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1 What is Natsarym Yasharal (Nazarene Israel)? Travelling back in history - before the time of Hadrian, Constantine, and the many church fathers - we find that the Messiah's first followers were actually not known as Christians, but Nazarenes, because they followed Yahusha, the Messiah from Nazareth. Matthew 2:23 and came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth thus to fill what was spoken by the prophets, “He shall be called a Nazarene.” 'Nazarene' comes from the Hebrew word, NATSAR , which means "to guard, watch, protect, keep, or preserve". Jeremiah 31:6 “For there shall be a day when the watchmen (H#5341) cry on Mount Aphraym, ‘Arise, and let us go up to Tsyun, to Yahuah our Aluah.The Nazarenes also guarded or observed the Turah (Yahuah’s instructions), as we see in the following verses. Psalm 25:10. All the paths of Yahuah are favour and truth, to those who GUARD (or NATSAR) his covenant and His witnesses. Psalm 78:7. [They] place their trust in Aluah, and do not forget the works of Al, but WATCH (or NATSAR) over His commands. Psalm 105:44 Yahuah gave them the lands of the gentiles, and they inherited the labour of peoples, in order that they might GUARD (or NATSAR) His laws, and WATCH over his instructions. Praise YAH! Nazareth hence means 'watchtower' and Nazarenes are by extension 'watchmen ', but Yahusha being a Nazarene also fulfils the prophecies of Isaiah and Zechariah, where a slightly different Hebrew word, NETSER , is used.

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What is Natsarym Yasharal (Nazarene Israel)?

Travelling back in history - before the time of Hadrian, Constantine, and the many

church fathers - we find that the Messiah's first followers were actually not known as

Christians, but Nazarenes, because they followed Yahusha, the Messiah from Nazareth.

Matthew 2:23 and came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth – thus to fill what was

spoken by the prophets, “He shall be called a Nazarene.”

'Nazarene' comes from the Hebrew word, NATSAR, which means "to guard, watch,

protect, keep, or preserve".

Jeremiah 31:6 “For there shall be a day when the watchmen (H#5341) cry on Mount

Aphraym, ‘Arise, and let us go up to Tsyun, to Yahuah our Aluah.”

The Nazarenes also guarded or observed the Turah (Yahuah’s instructions), as we see

in the following verses.

Psalm 25:10. All the paths of Yahuah are favour and truth, to those who GUARD

(or NATSAR) his covenant and His witnesses.

Psalm 78:7. [They] place their trust in Aluah, and do not forget the works of Al,

but WATCH (or NATSAR) over His commands.

Psalm 105:44 Yahuah gave them the lands of the gentiles, and they inherited the

labour of peoples, in order that they might GUARD (or NATSAR) His laws,

and WATCH over his instructions. Praise YAH!

Nazareth hence means 'watchtower' and Nazarenes are by extension 'watchmen', but

Yahusha being a Nazarene also fulfils the prophecies of Isaiah and Zechariah, where a

slightly different Hebrew word, NETSER, is used.

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According to the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, NETSER is "of the

same Hebrew root....as Nazareth “and is spelled the same in the original Hebrew,

where there are no written vowels.

The change of vowels in Isaiah 11:1 and Zechariah 6:12 forms the Messianic

title, 'Branch', and the phrase, "He shall be called a Nazarene" in Matthew 2:23 is

a reference to these two passages, but not a direct quote.

Instead, Matthew utilizes a form of SOD or spiritual interpretation, just as scholars do

through the E.L.S. (or "equidistant letter sequencing") Bible codes today, and reveals

the intricate relationship between the Hebrew words, NATSAR (or

Nazarene) and NETSER (or Branch), showing that Yahusha fulfils both Messianic

titles.

Besides being "watchmen", the Nazarenes were also "branches" (see John 15:5) or

followers of the great Branch which grew from David's root, as prophesied would

happen many centuries before. This is exactly what the apostle Shaul (or Paul) was

talking about when he referred to being grafted into the olive tree in Romans 11:17-

19, 24-26! He was talking about Nazarenes!

A rarer meaning of NATSAR is "to be kept secret or be hidden", which we find in

the book of Isaiah.

Isaiah 48:1. Hear this, O house of Yaqub, who are called by the name of

Yasharal, and have come from the waters of Yahudah, who swear by the Name

of and profess the Aluah of Yasharal though not in truth and

righteousness.

