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Sermons Series 3:24, 11 February 2006
The Front Line Battle for Truth
The Clashing of Old Paths and Wrong Spirits
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One of the things that Messianic Jews and Israelites often pride themselves at having done is that they have stripped away all the Roman and Greek accretions to the faith of the first apostles and returned us to our Hebrew roots. They point to the way they have returned to Torah and eagerly and enthusiastically point the way back to our Hebrew forefathers' way of living. What they sometimes don't realise, however, is that they can seriously miss the mark by engaging in an arrogant, oppressive spirit every bit as Roman as the Romanism they are trying to flee from. In short, they recreate another form of Romanism but with a Hebraic veneer of outer forms and practices. We need therefore to beware of Romans in Hebrew clothing and to beware of Hebrew ideas presented in Roman style.
When we as a people first started our journey into our Hebraic roots we were filled with optimism. At last, we thought, we are returning to the "old paths, where the good way is" (Jer.6:16). As we exposed the pagan roots of our Western Christian beliefs and returned to the clear teaching of the Bible, we felt refreshed and closer to Him than even before. I still remember celebrating our first Sabbath on the correct day - it was elating. The thought that we could at last find fellowship with tens of thousands of other Messianics also filled us with great hopes and expectations as we thought to ourselves: "No longer do we need to walk this path with so few and so alone". Six years on we have had many rude awakenings as we have witnessed the spirit of apostasy, syncretism, racial exclusivism and pride create a movement every bit as split as the Protestantism from which we emerged. There were to be no short cuts for us as we had hoped. For when you hear Messianic Jews saying such things as: "When a gentile comes to belief in the Messiah, all the angels stand and shout for joy. When a Jew comes to belief in the Messiah, Yahweh Himself stands and shouts for joy" you know that an arrogant and false spirit is in the midst who claim to have got it so right.
We need to state categorically that Yahweh couldn't care a fig about your racial origin or gender as fas as your worth or qualification for salvation or the pleasure you give to Him when you accept His Son Yah'shua is concerned. Paul Himself declared:
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Messiah Yah'shua. If you belong to Messiah, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise" (Gal.3:28-29, NIV).
Jews and Greeks, servants and masters, and males and females all approach Messiah on the same basis. Your racial pedigree, your social status, your wealth, your culture, your nationality, your position or fame, or your gender count for nothing. You come equal before Him as though you were genderless orphans and He grafts you into the seed of Abraham - the true and faithful. You come to Yah'shua as though you had no past. You present everything that is you - your entire life, past and present, and you say to Him: "Take it, Lord. Make every thought of mine captive and make it obedient to Messiah" (2 Cor.10:5). 'Take my heart and submit every feeling to Truth. Take my nationality, race, culture and tradition and make me a New Covenant Israelite. Take the things I have been proud of and make be proud of the things You want me to be proud of. Take my loyalties and make me loyal to You first and foremost and then to my spiritual family into which I am adopted. And I will trust You to give back to me whatever I had before that was good and noble.'
Today I am going to make some confessions to you so that you can see what such a pledge has meant to my life. I was born and raised an Englishman and raised on a diet of nationalism and imperialism. I looked down on everyone else as mere 'foreigners'. True, I admired some races and cultures, but others I scorned. I despised everything American as an inferior culture using a corrupted English language. I used to look down on Jews as an inferior race and viewed Anglo-Saxons and Germanic peoples as superior. And then I came to Messianic Judaism and I began to look down on everything gentile - Roman or Greek - as inferior. I used to look up to the Republic of Israel and everything Israeli and fell for the propaganda that only the Arabs were the 'bad guys'. To my shock and horror I discovered that the same anti-Semitic spirit taught me by my Classical Greek upbringing was being held by Jews against gentiles! There was no difference! I was appalled.
