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The perversion of the truth pt 2
Personal blog posted by Scott Ledbetter on July 28, 2009 at 3:30pm
The sixth statement is: "Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is a Sabbath unto YHVH thy Elohim, in it thou shalt not do any manner of work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; for in six days YHVH made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day; wherefore YHVH blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it." (Exodus 20:9-11 JPS 1917) To most Christians, this is lumped together with the previous statement. But here is a separate statement made by YHVH. He is commanding that no work be done on the Sabbath because He blessed it and made it holy.
Now we get to the point where we must simply go back and read and understand what YHVH has said and not what men have said He said. Labor here is the Hebrew word abad (HSN 5647) and means to work, serve, till, and enslave. Work is the Hebrew word melacha (HSN 4399) and means deputyship, ministry, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property. So here, YHVH is telling us to do our work through our employment any day of the week except the Sabbath.
Now the Jews, fearful of breaking this commandment, set up a barrier of thirty-nine work categories that could not be performed on the Sabbath. These thirty-nine categories are planting, plowing, reaping, binding sheaves, threshing, winnowing, selecting, grinding, sifting, kneading, baking, shearing wool, washing wool, beating wool, dyeing, spinning, weaving, making two loops, weaving at least two threads, separating two threads, tying, untying, sewing at least two stitches, tearing for the purpose of sewing, trapping, slaughtering, flaying, salting meat, curing hide, scraping hide, cutting hide into pieces, writing two or more letters, erasing, building, tearing something down, extinguishing a fire, igniting a fire, applying the finishing touch, and transferring between domains.
Instead of thinking about YHVH on the Sabbath, the Jews were thinking about the rulings their rabbi's and teachers made. The focus was not on YHVH but on man's traditions and doctrines. YHVH knows what He means and does not need anyone to translate for Him. The commandment is to not do any employment work on this day, for this was a day to spend entirely and wholly with YHVH, thinking completely on Him, and focusing on His ways. Anything added to these prohibitions takes our focus off of YHVH and back on to things of this world. It is the doctrines of men that have caused people to be crushed by the weight of their laws. "For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." (Matthew 11:30) Do not make things harder than they are. Do not add more to it than He has placed.
The seventh statement is: "Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which YHVH thy Elohim giveth thee." (Exodus 20:12 JPS 1917) Paul stresses this when he wrote, "Children, obey your parents in YHVH: for this is right. Honor thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth." (Ephesians 6:1-3) Children are to respect their parents and obey them, even when they do not understand why they are told to do something. If children can not respect their earthly parents, how can they respect and obey their Heavenly Father?
A majority of problems in this world today is from the fact that children are not raised to respect anyone. This causes them to rebel and to disobey, and that in itself causes hatred and a lack of love. If we followed this simple statement, the world would indeed be a better place. "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6)
The eighth statement is: "Thou shalt not murder." (Exodus 20:13 JPS 1917) Kill is the Hebrew word ratzach (HSN 7523) and means to dash into pieces, kill, murder. We are never to play YHVH and so we are not to choose who is fit to live or not fit to live. That is all endowed to the Creator. This applies as well to abortions since one must choose to end what the Creator has started or to go along with the Creator.
The ninth statement is: "Thou shalt not commit adultery." (Exodus 20:13 JPS 1917/Exodus 20:14 KJV) Adultery is the Hebrew word na'aph (HSN 5003) and means both to commit adultery and to apostatize. Physical adultery, as shown in the Scriptures, is someone who is married having sex with someone to whom they are not married to. David had sex with Bathsheba who was married to another man – Uriah. That is the definition of adultery. Spiritual adultery is spiritually being married to YHVH or betrothed to Yeshua and having spiritual sex with another god.
Ever since the state and Christianity merged under Constantine, the definition of when marriage begins and ends have changed. The truth is that YHVH determines who and who is not married, and as Yeshua put it, "What therefore YHVH hath joined together, let not man put asunder." (Matthew 19:6b) No man, woman, government, or denomination has the right to determine who is and who is not married. YHVH makes that determination. Only those that are spiritually alive (born again) are able to marry in YHVH's rules. If a person is spiritually dead, then just as a physically dead person could not legally marry, the spiritually dead person cannot marry. That is why Paul writes, "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers." (2 Corinthians 6:14a)
Marriage happens at the point of the bodies becoming one. If someone who is spiritually alive becomes one with someone who is spiritually dead, they are sinning and therefore are no longer spiritually alive. "Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? For two, saith He, shall be one flesh." (1 Corinthians 6:16) When we are spiritually alive, we know what YHVH commands. "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." (James 4:17) If one is spiritually alive, and becomes one with someone who is spiritually dead, then the one who is spiritually alive has done what they know is wrong and so they have sinned and committed spiritual adultery.
