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Plague of Death
From Sha’uwl to She’owl…
The most important Yahuwd | Jew in the long history of Yisra’el is Dowd | David, and yet he is seldom credited with being the Messiah, the Son of God, the future king of the world, the most prolific prophet, or as being the most brilliant and articulate person who ever lived. And prior to the revelations presented in these pages, no one recognized him as the Zarowa’ | Sacrificial Lamb who fulfilled Pesach and Matsah leading to Bikuwrym while making Shabuw’ah and Taruw’ah possible. He has not previously been acknowledged as the initial beneficiary of Shabuw’ah, as the focus of Taruw’ah, nor as the one initiating Kipurym. Dowd is, instead, robbed of his accolades and achievements by Christian and Jew alike – and to their demise.
Up to this point, however, the most influential Yisra’elite was Sha’uwl | Question Him, from the tribe of Benjamin. And yet, he never spoke with God, was not a prophet, and everything Yahowah said about him was decidedly negative. He was not anointed, was not in the Covenant, and was not authorized by anyone. He wasn’t particularly literate nor articulate. He divided, abandoned, and bludgeoned his people.
Whether you are a Jew or Gentile, it is essential that you protect yourself from what he conceived and distance yourself from it. It is vital that you come to appreciate why God despised the man who would claim to speak for Him. If this were not so, Yahowah would not have warned us about him.
468Sha’uwl | Paul was the most nefarious and ignoble man in human history. Having created Earth’s most popular and anti-Semitic religion, Yahowah offered a haunting prediction denouncing him 666 years prior to Paul penning his first letter.
In Galatians, which was written by the Devil’s Advocate circa 52 CE, Sha’uwl | Paul laid out his case for Replacement Theology. Six hundred sixty-six years earlier, Yahowah refuted him, inspiring His prophet, Chabaquwq | Habakkuk – a text we reviewed previously in this volume.
God announced that He would be on the lookout for the likes of Sha’uwl, and that He is committed to disapproving and rebuking him. So, shouldn’t we respond in kind? After all, since no one other than Sha’uwl in all of human history fits this prophecy, shouldn’t the world have been circumspect of the religion he proposed?
He not only tried to change God’s requirements regarding participation in the Covenant relationship and path to salvation, but he replaced God’s approach with his own. While claiming to speak for God, he consistently contradicted and undermined Him. It should have been obvious that his entire edifice was a house of tarot cards.
By affirming that He isn’t going to replace His requirements for participating in the Covenant with something as nebulous as faith, nor shirk His own personal responsibilities, God has established Himself as being in direct opposition to Christianity, especially when one considers Sha’uwl’s repudiation of the Towrah and its Covenant.
Yahowah, having witnessed Sha’uwl attempt to deceive His children 666 years before he composed his first letter, warned us about the self-proclaimed apostle Paul. Additionally, He provided us with the means to rebuke him so that no one would be fooled by his faith. By reading and 469reciting this prophecy, we distance ourselves and all who will listen from the ill effects of Sha’uwl and his letters.
God considers the perpetrator of the scheme that emerged as Roman Catholicism particularly deadly, a plague so contagious that He specifically exposed and condemned its protagonist. I suspect that this occurred because this charlatan would claim that God had authorized him to undermine His credibility and competence. The lines of demarcation being so clear, and the consequences being so severe, Yahowah left no doubt whatsoever regarding this infamous individual, specifically and unambiguously naming him, as we shall soon see, in the prophecy.
From the time the Chabaquwq prophecy was written right up to today, only one man is guilty of every charge that is being laid out before us. And that is why “he” is identified in the third-person masculine singular throughout.
Sha’uwl alone promoted his delusions during the “mow’ed – meeting times,” something we shall learn in a moment that is germane. Sha’uwl was in Yaruwshalaim when Dowd was fulfilling the Mow’ed Miqra’ey – Invitations to be Called Out and Meet with God. He even fulfilled another aspect of the prophecy when he claimed to have been a rabbi prior to doing an about-face to attack God’s people from an entirely new direction. Chabaquwq actually states: “he will act like a rabbi, even though this does not actually apply to him.” Further, Sha’uwl admitted to being conceited and demon-possessed – things which will soon loom large.
Since He was speaking through the Prophet Chabaquwq around 615 BCE, it would be over six centuries before Sha’uwl would question the Towrah, earning Yah’s disapproval and punishment. Therefore, 470Yahowah encouraged those who first read these words to be patient. This warning was for another day.
I find it interesting that now, in 2023, just ten years shy of Yahowah’s return, we are reading this prophecy and identifying it with Sha’uwl. Better late than never, I suppose.
This portion of that prophecy indicates that Yahowah was aware of Sha’uwl’s letters and is responding to them…
“Pay attention (hineh – behold), he will be puffed up with false pride (‘aphal – his head will swell and he will be haughty and arrogant, he will be lifted up for being boldly presumptuous heedless of the truth). His soul (nepesh), it is not right nor straightforward (lo’ yashar – he does not consider anything appropriately and is circuitous in his reasoning, he wanders away by twisting and convoluting the teaching, and nothing is on the level) in him (ba).
