Again: "Adam said to Seth, his son, "You have heard, my son, that
God is going to come into the world after a long time, (He will be) conceived
of a virgin and put on a body, be born like a man and grow up as a child.
He will perform signs and wonders on the earth, will walk on the waves
of the sea. He will rebuke the winds and they will be silenced. He will
motion to the waves and they will stand still: He will open the eyes of
the blind and cleanse the lepers. He will cause the deaf to hear, and
the mute to speak. He will straighten the hunchbacked, strengthen the
paralyzed, find the lost, drive out evil spirits, and cast out demons.".
(Testament of Adam 3:1-4.).
The vorlages for these literatures are believed to be circa 200
BC. One thing is clear: Abraham had the euangelion (Gospel): Galatians
3:8 And the
scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith,
preached before the gospel
unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.",
Moses had the Gospel AND THE LAW & lived BOTH: Hebrews 4:1 "Let us
therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest,
any of you should seem to come short of it. 2. For
unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the
word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them
that heard it. 3. For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he
said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although
the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4. For he spake
in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the
seventh day from all his works.". The prophet Isaiah, certainly preached
the Gospel as his entire folio was, in essence the Gospel. Isaiah spoke
of the same healings as Adam (Isa ch 9), the virgin birth etc. Job knew
the Gospel: Job 9:8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth
upon the waves of the sea." (Yeshua walking on water) Job 19:25
"For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter
day upon the earth:", Noah could distinguish between unclean and clean
animals before gathering to the ark, Jacob did not give "torn flesh/meat"
to Laban, Lot ate and served unleavened bread to the Angels before departing
the city., Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob all sacrificed clean (as opposed
to scripturally unclean animals) in their sacrifices. This last part indicates
a definite and distinct knowledge of Torah, in its true sense -- in oral
form. Enoch, the 7th from Adam, knew the Gospel and that the Lord (YHVH)
would return with teh thousands of His saints (Jude 14); and out of all
the chapters in the writings of Enoch, the quote in Jude 14 appears early
on in 1 Enoch 1:9!
In the Dead Sea Scrolls "Liturgy of the tongues", (as it is titled
by some translators/redactors) tongues of fire fell on Moses and
the 70 elders (Numbers 11:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto
me seventy men of the elders
of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers
over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that
they may stand there with thee. 17 And I will come down and talk with
thee there: and I will take
of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and
they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it
not thyself alone.).
There is a theory afoot that in the First Testament (OT) that the Holy
Spirit did not go "inside" people, but rather only "covered them on the
outside", thus God did not "do things" the same way. As a rebuttal to
this error of dispensationalism
it is offered: 1 Peter 1:
11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit
of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand
the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.". The Greek
word rendered "in" here is "en", which means "in", "into", "inside", "among".
ALSO we see in Ezekiel 2:2 And the
spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon
my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me. And Ezekiel 3:24 Then the
spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake
with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.
Some also claim that the giving opf the Holy Spirit was first done on
Pentecost (In the Book of Acts), that the tongues of fire initiated "the
church'. The citations above show that tongues of fire appeared in the
first testament, and that even the second testament tells that the Spirit
was "in" people.
Dispensationalism has caused so much spiritual weakness in the body of
Christ, by inferreng that God "changed" or "does things differently now",
to the "nullification of the law -- the commandments, mitzvot", that we
no longer have a clear grasp of what God's laws are. This ignorance gives
opportunity to hasatan to oppress and possess because we do not obey God's
statutes, commands and laws. Could it be the churches, in general, seem
so "anemic", that we do not seem to have Apostles whose very shadow can
be a vessel of healing, because we do not really persue and live by the
"Whole counsel" of God.? (Acts 20:27). Yeshua "did not come to annul the
law or the prophets, but to fulfill". Fulfilling the law is in our time
tantamount to say "paying the debt owed from a speeding ticket". Once
paid the 'sin', debt is "paid for", BUT THE LAW THAT DEFINED WHAT SPEEDING,
REMAINS IN TACT. PAYING THE TICKET DOES NOT VOID THE ORIGINAL LAW. This
same concept applies to what Jesus did; the law remains to define sin,
make necessary a savior for sinners in each generation. The law is not
made invalid.
Thus it can be seen that knowledge of the Gospel and Torah and their tightly
held believing of them, and "living them out", was accounted as righteousness.
Hence we see Yeshua Himself saying "I have not come for the righteous,,,,".
Armed with this knowledge we can now understand why Moses (who died on
Mount Nebo OUTSIDE of the Holy Land), was seen at the mount of transfiguration
(IN the Holy Land -- symbolic of being in heaven), in a "cloud" from Heaven
(Shekinah Glory) PRIOR TO THE CRUCIFIXION!!!!!!
The way it works is like this. Very few people were eyewitnesses to the
crucifixion. Prior to the crucifixion, one kept Jesus' Torah and believed
that HE WOULD COME, DO THE MIRACLES, DELIVERANCES and all thedetails of
the prophesies concerning Him. If one did this, one went to heaven upon
one's death, like Moses; that's what "gathered unto the Father's"
means. Jesus even said God is God OF THE LIVING (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob
etc). Post crucifixion we are still to follow Jesus' mitzvot and
believe in Him and live our lives for Him. The same thing as prior to
the crucifixion.
The pre-crucifixion believed that He could and would, post crucifixion
we believe He did and still can do the works He performed. Either way
it takes faith.
When Isaiah said "by His stripes we were healed", a believer in those
days believed just as a believer of today and their sickness, marriage,
financial woes were healed, the same AS TODAY. No one had to wait 700
years from Isaiah's day to get delivered or healed AND THE REASON:
YESHUA WAS THE LAMB SLAIN FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD!!!. The word
so dependable that Jesus' blood could be invoked before the crucifixion
to make the Yehovah series of names (Yireh, Rapha, Shamma, T'savaot, Shalom
etc) to be FULLY EFFECTIVE IN THEIR DAYS!
BLESSINGS TEFE