The Natsari Revolution
Rabbi Yehudah “Tochukwu” ben Shomeyr
The Coming
Hebraic Civil War
The Hebraic
movement of Messianic/Natsari Judaism finds itself in a time like unto the time
of the Judges, a time akin to the medieval and renaissance period where two
extremes exist simultaneously. A time where everyone does what is right in
their own eyes and a time where everyone is blindly having a love affair
Orthodox Judaism. Within it there exists a scattered, yet fully cognitive and
fully aware remnant, disgruntled and disillusioned by such flagrant
disobedience to GOD and HIS WORD and HIS Prophets and the blind, lemming
mentality where brainwashed and doped up followers high on the elixir of
Orthodoxy and Jewish Mysticism gladly follow the sap in front of him over the
edge of the precipice.
Where is the
Martin Luther of Messianic and Natsari Judaism? Who will stand in protest and
nail it to the synagogue door? Where is the Messianic and Natsari Keith Green
who will not pull any punches and convict us in love?
You think
the Hebraic Movement is splintered and fractured now, just wait, it gets worse.
For upon the horizon is a rebellion led by this disgruntled remnant (I Sam.
22:2). They will be the first domino to fall, the catalyst that triggers a
Protestant style Revolution within the Messianic and Natsari faith and it will
culminate into a Spiritual Civil War (Exd. 15:3, Matt. 10:34-39) and that will
begin the Resolution of Reformation. Before there is peace, there must be war.
Armageddon has to occur before the New Heaven and New Earth can come and
eternal peace to reign.
I’m not a
warmonger, but if war must be waged, it must be a just cause. Israel justly
rejected Solomon’s son and left Judah, thus began the Civil War between the Two
Houses of Judah and Israel. The Tribes justifiably went to war with Benjamin
after the abominable thing they done to the Levites concubine. What was the
cause of the American Civil War? Blind allegiance to former British Governors
and Slavery.
Why is there
coming a Civil War in the Hebraic Messianic and Natsari Movement? Because of
blind allegiance to Judaism and the Spiritual Slavery it causes.
The Sheep
will be separated from the Goats and the Chaff will be blown away as the Wheat
remains, the Wheat will be harvested and the Tears will be burned.
The Need for
Rebellion an Revolution in the Hebraic Movement.
Growing up in
Christian home and a Baptist denomination I quickly seen double standards and
contradictions within the faith; differences in what the Word of God says and
what manmade religious doctrines and customs dictate.
I have never
been an inside the box kind of person and I never truly fit in with, belonged
to, or conformed to any given religious set or group. I have been constantly
ridiculed, criticized and rejected by the religious establishments because I am
different and because I choose GOD and HIS WORD over mans and his doctrines.
In
Christianity I found a false and ignorant freedom outside of the Torah which
created its own boundaries and bondages. In contrast within Messianic and
Natsari Judaism where I found adherence to the Torah in light of and in
conjunction with Post Resurrection Judaism and its Rabbis which also created
boundaries and bondages of its own. I refuse to be bound or bullied by either!
In contrast
I’ve also seem romanticism with either the ignorant and fearful backwater ways
of Protestantism of the Southern United States as morality and religion was
back in the 1940’s and 50’s; to the romanticism and blind allegiance of
renaissance Catholicism with its saints and superstitions. In Messianic and
Natsari Judaism I have witnessed a romanticism and blind loyalty to Rabbinic
and Orthodox Judaism who’s Rabbis from 2000 years ago to the present with their
customs and traditions, who hate me, my faith and my Messiah and will never
accept such. On the other hand I also am witnessing a Messianic Faith which
tries to hybridize Protestantism which rejects Torah which with Messiah is the
foundation of the Messianic Faith; becoming a living oxymoron and a walking
contradiction.
I therefore
gladly make my declaration and take my stand; opening myself up to the
rejection, hate and ridicule of people bound and brainwashed by these variants
of the religious establishment and its brand and flavor of faith, to walk to
the best of my ability in the footsteps of Messiah Yeshua the Living Torah.
I did not
leave the ignorance and bondage of Christendom to trade it for the chains of
another, which can be found all over the fractured slivers of the Hebraic
Movement.
My Messiah
was a Sacred Rebel, a Holy Revolutionary that questioned and bucked the religious
system of His day and its high time His People follow suite.
