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Please Note: On this site we prefer to use the actual Name of our loving Heavenly Father as it was written in the Hebrew and thus you will note that we will use the four letter “Memorial Name” of   - YHVH, which is pronounced as YaHVaH or YaHWaH, also we will use our Heavenly Father’s title - Elohim rather than “God” and we need to remember that “Elohim” (God) is NOT a name but an attribute, a title! In addition we also love to use the actual Name of our beloved Messiah (written in Hebrew as “Mashiach” and in Greek as “Christos”), which is  - Yahushua (Yeshua in short) for this is the Messiah’s original Hebrew Name as given to Him in Luke 1:31. This was the only Name ever used when He was on the earth by His disciples and His followers for hundreds of years thereafter. However it was changed to a foreign name by the new church, which later became known as “the greater Roman catholic church.” Occasionally, we may also use other Hebrew or Greek names and words in our studies, but these will be translated when they are used, either the first time in a study or at various times as needed for clarity. For an explanation of YHVH’s most Holy and blessed “Memorial Name” and the wonderful Name of our Messiah: Please read The Memorial Name.

The three levels of learning & understanding of the blessed Word of YHVH Elohim (the Lord God):

When we read and study the blessed Scriptures, the Word of YHVH Elohim as a believer in Yahushua the Messiah, we should keep following three steps in always mind for they are a valuable guide and it will certainly provide us with guidance and illuminate the sheer beauty and the fullness of YHVH’s most blessed Word.

1. Who was YHVH Elohim, blessed be His Holy Name speaking to?

2. When was it said?

3. How was His Word understood at the time it was spoken/given?

I do believe that these three points are most relevant to our understanding of 1. What the Almighty is saying at the time - 2. As well as what it means to us today - and 3.  Indeed to you and me right now!

I pray that these studies on the Feasts of YHVH will be a blessing to you and that they will provide you with “a helmet, armour and the shield of YHVH Elohim (the LORD God)” and that we are made ready to share His Word with those who are need of Salvation and His love, which can only come through faith in our Heavenly Father and His Anointed one, Yahushua the Messiah, or as many throughout the world say it “Yeshua.”

Shalom - Peace be with you, in Yahushua THE Messiah!

Elder & Teacher; Reuben ben Gershom.

“Scriptural Truths” & “Ha Davar Word Studies”

 

How the Holy Hebrew Texts were

Altered by Levite Scribes ~ the Sopherim

Introduction:

It is important that we understand what the alteration to the original Hebrew texts by the Sopherim means to us today, for what these men have done so long ago is that they have removed the most Holy “Memorial Name” of YHVH Elohim from the original text and substituted it with either “Adonai” (LORD) or even with YHVH’s Attribute/Title, being, “Elohim” (God). The truth is that we were warned by YHVH Elohim that this would happen in fact if we read Yirmyahu – Jeremiah chapter 23, verses 24 to 27, I am sure that you will be shocked by its accuracy!

Yirmyahu – Jeremiah Chapter: 23: 24-27:

“‘Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?’ declares YHVH. ‘Do not I fill heaven and earth?’ declares YHVH. “I have heard what the prophets say who prophesy lies in My Name. They say, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’ How long will this continue in the hearts of these lying prophets, who prophesy the delusions of their own minds? They think the dreams they tell one another will make My people forget My Name, just as their fathers forgot My Name through Baal worship.’”

Here we can clearly read that the false prophets were already quietly and deliberately beginning to eliminating the Holy “Memorial Name” of YaHVaH, and already the practice had began of establishing the substitution of “Adonai” for YHVH.

The problem is that when you eliminate the Holy Name of the Almighty, the Creator of the heaven and the earth and soon anything is used in its place. Tragically that is also what has occurred in the greater church to this day, where the “Memorial Name” has at large been eliminated and substituted by an occasional false substitute “Jehovah,” or “God, “the LORD” just if they were Names of the Almighty. But we all know that Lord and god means nothing in the greater world for that can mean anything, as these titles are attributed to Siva, Buddha, Brahma, and any other false and pagan god’s around, all gods and lords of the many false pagan religions. But not one of these have a name such as our beloved - YaHVaH Elohim!

Beloved, it was a satanic conspiracy to eliminate the Holy Name of YaHVaH, as well as the Name of His Son, the Messiah who is our Saviour and whose Name is Yahushua! Satan will never destroy their Names, but he has succeeded in persuading the people in the churches to forget and simply not know the Almighty's Name and actual word used for His attributes, for the word god is actually a pagan name of another deity, and this causes a real problem that we must deal with! Above and below is a link to a comprehensive study on the “Memorial Name,” which also covers the Name of Messiah and the attribute Elohim. Please read it as it is a very important subject and that is why satan wanted to make sure the world did not know the Name of YaHVaH and thus had it hidden and used the Sopherim and others to also change the “Name above every name” - Yahushua our beloved Messiah!

