The Righteous One

The question is: What does the commands (Torah = Hebrew for commands) mean for us today?

For me Acts chapter 7 (The scriptures) gives me some answers. Stephan who loved Elohim (Almighty) dearly and was a true searcher of truth is speaking in Acts Chapter 7. This desire for truth cost him his life.

Stephan is brought to the council and questioned by the high priest whereby he starts telling the council the history of the Israelites. Note: I am starting from verse 37 which is after the people were led out of Egypt. Verse 37 “This is the Moses who said to the children of Israel, ‘Yahuah your Almighty shall raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brothers. Him you shall hear’ (You find this in Deuteronomy 18:15 as well). This is confirmed again in Deuteronomy 18:18 by Yahuah Himself: ‘I shall raise up for them a Prophet like you out of the midst of their brothers. And I shall put My Words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.

 

Read also Acts 3:22-23 which should be a warning to those who do not have believe in Messiah.

Yahuah says in Deuteronomy 18:18, My Words will be in His mouth. Remember Yahusha (Jesus) said somewhere in John that He only speaks what His Father tells Him to say. And He was the Word from the beginning. This is the true Messiah. Yahusha confirmed this fact in seven places in John, namely in John 3:34, 7:16, 8:28, 8:40, 12:49, 14:24, and 17:8 – His teachings (words, commands) are identical to those of His Father.

 

Acts 7: 38-39 “This is he (Moses) who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the Messenger who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received the living Words to give to us, unto whom our fathers would not become obedient, but thrust away, and in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,..

Who is this "Messenger?"

Was this Yahusha - the Word!

Note Stephen calls the ten Words (Commands) the "Living Words!"

Who is the Word and is Living? Verse 40-41 saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods to go before us,.... for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ “And they made a calf in those days, and brought an offering to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their own hands. Verse 42-43 “So Almighty turned and gave them up to worship the host of the heaven, as it has been written in the book of the Prophets, ‘Did you bring slaughtered beasts and offerings unto Me during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? ‘And you took up the tent of Molek (Moloch), and the star of your mighty one Kiyyun (Remphan), images which you made to bow before them. Therefore I shall remove you beyond Babylon.’

Stephen says here, Yahuah gave them up to worship the host of the heavens = sun, stars and moon (planets).

In the portion we read about the golden calf, it does not say anything about Yahuah giving them up to worship the planets, so where does Stephen get this from? The prophet Amos wrote this in Amos 5:25-27 “You brought Me slaughterings and meal offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel, but you took up Sikkuth (Molech) your sovereign and Kiyyun (Kiyun), your idols, your astral mighty ones, which you made for yourselves! “Therefore I shall send you into exile beyond Damascus,” said Yahuah Almighty of hosts – His Name.

 

So, what did Stephen and Amos mean here?

Now we all know who Molech is and how this god is still been worshipped today through abortions and other ways (my view) but what happen to the god Kiyyun or Kiyun or Remphan(KJV)? This god is also still been worship today. I have done my research on this false god and it was difficult to find information on this but what I found was a shocker. Verse 44-45 “The Tent of Witness was with our fathers in the wilderness, as He appointed, instructing Moses to make it according to the pattern that he had seen, which our fathers, having received it in turn, also brought with Joshua into the land possessed by the gentiles, whom Almighty drove out before the face of our fathers until the days of David,..

The temple that was instructed by Yahuah to make. Interesting, Stephan mentions the tent of Witness after the golden calf incident which confirms that this instruction came after Mt Sinai.

Verse 46-47 who found favour before Almighty and asked to find a dwelling for the Almighty of Jacob, but Solomon built Him a house. Remember that Yahuah did not instruct David to build a temple. David asked Yahuah if he could build a permanent temple for Him and Yahuah approved David's request. The only restriction Yahuah gave David was that he could not build it but only his son Solomon.

 

The next verses are very important to understand and I believe applies to us today. Verse 48-50 “However, the Most High does not dwell in dwellings (temples) made with hands, as the prophet says: ‘The heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What house shall you build for Me? says Yahauh, or what is the place of My rest? ‘Has My hand not made all these?’

Also said in Acts 17:24 “Yahuah, who made the world and all that is in it, this One being Master of heaven and earth, does not dwell in dwellings (temples) made with hands. Prophet Isaiah says this in Isaiah 66:1-2 as well.

So, the tent or temple that Moses built was a temporary meeting place for Yahuah to meet His people. The question is now that the Messiah has come to earth and returned to His Father's place, where is the temple?

Today we hear them preparing to build the next temple! By whose instruction is this temple been built, is the question I am asking!

Below are verses speaking about the Temple in the new Covenant (Testament). Mark 14:58 “We heard Him saying, ‘I shall destroy this Dwelling Place (Temple) that is made with hands, and within three days I shall build another made without hands.’ ”

1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are a Dwelling Place (Temple) of Elohim and that the Spirit of Elohim dwells in you?

2 Corinthians 6:16-18 And what union has the Dwelling Place (Temple) of Elohim with idols? For you are a Dwelling Place (Temple) of the living Elohim, as Elohim has said, “I shall dwell in them and walk among them, and I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.” Therefore, “Come out from among them and be separate, says Yahuah, and do not touch what is unclean, and I shall receive you. “And I shall be a Father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to Me, says Yahuah the Almighty.”

Ephesians 2:20-22 having been built upon the foundation of the emissaries and prophets, Yahusha Messiah Himself being chief corner-stone, in whom all the building, being joined together, grows into a set-apart Dwelling Place (Temple) in Yahuah, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of Elohim in the Spirit.

Revelation 3:11-12 “See, I am coming speedily! Hold what you have that no one take your crown. “He who overcomes, I shall make him a supporting post in the Dwelling Place (Temple) of My Elohim, and he shall by no means go out. And I shall write on him the Name of My Elohim and the name of the city of My Elohim, the renewed Jerusalem, which comes down out of the heaven from My Elohim, and My renewed Name.

Revelation 7:15 “Because of this they are before the throne of Elohim, and serve Him day and night in His Dwelling Place (Temple). And He who sits on the throne shall spread His Tent over them.

Revelation 11:19 And the Dwelling Place (Temple) of Elohim was opened in the heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His Dwelling Place (Temple). And there came to be lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail.

Revelation 15:5-6 And after this I looked and saw the Dwelling Place (Temple) of the Tent of Witness in the heaven was opened. And out of the Dwelling Place (Temple) came the seven messengers having the seven plagues, dressed in clean bright linen, and having their chests girded with golden bands.

Revelation 21:22 And I saw no Dwelling Place (Temple) in it, for Yahuah El Shaddai is its Dwelling Place (Temple), and the Lamb.

Has the question been answered?

This is one huge mystery; if the Messiah did come to earth +-2000 years ago (which I believe He did) then the temple to be made by man is not applicable, if I understand the above scripture verses correctly.  Verse 51-53 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Set apart (Holy) Spirit, as your fathers did, you also do. “Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who before announced the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers, who received the commands (Torah) as it was ordained by messengers, but did not watch over it.”

 

The Commands was ordained by messengers! Could these mean angels (cherubs)? The Righteous One can only be Yahusha.

Stephen also says in this verse that many prophets were killed when they prophesied about the coming Messiah.

Abba Father Yahuah, teach us Your Ways, let us walk in Your truth.