The Seed of Abraham
Statement of Faith
1. Yahveh is the Creator God and the God of Israel
2. The Hebrew Scriptures: Authoritative for Faith and Practice
3. Man’s Need of a Savior
4. The Savior: Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah)
5. The Holy Spirit: God with us
6. The Body of Messiah: Israel after the Spirit
7. The Torah: God’s Divine Blueprint for Holy and Righteous Living
8. The Millennial Kingdom of Yeshua
9. Judgement Day, Eternal Life and Hell
Explanations for the Nine Topics
1. Yahveh is the Creator God and the God of Israel
1. Yahveh is the Creator of the Universe, the God and Redeemer of Israel.1 Yahveh is self-existent from eternity past through eternity future. He does no wrong nor evil to anyone. Yahveh is Spirit, pure Light, perfect goodness, compassionate and forgiving, holy, gracious, righteous and loving in all His ways; omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent.2
a. The name Yahveh is written about 7,000 times in the Tanach (the Hebrew Scriptures, also known as the Old Testament).3
b. Yahveh is generally acknowledged in English Bibles as ‘the Lord.’
2. Yahveh is not Allah. Allah is the false god of the Muslims. Two points will prove this; one from the Torah (the first five books of the Tanach) and the other from the New Covenant:
a. In the Torah Abraham offers up his unique son Isaac. Isaac was unique in that Abraham and Sarah were far too old to have a son, but Yahveh promised Abraham that Sarah would bear a son and that they were to name him Isaac (laughter). Isaac is the son of promise and becomes a picture of the miraculous conception of God the Son in the womb of Mary.4
(1) In the Koran Abraham is said to have bound Ishmael for sacrifice. Ishmael is Abraham’s son from his concubine wife, Hagar.5
b. In the New Covenant, Yeshua (Jesus) is crucified, dies and is resurrected to glorified life, never to die again.6
(1) In the Koran Yeshua is crucified, but is said to have been taken down by His disciples before He died, which nullifies His atoning work for mankind. Yeshua is not seen as God the Son, the Savior-Messiah, but only as a so-called prophet of Allah.
c. These two central pillars of biblical faith confirm that the God of the universe who inspired the Hebrew Bible did not inspire the Koran, Mohammed or Islam.7
3. Yahveh God is Three Persons8 and yet One God;9 a TriUnity; a Family:
a. the Father,10
b. the Son,11
c. and the Holy Spirit.12
4. Yahveh has both created and revealed Himself to Israel in various ways:
a. Yahveh called Abram out of his native land to the land of Canaan where He continually revealed Himself to Abram, changing his name to Abraham.13 He also revealed Himself to Abraham’s unique son Isaac (Gen. 26:1-6) and to Abraham’s grandson Jacob (changing his name to Israel).14
(1) Yahveh also promised Abraham that He would be the God of Israel and that Abraham would be the Father of many peoples.15
b. As Creator-Redeemer, Yahveh delivered the Sons of Israel out of Egyptian slavery and brought them into the land of Canaan, the land He had promised to give to them.16
c. Yahveh also promised Israel a Messiah, a Savior. Yeshua was sent by His Father to redeem Israel from slavery to sin and the Kingdom of Satan.17
2. The Hebrew Scriptures: Authoritative for Faith and Practice
1. The God of Israel inspired the writing of the Hebrew Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation.18 The words reflect who the God of Israel is and His will for Israel.
a. The Hebrew Scriptures reveal Yahveh, His nature, Man’s sinful and rebellious nature, the need of a Savior-Redeemer, and what God has done for Man in graciously meeting that need: the wonderful and utterly incomprehensible plan of Redemption—God sent own Son to die for mankind. Yeshua took upon Himself the just punishment that was due Man, revealing in a most graphic and startling way the love of the Father and the Son for Israel.
2. The Hebrew Scriptures are the only divinely authoritative guide for both belief and practice.19
3. Man’s Need of a Savior
1. Man was created in the image of Yahveh to live in fellowship with God, but Adam, the first man, sinned by disobeying Yahveh and fell out of fellowship.20 This effected his nature and the nature of all his descendants.21 With disobedience to Yahveh came sin, sickness, death and slavery to Satan.
a. Man could not change his own nature nor leave Satan’s Kingdom. Man needed a Savior-Redeemer, one who would make a way for him to be redeemed from Satan’s Kingdom and transformed into the nature of God for full fellowship, union and oneness with God.
(1) This reality of slavery to Satan is clearly pictured in the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob being slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt. There was no way for them to become a free people in their own nation except that Yahveh would intervene.
4. The Savior: Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah)
1. Yeshua was always God the Son, from eternity past, the first Light of Creation.22
a. Yeshua is also Creator, along with the Father and the Holy Spirit.23
2. Yeshua is the Messiah of Israel, the Redeemer of Israel24 and the one like Moses (whom God used to redeem Israel from slavery to Pharaoh).25
a. As Moses delivered Israel out of Egyptian slavery to Pharaoh, so Yeshua delivers both Jewish and Gentile believer out of a slavery far worse than Pharaoh’s: slavery to Satan, sin, sickness and death.26
b. The Father sent His Son to Israel27 to redeem her and all mankind from their carnal and sinful nature, which Man received from their first Parents, and to redeem them from the Kingdom of Satan.28
3. Yeshua is fully human and fully deity, God the Son. He is the radiance of Yahveh’s glory and the exact representation of Yahveh’s nature.29
a. Yeshua is the Son, not the Father.30
4. Yeshua was miraculously conceived and born of a virgin in the land of Israel, as was prophesied of the Hebrew Messiah31 and spoken of in the New Covenant.32
a. Yeshua was born in the town of Bethlehem, as was prophesied of the Messiah.33
b. God the Son became the Son of Man, a title Yeshua used many times to refer to Himself.34
c. Yeshua came though the lineage of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and David.35
(1) Yeshua was a Jew36 and Yeshua is still a Jew.37
(2) Yeshua is the King of the Jews,38 the King of Israel (Jn. 1:49).
