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The question that follows from the above is; where does Paul stand in all of this?

Paul also has two faces.

A strenuously denied Rumour that became the Gospel Truth...

2 Thes.2 :1 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being

gathered to him, we ask you, brothers,

:2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy, report

or letter supposed to have come from us, saying that the Day of

the Lord has already come.

:3 Don’t let anyone deceive you (and us) in any way, for that day

will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of Torahless-

ness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.

:4 He opposes and exalts himself over everything that is called God or is

worshipped, and even sets himself up in God’s temple proclaiming

himself to be God.

:5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you

these things?

Paul’s letters to the Thessalonians are of the oldest documents of the New Testament. Written approximately 54-56 CE, they predate Mark’s Gospel by some 15 years. This first Gospel account, copied by the others in subsequent years, existed in the form of stories, folklore and accounts remembered by people, which became traditions and were finally captured in written form almost forty years after the departure of Jesus, when it became apparent that he wasn’t going to return as expected. Among these stories, circulating among the disciples, would have had to be the “prophecy, report or letter, supposedly from us... that The Day of the Lord had come...”, as it became the opening statement of Mark’s Gospel - Elijah introducing Yahweh - and copied by the others; Luke in particular.

This Paul makes some profound statements in this epistle, namely:

1. He denies emphatically that “the Day…” had come

2. He denies, therefore, that Elijah had come and

3. He denies that Yahweh had come.

4. He associates “the Day…” with the Parosia - the second advent of Jesus.

5. He is an apologist for Torah. Another “Paul” says “Get rid of the slave woman – the Sinai Covenant” (Gal.4:21-31). We will look at the “other Paul” shortly.

6. Any “God” introduced by a premature “Day of the Lord” presentation would, of necessity, have to be a false “God”.

7. “The Day…” would be preceded by such a Torahless false god/man.

8. Denial of “the Day…” is a direct repudiation of the Gospel’s introduction of Jesus.

He, however, contradicts himself in his frequent references to Jesus as the Christ (Messiah) throughout his letters. The Gospel writers (except John) have shown clear understanding of the need for Elijah to precede the Conquering Messiah. Hence their transformation of John the Baptist. Paul does not know this John, or any other Elijah figure. Paul therefore takes up opposing positions and his “Christ” would have to have another identity – that of Suffering Messiah… before “the Day…”

1. If Jesus is his Conquering Messiah, then Elijah and “the Day…” would have had to come.

2. If “the Day…” had not yet come, as he so strongly contends, then Jesus cannot be the Conquering Messiah. “The Messiah” generally being seen as the Conquering Davidic Messiah.

He should know that “the Messiah” (Conquering Messiah) does not come before Yom Yahweh, as the Gospel writers clearly understand. His Jesus should therefore have a different identity - possibly the Suffering Messiah - with the one to come being the Conquering Messiah; in “the Day…”. The notion of Parosia - second advent – is therefore a fallacy, as 2 Jesus explains in his Prophetic Sermon (as will be seen).

This Paul (1 Paul, who we will discern from another “Paul” – 2 Paul or Pseudo Paul) sees a different future for Israel. He reveals this in his letter to the Romans, quoting, in Rom.11:25-27, “the coming of the Redeemer (Yahweh) to Israel” from Isaiah 59:20, as a future event.

Rom.11 :25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so

that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a

hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has

come in.

:26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written;

“The deliverer (Yahweh)will come from(?) Zion; and He will turn

godlessness away from Jacob.

:27 And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins”.

Isa. 59 :20 “The Redeemer (Yahweh) will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who

repent of their sins”

:21 “As for me, this is My covenant with them”, says the Lord. “My

Spirit, who is on you...”

2 Isaiah exhaustively reveals “The Redeemer”, not as the Messiah or a Messiah, but as Yahweh himself, eg. Isa.41:14; Isa. 43:1,3,14; Isa. 44:6,23,24; Isa. 45:21; Isa. 47:4; Isa. 48:17; Isa. 49:7,26; Isa. 52:9; Isa. 54:5,8

Isa. 41 :14 “Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob, O little Israel, for I Myself will help

you, declares Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel”.

