First off, I’d like to say that The Law of Se7en’s is NOT a biblical term, although after really meditating on it, maybe it should have been. This blog will perhaps be one of my more controversial blogs in content. I say this because many Christian believers stand firm on the doctrine that “The Law” no longer applies to us today. Some would even say that it only applies to the Jews. One thing they all agree on is that it does not, in any way, apply to us as Christians. Because this is such a broad topic, with so many subtopics that would need to be added, this will not be done in just one sitting, otherwise it would be like a book. For the sake of the time of you all as readers, with the understanding that your time is precious, I will keep all segments to a reasonable length. I would ask this though, before cutting it off, please read in it’s entirety as I have spent a lot of time gathering proper sources of a credible nature to pull from. Not only that, but I am assuming, with the intent of not being overly presumptuous that most of you have not really looked as deep as I am going into this topic, but rather have taken the word of a Pastor in a church setting. Without trying to talk down on anyone’s Pastor, I can say that I too had the same experience. Although many will acknowledge that there are quite a few arguments contrary to this view, most will only go into their personal view, not allowing the members to decide for themselves, after hearing reasonable points from both sides.
So, we first need to tackle the translators of our Bible, and find out where some of our terms come from. Although there are quite a few terms that were mistranslated, the one in particular that I want to tackle is “The Law”. According to Wikipedia, the New Testament was translated from the Greek, into English. At this point, what is interesting to find is that as you dig deeper into it, we see that one of the bigger issues is the influence of Rome. Whereas the Old Testament was pretty much translated from reliable Hebrew manuscripts, the New Testament had been a hand me down from languages. What do I mean by this? Well, it went from the Greek, to Latin, and then finally to English. What needs to first be understood is that, the writers of the New Testament were first and foremost Jews. As such, their views, culture and thought process were Jewish. One has to ask, were all the NT Scriptures written in Greek? We may never know for sure, however, what can be understood is that if indeed it was written all in Greek by all of the writers, that there would be lots of “Jewishness” within the context. The first problem with this is the language and cultural barrier. Most people who speak multiple languages would tell you, when you are translating something from one language to another, a lot gets lost in translation. The second problem is that, we have to consider that even if we remove the possibility of Hebrew Scriptures out, the translations still went from Greek to Latin to English. If a lot is lost in translation between 2 different languages, how much more would have been lost between 3 languages? We indeed have a problem here.
Why aren’t there any Hebrew manuscripts popping up? Well, for this we need to turn to the annals of history. In 70 AD Rome destroyed Jerusalem, to include the Temple, the same Temple that Yeshua prophesied about. From this point on, the Jews were scattered into the 4 winds. It is documented that the Hebrew language was no longer a spoken language for over 2000 years. With this in mind, it becomes clear what could have happened to the Hebrew documents. Scriptures written on Papyrus would not last forever. Every so often they needed to be re-written. With the Jews now being spread across the four corners of the world, it is a reasonable assumption that after 3 maybe 4 generations, that Hebrew was all but forgotten, with the exception of the OT, which for the Jews was fine since there were still several that held on to Orthodox Judaism. For this reason, the OT was continuously translated in Hebrew, and taught by the Rabbis. It wasn’t so for the New Testament. Another reasonable assumption would be that by the 2nd or 3rd generation, the Messianic Jews would have forgotten Hebrew as well. And the fact that Greek was still a written and spoken language, everything began to be of Greek perspective. What is interesting is this, much of the gospels, especially Matthew, contain a lot of what is called Hebrew Idioms. Looking at some of the things written in Matthew, there are some things that really don’t make sense in Greek. Many of you who faithfully look at my blogs are aware of one in particular, and that’s Matthew 1:21. When Gabriel talks about the naming of the Messiah, the flow makes no sense in English or Greek, but flows perfectly in Hebrew. With so many Hebrew Idioms contained in Matthew, it is reasonable to assume that at one point it was Hebrew, but later translated to Greek. There is a writing called “Shem Tob’s Matthew”, which according to wikipedia points to the fact that the author used a Hebrew version of Matthew to pull his info from. This took place around the 1300-1400’s, proving that there was at least one known document proving that at least ONE of the books of the NT was originally in Hebrew.
After laying down this background, we can finally get back to the matter at hand. Historical evidence points out that The Messianic Jewish community, which also included non-Jewish believers as well, continued to keep Torah until the time of Constantine. Constantine declared that Sunday would be the Venerable Day of the Sun, and that all would cease work on this day, to include the Messianic Jewish community. Interesting side note, the date of this was December 25th. Anyway, because the Messianic Jewish Community still observed Torah, to include Sabbaths, he specifically pointed them out in later decrees, saying that they better not be found not working on the 7th day, or Judaizing for that matter. This was the beginning of the split between the Hebrew roots and the newly “reforming” Christian religion. The Messianic Jewish community was steadfast on Scripture and refused to compromise in any way. The seeds of antisemitism was now planted. The newly “reformed” Christian religion had become tolerant of other religions, to the extent that it really didn’t matter what you believed, so long as you went to Church and paid homage to the “Bishop of Rome”, who would later become known simply as “The Pope”. More and more, paganistic rites of Catholicism would be added to “Christianity”. These rites were contrary to the Bible, which later caused the reading of the Bible to be on the “banned book” list. They also kept it in Latin so only the priest could read it, causing the laity to rely completely on the Priest for the Word of God. Messianic Jews were forced into exile, imprisoned, or killed because they continued the steadfastness of Scripture. Much like the Pharisees in Yeshua’s time, once again, under the Catholic Church, the “Tradition of Man” outweighed the voice of Scripture. Scores of Messianic Jewish Communities were raided, homes burned, and families massacred because their Scriptural beliefs were in opposition to the Catholic doctrine. It wasn’t until Martin Luther got his revelation that Catholicism was actually anti-christian that a reformation was sparked. This eventually paved the way for Bibles to be translated for the laity to read for themselves. The reign of the Papacy was quickly diminishing, although it would never be completely wiped away. Unfortunately many of the Catholic dogmas remained in place, even after the break away from the Catholic Church. interesting side note, even after Martin Luther had championed the Christian faith, the Messianic Jews were still against him because some of the Catholic dogmas were left intact. Because of his misunderstanding of Scripture, Martin Luther began to lash out at the Jews who continued to live Torah. It was writings like these that opened the door for Hitler to step up and ultimately do exactly what Martin Luther said, all as the world watched.
