Torah Restoration

The Finding Emet radio program focuses on understanding and living the truth of the Bible from a Hebrew perspective. It features the teaching ministry of Brother Daniel Rindleman and offers resources on their website. The story of a priest and a rabbi highlights the importance of Torah, the first five books of the Bible, as loving instructions for living. Yeshua (Jesus) did not come to abolish the Torah, but to fulfill it. The Jewish people have a deep devotion to Torah and strive to be a light to the nations through their study and practice of it. Learning the true faith of the Bible involves a return to Yahweh's Torah. Hello, and welcome to the Finding Emet radio program. Emet is the Hebrew word for truth. This program will help you understand and live the truth of the Bible from a Hebrew perspective. The Finding Emet radio program features the teaching ministry of Brother Daniel Rindleman of Emet Ministries. Prepare your heart to receive the Emet, the truth of the scriptures. More audio lessons and teaching articles are available at the www.emetministries.com website. Please visit our site to find all things spiritual, including a free online Bible search program or submit your prayer requests. That's www.emetministries.com or www.findemet.com. CD copies of this teaching are available for free by submitting a request at the website. Let's welcome our teacher, Daniel Rindleman, as he helps us find the Emet. The story is told about a Catholic priest who was manning a confession booth, and he was doing it for several, several hours, and he wanted some relief. So he called his friend, who was a rabbi. He said, come fill in for me, I need some help. When the rabbi said, you know, he had no experience doing this, you know, he said, you know, I don't think I can do this. I've never done this before. And the Catholic said, oh, it's no problem. Hang out with me, stay with me for just a few minutes. You'll see what to do, observe what I do, and you'll be okay. So the rabbi obliged, and he came. So the first man that came to the confession booth, he confessed. He said, Father, I have sinned. I have stolen. I have taken things three times. I've stolen, and I'm sorry, he said, but Father, I've stolen. So the priest speaks through the little box, and he says, it's okay, my child, you are forgiven. Go say three Hail Marys, and put five dollars in the offering box. So next, there's this woman that comes, and she sits down, and she says, my father, I have sinned. She says, guess what? I have stolen, and I've taken from my employer, and I've taken from Walmart, I've done bad. I've shoplifted. And I've done it three times. So the priest, guess what? He repeats his instructions. He says, my child, you are forgiven to the woman. He says, you know, go say three Hail Marys, and put five dollars in the box. You'll be fine. So the rabbi looked at the priest, he said, I got it. I know what to do. No problem. He says, I can take over. You do what you need to get done, because this is real busy, and I know you can't be in here all day long. So afterwards, a different woman comes to the confessional booth, and she goes to confess. And she says, Father, of course, I've stolen. And the rabbi's back there, not the father. So the rabbi says, well, my dear, what a hideous sin. She says, yes, I've stolen. He says, well, how many times have you done it? She says, oh, I've done it one time, but I'm so sorry. So the rabbi is really quick minded. He knows what to do. He knows what to say. Right. He says, great. Go out and do it two more times. We're having a special three for five dollars, three for five dollars. Go do it again. You know, if there's something that we know about Jews, we could say that we do know or we do laugh about the fact they are very good at pinching pennies or making a dollar. Half of all of Hollywood is Jews. You've got Florida that's the Jews. Right. You can actually study the American currency as it was not for the Jewish people. Probably there would not be an American currency and we would not have won the Revolutionary War. There's a lot of history there. There's one thing that we know about the Jews. They know how to make money. And that's OK. There's something else we know about the Jews and something that defines them, I think even greater than that. And that is their love and their devotion for Torah or Torah. The Jewish people and their role in this world have a deep devotion for the scriptures. And it's not just their business savvy that sets them apart from the world, but it's their love for the scriptures and their devotion from learning Torah. Now Torah is the the first five books in your Bible, English Bibles and Christian Bibles and Jewish Bibles, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, except for in Hebrew, they're not called Genesis. I always thought Genesis sounded like a biblical word. I thought that was a good biblical word. In reality, Genesis is an English version of a Greek word of a Hebrew word. And when the translators went to translate our Bibles, they translated some words directly from the Hebrew into the English or the Hebrew into that. However, when they came to certain words, they transliterated them and made up almost totally different words. So in Hebrew, it's Bereshit, which is Hebrew for in the beginnings, in the beginnings, the first few words of Genesis. In the beginning, Yahweh created the heavens and the earth. We get Genesis from the Greek version of that. So in Hebrew, it is Bereshit, Shemot, Vayikra, Bamidbar, Devarim. In English, that's Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, the first five books of the Bible. And it was these words or these books that were given, handed down to the prophet Moses or Moshe in Hebrew, there at the mountain. And these were loving instructions that were given. Now, we know it as or Christianity knows it as the law, the law of Moses. Why would you ever want to study the law of Moses? Why do you want to go under legalism? Why do you want to get under the law? We've heard people say, haven't we heard that before? Many, many, many times. However, that's a very bad translation because the word Torah literally means instructions. It means loving instructions. Now, I might look at a stop sign and think that, ah, that government's out to get me. Gosh, why do they want to make me stop? I've got somewhere to be. I've got something to do. I've got people to see. However, why is that stop sign there? To protect me, to keep me safe, to create a type of order. It's not that the government's trying to hold me back from joy and fulfillment in my life. It's simply the fact there's got to be an order to my life. That's what Torah is. Torah is those loving instructions and guidelines for living. That's what Torah is. It's not holding us down. And indeed, there are many laws in the Bible. You can read of Yahweh's law. You can read of man's law. You can read of the law of sin and death. You can read of many different laws. And we know, for example, the Ten Commandments. Most people you could go to and say, do you believe in the Ten Commandments? They would say definitely yes. Christians, Jews, even non-believers would say yes, I believe in the Ten Commandments. Well, the Ten Commandments are a summarization of the greater Torah. So it says in the Ten Commandments, thou shalt not steal. We knew the folks there at the confessional had a problem with that. But it says thou shalt not steal. Well, how do you stop from stealing? Well, you follow the rest of the commandments that are there in the Torah. So the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, are given to us as instructions for living. And it tells us in the book of Matthew, chapter 