The Christian Journey Out Of Babylon

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Matthew (Mattithyahu) 5:17-19   (YAA.  Ya'akov's strict translation)
¹⁷ Do not suppose that I came to tear down the Torah or the Prophets. I did not come to tear them down, but to proclaim them fully. ¹⁸ Because, I tell you for real, until Heaven and earth have passed away, not one Yud [the 10^th and smallest of all Hebrew letters], nor the least stroke [that forms a Hebrew letter], will pass away from the Torah until everything is [passed first]. ¹⁹ Accordingly, if someone pulls down one of the Commandments, he is the inferior one. And whoever teaches men that way, he shall be called 'inferior' in the Kingdom of Heaven. But whoever practices them, and also teaches them, he shall be called 'great' in the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Early Abandonment Of Torah By Christianity

When we diligently study non-doctrinarian history it becomes evident that in the first four centuries of the Christian era haSatan succede in deviating Christians (subtly first, and bluntly later) from the straight Torah Road to Jerusalem. This was the Road that Messiah Yeshua had taught and perfectly observed as an Example for all his followers to do later on. But HaSatan "with the help of his evil moles (wolves in sheep's cloak) — convinced the early Gentile converts that they could comfortably dwell partly in Jerusalem and partly in Babylon. To do this major work of deception, his moles convinced the first Gentile followers of Messiah that Torah was to be observed only by the Jews; therefore, according to that satanic deception, Gentiles had nothing to do with it — they were told they were — free — from it! Since then, Gentiles have ignored — even to this day — that YHWH gave Torah — by Grace — in order to bring Light and continuing Freedom to all the nations of the world through Israel.

1 Peter (Kepha Aleph) 2:9 But you are a Chosen Race, a Royal Priesthood, a Set-apart Nation, a People of His Own, so that you may proclaim [to the Gentiles] the Virtues of The One Who called you out of Darkness into His marvelous Light.

What made this special Nation of Priests (Israel) different was the possession of one of the things that haSatan hates the most in the universe: Torah. He knows that the lack of Torah (Instruction) from YHWH brings Darkness, Dysfunction and Sin upon humanity. Without Torah we are prey to his deceptions. Torah contains the Words of Yeshua in written form; after all, Yeshua is the Torah of YHWH in human flesh.

John (Yohanan) 1:14   (YAA.  Ya'akov's strict translation)
¹⁴ And the Torah became flesh, and dwelt [Lit. spread his tent, or sukka] among us. And we saw His Glory — Glory as of the Only Begotten from the Father, filled with Grace and Truth.

How can we know for sure that Yeshua was/is the Living Torah of YHWH? Because Torah is the Light according to the Scriptures, and Yeshua call himself the Light too. No wonder his followers in the first century called him "HaTorah"!

Psalm (Tehillim) 119:105   (YAA.  Ya'akov's strict translation)
¹⁰⁵ A Lamp for my foot is Your Word [Torah], and a Light for my path.

Proverbs (Mishle) 6:23   (YAA.  Ya'akov's strict translation)
²³ For the Commandment [Mitzvah] is a lamp; and Torah [Instruction, Teaching] is Light; and reproofs that discipline are the Road to Life.

John (Yohanan) 8:12
¹² Then, Yeshua said to them again: "I am being the Light of the world. Following me would not walk one into the Darkness, but will keep the Light of Life."

James the Just (Ya'akov haTsadik), a brother of Yeshua who was a Torah teacher and a strong opponent of Paul of Tarsus, calls Torah the "Torah of Freedom."

James (Ya'akov) 1:25   (YAA.  Ya'akov's strict translation)
²⁵ But who stops to look into the perfect Torah [Instruction] of Freedom and does abide [in it] — not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of deeds — this one is blessed in what he does.

James (Ya'akov) 2:12   (YAA.  Ya'akov's strict translation)
¹² So, speak and act as if you are about to be judged by the Torah of Freedom.

But more importantly, the Highest One Himself, YHWH, says that Torah brings Life.

