is a stern warning to every so called follower of Yeshua today. 

Yes, as Paul astutely wrote and is as true now as when he  penned these words, “the carnal mind is enmity against Elohim; for it is not subject to the law of Elohim, nor indeed can be,” (Rom 8:7). The prophet Jeremiah had something similar to say about the carnal, rebellious and sinful nature of man as well especially when it comes to obeying the Creator’s commandments: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jer 17:9). 

Yes, sadly, a long time ago, the leaders of the mainstream church chose to follow the inclinations of their evil hearts and contrived cunningly devised and pernicious justifications, philosophies and unbiblical doctrines of men to circumvent many if not most of the commandments of Elohim. These doctrines of men by which the Word of Elohim has been made of none effect were then codified into theologies, institutionalized into catechisms and doctrinal statements, and then taught in their institutions of education to be passed onto successive generations of deceived people. How sad and vile! 

This has been a vast calumny against the  clear Word of Elohim orchestrated by Satan the devil himself, who was the first one to question the Word of Elohim at the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden, thus deceiving the first humans to believe the lie that YHVH did not mean what he said when he gave them commandments to obey. This lying deception led to the first sin and man being cut off from Elohim. 

The so-called early fathers starting in the second century A.D. fell for the same Satanic deception and bought into the same lie as Adam and Eve. These lies were largely institutionalized in A.D. 325 at the famous Council of Nicea as led and orchestrated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine. This was the nascence of the Roman Catholic Church, which has subsequently passed this false teaching on to all of her harlot daughters and to the spawn that has flowed therefrom. 

So why can’t more people see the fact that the mainstream church is incongruent with the biblical Truth they claim to follow? Especially, why can’t the religious leaders with their vast amount of education and advanced degrees including knowledge of biblical linguistics see this? As the saying goes, this is not rocket science! There are many answers to the question why so many Christian leaders are blind to one of the most obvious aspects of biblical Truth. We have already answered this question in part above. Additionally, for many, if not most, its the love of money, or power, or fame, prestige, and the social acceptance that comes from not questioning the status quo. But there is another reason to consider why the erudite have failed to comprehend obvious biblical Truth. It is this: YHVH declared that he would use the foolish and base things of this world (like your author) to confound the wise. Why? That no flesh may glory, and that all the glory should go to Elohim. As we read,

Because the foolishness of Elohim is wiser than men; and the weakness of Elohim is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: but Elohim hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and Elohim hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;  and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath Elohim chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence. (1 Cor 1:25–29)

Moreover, those people who are Truth seekers and who go against the prevailing current of the mainstream Christian church and begin to study YHVH’s Torah-law, guess what? According to David, the study of the Torah makes one wiser than one’s enemies and teachers. This includes all of the doctors and professors in all of the Christian seminaries who teach that the law was done away with! Says David of those who study YHVH’s Torah,

Oh, how I love Your Torah-law! It is my meditation all the day. You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies; for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep Your precepts. (Ps 119:97–100)

The psalmist’s prediction was realized when the non-formally educated disciples of Yeshua were arrested and hauled before the Jewish religious elite of their day. In the Book of Acts it is recorded,

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Yeshua. (Acts 4:13)

What were the apostles’ only credentials? They had sat at the feet of the Yeshua the Messiah­—a Torah teacher.

What does this mean for the saints of Elohim in our day?

It is now time for the true saints of YHVH Elohim and the disciples of Yeshua to wake up to the hard cold fact, as hard to believe and as unpopular as such a realization may be, that they have been deceived and have inherited lies from the church system, and that they need to come out of the harlot system of the whore of Babylon (Rev 18:1–4). It is high time to get back to the Bible in preparation for the coming of our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah, who will judge us all on the basis of the whole counsel of his Word including his Torah-law (Matt 5:19).

The following is a list of phrases that the teachers in the mainstream church continually vomit forth to supposedly justify why YHVH’s Torah-law is no longer relevant to the New Testament saint. Read through this list, and then go on and see what Yeshua and his apostles taught on this subject. Then ask yourself this question: Who is right: the church or the Bible? Then go and do the right thing.

  • We are not under law anymore; we are now under grace.
  • The law was nailed to the cross; it was done away with.
  • Christ fulfilled the law for us so that we don’t have to do it.
  • Christ is the end of the law.
  • One is either under law or under grace; law and grace are mutually exclusive terms; when it comes to law and grace it is “either or,” “not both and.”
  • We have been freed from the works of the law.
  • We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law; therefore, we do not need the law anymore.
  • The law was against us.
  • We are obligated to keep the moral aspects of the law, not the ceremonial aspects of the law.
  • It is a curse to keep the law.
  • The Epistle to the Galatians offers a convincing argument against the law.
  • Love is the fulfilling of the law. All we have to do know is to walk in love.
  • The curse of the law.
  • We’re dead to the law.
  • If we keep the law, we have fallen from grace.
  • The law was for the Jews, not the Gentiles.
  • Since we are not justified by the works of the law, we don’t have to keep the law.

What Yeshua Taught About the Torah-Law

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