REWARDS FOR PASSING THE TORAH MATH TEST

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From: Bob Allbright
To: heb_roots_chr@hebroots.org
Subject: Re: The Parable of the Torah Math Test

RE: PARABLE OF THE TORAH MATH TEST

Outstanding work, Eddie!! You have really put it all in perspective with this allegory. I do wish, however, that you had given more time to what happens to those who pass the Torah math test.

Thank you for your work and Shalom!

Bob Allbright

REWARDS FOR PASSING THE TORAH MATH TEST

by Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int'l

Dear Mishpochah (family):

In the last teaching article where I presented the "Parable of the Torah Math Test", we learned that since the fall of Adam in the Garden of Eden that YHVH has been trying to get us to be able to pass Torah math.

Somebody wrote and told me that the SERPENT in the Garden of Eden was the first "ADDer".

The basic Torah math equation is that we are NOT to ADD or NOT to SUBTRACT from the WRITTEN Torah given at Mount Sinai.

KJV Deuteronomy 4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

Historically, traditional Orthodox Judaism through the "Oral Law" has ADDED and ADDED to the WRITTEN commandments at Mount Sinai. On the other hand, traditional Christianity had SUBTRACTED and SUBTRACTED from the written commandments at Mount Sinai by teaching "age of law" and "age of grace".

In this article, I am going to answer what is the REWARD for PASSING the Torah Math Test.

YHVH DESIRED A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS

At Mount Sinai, YHVH desired for the HOUSE OF JACOB to be a KINGDOM of PRIESTS. However, this was DEPENDENT upon His people OBEYING His COMMANDMENTS.

KJV Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, IF ye will OBEY my voice indeed, and KEEP my COVENANT, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

KJV Exodus 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a KINGDOM of PRIEST, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

YHVH desired that ALL TWELVE TRIBES would be a KINGDOM of PRIESTS unto Him. This was CONDITIONAL on KEEPING HIS COVENANT or obeying His voice. However, this covenant was first broken with the incident of the golden calf.

THE GOLDEN CALF SYSTEM OF WORSHIP

The golden calf system of worship is MIXING the TRUE worship of YHVH with the ways of the world. There are TWO ways that you can MIX the TRUE worship of YHVH. You can ADD or you can SUBTRACT.

Through the influence of watching movies like the Ten Commandments, I had an image in my mind that the house of Jacob were worshipping ANOTHER GOD when they build the golden calf. In truth, this was not so. They ACKNOWLEDGED that YHVH brought His people out of Egypt but they referred to the CALF as YHVH.

KJV Exodus 32:4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

KJV Exodus 32:5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.

The people built the GOLDEN CALF and said that they were going to have to feast to YHVH. In the MINDS of the people, they were WORSHIPPING YHVH by building the golden calf.

THE PENALTY FOR MIXED WORSHIP

YHVH wanted to know WHO was OUTRAGED at the MIXED worship. It was ONLY the tribe of Levi who was OUTRAGED.

KJV Exodus 32:26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.

As a result of the golden calf system of worship, ONLY the tribe of LEVI were priests unto YHVH even though YHVH desired that ALL TWELVE tribes be a kingdom of priests.

THE DUTY OF A PRIEST IS TO TEACH TORAH

One of the main duties of a priest is to TEACH TORAH to the people of YHVH.

KJV Nehemiah 8:2 And Ezra the PRIEST brought the LAW before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could HEAR with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.

KJV Jeremiah 18:18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the LAW shall NOT perish from the PRIEST ...

KJV Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

KJV Ezekiel 44:15 But the priests the LEVITES, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:

KJV Ezekiel 44:23 And they shall TEACH my people the difference BETWEEN the HOLY and PROFANE, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

BELIEVERS IN THE MESSIAH ARE A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS

KJV Revelation 1:6 And hath MADE US kings and PRIESTS unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

DISQUALIFIED BY PARTICIPATING IN MIXED WORSHIP

Constantine Christianity has taught us that believers in the Messiah DON'T follow the TORAH yet they also tell us that believers in the Messiah are kings and priests.

Constantine Christianity has mixed TRUE worship of YHVH with Greco-Roman beliefs.

Just like those who participated in the golden calf worship at Mount Sinai disqualified themselves from becoming a Kingdom of Priests, those in Constantine Christianity who have REJECTED Torah DISQUALIFY themselves from being priests of Yeshua.

KJV Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be NO PRIEST to me: seeing thou hast FORGOTTEN the LAW of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

If you FORGET (don't follow) TORAH = NO PRIEST

If it is the duty of a PRIEST to TEACH TORAH and if you DON'T follow or TEACH TORAH then you are FLUNKING the job description of a priest. Therefore YHVH will DEMOTE you so that you are NOT a priest anymore. Priests are GREAT in the Kingdom. Those who are NOT priests in the Kingdom have a status of being LEAST in the Kingdom.

THE GREATEST IN THE KINGDOM ARE PRIESTS

KJV Matthew 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

BREAK COMMANDMENTS and TEACH OTHERS TO BREAK = LEAST

KEEP COMMANDMENTS and TEACH OTHERS TO KEEP = GREATEST

PRIESTS WILL RULE WITH MESSIAH DURING THE MESSIANIC ERA

KJV Revelation 5:10 And hast made us unto our God kings and PRIESTS: and we shall REIGN on the EARTH.