Now don't get me wrong. I was not some blind white supremacist. I grew up in the Far East and came to love Asian peoples, especially Chinese. The colour of someone's skin never bothered me. But in my youth I did fall for a lot of the propaganda about superior and inferior culture because of the eloquence of the words I heard being used by this supremacist advocate or that. I was impressed, when I was still impressionable, by the 'superior' culture of the Hungarians against the Romanians (for the two have been mortal enemies for centuries) until I saw through the chauvinism and came to see the virtues of both races. And then finally I started meeting Americans and Greeks who showed me that in every nation, kindred and tongue there is something redeemable and good.
In truth, the ways of the world have, at certain levels of my unredeemed nature, ping-ponged me back and forth between first seeing some group of people as 'saviours' and then as 'degenerates'. And the more I probed human nature, the more I began to see and understand that what in fact revolts us about people or groups of people is not themselves but the demonic that passes itself off as human. People are not our enemies - principalities and powers are. Satan's greatest success is in persuading us in launching genocidal and fratricidal wars - inside and outside - against Yahweh's creatures instead of the rebels whose soul goal is to discredit and destroy everything that Yahweh has made.
The racial slants in modern as well as older Bible translations is quite astonishing. Until the advent of Messianic translations, Jews were presented as a race of villains. Then the Messianic versions started coming out and doing the opposite. Just take a look at NIV Galatians 2:14 which is typical:
"When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?" (Gal.2:14, NIV).
Now reading this you get the impression that being Jewish is somehow 'bad' and that we should not follow 'Jewish customs' like obeying Torah. Well firstly, a modern Jew is not a first century Jew. They are not the same race at all. Secondly, no distinction is made here between a Talmudic Jew or Judahite (Yahudi) and one who is just following Torah as he was supposed to without all the talmudic additions.
Now lets look at James Trimm's translation of this in the Hebraic-Roots Version:
"And when I saw that they were not walking correctly in the truth of the Good news, I said to Kefa (Peter) in front of them all: 'If you who are a Judean live as an Aramean and not as a Judean, how do you compel the Goyim (Gentiles) to live as Judeans?'" (HRV)
Now all this took place in Antioch in what then was Syria or what was anciently known as Aramaea where Aramaean was spoken, a sister language similar to Hebrew which was commonly spoken in the Holy Land at that time by both Yah'shua and the apostles. Moshe Koniuchowsky points out the following:
"Who were the Arameans? Whose fathers were they? In Aramaic, the Targum Onkelos (the Aramaic translation of Deuteronomy 26:5 used in all the first-century synagogues during the time of Yah'shua) reads: 'An Aramean tried to destroy my father.' The Aramean was Laban, Jacob's uncle and Jacob is our father whom Laban tried to destroy. The ten tribes were later known as Greeks, Arameans and even Romans according to the rabbinical literature. In Rabbinical literature Edom is often spelled Erom, or Aram as in Aramean" (RSTNE, footnote to Gal.2:14).
Therefore Koniuchowsky translates the last part of this passage:
"If you, being a Yahudi in the Light, live like the Arameans in the darkness, and not do as the Yahudim, why do you compel the peoples in darkness to live as do the Yahudim in Light?" (RSTN)
The overriding thought here is not Jew vs. Gentile or Yahudi/Judahite vs. Aramean but of light vs. darkness. The point is, whoever you are, whether Jew, Greek or anyone else, when you come to the living Messiah Yah'shua you leave behind darkness and enter into the light. You start all over again. Yes, as a Jew, you may have fantastic Torah knowledge and even have been living Yahweh's appointments or moedim more or less as is expected but that does not make you a light to the world. You may have knowledge about certain things but that does not give you life because life comes from Yahweh through Yah'shua, and through Yah'shua alone, not as some teacher but as Elohim Himself. Yah'shua is deity - He is Elohim, coming from Yahweh the Father.
When we come to Yahweh we leave our Jewish, British, American, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, South African, Indian, and Greek cultures behind. We may be political citizens of these nations and we may be liable to pay taxes and pray for their rulers but culturally we become Messianic Israelites. We are grafted into Yah'shua and into Abraham, and that applies to the Jews as much as to everyone else. They are not the children of Abraham because they are Jews but because they are trusting in Yah'shua, like Americans, Greeks and everyone else. Everybody starts again in Yah'shua - from scratch and learns a totally new way of being.
