'Who is, was and is to come' understanding in its proper context

 Four times in the book of Revelation i.e. Rev 1:4, Rev 1:8, Rev 4:8 & Rev 11:17 Alahym is magnified with the term in English translated as “who is, who was and who is to come” But Engilish is a shallow translation and first blush reading would not give the esteem to the person who is behind the phrase who requires that esteem. Trinitarian would esteem their 3 gods in a godhead, binatarians would esteem their 2 gods in their godhead and Unitarians would only esteem their One god theology and will leave out Yahusha as the demi-god to whom this esteem doesn’t apply.

Rev1:4 Yahuchanan to the seven assemblies that are in Asya: Grace to you and peace from the One who is and who was and who is to come (Greek : Ho own kai ho en kai ho erchomenos. Hebrew: hahoeh w’hayah w’yabo) , and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne

Rev1:8 “I am the Aleph and the Tau, the beginning and the ending, says Lord (Greek: Kurios, Hebrew: Adon), the El of the hosts, the One who is and who was and who is to come (Greek : Ho own kai ho en kai ho erchomenos. Hebrew: hahoeh w’hayah w’yabo).”

Excuse me for using the word ‘Lord’ here, I am deliberately using it here because the Hebrew roots movement translations adds the name ‘Yahuah’ here to show that its not Yahusha that the text is speaking about. Hence, I have used the Hebrew interchangeably generic title ‘Adon’ which is used both for Yahuah and Yahusha because I am going to prove who this esteem is attributed to.

The ‘Yahuah only’ movement wouldn’t see Rev 1:8 in the context of who was the Speaker, though its very clear that it was Yahusha who spoke to Yahuchanan/John, if one reads the next few verses down. But I will leave this as homework for them to do to see who is the ‘SPEAKER’ here.

Rev4:8 And the four living creatures, six wings, six wings to each one, they are full of eyes around and in front; and there is no rest for them day and night, saying, Holy, Holy, Holy is Lord (Greek: Kurios, Hebrew: Adon) Elohim of hosts, who was and who is and who is to come. (Greek : Ho own kai ho en kai ho erchomenos. Hebrew: hahoeh w’hayah w’yabo)

Excuse me for using the word ‘Lord’ again here, I am deliberately using it here because the Hebrew roots movement translations adds the name ‘Yahuah’ here to show that it’s not Yahusha that the text is speaking about.

Rev11:16 And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before the Elohim, fell on their faces and worshiped Elohim.

Rev11:17 saying, We give You thanks, O Lord (Greek: Kurios, Hebrew: Adon) Elohim of hosts, who is and who was, and is coming (Greek: Ho own kai ho en kai ho erchomenos.. Hebrew: hahoeh w’hayah w’yabo) , because You have taken Your great power and have reigned

Looking at these phrases in the Greek and in Hebrew will shed light on to whom this esteem is given to.

So, lets first look at this phrase in Greek:

Ho own kai ho en kai ho erchomenos

Let’s see it phrase by phrase:

1.    Ho own kai:

Ho G3588 means: ‘which’

Own is present participle and imperfect of G1510 eimi

Hence, Ho own is : ‘which is’

Kai 2532: and

Put together ‘ho own kai’ is ‘which is and’

2.    Ho en kai:

Ho G3588: which

en G1722: was

Kai 2532: and

Put together ‘ho en kai’ is ‘which was and’

3.    Ho erchomenos:

ho G3588: which

erchomenos G2064: he who comes.

1. erchomenos G2064 when it speaks of Persons: to come from one place to another, and used both of persons arriving and of those returning

2. erchomenos G2064 when it speaks as a metaphor: to come into being, arise, come forth, show itself, find place or influence.

Put together ‘ho erchomenos’ is ‘which came into another place’ as it refers to ‘A PERSON’.

‘Ho own kai ho en kai ho erchomenos ‘should be correctly translated as ‘Which is, which was and where he arrives to.’

You may look up the Greek interlinear and see that the Greek word ‘ho’ they have translated as ‘He’ in one place and ‘who’ in 2 other places as its related to a person in a movement.

Let us understand this movement/transition but first let’s look at the same phrase in Hebrew.’

hahoeh w’hayah w’yabo written in Hebrew as ההוה והיה ויבוא

hahoeh ההוה in Hebrew simply means ‘the present’ You may look up the Hebrew translation in 1 Cor 3:22 & Romans 8:38 where its translated as ‘the present’. In Rev 16:5 the Hebrew translation translates it as ‘’ the One who are”.

w/u ו in Hebrew means ‘and’

hayah היה  H1961 in Hebrew means ‘was’, ‘come to pass’ ‘came.’

w/u ו in Hebrew means ‘and’

 yabo יבוא in Hebrew is translated as ‘he came’ and hence, ויבוא wayabo would mean ‘And he came’.

Here are a few examples from scriptures:

1Ki3:15 Then Shelomoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream. And he came/ ויבוא wayabo to Yerushalam and stood before the ark of the covenant of Adonai, and offered burnt offerings and made peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

Where did Shelemoh arrive or come to? Yerushalayim.

1Sam4:13 When he came/ ויבוא wayabo, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the wayside watching, because his heart was trembling for the ark of the Elohim. So the man came to tell it in the city, and all the city cried out.

Where did the messenger bringing news come to? To where Eli was.

1Ki7:14 He was son of a woman, a widow, from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tsori, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill for doing any work in bronze. So he came/ ויבוא wayabo to King Shelomoh and performed all his work.

Where did Chiram from Tsor come to? To where king Shelemoh was.

These were persons moving from one place to another which ‘wayabo’ shows us.

Put together hahoeh w’hayah w’yabo would be translated as “The One who is and was/came to pass and He arrived to”

Summary of Greek & Hebrew derived meanings:

‘Ho own kai ho en kai ho erchomenos ‘should be correctly translated as ‘Which is, which was and where he arrives to.’

hahoeh w’hayah w’yabo is correctly translated as “The One who is and was/came to pass and He arrived to”.

Doesn’t this show us a TRANSITION of Yahuah to Yahusha. The arrived to/came to a place is to Tabernacle with us in the New Creation Order. The audience who attributed this esteem to Him were:

1. Yahuchanan/John in Rev 1:4

2. Yahusha himself in Rev 1:8,

3. Seraphims in Rev 4:8

4. 24 elders in Rev 11:16-17

Yahuchanan/John understood His transition and was further revealed by Yahusha and the revelation of ‘WHO He IS’ is passed on to the imagery standing acknowledging the revelation i.e., the Angels depicted as seraphim's and remnant chosen depicted as 24 elders i.e., 12 tribes + 12 apostles.

The transition can be understood in decrees:

Heb 1:6 And when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says, And let all the messengers of Elohim worship Him.

Heb2:3 how shall we escape if we do not pay attenion to such great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken through the Adon, it was confirmed to us by those that heard,

Heb2:4 Elohim also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders and by various miracles and by gifts of His Holy Spirit which are distributed according to His own will.

Heb 2:5 For it is not under the hand of the messengers He has subjected the world to come, concerning which we speak about it.

Shaul the emissary in the first page of his letter (Chapter 1) to the Hebrews is showing the Deity of Yahusha as Alahym declared in decrees & speaks of ‘Alahym again bringing the firstborn into the world and declares to all the Messengers of Alahym to worship Him’. We will not understand this passage unless we see the context of the ‘world to come’ which is subjected to Yahusha in the New Creation Order. It’s a decree letting all Messengers know that He is their Alahym whom they need to worship.

This is further understood when Shaul speaks of the mystery of righteousness showing that the Messengers were able to identify their Alahym Yahusha in the New Creation order which Shaul speaks of ‘the world to come’ because our transition is yet pending and so is this creation which will be destroyed by fire and transition to the new heavens and the new earth.

1Tim3:16 And great is the mystery of righteousness, which is revealed in the flesh, is justified in the Spirit, was seen by Messengers (Greek: Aggelos Hebrew: Malakyam), was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in the faith in the world, taken up in glory.

‘And when He AGAIN brings the firstborn into the world’ is a decree revelation of who Yahusha is as He moved from one place to another, the decree is to the Angels and to His remnant. Remember, we saw the Greek terminology in the words ‘ho erchomenos’ which means ‘which came into another place’ & we also saw the Hebrew terminology in the words ‘wayabo ןיבואו which means ‘And He arrived to’. Where did He arrive to? The New Creation Order. Isn’t that amazing!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The New Covenant Behaviour

The new covenant behaviour is based on the sanctification of the body in a progression towards the final goal of being in an esteemed body in likeness of the Adon. It’s like His body movement is just before our eyes as seeing everything tied to His body depicted as the Tent made without hands. As we walk in the light we see the shadows slowly passing by.

