One in Messiah Congregation
קָּהָל אֶחָד בְּמָּשִׁיחַ
27 S. Maple Street, Hohenwald, Tn. 38462
Phone – 615 712-3931
Or 615 591-9820
A part
of the Congregation of Israel
עֲדַת יִשְׂרָאֵל
Shabbat Shalom
שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם
Let’s pray
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Today we use the Gregorian calendar from Pope Gregory; from the 1500’s
Today is January 7th, 2017
January -- Janus's month
Middle English Januarie
Latin Januarius "of Janus"
Latin Janu(s) "Janus" + -arius "ary (pertaining to)"
Latin Januarius mensis "month of Janus"
Janus is the Roman god of gates and doorways, depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions. His festival month is January.
Yehovah has His own calendar
We are now in God’s 10th month Tevet, 8th day
Esth.2 [16] So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
טֵבֵת some say it means “goodness”
A part of January / February 2017
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God was manifest in the flesh, Yeshua
This study came about as I hear many people are being deceived today by anti-missionaries with their fake Hebrew façade, as they befriend you.
They say that they know more accurately what the Scriptures say.
If this was true, they would not have missed hundreds of prophecies pertaining to the Messiah in the Hebrew Scripture.
Scripture is very clear that Yeshua is the Messiah and His shed blood is the only atonement for sin today and forever.
There are no more sacrifices for sin to be performed today or in the future and anti-missionaries, Karaites have no sacrifice for sin until they repent and accept the only true Messiah, Yeshua and His shed blood.
Without Yeshua you have no atonement!
I smell a rat dressed up as your brother or sister.
Yeshua is not a Karaite, nor is He a Sadducee
Some people are believing this nonsense and losing their souls
Reworked from the net
Karaites erroneously trace their origins to the Sadducees
Some karaites explicitly subvert the biblical teachings on who Yeshua was, the Word of God made flesh, and are covertly leading believers in Yeshua the Messiah, the Word of God made flesh, away from their true faith.
Some karaites are devoted students of the Karaite teacher Mordecai Alfandari who was a very vocal anti-missionary (a Jewish leader who seeks to undermine believers in Yeshua and draw Jewish people away from belief in Yeshua as the Messiah, God in the flesh.
Being raised as Orthodox in Karaite Judaism or Judaism does not merit the only salvation in Messiah shed blood.
Being a Prominent promoter of Karaism does not merit the only salvation in Messiah’s shed blood.
Holding a master's degree in Biblical studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem does not merit the only salvation in Messiah’s shed blood.
Speaking Hebrew or translating Hebrew does not merit the only salvation in Messiah’s s not hed blood.
Authoring or coauthoring books on Yeshua and openly rejecting Yeshua as Messiah does not merit the only salvation in Messiah’s shed blood.
Having affiliations with Messianic Jews and with other Christian groups, groups with some pre-existing affinity toward Jewish identity and practice does not merit the only salvation in Messiah’s shed blood.
Some karaites undermine the authority and reliability of the Gospels and Letters as we have them today and seek to promote the idea that Yeshua was, in fact, a sort of proto-karaite whose real message was simply, that people should obey the law of Moses while rejecting the oral human traditions of the Pharisees.
As so many people before have their motives, so the people of today have their motives and are still polluting the Word of God.
While looking for the "real, historical Yeshua" that is hidden from us Gospels and Letters, they say, they find a Yeshua that instead looks an awful lot like, a Karaite or whatever of today.
As you see, when their assumptions are in error, so their conclusions will also be in error.
We always find our answers in the underline text they are using for their study, the secret Hebrew original. Not, lol
Hebrew Matthew and The Real Yeshua?
Here are some so called claims:
1. A 14th Century Jewish physician in Spain named Shem-Tov published a work in Hebrew presenting arguments against Roman Catholicism. In this work, he quoted from Matthew in Hebrew.
2. A study was published by an associate professor of religion at the university of Georgia named George Howard claiming that the text of Matthew quoted by Shem-Tov was written originally in Hebrew and goes back very early in church history.
3. The early church writer Papias claims that Matthew was originally written in Hebrew and was translated badly into Greek and other languages.
