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1. commandments of men you will find that it is always talk ing about a group of Pharisees that are trying to come against Yeshua and His disciples with their Oral Torah Itis also called the Oral Tradition Yeshua NEVER came against the 19 20 Law of God but often times came against the Oral Law that the Rabbis came up with especially when they put the Oral Law or Traditions of Men above the written Law of God thus mak ing the Law of God null and of no effect Mar 7 13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition which ye have delivered and many such like things do ye Mat 15 9 But in vain they do worship me teaching for doctrines the commandments of men So these men spoken of by Paul in Corinthians we will call the Influencers The Influencers were a group of Jewish religious leaders who WERE believers in Yeshua but they were teaching a different gospel They were not teaching a gospel where one is saved strictly by grace through faith in Yeshua They were teaching that not only did you need to believe in Yeshua but you ALSO had to make a formal conversion to Judaism with all its Oral Tradition Paul uses the Jewish idiom Circumcision whenever he speaks about this group because they taught that to be saved one had to believe in Yeshua then they had to be cir cumcised then they had to Mikvah get Baptized then go through a lengthy course in the Judaism of2. judge them he was talking about something very specific We find that he uses the terms no man and any man at least 4 different times and the term doctrines of men once Col 2 4 And this I say lest any man should beguile you with en ticing words Col 2 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men Col 2 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of an holyday or of the new moon or of the sab bath days Col 2 18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels intruding into those things which he hath not seen vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind Col 2 21 Touch not taste not handle not Col 2 22 Which all are to perish with the using after the com mandments and doctrines of men First off does the man spoken of in these verses sound like someone who is in right standing with God I think not this guy is up to no good from what Paul is saying The man trying to deceive them beguile them with enticing words spoil them through vain philosophy and deceit and so on The evidence of who these people are is in verse 8 where Paul tells his audience that the man is trying to spoil them by way of the traditions of 29 men If you do a search through the New Testament you will find eve ry time that something is mentioned about doctrines of men or the
3. Are All Things Really Clean Colossians 2 16 speaks to something vastly different than most believers understand because they do not really study the Old Testament from the perspective of it really applying to their lives And most do not study Judaism to gain some perspective on the belief system in place when Yeshua and His Apostles walked the earth Most of us have no clue so we have no foun dation of where our Christian faith comes from Haven t you heard the term Judeo Christian Why is it called that Well because the roots of the Christian faith come from Judaism Are you really surprised when you learn that Jesus re ally was a Jew Are you surprised that all his disciples were Jews Even the Apostle Paul was by his own admission a Phar isee of Pharisees Act 23 6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Saddu cees and the other Pharisees he cried out in the council Men and brethren Lam a Pharisee the son of a Pharisee So might it behoove us to study what they believed Might it not give us more insight into those hard to understand topics such as the whether or not Gentiles are supposed to keep the Law There is overwhelming evidence from one end of the book to the other that Yes To paraphrase our Lord and Savior Yeshua Until heaven and earth pass away not one iota of the Law of Mo ses will be done away with Read Mathew 5 18 In Colossians 2 16 when Paul tells his his audience to let no man
4. In fact it will free them Psa 119 44 So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever Question Has for ever and ever ended yet Psa 119 45 And I will walk at liberty for I seek thy precepts Some of these Jewish Influencers spoken of by Paul were per verting God s Law and turning it into a heavy yoke that believers couldn t bear Act 15 10 Now therefore why tempt ye God to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear Contrast this with what Yeshua tells us about HIS Law the Law of YHWH Mat 11 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your souls For my yoke is easy and my burden is light Yeshua is telling us that His teaching His Torah is light in com parison to the Pharisees Oral Torah which was added to the written Torah weighing it down with many extreme and unnec essary man made commandments and laws We see Yeshua demonstrate this contrast between what the Pharisees had to say vs His interpretation of what the Torah would allow on Sabbath The Pharisees condemned Yeshua s disciples for picking and eating a bit of grain because it was on Sabbath Yeshua s yoke and interpretation would allow the disciples to pick the grain and eat it just as He gave the example of how King David and his hungry men went in and ate the priests showbread and were per mitted