In this verse Yahuah is speaking to the House of Yaaqub, or the entirety of Yasharal;

the traditional religions of Judaism and Christianity who profess to know the

Almighty, but deny Him through their actions. Yahuah tells us in this verse that it is

all lip service, and then continues.

[Verse 6] You have heard, look at them all, and do you not declare it? From now on I

shall make you hear renewed ones, even HIDDEN ONES (and in the original

Hebrew this word is NATSARIM or Nazarenes), which you have not known.

That the original followers of Yahusha actually went by this title is well documented

by the church fathers and historians themselves. Epiphanius, for example, provides us

with a detailed description of the Nazarenes, from whence his opinion of them is clear.

"These sectarians (he writes) did not call themselves Christians - but 'Nazarenes,'...

They use not only the New Testament but the Old Testament as well... They have no

different ideas, but confess everything exactly as the Law proclaims it, and in the

Jewish fashion, except for their belief in Messiah, if you please!

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For they acknowledge both the resurrection of the dead and the divine creation of all

things, and declare that Aluah is one, and that his son is Yahusha the Messiah.....They

are different from the Jews, and different from Christians, only in the following: They

disagree with Jews because they have come to faith in Messiah; but since they are still

fettered by the Law--circumcision, the Sabbath, and the rest--they are not in accord

with Christians."- Epiphanius Panarion 29

Although still considering the Nazarenes to be heretics to Christianity, the early

Church father, M. Simons, confesses that they (and not the Christians), represent the

original apostolic faith.

"[Nazarenes] (he writes) are characterized essentially by their tenacious attachment

to Jewish observances. If they became heretics in the eyes of the Mother Church (sic),

it is simply because they remained fixed on outmoded positions. They well represent,

though Epiphanius is energetically refusing to admit it, the very direct descendants of

the primitive community, of which our author knows that it was designated by the

Jews by the same name, of 'Nazarenes.’”-Jerome; On. Is. 8:14

Jerome, meanwhile, summarizes them accurately yet simply as those:"...who accept

Messiah in such a way that they do not cease to observe the old Law."- Jerome; On.

Is. 8:14

The ranks of the Nazarenes were composed of both Jews and Gentiles who believed

that Yahusha was the promised Messiah. They obeyed Yahuah's Turah because they

knew that "the Turah is set apart, and the commandment is set apart, just and

good" (Romans 7:12).

The Nazarenes accepted Yahusha's atoning offering for sin and because there was no

Christian religion in existence yet, they did NOT meet in churches with sexual

symbols (steeples or "pillars of jealousy") on the roofs, but in homes, at times among

the gentiles and at times in the synagogues with the Jews.

Shaul (Paul) also was not a Christian, which means that he had to be something else,

and mind you, he was not their founder! Although Shaul (Paul) was at first an enemy

of the Nazarenes, he actually became a prominent figure among them after his

encounter with the blinding light from heaven. Yes, Shaul (Paul) was actually of the

sect of the Nazarenes (see Acts 24:5); a man of Pharisaic background (see Acts. 23:6)

and learned under Gamaliel, the grandson of Hillel (see Acts 22:3), which means that

he was also very Jewish.

If we just get out of our heads all the mixed up stories that we have been told about

Shaul (Paul), and read what he wrote for what he said, we find that he would roll over

in his grave if he knew how he had been stereotyped today. Kapha (or Peter) tells us

that Shaul's (Paul’s) writings are "hard to understand" (2 Peter 3:15-16).

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This is because Shaul (Paul) was a deep thinker and studier of the Turah, and to the

fleshly mind, this appears as foolishness. Even Shaul (Paul) knew that his teachings

were being twisted and that he was misunderstood as teaching against the Turah

(see Romans 3:8 and 6:1-2,15), and went to great lengths to prove that this was not

true (see Acts 21:20-26).

The truth is that the same anti-law and anti-Semitic theology which everyone is trying

to shove down Shaul’s (Paul's) throat is what caused a blond haired, blue eyed,

European to murder six-million Jews scarcely more than a half century ago. That is

what we get when we try to interpret Shaul's (Paul’s) writings as "pro-

Christian" and "anti-law" instead of Nazarene! But before we get into that, we'd

better ask the question.

What Happened to the Nazarenes?

How did Christianity replace the original faith?

It actually happened in numerous ways, but one of the most influential was that Emperor

Constantine (of whom we have made mention before) initiated his process of forced

conform.

