@TribesmenMike,
Wherein I address #3
Lemme ask you something then.
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12 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household. 4 If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. 5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. 6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. 7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. 8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. 9 Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs. 10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. 11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover.
Yet most Jews blatantly disobey this law. They instead have a token "lamb", only a shank. Sometimes, they even have chicken. Or fish. But the Torah says lamb. Why?
As a Christian, I have had a Christian Seder. We eat lamb. It's storebought lamb, but still. Even when there isn't Seder on Thursday, we eat lamb on Sunday. Because Jesus was the Lamb of God. Now, the Christians do not need to sacrifice anything. Jesus is sufficient sacrifice for our sins, so the lamb is a meal not a sacrifice. No need to spread blood on the door either, for Christ's blood is shed for us. So a meal is sufficient. But lamb is an important reminder that Jesus is the Lamb of God, the perfect offering for our sins.
Even the Samaritans keep this sacrifice (though in this case, they do make as a sacrifice, unlike the Christians). Yet the Jews have decided not to keep what their law clearly laid out by the Torah.
https://www.oneforisrael.org/holidays/reason-wont-find-lamb-jewish-passover-meal/
I like Jews. I am in a regular friendship with one, helping him with a book. And we argue like cats and dogs. Since his book is about a catgirl, maybe literally.
But what this tells me is that the refusal to eat lamb is a turning one's back on the reality of lamb as part of the Passover, because it requires them to face the elephant in the room.
Or here, when the Torah falls to the ground, they must fast. But this makes the Torah an idol. Neither the Torah nor the Temple are to be worshipped.
Quote:You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath. 5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.…
And these are clearly manmade things!
Nor do you keep kosher properly. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
https://defendinginerrancy.com/bible-solutions/Exodus_23.19.php
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The real problem is why did God forbid this? There are many possible reasons given by commentators:
1. Because it was an idolatrous practice.
2. Because it was a magical (occult) practice to try to make the land more productive.
3. Because it was cruel to destroy a baby goat in the very milk which sustained it.
4. Because milk and meat are difficult to digest.
5. Because it shows contempt for the parent-child relationship.
6. Because it would symbolically profane the Feast of Ingathering.
7. Because God wanted them to cook with olive oil, not butter.
8. Because it was too luxurious or Epicurean.
The truth is that we do not know for sure why God commanded this. But it does not really matter, since the Israelites knew exactly what they were not to do, even if they did not fully understand why. So while there is a problem in understanding the purpose of this passage, there is no problem in understanding its meaning. It means exactly what it says.
If you do not understand a law, you are not able to keep it.
The spirit of the law is always more important than its letter, or you are unable to keep it at all. And this is the point Jesus made, that the law was misread and impossible to keep, and someone had to die for our sins. You see, if you do not understand the law, you do not understand that eating chicken with eggs is also in violation, as is High Fructose Corn Syrup (which is produced by mixing corn with itself). #3, #5, #6, and maybe #1. For all of these reasons, but especially the idea of cannibalizing a parent-child relationship. And neither should we behave this way with our own children, forcing them to give up their hopes and dreams, to die on the altar of filial piety. For parents to lay on a crushing burden on their own kids. "He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind." We cannibalize our children whenever we feed them doctrine rather than teaching them to be faithful and wise, able to interpret the Torah or Bible.
The New Testament is allegory for the leadup to the destruction of the Temple, and why it was okay that the Temple fell. It is not relevant whether a historical Jesus existed, though no credible historian denies it.
https://jamesbishopblog.com/2015/01/08/36-reasons-why-scholars-know-jesus-really-existed/
So yes, the Samaritans (Samarians?) were right! Your laws have been corrupted. Yet Jesus is also right that it doesn't matter, because it is mercy and worship of God, and not sacrifice that is important. (Hosea 6:6 btw) It is impossible to follow the laws, as we do not even understand them!
Now, Jesus is not believed to be the Messiah because it is widely assumed (from books like Maccabees) that the Messiah should free them from earthly powers. Be a military ruler. But that is a backward and barbaric revenge-based notion of what God's anointed should be. God tells us, "Vengeance is mine."
Go ahead, borrow the book of Revelation from a Christian bible. You will find that it is not in fact a Christian book at all, but a book written by a messianic Jewish heretic (not all Messianic Jews are heretics, but this one was) written about judgement on this "synagogue of Satan" using imagery straight from Ezekiel. It's a false prophecy, intended to get Christians to continue to wait as Jews have.
https://www.oneforisrael.org/bible-based-teaching-from-israel/messiah-suffering-servant-or-victorious-king/
Until 1000 years ago, no self-respecting Jewish leader interpreted Isaiah 53 as anything other than about the Messiah suffering.
The Gospel addresses this seeming two Messiahs by having there be a Jesus Barabbas (Jesus "son of the father") at the same time there is Jesus of Nazareth (Nazareth is a hick town that people are shown wondering if anything good can come out of it). The crowd (representing larger Jewish culture) is persuaded to ask for the latter's crucifixion.
But let's address this paradox. Specifically Daniel.
Quote:25 Then King Darius wrote to all the nations and peoples of every language in all the earth:
“May you prosper greatly!
26 “I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel.
“For he is the living God
and he endures forever;
his kingdom will not be destroyed,
his dominion will never end.
27
He rescues and he saves;
he performs signs and wonders
in the heavens and on the earth.
He has rescued Daniel
from the power of the lions.”
28 So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
Have you noticed? This is the end. This is how the narrative actually ends, with his great prosperity after serving kings on behalf of God.
