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The code of Divine Law which we now know as the Seven Commandments of the Children of Noah has been with mankind since the creation of the first man, Adam. The very reason that God created man last of all the creations was symbolic of man's choice in the world.
When he is fulfilling God’s will, man sits atop everything that was created before him, truly the crown of creation. It has been said that “when man fails in disobedience to God, he is last and lowlier than all the creatures, lower even than the mosquito who consumes throughout its life, but never eliminates waste, the symbol of ultimate selfishness. Even the lowly mosquito follows God’s will. Man alone has the option to transgress it.”
When God charged Adam, "And the Lord God commanded Adam, saying: Of every tree in the garden you may surely eat. But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not eat of it, for on the day that you eat of it you shall surely die" (Genesis 2:16,17). This single commandment contained the source of the Seven Noahide Commandments.
And more, Adam was charged by God with the responsibility to teach the laws to future generations. The verse states that God commanded Adam, "saying."
This word, "saying," is superfluous, and it is a principle of the Torah that there are no superfluous words, everything comes to teach us something.
In this case, the superfluous word, "saying," indicates the not only did God say it to Adam, but He meant for Adam to say it as well.
It is a principle in Biblical analysis that when a verse states, "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying..." it means that God taught Moses something and that He expected him to teach it to the Jewish people, or, as in the case of the Seven Commandments of the Children of Noah, to all of mankind.
And so, Adam taught his children the Seven Universal Laws: Not to worship idols, not to curse God, not to kill, not to steal, not to engage in sexual immorality, not to eat the limb of a living animal, and to establish courts of law to enforce these laws. And so mankind developed.
The clear proof that the descendants of Adam knew these laws and were expected to obey them by the Divine Judge and Father, was that 1557 years later, He brought the Great Flood as a punishment for mankind's failure in keeping these commandments. "And God saw the earth and, behold, it was corrupted, because all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth." (Genesis 6:12)
The classic Biblical commentary of Rashi teaches that the corruption was sexual immorality and idol worship. And in the next verse, "And God said to Noah, the end of all flesh has come before Me, because the earth is filled with wickedness," Rashi comments concerning the phrase, "the earth is filled with wickedness," that it was theft. So for (1) sexual immorality, (2) idol worship, and (3) theft, three of the seven commandments that Adam was expected to teach his children, and mankind was expected to obey, the Creator of all destroyed all, except for the remnant which included Noah, his wife, three sons and their wives.
Answer for yourself: You probably are saying to yourself, “so what is the problem….I am a good Christian…I don’t rob from anyone, I don’t practice idolatry, and I am not an adulterer”?
Dear saint of God, I am not writing and publishing these articles for my health. What I have discovered of which most traditional Christians are not aware, is that we as believing Gentile Christians in the vast majority of Christian Churches in this land are guilty of the above sins and not aware of it. Having been taught incorrectly by the vast majority of the Dispensational Churches of our land, we have through replacement theology replaced the correct interpretation of the Bible which only can come through recognition of the Hebraic heritage from which it comes, with a general and allegorical interpretation which comes through superficial reading of the text. What I desire to show you is that through the manner of tithing practiced by the vast majority of Christendom, we are literally robbing God by tithing to our churches for they are using the funds in areas not allowed by God in the Bible. Such is robbery of God and His people even if you don’t know it. Also, we are guilty of practicing idolatry without even knowing we are when we substitute heathen and pagan days of worship in place of those God commanded be observed forever by both Jew and Gentile. Lastly, such a false worship is outright spiritual adultery and spiritual immorality. Thus we stand guilty before God of the same sins that the people of the flood were guilty for transgressing, and we did it all the more “in church!”
Answer for yourself: Since you probably know very little about the Laws of Noah, don’t you think that you should become informed since you will have to give an account of your obedience to them to God, and not your church, when you die?
Answer for yourself: Would it matter more to you if your were to find out that James, the Lord’s brother and head of the Jerusalem church, says in Acts 15 that obedience to the Laws of Noah are
“necessary” for Gentile believers to be a part of Jesus’ church?
Answer for yourself: Are you aware that just because your church has not taught them to you does not mean that they don’t exist, and that God expects you to know and obey them?
It is with this understanding that Bet Emet Ministries endeavors to teach the truths of God’s Word, even if they are not popular, for when we die we will wish we had known of them, because such shame is going to fall on the vast majority of Christians at the Judgment Seat because they live their lives devoid of personal in-depth study of the Bible, trusting as I once did my preacher to tell me all that I needed to know.
