I loved this presentation Ross. It is clear, direct, personal, articulate, and learned...I hope it serves to give rise to discussions and further deliberations by countless people who have moved in these same directions in learning about the historical Jesus, in contrast to the Christ of Christian Theology!
Ross, thank you for confirming for me what I believed God has been showing me since coming out of my coma. Of course, like always, you make it so easy for me to learn more than my understanding was of certain issues. For that I cannot thank you enough.
Thank you for sharing this. I just watched it because my husband came across your video and recommended it, I am very glad I did. This is a very sensitive topic that a lot of Christians avoid, which is very sad. I was borned in Mexico and I was raised in a catholic church. I never read the Bible (from beginning to end) until few years ago because my husband encouraged me to do so. From the moment I read the 10 Commandments, I couldn't stop replaying my religious life as a catholic. Every time that I worshipped virgin Mary and the saints, because that's how I was tought! And the Sabbaths, the 4th commandment that starts with "REMEMBER.....". My husband and I have done so much research about keeping the Sabbaths and the truth is that there is no evidence that Yeshua (His real Hebrew name, not Jesus) nor the Apostles ever changed it! I remember my husband making these questions: 1. If Yeshua were here today, will He be looking for a Synagogue or a church/temple? 2. Will Yeshua be worshipping on Saturday or Sunday? And 3. Will Yeshua be reading from the Torah (Old Testament) or New Testament? If Yeshua nailed those commandments, why do we only have to keep 9 of the 10 commandments? And if Yeshua "broke" the Sabbath, how can He be our Messiah? He had no sin! If you are reading this, please read your Bible, from Genesis to Revelations. Please read other versions; every translation is an interpretation, and unless you go to the source, Hebrew or Greek, you are missing out valuable information. Thank you Father Yehovah for our Messiah, Yeshua 🙏🙏🙏
I've watched your video from years ago regarding this topic and to say the least it was eye opening and what I was needing after coming out of Christianity. As I'm sure you know, this is a controversial topic but one that needs to be discussed by many. Great job on the new video, I pray that it reaches all who are needing to see it and be blessed by it as I was years ago.
Shabbat shalom brother Ross. I am born and raised in Gretna, LA., which is a suburb of New Orleans,LA., and I grew up in a Pentecostal church. And even though I learned so, so much from my Pastor Brother James Comuex Sr., the things that I was hearing a lot of the times from other Pastors down here just did not sit right with me, even as a child. And as I got older, I truly believe that YHWH EL SHADDAI revealed more and more to me as I started to mature. So this title to this video,I can definitely relate to. HalleluYAH forever and ever!!! YAH bless!!!!
Phenomenal! Clear, concise, genuine and very thought provoking explanation! Thank you, Ross! This is a great resource for the faith journey of so many others as well! Follow Jesus! …who followed G-d Almighty!
@@Thedisciplemike Not in the Hebrew Matthew. The "Jesus is God" or "Trinity" did not exist in the early Church - not until near 400, and it was the invention of Rome - not Jesus. Jesus identified as "the son of man" to say he was a mortal man - not God.,
@barnsweb52 you clearly don't read much scripture nor the Church Fathers. Here I will present you an example of the profession of Christ's Deity from every consecutive generation in the early preNicene era "Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen." Romans 9, c. 57 "And the Word was God...and the Word became flesh and resided among us." John 1 c.90 "And Thomas answered him, 'my Lord and my God!'" John 20 c.90 "and to us with you, and to all those under heaven who will yet believe in our Lord and God Jesus Christ and in his Father who raised him from the dead." Polycarp, c. 100 "There is only one physician, who is both flesh and spirit, born and unborn, God in man, true life in death, both from Mary and from God, first subject to suffering and then beyond it, Jesus Christ our Lord" Ignatius, c. 117 "He is Lord of all the world, to whom God said at the foundation of the world, ‘Let us make man after our image, and after our likeness" Barnabas, c.120 "The Father of the universe has a Son; who also, being the first-begotten Word of God, is even God. And of old He appeared in the shape of fire and in the likeness of an angel to Moses and to the other prophets; but now in the times of your reign, having, as we before said, become Man by a virgin...." Justin Martyr, c. 132 "He that bore up the earth was born up on a tree; the Lord of all was subjected to ignominy in a naked body-God put to death! ... [I]n order that He might not be seen, the luminaries turned away, and the day became darkened-because they slew God, who hung naked on the tree.... This is He who made the heaven and the earth, and in the beginning, together with the Father, fashioned man;" Melito of Sardis, died 180 "Carefully, then, has the Holy Ghost pointed out, by what has been said, His birth from a virgin, and His essence, that He is God (for the name Emmanuel indicates this). And He shows that He is a man.... [W]e should not understand that He is a mere man only, nor, on the other hand, from the name Emmanuel, should suspect Him to be God without flesh." Irenaeus, c. 190
@@Thedisciplemike 1 Cor. 11:3 & 15:28. Jesus deserves worship, but He is not Almighty God. All the verses you quoted have to be explained in the light of the obvious statements like the ones I noted above which declare Jesus' inferiority to his father, even after his resurrection. The fact that the trinity required centuries of debate should be a red flag.
Very beautifully said, my brother in Christ! I started this same walk 5 yrs ago after a life in the church. Best thing in my life to have ever happened. Started Sabbath studies with family and their eyes are opening to truth as well. Praise be to Yahuah our Father and our Messiah Yahusha Hamechiach!
So what has changed in your life. If you would imagine you are talking to yourself at the start of this 5 year journey - which may be my case now - what would you say has changed? Obviously the idea of salvation has changed, I am assuming you practice a day of rest (I notice in Deuteronomy it actually doesn’t specify which day bet sat or sunday, it just says 6 days of work followed by a day of rest - just mentioning this because choosing Saturday or Sunday no matter which stance one takes is probably more based on religion than the Word which doesn’t seem to indicate in Deuteronomy 4). I know Jesus tells us to keep the sabbath. Does this essentially make you a Jew for Jesus? I know most likely you and others may not like to conform to any religion, since you’re following the way of Jesus, but I do see a lot of Hebrew salutations going on in these comments that to me sounds similar to how Jews for Jesus followers communicate. I am honestly curious because I am on this journey and I am wondering what actually changes… I believe to have always been someone like the author of this video, someone to have always thought the words of Jesus. I always found myself questioning things that seemed otherwise, I always felt strange about the Trinity, I always felt strange about Jesus as this deity. So I am just curious what changes, what do you accept or not accept? Do you no longer accept the teachings of Paul? What about the book of revelations? Is the entire New Testament questionable? Obviously the old testament is to simply be considered The Scripture, I guess no need to call the old testament because Jesus would not have called it the Old Testament… And Jesus would not have read the New Testament so I guess there is no longer a new testament… I guess just a series of books called the New Testament by the holy Roman catholic church that are to function as what exactly? Which gospels are real and which ones are fictitious? I’m just curious where we draw the line, what we hold onto his truth? Do you guys believe in the New Testament? Is it the infallible word of God or is just the Old Testament? Which version of the New Testament? I have too many questions but as you can imagine, or maybe as you already have gone through, growing up in the church and then trying to wrap your head around this is a bit complicated. But I have always been someone that has been questioning
@@MS88nyc to start off, I believed in the once saved always saved and the say this prayer and all is fine for eternity. I was an alcoholic and it got worse after my wife passed. I turned to drugs and sleeping with any woman I could find. My thoughts and heart were do as thou wilt. Life is short, besides I'm saved because I believe in Jesus. It wasn't anything drastic that happened all at once to change my mind. It was a pulling or urge that started in me to actually read my bible. I had a desire to find out who God is. After I read the sermon on the mount and the words of Yahusha, my urge grew. I started really looking for truth and praying. I guess you could say that my heart was broken then repaired. I no longer have a desire for anything in the world. I don't live for the same things as I used to. I'm not a Jew or anything. I know what our Messiah said, that the gate is narrow, and I have to be more righteous than the scribes and pharisees. Only those that do the will of the Father enter the kingdom. Deuteronomy is now one of my favorite books. I don't discount any of the bible and all is for our walk in righteous behavior. Some misinterpret Paul by saying the law is dead. Yahusha said He came to fulfill the law and we have to pick up our cross and follow Him. So that is what I have been living to do. I'm running late for work, so I hope this isn't to jumbled. Much love!
Ross, thank you for your great lecture. I know Jesus didn't say He was God. But what would you say about John 1:1 " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" ?
When I was a child, my favourite song of those my mother would sing to me before going to sleep was 'To be like Jesus'. To be like Jesus, to be like Jesus All I want is to be like him Throughout life's journey From here to glory All I want is to be like my Jesus. I'm surprised to find this video, now, since I'm being asked by some fellow scholars of SBL about my own religious journey (I am in my early 30s), and have been reflecting about just this topic. I am not surprised, though, to find you through Nehemia, who has been welcoming to me as a young scholar (of Biblical Hebrew song and recitation) and among those eager to give me detailed tips and advice in navigating my way around finding the information that I need for my study of the scriptures. I look forward to watching this video, which I've only started!
Shalom brother Ross. I thank YHWH that He led me to your videos. I was introduced to your work when I read your book the Moses Scroll. I can’t remember who recommended it to me but I found it to be well written and absolutely fascinating. The broad brush strokes of your faith journey mirror my own. This is the first video I have watched of yours. I’m looking forward to watching the rest. May our Father in Heaven bless you and yours always. Peace and love to you in the name of our beloved Messiah Yeshua.
Thanks Ross! I watched your decade old video not too long ago about you writing a book covering this topic. This could easily be the start of a 100+ part series of deconstructing Jesus (Yeshua or Yehoshua) from modern Christianity. Please consider it. So many people need to hear this message. As a former Christian, that also followed Jesus out of Christianity, I could definitely say it took time for me to let go of the core beliefs of Christianity. As I left one man made religion, I desired not to enter another man made religion, Rabbinic (Pharisaic) Judaism. I have even looked to the Karaites and even they have muddied the scriptures with the traditions of men. At this point, I only claim to be a believer in Yehovah. The Sh'ma is the core of my belief.
So many are now coming onto this straight and narrow path between the “ditches” of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism! I love to hear how others have come to discover it. It seems this is all happening at a grass roots level, person by person, and it’s also comforting to know that we aren’t alone. A decade or so ago, I was challenged when someone said, “Make sure you have the right Jesus.” How could I have the right Jesus unless I had the right father? That’s what led me back to the Torah and keeping the Sabbath according to the creation week - to ensure that it is THE CREATOR that I’m worshipping and not some syncretized god. From there it went to honoring His moedim, then dietary practices and other principles. The more my understanding was transformed, the harder it became to apply any label to my faith. “I follow the faith of Jesus/Yeshua” is a great description and I will use that from now on. ("Written Torah honoring follower of Yeshua haMessiach" is a bit unwieldy, but opens up a discussion!) Now my challenge to those who claim to follow Jesus/Yeshua would be “Are you kingdom ready?” Are you familiar with the laws of the kingdom and its culture? Are you doing your utmost to “hear and obey?”
Shukran Ross. The heart of the true message of the historical Jesus. Even going with Mark the earliest gospel it is more about following Jesus than this mystical worship demand that is more about the believers need than the historical Jesus true goals. The church fathers loved the story they had woven and Paul's vision more than the actual man and his Jewish earthly mission.
@MinisterRedPill its true interpretation of it. And yes, as man, Jesus worships God the Father Almighty, and more than that: shows us what true worship is. So much so, that no one can worship God apart from Jesus. However, Jesus is not the Father. He is the Son of the Father, who is just as much God as the Father is.
I think I agree with everything you share in this video (which is rare for controversial topics). You did a wonderful job of non-confrontationally addressing your beliefs, in a scriptural and godly way. Thank you for your work.
