Just as Jesus was sacrificed for the whole world in the Old
Testament, the Tora was also given to the whole world. The Jews were the only ones that received
God’s call to obey the Tora, so God only attached His name to Israel Israel Israel Israel
declares, ‘Hear oh Israel ,
the Lord our God, the Lord is one’, and the Holy Spirit cries, ‘who is like thy
people Israel Israel is as though he
helped The Holy One, Blessed be He; whoever hates Israel
All the nations of the world were given access to the Tora;
but only Israel
The Shechinah Glory of God dwells not only in Heaven but
also in each of us who have received the Holy Spirit (Ruach Hahadesh) who is
God’s direct influence on man.[4] The Holy one, blessed be He; The Lord God
Almighty, the Lord of the heavens and the earth, Elohim, the All Powerful One,
the Mighty One, the All Knowing One, the Alpha and Omega, the I Am, the Holy
One of Israel, Jehovah Jaira, Jehovah Shalom, El Shadi, Yahweh, and Jehovah
Niche are all different names for God but I prefer to call Him Adonai which
means “my Lord”.
The Jews, in their attempt to explain away the Trinity of
God, use Genesis 1:26 and the verse following.
In Genesis 1:26, God said “Let Us create man in our image, and let them
rule over…….. In Genesis 1:27 God created
man in His Image, in the image of God He created him, male and female He
created them”. The inference of Rabbi
Simali was that “our” meant God, in addition to man and woman. Since man had not yet been created, I don’t
see the application of his theory. The
Hebrew word ‘Elohim’ has a plural form that I believe the rabbi missed. Rabbi Simali wrote this at a time when
Judaism was fighting the growth of the early Christian church.
“Whether atheism, in the sense of the dogmatic denial of
God’s existence, was accepted by anybody in Biblical and rabbinic times is
doubtful; but both in the Bible and Talmud the concern was with practical
atheist who conducted his life as though he would never be held to account for
his deeds.”[5] As we see today, there are many who claim to
be Christian, but are so in name only, having a semblance of the truth but not
walking therein. “Don’t forget that
Jesus was crucified by church members whose sins He rebuked.”[6]
As concerns our walk in this world,
the Talmud explains: “the hour of man’s departure neither silver nor gold nor
precious stones nor pearls accompany him, but only Torah and good works; as it
is said, ‘When thou walkest it shall lead thee [in this world], when thou liest
down [in death] it will watch over thee and when thou awakest it shall talk to
thee [in the world to come]”[7]. In Jesus time, the Pharisees believed in the resurrection,
the Sadducees did not, and were therefore sad, you see.
Christ Himself was an Israeli, in His human form. Many religions are vehemently against Christ
because the only path to salvation is through Jesus, who was a Jew. “Jesus said: ‘Come to Me’, not the church;
to Me, not a creed; to Me, not a preacher; to Me, not an evangelist; to Me; not
a priest; to Me, not a pope; ‘come to Me and I will give you rest.’ Faith in
Jesus Christ moves you, not faith in the church.”[8]
How does God feel about
you? He knows everything; and has since
before the creation of the world. He
knows who will be saved through Christ, and who will not. If your name is not written in the Lambs book
of life, you are lost. God, before anything was, knew whose names would be in
the book of life. That is what is known
as predestination. Now we can see why
God wants us to treat everyone as a brother.
We don’t know who will wind up being one of us, and who won’t. That is one reason why Jesus said the most important
thing was to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself.[9]
If you have a book that is thousands of years old, that was
written over a period of thousands of years, which has never been disproved,
that the archeological evidence supports and is in conflict with more recent
writings; why in the name of all that is Holy, would you value the newer and
obviously inferior writings?
Why is what the Lord has done for us not the lead story of
every news presentation? What could be
more important news than that the Lord is doing His best to keep us from going
to Hell? Throughout all creation, God
reached out to man. Throughout the Old
Testament He sent messenger after messenger to help mankind. The New Testament describes how He sent His
Son to redeem mankind. What in the world
is more important than that?
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