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BET EMET MINISTRIES
Hebrew For "The House Of Truth"
Pastor Craig Lyons Ms.D., D.D., M.Div.
This is what Bet Emet Ministries and this website, as well as our others, offer the interested reader and "Godfearer." This may be a new term for you but one which you will quickly come to see is the best description for the non-Jewish believer. As introduced above there are many fallacies that find their home in Gentile Christianity today; almost no greater error can be found other than that concerning Christianity's view of the role of Covenant and the Torah/Law/Commandments of God and the role they play in the faith of the non-Jewish Christian let alone the role they pay in his individual Covenant with God!
What would you do as a Christian or a follower of Jesus/Yeshua if you found out, beyond any doubt, that Gentile Christianity has led you astray from the true teachings of men like Yeshua/Jesus, James, Peter, John, etc., and whereby you also come to see for yourself that what was taught in the fulfillment of the Great Commission to the Gentile world over the first 3-4 centuries by Israel was drastically altered and changed by Rome in the 4th century [changed as recorded in the Roman New Testament} whereby today, upon diligent study, you come to realize that you have been led to follow a replacement religion and a false "gospel" and accept a "false salvation?"
Well hopefully upon coming to the knowledge of these facts then you will be led by God to reconsider your religious belief system as a follower of Jesus and as a Christian and make necessary changes within it whereby there would be no longer any personal doubt that you are a true follower of Jesus/Yeshua and adopt personally for yourself Jesus'/Yeshua's religious belief system in all doctrinal areas as once was the case (in the earliest centuries after Jesus' death). This is what I will prove to you beyond any doubt in this website if you have the courage to continue your study into this topic.
In reality I am inviting you to come to the knowledge of and Return To The Real Faith Of Jesus for the first time in your life.
The presentation of such evidence follows.
This is intended as a short overview of what to expect if you continue your study with us in this website. First of all we must begin at the beginning with the Revelation of God as found in the Torah [Teaching, i.e. Pentateuch) which was commanded to ALL nations. That's right; I said ALL AND NOT JUST THE JEWISH PEOPLE!
Two errors concerning the Holy Scriptures have seriously hampered the widespread acceptance of fundamental Biblical teachings as they concern the non-Jewish believer:
Please take time to understand what was just said above before progressing with your study of this website.
This website is devoted to correcting these two errors and revealing to the Christian "the faith once given to the saints" in the wake of Jesus' death as seen not only from Biblical evidence [correctly interpreted] but historical and archeological evidences that exist today which reveal how, in the beginning centuries at least, the non-Jewish believer in both God and Israel's Messiah practiced a Torah-based faith which is so unlike today in the wake of what Rome has done to the faith of Jesus. It would be early in the 4th century before Rome would effectively alter and change the faith of Jesus for the Gentile world and few if any "Christians" are aware of this tragic series of events that robbed them of the real faith of Jesus; that is until they die and find out face to face with God! The time for change and repentance is now while we are alive.
This will be news to most Christians. But the Pentateuch is the only Book of the Scriptures that claims to be both the direct word of God and a definite Guide to the way of life. Its center piece, the Ten Commandments (better understood as categories), is given in the form of a Revelation, not to an individual, but to many scores of thousands, to an entire people directly. Biblical Tradition stresses that the Divine Voice uttered the Ten Commandments in all the seventy languages of mankind, that the sound of the Voice reached to the farthest parts of the world, and that the original stone tablets themselves preceded the creation of Man.
Answer for yourself: Did you understand what was just said? Why 70 languages?
The "Torah" spoken by God at Sinai was given to all the world (Gentiles) and not just the Jewish people (a mixed multitude resided at Mt. Sinai which consisted of Jews and non-Jews and they both were offered the Torah besides the 70 Gentile nations of the world that existed in that day). In these and many other ways, loyal disciples of the Hebrew Bible have demonstrated their realization of a definite Universal Revelation or Universal Bible which belongs to all the children of man (both Jew and non-Jew). All the later writings [after the 5 books of Moses] claim to be inspired by God; at the same time, they admit to being the work of an individual or of a group, the bearers of divine inspiration. This means that there is a big difference in authority between the first 5 Books of Moses and the rest of the Jewish Scriptures let alone the New Testament! Stop and let that sink in!!!