5. desire in our lives Lets see what Paul has to say in some of his letters 1Ti 1 8 We know that the Torah is good provided one uses it in the way the Torah itself intends cm Rom 7 12 So the Torah is holy that is the commandment is holy just and good cyp Rom 7 16 Now if I am doing what I don t want to do I am agreeing that the Torah is good c Rom 7 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man KJV The next reason that this premise is flawed is that it paints a pic ture of our Messiah Yeshua as a crafty lawyer who came to find some type of legal loophole for us to jump through to spoil and prevent Yah s justice system from operating in His own King dom Yeshua supposedly got us off the hook for breaking the commandments by destroying and abolishing the commandments If you are being accused of breaking the Sabbath by the Torah itself then no problem We will just get rid of that command ment But we must remember something that is vitally im portant Remember in Matthew 5 17 19 Jesus tells to not even THINK that He came to abolish the Torah the Law of God let alone to live our lives as if He actually did abolish the Law Are you following me The next reason this position is flawed is the actual meaning of that long Greek word Cheirographon When we do a compre hensive study of that word we will find out what really got nailed to that Tree Your spirit will soar as you become free in Messiah tr
6. go on sinning Heb 10 26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for Sins 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indigna tion which shall devour the adversaries 2 He that despised Moses law died without mercy under two or three witnesses 22 Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the Son of God and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace
7. grave as secure as you know how Was Pilate giving his wife s dream a second thought Mat 27 19 While he was sitting on the judgment seat his wife sent to him saying Have nothing to do with that just Man for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of Him Was his wife s dream from God or from the enemy It was most likely from the enemy an attempt by HaSatan to stop this execution from happening on this day He would have been hap 15 16 py for it to happen any other day but not this one HaSatan did not want Yeshua to die on Passover as the Passover Lamb The Torah is full of acrostics For instance in the book of Levit icus we find the very first Yod gt count seven letters and then you will find a Hey 7 count seven more letters and you will find a Vav 1 then count seven more letters and you will find another Hey 7 spelling out the name of God YHVH or YHWH as the Vav can also be a Waw Historical Evidence All one has to do is to go back and so some research into some of the ancient Greek writings of the Gentiles as well as a lot of writ ings of the Jewish sages that were written in Greek to find their understanding of the word cheirographon it was well under stood to be a persons legal record of one s sins Avinu Malkeinu Our Father Our King is a Jewish prayer recited during Jewish services on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur as well on the Ten Days of Repentance f
8. of God s Law Here is just one Rom 3 31 Do we then make void the law through faith God forbid yea we establish the law You will only find one scripture in the entire Bible that speaks of something being nailed to the cross Rabbi Shaul the Apostle Paul wrote the passage that we will be studying in this book One of the first points and main points I would like to drive home is the fact that this word handwriting Cheirographon is used in the entire New Testament ONLY ONE TIME With this understanding we must also consider the fact that the verses we are going to study in Colossians are NOT referring to God s Law Also another compelling fact to be aware of is that the Greek word used for law nomos does not appear even one single time in the book of Colossians Additionally we will find that the entire book of Colossians does not contain one single quote from the Tanakh Old Testament which lends even more evidence that the issue that Paul is speaking about is NOT God s Law What was Nailed to the Tree So have you been told all your life what exactly it is that has been nailed to the tree The word It in Greek is G846 autos ow tos The It is the Cheirographon which is what was nailed to the tree So the Cheirographon must be the Law of God you know the Law of Moses the Torah the first five books in our bibles You know the thing that Jesus came to pu