So then (wa), through trust and reliance (ba ‘emuwnah – by being firmly established, confirmed and upheld by that which is dependable and steadfast, always truthful and reliable), those who are righteous and vindicated (tsadyq – those who are upright, innocent, and acquitted, especially those who are right) shall live (chayah – they shall be restored to life, being nurtured and growing).” (Chabaquwq / Embrace This / Habakkuk 2:4)
While narrowing His sights in on Sha’uwl in the first stanza, in the second, Yahowah reminds us that vindication and life everlasting come to those who trust and rely on His firmly established and always dependable testimony. This is and always has been the antidote for religion, especially Pauline Christianity.
And yet in Galatians, in the midst of his initial assault against the Towrah, Sha’uwl misquoted this statement, the very one which condemned him for arrogantly mocking 471God, removing it from its context and truncating it, all to promote a faith based on ignorance...“But because with regard to the Torah absolutely no one is vindicated or justified by God becomes evident because: ‘Those who are righteous out of faith will live.’” (Galatians 3:11)
Sha’uwl, evidently transfixed by the attention afforded him in this damning and deadly prophecy, cited it again, this time at the beginning of his most famous letter: “For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from belief to belief, as it has been written, ‘But the righteous shall live by belief.’” (Romans 1:17) Sha’uwl and Satan are taunting God. Their collective arrogance is unmatched.
There are six specific details in this next prophetic statement, all of which implicate Sha’uwl six hundred sixty-six years before he incriminated himself. But one clue, in particular, removes any doubt regarding whom God is warning us about because Yahowah identifies His foe by name. If you are a Christian, you may want to pay special attention to this...
“Moreover (‘aph), because (ky) the intoxicating wine and inebriating spirit (yayn – the consequence of the impaired judgment) of the man (geber – the individual human being (singular masculine)) of deceptive infidelity and treacherous betrayal (bagad – of adulterous and offensive behavior, of handing people over to the influence and control of another without justification through trickery and deceit) is a high-minded moral failure (yahyr – is arrogant, meritless presumptive), he will not rest, find peace, nor live (wa lo’ nawah – then he will not succeed, achieve his aim, nor reach his goal, not be beautifully adorned nor abide (qal imperfect)), whomever is open to the broad path (‘asher rachab– the wide, greedy, opportunistic, duplicitous, and improper way) associated with (ka – according to) Sha’uwl (Sha’uwl – the personal and proper name of the individual in question, it is also the name of the place of separation, the realm of the dead, the 472dominion of questioning: She’owl (She’owl and Sha’uwl are written identically in the Hebrew text (consider Strong’s 7585 and 7586), however Sha’uwl as a “geber – man” with a “nepesh – soul” qualifies while She’owl as a place does not in this context)).
He (huw’) and (wa) his soul (nepesh) are like (ka) the plague of death (maweth – a pandemic disease that kills a large population of people).
And so (wa) those who are brought together by him, accepting him (‘asaph ‘el – those who associate with and join him, those who are removed and withdrawn by assembling with him, moving toward him and thereby gathered in and victimized by him) will never be satisfied (lo’ saba’ – will not find contentment nor fulfillment (based upon the Dead Sea Scrolls)).
Almost every Gentile (kol ha Gowym – the people from every race and place) will gather together unto him (qabats ‘el – will assemble before him), all of the people from different races and nations (kol ha gowym).” (Chabaquwq / Embrace This / Habakkuk 2:5)
I have read this countless times and it still takes my breath away. God could not have been any more explicit, and yet, billions have ignored His warning, thereby dying by way of Paul’s plague of death.
In 1 Corinthians 11:20-21, Sha’uwl | Paulos told those who had joined his assembly not to participate in Passover, which is the ultimate plague of death. This serves as a treacherous betrayal of Yahowah’s instructions regarding the narrow path He provided to salvation.
Attacking the core of Yahowah’s plan is the epitome of presumptuousness and immorality. Those who ascribe to such moral turpitude die. Those who promote it will find themselves in She’owl along with Sha’uwl. And yet, 473Pauline Doctrine is popular, providing for those who are receptive to it, mankind’s broadest path to destruction.
Sha’uwl promised the gift of life, but his religion, the most popular ever conceived, is the plague of death. Sha’uwl promised heavenly rewards to those who placed their faith in his Gospel of Grace, and yet those intoxicated by his myth will never find satisfaction or contentment.
They will remain estranged from God because, unlike Yahowah’s assurances in the Towrah, Sha’uwl’s hollow promises will all go unfulfilled. And that means that the people Sha’uwl claimed as his own, the Gentiles – individuals from many different races and places – will suffer the consequence of his New Testament – which is to die.
Even if Sha’uwl had not been condemned by name, with the mention of the Gentiles, or the “ethnos – races” in Paul’s parlance, Rabbis Akiba and Maimonides were eliminated from the potential list of contentious culprits – not that it isn’t already obvious. These religious stalwarts corrupted Yahuwdym not Gowym.