The context of Paul’s reference to Israel’s Redeemer, coming after the Gentiles have come in, is a denial of the Gospel’s assertion that He had already come according to Isa. 40:3. and been called Jesus. The Redeemer will come (Isa.40:3) - after the suffering servant (Isa 53, 40:1,2) and together with the conquering servant (Isa 42:1-7; 61:1,2), neither of whom are referred to as the “Redeemer”.

Why does Paul say “The Deliverer will come from Zion and turn Godlessness away from Jacob”, while the prophet clearly states that “The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their sin.”? What the Prophet said is the general expectation. Did Paul really say this? Or did someone else substitute “to” with “from” to create the slanted impression that 1 Jesus (The Kerugmatic Christ of the Church) would come from the CHURCH - which is the Augustinian, allegorised interpretation of ‘Zion’ - to save Israel from her godlessness?

To facilitate our discussion, let’s define the two distinct personalities of Paul – 1 Paul and 2 Paul - who seem to have different views on Yom Yaweh.

1 Paul sees the advent of Yahweh - and, consequently, “the Day of Yahweh” in the future. He therefore denies that Elijah had come. From Acts 13:24,25 it appears that Paul was aware of John the Baptist preaching before Jesus but does not associate him with Elijah. Here Paul says “God brought to Israel the Saviour Jesus. “Saviour”, in this sense, could only mean “suffering servant” who would “save” them from their sins in preparation for the coming of Yahweh, who is their true Saviour and Redeemer. Paul confuses the matter by calling Jesus the “Saviour” now and then predicting the “Redeemer,” Yahweh, in the future.

John’s Gospel shows the same confusion about John and Elijah (John 1:19-23), as has been seen. John the Baptist denies being the Messiah, Elijah or the Prophet and then quotes Isa 40:3 as being the voice preparing the way for Yahweh - not the Messiah. He then further confuses the matter by stating;

John 3 :28 “ I am not the Messiah but am sent ahead of him”

The voice in the desert does not prepare the way for the Messiah but for Yahweh (Isa 40:3). Yahweh then introduces the Conquering Messiah (Isa 42:1-6). There is no evidence of any preceding “voice” to the Suffering Messiah, who would appear before “the Day…”. The inquiry by the Priests and Levites into this matter (John 1:19) is highly unsatisfactory, because it does not address this vital matter of distinction.

The very basis of Trinity Theology is the assumption that Yaweh and His Messiah are the same person - an assumption built on the erroneous introduction of Isaiah 40:3 and the failure to recognise the future advent of Yahweh.

To return to Paul and Isaiah’s “Redeemer’:

Not only does this 1 Paul, therefore, see the coming of Yahweh (from Isa 59), and consequently Elijah, Yom Yahweh and the Davidic Messiah in the future but also confirms the NEW COVENANT - Isa 59:21 - to be instituted at that future advent.

Isa 59 :21 “As for me, this is My covenant with them,” says Adonai. “My

Spirit, who is on you, and My words (Torah) that I have put in your

mouth will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your

children, or from the mouths of their descendants from this time on

and forever,” says Adonai.

1 Paul therefore agrees with Isaiah that the New Covenant of the Spirit is to follow from the future Yom Yahweh and Advent of Adonai, the Redeemer, in the same way as Jeremiah has the New Covenant, in the hearts of the people (Jer.31:31-33), follow from “Jacob’s trouble... “in that day…” (Jer. 30:7,8). Future. Paul is therefore also at odds with himself in other letters, and with the notorious author of the Letter to the Hebrews who insists that the New Covenant had already come.

With regards to this New Covenant, there is also the contradiction within the Synoptic Gospels.

Mark 14 :24 “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many…”

Matth.26:28 “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many,

for the forgiveness of sins. (Guilt offering - Isa 53:10,12c and Isa

40:1,2 prior to the advent of Yahweh - 40:3 – he, Jesus, himself not being

Yahweh)

Luke 22 :20 “This cup is the new covenant in my blood,…”

Mark and Matthew’s Jesus is saying that his blood restores the existing covenant, in terms of the expected Suffering Messiah - in the middle of the 70^th week - which would precede the advent of Yahweh at the completion of the 70^th. Luke - the Greek outsider - however, having made such an enormous theology of John the Baptist/Elijah, ads “new” to the equation, creating a totally different and premature understanding. Indeed, the New Covenant is yet future.

If time for Israel had not stopped - become delayed - Elijah, Yom Yahweh, Yahweh, the Davidic Messiah and the New Covenant would have come 3 ½ years after the Guilt Offering of 2 Jesus.

