“Clearing the Path: The True Ministry”

Within each aspect of our lives, Ha’ Moshiach (The Anointed One) Yehoshua has set a graced promise and practice of doctrine before us and in with thoughts of our loved ones, before fellow faithful and those weakened in faith or of no faith of at all, so that they may bear witness and through our personal testimonies and our modeled lives of faith which is at all times within His presence everlasting, His true nature of intimate piety has been blessedly shared with all.

As we speak of walking the path of Yehoshua, we should do so with full intimate knowledge this is truth of what it means to stand firm in faith of HaShem (G-d) and in this are all deeds and attitudinal emissions, public and private, which serve to bear witness before all we encounter and most primly hold to our Creator, not only within our gratitude and high praise, but our inner most personal devotion to what He has commanded and to be steeled within His truth. 

Yehoshua has taken on the full boldness of empire and established religion traditions and in His efforts of delivering the message of HaShem as the anointed messenger, he would be murdered upon a ruggedly hew tree by the powers that be to eliminate what they saw as a threat to their power and control upon the populous. Yehoshua was murdered for delivering the truths of Gnostic Wisdom, that which neuters all efforts of subjection, submission and obedience and the yolk of the falsified Christ Movement. Through this single ultraistic act, Ha' Mosiach's life and ministry would result in an astounding event of his victory over death in the resurrection who confirmed his immediate connection with The Father as the Anointed One who woke break the yolk of a falsified yoked doctrine of man which only served to further distance the people from their own true intimate relationship with our Creator.

The Second Treatise of the Great Seth (Nag Hammadi Codex VII,2): "It was another, their father, who drank the gall and the vinegar; it was not I. They struck me with the reed; it was another, Simon, who bore the cross on his shoulder. It was another upon whom they placed the crown of thorns. But I was rejoicing in the height over all the wealth of the archons and the offspring of their error, of their empty glory. And I was laughing at their ignorance." Earlier in the same passage, Jesus adds: "For my death, which they think happened, (happened) to them in their error and blindness, since they nailed their man unto their death... And I was laughing at their ignorance." The laughter highlights the archons' (and humans') spiritual blindness: they believe they have destroyed the Savior by killing the body, but the divine Christ is beyond physical harm.

Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter (Nag Hammadi Codex VII,3): In a visionary scene, Peter sees the crucified figure suffering, but the living (spiritual) Jesus above the cross is "glad and laughing." Jesus explains that the attackers are shaming only "that which is in his likeness," not the true Savior. The laughter again mocks their ignorance of the distinction between the material shell and the divine reality. Gospel of Judas (Codex Tchacos): Jesus laughs repeatedly (at least four times) at the disciples' ignorance, but not specifically at the crucifixion itself; Laughing at the disciples' prayer of thanksgiving over bread, because they praise the wrong (creator) G-d. Yehoshua laugh’s at their questions about a "strong and holy generation." The text emphasizes liberation from the body rather than victory through bodily death, aligning thematically with the idea that murdering the physical form is irrelevant or illusory.

These passages reflect docetic Christology common in Gnosticism: Jesus only appeared to have a real human body and suffer. The true emphasis is on gnosis (knowledge) overcoming ignorance, not on physical resurrection or atonement via the cross.

His ministry brought us the truth of remaining upon this righteous path, we are mindful to rightfully keep elevated our Father in His proper position of high praise, honor and respect; we do so by remaining among the path of The Way of Yehoshua, we remain worthy of His grace, strong and virtually immune to corruption in the steeled firmness of our devotion. “Apostle” Sual (Paul), sought to the folding in of the faithless, the Chosen and the Gentiles, drawing closer to Yehoshua in heart and soul; though his ministry would diverge greatly from both Yehoshua and Shimon/Petros (Simon/Peter). Saul relished in a narrative of his own creation weaving within it half-truths and outright deceptions of the true ministry of Yehoshua.  Saul, though well intentioned in the end, would lead the faithful and the seeking along a fruitless path distance than one prescribed by Yehoshua. Saul’s is a doctrine very askew of the Truth of Yehoshua’s ministry was much greater than a mere concept of faith.... he completely understood this and accepted its truth confidently, resting his hope and redemption upon it.