Pauline Doctrine has influenced more people in more places in this world than any other corruption of Yahowah’s testimony, leading nearly five billion souls to their demise. And the means to this madness is exactly as Yahowah foretold: Sha’uwl | Paul boasted that God had authorized him to alter the requirements upon which He had already taken His stand.
Sha’uwl, like Satan before him in the Garden, shortchanged Yah’s testimony, removing His directions from their context to beguile individuals into believing that God had instituted the changes he professed. Every time Sha’uwl quotes Yahowah, it is always a terse reference that is lifted as an object of scorn to ridicule the Towrah, most often with these allusive references serving as clichés – simple adages that are easy to articulate and remember.
474In spite of this, and even though Sha’uwl means “Question Him,” not one in a million Christians even contemplates the vast array of irresolvable conflicts between Paul’s letters and God’s Word. So, while the following continues to identify the culprit, most Christians remain oblivious to Yahowah’s prophecy regarding them or him.
“They do not ask questions, any of them, about him (ha lo’ ‘eleh kol ‘al – nor are any of them against him). Terse references to the Word they lift up as taunts to ridicule (mashal nasa’ – simplistic and contrived equivalencies, often easy to remember aphorisms (clichés, dictates, and adages) become bywords with implied associations with that which is well-known to mock and to exercise dominion through comparison and counterfeit), along with (wa) allusive sayings and mocking interpretations (malytsah – derisive words wrapped in enigmas arrogantly spoken).
There are hard and perplexing questions which need to be asked of him (chydah la – there are difficult enigmas to be solved, dark and hidden secrets, and double-dealings, to be known regarding him). So (wa – moreover) they should say (‘amar – they should admit), ‘Woe (howy – alas, expressing a dire warning) to the one who claims to be great so as to increase his offspring, acting like a rabbi (rabah – to the one who thrives on numbers and who considers himself exceedingly great (the basis of rabbi, something Sha’uwl claimed of himself)),’ neither of which apply to him (lo’ la – which is not his).
For how long (‘ad mathay – until when) will they make pledges (‘abtyt – will they be in debt) based upon his perceived significance (‘al kabed – pursuant to the weight and burden of his testimony and the grievous honor afforded him)?’” (Chabaquwq / Embrace This / Habakkuk 2:6)
475Sha’uwl rebuked those who questioned him, claiming that by doing so they were opposed to God and that they were Satanic when the opposite was true. And speaking of truth, the reason religious belief systems like Christianity are averse to questions is because those who query such things always lose their faith. Evidence and reason seldom matter in matters of religion. It is only the believer’s pledge of allegiance which is considered binding.
“And (wa) he loads himself down (ta’an – he burdens himself) with (‘eth) thick (‘aphelah – dark and wicked) mud (tyt – dirt and dust to be swept away), so why not (ha lo’) quickly, for a short period of time (peta’ – instantly), rise up and take a stand (quwm)?” God is saying that the only thing “kabed – weighty and significant” about Sha’uwl is that he has covered himself and others in muck. Methinks Yah was poking fun at Sha’uwl’s murky and messy prose.
We cannot say that we were not warned. God even told us how to respond to this horrible individual. He wants us to stand up against all forms of corruption: political, religious, military, and economic. We are to confront lies and liars.
And (wa) those of you who are bitten and are making payments to him (nashak – those showing interest, earning money, or becoming indebted to him), wake up from your stupor (yaqats – take action and alter your state of awareness) moving away in abhorrence of him (zuwa’ – in dread of him, detesting his terrifying and vexing nature). Because (wa) you will be (hayah) considered (la) plunder, victimized by him (mashchah la – as booty, spoiled by him).” (Chabaquwq / Embrace This / Habakkuk 2:7)
Only Paul among those who claimed to speak for God solicits money. It is why Christian clerics embrace him. Following his example and his instructions, Christian 476institutions have made merchandise of men. And the worst among them has been the Roman Catholic Church. Yah is trying to rouse these victims before it is too late.
“Because (ky) you (‘atah) have plundered, stealing the possessions of (shalal – you have looted and victimized) an enormous number of (rab – a great many; and serving as the basis of rabbi) Gentiles (Gowym – people from different races and places), (wa – therefore (from the DSS)) they shall loot and victimize (shalal – plunder and rob) all of (kol) the remaining (yether – the residue of the wealth of) nations (Gowym – Gentiles from different races and places) by means of (min) the blood (dam) of humankind (‘adam – mankind) and also (wa) through the violent and cruel destructive forces terrorizing (chamas – the immoral maiming and murdering which oppresses) the Land (‘erets – the Promised Land and thus Yisra’el) and (wa) Yah’s city (qiryah – to Encounter Yah, Yaruwshalaim – the source of teaching regarding reconciliation; from qarah – to encounter and meet Yah), even all of those (wa kol) living in her (yashab ba – dwelling in her).” (Chabaquwq / Embrace This / Habakkuk 2:8)
Paul mercilessly attacks “Jews” throughout his letters, making them the enemy of his new religion, thereby creating the anti-Semitism that ultimately took root in the Christian church. Paul, a Roman citizen, seeded the hatred of God’s Chosen People that boiled over seventy years later with the destruction of Yisra’el and Yaruwshalaim by the Roman Empire’s legions. It happened just as Yahowah predicted it would. Seven hundred years from the time this prophecy was committed to writing, Yaruwshalaim was sacked, Yisra’el was renamed, and those not murdered by Rome were hauled off into slavery.