Any doctrine that allows people to divorce for any other reason is clearly unScriptural. Any religious leader that states who is married and who is not married without using YHVH standards is a false teacher. When a marriage is performed, at the conclusion, the minister usually states, "By the laws of the state of _______, I now pronounce this couple husband and wife." First off, the minister is not invoking YHVH in this, and further the minister states that he or she is the one deciding who is and who is not married. That is a case of hubris. The minister does not do things by YHVH standards and then has the audacity to state that he or she is the one joining the two together and not YHVH. Has the couple already become married previous to this ceremony according YHVH? Are both or even one of these two actually spiritually alive or are they part of the apostasy?
People do not like to be told that they are not really divorced and are living in adultery. They claim that you are trying to break up a family. They want to be told that they can live their life and marry and divorce whoever they want and at any time simply when they choose without any spiritual repercussions. This in fact means that they are seeking false teachers after their itching ears. Further, this means that they are spiritually dead, and will remain so until they turn from their sinful ways.
Governments can pass all the marriage laws they wish to, but they are stepping on the domain of YHVH. They may claim it is to keep order or for tax and government assistance issues, but the real truth is that they have no excuse. They make themselves out to be YHVH when they decide to do YHVH's job for Him. A piece of paper or legislation means nothing because in the end, it will be destroyed while the soul will live on. To defend this practice of either the church or the government regulating marriage is to say that YHVH delegated His authority on this matter to humans and this is nowhere found in Scripture. Since it is blatantly unScriptural, they must pervert the truth to make this a reality.
The tenth statement is "Thou shalt not steal." (Exodus 20:13 JPS 1917/Exodus 20:15 KJV) The Hebrew word for steal is ganab (HSN 1589) means to thieve or to deceive. Rabbi's will say this is actually talking about kidnapping, but the word means what it says. This is a case by taking without permission or taking by way of perpetrating a fraud over another individual. Fraud is when you tell someone you need money for one thing and it ends up being for something different. This is because someone else has something you desire, which leads to another forbidden desire. Those who teach that followers must give their money over to them for their own personal enrichment, whether they say it is for some other reason or not, are stealing from others. The televangelist begs you to put your tithes into their ministry or church and then they use that money for their own personal enrichment.
The eleventh statement is "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour." (Exodus 20:13 JPS 1917/Exodus 20:16 KJV) We are not to lie or to perjure our selves in regards to another person. We are to live honestly with all people (Romans 13:13) and not to shift the blame off of us and onto them.
The twelfth statement is "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house." (Exodus 20:14a JPS 1917/Exodus 20:17a KJV) Covet is the Hebrew word chamad (HSN 2530) and it means to delight in. You are not to go in and say "Oh that is so beautiful that I want one like it." Do not drool when it comes to what others have. Do not try to keep up with the Jones'. Rather, "seek first the kingdom of YHVH and His righteousness," (Matthew 6:33a) and everything thing else that you need YHVH will supply to you. So whatever is in another persons house, we are not to desire or delight in.
The thirteenth statement is "thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's." (Exodus 20:14b JPS 1917/Exodus 20:17b KJV) Here we are told simply not to delight in anything else that any one else has. Do not lust after their wife, or delight in their animals, their hired help, their cars, or anything else that someone else has. This statement can be broken down into two statements, with one being just the wife and the other statement being all the rest.
Furthermore, it is common to place the statement "I am YHVH thy Elohim, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage," (Edodus 20:2 JPS 1917) as the first statement which would then bring the total statements to fourteen. It is true that YHVH is our Mighty One, but this particular statement contains no "thou shalt" or "thou shalt not" in it.
By simply looking at what is commonly known as the Ten Commandments, one can easily see how that what YHVH gave directly to men, in the hearing of all at the base of Mt Sinai, has been perverted and changed. Religious people changed the Sabbath statement, then the statement about having no idols, then statements became fused, and now the predominant "Christian" doctrine is that these statements are not even binding but are good spiritual guides for us to live our life by. A change here, and a change there only causes men and women to walk further away from the truth.
Do not even let the names of false gods cross your lips. But how many times a day do you say or hear said the phrase, "Good luck"? We now know that luck is a false god and that the English word good comes from the false god Buddha's title, so in that two word phrase, we are saying two false god's names.
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