FOLLOW THE TORAH-KEEPING MESSIAH!

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

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

I have a startling revelation for you, in case you're not aware... A Torah-breaking "Christian pastor" cannot lead you to the Torah-keeping Mashiach/Messiah, Y'hoshua.

Mat 3:2  "Turn from your sins to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near!"

The Torah-breaking pastor will lead you to a cultural messiah called "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 Y'hoshua, you have to follow the same TORAH and good news that He proclaimed.

Here is another shocking truth that most people are unaware of... 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, as recorded in the Book of Acts, he was accused of teaching against the 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 honestly 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. However, even then, the numbers are still few.

I can tell you, I know people who talk about the Moedim/Feasts of Adonai, 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, they celebrate Christmas and Easter (which are secular-pagan holidays that have a disregard for the Word, Deut. 12:29-31),

Deu 12:29  "When Adonai your God has cut off ahead of you the nations you are entering in order to dispossess, and when you have dispossessed them and are living in their land; 
Deu 12:30  be careful, after they have been destroyed ahead of you, not to be trapped into following them; so that you inquire after their gods and ask, 'How did these nations serve their gods? I want to do the same.' 
Deu 12:31  You must not do this to Adonai your God! For they have done to their gods all the abominations that Adonai hates! They even burn up their sons and daughters in the fire for their gods!

they tattoo their bodies (having a disregard for the Word, Lev. 19:28),

Lev 19:28  Don't cut gashes in your flesh when someone dies or tattoo yourselves; I am Adonai.

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 (having a disregard for the Word, Ex. 20:8-11).

Exo 20:8  ד "Remember the day, Shabbat, to set it apart for God. 
Exo 20:9  You have six days to labor and do all your work, 
Exo 20:10  but the seventh day is a Shabbat for Adonai your God. On it, you are not to do any kind of work—not you, your son or your daughter, not your male or female slave, not your livestock, and not the foreigner staying with you inside the gates to your property. 
Exo 20:11  For in six days, Adonai made heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them; but on the seventh day he rested. This is why Adonai blessed the day, Shabbat, and separated it for himself.

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 the 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 (Avinu Elohei) because He is bound by His Word to bless Torah-obedience and curse Torah-defiance.

Y'hoshua was and is the Hebrew Messiah. Following Him is part of following the Torah, and following the Torah is 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.

Y'hoshua 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