I term this as Covenant Hebrew mindset because Abraham had this mindset as he saw the Day of Yahusha and rejoiced, he walked Kenaan as a pilgrim looking towards a better country, he saw Yitshaq (Isaac) being raised from the dead if he offered him based upon the promise. Hence the New Covenant behaviour in the New Creation is saying read and understand the instruction, its purpose, its transition (because the commands are spiritual) and see where we stand”.

We don’t discard the Old Testament just because we are in the New covenant, we read the commands, understand its shadows & purpose, yet we are not in the literal commands because the commands have transitioned to the spiritual royal laws, so have we spiritually transitioned and are in a progressive transition, we now look and discern the body of the Adon to incorporate the new bride behavior, groaning to be clothed with the Tent from above, the Tent of our Adon made without hands. We are no longer in the milk of the word but solid meat with our sense exercised to discern between good and evil.

Trust this makes sense to all in the New Creation order as we can’t be lawless, the instructions still exist in shadows as we see the Ruach in the letter and walk in the Ruach and not the letter. The elements of water and blood of the womb nourish the baby in gestation and without the elements the baby will die.

The baby once out of the womb retains the water and the blood within and with these elements is still tied to the mothers womb so as to say, it looks at the path it came from with a desire to be in that warmth and nourishment of it but now is exposed to light and has to cope up with various experiences outside of the womb, never to get back but with a goal to grow to adulthood with solid meat being eaten.

The exposure brings the crying as it never cried in the comfort of the womb and its fed milk until it adapts to the environment around with an out of the womb behaviour and begins to understand the path it went through and the way forward.

The natural shows the spiritual because our Adon took that transition path and we see His body which went through this and imitate Him with a highest level of sanctification in Him.

For eg. the Royal Command ‘Lover your neighbor as yourself’

Let me share just 2 examples:

Example 1: You shall not commit adultery

The person who has a wife and never been into another woman would think He has not committed adultery.

But the instruction has a behaviour attached which is a moral one which our Master taught that if one looks at a woman lustfully has committed adultery in His heart with her.

The failure of obeying the command can be seen in what Shaul says that the command is good and set apart but we are carnal and slaves of sins. Wretched man that I am, who will save me from this body of death? He thanks the Master Yahusha.

The behaviour of being under the command is also seen in Yasharal going after other mighty ones and despising her husband Yahuah who then divorced her and sent her away and she could never come back to Him.

This is where Yahuah walked the Royal law ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’ in transitioning to the new creation order and setting His divorced wife from the Torah of her husband (Romans 7:1-4) and He redeems her from the spiritual adultery in making her cleansed in Himself as He drinks the bitter water of jealousy (gall on the stake) which the wife had to actually drink as per Torah for her test against adultery.

You may read this in Numbers 5:14- 30.

Now the wife’s desire is towards her husband as told to Eve as she begins to see and behave looking at the body of her husband which went through pain and suffering for her to be brought back to her.

Gen 3:16 …..And your desire is for your husband, and he does rule over you.

What an amazing Yahusha Aluahym we have!

2. Second example : “You shall not kill”

A person who has caused no literal murder would think he has obeyed the law. But the instruction has a behaviour attached which is a moral one and it’s says whoever hates his brother is a murderer

1Jn 3:15 Everyone hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has everlasting life staying in him.

1Jn 3:16 By this we have known love, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Yahusha also taught when you bring your gift to the altar and there remember your brother holds something against you, leave your gift on the altar and go and reconcile with your brother.

Mat 5:23 “If, then, you bring your gift to the slaughter-place, and there remember that your brother holds whatever against you,

Mat 5:24 leave your gift there before the slaughter-place, and go, first make peace with your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

The morality in the law/instruction is of the highest level and here again Yahusha comes to our rescue

Act 3:14 “But you denied the Set-apart and Righteous One, and asked that a man, a murderer, be granted you.

Act 3:15 “But you murdered the Prince of life, whom Elohim raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

Mat 27:20 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask for Barabba and to destroy יהושע.

They asked in exchange for Yahusha a murderer to be released whose name was ‘Barabba’ בר־אבא

Bar בר is a Hebrew Aramaic word for Son

ABA אבא in Hebrew means Father

So they asked the murderer who once was ‘Son of the Father’ in exchange for the actual Son of the Father Yahusha, for in His transition journey He came in Sonship to give us the adoption as sons.

They always sought to kill Him

John 7:19 “Did not Mosheh give you the Torah? Yet not one of you does the Torah! Why do you seek to kill Me?”

He was numbered with the transgressors it says when they came with club and swords to arrest Him.

We are the Barabba who now realise and see the body of the Adon that went to the stake to deliver us from this attitude we had in disobedience to His laws/instructions and we correct our behaviour seeing the law is spiritual and we transition into the spiritual reality in the body of our Adon without being in the literal command for the command itself has transitioned to “Love your neighbor as yourself “

As a Jew who now converted to Messiah and in the land would understand why Yahuah in Torah asked to leave the corners of the field for the poor of the land and why in a Shemitah ie. Every 7th year, 49th year and 50th year they were not to sow and reap but eat what grows of itself and allow the poor of the land to eat anything that grew from their land, and in every Shemitah there was a slave release which was written in Torah and we see Shaul the apostle writing to Philemon reminding him to take Onesimus who once was his slave but had converted to Messiah when Shaul was in chains. Philemon was asked to receive him back as a brother.

The instruction transitioned and so did we in Messiah in understanding the instruction and the shadow pointing to the light in Messiah. We look at Him and His love and we display a right intended behaviour.

Isn’t that something wonderful?

These things are not easily understood by a carnal mind without scriptures from where we get the instruction, our transition path (where we stand) in understanding the instruction and the shadows pointing to the light in Mashiyach and looking at His body which we are part of in a sanctification behaviour to obey the instruction in its spiritual transition as it becomes real in the body of Mashiyach. It’s called progressive sanctification for us which also means we are in a progressive transition towards the goal who is Mashiyach the Tent made without hands and is heavenly. The body is not for fornication but for the Adon and the Adon for the body. The sanctification is of the highest level if we understand the firstborns who were priests before the Levite priesthood came were asked to sanctify themselves before when Yahuah came down on Mt Sinai. And we are told in Hebrews 12 it’s the same voice that spoke which will shake both the heavens and the earth , the Mt Tsyion that we have all gathered to. This is the royal priesthood restored to the highest sanctification in Mashiyach because those first borns who were priests at Mt Sinai had a boundary which they couldn’t cross over but we have no boundaries and we run to Yahusha as royal priests.

Heb 2:11 For both He who sanctified and those who are sanctified are all of One, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers,

All are of ONE ie. Mashiyach Yahusha and by calling us brethren, He makes it clear that just as He is to the throne room as our forerunner, the access to it is ours in Him.

The progressive transitioning of us takes us to the throne room to see that it is Yahusha seated on the throne with the pavement of sapphire under His feet which are His pathway of royal laws we need to walk on (Exo 24:10). The topic is vast so sharing all in a nutshell so that we display the right behaviour in our sanctification.

The Adon's Supper

 Christian fellowships and Hebrew roots fellowships gather on a particular day and have formulated a doctrine of a breaking of bread and drinking of wine from the cup to remember the death and resurrection of Yahusha ha Mashiyach in a fleshly appeasement trapment! The doctrines are formulated based on milking on a few scriptures from the basharah, Acts and Shaul’s address to the Corinthian assembly. I have listed the key ones below and will share the ruach understanding which is lacking among people to understand the true meaning of breaking of bread and drinking from the cup and its significance. Trust the truth will set you free!

The basharah account:

Luke22:15 And He said to them, “I have deeply longed to eat this Passover with you before My suffering.”

Luke22:16 “For I say to you, “I shall not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of the Elohim.”

Luke22:17 He took the cup giving thanks and said, “Take it and distribute it.”

Luke22:18 “For I say to you, “I shall surely not drink of the fruit of the vine from now until the kingdom of the Elohim comes.

Luke22:19 He took the bread, giving thanks, and He broke. He gave it to them and said, “This is My body which is given on your behalf. Do this in My remembrance.”

Luke22:20 He did likewise also the cup after the meal, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out on your behalf.

Luke 24:30 When He had reclined at the table with them, He took the bread and blessed it, and breaking it, He began giving it to them.

Luke 24:35 They began to relate their experiences on the road and how He was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

The Acts account:

Acts2:42 They were continuing steadfastly in the teaching of the apostles and in the fellowship, and in the breaking of bread, and in the prayer.

Acts2:46 Day by day they were keeping watch to be with one heart in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house,

Acts2:47 they ate their food with gladness and with simplicity of heart, praising the Elohim and finding favor in the presence of all the people.