"Constantine, who was also an anti-Semite (like Emperor Hadrian, the Gnostics:

Marcion and Manes, and many others) called the council of Nicea in 325 C.E. to

standardize Christianity. Nazarenes were excluded from the meeting. Jewish

practices were banned. For the first time Gentile Christianity officially labelled the

Nazarenes as apostates. From this time forward Nazarenes began to be listed in the

catalogues of apostate movements, the first of which was Epiphanius' 'Panarion'

around 370 C.E."

Along with Christianity's separation from the Hebraic faith came its detachment from

the New Testament's Hebraic originals, as they were replaced by numerous (and

oftentimes conflicting) translations into Greek.

In this manner, the millions of prospective converts to Greco-Roman Christianity

could feel right at home and never have to hear a "Hebraic sounding" Yahuah Creator,

Yahusha Ha Mashyach, or passages of the Turah resounding in their ears.

Much worse, however, is that the characteristics of Zeus, Tammuz and nineteen other

pagan deities - all supposedly born on December 25th - had begun to shine forth from

a drastically reformed messiah by the time that hashatan's stage -- just like a giant

mousetrap -- had been fully set and baited with cheese.

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In chapter one, we read about Constantine's "venerable day of the sun" and how the

Messiah was remoulded to fit in with the pagan sun deities such as Apollo and

Tammuz. Needless to say, "Many other such things did they.", and when all was

complete, lo and behold, "the whole world wandered after the beast" (Revelation

13:3). In the middle of hashatan's trap was a handsome actor with a love-everybody

personality, mystical expression, hippie hair style, and sun-ring nimbus around his

head, who fit remarkably into the pagan's system of beliefs.

By the time Constantine was done, most would have never guessed what he started

out with, because the end result was.... well, SO DIFFERENT. The only ones who

knew were the Nazarenes who had been in the midst of the reformation, and it was

with them in mind that Constantine issued the following edict:

"For as much then as it is no longer possible to bear with your pernicious errors, we

give warning by this present statute that none of you henceforth presume to

assemble yourselves together. We have directed accordingly that you be deprived of

all the houses in which you are accustomed to hold your assemblies: and forbid the

holding of your superstitious and senseless Sabbath meetings, not in public merely,

but in any private house or place whatsoever.... Take the far better course of

entering the Catholic Church.... We have commanded...that you be positively

deprived of every gathering point for your superstitious meetings, I mean all the

houses of prayer...and that they be made over without delay to the Catholic Church;

that any other places be confiscated to the public service, and NO FACILITY

WHATEVER BE LEFT FOR ANY FUTURE GATHERINGS, in order that from

this day forward, none of your unlawful assemblies may presume to appear in any

public or private place."- Eusubius; Life of Constantine, Book 3.

Indeed, anyone adhering to the Almighty's Law instead of Constantine's religion in

honour of the “venerable sun” did so, on pain of death. It was truly a case of being

murdered for your faith.

"After Constantine began the systematic enforcement of compliance with Roman

theology in 325 CE, the remnants of the [Nazarenes] were in large part forced to

flee the bounds of the Roman Empire into the mountains of Armenia, and later

into the Balkan areas of Europe. They were few in number, utterly lacking in

prestige or wealth and labelled as enemies of the state by a supposedly Christian

Roman empire.... There would be times when [Yahuah] would raise up faithful

leaders to revitalize His people and do some sort of work that had public

visibility, at least in localized areas. There were other times when [Yahuah's

people] continued to exist in such scattered obscurity that they were visible only to

[Him]. Nevertheless, (the Nazarenes) never died out..."-Ogwyn, John; 'God's

Church through the Ages', Chapter 2.

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Harbingers of the holocaust

Notwithstanding all that Constantine and his contemporaries had done, the most

violent attacks on the true faith have actually occurred at the bloody hands of the

Church. An outstanding example of such is found in the homilies of John Chrysostom,

one of the most beloved and admired men in church history, who said that the Jews

were "the odious assassins of Christ and for killing God there is no expiation

possible, no indulgence or pardon. Christians may never cease vengeance and the

Jews must live in servitude forever. God always hated the Jews. It is incumbent

upon all Christians to hate the Jews."

His reasons for these sentiments were as follows: a classic example of circular

theology:

"I hate the Jews because they violate the Law. I hate the synagogue because it has

the Law and the prophets. It is the duty of all Christians to hate the Jews."-

Chrysostom, John; 'Homilies Against the Jews in Patrologia Graeca' (Paris:

Garnier, 1857-1866)

Even more horrific, however, was his statement that because the Jews rejected

Messiah, they deserve to be killed. Like other obstinate animals, he said, the Jews "are

fit for killing. And this is what happened to the Jews: while they were making

themselves unfit for work, they grew fit for slaughter."- Chrysostom; 8 Orations

against the Jews, I. I.1.