9. to do so because of the extreme unusual conditions In Conclusion Through this study we have learned that the Cheirographon spoken of by Paul in Corinthians 2 the handwriting of ordi nances that was against us was and is NOT the Law of God It IS the book that records all the sin and law breaking we have done in our lives Because Yeshua paid our penalty the record of 23 24 our transgressions has been taken out of the room It is this rec ord of our sins that has been Nailed to the Cross thus setting us free from the bondage of sin and death This freedom DOES NOT give us a free ticket to go out and con tinue in sin There is NO Eternal Security doctrine taught in the bible by God It is my belief that Eternal Security is a man made tradition Not all traditions of men come from the Jews We have plenty of them in our own Christian denominations This is why we have 41 000 different Christian denominations It is these man made traditions and rules that separate us and keep us from being one We are not supposed to be divided we are sup posed to be one in Messiah Gal 3 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek there is neither bond nor free there is neither male nor female for ye are all one in Christ Jesus Paul tells us that just because we are saved and are by Yeshua s grace God forbid that we continue on sinning Even the author of Hebrews has some pretty heavy words for those who think they can
10. U MelechHa Yehudim Yeshua the Nazarene The King of the Jews DIT Jor II pw 4 g o g H W H Y Y H W H Yahweh 14 What we see in the Hebrew is an acrostic with the first letter of each Hebrew word combining to form it own word YHWH the Name of God Our English translations don t give evidence of the acrostic Take a few moments to read the preface pages of your bible You will probably find an explanation that the name YHWH or YHVH the Tetragrammaton has been replaced by the word LORD displayed in in small caps not to be confused with Lord which in the Hebrew reads Adonai This practice is in keeping with what the Jewish people would do as well as they in general neither pronounce nor write the name Keep a look out for LORD in your bible and see for yourself how many times God s Covenant Name is used If Pilate had given in to the High Priest and changed the inscrip tion to read as Caiaphas had wanted it it would have never spelled out the name of God I wonder was Pilate was aware of this Did he maybe do it on purpose Did he do it just to rile up the Jewish religious hierarchy Did Pilate really start to believe Yeshua was who He said He was When they asked for a special guard to be posted at the tomb Yeshua would occupy Pilate responded and said Mat 27 65 Pilate said unto them Ye have a watch go your way make it as sure as ye can Which in other versions say Make the
11. WHAT WAS REALLY NAILED TO THE Cross Was is really the Law of God or Something Else vet D3 ch Fellowship BY STEVE GUSTINE What was Nailed to the Cross Was it Really the Law of God 2013 Steve Gustine Ada Oklahoma All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form Scripture quotations are primarily from the New Ameri can Standard Bible 1995 The Lockman Foundation Holman Bible Publishers Nashville Other scripture quotations are from the King James Ver sion Bible or from the Complete Jewish Bible David H Stern 1998 Jewish New Testament Publications Clarksville MD ISBN 978 1491276624 Acknowledgements I would like to give credit to Dr Daniel Botkin for his re search on this subject His writing in addition to my own research has inspired much of what you will read in this booklet May you be blessed and gain a deeper under standing into our Creator s Word Introduction Many Christian believers today will tell you that the Law of God has been nailed to the cross But is that really what the scriptures teach I wouldn t bet your pay check on it you will end up going home broke Contrary to what the majority of Christian denomination believe and teach Paul was NOT against God s Law in any shape or fashion In fact I could make a long list of all the scriptures where Paul upholds reinforces and endorses the keeping
12. a public spectacle of them and also tri umphing over them by the Cross But what about the following verse Col 2 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of an holyday or of the new moon or of the sabbath days Now let me ask you a common sense question here In verse 16 is Paul telling us that because Messiah Yeshua took our Cheirographon and nailed it to the Cross thus releasing us from the penalty that was due us we can do anything we want to do now Does it mean we are Free in Christ to go on continu ing in sin Rom 6 1 What shall we say then Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound 2 God forbid Does this verse mean that we can now eat anything we want now and not worry about God s dietary laws as outlined in Leviticus Does this mean we don t have to worry about observing the Feasts of Yahweh and that we can just substitute them with those beloved ancient pagan feast days of Christmas and Easter 17 18 Let me tell you one thing Jesus didn t die on that cross so that you can eat a big fat pork roast on Easter Sunday or so you can have bacon with your eggs in the morning Pigs didn t go from being unclean and detestable as food in Yah s eyes an abomi nation as He call it the day before Yeshua dies and then be come clean and usable as food the day after Yeshua died on the cross tree execution stake For more information please watch our video on
