An awareness of the historical events of the two centuries before the coming of Messiah will help us understand the Israelite community in which Yeshua lived and spoke. In the second century before the coming of Messiah, we see the influence of Greek/Hellenism upon the land of Israel. Hellenistic ways began slowly and subtly. When Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire in the fourth century B.C.E. he came under the influence of the mystery Babylonian sun worship. However, the Greeks were not monotheists, they were polytheistic, and they had learned syncretism, the overlapping of the various deities. When the Seleucids came into power under Antiochus Epiphanes IV they sought to impose their polytheistic, religious, cultural and institutional ways upon Israel. The Seleucids sought to do away with Judaism.
The Greek Seleucids used Jason, a relative of the legitimate high priest, to bring about initial Hellenistic reforms. But Jason was quickly ousted by Menelaus who promised more radical reforms. The Seleucids wanted to divert temple funds away from temple sacrifices so that more tax money would be available for their war and building efforts. Menelaus cooperated by building an acropolis fortress dominating the Temple and stipulating decrees that eliminated Torah, the high priesthood, and the rededication of the Jerusalem Temple to their sun god, Zeus, with the sacrifice of pigs on the altar.
However, Jews of the land, led by the Maccabees, resisted the institution of Greek/Hellenistic changes. The Maccabean uprising of 168-165 B.C.E. was a brutal struggle against the Syrian armies of Antiochus and it was a civil war against Jewish Hellenistic sympathizers. It took a mighty effort for the Jews to free themselves from this proposed cult to the Babylonian sun god. After three years of fierce fighting, the Jews regained the Temple and cleansed it of all the pollution of Greek influence. Ultimately all the Greek idols through the land of Israel were destroyed. The rededication and purging of the Temple at a solemn service in 164 BCE is still celebrated at the Feast of Hanukkah, or Dedication.
At the coming of Messiah, the Jews had been in contact with the Greek language and culture for more than three hundred years. Judaism had survived the impact of Greek Hellenism due to the determination of the Maccabees, but their political successors, the Hasmonean dynasty, compromised the Hebraic faith. The Hasmoneans made political alliances with the Romans and they would not allow the legitimate high priest to resume his office. With the Roman takeover of Judea, the high priesthood was auctioned off to the highest bidder. By the time of Herod the Great the priesthood was corrupted spiritually and physically.
In the centuries before the coming of Messiah the sects of the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Essenes and the Zealots arose with each having their own particular interpretation of Torah. The Pharisees stood strong against Hellenism. They were followers and believers in Torah.
Hebraic thinking is much different from that of Greek Hellenism. Hebraic thinking is committed to pure and uncompromising monotheism while Hellenism believes in the existence of many gods. According to the Nicene Creed, Yeshua was fully G-d and fully man. But the Jewish people never believed that the infinite G-d of the universe could be contained in a human body. Belief in the Trinity would be a departure from the entire foundation of the Hebraic Scriptures. Paul did not bring in the doctrine of the Trinity. Paul came from a solid Pharisee background. The doctrine of the Trinity began its existence in the second century C.E., many decades after Yeshua's death, and was solidified in the fourth century C.E. during the rule of the Roman Emperor, Constantine.
The Shema is the Hebraic statement of faith: Deuteronomy 6:4 says: Hear O Israel, the Lord Our G-d, the Lord Is One. The Shema emphasizes the oneness of G-d as the basis of Hebraic thought. It is extremely important to understand that no Jew in Yeshua's day would never have accepted a Messiah who was divine, G-d in the flesh, yet many thousands of Jews did accept Him. In fact, until the occurrence with Cornelius and Peter, ALL believers were Jews! First century Jewish believers asserted that G-d was absolutely one and that there was no way G-d could be divided or added to. G-d is the one Creator and Yeshua is His creation.
Yeshua emphasizes the oneness and unity of G-d in Mark 12:28-30 and 32. These Scriptures state:
And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is Hear, O Israel: the Lord our G-d is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy G-d with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment ... And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one G-d; and there is none other but He.
Yeshua says, the Lord our (meaning his also) G-d is One.
