Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Thursday, August 21, 2025
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Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Friday, June 13, 2025
Defense Minister: Iran crossed red lines, will pay heavy price for attacks on civilians
Source: Israel National News
Defense Minister Israel Katz said, "Iran has crossed red lines by daring to fire missiles at civilian population centers in Israel."
"We will continue to defend the citizens of Israel and ensure that the Ayatollah regime pays a very heavy price for its heinous actions," he added.
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Monday, January 6, 2025
3 murdered, 6 wounded, in shooting attack in Samaria
3 murdered, 6 wounded, in shooting attack in Samaria
Terrorists open fire on bus and car near Kedumim, killing 2 women and a man and wounding 6 others.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/401864
Sunday, December 22, 2024
Why I Obey, Observe and Keep The Torah/Law My Testimony
Why I Obey, Observe and Keep The Torah/Law
My Testimony
https://flanaganp.substack.com/p/why-i-obey-observe-and-keep-the-torahlaw
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Torah Study
Today we’re going to look deeply at Abraham.
The Scriptures teach:
Romans Ch 4:3 3 For what does the Tanakh say? "Avraham put his trust in God, and it was credited to his account as righteousness."
Abraham put his trust in G-D and it was credited to his account as Righteousness. So we see that, first, Abraham trusted (had faith).
Now many time you may see someone quote this verse as justification not to obey the Law/Torah. They will claim trust (faith) is all you need. I don’t disagree that your trust in G-D is your foundation. Without trust there is nothing.
Hebrews Ch 11:6 And without trusting, it is impossible to be well pleasing to God, because whoever approaches him must trust that he does exist and that he becomes a Rewarder to those who seek him out.
So we clearly see Scriptures teach is that without Trusting it is impossible to be well pleasing to G-D.
But is that all that is required? No. What happens after we trust? Something amazing takes place: We begin to seek, learn, observe and obey G-D’s Law/Torah.
But does the Scriptures teach this? Let’s see what Abraham did after he trusted.
Genesis Ch 26:5 5 All this is because Avraham heeded what I said and did what I told him to do -he followed my mitzvot, my regulations and my teachings."
We see that G-D told Issac that his father followed HIS Mitzvot, regulations and teachings. Abraham put his trust in G-D and because of that he obeyed G-D. Pay careful attention to the word ‘Obeyed’. Obedience is what G-D requires.
Genesis Ch 12:1 Now ADONAI said to Avram, "Get yourself out of your country, away from your kinsmen and away from your father's house, and go to the land that I will show you.
Abraham trusted but he also obeyed when G-D told him to leave his country and kinsmen. He didn’t question, fuss or argue or try to create his own theology. He didn’t count his age or all the hardships that might follow. He simply obeyed because he trusted in G-D. When we trust in G-D with all our hearts we will obey HIS Law/Torah for they are Righteous and Holy.
Romans Ch 7:12 So the Torah is holy; that is, the commandment is holy, just and good.
Abraham knew this and that is why he followed and obeyed G-D. Yes. Abraham trusted but he was also obedient.
What did YESHUA/JESUS teach?
39 They answered him, "Our father is Avraham." Yeshua replied, "If you are children of Avraham, then do the things Avraham did!
Gentile Christians may argue YESHUA/JESUS was talking to the Jews only. Yes, HE was. But what did Paul say:
Galatians Ch 3: 29 Also, if you belong to the Messiah, you are seed of Avraham and heirs according to the promise.
Do as Abraham did: Trust and Obey. For there is no other way.
Shalom and Blessings.
Torah Study
Why we must read the Book of Acts before we read any of Paul’s writings.
Countless gentile Christians use Paul’s writings—specifically his writings in the Book of Galatians—to claim Christians do not have to obey and keep the Torah/Law. But yet we find in Paul’s writings contradictions to that claim.
For instance:
Romans Ch 3: 31 Does it follow that we abolish Torah by this trusting? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, we confirm Torah.
Here Paul is clearly teaching to confirm Torah/Law. So did Paul tell the Galatians one thing and the Romans another? No. Of course not. Paul words were guided by the HOLY SPIRIT.