5, that our Messiah, our Savior, Yeshua, we know that he was not called Jesus while he was here on the earth. That is a modern version of his name. Just as Genesis is a replacement for Bereshit, Jesus is a replacement for his true name, Yeshua, as he walked the face of the earth. And in Matthew, chapter 5, Yeshua makes something very clear. He says, I did not come to abolish the Torah. I did not come to do away with the Torah. But he says, I came to bring it to fulfillment. I came to show you how to do it. In Matthew, chapter 5, Matityahu, chapter 5, verse 17, he says, think not that I've come to weaken or abolish or destroy the Torah or the prophets. I have not come to weaken them or destroy them, but to completely reveal in its entire intended fullness. I like this translation. For I truly say to you, until the current heavens and the earth pass away. What does it say in King James? Not one jot or tittle. Not one yod or nekudah shall by any means pass from the Torah until it all be fulfilled. Let me ask you. We know that the Savior came 2000 years ago. We know that we are on the same earth he was on. Is that right? So if we don't have a new heavens and we don't have a new earth, how could the word have passed away? He says, I did not come to abolish it. I came to show you how to do it because we know that the Jews had messed up some things. Well, here, this verse is very important because it tells us not one yod or not one jot or one tittle. Nothing's going to be removed from it. That it's there. And what's interesting about the Jews is that they read and they study and they practice Torah. And they read and they study and they practice it to be able to share the light and shine the light. Interesting, because in Matthew chapter 5, verse 17, what we just read, the verse right above that says, Let your light shine before men that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father who is in heaven. In the book of Isaiah, Israel is called a light to the nations because the Jews today understand that for them to be a light to the nations, to fulfill their calling and mission in life, they have to know the Torah and they have to live the Torah and they have to understand it. So one thing that really sets them apart is their desire to do this, a fervency for learning. Muhammad said that the Jews loved reading Torah so much that he called them the people of the book. Now if Muhammad, the founder of the Islamic faith, saw this, we too should see and recognize it. They were called the people of the book, of the book. Not just any book, but the book. What book? The Torah. And any desire to learn the true faith of the Bible must include a return to Yahweh's Torah. Now the love of Torah is reflected most eloquently during a traditional worship service held in the synagogue on Shabbat or the Sabbath. If you've ever been to a traditional Jewish service or seen them on TV, you will see that there's great pomp and circumstance, great ceremony. During the service they come to an ark, basically a wooden box that's been highly decorated, called the Aron Kodesh, Aron Kodesh, which is Hebrew for the set-apart ark or the holy ark. And they open this and inside of it is a Torah scroll. It's a scroll that's written in Hebrew, the letters of the Torah, the words of the Torah. And they remove it with blessings, they take decorations off of it, and then they take it and they parade it around the synagogue. And individuals who are standing then touch it. They take either the tassels that are on the tzitzit, that are on their talit, and they touch the scroll. They take their Bible and they touch the scroll. Some of them even touch with their fingers and then touch their mouth. In some synagogues you can even kiss the Torah scroll. And they parade it around, they give it reverence, then they bring it up to what's called the bima. And there in the synagogue they unroll the scroll and they read it in Hebrew. And it's read by a cantor or a chazan or a rabbi. Now a cantor is basically someone who's been trained to read the Torah scroll and to sing it in a certain melody. And they honor it and if you're being bar mitzvot, you would have an opportunity to read a little bit of this. And it's read aloud in Hebrew. And then just as beautifully as it's paraded around, it's replaced, it's rolled up, it's covered, it's redecorated, and it's placed back in our own kodesh with loving care. And it returns to the center of the worship center. The center of the synagogue is the Torah scroll. And what's interesting about this service is that this is one of the most ancient and universal rituals in Judaism. That this service of the Torah scroll coming out, being read, being decorated is over 2,000 years old and it's changed very, very little for 2,000 years. Now the Torah scroll itself that's being read is a work of art, you could say. But this scroll has been painstakingly penned by a scribe. We're familiar with scribes? You know, scribes and Pharisees and Sadducees. Even in biblical times you had certain people who were trained as scribes to write the Torah scroll. And what they would do is they would take a sheet basically of goat skin or cow skin or deer skin and they would take a quill from a kosher bird, usually a duck or a turkey, and the scribe would then write the Torah scroll. This is still how they do it today, on these sheets of skin. Now these sheets of skin are sewn together using gadeen. Gadeen. What's a gadeen? A gadeen is the leg sinews of a kosher animal. So you've got the kosher skin, you've got the quill of a kosher bird being written, and then you've got the leg sinews being tying that together. Now something else that's interesting is whenever they come to the name Yahweh, Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh, this is the name that we know of the Creator. We know when we read our King James Bible it's in all capital letters L-O-R-D or in all capital letters G-O-D. It's used over 7,000 times in the scriptures. As Yahweh, this is the name that was given to Moshe at the mountain. He said, this is my name forever, Exodus chapter 3, for all generations. This is his name. He desires us to reverence it and use it. Well, when the scribes come to the name Yahweh, they pause. They say a special blessing. They clear their mind to make sure that they're focusing on writing it. Then they pick up a special quill, a special pen that's used only to write the name Yahweh. And before they write it, they say a special prayer, and then they pen the Yod, the Heh, the Vav, and the Heh. It's a beautiful, beautiful way of reverencing his name. Now the text of a Torah scroll is written in columns. If you were to look at a scroll, you would see that it's written in columns with a lot of space all around it. You would also notice that there are no verses in a true Torah scroll. We actually found out that the verses in your Bibles are later editions that were not originally there. So when the letter was written by Timothy, it wasn't, you know, Timothy chapter 1, verse 2. These were editions later. And there's also no vowel points in the Torah scrolls, something else to consider. And if the scribe makes one mistake, if he drops a little bit of ink in the wrong place while writing the scroll, the entire page is then rendered incorrect and unusable. Such painstaking process has ensured, though, that the Torah that we have today, the Torah that's in the synagogues, the Torah that we study and we are to learn, is the same Torah that was handed down to Moshe, is the same Torah that was read 500 years ago, 800 years ago, 1,200 years ago. We can be confident of that. But the same Torah today is the same that was used. Now, the process and the grandeur of the Torah