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Torah: The Healing and Beneficial Message

Torah is not a dull and stultifying set of onerous rules and regulations as many religionists tend to preach it as, it is alive and well and can live in our hearts today.

Torah was made flesh and dwelt amongst us.

That is the message that the Apostles were sent out to tell the people of Israel, the message that the people have forgotten.

Yah spoke the words that produced Creation, and we live in that Creation, and we are subject to those words which we call ‘Torah’.

Torah defines a Way of life that is healing and beneficial because it is the essence of Yah’s Creation, and if we follow the Way of Torah then we can be engulfed by its benevolence, its protection and its healing power.

But if we choose other gods (including ourselves) knowledge of good and evil, and throw this substitute way (religion) in Yah’s face then we will bee tossed and turned and foundered in the raging sea that is life in Adam’s creation.

All through the scriptures we coma across facets of Yah’s character:-

The Name (shem) of Yah

The Face of Yah (If my people who are called by my name …. Seek my Face)

The Countenance of Yah (see the Aaronic blessing)

The Son of Yah (Torah made flesh)

And there are others.

If we turn away from Yah’s Torah then Yah cannot help us, if we ‘nail it to the cross’ then we are on our own.

So we must humble ourselves before Yah and seek His knowledge of Good and Evil, we look for it in the scripture in Tanack (OT) and we DO it,

Worshipping Jesus’ death on a Roman torture device (cross) is religion, what is more important is Yahushua’s Resurrection, where Torah made flesh broke through Adam’s death and demonstrated once and for all that Torah is the way to salvation.

Yah so loved the world that he gave His Torah made flesh, that whoever trusts and relies on it will have salvation, for Yah did not send His Torah into the world to condemn the world, but by it the world might be free.

Torah is sentient, it meets us as we travel His Way and engulfs us; it writes itself on our hearts and is the prime requirement for re-entry into the Kingdom of Yah.

Remember those Gates defended by Cherubim with swords? They keep Adam out, but the followers of the way, engulfed in living Torah are allowed through.

If we reject Living Torah then we cannot enter, we remain as Adam.

Abel accepted Torah and his blood cried out, Cain ‘followed his own way’

Seth accepted Torah and was blessed

Enoch was immersed in Torah and was translated.

Noah was pure in his lineage.

Abraham kept Torah.

The Elders of the Children of Israel rejected living Torah at Mt. Horeb

Moses wrote the 5 books of law that provided clues, a sort of picture language, to living Torah for those searching for the Kingdom of Yah as opposed to exploiting the kingdom of Adam.

If you want to avoid Yahushua turning around and saying “I know you not” then You must have a relationship with the living Torah.

Man shall not live by bread alone

So what do we live by as well as bread? This passage is originally from Deuteronomy 8, and the chapter tells us that ‘physicality’ and ‘food deeds’ are not enough, and that everything that comes forth from the mouth of Yah is what is required, particularly the commandments.

Yah demands that we live according to His commandments, His judgements and His statutes.

He also demands that we follow His Way.

These are commands for us personally, not collectively. One must have a personal relationship with Yah, sitting on a pew chanting communal hymns is not, keeping His commandments, when we deviate from His way, and turn everyone to his own way, we do ourselves no favours.

Yah can only protect us and give us abundant life if we humble ourselves and turn to His Way. There is no room for religion, rituals and doing it our way.

It is hard to understand that Yah does not like church buildings and beit Kenessets (synagogues) these are the accoutrements that allow us to stray from His pathway to those of other gods, we must seek what comes out of His mouth, the Creation that He spoke into existence, and the Way that he lays down in Tanack.

Everything else is deviation…

The Realm of Death

We hate death, and Yah did not intend us to be subject to death, and told Adam to avoid death by not eating of the tree of knowledge.

He did not directly tell the woman and we must assume here her knowledge of the subject came from Adam, but her understanding was imperfect so she was able to be deceived by the Serpent,

It is important to understand here the difference between the Woman’s guilt and the Man’s guilt.

Adam alone is responsible for bringing ‘Death’ into the world by eating the forbidden fruit; he alone was told by Yah not to do so. The woman was deceived and was therefore not culpable, Adam was not deceived, he made a choice.

Adam was told of two deaths, the death of the dust of his body and the death of the Breath that Yah breathed into him, These two are separate but interrelated, The death of the body became inevitable but not immediate, The death of the spirit was immediate and damaged the ability of Adam to commune with Yah and hence have spiritual understanding of Yah.

We encounter the ‘Angel of Death’ in respect to Moses, first at the circumcision of his sons where the approach of the Angel of Death is confounded when Zipporah throws the child’s foreskin at Moses thus bringing him under the Brit (covenant).

Death is an intersection of physical death and spiritual death, the Brit (covenant) enshrouded Moses and the Angel of Death could not therefore bring about the final death (of both entities).

The second occurrence is on the night of the Passover where those who daubed their lintels with the blood of the paschal lamb (another covenant) were ignored by the Angel of Death.

Adam’s kingdom is a kingdom of death, Yah’s Kingdom is a kingdom of Life, covered by the blood of the lamb.

In the same way, Job was covered, and Satan had to seek Yah’s permission to attack him.

Death rules supreme in Adam’s world, but we can move away from it if we shelter under the blood of the lamb, or in our context under Yahushua. and thus be reborn from above. We are reborn in the spirit as such. BUT, Yahushua may well have died on the upright pole (stauros), but he resurrected, death could not hold him.

Death is like an impenetrable jungle, but Yahushua cut a pathway through the jungle to LIFE!

Many acknowledge the death of Yahushua, but do they then follow the pathway he cut on His way to resurrection?

Yahushua is “torah made flesh and dwelling amongst us”, so if we reject Torah we will never find the pathway to our own resurrection hidden behind the doorway of the ‘cross’.

Torah was not ‘nailed to the cross’ it is our ‘dogma’ (unsubstantiated opinions) which must be left behind to be sacrificed alongside the lamb.