The Lord does not change? By Rabbi Simon Altaf
Written 27th July 2010
Terms:
Yahushua – The true name for Jesus which many in the Western world need to understand.
Torah – These are the first five books in the Bible written by Moses (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy contained in every Christian Bible but vastly ignored by Christians) – Since Torah is instruction in Rabbinic understanding it can encompass all the books up to Malachi. Note the Renewed Covenant writings are a testimony of the Messiah written by the netzarim
Tanach (Scriptures from Genesis to Malachi)
Septuagint (Greek translation of the Tenach done in 275 BC)
YHWH - The four letters of the sacred name of the Lord.
AFNHSS - Abrahamic-faith Nazarene Hebraic Study Scriptures- all scriptures are quoted from it unless otherwise stated
I am asking you today the readers and those thousands of ministries that send out newsletters, booklets and tracts each month and spend thousands of dollars each month “Does God change?”
I am sure you will all start quoting what you call your scriptures for you the New Testament what it says and what you may like to quote to me. Here is the standard Christian response.
Heb 13:8 vSwhy (Yahushua) The Messiah the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
I then go to the Jews and ask them the same question “Does God change?”
The Jews wholeheartedly quote from the Tanach the following:
Mal 3:6 For I am hwhy (YHWH) I change not; therefore you sons of Yaqub are not consumed.
So far I seem to have got a unanimous response from both the Christians and the Jews that at least they are both agreed that God does not change. Now my second question to both of them. How do I get saved?
The Christians – Believe in Jesus.
The Jews – Obey God’s voice his Torah through His mercy can give you the salvation by obeying Him.
Now listen to the Christian camp.
Jesus is the only way…
Rabbi Simon -> But I thought you just said God does not change?
Christian:-> yes God does not change but he made Jesus our salvation so you must believe in him only.
Rabbi Simon -> Show me this man Jesus in the pages of the book of Genesis where God clearly and unambiguously states this fact. Jesus a name which is 500 years old. You have to show that this name is the only way to eternity for Adam, Able, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac and even Jacob, where do I find this conveyed to the Patriarchs and Matriarchs of Israel?
Do you see the sting in the question? If the name was invented only 500 years ago then how can the name Jesus which before 500 years ago was unknown because there was no J was actually known as Iesus in Latin and Iesous in Greek save someone over 4000 years ago?
The historical evidence that we have clearly points to the name being Yahushua in the first century later shortened to its Aramaic form of Yeshua. The proof is both in India and Pakistan where the name is used as Yesu and Yeshu with a variety of eeshu. These are Aramaic forms by the way and the terms were given to these nations from the Aramaic dialect of one which was Arabised at least for Pakistan which largely speaks Urdu which is a dialect of Aramaic.
Clearly someone is lying because Adam had not heard that name. Noah did not hear it either. So who shall we believe?
The standard parroted responses now start to come back. No you have to believe in Jesus or you will go to hell. All the Patriarchs also believed in Jesus. The Christian dilemma is in order to justify their way of salvation suddenly everything in the Tanach is Jesus even though the name is never found there. They have to read all of the history of Israel as Christian history the same thing the Muslims do who would real all the Israelite history making all the patriarchs and everyone else a Muslim.
Rabbi Simon -> How very interesting. Not one shred of evidence is offered from the book of Genesis or any other book of the Tanach to say that this name and I mean the self made up name “Jesus” is the only way for Adam, for Enoch and for Noah.
The Christians at this point really struggle to prove anything but continue to cast you down to hell. All these ministries and I mean start from A and end up in Z claim the same thing but the question was asked “Does God change?” And it was answered unanimously with “No” and a text was quoted.. So what was God’s method of salvation if He does not change? The Jews agree with me that it was “Torah His voice and mercy granted by the Holy One“, while the Christians are adamant that no it was Jesus.
Here is what God says:
Isaiah 43:11 I, even I, am YHWH; and beside me there is no Saviour.
Of course I would not believe the Christians without a proper and effective response. So far the Jews have the upper hand and Christians have no hands in the scheme of things only legs dangling I water for their lack of understanding.