The Corinthian assembly account:

1 Corin 10:16-17 Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Messiah? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Messiah? Since there is one bread, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread.

1Cor11:23 Therefore I received from the Adon, and I delivered to you that the Adon `Yahusha in the night of which He was delivered up took bread,

1Cor11:24 and having given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat, this is My body, which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

1Cor11:25 In like manner also the cup after the supper, and said, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. Do this in remembrance of Me at all time that you drink it.

1Cor11:26 For at all time that you eat this bread and drink this cup, remind the remembrance of the death of our Adon until He comes.

1Cor11:27 Therefore he who eats from this bread or drinks from the cup of the Adon unworthily shall be guilty of the body of our Adon and of His blood.

1Cor11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

1Cor11:29 For the one who eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, by not discerning the body of the Adon.

1Cor11:30 Because this word, there are many among you sick and weak, and there is much asleep to death.

1Cor11:31 For if we were examining ourselves, we should not be judged.

1Cor11:32 But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Adon, so that we shall not be condemned with the world.

If you notice the basharah account, Yahusha chose to eat a meal with his 12 disciples minus the Passover lamb because He Himself was the Passover lamb. Hence, the remembrance is related to the Passover lamb, for the killing of the Pesach lamb required supervision of the Levites and while Yahusha stayed hung on the stake the lambs were being slayed in the temple. Yahusha presided over His own sacrifice as the Malchitsedeq priest, and He was the Lamb who was without blemish and didn’t need the supervision of a carnal priesthood.

John 19:31 The Yahudim said, the corpses should not remain on the crucifixion on the day of Shabbat, since it was the Preparation Day, and that day of Shabbat was a high day. So, they requested for Pilatos to break their legs and to take them down.

From the Jewish perspective they wanted to remain ceremonially clean, so they didn’t enter the Praetorium. 

John 18:28 And it came to pass as early in the morning, they led Yahusha from the house of Qayapha to the Praetorium (house of justice). But they did not enter there so that they would not become impure but could eat the Passover.

Luke 22:15 And He said to them, “I have deeply longed to eat this Passover with you before My suffering.”

Shaul confirms this fulfillment to the Corinthian assembly.

1Cor5:7 Purge out the old leaven so that you are a new lump and the unleavened bread. For our Passover is sacrificed also for us, for He is the Mashiyach with us.

1Cor5:8 Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Shaul gives us the ruach understanding of Passover by asking us to purge out the old leaven i.e. referring to the old covenant so that you are a new lump i.e. referring to the new covenant in the new creation order. He goes on to say ‘Let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven (related to instruction of literal removing of leaven from houses in old covenant), nor with leaven of malice and wickedness (the behavior that remained in those who followed a carnal command), but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth (related to the body of Mashiyach in which we become unleavened with a new covenant behavior). Hence, the celebration of the feast is in OUR CHANGED BEHAVIOUR by becoming unleavened in Messiah Yahusha).

In the basharah account Yahusha when He broke bread said Luke22:16 “For I say to you, “I shall not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of the Elohim.”

And when He drank from the cup said Luke22:18 “For I say to you, “I shall surely not drink of the fruit of the vine from now until the kingdom of the Elohim comes.

Hence, He was not going to eat of the bread or drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of Alahym comes. This is the Covenant meal He was referring to which will be the consummation of the New Covenant, also known as the Marriage Supper of the Lamb!

Rev 19:9 And he said to me, Write, Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me, These, they, are true words of Elohim.

But after His resurrection didn’t He break bread with the 2 disciples who were on the road to Emmaus?

Luke24:30 And it came to pass when He reclined with them, He took the bread, blessed it, broke it and He gave it to them.

Luke24:31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him, but He turned aside and He vanished from their eyes!

If you notice that He broke bread & gave it to the 2 disciples to open their eyes of what He spoke and when they recognized Him, He vanished from their eyes. He broke bread and gave to them, He himself didn’t eat as per His words at the Pesach table.

But didn’t He say “Do this in My remembrance” when He broke the bread and gave the cup at the Pesach Table?

I have touch based this before and this has to be understood in the Covenant Hebrew mindset. The word ‘my remembrance’ is Zakary זכרי and while translators would point you to Greek translation, a comparison to the same word in the Shabbath command Exo 20:8 “Remember/zakor זכןר  the Sabbath alaph tau  אתDay to set it apart” will help us understand that the same word zakar זכר/zakor זכןר is also translated as ‘male child’ H2138.

Hence, the remembrance was of the transition of the ‘male child’ who came from the womb to take the path to an adult glorified body in Mashiyach. It's all about the Tent of His body which was not made with hands and is heavenly and saw the transition in suffering & glorification, and hence, we are identified in His death and resurrection, in His suffering and glorification. The bread and wine were just elements depicting His death and resurrection, His suffering and glorification and when He said “Do this in My Remembrance” we must decode what He meant.

The Apostles doctrine:

Acts of the apostles was a transition period as the teaching of the apostles came afresh in the new covenant with an exposition of the Torah of sin and death which held the ruach in the letter. The Transition was not overnight but a gradual experience for the apostles themselves as the Ruach enabled them the understanding.  They broke bread from house to house as a covenant meal confirming the newer understanding which came from the apostles when houses turned to Yahusha. Hence, we can’t formulate a doctrine from the beginnings of the transition period.

Acts 2:42 They were continuing steadfastly in the teaching of the apostles and in the fellowship, and in the breaking of bread, and in the prayer.

Acts 2:46 Day by day they were keeping watch to be with one heart in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house,

Acts 2:47 they ate their food with gladness and with simplicity of heart, praising the Elohim and finding favor in the presence of all the people.

The Corinthian assembly:

The Corinthian assembly was known for its congregation filled with carnal understanding and divisions as some said they belonged to Apollos, some said they belong to Shaul, some said they belonged to Kepha  and some said they belonged to Messiah (1 Corin 1), there was dishonoring the body of Messiah in a covenant meal which had become a norm (1 Corin 11), there was a problem of understanding of the gifts, the gibberish tongue had crept in (1 Corin 14), they were carnal babes (1 Corin 3:1) fed with milk, they allowed sexual immorality in the assembly (1 Cor 5), they brought lawsuits against brethren & were occupied in eating things sacrificed to idols (1 Corin 6 & 1 Corn 8), their women didn’t regard order in assembly by being under the authority of their husband's headship (1 Corin 11) etc etc. And all of the 1^st letter to them was to bring order in the assembly.

Acts 18 records Shaul in his transition journey had established this assembly and remained there a year and six months teaching the Word of Alahym among them having moved on to Ephesos.

Acts18:11 And he remained there a year and six months, teaching the Word of the Elohim among them.

The entire synagogue there had turned to Yahusha ha Mashiyach and the leaders of the synagogue Crispus and Sosthenes led the assembly post Shaul leaving them in an onward journey, and it was difficult to cope up with the assembly transition as there were Greeks with the Greco Roman mindset and the Jews who also were having the two mindsets of Greco Roman and Hebrew legalistic mindset which led most of them into an incorrect behavior. Hence, Shaul had to write to them 2 letters out of which the first one was to set order in the assembly.

1Cor1:1 Polos (Shaul) is called as an apostle of `Yahusha’ the Mashiyach by the will of Elohim, and Sosthenes our brother,

Acts18:8 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue and he believed in the Adon (Master) and all his household. And also, many of the Qorinetim heard and believed.

Acts18:17 And all the Yawanim (Greeks) took hold of Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the judgment seat. But Gallion showed no concern to these things too.

Now coming to the passages of the covenant meal observance in the Corinthian assembly: 

1Cor 11:20 And now, when you gather together, it is not to eat the supper of the Adon.

1Cor 11:21 For when you eat, each one takes his supper in the time of eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk.

1Cor 11:22 Do you have no houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the assembly of Elohim and you shall be ashamed of those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I shall not praise you?

There was more than a normal participation of breaking of bread and drinking of the cup in the assembly. Shaul rebukes them of a gathering which they termed as ‘supper of the Adon’ as a term for Passover meal but it’s not to eat the supper of the Adon, for he points them the flaws of observing a covenant meal which was actually done with the family at home (1 Cor 11:22) in the initial instruction. Shaul the apostle was not endorsing observing a covenant meal in the assembly or at home but was pointing out the severe failures of the Corinthian assembly trying to do it and tells them what he had delivered to them (indicating the delivery during the transition journey as did all the other apostles in their newer understanding of the new creation covenant by breaking bread house to house) & here he was comparing to what they were now doing. The scriptures should be understood in its proper context.