1 Paul, by quoting Isa. 59:20,21 as a future event, sees the New Covenant in the future. Another Paul, 2 Paul, places it in the present:

1Cor.11:25 “…This cup is the new covenant in my blood...”

These are the same words used by Luke, as quoted above. Luke, reporting on Paul’s travels in Acts, and Paul seemed to have greatly influenced each other, eg. their resurrection stories (to which we will come).

Thus, apart from a Paul (1 Paul) who sees fulfilment in the future and who seems to uphold Torah - one who frequents the Synagogue every Sabbath - there is another “Paul” (2 Paul), who sees fulfilment as completed and who seems to promote Torahlessness. 2 Paul may be the author of what academics describe as the “Pseudo Pauline Letters”. He or they may have been students or disciples of Paul.

In his letter to the Galatians 2 Paul upholds Jesus as the end of Torah and the end of circum-cision. In Gal. 4:21 - 31 we find a figurative comparison between the two covenants. The Torah-based Sinai Covenant, which he compares to the present “earthly Jerusalem” and equates with Hagar, the slave woman, and her son. The other, the New Covenant, which he believes has come about, which represents the post Jacob’s Trouble - post Day of the Lord scenario of Jeremiah 30 and 31. This “New Covenant” is then compared to the “heavenly or Spiritual Jerusalem” and equated with Sarah, the free woman and her “spiritual” offspring, which is now supposed to be the Church - the Gentile Church. His highly inflammatory statement in Gal. 4:30 must surely be the greatest act of anti-Semitism the world has seen.

Gal. 4 :30 Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son

will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.

:31 Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of

the free woman.

And on circumcision;

Gal. 5 :2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be

circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.

:3 Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he

is obligated to obey the whole law.

:4 You who are trying to be justified by Torah have been alienated from

Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

:5 But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for

which we hope.

Not so. The tzadikim - the righteous - who are set apart (made kadosh or holy) by Torah, do not have an “obligation to keep the whole law”. They have a Spirit-induced desire to do so. And they have full value of the Suffering Messiah.

Yahweh, however, has a completely different requirement for the Gentiles in “the Day...”. Those of “My house will be a house of prayer for all nations.”. (Isa.56:7; Matth.21:13; Mark 11:17; Luke 19:46).

Ezek.44 :9 This is what Yahweh says; “No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and

in flesh, is to enter My sanctuary, not even the foreigners living

among the Israelites.” from...

Ezek.39 :8 “...This is the Day I have spoken of.”

These statements by 2 Paul in Galatians are of the most outrageous ever conceived by man. The very thought that the Church and her offspring, representing the “free woman”, must get rid of the “slave woman and her son”, representing the Torah Covenant and its adherers - Israel - is the seed of the curse of anti-Semitism and the pathological hatred that characterised the persecutions, Pogroms, Inquisitions, Crusades and Holocausts of history. The great Theologian Saint Augustine, father of Allegory (spiritualising of literal scripture) and Church Replacement Theology, in his monumental work - The City Of God (Heavenly Jerusalem) - made his claim from these comparative passages, and we all suffered as a result. He was a follower of 2 Paul, failing to recognise 1 Paul and, as a result, forever seeing the poor Jews as a permanently rejected little tribe. And he saw the Church as the recipients of this “new covenant”, and the “spiritual kingdom” as the only “kingdom“ there would ever be. How vulgar.

It is all a monumental error which finds it origin in the premature and erroneous presentation of Yom Yahweh.

Apart from the merits or demerits of these statements to which we will shortly come, the contradictions of the two Pauls (1 Paul and 2 Paul) are staggering.

1. If the Day of the Lord had not come, as 1 Paul is adamant about, then the New Covenant of Jer.31, that 2 Paul refers to, had also not yet come.

2. If “the Day…” had not yet come, then all Israel had not yet been saved (Rom 11:2 from Isa. 59:20,21) and Israel’s kingdom not yet restored - according to the Prophetic Sermon, Acts 1:6,7 and Revelation. Fulfilment of the CIRCUMCISION COVENANT IS YET INCOMPLETE. 2 Paul denounces circumcision (Gal. 6:11-13). 1 Paul supports it as he circumcised Timothy (Acts 16:3). Adonai insists on it in “the Day...” (Ezek. 39:8b) of His coming.