This is why Peter wrote:
2 Peter Ch 3: 15 And think of our Lord's patience as deliverance, just as our dear brother Sha'ul also wrote you, following the wisdom God gave him.
We see Peter telling us G-D gave Paul the wisdom to write the words he did. Then Peter goes onto warn:
2 Peter Ch 3: 16 Indeed, he speaks about these things in all his letters. They contain some things that are hard to understand, things which the uninstructed and unstable distort, to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.
Now why did Peter add the warning in verse 16? Because he knew people—the uninstructed and unstable—would distort to their own destruction as they do the other Scriptures.
What other Scriptures? The New Testament had no been completed yet when Peter wrote this. Peter was referring to the Law/Torah, Prophets and Writings.
Peter tells us Paul’s writings contain things that are hard to understand. This is why we must always compared Paul’s writings to the Law/Torah, Prophets and Writings and if Paul’s writings go against the Law/Torah, Prophets and Writings we are not interpreting them the right way.
So why must we read the Book of Acts first before we read Paul’s writings? Because the Book of Acts destroy any arguments that Paul taught the gentiles not to obey the Law/Torah.
Let’s look at Acts Ch 21:
Acts Ch 21: 20 On hearing it, they praised God; but they also said to him, "You see, brother, how many tens of thousands of believers there are among the Judeans, and they are all zealots for the Torah.
21 Now what they have been told about you is that you are teaching all the Jews living among the Goyim to apostatize from Moshe, telling them not to have a b'rit-milah for their sons and not to follow the traditions.
We’ll stop here for a second. The Judeans are told that Paul seems to be teaching the Jews living among the gentiles to apostatize from Moshe, tell them not to have b’rit-mila (circumcision). In some of Paul’s writings it certainly seems that way, but that is not the truth. Remember Peter’s warning.
So there is a problem. The Elders are about to resolve that problem.
22 "What, then, is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come.
23 So do what we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow.
24 Take them with you, be purified with them, and pay the expenses connected with having their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is nothing to these rumors which they have heard about you; but that, on the contrary, you yourself stay in line and keep the Torah.
Here we clearly see the Elders ordering Paul to obey the Law/Torah. Not only that they themselves keep the Law/Torah. If YESHUA/JESUS had done away with the Law/Torah at HIS death then why are the Elders still keeping the Law/Torah and ordering Paul to do the same?
What does Paul do?
26 The next day Sha'ul took the men, purified himself along with them and entered the Temple to give notice of when the period of purification would be finished and the offering would have to be made for each of them.
Paul obeys.
But what about the gentles?
Look at verse 25
25 "However, in regard to the Goyim who have come to trust in Yeshua, we all joined in writing them a letter with our decision that they should abstain from what had been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled and from fornication."
Is this all the gentiles have to do? No. Absolutely not.
What did Peter teach in Acts Ch 15
Acts 15:21 For from the earliest times, Moshe has had in every city those who proclaim him, with his words being read in the synagogues every Shabbat."
If the gentiles obeyed and kept away from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled and from fornication, then they could enter the Synagogues on Shabbat and start learning the Torah/Law instead of having the entire Law/Torah told to them at once and expected to obey in complete perfection. Children have to learn to crawl before they walk and take milk before they eat milk. Paul knew this. But his teachings were hard and even a little confusing, to the point that the Judeans thought he was teachings the Jews among the gentiles to apostatize from Moshe. If they had that problem with Paul’s writings then what about in today’s age where gentiles have divided by countless denominations and refuse to learn the Torah/Law of G-D?
So why does Acts Ch 21 prove about Paul? It proves Paul kept the Torah/Law and would have never taught the Jews or gentiles to go against the Torah/Law. With that sound teaching and fact in mind you can read Paul’s writings and when you get to any part that seems that Paul is teaching not to obey the Torah/Law then you can know you’re not interpreting Paul’s writings the correct way.
I’ll end here.
What did Scriptures did Paul teach YESHUA/JESUS to the Jews and gentiles from?
