The Messianic Faith
By Daniel Gregg
Positives
No. 1: My hope is that everyone who holds to Messiah Yeshua will not lose their faithfulness to Him due to divisive attacks on the historicity of Scripture, and that you will strengthen your faith through an understanding of Biblical Chronology.
No.2: I hope you will understand that Messiah died for our sin, and that this means His blood cleanses us from all sin, after we confess our sins and are forgiven our sins. That you will understand that His divine and everlasting life experienced death and resurrection and is now avaliable to cleanse us from sin as we cooperate in obedience to his Torah through faithfulness.
No. 3: That if you have embraced the Sabbath and Feast days that this chronology will immeasurably strengthen the foundation for it.
No. 4: To ultimately unify the Torah observant faithful in Messiah Yeshua, wherein there is no special status for Jews or Non-Jews, not because I have authority, which I do, but because I prove what I say, and show you how to understand the proofs for yourself, so that you do not have to rely on my authority, but on a precise knowledge of what Scripture says.
No. 5: that you understand that when Paul spoke negatively about "works of the law," he did not just speak to non-Jews, but he spoke to Jews as well, and that he meant nothing against obedience to the Law of Moses, but what he did mean was that works do not pay for sin and earn forgiveness, such as the sacrifices king Saul thought he would offer in compensation for his disobedience. That you understand that both Rome and Judaism have a documented history of teaching this, called penance or zechut.
I have stated the positive agenda. Now I will state the negative agenda.
Negatives
If you speak for, or represent, or agree with an institution that tells either Jews or Non-Jews that they are not obligated to observe Torah then you are a heretical teacher. If you teach that the Most High makes a covenant difference between the house of Judah and the House of Israel regarding Torah observance, whereas Scripture says Messiah makes "no distinction between us and purifies our hearts through the pledge of faithfulness" (Acts 15:9), then you are not fit to be a shepherd in Israel. If you speak against what the Apostles said, "But we hold faithful to be rescued through the loving-kindness of Adonai Yeshua, in the same way as they also are," (Acts 15:11), such that you say the faithful have no obligation to Sabbath if they are not Jewish, or that they may mix unbiblical seasons promoted by the Church of Rome into their observances, then you are the Synagogue of Satan. If you do any of this, then you are one who divides and scatters Israel. You are one who eats all the feed and muddies the rest. You are one who stands in the way of the restoration of the kingdom of Israel. And from whatever tribe you belong to, the kingdom will be taken from you and given to another tribe that listens to Messiah Yeshua.
Now, that I have covered the main heresy, if you are one of the many divisive teachers preying on and dividing those who are discovering the blessings of Torah by teaching false ways of keeping Torah, then this chronology is going to destroy your positions. My goal is not to debate you, but to rescue everyone else from you.
For those who have abandoned the Sabbath and teach the so called "Lunar Sabbath" theory, the truth found here will destroy your theory.
For those who think the Qumran/Zadokite calendar is the truth, the truth found here will destroy your system.
And more gently, if you follow Rabbinic calculations of the new moon, that you will reconsider that your leaders have deceived you and switch to the ancient method of sighting the new moon, so that the house of Israel may be united by Torah. The truth found here supports the ancient method, and not the Rabbis calendar heresy, which did not exist during the time Messiah walked among us. I speak to individuals. But if you are the institution or the leadership that refuses to change and follow matters as Torah teaches, then it is likely that you also teach the number one heresy: that non-Jews have no obligation to the Sabbath or Feast days, because you believe this is the exclusive property of Jews, a common position you hold with post-Temple Judaism. Well, in that case, you are not better than Rome insisting they are right about their Easter Sunday calculations.
Are more gently, that you understand that the feast in the wilderness at Mt. Sinai occured on a Sabbath, and that the Sadducean/Karaite theory of Shavuot is incorrect. That you understand that Yeshua cited the Pharisees as authorities vs. any other group in Judaism (cf. Matthew 23:1-3).
For those who overcome these traps, you will discover here that Daniel 9 is perfectly calculated out to show that Yeshua is the Messiah.
The next points deal with stilted tradition and secular attacks.
That you would understand that Evangelical Christianity is seriously compromised with secular archaeology theories. You can read this between the lines in the early charts after the flood.
That you will understand the appeals to Septuagint (LXX) chronology are needless and without foundation.
That you would understand that the Hebrew text is original and the primary source.
That you would understand that Hebrew was the original language of the world preserved in Canaan, and that things have devolved from it, including Masoretic Hebrew and Modern Hebrew.
That you would understand that linguistic theories of Hebrew based on Proto-Semitic and an older theoretical language evolving into Hebrew is the invention of secular linguists, and that it is mostly speculation. That you would understand that placing Hebrew first, and explaining features in other semitic languages as devolvling from Hebrew is the superior model.
And finally, that you would understand that holding to the absolute inspiration of the Masoretic Text is also an error, that is in respect to its vowel points. And the problem is this. It can be proved that the Masoretes made mistakes. I want you to understand that this does not justify jumping into the Proto-Semitic evolving language dogma. Rather the solution is to recognize that ancient Hebrew has lost features, and yet preserves the original best.
Ok, that is enough on the agenda. You will get loads out of points no. 1 and no. 2, even if you do not understand everything. If you want to dig deeper into the agenda, then please do read the doctrinal page. I have absolutely nothing to hide. My only concern is that you encounter things relevant to your situation in the right order so that you may not be offended by some small matter of difference.