“My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law (Torah) of your God (Elohim), I also will ignore your children.” – Hosea 4:6

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 Netsarim and Non-Netsarim Jews Co-Existed

Netsarim adhered to the observance of Torah as it was taught by the Scribes and the Pharisees, but they held the belief that Yahshua benYoseph HarNazaret (Joshua [Jesus] the son of Joseph of Nazareth) was the Moshiach spoken about by the prophets of the TaNaK - (Old Testament). Later, Rabbi Sha’ul HaShliach was accused of being a ringleader of this Nazarene sect in Acts 24:5; “For we have found this man a plague, a creator of dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of Nazarenes.”  By the Book of Acts thousands of Jews and Gentiles were being added to the Ekklesia  (“called out congregations”) daily (Acts 2:41-47; 4:4, 6:7; 9:31). Such was the impact of Yahshua’s teachings and actions that not long after his death and ascension, his own brother, Rav Yakov HaTzaddik (James the Just) was appointed as head over the Sanhedrin and a significant portion of Priests who served in the Temple also became associated with the sect. “…and the number of Talmidim multiplied greatly inJerusalem and a great many of the Kohanim (priests) were obedient to the faith” (Acts 6:7). This passage exhibits very solid evidence in the Brit Chadashah (New Testament) that the faith of Moshiach and the Shlichim (Apostles) was not that far removed from Pharisaic Judaism. If it were, no priests would have in any way been involved with the movement. Unfortunately the fraudulent addition of the word “church” (Kirke/Circe), which denotes a particular Greco-Roman version of the faith included in many Bible translations has robbed many readers of seeing a clear picture of what was really going on at the time. Reading The Book of Acts with Christian eyes will usually fail to see the Netsarim co-existing alongside mainline Judaism of the day, even if it was only for a comparatively short time. When a Christian reads the fraudulently added word “church” in his Bible this shifts him from seeing the emergences of a sect and instead he sees the formation of a new religion.

A Nazarene Israelite is not a Christian! This is because Christianity denotes a Greco-Roman centred version of the faith that retains its full Gentile identity. To stay a Gentile, puts one in a state of “having no hope” according to Ephesians 2:11-12; “Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcised by what is called the circumcised made in the flesh by hands that at that time you were without Moshiach, being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without Elohim in the world.”

To embrace the Greco-Roman version of the faith is to directly renounce the three core pillars of the faith outlined in Isaiah 56:6; “And foreigners who bind themselves to ???? serve him, to love the Name of ????, and to worship Him, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to My covenant.” Christian theology replaces the names “Yahshua” and “????” with “Jesus” and “G-d,” rejects the Sabbath, and teaches that the old covenant was replaced by a new one. In actual fact there are many covenants in Scriptures that absorb one another and build from one to the next. At no time does one covenant cancel, replace or even supersede a former covenant.

A Nazarene Israelite is someone who observes Torah with the knowledge of its realised identity in Yahshua HaMoshiach. He does this with the understanding that no piece of the Torah has been abolished, marginalised or altered. Matthew 5:17-20; “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Torah until everything is accomplished. Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the Torah, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.”

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