Acts Ch 28:23 So they arranged a day with him and came to his quarters in large numbers. From morning until evening he explained the matter to them, giving a thorough witness about the Kingdom of God and making use of both the Torah of Moshe and the Prophets to persuade them about Yeshua.
Paul’s writings will never go against the Torah/Law, Prophets and Writings and if you find yourself think his writings do then you are in error, not Paul. Read the Books of Acts and study it before you read Paul’s writings and then you will understand his writings. If you don’t you will find error.
Shalom and Blessings.
Torah Study
YESHUA/JESUS taught the Law/Torah and commanded others to do so.
Matthew Ch 8:2 Then a man afflicted with tzara`at came, kneeled down in front of him and said, "Sir, if you are willing, you can make me clean."
3 Yeshua reached out his hand, touched him and said, "I am willing! Be cleansed!" And at once he was cleansed from his tzara`at.
4 Then Yeshua said to him, "See that you tell no one; but as a testimony to the people, go and let the cohen examine you, and offer the sacrifice that Moshe commanded."
What part of the Torah/Law was YESHUA/JESUS teaching from?
Leviticus Ch 14:1 ADONAI said to Moshe,
2 "This is to be the law concerning the person afflicted with tzara'at on the day of his purification. He is to be brought to the cohen,
3 and the cohen is to go outside the camp and examine him there. If he sees that the tzara'at sores have been healed in the afflicted person,
4 then the cohen will order that two living clean birds be taken for the one to be purified, along with cedar-wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop leaves
(read all of Leviticus Ch 14).
Why did YESHUA/JESUS do this if HE cleansed the man with tzara’at? Because if HE didn’t HE would have violated G-D’s Law. Remember: YESHUA/JESUS was perfect, sinless and Holy. HE still commanded people to obey the Law/Torah.
YESHUA/JESUS taught the Spirit of the Law/Torah.
Matthew Ch 5: 27 "You have heard that our fathers were told, `Do not commit adultery.'
28 But I tell you that a man who even looks at a woman with the purpose of lusting after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
This is why the New Covenant, the Law/Torah, is written on our minds and hearts (Hebrews Ch 8). A man can say, ‘I never committed adultery!” But in his heart he had and the Law/Torah judges the heart and mind as well as the body. The Law/Torah also keeps the heart and mind in obedience and fear to G-D.
Matthew Ch 5: 44 But I tell you, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you!
Exodus Ch 23:5 5 If you see the donkey which belongs to someone who hates you lying down helpless under its load, you are not to pass him by but to go and help him free it.
Did YESHUA/JESUS do as HE taught about loving your enemies?
Luke Ch 23: 34 Yeshua said, "Father, forgive them; they don't understand what they are doing." They divided up his clothes by throwing dice.
If YESHUA/JESUS this about HIS enemies on the Cross do you think HE would have stopped and helped an enemy whose donkey was lying down helpless under a load?
How do we apply Exodus Ch 23:5 to our lives today? What if you see an enemy on the side of the road standing his/her broken down vehicle? Would you stop? Would YESHUA/JESUS stop?
If we ignore the Law/Torah then we ignore the very teachings of YESHUA/JESUS, the Perfect, Sinless, Lamb of G-D who taught the Law/Torah and died for the sins (violation of the Torah/Law) of mankind.
YESHUA/JESUS commanded us to pick up our cross and follow HIM. This means to live in HIS faithful obedience to G-D to as HE did. YESHUA/JESUS was sinless—HE never once violated the Torah/Law. We have but when we sin YESHUA/JESUS forgives us and we strive on in obedience. And remember what 1 John Ch 3:4 teaches us what sin is: Sin is violation of the Law/Torah. We can never be sinless for only YESHUA/JESUS was sinless, but we pick up our cross and follow HIM in obedience to G-D. We can’t do this if we do not, in our hearts and minds, not through legalistic means, keep G-D’s Torah/Law through faith and obedience.
I’ll end here:
Luke Ch 22:42 "Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; still, let not my will but yours be done."