Thus, these other Jewish Scriptures [Prophets and Writings] may be described as Testaments, in the proper sense of the term. The Pentateuch/Torah/5 Books of Moses stands alone as the teachings of the Deity-The Bible, The Book.
It was a mistake to offer the compound mixture of Holy Writ [Law, Prophets, Writings and New Testament in one volume] as if it were one whole, for that way confusion was created as to the various authority of these different writings. Most of the later Jewish Scriptures, though sacred and inspired, were from the very outset intended to be only of historical, moral or literary value. The anti-Semitic New Testament is a subject of it's own entirely and in reality should have never been included with the Jewish Bible per se but used ONLY as a secondary historical source to only verify and testify as to the fulfillment of what had gone before as implemented in the Gentile world.
The purpose of this website is to stress this Universal Revelation and Universal Bible that can be shown to have much in common with most Gentile religions in the world today; and to demonstrate how the foundations and the goal of all faiths and of any lasting civilization must be sought in the universal sections of the Pentateuch; for within the Pentateuch we find the Universal Teaching Of The Covenant of Noah with it's 7 Laws Of Noah for the non-Jewish nations of the world. This means that these Universal Laws of Noah form the very foundation of the Mosaic Law and are reiterated by Moses before further revelation is given to Israel in the Sinai desert. This also means that these Five Books alone, which contain the Covenant and Laws of Noah, are engraved in the imperative mood of the direct speech of God (the Noahide Covenant).
Futhermore, it was a mistake to offer the whole of the Five Books to mankind at large [Gentiles], as if all the happenings to Israel of old and the laws given to them and their descendants were ever intended by the Bible to have universal application! The text itself repeatedly stresses "Speak unto the children of Israel." Yet Gentile Bible devotees and propagators have unwittingly disobeyed the Bible and have extended the application of purely Israelite observances and histories to all the peoples of the earth, as if no nation would become Godly unless it adhered also to obligations specifically Jewish. But this is not true as you will come to see for yourself if you study through this website.
The mistaken application of Laws given "only" to the Jewish people for the Gentile nations of the world by those who misunderstood or misinterpreted the Jewish Scriptures created the Gentile's attempt to "abrogate" and "nullify" the Law in it's entirety; not only the Laws given to the Jews but all laws (Covenant stipulations) in their entirety [even those Laws given specifically to the Gentile nations long before the beginning of the Jewish people].
The reader needs to understand that some of this misunderstanding on the Gentile's part was due to his unfamiliarity with things Jewish and this same malady blinds him today as well; yet some of it can be found throughout Christian history to arise from the root of antisemitism and antisemitic hatred of the Jew and his faith by Gentiles and later Rome and their ecclestical leaders. Sadly we have inherited their venom today in many of our "Christian doctrines" which find their origins in places other than God.
Our unfamiliarity with the Jewish Scriptures literally cripples us when we try to read and study the Christian faith for such Cultural, Linguistical, and Biblical ignorance on our part guarantees we miss the mark when trying to find the truth. Because of this the Christian church today stands in almost total ignorance of the 7 Laws of Noah, the Covenant of Noah, Acts 15 and the Jerusalem church's decision to enforce them upon the Gentile followers of Jesus. The early church understood the "path of the righteous Gentile" to which most Christians today have never heard or read. The Noahide Covenant, also called the Bnai Noach or B'nai Noach movement, is unknown for the most part in the Gentile Church today. I hear over and over again "I want the truth" but when it stares most people in the face they cannot discern it. This condition is correctable only one way:diligent study! The Bible itself is explicit as to which of its parts refer to mankind generally, and which sections apply exclusively to its immediate recipients, namely the children of Jacob (the Jewish people) and it is up to you to know and discern the difference! Indeed the first preachers of Christianity to the nations referred to this truth when they explained that the Law is holy and good for those born in it, and that "the whole of the Law [613 Laws and Commandments] was not meant for the Gentiles but only certain parts of it."
Answer for yourself: Do you, as a Gentile Christian, know which parts of this Holy Bible refer to you and which do not? I hope to be able to educate the reader whereby he not only learns these differences but comes to a place in his religious life that he becomes so equipped with such knowledge and understanding that no-one will ever be able to lie to him again about God and his Christian faith without him spotting immediately the lie from the truth. For that to happen we must begin to acquaint ourselves with some facts from Biblical history long hidden and overlooked by Gentile Christianity; yet just a little study as you will quickly come to see, will reveal that these "truths" have remained hidden even on the pages of your New Testaments for almost 2000 years.....that is until you come to some knowledge that will begin to help you spot these "truths" for the first time in your life.
