PAUL and the NAZERITE COVENANT
I got an e-mail asking if PAUL had sacrificed an animal at the Temple.
I had misunderstood these verses myself, in the past,
and was very troubled with them for the longest time.
Then, HIS HOLY SPIRIT REVEALED how SUBMISSION to
GOD YHSHWH’S LAW will not, and I mean will not,
lead one into sin.
In Acts 20:21-28 (below), PAUL is told to take some of the new guys
to submit to the NAZERITE COVENANT.
To do this one has to cut their hair and take the seven days of separation
while waiting outside the Temple door.
Then, all the required sacrifices will be conducted.
I believe that PAUL would have gone through with the required sacrifices
if GOD YHSHWH had not intervened.
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By HIS GRACE I AM SAVED.
Now, I SUBMIT to GOD YHSHWH’S WAY of LIVING
WRITTEN in HIS Book of LIFE, by HIM.
I TRUST HIM to keep me from sin in my SUBMISSION to HIS LAW.
My TRUST is in the ONE WHO WROTE HIS LAW
and HE WILL KEEP me from sin.
The NAZERITE COVENANT
A person wanting to take the COVENANT of a NAZERITE
must shave the hair on their head
and wait for the seven days of separation to be over
before this person goes into the Temple
to complete all the required sacrifices.
NUM 6:13 And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled:
he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
NUM 6:14 And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,
NUM 6:15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.
NUM 6:16 And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:
NUM 6:17 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.
NUM 6:18 And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
NUM 6:19 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:
NUM 6:20 And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
NUM 6:21 This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.
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Now,
PAUL is asked to take the NAZERITE COVENANT.
Right before the seven days of separation are over,
GOD YHSHWH intervenes:
ACTS 21:20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
ACTS 21:21 And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.
ACTS 21:22 What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.
ACTS 21:23 Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;
ACTS 21:24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.
ACTS 21:25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
ACTS 21:26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.
ACTS 21:27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
ACTS 21:28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
ACTS 21:29 (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)
ACTS 21:30 And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple:
and forthwith the doors were shut.
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PAUL, in his SUBMISSION to GOD YHSHWH’S LAW,
sees the MIRACLE of GOD YHSHWH, HIMSELF,
intervening in his life to keep him from sin.
GOD YHSHWH GOT PAUL out of the Temple
before the seven days of separation were completed
and shut the door.
GOD YHSHWH’S SALVATION CLEANSES me
for HIS LIVING LAW/HOLY SPIRIT to LIVE in me.
Now, my SUBMITTING to HIS LAW
KEEPS me PURE (WALKING as HE WALKED)
and
KEEPS me COMING to HIM (“COME to ME”).
The “stone” Temple door has been shut.
Now, our GOD YHSHWH, WHO CAME as our SAVIOUR MESSIAH,
is the ONLY DOOR into HIS BODY, HIS Final TEMPLE. (click)
LOVE, RICOEL
I got an e-mail asking if PAUL had sacrificed an animal at the Temple.
I had misunderstood these verses myself, in the past,
and was very troubled with them for the longest time.
Then, HIS HOLY SPIRIT REVEALED how SUBMISSION to
GOD YHSHWH’S LAW will not, and I mean will not,
lead one into sin.
In Acts 20:21-28 (below), PAUL is told to take some of the new guys
to submit to the NAZERITE COVENANT.
To do this one has to cut their hair and take the seven days of separation
while waiting outside the Temple door.
Then, all the required sacrifices will be conducted.
I believe that PAUL would have gone through with the required sacrifices
if GOD YHSHWH had not intervened.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
By HIS GRACE I AM SAVED.
Now, I SUBMIT to GOD YHSHWH’S WAY of LIVING
WRITTEN in HIS Book of LIFE, by HIM.
I TRUST HIM to keep me from sin in my SUBMISSION to HIS LAW.
My TRUST is in the ONE WHO WROTE HIS LAW
and HE WILL KEEP me from sin.
The NAZERITE COVENANT
A person wanting to take the COVENANT of a NAZERITE
must shave the hair on their head
and wait for the seven days of separation to be over
before this person goes into the Temple
to complete all the required sacrifices.
NUM 6:13 And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled:
he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
NUM 6:14 And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,
NUM 6:15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.
NUM 6:16 And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:
NUM 6:17 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.
NUM 6:18 And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
NUM 6:19 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:
NUM 6:20 And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
NUM 6:21 This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Now,
PAUL is asked to take the NAZERITE COVENANT.
Right before the seven days of separation are over,
GOD YHSHWH intervenes:
ACTS 21:20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
ACTS 21:21 And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.
ACTS 21:22 What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.
ACTS 21:23 Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;
ACTS 21:24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.
ACTS 21:25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
ACTS 21:26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.
ACTS 21:27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
ACTS 21:28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
ACTS 21:29 (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)
ACTS 21:30 And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple:
and forthwith the doors were shut.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=
PAUL, in his SUBMISSION to GOD YHSHWH’S LAW,
sees the MIRACLE of GOD YHSHWH, HIMSELF,
intervening in his life to keep him from sin.
GOD YHSHWH GOT PAUL out of the Temple
before the seven days of separation were completed
and shut the door.
GOD YHSHWH’S SALVATION CLEANSES me
for HIS LIVING LAW/HOLY SPIRIT to LIVE in me.
Now, my SUBMITTING to HIS LAW
KEEPS me PURE (WALKING as HE WALKED)
and
KEEPS me COMING to HIM (“COME to ME”).
The “stone” Temple door has been shut.
Now, our GOD YHSHWH, WHO CAME as our SAVIOUR MESSIAH,
is the ONLY DOOR into HIS BODY, HIS Final TEMPLE. (click)
LOVE, RICOEL
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