Answer for yourself: Guess what? I found out when I began to study that he knew very little more than I did when I first began to crack the books.
Back to the instruction which will do us well to understand and follow. When the flood waters settled and the earth had been wiped clean of its taint, we no longer had to fall back on Adam as the father of all mankind.
Now, mankind had a new father, Noah. And unlike Adam, who failed to fulfill God’s commandments, Noah was "a righteous man, pious in his generation, and Noah walked with God." (Genesis 6:9).
And so, with a new world and a fresh start at building it in sanctity, God reaffirmed the original seven commandments that He had taught Adam. God blessed Noah and his sons and their wives and promised him that He would never again destroy the world as He had done, sealing the promise for all time by striking a covenant with Noah as mankind's father. "And God said, 'this is the sign of the covenant that I am placing between me and your children and between all the living souls that are with you for all generations. My bow I am placing in the cloud and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.'" (Genesis 9:12,13).
Answer for yourself: How long is “all generations”? Would that apply today?
Answer for yourself: The next time you see a rainbow, do you think that God is reminding us of His covenant with all mankind (remember that covenant contains commandments we must obey as well)?
The sign of the covenant was the rainbow and it would serve as a permanent symbol of Divine Benevolence. It was the first time the rainbow had ever been seen in the world, although it had been created and readied for this moment at twilight after the sixth day of creation, between the time Adam transgressed and the Sabbath, when God rested from all He had made. (Chapters of the Fathers 5:6)
The rainbow with its seven colors (7 colors for 7 Laws in the Noah Covenant) reflected the beauty and divinity of the Seven Commandments of the Children of Noah.
When God created Adam and placed him in the Garden of Eden, this was to be the prime dwelling place of the Divine Presence. But when Adam transgressed God’s commandment, the Divine Presence withdrew and left the earth in favor of the first heaven.
Then with the sin of Cain and Abel, the Divine Presence withdrew from the first to the second heaven. Then Enosh evoked idolatrous gods and the Divine Presence went from the second to the third heaven. And from there it rose from the third to the fourth because of the generation of the Flood.
Although Noah was righteous enough to be spared destruction and be designated the second father of mankind, he lacked the power to effect a true rectification of Adam's sin, necessary to draw the Divine Presence back to its desired residence on earth even though he tried to achieve it. We learn that one of the first acts he engaged in upon leaving the Ark was to plant a vineyard.
Most Biblical commentaries are highly critical of this action.
After all, mankind had just been destroyed. To plant a vineyard in order to grow grapes and make wine seems totally inappropriate under the circumstances. But there are those who say that Noah was attempting to rectify the sin of Adam.
The Talmud states that in one opinion, the fruit of the tree of knowledge was the grape. What Adam had done was drink wine in a profane manner. It had been God’s intention that Adam would wait until the Sabbath, which was to come in just a few hours (created on the six day..our “Sunday” being the first day..thus created on Friday), and then the fruit of the tree, the grape, would be used to sanctify the Sabbath (Saturday) and bear witness to the fact that God had created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. It is argued that Noah knew this deeper meaning of Adam's transgression and by planting a vineyard and using the wine for holy purposes, he could achieve the complete rectification of the sin. But Noah failed. He became intoxicated, and discovered naked by his youngest son Ham, who shamed him by calling Noah's other two sons, Shem and Japheth to see their father's drunken nakedness.
Rashi comments on this verse (Genesis 9:22) that Ham either castrated his father or had homosexual relations with him or both. Shem and Japheth respectfully covered their father with a garment, but the damage had been done. Noah awoke and cursed Ham and his descendants and the Divine Presence looked down in pity, now from the fifth heaven.
The Seven Commandments of the Children of Noah remained, as before the Flood, unheeded by all but a few, notably Shem and his grandson Eber, who established Houses of Study for the purpose of understanding and fulfilling the Noahide Laws.
Then came the generation of the Tower of Babel. This was a generation of brilliant scientists. Not only did they learn to master many of the world's natural forces, such as controlling the weather, but they reasoned in their scientific wisdom that the earth had no Master, or, at least if it had a Master, that they were His equal, and they built a tower to the heavens to challenged the authority of God.
They scientifically concluded that, since the Flood of Noah occurred in the year 1557 after creation, this meant that every 1557 years, the heavens would shake, the depths would open, and the rains would come to destroy the earth.