1Cor11:23 Therefore I received from the Adon, and I delivered to you that the Adon `Yahusha in the night of which He was delivered up took bread,

He then states what was delivered as Yahusha did on the night before He died and was to be in remembrance/zakar which they were not doing. So, he brings the ORDER IN THE ASSEMBLY

1Cor11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

1Cor11:29 For the one who eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, by not discerning the body of the Adon.

Those who were doing it unworthily were doing it, not discerning the body of the Adon.

Our body should be in a sanctified state as we progress towards in our transition to receive the glorious body reserved which is our Adon’s body. The belly is the testing arena for all elect for Yahusha said “Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word of Alahym” and the word of Alahym defines for us what sanctification is all about as we imitate Yahusha and His behavior in obedience as we transition in Him (it’s all about His body which is the Tent from above not made with hands).

Php 3:19 Their end is destruction, their elohim is their belly, and their esteem is in their shame – they mind the earthly.

1Ti 4:4 Because every creature of Elohim is good, and none is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

1Ti 4:5 for it is set apart by the Word of Elohim and prayer.

 Every creature which is clean is defined by the word of Alahym and that’s why in verse 5 above Shaul the apostle says it’s sanctified by the Word of Alahym (the instruction) and prayer (our behavior).

The Corinthian assembly lost the essence of the command given in a transition and transitioned to a Greco Roman mindset of not discerning the body of the Adon because of which they were severely judged by the Adon.

1Cor 11:30 For this cause, there are many among you sick and weak, and many are asleep to death.

The order Shaul the apostle brings is asking them to judge themselves, for when we see where we are in the transition, it lies looking to the Tent from heaven i.e., discerning the body of Yahusha, we will not be condemned with the world, for everything we will do will be in sanctification of our bodies with the new creation behavior.

1Cor11:31 For if we were examining ourselves, we should not be judged.

1Cor11:32 But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Adon, so that we shall not be condemned with the world.

Correcting the behavior is always important in our sanctification by discerning the body of the Adon. We need to look at Him, his Torah of life to be in the transition. The emblems are mere carnal appeasements of the flesh and keeps one trapped in a goody goody feeling.

1Cor 11:33 So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, tarry for one another.

Shaul is not asking them to come again together to eat for he is referring to the covenant meal they were coming to participate in the assembly which they should be doing at home as per the original command of the apostles as they broke bread house to house (Acts 2:46). The assembly was still in a milk feeding process and had not come to the fuller understanding of the new creation order and the behavior towards the instructions of a transition. This is understood when we understand 1Corn 11:34 ‘lest you shall come together for guilt’ and “And the rest of the matters I shall SET IN ORDER when I come”. When you see the Hebrew mindset in reading 1Corn 11:33 ‘tarry for one another’, the term ‘one another’ in Hebrew mindset is ‘zeh la zeh’ which is like pointing places ‘here for here’ and will not make sense unless we see the comparing points as ‘instruction and behavior’. It's like saying “If you are going to do it again read the instruction, its purpose, its transition and see where you stand.”

1Cor11:34 If anyone is hungry, let him eat in his house, lest you shall come together for guilt. And the rest of the matters I shall SET IN ORDER when I come.

Remember, its similar to the tablets of the covenant which Moses broke which had writing on it by the finger of Yahuah mizeh u mizeh which should be translated ‘here and here’ and it was plain and simple. Shaul with the similar Covenant Hebrew mindset is saying read and understand the instruction, its purpose, its transition and see where you stand”. This is the new creation order behavior we must have. We don’t discard the Old Testament just because we are in the New covenant, we read the commands, understand its shadows & purpose, yet we are not in the literal commands because the commands have transitioned to the spiritual royal laws, so have we spiritually transitioned and we now look and discern the body of the Adon to incorporate the new bride behavior, groaning to be clothed from the Tent from above. We are no longer in the milk of the word but solid meat with our sense exercised to discern between good and evil.

Heb 5:13 For everyone who lives on milk is not acquainted in the Word of righteousness, for he is still an infant.

Heb 5:14 But solid food is for the mature, that there is to them according to the experience of the senses that have been trained to discern between good and evil.

When the bride sees and understands what a Covenant meal is and that her bridegroom said he will not eat or drink of it until he drinks it new with us referring to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, we see what He meant and tend to attain the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth behavior until we are in the glorified bodies with the transition completed. We don’t see any instruction to Gentiles in Acts 15 to break bread and drink of the cup and no other letter in the assembly records any such event expect for the disorderly covenant meal gathering in the Corinthian assembly. May the truth set you free!

 

 

Greco Roman mindset vs Hebrew Legalistic mindset vs Covenant Hebrew mindset

 

We have so many camps and denominations all tied up to a mindset from which comes a behavior, either Torah legalist bound to Judasim or Torahless with no boundaries termed as the Greco Roman mindset or a Crossed over Hebrew who by the definition of Hebrew/Abary which means ‘One who has crossed over’. i.e. a Covenant Hebrew mindset.

This video will enable us to identify our behavior to the category we fall into. For after all Yahusha said “If you love me obey my commandments” and He summarized the ten words into two i.e. 1. To Love Yahuah Alahym (which is Himself as He says unless you love Me more than your father, mother, brother or sister, you are not fit to be My disciple), with all your heart, mind, soul and strength and 2. Love your neighbour as yourself. I call these as Sapphire commandments as they are the pathway to Yahusha as Moses, Aharon & his 2 sons and 70 elders of Yasharal saw under His feet a pavement work of sapphire. Exo 24:10

Exo 24:10 and they saw the Elohim of Yisra’ěl, and under His feet like a paved work of sapphire stone, and like the heavens for purification.

If one fulfill the royal laws show a royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9) behavior.

Deu 33:2 And he said, “יהוה came from Sinai, and rose from Sě‛ir for them. He shone forth from Mount Paran, and came with ten thousands of set-apart ones – at His right hand a FIERY LAW/ESHDATH  אשדתfor them. 

ESH אש H784: FIRE & Dath דת H1881: DECREE/LAW

Moses before his death prophesied of the One to come. The text identifies Him as Yahuah coming from Sinai, rising from Seir and shining from Mount Paran.

Hab 3:3 Aluah comes from Těman, And the Set-apart One from Mount Paran. Selah. His splendour shall cover the heavens, And His praise shall fill the earth.

Hab 3:4 His radiance is as the light, He has horns/rays/power from His hand, and in name is His strength hidden. 

The power, horns/qeren קרנ is in His hand (the nail print) and strength/oz עוז hidden in His name. 

The horns or power is plural whereas the hand is singular, the attention is on His Right Hand and this can be seen when we see the unfolding of the first born. 

If you notice Habakkuk 3:3 says Aluah comes from Teman (in Edom) and the Set Apart One from Mount Paran 

And Moshe/Moses in his final blessing names two places Seir (in Edom) and Mount Paran. He says Yahuah rose/zarach (which also means dawn) from Seir unto them. Them who? Yasharal.

Moses also says He shone forth /yapa from Mount Paran and He came with ten thousand of Qodesh ones and from His right hand went a fiery law for them. 

Seir and Teman are in Edom where Esau, the firstborn son of Yitshaq dwelt. 

Paran is where Yishmael the first-born son of Hagar and Abraham dwelt. 

Both these firstborns lost their birthright and stand for carnal Yerushalayim in bondage with her children, the Judaism system and their legalist Torah of sin and death, a pattern forsaken, a pattern which doesn’t point to Yahusha.

Gen 25:27 And the boys grew up. And Ěsaw became a man knowing how to hunt, a man of the field, while Ya‛aqoḇ was a complete man, dwelling in tents. 

Gen 21:20  And Elohim was with the boy (Yishmael), and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. 

Gen 21:21 And he dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Mitsrayim. 

Both these firstborns were hunters and their pattern was their belly and this we can see by Esau selling his birthright to Yaaqob for morsel of food. With Ishmael we see him mocking Yitshaq.

Gen 21:8  And the child grew and was weaned, and Aḇraham made a great feast on the day that Yitsḥaq was weaned. 

Gen 21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Haḡar the Mitsrian, whom she had borne to Aḇraham, mocking/tsachaq צחק. 

tsachaq צחק H6711 comes from ‘gach גח’ ie. The belly.

Yishmael was the son of Hagar the Egyptian & we understand from the account of Yoseph that the Egyptians could not eat food with the Hebrews for it was an abomination to them & we further understand that ‘shepherds’ were abomination to the Egyptians. Hence, this mocking was related to eating and it should be rightly translated as ‘sport’ as the actual word there is matschaq מצחק

 

which means by implication to sport: - laugh, mock, play, make sport. Strong's doesn't list the word 'matschaq' but just 'tschaq' and the definitions above are above for this word צָחַק/tschaq . There are lot of variations to this word, let's see a few of them

Yatschaq: laughed

Gen 17:17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed/yatschaq יצחק, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to a man one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is a daughter of ninety years old, bear a child?