Now at the beginning of this sermon I said that lots of Messianics are simply Romans wearing the clothing of the Hebrews, and what I mean by that is that their thinking, feeling and behavioural patterns are still gentile. 'What?' the cry may go up. 'We have been living Torah for generations and you, a non-Jew, have the audacity to say that you are somehow equal to us?' The fact is, Jews have been living Torah subtended to Talmud. The fact is, there are all sorts of Jews with radically different cultural backgrounds from the fast-food monogamy-only American Jews to the polygamy-practicing Yemini Jews of Arabia. The fact is, Jews as well as non-Jews are formed by the cultures that raised them, more so since they came out of the Ghettos. Just listen to Messianic Jewish music - most of it is still influenced by Western pop and rock and even the older forms either have Spanish or Eastern European influences, depending whether they are Sephardic or Ashkenazi Jews.
My point is this: you cannot become a true Israelite in culture and mannerisms except through the Ruach haQodesh by having the Resurrection Life planted in the heart and grow outwards to then embrace Torah. You have to start your Gospel life in the Garden of Yahweh! We who have passed through this sieve, having done our best to yield everything to Yah'shua - not just in word but in very reality - have discovered that we are getting less and less British, American, Norwegian, Swedish and Greek - we are becoming unrecognisable, a truly separate people not just in outward mannerisms but in our whole way of being. We have become, as the Yiddish-speaking Jews would say, a completely different kind of mensch.
Now it could be said - and some will doubtless want to make this accusation for reasons best known to themselves or their demonic taskmasters - that we are claiming to be some sort of master-race. We're not. We aren't appealing to anything from our past at all but only to the Living Yah'shua and to the Word, the Torah. We are letting Yah'shua interpret Torah and not others who rejected Him because we are not seeking revelation or inspiration from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil which unbelievers by definition must be eating from, but from the Tree of Life itself which comes only through trusting in Yah'shua the Messiah.
So here we stand, a truly integrated Ephraimite-Judahite brotherhood of Judahites or Yahudi and Ephraimites who have started all over again. We come to Yah'shua, actually, as people and nothing more. Do we have the blood of Abraham in our veins? Who knows - does it even matter? Probably not. In any case, that's not what Yah'shua sees because there is no blood or genetics in the Garden.
One of my favourite Messianic authors is Errol Müller because he very much captures the spirit of what we believe and are experiencing in this Mishpachah. He argues, quite rightly, that first and foremost we must return to home worship - not at the expense of congregational worship but to give us the right foundation of Mishpachah or family. The Israelite nation started with a family - the family of Jacob - and that is how it must start again. It all starts with a person, grows into a family, and then expands into a nation. Now, lest anyone get the idea that we are 'that' exclusive family to which everyone must come, may I point out to you that there are actually twelve families that must be rebuilt in four groupings of three. Whether we are to be the leading family is up to Yahweh to decide, and that will become more than apparent later when we have grown. Elsewhere, Yahweh is no doubt raising similar, parallel Mishpachah's. In the meantime we have our calling and our duties to perform. We have a family to build solidly on the foundations of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob but this time in Yah'shua, not as Israel but as Messianic Israel. We aren't getting grafted into 'Jews' out there in order to mystically get rewired back into Abraham but we are starting as families grafted in and wired into the living Messiah Yah'shua. So when you come to this Mishpachah you come as a person and you leave your race and culture behind. As Errol Müller whimsically puts it: "Just because I gave up on the pope doesn't mean I'm going to jump in bed with the Jews - so to speak". We don't want more religious and racial baggage. We have something much better.
Now lest anyone start panicking let me say this as well - it is not possible to leave all this behind in a day. It takes time. We've taken time and we are still shedding pagan ways though I hope we are now far down the road. It has been a long and painful process for us but we are satisfied with the journey and where we are. Nevertheless we press onwards.
