RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

COMMENTARY - ENDNOTES
kingdom declared in that same congregation. Believing this promise saved Abraham. As Abraham’s children, do we
believe what Abraham believed about the fullness of the nations?
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Not in its end-time fulfillment, but being the first recipient of it.
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By invoking the Name of YHWH according to the Torah command in Deuteronomy 10:20.
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To Yisrael.
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Our hope and promise is within the veil and penetrates within the veil, but we ourselves do not enter there. Only
Yahshua can do that.
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He entered as High Priest, not we who are merely priests.
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This simply means that the original Melech-Tzadik was Shem, as confirmed in the Scroll of Jasher. Yahshua was
born into that existing order and became Melech-Tzadik as Shem before Him (as seen in v. 4 where Abraham pays
Shem tithes). In this verse the author states that both the original Shem and the One sworn into that order by the
oath of YHWH, are not listed in the Levitical genealogies. No record of any of their parents being from Lewi are
recorded, since neither was a priest in the order of Lewi. Neither Shem, nor Yahshua has beginning of days, nor end
of a priestly Levitical life, since neither was ordained to begin, or end, or in that service. Both however do have
genealogies listed in Scripture. Shem like Yahshua served in an eternal order and positionally he prefigured
Yahshua, who serves in that same eternal order that can never pass away.
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Shem son of Noah.
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Shem blessed Abraham.
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Shem was greater than Abraham.
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Levitical priests.
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Note that this verse does not say Shem is immortal. Rather that he lives continually as do all the righteous in
redemption as seen in Hebrews 11. Shem established the eternal order, so that it is said that he lives forever in
spirit, as his reward for establishing the eternal order bearing his title, as does the One he prefigured, the Messiah
Yahshua.
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As part of Yisrael.
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By definition in order to be placed into the order of Melech-Tzadik, it had to exist prior to Yahshua and by
definition Yahshua could not have been Melech-Tzadik, since another one established the order before Him, that He
would enter.
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The Torah was not done away with, but adjusted, or slightly altered, to accommodate a better, more complete
priesthood and sacrifice. Strong’s Greek # 3346 metatithaymee means “moved from one place to another, not
eliminated.” So the priesthood was shifted, not eliminated. Shifted from Aaron to Melech-Tzadik and from Leviticus
to Genesis, still within the Torah itself.
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Not a setting-aside of the entire Torah, but only the transfer of the priesthood from one tribe to another, and of
the forsaking of the old priestly order to establish the new. This is not a replacement of Torah by the Renewed
Covenant, rather, one priesthood is established instead of the other by transfer within the nation of Yisrael itself.
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Pertaining to atonement and priesthood. The ongoing subject is the sacrifices and the priesthood, not the Torah
itself.
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Lamsa’s Peshitta p.1200.
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Only Messiah is immortal. Believers do not become immortal, until the return of Messiah.
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Strong’s Greek # 2909; kreitton meaning “more advantageous,” or “more useful,” as opposed to strictly “better.”
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Strong’s Greek # 3549; nomotheteo translated as established in most translations, is better translated as “to
enact law,” or “sanction by law,” meaning the Renewed Covenant is established by virtue of the fact that it is given
as The Torah renewed in us.
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The Torah and First Covenant were not the problem. The problem as clearly stated here was with them. The next
verse qualifies the “them.”
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Both houses had faults, causing the need for a new priesthood, a new sacrifice, and a Renewed Covenant.
According to this promise quoted from Jeremiah 31:31, there are no gentiles in the Renewed Covenant, as it was cut
exclusively with Yisrael's two houses. Those two houses are Jews and Efrayimites, not Jews and gentiles. Of
course, non-biological Yisraelites also join as the chaverim/ friends of Yisrael (Ezekiel 37:16-17).
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Note also that Paul, or Barnabas (the author of Hebrews) in his era also considered Yisrael divided and Efrayim
as being still assimilated in the nations. This reference here alone fully and totally refutes any fictitious claims that
the two houses reunited 525 years before Paul, or Barnabas wrote Hebrews, during the return of Judah from
Babylon.
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An anti-missionary favorite. The text was changed from “though I was a husband to them,” to “I disregarded
them.” The reason for the change is that this paraphrase is not meant to be an exact quote. Rather it is a paraphrase
to show that only one generation of Yisrael was discarded, not the whole nation. That is, the one-generation that
died in the wilderness was discarded, without the entire nation being discarded. The point is that those who don’t
enter the Renewed Covenant will be discarded like those in the wilderness, and not that all Yisraelites will be
replaced by a gentile church. Therefore this is not a text that teaches that the church is the “New Yisrael,” or that the
Jews have been discarded.
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