Deuteronomy (Devarim) 30:14-16   (YAA.  Ya'akov's strict translation)
¹⁴ Because the Word [of Torah] is very near — inside of you, in your mouth and in your heart — so as to do it. ¹⁵ Look, this day I have put in front of you Life and Welfare, or Death and Evil, ¹⁶ since this day I am commanding you to love YHWH Elohim, to walk on His Road and to keep watch of His Commandments, His Statutes and His Judgments [i.e. Torah], and live and be great, and bless YHWH Elohim in the Land that you are coming in to possess.

On Satanic Moles And False Prophets

Now, for Christians the best part of studying Torah is that one day they may find — to their utmost surprise — that Torah is not impossible to be obeyed, as Paul so deceivingly said, and as it would seem to be when looked at from the perspective of Babylon. The fact of the matter is that YHWH said — and He never lies — that Torah is not only possible to be obeyed, but it's not even difficult!!! Observe what He says,

Deuteronomy (Devarim) 30:11-12   (YAA.  Ya'akov's strict translation)
¹¹ For this Commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach. ¹² It is not in Heaven, that you should say, "Who will go up to Heaven for us to get it for us and make us hear it, so that we may observe it?"

Now, who would you better believe: YHWH, Who is the King of the Universe, or Paul of Tarsus, who was a self-proclaimed apostle? Obviously, the choice cannot be easier.

Reality is that the Perfect King of Heaven, and Flawless Judge of the Universe, would NEVER command us to perform any impossibility due to His extreme Sense of Justice. YHWH knows well that a Command which is impossible to be obeyed would constitute a crass injustice on His Side; so He would never do it! We should remember at all times that YHWH is perfectly Just and perfectly Loving; therefore, only haSatan would try to convince us that Elohim has commanded to live according to a Torah we cannot obey. Paul false teachings and philosophies crash down in front of the very Torah he tried so hard to destroy while serving haSatan. Think about it, YHWH never commanded us to do — or not to do — impossible things such as: "You shall flight" or "You shall not breath." Everything that YHWH commanded us is perfectly doable. On the other hand, not to comply with an Instruction (Torah) due to its being impossible, does not constitute a crime (sin) under any judgment. Reality is that if we do not obey His Commandments, Laws, Statutes and Judgments is because we do not care about His Torah (Instruction), but about our own opinions, or because we prefer not to comply with it so that we can enjoy our own passions and goals. How could you be justly judged for not performing an impossibility? Again, we do not comply with the Laws, Statutes of the Almighty because we prefer not to, which clearly constitutes sin.

YHWH, in His infinite Grace and knowing that these two rebellious attitudes majoritarily would be our responses to His Commandments, allotted in Torah a way out from these sins. This would be achieved through Redemption by means of blood Sacrifices. Then, in a Culmination of Love — and because of our hardness of heart expressed in our constant Choice for rebellion against His Torah — He sent the only Son He ever begot to be the Perfect Blood Sacrifice on behalf of all our disobedience. But, it is necessary to understand that Yeshua did not come because we could not obey Torah. He came because we choose not to, or because we choose to do it our way, and not YHWH's Way.

According to the above verse, Deuteronomy (Devarim) 30:11-12, Paul of Tarsus lied every time he said that it is impossible for us to comply with Torah — unless we do it mentally, like he says for example in Romans 7:25. That unscriptural philosophical artifice is a futile attempt at justifying human irresponsibility — but, scripturally speaking, it flatly fails at it. This attempt of Paul is basically unjustifiable.