13. ause we are guilty There is no way out We know that in the Heavenly Courtroom there stands HaSatan Hebrew for The Adversary or Accuser as the prosecuting attor ney the Accuser of the brethren us Satan holds this Cheirographon in his hands as a legal written document with a record of all the sins that you and I have ever committed This book has written in it all each transgression against God s Law every broken commandment In ancients times the Cheirographon would list the location the time and the date as well as any testimony of any witness plus any and all the other details of our committing the crime of breaking that partic ular law The accusations contained within this written docu ment were not based on merely the word of one witness It could n t be based solely on suspicion gossip or rumors It was a legal and legitimate manuscript and recognized by the Court as such HaSatan the Accuser holds this undisputable proof of our break ing God s Law as well as all the consequences that would be associated and charged to our account for this law breaking He then holds this document over our heads as he presents it to the ultimate Judge the Creator of the Universe As we read in 1 John he tells us that we have an Advocate with the Father 1Jn 2 1 My little children these things write I unto you that ye sin not And if any man sin we have an advocate with the Fa ther Jesus Christ the righteo
14. e references to where it is located at throughout the en tire bible We know that the Law of God is connected to the passage via the use of the Greek word dog mah in verse 14 Dogma can be defined as a law decree or ordinance This is the Greek word 10 translated in verse 14 as of ordinances Strong s number G1378 Col 2 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordi nances G1378 yua dogma dog mah From the base of G1380 a law civil ceremonial or ecclesiasti cal decree ordinance From a common sense viewpoint we know that HaSatan has to be able to list which commandments or ordinances we have actually transgressed and broken But it is most emphatically NOT the Laws of God that are removed and taken out of the way If it were so then ALL the Law would have to be removed which by common sense would tell us that it would not be a sin to steal commit adultery swear false witness against our neigh bor or even murder because the Law has been done away with NO LAW NO SIN It is that simple Paul tells us this right in the New Testament Rom 4 15 Because the law worketh wrath for where no law is there is no transgression sin In the Colossians passage we are discussing Paul is really telling us that by Yeshua s death He has justified us thus bringing us into alignment with Yahweh s Torah and has wiped out the bill of debt that we owe on account
15. ek there is neither bond nor free there is neither male nor female for ye are all one in Christ Jesus Paul tells us that there is only one body in Messiah s eyes there is no Jew or gentile as we are all considered one in His eyes So how can anyone say that one part of the bible is for them and the other part is for us There are not supposed to be 41 000 different Christian denominations there is supposed to only be ONE Eph 4 4 There is one body and one Spirit even as ye are called in one hope of your calling 11 12 5 One Lord one faith one baptism One God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all Now we also notice something is we look at the two verses be low Col 2 13 having forgiven you all trespasses 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances Cheirographon that was against us We find Rav Shaul Rabbi Paul drawing a parallel between hav ing the handwriting of ordinance wiped away and having our sins or trespasses being forgiven or wiped out of the way at the same time Paul is not referring to the Law of God being taken out of the way but instead the record of our transgression of that very Law the Torah the Law of God We also find in verse 14 that was Paul states That IT was taken out of the way Now we know that the word It is a pronoun found in its singular form and we know it points back to the word Cheirogra
16. hing try to tell us that is this handwriting of ordinances referring to the Torah Law of God that was against us If you were to read this verse in the NIV version it actually says He wiped out the written Law and its rules Even certain pop ular Lexicons like the Thayer s Greek Lexicon suggest that Paul equates the Cheirographon with the written Law of Moses This is how far we have really strayed from the Truth over the years Generations of Christians have been taught that the Law was nailed to the cross when Jesus died They have been taught that in the New Testament the Law has been replaced with grace and that the Christian today has no obligation to even think about God s Law How would most know any different when some of the most popular translations change the entire meaning of the pertinent verses It is time for us to take a stand and straighten out this lie that comes from the pit of hell Yes grace is all we need for our re demption and deliverance from sin but it is completely insuffi cient for our instructions on how to live a holy life before our King We need Yah s instruction manual we need His Torah because without it we have no idea what sin is But we really need to learn what this was that was nailed to the cross from a biblical perspective by studying the original Greek word used here I think all believers will be overjoyed and thrilled to find out really what it was