5. Yeshua went about doing good, healing all who came to Him, and teaching the Jewish people about the Kingdom of God,39 as is seen in the four accounts of His life (the Good News according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John).
a. Yeshua came to reveal the Father’s love for humanity.40
6. Yeshua lived a sinless life41 and died as God’s substitutionary sacrifice for Israel.42
a. Yeshua’s sacrificial death made atonement for Man’s sins and sin nature and completed His Father’s great redemption.43
(1) Forgiveness of sins comes through Yeshua and His blood sacrifice.44
b. Because Yeshua is God the Son, His blood sacrifice is able to give God’s freedom, peace and eternal life where only sin, death and slavery to Satan were.45
c. Yeshua’s death resulted in the New Covenant.46 This is a covenant that God the Father has made with Israel (Jer. 31:31-34) though the blood of His Son.
(1) Participation in this New Covenant is not restricted to Israel, but is offered to any Gentile that would desire it.47
(2) The divine call has gone out to all the world: Turn to the Living God! Be immersed in water in the Name of His Son Yeshua for forgiveness of sins and receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit!48
(3) Yeshua is the only way ‘to Heaven’ because His is the only sacrifice that the Father has authorized and accepted to both forgive sins and transform human nature for dwelling eternally with Yahveh.49
7. Yeshua was resurrected to new life in His body that was crucified and He is now glorified, never to die again.50
a. Yeshua has been exalted by God the Father and is seated at the Father’s right hand.51
b. Yeshua is Lord of the Heavens and the Earth and the world to come.52
c. Yeshua is the High Priest of Israel after the eternal order of Melchizedek.53 He intercedes for all believers, awaiting the culmination of all things.54
d. Yeshua dwells within every believer (another proof of His deity as only God can be in more than one place at the same time).55
8. On Judgment Day, Yeshua will judge all mankind, the living and the dead56 and give eternal, glorified life to all those who believe in Him.57
a. Those who believe in Yeshua will become like Him on Judgment Day. This universe will give way to an eternal world where believers will dwell forever with God in their new, glorified bodies.58
5. The Holy Spirit: God with us
1. The Holy Spirit convicts Man of sin that he might repent and enter into this covenant with the Father through the sacrificial blood of the Son and receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.59
a. The Holy Spirit reveals what is right in God’s eyes (Jn. 16:8-15) and who Yeshua is.
2. The Holy Spirit is deity and is the Gift of life given to all those who believe in Yeshua.60
a. The promise of the Holy Spirit was given to Israel and is given to every believer in the Name of Yeshua.61
b. Each believer should seek Yeshua, to be filled or baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues and/or other supernatural signs such as prophesying and the doing of miracles, etc.62
3. The Holy Spirit dwells within each believer (a proof of the deity of the Holy Spirit) and works on the nature of every believer, transforming it into Messiah’s nature.63
4. The Holy Spirit is given to make believers ‘living witnesses’ for Yeshua, to glorify Yeshua through the believer, and to guide the believer into all of God’s Truth.64
5. The Holy Spirit of Yahveh enables the believer to do good works as Messiah did.65
6. The Body of Messiah: Israel after the Spirit
1. Each person must be Born from Above (or Born Again; Jn. 3:1-21) to enter into the Messiah of Israel’s Kingdom.
a. This is a work of the Holy Spirit. All who believe with their heart and confess with their mouth that Yeshua is Lord will be Born Again.66
(1) This heart belief opens up an experiential encounter with the living God and His Messiah through the Holy Spirit. This also allows the Holy Spirit to begin to transform the person from within. Belief in Yeshua opens up this conduit.
b. Believers living their lives in accordance with that confession will be
saved.67 This is the fruit of grace working within each believer.(1) Believers have free will and they can choose to continue to follow, or to subtly, or not so subtly, reject the Risen Savior.
c. Believers are to sanctify the Lord Yeshua in their hearts (1st Pet. 3:15), to make Him Lord of their life.
2. This great and wonderful salvation, eternal life with God, is completely given to Israel by God’s gracious and loving action: the sending of His Son to die for mankind, especially those who believe.68 The work of Messiah, His death and resurrection is perfect and nothing can nor should be added to it. Anything added to Messiah’s work nullifies it.69 Salvation is truly a Gift from God and cannot be earned for it is freely given to Man by God.
a. Believers are saved by God’s grace, not any works that they might do, even though God desires to work through the believer to accomplish His works.70
b. A believer’s hope depends on what God has done for the believer through Messiah. The assurance or certainly that a believer has is based on the Father’s promises and nature, riveted in Yeshua and His atoning death and High Priesthood. A believer’s faith is in Yeshua, not in himself or any good works, nor in the keeping of the Law.71
(1) Yahveh can be trusted to keep His promises:
(a) As God, Yahveh is honest and doesn’t lie.
• Yahveh promised Abraham a son through Sarah when she was too old, but Sarah had Isaac. Yahveh kept His promise.
• Yahveh promised Abraham many sons who would become slaves, but that He would deliver them from their slavery (Gen. 15:12-14). Yahveh kept that promise, too.
• Yahveh promised Abraham that his sons would inherit the land of Canaan. Yahveh kept His promise.
• Yahveh promised Israel a Savior-Messiah. Yahveh kept His promise.
• Yahveh promised to give Israel His Spirit and a new heart (Ezk. 36:24-27). Yahveh kept His promise.
(b) From these promises that Yahveh kept, believers can be certain that He will keep His promise to make them like His Son Yeshua on Judgment Day. The believer’s salvation is assured.
• Believers are assured of salvation72 because God the Father is not a liar and He has promised eternal life. This promise, unlike the promises to Abraham, were sealed by the death and resurrection of His Son Yeshua.73 There is nothing greater that the Father could have done to assure Man that what He has promised about glorification and eternal life is going to happen.
c. Believers have been chosen by God from before the Creation of the Universe.74
3. With all those promises, though, and God’s faithfulness, believers are not ‘automatically saved forever’ because they make a confession of faith or even if they are Born from Above and filled with the Holy Spirit.75
a. Believers must persevere and continue in the faith their entire life.76This is part of that inner grace that sustains, leads and transforms us into the Image of Messiah Yeshua.