Awesome video, Ross. I was blown away by how many of your points I have used on my own Facebook posts; and which have been a basis for my own spiritual growth from the 1980s. In 1787, Rabbi Jacob Emden wrote about the faithfulness of the first-century followers of Jesus to the Torah of Moses, and people are just beginning to reflect on the implications of how that perspective should impact replacement theology. Looking forward to hearing much more from you.
While, I’ve shelved the “New Testament” and keep Torah as best I can, I REALLY appreciate this video. This is basically he same path I travelled when I left “the church” and everything else, much like Abraham did. I will be sharing this with those I feel will be receptive.
The “New Testament” is good. It’s simply not taught correctly by most, and there is much in it that cannot be understood without first understanding the “Old Testament”.
@@stellarjayatkins4749Paul is the biggest issue. And it's not that people don't understand him, they fully well do. The problem is that he ate from the wrong tree.
@@MinisterRedPill no, it’s not “just my opinion”. If you read Paul carefully he is the one that ties both old and new together. Sean Griffin has gone through these supposedly “wrong” verses step by step.
I 'm happy to listing every Sabbath to you , you are a Great man of God ,and call myself a happy woman to have found you , and listen to you bible class every Sabbath
38:05 sorry for all the comments, it's just brcause i find this tslk so engaging. So, here, this is ironic because the gospels are obviously written forty to a hundred years after the supposed time of Jesus, none of them by Jesus, probably not even in a language Jesus was fluent in. If there was a historical Jesus, we really cannot be sure of anything he may have said, and christians could do with hearing that as well.
For example, in John 10:30, Jesus said, “I and the Father are one.” The Jews who heard Him make that statement knew well that He was claiming to be God, as witnessed by their reaction: “His Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him” (John 10:31). When He asked them why they were attempting to stone Him, they said, “For blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God
If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not." John 10:37 (KJV) What are the "works of the Father'? Creation. So when Jesus said, "I and my Father are one" (John 10:30) he is referring to creation, as the God's physical creation is a pattern/instruction for the spiritual creation that takes place within us when we believe/obey the spiritual works that Jesus spoke of and demonstrated for us while he was on earth; a new creation formed within us through the sowing of God's seed (truth) into our heart, as God's seed was sowed into the earth, which symbolizes the heart.
25:15 just wondering why not use the same passage in gMark, since it's earlier? I'm always confused 2hen people read sections of fluke and gMatt for parts where those authors copied, and in many cases changed, gMark. Whether it's been changed or not, I always wonder why not just use the gMark passage? Maybe because gMark doesn't explicitly say it's the book of Isaiah? Incidentally, does Isaiah 60 contain that lime about giving sight to the blind? Have you any thoughts on whether we can consider this episode to be valid, considering it is not quoting the tanakh accurately?
I'm assuming Ross has rebuttals to the messianic prophecies. I'm really curious as to his thoughts. If anyone knows of a separate video or even webpage, do let me know.
So from an atheist's perspective, you appear to have taken your preferred version of the Bible, carefully selected the verses that fit your theology and conveniently ignored the rest. From this you have constructed a "Jesus" and called that character your god. You obviously find great comfort in this and I am truly pleased for you. I however prefer an uncomfortable truth to a comforting falsehood.
@@danilom951 I would suggest that you probably do the same, just to a lesser extent. No neurotypical empathetic person would ever not "nitpick" the slaughtering by Yahweh/ Jesus of babies and the unborn by burning to death in Genesis 19: 24-25; putting to the sword in 1 Samuel 15: 3 and drowning in Genesis 7: 21. Although I could be wrong and you see these as acts of 'all loving moral perfection' and believe that I am deserving of extreme eternal violence because I call them objectively immoral acts of utter depravity.
@@downenout8705 well I will argue on you’re side because I was atheist in my teens early 20s and those are some good points. But my argument is that those people deserved death because they were wicked people who never turned would never turn from there wicked ways and let’s say you were god and your creation didn’t listen to you and did things completely of how you want them to be and knowing no matter how much time you give them that they’ll never turn from there ways causing grief and destruction wherever they go. How would you deal with that?
@@danilom951 Wtf!!!!!! Sorry but I have absolutely no intention of continuing a conversation with someone who would demonise innocent babies and the unborn just to justify burning the living flesh off them. So take the last word if you wish but I am off to the bathroom as I feel the need to vomit. Take as much offense as you want but I can't help visualising you in a long gray coat with an insane grin on your face standing on the roof of a shower block holding a can of Zyklon B. Sick beyond belief.
Hello. I'm so happy to have come across your channel! I long for soundness in the Body of believers, but they're hard to come by. As of late, I have listened to many believers in Jesus who rail against the view that our Father's Torah is still binding. The youtuber, Rob Solberg, is one of many. There is a lovely Christian lady who is spreading a similar message. Sadly, she ran into a group of ppl who although follow the Way, have a very negative manner in communicating truth and have, in fact, added to it.
Hi Ross. I've only just come across your channel, I loved this video & agreed with everything you said. It's good to hear somebody else say they don't consider themselves christian. Yah bless.
Amen I followed Yeshua out of Christianity, and I followed my Rabbi, Yeshua, to not worship him as God the father, and not only did he teach me about the father he led me to the pronunciation of his name, Yehovah, Yehovah means he who was, is, and will be, the self existent one, Yehovah alone is self existent, Yeshua does have existence but that existence was given to him, he said all power and authority has been given unto me, therefore he is One with Yehovah, just as we are one in Yeshua and with each other, why because he loves us. I question peoples self proclamation that they truly love Yeshua, because if they loved him and he knows and loves them they would know and love the father and be capable of distinguishing between the two. Although day light and nighttime are one (Echad) day; calling night: “day” presents a big problem and that is what we see happening in Western Christianity, as a result we have turned the Jewish Hebrew Yeshua into a pagan western Jesus into a god exalted like unto the most High which truly becomes our anti Messiah, yet they will call us antichrist because we don’t deify him as we do Yehovah. That is why Yeshua responded to the man who came to him and called him good teacher, Yeshua’s response was, no man is good except God, Yehovah alone is good, we can only unite in Yeshua and be One with him in his goodness. Although Yeshua is divine in the fact that he participated in and witnessed the creation, and that through him Yehovah created the Universe, in that way he is divine, he came before the creation. Just as Yehovah is The one true great high and self existent God, Yeshua is our Rabbi, a Rabbi is the highest honor given to a man who teaches Torah, and Yeshua is the highest mediator between God and Man the man Christ Jesus. This distinction between Yeshua and Yehovah will undoubtedly be met with great opposition in the last days, but let us hold on to our great teacher Yeshua as he brings us and presents us to the only self existent one who alone dwells in unapproachable light who is invisible.
I just came across this video… and it so southed my soul… my journey was and is nearly exactly what your journey is, was.. until I had my dna done 4 years ago.. I found my mother and 4 generations back, to be AshkenaziJew… and last year, I converted to Judaism… and then more wonderful greatness came to me and my whole being changed.. and I keep growing and loving my wonderful Hashem…. I pray for all my friends and family to seek and to know the truth…
My question became "what is the annointing"? What makes any of us as well as Jesus, an annointed one. What is the genisis of the anointing?. What is the anointing that abides in us as Jer 31 believers. This started a 6 year journey out of Christianity.
The anointing is the Spirit and word of God. The genesis is Genesis 1:2,3... "and the SPIRIT of God moved...and God SAID..." The two are referred to in scripture as the "two olive trees/branches" (Zechariah 4:12). Also referred to as the "two witnesses" (Revelation 11:3), which Moses and Aaron, Joshua and Caleb, Elijah and Elisha, John and Jesus, personified. Congrats on your journey out of Christianity.
Wow! Wonderful teaching Ross! I’ve had a very similar journey, especially after viewing the contradictions between Paul and Jesus/James, and the eisegetical interpretations of the NT when claiming that verses of the Hebrew Scriptures are being fulfilled, such as Matthew quoting Hosea 11:1 when Hosea has nothing to don with the Messiah, etc. thanks for being open and transparent as always Ross!
Loved this! May I ask, how do you view the New Testament since you consider the Tanakh as the only scriptures? I myself have many problems with the New Testament, but it is the only verification we have that Yeshua was here and claimed to be sent by Yah.
I'm surprised to find a reconstruction of the old triennial reading cycle, since I've tried to look up or ask around for information about it before, but people and Google didn't seem to get what I was on about. When I did some arithmetic on the number of Open and Closed portions in the entire Torah-Nebi'im-Ketubim, it seemed to divide evenly into 7's... or was it into 53's? Anyway, it persuaded me that the entire Hebrew Bible was designed into some reading cycle. I just didn't take the time to think of what shape it might have had. And since I have no sources on it and nobody had an idea of this ever having been a real thing, I just left it at that.
Really enjoyed this summary of what I already believe - thank you for sharing the light . I think the point about Jesus speaking the words of God is more pertinent than raised in this. For me it is one of the keys to understand John 1.1
Some time ago I made a comment similar to what you are saying. Someone then vehemently commented that because I believed as you do, my salvation was in question !
Who says he’s been left for dead? His resurrection proves that he followed the Torah perfectly and that he should be our ultimate teacher, that he was truly “echad” with the Father in correctly applying Torah.
@@gtw4546 After watching quite a few recent videos from Ross, I feel he is on some kind of Anti Yeshua mission. A great example of `throwing the baby out with the bath water’. Again I say, correct me if I am wrong.
I've been having such a hard time with this. Because I love my Christian brothers and sisters because, it seems the only reality that I agree with is Christ and Him crucified. So many of the doctrines actually steal from the power of the Gospel and it breaks my heart and makes me feel alone. When I share Jesus I never share Christianity I always tell people to follow Jesus, not a religion
Oh man! How do you do it? Everything at the surface, facial expression, tone of voice, diction, reasoning, but also attire, surroundings, smacks of traditional minister of the Word. But... the ideas... quite different! Sir, you are a beautiful new blend, through and through. Congrats.😢
Notwithstanding my earlier observation I agree with all you have shared in this video. It’s wonderfully articulated and is truth. I hope one day you might, like myself, come to believe that Yeshua is the prophet like Moses that YHVH promised to send to the Israelite’s that we must all hear and obey (which I appreciate you obey all you believe is truthfully spoken of him in the NT) and the root of Jesse that YHVH promised he would fill with his spirit (isa 9 etc). Stand aside the multiple witnesses at the new Testament testifies to this truth I think one of the most amazing thing that confirms this is that these passages of scripture have been universally ignored by the Orthodox Church since its conception. From my perspective it really speaks to the truth of that claim. But anyway bless you brother
@Ross K. Nichols So, does this mean you've converted to some form of Judaism? I appreciate you sharing your personal story and your walk, but am unclear on what to make of where you are now?
Absolutely excellent job, thank you! I was so happy to have found you! I first saw you on Nehemiah Gordon TH-cam channel, I was confused about what you were and what you believe. I was so happy to find this video on your channel to understand that your primary intention is to follow Yeshua, the son of God, who is a son of man, not God in flesh!
I learned about the Sabbath and feasts in 2014 and left the churches. I finally felt peace but it did not cause me to lose my faith in Yeshua. It helped me understand Him better He was the New Covenant of Jeremiah 31:31. Jesus wrote the instructions for life in our hearts but the churches led people astray about the Torah.
Agreed brother, Paul also taught God’s commandments but many people misunderstand and twist Paul’s words(2 Peter 3:9-18) don’t be led astray by the error of the “lawless”
29:30 - your conclusion is perfectly sound of course, but I do want to pick up on something, you seem to be attributing these words to an actual historical Jesus without question. What do you say to those who see this passage as an indicator that the christians at the time gLuke was being composed (late first or early second century CE) were telling this resurrection story and being disbelieved? This reads far more like a petulant response to sceptics than something a historical Jesus would have said back in his time. Christians still say this sort of thing today, in fact, as if it were an adequate substitute for some sort of actually convincing evidence.