Yeshua says there is only One G-d. NEVER does Yeshua say that he is G-d. The idea of Trinity is blasphemous. The Trinity is a pollution birthed from the Mystery Babylon Religion. When Yeshua said, I and my Father are one (John 10: 30), he was accused of saying he was G-d. However, Yeshua replied; Are ye not all gods? Later, he relayed the fact that all those that follow him are one with him and G-d. Each of us has a divine spark of G-d within us, but that does not make us G-d.
Yeshua is called the Son of G-d, but sonship does not refer to physical descendancy. Sonship refers to righteousness. When we walk in obedience to Torah we are sons and daughters of G-d. However, when the teachings of Yeshua went out beyond the Hebraic milieu into the Greek dominated intellectual environment of the Roman Empire, Yeshua was transformed from the righteous son to the physical son of G-d.
Paul rejected the idea of the plurality of deities and the worship of Yeshua as G-d.
1 Corinthians 8:5-6 says: For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one G-d, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Yeshua HaMachiach, by whom are all things, and we by him.
When Paul gave Yeshua the title of Lord, he was not compromising his monotheism. The resurrection of Yeshua to the "right hand" of G-d does not connote that a divine status was given to him. The Greek term for lord, kurios, does NOT necessarily mean Lord, as in Lord G-d. A more precise rendering would be Master, or even, Sir. Yeshua's title of Lord means that he is the chief agent of G-d. Yeshua brought us atonement and he freed us from the Law of Sin and Death. Yeshua's teachings pointed the way back to the purity of Torah and the Tree of Life. Yeshua came to raise us to a higher lever of commitment to G-d. Yeshua is the promised Messiah, but he is not G-d.
However, with the destruction of Jerusalem, Messianic Judaism lost its influence and Hellenist culture and philosophy came to influence the belief in the deity of Yeshua. As Christianity touched the surrounding cultures, Yeshua came to be seen as an equal to G-d. The idea of a man-god was a Greek and heathen concept brought in several decades following the death of Messiah. When former pagans, steeped in Greek-Roman culture, converted to Christianity they brought with them a pagan understanding of the nature of G-d.
The concept of the trinity has it origins in the Sumerian/Babylonian triune lunar mother goddess symbolizing the phases of the moon. Death and life were seen as part of the cycle of lunar changes. However, with the rise of the Babylonian cult of the sun god Marduk and the glorification of war and conquest, the worship of the male sun god was established. The Babylonian Trinity included the father, mother and son as exemplified by Baal, Ishtar and the incarnate baby Tammuz. Gnostic Christianity believed in a Trinity that included God the Father, Mary the Mother and Jesus the Son. In the Roman Church, the feminine aspect of the Trinity was identified with Wisdom and the Holy Spirit, and the Trinity encompassed the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Trinitarianism took a firm hold over the developing church once the apostles died off and the Jewish influence from Jerusalem waned. With the death of the original Hebraic followers of Yeshua and the Hebraic truths they promoted, Trinitarian thinking was solidified as the doctrine of faith for the new church in the 4th century under the authority of Roman Emperor Constantine who continued to serve as the High Priest of the Mystery Sun Religion. The Nicean Council of 325 CE legitimatized the Trinitarian Babylonian mystery religion. Such pollution of the Body of believers is grievous and especially hard to fathom when one realizes how hard the Jews fought to rid the land of Greek influence at the time of the Maccabees.
Malachi warned the people that the great and dreadful day of the Lord was coming, but he also encouraged and instructed the people of G-d saying that the Torah with its statutes and judgments was the path to a relationship with G-d. However, early Hellenistic/Gentile believers interpreted Malachi 4:2 in terms of their Babylonian Mystery Religion background. This verse says, But unto you that fear My Name shall the "Sun" of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. They compared G-d and his glory with the sun and the wings as the rays of the sun.
Malachi 3:1-3 says: Behold, I will send my messenger and he will prepare the way for me: and the Lord G-d, whom ye seek shall suddenly come to His temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. But who may abide the day of his coming? For he is like refiners fire, and like fullers soap. And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of fire, and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord G-d an offering in righteousness.