17. icket Imagine taking a traffic ticket into court and telling the judge that in your opinion the traffic ticket is the sum of all the traffic laws and regulations and that none of them are valid anymore and so you need to be found innocent What do you think the judge might tell you as he looks at you like you are crazy Even though you may feel that the ticket is unjust it sure doesn t mean that all the rules and traffic laws are worthless Just the mere fact that you are standing in the judge s courtroom should indicate to you that the traffic laws must still be in effect otherwise you wouldn t be in court would you Yeshua Jesus name in Hebrew came to pay our traffic ticket metaphorically speaking His payment of our ticket releasing us from the full penalty of the law does not mean that the Law no longer exists No what Yeshua did was to pay the penalty for you Today in the Church world pastors and teachers who are antinomian meaning against the Law of God seem to struggle with trying to find scriptures to support their posi tion and their misconception that God s Law has been done away with They will use anything they can and pull one scripture after another out of context twisting it to say what they want it to say in order to support their position Colos sians 2 14 is a favorite verse they use to prove that Yeshua Jesus nailed the Torah Law of God to His Cross Advocates of this doctrinal teac
18. nd any other written commandments these are THE COMMANDMENTS OF YAH WEH our ELOHIM These are not commandments of men we have to be very careful to distinguish between the two Paul is telling his audience that they DO NOT have to listen to the com mandments of men because these Influencers would lay a heavy burden on them which in turn would make Sabbath keep ing into a heavy yoke to bear and not the blessing it was de signed to be from the beginning Some of these Judaizers were doing this just as some of the Pharisees that Yeshua came against were doing to anyone who would follow them Mat 23 4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne and lay them on men s shoulders but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers Orthodox Judaism confesses that they descended directly from the Pharisaic line of Rabbis The Karaite Jews are what the Sad ducees were in the days of Yeshua There was a major differ ence between these two groups The Sadducees did not believe in the spirit world they did not believe in miracles they did not believe in the resurrection they did not believe in the after life Can you imagine the problem they had with Yeshua when He started casting out demons performing miracles by healing the 21 22 sick and cleansing leapers Can you imagine the issue they had with Him claiming to be from Heaven and then being raised from the dead The Sadducees actually had more issue
19. of our sin our transgressing of God s Law Before we repented and gave our lives over to our Messiah we were governed strictly by the laws decrees and or dinances of this world and the society in which we live But af ter we give our lives over to the Messiah we raise ourselves to a new higher standard We embark on a journey to live by God s standards and values as outlined in what our society calls the Old Testament This book is neither old or outdated and is more than the Sunday School felt board stories of Noah and the Ark or David and Goli ath The writings we know today as the Old Testament have been tra ditionally called the Tanakh which is an acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the Masoretic Text s three traditional subdivisions The Torah Teaching or Five Books of Moses Nevi im Prophets and Ketuvim Writings hence TaNaKh The writings we know today as the New Testament is simply a continuation of the Tanakh That page in our bibles between the two Testaments was added by translators who either misunder stood or who had an agenda It is a man made division of God s Word a division that has led Christianity in general down the wrong path The resulting belief is that the Old Testament is not for us non Jewish followers of Yeshua and that it is applicable only for the Jews Paul has some words that help dispel this mis conception Gal 3 28 There is neither Jew nor Gre
20. on the cross above Yeshua s head it read Yeshua the Nazarene King of the Jews The High Priest and his crew complained and objected but Pilate basically said too bad what I have written stays written Pilate called Yeshua King three different times and asked Caiaphas what crime did Yeshua commit Pilate washing his hands of the matter was a symbolic sign that Yeshua s blood would not be on his hands Pilate only condemned Yeshua because the High Priest threat ened him by saying they would tell Caesar And Caesar would not suffer anyone who would dare threaten his throne as King Caiaphas and his cohorts asked Pilate to change the sign to read He said he was the King but Pilate could have only condemned Yeshua by claiming Yeshua was the King of the Jews thus contesting Caesar as King of Rome The sign above Yeshua s head read John 19 19 And Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross And the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS 2 This title then read many of the Jews for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city and it was written in 13 Hebrew and Greek and Latin By Pilate refusing to change the Epitaph that he had composed for Yeshua something profound happened that the average per son would never discover by reading it in the English translations that we have today If you look at the inscription in Hebrew something amazing hap pens Yeshua HaNotsri