4. Shem-Tov's text shows signs of corruption where people attempted over the years to change it to fit the Greek text, so anywhere it agrees with the Greek we can assume is a corruption in the text, but anywhere it disagrees with the Greek may be the Hebrew original of Matthew and so should be preferred to the traditional New Testament reading.
5. Therefore, we should use this medieval Hebrew text to reinterpret the words of Jesus and see him in a new light.
No!
Information below was taken from our friend Richard Rives. Too long in the sun website
HEBREW MATTHEW - Shem Tob - du Tillet – Munster
Are we to believe and trust these references by Origen and his student Eusebius?
It was Origen was deceived by education and philosophy who upon receipt of pure copies of scripture altered them to parallel his twisted thinking.
He is the father of all Bible critics and is not only responsible for the physical manuscripts which delete such verses as Luke 24:40, Acts 8:37 and I John 5:7, but he is also responsible for the Alexandrian philosophy parroted by so many of our fundamental scholars who claim that "The Bible is perfect and infallible" with one breath and then state "The Bible has mistakes and mistranslations" with the very next. It is this demented ideology that gave birth to the corrupt Alexandrian manuscripts in the first place.
"As having learnt by tradition concerning the four Gospels, which alone are unquestionable in the Church of God under heaven, that first was written according to Matthew, who was once a tax collector but afterwards an apostle of Jesus Christ, who published it for those who from Judaism came to believe, composed as it was in the Hebrew language." - Origen (Eusebius, H.E. 6.25.4)
"Matthew collected the oracles (ta logia) in the Hebrew language, and each interpreted them as best he could." - Papias (Eusebius, H.E. 3.39.16)
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Beware of those who present the Shem Tob version of Matthew as an accurate representation of a manuscript.
Many believers in Messiah Yeshua are being led by unbelievers to accept an unscriptural version of pseudo Hebrew Matthew which was found as a part of a polemic document entitled Eban Bohan.
This document was authored by Shem Tob, an unbelieving Jewish theologian.
Many unbelievers are going around the country promoting this trash.
Remember - we don't have an early copy of Shem-Tob's work.
But
Quoting Professor George Howard, translator of Shem Tob:
In regard to theology, Shem-tob’s Hebrew Matthew is heretical according to the standard of traditional Christianity.
It never identifies Jesus with the Messiah.
John the Baptist is given an exalted role (even takes on messianic traits),
Shem-Tob’s text envisions the salvation of the Gentiles only in the Messianic era.
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Shem Tob ben Shaprut of Tudela Castle – Spain, 1385 - 14th Century
Wrote a polemical work against Christianity entitled Eben Bohan (The Touchstone)
Matthew is a separate chapter of Eben Bohan
A cursive manuscript of Eben Bohan can be found at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America - New York
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du Tillet
Jean du Tillet - Catholic Bishop of Brieux France
From a manuscript found at Rome among the Jews in 1553
Used by Jehovah’s witnesses
James Trim translated du Tillet
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Munster
Sebastian Munster
1537 confiscated from the Jews
Some think Munster and du Tillet to be from the same source
Munster filled in missing portions and made no notes as to which parts he added.
Shem Tob and du Tillet are different texts. They do not always agree.
Munster disagrees with Shem Tob.
They do not always agree Jerome speaks of a Hebrew Matthew among the Nazarenes in Jordan who fled Jerusalem.
Jerome quotes that text and Professor George Howard who translated Shem Tob says that Jeromes quotes do not match Shem Tob.
Epiphanius qoutes Ebionite Hebrew Matthew. His quotes do not match Shem Tob.
The tetragrammaton does not appear in Shem Tob or in du Tillet.
In Shem Tob it is written as Heh or something and two Yods signifying Ha Shem or The Name.
In du Tillet it is written as three Yods.
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SCRIPTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SHEM TOB AND THE GREEK MAJORITY TEXTS AS REPRESENTED IN THE ENGLISH KING JAMES VERSION OF THE BIBLE
Never identifies Yeshua as Messiah.
Mat 1:1 "the generation of Jesus the Christ"
Shem Tob "the generations of Jesus ( )"
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Never identifies Jesus as Messiah.