Levite scribes known as Sopherim:

According to the Talmud (the Jewish books on the Scriptures by the rabbis), the Levite scribes known as “Soferim / Sopherim,” or rabbis whose main occupation was to interpret the Torah (Five Books of Moshe – Moses) to the Children of Israel, their organization began with Ezra, but their work is also known to be related to the whole of the Tanach, the Scriptures we tend to call the Old Testament. The works of the Sopherim was called “Massorah Magna” or “Massorah Parva.” The Sopherim were considered by the priests and the rabbis to this day as the authorized revisers of the Holy text, and the Masorites were the accepted custodians of the completed text.

Tikkune Sopherim:

Early rabbinic sources, from around 200 CE, mention several passages of Scripture in which the conclusion is inevitable that the ancient Scriptures obviously must have differed from that of the present Hebrew text. The explanation of this phenomenon is given in the expression … “Scripture has used euphemistic language,” i.e. to avoid anthropomorphism and anthropopathy.

Rabbi Simon ben Pazzi of the third century called these readings “emendations of the Scribes (Tikkune Sopherim; Midrash Genesis Rabbah xlix. 7), assuming that the Scribes actually made the changes. This view was adopted by the later “Midrash” (oral laws written and added by men) and by the majority of Masoretes. In Masoretic works these changes are ascribed to Ezra; to Ezra and Nehemiah; to Ezra and the Sopherim; or to Ezra, Nehemiah, Zechariah, Haggai, and Baruch. All these ascriptions mean one and the same thing: that the changes were assumed to have been made by the men of the Great Synagogue.

The term “Tikkun Sopherim” has been understood by different scholars in various ways. Some regard it as a “correction of Biblical language” that has been authorized by the Sopherim for homiletical purposes. Others take it to mean a “mental change” made by the original writers or redactors of Scripture; i.e. the latter shrank from putting in writing a thought which some of the readers might expect them to express.

The assumed emendations are of four general types:

* Removal of unseemly expressions used in reference to God; e.g., the substitution of ("to bless") for ("to curse") in certain passages.
* Safeguarding of the Tetragrammaton; e.g. substitution of "Elohim" for "YHVH" in some passages.
* Removal of application of the names of false gods to YHVH; e.g. the change of the name "Ishbaal" to "Ishbosheth."
* Safeguarding the unity of divine worship at Jerusalem.

However, what does YHVH Elohim have to say about His Word and what we can do with it?

“Therefore you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left.” Davarim - Deut 28:14.

What does this mean? Man simply cannot change YHVH Elohim’s Word’s and change them at his own will and make them mean whatever he decided them to mean, even if he desires to do so for some righteous reason, for changing the Word of YHVH will have its consequences and millions of lives have been lost, because of their meddling and changing the Word and thus Israel also has not only not fully understood their own Scriptures, but missed the Messiah when He came, because their own leadership ensured that they would not know Him. It was only those who had a true heart for Elohim and had a knowledge that Messiah would be from the House of Dovid and be born in Bethlehem that many of the Hebrews came to know and believe in Yahushua as their Lord and Messiah through His teachings and the miracles He did! Again Yahushua spoke out against the priests for they were opposed not just the Messiah, but also of the Elohim of Israel and they were all dammed!

Do you realise that the Sopherim actually removed the most Holy Name of YHVH (YaHVaH) from the original Scriptures in many places and instead they replaced it with His Attribute (Title) Elohim. For example if you will look at Tehillim (Psalms) chapter 53 you will note that in the English it mentions “God” seven times, although in Hebrew of course it is “Elohim” and we will not use the word “god” in our writings. However, it was the Sopherim who changed it from YHVH to Elohim, and the question arises, who gave them the right to do this, they did not have the authority from the Almighty! Now let us look at two of these cases taken from the NKJV.

Tehillim – Psalm 14: 1-7:

“The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God’ - (should read   YHVH). They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none who does good. The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God - (  YHVH). They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; There is none who does good, no, not one. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up My people as they eat bread, and do not call on the LORD? There they are in great fear, for God - (  YHVH) is with the generation of the righteous. You shame the counsel of the poor, but the LORD is his refuge. Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD brings back the captivity of His people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.”