And the Bible teaches, "And God descended to look at the city and the tower that the children of men had built." (Genesis 11:5) This was already from the sixth heaven.
God took measures to stop his errant children by confounding their language and scattering them to distant lands.
Originally, all of mankind spoke one language, the language of Scripture, Hebrew, the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alef-bayt being the very instruments of creation. But now mankind had lost this merit, communicating in the seventy languages of the world.
Then King Nimrod arose with a wickedness that was virtually without precedent. He proclaimed himself god of all the earth and commanded all his subjects to worship him as the actual deity. Those who refused, he killed.
Nimrod was called "a mighty hunter before the Lord." (Genesis 10:9) Rashi comments on the words, "a mighty hunter," because he captured the minds of men with his mouth and led them astray to rebel against God. "Before the Lord," in that he intentionally provoked Him in His presence.
Answer for yourself: Is it possible that your mind could be led astray to rebel against God and you be not aware that your are because you lack such information that I am trying to share with you concerning proper Biblical giving that follows the patterns established by God and not by ambitious pastors and denominations?
Answer for yourself: Is it possible that your mind is captured by preaching that sounds good, but when compared with the language of the Bible, Biblical history and culture, as well as the context from which the teaching originates, could have led you astray from the will of God for you and your life, thereby causing you to unconsciously rebel against God and be not aware that your are because you lack such information that I am trying to share with you?
Nimrod, unlike any man who had lived before him, acted wickedly in order to defy God. He knew his Master and rebelled out of spite against Him.
And God withdrew His Divine Presence to the seventh and highest heaven.
With God’s revealed Presence removed to the highest heaven, mankind dwelt in a world of moral and spiritual darkness.
Then finally, there arose a righteous man whose deeds began to draw the revealed Presence back to earth. Abraham stood alone against the world by clinging to the Creator and doing His will. He challenged Nimrod's idolatry with his belief in the One God (not 3), and eventually vanquished Nimrod completely, bringing mankind to the recognition of the true Deity and His way in the world.
In Abraham's merit, the Divine Presence descended from the seventh heaven to the sixth heaven. Because of Abraham's son, Isaac, the Divine Presence descended from the sixth to the fifth heaven, then from the fifth to the fourth with Isaac's son, Jacob.
Jacob's spiritual might was awesome. He wrestled with an Angel of God and defeated him. Through Jacob and his children, twelve sons and one daughter, a new and distinct people on earth would emerge. The Children of Israel were called after their father Jacob, who had been blessed by God and had been given the new name of Israel.
"Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name, and He called his name, Israel." (Genesis 35:10) And Rashi comments about this that the name Jacob implies one who comes with stealth and guile, but Israel denotes a prince and a ruler.
With the Children of Israel, a people of God had come into the world. Abraham, Isaac, and Israel were each mighty prophets and knew that their descendants would go down to Egypt in exile and would then be redeemed by God and given His Divine Law on Mount Sinai.
The Patriarchs fulfilled the Seven Commandments of the Children of Noah, and through their gift of prophecy saw in the Spirit what the later Sinai Revelation would bring, and obeyed those laws as well (the Mosaic Laws which were not given yet), even though not commanded concerning them.
Answer for yourself: Does Abraham follow a principle that will be taught by Isaiah in Isa. 56…namely living a life doing what is required as the fruit of his faith, and over and above that, “choosing those things that please God”? He sure does.
We too often hear only part of the message in our churches. We all can quote Paul for he quotes Habbakuk in referring to Abraham…”the just shall live by faith.” Thus we all are told to just “have faith” in Jesus and you are right with God. Yet what you are not told is that when God had blessed Isaac,
it was "because Abraham listened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statues, and My laws" (Genesis 26:5).
Answer for yourself: Then if were are in error in our giving of our tithes and offerings, and in error in that we are celebrating, sanctifying, and observing church holidays that are in reality pagan worship days to which the Catholic church added Jesus’ name, then have we really listened to God’s voice at all or just our preachers?
Answer for yourself: Then if were are in error in our giving of our tithes and offerings, and in error in that we are celebrating, sanctifying, and observing church holidays that are in reality pagan worship days to which the Catholic church added Jesus’ name, then have we really kept God’s charge and His commandments or man’s?