(1) Biblical belief in Yeshua is not magic. One can reject his Savior.77
(2) Believers are to work out their salvation in fear and trembling.78
b. Biblical faith is relational and needs the active participation of the believer all their life.79
(1) Covenant faith in Yeshua is much like a marriage; one enters into it with all their heart (Dt. 6:4-5; Mt. 15:7-8) and wants it to last all their life.
(2) In this covenant relationship one begins to discern God’s will, which believers are required to obey.80
(a) Biblical faith ‘cannot be spelled’ without ‘obedience to God and His Word.’81
4. In God’s Kingdom one should expect to suffer82 because the world lies in darkness and the darkness hates the Light.
a. Believers in Yeshua are called to be holy, a people set apart from the world. Suffering is part of the process known as ‘death to self’ whereby many characteristics of Messiah Yeshua become the believers’.83
b. Biblical belief in Yeshua allows God the Holy Spirit to transform the believer into the Image of the Son of Man.84
5. All believers in Yeshua the Messiah are part of the Body of Messiah.85
a. Yeshua is the Head of the Body which is also known as the Bride and Wife of Messiah.86
6. Each person born again should be immersed (baptized) in water, in obedience to Messiah87 and as a living sign to others and themselves that they are following Messiah in His death, burial and resurrection (Rom. 6:3-11) and that they have become a new creation in Messiah (2nd Cor. 5:17).
7. The eating of Messiah’s flesh and blood is also commanded and is done both at Passover and whenever the Spirit leads.88
a. The Passover was symbolically seen in the daily morning and evening sacrifices of Israel (Ex. 29:38-42). This allows the eating of Messiah’s flesh and blood to be done at any time.
b. The eating of matza (unleavened bread) and the drinking of wine (or grape juice) convey the eating of Yeshua’s flesh and blood.89 This is a time of fellowship with Yeshua and His Body of believers through His Spirit and also a time to re-focus on one’s full commitment and devotion to Yeshua: asking for forgiveness of sins if need be and further strength through His Spirit to live the life that Yeshua calls all His followers to live.
8. The entity known as ‘the Church’ is not separate from Israel, but overlaps it, like two concentric circles.90 There’s an Israel that doesn’t yet believe in Messiah Yeshua and an Israel that does that is made up of Jews and Gentiles.
a. Gentile believers have been grafted into the Israel that believes and so have become part of the Commonwealth of Israel.91
(1) The word church means an assembly of believers called out of darkness into the marvelous Light of Yeshua (1st Peter 2:1-10) and is comprised of Jews and Gentiles that believe in Yeshua.
b. One day God will fulfill His promise to Israel after the flesh and raise her up to be seen by all the nations as to what His glorious grace and sovereignty can do, despite Israel’s unfaithfulness to her God.92
7. The Torah: God’s Divine Blueprint for Holy and Righteous Living
1. The Torah is specifically the Law of Moses (the first five books of Scripture), given to Israel to know how to walk in covenant with Yahveh and live a holy life. The Torah shows Israel (all believers in Yeshua) what is pleasing to Yahveh and what is not.93
a. The Torah is for every believer today.94 It is God’s will for the Body of Messiah and is mandatory.
b. The Torah’s many commandments define God’s two great Commandments of love.95 In other words, if one has been Born from Above and been touched by God’s love and forgiveness and wants to please God, he will keep God’s Sabbath day holy, not eat any pig, learn to keep the Feasts of Israel holy, etc. It’s not a matter of works righteousness, but of properly discerning God’s will and obeying it.
(1) Just as any love needs to be expressed in some way, so God has provided His way for Israel to express their love for God and Man: Torah. Torah is the ‘form’ (guidelines or boundaries) that God’s love flows through.
2. The word torah means instruction and also applies to any teaching from Genesis through Revelation. This further defines, clarifies and amplifies the Law of Moses through Messiah’s eyes (e.g. to look with lust upon a member of the opposite sex is to commit the sin of adultery). The believer is to follow Yeshua in the way He walked out the Law of Moses, with the Holy Spirit leading him as to how to live Torah out in his life.
a. The only law that the male Gentile doesn’t keep is physical circumcision. It was required of him for entry into the Mosaic Covenant (Ex. 12:43-50), but in the New Covenant, physical circumcision for the Gentile has given way to the circumcision made without hands, the true circumcision that physical circumcision symbolized.96
(1) The Jewish male child at eight days old is still required to be circumcised,97 but the Gentile should not be circumcised.98
(a) Circumcision for Jewish believers and their sons is yet another indication that the Law of Moses is still in effect. If the Law had been done away with then the New Testament wouldn’t need to uphold circumcision for all the Jewish believers (Acts 21:20-24).
b. All Jewish believers, men and women, as well as all Gentile believers, men and women, are to do all the laws that apply to them.99 Not all the laws apply to everyone.
(1) Some of the laws that apply to everyone include, but are not limited to, the 7th day Sabbath,100 the holy Feasts of Israel101 and the dietary laws.102
(2) Some laws that don’t apply to everyone include, but are not limited to, the laws on farming,103 childbirth (Lev. 12:1-8), and the menstrual cycle (Lev. 15:19-30) because not everyone is a farmer or a woman.
c. Some laws will be momentarily suspended or superseded by other laws in the normal course of life. This doesn’t mean that the law (or Law) is done away with.
(1) For instance, if a Jewish infant needs to be circumcised on the Sabbath when work is forbidden, the law of circumcision momentarily suspends the prohibition of no work on the Sabbath day for that event, but the Sabbath isn’t done away with.104
d. The laws of corporal punishment for the sins of adultery and murder, etc., are not carried out because no one has the authority to do that. No one lives in a theocracy as in the time of Moses or King David where that could be, and was, done.
