The Hebraic Epistle of First John – Chapter 2

First John 2:1 My little children of Yisrael, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. But if anyone sins. Knowing יהוה is dependent on an ongoing obedience toward Him or else you become spiritually blind. Something fundamental is meant by the term commandments – commandment in the covenant that the Son enacted. Not just the love command as the Church teaches and not a Levitical, rabbinic interpretation of Torah either. Covenant Torah – the Book of the Covenant Torah! desires a relationship which is continuous – not episodic! A creature that lives in the יהוה darkness long enough goes blind to the light – it’s a self-inflicted blindness, so a darkness descends upon their life. First John 2:1 I write to you, so that you may not sin. Yochanan isn’t now adopting the position of the secessionists which he just spent all this time exposing and condemning (1:8)! The ‘these things’ refers to the situations projected either for commendation or condemnation in 1:6-10 – thereby stiffening the communities resistance to sin! Yochanan is writing these things, in context of V6-10, so that the community not fall in with the secessionists and claim that they too, no longer sin! The latter part of 2:1 confirms this interpretation because Yochanan recognizes the possibility of the community sinning,,,,’ but if anybody does sin.’ …we have an advocate with Abba, gauvh ha Moshiach Ha-Tzadik. ‘Advocate’ = ‘Parakle’tos’, only found here in Yoc Alef and four times in the Besorah of Yoc. Nowhere else in the NT, nor in the LXX. In the besorah of Yoc it denotes the RHK who has been sent to earth when Yahusha returned to the Father. But here it denotes Yahusha Himself and is connected to His function as HP in the shamayim.’Advocate’ – one who speaks on behalf of the accused. Our advocate in court but also as our sacrificing priest in the temple. First John 2:2 And He Himself is the keporah offering for our sins,and not for ours only but also for the whole olam hazeh. Atoning sacrifiece = Heb: ‘Kepporah’ – Gk: ‘Hilasmos’. Removal of guilt because of sin. Torot of 1st mention: Daniel 9:9 you know that chapter that some try to twist to justify a Levitical Priesthood: To vuvh our tvkt belong rachamim and Hilasmos/ forgiveness,though we have rebelled against Him; 2nd mention: Ezekiel 44:27 And in the day that he goes into the Kadosh-Place, to the inner courtyard, to serve in the Kadosh-Place, he shall offer his Hilasmos/sin offering, says the Master vuvh. Finally: Vayikra 25:9 Then shall you cause the shofar of the yovel to sound on the tenth day of the seventh moon, on the Yom HaKippurim/Hilasmos shall you make the shofar sound throughout all your land. If Yahusha is the Hilasmos as Yochannan believes, in context If he is the Hilasmos then what went before as Hilasmos is now attributed to Him! Messiah’s intercession is the continual application of His priesthood. We can’t fall into the deception of downplaying the magnitude of what Malki-Tzedik did in propitiating wrath that otherwise you’d surely have to face under a different priesthood. First John 2:3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we guard His mitzvoth. 4 He who says, I know Him, and does not guard His mitzvoth, is a liar, and the emet is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps His word; truly the ahava of vuvh is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6 He who says he stays in Him, should himself also have his halacha just as He had His halacha. What word does Yochanan mean by “commandments”? ‘Entole’ appears in the LXX 240 times. It’s used to translate ‘Mitzvoth’, a commandment closely related to ‘Nomos’- teaching-law-guidance. Listen, it’s the ‘Mitzvoth’ – individual stipulations within a larger didactic or legal corpus – in context of Yahusha, it has to be within covenant ‘Torah’ which His death and subsequent resurrection inaugurated. It’s the Mosaic depiction of his prophetic covenant office as advocate – High Priest. First John 2:7 Brothers, I write no new mitzvah to