Thou shalt not kill is a difficult one; the Hebrew word ‘ratzach’ is connected to ‘murder’ rather than to ‘killing’, but if one translates the commandment as “thou shalt not kill” one is creating a contradiction.

Yah kills, but he does not murder, Torah authorises judicial execution under exceptional circumstances, and whilst this is killing, it is not murder.

But we also have to understand that out lives belong to our Creator anyway, and He does not have to ask our permission to obey His Torah (which He ALWAYS does),  death belongs to Adam and Yah has no truck with the things of men.

Yah can take my life or preserve it as He deems fit, and I trust in Him to get it right, and if I walk according to His Laws and statutes, judgements and advices, then I have nothing to fear from death itself.

The death of Adam is a separation from Yah, and when the flesh dies, the spirit becomes unlaced from it and goes to Hades, there the spirit is ‘judged’ and gets what it deserved according to its spiritual state, Torah compliant or Torah rejecting.   Those who believe in demonic entities will be harvested by those same entities, and those who believe in nihilism will probably be annihilated.

Lazarus was taken to the bosom of Abraham, and probably raised as a first fruit when liberated by Yahushua.   Salvation is not “believing in Jesus”  so much as believing in “Torah made flesh and dwelling amongst us”.   Above all, we cannot attain Righteousness before Yah if we  reject His Torah because if we reject Torah, we reject Torah made flesh too, and that is Yahushua.

The child-parent situation should reflect the believer-Yah situation, such that the child learns to accept that the parent is to be obeyed whether right or wrong in the opinion of the child, a child obeys his parents as we obey Jah, or not as the case may be.

We should be able to trust our parents to do what is best for ourselves, and disobedience starts a slippery slope of doubt and mistrust.

Same with Yah, if we think we know better then we do things our own way and the harmony of our relationship with Yah’s creation is shattered.

We may not like what we read in the TORAH of Moses, but we should think twice about disobeying it because it is based on a knowledge far superior to ours.

When a man and a woman start a sexual relationship, the woman receives the man’s DNA material into her body, and her immune system takes note of it as non-hostile.   Thus when she becomes pregnant, the developing Foetus is recognised and not attacked, not so when the woman has had many partners.

Likewise foreign DNA matter entering through the back passage is attacked, when that matter is semen, designed to penetrate cell walls, then there is a mighty battle at the cellular level where T-cells and seminal fluid battle it out, too much of this leads to exhaustion if the immune system, we call this AIDS and pretend that it is caused by a virus.

Vaginas are designed to accept active sperm cells, anuses are not and damage is done.

Torah handles these situations, even if it is only recently that this knowledge has come to modern science.

Father (and Mother) know best, they may not be perfect but we should respect them, teenagers rebel because they do not understand their own ignorance. Are we teenagers before Yah?

What can I say about Sabbath, it is the most abused of the directly understood commandments; thou shall keep the seventh day ‘set apart’ for rest, meditation and meeting together.

That’s all, no stupid do’s and don’ts, and no alternative days.

The popes decided to change their sabbath to Sunday in honour of their sun god Mithra, but Yah did not change His Sabbath, his Sabbath is still the seventh day starting Friday evening at sunset and ending on Saturday evening at subset.

On that day we do not do our normal daily work, we REST! (to an old crow like me that means that I actually rest, but to the young it can mean play not work)

But there is more:

“For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.”

This is about compliance with creation, if we keep the seventh day Shabbat the we are acknowledging that “In the beginning Yah created”  if we don’t then we are saying “in the beginning man created”.   To keep the seventh day Shabbat is to take the first step in becoming creation compliant, the first step back to the garden of Eden.

There is yet more-

Deu 5:15  and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God is bringing thee out thence by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm; therefore hath Jehovah thy God commanded thee to keep the day of the sabbath.

Folks, if you want to be a slave in the land of Egypt then don’t keep Yah’s sabbath, its as easy as that!

The first step in leaving the pigsty is to start keeping Yah’s sabbath, in doing so you are accepting Yah as creator, rather than the pope, Darwin or Allah.

But we also have to be sensible about sabbath as well, the Rabbis go overboard and inflict all sorts of petty rules on their flocks, they make Yah’s sabbath a day of tortures.   They have no understanding and have locked Yah in a cupboard like a Torah scroll, only to be wheeled out and patted on the head, as a virtue signal to their followers (those who give them money).

Sabbath was made for me, so that I have a day to call my own, and which I can share with family and friends, and with Yah himself, away from distractions.