Tatschaq: laughed

Gen 18:12 Sarah laughed/tatschaq  תצחקto herself, saying, After I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my master being old also?

tschaq: laugh

Gen 18:13 And Yahuah said to Abraham, Why at this did Sarah laugh/tschaq צחק, saying, Shall I indeed truly bear, even when I am so old?

matschaq/latshaq...to play sport (sexual pleasure or fornication in idolatory)

Gen 19:14 Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and said, Get up, get out of this place, for Yahuah shall destroy the city. But he appeared as one that sported/matschaq מצחק in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

This word 'matschaq מצחק ' is used when immorality is mentioned. Lot's son in laws were immoral and thought Lot was like one of them who was sexually immoral but Lot was set-apart and righteous.

Gen 21:9 Now Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking/ matschaq מצחק.

Since we have yet to expose Gen 21:9 in the light of the usage of the word 'matschaq/latschaq' let’s move on and come back to touch base this passage after we have seen the usage of this word in other passages.

Ex 32:6 So they rose early on the morrow and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play/latschaq לצחק.

The Yasharali's offered burnt offering and peace offerings to the golden calf and ROSE UP TO PLAY (latskhaq) indicating fornication through idolatry.

Gen 39:14 she called to the men of her house and said to them, saying, See, he has brought in a Hebrew man to us to make sport of me/latschaq לציק; he came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a great voice.

Gen 39:17 Then she spoke to him with these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, whom you brought to us, came in to me to make sport of me/ latschaq לציק;

The above verses are an accusation from Potiphar's wife towards Yoseph who was innocent and who ran away from her as she was the one who wanted to lie down with him in adultery. The same word is used showing a sexual sin.

Jud 16:25 It came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he shall sport /yashchaq ישחק for us. So they called for Samson from the prison house, and he sported / yatschaq יצחק   before them. And they made him stand between the pillars.

Whatever this sport was before the Philistines it was definitely to humble Samson after all his eyes were put out and he had lost all his strength. The scriptures are not clear what kind of sport they made him do to entertain themselves but it was an act humiliating him. Moreover there are two different words used in the same passage above which are translated as 'sport' ...one is yashchaq ישחק which means to 'scorn/mock/laugh' and the other word is what we saw Abraham do before Yahuah, he laughed, Abraham in belief laughed (yatschaq) and we also saw Sarah in unbelief laughed (tatschaq)

The verse should correctly be translated as Jud 16:25 It came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, there is law /yashchaq ישחק for us (Yash יש in Hebrew means ‘there is’ and chaq חק in Hebrew means ‘law’). So they called for Samson from the prison house, and he was being laughed/yatschaq יצחק  by them. And they made him stand between the pillars.

The other usage of the words with the mem and the lamed before the 'tschaq צחק' are used in context of sexual sin or idolatry which is a sin equivalent to fornication. Shaul reveals what Yishmael's matschaq מצחק/sporting meant. Yishmael pursued Yitshaq into fleshly idolatorus things which Paul says ...''so it is now also'' Gal 4:29. This shows pursuing fleshly things is fornication just like the children of Yasharal rose up to play/matskhaq and is equaled to sexual sin.

Gal 4:29 But as then he who was born according to the flesh pursued him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also.

1Co 10:7  And do not become idolaters as some of them, as it has been written, “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play/latschaq לצחק (remember we saw the usage of this word when Yasharal played the harlot with the golden calf).” 
1Co 10:8 Neither should we commit whoring, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell,

1Cor 7:2 But because of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.

Coming back to the Egyptians:

Gen 43:32 And they set him a place by himself, and them by themselves, and the Mitsrites who ate with him by themselves, for the Mitsrites could not eat food with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Mitsrites. 

Gen 46:33  “And it shall be, when Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’ 

Gen 46:34 that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been men of livestock from our youth even till now, both we and also our fathers,’ so that you dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Mitsrites.” 

We further decode from the scriptures when Pharaoh later told them to sacrifice to Yahuah in Egypt and Moses said “It is not right to do so, for we would be slaughtering the abomination of Egypt to Yahuah our Alahym” and the Egyptians would stone them.

Exo 8:25 Pharaoh then called for Mosheh and Aharon, and said, “Go, slaughter to your Elohim in the land.” 

Exo 8:26 And Mosheh said, “It is not right to do so, for we would be slaughtering the abomination of the Mitsrites to יהוה our Elohim. See, if we slaughter the abomination of the Mitsrites before their eyes, would they not stone us? 

Hence, it had to do with a worship & sacrificial system for which the Egyptians loathed Yasharal & now we know why Yishmael mocked Yitshaq. The two worship systems couldn’t be under one Tent and hence, Sarah said which is recorded in Gen 21:10 So she said to Aḇraham, “Drive out this female servant and her son, for the son of this female servant shall not inherit with my son, with Yitsḥaq.” 

While Genesis records Yasharal being shepherds is an abomination to Egyptians it was also vice -versa as we see Moses saying they don’t want to be sacrificing the abominations of the Egyptians to Yahuah.

Shaul the apostle decodes the mystery when he further breaks down the bondwoman and her son to mean carnal Yasharal in bondage with their children vs Covenant Yasharal the seed of freedom who is born from above.

Gal 4:29  But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him born according to the Spirit, so also now. 

Gal 4:30  But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the female servant and her son, for the son of the female servant shall by no means be heir with the son of the free woman.” Gen_21:10. 

Gal 4:31 Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the female servant but of the free woman. 

To understand this, the present carnal Yerushalayim lost their essence of spiritual worship and were occupied in a system related to food and drinks only i.e. the belly leading to fornication.

Heb 9:8  the Set-apart Spirit signifying this, that the way into the Most Set-apart Place was not yet made manifest while the first Tent has a standing, 

Heb 9:9  which was a parable for the present time in which both gifts and slaughters are offered which are unable to perfect the one serving, as to his conscience, 

Heb 9:10 only as to foods and drinks, and different washings, and fleshly regulations imposed until a time of setting matters straight. 

Ge 9:27 Alahym shall enlarge Yapheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

Children of Shem: Ge 10:22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

Sons of Yapeth:

Ge 10:2 The sons of Yapheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Yawan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
 3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
 4 And the sons of Yawan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
 5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

The Gentiles spoken of coming back into the Tents of Shem were the sons of Shem dispersed into nations Yapeth’s sons were scattered to forming the nations who forgot Alahym. Noach prophesied “Alahym shall enlarge Yapeth and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem’’. These were the Gentile Jews/Yahudi’s who came back into the fold as converts into Judaism and further transitioned into Messiah Yahusha as seen on the day of Pentecost/Shavout. Being among the pagan gentiles (uncovenanted) they behaved like the pagans just as Yasharal picked up the customs of the pagan gentiles by eating swine’s, rats’ flesh while they also sacrificed to Yahuah. Yahuah says He would bring them all back in a CLEAN VESSEL & will take them as priests in place of Levites. Compare some of the nations mentioned in Isaiah 66 are Yapeth’s seed.

Isa 65:4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; 

Isa 66:17  those who set themselves apart and cleanse themselves at the gardens after ‘one’ in the midst, eating flesh of pigs and the abomination and the mouse, are snatched away, together,” declares יהוה.

Isa 66:18  “And I, because of their works and their imaginations, am coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My esteem. 

Isa 66:19  “And I shall set a sign among them, and shall send some of those who escape to the nations – Tarshish and Pul and Luḏ, who draw the bow, and Tuḇal and Yawan, the coastlands afar off who have not heard My report nor seen My esteem. And they shall declare My esteem among the gentiles. 

Isa 66:20  “And they shall bring all your brothers as an offering to יהוה out of all the nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My set-apart mountain Yerushalayim,” declares יהוה, “as the children of Yisra’ěl bring an offering in a clean vessel into the House of יהוה. 

Isa 66:21 “And from them too I shall take for priests – for Lěwites,” declares יהוה. 

Hence, we see the transition from the Greco Roman mindset to the Juadism Torah bound legalistic mindset to the Crossed over Hebrew mindset coming to Yahusha of whom Moses said would come Sinai, and rose from Sě‛ir for them. He shone forth from Mount Paran, and came with ten thousands of set-apart ones – at His right hand a FIERY LAW/ESHDATH  אשדתfor them. 

Hab 3:3 Eloah comes from Těman, And the Set-apart One from Mount Paran. Selah. His splendour shall cover the heavens, And His praise shall fill the earth. ‘SELAH’ סלה 

Habakkuk mentions singular Aluah coming from Teman and Mount Paran and uses the word ‘SELAH’ סלה 

SELAH is used in Psalms and is a musical term possibly a lifting of the sound. A change of note in simple terms with a pause. 

