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HEBRAIC ROOTS TEACHER
Eddie Chumney
WHAT IS TORAH ?
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THE NATION OF ISRAEL WAS SAVED BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH
Exodus 3:20 And I will stretch out my hand and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
Exodus 3:21 And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when you go, you shall not go empty:
THE NATION OF ISRAEL WAS SAVED BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH
Exodus 12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
Exodus 12:7 And they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses wherein they shall eat it.
THE NATION OF ISRAEL WAS SAVED BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH
THE NATION OF ISRAEL WAS SAVED BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
THE NATION OF ISRAEL WAS
SAVED BY FAITH
THEN CAME TO MOUNT SINAI
SAVED BY GRACE
THROUGH FAITH
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Romans 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the Torah.
AFTER WE ARE SAVED, WE LIVE OUR SALVATION BY FOLLOWING TORAH
Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the Torah through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the Torah.
WHAT IS THE
DEFINITION OF TORAH ?
THE TORAH IS THE WORD OF YHVH
Psalm 103:20 Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
Psalm 119:16 I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word.
THE TORAH IS THE WORD OF YHVH
Isaiah 1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the Torah of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
THE TORAH IS THE WORD OF YHVH
Isaiah 2:3 … he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the Torah <08451> and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Isaiah 5:24 … because they have cast away the Torah <08451> of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
THE PSALMS ARE THE TORAH OF YHVH
John 10:34 Yeshua answered them, Is it not written in your Torah <3551>, I said, Ye are gods?
Psalm 82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
THE PROPHETS ARE THE TORAH OF YHVH
Isaiah 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
1 Corinthians 14:21 In the Torah it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
THE TORAH IS WRITTEN ABOUT YESHUA
Luke 24:44 And he said unto them … all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the Torah of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
John 1:45 Philip found Nathanael and said unto him, We have found him of whom Moses in the Torah and the prophets, did write, Yeshua of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
THE TORAH IS WRITTEN ABOUT YESHUA
John 5:46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
Acts 28:23 … he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Yeshua both out of the Torah of Moses and out of the prophets …
YESHUA TAUGHT FROM
THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES


 (HEBREW SCRIPTURES = TANAKH)
Luke 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
Torah      =  LAW
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Nevi’im    = PROPHETS
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Ketuvim  = WRITINGS (Psalms, Proverbs etc)
YESHUA KEPT THE TORAH
 Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the Torah or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
THERE ARE 4 PRIMARILY LEVELS
TO THE TORAH / WORD OF YHVH
Peshat – Literal, Simple
Remez – Hint, Allusion
Derash – “Drawn out”. From the same root as “Midrash”. Parables, Implicit, Homiletic, Exegesis.
Sod – Spiritual, Mystical
PARDES = HEBREW ACRONYM
(4 PRIMARY LEVELS OF TORAH)
SOD (MYSTICAL) OF
THE TORAH REVEALS MESSIAH
YESHUA: SOD LEVEL
Yeshua: The Hebrew word for Jesus
YESHUA: SOD LEVEL
Yeshua: The Hebrew word for Jesus
THE TORAH BECAME PHYSICAL
THE TORAH BECAME FLESH (PHYSICAL)
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word (Torah) and the Word was with God and the Word (Torah)  was God.
John 1:14 And the Word (Torah) was made flesh (became physical) and dwelt among us …
THE TORAH IS LIKE A MAN
Numbers 19:14 This is the Torah … a man …
YHVH: SOD LEVEL
RABBI TEACH: THE TORAH HAS 70 FACETS
WHAT METHODS
ARE USED TO TEACH
THE TORAH / WORD OF YHVH ?
Parables (Psalm 78:1-4, Mark 4:10-13)
Deep / Dark Sayings / Mysteries (Proverbs 1:1-6, 1 Corinthians 2:6-10, 14)
Spiritual Blueprints / Shadows (Exodus 25:8-9, Ezekiel 43:10-12)
THE TORAH IS
TAUGHT IN PARABLES
Psalm 78:1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Psalm 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable …
YESHUA TAUGHT IN PARABLES
 Matthew 13:34
All these things spake Yeshua unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
THE TORAH IS TAUGHT THROUGH
PARABLES / DARK SAYINGS
Proverbs 1:6  To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Proverbs 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the Torah of your mother:
WHAT METHODS
ARE USED TO TEACH
THE TORAH / WORD OF YHVH ?
Parables (Psalm 78:1-4, Mark 4:10-13)
Deep / Dark Sayings / Mysteries (Proverbs 1:1-6, 1 Corinthians 2:6-10, 14)
Spiritual Blueprints / Shadows (Exodus 25:8-9, Ezekiel 43:10-12)
MESSIAH WILL TEACH
 SOD (MYSTICAL) OF THE TORAH
YESHUA TAUGHT THE SOD “MYSTERIES” OF THE KINGDOM
Proverbs 1:6 To understand a proverb and the interpretation; the words of the wise and their dark sayings.
