We welcome comments, however, I ask that you take the time to read the entire post. It seems that this is not the case as evidenced by the last three comments. My question to all is what does the LORD say? 2Timothy 2:15 People
I do not understand how people come to the conclusion that you don’t have to keep God’s commandments or laws, such as the Sabbath Day, Dietary law, Laws on keeping the Feast Days, and not having to read the Old Testament Scriptures. “All you need to know is what is in the New Testament”.
Isaiah wrote that to the Law (Old Testament) and the Testimony (New Testament), if you speak not according to this word there is no light (Truth) in them, Isaiah 8:20.
Now men have started teaching that the law of the circumcision is no more, even though it is an everlasting covenant, Genesis 17:9-14. But Isaiah 24:5 says the Earth is defiled because they transgressed the Laws, changed the ordinance, broke the everlasting covenant, which the Lord made with Abraham, 1 Chronicles 16:14-16.
Now people go and read only the New Testament and misinterpret God’s word by reading the letter that the Apostles wrote in Acts 15. They start out saying you have to be circumcised after the manner of Moses, they should have said after the manner of Abraham. They also said you can not be saved if you are not circumcised. They were right!
When Peter stood up and told them, (Acts 15:7-9), how he preached to the Gentiles in Acts 10, how when they heard the Word they received it with gladness. They were not circumcised, even as Abraham was not circumcised when the Lord promised to give him and his seed after him, the land of Canaan, Romans 4:10.
However, no one understands that after the Lord told Abraham how He would bless him and his seed that he received the sign of the circumcision. It was a sign of Faith; that is that he believed God, Romans 4:11.
We read that as soon as the Lord left off talking with Abraham, he circumcised every male in his house, his son as well as those bought with his money, the same day that God had spoken with him. Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised, because he believed all that the Lord had told him. And, the Lord said that the stranger shall be circumcised as well, if he is a part of Abraham’s household.
Now, the circumcision was to done in every generation for an everlasting covenant. How long is everlasting? That should be the end of the matter, because the Lord said, it is an everlasting covenant, Genesis 17:13.
Now we must continue on because some do not read the scriptures (Old Testament) because there is no light (Truth) in them. Let’s see how the Lord feels about the circumcision, because He says that the man that is not circumcised shall be cut off from his people (Whose people? The Lord’s people).
Let’s take a look at a man that the Lord loved very much, turn to Numbers 12:1-8, we read where Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses for marrying an Ethiopian woman and the Lord heard their conversation as they were chiding with Moses. The Lord called them to the Tabernacle of the Congregation, He told Aaron and Miriam, Hear my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make Myself known to him in a vision and will speak unto him in a dream. My servant Moses, is not so, who is faithful in all Mine house. I speak to him apparently mouth to mouth, and not in dark speeches and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold: Wherefore were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses. As you can see the Lord really loved Moses. Turn to Exodus 4:19-26, we read where the Lord is sending Moses to Egypt to tell Pharaoh to let His people go. As Moses was on his way, the Lord sought to kill Moses because he had not circumcised his son. But his wife circumcised their son, so the Lord let him go.
Now, what do you think the Lord will do to you if he sought to kill Moses, who was faithful in all His house, about not keeping the Law of the circumcision?
As we continue to travel through the Scriptures turn to Exodus 12, where we read that the Lord instituted the Passover, so that He may Passover our sins, in verses :43-49, the Lord said that no uncircumcised person shall eat the Passover. This is an ordinance spoken by the mouth of the Lord, one law for all. For Israel, and for the stranger that would sojourn with Israel. Now, after reading these verses about the circumcision you would think that would be enough—because this was spoken by the Lord and not some man. Did you notice that when the children of the Egyptians did not eat the Passover that there was not a house that there was not one dead. Why? For one thing, they could not partake of the Passover, because they were not circumcised.
What really goes over everyone’s head—that says the circumcision is no more—is that they forget that the Passover of eating the Lamb and putting the blood over the lintel and two side posts, in Exodus12:22-24, that the Destroying Angel would Passover the door and not destroy you.
Well, that lamb of the Passover was the forerunner to the true Lamb of the Passover, Jesus, who comes to take away the sins of the world, John 1:29. When Jesus was about to be sacrificed for our sins, He did away with eating the lamb on Passover, Matthew 26:26-28. He put forth the bread for His body and the Wine for His blood, (this is the New Testament), that is shed for many. Jesus became the Passover Lamb. He has become our Passover, 1 Corinthians 5:7. As Jesus was eating the Passover with His disciples they must have all been circumcised.