Mat 1:18 "now the birth of Jesus (the) Christ"
Shem Tob "birth of Jesus ( )"
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The fact that Yeshua "shall save His people" omitted
Mat 1:21 "thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins"
Shem Tob "he shall save my people from their sins"
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Non-Biblical - Rabbinical reference
Mat 4:9 "all these things will I give if thou wilt fall down and worship me"
Shem Tob "if you bare your head to me"
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Jewish sages given equal status with Yeshua / Jesus
Mat 7:29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
"Preaching with great power not as the rest of the sages."
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Reference to the coming kingdom removed
Mat 6:10 "Thy kingdom come"
Shem Tob "may your kingdom be blessed"
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Forgiveness of sin by Yeshua / Jesus removed
Mat 9:2 "thy sins be forgiven thee"
Shem Tob "It is by the faith of God that your sins have been forgiven"
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The gospel set aside
Mat 11:5 "the poor have the gospel preached to them"
Shem Tob "the poor are aquited"
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Elevation of John the Baptist over Yeshua / Jesus
Mat 11:11 - 11:13 "For all the prophets and the law spoke concerning John" as opposed "prophesied until John".
Mat 21:32 "Because John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him."
In Shem Tob - addressed to the disciples instead of the chief priests and elders.
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Quoting Professor George Howard, translator of Shem Tob:
In summary, this series of readings asserts that none is greater than John, the prophets and the law spoke concerning John,
John (Elijah) is to save all the world, and Jesus’ own disciples are disgraced for not having believed John.
In traditional Christianity such a description is usually applied to Jesus.
Its application to John the Baptist in Shem Tob’s Hebrew, elevates the Baptist to a salvation role.
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The temple greater than Yeshua
Mat 12:6 "But I say unto you, in this place is one greater than the temple"
Shem Tob "the temple is greater than this"
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Mat 13:11 "it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given"
Shem Tob "to know the kingdom of heaven"
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Man sows seed instead of the son of man:
Mat 13:37 "He that soweth the good seed is the son of man"
Shem tob "the one who sows good seed is man"
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Possible Talmudic influence - Toldoth Yeshu?
Mat 13:55 "Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary?"
"Is this not the son of the smith and Mary?"
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*** James is left out as brother of Jesus in the Shem Tob - Possible
Elevation of James
Mat 14:6 In Shem Tob - Herods daughter danced - not Herodias’ daughter –
Qumran scrolls condemn niece marriage - Jewish leaders of the time practiced it.
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Possible Talmudic Influence: Doctrine of the Pharisees unquestioned
Mat 16:12 Told to beware the doctrine of the Pharisees..."
Shem Tob "beware of the behavior of the Pharisees..."
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Salvation by Elijah rather than Yeshua / Jesus
Mat 17:11 "Elijah shall truly shall first come and restore all things"
Shem Tob "Elijah will come and save all the world"
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Salvation by way of "The Son of man" deleted
Mat 18:11 "The Son of man is come to save that which was lost"
Shem Tob "the son of man has stopped saving the enemy"
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Possible Talmudic Implications:
Mat 18:18 "Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven"
Shem Tob applies this scripture to being bound or loosed from oaths taken - Day of Atonement - Col Nidre Prayer - implications ????
Shem Tob "every oath which you shall bind on earth is bound in heaven and every oath which you shall loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."
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Worldly material wealth rather than heavenly treasure
Mat 19:22 "Went away sorrowful for he had great possessions"
Shem Tob "went away angry because he did not have much property"
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Mat 19:28
"When the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory"
"when man sits upon the throne of his glory"
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Mat 20:30
"When they heard the Jesus passed by"
"the prophet Jesus from Nazareth is coming"
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The preaching of the gospel as a witness concerning Yeshua is the Anti-Christ and this is the abomination which desolates.
Mat 24:14-16 "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet stand in the holy place (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains."
Shem Tob "And this gospel, that is, evungili, will be preached un all the earth for a witness concerning me to all the nations and then the end will come.
This is the Anti-Christ and this is the abomination which desolates. Then those who are in Judaea let them flee to the mountains."
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"Son of man" replaced by "the bridegroom."
Mat 25:13 ...day not the hour wherein the Son of man cometh"
Shem Tob "...day nor hour when the bridegroom comes."
