ON GALATIANS & TORAH Chapter I Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, you Pretenders!
For you travel all over the dry land and around the coast lands of the sea to make one convert, and when he is made, you make him twice the son of hell-fire as yourselves. Mattit'yahu (Matthew) 23:15 In this study you will learn about the debate that the Emissaries (Apostles) and other believing Jewish leaders had concerning the conversion process, and about how that conversion process should be applied to gentile believers coming in from among the nations. The question of which boiled down to whether or not the gentile convert believers needed to partake in the Temple sacrifices in addition to their faith in Yeshua's sacrifice, or if faith in His sacrifice alone was sufficient. In this study you will learn what the Hebrew idioms, "works of the law", and "under the law" meant, and what the word justified meant, to the first century Jewish believers who had lived, and grown up, and spent all their lives participating in a Temple centered covenant, with its sacrifices, and of how Yeshua affected the process in how we, and the gentiles alike, are to approach Elohim (God) for the remission of our sins. This study is on the Book of Galatians, the most commonly misunderstood and misquoted book outside of the Book of Romans. And why is it misunderstood and misquoted - and I might add, often mistranslated? Because it, like all the rest of Scripture is a Hebrew book, written by Jews, and as such, can only be understood within the Hebrew mindset, language, and culture, as well as political environment that they were written and inspired within. The understanding of which has not been applied by the translators of the Christian bibles. So to get to the heart of the matter, we can begin by asking, what is a Jew? The word “Jew” in Hebrew is “Yahudi” [pronounced “Yahoodee”], which comes from the Hebrew word “Yahudah” (Judah). And accordingly, in the most strict and original sense of the word, a Jew is a descendent of the tribe of Judah. Page 1 of 52
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