Answer for yourself: Then if were are in error in our giving of our tithes and offerings, and in error in that we are celebrating, sanctifying, and observing church holidays that are in reality pagan worship days to which the Catholic church added Jesus’ name, then have we really kept God’s statutes and His laws, or have our religious leaders, who like most in the pews, have failed to study in-depth to discern the truths, and mistakenly go into themselves and lead others into error and sin?
Rashi comments that "charge" refers to the admonitions of the Torah which had not yet been commanded, including Rabbinical prohibitions regarding the Sabbath, whereas "commandments" refers to matters such as robbery and bloodshed (two of the Seven Noahide Commandments).
In fact, there were times when a conflict over the two codes of law arose. The initial strife between Joseph and his brothers had to do with the difference between the Mosaic precept of keeping kosher and the Noahide commandment forbidding eating the limb of a living animal.
Mosaic Law permits eating the meat of an animal which has been ritually slaughtered, even at such time as the animal still exhibits movement in its limbs. Noahide Law does not require ritual slaughtering, but forbids eating an animal's meat until even the slightest trace of movement has stopped.
The brothers had a heated discussion about the subject and the sons of Leah argued that they, by following the Mosaic precept, were exempt from the Noahide prohibition, and to prove the point, they slaughtered an animal according to the Mosaic precept, and ate of its meat before the animal's limbs had stopped twitching.
Joseph felt that they had erred in their judgement and told the matter to their father. Joseph's brothers sold him into slavery, but he had God with him and rose to become second in command in Egypt, a veritable king alongside the Pharaoh.
By the time he had forgiven his brothers their wickedness, the Divine Presence had descended from the fourth to the third heaven.
Before the Children of Israel settled in the land of Egypt, their brother, Judah, had preceded them and had established a school in Goshen for the study of God’s Law, both of the Seven Commandments which they were obliged to observe and of the Laws of the Torah, which they received as a heritage from Abraham, Isaac, and Israel.
Even during the long and bitter period of Egyptian slavery, the tribe of Levi remained in the House of Study, exempt from the harsh servitude, in order that the Divine Law would be remembered and understood and fulfilled.
And God’s Presence descended from the third to the second heaven.
When Pharaoh decreed against the male infants born to the Children of Israel, Amram, the leader of the generation and a descendant of Levi, divorced his wife, Jochebed. His idea was to stop bringing Israelite infants into the world in order to prevent their murder.
Amram, as leader, knew that his action would be emulated by his people, which is precisely what happened. But his daughter, Miriam, told her father that Pharaoh had only decreed against the males, but that he had decreed against all the infants, male and female, by not bringing any into the world.
Amram and Jochebed re-married and the child, Moses, was born. And the Divine Presence descended from the second to the first heaven.
Moses was the most humble man who ever lived. His humility was so complete that he considered himself as nothing at all. Whatever he achieved, he saw as coming solely because of God.
He felt that if God had bestowed another man with as many talents as he, the other man would surely have achieved more with them. It was this self-nullification that stood him in direct contrast to Pharaoh, who claimed to be a deity as Nimrod had.
When God redeemed the Children of Israel and decimated the idolatry of the Egyptians, it was for the purpose of His Revelation at Sinai and the Giving of the Torah.
Fifty days after the Children of Israel had left Egypt, Moses ascended Mount Sinai and in full view of 600,000 Jewish men and approximately a total of 3,000,000 women and children, the Lord God of Israel spread the heavens out like a pavement of sapphire atop the mountain and descended to earth from His heavenly abode.
God had departed from the Garden of Eden and now had returned on Mount Sinai with the Giving of the Torah.
It was a Divine Revelation of proportions that the human mind cannot even begin to comprehend. All the blind and the lame and the deaf were miraculously healed. All the righteous souls who would ever be born into this world were called forth by the Lord God to witness His Divine Presence. This was the seal of God, His truth.
With the Giving of the Torah, the God of Israel chose the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as His Chosen People, commanding them to fulfill the 613 precepts of the Torah. He also commanded the righteous of the other nations (Gentile believers like you and me) of the world to keep the Seven Commandments of the Children of Noah and commanded Moses and his people teach them how.
It was both the establishment of a new covenant and the strengthening of the old one.