In the Hebraic language, the messenger that G-d would send is Malak. The root mlk refers to kingship and can mean king, kingdom or one who acts like a king. The special messenger sent by G-d was Messiah. Messiah was G-d's designated agent; Messiah answered directly to G-d; Messiah represented the Lord G-d in Name; and Messiah carried the anointing and empowerment of G-d.
John the Baptist said that the Messiah would baptize the people with the Ruach Ha Kodesh (the Holy Spirit) and with fire. Messiah sits as a refiner and purifier and Messiah continues to separate the chaff from the wheat. Messiah burns off the chaff with an unquenchable fire (Luke 3:16-17) and Messiah restores people to the Lord G-d in righteousness through Torah. Messiah rids people of all idols and contaminations.
Before the coming of the Lord, G-d would send Elijah to return the people's hearts to Torah. Before the Lord returns, the fathers - the Jews, would be turned toward their children - the Christians - and the heart of the Christians toward the Jews. Malachi 4:4-6 tells of the coming of Messiah and of the assignments G-d has given Him to accomplish upon the earth. These verses say:
Judaism has always believed that Messiah would be one like Moses. The sages believed that the divine presence of G-d, His Shekhinah, would dwell upon one who is powerful, wise and humble. Messiah was to be a man born of the seed of an earthly mother and father. The Hebraic Scriptures never tell the people to look for G-d born in the flesh from a virgin. The dogma of the virgin birth based on Isaiah's prophecy, Behold a virgin shall conceive and shall bear a son and shall call his name Immanuel (Isaiah 7:14) is a widely held literal misinterpretation. I invite you to read or listen to a separate article in which I discuss the virgin birth at length.
The Hebraic Scriptures use the word almah meaning young woman who may or may not be married. However the Greek translations substituted the word parthenos meaning virgin. There are absolutely no prophetic messianic scriptures in the Tanakh (Old Testament) that irrefutably point to Messiah being born of a virgin. Frankly, there is legitimate scholarly debate as to the authenticity of the birth accounts contained in Matthew and Luke with many scholars feeling these accounts were not in the orginials. It was always accepted and consistent with G-d's Word that G-d would use human vessels and/or angels as His messengers. However, despite the debate surrounding the virgin birth, Yeshua's Messiahship remains a firm fact of Scripture.
G-d is Spirit whom no man has ever seen. The idea of the infinite G-d of the universe, reduced to a man, much less reduced to a man who would die and shed his blood as G-d was considered as something foreign and pagan in origin and more along the line of the mystery Babylonian beliefs than anything found in Judaism or Hebraic thought.
The Jewish Messiah was to be a man who was far above and more righteous than any man who ever had lived. The Messiah was part of the creator's plan at the inception of the universe along with that of Torah. From the beginning of the creation of the world, King Messiah existed in the plan (Mind) of G-d.
These verses totally encapsulate and are consistent with Hebraic thought on the understanding of Messiah. They do not line up with Trinitarian thought. The Jewish sages believed:
In Revelation 3:14 we have Yeshua's own words on this matter: And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; these things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness; the beginning of the creation of G-d. This scripture tells us that Yeshua was in the Mind of G-d from the creation. Bottom line - Yeshua WAS created; therefore, he cannot be the Creator!
In Hebraic thought to make anyone equal to HaShem would be a blasphemy and a violation of the first two of the Ten Commandments. HaShem would not give His people these commandments and then ask the people to violate His very commands. To do this without letting His own people know that there was going to be a change or great deviation of His plans would be unheard of and totally inconsistent with His manner and way of being. The first two of the Ten Commandments given in Exodus 20:3-5 declare:
The major hurdle to overcome in seeing truths pertaining to Trinity is whether or not the New Testament Scriptures are the "infallible" Word of G-d. When we say infallible, it is not a matter of trusting G-d. Instead, this is a matter of trusting that men claiming to be of G-d translated the Word in an unadulterated manner and without any ulterior motives. The actual translation we have in our hands today was written not by Jewish scribes trained to carefully transcribe the word with numerous checks and balances, but by supposed former pagans steeped in Trinitarian doctrines. While we have no early manuscripts of the New Covenant Scriptures, the Dead Sea Scrolls reveal Hebraic Scriptures back to at least 400 B.C.E that are almost identical to what we have in our possession today.