Apart from Psalms, Habakkuk is the only place this term is used. Why is it used? 

Yahuah in prophecy is letting us know He is going to change roles and that He is the same Aluah. He gives us a clue to identify Himץ He says horns/power is in His hand and the strength is in His name.

If you look up the Hebrew word ‘sham’ which means ‘name’ is not translated as name but translated as ‘there’ as saying ‘there is His strength’

Hab 3:4 And the brightness is as the light, He has rays from His hand, And there/H8033 שמ His power is hidden. 

Same word H8034 is translated as 'name' שמ

Habakkuk doesn’t mention which hand, but we know it’s His right hand when we compare with Masha’s prophecy as it says from His right hand went a fiery law for them.

Isa 19:18 ¶ In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahuah of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
 19 In that day shall there be an altar to Yahuah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Yahuah.

 20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto Yahuah of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto Yahuah because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
21 And Yahuah shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know Yahuah in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto Yahuah, and perform it.
 22 And Yahuah shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to Yahuah, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
 23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

When we compare who Egypt is we find this scripture:

Re 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Yahusha was impaled.

Isaiah 19: 18-25 doesn't mean that the nations of Egypt and Assyria would turn to Yahuah as a nation but speaks of his people who were turned astray to the customs of Egypt and Assyria coming back to him.

Isa 19:25 Whom Yahuah of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

We must understand that Yasharal was in captivity both in Egypt and Assyria and they brought with them the false worship style of these nations rather than obeying the pattern given. When they came out of Egypt and Assyria, they carried their language and rose up and played the harlot by renaming Yahuah to the Egyptian gods. Rose up and play/sporting shows ‘Lawlessness’ i.e. The Greco Roman mindset.

Moses tells Pharaoh, they cannot sacrifice the abomination of Egypt to Yahuah:

The sheep and cattle of Egypt is called as abomination of Egypt which came written later in Torah letting them know why Yahuah drove out the Kennanites from the land.

Lev 18:23 ‘And do not have intercourse with any beast, to defile yourself with it. And a woman does not stand before a beast to mate with it, it is a perversion. 

Lev 18:24 ‘Do not defile yourselves with all these, for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am driving out before you. 

Lev 18:25 ‘Thus the land became defiled, therefore I punished it for its crookedness, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

The land had become defiled men and women having sex with animals, animals of their lands abused etc. which is why Yahuah wouldn’t spare even the animals of the land and reprimanded king Shaul as he kept the best of the sheep and cattle of the land to sacrifice to Yahuah.

Shaul spared Agag the king of Amalek and the best of the sheep and cattle which he later tells Shemuel that he kept them to slaughter to Yahuah.

1Sa 15:14 But Shemu’ěl said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear?”

1Sa 15:15 And Sha’ul said, “They have brought them from Amalěq, because the people spared the best of the sheep and the cattle, to slaughter to יהוה your Elohim. And the rest we have put under the ban.”

The sheep, cattle were to be killed with all the people because we read in Leviticus 18:21-25 that these nations defiled their animals by having sexual intercourse with even the animals, they abused the animals. Here was king Shaul with his intention to slaughter these sexually abused animals to Yahuah as slaughter offerings. That is how grave his sin was.

So, whenever a command came to not spare men, women, infants, animals it was because of these grave sins the nations had committed.

When Yasharal was carried captive away by king of Ashshur and resettled in their lands, he brought people from Babel and Assyrian nations and because they didn’t know the law of the land Yahuah sent lions to kill them & later a Levite priest is sent to them to teach them the law of the land i.e. the Shemitah & the agricultural laws & the shepherding of the sheep related to it.

2Ki 17:24  And the sovereign of Ashshur brought people from Baḇel, and from Kuthah, and from Awwa, and from Ḥamath, and Sepharwayim, and placed them in the cities of Shomeron instead of the children of Yisra’ěl. And they took possession of Shomeron and dwelt in its cities. 

2Ki 17:25  And it came to be, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they did not fear יהוה, and יהוה sent lions among them, which were killing among them. 

2Ki 17:26  And they spoke to the sovereign of Ashshur, saying, “The nations whom you have removed and placed in the cities of Shomeron do not know the right-ruling of the Elohim of the land. And He has sent lions among them, and see, they are slaying among them because they do not know the right-ruling of the Elohim of the land.” 

2Ki 17:27 And the sovereign of Ashshur commanded, saying, “Send one of the priests whom you exiled from there, to go there. Let him go and dwell there, and let him teach them the right-ruling of the Elohim of the land.” 

Men who called on the name of Yahuah in the days of Seth (Gen 4:26) later were dispersed in confusion of Babel because they served not Alahym with one consent but rebelled against him. But here we have Yahuah promising that he will turn to the people a pure language that they may all call upon his name to serve HIM WITH ONE CONSENT.

Ps 114:1 ¶ When Yasharal went out of Egypt, the house of Yaaqob from a people of strange language;
 2 Yahudah was his sanctuary, and Yasharal his dominion.

Ps 81:5 This he ordained in Yoseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.

We read in Isaiah 11:11 that for a second time Yahuah will recover his remnant from Egypt, Assyria,from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. Yahuah will recover his remnant out from a people of strange language, from a language that Asaph says in his Psalms (81:5) which he understood not. We see this in spiritual comparison.

Isa11:11 Then it shall happen on that day that My Adon (Master) shall again recover the second time with His hand the remnant of His people, who shall remain, from Ashshur, and from Mitsrayim, from Pathros, and from Kush, and from Eylam, and from Shinar, and from Chamath, and from the islands of the sea.

Isa11:12 And He shall lift up a standard for the nations and assemble the banished ones of Yisra’El, and shall gather the dispersed of Yahudah from the four corners of the earth.

The cross over is seen from a Greco Roman mindset to the Covenant Hebrew mindset. Some of them had an intermediate cross over into Judasim from the Greco Roman mindset before they crossed over to the covenant Hebrew mindset. Abraham is called a Hebrew for the first time as he crossed over to a Covenant Hebrew mindset.

Gen 14:13 And one who had escaped came and informed Aḇram the Hebrew, for he dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamrě the Amorite, brother of Eshkol and brother of Aněr, and they had a covenant with Aḇram. 

Quoting the royal law Shaul the apostle says we have been called to freedom and only to be mindful not to use freedom as an occasion for the flesh. Remember, Yishmael sported Yitshaq, trying to put a stumbling block to him in trying to draw him to a Greco Roman Egyptian style of worship.

 

Jas 2:8  If you truly accomplish the ROYAL law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself,” you do well,

 

Gal 5:13  For you, brothers, have been called to freedom, only do not use freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 

Gal 5:14 For the entire Torah is completed in one word, in this, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.”

That is why in many places Shaul the apostle writes about eating, eating food sacrificed to idols, foods for the stomach etc. and we must read and understand with a Covenant Hebrew mindset and not a Greco Roman mindset. Remember the Romans was written to the ones who had crossed over from the Hebrew Torah legalistic mindset to the Covenant Hebrew mindset.

Ro 14:21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

To the Corinthian assembly he writes related to foods relating it to fornication stating the body is not for fornication but for the Adon and the Adon for the body.

1Cor 6:12 All things are permitted to me, but not all things are useful. All things are permitted for me, but I shall not be mastered by anything.

1Cor 6:13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but the Elohim shall destroy both this and them. And the body is not for fornication, but for the Adon, and the Adon is for the body.

1Cor 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of the Mashiyach? Shall I then take away the members of the Mashiyach and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

 Remember Paul is speaking of the BELLY which lusts for meats which are forbidden which leads to a Greco Roman mindset. He ties this to being members of a harlot.

1Cor 6:20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify Alahym in your body. (and in your spirit, which is in Alahym)

Acts15:29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from bodily strangled and from harlotry. If you keep yourselves free from these, you shall do well. Peace be upon you.

Many do not understand the instructions given to the Gentile converts and the Greco Roman mindset leads them to believe different set of instructions for Jewish legalistic converts to Covenant Hebrew & different for Gentiles now transitioning to Covenant Hebrew mindset. Yaaqob/James addresses the issue at hand by handling the dispute of difference of laws says Moses from ancient generations is read in the synagogues from Shabbat to Shabbat. Hebrew Legalists misinterpret this to mean to bring Gentiles under the Torah of sin and death, if James meant this as they teach, it defeats the entire purpose for which the dispute was raised. The instructions to Gentiles that they abstain from defilement of idols and from fornication and eating strangled beasts with blood is the very thing we discussed-the Esau and Yishmael sporting pattern. Remember, the Torah of sin and death came as a school master to lead the Hebrew legalistic mindset to the Covenant Hebrew mindset with Messiah Yahusha being the goal. Moses being read in synagogues had the Ruach/Spirit in the letter leading one to Messiah for carnal Yasharal didn’t have access to the book of the Covenant, it was concealed in the pages of Torah of sin and death which needed an expounding.