Centuries of Jewish propaganda have left us with this idea that everything Roman and Greek is somehow 'bad' and everything Jewish is 'good'. Paul says that he is in debt to the Greeks (Israelite diaspora) as well as to foreigners (Rom.1:14, RSTNE), and so are we. So I want to publicly express my gratitude to both Protestants and Messianic Jews for all they have taught me. Today I still admire and learn from Protestant greats like George Müller, John Knox, Charles Spurgeon, and others; and I still read and listen to the teachings of Messianics like James Trimm, Moshe Koniuchowsky, Lew White, Errol Müller, and others. And yes, I have my debt of gratitude to Catholics like Thomas à Kempis, pagans like LaoTszu, semi-pagans like Joseph Smith, and many, many others. All have been my tutors as I have sought the heart of Yahweh's end-time restoration of the Way.
Inevitably, with such a vast task and such a revolutionary way of seeing the Gospel, we are going to be misunderstood and even attacked and reviled by others calling themselves Christians and Messianics. Many are sincere, many are not. I hold no grudges against them because I know who the real enemy is - the unseen enemy who stirs us up to fear, hate and even violence.
Yah'shua said:
"No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved" (Matt.9:16-17, NIV).
Today people are trying to pour the Gospel into Judaism and call it Messianic Judaism, and have been pouring it into paganism and calling it Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Protestantism for centuries. You can't put new wine into old wineskins because those wineskins will just burst. And that's precisely what's happening today. We are seeing it now. The last Catholic Pope said that all religions are valid paths to salvation and revealed his paganism. The Protestants are being sucked back into their Catholic parent and are becoming even more pagan and apostate. And Christians are hurrying out from these spiritual corpses to become Messianic Jews and discovering that they are little better off - Rabbis have simply replaces Popes.
Brethren and sisters, we don't need old wineskins or old garments. The "old paths" are not about cultural traditions but about an intimate, living relationship with Yahweh. People want life - they want to talk to Yah'shua and get answers and not sit around churches eating crumbs from off the floor, hoping for a word here or there through some self-appointed 'prophet' who is likely as lost as themselves. People want to be able to talk to and hear Yahweh like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob once did. They want a heart like Joseph of Egypt. They want the heavens to be open. And that, brethren and sisters, is what we have always wanted, and it is what we are now getting. But O, is it hard? Yes it is! It costs you everything you've got. Absolutely everything. You have to present yourself spiritually naked to Yah'shua and ask Him to wash everything of the old away, including all your pet loves, hopes and expectations, and reclothe you again.
What a glorious time this is for us. Something new and wonderful has happened amongst us and people are straining to see it. Those who have dared to look know it's there and want it to become more real for them. Many are frightened and unsure, and want to test, which is the right thing to do, especially with increasing numbers of people crying 'wolf'. Take your time. We won't rush you and will bless you if you want to go somewhere else. We're not out to make 'converts' but to simply point you to Yah'shua and let Him tell you what the right course in your life is. And He will if that is your heart-desire. Amen.
