Why Hebrew Roots?

There are many believers who have never even heard of Hebrew roots or Jewish roots, and then there are those who are just discovering the Hebrew roots of the Bible. Some aren't really doing anything about it, or are not even sure they are supposed to do anything about it.

But discovering and then searching out the truths about the Hebrewness of the Bible, and our true Hebrewness is probably the most important thing we will ever do as believers in Yeshua (Jesus).

“But why is that? Don’t I already know the truth?” you might ask. Well, truth be known, most of what Christianity teaches is not true. The key word here is most, because there is one thing about it that is true: Yeshua (Jesus).

Even though the Book of Revelation is probably not true, it literally saved me––twice. The first time was when I came to know Jesus (or thought I knew Him, that is). The second time was when I began to read Revelation again because I needed to as research on my first book. Although I had studied it extensively during the first 13 years of my believing life, I felt I needed to refresh my memory of it after about four or five years of not reading it.

As I began to research Revelation again, God began to speak to my spirit about studying the Feasts of God. The only thing I knew about them was the fact that I did in fact learn a lot of the Word (Torah) while in a cultish Christian church, and apparently some of it stuck in my spirit because I knew of the Feasts of which Yeshua was speaking.

However, I knew nothing of what the Feasts were about, so sadly to admit I ignored the very Voice of God for about three years, and told Him I would study them when my book was done. But that didn’t stop Him from speaking to me and nudging me in the direction He wanted me to go (my first book actually has a lot more Hebrewness in it than I knew at the time).

When I began to read about the Feasts, I found myself going back to the gospels many times. I was reading Matthew 26:17-30 one day, over and over and then I saw that Yeshua (Jesus) wasn’t having His Last Supper, as it has been dubbed. He was celebrating Passover! Even though there is a title heading at the beginning of this part in my Bible, I never put two and two together before. So why was Jesus celebrating Passover, a Jewish festival? I wondered.

At that time I had also stumbled upon a Jewish teacher of the New Testament while watching TBN one day, so I contacted him and asked him about what I was reading. I asked, “Jesus wasn’t instituting communion was He? He was celebrating Passover, right?” They wrote back stating “your theology is correct.”

I was reading that section, and I asked that particular question because I always knew that there was something wrong with communion, but could never quite grasp what it was. When that ministry wrote back to me, it began a journey that I am still on and I have never looked back!

I searched for a book to tell me the truth, but I only found books with partial truth, so I still continued to search. I never found a book like I AM the WAY. I AM the WAY is the result of my never-ending search for Truth. By the time you finish reading and studying it along with your Bible, you will not only know what Hebrew roots is all about, you will also be on your way to being a true disciple of Yeshua!

So what does Hebrew Roots teach?
Below you will find the answer to this question in the form of a list of things I think are the most important things Hebrew roots teaches.

1. Every religion that began after Adam and Eve were on the Earth, is what God considers a manmade religion, which means it is a false religion and has a false god. But you say, “Jesus isn’t a false god!” No He isn’t, but what is taught about Him is indeed false, and furthermore, none of us really know Who He really is. Most believers believe in an ideal of Jesus, but they don’t really know Him as their God. They don’t even know His nationality, thinking He is the blond, blue-eyed God of the pictures that we have of Him!

2. When you read in the first chapter of I AM the WAY: Discipleship, you will find that Jesus did not start a new religion. He didn’t come to bring anything new––He came to restore His Covenant (Torah) to His people.

He came to the Earth as a part of God’s Plan of Salvation. By the time He came, the Israelites had wandered very far from His Truth, which is His Torah, and what most of us know as the Old Covenant (original Covenant). Jesus came to restore His original Covenant to His people, which is what Ezekiel 36:26-27; Jeremiah 31:31; Matthew 26:28, Mark 14:24, Luke 22:20, 1Corinthians 11:25, 2Corinthians 3:6, Hebrews 8:8 & 9:15 are all actually saying.

When He was satisfied that He had taught enough people to go on to teach the rest of His people of His true Covenant (the twelve apostles), He went on to do what He really came to do––to shed His Own Blood to offer on the altar in the Heavens to atone for all mankind’s sin.

