Be Doers of the Word: Does James Affirm the Torah’s Validity? 

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I think you have that backwards but not even. Chaldeans and Greeks are not related at all. They are polar opposite. Babylon existed before Chaldea or Kaldu and was in southeast Mesopotamia region before being absorbed by Babylonians then Persians. Greeks were much further to the west and didn't even enter that area too much until 500 B.C. after the fall of Babylon as it was known then. Flee from Babylon is all you have to say. Why you even bring Greeks up seems more like you're trying to reach a s create an extra narrative.

@@chuckdeuces911 fantastic knowledge of that. The Assyrian empire yes but who runs the world today in modern day Babylon? Do you see the kaiser under the UN flag? What nations will be destroyed and what nations will be spared?

The point of the comment?……REMOVE YOURSELF FROM THE WAYS IF THE NATIONS!!!! Clean yourselves from that that is profane. RETURN to the Ways of YAHUAH!! Point taken!!! HALLELUYAH!!!!

@@deborahhuber8527 remove yourself physically and return to Abraham's covenant

​@@escapingbabylon8730what.

They like being gentiles because they feel they have no laws to keep... how convenient...

I get that alot.

@perryscott4204 So frustrating trying to explain the truth to some. They always bring up temporal death and OSAS or how the Law was done by Messiah so we don't have to. It's crazy.

Well then they should also exclude themselves from the new covenant because it's between the house of Israel and the house of Judah. I mean here is a question to put forth...Are you grafted in or not? It was the GENTILES that converted, not the "Jews".

To add to this conversation... As I was listening I had to pause constantly going down other rabbit holes. The one in which I believe is the most valuable to this conversation in this reply is the fact that Acts 21 is in the context of Shaul going to Jerusalem for Shavuot some 25 years or so after Messiahs death on The Cross. At that time as the video mentions James tells Shaul the people think he teaches against Moshe, so James tells Shaul go show the people before Shavuot that you this is a lie and perform the purification ritual found in Lev 14:8-10. Shaul does so. Then Shaul goes on in the next chapters to defend the Torah/Law claiming he is still a JEW (22:3). Even mentioning Ananias was a Torah follower (22:12), then in 24:14, defends the Torah again by stating he follows it. Then ends Acts in 28:23, preaching from the Torah and Prophets from morning till evening. Blessings family.

As the LAW will be written on our hearts, even Sacrifices will continue in the Millennium Reign: Mal 3 v 3-4, Isa 56 v 7, Jer 33 v 18, Zechariah 14 v 20-21, Ez 43 v 20, 26… Because they are a reminder only of sins every year: Hebrews 10 v 2-4

Acts 21:18-26

Paul never taught that you could eat pork. Pork, among other items, was not considered food to jews/early church fathers. Also, the pharisees had a strict ritual to wash hands before meals. Romans 14:20 parallels Mark 7:14-23 (thus he declared all foods clean) ... the context of this chapter, verses 1-4, has everything to do with ceremonial hand washing... not abolishing and undoing a commandment of God regarding certain things which humans are not supposed to eat.

@Dan. Acts 15. We need to read it in context because context is everything. Acts 15 ask one question. Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers: “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved. Some though you needed to follow all laws first in order to be saved. The council determined this . Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. 21 For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath So to enter the faith this must be done first, then they will learn in the synagogues the rest of God's law on every sabbath day. It's the same with new believers today. We do not expect new believers to be as righteous as Enoch the day they are saved. They learn how to be righteous from the word of God and this can take a lifetime of study. So the council did not rule as your misinterpretation states. We do not offer sacrifice because there is no Temple to offer it at. Unclean could refer to animals God did not intend to be used as food (listed in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14). Unclean could also refer to ceremonial uncleanness. An entirely different word, akathartos, is used in the New Testament for animals Scripture specifies as unclean such as pig. In Romans 14 Paul uses the word koinos, which means “common” (W.E. Vine, Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, 1985, “Unclean,” p. 649). In addition to the meanings of “common” and “ordinary,” as used in English (Acts 2:44; 4:32; Titus 1:4; Hebrews 10:29; Jude 3), the word also applied to things considered polluted or defiled. This word, along with its verb form koinoo, is used in Mark 7:2, 15-23, where it obviously refers to ceremonial uncleanness in the incident when the disciples ate without having first washed their hands. Through a concordance or similar Bible help you can verify that koinos and koinoo appear throughout the New Testament to refer to this kind of ceremonial uncleanness. Something could be “common”-ceremonially unclean-even though it was otherwise considered a clean meat. 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: This verse uses those prior thoughts to refute a claim made by false teachers. These deceivers were telling Colossian Christians that they must follow specific rituals, rules, and regulations in order to be saved. In the next verse, Paul will call these concepts "a shadow of the things to come," or something much less important than Christ Himself.