21. phon handwriting which again is a singular noun Thus it being singular in form could not be pointing to some thing that would be plural in nature like the word ordinances or as in some translations requirements which is a word in the plural state So it HAD to be referring to the singular handwriting which is a record note or citation like a parking ticket which was fixed and nailed to the cross When we look back in Roman history we will find that normally only two things were nailed to the execution stake of crucifixion 1 The inscription written on a sign that was nailed to that cross for the crimes that the person had committed and thus was being punished for by hanging on the tree 2 Secondly and mainly the person himself he was nailed right under that inscription or sign That sign over Yeshua s head had the letters INRI written on it We know that Pontius Pilate ordered his soldiers to inscribe the sign about Yeshua s head in three different languages Latin Greek and in Hebrew Pilate found not one bit of guilt in Yeshua as Pilate could care less about any of the Jewish Laws But when he heard the High Priest say that Yeshua claimed to be the Mes siah the anointed one the King of Israel then he had to reconsid er what he was going to do about this problem he was facing Something Profound After Yeshua s trial before Pilate Pilate ordered the sign that was going to be place
22. rom Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur Within this prayer is a section where they pray that YHWH will erase all the documents that incriminate us and accuse us just like it is used in the Colos sians scripture that we are discussing So there are multiple evi dences to prove this one you just have to do a bit of research to see it for yourself Hopefully by now you can see that YHWH doesn t just erase the written record of our transgression or sins He completely removes them from the center of the courtroom YHWH doesn t just erase the written accusations against us in the same way that we would use a pencil eraser because this could be used by HaSatan to say that the evidence that was against us was smudged and tampered with The enemy could claim tampered evidence but there is NO way he can do this if the record is com pletely moved out of the courtroom which leaves our enemy empty handed with no evidence with which to accuse or con demn us Yah takes this Cheirographon and nails IT to the Cross to declare our victory thus HaSatan looses the battle against us Col 2 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us which was contrary to us and took it out of the way nailing it to his cross S And having spoiled principalities and powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them in it In verse 15 we see that God strips the rulers and authorities of their powers making
23. s with Yeshua most of the time than did the Pharisees Today Judaism still has all the man made laws and traditions that have their origins before the time Yeshua walked the earth They have taken the 6 commandments concerning Sabbath giv en by Yahweh Himself and have added hundreds of their laws to the original 6 They even have them broken up into 39 different Categories They detail exactly how they think one should keep the Sabbath without ever having to be led by the Ruach the Spirit of God In fact they tell you not to pray about it because Heaven has nothing to say about it if you want to know about such and such you are told to go and ask your Rabbi I say this is creating an Idol they make the Rabbi their god instead of lis tening to what our Heavenly Father has to say on the subject Believe it or not they have commandments prohibiting the turn ing on of light switches on Shabbat and which kinds of bugs can be killed on Shabbat These are but a few of the Rabbis man made commandments that put YHWH s children in bondage Keep in mind that not all Rabbinical laws and traditions are bad nor are they all bondage in fact many of them are useful and beautiful ways to keep the commandments and worship YHWH But if any of them contradict the written Law of YHWH or if any of these traditions is held up as more important or binding than God s law it is bondage and a lie God s Law will never put someone in bondage