One must ask the question that if the Christians cannot answer one question coherently then why are thousands of Christian ministries producing millions of newsletters, books and booklets at the expense of millions of dollars and I am going to be honest with you that most of it is simply JUNK. Just as someone responded to me below.
One of my readers wrote to me in an e-mail on the 13th of July 2010 to which I wholeheartedly agree.
“When i read a lot of ministry that send me things and read most of it is junk”
So in order to investigate further how were the Patriarchs saved?
Let’s hear it from God himself to Adam… God please speak for yourself!
Beresheeth (Gen) 2:16 And hwhy Elohim commanded the man, saying, Of every etz (tree) of the garden, that you may freely eat: 17 But of the etz (tree) of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it…
God said to obey His voice note now this is oral Torah by the way which Christians reject of the God of heaven and earth since Adam did not have a book in his hand to reference while Christian reject oral Torah but are quite happy to keep pagan customs of Rome which are Rome’s oral torah.
Let us get the witness of Chava (Eve) his wife just to be sure I am not making a mistake.
Beresheeth (Gen) 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the etzim (trees) of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the etz (tree) which is in the middle of the garden, Elohim has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.
The clear cut answer for Adam, obey my voice.
Let God speak for Noah.
Beresheeth (Gen) 8:8-9 But Noach found favour in the eyes of hwhy. 9 This is the genealogy of Noach: Noach was a righteous man perfect in his generations, Noach walked with Elohim.
Read for yourself. No “Jesus” and no cross yet Noah was saved and perfect meaning he was blameless of any guilt and it says he walked with God or in other words he was keeping God’s halacha (commandments) the Torah was with Noah orally communicated and he knew the commandments what is right and what is not but most of all He knew to have life eternal he must listen to God.
Let God speak for Abraham.
Beresheeth (Gen) 26:5 because Abraham obeyed My voice and guarded My ordinance, My commandments, My statutes, and My Torot.
Abraham obeyed God’s voice his Torah this means he kept the Sabbath and the feasts also which many today reject.
Again perfect example of no cross yet Abraham was saved through that same voice which was recorded by Moses and we call Torah.
The next question is were the people saved from keeping a list of do and don’ts or was it simply the fact that they were saved by simply saying “Yes” to God. The Torah makes it clear that these gentlemen were the “Yes” men of God. It does not say that they never got anything wrong but it does confirm their positive responses towards God.
So Christendom has clearly misrepresented God and failed to understand Him. Where does this character of “Jesus” or more accurately Yahushua comes in?
If we look at the gospel record of John the son of Zebedee states the following.
John 17:1 These words spoke vSwhy, and lifted up his eyes to the shamayim (heavens), and said, Abbah, the hour has come; glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you:
You only glorify or exalt someone if that someone is higher than you or higher in stature or authority. Yahushua’s authority was all derived from the Father and not from any particular church or denomination.
John 17:2 As you have given him power over all flesh…
So our Abbah YHWH gave him power over all flesh so that indicates Father God is higher in authority. Yahushua cannot override His father though Christians think they have the authority to downgrade the Father’s commandments.
John 17:2 that he should give eternal life to as many as you have given him.
So Yahushua does have the authority to grant eternal life because He is not an ordinary human being but in the ancient past he was veiled but now He is revealed.
Hebrews 3:2 He has in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
This means now the Son has been manifested who was brought out of Abbah YHWH but we must still continue to obey the voice of God His Torah to have eternal life since the Son confirms the same thing He does not set a new way of salvation contrary to Christian theology. Believing in a piece of wood no more saves you than putting your foot in a shark’s mouth and hoping that it won’t bite your foot off.
John 17:5 And now, O Abbah, glorify me at your side with the glory which I had with you before the world was.
Clearly before the world began all we know is that God was living in eternity we do not know what was there. Yahushua now tells us that He was there having fellowship with Abbah YHWH. This indicates a mystery that if Yahushua was there then he is also divine meaning God so is the akhad family that many still refuse to believe in the wider world however we could not understand this because we were never told such truths in Genesis but we were given pictures or themes in Genesis for those of us who wanted to understand this. Yahushua did not bring a new way of salvation but emphasized the same way but Christians are too blind to see it.