scroll and writing the Torah scroll and then having it in the service has established a pattern of worship used by the Jews. And guess what? When we read the New Testament, our Messiah, our Savior, and the first century believers did the same thing. You know, I asked somebody one day, I said, would Jesus be welcome at your church? He said, oh my goodness, of course, yeah, we worship Him. That's why we go to church on Sunday. I said, well, wait a minute now. Would He really be welcome at your church? They said, yes, yes, yes. I said, well, let's talk about it. Who is Jesus? I said, first of all, understand His name is Yeshua, right? Okay, Hebrew. They understood that. They didn't speak English 2,000 years ago. I said, okay. I said, let's take a look at this verse. It says here that He was king of the Jews, right? So here's a Jew coming into your church service. Would He be welcome? Oh, yeah, we welcome anybody. Everybody comes to our services. Okay. Then I take them to certain verses and show them, oh, well, it's very clear in Isaiah, it says that they would pluck the hairs off of His beard. So He had to have worn a beard. We know that. We look at the other verses and says that, you know, He wore the tassels or the tzitzit or a talit. We went through and said, well, wait a minute now. If He's going to be welcome at your church, understand He's going to come on Saturday because that was the day of worship when He was here. And He's going to speak Hebrew. Do you speak Hebrew at your church? Oh, no, no, no, we don't do that now. I said, okay, well, understand too that He was a Jew. And not only that, but He kept kosher. So if you have a meal after your service, are you going to have, you know, baked beans with pork in them? Because He would not go to that meal. He would not eat those. Are you sure He'd be welcome at your church? Oh, well, I don't know about that. Well, you know, just make sure He's welcome as far as that goes. And went through and explained that the Messiah was and is the King of the Jews. And He's not changed. And that He never went to a church. It says, and let's turn there, in Luke chapter four, it says, as was His custom, He went to the synagogue on the Sabbath, on Shabbat. It says that He was involved in the services. And it says that here He did not change them. And let's turn together to Luke chapter four now. In Luke chapter four, verse 15, it says, and Yeshua taught in their synagogues, being esteemed by all, verse 16. And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And according to His practice, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read. His practice was on Shabbat, on Saturday, to go to synagogue. And guess what? It tells us to follow in His footsteps in the book of Colossians. So if Yeshua went to the synagogue on Sabbath, what should we do? We should go to the synagogue on Shabbat. Amen to that. Yet this whole idea of this Torah service is very far from us. I get questions sometimes. People ask me, you know, isn't that idolatry, to parade a scroll around? It reminds me of Catholicism. Isn't that strange? Most of us were raised in Christian homes or Baptist churches. Such a ceremony seems needless at best and reminiscent of idolatry at worst. So I pray that we have our minds renewed today to return to the ancient paths. Not just parading our Torah scroll around the synagogue, but recognizing the Torah's purpose and place in our lives. And to look at that, let's turn to the book of Isaiah chapter 2, verses 2 and 3. Yeshayahu in Hebrew, Yahweh speaking in Isaiah chapter 2, and it says, It shall come to pass in the end days. When? The end of days. The mountain of Yahweh's house shall be established on the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow to it. What is the mountain of Yahweh's house? It is in Jerusalem. That's the mountain of Yahweh's house. And in verse 3 it says, And many nations shall come and say, Come, let us go up. Let us make Aliyah to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of our Elohim of Jacob. And he will teach us his ways, and we will have our walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth Torah. Shall go forth Torah, the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem. From Jerusalem. That out of Zion shall go forth Torah, the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem. So here we see very clearly the word of Yahweh is Torah, right? Well guess what it says? It tells us, also in the book of Isaiah, in chapter 46 it says, The grass withers, the flowers fade, but the word of Yahweh remains forever. Amen. It has not been abolished. Now let's turn to Micah chapter 4. Turn to Micah, verses 1 and 2. In the latter days, in the end of days, it shall come to pass, that the mountain, the house of Yahweh, shall be established on the top of the mountains. It shall be exalted above the hills, and the nations shall flow to it. And many nations, many nations, shall come and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of Yahweh, the Elohim of Jacob. And he will teach us his ways, and we will have our walk in his paths. For from the Torah shall go forth from Zion the word of Yahweh from Yerushalayim. The same exact thing. Repeated for us to see that in these end days, that for our faith to remain, for us to have a lasting faith, we've got to have a two-fold understanding. That many people out there have got part of the message. We've got to grab all of it. There are those out there who say, Oh, I'm a New Testament Christian. And that's all they focus on. That's only part of the story. In Revelation, chapter 14, verse 12, it makes it very clear that if we're going to remain, if we're going to overcome, what we need. And in Revelation, chapter 14, verse 12, it says, Here is the perseverance of the saints. Here is the endurance of the saints. Here, if you want to endure, if you're going to make it through the end, if you're going to overcome, it says in Revelation 14, 12, Here is the endurance of the saints. Those that keep or guard the commandments of Yahweh and have their faith in Yeshua. We've got to guard the commandments. We've got to know the Torah. We've got to guard it. We've got to keep it. And we've got to have our faith in Yeshua. Not just one, but both of them. There are those out there, oh, they just want faith in Yeshua. They don't want the commandments. They don't want the Torah. They don't want the law. They just want faith in Yeshua. And then there are those out there, like the Jews, who don't have faith in Yeshua, and all they've got is Torah. But if we're going to preserve, if we're going to be a light, if we're going to stand, we've got to have both. There can be no restoration without a return to Torah. Indeed, you can see this if you spell the English word restoration a special way. Take a look. R-E-S, res, Torah, ation. How about that? R-E-S-T-O-R-A-H-A-T-I-O-N. The middle, the purpose of our restoration is the Torah. It's got to be the center of our restoration that's taking place. Restoration. So the title of this message, Torah Restoration. Torah Restoration. So what place should the Torah have in our hearts, in our lives, in our worship services, in every day that we live? What place should it have? What place does the Torah have in the synagogue today? It's the center. It's the middle, is it not? It's the focus. We can look to the Jews, for example, here. So let's turn to the book of Romans, chapter 3. Romans, chapter 3, we will find an answer. What place should Torah have in our lives, in our worship services? In Romans, chapter 3, verse 1 and 2, it says, What advantage, then, has the Jew? What good is the Jew? Is he just good for making money? Is he just good for Hollywood? What advantage is