Ross I love listening to you I love your passion and your search for truth. But if you discount the testimony of the new Testament then you face being blind to understanding which specific passages in the Hebrew Bible are talking about Jesus.We both know and acknowledge that the new Testament text actually like the Hebrew Bible has undergone alteration, corruption and mistaken copying. But both books I believe still contain the truth of God but you must read the text critically as you do the Hebrew Bible. however we have the testimony of the book of Luke where it says Jesus revealed to his disciples which specific passages in the Hebrew Bible were speaking about him. I am surprised that you would discount these as being applicable to Jesus?
The entire story in Luke starts with the lesson to the Pharisees and ends with Lazarus . It is about the Pharisees having found a house in the temple but not in GODS heart
It increasingly seems to me that the Old Testament, especially the Pentateuch, is a parable warning from God that's attempting to illustrate, and educate us about, the toxic effects of State Established religion. "It is finished." What does this mean?
❤As a grateful servant dedicated to my first love above all. Our Father YHVH as Yeshua Only begotten Son of God, the Lamb of Yah who fulfilled Pesach Moedim & as proclaimed in Isaiah came to fulfill All of YaHuWaH's Moedim. ..'including most especially love of self' Which is all this man proclaims. The complete absence of any reverence for the Almighty, nor any minute moment of honor worship glorifying or praising Our Omnipotent LovingKind Creator ❤& Messiah who I call my BFF Beloved Dohdee my Kinsman Redeemer who in person answered my heartfelt prayer and will always be my first love my everything my Saviour who died to set me foreverfree!! Sadly no where in all this man's videos or articles websites asking for moneys do I even once see him glorify Creator & Messiah. All that is said is completely void of walking with Ruach HaQodesh, miraculous epiphany's nor even a trace or indication of an intimate relationship with the Omnipotent Omniscient Omnipresent King of Kings & Sovereign of all the Angel Armies of His Shamayim✨🌟✨⚔️⚖️🤍🎚🧬👑🌈🕎✡️🛐✝️🖖🏻🙏🏼 The Joy of the Lord is my Strength💪🏼🌬👑 I delight in the eternal Torah of my Messiah, ❤who has written His Sacred Laws upon my heart foreverlasting as are His Mercies and Amazing Grace💜🖖🏻🎚👑🛐🕎🔥He walks w me and talks w me and I know I am His own. Agape Love for Creator Elohim above all, then others including our enemies...we are all children of the Most High . Jew & Gentile will come together as Children of the Most High thru Messiah Yeshua. Prince of Peace, mighty El, wonderful counselor, Vengeance is the Lamb of Gods. All Glory Honor Praise is His, worthy is the Lamb. > 🛐🎚🕎💟⚖️
So I got one question for you Ross, if you still follow jezus do believe that he was born of a virgin? do you believe that he was crucified on the cross for the sins of the world? do you believe that he rose and ascended to the throne room of YAHWEH? if you do then you are still following the jezus of christianity and not the jezus of what you have just proclaimed.
"Thus saith J.E.V.E. ! Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask : for the old paths… Where is the good way ? and walk therein ; and ye shall find rest : for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. Also I set over you : watchmen : Hearken , to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. Therefore, hear ye nations ; and know O congregation, what is among them. Hear O earth: Behold I will bring evil … upon this people , even the fruit of their thoughts ; because unto my words , they have not hearkened ; nor to my law , but rejected it. To what purpose to me this incense , from Sheba cometh ? and the sweet cane , from a far country? your burnt offerings : are not acceptable, your sacrifices, not sweet unto me." Jeremiah 6, parsed with the te 'amim כֹּ֣ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֡ה עִמְדוּ֩ עַל־דְּרָכִ֨ים וּרְא֜וּ וְשַׁאֲל֣וּ ׀ לִנְתִב֣וֹת עוֹלָ֗ם אֵי־זֶ֨ה דֶ֤רֶךְ הַטּוֹב֙ וּלְכוּ־בָ֔הּ וּמִצְא֥וּ מַרְגּ֖וֹעַ לְנַפְשְׁכֶ֑ם וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ לֹ֥א נֵלֵֽךְ׃ וַהֲקִמֹתִ֤י עֲלֵיכֶם֙ צֹפִ֔ים הַקְשִׁ֖יבוּ לְק֣וֹל שׁוֹפָ֑ר וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ לֹ֥א נַקְשִֽׁיב׃ לָכֵ֖ן שִׁמְע֣וּ הַגּוֹיִ֑ם וּדְעִ֥י עֵדָ֖ה אֶת־אֲשֶׁר־בָּֽם׃ שִׁמְעִ֣י הָאָ֔רֶץ הִנֵּ֨ה אָנֹכִ֜י מֵבִ֥יא רָעָ֛ה אֶל־הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּ֖ה פְּרִ֣י מַחְשְׁבוֹתָ֑ם כִּ֤י עַל־דְּבָרַי֙ לֹ֣א הִקְשִׁ֔יבוּ וְתוֹרָתִ֖י וַיִּמְאֲסוּ־בָֽהּ׃ לָמָּה־זֶּ֨ה לִ֤י לְבוֹנָה֙ מִשְּׁבָ֣א תָב֔וֹא וְקָנֶ֥ה הַטּ֖וֹב מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מֶרְחָ֑ק עֹלֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ לֹ֣א לְרָצ֔וֹן וְזִבְחֵיכֶ֖ם לֹא־עָ֥רְבוּ לִֽי׃ ס ירמיה 6:16-20 תנ"ך
At 5:20 you said "I will propose Jesus never claimed to be God." The Hebrew word God (Alahim) is plural. John 8;58 "Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM (HaYah).”" Ross, you omitted John 8;58 from your presentation. 🤦♂ Surely don't have an answer to this and you rare wrong!!
Refer to John 1:1 which cites the Prophets. Yeshua said, I existed before Abraham. That's why in Ps.110 God says to Messiah, you are My-King-of-Righteousness, the same who met with Ab-raam, case closed.
Jesus was before Abraham was because Jesus (the word made flesh) is the seed of God (Luke 8:11). The seed proceeded from the Father, sowed in the womb of Mary. When a man sows his seed into a woman and she conceives, it brings forth a son or daughter, not the father that sowed it.
@@davidfischer545 #1 Whom was he addressing? He was addressing bani Israel. It would be a sick kind of God to deny heaven to everyone other than bani Israel. In fact it would be contrary to Noach and his sons. #2 God has no rivals and the true Gospel never contradicts the original Bible. #3 No man can see God in this life and live, unless by some kind of dream vision when not in body and sleeping.
I agree with you on many points, most especially about the Written Torah being still valid. However, if you still believe in YEHOSHUA at all, as you claim to follow him, I don’t understand how you do not continue to acknowledge that He states that He made the New Covenant in His Blood for the forgiveness of His people’s iniquities. I know you have researched the Hebrew Matthew, and Matthew 26:26-29 still has this in The Hebrew. You seem to acknowledge still that Yehoshua is God’s (Yehovah’s) Son, which I agree with. My understanding at this point is that repentance to keep the Commandments of God (given through Moses and including the higher commandments given through Yehoshua) AND faith in Yehoshua (for the forgiveness of your sins) are both required to be one of his “Saints” - Kedoshim - according to the Hebrew Matthew and Revelation 14:12. [Revelation 14:12 KJV] 12 Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
See the issue is that Jesus never really taught any of this. Whenever I ask any Christians about certain NT principles, they never quote Jesus, but other men like Paul who teach a different message. What Ross is demonstrating here is that Jesus’s teachings were in line with Judaism, not the teachings of Paul.
@@ChristianCarrizales I agree that Paul is not to be listened to. Yehoshua is. But, the Hebrew Matthew text does show that he is the Messiah who is the Son of God, the son of the virgin (Matthew 8:20), the Son of Man described in Daniel 7:9-14 that will return from Heaven, and many other titles of the Messiah. Just wondering if Ross still believes this.
I had the same experience brother. Well said. Thank you. may the God most high father of our messiah and high priest bless you. OT and NT scriptures are in agreement. You can't understand the new without studying the old first. The disciples had only the OT plus the books removed. It's not a new different teaching. 1 gospel, 1 law 1 covenant for mortal man a new covenant for immortal/ resurrected man.
Our eyes were opened in 2011. We had blasphemed God for 50 years in our churchianity faith. Now we obey what Yeshua and all disciples obeyed. I think your title is a little confusing. A "Christian" in the Bible is one who obeyed Torah and walked out their faith like Messiah. It's those who worship "church", (I call it "churchianity") today, that refuse to give up their false doctrine bc they cannot imagine giving up "church." Sadly, this is not an obedient format as described in the NT where there is to be no authority structure accept the Spirit of God. No titles and alphabet soup. No head covering nicolaitan system allowed. But all modern day false systems of worship display all those details that God forbids.
When you have decided that Yeshua is not God also, you said "the totality" of the text helps make it clear. But you are not agreeing with the totality of the text. Yes, Yeshua is lesser. Yes, Yeshua has a God. Yes, Yeshua prayed to His Father. Yes, Yeshua is one with the Father and wants us to have that same type of relationship. But as well, and not to be ignored, is that Yeshua does what only YHVH is prophesied to do. Yeshua is described as only YHVH is described. He has the attributes only God has and the power only God is described to have. John recognized this when introducing Yeshua and that is why He is introduced in this manner as GOD. The Father God YHVH is not seen yet God, YHVH, was sitting, eating and negotiating with Abraham. Was Abraham not able to see this person with whom he shared a meal and tried to make a deal? God YHVH is not seen yet God YHVH was speaking to Manoah and his wife and to Gideon. How is that possible? How is it possible to believe both sides; God YHVH is not seen yet God YHVH was seen? Instead of ignoring the side of that issue that doesn't fit your narrative or conclusion, how is it possible to believe both sides of that issue? Yes, Yeshua claimed to be God , proved the prophesies about YHVH by doing them, AND He claimed He had a God. BOTH! While no prophet's writings has the weight of Torah which are the words of YHVH, the NT is simply a diary account of how the prophesies played out. You cannot ignore the NT. What you have to do is understand it in the context of Torah just like you understand the prophet's writings in the context of Torah. Torah supersedes all. The NT contains the words of Yeshua. You cannot throw those out or think they are less valuable because they validate the Father's words. Yeshua IS who Isaiah said, "Almighty God, Everlasting Father" and they will be/and are truly one.
So how would the Father be the God with authority over all and yet He has a Spirit who is also God and a fleshly body, also God. Perhaps when the Bible describes us (in His image) of having a soul, a spirit and a body, we can then understand exactly what is being communicated. If our spirit could act separately from us, yet not be independent but still subservient, our spirit would do what we (soul) decided. Same with our physical body. If our body could be separate yet still subservient, then both body and spirit who are still us or in the case of the Bible, still God, bow their will to God, communicate with God and are subservient to God. Just like my body would still be me and my spirit would still be me. After all, we see throughout tanak that there is a physical visible body called YHVH interacting with man. And we read the spirit, visible at times in different forms interacting with man. Regardless of the label you put on this phenomenon, it is undeniable that the Bible describes these facts. Zech 14:9 And Yehovah shall be King over all the earth. In that day it shall be- “Yehovah is one,” and His name one. (remember Yehoshua is actually "Yehovah's salvation") facebook.com/groups/1070735276701979
37:40 haha! Yes, you tripped past this without much fanfare, but good on you for at least mentioning the original in gMark. Again, i dont see the value in using gMatt here instead of the original, especially wince gMatt does make this obviously clumsy vhange, in order to avoid having Jesus assert that he is not as good as god, as he does in gMark. In the gMark wuestion this gives the impression that Jesus is a bit hard of hearing or something!