Author: Lev-Tsiyon
Glossary of MLT Hebraic, Greek and English Terms For other terms and full details please see the Micropedia
A
Adon(ai) = Master, a pagan fertility god, Adonis; used by many Messianics but not MLT
(a)eon(ian) = 7 dispensation- or age-long time periods, not forever (see le-olam-va-ed)
Alef-Tav = Alpha-Omega, A-Z, first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet = Yah'shua
Amen = truly, let it be so, written Amein by some Messianics
Apocrypha = Hebraic Scriptures not a part of the Protestant canon (e.g. Baruch)
Anti-Messiah = Hebraic term for the end-time Antichrist or anyone opposed to the Messiah
antinomian = lawless Christian who disregards all or part of Torah/commandments
Ashkenazi Jew = East European Jew descended from the Turkic-Japhethite Khazars
Assembly = church, congregation, ekklesia, community, fellowship, koinonia, gathering
Azazel = the Yom Kippur scapegoat
B
Baal, Ba'al = any other master than Yahweh, usually demonic in MLT terminology
Bachor(im) = firstborn son(s)
Bar/Bat Mitzvah = Son/Daughter of Commandment, covenant to obey Torah at age 12
being = soul, the whole person (spirit and body), e.g. "my whole being"
Beit, bet, beth = house, e.g. Beit Yisrael (House of Israel), Beth Lechem (House of Bread)
Beit haMikdash = Yahweh's Temple in Yerushalayim
B'rit Chadashah = the New Covenant; B'rit Chadashah Scriptures = New Testament
B'rit Milah = circumcision - abolished in the B'rit Chadashah, replaced by Mikvah
C
canon = authoritative Scripture (Heb. qaneh, Gk. kanôn = measuring instrument)
Catechumen = a serious, covenanted investigator seeking Mikvah or Baptism in MLT
Chag haMatzah = Feast of Unleavened Bread, second of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Chavurat Bekorot = MLT's Priesthood Order, Holy Order and Assembly of the Firstborn
Cohen = priest; Cohen Gadol = High Priest (also spelled Kohen)
Council of Yah's elohim = the heavenly Assembly of the Firstborn or Chavurat Bekorot
D
demon = fallen malek or angel in rebellion against Yahweh (Heb. shad; see Êl-Shaddai)
derech = the Way, Path or Road - Yah'shua and the Gospel are the Way
Drash = moral or homiletic interpretation of Scripture - see PaRDeS
E
Echad = One, Union of two or more in one (as opposed to Yachid) - see Elohim
Echad Godhead Doctrine = Father Yahweh, Son Yah'shua and Sevenfold Ruach (Mother)
Êl, Eloah, Elah = God the Father, Yahweh
Êl-Elyon = Most High God, Yahweh
Êl-Shaddai = Master/Lord over all shads or demons
Elohim = God, the Godhead (Father, Son & Holy Spirit), lit. 'Mighty One(s)', 'Ruler(s)'
elohim = Israelite judges, rulers, angels or gods (false deities, idols, demons)
emunah = faith, actively trusting, clinging or adhering to (especially Yahweh or Yah'shua)
emet = truth, Yah'shua is the Emet
Ephraimite = descendant of the patriarch Ephraim and head of Messsianic Israel
F
Feasts of Yahweh = the 7 annual Moedim (Pesach, Chag haMatzah, Yom haBikkurim, Shavu'ot, Yom Teruah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot)
G
Gan-Eden = Garden of Eden, Paradise and state of the purified heart in Messiah
goy(im) = nation(s), Israelites or gentiles not born in or converted to the Covenant
H
hallelu-Yah = praise Yah(weh)!
Heylel = proper name of Satan or haSatan = the Adversary, the devil
Sabbath = Yom Shabbat (Friday to Saturday sunset, add 1 day in IDL Zone)
Hochmah = Wisdom, title of the 7-fold Ruach haQodesh
I
IDL = International Date Line, false man-made time division in Pacific Ocean
IDL Zone = Area between the true Divine Date Line (Lake Van/Eden) and the false one
Israeli = citizen of the modern Edomite-Khazar Republic of Israel (not Biblical Israel)
Israelite = citizen of biblical state of Israel or a modern follower of the Messiah
J
Jew = post-biblical term describing descendants of Edomite and Khazar converts to Judaism
Johannine = pertaining to the Apostle Yochanan (e.g. Gospel of John)
Josephite = descendant of the patriarch Joseph, the head of Messianic Israel
Judahite = a person in direct descent from the patriarch Judah, forefather of the Messiah
Judaism = a Talmudic-based religion rejecting Yah'shua the Messiah
Judean = a citizen of the Kingdom or Province of Judah until the 2nd Century diaspora
K
Kadosh la Yahweh = set-apart or dedicated to Yahweh, 'Holiness to the Lord', MLT motto
Karaites = Jews (from 700 AD) who reject the Talmud and accept only the Tanakh
kashrut = keeping kosher, food laws of Yahweh and correspinding lifestyle
Ketuvim = Writings or Hagiographa of the Tanakh
Khazar = a Turkic convert to Judaism ~700 AD forming the Ashkenazi Jewish community
kosher = clean foods authorised by Yahweh for human consumption
L
Lashon Hara = evil-speaking, gossip or slander
legalism = false route to salvation through works (self-salvation)
le-olam-va-ed = dispensation- or age-long, aeonian, not eternal, forever or for eternity
Lev = heart, as in Lev-Tsiyon = heart of Zion
Lev-Tsiyon = Heart of the Fortress [of Yahweh], Hebrew name of MLT's founder
M
Master = Lord, Sir, Adon(ai) - (one in authority, a ruler - a king, husband, prophet, judge)
Malak(im) = Angel(s), heavenly supernatural messenger(s)
manna = wafers of honey, bread from heaven (lit. 'what is this?')