the Jew? Or what profit is there in circumcision? Verse 2, Romans 3, verse 2. Much in every way. Everybody say that. Much in every way. Primarily, the number one reason. Here's why. What advantage is there being in Jewish? Romans, chapter 3, verse 2. Because they were the first to be entrusted with the oracles of the words of Yahweh and the first to believe His word. What advantage there is the Jew? Why are they special? Because they were trusted with the word of Yahweh, with the Torah. They don't have it all right, but a lot of their obedience is an example for us to return. But Yahweh trusted them knowing that they were going to stick to it. Now, we also know they added a lot to it. We're not talking about we want to be Jewish. We don't want to be Jewish. We're not trying to be Jews. We're trying to understand Torah. What advantage has a Jew? The Jews know Torah. This verse, Romans, chapter 3, verse 1 and 2, demands a response. And our response should be to have our mind renewed and our faith experience a restoration. Now, let me ask you this. Do we call it idolatry? Do we call it idolatry when a woman keeps maybe a fine diamond necklace in a jewelry box and when she has a special occasion, she pulls it out and she wears it? She shows off its beauty, and then when it's done, she puts it back in the jewelry box. Do we call it idolatry? Do we just call it, oh, that's nice. There's nothing wrong with that, to have a nice piece of jewelry to wear. You don't wear it every day, do you? You don't put it on every day. Well, in the same fashion, honoring the Torah is not wrong, and it's not idolatry either. When we pull out the Torah scroll, or when we have it in our worship services, we are honoring it. The grandeur and glamour of the Torah service is an outward expression of Romans, chapter 3, verse 1 and 2. It's an expression that our Master participated in. Notice, Yeshua never, never, never, never rebuked the Jews for their love of Torah. Instead, He rebuked them because they misrepresented it, they misunderstood it, and they added to it. They added all these commandments and rules to it. And indeed, we actually see in Luke, chapter 4, that He involved Himself and said that it should remain. Now, if we are to involve our life, if our faith is to be reminiscent of the New Testament faith, isn't that what we want? We want to have the faith that the first believers had. Then we've got to seriously consider Luke, chapter 4, verse 16. We read it a few minutes ago. So anyone that tells you they want to go back to the first century church, they want to get back to the true faith, they want to know Yahweh, we'll take them to Luke, chapter 4, verse 16, because it says, And He came to Nazareth, and Yeshua had been brought up. He says, As was His custom, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath, and He stood to read. Yeshua made the Jewish custom His custom. It's important that He made the Jewish custom His custom. Now, let me say this. It says, As was His custom, He went to the synagogue on Shabbat, and He stood to read. And we actually can look here and see, He says, He stood up to read, and they delivered to Him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah, Luke 4, verse 17. And they delivered to Him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah, and when He had opened the scroll, He found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Sovereign YAH is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news. What this tells us is that Yeshua was the last reader in the Torah service, because you had several readers who would read from Torah, but you'd have the last reader who would read a little bit from Torah, and then would read the portion from the prophets. Notice here that He recognized the Jews. Calendar, He recognized their Sabbath. He recognized their authority. He went on Shabbat. He didn't wait for a lunar Sabbath. Did He? No. He went then. He participated in their worship. And also notice He had no anti-Semitism. And that's still a problem for a lot of people. A hatred towards the Jews or anything Jewish we want to run from. But here it says Yeshua's custom was to go. Now in this passage it says that He stood and read. He stood and read. So when we read from Torah, what should we be doing? During our worship service? Standing up. And we know He read in Hebrew. They didn't speak English back then. The scroll was written in what? In Hebrew. So maybe we should begin to learn to read Hebrew. He did. And He was reading a passage from Isaiah, from the prophets and writings. Then we see, if you read the book of Luke, chapter 4, that He began to teach on that portion. And people asked questions, and He asked them questions back. And there was a discussion provoked. Now in our restoration, we should have a mindset regarding Torah. Now mainstream Christianity teaches that you should have an early morning devotional time. Do you remember that? I used to be a youth minister. And I used to teach my youth, oh, every time you wake up, every day you wake up, spend 15 minutes in the Word. You know, read it, know it, and have something to look at that day. That's okay. However, the Bible says, and the Scriptures tell us, that it's not just a matter of an early morning devotion or a 15 minute sermon on Sunday. We're not just to accept what the preacher says. I mean, think about it. Catholicism considers itself to be infallible. Do you know that? That the pope cannot make a mistake. Do you understand also that for many years, Catholicism forbade people from reading the Bible. That only the clergy could read it. They stopped people from doing that. And that's still in the churches today, where people, how dare you question the pastor. Boy, you'll get kicked out. Kicked in the teeth, kicked somewhere else. You never know what'll happen. You don't question the preacher. What's interesting is, the Bible tells us just the opposite of all that. It tells us in Deuteronomy chapter 6 that these words are to be on your heart when you lie down and when you get up. So not just a quiet time in the morning, but when you lie down that night, and when you get up in the morning, all day long, especially in the morning and at night. The Bible also declares that the word is to be read aloud. We know that Romans chapter 10, we know that Romans chapter 10 verse 17 says, Faith comes by hearing, and what? Hearing the word of Yahweh. If you want your faith strengthened, hear the word of Yahweh. Let's turn to Deuteronomy chapter 31. The end of the book of Devarim, Deuteronomy, and we see here the command of Hachel. Hachel. And that's a fancy Hebrew word for listening. Hachel. And in Deuteronomy chapter 31 verses 11 and 12, Deuteronomy 31 verses 11 and 12, When all of Israel comes to appear before Yahweh, your Elohim, in the place he shall choose, you shall read the Torah before all Israel in their hearing. Gather the people together, men and women and children, and the strangers within your gates, that they may hear, that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your Elohim, and guard or keep to do all of his commandments. It says here that we are to gather together, and there is to be a reading of the Torah before our hearing, and do not send the children away. Do you notice it says the children are to be there? Not off to Sunday school, you know, not off to children's church, but the whole family is to be together, and the reading of the Torah is to be there. And why? So that the kids, it says, can hear, that they may learn and fear Yahweh. Not play games, but learn and fear Yahweh. Look at Deuteronomy 32 verse 7. Deuteronomy 32 verse 7. It says, remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations, ask your