(1) Not even in Israel today is the Torah the law of the land. Therefore, to try and implement the punishment of death, etc., would be ‘to take the law into one’s own hands.’ In the days of Yeshua, He didn’t tell the Romans that they had no right to be in Israel or not right to crucify Jews.
e. To implement the physical punishment of death is not for believers to do from another perspective, too. Yeshua’s Kingdom is not of this world (Jn. 18:36). This doesn’t mean that there is no discipline for errant and rebellious believers. On the contrary, Paul commands the severest punishment to be inflicted upon a believer who had committed gross sin. Paul told the Corinthians to cast him out of the congregation and hand him over to Satan, that he might repent of his sin (1st Cor. 5:1-5), and if he did, to receive him back.105 If he didn’t repent he would have spent eternity in Hell, but the point is that fellowship with both the Lord and His people was broken.
f. There are laws of Moses that have been suspended or superseded, such as the ability of the Jewish believer to minister to Gentile believers. Torah forbids Israel association with pagan Gentiles, but Yahveh’s wall of holiness that separated the Jew from the Gentile has been broken down in Messiah Yeshua.106
3. Following the Torah as Yeshua did also means we don’t follow the Rabbis. The Rabbis are the spiritual descendants of the Pharisees. The Pharisees and their teachings were soundly condemned by Yeshua who warned His followers about them.107 It hasn’t gotten any better after 2,000 years, but on the contrary, it’s gotten worse.
a. Rabbinic Judaism is extremely anti-Yeshua and will seek to confuse the believer into renouncing Yeshua.
(1) Rabbinic Judaism seeks to destroy the faith one has in Messiah Yeshua by distorting Scripture about the Jewish Messiah in the Tanach (Old Testament) and stating that Yeshua didn’t fulfill all the requirements for the Messiah.108
b. Rabbinic Judaism is polluted with witchcraft and superstition that goes under the name of Kabbalah.109
c. Rabbinic Judaism relies on the Talmud, which it considers as great or greater an authority than God’s written Torah. Aside from the perversion of elevating anything alongside God’s Word, the Talmud is an extremely poor substitute for the Holy Spirit.
(1) This is not to say that the Rabbis don’t have any insight into Scripture, but like that of the Christian Camp, both are defiled with pagan things and both reject God’s Word at various places, yet seek to infuse their adherents with fear of any other interpretation.
(2) Believers can glean from both Camps, but must be able to discern what is of God and what is not. This ability to discern God’s Truth from religious error comes through both the Holy Spirit and spending vast amounts of time in prayer and the reading of God’s Word (from Genesis to Revelation).
4. Temple Sacrifice
a. While the Second Temple stood (till 70 A.D.), Jewish believers, including the Apostle Paul more than 20 years after the resurrection, continued to sacrifice at the Temple in Jerusalem.110 This is another clear indication that Torah is still valid for all who call upon the Name of Yeshua (Jesus).111
b. With the destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D., Levitical sacrifice stopped and was ‘put on hold’ for believers until the coming of the earthly Kingdom of Messiah Yeshua in Jerusalem.112
5. Believers who love Messiah Yeshua and observe the Torah don’t do it to be saved. They keep Torah because they are saved and they realize that this is the will of God for all His people Israel (both Jew and Gentile).
8. The Millennial Kingdom of Yeshua
1. Yeshua will reign from Jerusalem as the Prince (King) of Israel for 1,000 years (Rev. 20:1-6).
2. In that time the Levitical Priesthood, as well as sacrifice and Torah, will become the ‘law of the land’ (Ezk. 40-48).
9. Judgement Day, Eternal Life and Hell
1. This universe will one day come to an end.113 Immediately after that will be the Day of Judgement.114 On that day all mankind will be judged according to their faith in God the Father and Yeshua the Messiah.115
a. Those who have walked with Yeshua will become the Bride and Wife of Messiah. They will live with Him forever in the New Jerusalem.116
b. Those that reject God and what He has done for them will be sent to Hell for eternity.
(1) Hell is real. It’s nothing less than the fully manifest Presence of Yahveh who is Living Fire.117
(2) Those not transformed into the very Image of Yeshua on Judgement Day will have to endure God’s Fiery Presence for eternity, as He will ‘fill up’ eternity. Hell will be eternal torment for all those who despise the Living God.118
ENDNOTES
1 Gen. 1:1-31; Ex. 3:1-22; 12:1-51; 19:1-25; 20:1-21; 24:1-12; Isaiah 41:14; 43:14-15; Rom. 9–11. See also Gen. 17:19-22; 21:9-13 as Yahveh speaks of His covenant with Abraham continuing through Isaac, not Ishmael (as the Koran states).
2 Ex. 34:5-7; John 4:23-24.
3 Both the Old and New Testaments make up the complete Hebrew Scriptures (the Bible).
4 Gen. 17:1-27; 22:1-19; Mt. 1:18-25; Lk. 1:26-38; 2:1-21.
5 Gen. 16:11, 15-16.
6 Mt. 27–28; Luke 23–24; 19–21; Acts 1–5, 9; Rev. 1–5; 20–22.
7 See Allah the Moon God at http://www.sign2god.com/folders/ILL/Babylon/achtergrond-Islam-en.htm for more information on why Allah is a false god and Islam is a false religion.
8 Mt. 3:16-17; Mk. 1:10-11; Jn. 14:23-26; 1st Peter 1:1-2.
9 Dt. 6:4: Hear Oh Israel! Yahveh is our God! Yahveh is One! Mk. 12:29; 1st Cor. 8:6.
10 Mt. 5:48; 6:14-15;, 26; Mk. 8:38; 14:36; Lk. 10:21-22; 12:32; 22:29; John 1:14; 3:35; 5:17-26, 45; 6:27-46.
11 Lk. 1:32-33; 3:21-22; Jn. 1:1-3, 14; 5:22-30, 39-40; 6:35-40; 8:11-12, 23-24, 42, 46-47, 56-58; 9:5, 35-41; 10:1-18, 30-33; 12:45; 14:23-24; 17:5; 19:7; 20:30-31; Heb. 1:1-5. For more on how Yeshua is deity, see Yeshua: God the Son at http://www.seedofabraham.net/yeshua.html.