Granted, Orthodox Jews may not accept Yeshua as Messiah, they did open the door for us Gentiles (non Jewish nations) to become grafted in to the fold of Jews through the acceptance of Yeshua. What we now find is that there are 2 opposing sides. The one side (Jews), observe Torah, apart from the acceptance of Messiah, and the other accept the Messiah, apart from Torah. Both sides are right, but at the same time, both sides are equally wrong also. We have been taught to erroneously believe that Torah (The Law) was done away with, apart from the testimony of Scripture. Yeshua constantly butted heads with the Pharisees because they were more observant to “the traditions of man” than the Torah of God. Yeshua stated his intentions plainly. Allowing scripture to speak for itself, we see that Yeshua did NOT abolish Torah (The Law). Further more, in our next segment, we will go into the writings of the apostles, to do two things, show evidence based off of their own writings on how they continued to observe Torah (Sabbaths, Feast Days and Dietary Laws), as well as teach others to do the same, and also clarify the misinterpreted Scriptures erroneously used to prove contrary.
Okay, I know at this point, you are probably wondering about the Law of Se7en’s, and to be quite honest, I was gonna hold off until after the next segment, but I guess I will get into now, even though I will use it again later to tie it all in better. We know that 7 is the number of completion. Wow I could really say a lot on this but let me stay focused. The Law of Se7en simply connects the plan of YHVH together. You cannot have one without the other 6. And in removing one, you do just that, you untie the whole thing. The Law of Se7en is simply this:
- The Torah (The Law)
- Sin
- Grace
- Savior
- Gospel
- Preacher
- Church
If you follow my facebook posts, this will be nothing new, but for those who don’t this will be quite interesting. Now, sin is defined as living without Law (Torah). In the absence of Law (Torah), sin is not imputed. So, if we take away The Law (Torah), there can be no sin, because The Law (Torah), was designed to point out sin. If Sin is removed, there is no longer any place for Grace as a covering for sin, because we are free from the curse of Sin. If Grace no longer has a place, then we must ask, do we still need a Savior. Bear in mind, the Savior came to extend us Grace as a covering for our Sin, defined as transgressing Law (Torah). Since there is no need of a Savior, what is the purpose of a gospel, about this Savior coming to give us grace as a covering for the sin defined as transgressing the Law (Torah)? There is now no more need for preachers, since they preach a gospel about a Savior bringing is grace as a covering for the sin defined as transgressing the Law (Torah). Lastly, the purposes of churches become of no use since there is no more need for preachers to preach us a gospel about a Savior, bringing us grace as a covering for the sin defined as transgressing the Law (Torah). All in all, John said that if we say we have NO Sin, we are liars. That being said, if we still have Sin, then The Law (Torah), must be intact, and if the Law (Torah) still has its place, we still have need of the Grace, extended from a Savior, by means of a Gospel taught by a Preacher in a Church. Can you now see how that works? If the Law (Torah) indeed was abolished, that means that our Savior lied because He was recorded as saying He in no way came to abolish the Torah. Furthermore, He said that, it (Torah), would not pass away until heaven and earth passed away. So if indeed Torah has ended, then we seriously missed the passing away of heaven and earth. I haven’t even touched on Yeshua saying that if we loved Him, to “keep His Commandments). Just what were His commandments? Well what if I told you that if you group His do’s and do not’s, there are about 1050 commands written? What if I also told you that the 1050 NT commands just expound on he 613 commands of the OT? How about if I told you that the 1050 of the NT that expound on the 613 of the OT can be sub categorized into the 10 Commandments? Lastly, what if the 10 Commandments of the OT, that are sub categorized into the 613 of the OT, and fully expounded in the 1015 of the NT are further wrapped up in 2, Love your neighbor as yourself, and love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and strength, for on these 2, says Yeshua, hang all the Law (Torah), and the Prophets.
With an understanding of what the law of se7en’s are, I hope that this has inspired you to look even deeper for yourselves. I did post relevant sources to show you where I pulled info from, but there are countless other sources out there to be pulled from. The Bible says if we seek, we will find. To me, this implies that if I fail to look, I will never find. I further believe this, that one of the reasons many will not accept this as truth is because the moment you do, everything has to change, and I can attest to this from personal experience. The moment I accepted it, everything changed, but it wasn’t until I took action based off of this new revelation that things really changed for me. I further believe that where facts exist, there is no need for validation because facts validates it’s own self. That said, my goal is not to make one believe as I believe, but rather show you facts from the side you never get to hear about, thereby allowing you to make your own decision, rather being told what to believe. Blessings!
