Scripture is the world’s most amazing book. Not only does it read as if the same author (the Spirit) wrote the whole thing, but it reads like a new book every time.

What fascinates some scholars, however, is how Scripture pieces together as the world’s most amazing puzzle. With most puzzles, when you piece 85-90% of it together you have an idea what the final picture looks like. With Scripture, however, when one has pieced some 85-90% of it together, one usually ends up with an inverted picture. No other puzzle is like that.

Christians understand that all they have is some 85-90% of the puzzle; but in understanding so much, they think they understand it all. For this reason they refuse to learn the other 10-15%, because to do so would upset the cozy mistaken picture they have gotten so accustomed to.

The Church is quite comfortable with their belief that the Messiah came to do away with physical circumcision. Notice, however, that there was never any prophecy the Messiah would come to do away with physical circumcision (or the Law of Moses). In fact, quite the opposite is true. 

There are other passages which tell us that it is still important to keep the law. The Book of Revelation, for example, indicates that the ‘saints’ are those who both believe in Yeshua, and keep the Commandments:

The Church insists that the Apostles were given the ability to re-write these Commandments to suit. This, however, is based upon the same passage in Matthew which the Catholic Church uses to justify their claim to a so-called ‘Apostolic Succession’:

 

 

 

The Church tells us that this passage means the Apostles were demigods, given the ability to bind and loose things upon earth; and that Heaven would respect whatever the Apostles bound and loosed, since they now had Yeshua’s authority. However, as we saw in the chapter titled ‘The Papacy as anti-Messiah’, the correct translation of this passage actually is:

This passage does not indicate that the Apostles were given supernatural powers to bind things in the Heaven. What it indicates is that the Apostles would listen to the Voice of the Spirit so well, that whatever Elohim had already ordained, they would bind. 

This passage does not indicate that the Apostles would be ‘loose cannons’, justified by the Father in doing their own will. Rather, what it indicates is that they would be obedient vessels of His will.

 

However, once again, the Spirit had the Apostles write Scripture in such a way as to allow it to be easily misinterpreted. The purpose of inspiring it this way was just exactly so that misunderstandings could exist (and the Church could easily expand) until the prophesied two-thousand years of Hosea 6:2 was over. 

The Church needed to be able to misinterpret the 85-90% of the Scriptures they understood, in order that the Good News of Yeshua might be spread to the ends of the earth just that much faster.

The truth, however, is that there is no prophecy that the Messiah would do away with any of the laws of the Torah. In fact, just the opposite is true.  YHWH tells us that even his minor ordinances could never depart, or else Israel would be destroyed forever:

 

The Church uses this prophecy to tell us that the Jews really were wicked and sinful; and that YHWH cast them away forever. However, we know that this is one of the stumbling-blocks hidden in the prophecies, because YHWH also tells us (us in several places) that Jacob’s seed would not come to an end:

 

 

 

At the time of the Dream of Jacob’s Ladder, Elohim promised that He would bring all of Israel’s many tribes back to the Land of Israel; and that He would give them that Land:

 

 

 

Therefore, unless we are prepared to call YHWH a liar, we need to believe that His people are still here, and that His Laws still apply to them.

 

There are, however, some who believe that while the Christians are the prophetic (and/or the literal) descendants of the Lost Ten Tribes, that not all of the Torah still applies. These generally believe that even though the Messiah said that not even the least thing would pass from the Torah, that somehow the Torah was changed at the time of Yeshua’s death.

What can we say about this?

We know from Genesis One that living beings reproduce after their own kinds. We also know that Joseph and Asenath’s children were hybrids; and that Asenath’s pagan priestly genetics led the Ephraimites to want to be spiritual, but in other than Hebraic ways. 

We also know that Jeroboam’s Ephraim wanted to modify the Torah to suit their own pleasure, and still have it reckoned as the true worship, simply because they wished it to be so.

It is not therefore very surprising that the Christians also refuse to obey Elohim’s Laws. They want to worship in their own way, rather than obey. That is Christianity, in a nutshell.

And, more than any other, if there is one commandment the Christians do not want to obey, it is the requirement of adult male circumcision. Christian pastors can misquote Shaul’s letters seemingly ad-infinitum, to tell us that physical circumcision has now been done away with, despite the fact that Kefa tells us Shaul’s epistles are easy to misunderstand:

 

Let us also not forget Acts 21, in which the Apostle Ya’akov (or James) confronts Shaul directly, telling him that the Apostles in Jerusalem had heard that he taught against physical circumcision; and then instructed Shaul to clarify his position through a public act of Torah observance, so that all Israel would know that he still taught all the Laws of Moses (including physical circumcision):

 

 

 

The reason this passage was included in the Book of Acts was to tell us that the Apostles had heard that Shaul taught against physical circumcision, but that the rumors proved to be false.

In order to demonstrate publicly that the rumors against him were false, Shaul publicly demonstrated his continuing allegiance to the whole Law of Moses (including circumcision) by paying to publicly separate not only his own Nazirite vow, but also the Nazirite vows of four other men:

 

 

Since this episode takes place near the very end of Shaul’s ministry, what this passage ought to tell us is that if any man thinks to use any of Shaul’s epistles as so-called ‘proofs’ that physical circumcision has been done away with, he is in violation of Scripture.

The Christians, however, point to Acts Chapter Fifteen (the so-called ‘Jerusalem Council’) as proof that physical circumcision was done away with, since Acts was written by Luke. The Church tells us that Acts Chapter Fifteen is where the Apostles ruled that physical circumcision no longer applies to the gentiles (but only to the Jews).

But is that really what Acts Chapter Fifteen says? What sense would it make?

If the Apostles ruled that physical circumcision only applies to the Jews, then does that not seem to imply that the Jews are still a Covenant people? How does this jive with the Church’s dogma that the Jews are now done away with, as a people?

But did the Apostles rule against the eternal Covenant? Or is the Church’s interpretation similar to the serpent’s lie, telling Havvah (or Eve) that she no longer had to obey all of Elohim’s Commandments?