father, he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you. That applies to us today. How was it done then? How are we to do it today? Abba Yahweh will show us. He will show us. He will reveal it. He will reveal it to us. And He is revealing it to us as we study His Word, as we look to His Word. In Isaiah chapter 51 verse 4, Isaiah 51 verse 4, it says, listen to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nations, for a Torah shall proceed from me in my judgment, and I will set as a light of the nations. My righteousness is near, my salvation shall go forth, and my arm shall judge the nations. Here it tells us in Isaiah chapter 51 verse 4, to listen to Yahweh, give ear to Him, for His Torah shall proceed. But His Word is going forward, but we need to listen. And where is His Word going forward? In the synagogue on Shabbat. Public reading. Public reading. Now what about the first century believers? What about them? What did they do? You read the book of Acts, you see that they continued to worship in the synagogue. They continued to go to the temple. So let's turn there to the book of Acts. Chapter 2 verse 46. This is after Pentecost or Shavuot, the giving of the Ruach HaKodesh, the Holy Spirit. It says in Acts chapter 2 verse 46, they continued daily, meeting as one, in the temple. That's another word for synagogue or the place of meeting there. The Beit HaMikdash, breaking bread from house to house. Did they eat food with joy and a pure heart? So they did two things. They met in the temple or the synagogue and they went from house to house. They fellowshiped with one another. They didn't start the first church of Jerusalem right then. And more proof to that is in Acts chapter 15. Acts chapter 15 is one of these great passages that people love to bring to us and say, oh, I don't have to keep Torah. I don't have to worry about this. I don't have to do that. In Acts chapter 15, there's a discussion over whether or not Torah should be kept by Gentiles, by people who are not Jewish. Many of us are not Jewish, yet we know that we've been grafted into the vine of Israel. Amen? And we know that a true Jew is one circumcised of the heart. And they come to them and the first believers and the leaders here make a decision. And they tell them in Acts chapter 15 verse 19. Because of this, my judgment is that we trouble not those who are from among the nations and who are returning. They are returning from the nations. Didn't we read in Micah and didn't we read in Isaiah that in the end days that the nations will come up to Jerusalem and say, teach me, show me. We're coming up to the mountains. Show me your ways. The Torah shall go forth out of Jerusalem. That is what started happening in Acts chapter 2. And it's happening even more today that we are going up to Jerusalem. We're studying our Hebrew roots. We're trying to understand Torah. And we're saying, teach me. We are returning to Yahweh. Verse 20, it says, but that we write to them that they abstain from pollution of idols, from fornication, from things strangled, and from blood. So a couple of commandments. It says that new believers are to follow. Number one, it says abstain from pollution of idols. No idolatry. Get idolatry and paganism out of our lives. That's the first step for new believers. And that's an open door because there's idolatry and paganism in all types of holidays that we celebrate. There's idolatry and paganism in things that we do we don't even know about. There's idolatry and paganism in our jobs, in our things that we pursue, you know, in all types of things. So it says get that out. Then it says to, from fornication, get away from sexual sins because that will stop the flow of the spirit. That will stop what y'all is wanting to do. And then it says, from things strangled and from blood. What does that mean? If you study the laws of kashrut or eating kosher, Leviticus chapter 11, we are not allowed to eat anything that has blood in it or that has been strangled. He's telling them, get the paganism out of your life. He's telling them, stay away from sexual sins and begin to learn the laws of clean and unclean. And then verse 21, for Moshe from old times, from times of old, has in every city those that proclaim his teachings with the Torah being read in the synagogues every Shabbat. Exodus 15 verse 21, they're telling them, get away from paganism, you know, begin to learn the laws of clean and unclean and go to the synagogue on Shabbat to hear the Torah of Moshe being read. Exodus chapter 15 verse 21. A public reading. Faith comes by hearing. Hearing the word of Yahweh. We are to be Bereans to study the word daily. What's amazing is that the New Testament concepts of Torah study are exactly what the Orthodox Jews do when they're studying Torah. So what advantage then have the Jew? Not very much because they were entrusted with the very words of Yahweh. Now, there was a time that there was a great debate between the rabbis. And the rabbis were debating many, many years ago and they were trying to decide what is more important. What is more important? The practice of Torah or Torah study? The practice of Torah or Torah study? Now, after much discussion, they presented their cases and they gave their points, it was decided that true Torah study, studying and learning Torah is greater because it leads to practice. That when you study it, you're studying it to practice it. They also cautioned their students to make sure that they weren't just learning for knowledge. One wise rabbi once said that the ignoramus is not a saint. I like that. The ignoramus is not a saint. But don't we know a lot of saints out there that don't want to know anything? Study to show yourself approved. A workman who does not need to be ashamed, who correctly handles the word of truth. That's a call to all of us. It is the highest form of worship. We think worship is coming into service or singing, dancing, giving money. The highest form of worship is study because it will lead to everything else. How are we to study Torah? Do we study it like we were taught? Do we study it like the church teaches? You know, if you go to seminary, you get three points out of it. Your sermon's going to have three points kind of a thing. Or is there a Hebraic mindset? Again, look to the Newer Testament. Look to the Jews. A big thing that we need to learn about Torah study is don't just read the word. Hear it. And study it. We have all been called to study. Amen? Not just the rabbi. Now, you might not be called to be a rabbi or a teacher or a leader. But you, if you're born again, you've been called to study the word. Study to show yourself approved. And it tells us in Deuteronomy 6, day and night. It tells us in the book of Joshua 8 that Joshua had the Torah read before all the people. When they get into the... They're coming out of the wilderness. They're going into Jerusalem. Joshua 8, verses 34 and 35. They're reading it out loud so everyone can hear it. Not just morning devotions, but in enthralling our day and our minds. Find a verse in the morning. Contemplate it. Consider it. It says in Psalm 1, Blessed is the man that meditates on the word day and night. Whether you're a stay-at-home mom or a school bus driver or whatever it is that you do, you get a verse, you get a passage and you study it. So important should Torah study be to us. It should be the focus of our day. It should be we wake up, we learn. What do you have for me? And meditate on that. So important was the Torah study that before the Holocaust, the story is told that there was this Christian scholar. He was visiting Warsaw during the first world war. Warsaw. And he said that there were a great many coaches or buggies in a parking place, but he could find no drivers in sight. He said, in my own country, I would have known where to look for them. The drivers would have all been at the bar. But a young Jewish boy showed me the way. And he showed me a courtyard. And on the second floor were all of the Jewish drivers. And on the second floor of this building, he said there were two rooms. One was filled with Torah. And the other was a room for prayer. All the drivers were engaged in fervent study and religious discussion. It was then, he says, that I found out and I became convinced that every profession in Warsaw, be it the bakers, the butchers, the shoemakers, they all had their own room for study in their own district. And every free moment that was taken off of work was spent in the study and discussion of Torah. Wow. That's powerful. A Christian writes this saying what happened. But many years later, we know what happened to them. They were killed. Millions slaughtered by Hitler. Yet their study was in Torah. And yet that should be our desire. Another verse to remember is 1 Timothy 4, verse 13. 