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Here is an email I received warning about Ralph Messer. I certainly agree with everything written in response to this false teacher.

Dear Dwayna,

Watch this Hebrew Roots teacher bewitch this congregation to come under the law.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEDj6xDyapI


He uses the typical methods of a deceiver, as he not so subtly retranslates what God said. (For example, "Torah is not law, it's teaching and instruction". Biblically, the torah is the law of sin and death. Our new covenant, our salvation, is the law of life in Christ Jesus.) He is seducing this congregation to come into a covenant, the torah, that Jesus shed His blood to abolish. The old and new covenants are very opposite. Hebrews chapters 9 and 10 are an excellent comparison of the old and the new covenants.

I am anguished as I listen to him say "How many of you would at least agree with me that Jesus did not have a King James version of the Bible". We know from John 1:1 that in the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:14 goes on to say, "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." Jesus dwelt among us, and Scriptures refer to Him as the Word made flesh. He taught that we must be born again in John 3:7. He healed the sick, raised the dead, fed the multitudes, taught of His eternal kingdom, taught of His death and resurrection, and foretold the signs of His coming. He did not carry a written version of the whole Bible with Him because it was not written yet. We only know Him through the reading of the New Testament. (2 Corinthians 3:14 says that the Jewish people are veiled from knowing Jesus in reading the Old Testament. That veil is taken away in the reading of the New Testament).

Jesus was and is the whole Word and, although He quoted from the torah, He taught that He came to fulfill it, not destroy it. Fulfill means end. ( For example, if a prophecy has been fulfilled, it has come to pass, it is finished). Jesus did not come to continue the torah. The torah required animal sacrifices, and did not offer salvation. That covenant has come to pass, it is finished.

Jesus would not have had to die to give us a new and better covenant if man could have kept the law (or torah). He died for us out of love for us, so that we would not have to perish eternally for our sins.

Ralph Messer does not teach the infallibility of Scriptures. His definition of the remnant is from the Talmud, the writings of those who deny Jesus. He does not preach the cross, and the redemption of man through the shed blood of Jesus. He does not teach the truth of the covenants, that Jesus died to end the torah. He does not have the doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Barbara