Israel is the only country which keeps Sabbath as a nation, and it is prospering despite the other difficulties.   The European and American nations that are departing from the ways of Yah are being slowly diminished and are being invaded and will soon be reduced to rubble.

Yah has warned us, the writing is on the wall!

Sabbath, the seventh day, is special, it is blessed and hallowed by Yah himself, it is, keep it and prosper, break it and your life will be all the more poor, you will live the life of Egypt, life with the pigs.

But in the end, we keep Sabbath because we love and respect Yah and wish to live according to His commandments, His Statutes, His Judgements and His Testimonies. There is nothing that is more important.

How do we take the ‘Lord’s’ name in vain? By calling Him ‘Lord’ (Hebrew Ba’al)?

What is Yah’s name, is it God? Is it HaShem or Adonai or LORD

He requires that we call him by His name Yahovah (short form Yah) but we do not, so what is in a name?   (see Exodus 3)

In Hebrew, a name describes a thing,   It is not just a label as in Western culture, it is a sort of signature, a character reference, and by not obeying Yah’s command to use his name we are throwing our own godship in Yah’s face.

יהוה  the tetragrammaton means ‘I was, I am’ and by implication, ‘I will be’.    That is, I am outside of time.

If we are to humble ourselves before Yah, then we must use this name – He IS the great ‘I AM’!

If we call Him ‘God’ or ‘Lord’ we are actually invoking other gods, if we call Him HaShem or Adonai we are actually  denying his role as Creator, at the behest of those charlatans who set themselves up as ‘sages’.

His name is Yahovah, or a variant of it, it really does not matter if we get the pronunciation of it wrong, after all it was Yah himself who confused language at Babel, and to Yah ALL languages are valid!

In John 18, Yahushua uses the Yah’s name (‘I am’) to demonstrate Yah’s power, and the soldiers are bowled over, He does this to demonstrate that it is HE who is actually in control and that he goes with them of His own (and Yah’s) accord.

This is obvious to anyone who understands Yahovah, but to someone not versed in the Old Testament it is obscure.    We are to use Yah’s name because in so doing we are stating Yah’s nature and character as Creator.   If we use an alternative then we are denying that Yah is the Creator and reducing Him to the level of man’s godship.

So what is a graven image? It is any physical object upon which we bestow godlike attributes, a personal shrine that substitutes for a personal heart-felt relationship with Yahovah our personal Elohim.

As such, the graven image might be the television pumping out worldly propaganda or the smartphone constantly demanding our attention.

Yah means us to become part of His kingdom, part of His creation, and we cannot drag the world into Eden with us.   To be in the presence of Yah means to be wholly immersed in Yah, we cannot bring our iPhone in with us.

We have many distractions, and before the electronic ones, we had churches, pews and kneelers, sermons and sermonizers, choirs and hymns, cantors and stained glass with stars and crosses.

All these things are graven images to try and make us have a physical relationship with the gods (and their priests and rabbis) instead of seeking Yahovah with all our heart.

First we have to acknowledge that Yah actually exists, many down the ages have expected a physical relationship with god and have thus sought to prepare their disciples for a physical encounter.   But we must worship Yah in spirit and in truth not in bricks and mortar, not in glitzy plastic ikons or fine statuary.

We communicate with Yah through and with our hearts, anything else is a graven image and is forbidden.

Yah equates the worship of graven images as hatred, and the consequences are dire and last for generations.   Rather seek FIRST the Kingdom of Yahovah and His Righteousness.

Thou shall have no other gods in my face

Ok that is easy, or is it?   What about my own godship, do I fling that in Yah’s face?   Unfortunately, many times a day I suspect.

There are an awful lot of gods out there; all seeking my attention and my resources, they call themselves Rabbi’s and Pastors and they come in all shapes and sizes.   But without fail they ask for my singular loyalty and my donations.

And every time you or I give it to them we are acknowledging their godship, and we are throwing their godship in the face of Yah.   Yah did not set up religious ‘leaders’ he only set up His servants.

More seriously, I too am a god, and every time I try to teach Yah to suck eggs, I am throwing my godship in his face by telling Him what he must do and how he must do it.

I must approach Yah in all humility, I must learn to live my life His way, according to His instructions, some of which are given to me in Torah and some by personal revelation.   It is a great temptation to be like Mohammed, when he wanted more wives, so he went into a trance and ‘allah’ told him that he, and only he, can have 15 wives.   In this he way treats his god as a ventriloquist’s dummy.

This is very convenient and in this same way, the Lord can tell me to do anything I want so I have to be wary.