1 Timothy 4, verse 13. He's writing and he says this. He says, Until I come, give attention to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation and to teaching. Until I come, give attention to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation and to teaching. 1 Timothy 4, verse 13. Our worship services should include the public reading of Scripture, exhortation and teaching. And we should give attention to it. But Jews today, as they've done in the past, have studied in groups. Where you get a couple when you discuss. It's been said that if you ask two rabbis the same question, that you'll get ten different answers. You ask two rabbis, you get ten different answers. Now that is okay. That's the beauty of Torah. Because the Word tells us where the spirit of Yahweh is, there is freedom. But this is totally foreign for us today. We're going to consider Torah study for a few minutes. From a Hebraic perspective, the first thing we need to understand is there is freedom in Torah study. If our discussion today is Torah restoration, then we've got to understand that personal convictions are just that. They're personal convictions. However, I don't know if you're like me, but I want everybody to believe the way I do. Exactly the way I do. But if I'm, you know, post-trib, pre-millennial, this, whatever, I want everybody to believe that way. If I eat organic, I want everybody to do that. If I time my pastoralism one way, I want everybody to do it that way. If I believe the end times or this way, I want everybody to believe that. If it's my rule, everybody wears a skirt, then I want everybody to wear skirts. If I've got to translate a word differently, or if I think that it's evil to watch TV, then I want everybody to cut off their TV or whatever. Many of us are like that. Many of these things, though, are personal convictions and should stay personal. We get into trouble. I know this is true. We get into trouble when we push our personal convictions onto others. There is truth. There is a met in the Scriptures. However, we know that how that is defined and how that is lived out is how we decide that. We have to have room. This is important. We have to have room for other people to grow and to be strong. We have to have room for other people because not everyone is going to see it the way we do right now. Am I right? So we've got to have faith that Yahweh's word will not return unto him void. We are all learning. Now, something I want to make clear, that in a local congregation, it is the rabbi or the leader's responsibility to set halakha. Halakha means the way to walk. An established pattern or guideline that says, okay, we at Emet Ministries, B'nai Yeshua of Prosperity, do it this way. They might do it different in Columbia. They might do it different in Chicago or Chukuga. They might do it different in Brazil. But we do it this way. And the word says we are to support that. Seven things that Yahweh hates. One is those discord among the brothers. That you can believe anything you want to believe. You can have any personal conviction you want to have. But when we come together, there should be unity. Does that make sense? For the sake of it, we should be unified. To just come together, to come together. To support each other. To love each other. And a renewed or Hebraic mind leaves room for others to come to different interpretations. As long as the plain and simple understanding of Scripture is always upheld. It's got to be upheld at all times. And that in Hebrew is called the Peshat. The Peshat. I want to teach you guys something. We can have different understandings. We should come together in unity. We should put aside our personal whatevers. And follow what the congregation decides for the sake of unity. However, it should never come against the Peshat. The plain and simple understanding of Torah is to be supported and kept. The Peshat or the plain is always valid and it's always what it says. But the Torah or the Scriptures are not just allegories. We're not just to spiritualize everything in the Bible. There are many out there that do that. Everything is not types and shadows. The plain text is to always be followed. The plain text is to always be followed. Anything beyond the Peshat is helpful and is beneficial. But we are always to look to the Peshat. Now in the book of Proverbs chapter 3 we read about Torah. I'm trying to say it the correct Hebrew way. If y'all notice Torah. I'm used to saying Torah but the correct Hebrew is Torah like my toe. Torah. In Proverbs chapter 3 verse 17 Speaking of Torah her ways are ways of pleasantness and all its paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that take hold of her and happy is everyone who takes hold of her. The tree of life. Etz Chaim in Hebrew. Etz Chaim. Where was the tree of life? In the garden. Garden of Eden. And Yahweh said you can eat of any tree but do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They could have eaten from the tree of life. They should have eaten from the tree of life but they ate from the wrong tree. The garden was paradise. Eden. Well, if we can understand that Torah is a tree of life then we can have a Hebraic way to understand and comprehend Torah. Because the Hebrew word for paradise or orchard or garden is Pardes. Pardes. That's the Hebrew word for orchard or paradise. Pardes. It's also an acrostic. Pardes. Pardes. The P in Pardes stands for Peshat. The plain text. If the scriptures say do not commit adultery, it means do not commit adultery. That's pretty simple, is it not? If it means honor your father and mother then honor your father and mother. It always means the Peshat. Everything should go back to the simple meaning. The plain and simple meaning of the text. And when we begin to learn Torah because it's been foreign to us we are to look for purpose. Not always reason. But purpose. What is the purpose behind it? Not just the reason, but what's the purpose behind it? And not spiritualize everything away. Oh, it really doesn't mean honor your father and mother. It means to honor your spiritual father and mother who happens to be your pastor. I heard someone say that. So Peshat, it's literal meaning. The simple meaning. No method of interpretation can negate the Peshat meaning. This is key to understanding the scriptures. If it says, I went out into the wilderness and beheld blah blah blah guess what, it's probably the wilderness. Always take it for face value. First. Plain, simple understanding. So Pardes, you've got Peshat. The plain, simple meaning. Next is the Ramez. Pardes in Hebrew is Pe-resh-dalet-samech The P stands for Peshat. The plain and simple. So