Following Yah’s way involves each of us in a personal decision to seek the TRUTH of Yah.

I made that decision before I hit my teenage years, bur had real difficulties finding a starting point for my journey; I was looking in the wrong places.

My parents were not ‘believers’ but they were also not ardent atheists, they were ‘socialists’ but not activists but they could not show me a start point.   I tried my local CofE (Episcopalian) church and found complete disinterest, theirs was a social club and a gospel I had nothing to offer so I was ignored.   The Catholics were better, but somehow they were wrong, in that they worshipped idols and popes.

At school were two teachers who obviously believed but to a schoolboy seeking truth, they were unapproachable, they could ‘educate’ but not ‘indoctrinate’, thus there is no one-on-one in a British state schooling and one could not discuss such a sensitive subject in class.

When Dad was posted to Singapore I attended the Army school there and was taught about Yahweh, it stuck.   Maybe the teacher was Jewish, but she was a believer whatever.

It was not until I was in my early twenties that I found my first fellow believer; curiously enough he was CofE chaplain on HMS Kent, the ship on which I did my Midshipman’s year. This Chaplain put me in contact with other believers throughout the Royal Navy and I learned about Christian fundamentalism.

Christian fundamentalism has its problems, the first being the belief that ‘Yah changed His mind. about ‘Judaism’ and invented a ‘new’ covenant with ‘Christians’.  

To make the doctrine fit, the idea of dispensationalism was invented whereby the teachings of the bible could be split into blocks of time each with a slightly different rule set and ‘Christianity’, worship of Jesus, was the ultimate revelation.

Christianiy is a top down structure whereby God’s truth is revealed to the ‘leaders; and trickles down to the congregants.   It avoids the need for a personal decision, just do what the Vicar/Pastor/leader tells you and all will be fine “see you on the other side”.

Christianity believes that Yah’s Torah has been ‘nailed to the Cross’ and can be safely ignored……

It took me some 50 years to get those nails out.

In the beginning was Torah (the Word of YAH) and Torah was made flesh and dwelt amongst us.   Not one Jot or Tittle of Yah’s Torah is irrelevant in today’s world and as we, as a ‘Western culture’ slowly abandon Torah, so our civilization slowly disintegrates into the dust of barbarism and paganism.

We gloss over the story of Abel and Cain at our own peril, the story explains the origin of ‘religion’ and how Cain, under the influence of the serpent defied Yah and changed the basis of life on earth.

When Adam rejected Yah and chose his own knowledge of good and evil instead, he did so with the knowledge that the serpent was right there beside him, encouraging him to do it his way rather than Yah’s Way (the Way of Torah).

So Cain rejected Yah and chose his own ‘religion’ instead, but in fact it was not his own religion, it was the serpent’s religion.

When a man takes the base core of Yah’s Truth, and adds to it or takes away from it, he creates a ‘religion’, and the more it deviates from Yah’s Truth, the more malignant it is.

If we take the religion of Atheism for example, in recent history Atheism has caused the deaths of millions in nations that have flirted with socialism and communism, note also that these religions took many into slavery and worked them to death.

The Way of Yah is not miscible with slavery; many times in the scriptures Yah stresses that he brought us out of slavery.   Religion tends to enslave us, it substitutes the serpent’s truth for Yah’s Truth and obfuscates the Way to free ourselves from the Yoke of bondage.   Yah calls us to Liberty, and, in Liberty we can chose to discard our own puny knowledge of good and evil and seek Yah’s Way, seek His knowledge and truth.

It starts in the first verse of the bible, we must acknowledge to ourselves that “In the beginning Yah created” we can find much of the Way of Yah in the scriptures, other details will be revealed as we travel His Way,   He will meet us from afar and guide us home. It does not all happen at once – it is a long and winding road……

There are three aspects of Yahovah which He presents to us and from which we may learn to respond to Him, the first is His Word, which is the gist of the words with which he spoke His Creation into existence, and which includes the entity that Christians worship as their Jesus.

The second aspect is his Shem. This Hebrew word is translated as ’name’ but its meaning is much, much deeper and expresses the whole Character of Yah, most people get stuck at this point because they cannot get away from using ‘religious’ words such as God, G-d or Hashem.   If you cannot call Yahovah by his correct name, how can you even begin to understand the enormity of His Shem.

The third aspect Yah presents to us is His Face.   Light (the light of Creation) shines out from His Face and as it falls on us, we are changed to His likeness, thus if we are to be the light of the world then we must allow the light of His countenance to shine upon us as in the Aaronic blessing, but we have to “seek His Face and turn from our wicked ways”, it is not something attained by birthright of being descended from Abraham.

We tend to start by taking note of His Word, Paul tells us that it is good for correction and teaching but we have to take all the word not just ‘cherry pick’ at it.   Yes, His word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us, but in many ways that is a distraction and can be used to distort (twist) our understanding.   Yah’s Words are the Words of His Creation, and they became human not to die for our sins, but to go through Adam’s death and provide a Way for salvation for us too.   Of all the things in the world, death is the one thing that did not come from Yah, it came from Adam and it permanently separates us from Yah.   The Word made flesh was murdered on a Roman torture device, He went through death, but the ‘cross’ is unimportant, it was the resurrection that is key to our salvation and nothing else.    

Many follow the myth of ‘Jesus’, but this is a truncated story conjured up by politicians in the centuries that followed the events.   The reality of the ‘Trinity’ is Word, Shem and Face.  

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.