3. You will learn about Who Jesus really is. Jesus is Hebrew. His Hebrew Name is Yeshua (Yesh-shoo-aw, accent on shoo), which is the actual Hebrew word for Salvation. There is actually even more meaning to the word Yeshua than most know: Yesh means to exist, which is the same meaning as havah.

Havah (hawah) is the root word of God’s Name Yahweh (Yah-havah). Yeshua and Yahweh are one and the same Hebrew God (the trinity is a false teaching). God lives outside all dimensions of time and space, and therefore cannot be discerned in human terms. God cannot be explained. We must just accept that He is our God and we should worship Him, and stop trying to explain Someone Who is impossible to explain (a Greek thing to do).

4. You will learn the actual histories of several religions. It is important to know where these religions really came from, and how they came to be what they are today: full of sects (denominations), different interpretations of the Word (of their choosing), which results in different teachings, no true love of God within their congregations, and all of their believers floundering in life wondering what happened to the promises of God that they keep hearing about.

5. The Torah is the real Scriptures that Yeshua taught to His disciples. None of the gospels or epistles had been written yet when He was here on the Earth. We don’t really know the Torah like we should. Yeshua is Hebrew, so believers too are Hebrew, being in the same family. We all need to learn what Yeshua really taught, which was the Torah.

6. Learning about God’s Commandments (Torah) and what they are really all about. God’s Commandments are not just a bunch of rules and laws to stifle mankind. He knew that mankind would need certain rules and laws to keep them healthy and out of trouble, as well as keep them on the straight and narrow path of His Way, if they were to survive on this corrupt Earth. Additionally, Yeshua needed a certain people group (Hebrews) to survive to bring forth His Messiah.

7. All believers are in rebellion against God, which He considers sin. Sin is separation from God. This Hebrew roots knowledge is not just a good thing to know (as some have said), it is the most amazing discovery you will ever find, and the most important step in your walk with Yeshua (Jesus) that you will ever take! It will be the true saving of your life and spirit!

Yeshua’s (Jesus’s) true believers are supposed to look different than the heathens, and not only because they go to church. Unfortunately today’s believers do not look any different than the rest of the world. They are trying to be just like the world thinking this will attract those still in the world, but God’s Way says we must look different to the rest of the world in order to attract them. If they are repelled or offended by our strange Hebrew lives, then they would never have been saved anyway.

In order for our whole lives to look different, our lives must look like what the Bible says they should be. Our Shabbat (Sabbath) is Saturday (a real rest from the things of this world). Our holidays should be different than the rest of the world’s. We should worship the God of Israel––the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We should support Israel in any way we can, while the rest of the world hates and boycotts Israel.

8. You will learn who you really are in Yeshua (Jesus). Yeshua was, and still is Hebrew. He never stopped being Hebrew, and He never stopped celebrating God’s Feasts and Sabbaths, nor did He ever tell anyone else to stop keeping these Commandments of God (a false assumption based on some very wrong word translations in the New Testament––see Grace, the Essence of Torah.

So if Yeshua is Hebrew, then He was born into a Hebrew family, was raised Hebrew, learned Torah (or already knew it, being God Himself), and became a respected Teacher of Torah (not the distorted version that the Pharisees taught, which are the same traditions of man found in the Jewish Talmud today).

We are told in Romans 11:17-21 that ex-gentiles (ex-heathens) have been grafted into the natural Olive Tree. Some consider this to be a principle of adoption, but we have not been adopted––we have literally become a part of Israel. The natural Olive Tree is Israel––a very Hebrew Israel. So we are now a part of that very Hebrew family, the very Hebrew family of God! So what does that make us? We are Israelites (Isaiah 44:5), and therefore Ibriy (Hebrew)––what the Jews really are.

9. You will learn that most of the things you were taught in church by well- meaning Pastors, was not Truth. Most of these Pastors went to seminaries that teach them the very same information taught by the church fathers––most of which were lies, and cannot be found in the Bible.