Both the Mosaic and the Noahide laws were inextricably bound together, and are today. The Children of Noah, the righteous Gentiles (those Egyptians who left idolatry to follow Moses as a mixed-multitude), were obligated to fulfill the Seven Commandments because they were given on Mount Sinai, not because they were given to Noah. And the Children of Israel were commanded to teach the righteous Gentiles the Seven Commandments. Thus James can only do one thing in Acts 15 as the head of the Church of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem. He must see to it that Gentiles coming into the faith of Jesus be taught the Laws of Noah as they were reiterated at Sinai, and this would be easy “as Moses in preached in every city every Sabbath.”
Answer for yourself: Dear brother and sister in Christ, why have you not heard of these Laws which are “necessary,” Laws which if understood and obeyed would have prevented you from sinning by being led astray by organized religion into giving your alms and offerings to Preachers and their private agendas instead of the widows, orphans, the sick, the lame, the blind, the crippled; and worshipping in an abominable way when you sanctify pagan holidays instead of God’s Holy Days?
When Moses ascended Mount Sinai to meet God, earth and heaven came together in a unique way. God took of His holiness and brought it to earth. For the first time in creation, physical objects could be infused with actual holiness.
The year was 2448 since the creation.
The Torah scroll and other writings, the sacrifices and other articles of use in the Tabernacle and later in the Temple service, had the Children of Israel become holy unto the Lord, meaning separate and distinct from the rest of creation with a sanctity uniquely reserved for the service of God.
During the periods when the Jewish people lived in the Holy Land, their responsibility of teaching the Gentiles the Seven Commandments was generally fulfilled.
During the 410 years that the First Temple stood and the 420 of the Second Temple, Gentiles who wanted to dwell in the Land of Israel had to agree to fulfill the Noahide Laws, and had the right to enter the Holy Temple and offer sacrifices to God.
With respect to the nations of the world, this posed some thing of a problem. Influential as it was, particularly during the times of King Solomon, the Land of Israel was but one place on a rather large globe. And the observance of the Noahide Laws outside of the Land of Israel was rare.
Then, nearly two thousand years ago, God took a drastic step to remedy the situation. He destroyed His Holy Temple, the center of religious Jewish life, and exiled His people Israel to every corner of the planet, where they remain, for the most part, to this very day. As the Talmud states, "The Jewish people went into exile only in order to make converts, meaning to teach the nations faith in the One God through teaching them the Covenant of Noah and the Commandments within it."
The intention was for the Jewish people to proclaim the faith in the God of their fathers and to bring all the peoples of the world into the communion of Israel and God by teaching them the Seven Commandments of Noah. But what the Jews found in the world outside their own land was a difficult situation. Mixed up with a myriad of foreign cultures, the Jew had a lifelong struggle to maintain his own traditions without being swallowed up by the cultures and traditions of the peoples around him, in fulfillment of the Biblical injunction, "Take heed to yourself that you inquire not after their gods, saying: How used these nations to serve their gods? Even so, I will do likewise." (Deut. 12:30)
Moreover, the Jew found that people were distrustful of him and hostile, and were far too busy trying to convert him to their religions to have any time to listen what he might have to say about the subject.
Two factors in recent times have caused a change in the situation whereby the Covenant and the Laws of Noah are not being taught to Gentiles today. The first is that the spiritual deterioration of mankind has reached a desperate stage. Half the world follows an official doctrine of atheism by believing in more than one God (which Jews consider the cruelest and most extreme form of idolatry) and much of the rest of the world is sunken into immorality and crime. Second, there exists a spirit of ecumenism, largely due to radio and television and the information explosion, in which Judaism's view concerning the non-Jew's relationship to God no longer meets with irrational responses.
The third is that God has waited long enough, as it says, "And it shall happen, that whoso will not come up out of the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to bow down before the King, the Lord of Hosts even upon these there shall be no rain." (Zach. 14:17)
It all depends on us, which includes you. And so, other articles dealing with the Seven Laws of the Children of Noah has been prepared. They are not meant to serve as a document of legal or spiritual authority, but as a means by one may become familiar with the subject.
We hope and pray that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will forgive our many sins of ignorance when meaning not to, and that His Spirit will become an instrument for helping all Christians everywhere contend for the faith once given to the saints (Jude 1:3). If you can study with an open mind, comparing what you have been taught to accept by faith without any critical evidence or facts, with what we at Bet Emet will reveal to you for your personal study to verify what we say is true, then you no longer will scatter, but help gather others to these truths by bringing all of mankind closer to their Father in Heaven.