12 Is. 48:16; Jn. 14:16-17, 23-26; 15:26; 16:13; 2nd Cor. 13:14.
13 Gen. 12:1-3; 15:1-19; 17:1-22.
14 Gen. 28:10-18; 31:1-3; 32:22-32.
15 Gen. 17:1-4; Gal. 3:29.
16 Gen. 12:7; 13:14; 15:7, 12-16, 18-21; 17:7-8, 19-22; 24:7; 26:2-5; 28:3-4, 13-15; 35:9-13; 48:3-4; 50:24-25; Ex. 3:7-10, 14-17; 6:1-8; 12:21-25; 13:3-5, 11-12; 23:20-33; 32:7-14; 33:1-4; 34:10-11; Josh. 1-24.
17 Gen. 3:15; Dt. 18:15-18; Isaiah 42:1-10; 49:1-13; 52:13-53:12; Micah 5:2; Matthew 1-28; Lk. 24:46-49; John 3:34; 4:34; 5:23-24, 30, 36-38; 6:29; 8:31-36; Acts 26:14-18; 1st Jn. 4:14.
18 Ex. 20:1-21; 24:4, 7; 34:34; Dt. 5:22-33; 11:1; 17:18; 28:58; 30:10; 31:9, 22, 24-26; 2nd Tim. 3:16.
19 Dt. 12:32; 2nd Tim. 3:14-17.
20 Gen. 1:26-28; 2:15-3:19; Romans 3:10, 23.
21 Ps. 106:6; Ecc. 7:20; Is. 43:27; Jer. 3:25; Hos. 10:9; Rom. 2:12; 3:23; 5:12; 1st Jn. 1:10.
22 Gen. 1:1-3; John 1:1-3; 8:12; 9:35-38; 10:30-38; 1st John 1:1-4.
23 Gen. 1:1-3; John 1:1-3; Col. 1:16-17.
24 Mt. 3:1-17; 16:13-20; Lk. 1:26-33; 2:11, 25-32; John 20:30-31.
25 Exodus 1-15; Dt. 18:15-18.
26 Isaiah 52:13-53:12; 61:1-2; Mt. 4:23; 9:35; 10:1, 7-8; Lk. 4:5-6, 16-21; Jn. 5:5-9, 24; Acts 26:15-18; 1st John 1:7; 2:1-2; 3:8.
27 John 3:34; 4:34; 5:23-24, 30, 36, 38; 6:29, 38-39, 44, 57; 7:16, 28-29; 8:16, 18, 26, 29, 42; 9:4; 10:36; 11:42.
28 Heb. 2:14-15; 1st John 3:8.
29 Rom. 8:10; Eph. 3:17; Col. 1:15, 27; 2:9; Phil. 2:5-11; Heb. 1:1-6.
30 Is a son ever the same person as the father? Yeshua, the Son of God, is not the Father. Exodus 32:34; 36:13; 2nd Sam. 7:14; Psalm 2:2, 6-7; 110:1; Prov. 30:4; Isaiah 26:19; 28:16; 42:1-6; 49:1-9; 52:13; 53:10-12; 61:1-2; Matt. 7:21; 10:32-33; 12:50; 15:13; 20:23; 21:33-41; 22:2, 41-45; 26:39, 42, 44, 53, 63-64; Mk. 13:32; 14:36; Lk. 10:21-22; 22:29; John 1:14; 3:35; 5:17, 26, 45; 6:37, 40; 12:26, 27, 28, 44, 49, 50: 14:1, 2, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 20, 21 (note the plural pronouns; ‘we’ and ‘our’), 24, 26, 28, 31; 15:1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 21, 23, 24, 26: Acts 2:22, 23, 24, 32, 33, 34 (Ps. 110:1), 35, 36; 5:30, 31; 7:55-56; 10:42; 17:31; 22:14; Rom. 15:6; 1st Cor. 1:9; 15:28; Col. 1:3, 12-13, 19-20; 2:1-2; 3:17; Phil. 1:2, 11; 2:1, 5-7, 9, 10-11; 4:19; 1st Tim. 1:1, 2, 12; Heb. 1:2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 13; 5:5-6, 7-10; 1st John 1:3, 7; 2:1; 3:14; 5:9-13, 18-23; 2nd John 1:3, 9-10; Jude 1:1, 4; Rev. 1:1, 4-6; 3:21; 21:22; 22:1. (Also, Gen. 1:26; Is. 6:8; Zech. 13:7.)
31 Isaiah 7:14; Micah 5:2.
32 Mt. 1:18-25; Lk. 1:26-56.
33 Micah 5:2; Luke 2:1-20.
34 Daniel 7:9-14; Mt. 8:20; 9:6; 10:23; 12:8; Mk. 2:28; 8:31; 9:9; Lk. 5:24; 6:5; 9:22, 44, 56, 58; 12:8, 10, 40; Jn. 6:52, 62; 8:28; 12:23-24; 13:31.
35 Mt. 1:1-17; Luke 3:23-38.
36 Luke 2:21-22; John 4:9, 22; Heb. 7:14.
37 Rev. 5:5; 22:16.
38 Ps. 2:2, 6-7; Is. 9:6-7; Mt. 2:2; 27:11, 37; Mk. 15:2; Lk. 23:3; Jn. 19:19.
39 Matthew 15:24; Acts 10:38.
40 John 3:16; 16:25-27; 17:20-26.
41 Heb. 4:15; 1st Peter 2:22; 1st John 3:5.
42 Is. 53:7; John 1:29, 36; Acts 8:32; 1st Tim. 2:5-6; Heb. 2:8-18; 1st Peter 2:24; 3:18; Rev. 5:1-14.
43 Mt. 2628; Eph. 1:7; Col. 1:13-14.
44 Lk. 5:17-26; 7:36-50; Eph. 1:1-14; 1st Pet. 1:19.
45 Lev. 17:11; John 20:30-31; Heb. 9:12-15.
46 Jer. 31:31-34; Heb. 8:6; 12:24.
47 Isaiah 42:6; 49:6; Mt. 12:21; Lk. 2:32; Acts 9:15; 10:45; 11:18; 13:46-48; 14:27; 15:3, 7, 12, 14, 17: 26:20, 23; 28:28; Rom. 1:5, 13; 15:9-12, etc.