Ashamedly I
have to admit in evaluating my life, my faith and my walk; that in converting
to the Messianic/Natsari Faith I foolishly and ignorantly threw out a lot of
good things I received in from Christianity and also picked up some bad things
that have bled over into the Hebraic Movement from Orthodox Judaism. It’s long
overdue to for me to rectify these gross imbalances. It’s a time of purging and reckoning, come
hell or high water.
If Yeshua
and the Prophets before Him experienced the persecution of the religious
establishment of their day and I in mine, well, I’m in good company.
We
desperately need to take our faith and the movement in which it is attached to
and sift it like wheat and truly determine what is the wheat of Torah and the
chaff of manmade culture, custom, tradition and doctrine.
It is sadly
ironic that what I had to do as a Christian in Christianity I am having to do
as a Hebrew in the Hebraic Movement.
I never
allowed or accepted condemnation from Christianity and I sure as hell am not
going to take it from the Messianic/Natsari Movement. I refuse to be made to
feel guilty for things of commission or omission that are not outlined in Torah
or the Whole of Scripture or by Messiah Himself! I will no longer live
self-consciously as if I were walking on egg shells or thin ice. Let the stones
of others fly. The Written and Living Word is my buckler and shield and that
trumps any tradition or fence concocted or erected by any religious authority.
I want chapter and verse to justify what I do.
The Torah is
fence enough but if there be erected a fence around the Law it will be built by
my own hand, for myself and my reasons and it will not be imposed upon others.
…work out your own salvation with
fear and trembling. Phl. 2:12
I will not
look, act, think or be what others expect me to be anymore. The only approval I
seek, crave or need is that of my Heavenly Father.
Am I
sounding to “Christian” for some of you? Look, the Torah and Messiah are not in
question here; the customs and traditions attached to them are. The religious
system built and or being built in connection with them is. It is not about religion but relationship. This
is something that we knew from Christianity but seem to have forgotten in our
Messianic walk. Do you want to be religious or real!?
So let’s
drop the religious entrapments and embellishments in which we hide behind and
get real and honest with ourselves and with the Movement. Let us wake up and
take the drastic necessary corrective action that if something offends us we
need to…
…cut it off, and cast it from thee: for
it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast
into hell. Matt. 5:30
What Needs
to be Done
Many in our
movement, out of anger and disillusionment and due to feeling betrayed, have
foolishly thrown the baby out with the bath water and have rejected and done
away with the good things we had obtained in Christianity and due to these same
feelings, some in this movement have foolishly assumed that because they
ignorantly believe that Jews never departed from Torah, that they have all the answers and we
thus adopted customs, traditions and doctrines of Judaism that has nothing or
little to do with Torah or Messiah.
Bottom line
is, Orthodox Judaism with its customs and traditions is the other side of the
same coin of Roman Catholicism. Both having suspect, unfounded and unreliable
legends, customs, traditions, teachings and doctrines; some of which even
violate the Torah and other Scriptures and or Messiah Himself!
We need to
understand that any Rabbi or Sage after the Resurrection of Yeshua is suspect
and any “church father” from Ignatius on is suspect and unreliable. Why learn
from and put credence in a Jew who rejects and hates Messiah Yeshua and why
learn from a “church father” who hates and rejects the Torah!?
We need to
focus on the Rabbis and Sages before Yeshua, the contemporaries of Yeshua and
the Apostles and their 1st and possibly 2nd generation
disciples after them. We cannot focus on what we don’t have; the many Natsari
documents locked away in the Vatican vaults, but the documents of the Natsarim
we do have.
The Natsari
Movement today needs to be more pure, organic and uncluttered and unpolluted by
Catholic and anti-nomian Protestantism or Orthodox Judaism. We need to be the 1st
Century Natsarim in the 21st Century. Nothing more, nothing less. We
need to molt and shed the Greco-Romanesque Western way of thinking and
operating and conform to the Eastern Hebraic Method of Operations. If we do not
do these things, our movement and faith is nothing but a farce and a joke and
will die and wilt before our very eyes.
Time to stop
playing synagogue, church or whatever you want to call it and get serious about
our faith, walk and movement. The ball is in our court. It’s time to rise above
and separate ourselves from the polluted, corrupt, cultic red flag extremists,
wackos and wannabes that give us a bad name. You hang out with and chum around
with bastards (Heb. 12:8) you’ll start thinking and acting like them. Time to
be the legitimate heirs and Kings Kids that we truly are!
It’s now or
never! Now is the time!
…behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day
of salvation. II Cor. 6:2b