Ezek.43 :1-7 He said “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the

place for the soles of My feet. This is where I will live among

the Israelites forever.”

Ezek:44:9 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “No foreigner uncircum-

cised in heart AND FLESH is to enter My Sanctuary, not even

the foreigners who live among the Israelites”.

Who then are the “all nations” to whom 2 Jesus (the Prophet/Suffering Messiah) refers when he quotes Isa. 56:6-8 in Mark 11:17, Matt.21:13, Luke 19:46 and John 2:16 (who has placed it in a different context) : “My house will be a house of prayer for all nations.” They have to be those foreigners who - from Isa. 56:6-8:

a. bind themselves to Yahweh to serve Him,

b. who love the NAME of Yahweh and to worship Him,

c. who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it,

d. who hold fast to My Covenant - Mosaic Covenant. (Isa. 56:6), and,

e. who are circumcised in heart and in flesh - Abrahamic Covenant (Ezek. 44:9)

3. The integrity of this Circumcision Covenant - Brit Milah (The Abrahamic Covenant which governs the Mosaic Torah Covenant and the future Torah-at-heart “New Covenant”) - is of paramount importance for “the Day…” and the Kingdom to come.

4. 1 Paul would never condone the statements of 2 Paul. This 2 Paul, by rejecting

circumcision, condones “the Day…” having come. His anti-Torah rhetoric resembles

1 Paul’s “man of Torahlessness”. They are on a collision course!

5. “The Day…” must facilitate the “Acharit Hayemim” - the Latter Days Kingdom, which, Isa 2:1-5 tells us, will be an earthly kingdom with Yahweh dwelling in Zion (as a multitude of scriptures on “the Day...” testify), and

Isa. 2 :3b “Torah will go out from Zion, and the Word of Yahweh

from (earthly) Jerusalem.

6. Torah will be the Global Constitution - not some baseless hyper-spirituality. 1 Paul knows this. Surely, the decadent world of today can see the need for Torah to bring back order and morality.

In another Epistle, 2 Paul also speaks of fulfilment;

2 Cor.1 :20 “For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes”

in Christ...”

1 Paul says no, they are hidden in “the Day…”, which is future. Yahweh says No! They are “delayed”!

2 Paul, furthermore, contradicts 2 Jesus vehemently, who is quoted as saying;

Matth.5 :17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish Torah or the Prophets

(not the end of Torah or the prophetic expectation, secured by the

Circumcision Covenant); I have not come to abolish them but

to give them their full meaning.

:18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest

letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from

Torah until everything is accomplished.

:19 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and

teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of

heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commandments

will be called great in the kingdom of heaven”.

The Church, in mincing these words by teaching that Jesus has “fulfilled” Torah and that adherence is no longer required, makes itself to be “the least in the kingdom of heaven”.

Not only is 2 Paul in conflict with 1 Paul and with 2 Jesus, he is on a collision course with Adonai;

2 Paul says:

2 Cor.3 :7 “Now if the ministry that brought death, which was

engraved in letters on stone... (Torah)

:8 ...the ministry that condemns men…

Adonai says:

Deut.30 :15: “See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death

and destruction

:16 For I command you today to love the Lord your God

to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, decrees

and laws; then you will live...”

:19 This day I call heaven and earth as witness against you

that I have set before you life and death, blessings and

curses. Therefore choose life…”

2 Paul goes further, quoting from Isa.49:8;

2 Cor.6 :2 For He says, “In the time of my favour I heard you, and in the day of

salvation I helped you”.

I tell you, now is the time of God’s favour, now is the day of

salvation.

This section from Isaiah 49:8-26, that 2 Paul is referring to, is, however, a wonderful description of the restoration of the land and the people, never to be oppressed again, and the recognition of Adonai, the Saviour, Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. History of 2000 years does not recognise this! It is the future Yom Yahweh. And furthermore;

Isa. 51 :4 “Listen to me, My people; hear me My nation:

Torah will go out from Me; My justice will become a light

to the nations”.

Adonai is clear that Torah is the Ministry of Life - the future constitution of the world as we have seen from Isa 2:3. This is exactly what Isa 49:8 says and Adonai is absolutely consistent in what He says.