matzah = unleavened bread, see Chag haMatzah
Menorah = 7-armed candlearbra = the 7 annual Moedim and 7-fold Ruach haQodesh
Messiah = Christ; Anti-Messiah = Antichrist
Messianic Community = Body of Christ, sum total of all true believers; all true fellowships
Messianic Israel = all who worship Yahweh, trust in Yah'shua, obey Torah and overcome
Messianic Jew = Messianic convert from Judaism still clinging to Talmudic traditions
Midrash = aggadic interpretation of scripture viâ Drash, a scriptural discussion
Mikvah = baptism by immersion of convert into Yah'shua or of wife into husband
Mishpachah = family: nuclear, congregational, tribal or the whole of Messianic Israel
MLT = Mishpachah Lev-Tsiyon = family of the heart of the fortress [of Yahweh]
Mishpat = right-ruling or judgement
mitzvah/mitzvot = commandment(s)
moed(im) = appointment(s) of Yahweh, 7 Annual Feasts, Sabbath and Rosh Chodesh
N
Nefilim, Nephilim = giant offspring of materialised demons and human women
Nevi'im = prophetic writings of the Old Testament or Tanakh
New Birth = spiritual conversion in the Ruach haRishon, being 'born again' with new heart
Nidah = a woman's menstruation period during which no intercourse is permitted
O
Olive Branch = collection of revelations, prophecies and visions published by MLT
P
Paraclete = Comforter, Advocate (NEB), Counsellor, Ruach haQodesh (Gk. paraklêtos)
PaRDeS = method of textual interpretation (homiletics) - see P'shat, Remez, Drash, Sod
Patriarch = a father who is head of his family, clan or tribe (lit. 'father-ruler')
Pentateuch = first five books of the Tanakh (Genesis-Deuteronomy), also called Torah
peribolaion = headcovering worn by daughters/wives in submission to fathers/husbands
Pesach = Passover, first of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Peshitta = an Aramaic version of the Bible
Prototrinitarianism = early, simplified MLT formulation of the Echad Godhead Doctrine
Prush(im) = Pharisee(s)
Pseudepigrapha = Non-canonical Hebrew writings additional to the Apocrypha
P'shat = literal, contextual, philological, exoteric, outer meaning of Scripture - see PaRDeS
Q
Qadosh Qadoshim = Holy of Holies, most sacred set-apart room of the Beit haMikdash
Qodesh, Kodesh = set-apart, holy (see Ruach haQodesh)
R
Rabbi = Teacher, term used by Messianic Jews and some Messianic Israelites = Pastor
Refuge, the 12 Cities of = divinely protected MLT fortresses during the 7-year Tribulation
Remez = hint or allegorical level of Hebraic understanding of Scripture - see PaRDeS
Rosh Chodesh = monthly New Moon appointment of Yahweh
ruach = spirit of a person (lit.'breath')
Ruach Elohim = Spirit of God (the Spirit of the collective Godhead or Elohim)
Ruach haChamashee = 5th Ruach presides over Yom Teruah and Yom Chamashee
Ruach haQodesh = the Sevenfold Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost (lit. 'Set-Apart Breath')
Ruach haRevee = 4th Ruach presides over Shavu'ot, Yom Revee and Bar Mitzvah
Ruach haRishon = 1st Ruach presides over Pesach, Yom Rishon and the New Birth
Ruach haShanee = 2nd Ruach presides over Chag haMatzah and Yom Shanee
Ruach haSheshi = 6th Ruach presides over Yom Kippur and Yom Sheshi
Ruach haShleshi = 3rd Ruach presides over Yom haBikkurim, Yom Shleshi and Mikvah
S
Sabbath = Yom Shabbat (Friday to Saturday sunset, add 1 day in IDL Zone)
Satan = rebel archangel Heylel, father of lies, devil, chief demon (lit.'Adversary')
Sephardic Jew = West European Jew of mixed blood containing many Judahites
Septuagint = Greek translation of the Tanakh, LXX
Shegal haShabbat = 7th Ruach (Sabbath Queen) presides over Sukkot and Yom Shabbat
