Hebrew Voices #240 – The Chair of Moses: Part 1

Side note Nehemia, I live about 15 miles from Erskine College just off Due West Highway. Enjoyed the program.

In the intro, Pip says: “you pick your favorite theology and you cut away the things that you don’t like to get to the true Jesus, who looks just like you.” This is obvious with the vast amount of religions and offshoots within each religion, even Jesus says we pick what our itching ears want to hear. This alone is enough confusion to make people want to give up believing anything (Bart Ehrman). However, after being raised Catholic (20 years) to becoming a born again Protestant (20 years), then a Messianic (2 years), I finally took hold of Jew over 20 years ago (that’s you Nehemia) to learn about יחוח (Zechariah 8:23). In sorting through all the confusion, I refuse to believe that there isn’t only one Creator and that He and only He is also the Savior (Isaiah 43:11). I could speak of all the holes I found with Pip’s teachings but there wouldn’t be enough space to do so here. The one thing that often stands out to me when listening to Christians is the need to justify Jesus as the blood sacrifice for our sins…from Pip: “The Divine Lamb that has come to take away the sins of the world.”…”there is only one blood we can drink”. Seriously?! So when YeHoVaH says that he doesn’t want our blood sacrifices, that he wants the sacrifice of our lips that this isn’t good enough now?! Now we need a Jewish man who’s actual name was Yeshua which means Yehovah saves and was given a Greek name Jesus that all people are to be saved by…did he have a blood transfusion to be Greek & therefore, are people worshipping a Greek god? Because if we studied/actually listened to Yeshua’s words, his Jewishness, language, culture, wouldn’t we better understand what he was saying/teaching?…He was teaching from the Tenach (there was no NT during his time). So Nehemia, isn’t it so that Herod (during Yeshua’s reign) was a Bethusian that deposed the line of the original priesthood. And couldn’t some of that corruption still be present today? For example: the blotting out of using Yehovah’s name? (Which is actually a curse). From what I have come to learn about Yeshua is that he was preaching from the Tenach about YeHoVaH to ALL that want the One and Only Creator of the universe and how to have יחוח…as Yeshua said “when you pray, you are to pray like this: Our Father Who art in Heaven, Hallowed be THY Name…” (not my name). Remember, the name Yeshua means יחוח, YHVH, YeHoVaH saves. There IS no other! And there is NO blood sacrifice for Willful sin…NONE (& never will be).

Of all explanations I have heard so far I’m inclined to believe Jesus alluded to: receive judgement coming from the seat of Moses by doing what Moses said; not the Halakah-driven (everything but written Scriptural evidence) judgements of the Pharisees.

I disagree with Dr. Philip Thomas Mohr in that gentiles were not required to do anything other than 4 things stated by Paul. First יהבה is not a respector of persons. I also think it’s weird to think there would be different conditions for different people. Makes no sense. Also Peter’s dream he is partially correct in that Peter interpretated that he could consider that he could go and share the gospel with the “god festers” that were calling on him. But sadly he also throws in but now you can eat unclean things. This suggests God either didn’t know what he was doing or he changed his mind on things he stated he wouldn’t change his mind on things. But back to Paul’s statements that new believers had to keep these few things they leave out the statement that they would learn the rest as they attend synagogue every Shabbat. They leave that out. Obviously you can’t expect a new convert to understand everything at once but first give them the things to do that Would otherwise keep them out of the synagogue so that they can go every Shabbas and learn as they go, understand, then believe this goes the same for circumcision, but that’s another discussion. I don’t understand, wanting to change the eternal versus us changing to what he’s asked. just as he said many things that would be throughout the generations forever and ever for the Jew and the Gentile living with them. I think there was a general understanding back then that there was one Thing for all, not one thing for this group one thing for that group. I apologize it’s late forgive the grammar and any errors Everybody misunderstands Paul, even you and because Christianity will not give up the idea that they were given a free pass on not having to do anything. It keeps everything separate. It makes no sense

My daily Bible reading was Matthew 23 today. When I finished reading it, I went to my email to find Nehemiah was also talking about a part of Matthew 23 that I have wondered about for a long time. That being said “the seat of Moses”. The podcast was very interesting.