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Possible Talmudic implications
Mat 26:2 "...the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified"
Shem Tob "delivered into the hand of the Jews for the gallows"
Mat 27:23 "Let him be crucified"
Shem Tob "let them hang him"
Mat 27:31 "led him away to crucify him"
Shem Tob "gave orders to hang him"
"The Cross" is in parenthesis as if it
needed to be connected with the word
Mat 27:32 "him they compelled to bear his cross"
Shem Tob "compelled him to carry the gallows, that is "The Cross"
Mat 27:40-42 "Come down from the cross"
Shem Tob v.40 "come down from the gallows" - v.42 "come down from the tree"
Mat 28:5 "ye seek Jesus who was crucified"
"Shem Tob "Jesus who was hung"
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Not the King of the Jews but the King of Israel
Mat 27:37 "THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS"
Shem Tob "This is Jesus of Nazareth the King of Israel"
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Mat 27:46 "with a loud voice"
Shem Tob "in the holy language" (Hebrew ?)
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Mat 27:57 "a rich man of Arimathea"
Shem Tob "A rich man from Karnasiah came . His name was Joseph…"
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Mat 27:59 "when Joseph had taken the body he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth"
Shem Tob "wrapped it in a very fine silk garment"
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Mat 28:9 - Shem Tob has Jesus substituting YHVH with "Ha Shem"
Traditional Jewish greeting rather than Greek/Roman greeting as is found in majority manuscripts
"Jesus met them saying All Hail"
Shem Tob - "saying May the Name deliver you"
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Shem Tob has 12 disciples going to Galilee after Judas was dead
Mat 28:16 "Then the eleven disciples went away unto Galilee"
Shem Tob - "when his twelve disciples came to Galilee"
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"I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world" - left out
Mat 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
Shem Tob - and teach them to carry out all the things which I have commanded you forever.
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Again…
Quoting Professor George Howard, translator of Shem Tob:
In regard to theology, Shem-tob’s Hebrew Matthew is heretical according to the standard of traditional Christianity.
It never identifies Jesus with the Messiah.
John the Baptist is given an exalted role (even takes on messianic traits),
Shem-Tob’s text envisions the salvation of the Gentiles only in a Messianic era.
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In closing: be aware of people’s so called biblical Hebrew credentials
As spiritual forensic biblical detectives, we are to:
Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true; simply put: throw the trash out.
Remember: Karaites still do not believe Yeshua to be the Messiah; like all Karaites they are in error and eagerly await the coming of the anointed Davidic king, who came already, who will reign as king over Israel, ushering in an era of eternal peace, then they quote (Isaiah 11; Ezekiel 34:24-25; even Luke 1:32-33). To their knowledge Yeshua has yet to fulfill this fundamental criterion of the Davidic Messiah.
Remember, when the entire premise is flawed, so is the conclusion
You can’t start with your own conclusion and then judge the so-called biblical sources you are using, to tell whether or not they agree with your assumptions.
By Yeshua’s own authority He taught, something no mere Karaite calling people back to an older form of Torah observance could ever do.
Yeshua claimed to be the Messiah, the word of God made flesh
Yeshua worked great miracles, rose from the dead, ascended to the right hand of the Father, and foretold His future return.
He was not a mere "good teacher"- Yeshua was God in the flesh – Immanuel
Yeshua was and is the Messiah, son of David, and the divine Son, Word of Yehovah made flesh, Lord of all things
No medieval translation, especially one like the HEBREW MATTHEW - Shem Tob - du Tillet – Munster, that is in error, can change what Yeshua said or who Yeshua truly was, the Messiah, the Word of God made flesh.
[1] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
[2] The Same was in the beginning with God.
[3] All things were made by Him; and without Him was
not any thing made that was made.
[4] In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.
[5] And the light shineth in darkness; and the
darkness comprehended it not.
[6] There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
[7] The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light,
that all men through him might believe.
[8] He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
[9] That was the true Light, which lighteth every man
that cometh into the world.
[10] He was in the world, and the world was made by
Him, and the world knew Him not.
[11] He came unto his own, and His own received Him not.
[12] But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name:
[13] Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the
will of man, but of God.
[14] And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
full of grace and truth.
Shabbat shalom