@52:40 When YAHWEH spoke to the prophets to speak to Israel what HE wants them to hear, HE spoke it to the prophet, and it was recorded in scripture, then the prophet spoke what YAHWEH said. IF jezus is speaking YAHWEH's words then where is YAHWEH speaking in the nt what he is to say then jezus repeating it?? nowhere. thats why jezus did not speak what YAHWEH told him to speak.
You, my friend, are a Pharisee. White tombs polished on the outside. Do you realize that Jesus fulfilled the law? Did you know that Jesus ‘broke’ the law by healing on the sabbath? Do you realize that the apostles met on Sundays (first day of the week) and that Jesus was resurrected on a Sunday according to text? I understand that one still feels the need to do all the shalls and shall nots, but God made it possible to be sanctified in Jesus. Jesus did say if you have seen him, you have seen the Father, he and the Father are one. He also stated the he is ‘I am’. Go back and read with proper light. Many asked how to be saved and Jesus said BELIEVE. Did he say believe and follow the law? Man cannot obtain God’s mercy and grace through law.
The variations in Christianity are almost 100 percent based on contradictions in the New Testament. We must abandon Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Paul's books - all the books - including Revelation, as it also defies the account of Matthew (Revelation 4).
I've been wondering what your world view was which underlies your videos. @4:00 Right from the start, Jesus, Himself would say your particular theology is based on error. "The Law and the Prophets were until John; since that time the good news of the kingdom of God is proclaimed, and everyone is forcing his way into it." [Luk 16:16 LSB] Further, the Word of God is very clear: Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. [1Jo 2:22-23 ESV]
But if you don’t have the right Son, you can’t have the right Father. Ideas that don’t align with the fulness of Scripture need to be revised, not explained away. Even Satan quoted Scripture out of context and people frequently hold onto only those verses that support what they want to believe. So what was the Gospel that Jesus/Yeshua proclaimed and had His disciples proclaim back before they knew he would die? He didn’t even begin to teach his disciples that he would die and rise again until near the END of his ministry! Surely the gospel that is proclaimed now can’t be the same as what Jesus/Yeshua was teaching. So which “gospel” is correct? His or yours?
@@eclipseeventsigns I’m sure the scribes and Pharisees would have said the same sort of thing, “I follow YHWH. This fellow does not.” But did they really?
@@gtw4546 This guy plainly says the Messiah Jesus was not God. That is all I need to hear that he is not be listened to and does not know what he is talking about. end of story.
@@eclipseeventsigns That’s not what I got out of it. What I understand is that he’s saying there is no “trinity.” Yeshua and the Father are “echad.” Yeshua’s commands are the same as the Father’s commands. Put another way, Yeshua is the Torah incarnate, the “Living Word,” the very heart of God being expressed in bodily form. But “trinity” is very pagan, usually expressed in a father god/mother goddess/child god - and THAT is something we need to clear out of our thinking! It is a syncretism introduced during the time of Constantine to appease the pagans so they could retain their Ishtar worship and Saturnalia childmas festivities.
Yeshua's definitely not the problem , it's the version of Yeshua that the apostate , false apostle Paul taught , the version that Paul got from the FALSE CHRIST that he encountered on the road to Damascus . Yeshua , His brother James The Just and The actual Twelve Apostles , The Ebionites taught the Torah . That's the proper path
Do you see Jesus as a prophet? Why did he has to die or is that put in just as the story of the woman that has been caught in adultery? Because we know that there are things put in or added in the New Testament. I believe that nobody has to die for your sins. Everybody is responsible and the Torah make you righteous. Please ket me know how you see these points.
Oh, quick comment about Matthew five. You cannot willfully and habitually break even small commandments, and expect to enter the kingdom of heaven. You touched on it by expressing that the word translated in Greek could be translated loosen. So what I believe Yeshua is saying is for those who don’t emphasize properly the minor commandments, they will be called least in the kingdom of heaven…. So to say “those who loosen the least of these commandments…”. I don’t think you would believe that someone could habitually break the lease of the commandments, and enter into the kingdom of heaven, right? Obviously, every human being has sinned and needs to repent and those will enter the kingdom of heaven but to just say you can break Commandments habitually without regard, no matter how small, will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; He judgeth among the gods. How long will ye judge unjustly, And accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. Defend the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: Rid them out of the hand of the wicked. They know not, neither will they understand; They walk on in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are out of course. I have said, Ye are gods; And all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, And fall like one of the princes. Arise, O God, judge the earth: For thou shalt inherit all nations. Psalm 82 מִזְמ֗וֹר לְאָ֫סָ֥ף אֱֽלֹהִ֗ים נִצָּ֥ב בַּעֲדַת־אֵ֑ל בְּקֶ֖רֶב אֱלֹהִ֣ים יִשְׁפֹּֽט׃ עַד־מָתַ֥י תִּשְׁפְּטוּ־עָ֑וֶל וּפְנֵ֥י רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים תִּשְׂאוּ־סֶֽלָה׃ שִׁפְטוּ־דַ֥ל וְיָת֑וֹם עָנִ֖י וָרָ֣שׁ הַצְדִּֽיקוּ׃ פַּלְּטוּ־דַ֥ל וְאֶבְי֑וֹן מִיַּ֖ד רְשָׁעִ֣ים הַצִּֽילוּ׃ לֹ֤א יָֽדְע֨וּ ׀ וְלֹ֥א יָבִ֗ינוּ בַּחֲשֵׁכָ֥ה יִתְהַלָּ֑כוּ יִ֝מּ֗וֹטוּ כָּל־מ֥וֹסְדֵי אָֽרֶץ׃ אֲֽנִי־אָ֭מַרְתִּי אֱלֹהִ֣ים אַתֶּ֑ם וּבְנֵ֖י עֶלְי֣וֹן כֻּלְּכֶֽם׃ אָ֭כֵן כְּאָדָ֣ם תְּמוּת֑וּן וּכְאַחַ֖ד הַשָּׂרִ֣ים תִּפֹּֽלוּ׃ קוּמָ֣ה אֱ֭לֹהִים שָׁפְטָ֣ה הָאָ֑רֶץ כִּֽי־אַתָּ֥ה תִ֝נְחַ֗ל בְּכָל־הַגּוֹיִֽם׃
Did he follow the commandments?? Mat 21:18 Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. 19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away. So he cursed a fruit tree and caused it to die, contrast that with the torah. Deu 20:19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege: 20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued. according to torah jezus disobeyed torah.
Very well done, Ross! But in order to walk in the ancient path, we must first understand the ancient instruction. And to understand the ancient instruction, we must understand the ancient language in which the Holy Text was written, which is symbolic. You have concluded that following Jesus is keeping God's Commandments, and rightly so when it pertains to the kingdom of heaven, where those that obey and teach them are the greatest. However, Jesus also teaches that the greatest in the kingdom of heaven is he who becomes as a "little child" (Matthew 18:1-3), through which one fulfills the law, the instruction for which is encoded in the symbolism of Jesus' parables (Matthew 23:26). The Pharisees kept the law (commandments), so Jesus is speaking of something greater than obedience to the law. When tempted/tested by his religious brothers as to which law was the greatest, Jesus answered with God's ONE SPIRITUAL LAW or COMMANDMENT: LOVE toward God and toward our brother by way of a love of self. How do we demonstrate our love of self? God so loved the world he gave the world Jesus. We demonstrate our love of self by giving ourselves Truth, so we can't truly love our brother until we love ourself. The reason Jesus correlates this love (Mark 12:33,34) with the kingdom of God (which Jesus says is within us/Luke 17:21) is because the kingdom of God is something beyond the kingdom of heaven. It is the difference between carnal and spiritual. So, when Jesus said he came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it, he is speaking of the spiritual works that fulfill the carnal commandments. Jesus does not care if we "believe" [in] him (John 10:37,38). He desires for us to "believe the works," the word "believe" meaning "to obey or put action to." Spiritual obedience to spiritual works, which supersedes carnal obedience to the carnal works of the law! "If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not." John 10:37 (KJV) “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” John 14:12 (KJV) What are the "works of the Father'? Creation. Creation took place when God spoke His word (Genesis 1:3), which is the sowing of God's seed (Luke 8:11), through which all things are made (John 1:3). So when Jesus said, "I and my Father are one" (John 10:30) he is referring to creation, as the God's physical creation is a pattern/instruction for the spiritual creation that takes place within us when we believe/obey the spiritual works that Jesus spoke of and demonstrated for us while he was on earth; a new creation formed within us through the sowing of God's seed (truth) into our heart, as God's seed was sowed into the earth, which symbolizes the heart. Spiritual instructions for following Jesus: "And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." Matthew 19:28 (KJV) regeneration: the act or process of regenerating or the state of being regenerated, especially. Regenerate: to form, construct, or create anew. “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.” Revelation 21:1 (KJV) “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” Matthew 5:18 (KJV) Jesus is speaking of the passing of a spiritual heaven and earth, "the first heaven and the first earth," formed within us as "little child," heaven symbolizing the mind, the earth symbolizing the heart. The number 12 (Matthew 19:28) represents judgment, the "twelve tribes of Israel" symbolizing the spiritual (internal) judgment through which the law is fulfilled within us. It is not Jesus the man that fulfills the law, it is the spiritual works Jesus encourages us to believe/obey. The path that leads to ETERNAL spiritual life just got narrower! Sandra L Butler
Bible says the New Testament is a cup of blood. Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Mark 14:24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many. Luke 22:20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. 1 Corinthians 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 2 Corinthians 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. Hebrews 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
jezus also claimed that he was with the Father before the world was created. Yet YAHWEH states that there was NO ONE with HIM when HE created the world. The only one's with YAHWEH during creation was the angels only.
I loved this presentation Ross. It is clear, direct, personal, articulate, and learned...I hope it serves to give rise to discussions and further deliberations by countless people who have moved in these same directions in learning about the historical Jesus, in contrast to the Christ of Christian Theology!
I had a very similar journey: th-cam.com/video/F9E4KC7FetI/w-d-xo.html
Agree!! I wish every church would play this on a Sunday morning!
Jesus is God in the flesh. He came down in a tabernacle of clay.
@@TheShulamit no.
Not sure why you endorse this guy since you don’t even believe any of it Mr Tabor
Ross, thank you for confirming for me what I believed God has been showing me since coming out of my coma. Of course, like always, you make it so easy for me to learn more than my understanding was of certain issues. For that I cannot thank you enough.
Thank you for sharing this. I just watched it because my husband came across your video and recommended it, I am very glad I did. This is a very sensitive topic that a lot of Christians avoid, which is very sad.
I was borned in Mexico and I was raised in a catholic church. I never read the Bible (from beginning to end) until few years ago because my husband encouraged me to do so. From the moment I read the 10 Commandments, I couldn't stop replaying my religious life as a catholic. Every time that I worshipped virgin Mary and the saints, because that's how I was tought! And the Sabbaths, the 4th commandment that starts with "REMEMBER.....". My husband and I have done so much research about keeping the Sabbaths and the truth is that there is no evidence that Yeshua (His real Hebrew name, not Jesus) nor the Apostles ever changed it!
I remember my husband making these questions:
1. If Yeshua were here today, will He be looking for a Synagogue or a church/temple?
2. Will Yeshua be worshipping on Saturday or Sunday? And
3. Will Yeshua be reading from the Torah (Old Testament) or New Testament?
If Yeshua nailed those commandments, why do we only have to keep 9 of the 10 commandments? And if Yeshua "broke" the Sabbath, how can He be our Messiah? He had no sin!
If you are reading this, please read your Bible, from Genesis to Revelations. Please read other versions; every translation is an interpretation, and unless you go to the source, Hebrew or Greek, you are missing out valuable information.
Thank you Father Yehovah for our Messiah, Yeshua 🙏🙏🙏
Amen! Shabbat Shalom. Well done presenting a difficult and controversial topic with sensitivity and clarity.