48 Acts 2:22-44; 8:12-13, 16, 36-38; 9:17-18; 10:47; 11:16, etc.
49 John 14:6; Acts 2:28; 4:12; 22:16; Rom. 10:13; Phil. 2:9; Heb. 9:11-28; 10:5-25; 1st John 2:24-25; 3:23; 5:13; Rev. 3:5; 21:27; 22:4.
50 Acts 2:1-41; 3:15; 4:10; 5:30; 10:40; 13:30; Rom. 4:24; 6:9; 7:4; 10:9; 1st Cor. 15:3-8, 20, 29; Eph. 1:20; 1st Thess. 1:9-10; 4:14-18; 2nd Tim. 2:8; 1st Pet. 1:21; Rev. 1:12-18; 2:8.
51 Rom. 3:34; Eph. 1:20; 2:5-11; Col. 3:1; Hebrews 1:1-4; 8:1-2; 10:12.
52 Mt. 28:18-20; Acts 2:22-36; 9:1-42; 10:36; Rom. 1:4; Phil. 2:11; 1st Peter 3:15; Rev. 19:16.
53 Psalm 110:4; Heb. 2:14–3:2; 4:14-16; 5:1-10; 6:13–7:28.
54 Ps. 110:1, 4; Zech. 6:12-13; Mt. 28:1-10; Mk. 16:1-7; Lk. 24:1-10, 36-49; Jn. 20:1-23; Acts 5:30-32; 10:39-43; Heb. 5:9; 6:18-20.
55 John 14:18, 23; Romans 8:10.
56 John 5:20-32; Acts 10:42-43; 17:31; Rom. 14:9; 2nd Tim. 4:1, 8; 2nd Thess. 1:3-10; Heb. 6:1-2.
57 Jn. 3:36; 4:13-14; 6:47; 10:27-29; 17:1-3, 24; 1st Jn. 2:18-25; 5:11.
58 Jn. 14:1-3; Heb. 1:10-12; 2:5-8; Rev. 20:11-22:5.
59 Acts 1:4-8; 2:1-42; 5:32; 8:4-17; 10:44-48; 19:1-8; 1st Cor. 12:1-14; 14:1-33; Judah (Jude) 1:20-21.
60 Genesis 1:1-3; Ezk. 36:24-27; Mt. 3:11; Mk. 1:8; Lk. 3:16; John 1:32-33; 7:37-39; Acts 1:4-8; 2:1-42; 5:32; 8:4-17; 10:44-48; 19:1-8; Eph. 2:18.
61 Isaiah 44:3; Ezekiel 36:24-27; Joel 2:28-32; Acts 2:1-47; 8:4-17.
62 Ezk. 36:24-27; Joel 2:28-32; Acts 2:1-18; 10:44-48; 19:1-7; 1st Cor. 12:1-11; 14:1-40.
63 Rom. 8:26-30; 2nd Cor. 3:17-18; Gal. 5:22-25; Phil. 3:20; 2nd Peter 1:1-4.
64 John 16:13-15; Acts 1:8; 2:4-11
65 Eph. 2:10; 2nd Tim. 2:20-21; Heb. 10:24; 13: 20-21; 2nd Pet. 1:1-11.
66 Acts 4:12; Rom. 10:9-10; Heb. 7:11-28; 1st John 4:14-15.
67 Mt. 10:33-34; 13:1-23; 15:7-8; Lk. 8:4-14; John 3:1-21; Acts 14:22; 26:20; Rom. 10:9-10; 11:22; 1st Tim. 4:16; 2nd Tim. 4:7; Heb. 6:13-20; 10:36; 1st Jn. 4:12-16; James 1:21-22, 25. Biblical faith is more than just a mental assent to Yeshua as Savior and Lord. It means that one gives their entire being over to Him as Lord of their lives and that they are ready to sacrifice everything for His Name, even their lives. Making a covenant with God is very serious and should not be entered into lightly (Lk. 14:25-35).
68 Rom. 15:8; Eph. 1:1-14; Col. 1:9-12; 1st Tim. 4:10; Heb. 9:11-15; 1st Peter 1:1-5.
69 Gal. 5:4-6; Eph. 2:8-10; 1st John 2:1-2.
70 Mt. 25:31-46; Eph. 2:8-10; Phi. 1:6-7.
71 Gen. 12:1-3; 22:15-18; Psalm 110:4; Col. 2:1-10.
72 Mt. 28:20; John 6:39-40; 10:27-29; 14:1-3, 23; Heb. 13:5-6; 1st John 5:1-15, 20-21.
73 Hebrews 6:1-20; 1st John 2:24-25.
74 John 15:16; Eph. 1:3-14.
75 Mt. 7:21-23; 13:1-23; Rom. 8:12-14; 11:19-22; 2nd Tim. 2:12.
76 Mt. 13:1-23; 24:13; Col. 1:23; 2:5-7; 3:1-4; 1st Tim. 14-16; 2nd Tim. 2:11-18; 4:7; Heb. 2:1-4; 3:5-19; 4:1-2, 11, 14; 6:9-12; 10:23, 36; 12:1-4; 2nd Pet. 2:20-22; 3:17-18; 1st Jn. 5:1-15; 20-21; Rev. 16:15; 21:6-7.