Complying with Torah in general is one thing; being perfect at it all the time is another. The Hebrew Scriptures surely demonstrate that Righteousness is not being perfect in our obedience to Torah all the time. What this means is that when we put one foot out of the Road, Torah gives us the means to put it back on through Repentance and Confession. For example, king David was a righteous man according the Heart of Elohim, who took lots of pleasure in his obedience of Torah — a fact that can be seen in the marvellous ode to it that he composed, Psalm (Tehillim) 119. This Tehillah is "coincidentally" not only the longest chapter, but also the center of the Holy Book. In it, and many other places in Scriptures, it is evident that David's life was mainly dedicated to YHWH and the obedience of His Torah; but at times he deviated from it in a really bad way. Notwithstanding, David was a righteous man because he would repent and confess his wrongs, thus being restituted to his compliance with Torah. Torah anticipates these human failures and thus provides a way out of them. Repentance and confession are both Torah Commands! These are to be made before the blood sacrifice is applied over the sins of the individual. This way of restituting our righteousness is by the Grace of YHWH found in Torah! How then could Paul of Tarsus deny the Strength of Grace in Torah? He even condemned Torah as being "weak on account of our weaknesses"! ... when in reality it is our weaknesses that are forgiven, and straightened, by the infinite Grace of YHWH as found in Torah. Actually, Torah was given by an Act of Grace of the Almighty in order to instruct us on the only Right Way to live — according to Him. Therefore, whoever opposes Torah not only opposes the only Right Way to live, His direct Instructions and His Grace but, because of all that, opposes YHWH!

Necessary is to say that by shamelessly distorting many verses from Scriptures, as well as by willfully ignoring the context in (and the reason by) which they were written, combined with the use of forbidden Greek (Babylonian) philosophical artifices, haSatan's evil moles successfully convinced early Gentile converts that Yeshua had died to "free" humans from the "slavery of Torah." This blasphemy was taught in opposition to the Fact that Messiah Yeshua came to liberate us all from the eternal Condemnation that Sin (Torah disobedience) carries, and the slavery of the syncretized religious practices that had crept on Torah Judaism.

It was due to such aberrant teaching, which Paul of Tarsus initially planted, that Christians have seen themselves "free" to embrace the most convenient aspects of both Roads, Jerusalem and Babylon. This disaster was cemented when the so-called "fathers of the church," following the example of Paul of Tarsus, syncretized many of their deeply-rooted Gentile philosophies, religious beliefs and foreign methods with the Religion, Belief and Method that Messiah Yeshua had left at his Departure to Heaven. What Yeshua had left after him was an unpolluted, Torah-cleansed, Judaism. He never expressed anything against the Jewish culture and lifestyle ordained in the pages of Torah. As a matter of fact, he lived his Life according to all it Precepts as an enticing example for us to follow, not for us to neglect or abandon. But most of his Torah Teachings, and all his Example of Jewish lifestyle, was altered and even radically abandoned and condemned by those who considered the Jews an inferior race — and, worse yet, "Christ-killers." These Gentiles had no understanding of Torah ... or if they had any, they surely rejected it ... which is even worse. Paul, the lying Herodian from Tarsus, was one of these Gentiles despite his uncorroborated claims of being a "Jew of Jews" from the tribe of Benjamin.

[ A Herodian was a person from the Idumean family of king Herod the "Great." Paul, by his own admission was a Herodian; observe his salutation to his kinsman (relative) Herodion in Romans 16:11. Herodion and Herodias were names that were only used by the descendants of that cruel king, who tried to murder Yeshua in his infancy and whose son abused him later on during his trial. They used the name as a proud show of social distinctiveness.

On the other hand, how can you be a "Jew of Jews" if you are from the tribe of Benjamin? Yeshua, whom Paul tried to supplant and diminish, was truly a Jew of Jews. A Roman citizen from Tarsus could never be so. He claimed this way his pretended Jewishness because he was being accused by, at least, the Messianic Jews of the congregation in Jerusalem of being who he was, a Herodian Gentile who had temporarily converted to Judaism and who later on had recanted from it when the daughter of the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) rejected his marriage proposal. His way of insulting back Judaism in general was to concoct the tale of his uncorroborated and self-contradicted "vision" on the road to Damascus, and his subsequent theological attacks of Judaism, whether Messianic or Rabbinic. Lastly, observe that when he told the story of his vision, he always gave very different versions of it. Check for yourself Act 22 and 29, or wait for my next writing. ]