Unlocking Galatians Hebraically – Part 6

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Galatians 6:1 Yisraelite brothers, if a man is overtaken in a trespass, you who are the spiritual ones restore him in the ruach of gentleness; while guarding yourself, lest you also be tempted. No single person can make it alone, we need one another, we need to be with our believing community, ultimately dwelling together. Ecclesiastes 4:9 two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor, for if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow, but woe to one who is alone when he falls, for he has not another to help him up. Galatians 6:2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so complete in practice the Torah of the Moshiach. The law of Christ isn’t something contrary to or different to Torah. Shaul/Paul has already spent five chapters explaining to the community how they’re status in Torah is connected to the covenants of promise as distinct from the book of the law. Galatians 6:3 For if a man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Keep the right perspective of yourself, remember from where you whence came from! Galatians 6:4-5 But let every man examine his own mitzvoth, and then shall he have gilah in himself alone, and not in another. 5 For every man shall bear his own burden. Take the plank out your own eye….’examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith, prove your own selfs….’ Galatians 6:6 Let him that is taught in the word share with him that teaches in all tov things. Galatians 6:7-8 Be not deceived; tvkt is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that sows to his flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows into the Ruach Hakodesh shall from the Ruach Hakodesh reap everlasting chayim. Agriculture of the Spirit: Proverbs 22:8 He who sows iniquity will reap vanity, and the rod of his fury will perish. Job 4:8 according to what I’ve seen, those who plough iniquity and those who sow trouble harvest it. Hosea 8:7 For they sow the wind and they reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads, it yields no grain. Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up. Israel is swallowed up, they are now among the nations like a vessel in which no one delights. Hosea 10:12 Sow with a view to righteousness, reap in accordance with kindness, break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek יהוה until He comes to rain righteousness on you. The flesh will deceive us into temporal pleasure with no consequence, it seduces, entices and envies. Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in doing well: for in due season we shall reap, if we do not grow weary. Carnality gives an instant reward it titillates, it delivers yet hides the consequences, in contrast to the spirit which is the long game, eternal rewards often times costing a sacrifice in the temporal-earthly realm! Galatians 6:10 So then, as we have the opportunity, let us do tov to all men, especially to those who are of the household of believing Yisrael. When you can, reward others, reward those in the household of faith. Galatians 6:11 You see how large a letter I have written to you with my own handwriting. Let’s revisit Yahusha’s crucifixion a moment here: Pilate implemented a reversal technique – hanging on a tree then stoning –  thus placating all parties – Roman and Jewish! This technique is recorded in the DSS – Temple Scroll – Column 64. Also found in the Old Syriac mss.p207 and finally, the Slavic version of the Ascension of Isaiah. So wouldn’t a blasphemer be stoned according to Torah then be hung? Did Yahusha receive this type of punishment? They even conducted a make shift false trial against the Messiah in a pseudo Sanhedrin with two false witnesses. If Yahusha was stoned to Death, which was the law for blasphemy (Leviticus 24:15). then we should be able to see this thread revealed in scripture elsewhere. Rav Shaul/Paul tells us he was stoned just like His master but he survived to tell the tale. Acts 14:19 And there came certain unbelieving Yahudim from Antioch and Ikon