As we can see above, not only have they changed and removed the most Holy Name of the Almighty, YaHVaH Elohim, but replaced it with just His Attribute “God.” However there is more, for every time we see the words "the LORD," that is also one of their replacements of the “Memorial Name” - YHVH! Thus, not only were there three changes as shown above, but there were four more, making a total of seven alteration made in one Tehillim (Psalm) alone! Here is another Tehillim that commences with the same words as the previous one, but the word changer vary slightly by the Sopherim:

Tehillim 53: 1-6:

“The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God - (should read   YHVH). Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. 2 God - (  YHVH) looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God - (should read   YHVH). 3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God - (  YHVH). 5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God - (  YHVH) hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God - (  YHVH) hath despised them. 6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God - (  YHVH) bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

In this Tehillim (Psalm) we can see that these very same scribes, the Sopherim in verse two did not change YHVH to Adonai in Hebrew, which became “the LORD” in English, but this time they placed it as “Elohim,” or as written in English “God.” Now considering that these Words are identical of chapter 14 this proves that these men were NOT inspired by the Spirit of YHVH Elohim, but were working on their own human intellect, and they were certainly not that good either. I believe that they were the tools of hasatan and because of their evil doings, they have not only misguided Israel, but also the world into the wrong direction.

Beloved it is not just the two Scriptures I have shown above, for it does go very much further than this, for the removal of the most wonderful “Memorial Name” of our Creator has meant that the entire world is praying to a deity called “god’ and most have no idea that this is a title as well as a name of a hideous pagan god! It is for that reason we do not use it and only use El, Elohim, etc, for that is what He is, also we use His actual :Memorial Name” according to the Scriptures, “YaHVaH”, which may also be pronounced as “YaHWaH,” blessed be His most Holy and sanctified Name! In addition, we will not use the name of the church “Jesus.” We only use the Name that was given to Him when our beloved Messiah and Saviour was with us and this is Yahushua - , that is the blessed Name that was used by the apostles, His family and those that followed Him for centuries, until it was changed by a new state run church in Rome to a name, which had no Hebrew meaning whatsoever, whilst other in the Scriptures with the same name as our Lord and Saviour, such as Joshua, also Yahushua in Hebrew more or less retained their name, whilst He who was given the “Name above every name” only had it changed by evil ones and now it is simply excepted as the norm. Please read The Memorial Name.

Beloved I will tell you, it is just like those days when the erroneous Sopherim changed the blessed Word of YHVH Elohim, so have those in the early days of the so-called state and eastern churches, for I regret to have to say this, but all those that have adopted their doctrines (even in part), festivals and titles as well as names of deities will have to stand in judgement in that great and terrible day, which otherwise should be one of great joy!

I pray that this article will have you seeking and that it will lead you to “Return again unto Me saith YHVH Elohim, and I will Return again unto you!” For beloved that is His call to you right at this very moment.

Messiah Yahushua gave His life freely in order that you will come back to Him, so accept Yahushua and reject everything else, dump all those false teachings that the latter years have sprung on the globe, a world of commercialization and money hungry teachers and false prophets and so-called healers that are in realty led by the evil one. It is time to return to YHVH Elohim and His Son Yahushua who rose from the dead three days and three nights after He was placed in that tomb, just as the Word stated, and now the time is very near and I pray beloved that you are ready, for if you are not sadly you will be left behind and will have to endure the time of the “Great Tribulation,” which is also known as the “Wrath of Elohim!” And we all know that the faithful are not destined for His wrath, but during that time, blessed be He, many will “Return to Him” just the same for they will come to realise the truth, but I say to you now, is it not better to take the step now, do not wait until it is too late! Sadly for all those who will not ever turn to Him their end is horrifying as the Word so clearly states, all the more reason to be standing right with Messiah today!

2 Thess 1: 7-10:

“This will happen when the Lord Yahushua is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with His powerful angels. He will punish those who do not know Elohim and do not obey the Word of our Lord Yahushua. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of His power on the day He comes to be glorified in His holy people and to be marvelled at among all those who have believed. This includes you (the faithful in Him), because you believed our testimony to you.”

But beloved, we do have some very comforting word from the Scriptures to hold onto!

1 Thess 4: 16-18:

“For YHVH Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet (shofar) of Elohim. And the dead in Messiah will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Shalom in Messiah  - Yahushua.

May YHVH Elohim bless and keep you in the palm of His hand always, in Messiah Yahushua’s loving Name!

Ministry Elder/teacher: Reuben ben Gershom - in Ministry since 1978.

“Teach me Your way, O YHVH. I will walk in Your truth.
UNITE MY HEART TO FEAR YOUR NAME!”

Tehillim – Psalms 86:11

 

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Yahushua said; “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the Prophets: They will all be taught by Elohim. Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from Him comes to Me. No one has seen the Father except the One who is from Elohim; only He has seen the Father. I tell you the truth he who believes has everlasting life.” Yochannan (John) 6:43-48.

 

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