But all of this is a product of my godship, not of Yah’s, when I do things ‘my way’ I do it according to my knowledge of good and bad and often ignore Yah’s different (and perfectly correct) Knowledge of Good and Bad.

I must approach Yah in all humility for he alone is omniscient, and he alone has the wisdom to use the Knowledge stored up in the tree.    If I am humble then He will share His Wisdom, but if I rush in and tell Yah (and my readers/hearers) how to do things then I am a fool.  For I have no wisdom; my wisdom is as filthy rags to Yah.

Yah IS in control, and although it may not look like it, or feel like it, it is so.   My job is to sort out MY relationship with Yah, to get ever closer to Him so that I may be changed into His image, and if I try to do that my way I will have already failed.   The world is given over to Satan, but the pathway to the tree of life is open to us all.   But the gate is narrow and the pathway difficult.   I have to walk softly and tread lightly because I carry the fallen Adam with me and he will always try to get me to try the other way; my way.

The 10 Commandments are central to the way we must behave if we are to become creation compliant, they are the minimum specification for life recognised by Yah, keep the ten commandments and you will certainly come up on His horizon.

But do we really know how to keep those commandments?

Do we really know who is the god that we should not throw in His face?

To Adam, pre fall, keeping Yah’s commandments was instinctive, He had personal contact with Yah in his daily life.    But as a result of eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge his eyes were opened and he, himself became a god because he was now able to judge good and bad for himself.

But he was not very good at it, because he lacked the wisdom to use the knowledge and as a result his good and his evil became muddled.

So Yah adopted Abraham and trained him in righteousness as defined by creation and not by Adam.

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If Torah was made flesh and dwelt amongst us, then those who reject Torah, those who add to Torah and those who take away from Torah need to watch very carefully exactly what the scriptures say about them, for they are not considered to be Hebrews, for they have not crossed over.

Many people use their own knowledge to pick and choose which bits of Torah to keep.   They go to church on Sunday, they keep Easter and Christmas, they keep Rosh Hashanah but not Taruwah.

Taruwah starts next Wednesday evening and is the first of the fall feasts.  Leviticus 23 tells us the when and the why.   I suspect that Taruwah is what Shaul (Paul) is referring to when he talks of a trumpet and meeting in the clouds.

At Taruwah we greet Yah, we welcome him with rejoicing, in Psalm 98 we ‘make a joyful noise (Rua) by singing a renewed song because His right hand and his holy arm has won a great victory.

Torah is the words with which Yah spoke His creation into existence, we either choose to keep it in its entirety or we use man’s knowledge of good and evil to cherry pick.

I cannot emphasize too much the importance of Torah, it is the very definition of Yah’s creation, and the bits that apply to man were written down by Moses so that the children of Israel, those who came out of Egypt, had a reference point.   The rest he writes on our hearts.

Happy Taruwah, Yahushua, the right hand and the Holy arm won! and there is therefore no condemnation to those in Yehushua and who keep Torah!

Maimonides, the Rambam, reduced Yah’s Torah to 613 rules for various types of people, males, females priests etc.    He missed the point and has created a rule defined religion and thrown it in Yah’s face.   Torah is actually about becoming Creation compliant and thus worshipping the Creator 24×7.

“Thou shalt not” only applies to those who want to live their lives in The Kingdom of Yahovah, the 613 rules applies to those who want to live their lives in the Kingdom of the Rambam.

We have to choose whose spiritual kingdom we wish to live in, and having chosen we need to present ourselves to the King and offer our obedience to his rule.    We are then free to use our knowledge and intellect within those boundaries defined by the King.

We can choose to love Yahovah with all our heart, and keep His commandments, or we can choose to love the Rambam with all our hearts and keep his commandments, they may even be the same commandments, but one is divine and the other is dead.

One can imagine the Rambam watching over us with a clipboard, ticking off our positive actions and making notes of our deviations….

With Yah however we are a beloved part of His Creation, and when we keep His commandments because we love Him with all our hearts we come back to Eden so to speak.   If we approach Yah, the Creator of all things with humility, seeking not to tell Him how to create a better world next time around, but in total acceptance that He got it absolutely right this time around, then we will get results.

Nothing I can do or say will change Yah’s Creation, but becoming Creation compliant will change me beyond all recognition.

It is not my place to criticize Yah and Yah’s Creation, I totally lack the credentials to so do.   My role in this is to seek His face, not to throw my own puny godship in His face.    If I learn now to approach Yah as a servant, the chances are that He will make me a Son.