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I regular hear Christians accuse Yahoshua of changing the requirements of salvation from when he came or at least for the Gentiles.  I will refer to Yahweh’s anointed one by the name He gave Him, Yahoshua or commonly spelt Yeshua. Obedience and sincerity to Yahweh God our creator, has always been and remains the criteria.   This includes acceptance of one’s sins, repentance, and baptism into a born again change in life style or habits.  So we shall examine if the claimed change is indeed the case.   I will start at the beginning scanning through the teachings of God through His law and prophets similar to how Yahoshua and the apostles did, examine what the Messiah himself taught in the gospels, spend some time mainly in the book of Hebrews and, time permitting, conclude with a look at the promised new heaven and earth as narrated in Isaiah 66 and other places . 

We all accept Yahweh as

We all entered this world as babes.  Relative blank sheets mentally, apart from that given by our creator.  During our years we have formed characters, beliefs etc from environments, contacts and other things to which we were exposed. For some of us there has been twist and turns, jumping over hurdles to bring us to where we are; but for all we still have the rest of our earthly journey before reaching our final eternal destination. Today my presentation is titled “What is needed for salvation”; but could otherwise be titled “What is needed for a long peaceful life”.  As we should see, biblically or worldly, they have much in common.       Ok, Salvation, what does it mean?  I know all or most of you would be thinking of life after death.  A belief written on our blank sheets, formed from the contacts, teachings etc to which we were exposed; but let us start with what it really means. 

A female friend this week had her hair cut to within one inch length due to years of chemical damage caused by those hyped up “good look” chemical adverts . Damage that could not be cured despite much expense on rectification products. The solution, either cover up the damage with a weave or wig, or cut it off and start again. Monthly I visit the fish market to stock up. To escape the tedious avoidance of bones while eating, I buy big fishes as Salmon, Sea Bass etc.  Most are now farm raised which entails their feeding with artificial food, growth stimulus etc. We are what we eat so even the seemingly “healthy” fish may eventually pollute our bodies, lead to cancer or other diseases. What have we done to God’s original food and other blessings?

Today is a study on how one gets the favour  and or mercy of Yahweh God.

Favour. There are 14 Old Testament Hebrew words and one New Testament Greek word translated into English as the single word “favour”.  A summary of the Hebrew meanings include gracious or kindness, good, kind, delight, pleased with or satisfied with.  Compared with the single Greek meaning according to Strong’s concordance as

“Graciousness”, especially the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life.   According to Lexical concordance is a kindness granted or desired.  Only to show one always get a better understanding of words reading its use in the Old Testament.  Some of the Hebrew ones are used as little as 56 times and as much as 2120 times.  Here are a few sample scriptures using “favour”. 

Question: Did the apostles or Paul honour Sunday worship?

Answer: Unfortunately the photos that accompany this reply has yet to be uploaded. You can search the internet for Egyptian gods. Note the sun disc around their head attire and other places.  There is no instruction given or precedent set by either Jesus, His apostles or any early bible Christian to celebrate the first day of the week to Jesus or God.  You will read confirmation of this by many other denomination heads and bible scholars. However, let us take an independent look again.

Question: Did Yahshua (Jesus) or His apostles start a new covenant?

The title is taken from Matt 26:28 (repeated in Mark 14:24 and Luke 22:20; 1cor 11:25). At His last Passover meal (called the last supper; but was not His last supper), after Jesus had given the disciples bread to break and eat, He took wine and give them to drink saying “drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins".  Note He nor any apostle raised it in offering to the sun god as some denomination priests do.   Be careful with what you partake out of ignorance of its history. Some bible versions have changed