Shekinah = Divine Presence and Glory of Yahweh-Elohim
Set-apart = holy, sanctified, consecrated, dedicated, separated (to and by Yahweh)
Shabbat-Shabbaton = High Sabbath (e.g. Yom Kippur)
Shalom = heavenly peace, standard Hebraic greeting invoking Yahweh's peace
Shamash(im) = servant(s), deacon(s), attendant(s)
Shavu'ot = Pentecost or Weeks, fourth of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Sheol = grave or pit, euphamism for Hades or hell - also see Tartarus
shofar = ram's horn, blown during Yahweh's Moedim
simcha = joy, keynote of Sukkot
Sod = mystical, anagogic, inner or esoteric understanding of Scripture - see PaRDeS
Sukkot = Tabernacles or Booths, seventh of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Synagogue = Greek word used by Jews and Messianics (but not MLT) for a meeting house
T
talmid(a) = male/female disciple or student
Talmud = scriptures, teachings and commentaries belonging to non-Messianic Judaism
Tanakh = acronym for Old Testament Scriptures - Torah, Nevi'im & Ketuvim
Tartarus = place of imprisonment under the earth for rebellious angels and Nephilim
teshuvah = repentance, remorse and contrition leading back to Torah obedience
Torah = Yahweh's teachings or Law; New Covenant Torah includes Yah'shua's teachings
Tribulation, the Great = the final 7 years of the present aeon when Anti-Messiah rules
Trinity = Catholic Godhead formula - see Echad Godhead Doctrine and Prototrinitarianism
Tsiyon = Zion, a fortress, a name of Jerusalem and a prominent hill
Tzitzit/Tizitziyot = tassel(s) worn by men in remembrance of Torah
U
Universalism = salvation of all at the cosmic Yovel, with different rewards and punishments
Y
Yachid = one, single person or item, as opposed to Echad (many in one, unity)
Yah'shua the Messiah = Jesus Christ (the Son)
Yahudah = Judah - see Judahite
Yahweh, Yah, YHWH = the true Name of our Heavenly Father, also carried by Yah'shua
Yahweh-Elohim = LORD God (the Father, Yahweh as Head of the Godhead or Elohim)
Yahweh haQatan = the sent Yahweh = Yah(weh)'shua, Malak of Yahweh's Presence
Yam Suf = Sea of Reeds, the true Israelite Exodus water crossing, not the Red Sea
Yarden = Jordan River (lit. 'meanderer')
Yerushalayim = Jerusalem
Yisrael = Israel (lit. 'ruling with Êl') = true believers under the New Covenant
Yom Chamashee = 5th day of the week (Thursday, Friday in IDL Zone)
Yom Din, Yom haDin = (the) Day of Judgement
Yom haBikkurim = Feast of Firstfruits, third of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Yom Revee = 4th day of the week (Wednesday, Thursday in IDL Zone)
Yom Rishon = 1st day of the week (Sunday, Monday in IDL Zone)
Yom Kippur = Day of Atonement, sixth of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Yom Shabbat = 7th day of the week and Sabbath Rest (Saturday, Sunday in IDL Zone)
Yom Shanee = 2nd day of the week (Monday, Tuesday in IDL Zone)
Yom Sheshi = 6th day of the week (Friday, Saturday in IDL Zone)
Yom Shleshi = 3rd day of the week (Tuesday, Wednesday in IDL Zone)
Yom Teruah = Day of Trumpets, fifth of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Yosef = Joseph - see Josephite
Yovel = Jubilee or Year of Jubilee
Z
Zaqen(im) = elder(s) of an assembly or congregation, or senior members of a community
Zoë Life = Greek term for spiritual life in the Messiah
Commonly Used MLT Abbreviations
For additional abbreviations and explanations, please see the Micropedia
A
Amp.V(er). = Amplified Version of the Bible
Aram. = Aramaic
AV = Authorised Version of the Bible - see KJV
B
BCAY = B'rit Chadashah Assembly of Yahweh - see NCCG
BoA = Books of Abraham (e.g. 1Abr., 2Abr., etc.)