"Oh my Goad" you say, that sounds remarkably like Adolph Hitler! That's because

Hitler merely followed suit with those before him, and within Adolph Hitler dwelt the

very soul of the church fathers and Constantine himself! "I am convinced that I am

acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator", he wrote in Mein Kampf, and repeated

these words in a 1938 address to the Nazi Reichstag. "By fighting the Jews, I am

doing the Lord's work." Likewise he informed General Gerhart Engel in 1941, "I am

now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."

What is really horrible, however, is that this same evil soul dwelt in Martin Luther,

whom we have all loved and adored as the "father of the reformation"! Consider the

following anti-Semitic sentiments which he harboured (and vocalized) against the

Jews, and then decide for yourself what he reformed.

"The rabbis should be forbidden to continue teaching the law.

"Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have

their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory,

conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most

maliciously.

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"In brief, dear princes and lords, those of you who have Jews under your rule -- if

my counsel does not please you, find better advice, so that you and we all can be rid

of the unbearable, devilish burden of the Jews, lest we become guilty sharers before

God in the lies, blasphemy, the defamation, and the curses which the mad Jews

indulge in so freely and wantonly against the person of our Lord Jesus Christ, his

dear mother, all Christians, all authority, and ourselves. Do not grant them

protection, safe conduct, or communion with us... With this faithful counsel and

warning I wish to cleanse and exonerate my conscience.

"Accordingly, it must and dare not be considered a trifling matter but a most

serious one to seek counsel against this and to save our souls from the Jews, that is,

from the devil and from eternal death. My advice, as I said earlier, is: First, that

their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able to toss sulphur and

pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hell fire.... Second, that

all their books -- their prayer books, their Talmudic writings, also the entire Bible --

be taken from them, not leaving them one leaf, and that these may be preserved for

those who may be converted... Third, that they be forbidden on pain of death to

praise God, to give thanks, to pray, and to teach publicly among us and in our

country... Fourth that they be forbidden to utter the Name of God within our

hearing. For we cannot with a good conscience listen to this or tolerate it..."-

Luther, Martin; On The Jews And Their Lies, pub 1543 CE.

"For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will

only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but

little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!"- Martin Luther, On The Jews &

Their Lies, p 271, emph added.

During the Nuremberg trials, Julius Streicher, one of Hitler's top henchmen and

publisher of the anti-Semitic Der Sturmer, was asked whether there were any other

anti-Semitic publications in Germany, to which he replied:

"Dr. Martin Luther would very probably sit in my place in the defendants' dock

today, if this book had been taken into consideration by the Prosecution. In the

book 'The Jews and Their Lies,' Dr. Martin Luther writes that the Jews are a

serpent's brood and one should burn down their synagogues and destroy them..." -

Trial of The Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal,

Nuremberg, 1945, Vol. 12

Indeed, Nazism followed in Luther's wake.

"It is widely alleged that Martin Luther made a statement near the end of his life

that 'The only good Jew is a dead Jew' and it is further alleged that this

statement was a major factor in the complicity of many German Christians in the

Holocaust.

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It is not possible to absolutely say whether Luther said this, but there are Jews

who believe he said it. That is enough for them to clearly believe that Jesus Christ

could never be Messiah.... Again, there is much, much more. Most of

the...doctrine of the Christian church and most of the rites are pagan. Most even

moderately informed Jews know this." - Króólewiec, Stanislaw ; Talmudic

Judaism: The Dark Truth

What very few people know, however, is that in the course of the Holocaust, over one-

quarter million MESSIANIC Jews - NAZARENE BELIEVERS IN YAHUSHA THE

MESSIAH, were also slain. -Nydle, Edward; 'The Yavneh Conspiracy', fn.