The Hebraic tradition attached to the Hebrew Bible has taught throughout its history the existence of a Biblical code of "Seven Laws" for all the children of Noah and the sons of Noah. They are the prohibitions of:
I must say as an ordained Pastor who has studied these topics for years that the traditional Christian breaks many of these above Laws and Commandments because Gentile Christianity not only fails to understand the Torah intended for the Gentile but teaches doctrines and dogmas which cause the devotee to violate and break many of the above 7 Laws and Commandments of God which were given to all non-Jewish believers in the Noachide Covenant.
It is my hope that this website will expose such errors as taught by Gentile Christianity and lead the honest seeker of God to a more obedient life-style before the God he loves.
Each of these above basic laws is derived from one or more texts in the Bible-texts which themselves indicate that they are intended for universal application...for both non-Jew and Jew. In addition, there are other Biblical requirements, possibly derivatives of these basic seven, which, again from the text itself, appear to be intended for the culture of all mankind. Biblical Tradition frequently refers to such supplementary Scriptural obligations of the nations. The Talmud (Bavli, Hullin, 92) states: "There are thirty Biblical Commandments which the nations of the world took upon themselves." These Seven Laws of Noah along with these supplementary Scriptural obligations of the nations (in reality Seven Categories of Laws and Commandments) make up God's Universal Bible as translated throughout this website. For some thousands of years, Hebraic scholars have been writing scholarly studies on this selected Universal Code of Biblical Laws and the 7 Laws of Noah and the Covenant of Noah for the non-Jew, as commanded to all the descendants of Noah. But these writings and teachings have remained unknown to the people most concerned; in particular the Christian community with is reticence concerning the Law of God. The presentation of this information and material in this website which was given by God TO ALL NATIONS is a belated attempt to rectify the omission. It is time for the Gentile Christian to learn of his Hebrew Roots and Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith whereby he returns to the true faith of Jesus by observing the Covenant of Noah and practicing adherence to Isaiah 56 as we will see in a moment. Conversion to Judaism is not what I am saying; rather a return to a form of Messianic Christianity whereby the non-Jew returns to the Covenant given him by God and not the ones created by Rome that produced the replacement religion we have today called Western Christianity!
Since this work is an attempt to present the practical requirements of the Bible, its translation from the original Hebrew is also of a practical nature. Literary beauty has been given second place, and archaic forms were made to step aside before words that are now current coin.
It must be stressed further that unto every descendant of Jacob, the whole Torah (Pentateuch) with its "613 laws" has been presented for implementation into the fabric of a Jewish life. That is his peculiar heritage. Biblical tradition stresses that full observance of the Teaching of the Seven Laws by the "gentile" is spiritually equal to the Torah of six hundred and thirteen Commandments given to the Jew!!!!
God's Universal Revelation and Universal Bible is called "The Teaching for the Sons of Noah" and the Universal Laws are called "The Seven Commandments for the Children of Noah ". Through their acceptance mankind may deliver itself from the Destruction that threatens every immoral age and, like Noah, the God-fearing few may build up civilization out of the ruins of a world devastated by Godliness. According to Biblical Tradition, the "Seven Law Man" of any race, nation or church is a righteous man, he is a Ger Toshav-a convert to civilization. Don't confuse this with being a convert to Judaism or being a proselyte; what I am speaking about is adherence by the Non-Jew to the Covenant given him by God and not the ones that replaced it by Rome's initiative.
The intention has been to indicate how the universal laws of the Bible have still to be mastered and applied before mankind can claim real progress towards civilization. Some few personalities, both in the past and in modern times, have tried to rise and to raise others into the high spheres of saintliness without the Law. But for practical purposes, the restraints and commands (Laws) of the Bible are indispensable to the establishment of basic decency and goodness in society at large. It is also true that universal Biblical teachings have, in many respects, been accepted in the current civilization of mankind. But, again, the purpose of this work is to encourage further progress towards true civilization and manifestation of the Kingdom of Heaven upon this world.
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