According to Yahowah, to be “cut off” from Him is to be estranged from the Covenant, thereby, excluded from this relationship and forsaken – which is to be damned. 477Therefore, you do not want God to say of you what He said of Sha’uwl.
“Woe (howy) to one who is cut off, coveting (batsa’ – to one who is greedy and dies), while wickedly (ra’ – harmfully and immorally, adversarially and malignantly) soliciting ill-gotten gain (betsa’ – theft through deception, and the threat of violence, immoral solicitation and plunder) in relation to him setting (la sym – for him to place and appoint) his house and temple (la beyth– his household and establishment) in association with heights of heaven (ba ha marowm – in an advantaged, desirable, elevated, and high place or status in association with God’s home in heaven) so as to spare (la natsal – for the purpose of snatching away and delivering the plunder) the acquired property and possessions (qan – what has been confiscated through envy and religious zeal, the nest egg and snare) from the hands (kaph – palms and control) of fellow countrymen (ra’ – of those living in close proximity).” (Chabaquwq / Embrace This / Habakkuk 2:9)
It is difficult to know if qan is the contracted form of “qana’ – to acquire wealth,” “qanan – to nest,” “qenets – to snare,” or more likely “qanah – to acquire property and possessions,” even “qana’ – jealousy, envy, and religious zeal inflaming sexual passion,” because in this context, they would all apply.
The Roman Catholic Church, which was founded on Pauline Doctrine, not only constructs gold-laden cathedrals and has storehouses filled with tens of billions of dollars of ill-gotten gain, they have positioned themselves as having sole possession of the keys to heaven. It is interesting, however, that recently they have had to return billions of dollars to the families of children their priests have molested, priests following the Pauline mandate not to marry. And in this way, the 7th Mashal | Proverb conveys the same message, which is why we are considering how both prophets zeroed in on the same foe.
478Six hundred sixty-six years before Paul perpetrated his ploy on the unwary, Yahowah was cognizant of his scheme…
“You have deliberately decided upon and conspired at the advice of another to promote a lowly and shameful plot to confuse (ya’ats bosheth – after consultation you have come to an informed conclusion through deliberation to conceive and perpetrate a simplistic plan with the intent of confounding while displaying an adversarial attitude (note: bosheth – shameful, lowly, and confusing is from bashan – serpent, associating this adversarial scheme with Satan, with whom Sha’uwl admittedly consulted)) those who approach your house (la beyth – those who enter and are associated with your household and your construct), ruining and reducing by cutting off (qatsah – severely injuring and destroying by scraping away and ending the existence of) many (rab – a vast multitude of) people from different races and places (gowym – Gentiles; Greeks in Sha’uwl’s parlance who he claimed exclusively for himself) and in the process (wa) losing (chata’– forfeiting by impugning guilt upon through missing the way and bearing the loss of) your soul (nepesh).” (Chabaquwq / Embrace This / Habakkuk 2:10)
Paul deliberately perpetrated this fraud in connection with Satan, the very spirit Sha’uwl claimed had possessed and goaded him. Also, since beyth serves as the basis for beryth | covenant, God is inferring that Sha’uwl’s “new covenant” is a shameful plot designed to confuse the unwary. Implicating him further, Paul actually referred to himself as the father of his faithful children and thus of his new covenant family. He even wrote about life in the household he had conceived.
To be cut off from Yahowah’s one and only Covenant, the very Covenant Sha’uwl condemned in Galatians, is to die with one’s soul ceasing to exist. So, while the perpetrator of this crime will endure forever in She’owl, 479the souls of his victims are reduced to nothing, their lives squandered as a result of Sha’uwl’s shameful scheme.
“Indeed (ky – surely and truly), the Rock (‘eben) as part of the structure of a home (qyr – as the walls and ceiling which provides protection for a family) will issue a proclamation (za’aq – will issue a summons for an assembly meeting and will cry out (qal imperfect)), and (wa) that which connects (kaphis – the plaster, the rafter, and the beam comprising the structure of a home) with (min) the timber (‘ets – the carpenter’s work, the tree, and gallows), he will answer and respond (‘anah – making a public declaration, providing a contextual reply (qal imperfect)).” (Chabaquwq / Embrace This / Habakkuk 2:11)
The ‘eben | rock which is gyr | integral to the structure of the home who za’aq | issued this proclamation and kaphis | connected it with the ‘ets | timber upon which he fulfilled Passover, is Dowd. And his ‘anah | response can be read throughout his Mizmowr | Psalms.