Prior to Vatican II (1962-1965), which offered non-Catholics the possibility of "salvation by

following their 'lesser light'", Catholicism's official stance was that of "no salus extra

ecclesia" or "no salvation outside the Catholic church." Roman Catholic film director, Mel

Gibson, who along with his Jesuit advisors made millions producing the film, The Passion Of

The Christ, recently affirmed his belief that '...if you are not a Catholic you cannot be

saved'. - The New Yorker, September 15, 2003

Indeed, this is the official doctrine of the Jesuits, also known as the "Society Of Jesus",

whose extreme oath of induction is on record in Paris and the Congressional Record of the

United States of America as printed below:

"I _______, now in the presence of Almighty God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the

Blessed Michael the Archangel, the Blessed St. John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles,

Peter and Paul, and all the Saints, sacred hosts of Heaven, and to you, my ghostly

Father, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, founded by St. Ignatius Loyola

in the Pontification of Paul the Third, and continued to the present, do by the womb

of the virgin, the matrix of God, and the rod of Jesus Christ, declare and swear that

his holiness, the Pope, is Christ's Vice-regent, and is the true and only head of the

Catholic or Universal Church throughout the earth; and that by the virtue of the

keys of binding and loosing, given to his Holiness by my Saviour, Jesus Christ, he

hath power to depose heretical kings, princes, states, commonwealths and

governments, all being illegal without his sacred confirmation, and that they may be

safely destroyed.

"I do further declare, that I will help and assist and advise all or any of his

Holiness' agents in any place wherever I shall be, and do my utmost to extirpate

the heretical Protestant or Liberal doctrines and to destroy all their pretended

powers, legal or otherwise.

"I do further promise and declare that notwithstanding, I am dispensed with to

assume any religion heretical, for the propagating of the Mother Church's

interest, to keep secret and private all her agents' counsels, from time to time as

they may instruct me, and not to divulge directly or indirectly, by word, writing,

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or circumstances whatever; but to execute all that shall be proposed given in

charge or discovered unto me, by you, my ghostly father....

"I do further promise and declare that I will have no opinion or will of my own,

or any mental reservation whatever, even as a corpse or cadaver but

unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my

superiors in the Militia of the Pope and Jesus Christ.

"That I will go to any part of the world, whatsoever, without murmuring and will be

submissive in all things whatsoever communicated to me.... I do further promise and

declare, that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war,

secretly or openly, against all heretics: Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to

do to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth, and that I

will spare neither sex, age, nor condition, and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay,

strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics; rip up the stomachs and wombs of

their women and crush their infants heads against the wall, in order to annihilate

forever their execrable race.

"That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poison cup, the

strangulation cord, the steel of the poniard, or the leaden bullet, regardless of the

honour, rank, dignity or authority of the person or persons whatsoever may be their

condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by

any agent of the Pope or superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Faith of the

Society of Jesus."-U.S. House Bill 1523, Contested election case of Eugene C.

Bonniwell, against Thos. S. Butler, Feb. 15, 1913, pp. 3215-3216 Revelation 13:15.

And he had power to...cause that as many as would not worship...the beast

should be killed.

"It is extremely sobering to sit down with a well-informed Jew and ask them to

tell you why Jesus cannot be the Messiah and why the Christian faith CANNOT

be what it claims to be. Ask that question and then keep silent for two or three

hours and listen to what you are told. Don't argue JUST LISTEN, you will be

SHOCKED!" -Króólewiec, Stanislaw; Talmudic Judaism: The Dark Truth.

As a matter of fact, you will be so shocked that I do not actually recommend that you

do it, at least not before you read this book and perhaps a few more like it! Why?

Because many others have already done just that, and before you know it, what they

heard makes so much sense to them that they begin to believe that Judaism is the true

religion and that the Messiah is yet to come.

At times throughout this book, you may actually feel as though I am a Jew, and you

have asked me the question and must now endure my couple hundred page response.

For the record, I am not a Jew any more than I am a Christian, neither am I an atheist

or an agnostic! What am I then? -you ask- .

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I know what I believe and have a personal relationship with the Almighty One of

Heaven and earth who sent His Anointed One, His Messiah, to offer the atonement

offering for the sins of the repentant seeker of truth.

I am one such seeker of truth who has received the call to come out of Babylon (the

corrupted religions of the world) and walk in the path of life which our Messiah

commanded us to follow 2,000 years ago.

This being the case, I am not asking you to convert to Judaism any more than I am

asking you to remain in traditional Christianity. If you had to choose between the

Christians and Jews, I admit that it would be a tough call to say where you'd be better

off.

The Good News though is that your choices are NOT the Jewish rabbis versus the

Catholic priests and Christian pastors because none of these will get you headed true

north!!! Now here comes the news which most people don't want to hear: YOU

MUST INSTEAD CHOOSE BETWEEN THE MAN OF SIN AND THE REAL

MESSIAH.