"Moshiach signifies the separation of the good from the evil. This is why he will come "only in a generation which is altogether meritorious or altogether sinful," i.e., at a time in which there will be no mixture of good and evil. So as long as Moshiach has not come [for the Christian thus understanding for the second time], there is a mixture of good and evil in all the worlds: there is no good without evil and no evil without good." -Rabbi Shneur Zalman
Contrary to what others might think, the idea of Messiah is not foreign to the Sons of Noah (B'nei Noach). Considering that a majority of B'nei Noach have emerged from the lies of apostate Gentile Christianity since studying their faith for themselves, it is quite certain that the idea of a messiah, or savior, was central in the belief system of the Covenant of Noah. Today, with so many different splinter groups adhering to the Covenant of Noah, not all today unfortunately recognize this fact.
Answer for yourself: Is it possible for those of us who have emerged from anti-Judaic and anti-Semitic teachings of Gentile Christianity to reconcile their formerly-believed Christian concept of Messiah with the Jewish concept, which predated Christianity by several centuries? Yes, read on please.
Even within the B'nei Noach movement we find individuals who still struggle to keep their belief in Jesus intact. Instead of believing in the Gentiles' Jesus, they now believe in a Jewish Jesus - and they now call him Yeshua HaMoshiach (Yeshua the Messiah). They strip away the Christian's anglo-saxon garments of Jesus and redress him in a more ethnic Jewish costume (including a Jewish-Ebionite Christology instead of a Gentile Christology). Now Yeshua is introduced as an Orthodox rabbi, complete with tzitzits, tallit, and tefillin. And by doing this to Jesus, they believe they have rectified the Church's whitewashing of a Jewish Yeshua into a figure called Jesus, and that they have restored the truth to the world. To this I fully concur!
Where most Christians fail to understand is that the “real” Jesus is the “Christ of History” and not the “Christ of Christian Faith.” Most Christians have not bothered to ask, "Who is the messiah that the Jews have been looking for?" In their efforts to be “Christlike”, they have neglected to study Moshiach from the purely Jewish viewpoint. Too often, even without knowing, we conform this Jewish Rabbi to our own Gentile concepts because of our environment. We, in fact, have long forgotten that the idea of Moshiach is an original Jewish concept. We have failed to understand that only the remnant of Torah-observant Jews can make clear to us who Moshiach is, what his responsibilities are, where he will ascend the throne of kingship, why he will be crowned King Moshiach, and how all of this will come to pass.
Although the concept of Messiah has always been a part of Judaism, as Christians who recognize these truths, we find greater definition of who the Messiah is, and what the Messianic era is, from the hasidim who are part of the Chabad Lubavitch than those ideas proposed from an Anti-Semitic Gentile establishment called the “church” today. Rebbe Menachem Schneerson stressed to the hasidim that we are the generation who will witness the Ultimate Redemption and the coming of Messiah. Examining the Messiah according to Hasidic (Chassidic) thought is a robust challenge, and a storehouse of information is available on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Much, much more can be said regarding Moshiach than what we at Bet Emet could ever hope to accomplish through numerous newsletters. Therefore, I recommend that you select certain books to study in order to examine the concept of Messiah from a Jewish perspective and gain a greater understanding of the Hasidic concept of Moshiach.
One of the books that I have in my library which I would recommend is an outstanding book by Rabbi Shmuel Boteach, entitled The Wolf Shall Lie With the Lamb: The Messiah in Hasidic Thought.
Lastly, this is my last word on the matter. One can be a Christian who believes in God and His Son Yeshua, the Messiah, and still recognize the Covenant made with Noah as well as the Laws of Noah as seen in Acts 15. Because one accepts these truths concerning the existence of the Covenant of Noah does not automatically preclude one from believing in Jesus as Messiah ben Joseph or Messiah ben David. Contrary to the wide brush stokes painted of those who recognize the Laws of Noah by those poorly informed, there are many who adhere to the Covenant of Noah as the “hello” experience with God, and yet make this distinction about Messiah Yeshua. We at Bet Emet regret the short-sightedness of those who fail to grasp this fact when reading our articles or corresponding with us on the Internet, thereby failing to grasp the many truths long hidden which are restored in our many articles. Let us all study to show ourselves approved, thus assuring that we will not stand ashamed before God in the world to come because we have failed to receive and understand such “necessary” truths as James said in Acts 15. Much love in Messiah Yeshua. May His revealed Presence soon dwell among us on earth as well in heaven as we welcome His Messiah. May we all be ready. Amen, Selah.