Yom Yahweh has not come. Therefore, neither has the New Covenant of Jer.31 come. Yet, 2 Paul tries to pre-empt these events, while deriding Torah as “the ministry of death”. He becomes a contributor to the creation of “the Man of Torahlessness”, so strongly warned about by 1 Paul.

Why is 2 Paul and the doubtful letter to the Hebrews and, subsequently, the Church convinced that Torah and the Holy Spirit are in opposition to each other? That the Spirit has superseded or somehow defeated Torah as it were?

No! The Holy Spirit can never be opposed to, or in supersession to Torah. The Spirit will always encourage and support and confirm Torah. This is what Adonai says of the time when the Spirit is given to His recovered people in “The Day of the Lord”:

Ezek.36 :24 “I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the

countries and bring you back into your own land.

:25 I will sprinkle clean water on you (Mikvah - baptism, as at all the

great festivals), and you will be clean; I will clean you from all your

impurities and from all your idols.

:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove

from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”

This last verse is a favourite in the Church, especially the Charismatic Church, when converting people. It is used out of context and the Church is dishonest in its application as it fails to present the highlight of the statement which follows:

:27 I will put My Spirit in you and move you to follow My decrees and

be careful to keep My Torah”

Ezek.39 :8 “It is coming! It will surely take place,” declares the Sovereign

Lord, “THIS IS THE DAY I HAVE SPOKEN OF”.

:25 Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “I will now bring

Jacob back from captivity (the great Alliyah - return) and will have

compassion on all the people of Israel, and I (Yaweh) will be zealous

for My Holy Name.

:29 I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My

Spirit on the House of Israel”, declares the Sovereign Lord.

When? After the revoking of the “Delay” (Rev.10:6,7), following the preceding signs of “the Day…” (Rev.6:12-17).

The Annual Festival of Pentecost

Pentecost (Shavuot) is NOT a celebration of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. It is one of the three great annual festivals given to Moses by Adonai. The other two are Pesach (Passover) in the fist month and Sukkoth (Feast of Tabernacles) - including Yom Kippur - in the seventh month. “Pente”, meaning fifty, indicates that Pentecost is always fifty days after the Passover. Leviticus 23 explains these appointed festivals at their specific times. Adonai calls them “My appointed times”.(Lev.23:2) They are not “Jewish festivals”, as often referred to. They are the appointed festivals of Yahweh, the Elohim of Israel. Here it can be seen that Pentecost is called the “Feast of weeks” or “First fruits”, indicating the arrival of the first fruits of the harvest. However, the first Pentecost, following the first Passover in Egypt, coincided with the Ten Commandments at Sinai. Fifty days from Egypt to Sinai. How, you may ask, do we calculate that figure? Exodus 19 tells us:

Exod.19 :1 In the third month after Israel left Egypt - on the very day - they

came to the desert of Sinai.

:2 After they set out from Rephidim, they entered the desert of Sinai

and Israel camped there in the desert in front of the mountain.

:3 Then Moses went up to God and Adonai called to him from the

mountain and said...

The calculation is therefore:

Passover took place, as a henceforth fixed institution, on the 14^th/15^th day of the first month (Nissan) - which is always at full moon. Fifteen days followed to the beginning of the second month, which consists of thirty days. At the end of the second month they had travelled for forty five days. Fifty days, therefore, would take them to the fifth day of the third month - “on the very day”.

The very basis of Torah was thus given on that very first Pentecost and the festival of Pentecost is therefore a commemoration of that most awesome event. Preparation for the honouring thereof is aptly done through those fifty days by the “Counting of the Omer”, which entails the reading of the eight verse sections of Psalm 119 on successive days throughout that period. Psalm 119 is David’s Ode of Beauty to the splendour of Torah.

Pentecost is thus not a first time celebration of the Holy Spirit. The giving of the Spirit on that specific day of Pentecost, some fifty days after the Guilt Offering of 2 Jesus, was not to replace Torah, but to compliment it. It was a magnificent affirmation, support and celebration of Torah. When this Jesus therefore said that the Holy Spirit would empower them to be his witnesses

(Acts 1:8), and commissioned them “to make disciples, teaching them everything he had taught”, (Math.28:19) he was really saying; teach them Torah by the power of the Spirit - as he had done, and been commended for.