So, I ask, can you partake of the Passover of the bread and the wine if you are not circumcised, or be under the blood of Jesus Christ, who has become our Passover?
Let’s go back to the Scriptures (Old Testament), read in Joshua and we see how he had to circumcise all the males because they were not circumcised by their parents in the wilderness, Joshua 5:2-9. Why did Joshua have to circumcise the children? Because the Lord said so, Joshua 5:2, and the children of Israel kept the Passover on the fourteenth day in the plains of Jericho. They could not have kept the Passover if they were not circumcised.
As you can see all the people that came out of Egypt were circumcised, but they did not circumcise their children, because they were disobedient. The Lord had Joshua to circumcise all the males before they came into the land which the Lord would give them. Just as all the children that came out of Egypt were circumcised, all the children that came into the Promised Land were circumcised, because the Lord does not change (Malachi 3:6, Hebrews 13:8).
He is the same yesterday, today, and for ever.
In Ezekiel 43:1-7 we read the scripture that is prophecy for the future. We see the Lord is on the earth, (because he came from the East, not from heaven), He has at this time been on the Earth, with His Saints and Angels for a couple of years—more on this later—He came to His house, (Who built the house that the Lord came to? More on this later.)
Now the Lord spoke to Ezekiel out of the house, Ezekiel 44:1-9, concerning all the ordinances of the House of the Lord. He spoke about bringing strangers that are not circumcised in the “heart and in the flesh” into His house to pollute it; that they had broken His covenant because of their abominations. He made it very clear in Ezekiel 44:9 that no uncircumcised stranger shall enter His house. Why does this still apply in the future? Because, the Lord does not change.
When did this happen? Let’s go to the past, yesterday. In Acts 15, we read about the Apostles and Elders were talking about the Word coming to the Gentiles and if they should be circumcised. Why they has this dispute is beyond me, because the Lord said that the stranger among you should be circumcised, also, in the flesh, (Exodus 12:48, Deuteronomy 9:14), if he is to become a member of the Lord’s house, Isaiah 56:6-7. The Lord’s house shall be a “house of prayer for all people”.
After they wrote this letter that is spoken of in Acts 15, Paul in the very next chapter—with the letter in hand—still went and circumcised Timothy. Why did he do this if the circumcision was not to be kept by the stranger, because Timothy’s father was Greek, Acts 16:1-4?
Now, if Paul who was the Apostle to the Gentiles, (Romans11:13), circumcised Timothy, who was a Gentile, would he not have also circumcised the rest of the Gentiles that believed in Jesus Christ?
Remember what Peter said in 2Peter 1:19-20, “We have a more sure word of prophecy and that no scripture is of any private interpretation”. When Peter was speaking of scripture, he was referring to the Old Testament. He also wrote that Paul’s writings were hard to be understood, and that they that are unlearned and untaught wrestled with the scriptures (Old Testament) as well as Paul’s writings to their own destruction, 2Peter 3:15-17.
In John 8:39, Jesus tells us that if you were Abraham’s seed you would do the works of Abraham. One of his works is that he circumcised himself, his sons, and all the males in his house.
I ask you, how are you to become a part of the covenant if you are not circumcised, for this is a sign of the covenant? Even our Lord Jesus Christ was circumcised (Luke 2:21) when He was eight days old.
Paul said that the circumcision profits much in every way, in keeping the oracles of God, Romans 3:1-2. Because in time past the Gentiles were strangers from the covenants of promise and aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and having no hope in the world, but through the blood of Jesus you are no more strangers but fellow citizens with the saints and a member of the household of God (Israel), when you come under His blood, (Ephesians 2:11-12, :18-20.
So, if you are not circumcised, become circumcised and keep His sayings. If you are circumcised, keep His sayings, 1Corinthians 7:19. Jesus tells us in Luke 4:4, that man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord, Deuteronomy 8:3.
So, Abraham is circumcised, Moses is circumcised, Paul is circumcised, all the apostles are circumcised, Timothy was circumcised by Paul after the dispute about the circumcision, even our Lord and Savior is circumcised. Are you? If not, then hedge your bet and become circumcised. Better to be safe than sorry.
