By Matthew Moshe Nolan

Remember as we study the Brit Chadasha/Renewed Covenant, the Brit Chadasha cannot establish new doctrine but only renew an already established Torah doctrine, renewed and refreshed by Moshiach’s life-giving dahm/blood.

Galutyah/Galatians 3:1: O foolish Galutyah, [Yirmeyahu 4:22:  “For my people are foolish, they have not Yada/know me”] who has put you under a spell that you should not obey the emet [previously established that the Torah is emet], since Yahushua Ha’Moshiach has been clearly set forth, before your eyes as impaled among you.  ² This only would I learn from you:  Did you receive the Ruach Ha’Kodesh by the works of law [oral law], or by your obedience to emunah?  ³ Are you so foolish?  Having begun your halacha in the Ruach Ha’Kodesh, are you now made perfect by the flesh? [Are you now going to submit to rabbinic decree?] ⁴ Have you suffered so many things for nothing?  If it is yet for nothing.  ⁵ He that supplies you with the Ruach Ha’Kodesh and works great nisim among you, does He do it by the works of law, or by your hearing and emunah?  ⁶ Even as Avraham believed YHWH, and it was counted to him for tzedakah.  ⁷ Know, therefore, that those who are of the emunah, the same are b’nai Avraham. [You know you’re the children of Avraham if you keep the Torah of Avraham] ⁸ And the Scripture, foreseeing that YHWH would justify the heathen through emunah, [justification comes by faith – behavioral righteousness comes by the keeping of Torah.  BUT – what about Genesis 15:6:  “Avraham’s emunah was credited as righteousness.”  A distinction must be made between behavioral righteousness and forensic righteousness which is a gift, because if all of our observance was to come under the eye of Mattityahu 5, the forensic of Yahushua, we would see the need of the gift] proclaimed before the Besorah to Avraham, saying, In you shall all nations be blessed.  ⁹ So then they that are of emunah are blessed with faithful believing Avraham.  ¹⁰ For as many as are followers of the works of law are under the curse:

I can’t emphasize enough that this isn’t talking about Written Torah.  Written Torah tells us that if we follow it we will be abundantly blessed.  Now if you are in possession of a NIV or NLT, it contains the edited version from the 2^nd Century CE heretic Bishop Marcion of Sinop.  He edited ten of Rav’s letters and the book of Luke.  Marcion didn’t believe in the TaNaKh – too harsh.  He believed in a new god in Jesus, full of grace and mercy.  He believed Rav was a lawless apostle who preached grace and mercy and no other sholiach had the same authority.  He published his New Testament and the text was altered to remove so-called “Jewish corruptions.”  The book of Galatians has proof, right here, of his tampering.  “Works of” “Ergon” has been edited out, as carried over in the NIV and NLT and you are left with “law.”  So to the heretical translator it is penned in, “For as many as are followers of Torah are under a curse” for it is written, Cursed is every one that that continues not in all things that are written in the scroll of the Torah to do them. (Yet if we closely examine the texts we’ll see that Rav is juxtaposing the Written law with the Oral, or Unwritten law. Look at what the text actually says in Deuteronomy that he is quoting. Deut 27:26  “Cursed is he that confirms not all the words of this Torah to do them. And all the people shall say, Amein.”

¹¹ But that no man is declared tzadik [better, justified] by the law in the sight of YHWH, is evident; for, the tzadik shall live by emunah. [Can righteousness come by the Written Law?  See Deut. 30:11, Lk. 1:6, Phil. 3:4; only justification or forensic righteousness doesn’t come by any Written or oral law] ¹² And the law is not made by emunah: [Oh really?  Lying mama!  Exodus 24:7: And he took the Scroll of the Brit and read it in the audience of the people; and they said, All that YHWH has said will we do, and be obedient. Rav knows what he’s talking about – it’s just modern gentiles that are all confused.  The Written Law/Torah, you bet, was made by emunah.  The oral law, on the other hand, was made void of faith] but the man that does what is written in it shall live in them. [You do what the oral law says, then you’ll live under that yoke; you do what the Written Torah says, you’ll live under that yoke.  Which yoke is light and easy?] ¹³ Moshiach has redeemed us from the curse of the Torah [not that Torah is a curse, but the curses that are reserved within the Torah for the disobedient – of which category we in times past had fallen into, He redeemed us by hanging on the etyz of Deut. 21:23] ¹³ being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on an eytz; ¹⁴ that the bracha upon Avraham might come upon the nations through Yahushua ha’Moshiach, that we might receive the promise of Ruach Ha’Kodesh through emunah [Ruach-filled life] ¹⁵ Yisraelite brothers, I speak after the manner of men; even if a brit is a man’s brit, yet still if it is confirmed, no man sets it aside or adds to it. [One of my favorite verses:  No Man – No Man – No Man sets aside covenant, even if it’s only between men.  How dare religious men then think they can come along with a new will and testament and set aside covenants that YHWH made with His people!]

I’d like to finish today by quoting Rav and driving a nail into the coffin of false doctrine.

Acts 26:19: Therefore, O Melech Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision: ²⁰ But showed it first to them of Dameshek, and at Yahrushalayim, and throughout all the borders of Yahudah, and then to the nations, that they should make teshuvah and turn to YHWH, and do mitzvoth meet for teshuvah.  ²¹ For these reasons the unbelieving Yahudim caught me in the Beit HaMikdash, and went about to kill me.  ²² Having therefore obtained help from YHWH, I continue to this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those, which the neviim and Moshe Rabainu said.