Yahushua famously said “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.   So ‘Torah made flesh and dwelling amongst us was all of these three things.   We have an understanding of The Way, we have the Truth as being whatever Yah Created, but it is very easy to gloss over what Life is for life is an intrinsic part of us, and its opposite, death. Is also an inevitable part of life.

But Life and life are not the same thing.

Life (with a capital L) is part of Torah, if we reject Torah, we reject Life. But life (with a small l) is what we live and at its end we have death.

Death ( with a D as an end of Life with an L) is separation from Torah made flesh and dwelling amongst us.   So when Adam is cast out of Eden he goes through Death because he chose Death over Life.   He still lives, but he lives apart from Torah.

And he will die, death (small d) is an end to life (small l).

When we choose to begin to keep Torah, we move into Life and death (small d) loses its sting.

When Adam chose Death over Life he was separated from Yah as a consequence, just as Yah had warned him. We are born into the realm of Adam, the realm of life and death (l and d) and we each have a choice, whether we are pagan natives living in a jungle, or pagan ‘christians’ in a ‘civilized’ western city, in fact the decision is almost more difficult for the civilized westerner, for he is choked by his own education and his very civilization itself. The native in the jungle is on rocky ground, but can still grow, but he cannot be fruitful unless he follows the Way to good ground.

The westerner is choked by weeds, he may well believe in Jesus and go to church every Sunday, he may believe in Rabbis (elevated ones) and listen to them each Shabbat, but he too must choose to follow the Way. That choice, for both of them, is obfuscated because they are following the way of religion and traditions of men, not the Way of Torah.

The prodigal son must leave the ‘comfort’ of his pigsty, to do this he must smell the stench and see the filth of his life (small l) and he must make a decision; Life or life.

Today is the Moed of Yom Kippur, the day of decision, Jews will be afflicting themselves, Christians will be ignoring the feasts of Yah because they keep only the feasts of (their) men.   They keep Saturnalia (xmas) and Ishtar (Easter) both pagan in origin. Xmas is supposed to celebrate the birth of Jesus, and maybe it does, who knows? But who is this Jesus, is he is the dead guy, nailed on a Roman torture device?

Who is Yahushua, He is Torah made flesh and dwelling among us, He is the Way back to Life, He is Truth and He embodies Life, if we reject Torah we have no Life, if we modify and diminish Torah we have no Life and no Way home, like Adam, we choose Death in the wilderness. 

Exodus is a dialogue about escaping slavery and following a Way to a promised land.   The Prodigal ends up in slavery, living in the pigsty with the pigs.

The prodigal decides to go back to his father’s house as a servant (the Hebrew words for servant and slave are identical), the Children of Israel leave Goshen and follow a way to a land of milk and honey.   This is essentially the same narrative.

Let us then consider the command ment to keep the Sabbath set apart;   Yah connects this commandment directly to the Exodus “for I am Yahovah your God who brought you out of Egypt”

We need to consider this linkage, it has real meaning.

Coming out of slavery (leaving the pigsty is conditional on keeping the seventh day set apart.   Let me say that a different way, if you keep ‘Sunday’ you will not come out of the slavery of the pigsty.

The Apostle Paul appears to be vague about the necessity of keeping the Shabbat (on Saturday) but much pivots on which ‘Law’ Paul is referring to.   Anomia, in the Greek can refer to the 5 books of Mosaic law, but it can also apply to the “Tradition of the Elders” so despised by Yahushua (it can also apply to a ‘keep off the grass’ sign….

In Leviticus 23 shabbat is the first (an most important) of the Moedim, the feasts of YAH himself.   I do not think Paul would demote shabbat to just any day of the week.    Keeping Sunday is to deny Yah and to throw the god of the invincible sun in Yah’s face thus breaking the first commandment.

I would posit that those who defy Yah by keeping a first day (Sunday) set apart cannot progress along the Way, they cannot leave Egypt and they cannot leave the pigsty.    Jesus may have abolished Torah but Yahushua upheld it for He was indeed, Torah made flesh and dwelling amongst us.

The Hebrew in Isaiah actually says “turn to the Way” not prepare ye the way, something subtly different and lost in translation from Hebrew to Greek/Latin to English.

So John the Baptiser’s main command was for us to turn to the Way of Yahovah, do we do this?

Or do we turn to religions, to Rabbis, to Pastors?

Adam chose his own knowledge of good and evil, his own godship and was thrown out of Yah’s spiritual kingdom so survive on his own godship and to build his own kingdom.

But Yah defined a Way back, a Way which is defined many times in the bible, but which, like Adam, we reject, preferring to follow our own way and making the wrong choices.