Sunday christianity is a religion of satan.

U missed the point

@@patrickmatadi5352 please inform me what i missed or how i missed, thanks .....if i missed it some other people missed it as well good sir maybe

But gentiles are grafted in to Israel. There is no difference between Jew and Greek Romans 10:12. one God, one Law.

@@AlexxTehGreat, Sorry to inform you but the Greeks Paul referenced throughout the N.T. were Northern Tribe Israelites aka Lost Sheep. Ezekiel 37:16-17 is a prophesy about Israel and Judah reuniting into a single tribe once again. Paul epistles are about bringing the Northern tribe who were considered Gentiles, back into the fold. Peace

The new covenant per Jeremiah is with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. And the NT says “gentiles” are grafted in. Ruth ceased to be a Moabite when she cleaved to the covenant of YHWH. Kaleb was part of the tribe of Judah but his ancestry was not Israel. Yeshua said ALL ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED. The gates of the new Jerusalem are named for the 12 tribes, there is no “gentile” gate. Those that believe in Yeshua/Jesus BECOME part of Israel. So once you believe…everything in the book written to Israel now applies to you 😁

​@@deborahhuber8527, "once you believe…everything in the book written to Israel now applies to you." This false a doctrine of ERROR and is NOWHERE in the Bible. The Most High Made a covenant with Israelites which they broke. As punishment us Israelites where cursed. Daniel was a righteous prophet yet he was held under the curse of captivity. Gentile believers have NEVER been held under the curses that have been inflicted onto the the Israelites. Israel only entered into the covenant and Israel only received the curses. Therefore Israel ONLY will receive the blessings. This is why in Mat 15:26 Christ told the Canaanite woman (who was a believer) "It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs." The Children referred to are the Israelites and the dogs are non Israelites. And yes Christ ended up granting her request but only after she acknowledged she was not one of the children but a dog. Christ NEVER told her since she had faith she was now one of the Children. Gentile believers can worship and have faith in The Most High but cannot become Israelites. Ruth married an Israelite man and became maternal lineage of King David but she was NEVER ONE TIME called an Israelite. Corneilus the centurion received the Holy Spirit but was NEVER AT ANY POINT CALLED AN ISRAELITE. Romans 11:26 when says "And so all Israel shall be saved." This is referring to the prophecy when the Northern Kingdom (Israel) and Southern Kingdom (Judah) are once again united. Do you understand? Peace

Sabbath, dietary laws, festivals, species days of remembrance, I get all of that but literally everything is really irrational and that's coming from some one who is extremely conservative and agrees with most of your teachings.

Exactly can't be kept because there is no temple. How I see it though is to not totally shun the feasts and new moons because we can learn much from them in a prophetic sense, like when he will return, but because there is no temple it's a choic nowe like circumcision, theres no strict obligation. That was pauls whole point in (Colossians 2:14-17 KJV) do not judge about these matters. Where as before if one didn't keep the cerminonies they would be judged by the priests at the temple, but obviously no temple = no judgement for not keeping them so were free to choose now, but we also shouldn't judge people in the hebrew roots and messianic community who decide to keep them. I personally have started keeping the feasts this year. I was very confused if the last supper was a passover, but it was certainly a great learning experience, and I can't wait for shavaot!

God told them he was tired of all the feasts and ceremonies. The point of it all was that the sacrifice lost its meaning. They had plenty of animals so instead of not sinning, they didn’t mind just sacrificing another animal to take care of the sin. That’s why Jesus came as flesh and blood man bc he was human and the sacrifice should have meant more than an animal but it didn’t to those who were so blinded by sin, nothing else mattered. It kind of sounds like how modern Christianity is by making it sound like it’s ok to sin bc we’re human and it’s going to happen but Jesus forgives us so we’re good and can just carry on but I think that is a very dangerous position to take. When does it go from being an unwilling sin to being excused and justified. As humans, we tend to do that when we want something..There is a saying my husband used to use before we came to Christ that always irked me and really does now..” ask for forgiveness instead of permission”. That’s abuse of mercy and for me personally, I really hate to think about abusing my Lord Jesus Christ’s mercy. That doesn’t mean we are never again going to sin but maybe it means we don’t choose to sin. And if we do sin, we quickly recognize and repent and he forgives us and we carry on…that’s what the Holy Spirit does for us…this is just my opinion of how I’ve been led by the Lord to comprehend scripture.

