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Post by alon on May 14, 2017 15:41:35 GMT -8
The following is a short teaching from Rabbi Stanley I am sharing with permission:
Matt. 16:9-10 Do ye not yet understand, aren’t you mindful; of the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? Neither mindful of the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Yeshua knew what they were thinking of! But He wasn’t worried about that. He wanted them to understand something much deeper. Every Rabbi had a kabala (deeper understanding, not the esoteric text), even to this day, and it was the duty of that Rabbi’s Talmidim to understand it and memorize it.
Yeshua didn’t care about this bread incident, He had something else to teach them. He wanted to teach them that not EVERYTHING the Pharisees and Sadducees taught was incorrect. Only a little bit of it was! How much leaven does it take for a whole loaf of bread? Yeshua didn’t say the whole loaf was bad. He said just a little bit of it was incorrect.
Christians take this passage and make it sound like Yeshua is saying all the Pharisitical and Saducean teachings were bad. That would be crazy, because Yeshua Himself endorsed the teachings of the Pharisees outright.
Matthew 23:1-3 (ESV) Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice.
Every Christian Bible School I’ve been to gets both these passages wrong. Let me share with you something else about Christian Bible Schools; the vast majority of them are just mills. They don’t promote free thinking. They stuff the future Pastors coming through their doors with denominational doctrine. They are anti-Semitic in nature, because the Church Fathers they make us study hated the Jews. They don’t care about the truth, they care about dogma. They haven’t changed their tune in nearly 2,000 years, and they aren’t about to change it now. That’s why we have Pastors today that don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. They’re simply puppets from the seminary they graduated from.
And for those few Pastors who do see the truth, they wont teach it because they’d lose all accreditation, their congregants who have been fed this crud all their lives, and then they’d lose their career.They’re not about to do that. They have families to feed; so who cares if you don’t get to hear the truth?
True, some Pastors simply don’t know. And many Christians who are new to Messianic Judaism can empathize with that. But don’t make the mistake that you and the Pastor are the same: HE HAS A RESPONSIBILITY! He’s supposed to know the truth. A layperson telling people false doctrine is one thing, a Pastor telling people falsehoods is quite another. G-d gives a double portion of the availability of truth to those who lead. In other words, G-d tries extra hard to reach people who are in leadership over others. And those Pastors aren’t heeding the call. Especially in this day and age.
I’d wager that every Pastor you know has at least heard of Messianic Judaism. We are a million strong now. Test them and I think you’d be surprised how much they know about the movement. And with knowledge comes responsibility; and many of them have already made a choice one way or another.
If you’re sitting under the ministry of a man like that who has heard the truth and rejected it, he’s made a choice and you will have to as well. Many of you will at some point have to make a decision to stay under the ministry of a man who has consciously decided to lie to you, or you will have to decide to follow the truth that G-d has graciously opened your eyes to.
Matt. 16:9-10 Do ye not yet understand, aren’t you mindful; of the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? Neither mindful of the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Yeshua knew what they were thinking of! But He wasn’t worried about that. He wanted them to understand something much deeper. Every Rabbi had a kabala (deeper understanding, not the esoteric text), even to this day, and it was the duty of that Rabbi’s Talmidim to understand it and memorize it.
Yeshua didn’t care about this bread incident, He had something else to teach them. He wanted to teach them that not EVERYTHING the Pharisees and Sadducees taught was incorrect. Only a little bit of it was! How much leaven does it take for a whole loaf of bread? Yeshua didn’t say the whole loaf was bad. He said just a little bit of it was incorrect.
Christians take this passage and make it sound like Yeshua is saying all the Pharisitical and Saducean teachings were bad. That would be crazy, because Yeshua Himself endorsed the teachings of the Pharisees outright.
Matthew 23:1-3 (ESV) Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice.
Every Christian Bible School I’ve been to gets both these passages wrong. Let me share with you something else about Christian Bible Schools; the vast majority of them are just mills. They don’t promote free thinking. They stuff the future Pastors coming through their doors with denominational doctrine. They are anti-Semitic in nature, because the Church Fathers they make us study hated the Jews. They don’t care about the truth, they care about dogma. They haven’t changed their tune in nearly 2,000 years, and they aren’t about to change it now. That’s why we have Pastors today that don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. They’re simply puppets from the seminary they graduated from.
And for those few Pastors who do see the truth, they wont teach it because they’d lose all accreditation, their congregants who have been fed this crud all their lives, and then they’d lose their career.They’re not about to do that. They have families to feed; so who cares if you don’t get to hear the truth?
True, some Pastors simply don’t know. And many Christians who are new to Messianic Judaism can empathize with that. But don’t make the mistake that you and the Pastor are the same: HE HAS A RESPONSIBILITY! He’s supposed to know the truth. A layperson telling people false doctrine is one thing, a Pastor telling people falsehoods is quite another. G-d gives a double portion of the availability of truth to those who lead. In other words, G-d tries extra hard to reach people who are in leadership over others. And those Pastors aren’t heeding the call. Especially in this day and age.
I’d wager that every Pastor you know has at least heard of Messianic Judaism. We are a million strong now. Test them and I think you’d be surprised how much they know about the movement. And with knowledge comes responsibility; and many of them have already made a choice one way or another.
If you’re sitting under the ministry of a man like that who has heard the truth and rejected it, he’s made a choice and you will have to as well. Many of you will at some point have to make a decision to stay under the ministry of a man who has consciously decided to lie to you, or you will have to decide to follow the truth that G-d has graciously opened your eyes to.