The World Book Encyclopedia (1990) states that the Gospels are the first four books of the New Testament and are the primary source of information about the life and teaching of Jesus Christ. The Gospels are named for the four men who are said to have written them: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. But many scholars today doubt that these men actually wrote the Gospels. The books of Mark, Matthew and Luke were written between 70 CE to 85 CE and the book of John about 90 - 110 C.E.
Take into account that Mark, Matthew and Luke wrote their testimonies of the life of Yeshua forty to fifty years after Yeshua's death and resurrection. John's testimony was written sixty to eighty years after the fact. Also understand that we have no idea whose hands held the original manuscripts. Even if we assume that the original manuscripts were in the hands of Greeks or Romans and that absolutely nothing was added to or detracted from them, we are still left with accepting by blind faith that these books and others in the New Testament are the infallible Word of G-d.
I believe that G-d's hand is totally in the Scriptures concerning the general concepts about Messiah. However, when I consider inconsistencies regarding ideas and concepts pertaining to New Testament versus Hebraic Scriptures, the older Hebraic Scriptures must be taken as the standard. In other words, anything opposed to the Hebraic Scriptures and especially Torah could not be of G-d. I base this conclusion on several important scriptures: Matthew 5:17, 2nd Timothy 3:15 and Deuteronomy 4:2.
Traditional Christianity attempts to view and understand Hebraic Scriptures from the lens and viewpoint of the New testament Scriptures when it must be the other way around. The new must be held accountable to the older as this is the only measuring device for accuracy. This was precisely the way the Bereans in Acts 17:11 determined if what Paul taught was truth.
If Yeshua formed the creations as many feel the New Testament Scriptures imply, this would make Him G-d, for only G-d has the creative ability to form something out of nothing. Only G-d can do creative miracles by creating and altering the natural laws pertaining to the physical world. However, the Scriptures are very clear in the New Testament that Yeshua's creative miracles during his ministry were performed by the empowerment of the Spirit of G-d within Him.
This is exactly what it means to be the Messiah or "anointed" one of G-d. The Messiah was the One sent from G-d to deliver his people from bondage and to set them free, that they could worship the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
The Hebrew Scriptures are very clear that it is G-d, and G-d alone, who created the heaven and the earth. Yet we find Colossians 1:15 and 16 seemingly stating the exact opposite! Verse 15 is consistent with the Hebraic Scriptures. To believe that Yeshua is the creator is a total misrepresentation of Scriptures. Another article discusses this in detail and is suggested as reading for those wishing to grasp what Paul really meant in his letter to the Colossians.
The major problem we face in correctly interpreting New Testament Scripture is that there are no original manuscripts to refer back to. So to correctly interpret the scriptures, we need certain guidelines. I propose these guidelines:
Let us now study what the Hebraic Scriptures actually say about creation.
Yeshua was revealed as the Son of Man, the Son of G-d, and the son of David in both the Hebraic Scriptures and the New Testament Scriptures.
Yeshua addressed the question of being a Son of Man. In Matt. 16:13, Yeshua asks, "Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?" This is a very relevant question. In the contemporary Church, the answer would not come from any thought out position, but rather the answer would be according to the words of the Nicene Creed decided in the fourth century that Yeshua is the eternal Son of the eternal Father.
According to the Nicene Creed Yeshua was "G-d of G-d, Light of Light, very G-d and very man, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father." In the fifth century, Yeshua was declared to be one person with both a divine and human nature. Throughout the centuries the title "Son of Man" has denoted the humanity of Yeshua while "Son of G-d" has denoted his divinity. In case you have not thought about it, being both human and divine would make Yeshua a Greek god who was half god and half man. Greek gods come from Greek thought, and such are the origins of the Trinity man-God Christ. The Hebraic worldview of ALL Scripture was discarded by the "church fathers" and their pagan, Greek, pseudo-polythestic mindset was used to arrive at what is now the Traditional Christian MISunderstanding of G-d.
