FOLLOW THE TORAH-KEEPING MESSIAH!

Sha'ul said . . . Become imitators of me, as I also am of Messiah.—1 Corinthians 11:1 (TS2009)

The one who says he stays in Him ought himself also to walk, even as He walked.—1 John 2:6 (TS2009)

I have a startling revelation for you, if by chance you do not know... A Torah-breaking "Christian pastor" cannot lead you to the Torah-keeping Messiah, Yeshua.

The Torah-breaking pastor will lead you to a cultural "Jesus", but that will merely be another manifestation of the counterfeit Messiah Paul warns about in 2 Corinthians 11:4 (along with the counterfeit "gospel" and the counterfeit spirit—which is a DEMON spirit). If you want to find the REAL Messiah Yeshua, you have to follow the same Torah that He followed.

Here is another shocking truth to most people... The Apostle Paul, who made the statement, "Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Messiah," was a fully Torah-keeping Israelite. In fact, Paul identified himself both as a Benjamite (of the lineage of the tribe of Benjamin) and a Pharisee. When Paul was arrested in Jerusalem, late in the record of the Book of Acts, he was accused of teaching against Torah. His entire defense against these accusations is found in Acts 24:14 where he declared: "But this I confess to you, that according to the Way (which they call a sect), I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything written in the Torah and the Prophets.

"How many "Christian pastors" today can truly say from a point of Bible truth that they follow the Torah-keeping Messiah, and so you should follow them? I can say that the list would be very small. Thankfully, there are some pastors within Christianity who are coming to know the importance of Torah. But even at that, the numbers are still few.

I can tell you, I know people who talk about the Feasts, bring up keeping The Sabbath, and have even hinted at following the food laws—arguably the three biggest areas of Torah-breaking among "Christians" today. But then you look at these SAME pastors, and they celebrate Christmas and Easter (which are secular-pagan holidays that violate Deut. 12:29-31), they tattoo their body (violating of Lev. 19:28), they call their people to gather to work cleaning up their churches on The Sabbath to prepare for the next "Sunday Service" or some big event they are hosting (a violation of Ex. 20:8-11), and despite having acknowledged the food laws they are seen eating unclean things like pork and shellfish (a violation of Lev. 11 and Deut. 14). Some are even having adulterous affairs and robbing the people through lies about tithes and offerings. One of the biggest lies I have seen lately is twisting of passages like Ex. 23:15 and Deut. 16:16, where it says during the Feasts no man shall come empty handed. They are telling people this means to give a money-offering to their ministry... "sow a [money] seed so you can reap a harvest". The problem, of course, with this is that Numbers 28:2 tells us what the offering we are to "not come empty handed" with is—"Command Bnei-Yisrael and tell them to be careful to present to Me at the moadim My -->food offerings<– by fire as a pleasing aroma." The offering is the food you are using to celebrate the Feasts, not giving money to some otherwise Torah-defiant "Christian church". These ministers of manipulation are lying to you, and I assure you that if you are wrapped up in that nonsense any perceived blessing you think you received... any "harvest" you think you "reaped" from giving an unbiblical money offering to a Torah-defiant "ministry"... did not come from Abba Yah (God The Father) because He is bound by His Word to bless Torah-obedience and curse Torah-defiance.

Yeshua was and is the Hebrew Messiah. Following Him is a part of following Torah, and following Torah is a part of following Him. You do not need to be caught up in the lies of religion.

Now look, we are called to be a light in the darkness, and there is much darkness that needs the light within most "Christian churches" today. So I am not telling you to leave a church if you feel in the Spirit that there is some hope left for them. Your presence in there alone may be the last thing preventing "Ichabod" from being cast over the doors. But there is also something to be said of knowing that they are just defiant to the Spirit and walk away. Even the Apostles looked at some in their community and determined the only course of action left was to hand them over to Satan. And many churches today are in Satan's hands, being controlled by demonic deception.

Yeshua kept Torah. It is very clear in the Gospel record that He celebrated the Feasts of His Father, kept The Sabbath, did not eat anything unclean according to Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14, did not mark up his body with tattoos, and anything else in The Torah that "Christians" ignore and reject today. And Scripture is equally clear that following Him means that we MUST walk as He walked. So follow Yeshua... which means follow Torah.

By Michael Bannon