24. shua in Hebrew actually nailed to the cross as we read in Colossians 2 14 Most Christians mistakenly believe that the handwriting of ordi nances Cheirographon in Colossians 2 14 refers to the Old Testament Law of God the Torah as was given to Moses at Mt Sinai Now from most of mainstream Christianity s misinterpretation of Yahweh s Law being against us or contrary to us we are taught that it the Law is bondage and a heavy yoke that no one can possibly bear We are taught that the Law gets in the way of mankind being reconciled back to Yahweh So to fix this sup posed problem God had to take it out of the way and nail it to the cross to get rid of it In other words we supposedly are rec onciled and redeemed back to God by Jesus destroying His Fa thers Laws and commandments and getting them out of the way This is the most popular misinterpretation of Colossians 2 24 This interpretation is definitely flawed for many reasons First off the premise contradicts the Scriptural Truth that Yahweh s Torah His Law if it is to be understood in a proper context is neither against us nor is it contrary to us We find that if we really look in the New Testament that Yah s Law is not a burden in fact we are told that obeying His commandments brings bless ing into our lives Pastors are quick to point out their belief that Paul is teaching us that the Law is bondage and not something we should
25. t an end to That thing that Paul keeps telling us is bondage And Jesus came to deliver us from that right God came down to Mt Sinai to give us His Torah instructions law commandments somewhere around 1491 B C Did God later decide that He made a mistake with the Law and send Jesus to fix the whole mess Was God s Law weak and flawed Or did the problem lie with the PEOPLE who would not follow His commandments Lets investigate this further and see if we might be able to take just a couple of verses in the New Testament and make some sense out of them Lets start off with Col 2 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances Cheirographon that was against us which was con trary to us and took it out of the way nailing it to his cross KJV This Cheirographon is what was metaphorically nailed to the Cross So have you ever wondered about what was nailed to the Cross A lot of churches today teach us that it was the com mandments the Law of God that was nailed to the cross in this New Testament passage They believe that since the Law was nailed to the cross we no longer have to follow it They pick and choose some laws to obey but do not be lieve they need to follow all of God s Law such as those commandments concering the Sabbath and the Feasts of Yahweh God s name from the Hebrew YHVH or YHWH which they relegate to only the Jews The word Cheirographon can be likened to a traffic t
26. that a spike was driven through But let s first go back a few verses so we can try to determine the context of whether it is really is the Law of God that is being dis cussed here or something else Col 2 12 Buried with him in baptism wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God who hath raised him from the dead 13 And you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh hath he quickened together with him having for given you all trespasses 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances Cheirographon that was against us which was contrary to us and took it out of the way nailing it to his cross So we see by going back a few verses what is really being dis cussed here is baptism and not the Law of God We see in verse 12 that Paul is talking about being buried with Him Yeshua in baptism and tells us that we are risen with Him through faith by God Then Paul goes in in the next verse to speak about us being dead in our sins and that we are forgiven for all of our trespass es this is where it starts to get exciting In verse 14 Paul tells us that this baptism is what blots out this handwriting of ordi nances Cheirographon that was against us thus nailing IT to the cross You might be saying that sounds like Greek to you well it is Greek that is But it is one of those Greek words you should be studying to find out it meaning if you really want to know what Jesus Ye
27. the day which could take up to a year to become a full legal convert Paul was say ing all of that was foolishness that one doesn t need to learn and follow all the additional laws and commandments of the Rabbis that believers ONLY need to follow the Law of YHWH Let me bring out another important thing for you to consider Paul and any of the Jewish followers of Yeshua would never have a discussion of IF one should keep Sabbath or a Holy Day the argument would have been on HOW to keep the Sabbath or the Holy Day or HOW we are to eat biblically clean Thus Paul reminds them how the Rabbis tell them to touch not handle not which were extra commandments they came up with on how to prepare certain foods meats and drinks You had to salt the meat and cut it up a certain way If you did not do this THEIR way THEY would classify the meat as not Kosher or fit to eat Paul says HOGWASH Well not really because any way you wash a hog they are still not clean for food Anyway even today in Rabbinic Judaism an observant Jew cannot even buy or drink a bottle of wine if a gentile has even touched it I think they get way too carried away thus making null and void the commandments of God Col 2 21 Touch not taste not handle not 22 Which all are to perish with the using after the com mandments and doctrines of men Also one more important note When is comes to YHWH s Feast days His Sabbath His dietary laws a