​​@@matthewshannongreen1900Hebrews 10:26-27 Christ or Judgment 26 For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES. ______________read more: 1 John 2:1 NASB2020 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous

You need to read Acts 15:1-35, and read it carefully. James specifically mentioned that Gentiles _were instructed from the Law every Sabbath_ . Whether or not the Law should be kept was not the issue. The issue was specifically about whether or not physical circumcision was necessary under the New Covenant(Acts:15:1-2,6). Nowhere in the entire chapter did any of the apostles or elders say "let's throw the entire Torah in the trash and forget about it".

@@theeternalsbeliever1779 I don't appreciate that you selectively ignored (Acts 15: 5 Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to keep the law of Moses.”) which includes the argument of keeping Moses law, where it is obvious that Acts 15:6 refers to both Circumcision and Keeping Moses Law question. Besides you can see from Peter's argument in verse 10 (10 Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear?) obviously, he is not talking about the burden of circumcision because Jews didn't have an issue with Circumcision, but keeping Moses Law was the main issue that the Jews couldn't keep under the old covenant and that's why Jesus completed the old covenant and started a new one. Jesus is the Torah written in our hearts under the new covenant. And finally, you misunderstood what James said in Acts 15: 19-21 (19 “It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. 20 Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. 21 For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”) Jaems is saying that Jews has enough teachings on weekly bases from Moses Law but we need to send (new) instructions with elected disciples to the gentiles to inform them not to be burdened by circumcision and by keeping mosses law.

@@basharelia The "circumcision party" was a group of Pharisees that taught that in order to be SAVED, you must first be circumcised. This is a false doctrine taught that salvation was by circumcision (and therefore replacing Christ) and that is what Paul was addressing in verse 10. This is the whole context of the book of Galatians. Also, your interpretation of verse 20 doesn't make any sense. Gentiles don't need to keep the law of moses but (abstaining from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood) are literally all things FROM the law. New gentile believers had limited information about the law, that law that has lots of information and commandments and takes time to learn about. You didn't walk into 1st grade as a child and understood college algebra because there is a lot to learn up until that point. The gentiles went to sabbath services in the synagogue to gain a gradual knowledge of something that contains a lot of information and ties directly back to verse 10. If you continue on in Acts, Paul was accused of teaching against the law. Paul takes a nazarite vow (Acts 21:23-26) to show that there is no truth in those claims. Scripture shows that Paul continued to keep the law his entire life by keeping the sabbath, dietary laws, and holy days.

@@AlexxTehGreat I am not sure we are reading the same chapter because Acts 15:10 is Peter speaking and not Paul, and the argument about the burden was about both Circumcision and Keeping Moses law (Acts 15:5). So, you keep dismissing the fact that their discussion was about both Circumcision and Keeping mosses law. And the final instruction was not to burden gentiles with Circumcision and Keeping Moses law beyond Acts 15:20 so no sabbath no animal sacrifices no circumcision and no need to follow the old covenant at all. So the same argument against circumcision goes against keeping Moses law because gentiles now are the sons of Abrahim before circumcision and before the covenant (that's Romans 3 and 4). While, Christians who were Jews (including all apostles plus Paul) they still had to honor Moses law because they were the sons of the old covenant. but that Technically ended by 70 AD when the temple was destroyed, and the entire old covenant was brought to an end. So how you can keep the entire Torah without animal sacrifices in the temple? Why your focus is only on the Sabbath? When was the last time you offered animal sacrifice in the temple for your sins? Are you following the Torah with animal sacrifices? Do pregnant women offer animal sacrifice after giving birth? Paul didn't teach against Moses law for the Jews or Christians who were Jews, he preached that Gentiles don't need to follow Moses law to be fully Christians. Paul himself followed Moses law till the end but he was against making Gentiles keep Moses law. Finally, how do you think Jews would allow gentiles to go to the temple and offer animal sacrifices and keep Moses law if they refuse to get circumcised?????? ًWe are the Sons of Abrahim without circumcision and without Moses law, Jesus is our high priest who sacrificed himself and to went to heaven to submit his sacrifice and that what brought an end to the entire old covenant. That is the entire book of Hebrews

@@basharelia Acts 15:1 But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” You taking one verse out of context with the assumption that the burden that's being talked about is the law... Matthew 5:18-19 is pretty clear

Yeshua, Paul, and the apostles were all keeping the law throughout their lives? We are instructed to imitate Paul as he imitates Christ?