In doing this you will be making a covenant with our Lord and the Father, that you will be obedient to all of His laws and commandments, Galatians 4:28-29.
Peace,
Brother Tyrone
Isaiah wrote that to the Law (Old Testament) and the Testimony (New Testament), if you speak not according to this word there is no light (Truth) in them, Isaiah 8:20.
Now men have started teaching that the law of the circumcision is no more, even though it is an everlasting covenant, Genesis 17:9-14. But Isaiah 24:5 says the Earth is defiled because they transgressed the Laws, changed the ordinance, broke the everlasting covenant, which the Lord made with Abraham, 1 Chronicles 16:14-16.
Now people go and read only the New Testament and misinterpret God’s word by reading the letter that the Apostles wrote in Acts 15. They start out saying you have to be circumcised after the manner of Moses, they should have said after the manner of Abraham. They also said you can not be saved if you are not circumcised. They were right!
When Peter stood up and told them, (Acts 15:7-9), how he preached to the Gentiles in Acts 10, how when they heard the Word they received it with gladness. They were not circumcised, even as Abraham was not circumcised when the Lord promised to give him and his seed after him, the land of Canaan, Romans 4:10.
However, no one understands that after the Lord told Abraham how He would bless him and his seed that he received the sign of the circumcision. It was a sign of Faith; that is that he believed God, Romans 4:11.
We read that as soon as the Lord left off talking with Abraham, he circumcised every male in his house, his son as well as those bought with his money, the same day that God had spoken with him. Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised, because he believed all that the Lord had told him. And, the Lord said that the stranger shall be circumcised as well, if he is a part of Abraham’s household.
Now, the circumcision was to done in every generation for an everlasting covenant. How long is everlasting? That should be the end of the matter, because the Lord said, it is an everlasting covenant, Genesis 17:13.
Now we must continue on because some do not read the scriptures (Old Testament) because there is no light (Truth) in them. Let’s see how the Lord feels about the circumcision, because He says that the man that is not circumcised shall be cut off from his people (Whose people? The Lord’s people).
Let’s take a look at a man that the Lord loved very much, turn to Numbers 12:1-8, we read where Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses for marrying an Ethiopian woman and the Lord heard their conversation as they were chiding with Moses. The Lord called them to the Tabernacle of the Congregation, He told Aaron and Miriam, Hear my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make Myself known to him in a vision and will speak unto him in a dream. My servant Moses, is not so, who is faithful in all Mine house. I speak to him apparently mouth to mouth, and not in dark speeches and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold: Wherefore were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses. As you can see the Lord really loved Moses. Turn to Exodus 4:19-26, we read where the Lord is sending Moses to Egypt to tell Pharaoh to let His people go. As Moses was on his way, the Lord sought to kill Moses because he had not circumcised his son. But his wife circumcised their son, so the Lord let him go.
Now, what do you think the Lord will do to you if he sought to kill Moses, who was faithful in all His house, about not keeping the Law of the circumcision?
As we continue to travel through the Scriptures turn to Exodus 12, where we read that the Lord instituted the Passover, so that He may Passover our sins, in verses :43-49, the Lord said that no uncircumcised person shall eat the Passover. This is an ordinance spoken by the mouth of the Lord, one law for all. For Israel, and for the stranger that would sojourn with Israel. Now, after reading these verses about the circumcision you would think that would be enough—because this was spoken by the Lord and not some man. Did you notice that when the children of the Egyptians did not eat the Passover that there was not a house that there was not one dead. Why? For one thing, they could not partake of the Passover, because they were not circumcised.
What really goes over everyone’s head—that says the circumcision is no more—is that they forget that the Passover of eating the Lamb and putting the blood over the lintel and two side posts, in Exodus12:22-24, that the Destroying Angel would Passover the door and not destroy you.
Well, that lamb of the Passover was the forerunner to the true Lamb of the Passover, Jesus, who comes to take away the sins of the world, John 1:29. When Jesus was about to be sacrificed for our sins, He did away with eating the lamb on Passover, Matthew 26:26-28. He put forth the bread for His body and the Wine for His blood, (this is the New Testament), that is shed for many. Jesus became the Passover Lamb. He has become our Passover, 1 Corinthians 5:7. As Jesus was eating the Passover with His disciples they must have all been circumcised.