when you look at the scripture verse what is the plain and simple meaning? What's the purpose behind it? Then you look at the Ramez or the Resh or the Ar. What is the hinted text? What is the implied meaning? That could be revealed from that. Let me give you an example. In Matthew chapter 2 verse 15 it says, Out of Egypt I called my son. Matthew chapter 2 verse 15 it says, Out of Egypt I called my son. Now, in the Peshat, it's pretty simple. Out of Egypt I called my son. Don't we know Yeshua went down to Egypt when they were killing the babies? Remember that? He went down. They hid. They came back. Who else went down to Egypt? Israelites. Went down and came back out. So in here, in Matthew chapter 2 verse 15 he is hinting or Ramez of the relationship between Messiah and Israel. That's the Ramez. It's a hint. It's hidden below the surface or it's hovering above, you could even say. Bedrash or the D, Pardes. The D is the Dalet and it stands for the homiletic or the verse-by-verse understanding. This could be also parables or prose or, you know, what's the idiom? Maybe there's another meaning there. Let me give you an example. Matthew 18, 18. It says, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth will be loose in heaven. People don't understand the drash. Therefore, they think that, you know, you can just go out and, oh, I bind you Satan, I bind you this, I bind you that and he's not talking about that in that verse. He's saying what you bind on earth, what you stop will be stopped and what you loose or what you allow you can apply that to the spiritual realm but he was not speaking about demons in that passage. He was talking about our understanding of scripture. He was saying what you allow will be allowed and what you stop will be stopped. He's talking about halakha, your way to walk. Does that make sense? Now, we do have power over demons. We do have power over unclean spirits. However, that was an idiom. That was an idiom that was an idiom he was using here and that's what drash is. And finally, besod. Besod level. Besod level. This is the secret meaning or the hidden meaning of the text. Not apparent to the reader if you don't know Hebrew. If you don't know Hebrew or if you don't know the Hebraic background of the text. Let me give you an example. Matthew chapter 26 verse 28. You ready? Matthew 26 verse 28 says, Then Yeshua took the cup, he gave thanks, and he said, Drink of it, this is my blood. On the pashat, we know it was wine or juice. I believe it was wine. On the sod, if you don't know Torah, if you don't have an understanding, you would think that Yeshua was really meaning drink his blood, eat his flesh. Isn't that what the Catholics believe? The Catholics believe when they take communion and the bell rings that something called transubstantiation happens and that the wafer and the wine literally turns into the blood and the flesh of Jesus. That is what they believe. They don't understand they're not artists. Let me give you something else to consider. Didn't we just read in Romans chapter 15 to not drink or eat blood? Doesn't the Torah forbid eating blood? So here you could look at this and say, well wait a minute now. In the Old Testament it says not to drink blood. And here it says drink his blood. Evidently Jesus is coming against the Torah. You could say Yeshua was a cannibal. You've got to understand the deeper meanings. But he was saying he was making a covenant with them. That was a picture of his blood. And you know what? It goes back to Passover. And the blood that was shed and put on the doorposts. If we only look at the Peshat or we only look at the hint or what it means in a homiletic verse, then we're only getting part of it. Partis then becomes pered. Pe-resh-davit spells pered in Hebrew. If you're a pered, it's not a good thing. That's a mule. You don't want to be a mule. A pered. The book of Psalms chapter 32 verse 9 says do not be like a horse or a mule not understanding. Does a mule really understand anything? No. They are stubborn as a mule, right? Don't be a pered. So what do we need? We need the sowed. We need the deeper level. We need to press on. However, you're not there. We're all on a journey to get there. And there's a danger in people who want to jump to the sowed and then they mix in a bunch of New Age-ism and call it Kabbalah and they go crazy. No. We are trying to understand the true word. The true scriptures. Amen? Anything above and beyond the pashat is helpful and beneficial. Every verse, every word has these four meanings. Guess what? It actually has more than that. We are told that every verse in the scripture has 70 different understandings. 70. 7-0. That's why Brother Adrian can see it this way and I can see it that way and April can see it that way and Kepha can see it this way and Karen can see it that way. 70 meanings. Why 70? How many elders? 70 elders. How many members of the Sanhedrin? 70 members. 70 different leaders who can have a different opinion. That is why and that is how when we read the Torah portion every year we are on a reading cycle to read the Torah all the way through the first five books of the Bible in a year. The Jews have been doing this for 3,000 years. We are on the same cycle they are on and you know what? Every year when we get there we learn something new. Even though we have done it over and over and over again because it is a living word. It is a living word. Amen? Doesn't it tell us in the book of Hebrews that the word of Yahweh is what? Like a double edged sword is alive and is quickening. Like a double edged sword His word is alive. It is a living word. Interesting note here. Orthodox Jews treat books as if they are living entities. If they drop a book they kiss it when they pick it up like you would a child that has fallen. They never leave a book open and they always close it so it is face up so it can look above. And if they stack their books they stack the most important book on top with the least important books to the bottom. Isn't that something? Isn't that something? They treat them like living books because they know what they can learn from it. Didn't Yeshua say or doesn't say about Yeshua in John chapter 1 verse 17 the word was made flesh and dwelt among us. But the Torah scroll that we read from or that we see in our synagogue should remind us of the importance of the Hebrew language. But you know what? The Torah scroll is not written in English. It is not in German or Swahili. It is in Hebrew. And to get the best understanding of a Torah study or study of the word we have got to go back to the Hebrew. We have got to get to the original meaning which means we may need a strong concordance. We may need to learn Hebrew. We may need to get some other scripture passages or scriptures that have that. But the original meaning is to get you to Hebrew. There are word pictures we don't get. There are hidden meanings that are lost in translation unless we go back to the Hebrew. Again, when we read let's say we are reading the book of James. And we get James chapter 1 and then it ends. Okay, that's the end of a thought. Then James chapter 2. The end of a thought. James chapter 3. No! In the scriptures, in the passages, there are no chapter markings. There are no verse markings. It's one thought. It's a continued thought. Read it in context. So we have got to learn the Torah and integrate it into our lifestyle. Ask ourselves, how do the Jews do this? Why? What advantage do the Jews have? Very much so. They were entrusted with the very oracles of the word of Yahweh. Romans chapter 3 verse 1. And let me caution you here. When you use a concordance, when you use a dictionary, even when you use a Bible to be careful. No matter what Bible you