77 Num. 32:11-13, 15; Mt. 25:1-13; Acts 5:1-11; Rom. 11:19-22; 1st Cor. 9:27; 10:1-12; 15:1-2; 2nd Cor. 11:1-3; 13:5-6; Gal. 4:19; 5:1-4; Col. 1:21-23; 2:8, 18; Phil. 2:12-13; 3:8-14; 1st Thess. 3:5; 1st Tim. 1:18-20; 4:1; 5:11-12, 15; 6:20-21; 2nd Tim. 2:16-18; 3:1-9; Heb. 2:1-3; 3:6, 12-13, 14, 16-19; 4:1, 11; 6:4-11; 10:26-27, 28-29, 36-39; 11:6; 12:14-29; 2nd Peter 1:10; 2:20-21; 3:14-18; Jude 1:3-5, 11-13; 16-19, 24; Rev. 16:15.
78 Phil. 2:12-16; 3:12-21.
79 John 15:1-8; 1st John 2:24-25.
80 Gen. 26:1-6; Ex. 19:5; 23:21; Dt. 29:29; Jer. 11:1-5; 15:6; 17:5-8; Jn. 3:36; Mk. 3:31-35; Lk. 8:19-21; 11:27-28; Acts. 5:29; Rom. 2:8; 6:16; 12:1-2; 16:25-27; 2nd Thess. 1:8; 3:14; Heb. 5:9; 1st Peter 1:2.
81 Ex. 19:15; 23:21; Dt. 27:10; 28:1-2; Jer. 7:23; Jn. 3:36; 14:21-24; 15:14; Acts 5:29; Heb. 5:9; 1st Jn. 2:3-6, 15-19.
82 John. 15:18-21; 16:1-4, 33; Acts 5:41; 9:16; 17:3; Rom. 8:16-17; Eph. 1:29-30; Phil. 1:29; 3:7-11; 1st Thess. 3:4; 2nd Tim. 2:3; 3:12; Heb. 10:32-34; 12:3-13; 1st Pet. 1:20; 3:14; 4:19; Rev. 2:10.
83 Mt. 10:34-39; John 16:33; Rom. 5:1-5; 6:1-23; Eph. 4:11–5:21; 6:10-18; Col. 1:9-11; 3:1-17; Heb. 5:5-10.
84 2nd Cor. 3:1-18; 4:4-6; 1st Peter 1:1-5; 1st John 3:1-3.
85 Rom. 12:4-5; 1st Cor. 10:16-17; 12:12-27.
86 Isaiah 62:5; Eph. 1:22-23; 4:15; 5:23-32; Col. 1:18; Rev. 19:7-9; 21:2, 9, 17.
87 Mt. 28:19; Acts 2:22-44; 8:12-13, 16, 36-38; 9:17-18; 10:47; 11:16; 19:3-5.
88 John 6:47-51, 54-58.
89 Mt. 26:26-28; 1st Cor. 11:17-34.
90 The Greek εκκλησια (eklaysia) translated into English Bibles as ‘church’ literally means ‘an assembly’ or congregation (i.e. a synagogue), but it also speaks of those ‘called out.’ Originally it pictured the Greek ‘town meetings’ of free men called out of the populace. The spiritual aspect relates to believers being ‘called out of darkness into His marvelous Light’ (1st Pet. 2:9) and may be one reason why Paul chose to use this word over synagogue. Christians are the ‘Called Out Ones,’ the Greek equivalent of the Hebraic ‘Chosen People.’ Where it says, ‘to the church at Corinth,’ it should be, to the assembly or congregation at Corinth. It could also be ‘to the called out ones of Corinth.’ Paul’s use of eklaysia in no way opposes the Jewish people or the Mosaic Covenant. The word was first used for Israel about 300 years earlier in the Septuagint. It speaks of the Congregation or ‘the Church of Israel’ at Mt. Sinai (Dt. 4:10; 9:10; 18:16; see also Acts 7:38). This was most likely the reason why Paul used eklaysia instead of synagogue. The Church (Assembly of those called out) didn’t begin in Acts 2 on Pentecost (the Hebrew holy day of Shavuot; Lev. 23:15-21; the Feast of Weeks). Jewish believers were filled with the Holy Spirit on that day (see Acts 2:46-47; 5:11-12, 42 where ‘the Church’ met in the Jewish Temple at Jerusalem). Paul’s ‘churches’ were actually ‘house assemblies’ (1st Cor. 16:19; Philem. 1:2; see also Rom. 16:5, 10-11, 14-15, 23), which Jews would call ‘house synagogues.’ It also doesn’t seem that Paul began the congregations in Rome (1:13, 15), Ephesus (1:15) or Colosse (1:3-4, 9) even though house churches are mentioned in two of those letters (Rom. 16:5; Col. 4:15). The assemblies in Rome may very well have begun from Roman Jews in Jerusalem at Pentecost (Acts 2:10).
91 John 10:16; Rom. 9-11; Eph. 2:12, 19-22.
92 Num. 23:19-24; 24:3-9; 2nd Sam. 7:10-13, 16, 24; 2nd Chron. 21:7; Ps. 2; 48; 102:16-22; 105:7-11; Isaiah 1:26-27; 2:1-3; 4:2-6; 9:3-4, 6-7; 12:1-6; 14:1-2, 32; 16:5; 24:23; 25:6-10; 26:1-6; 27:6; 28:5; 29:7-8, 22-24; 30:19, 26; 31:4-5; 32:15-20; 33:5, 20-22, 24; 34:8; 35:1-10; 41:8-20; 44:21-23; 45:17, 25; 49:13; 52:8-10; 54:1-17; 60:1-22; 61:4-7; 62:1-12; 63:7; 65:17-25; 66:10-13, 20-24; Jer. 23:5-8; 30:3-24; 31:1-15, 23-28, 31-40; 32:37-44; 33:6-26; 34:15; 35:2; 50:18-20; 51:5, 10, 19, 45; Ezk. 16:60-63; 28:25-26; 34:11-31; 36:6-15, 22-27; 37:11-14, 15-28; 38:1-23; 39:23-29; 43:1-7; 47:13-23; 48:1-29; Hosea 1:10-11; 2:16-23; 3:5; 11:8-11; 13:14; 14:4-7; Joel 2:18-19, 23-32; 3:1-2, 12-21; Amos 9:14-15; Zephaniah 3:8-20; Zech. 2:4-5, 12; 8:18-19, 23; 9:16; 10:6; 12:1-10; 13:1-2; 14:1-21; Mal. 3:3-4, 11-12; Rom. 11:1-12:3; Rev. 21:1-12; 22:16, etc.