But to understand the meaning of the title "Son of Man", let us study this title from an Hebraic standpoint. First of all it's very interesting to note that the phrase "Son of Man" in the Gospels was not a title given to Yeshua by others, it was a title he used to describe himself. In the Hebraic Scriptures, the most frequent occurrences of this title comes in the book of Ezekiel and refers to Ezekiel as a "son of man" who serves as an emissary and a sign to his generation from G-d (Ezek. 12:6 and 24:24).
The Son of Man is the Son of Adam (adam is Hebrew for "man"). Many Christians, because of the false Calvinistic teaching of hereditary sin, which teaches that it is impossible for a human to be sinless, point to the sinless walk of Yeshua as proof that Yeshua was G-d in the flesh. They fail to realize that if one follows their line of reasoning, it would mean that Adam was G-d even more than Yeshua. Adam did not have a father OR a mother. In fact, such reasoning would make Eve more of a G-d than Yeshua, since she also had no father OR mother. Adam was created totally by G-d's spirit breathing life into him making him a living soul. When Adam was created, he was the perfect "image of G-d" and he was perfectly balanced in every way until he fell into sin. Prior to the time that Adam sinned, he dwelt so close to the presence of G-d that he could have just as easily been taken to heaven as to remain upon the earth. Yeshua is the second Adam (second MAN). He was created by G-d to be an emissary of G-d to reign as G-d's anointed, chosen King over creation and to deliver mankind through His atoning sacrifice for sin, so that mankind's sins and curses all the way back to the fall of Adam could be broken.
There is a difference in the term "Son of G-d" within Hebraic and Greek thinking. In Greek thinking the term son, huios, refers basically to physical descent. In Hebraic thinking the term for son, ben, is very different. Ben not only designates physical descent and relationship, but it also refers to younger companions, pupils and members of a group, or a particular characteristic. Most importantly it means one who belongs to G-d because of one's righteousness.
The angels, as members of the heavenly court are called "sons of G-d." Israel is called the "first-born son of G-d" (Exod. 4:22). The relationship of G-d and king is like that of father and son (2 Sam. 7:12-14). In Hebraic thought a son was a righteous individual. Messiah was not G-d's offspring in the sense of a physical child; Yeshua was a son of G-d because of his righteousness. Yeshua was a "Tzadik" or "Righteous One". He was anointed by G-d to lead the people to righteousness so that they could be sons and daughters of G-d. As a Son of G-d, Messiah glorified the Father by turning the people's hearts to G-d. Matthew identified Yeshua as the Son of G-d. When Yeshua asked Peter who he was, Peter replied "You are the Mashiach (Messiah), the Son of the living G-d" (Matt 16:16).
Psalm 2 describes the time when the Lord G-d's anointed one would defeat G-d's enemies and deliver G-d's people. At the end of days, the Messiah will usher in the glorious age to come.
When Psalm 110:1 says: The Lord said unto My Lord or Yahweh said to Adoni this is a reference to His anointed. Yeshua is the son of G-d. G-d says that He has begotten him, meaning G-d has created Yeshua.
Psalm 2:9 says: Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. This verse is a direct reference to 1 Cor.15:24,25 where Messiah must rule upon the earth until He places all of G-d's enemies under his feet
These verses say: Then cometh the end, when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to G-d, even the Father; when He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign till He hath put all enemies under His feet.
We are to come to G-d by way of the Son who is our intermediary and High Priest. Even when Messiah moved in supernatural miracles, he was still an anointed human, meaning he was under the empowerment of the Spirit of G-d (Acts 2:22).
Throughout the Hebraic Scriptures, G-d identifies Messiah as a created being who serves as an emissary of G-d.