In comparing the two, I'm really not asking that much; only which of the two you

more closely represent, and which one you really want to follow and know. Yes, it's a

hard saying when we have been steeped in Catholicism/Constantinism and her various

Christian offshoots for all these years, but of your two choices, which is better and

which is worse?

That is a question to which the answer is quite obvious, and Scripture promises that

"You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).

You see, Yahuah didn't give us a multiple choice of A, B or C. Instead He said, "I

have called the heavens and the earth as witnesses today against you: I have set

before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore YOU SHALL

CHOOSE LIFE, so that both you and your seed may live" (Deuteronomy 30:19).

The truth is that I could fill this page full of horror stories about Hadrian, Constantine,

and their successors, and I could use up a horrendous amount of time doing it!

The other side of the coin is that Yahuah did not give us John Chrysostom, Martin

Luther, or any of the other church fathers and "reformers" as a basis for what we do or

do not believe.

Instead, He gave us the Scriptures, and if we open them starting at the beginning and

study them the whole way through, we won't need to know about all of the evils

which have been committed by the Jesuits and the Papacy, because in their place,

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Yahuah will reveal to us the original faith as upheld by the apostles and the Messiah,

and we can just follow HIS example and throw out the rest.

In short, Scripture and history both reveal that the Messiah was born a Yahudy with a

Hebrew Name who perfectly obeyed the Father's will, as recorded in the first five

books of Scripture. The Messiah himself taught that "salvation is from the

Yahudym" (John 4:22), and while this in no wise means that you must convert

to Judaism in order to be saved, in fact Judaism is a religion and the true Yahudym

need to come out of Judaism as does Ephraim need to come out of the churches,

what it does mean is that the true faith is found in the lineage and lifestyle of the

Hebrew people. The Hebrew people are Yasharal; all twelve tribes, and the Messiah

came to "seek the lost sheep of the house of Yasharal" (Matthew 15:24), these

being the tribes which are still assimilated in the nations of the diaspora. Today the

true nation of renewed Yasharal (Israel) is returning from the exile as millions of

people around the world make what is known as 'Alyah' or a return to the ancient

paths set forth in the pages of the inspired Word.

YaramYahu (Jeremiah) 18:15. Because my people have forgotten me, they have

burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from

the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up.

Most of this stumbling from the ancient paths has to do with a misunderstanding

concerning the One whom the world knows as Jesus.

The real Messiah of Nazareth did not have a Greek name so it definitely was NOT

and is NOT Jesus, He did not convert half of Judaism to a new religion called

Christianity, and He did not teach the traditions which we find in the Churches. To the

contrary, He rebuked them saying, "It is expedient for us to fulfil all righteousness"

(Matthew 3:15); "For I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil (or fill-fully or obey

completely)" (Matthew 5:17).

"For if ye fulfil the royal Law according to the Scripture (Note that the 'Old

Testament' was the only ‘Scripture' existent at this point), ye do well: but if ye...

commit sin, ye are convinced of the law as transgressors" (James 2:8,

9). "Howbeit in vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the

commandments of men. For laying aside the commandments of the Almighty,

you hold the traditions of men... And He said unto them, 'Full well ye reject the

commandments of the Almighty, that ye may keep your own tradition... Making

the Word of the Almighty of none effect through your tradition, which ye have

delivered: and many such like things ye do." (Mark 7:7-9, 13).

Who then nailed the law to the cross?

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The Roman Church affirms that they, and not the Real Messiah, did that; initiating the

change of times and Law (see Daniel 7:25) which has been evolving for almost two-

thousand years; ever since the real Messiah was here, and which the real Messiah

warned us against (see Matthew 24:15 and Mark 13:14). That which attempts to

override and replace the Almighty's Anointed is what both the apostles and Biblical

scholars identify as "anti-messiah" or "anti-christ"; that is, a counterfeit which

promotes a distortion of the original gospel (see Galatians 1:6, 7).

2 Thessalonians 2:3 &7. "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day

shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be

revealed, the son of perdition. Verse 7; For the mystery of iniquity doth already

work..."

Hashatan (the adversary) has indeed worked a dastardly distortion of the real Messiah

and the true message which the Scriptures teach. Now the call of the Almighty is

ringing clear; a call to "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and

lest you receive of her plagues" (Revelation 18:4).

The Real Messiah has come, He was eventually forgotten, and so far as humanity is

concerned, He has now been "replaced". The inhabitants of the earth have married the

daughter of a strange aluhym (mighty one) (see Malachi 2:11). It is time to return to

the One we have so greatly revolted against (see Isaiah 31:6).