I've watched your video from years ago regarding this topic and to say the least it was eye opening and what I was needing after coming out of Christianity. As I'm sure you know, this is a controversial topic but one that needs to be discussed by many. Great job on the new video, I pray that it reaches all who are needing to see it and be blessed by it as I was years ago.
Shabbat shalom brother Ross. I am born and raised in Gretna, LA., which is a suburb of New Orleans,LA., and I grew up in a Pentecostal church. And even though I learned so, so much from my Pastor Brother James Comuex Sr., the things that I was hearing a lot of the times from other Pastors down here just did not sit right with me, even as a child. And as I got older, I truly believe that YHWH EL SHADDAI revealed more and more to me as I started to mature. So this title to this video,I can definitely relate to. HalleluYAH forever and ever!!! YAH bless!!!!
Phenomenal! Clear, concise, genuine and very thought provoking explanation! Thank you, Ross! This is a great resource for the faith journey of so many others as well! Follow Jesus! …who followed G-d Almighty!
Christ is God
@@Thedisciplemike Not in the Hebrew Matthew. The "Jesus is God" or "Trinity" did not exist in the early Church - not until near 400, and it was the invention of Rome - not Jesus. Jesus identified as "the son of man" to say he was a mortal man - not God.,
@barnsweb52 you clearly don't read much scripture nor the Church Fathers. Here I will present you an example of the profession of Christ's Deity from every consecutive generation in the early preNicene era
"Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen." Romans 9, c. 57
"And the Word was God...and the Word became flesh and resided among us." John 1 c.90
"And Thomas answered him, 'my Lord and my God!'" John 20 c.90
"and to us with you, and to all those under heaven who will yet believe in our Lord and God Jesus Christ and in his Father who raised him from the dead." Polycarp, c. 100
"There is only one physician, who is both flesh and spirit, born and unborn, God in man, true life in death, both from Mary and from God, first subject to suffering and then beyond it, Jesus Christ our Lord" Ignatius, c. 117
"He is Lord of all the world, to whom God said at the foundation of the world, ‘Let us make man after our image, and after our likeness" Barnabas, c.120
"The Father of the universe has a Son; who also, being the first-begotten Word of God, is even God. And of old He appeared in the shape of fire and in the likeness of an angel to Moses and to the other prophets; but now in the times of your reign, having, as we before said, become Man by a virgin...." Justin Martyr, c. 132
"He that bore up the earth was born up on a tree; the Lord of all was subjected to ignominy in a naked body-God put to death! ... [I]n order that He might not be seen, the luminaries turned away, and the day became darkened-because they slew God, who hung naked on the tree.... This is He who made the heaven and the earth, and in the beginning, together with the Father, fashioned man;" Melito of Sardis, died 180
"Carefully, then, has the Holy Ghost pointed out, by what has been said, His birth from a virgin, and His essence, that He is God (for the name Emmanuel indicates this). And He shows that He is a man.... [W]e should not understand that He is a mere man only, nor, on the other hand, from the name Emmanuel, should suspect Him to be God without flesh." Irenaeus, c. 190
@@Thedisciplemike 1 Cor. 11:3 & 15:28. Jesus deserves worship, but He is not Almighty God. All the verses you quoted have to be explained in the light of the obvious statements like the ones I noted above which declare Jesus' inferiority to his father, even after his resurrection. The fact that the trinity required centuries of debate should be a red flag.
It was all about the lost sheep of isreal....
Very beautifully said, my brother in Christ! I started this same walk 5 yrs ago after a life in the church. Best thing in my life to have ever happened. Started Sabbath studies with family and their eyes are opening to truth as well. Praise be to Yahuah our Father and our Messiah Yahusha Hamechiach!
So what has changed in your life. If you would imagine you are talking to yourself at the start of this 5 year journey - which may be my case now - what would you say has changed? Obviously the idea of salvation has changed, I am assuming you practice a day of rest (I notice in Deuteronomy it actually doesn’t specify which day bet sat or sunday, it just says 6 days of work followed by a day of rest - just mentioning this because choosing Saturday or Sunday no matter which stance one takes is probably more based on religion than the Word which doesn’t seem to indicate in Deuteronomy 4). I know Jesus tells us to keep the sabbath. Does this essentially make you a Jew for Jesus? I know most likely you and others may not like to conform to any religion, since you’re following the way of Jesus, but I do see a lot of Hebrew salutations going on in these comments that to me sounds similar to how Jews for Jesus followers communicate. I am honestly curious because I am on this journey and I am wondering what actually changes… I believe to have always been someone like the author of this video, someone to have always thought the words of Jesus. I always found myself questioning things that seemed otherwise, I always felt strange about the Trinity, I always felt strange about Jesus as this deity. So I am just curious what changes, what do you accept or not accept? Do you no longer accept the teachings of Paul? What about the book of revelations? Is the entire New Testament questionable? Obviously the old testament is to simply be considered The Scripture, I guess no need to call the old testament because Jesus would not have called it the Old Testament… And Jesus would not have read the New Testament so I guess there is no longer a new testament… I guess just a series of books called the New Testament by the holy Roman catholic church that are to function as what exactly? Which gospels are real and which ones are fictitious? I’m just curious where we draw the line, what we hold onto his truth? Do you guys believe in the New Testament? Is it the infallible word of God or is just the Old Testament? Which version of the New Testament? I have too many questions but as you can imagine, or maybe as you already have gone through, growing up in the church and then trying to wrap your head around this is a bit complicated. But I have always been someone that has been questioning
@@MS88nyc to start off, I believed in the once saved always saved and the say this prayer and all is fine for eternity. I was an alcoholic and it got worse after my wife passed. I turned to drugs and sleeping with any woman I could find. My thoughts and heart were do as thou wilt. Life is short, besides I'm saved because I believe in Jesus. It wasn't anything drastic that happened all at once to change my mind. It was a pulling or urge that started in me to actually read my bible. I had a desire to find out who God is. After I read the sermon on the mount and the words of Yahusha, my urge grew. I started really looking for truth and praying. I guess you could say that my heart was broken then repaired. I no longer have a desire for anything in the world. I don't live for the same things as I used to. I'm not a Jew or anything. I know what our Messiah said, that the gate is narrow, and I have to be more righteous than the scribes and pharisees. Only those that do the will of the Father enter the kingdom. Deuteronomy is now one of my favorite books. I don't discount any of the bible and all is for our walk in righteous behavior. Some misinterpret Paul by saying the law is dead. Yahusha said He came to fulfill the law and we have to pick up our cross and follow Him. So that is what I have been living to do. I'm running late for work, so I hope this isn't to jumbled. Much love!
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Thank you Victoriah for the Super Thanks!
Thank you so much for this! It was wonderful!
Ross, thank you for your great lecture. I know Jesus didn't say He was God. But what would you say about John 1:1 " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" ?
When I was a child, my favourite song of those my mother would sing to me before going to sleep was 'To be like Jesus'.
To be like Jesus, to be like Jesus
All I want is to be like him
Throughout life's journey
From here to glory
All I want is to be like my Jesus.
I'm surprised to find this video, now, since I'm being asked by some fellow scholars of SBL about my own religious journey (I am in my early 30s), and have been reflecting about just this topic.
I am not surprised, though, to find you through Nehemia, who has been welcoming to me as a young scholar (of Biblical Hebrew song and recitation) and among those eager to give me detailed tips and advice in navigating my way around finding the information that I need for my study of the scriptures.
I look forward to watching this video, which I've only started!
Shalom brother Ross. I thank YHWH that He led me to your videos. I was introduced to your work when I read your book the Moses Scroll. I can’t remember who recommended it to me but I found it to be well written and absolutely fascinating. The broad brush strokes of your faith journey mirror my own. This is the first video I have watched of yours. I’m looking forward to watching the rest. May our Father in Heaven bless you and yours always. Peace and love to you in the name of our beloved Messiah Yeshua.
Thanks for your kind and encouraging words Robert. Blessings in your journey.
Thanks Ross! I watched your decade old video not too long ago about you writing a book covering this topic.
This could easily be the start of a 100+ part series of deconstructing Jesus (Yeshua or Yehoshua) from modern Christianity. Please consider it. So many people need to hear this message.
As a former Christian, that also followed Jesus out of Christianity, I could definitely say it took time for me to let go of the core beliefs of Christianity. As I left one man made religion, I desired not to enter another man made religion, Rabbinic (Pharisaic) Judaism. I have even looked to the Karaites and even they have muddied the scriptures with the traditions of men.
At this point, I only claim to be a believer in Yehovah. The Sh'ma is the core of my belief.
Have you read Peters sermons recorded by Clement ?
Wonderful. Thank you, Ross!
So many are now coming onto this straight and narrow path between the “ditches” of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism! I love to hear how others have come to discover it. It seems this is all happening at a grass roots level, person by person, and it’s also comforting to know that we aren’t alone.
A decade or so ago, I was challenged when someone said, “Make sure you have the right Jesus.” How could I have the right Jesus unless I had the right father? That’s what led me back to the Torah and keeping the Sabbath according to the creation week - to ensure that it is THE CREATOR that I’m worshipping and not some syncretized god. From there it went to honoring His moedim, then dietary practices and other principles. The more my understanding was transformed, the harder it became to apply any label to my faith. “I follow the faith of Jesus/Yeshua” is a great description and I will use that from now on. ("Written Torah honoring follower of Yeshua haMessiach" is a bit unwieldy, but opens up a discussion!)
Now my challenge to those who claim to follow Jesus/Yeshua would be “Are you kingdom ready?” Are you familiar with the laws of the kingdom and its culture? Are you doing your utmost to “hear and obey?”
A truly enlightening teaching. Hopefully many will hear and see the true path our Messiah proclaimed. Hallelu'YAH!
Shukran Ross. The heart of the true message of the historical Jesus. Even going with Mark the earliest gospel it is more about following Jesus than this mystical worship demand that is more about the believers need than the historical Jesus true goals. The church fathers loved the story they had woven and Paul's vision more than the actual man and his Jewish earthly mission.
"More than the actual man." The actual man is God incarnate
@@Thedisciplemike😂 idolatry
@@MinisterRedPill same God. Not a different God. Christ is YHWH
@@Thedisciplemike no he's not. That's your incorrect interpretation of it. "Christ" also has a God. Is he God of himself? 😂
@MinisterRedPill its true interpretation of it. And yes, as man, Jesus worships God the Father Almighty, and more than that: shows us what true worship is. So much so, that no one can worship God apart from Jesus. However, Jesus is not the Father. He is the Son of the Father, who is just as much God as the Father is.
Absolutely love IT!
I think I agree with everything you share in this video (which is rare for controversial topics). You did a wonderful job of non-confrontationally addressing your beliefs, in a scriptural and godly way. Thank you for your work.
I'm so happy I found your channel ❤
Thanks Ev. I’m glad you found us too:)
Awesome video, Ross. I was blown away by how many of your points I have used on my own Facebook posts; and which have been a basis for my own spiritual growth from the 1980s. In 1787, Rabbi Jacob Emden wrote about the faithfulness of the first-century followers of Jesus to the Torah of Moses, and people are just beginning to reflect on the implications of how that perspective should impact replacement theology. Looking forward to hearing much more from you.
While, I’ve shelved the “New Testament” and keep Torah as best I can, I REALLY appreciate this video. This is basically he same path I travelled when I left “the church” and everything else, much like Abraham did. I will be sharing this with those I feel will be receptive.
The “New Testament” is good. It’s simply not taught correctly by most, and there is much in it that cannot be understood without first understanding the “Old Testament”.
@@stellarjayatkins4749Paul is the biggest issue. And it's not that people don't understand him, they fully well do. The problem is that he ate from the wrong tree.
@@MinisterRedPill false.