Therefore, you will learn that grafted-in believers in Yeshua (Jesus) did not take the place of the natural Israel, they were grafted into the natural Israel and have become brothers and sisters of the Blood of Yeshua Eloheinu (Jesus, our God). Those who call themselves Israel (Hebrews/Jews) are brothers and sisters, and all call Yahweh Father.

10. You will learn the Torah (Old Testament) and what it is really all about. Do not trust those who simply read the Torah and try to read into every single piece of wood as representing the cross of Yeshua (Jesus)––that is a bunch of hooey. Learning Torah is all about learning what God really was trying to tell His people––things He knew they would need to know throughout life, especially during the End of the Ages, which is NOW, by the way. Torah is all about learning to live a holy life.

11. You will learn about God’s Feasts, and what they are all about. God’s Feasts have ingrained in them the blueprint of His Plan of Salvation, which means that Yeshua (Jesus) can be found in each one of them. What Yeshua did two thousand years ago was not only fulfilling the prophecy that He would die for all mankind, but also that with His dying He fulfilled (or perfected) several of God’s Feasts, leaving only two more to go (there are seven in total).

12. You will learn to think like a Hebrew. This is not an easy thing to do, but it can be done. We have been so inundated with ancient Greek culture, that our natural response is to think like a Greek. But in order to understand the Bible and the things of God, we must think like a Hebrew.

13. You will learn what God has been up to all this time. Such as back in 1970, when the Jesus Movement broke out, God shifted His focus back to His original intent––His own people, Israel. In the Jesus Movement, the majority of those saved were Jews.

Today God’s people call themselves Jews. It is the Jews who the grafted-in believers are to provoke to jealousy, and that isn’t simply to worship their God. When there are more of us living our lives as they are supposed to be according to Scripture (Torah), that is when the Jews will be jealous, as well as curious.

14. You will learn that there are many factions of the Hebrew (Jewish) roots movement, because it is still finding its place in God’s Plan. Some of the Messianic believers call themselves Torah Observant, but are really Talmud Observant, copying what the Jews do. Some are telling us we are pronouncing God’s Name wrong, or we are not to pronounce His Name at all! They all argue and debate with one another over End Times beliefs, or even in what they believe period. Truth be told, they all believe the same things!

This is all happening because the present Messianic teachers are teaching the Talmudic Traditions of Man, rather than Scripture. They are all still arguing and debating (a very Greek thing to do), instead of studying the Scriptures to see what they actually state. The Talmud is full of false teachings and will never bring unity to the body of believers in Yeshua. Only the Torah can bring unity (and the Talmud is NOT the Torah).

Have faith that God’s Plan is in the works. I believe that in a very few short years, many of us will be going in the same direction. We will be discovering the Hebrewness of God, His Way and what Hebrew roots is really all about. We will allow Yeshua to nudge us into His Right Hand Way.

In God’s Way there are no sects, no denominations, no different beliefs, no pagan practices and no pronouncing God’s name in weird ways.

I used to believe that all Hebrew words can be pronounced in only one way because each vowel is pronounced in only one way––the Sephardic way, which I thought is the same all over the US.

However, with the revelation of the Ashkenazi sect of Jews, because of the Freedom Thieves' infiltration, I have come to wonder what is really going on. Although it may appear as if the Ashkenazi sect is quite a large group, it is actually a very small percentage of Jews in America. I believe the Sephardic Jews are still the largest group and should not be mistaken to be the same as the evil Ashkenazi German Jews.

Simply put, we will all soon believe the same things––those things that are in God’s Torah. We will all soon worship God in the same manner, and we will all call His Way, God’s Way of Life.

Are You Ready for Yeshua’s Return?

Yeshua will not force you, but it is imperative you learn this Hebrew roots Biblical knowledge in order to prepare for His return. God wants us to be ready. As it stands right now, believers are no where close to being ready. But Yeshua is patient, and He will nudge us in the right direction until we are ready––IF there is still time. I believe God will be doing a quick work in those who really want to learn and prepare for Yeshua’s return. He needs us all to be ready very soon.