Tamim Shimon (Simon/Peter) himself calls out the blasphemy of the doctrine of Saul and of the Christ Movement: “As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.” (2 Peter 3:16-18)

Saul believed that by virtue of Yehoshua’s death upon the ruggedly hewn cross, he himself had answered to and satisfied divine justice…. finding great reconciliation though his ‘visions’ though he must note that Paul had never known Yehoshua, had never been in Yehoshua’s presence or company, nor ever conferred with any the direct 12 Tamim (disciples) who traveled with Yehoshua throughout his Gnostic Wisdom earthly ministry, despite unreliable claims to the contrary.

Most loving faithful, it is of great blessing and an elevated heavenly experience when our  spirit reawakens to its fullest potential with our inner divine flare burning brilliantly as a beacon to seeking soul, which in Pauline Theology constructs the concept, it is as if our own soul along with Yehoshua, stretches itself upon the instrument of the tree of Yehoshua, and in his letter to the Romans writes, ‘In my passing; the law has judged and righteously deemed me guilty, the punishment is death; I am therefore released from the debt of sin, as in the sacrifice of Ben Elohim, Ha’ Moshiach; I have borne the curse, and in the person of my Substitute, all that the law could do by way of condemnation has been executed upon me; for I am found crucified with Ben Elohim (the Son of G-d).’ "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” – {Romans 8:1-2}

Saul’s impassioned directives, though misguided theology, believed in Ha’ Mosiach's (The Anointed One) as the sacrificial death culminating in resurrection, Saul provided a poetic narrative distant and apart from the path of The Way (Gnostic Wisdom) as instructed by Yehoshua. In his misguided passions, his narrative remains askew and this ill-formed narrative would begin the Christ Movement and culminate in The Empire of the Church of Rome. Though Saul himself wasn’t present up that hill in witness, decades later it would be the letters of Saul gathered and made cannon. Following the divesting death of Yehoshua and revived in hope, spirit and grace in the miracle of Yehoshua’s resurrection, in the times Saul would come to cross paths with and encounter those wallowing in the pool of sin among the pleasures of forbidden transgressions, Saul would say, ‘I cannot enjoy these: I am dead to them.’ Such must be the experience of the truly faithful. 

Falling short of having received the complete fullness of Yehoshua, he is to this world of driven pride and ego as one who is utterly dead. For those of you who find the hypocrisy of deception within the holy books of other faiths and are convinced the followers of Yehoshua in the time of Saul knew no such deception, I clarify for you now, deception was often used to convince the ‘unclean’ as it continues to this day by a great many divisions of Christianity shadowed by ill-taught doctrine and interwoven paganism, and as prime evidence, I offer up to you Saul’s very own deception: 

“For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to G-d, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men that I might by all means save some. And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.” – {1 Corinthians 9:19-23}

In his letter to the Romans, Saul wrote “For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law but under grace.” {Romans 6:14} Law versus Grace, this is one of the most important contrasts the faithful wrestle with. The scriptural text provides a clear emphasis on this. The gospels are full of the conflicts between the Pharisees and Yehoshua, highlighting the clash in the difference between the laws with Yehoshua instructs yet stands and HaShem's Grace. Saul devotes his last three letters to this conflict of understanding alone; Romans, Galatians and Colossians, and in addition this conflict can be seen in every other book of the New Testament. We can little afford to allow this to pass unnoticed. For in doing so, we lose the true sight of the meaning and gravity of the very foundation of those who would be committed followers of Yehoshua. 

Walk in faith, go in His grace and know YOU are loved,

Pastor Mark