@@stellarjayatkins4749 that's your opinion 😂 like sheep led to the slaughter
@@MinisterRedPill no, it’s not “just my opinion”. If you read Paul carefully he is the one that ties both old and new together. Sean Griffin has gone through these supposedly “wrong” verses step by step.
Excellent!
I so needed to hear this, thank u for sharing and hope to hear and learn more
Thanks for watching and for your comments.
I 'm happy to listing every Sabbath to you , you are a Great man of God ,and call myself a happy woman to have found you , and listen to you bible class every Sabbath
38:05 sorry for all the comments, it's just brcause i find this tslk so engaging. So, here, this is ironic because the gospels are obviously written forty to a hundred years after the supposed time of Jesus, none of them by Jesus, probably not even in a language Jesus was fluent in. If there was a historical Jesus, we really cannot be sure of anything he may have said, and christians could do with hearing that as well.
For example, in John 10:30, Jesus said, “I and the Father are one.” The Jews who heard Him make that statement knew well that He was claiming to be God, as witnessed by their reaction: “His Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him” (John 10:31). When He asked them why they were attempting to stone Him, they said, “For blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God
If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not." John 10:37 (KJV)
What are the "works of the Father'? Creation.
So when Jesus said, "I and my Father are one" (John 10:30) he is referring to creation, as the God's physical creation is a pattern/instruction for the spiritual creation that takes place within us when we believe/obey the spiritual works that Jesus spoke of and demonstrated for us while he was on earth; a new creation formed within us through the sowing of God's seed (truth) into our heart, as God's seed was sowed into the earth, which symbolizes the heart.
Show me evidence. Did you make this up? Which websites or scholars did you learn this from?
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Excellent work!
This is quite a valuable sermon for christians, actially. It would be great if a whole load of them could hear this and understand it.
So true! Finally someone who has studied the Word! Shalom from Australia
I left Christianity and Jesus to follow Yehovah and Yeshua
25:15 just wondering why not use the same passage in gMark, since it's earlier? I'm always confused 2hen people read sections of fluke and gMatt for parts where those authors copied, and in many cases changed, gMark. Whether it's been changed or not, I always wonder why not just use the gMark passage?
Maybe because gMark doesn't explicitly say it's the book of Isaiah?
Incidentally, does Isaiah 60 contain that lime about giving sight to the blind? Have you any thoughts on whether we can consider this episode to be valid, considering it is not quoting the tanakh accurately?
I'm assuming Ross has rebuttals to the messianic prophecies. I'm really curious as to his thoughts. If anyone knows of a separate video or even webpage, do let me know.
What a wonderful teaching!
So from an atheist's perspective, you appear to have taken your preferred version of the Bible, carefully selected the verses that fit your theology and conveniently ignored the rest.
From this you have constructed a "Jesus" and called that character your god.
You obviously find great comfort in this and I am truly pleased for you.
I however prefer an uncomfortable truth to a comforting falsehood.
As a Christian I’d agree he’s nitpicking quite a bit
@@danilom951 I would suggest that you probably do the same, just to a lesser extent. No neurotypical empathetic person would ever not "nitpick" the slaughtering by Yahweh/ Jesus of babies and the unborn by burning to death in Genesis 19: 24-25; putting to the sword in 1 Samuel 15: 3 and drowning in Genesis 7: 21. Although I could be wrong and you see these as acts of 'all loving moral perfection' and believe that I am deserving of extreme eternal violence because I call them objectively immoral acts of utter depravity.
@@downenout8705 well I will argue on you’re side because I was atheist in my teens early 20s and those are some good points. But my argument is that those people deserved death because they were wicked people who never turned would never turn from there wicked ways and let’s say you were god and your creation didn’t listen to you and did things completely of how you want them to be and knowing no matter how much time you give them that they’ll never turn from there ways causing grief and destruction wherever they go. How would you deal with that?
@@danilom951 Wtf!!!!!! Sorry but I have absolutely no intention of continuing a conversation with someone who would demonise innocent babies and the unborn just to justify burning the living flesh off them. So take the last word if you wish but I am off to the bathroom as I feel the need to vomit.
Take as much offense as you want but I can't help visualising you in a long gray coat with an insane grin on your face standing on the roof of a shower block holding a can of Zyklon B.
Sick beyond belief.
@@danilom951even this interpretation is wholly wrong.
This was brilliant thank you
Ill recommend it to all my friends ...i only pray that you have realised paul too,
Hello. I'm so happy to have come across your channel! I long for soundness in the Body of believers, but they're hard to come by. As of late, I have listened to many believers in Jesus who rail against the view that our Father's Torah is still binding.
The youtuber, Rob Solberg, is one of many. There is a lovely Christian lady who is spreading a similar message. Sadly, she ran into a group of ppl who although follow the Way, have a very negative
manner in communicating truth and have, in fact, added to it.
Hi Ross. I've only just come across your channel, I loved this video & agreed with everything you said. It's good to hear somebody else say they don't consider themselves christian. Yah bless.
Amen I followed Yeshua out of Christianity, and I followed my Rabbi, Yeshua, to not worship him as God the father, and not only did he teach me about the father he led me to the pronunciation of his name, Yehovah, Yehovah means he who was, is, and will be, the self existent one, Yehovah alone is self existent, Yeshua does have existence but that existence was given to him, he said all power and authority has been given unto me, therefore he is One with Yehovah, just as we are one in Yeshua and with each other, why because he loves us. I question peoples self proclamation that they truly love Yeshua, because if they loved him and he knows and loves them they would know and love the father and be capable of distinguishing between the two. Although day light and nighttime are one (Echad) day; calling night: “day” presents a big problem and that is what we see happening in Western Christianity, as a result we have turned the Jewish Hebrew Yeshua into a pagan western Jesus into a god exalted like unto the most High which truly becomes our anti Messiah, yet they will call us antichrist because we don’t deify him as we do Yehovah. That is why Yeshua responded to the man who came to him and called him good teacher, Yeshua’s response was, no man is good except God, Yehovah alone is good, we can only unite in Yeshua and be One with him in his goodness. Although Yeshua is divine in the fact that he participated in and witnessed the creation, and that through him Yehovah created the Universe, in that way he is divine, he came before the creation. Just as Yehovah is The one true great high and self existent God, Yeshua is our Rabbi, a Rabbi is the highest honor given to a man who teaches Torah, and Yeshua is the highest mediator between God and Man the man Christ Jesus.
This distinction between Yeshua and Yehovah will undoubtedly be met with great opposition in the last days, but let us hold on to our great teacher Yeshua as he brings us and presents us to the only self existent one who alone dwells in unapproachable light who is invisible.
I just came across this video… and it so southed my soul… my journey was and is nearly exactly what your journey is, was.. until I had my dna done 4 years ago.. I found my mother and 4 generations back, to be AshkenaziJew… and last year, I converted to Judaism… and then more wonderful greatness came to me and my whole being changed.. and I keep growing and loving my wonderful Hashem…. I pray for all my friends and family to seek and to know the truth…
My question became "what is the annointing"? What makes any of us as well as Jesus, an annointed one. What is the genisis of the anointing?. What is the anointing that abides in us as Jer 31 believers. This started a 6 year journey out of Christianity.
The anointing is the Spirit and word of God. The genesis is Genesis 1:2,3... "and the SPIRIT of God moved...and God SAID..." The two are referred to in scripture as the "two olive trees/branches" (Zechariah 4:12). Also referred to as the "two witnesses" (Revelation 11:3), which Moses and Aaron, Joshua and Caleb, Elijah and Elisha, John and Jesus, personified. Congrats on your journey out of Christianity.
Wow! Wonderful teaching Ross! I’ve had a very similar journey, especially after viewing the contradictions between Paul and Jesus/James, and the eisegetical interpretations of the NT when claiming that verses of the Hebrew Scriptures are being fulfilled, such as Matthew quoting Hosea 11:1 when Hosea has nothing to don with the Messiah, etc. thanks for being open and transparent as always Ross!
Loved this! May I ask, how do you view the New Testament since you consider the Tanakh as the only scriptures? I myself have many problems with the New Testament, but it is the only verification we have that Yeshua was here and claimed to be sent by Yah.
That's interesting. I came out too only I came to almost completely different conclusions.
I'm surprised to find a reconstruction of the old triennial reading cycle, since I've tried to look up or ask around for information about it before, but people and Google didn't seem to get what I was on about.
When I did some arithmetic on the number of Open and Closed portions in the entire Torah-Nebi'im-Ketubim, it seemed to divide evenly into 7's... or was it into 53's?
Anyway, it persuaded me that the entire Hebrew Bible was designed into some reading cycle. I just didn't take the time to think of what shape it might have had. And since I have no sources on it and nobody had an idea of this ever having been a real thing, I just left it at that.
Really enjoyed this summary of what I already believe - thank you for sharing the light . I think the point about Jesus speaking the words of God is more pertinent than raised in this. For me it is one of the keys to understand John 1.1
So much to consider
Some time ago I made a comment similar to what you are saying. Someone then vehemently commented that because I believed as you do, my salvation was in question !
Correct me if I’m wrong, but shouldn’t the title read:
` Following Jesus out of Christianity then leaving him for dead ‘
Who says he’s been left for dead? His resurrection proves that he followed the Torah perfectly and that he should be our ultimate teacher, that he was truly “echad” with the Father in correctly applying Torah.
@@gtw4546 After watching quite a few recent videos from Ross, I feel he is on some kind of Anti Yeshua mission. A great example of `throwing the baby out with the bath water’.
Again I say, correct me if I am wrong.
@@retepelyod Other than an interview with Nehemiah Gordon, this is the only one I’ve watched of his. Doesn’t Ross believe in the resurrection?
Great concept Ross!
I've been having such a hard time with this. Because I love my Christian brothers and sisters because, it seems the only reality that I agree with is Christ and Him crucified. So many of the doctrines actually steal from the power of the Gospel and it breaks my heart and makes me feel alone. When I share Jesus I never share Christianity I always tell people to follow Jesus, not a religion
What a excellent teaching
Amen!
Oh man! How do you do it? Everything at the surface, facial expression, tone of voice, diction, reasoning, but also attire, surroundings, smacks of traditional minister of the Word. But... the ideas... quite different! Sir, you are a beautiful new blend, through and through. Congrats.😢
Notwithstanding my earlier observation I agree with all you have shared in this video. It’s wonderfully articulated and is truth. I hope one day you might, like myself, come to believe that Yeshua is the prophet like Moses that YHVH promised to send to the Israelite’s that we must all hear and obey (which I appreciate you obey all you believe is truthfully spoken of him in the NT) and the root of Jesse that YHVH promised he would fill with his spirit (isa 9 etc). Stand aside the multiple witnesses at the new Testament testifies to this truth I think one of the most amazing thing that confirms this is that these passages of scripture have been universally ignored by the Orthodox Church since its conception. From my perspective it really speaks to the truth of that claim. But anyway bless you brother
@Ross K. Nichols So, does this mean you've converted to some form of Judaism? I appreciate you sharing your personal story and your walk, but am unclear on what to make of where you are now?
Excellent
Jesus said, “Before Abraham was, I AM.”
All Christians should watch something like this
This is one very good video. I recommend it.
Absolutely excellent job, thank you! I was so happy to have found you! I first saw you on Nehemiah Gordon TH-cam channel, I was confused about what you were and what you believe. I was so happy to find this video on your channel to understand that your primary intention is to follow Yeshua, the son of God, who is a son of man, not God in flesh!
I learned about the Sabbath and feasts in 2014 and left the churches. I finally felt peace but it did not cause me to lose my faith in Yeshua. It helped me understand Him better He was the New Covenant of Jeremiah 31:31. Jesus wrote the instructions for life in our hearts but the churches led people astray about the Torah.
Great video. Easy to follow and understand. However, my gut sank when he quoted Paul.
Right after he says his Bible is the Bible Jesus used, he reads from the NT????