The great outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the Yom Yahweh is not commemorated by Pentecost. It is prefigured by the Hosanna Rabba - the last and greatest day of the Festival of Sukkoth (the Feast of Tabernacles) - in its water pouring ceremony. The Hosanna Rabba entails Rabbi’s bringing water from various parts of Jerusalem and pouring it together into the pool of Siloam. The “water theme” depicts that expectation of the great outpouring of the Spirit. And we see it in the testimony of Yeshua.

John 7 :37 On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a

loud voice; “If a man is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

:38 Whoever believes in me, as the scripture has said (?), streams of

living water will flow from within him.”(Don’t know where this is “said”.)

:39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were

later to receive.

Some of this is John’s interpretation of events. However, that great outpouring of the Spirit will occur on a future Hosanna Rabba, and Torah will be upheld. This will be the establishment of the New Covenant. “My Spirit who is on you… and my words (Torah) that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth...” (Isa.59:21)

2 Jesus had confirmed his unwavering adherence to Torah by reciting the “Shemah”, the greatest Creed in the religion of Israel. He did this in answer to the question of a teacher of the Law; “Rabbi, what is the greatest mitzvot (law)?”:

Deut. 6 :4 “Sh’ma, Yisra’el! Adonai Eluheinu, Adonai echad (Hear Israel, the

Lord your God, the Lord is One);

:5 and you are to love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your

being and all your resources.”

Mark 12 :29 “Sh’ma Yisra’el, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad (Hear, O Israel,

the Lord our God, the Lord is one);

:30 and you are to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all

your soul, with all your understanding and with all your strength.”

To which he –the teacher of the Law - responded: “…You have answered well, Rabbi.”.

Torah and the Spirit are mutually supportive, inclusive and not exclusive. The most charismatic thing that the Church of Jesus can do is to be Torah observant - as he was, before seeking and exercising the other gifts, which no doubt exist. The world would be a better place for it.

For 2 Paul to say that Torah is “the ministry of death”, while the Spirit “gives life”- without Torah - is inconceivable. To say “the day of salvation is now”, while ignoring “Torah will go out from Me” (by the Spirit no doubt), is equally inconceivable. Nor did Adonai introduce Torah as a “ministry of condemnation” as this 2 Paul believes. He gave Torah to His redeemed people as a way of life, to make them “Kadosh” which means “Set Apart” (different) from the sinful nations - to sanctify them by his Word (Torah). It is not a mechanism for salvation. It is a way of life (Halachah) for redeemed people. Adonai is Kadosh (totally set apart, totally different). The Ruach Hakodesh (Holy Spirit) is the “Set Apart Spirit” or the “Spirit of Set-Apartness”. Adonai says to His people “Be Kadosh for I am Kadosh”. The Ruach Hakodesh teaches and encourages Kadosh. And Torah is the instrument of Kadosh. Ruach Hakodesh is the Spirit of Yahweh and not a separate person in a triniterian Godhead

The translated forms “Holy” or “Holiness” or “Holy Spirit” are esoteric concepts that do not convey the true meaning. “Holiness” without Torah is meaningless, because it has no foundation. The true measurement of Kadosh is Torah. It is not difficult, but it is fearful (Deut 30:11-20). Therefore “Work out your salvation with fear and trembling”, says Rabbi Jesus. For the Church to say “It is too difficult, we need a substitute - let Jesus fulfil the law for us”, is a defeatist attitude and not the true Gospel. This makes Christianity a personality cult where personal responsibility is often neglected.

How then can a Jewish Messiah, and his followers, ever be anything but Torah observant?

Therefore to summarise 1 Paul and 2 Paul;

1 Paul 2 Paul

1. Denies that Yom Yahweh had come. 1. Accepts all God’s promises for Israel

fulfilled.

2. Denies that Elijah had come. 2. Elijah and Yom Yahweh would have had

to come, but he doesn’t say who Elijah is.

3. Denies that Israel is fully restored before 3. All promises are fulfilled in Christ. “True

the calling of the Gentiles. Israel” is now the “Heavenly Jerusalem”,

which is the Church.

4. Upholds Torah and Circumcision. 4. Anti-Torah and anti-circumcision.

5. New Covenant in the future. 5. New Covenant has replaced Mosaic

Covenant - in the present.

6. Fulfilment in the future. Redeemer 6. “Israel” is now the Gentile Church among

Yahweh living among them in the future whom Yahweh now dwells by His Spirit.

in His sactuary