Was Paul a False Apostle? Part 4
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Can we see from our example that a single, thread although a
part of the original weave,
Is not enough to understand the entire piece of
cloth???……
Let alone enough evidence to proceed in calling someone a big
fat liar………..
The charges against Rabbi Shaul…….
Paul does not pass the test of Deuteronomy…..
Paul
was a negator of the
Torah………
he cursed others Gal.1:8-9
he called others fools Gal. 3:1
he was a boaster IICor.11:16
he condemned others Gal. 2:11
he preached abolition of the law Eph. 2:14-16
Col. 2:14
he
preached that the law was a ministry of deathIICor. 3:6-17
Paul contradicts the messiah
he taught that eating meat sacrificed to idols was okay and
therefore was termed a false prophet like unto Baalam by Yeshua himself…..
Rev.2:14, ICor.8:3-14, ICor. 10:19-29, Rom.10:19-29
Paul was the Benjamite wolf of Gen.49
Today's examination of charges will be……
he preached that the law was a ministry of deathIICor. 3:6-17
2Co
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.
2Co
3:7 But
if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was
glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face
of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done
away:
2Co
3:8 How
shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
2Co
3:9 For
if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the
ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
2Co
3:10 For
even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the
glory that excelleth.
2Co
3:11 For
if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is
glorious.
2Co
3:12 Seeing
then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
2Co
3:13 And
not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel
could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
2Co
3:14 But
their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken
away in the reading of the old testament; which veil is done away in
Christ.
2Co
3:15 But
even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.
2Co
3:16 Nevertheless
when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.
2Co 3:17
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty.
The
question before us is, “Why did Rabbi Shaul use the term ministration of
death, and where is the context he himself is coming from????……………
What possible tools do we have to work with to determine the
context here?????……..
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Holy
smokes Roy, looks like context and asking why are real critical!!!!!!…..
Where is Rabbi Shaul's context that he is coming from???…..
Exo
34:27 And
the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these
words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
Exo
34:28 And
he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat
bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of
the covenant, the ten commandments.
Exo
34:29 And
it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of
testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses knew not
that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
Exo
34:30 And
when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his
face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
Exo
34:31 And
Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation
returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.
Exo
34:32 And
afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment
all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
Exo
34:33 And
till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.
What is happening here??????…….
Lets go back just a bit further in Exodus
And gain some more insight into the situation to begin to get
a grip on the context so we can get a more of a grip on what Rabbi Shaul is
teaching in ICor. 3:7
Exo
20:18 And
all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the
trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they
removed, and stood afar off.
Exo
20:19 And
they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God
speak with us, lest we die.
Exo
20:20 And
Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his
fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
Exo
20:21 And
the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the
thick darkness where God was.
If these people did not want to hear the voice of YHWH God,
regardless of what their reason was, whose voice did they want to
hear???………..
Inevitably their own………..
What is the testimony of scripture as to whose voice these
people listened to……
Exo
32:1 And
when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people
gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods,
which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that
brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
Num
11:1 And
when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it;
and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and
consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
(In
these verses who or what is veiled in regard to these people????……)
Num 11:33
And while the flesh was yet
between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled
against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
Num
11:34 And he called
the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people
that lusted.
(In
these verses who or what is veiled in regard to these people????……)
Num
14:1 And
all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that
night.
Num
14:2 And
all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the
whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of
Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
Num
14:3 And
wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that
our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return
into Egypt?
(In
these verses who or what is veiled in regard to these people????……)
Num
16:2
And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel,
two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men
of renown:
Num
16:3 And
they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron……..
(In
these verses who or what is veiled in regard to these people????……)
Whose voice are these folk listening to, certainly not
Moshe’s or YHWH Gods voice…
Num
16:41 But
on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against
Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.
(In
these verses who or what is veiled in regard to these people????……)
Num
20:2 And
there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together
against Moses and against Aaron.
Num 20:3
And the people chided with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would God that we
had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
(In
these verses who or what is veiled in regard to these people????……)
Num
21:4 And
they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of
Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
Num
21:5 And
the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up
out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread,
neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this
light bread.
Num
21:6 And the LORD sent fiery
serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel
died.
(In these verses who or what is veiled in regard to these
people????……)
Num
25:8 And
he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through,
the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed
from the children of Israel.
Num 25:9
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
(In these verses who or what is veiled in regard to these
people????……)
Gulppppp…. now the context has spread to all the books of
the Torah and some folk are ready to pronounce others big fat liars on the
presumptions they have from reading one verse or one thought in the Brit
Chadassah….
What principle could Rabbi Shaul be trying to get these folk
to come to reckoning with???
1Co
10:11 Now
all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our
admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
1Co 10:12
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
How important is it for us, the last generation
to get a grip on this here context………..
Rom
7:14 For we know
that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
What
spiritual aspect of the Torah is Rabbi Shaul relating to
us???…….
A
quick note……. Rabbi Shaul is writing a letter to a group of people whom he
has spent time teaching before. We as the readers of the Brit Chadassah don’t
know what problem/problems he has taken under hand to address. But we do know
that under no circumstances has he previously taught that the torah has been
terminated, quiet the opposite…..
In
2Cor.3 when he used the term ministration of death is he referring
to some spiritual aspect of the Torah that seems veiled and ambigious to
most folk…….
Rom
7:8 But
sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of
concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
Rom
7:11 For
sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
Rom
7:13 Was
then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might
appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the
commandment might become exceeding sinful.
What does the Torah do in us when we don’t hear its
message, believe it?
It stirs sin up in us
Yikes!!!!!!…….. WHY
So that we will come to grips with our selves, when we see
how utterly sinful we are, and start the process of dying to self………
Remember the wilderness will be all about dying to self and
living to Him
This charge is true!!!! Torah does minister death to those
who refuse to deal with self and repent…..
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