YESHUA/JESUS was constantly in complete submission to G-D’s Will. We must be to. G-D’s Will is found in HIS Torah/Law. That is why HIS Torah/Law is written in our minds and hearts through the New Covenant established through the Precious and Living Blood of HIS SON. YESHUA MESSIAH our LORD.
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Torah Study
Psalms Ch 119: 89 (Lamed) Your word continues forever, ADONAI, firmly fixed in heaven;
What ‘Word’ is King David speaking of? The words of the Prophets had yet to be spoken—they came after King David. King David himself is speaking about the ‘Word’ of G-D in his Psalms. So what was the only ‘Word of G-D’ King David read, studied, loved, obeyed and followed? The answer: The writings of Moshe—The Law/Torah.
Isaiah speaks the same:
Isaiah Ch 40:Isaiah Ch 40:8 “The grass dries up, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand forever.”
Now, let’s conduct a quick investigation.
I see people post verses from the Book of Psalms all the time. What I don’t see Christians posting from the Book are verse about the Law/Torah
Psalms Ch 1:2 Their delight is in ADONAI's Torah; on his Torah they meditate day and night.
Psalms begins with the very words about the Law/Torah. Psalms Ch 119 is a love letter to the Torah/Law.
The same applies to the Book of Proverbs. I see people post verses from the Book of Proverbs bit no verses about the law.
Proverbs Ch 28:9 If a person will not listen to Torah, even his prayer is an abomination.
Why is this?
What about Isaiah Ch 2
Isaiah Ch 2:3 Many peoples will go and say, "Come, let's go up to the mountain of ADONAI, to the house of the God of Ya'akov! He will teach us about his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Tziyon will go forth Torah, the word of ADONAI from Yerushalayim.
Isaiah is speaking of YESHUA/JESUS’ Millennial reign in verse 3.
Isaiah Ch 2:4 He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. Then they will hammer their swords into plow-blades and their spears into pruning-knives; nations will not raise swords at each other, and they will no longer learn war.
We are taught—and promised—that during YESHUA/JESUS’ Millennial reign that the Law/Torah will go out of Tziyon—the ‘WORD’ of ADONAI from Yerushalayim. So we can clearly see the ‘WORD’ of G-D is HIS Law/Torah.
2 Timothy Ch 3:15 and recalling too how from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which can give you the wisdom that leads to deliverance through trusting in Yeshua the Messiah.
What Holy Scriptures is Paul telling Timothy had has known since childhood? Holy Scriptures that “give you the wisdom that leads to deliverance through trusting in Yeshua the Messiah.” The New Testament had not been fully written and completed yet. Paul wasn’t talking about the New Testament. So what then? The answer: The Torah/Law, Prophets and Writings. Keep this is mind when you read 2 Timothy Ch 3:16
2 Timothy Ch 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is valuable for teaching the truth, convicting of sin, correcting faults and training in right living;
“All Scripture’ is G-D Breathed. What Scripture is Paul referring to? Again, the New Testament had not been completed yet. Paul was talking about the Torah/Law, Prophets and Writings. And we lean from the Writings and Prophets the ‘Word of G-D’ is the Law/Torah. And ‘All Scripture’ is valuable for what? Teaching the Truth! Convicting of Sin (and remember what sin is violation of the Law/Torah—1 John Ch 3:4). Correcting faults and training in right living! Without the Torah/Law you cannot have any of these beautiful gifts.
2 Timothy Ch 2:“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
What ‘WORD of Truth’ is Paul referring to? Remember, the New Testament had not been completed yet. What did Paul tell Timothy in Ch 3:16? All Scripture is what? Valuable for teaching the ‘Truth’. So what is the ‘WORD of Truth’. The Torah/Law..
Psalms Ch 119:160 The main thing about your word is that it's true; and all your just rulings last forever.
In Psalms Ch 119 verse 160 King David tells is what the WORD of Truth is: The Torah/Law.
Psalms Ch 119:97 How I love your Torah! I meditate on it all day.
We’ll continue the study of the Torah/Law each day with Powerful Truths ordained and created by G-D alone and not man.
Shalom and blessings.