28. u mesou by none other than the one who brought it into the courtroom in the first place the Accuser Ha Satan It is then taken out to the Cross the execution stake and nailed to the cross like a giant sign announcing the Messiah s triumph over sin and death He does all this on our behalf to spoil the Devil s plans to take us down with him into the pit Sheol where HaSatan and his demons will reside for all eternity We don t have to look very far for this proof as we read the next verse Col 2 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them in it I submit that we have been taught in error all these years that it was God s Law that was nailed to the tree How in the world did those in the pulpit ever come up with another interpretation es pecially in the light of the fact that in the Greek the word nomos law is not found ANYWHERE in the entire book of Colos sians It is not found in the English in the King James transla tion nor is it found in the Greek Don t believe me do a word search of Colossians and see what you DON T find One of the easiest ways to do a word search is to download a free version of a bible software program called E sword You can find it at http www e sword net It is a great program and I highly recommend it to any serious student of the Word of God You can type in any word you want to search on and it will give you all th
29. uly understanding that it was something different than our Heavenly Father s own commandments His Torah His in struction manual for life if you will Doesn t your car come with an instruction manual instructing you how to take care of that car Don t you think that our Father in heaven loves us enough to make sure we come with a user manual We will find out that if we deconstruct this word Cheirographon into its root words we will find that this is a compound word made up of two different words The first word being cheir which means hand and the next being grapho which means to write or engrave If we look back to it s most basic meaning it simply means a hand written document The most amazing thing that I find to be so different is that this word Cheirographon does not appear anywhere else in the Re newed Covenant writings in other word the New Testament You will not even find it in the Greek version of the Old Testa ment the LXX or the Septuagint The Septuagint from the Latin word septuaginta meaning sev enty is a pre Christian translation of the Hebrew Bible and some related texts into Koine Greek The title and its Roman nu meral acronym LXX refer to the seventy finest Jewish scholars that completed the translation as early as the late 2nd century B C Getting back to the subject at hand Curiously we find the word Cheirographon does appear though in some of the e
30. us Yeshua Jesus doesn t try to whitewash it He doesn t say that we didn t commit those sins He doesn t deny any of the charges contained within that legal document the Cheirographon He whole heartedly admits that yes we have committed all of these sins that are on the list He admits that yes we do deserve the whole penalty that is contained within this accusing document and even contained in His National Constitution of the Kingdom of Israel His Torah We are guilty as charged Thankfully we have an Advocate with the Father we have someone in the Heavenly Courtroom there for our defense Our Advocate Yeshua HaMashiach Jesus the Christ will tell the Judge that He paid the penalty for ALL of our crimes against Yahweh s Torah the penalty has already been paid in full Ye shua paid this penalty Himself when he went to the execution stake the Tree upon which he bore the sins of the world and paid for the punishment for your sins and for mine Since Yeshua has paid this penalty in full on our behalf Yahweh the Judge tells HaSatan that this handwriting of ordinances this Cheirographon is no good it is no longer deemed as admissi ble evidence in the Judge s Heavenly Courtroom Consequently this document that once incriminated us the one that was against us the one that we are told was contrary to us is now taken out of the way It now has to be removed from the middle of the courtroom the to
31. xtra bibli cal Greek writings In these Greek writings we find that the term is not a biblical term but rather a legal term With research you will discover that this word refers to a written document of evi dence of a person s guilt as in a legal court of law a courtroom It is the record the written document of a person s crimes that they have committed the law that he or she has broken and the penalty that he or she owes for breaking that law In the Ancient Near East in the first century and before we find that the accuser would present this written document of the law breaking act from the center of the courtroom This center of the courtroom was called the tou mesou which means the middle Amazingly we find this is the exact same term that the apostle Paul Rav Shaul the Jewish Rabbi used when describ ing this thing this Cheirographon this written document that accuses us before our Heavenly Father to be taken out of the way or tou mesou Now we must consider something first because we find cheirographon and tou mesou as legal terms we must pic ture in our minds this handwriting of ordinances that was against us in a legal context by picturing ourselves in the Heav enly Courtroom of our Father YHVH as He sits in the judge s seat We have been brought forward and accused of breaking Yahweh s Laws His commandments His statutes and judg ments We stand guilty bec
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