Matthew 13:10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
Matthew 13:11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries [Sod of the Torah] of the kingdom of heaven but to them it is not given.
1 Corinthians 2:7 But we speak the wisdom [Torah] of G-d in a mystery [Sod of the Torah] , even the hidden [Sod] wisdom …
THE TORAH IS TAUGHT AT THE SOD (Spiritual / Mystical) LEVEL
1 Corinthians 2:6  Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world …
1 Corinthians 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery …
1 Corinthians 2:10 But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit …
WHAT METHODS
ARE USED TO TEACH
THE TORAH / WORD OF YHVH ?
Parables (Psalm 78:1-4, Mark 4:10-13)
Deep / Dark Sayings / Mysteries (Proverbs 1:1-6, 1 Corinthians 2:6-10, 14)
Spiritual Blueprints / Shadows (Exodus 25:8-9, Ezekiel 43:10-12)
BUILDING THE TABERNACLE
      
MESSIAH DWELLING WITH HIS PEOPLE
Exodus 25:8 And let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.
Exodus 25:9 According to all that I show thee after the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all the instruments thereof even so shall ye make it.
BUILDING THE TABERNACLE
      
YESHUA DWELLING WITH HIS PEOPLE
Exodus 40:34 Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
THE EARTHLY TABERNACLE IS A
SHADOW OF THE HEAVENLY TABERNACLE
Hebrews 8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for See says he that thou make all things according to the pattern shown to you in the mount.
THE PURPOSE OF CREATION
      
YESHUA DWELLING WITH HIS PEOPLE
Revelation 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof.
THE TEMPLE IS THE HOUSE OF YESHUA
Matthew 21:12 And Yeshua went into the temple of God …
Matthew 21:13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer …
Isaiah 56:7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer … for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
WE ARE TO TEACH
THE TORAH OF THE TEMPLE
Ezekiel 43:10 Thou son of man, show the house to the house of Israel … and let them measure the pattern.
Ezekiel 43:12 This is the Torah of the house …
THE TEMPLE IS
THE THRONE OF YESHUA
Ezekiel 43:5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.
Ezekiel 43:7 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever
THE TORAH IS LIKE A MAN
Numbers 19:14 This is the Torah … a man …
BELIEVERS IN MESSIAH ARE HIS HOUSE
 Hebrews 3:6 But Messiah as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
1 Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
OUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
 1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
OUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
 1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own?
1 Corinthians 6:20 For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
OUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
2 Corinthians 6:15 And what concord has Messiah with Belial? or what part hath he that believes with an infidel?
2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
2 Corinthians 6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.
YESHUA IS THE GOAL OF THE TORAH
Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end <5056> of the Torah <3551> for righteousness to every one that believes.
YESHUA IS
THE LAWGIVER
Isaiah 33:22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
James 4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who are you that judges another?
LOVE YESHUA BY
 KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENTS
Exodus 20:2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Exodus 20:6 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
WE ARE TO WALK
AS YESHUA WALKED
 1 John 2:6 He that says he abides in him ought himself also so to walk even as he walked.
TORAH METAPHORS
TORAH IS LIKE OIL
TORAH IS LIKE WATER, WINE, HONEY AND MILK
THE TORAH IS LIKE MILK
1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby:
THE TORAH IS LIKE WATER
Deuteronomy 32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew as the small rain upon the tender herb and as the showers upon the grass:
Isaiah 55:1 Ho, every one that thirsts, come ye to the waters …
THE TORAH IS LIKE WINE
Isaiah 55:1 Ho, every one that thirsts, come ye to the waters … buy wine … without money and without price.
THE TORAH IS LIKE HONEY
Psalm 19:7 The Torah <08451> of the LORD …
Psalm 19:10 … sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
TORAH IS LIKE HIDDEN TREASURE
TORAH IS LIKE HIDDEN TREASURE
THE TORAH IS
LIKE HIDDEN TREASURE
Matthew 13:44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man has found, he hides, and for joy thereof goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
THE TORAH IS TRUTH
Psalm 119:142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness and your Torah <08451> is the truth.
Psalm 119:151 Your are near, O LORD; and all your commandments are truth.
Malachi 2:1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
Malachi 2:6 The Torah <08451> of truth was in his mouth …
THE TORAH IS LIGHT
Psalm 119:105 NUN. Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.