93 Dt. 4:6-8; Rom. 3:31; 7:7, 12, 14; 1st Cor. 7:19; Rev. 12:17; 14:12.
94 Jer. 31:31-34; Mt. 5:17-19; Lk. 16:17; Rom. 3:31; 7:7; 12, 14; 1st Cor. 7:19; James 4:11-12; 1st John 2:6; 3:1-5; Rev. 12:17; 14:12. See The Lifting of the Veil: Acts 15:20-21 at http://www.seedofabraham.net/LiftingTheVeil.html for the Scriptural and theological reasons on the Law being valid for all those that have a covenant with the Father through His Son.
95 Dt. 6:4-5; Lev. 19:18; Mt. 22:35-40.
96 Dt. 30:6; Rom. 4:9-12; Phil. 3:3; Col. 2:11
97 Gen. 17:9-14; Acts 21:20-24.
98 Acts 15:1-21; 1st Cor. 7:17-19; Gal. 1:6-9; 2:1-5; 5:1-4; 6:12-13; Col. 2:11.
99 Lev. 16:29; 17:12; 18:26; 24:16; Num. 9:14; 15:14-16, 26, 29-30 (the stranger is able to sacrifice); 19:10; Dt. 31:12; Josh. 8:33-35; Is. 56:6-7; Ezk. 47:21-23; Eph. 2:19.
100 Gen. 2:1-3; Ex. 20:8-11; 31:12-17; Is. 66:22-23; Mt. 12:8; Heb. 4:9 (where the KJV only has, ‘There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God’ it should be, ‘There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God’ as is seen in many Bibles (e.g. NASB, NRSV, ASV, RSV, ESV, NIV and HNV). The Greek word for Sabbath rest is sabbatismos, a term that speaks of 7th day Sabbath observance.
101 Gen. 2:1-3; Ex. 20:1-17; Lev. 23:1-44.
102 Lev. 3:17; 11:1-47; Dt. 14:1-21.
103 Lev. 19:9-10, 19, 23-25.
104 John 7:21-24.
105 2nd Cor. 2:5-11.
106 Ex. 23:32; 34:15; Dt. 7:3-4; 23:6; Ezra 9:1-10:44; Acts 10:1-48; 11:1-18; Eph. 2:1-22.
107 Mt. 15:1-14; 16:6, 11-12; 23:1-36; Mk. 7:5-13; 8:15; Lk. 12:1; Gal. 5:7-9. See Do as the Pharisees Say? Mt. 23:2-3 at http://www.seedofabraham.net/doas.htm for more on why the believer should never align himself with rabbinical Judaism and what Yeshua meant when He said to His followers to ‘do as they say.’
108 For insight into some Scripture on Messiah in the Tanach and how Judaism lies about it, read Jewish Newsletters 23, 25 and 28-34 at http://www.seedofabraham.net/newsletr.html.
109 See Kabbalah at http://www.seedofabraham.net/kabbalah.html. Kabbalah is Babylonian mysticism (witchcraft) in Jewish clothes.
110 Acts 21:20-26; 24:18.
111 See The Lifting of the Veil: Acts 15:20-21 at http://www.seedofabraham.net/LiftingTheVeil.html and the two articles on Mosaic Sacrifice at http://www.seedofabraham.net/sacrific.html for why sacrifice is still theologically valid after the Resurrection and how the four rules of James (Acts 21:20) effects Gentiles today.
112 Ezk. 40-48; Rev. 20:1-6.
113 Is. 66:22-24; Amos 5:18; Mt. 5:18; 2nd Peter 3:10-12; Rev. 20:11-14.
114 Mt. 10:11-15; 11:20-24; Jn. 5:29; 2nd Cor. 5:10; Heb. 6:2; 9:27; 2nd Pet. 2:9; 3:7; 1st Jn. 4:17; Rev. 14:7.
115 Rom. 2:1-16; Rev. 20:11-15.
116 Heb. 12:22-29; 13:14; 2nd Peter 3:10-13; Rev. 19:7, 9; 21:1-27.
117 Ex. 24:17; Dt. 4:24; Heb. 12:29; Rev. 20:11-14.
118 Mt. 13:37-43; Mk. 3:28-29; 9:43-48; Lk. 13:28; 16:23, 25, 28; 20:38; Jn. 5:25-29; 2nd Thess. 1:8-10; Heb. 6:4-8; 10:27-29, 35-39; Jude 1:1, 7, 13; Rev. 14:9-11; 19:1-3; 20:10-15; 21:8, 14-15.2nd Thess. 1:9: ‘These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power’ (NKJV).
James Moffatt, D.D., Author; W. Robertson Nicoll, Editor, M. A., LL. D., The Expositor’s Greek Testament, vol. four: The First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2002), p. 46 states about 2nd Thess. 1:8-9, ‘endless ruin’ for ‘the disobedient (Ps. 76:7) men who’ ‘shall pay the penalty of (see Prov. 27:12 LXX) eternal destruction (the common apocalyptic belief’).
Leon Morris, The Rev. Canon, M.Sc., M.Th., Ph.D., Tyndale New Testament Commentaries: The Epistles of Paul to the Thessalonians (Leicester, England: Inter-Varsity Press, 2000), p. 121. Morris writes of the verse, ‘Destruction means not “annihilation” but complete ruin. It is the loss of all that makes life worth living. Coupled with everlasting (better “eternal” as RSV), it is the opposite of eternal life.’