The Catholic church follows a Triennial cycle of reading and it applies it also to the New Testament books
Some reform Jewish congregations follow a triennial cycle as well, but none of these are the ancient cycle I refer to. These are modern cycles.
Agreed brother, Paul also taught God’s commandments but many people misunderstand and twist Paul’s words(2 Peter 3:9-18) don’t be led astray by the error of the “lawless”
29:30 - your conclusion is perfectly sound of course, but I do want to pick up on something, you seem to be attributing these words to an actual historical Jesus without question. What do you say to those who see this passage as an indicator that the christians at the time gLuke was being composed (late first or early second century CE) were telling this resurrection story and being disbelieved? This reads far more like a petulant response to sceptics than something a historical
Jesus would have said back in his time. Christians still say this sort of thing today, in fact, as if it were an adequate substitute for some sort of actually convincing evidence.
40:10 Yes none of them knew. Funny how Paul in 1Cor.10:1-4 knew. Yet I have not encountered anyone who can cite the scripture. How can this be?
Ross I love listening to you I love your passion and your search for truth. But if you discount the testimony of the new Testament then you face being blind to understanding which specific passages in the Hebrew Bible are talking about Jesus.We both know and acknowledge that the new Testament text actually like the Hebrew Bible has undergone alteration, corruption and mistaken copying. But both books I believe still contain the truth of God but you must read the text critically as you do the Hebrew Bible. however we have the testimony of the book of Luke where it says Jesus revealed to his disciples which specific passages in the Hebrew Bible were speaking about him. I am surprised that you would discount these as being applicable to Jesus?
The answer for the correct Sabbath , the Sabbath of our Messiah can be found in Exodus 12:2 😊
The entire story in Luke starts with the lesson to the Pharisees and ends with Lazarus . It is about the Pharisees having found a house in the temple but not in GODS heart
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It increasingly seems to me that the Old Testament, especially the Pentateuch, is a parable warning from God that's attempting to illustrate, and educate us about, the toxic effects of State Established religion.
"It is finished."
What does this mean?
❤As a grateful servant dedicated to my first love above all. Our Father YHVH as Yeshua Only begotten Son of God, the Lamb of Yah who fulfilled Pesach Moedim & as proclaimed in Isaiah came to fulfill All of YaHuWaH's Moedim. ..'including most especially love of self'
Which is all this man proclaims. The complete absence of any reverence for the Almighty, nor any minute moment of honor worship glorifying or praising Our Omnipotent LovingKind Creator ❤& Messiah who I call my BFF Beloved Dohdee my Kinsman Redeemer who in person answered my heartfelt prayer and will always be my first love my everything my Saviour who died to set me foreverfree!! Sadly no where in all this man's videos or articles websites asking for moneys do I even once see him glorify Creator & Messiah. All that is said is completely void of walking with Ruach HaQodesh, miraculous epiphany's nor even a trace or indication of an intimate relationship with the Omnipotent Omniscient Omnipresent King of Kings & Sovereign of all the Angel Armies of His Shamayim✨🌟✨⚔️⚖️🤍🎚🧬👑🌈🕎✡️🛐✝️🖖🏻🙏🏼
The Joy of the Lord is my Strength💪🏼🌬👑 I delight in the eternal Torah of my Messiah, ❤who has written His Sacred Laws upon my heart foreverlasting as are His Mercies and Amazing Grace💜🖖🏻🎚👑🛐🕎🔥He walks w me and talks w me and I know I am His own. Agape Love for Creator Elohim above all, then others including our enemies...we are all children of the Most High . Jew & Gentile will come together as Children of the Most High thru Messiah Yeshua. Prince of Peace, mighty El, wonderful counselor, Vengeance is the Lamb of Gods. All Glory Honor Praise is His, worthy is the Lamb. > 🛐🎚🕎💟⚖️
So I got one question for you Ross, if you still follow jezus do believe that he was born of a virgin? do you believe that he was crucified on the cross for the sins of the world? do you believe that he rose and ascended to the throne room of YAHWEH? if you do then you are still following the jezus of christianity and not the jezus of what you have just proclaimed.
"New Testament was written many decades after Jesus was dead", was he ever dead at all, the first question ❓
"Thus saith J.E.V.E. !
Stand ye in the ways and see,
and ask : for the old paths…
Where is the good way ? and walk therein ;
and ye shall find rest : for your souls.
But they said, We will not walk therein.
Also I set over you : watchmen :
Hearken , to the sound of the trumpet.
But they said, We will not hearken.
Therefore, hear ye nations ;
and know O congregation, what is among them.
Hear O earth:
Behold I
will bring evil …
upon this people , even the fruit of their thoughts ;
because unto my words , they have not hearkened ;
nor to my law , but rejected it.
To what purpose to me this incense , from Sheba cometh ?
and the sweet cane , from a far country?
your burnt offerings : are not acceptable,
your sacrifices, not sweet unto me."
Jeremiah 6, parsed with the te 'amim
כֹּ֣ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֡ה
עִמְדוּ֩ עַל־דְּרָכִ֨ים וּרְא֜וּ
וְשַׁאֲל֣וּ ׀ לִנְתִב֣וֹת עוֹלָ֗ם
אֵי־זֶ֨ה דֶ֤רֶךְ הַטּוֹב֙ וּלְכוּ־בָ֔הּ
וּמִצְא֥וּ מַרְגּ֖וֹעַ לְנַפְשְׁכֶ֑ם
וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ לֹ֥א נֵלֵֽךְ׃
וַהֲקִמֹתִ֤י עֲלֵיכֶם֙ צֹפִ֔ים
הַקְשִׁ֖יבוּ לְק֣וֹל שׁוֹפָ֑ר
וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ לֹ֥א נַקְשִֽׁיב׃
לָכֵ֖ן שִׁמְע֣וּ הַגּוֹיִ֑ם
וּדְעִ֥י עֵדָ֖ה אֶת־אֲשֶׁר־בָּֽם׃
שִׁמְעִ֣י הָאָ֔רֶץ
הִנֵּ֨ה אָנֹכִ֜י
מֵבִ֥יא רָעָ֛ה
אֶל־הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּ֖ה פְּרִ֣י מַחְשְׁבוֹתָ֑ם
כִּ֤י עַל־דְּבָרַי֙ לֹ֣א הִקְשִׁ֔יבוּ
וְתוֹרָתִ֖י וַיִּמְאֲסוּ־בָֽהּ׃
לָמָּה־זֶּ֨ה לִ֤י לְבוֹנָה֙ מִשְּׁבָ֣א תָב֔וֹא
וְקָנֶ֥ה הַטּ֖וֹב מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מֶרְחָ֑ק
עֹלֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ לֹ֣א לְרָצ֔וֹן
וְזִבְחֵיכֶ֖ם לֹא־עָ֥רְבוּ לִֽי׃
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ירמיה 6:16-20 תנ"ך
At 5:20 you said "I will propose Jesus never claimed to be God." The Hebrew word God (Alahim) is plural.
John 8;58 "Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM (HaYah).”"
Ross, you omitted John 8;58 from your presentation. 🤦♂
Surely don't have an answer to this and you rare wrong!!
Refer to John 1:1 which cites the Prophets. Yeshua said, I existed before Abraham. That's why in Ps.110 God says to Messiah, you are My-King-of-Righteousness, the same who met with Ab-raam, case closed.
Jesus was before Abraham was because Jesus (the word made flesh) is the seed of God (Luke 8:11). The seed proceeded from the Father, sowed in the womb of Mary. When a man sows his seed into a woman and she conceives, it brings forth a son or daughter, not the father that sowed it.
Whoever has seen Me has seen the Father.
I and the Father are one.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
No man comes to the Father except by me... how can that be any other than God himself?
@@davidfischer545 #1 Whom was he addressing? He was addressing bani Israel. It would be a sick kind of God to deny heaven to everyone other than bani Israel. In fact it would be contrary to Noach and his sons.
#2 God has no rivals and the true Gospel never contradicts the original Bible.
#3 No man can see God in this life and live, unless by some kind of dream vision when not in body and sleeping.
He was an Eastern Mediterranean , Semitic man, dark haired brown eyed - not a blonde Woodstock 69 type
2:50
I agree with you on many points, most especially about the Written Torah being still valid. However, if you still believe in YEHOSHUA at all, as you claim to follow him, I don’t understand how you do not continue to acknowledge that He states that He made the New Covenant in His Blood for the forgiveness of His people’s iniquities. I know you have researched the Hebrew Matthew, and Matthew 26:26-29 still has this in The Hebrew. You seem to acknowledge still that Yehoshua is God’s (Yehovah’s) Son, which I agree with. My understanding at this point is that repentance to keep the Commandments of God (given through Moses and including the higher commandments given through Yehoshua) AND faith in Yehoshua (for the forgiveness of your sins) are both required to be one of his “Saints” - Kedoshim - according to the Hebrew Matthew and Revelation 14:12.
[Revelation 14:12 KJV] 12 Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
See the issue is that Jesus never really taught any of this. Whenever I ask any Christians about certain NT principles, they never quote Jesus, but other men like Paul who teach a different message. What Ross is demonstrating here is that Jesus’s teachings were in line with Judaism, not the teachings of Paul.
@@ChristianCarrizales I agree that Paul is not to be listened to. Yehoshua is. But, the Hebrew Matthew text does show that he is the Messiah who is the Son of God, the son of the virgin (Matthew 8:20), the Son of Man described in Daniel 7:9-14 that will return from Heaven, and many other titles of the Messiah. Just wondering if Ross still believes this.
Walk without fear's and believe on yourself.We humans are created from spirit and can do like spirit's
I had the same experience brother. Well said. Thank you. may the God most high father of our messiah and high priest bless you.
OT and NT scriptures are in agreement. You can't understand the new without studying the old first. The disciples had only the OT plus the books removed. It's not a new different teaching. 1 gospel, 1 law 1 covenant for mortal man a new covenant for immortal/ resurrected man.
Our eyes were opened in 2011. We had blasphemed God for 50 years in our churchianity faith. Now we obey what Yeshua and all disciples obeyed.
I think your title is a little confusing. A "Christian" in the Bible is one who obeyed Torah and walked out their faith like Messiah. It's those who worship "church", (I call it "churchianity") today, that refuse to give up their false doctrine bc they cannot imagine giving up "church." Sadly, this is not an obedient format as described in the NT where there is to be no authority structure accept the Spirit of God. No titles and alphabet soup. No head covering nicolaitan system allowed. But all modern day false systems of worship display all those details that God forbids.
When you have decided that Yeshua is not God also, you said "the totality" of the text helps make it clear. But you are not agreeing with the totality of the text. Yes, Yeshua is lesser. Yes, Yeshua has a God. Yes, Yeshua prayed to His Father. Yes, Yeshua is one with the Father and wants us to have that same type of relationship. But as well, and not to be ignored, is that Yeshua does what only YHVH is prophesied to do. Yeshua is described as only YHVH is described. He has the attributes only God has and the power only God is described to have. John recognized this when introducing Yeshua and that is why He is introduced in this manner as GOD.
The Father God YHVH is not seen yet God, YHVH, was sitting, eating and negotiating with Abraham. Was Abraham not able to see this person with whom he shared a meal and tried to make a deal? God YHVH is not seen yet God YHVH was speaking to Manoah and his wife and to Gideon. How is that possible? How is it possible to believe both sides; God YHVH is not seen yet God YHVH was seen? Instead of ignoring the side of that issue that doesn't fit your narrative or conclusion, how is it possible to believe both sides of that issue?
Yes, Yeshua claimed to be God , proved the prophesies about YHVH by doing them, AND He claimed He had a God. BOTH!
While no prophet's writings has the weight of Torah which are the words of YHVH, the NT is simply a diary account of how the prophesies played out. You cannot ignore the NT. What you have to do is understand it in the context of Torah just like you understand the prophet's writings in the context of Torah. Torah supersedes all. The NT contains the words of Yeshua. You cannot throw those out or think they are less valuable because they validate the Father's words. Yeshua IS who Isaiah said, "Almighty God, Everlasting Father" and they will be/and are truly one.