From Daniel 7 onward, we have a number of tacked-on chapters. Not only is there a narrative shift, going from the story of Daniel to an extended amount of prophecies, but there is grammatical shift. Suddenly, we see Daniel talk in first person. Not only that, we see a shift to prophecies about vengeance. This has several hallmarks of being tampered with, especially the shift from events involving real kings to extended prophetic nonsense.
Daniel 2 also has prophecy. But unlike the others above, there is not such confused imagery, and it can clearly be interpreted as several ages, after which God builds a kingdom that can can never be toppled.
Why then is there so much evil in the world?
...Say the Shema to me.
Quote:Hear o Israel, the Lord your God is One.
Because we humans do not accept God as One, the God who Isaiah 45:7 says brings light and darkness, but believe that evil is in control, even men are allowed to mask the narrative.
Turn off your news. You will see that nature is in accord with as God plans. Birds chirp and the land is fertile year after year despite climate change doom and gloom. God has already set up his eternal kingdom, it is up to us to support his anointed. As long as that DOESN'T happen, we are stuck with 1 Samuel 8, where we want earthly kings to rule us. You will complain, but God will not hear you, he says.
As long as we continue to prop up the election of kings, presidents, popes, and even high priests, we continue to have senseless wars over country boundaries. The boundary of your country is ordained by God, it will return to its natural shape once we understand the true nature of this world and stop believing the delusion. And what is the delusion?
That Messiah has not come or needs to come again.
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45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land[g] until the ninth hour. 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” 47 And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.” 48 And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink. 49 But the others said, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.” 50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.
51 And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. 52 The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, 53 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. 54 When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!”
55 There were also many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him, 56 among whom were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.
57 When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. 58 He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. 59 And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud 60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away. 61 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.
62 The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate 63 and said, “Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, ‘After three days I will rise.’ 64 Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away and tell the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last fraud will be worse than the first.” 65 Pilate said to them, “You have a guard of soldiers. Go, make it as secure as you can.” 66 So they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard.
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Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. 2 And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. 4 And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men. 5 But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. 6 He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay. 7 Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and behold, he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him. See, I have told you.” 8 So they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples. 9 And behold, Jesus met them and said, “Greetings!” And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him. 10 Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.”
11 While they were going, behold, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had taken place. 12 And when they had assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a sufficient sum of money to the soldiers 13 and said, “Tell people, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.’ 14 And if this comes to the governor's ears, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” 15 So they took the money and did as they were directed. And this story has been spread among the Jews to this day.
Neither the Romans nor the Jews would have wanted Jesus to come back. So it is not a story told by the Romans because they wanted to soften up the Jews. Nor is it a tale told by the Jews to make trouble for Rome, because the Jewish leaders were actively trying to suppress Christianity. So would it have been spread as a lie by the followers of Jesus? Not bloody likely.
How readily are you to die for what you know to be a lie? Yet the Christians were okay with getting tortured, eaten by lions, and even hung on the cross like Jesus. I am okay being rejected by everyone and losing most of my friends.
Should we put some rabbis and world leaders in the lion pit and see if they suddenly admit certain truths? The disciples told this, knowing that it is true. Or rather they told this knowing that they had nothing to fear in the afterlife.
There are no more Messiahs coming. This is because the real one marched through the gate. This is also because the Muslims then sealed the gate, fulfilling ANOTHER prophecy. And if they somehow burst it down, there is a freaking graveyard behind it. No Jewish leader would dare enter an unclean place.
So either you take the one you already got or you admit the Messiah will not come on this Earth. But you may be tricked by end times crap, like a return of the red heifer or great leaders promising to rebuild the Temple. The Temple is destroyed because you would not keep his covenant and accept his anointed. We need to stop wailing about it, and (a) return to observance of the law starting with the keeping of Passover, lamb, blood on the door, and all; (b) or we need to realize that the law is fulfilled in Christ. But we cannot go on like this, refusing to accept the Messiah, and instead following earthly leaders.
Quote:33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. 34 When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.
35 “The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. 36 Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. 37 Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.
38 “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’ 39 So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
40 “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”
41 “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”
42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:
“‘The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
the Lord has done this,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
43 “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. 44 Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”
Now read this passage carefully, because there's a trick here. You see, it seems like they are giving the right answer. The Messiah will come and punish the wicked tenants (Romans, etc). But Jesus is telling them, "Wrong answer." He's telling them that they are the wicked tenants, and that God will take away what he promised to them. He will give it to people who understand mercy. So, why not give it a try? God forgive you. He intends all of his people (which is all of mankind) to be saved. But this will involve them wanting to turn away from the way things are, and to stop accepting the wickedness of the world.
Increasingly, we seem hellbent on following prophecy, thinking that we are the ones to benefit. But prophecy is not a toy. End times usually end with the people using them getting hurt. Put down the nukes and all the terrible ideas, and build God's kingdom not with works but by faith. God's kingdom is built on trusting God, not on all our attempts to do "good." What is good for me, is bad for you, and vice versa. And yes, this is an epically long rant, but I want to impress upon you that it is not about shoving your beliefs down people's throats. It's about you rejecting your own beliefs to set up a 2000 year old coverup against your own people. Why don't the rabbis let the regular people read the Gospel and decide for themselves what to think of Jesus? Why is the history around this period outright closed? And why is the easy law about preparing the lamb at home (which was done BEFORE the temple) not observed, in favor of this sham... I mean shank?
Your own priests shove their religious beliefs down your throat!
I am a Christian speaking to another sorta Christian (Anointed), and you can decide either way, but as long as you let Rabbi Mirmah ("deceiver") tell you what to think, you are not free to decide the truth for yourself.
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