Psalm 119:130 The entrance of your words gives light …
Proverbs 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the Torah <08451> is light …
SHALOM (PEACE) IS GIVEN
TO THOSE WHO LOVE THE TORAH
Leviticus 26:3 If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments and do them
Leviticus 26:6 And I will give peace in the land …
Proverbs 3:1 My son forget not my Torah …
Proverbs 3:2 For length of days, and long life, and peace shall they add to you.
SHALOM (PEACE) IS GIVEN
TO THOSE WHO LOVE THE TORAH
Psalm 119:165 Great peace have they which love your Torah <08451> …
Isaiah 54:13 And all your children shall be taught of the LORD and great shall be the peace of your children.
THE TORAH IS RIGHT, TRUE AND GOOD
 Nehemiah 9:13 You came down also upon mount Sinai and spake with them from heaven and gave them right judgments and true laws <08451> good statutes and commandments:
Romans 7:12 Wherefore the Torah is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
1 Timothy 1:8 But we know that the Torah is good …
FOLLOWING TORAH IS DOING WHAT IS GOOD AND RIGHT IN THE EYES OF YHVH
2 Chronicles 14:2 And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:
2 Chronicles 14:4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the Torah <08451> and the commandment.
FOLLOWING TORAH BRINGS LONG LIFE
Proverbs 3:1 My son, forget not my Torah <08451> but let your heart keep my commandments:
Proverbs 3:2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to you.
THE TORAH BRINGS LIBERTY
Psalm 119:45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek your precepts.
Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD has anointed me to … proclaim liberty to the captives …
James 1:25 But whoso looks into the perfect Torah of liberty and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
THE TORAH IS THE WILL OF YHVH
Psalm 40:8 I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your Torah <08451> is within my heart.
1 John 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us:
FOLLOWING TORAH IS
LOVING YHVH WITH ALL OUR HEART
Joshua 22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the Torah <08451> which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God … and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
WE ARE TO FOLLOW TORAH
WITH OUR WHOLE HEART
Psalm 119:34 Give me understanding and I shall keep your Torah <08451>; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
THE TORAH IS TO BE
WRITTEN UPON OUR HEARTS
Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you …
Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Romans 7:22 For I delight in the Torah of God after the inward man:
WE ARE TO WALK IN THE TORAH
Exodus 16:4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my Torah <08451> or no.
FOLLOWING TORAH IS CHOOSING LIFE
Deuteronomy 30:10 If you shall hearken unto the voice of the LORD your God to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the Torah …
Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life …
THE SAME TORAH IS TO
BE FOLLOWED BY JEW AND NON-JEW
Numbers 15:16 One Torah <08451> and one manner shall be for you and for the stranger that sojourns with you.
TORAH IS THE
TREE OF LIFE
Proverbs 3:1 My son, forget not my Torah; but let your heart keep my commandments:
Proverbs 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retains her.
TORAH IS THE
TREE OF LIFE
Revelation 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
SUMMARY OF TORAH
1) The children of Israel were redeemed out of Egypt by grace through faith
2) Believers in Yeshua are redeemed by His blood by grace through faith
3) After we are saved by grace through faith, we are to express our faith in Yeshua by following His Torah
4) Torah means ‘teaching or instruction’
5) The Torah and the Word of God are synonymous terms
SUMMARY OF TORAH
6) The Prophets and Psalms are Torah
7) The Torah is written about Yeshua
8) There are four main levels of Torah (Peshat, Remez, D’Rash and Sod)
9) There are 70 levels of the Torah
10) At creation, the Torah became physical
SUMMARY OF TORAH
11) The Torah is like a man
12) The Torah is taught in parables
13) The Tabernacle and Temple were given by the God of Israel to teach His Torah according to His divine pattern
14) Man is likened to a Tabernacle and a Temple
15) Yeshua is the goal of the Torah
SUMMARY OF TORAH
16) Yeshua is the lawgiver
17) We show our love to Yeshua by keeping His commandments (His Torah)
18) The Torah is like oil
19) The Torah is like milk
20) The Torah is like water
SUMMARY OF TORAH
21) The Torah is like wine
22) The Torah is like honey
23) The Torah is like a hidden treasure
24) The Torah is Truth
25) The Torah is Light
SUMMARY OF TORAH
31) The Torah brings peace to your life
32) The Torah is right, true and good
33) The Torah gives us long life
34) The Torah gives us liberty
35) The Torah is the Will of the God of Israel
SUMMARY OF TORAH
36) We are to follow Torah with our whole heart
37) Following Torah is loving Yeshua will our whole heart
38) The Torah is to be written upon our hearts
39) We are to walk (live our lives) according to the Torah
40) Following Torah is choosing life
SUMMARY OF TORAH
41) The same Torah is to be followed by both Jew and non-Jew
42) The Torah is a Tree of life and following Torah will allow us to live in the Heavenly Jerusalem
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