KJV Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be PRIESTS of God and of Christ, and shall REIGN with him a THOUSAND YEARS.

YESHUA IS OUR HIGH PRIEST

KJV Hebrews 3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and HIGH PRIEST of our profession, Christ Jesus;

KJV Hebrews 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great HIGH PRIEST, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

In order to be a HIGH PRIEST Messiah MUST teach Torah.

If Messiah died on the tree to do away with following the Torah then the high priest has NO TORAH to TEACH.

MESSIAH HAS A GOVERNMENT

KJV Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the GOVERNMENT shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

KJV Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of his GOVERNMENT and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

MESSIAH IS THE HIGH PRIEST OF HIS GOVERNMENT

Since Messiah is the HIGH PRIEST of His government then this means that He MUST teach Torah. This will be one the PRIMARY duties of the Messiah is to teach TORAH to the ENTIRE WORLD during the Messianic Era.

KJV Isaiah 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and HE will TEACH us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the LAW, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Since Messiah has a GOVERNMENT, He will have PRIESTS who will rule and reign with Him.

What will these PRIESTS be doing? They will be teaching Torah.

During the Messianic Era if the people of the earth have an controversy over a Torah commandment which is too hard for the "local" priests to discern how to follow and implement, they will go to the "Supreme Torah Court" in Jerusalem where Messiah will make the final ruling.

KJV Deuteronomy 17:8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;

KJV Deuteronomy 17:9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the JUDGE that shall be in THOSE DAYS, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:

The JUDGE in THOSE DAYS will be the MESSIAH.

THE GREAT COMMISSION IS A PRIESTLY CALLING

Christianity has taught that the "great commission" is to witness to the world and preach to them that Yeshua / Jesus is the Messiah. However, there is ONE VERY IMPORTANT element of the great commission that Christianity OMITS. This is to make TORAH DISCIPLES of ALL NATIONS.

KJV Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and TEACH all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

KJV Matthew 28:20 TEACHING them to OBSERVE all things whatsoever I have COMMANDED you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

The GREAT COMMISSION is to TEACH ALL NATIONS the TORAH of Messiah. Who teaches Torah? It is the PRIESTS.

Therefore TEACHING TORAH to ALL NATIONS is a PRIESTLY DUTY.

KJV Deuteronomy 11:32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.

FLUNKING THE GREAT COMMISSION

Rather than fulfilling their priestly calling and teach Torah to all nations, Constantine Christianity has taught the nations that Messiah died on the tree to DO AWAY with FOLLOWING the TORAH.

NO PRIEST ---- NO RULING WITH MESSIAH DURING THE MESSIANIC ERA

Those who TEACH that we do NOT FOLLOW the Torah of Messiah DISQUALIFY themselves to be PRIESTS and thus will NOT rule and reign with Messiah during the Messianic Era.

THE TEACHERS OF TORAH RULE WITH MESSIAH DURING THE MESSIANIC ERA

LIVING FOREVER IN THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM

The Bride of Messiah is a ROYAL PRIESTHOOD.

KJV 1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

KJV Revelation 21:9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

KJV Revelation 21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

KJV Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that DO his COMMANDMENTS, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may ENTER in through the GATES into the CITY.

Those who FOLLOW TORAH have RIGHT to the HEAVENLY CITY of JERUSALEM.

The heavenly Jerusalem is NOT just for the "saved".

KJV Revelation 21:24 And the NATIONS of them which are SAVED shall WALK (follow Torah) in the LIGHT of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.

Those SAVED are WALKING (following Torah) in the LIGHT of the Bride (her teachings of Torah) or the heavenly Jerusalem.

The LIGHT of the Bride is FOLLOWING TORAH.

KJV Proverbs 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the LAW is LIGHT; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

THE REWARD FOR PASSING TORAH MATH

How important is it to PASS Torah math?

KJV Deuteronomy 4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

Those who ADD to the Torah or those who SUBTRACT from the Torah FLUNK the Torah Math test.

Those who BREAK the commandments (by ADDING or SUBTRACTING) and TEACH OTHERS to do SO will be LEAST (NOT a PRIEST) in the Kingdom.

Those who KEEP the commandments and TEACH OTHERS to do so will be GREAT (Kings and Priests) in the Kingdom.

Does it matter if we follow Torah AFTER we have accepted Yeshua as the Messiah and are saved by GRACE through FAITH (Ephesians 2:8-9) like Paul taught (Romans 3:31)?

KJV Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we ESTABLISH the LAW.

It matters only if you want to rule and reign with Messiah during the Messianic Era and want to live forever with Him in the heavenly Jerusalem.

This is the REWARD for PASSING the Torah Math Test.

WHO IS THE BRIDE OF MESSIAH?

Because Constantine Christianity does NOT teach the proper REWARD for PASSING the Torah math test (being the Bride of Messiah and ruling and reigning with Him during the Messianic Era and living and abiding with Him in the heavenly Jerusalem), I have written a book on the subject to help believers in Messiah to better understand the issue. This book is entitled, "Who is the Bride of Christ?". If you would like to read copy of this book after reading this article, visit www.hebroots.org/eddiesbooks.htm.

May you continue to seek to be TORAH STUDENTS of the Messiah.

May YHVH continue to bless you in your studies.

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int'l

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