In order to enhance his appeal to Gentile Greeks and Romans, Paul embraced Gnosticism, using its fascination with the spirit to denounce the Towrah as being of the flesh. So God says…
“Woe to (howy – a strong warning to) the one who establishes (banah – the one who builds a family, erects and constructs a home (qal participle)) a place where the flesh is exposed as a source of anguish (‘iyr – the city where terror is exposed; from “‘uwr – to incite and to stir up by blinding and rendering the chaff naked and laying the skin bare”).
In blood and through death (ba dam – with blood; from damam – to destroy by making deaf and dumb), he forms (wa kuwn – he proposes, prepares, establishes, and supports (the polel stem reveals that the subject suffers the effect of the verb’s action and the perfect conjugation 480affirms that the process is complete)) a populated institution promoting (qiryah – a city; from “qarah and qary’ah – to encounter, meet, and befall the foundation, beams, building, and furnishings of an institution where people congregate based upon preaching”) that which is unrighteous, invalid, and harmful (ba ‘awlah – in wickedness with evil intent, unjustly damaging others through perversity).” (Chabaquwq / Habakkuk 2:12)
And since there is a better option, Yahowah inspired His prophet to reveal… “Why not look here and pay attention (ha lo’ hineh – why not look up and behold) by means of an association with (min ‘eth – by approaching and being part of) Yahowah () of conscripts who provide assistance (tsaba’ – vast array of spiritual implements who are enlisted and arranged in a command-and-control regimen, serving as effective tools by following orders)?
But instead (wa), the people (‘am – family) expend their energy and grow weary (yaga’ – they toil and labor, growing tired for lack of rest (qal imperfect)) amongst an abundance of worthlessness (ba day ‘esh – with excessive trifling uselessness which is of no value), and the nations which gather together (la’owm – the peoples who congregate) in an excess of (ba day) delusions and fantasies which are poured forth which are unreal and have no benefit, resulting in nothingness (ryq – fictitious myths which are unreliable, of empty and vain deceptions which are poured out, experienced, and consumed), exhausting and destroying them (ya’eph – physically draining and ruining them and causing them to be slighted, diminishing to nothingness (qal imperfect)).” (Chabaquwq / Embrace This / Habakkuk 2:13)
In this next statement, we find Yahowah revealing that Sha’uwl’s words would be hypocritical regarding circumcision and antagonizing intoxicating in their serpentine appeal, all while masking his perverted 481sexuality. Then God condemns Paulos based upon his Latin / Roman name, which means “little and lowly” – although it’s evident that he favored its alliteration with Apollo.
“Woe to (howy – a strong warning to) the one who causes and allows his companions and countryman to drink (shaqah ra’), thereby associating them with (saphach) your antagonizing venom (chemah – your poisonous and serpentine toxin which injures and antagonizes), but also (wa ‘aph – and yet surely) intoxicating (shakar) for the purpose of (ma’an) looking at (nabat ‘al) their genitals (ma’aowr – male genitalia).
You will get your fill of (saba’ – you will be met with an abundance of (the qal perfect indicates that this is completely reliable while the second-person masculine singular reveals that this is directed at a lone male individual)) shame and infamy, a little and lowly status (qalown – dishonor, disgrace, scorn, and a very small and humbling reputation) instead of (min) honor and glory (kabowd – the manifestation of the power and presence of God which rewards and empowers).
Choosing to intoxicate (shathah – deciding to actually inebriate (qal imperative)), in addition (gam – besides), you (‘atah) also (wa) elect to show them unacceptable, going round about over their choice not to become circumcised (‘arel muwsab – choosing to deploy circular reasoning in altering their perspective regarding their decision to remain uncircumcised for religious reasons, you have chosen to actually make them unacceptable (niphal imperative and qal imperative)).
Upon you (‘al – before you) is the binding cup (kows) of Yahowah’s () right hand (yamyn – serving as a metaphor for judgment), therefore (wa) public humiliation and a lowly status (qyqalown – shame and ignominy, dishonor and disgrace) will be your reward (‘al 482kabowd – the manifestation of your reputation and attribution of your status (second-person masculine singular suffix – thus addressing a solitary man)).” (Chabaquwq / Embrace This / Habakkuk 2:15-16)
Pauline Doctrine is poison, intoxicating venom from the most vile of serpents. But more incriminating still, Sha’uwl, who never knew the love of a woman, provocatively expressed his love for a young man, Timothy. And even though Paul detested circumcision and spoke hatefully about the sign and requirement of the Covenant, he personally circumcised Timothy.
Furthermore, Sha’uwl so craved recognition and status, he heaped it upon himself. But here God is saying that Sha’uwl’s poisonous attack against circumcision will come full circle and slather him in shame. The man who claimed to be God’s exclusive apostle to the Gentiles has become the man of infamy.
In the whole of Yahowah’s prophetic testimony, no prediction is as dire as this one. And that is because no one ever did what Paul has done. This scathing attack was not required of anyone else.