So how would the Father be the God with authority over all and yet He has a Spirit who is also God and a fleshly body, also God. Perhaps when the Bible describes us (in His image) of having a soul, a spirit and a body, we can then understand exactly what is being communicated. If our spirit could act separately from us, yet not be independent but still subservient, our spirit would do what we (soul) decided. Same with our physical body. If our body could be separate yet still subservient, then both body and spirit who are still us or in the case of the Bible, still God, bow their will to God, communicate with God and are subservient to God. Just like my body would still be me and my spirit would still be me. After all, we see throughout tanak that there is a physical visible body called YHVH interacting with man. And we read the spirit, visible at times in different forms interacting with man. Regardless of the label you put on this phenomenon, it is undeniable that the Bible describes these facts.
Zech 14:9 And Yehovah shall be King over all the earth. In that day it shall be- “Yehovah is one,” and His name one. (remember Yehoshua is actually "Yehovah's salvation")
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37:40 haha! Yes, you tripped past this without much fanfare, but good on you for at least mentioning the original in gMark. Again, i dont see the value in using gMatt here instead of the original, especially wince gMatt does make this obviously clumsy vhange, in order to avoid having Jesus assert that he is not as good as god, as he does in gMark. In the gMark wuestion this gives the impression that Jesus is a bit hard of hearing or something!
@52:40 When YAHWEH spoke to the prophets to speak to Israel what HE wants them to hear, HE spoke it to the prophet, and it was recorded in scripture, then the prophet spoke what YAHWEH said. IF jezus is speaking YAHWEH's words then where is YAHWEH speaking in the nt what he is to say then jezus repeating it?? nowhere. thats why jezus did not speak what YAHWEH told him to speak.
You, my friend, are a Pharisee. White tombs polished on the outside. Do you realize that Jesus fulfilled the law? Did you know that Jesus ‘broke’ the law by healing on the sabbath? Do you realize that the apostles met on Sundays (first day of the week) and that Jesus was resurrected on a Sunday according to text? I understand that one still feels the need to do all the shalls and shall nots, but God made it possible to be sanctified in Jesus. Jesus did say if you have seen him, you have seen the Father, he and the Father are one. He also stated the he is ‘I am’. Go back and read with proper light. Many asked how to be saved and Jesus said BELIEVE. Did he say believe and follow the law? Man cannot obtain God’s mercy and grace through law.
The variations in Christianity are almost 100 percent based on contradictions in the New Testament. We must abandon Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Paul's books - all the books - including Revelation, as it also defies the account of Matthew (Revelation 4).
I've been wondering what your world view was which underlies your videos. @4:00 Right from the start, Jesus, Himself would say your particular theology is based on error. "The Law and the Prophets were until John; since that time the good news of the kingdom of God is proclaimed, and everyone is forcing his way into it." [Luk 16:16 LSB]
Further, the Word of God is very clear: Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. [1Jo 2:22-23 ESV]
But if you don’t have the right Son, you can’t have the right Father. Ideas that don’t align with the fulness of Scripture need to be revised, not explained away. Even Satan quoted Scripture out of context and people frequently hold onto only those verses that support what they want to believe. So what was the Gospel that Jesus/Yeshua proclaimed and had His disciples proclaim back before they knew he would die? He didn’t even begin to teach his disciples that he would die and rise again until near the END of his ministry! Surely the gospel that is proclaimed now can’t be the same as what Jesus/Yeshua was teaching. So which “gospel” is correct? His or yours?
@@gtw4546 I follow Messiah Jesus. This fellow does not.
@@eclipseeventsigns I’m sure the scribes and Pharisees would have said the same sort of thing, “I follow YHWH. This fellow does not.” But did they really?
@@gtw4546 This guy plainly says the Messiah Jesus was not God. That is all I need to hear that he is not be listened to and does not know what he is talking about. end of story.
@@eclipseeventsigns That’s not what I got out of it. What I understand is that he’s saying there is no “trinity.” Yeshua and the Father are “echad.” Yeshua’s commands are the same as the Father’s commands. Put another way, Yeshua is the Torah incarnate, the “Living Word,” the very heart of God being expressed in bodily form.
But “trinity” is very pagan, usually expressed in a father god/mother goddess/child god - and THAT is something we need to clear out of our thinking! It is a syncretism introduced during the time of Constantine to appease the pagans so they could retain their Ishtar worship and Saturnalia childmas festivities.
YHWH led me out of Christianity.
John 3:14 - 2 Kings 18:4
Yeshua's definitely not the problem , it's the version of Yeshua that the apostate , false apostle Paul taught , the version that Paul got from the FALSE CHRIST that he encountered on the road to Damascus . Yeshua , His brother James The Just and The actual Twelve Apostles , The Ebionites taught the Torah . That's the proper path
Do you see Jesus as a prophet? Why did he has to die or is that put in just as the story of the woman that has been caught in adultery?
Because we know that there are things put in or added in the New Testament.
I believe that nobody has to die for your sins. Everybody is responsible and the Torah make you righteous. Please ket me know how you see these points.
Jer 6:16
👉Look around for the old, godly way, and walk on it... And God is talking to the Jews 😎
Oh, quick comment about Matthew five. You cannot willfully and habitually break even small commandments, and expect to enter the kingdom of heaven. You touched on it by expressing that the word translated in Greek could be translated loosen. So what I believe Yeshua is saying is for those who don’t emphasize properly the minor commandments, they will be called least in the kingdom of heaven…. So to say “those who loosen the least of these commandments…”. I don’t think you would believe that someone could habitually break the lease of the commandments, and enter into the kingdom of heaven, right? Obviously, every human being has sinned and needs to repent and those will enter the kingdom of heaven but to just say you can break Commandments habitually without regard, no matter how small, will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
God standeth in the congregation of the mighty;
He judgeth among the gods.
How long will ye judge unjustly,
And accept the persons of the wicked?
Selah.
Defend the poor and fatherless:
Do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Deliver the poor and needy:
Rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
They know not, neither will they understand;
They walk on in darkness:
All the foundations of the earth are out of course.
I have said, Ye are gods;
And all of you are children of the most High.
But ye shall die like men,
And fall like one of the princes.
Arise, O God, judge the earth:
For thou shalt inherit all nations.
Psalm 82
מִזְמ֗וֹר לְאָ֫סָ֥ף
אֱֽלֹהִ֗ים
נִצָּ֥ב בַּעֲדַת־אֵ֑ל
בְּקֶ֖רֶב אֱלֹהִ֣ים יִשְׁפֹּֽט׃
עַד־מָתַ֥י תִּשְׁפְּטוּ־עָ֑וֶל
וּפְנֵ֥י רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים תִּשְׂאוּ־סֶֽלָה׃
שִׁפְטוּ־דַ֥ל וְיָת֑וֹם
עָנִ֖י וָרָ֣שׁ הַצְדִּֽיקוּ׃
פַּלְּטוּ־דַ֥ל וְאֶבְי֑וֹן
מִיַּ֖ד רְשָׁעִ֣ים הַצִּֽילוּ׃
לֹ֤א יָֽדְע֨וּ ׀ וְלֹ֥א יָבִ֗ינוּ
בַּחֲשֵׁכָ֥ה יִתְהַלָּ֑כוּ
יִ֝מּ֗וֹטוּ כָּל־מ֥וֹסְדֵי אָֽרֶץ׃
אֲֽנִי־אָ֭מַרְתִּי אֱלֹהִ֣ים אַתֶּ֑ם
וּבְנֵ֖י עֶלְי֣וֹן כֻּלְּכֶֽם׃
אָ֭כֵן כְּאָדָ֣ם תְּמוּת֑וּן
וּכְאַחַ֖ד הַשָּׂרִ֣ים תִּפֹּֽלוּ׃
קוּמָ֣ה אֱ֭לֹהִים שָׁפְטָ֣ה הָאָ֑רֶץ
כִּֽי־אַתָּ֥ה תִ֝נְחַ֗ל בְּכָל־הַגּוֹיִֽם׃
Did he follow the commandments?? Mat 21:18 Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. 19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
So he cursed a fruit tree and caused it to die, contrast that with the torah.
Deu 20:19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
according to torah jezus disobeyed torah.
Very well done, Ross!
But in order to walk in the ancient path, we must first understand the ancient instruction. And to understand the ancient instruction, we must understand the ancient language in which the Holy Text was written, which is symbolic.
You have concluded that following Jesus is keeping God's Commandments, and rightly so when it pertains to the kingdom of heaven, where those that obey and teach them are the greatest. However, Jesus also teaches that the greatest in the kingdom of heaven is he who becomes as a "little child" (Matthew 18:1-3), through which one fulfills the law, the instruction for which is encoded in the symbolism of Jesus' parables (Matthew 23:26). The Pharisees kept the law (commandments), so Jesus is speaking of something greater than obedience to the law.
When tempted/tested by his religious brothers as to which law was the greatest, Jesus answered with God's ONE SPIRITUAL LAW or COMMANDMENT: LOVE toward God and toward our brother by way of a love of self. How do we demonstrate our love of self? God so loved the world he gave the world Jesus. We demonstrate our love of self by giving ourselves Truth, so we can't truly love our brother until we love ourself. The reason Jesus correlates this love (Mark 12:33,34) with the kingdom of God (which Jesus says is within us/Luke 17:21) is because the kingdom of God is something beyond the kingdom of heaven. It is the difference between carnal and spiritual. So, when Jesus said he came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it, he is speaking of the spiritual works that fulfill the carnal commandments.
Jesus does not care if we "believe" [in] him (John 10:37,38). He desires for us to "believe the works," the word "believe" meaning "to obey or put action to." Spiritual obedience to spiritual works, which supersedes carnal obedience to the carnal works of the law!
"If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not." John 10:37 (KJV)
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” John 14:12 (KJV)
What are the "works of the Father'? Creation.
Creation took place when God spoke His word (Genesis 1:3), which is the sowing of God's seed (Luke 8:11), through which all things are made (John 1:3). So when Jesus said, "I and my Father are one" (John 10:30) he is referring to creation, as the God's physical creation is a pattern/instruction for the spiritual creation that takes place within us when we believe/obey the spiritual works that Jesus spoke of and demonstrated for us while he was on earth; a new creation formed within us through the sowing of God's seed (truth) into our heart, as God's seed was sowed into the earth, which symbolizes the heart.
Spiritual instructions for following Jesus:
"And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." Matthew 19:28 (KJV)
regeneration: the act or process of regenerating or the state of being regenerated, especially. Regenerate: to form, construct, or create anew.
“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.” Revelation 21:1 (KJV)
“For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” Matthew 5:18 (KJV)
Jesus is speaking of the passing of a spiritual heaven and earth, "the first heaven and the first earth," formed within us as "little child," heaven symbolizing the mind, the earth symbolizing the heart.
The number 12 (Matthew 19:28) represents judgment, the "twelve tribes of Israel" symbolizing the spiritual (internal) judgment through which the law is fulfilled within us. It is not Jesus the man that fulfills the law, it is the spiritual works Jesus encourages us to believe/obey.
The path that leads to ETERNAL spiritual life just got narrower!
Sandra L Butler
Just like Carl Marx wasn't Marxist.
But Marxism would not exist without his views. Same as Christ.
Bible says the New Testament is a cup of blood.
Matthew 26:28
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Mark 14:24
And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
Luke 22:20
Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
1 Corinthians 11:25
After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
2 Corinthians 3:6
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Hebrews 9:15
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
jezus also claimed that he was with the Father before the world was created. Yet YAHWEH states that there was NO ONE with HIM when HE created the world. The only one's with YAHWEH during creation was the angels only.