C
cp, cf = compare with
CB(Q) = Chavurat Bekorot
CEV = Contemporary English Version of the Bible
ch. = chapter
CJB = Complete Jewish Bible
CLNT = Concordant Literal New Testament
CYe = Council of Yah's elohim
E
Eng. = English
F
ff. = and onwards/forwards
fn = footnote
G
Gk. = Greek
GNB = Good News Bible - see TEV
H
Heb. = Hebrew, Hebraic
HEM = Holy Echad Marriage, eternal marriage
HO = Holy Order - see Chavurat Bekorot
HOC = Holy Order Collection of revelations - see OB
HRV = Hebraic-Roots Version of the Bible
I
ibid. = ibidem (lit. 'in the same place'), referring to a book previously cited
ICJC = Independent Church of Jesus Christ, earlier name of NCCF
ISRV = Institute for Scripture Research Version of the Bible
J
JB = Jerusalem Bible
JBP/Phillips = J.B.Phillips translation of the New Testament
JNT = Jewish New Testament
K
KJV = King James Version of the Bible - see AV
L
LB = Living Bible
lit. = literally or literature
LXX = Septuagint, Greek translation of the OT
M
MLT = Mishpachah Lev-Tsiyon
Moff. = Moffatt translation of the Bible
MRC = Messianic Renewed Covenant Version of the NT
MS(S) = Manuscript(s)
N
NASB, NASV = New American Standard Bible/Version
NC&C = New Covenants & Commandments - see OB
NCCF = New Covenant Christian Fellowship, earlier name of NCCG
NCCG = New Covenant Church of God, earlier name of MLT - see BCAY
NCP = New Covenant Press, publishing arm of MLT
NCW = New Covenant Witness, MLT magazine
NEB = New English Bible
NIV = New International Version of the Bible
NKJV = New King James Version of the Bible
Nor. = Norwegian
NT = New Testament, B'rit Chadashah
NWT = New World Translation of the Bible, unreliable Jehovah's Witness version
O
OB = Olive Branch - see NC&C
op.cit. = opere citato (lit. in the work cited)
OT = Old Testament, Tanakh
P
p(p). = page(s)
pl. = plural - see s.
PWNC = Prophetic Words of the New Covenant, revelation cataloging system - see OB
Q
QED = quod erat demonstrandum (lit. which was shown to be proved)
R
RCF = Restoration Christian Fellowship, earlier name of ICJC
RhQ = Ruach haQodesh, Holy Spirit
RSTNE = Restoration Scriptures True Name Edition of the Bible
RSV = Revised Standard Version of the Bible
RV = Revised Version of the Bible
S
s. = singular - see pl.
S&G = Smith & Goodspeed Version of the Bible
T
TEV = Today's English Version of the Bible - see GNB
V
Vulg. = Biblia Vulgata, Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible
W
WEB = World English Bible
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