Acts 15:19 “Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the gentiles who are turning to Elohim.”

Acts 15:20 but that we write to them that they abstain from the defilements of idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.

Acts15:21 For Mosheh from ancient generations has, in every city, those proclaiming him, since being read in the houses of synagogues from the day of Shabbat to Shabbat.

We saw both Esau and Yishmael were hunters and their worship pattern involved their belly and a stumbling block of receiving the first born blessing, and this is what we must be careful about.

14 years of journey in Messiah Yahusha with a completed transition Shaul the apostle went up to Yerushalayim to confirm with Peter, James and John of the revelations he received of Messiah and he and Baranabah were given the right hand of fellowship. (Gal 2:1-10) and then we have Shaul recording he rebuked Peter

Gal 2:11 And when Kĕpha had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was at fault.

Gal 2:12 For before some came from Yaʽaqoḇ, he was eating with the gentiles, but when they came, he began to withdraw and separate himself, in fear of those of the circumcision.

Gal 2:13 And the rest of the Yehuḏim joined him in hypocrisy, so that even Barnaḇah was led away by their hypocrisy.

Gal 2:14 But when I saw that they are not walking straight according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Kĕpha before them all, “If you, being a Yehuḏite, live as a gentile and not as the Yehuḏim, why do you compel gentiles to live as Yehuḏim?

We see an instance where Paul rebukes Kepha/Peter for not living uprightly according to the truth of the besorah (gospel) for before some Yahudi’s came from Yaaqob (James) he was eating with the Gentiles but when they came he separated himself from them not eating with them for fear of the Yahudi’s. Paul rebuked him for this attitude, not that Kepha (Peter) adopted the Greco Roman mindset for Paul himself tells Peter ...“If you, being a Yehuḏite, live as a gentile and not as the Yehuḏim, why do you compel gentiles to live as Yehuḏim? which shows Peter taught the Gentiles who came into the fold to live as the Yahudim and not vice versa. He ate kosher with even the gentiles, its just that he kept it concealed from the converts from Judaism that he was mingling with the Gentile converts.

Acts 10 where Kepha saw a vision of a sheet descending from heaven with all unclean beasts and birds of the earth has been the main stream Christian argument teaching that now after the stake/cross we can eat anything and live a Greco Roman lifestyle. Kepha understood through the vision that he was not being asked to eat unclean meat but that the Gentiles who were like the unclean beasts were now being cleansed and shouldn’t be called unclean or common.

Of the clean beasts Noach was commanded to take 7 pairs to cope up with the sacrifices because in sacrifices they would be slaughtered for offerings and also be eaten for food, whereas the unclean beasts only a pair were to be taken showing Noach or the fathers never ate of the unclean beasts.

Gen 7:2 “Of all the clean beasts take with you seven pairs, a male and his female; and of the beasts that are unclean two, a male and his female;

Noah already knew which animals were clean and unclean and we see Yahuah giving him instructions to take clean and unclean animals inside the ark. And post the flood Noach offered clean animal sacrifices to Yahuah.

Gen 8:20 And Noaḥ built an altar to יהוה, and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Was the Torah yet given? No. But yet he knew as it was taught by father to son.

Isa 66:2 For My hand made all these things, thus all these things came into being, declares Yahuah. But to this one I shall look, to him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My dabar But of the wicked Yahudi he says

Isa 66:3 But he who kills an ox is like one who slays a man; he who sacrifices a lamb is like the one who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers a grain offering is like one who offers swine’s blood; he who burns incense is like the one who blesses an idol. As they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations,

Now wait a minute, isn't ox, lamb, grain offering, incense as per his dabar? Yes, it is but these Yahudi’s who did dabar also did abominations by following the Greco Roman lifestyle of worship leading to fornication.

We Gentiles are engrafted into the same covenant and not vice versa.

Matt 24:38 “For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,” Matthew 24:39 "And without understanding the flood and took them away everyone thus shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.”

Noah was before the Turah of Mosheh was given. Eating and drinking and marrying and giving in marriage laws were given in Mosheh’s Turah. But before Turah it was through dabar (word) which came through mouth of fathers to their children as fathers taught their children the way of Yahuah. That's how Noah knew what was clean and what was unclean. That's what the apostles taught when they used the word 'dabar/order' in relation to the meats which men should eat.

That's how Abraham sent his servant to take a wife for his son Yitshaq from his brethren and not among pagans

Ge 24:3 And I will make thee swear by Yahuah, the Alahym of heaven, and the Alahym of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: 4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Yitsaq.

Yaaqob (Jacob) took wife from his mother's brother Laban’s daughters.

Also, Esau’s ungodly wives were pain to Yitsaq and Rebecca.

Gen 26:34 And when Ěsaw was forty years old, he took as wives Yehuḏith the daughter of Be’ĕri the Ḥittite, and Basemath the daughter of Ělon the Ḥittite.

Gen 26:35 And they were a bitterness of spirit to Yitsḥaq and Riḇqah.

Men who went in rebellion into a pagan culture of Babylon were cut off. Eating and drinking abominable things and marrying and giving in marriage to pagans made all corrupt except for Noah and his family who observed the way of Yahuah delivered through dabar.

The same situation exists in our day. Men who call themselves as spiritual Yahudi’s are living the pagan Greek Roman culture/mindset, Eating and drinking abominable things and marrying and giving in marriage their children or themselves to pagans.The sign of Son of man's coming is near as men's heart depraved.

Does the New covenant permit us to eat unclean food which our fathers abstained from, even before written Torah came?

Mat 7:6 “Do not give what is set-apart to the dogs, nor throw your pearls before the pigs, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces. 

These are the very words of Yahusha who likened uncircumcised hearts to unclean animals as dogs and pigs.

Speaking about false prophets who left their former estate i.e. legalist Judaism and showed signs of Covenant Hebraic mindset, Peter says it was better for them not to have known the way of righteousness for they rolled back to their former estate and likens their state as a dog returning to its own vomit and a pig to the rolling in the mud.

 

2Pe 2:21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the set-apart command delivered unto them.

2Pe 2:22 For them the proverb has proved true, “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “A washed sow returns to her rolling in the mud.” 

Mar 5:1 And they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gaḏarenes.

 

Mar 5:20 And he left and began to proclaim in Dekapolis all that יהושע had done for him, and all marveled. 

 

Luk 8:26 And they sailed to the country of the Gaḏarenes, which is opposite Galil. 

 

Decapolis in Greek means 'ten cities' where deca means 10 and polis means cities. Decapolis was a region and not a city itself, but a territory of cities, one of which was Gadara known today as Umm Qais. The Decapolis was a group of ten cities.

 

Have you considered that Torah forbids not only eating pig meat but also nourishing them? So, what were pigs doing in this area? The mingling of the seed of Yasharal on the east side of the sea of Kinnereth/Galil with pagans was evident. Yahusha came for His lost sheep who were Torahless. In the parable of the Lost Son, we see the lost son amongst pigs and eating pigs' food until he comes to his senses and comes back to his father's house. The prodigal son parable is figurative of the lost sheep of the house of Yasharal among pagan nations and peoples and are in a Greco Roman mindset who in belief in Messiah coming back to the Fathers house i.e. the Covenant Hebrew mindset.

 

Luk 15:15  “And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 

Luk 15:16 “And he was longing to fill his stomach with the pods which the pigs were eating, and no one gave to him. 

 

Why did the demons beg Yahusha that they enter the swine and Yahusha permitted them, if swine were clean?

 

Mar 5:11  Now a great herd of pigs was there, feeding near the mountains. 

Mar 5:12  And all the demons begged Him, saying, “Send us to the pigs, so that we enter into them.” 

Mar 5:13 And He gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs – they were about two thousand – and the herd rushed down the steep place into the sea, and drowned in the sea. 

 

Mark gives us detail that there were 2,000 pigs whilst Matthew states 'herd of pigs' (Matt 8:30-31) and Luke states 'herd of many pigs' (Luke 8:32). The demons entered a HERD of 2,000 shows us 2 x 1000 where number 2 in Hebrew ‘shaniy’ means ‘double, second, twice and number 1,000 shows us a completeness. The demons termed as ‘Legion’ which is a term borrowed from a Roman regiment of 5,000 soldiers.

 

Mat 26:53 “Or do you think that I am not able to pray to My Father now, and He shall provide Me with more than twelve legions of messengers? 