Yahowah has provided His evaluation of Paul and His assessment of his followers. In this light, the only way to view him and his religion favorably is to ignore God and estrange ourselves from Him. We have been called to question and criticize everything Paul said and wrote. God has asked us to hold him accountable. It may be too little, but it is never too late.
And that is why we find Yahowah conveying... “Indeed from (ky) this grievous injustice and blatant wrongdoing in opposition to (chamas – this unrestrained campaign of error and towrahlessness in destructive conflict with) that which purifies, empowers, and enriches (labanown – typically transliterated Lebanon, but from laban – purifying, cleansing, and whitening and ‘own – 483being substantially empowered, growing vigorously, while becoming enormously enriched), He will constantly keep you covered and continually protected (kasah – He will always provide a covering by which He adorns you) and as for (wa) the destructive and demonic (shed – the Devil’s devastating and ruinous) beasts (bahemah), He will shatter them (chathath – He will astound them, causing them to wane) as a result of (min) the blood (dam – death) of humankind (‘adam), and also (wa) this grievous injustice against and blatant wrongdoing in opposition to (chamas – this invalid crusade of error in destructive conflict with) the Land (‘erets – the realm of Yisra’el), the city (qiryah – the place to encounter Yah’s foundation, the upright pillar, the beams, and the furnishings), and all (wa kol) of her inhabitants (ba yashab – who have settled there to meet and be restored)” (Chabaquwq / Embrace This / Habakkuk 2:17)
Since most remain oblivious to the obvious, the faithful do not realize that the Pauline object of worship, the Christian “Jesus Christ,” is a caricature, an idolatrous image based upon the Greek god, Dionysus. In all of his fourteen letters, there isn’t a single accurate statement from his Iesou – which is particularly telling considering Paul’s influence over the contents of Luke, Mark, and Matthew.
In his lone attempt, Paul misquotes his mythical god to advance the fantasy of a new covenant and testament. As a result, Yahowah asks a foreboding question... “How does he succeed with a caricature (mah ya’al pesel – why does he benefit by valuing an idolatrous image he has shaped (hifil perfect))?
Indeed (ky), he will construct him (pasal – he will shape him), fashioning him (yatsar – he will devise, form, and ordain him) by offering a veiled form of a pagan god (massekah – by forming an alliance which conceals and an association which hides, covering up the true identity) and by teaching lies (wa yarah sheqer – and through deceptive, 484misleading, and useless instruction), so that (ky) he adds credence and partiality to (batach – he makes believable, even preferable, so that believers stumble and the unsuspecting fall as a result of their penchant and fondness for and partiality to) the one who created the construct of him (yatsar yetser – the one who devised, planned, prepared, fashioned, and formed such thoughts and reasoning regarding him), for him (‘al) to make (‘asah – to act and cause) the shepherds (‘alylym) bound and mute (‘ilem – tied up and negated, appearing dumb).” (Chabaquwq / Embrace This / Habakkuk 2:18)
This is precisely what Paul did and how and why he did it. And the answer to Yahowah’s question is ignorance and apathy. Christians are unaware of who Dowd is what he has done, and what this represents in our lives.
Their ignorance is deliberate because the recognition that He is the living embodiment of Yahowah’s Towrah affirms the book they despise. The realization that Dowd exemplifies the Covenant Family is problematic since they have replaced it. And the affirmation that the Messiah served as the Passover Lamb destroys their religion. So to confuse the faithful and dissuade them from considering the truth, Paul not only negated Dowd’s testimony, he robbed him of his acclaim and achievements.
“Woe to the one who says (howy ‘amar) to the wooden pillar (la ha ‘ets – approaching the upright timber, tree, carpenter, and gallows) return from the dead (quwts – awaken from lifelessness and become alive again after death; from the verbal form which addresses the idea of abruptly starting something after having been asleep), rising up to blind by providing false testimony and precluding further observation (‘uwr – awake in the flesh, ready to blind the observant so that they are unjustly deprived of an accurate recollection of what was witnessed), to the Rock (la ‘eben), he who consistently teaches (huw’ yarah – he who instructs and constantly 485provides guidance to the Rock (hifil imperfect)), be silent (duwmam – be silenced and be struck dumb and mute).
Behold (hineh – pay attention), he (huw’) has actually been seized, captured, controlled, and then covered (taphas – has been grasped hold of and wielded skillfully (qal passive – having this actually done to him)), brilliantly shimmering (zahab – splendorous and golden), extremely valuable and desirable (keseph – ornamented and gilded in silver so as to be yearned for and desired), but (wa) without (‘ayn – devoid of) any (kol) spirit (ruwach) in his midst (ba qereb – in his corpse and physical being animating his life).” (Chabaquwq / Embrace This / Habakkuk 2:18-19)
Sha’uwl will repeatedly state that “the wooden pillar,” actually stauros in Greek, but changed by Roman Catholics into the Christian “cross” in the 5th century CE, exists as the means to be “quwts – awakened from the dead,” or to be “resurrected” in religious parlance. He even equated “sleep” with death and said of those who were sleeping, that they would rise up abruptly before his passing. So this is an allusion to the Pauline fixation on the wooden “cross,” from which he promotes resurrection from the dead, thereby dismissing Pesach, Matsah, Bikuwrym, and Shabuw’ah in addition to Taruw’ah, Kipurym, and Sukah. Paul’s plan begins and ends at the cross with the death of his god. It would become the symbol of his religion.