The Jewish people of the first century understood that Messiah would be a human being of the royal line of David. The Jews expected a flesh and blood human being to be their Messiah. But because He would be Messiah, He would have a righteousness that no human had ever achieved since the time of Adam. The names "ben David" (son of David) and "ben Adam" (son of man) are direct reference to a mortal being. Messiah was never referred to as G-d Almighty in the flesh by any Jew in His presence, nor did Messiah ever refer to himself as G-d. For Messiah to have referred to himself as G-d would have been a form of blasphemy, which was NOT the same blasphemy he was accused of during his trial. That accusation of blasphemy was for his answering "yes" to those that asked if he was Messiah (NOT G-d). Blasphemy means to scorn, and by claiming to be Messiah, the corrupt council made up primarily of Sadduccees, consider his words scornful. There were also watching out for their own hides and did not like the idea of a movement starting that could take away their positions of power. Oh, by the way, his words "I am" were also nothing more than a simple answer to a simple question, despite the outrageous claims of Trinitarians to turn them into some sort of mysterious code words to imply he was G-d.
The term "ben David" refers to Messiah coming from the promised physical seed of David and that He would rule upon the throne of David. When Messiah comes, He will set up the glorious Millennial Kingdom, rule the world form Jerusalem, and rebuild G-d's Temple. He will reign as King not only for Israel, but in that day, He will reign as King of all the earth as the anointed one of G-d - anointed to rule as the emissary of G-d!
In Ezekiel 34: 23, 24 we see Messiah as ben David, as the shepherd for G-d, who herds the people to G-d. This scripture is a prophecy pertaining to the end days. And I will set up one shepherd over them, and HE shall feed them, even My Servant David; He shall feed them, and He shall be their shepherd. And I the Lord will be their G-d, and My Servant David a prince (leader) among them, I the Lord G-d have spoken it.
Inconsistencies in the New Testament Scriptures containing the Trinitarian doctrine, (the Mystery Babylonian position), are inevitable. It evolves from the position that G-d came in the flesh to save mankind and makes the sacrifice equal to G-d Himself. This is a blasphemous position, but this mystery Babylonian position has pervaded Christianity since the fourth century. If we look carefully we will see that the original doctrinal positions of the New Testament Scriptures are absolutely consistent with Hebraic positions.
It is G-d who created Messiah and it is G-d who resurrected Him. The creation can never be equal to the creator. He is now at the right hand of the Father. Acts 2: 32, 33 say: 32 This Yeshua hath G-d raised up, where of we all are witnesses. 33 Therefore being by the Right Hand of G-d exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear!
A common sense reading of Scripture leaves NO doubt that Yeshua is NOT G-d. Sadly, hundreds of millions of Traditional Christians have had their senses dulled by the Babylonian "mystery" teachings of Christianity.
Acts 2:34,35 shows how Messiah is indeed the one who fulfilled the prophecies of David. Here we see the reference in Psalm 110:1 where Yahweh says to Mashiach, the One He designated leader over His Body of people, 34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but He saith Himself, Yahweh said to my Adoni, sit then on my right hand, 35 until I make thy foes thy footstool.
G-d made Yeshua, (because of His loyalty and obedience even unto death), the head of G-d's body or congregation of believers, making him the "Son of G-d." G-d also made Him the Messiah, and these are His rightful positions. To effectively walk with G-d, in the fulness of His anointing and empowerment, we must keep clear who G-d is and who Messiah is so as to glorify both in their proper way and not end up in pagan, blasphemous idolatry as has happened to so much of the church. Acts 2:36 says: Therefore let all the house of Israel honor assuredly that G-d hath made that same Yeshua, whom ye have crucified, both Lord (Supreme in authority over G-d's body) and Messiah.
Messiah was a divinely appointed being, just as David was. Whenever the Lord G-d gives a prophecy concerning Messiah, G-d always refers to Himself as the only Lord G-d, and to Messiah as the One who was to defeat all of G-d's enemies. Messiah was to set up G-d's government of justice by ruling the earth through Torah, much like Moses did among the Israelites.
The only way G-d's people are going to come out of mystery Babylon is to come out of Trinitarian doctrine that has made the Son like an incarnate god, much as Tammuz was the incarnation of Baal. Yeshua never came to usurp G-d's throne. Yeshua came to glorify G-d and His throne among G-d's people.
Brethren, we must let go of heathen and pagan ideas and doctrines that stand against the work of G-d. My prayer is that the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will open your spiritual eyes and ears and that G-d's people be set free from the shepherds in these last days who are out to feed themselves and their church buildings. This is the time to break free of all deceptions. Shalom!