So, I ask, can you partake of the Passover of the bread and the wine if you are not circumcised, or be under the blood of Jesus Christ, who has become our Passover?
Let’s go back to the Scriptures (Old Testament), read in Joshua and we see how he had to circumcise all the males because they were not circumcised by their parents in the wilderness, Joshua 5:2-9. Why did Joshua have to circumcise the children? Because the Lord said so, Joshua 5:2, and the children of Israel kept the Passover on the fourteenth day in the plains of Jericho. They could not have kept the Passover if they were not circumcised.
As you can see all the people that came out of Egypt were circumcised, but they did not circumcise their children, because they were disobedient. The Lord had Joshua to circumcise all the males before they came into the land which the Lord would give them. Just as all the children that came out of Egypt were circumcised, all the children that came into the Promised Land were circumcised, because the Lord does not change (Malachi 3:6, Hebrews 13:8).
He is the same yesterday, today, and for ever.
In Ezekiel 43:1-7 we read the scripture that is prophecy for the future. We see the Lord is on the earth, (because he came from the East, not from heaven), He has at this time been on the Earth, with His Saints and Angels for a couple of years—more on this later—He came to His house, (Who built the house that the Lord came to? More on this later.)
Now the Lord spoke to Ezekiel out of the house, Ezekiel 44:1-9, concerning all the ordinances of the House of the Lord. He spoke about bringing strangers that are not circumcised in the “heart and in the flesh” into His house to pollute it; that they had broken His covenant because of their abominations. He made it very clear in Ezekiel 44:9 that no uncircumcised stranger shall enter His house. Why does this still apply in the future? Because, the Lord does not change.
When did this happen? Let’s go to the past, yesterday. In Acts 15, we read about the Apostles and Elders were talking about the Word coming to the Gentiles and if they should be circumcised. Why they has this dispute is beyond me, because the Lord said that the stranger among you should be circumcised, also, in the flesh, (Exodus 12:48, Deuteronomy 9:14), if he is to become a member of the Lord’s house, Isaiah 56:6-7. The Lord’s house shall be a “house of prayer for all people”.
After they wrote this letter that is spoken of in Acts 15, Paul in the very next chapter—with the letter in hand—still went and circumcised Timothy. Why did he do this if the circumcision was not to be kept by the stranger, because Timothy’s father was Greek, Acts 16:1-4?
Now, if Paul who was the Apostle to the Gentiles, (Romans11:13), circumcised Timothy, who was a Gentile, would he not have also circumcised the rest of the Gentiles that believed in Jesus Christ?
Remember what Peter said in 2Peter 1:19-20, “We have a more sure word of prophecy and that no scripture is of any private interpretation”. When Peter was speaking of scripture, he was referring to the Old Testament. He also wrote that Paul’s writings were hard to be understood, and that they that are unlearned and untaught wrestled with the scriptures (Old Testament) as well as Paul’s writings to their own destruction, 2Peter 3:15-17.
In John 8:39, Jesus tells us that if you were Abraham’s seed you would do the works of Abraham. One of his works is that he circumcised himself, his sons, and all the males in his house.
I ask you, how are you to become a part of the covenant if you are not circumcised, for this is a sign of the covenant? Even our Lord Jesus Christ was circumcised (Luke 2:21) when He was eight days old.
Paul said that the circumcision profits much in every way, in keeping the oracles of God, Romans 3:1-2. Because in time past the Gentiles were strangers from the covenants of promise and aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and having no hope in the world, but through the blood of Jesus you are no more strangers but fellow citizens with the saints and a member of the household of God (Israel), when you come under His blood, (Ephesians 2:11-12, :18-20.
So, if you are not circumcised, become circumcised and keep His sayings. If you are circumcised, keep His sayings, 1Corinthians 7:19. Jesus tells us in Luke 4:4, that man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord, Deuteronomy 8:3.
So, Abraham is circumcised, Moses is circumcised, Paul is circumcised, all the apostles are circumcised, Timothy was circumcised by Paul after the dispute about the circumcision, even our Lord and Savior is circumcised. Are you? If not, then hedge your bet and become circumcised. Better to be safe than sorry.
In doing this you will be making a covenant with our Lord and the Father, that you will be obedient to all of His laws and commandments, Galatians 4:28-29.
Peace,
Brother Tyrone