When I first decided that the bible was true, I was a pre-teen child, I then turned to religion as the obvious next step, but I found that religions worshipped men and the writings of men.   If I compared what I read in the scriptures to what I saw with my eyes, I just saw an incomprehensible mess.    The ‘church’ said go to church on Sunday, the scriptures said that I should keep the sabbath (Saturday) holy.   I learned that I should heed only what Rabbis said and not read for myself.   I was trapped in a goldfish bowl of Adam’s making.

When ~I realized that ‘religion’ was an extortion racket I started accepting the Way that Yah had defined.   I left the pigsty of Adams knowledge and submitted, as a servant, to Yah’s knowledge.

I walked the Way of Yah and was met from afar.

We start with Torah of Moses, and particularly with the Ten Commandments, as we travel the Way Yah starts to respond to us and (if we continue to allow Him) he reveals to us a spiritual Torah written upon our hearts.

Torah was made flesh and dwelt among us, he preached the healing and beneficial message of Yah, the Gospel, not of a death on a Roman torture device, but of a better Way, a Way of Life not death, Adam chose death; separation from Yah, we can chose to follow the Way back to Yah, but to do this we must first Humble ourselves and pray, seek His face and turn from our twisted ways.   

Those men who preach a twisted version of the Way may well be rich and famous, but Yah only allows those who are pure in heart to ‘see’ Himself.   If we do not follow His Way we will not reach His gates.

We have a decision to make – do it Yah’s Way or do it our own way.

“for we like sheep have turned astray, we’ve turned everyone to his own way”

When Yah Created he used a ‘Spirit’ as in “Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters”.    John 1 tells us that that ‘Spirit’ was Torah (the Word).

We could call this spiritual aspect of Torah a miasma, a sweet smelling aroma of Yah, a miasma that Abel invoked but Cain did not.

 In something I wrote years ago I invoked the idea of two trees, a tree of Life and a tree of knowledge.   If we consider the tree of life as the spiritual side of Yah’s Creation (Torah) and the tree of Knowledge as the physical side of Creation, then we can understand what actually happened to Adam when he ate of the fruit of the tree of Knowledge; instead of seeing Creation through the spirit of Yah, he was now able to access knowledge direct and without the filter of Torah (Tree of Life).

Thus Adam became a physicalist, yes he had ‘godship’ but it was not Yah’s godship it was his own based upon his new ability to interpret knowledge outside of Yah’s spiritual Torah and outside of Yah’s Creation.   He could no longer remain in Eden in case he might assail the tree of Life with his alternative godship.

By eating of the forbidden fruit Adam brought death into Creation because in directly accessing the Tree of Knowledge he bypassed Life (and thus spiritual Torah itself).

We who have been born into Adam’s physical realm can live our lives devoid of spiritual Torah, devoid of the miasma of Yah, but by following the Way of Torah we can make the pilgrimage back to the Father’s House; first we accept that in the beginning Yah Created, and that he gave us His Torah in both physical and spiritual forms, then we start to look at and keep the physical Torah including the idea that it was made flesh and dwelt amongst us.   Keeping physical Torah opens up the Way for us to then have Spiritual Torah written upon our Hearts; whilst Pharoah’s heart was hardened, we lift our hearts up to be written upon and changed to His image and likeness.  

If one reads Isaiah 61 one can begin to understand just what ‘The Good News’ is.   Isaiah tells us the it is the moment that the Spirit of Yahovah falls upon us, and it gives us a clue to what this healing and beneficial message does to us.

But to participate in this healing and beneficial message we need to understand why we are excluded from it in the first place.    The answers to this lie in the first 3 chapters of Genesis, especially as interpreted in John 1.

John starts his gospel in a way that quotes Genesis 1; “in the beginning”.   In the Hebrew version of John 1 we find that ‘logos’ in the Greek is a translation of the Hebrew ‘debar’ essentially the Way, and that Torah is a signpost of that Way.

To participate in Yah’s Way we must first be humble.

Jeremiah tells us that the human heart is wicked, like Pharoah our hearts are harden and thus Torah cannot be written upon our hearts.

We must therefore lit up our hearts that they can be softened such that Yah’s healing and beneficial message can be written upon them.

How do we do this?

By first being humble and accepting Yah’s Knowledge of Good and Evil instead of our own.

Take for example the Christian ‘Sunday’, the 10 commandments tell us that we keep the seventh day ‘holy’ (Saturday) but the Roman ‘church’ changed that.

Being humble means returning to Yah, and accepting His ‘Word’ over and above those interpretations of men; the priests, pastors rabbis and vicars that ‘religion’ sets over us.

The 10 commandments tell us that if we keep the seventh day then we will be freed from slavery, and this connects directly to Isaiah 61 and thus to Yahushua when He quotes this passage.