While it makes me nauseous, as it does God, let’s compare some of what Paul wrote in Galatians in this regard. It is astonishing that anyone believed him when he claimed that rather than liberating, the Torah enslaved; that circumcision was actually counterproductive; that even his god could not save the circumcised; that the Torah is a list of laws which must be obeyed, that the Torah condemns rather than saves; that his god was in opposition to the Torah – freeing souls from it; that faith as opposed to knowledge, saves, albeit based upon promises that must 486remain unknown because God’s vows refute Paul’s assertions.
In the fifth chapter of Galatians, we will read that God must somehow have been mistaken when He made circumcision a requirement for Passover, inclusion in the Covenant, and entrance into Heaven. As Yahowah has just predicted, Sha’uwl would claim that it is the “cross” of his impersonation of God that saves. But alas, it was Paul’s crusade against the sign of the Covenant, circumcision, that revealed the perverse character of the man who felt no compunction about publicly demeaning God’s plan.
By way of the New Living Translation, we find:
“So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law.” (Galatians 5:1)
“Listen! I, Paul, tell you this: If you are counting on circumcision to make you right with God, then Christ will be of no benefit to you.” (Galatians 5:2)
“I’ll say it again. If you are trying to find favor with God by being circumcised, you must obey every regulation in the whole law of Moses.” (Galatians 5:3)
“For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace.” (Galatians 5:4)
“But we who live by the Spirit eagerly wait to receive by faith the righteousness God has promised to us.” (Galatians 5:5)
“For when we place our faith in Christ Jesus, there is no benefit in being circumcised or being uncircumcised. What is important is faith expressing itself in love.” (Galatians 5:6)
“You were running the race so well. Who has held you back from following the truth?” (Galatians 5:7)
487“It certainly isn’t God, for he is the one who called you to freedom.” (Galatians 5:8)
“This false teaching is like a little yeast that spreads through the whole batch of dough!” (Galatians 5:9)
“I am trusting the Lord to keep you from believing false teachings. God will judge that person, whoever he is, who has been confusing you.” (Galatians 5:10)
“Dear brothers and sisters, if I were still preaching that you must be circumcised—as some say I do—why am I still being persecuted? If I were no longer preaching salvation through the cross of Christ, no one would be offended.” (Galatians 5:11)
“I just wish that those troublemakers who want to mutilate you by circumcision would mutilate themselves.” (Galatians 5:12)
You are no better than a dumb cow if you believe this man. And my friends, keeping you and others from making this mistake was the purpose of the 7th Mashal.
So, let’s review it together one more time…
“My son, literally and continually observe, closely examining and carefully considering My words, My answers, and My promises, especially My instructions regarding the conditions for participating in the relationship, electing to continually store them up within you as a genuine treasure. (Mashal / Proverb 7:1)
And you shall continuously live by closely examining and carefully considering My directions regarding the conditions of the binding relationship agreement and with My Towrah teaching in accord with the focus of your eye. (Mashal / Proverb 7:2)
Choose to fasten them onto your fingers to influence your actions, and of your own volition, engrave them on the tablets of your heart so that you 488can process information rationally and make reasonable decisions. (Mashal / Proverb 7:3)
Acknowledge and state that the skill required to be perceptive and discerning, ‘You are my sister and my wise friend whom I know, acknowledge, and recognize.’ You should choose to call upon and summon her for understanding. (Mashal / Proverb 7:4)
By being observant, you will be protected from the illegitimate and estranged, unauthorized and repugnant woman, away from the Whore’s seductive words and deceitful promises. (Mashal / Proverb 7:5)
Because by the window of My house, through My framework denoting the proper order and timing of things, from a higher elevation, I looked down, (7:6) and I saw the simple-minded and naïve, the gullible, simply enticed, and readily misled, and I made the connection, understanding and recognizing that among these children, there was a young man of deficient character, lacking judgment. (Mashal / Proverb 7:7)
By crossing over so as to be alienated and leading to intoxication in the street beside her corner, he strides, walking as part of a growing group along the path to her house. (Mashal / Proverb 7:8)
Just before the dark of night, depicting the twilight of one’s conscience and the fading of their soul, as the light diminishes after sundown at the end of the day, at the darkest center and focus of night, there is total darkness and doom, the complete elimination of light. (Mashal / Proverb 7:9)
Then behold, a woman approaches to issue an invitation to meet with him. She moves toward him to summon him, calling out his name, outfitted in the garments of a prostitute, a harlot, and a whore.
