Unlocking Galatians Hebraically – Part 2
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Galatians 2. Using the Scripture as the dictionary for the scripture prevents theorizing and surmising what the ‘law’ and ‘separation’ in Gal. 2 is all about! Eph. 2:11 explains succinctly the context of Galatians 2. 10 simple points: “Therefore remember you were once called Gentiles in the flesh… who were called uncircumcision (akrobustia – tossed away foreskins – 10 Israel) by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands… that at the time you were without Moshiach… aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and… strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without Elohim in the world. But now in Moshiach Yahusha you who… once were far off (tossed away) have been… brought near by the blood of Moshiach.(ratified BoC)… For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, (no divided nation, no divided priesthood, no divided temple)…. Having abolished in His flesh the the enimity, that is the law (Book of the Law) of commandments contained in ordinances (not covenant)… So as to create in Himself one ‘new man’ from the two (book of the law and book of the covenant). Then fourteen years after I went up to Yahrushalayim with Bar-Nava and took Teitus with me also. I believe the text leans more heavily toward (a) this is fourteen years after Shaul’s three year period in Arabia (1:17), he then went up to Jerusalem for the first time to meet with Kepha and Yaakov (1:18) and here (2:1) is written before Shaul’s first missionary journey (Acts 13/14) but BEFORE the Jerusalem Council of Acts 15 making this journey to Jerusalem (v.1) the one spoken of in Acts 11. P.172 of Avi ben Mordechai’s book the title “Two Torah’s”. Hebrew Roots takes no issue with this; because Avi is juxtaposing Oral Torah vs. Written Torah, what all fail to grasp is that though, yes, it tugs our observant heart strings it’s pure theory, speculative; with no text in existence that supports it. There is no Hebrew Minhag, Takanot, Gezerot or Ma’asim or it’s Greek equivalent in any New Testament texts. 2 And I went up by Sod-revelation, and communicated to them concerning the Besorah that I proclaim among the nations, but privately to them who were of tov reputation, lest by any means I should labor, or had labored in vain. Circumcision and the Book of the Law had become the nationalistic boundary marker ever since the Seleucid Invasion (1. Mac.). Shual was restoring the covenant’s of promise and Yahusha’s blood ratification as the nationalistic boundary markers – Gen. 12! 3 But neither Teitus, who was with me, being an Aramean, was compelled to be circumcised immediately. 4 And because of false Israelite brothers who had sneaked in, and who came in to secretly spy out our liberty that we have in the Moshiach Yahusha, that they might bring us into slavery. ‘Pseudadelphos’ (pseudo) false. Like unto day, ‘sham believers.’ We call them The Synagogue of Satan. ‘Kataskopeo’ – ‘sneaked in’ they gate crashed into the private meeting between Shaul and the Jerusalem leaders, causing problems and pushing an agenda. What is the ‘eleutheria’ ‘liberty’ that Shaul speaks of if it’s not liberty from the Law of Moses as a whole, as the Institutionalized Church errantly teaches. We’re at ‘liberty’ from the Book of the Law because Yahusha’s blood has ratified the New Covenant (given as Torah Jer. 31:31, Heb. 8:6). Not at liberty to lawlessness, heaven forbid but at liberty to Covenant Torah! Slavery – ‘katadouloo’ – to reduce to slavery, enslave. LXX Ex. 1:14 Israel’s slavery in Egypt. 5.To whom we gave no place by yielding in submission to them no, not even for an hour, that the emet of the Besorah might remain among you. 6 But of those who were considered to be somewhat important-whatever they were, it makes no difference to me. YHWH accepts no man’s person – for those who seemed to be somewhat important added nothing additional, or new to me. Shaul isn’t disparaging the Twelve with this remark, he’s ju