But Isaiah 61 is not exclusive to ‘messiahs’ it is available to all of us IF we are humble and allow Yah to write His spiritual Torah on our hearts.

In the beginning Yah created all things and we have a choice, become Creation compliant and participate in Yah’s Way, or follow Adam’s way.    Adams way leads nowhere except death, Yah’s way leads back to the gates of Eden, to life eternal.     

Paul tells us of the Spiritual in 1 Corinthians, the word ‘gifts’ is added by the translator attempting to put the idea into the ‘christian’ context but missing the deeper truth.

Torah is written upon our hearts Jeramiah tells us, but he also tells us that the heart is wicked beyond belief.

We have to be humble before Yah, and let Him write upon our hearts, if we do not then Adam’s knowledge and godship prevails and we will have a form of religion but deny the power thereof.

The Torah that is written in the five books of Mosaic law is the ‘physical’ Torah, but the Torah which Yah writes upon our hearts is a spiritual Torah which is what Paul is writing about. It is the very ‘force’ behind Creation itself and is the basis of our own inage and likeness to Yah!

On the whole, Christianity tends to “nail Torah to the cross” and Judaism is more interested in rabbinical tradition and rabbinical interpretation(s) of Mosaic physical Torah.

Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and so it is with most of us, we regard our intellect, our innate ability to exercise Adamic ‘godship’ (knowledge of good and bad) as what is really ‘good’ in our religious life, but Yah wants us to be humble and accept His Knowledge of Good and Evil before He can start writing Spiritual Torah on our hearts.

We start by keeping the physical Torah, keeping seventh day shabbat (Saturday) frees us from Adamic slavery, stopping throwing our own godship in Yah’s face cleanses us, throwing away the pictures of famous rabbis removes the mechanical religion of the automation.

We have a consciousness which, if we are humble and allow it, connects direct to Yah, we don’t need vicars, priests and rabbis to intercede, we can have a direct relationship with our Creator, but only if we purge the other ‘gods’ from our lives.   The ‘pastor’ was one of 5 ministries given to the congregation, where are the others? Usually their role is eclipsed by the traditional elevated status of the pastor as god’s nominated representative, this is evil!   Paul tells us it is prophesy that is important, not the ‘telling the future’ type prophesy but the discerning the will of Yah type prophesy.   The real prophet has Yah’s spiritual Torah written upon his heart, and thus in his consciousness, and through that spiritual Torah, the prophet can ‘see’ Yah –  “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see Yah”  and in seeing Him they will understand Him and be able to spread the ‘Gospel’ of Him – the good news that the healing and beneficial message of Torah, both physical and spiritual, is available to ALL.        

It is difficult to justify the idea of a trinity from the Tanack alone and it is obscure even in the NT.

What we have is the idea of a spiritual element of Torah, a part of Torah written on the heart rather than written on the pages of a scroll of parchment.

Jeremiah tells us that the heart of man is corrupt, but that Yah’s Torah can be ‘written’ upon it.   If this was a physical concept then we would not survive the process.    However, if a ‘spiritual’ Torah were written there it would have a symbolic meaning and give us an untold depth of knowledge.

We usually assume that Yah’s Torah is physical, but that is not necessarily true, when John writes that Torah was made flesh and dwelt amongst us, he was not being a phiysicalist, for in the physical realm of Adam, Torah (the ‘word’) cannot be made flesh, for this is a spiritual process, and it is at this point that the idea of a ‘holy spirit’ enters the Christian belief system.

But I would posit that we are not talking about something new, indeed, John tells us that the ‘word’ is very, very old.

Just maybe we have got it wrong, and that what is assumed to be the ‘Holy Spirit’ is the component of Yah’s Creation that we lost sight of when Adam fell.

Paul tells us of the ‘Spiritual’ but he tells us that without ‘love’ it is a clashing symbol. And that there is a better Way.

That is the Way pf Love, Agape in the Greek, but Agape is not love in any human sense, human love is described by the Greek word phileo.

I would put to you that ‘love’ is a mis-translation, and that the Greek word agape actually describes the action of spiritual Torah (Creation itself) being written upon our hearts in such a way that we can move on from the written component of Yah’s Torah to its spiritual component which eventually reveals all things to us.

Religion stultifies spiritual understanding because it requires that we abandon a personal relationship with Yah, religion resulted from the refusal of the Elders of the Children of Israel to heat Yah at Mount Horeb and resulting in Moses having to define a physical Torah centred around a Tabernacle in the Wilderness.    

There is nothing wrong with physical Torah, but there is a better Way, a Way that involves the writing of a spiritual Torah on our hearts.