489She is crafty and concealed, underhanded and duplicitous, in her shimmering and flashy appearance – in her heart and character. (Mashal / Proverb 7:10)
She is disturbingly loud, creating a confusing commotion, flashy and flamboyant, gaudy and garish. She is openly defiant and rebellious, a thorn of sorts. There is no continuation of life in her household, in keeping with her slanderous stance and covert manner, her malicious teachings regarding the insulting path to walk. (Mashal / Proverb 7:11)
Now she is influencing the way one conducts one’s life along the streets in the most prominent places, establishing a base to compel offering one’s life by constructing a foundation and raising an edifice to endow misfortune.
In the public squares where people meet and where civic activity occurs, beside every corner, she deceptively lurks, ready to deceitfully ambush, clandestinely and covertly preparing to perpetrate her ploy using a false pretense, tricking her prey. (Mashal / Proverb 7:12)
And she establishes her influence over him, harshly overpowering and binding him, controlling him, as flashing lights from the heavens. Then she makes him submit to her, brazenly and shamelessly possessing him with her presence and her improper and aggrandizing sayings which are directed toward him. (Mashal / Proverb 7:13)
A sacrificial offering of fellowship and reconciliation was made (zebach shalem) by me for my God (‘al ‘ay) the day (ha yowm) I fulfilled and completed (shalem) my vows (neder ‘ay). (Mashal / Proverb 7:14)
For this reason (‘al ken), I will have come forth (yatsa’) to invite and summon you, calling out to meet 490with you, to welcome you, and to read to you in conjunction with the Miqra’ey (la qara’ ‘atah), earnestly seeking and desiring your presence (la shachar paneh ‘atah). And so now (wa), I have located you and obtained contact with you (masa’ ‘atah). (Mashal / Proverb 7:15)
I have spread out (rabad) fabrics (marbad) on my couch (‘eres ‘ay), the most elaborate textiles (chatubowth) of linen from flax (‘etuwn) of Mitsraym (mitsraym). (Mashal / Proverb 7:16)
I have made a wave offering over (nuwph) the place I reside (mishkap ‘ay) with myrrh (mor), aloes (‘ahalym), and cinnamon (wa qinamon). (Mashal / Proverb 7:17)
I want you to choose to travel this way, electing to walk and journey through life like this (halak) for us to fully experience (rawah) Dowd’s love and passions (dowdym). Until the approach of the morning, and for an eternity thereafter as a result of the restoring testimony (‘ad ha boqer), unencumbered and unrestrained by outside influences, let us choose to enjoy one another’s company (‘alas), reveling in love, adoration, and affection (ba ‘ahab). (Mashal / Proverb 7:18)
However, it is for naught because the man isn’t in his home. He has walked on a path that is far away and is now estranged. (Mashal / Proverb 7:19)
He grasped hold of the pouch filled with money, and he took it with him in his hand during the approach of the day of the full moon, when he will enter his home. (Mashal / Proverb 7:20)
She guides him and persuades him to reach out, to turn aside, to stoop down, to twist and bend, but also to plot and pervert with the magnitude of her persuasive words, her fetching doctrine, and plagiarized beliefs.
491With her smooth and seductive verbiage, she compels him, causing him to be estranged. (Mashal / Proverb 7:21)
And he follows after her right away like a dumb cow, a castrated steer who is not paying attention and does not understand, ignoring the fact it’s going to the slaughter, or like a tinkling bangle clasped to a woman’s ankle which serves as a fetter to control or discipline a foolish citizen. (Mashal / Proverb 7:22)
Until a projectile pierces that which is essential to life, he is like an early bird, impetuously rushing directly toward a plot which ensnares. He does not realize that the plot is against his soul, persona, and consciousness. (Mashal / Proverb 7:23)
So now My children, choose to actually listen to and approach Me, and elect to pay attention, accept what you hear as true, and of your own volition, actively and appropriately respond to the statements and promises of My mouth. (Mashal / Proverb 7:24)
Do not go astray, continuing to have the illicit affair she desires, actually turning to her ways. Your heart, your disposition, inclinations, and reasoning should not be continually deceived, wrongly staggering as a result of wayward beliefs or errant perceptions, into her popular lifestyle, her broad and accommodating, widespread and prevalent, well-trodden path which defines one’s sojourn through life. (Mashal / Proverb 7:25)
For many of the defiled and deceased, she has victimized and brought down, causing them to fall, to bow down, prostrating themselves in religious worship, their life aborted, and there are vast multitudes of apathetic individuals in addition to the powerful, all of whom have been deliberately devastated or purposefully killed by her. (Mashal / Proverb 7:26)
492It is the way of Sha’uwl and to She’owl, of Paul and to Hell, descending to the impending doom surrounding the lightless inner rooms of her house, the home of the plague of death.” (Mashal / Proverb 7:27)
It is astonishing that Christians tote these prophecies around in their Bibles, and yet they remain ignorant of them. They claim that their religion is based upon the inerrant word of God, and yet they do not seem the least bit interested in what He actually revealed.
Worse, it would have been easy for an educated Jew to refute Paul’s letters – showing all of the ways he contradicted the God he claimed had chosen him. Had this been done, Christianity, the most anti-Semitic conspiracy in history, would have been stillborn. The lives of millions of Jews would have been spared.