JoJohn 14:6 vSwhy said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Abbah, but through me.
The Way
The Truth
The Life
All three are idioms for Torah. So Yahushua also claimed to be the living Torah and that indeed He is but will you believe Him to obey the Torah or continue to reject it out of ignorance?
So how is the world saved in Genesis? By being obedient to God’s voice. How is the world saved now? By being obedient to God’s voice meaning the Torah. The Torah is therefore life and not just a set of do and don’ts. It represents life. Yahushua confirms that.
John 17:6 I have made known your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world: they were yours, and you gave them to me; and they have guarded your word.
Does Yahushua put the pagan cross above His Father’s voice? No. Does He say they are guarded because they looked at me being hung and dying? No. Does he say that they are saved because you raised me? No. He says they are His because they guarded the “word”.
Note the term ‘the word’ means God’s voice or the Father’s voice. This is the Torah of YHWH or Moses Torah. So this is clear cut proof that the Jews are correct salvation is only through believing and putting your trust in God’s voice. Granted that Yahushua is not seen by many Jews as divine but that mystery is not yet revealed to them see my article on “Is Yahushua the Messiah.”
This means either Christendom has been misrepresenting truth since 2000 years or God cannot be trusted. People were always only saved by keeping His voice and trusting His voice. They were not looking up to any cross nor the cross has any life in it but the life is in the one who hung there and has the Father’s authority. Wood cannot save anyone. Life is in the Son who hung upon the TREE because the Son carries the same Torah Life that He gives to others. Are you willing to listen to the Son who testified of His Father or will you go bow before a cross and a statue of Yahushua/Jesus attached to it? This is both blasphemy and idolatry.
Note Yahushua has said about the men “they are yours.” These men could only be God’s if they obeyed His voice his Torah and it was not a matter of getting the Ten commandments absolutely right but at least being obedient to them and saying yes I will do them. They were also ‘Yes” men.
John 17:15 I pray not that you should take them out of the world, but that you should guard them from evil.
Yahushua does not pray to the Abbah for a pre-tribulation rapture yet most Christians are stuck to this false doctrine. Yahushua simply says to the Father to guard them.
The only way one can be guarded is by being a “yes” man to God and that means you have accepted the covenant which ties everything including your salvation.
Note the Torah contains many Covenants so it’s a testimony of accepting the provisions of the Covenant. If a Covenant such as Abrahamic one requires you to circumcise you should be a “yes” man and if you are a “no” man then you have no blessings and no kingdom because you have rejected God’s voice as it also falls under His voice and this is the state of most of Christendom today because they have rejected the Father and whoever rejects the Father also rejects the Son.
First John 2:29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one that does righteousness is born of him.
Note to be righteous one must be obedient to God’s voice see my comments above about Noah and Abraham therefore the method of salvation has not changed and is still to believe in God’s voice or His Torah. In order to do righteousness you have to be obedient to His or the Abbah’s voice. If you are obedient to the Son’s voice who is the expression of the Abbah then Torah which means “life” you must be a “yes” man or “yes” woman. If you reject the Torah as many in Christendom have and exalt the cross more than the voice of God you are anathema and God will reject you for rejecting His voice. The death of Yahushua the Messiah is only one step to bring the lost sheep of the House of Israel (Ten tribes) back but it is not the means to an end but simply something in the scheme of things that needed to take place according to the Covenant where Yahushua became the Lamb of Abbah YHWH. The death of Yahushua came as a result of the Covenant not vice versa. The cross is not first but the Covenant is first while Christendom is committing idolatry by putting the cart in front of the horse. We do not view the writings of Rabbi Paulos to interpret the Torah but we look at the Torah to understand what Rabbi Paulos is writing. Christendom has committed grievous idolatry by raising Rabbi Paulos above the Father in heaven and using him a mere man a mortal to annul and abrogate YHWH’s holy words. All those that do this stand in for the great judgment to come.
YHWH bless you
Shalom Shalom
Rabbi Simon Altaf
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