 

When Peter cut of the ear of the high priest’s servant, Yahusha told him to put his sword back in its sheath for if he prayed, wouldn’t the Father provide Him with 12 legion of angels? Numbers play an important role in quotes where number 12 speaks of 12 tribes, 12 apostles and is the number of the congregation of Alahym and number 5 speaks of spiritual Torah and 1,000 speaks of completeness.

12 x 5 x 1000

Hence, the number of angels that spiritually would fight on behalf of Yahusha to keep Him away from the stake would be angels equivalent to the complete number of all elect Covenant Yasharal. But He didn’t permit that to happen for this complete number was only possible when He went to the stake to redeem them.

Coming back to the ‘Legion’ of 5 x 1,000 demons which were permitted to enter the pigs shows us a picture of Shatan’s kingdom trying to obscure ruach Torah denoted by 5 and the complete number 1,000 as they were sitting within it to distort, obscure, lead away, blind etc. the believer but were sent into the 2,000 pigs where number 2 here shows a secondary witness and its completeness of 1,000 which is not the primary witness of Yahusha, and where did the pigs go, they went and drowned in the sea, where sea is also an imagery for peoples of the nations. The number 2 here can also be seen as the Greco Roman mindset and the Hebrew legalist mindset which is the carnal mind in enmity with Alahym. The PIG mindset which accepts the demon doctrines.

 

Elijah fed by ravens?

Leviticus 11 puts ravens as unclean birds. So, did Yahuah feed him through unclean birds. Remember, ravens comes into the category of scavenger birds who feed on unclean meats and carcasses of animals. Would Yahuah feed his servant using ravens?

Le 11:13 And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
 14 And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
 15 Every raven (or’bim) after his kind;
 16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
 17 And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
 18 And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,
 19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
 20 ¶ All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.

1Ki 17:4 It shall be that you shall drink of the brook, and I have commanded the Aleph Tau ‘orbim ערבם’ to feed you there. 
1Ki 17:5 So he went and did according to the word of Yahuah, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is before the Yarden
1Ki 17:6 The ‘orbim ערבם’ brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he would drink from the brook.

The Hebrew word ‘orbim ערבם’which in singular is ‘arab ערב’ where in English we also use the term as one who is a desert dweller or from Arabia H6154, also means ‘surety’ H6148. In Hebrew ‘ereb ערב’ H6153 also means ‘evening’ giving us an idea of exchange of light to darkness.

There is a letter ‘ghayin’ which modern Hebrew has lost; they use instead ‘ayin ע’ for everything.  ‘gharabym’ and that’s the word for ‘ravens’ with the first letter as 'ghayin' which is normalized and translated as ‘orbim’ as ravens. If you notice 1Kings 17:4 has the alaph tau before ‘orbim ערבם’ which clearly shows the ‘mark’ of Yahusha before the word indicating ‘kosher eating’. Moroever, the ‘orbim ערבם’ brought Elijah ‘bread and meat’ which is intelligent & sustaining feeding which a creature like a raven wouldn’t bring & indicates that more than 1 person who was in the way of Yahuah & living in the desert area were feeding Elijah with bread and meat morning and evening.

To justify the Hebrew legalistic mindset, the midrash states the ravens swooped down on Ahab’s royal table and picked up bread and meat from there and took it to Elijah and that king Ahab ordered a special bread and meat be prepared when he saw this happening and having no clue who is eating it. All this is beyond scripture and Jewish fables. We must be consistent in interpretation from scripture, Yahuah wouldn’t go against His word by feeding Elijah with a scavenger bird, the ‘orbim ערבם’ had to be some desert dwellers whom Yahuah commanded to feed His servant morning and evening.

Mat 13:47  “Again, the reign of the heavens is like a dragnet that was thrown into the sea and gathered some of every kind, 

Mat 13:48  which, when it was filled, they drew to shore. And they sat down and gathered the good into containers, but threw the WORTHLESS away. 

Mat 13:49 “Thus shall it be at the end of the age: the messengers shall come forth, and separate the wicked out of the midst of the righteous,

The worthless fish thrown away is indication of unclean fish which were not eaten were also caught in the net and symbolizes those not in Covenant Hebrew mindset.

It’s a behavior one displays showing whether he/she is in Covenant Yasharal is or not. Our body is for the Master and not for whoring as Shaul says in 1 Cor 6:13 And the body is not for whoring but for the Master, and the Master for the body. 

We are called to walk as our ADON Himself walked.

1Jn 2:6 The one who says he stays in Him (Yahusha) ought himself also to walk, even as He walked. 

Yahusha said its not what enters a man makes him unclean but what comes forth from his heart and this scripture is widely used to teach we can eat anything i.e. even unclean meat. Yahusha was speaking to the Jewish audience and yet there was not a single accusation made against Him that he taught to eat non-kosher meats for He didn’t. The Hebrew translations use the word ‘dabar’ which also means ‘order’ before the word

Mar 7:15  “There is no dabar דנר (orderly food) that enters a man from outside which is able to defile him, but it is what comes out of him that defiles the man. 

Mar 7:16 “If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!” 

The context of these verses was to refute the oral tradition taught by Pharisees to wash hands and then only eat and they were accusing Yahusha’s disciples of not eating with washed hands. Yahusha was not teaching to eat unclean stuff.

Summary:

There are three mindsets out of which two are covenantless and they are the Greco Roman mindset (of the world) and the Hebrew legalistic mindset (Torah of sin and death) which lead to second death and is the pathway of Esau and Yishmael who also were firstborns who lost their birthright because they disregarded the true path and their worship pattern involved their belly with carnal appeasements. The Torah of sin and death was given as an interim for the golden calf sin and became a school master to lead them to Messiah Yahusha, but most of them stumbled in the food and drinks which were nothing but fleshly appeasement which was like sporting/latschaq (rose up to play) as it couldn't recognize the transition of Yahuah to Yahusha and the way became idolatrous as they likened Him to a golden calf/aleph , while just the remnant transitioned to Messiah Yahusha.

 The walk with Yahusha is displayed through a behavior & the behavior comes from a Covenant Hebrew mindset which is from the new man created in set-apartness being in the new creation order of Messiah Yahusha. The apostle Shaul urges us not to be confirmed to the world which has the Greco Roman (lawless) mindset.

Rom12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the newness of your heart, so that you may prove what the will of the Elohim is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect will.

 Phil2:5 For your heart shall be like the heart of the Messiah Yahusha.

Yahusha was seen with a pavement of sapphire below his feet which are the sapphire commands which He also taught for us to walk which is 1. Love Yahuah with all your heart, soul, mind and strength (loving Himself as he said "He who loves father, mother, brother, sister more than Me, is not worthy to be My disciple") & 2. Love your neighbour as yourself. These are the royal commands and if we have the Ruach/Spirit of Messiah Yahusha within us, we will behave as the royal priesthood i.e. the Hebrew Covenant mindset.

The Hebrew Covenant mindset upholds the sanctification of the body to the highest level for we transition in the body of Messiah Yahusha who said "A body you have prepared for Me" and Saul the apostle tells us that our body is not for fornication but for the Adon and the Adon for the body. Shaul the apostle also tells us in Hebrews 2:11 that the sanctifier and those who are sanctified are of ONE, indicating our transition in HIM. While we are being changed from glory to glory, our transition will be completed once we attain the glorified body of Messiah as John says "...when He appears, we shall be like Him"

Heb 2:11 For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all of them of One. Therefore, He is not ashamed to call them brothers, 

Hence, its very important that we do not indulge in the idolatrous way associated with Esau and Yishmael and for a matter of fact even way of Qayin (as he too was a firstborn) related to food and drinks which defile the body. We maintain the sanctification of the body and walk the sapphire laws in the footsteps of Yahusha. Yahusha said "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of Alahym" and the pattern outlined in scripture before even written Torah of sin and death came is to keep the body disciplined and under subjection of the sanctification and the dietary laws came as a testing to it. The unclean food was to be abstained to keep the body sanctified and the New Covenant doesn't give us a license to eat the scavengers which Alahym created to cleanse the earth. The people with the Greco Roman mindset are likened to these unclean creatures and this study gives ample evidence of it, a few examples being Legion of demons begging to be allowed to be sent into the 2,000 pigs and the study gives the spiritual significance of it, false prophets are likened to a dog returning to its own vomit and the swine after being cleansed into the mud, the dragnet which is dragged with fish both good and worthless, the worthless denoting the non-consumable fish according to dietary laws, prodigal son among pigs desiring to eat pig unclean food and coming to his senses returns to the father's house, Noah asked to take 7 pairs of clean animals and just one pair of unclean animals as the clean animals would be sacrificed and would be food later while the unclean dont and hence just a pair etc.

The sanctification of the body comes through a Covenant Hebrew mindset with a love for Yahusha as the body is for the ADON and the ADON for the body!