use. Whether it's the King James or the newest version from the church of What's Happening Now, Baby. Whatever Bible that you are using, be careful. Because it is a translation. And I'm sorry to my King James version only friends, it is not infallible. No matter what translation you get, it is not inspired. What's inspired? The Hebrew is inspired. Does that make sense? You got the NIV, the Nearly Inspired Version. It's got some things in it that aren't exactly right. Isn't that what it stands for? NIV? Oh, it's New International Version. Okay. Nearly Inspired. The Bibles that we use are guides. Do you follow me? They're guides. To help us understand. How do we really understand? We go back to the Hebrew. The King James is a guide. I believe it's a pretty good guide. It has some problems. It has some areas I'm like, wait a minute. That's not how I would translate that. I don't thou speakest in King James Englishist. I can't even try to. However, it's a guide. Ask questions. Let me encourage you. Ask questions. To get the Hebraic understanding, ask. Don't take my word for it. Study it. Research it. I really appreciate that about Brother Adrian. He tells me, he gets my CDs and he goes through and he looks up the verses and he wants to make sure I got them right. I appreciate that. Because that means he's a student of the word. Dialogue and disagreement is okay and it's in order to learn more. To become experts of the text, we've got to do this. Everybody say it. It's a scary word. You ready? Say it with me. Study. Study. Study. Study. The Talmud says, the Rabbi said this in the Talmud. He says, if you have learned a lot of Torah, don't think very highly of yourself because it is for this purpose that you were created. Study. And you don't learn it by osmosis. If you put the Bible under your pillow, it's not going to transfer. You've got to study it. You've got to read it. So a couple things to consider. To recap, the weekly portion of Torah is important to learn. It's a starting point. It's the original water-cooler conversation that today, Jews and Messianic believers all over the world are reading and studying and discussing the same exact portion of the Bible. That's where the Methodists and the Lutherans get it from. From the Jews. They've been doing it for thousands of years. It says we are to read it and study it morning and evening. Meditate on it. Amen? Not just one. But meditate on the word. Keep it before you. Go to the Hebrew if at all possible. Use the concordance. Use the dictionaries. But don't always trust them. Don't always trust the translations. Read the verse in context. Read the verse in context. Try to understand it and know this. No matter what you've been taught, no matter what you've read, nothing in the New Testament, nothing in the New Testament cancels out anything in the Old Testament. That is, one word, the grass withers, the flowers fade, but the word of Yahweh remains forever. If you think it's a contradiction, it's simply the fact that you don't understand enough. Does that make sense? Big issue here. If you're going to be a student of the word, be teachable. Don't act like you know it all. Because I don't know it all. I'm learning. However, I know so many people, they don't want to hear what you have to say. Do we know this for sure? They don't want to hear that Sunday's not the seventh day of the week. They don't want to hear that those aren't Jewish festivals. They are Yahweh's feast days. Because they're not teachable. They're not open. So I'll tell you this. There are two types of people in this world that we are to help. You are to give advice to. You are to share some of this with. Number one is if someone's in immediate danger. There's a piano fixing to fall on them. They're going to die. You need to shout out, hey, let me help you. They're in immediate danger of sin in their life, and you can help them. And number two, if they ask you. That's real simple. If they're in immediate danger or if they ask you. Otherwise, we're just giving them a bunch of stuff we know, and do they really care? Are they going to listen? No, and that's hard. That's a hard lesson to learn. But we'll do good if we learn that. Learn to apply it after you understand it. Many people just want to read the Bible to apply to their lives. What can I change? What can I do? We need to understand it first and then apply it. And then finally, do it. Do what the Word says. So study. Study. Get into the Word and begin to study it. We'll end with two passages. In the book of Psalms, verse 119, verse 18, is a traditional prayer that the Jews speak before they study Torah. In Psalm 119, verse 18, it says, Open my eyes that I might behold wonderful things from your Torah. Isn't that great? Open my eyes, Yahweh, that I might behold wonderful things from your Torah. That's Psalm 119, verse 18. Every study of Torah, every study of any Scripture verse, whether it be in the Older Testament, the Tanakh, or the New Testament, Yahweh will open our eyes. If we will open our own eyes, He will show us wonderful things. And you know what He'll show us? He will show us His Son, Yeshua. That every study of Torah should lead to a better understanding of Yeshua. It says He's the Word made flesh. When it says study to show yourself approved, in the book of Timothy, guess what? He was saying study the Old Testament, the Tanakh, because the New Testament was not written then, was it? So every study of the Tanakh, or the Torah, will lead to a better understanding of Yeshua. And I can show this to you very clearly in Luke 24. Luke 24, verse 35 through 48. Here is after Yeshua has resurrected from the dead. They're on the road, and they come into a home, they start breaking bread, verse 36, it says they spoke, and Yeshua stood in the midst of them. He says, it is I, do not be afraid. Verse 37, they were confused, they were frightened. They thought they'd seen a spirit, a ghost. And it says, see my hands and my feet. It is me. Handle me and understand. And He showed them His hands and His feet, yet they believed not. They couldn't believe it. They'd seen it, and they couldn't believe it. Verse 44, Yeshua was appearing to them, and He says, these are the words that I spoke to you while I was yet with you, and all the things must be fulfilled that are written in the Torah of Moshe, the Nevaim, and the Tehillim, or the Psalms, that's Tanakh, concerning me. Then verse 45, He says, verse 44, everything that is written about me must come to pass that is written about me in the law, the writings, and the prophets, the Torah, the Nevaim, the Ketubim, the Tanakh. It's all got to come to pass, and here in verse 45, what does it say? And He opened their understanding, their eyes, that they would understand the writings, the holy writings. He opened their eyes, and they saw what was written about Him in the Torah, just like it says in Psalm 119, open my eyes, that I might behold wonderful things from your Torah. That verse took place in Luke chapter 24, verses 44 and 45. And it takes place every time we open His word, we ask Him to teach us. Just as the Jews are known as people of the book, we too should be known for our study, to be part of our everyday life. So I want to encourage you today to pick one verse, just one verse, read it, ask yourself questions about it, meditate on it, learn it, and allow the word of Yahweh to mold you and make you, so we can be a light to the world. Amen? Thank you again for listening to the Finding Emet radio program. Please visit our website to learn more about the Emet, the truth of the scriptures, search the Bible, submit your prayer request, or read an article on various subjects. 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