Proverbs 14:25
A true witness delivereth souls:
But a deceitful witness speaketh lies.
Here is a little lesson in ancient pictographic Hebrew. Each Hebrew letter has a meaning. The word witness is ‘ed’ composed of two letters: the ‘ayin’ meaning ‘eye’, and the ‘daleth’ meaning ‘door’. The word ‘witness therefore has the meaning of one who saw as he peaked through the door of someone’s tent.
A true witness delivereth souls:
But a deceitful witness speaketh lies.
Here is a little lesson in ancient pictographic Hebrew. Each Hebrew letter has a meaning. The word witness is ‘ed’ composed of two letters: the ‘ayin’ meaning ‘eye’, and the ‘daleth’ meaning ‘door’. The word ‘witness therefore has the meaning of one who saw as he peaked through the door of someone’s tent.
The witness tells the story of what he saw.
This same word is used to describe the two witnesses who have to appear in a court of Jewish Elders to give account of a crime. In John 8 of the Messianic Scriptures, legalistic rabbis try to catch Yeshua in a disobedience to the Torah, which of course He would never dream of doing, and never did (see footnote). To test Him, they bring to Him a woman caught in adultery. Yeshua in full knowledge of Torah goes through the regular toratic judicial process and asks the woman where are her witnesses; He says, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Of course, through His wisdom, he had beforehand convicted the conscience of her accusers/witnesses who left, and without witnesses, according to Torah, no judgment could be held. He then proceeded to forgive her advising her to sin no more. The Master was wise. He wanted to show everyone, including those who would read this story through the ages, that the Torah is actually a book about the grace and mercy of God. He wanted to expose the wrong legalistic attitude of the religious leaders of His day, showing that the intended application of Torah was grace, mercy and justice and that this could be done only though an appropriate understanding of Torah obedience. In his Torah teaching in the Book of Romans and Galatians, Paul is very specific about the grace application of Torah.
Yeshua is our true witness to how the Torah (the Instruction book Moses received from Mt Sinai) is to be applied. He Himself is the Living Torah, the Beginning of the Creation of God as is mentioned in Proverbs 8 and John 1, so He should know. And being this true witness, he is able to deliver souls as our proverb tells us today. Yeshua delivers souls, while those with a distorted perspective of the Word of God create death.
It is sad that today’s dispensationalists and replacement theology advocates have created this fictional concept that the “Old Testament’ is about ‘Law’ and the ‘New Testament’ is about ‘grace’. No bigger lie has ever been taught to deceive humanity. It is strange that those who promote this lie have either never seriously studied the Old Testament cause they find it dry and boring, or if they did, they did it through the lens of already preconceived seminarian ideas. The whole book from Genesis to Revelation is one book all about the grace of the Eternal God who does everything in His power to reach out to us.
Footnote: Yeshua broke the legalistic traditional rabbinic interpretation of Torah obedience, which he defined as, ‘commandments of men’, but He never broke the commandments of Torah as outlined by Moses.
This same word is used to describe the two witnesses who have to appear in a court of Jewish Elders to give account of a crime. In John 8 of the Messianic Scriptures, legalistic rabbis try to catch Yeshua in a disobedience to the Torah, which of course He would never dream of doing, and never did (see footnote). To test Him, they bring to Him a woman caught in adultery. Yeshua in full knowledge of Torah goes through the regular toratic judicial process and asks the woman where are her witnesses; He says, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Of course, through His wisdom, he had beforehand convicted the conscience of her accusers/witnesses who left, and without witnesses, according to Torah, no judgment could be held. He then proceeded to forgive her advising her to sin no more. The Master was wise. He wanted to show everyone, including those who would read this story through the ages, that the Torah is actually a book about the grace and mercy of God. He wanted to expose the wrong legalistic attitude of the religious leaders of His day, showing that the intended application of Torah was grace, mercy and justice and that this could be done only though an appropriate understanding of Torah obedience. In his Torah teaching in the Book of Romans and Galatians, Paul is very specific about the grace application of Torah.
Yeshua is our true witness to how the Torah (the Instruction book Moses received from Mt Sinai) is to be applied. He Himself is the Living Torah, the Beginning of the Creation of God as is mentioned in Proverbs 8 and John 1, so He should know. And being this true witness, he is able to deliver souls as our proverb tells us today. Yeshua delivers souls, while those with a distorted perspective of the Word of God create death.
It is sad that today’s dispensationalists and replacement theology advocates have created this fictional concept that the “Old Testament’ is about ‘Law’ and the ‘New Testament’ is about ‘grace’. No bigger lie has ever been taught to deceive humanity. It is strange that those who promote this lie have either never seriously studied the Old Testament cause they find it dry and boring, or if they did, they did it through the lens of already preconceived seminarian ideas. The whole book from Genesis to Revelation is one book all about the grace of the Eternal God who does everything in His power to reach out to us.
Footnote: Yeshua broke the legalistic traditional rabbinic interpretation of Torah obedience, which he defined as, ‘commandments of men’, but He never broke the commandments of Torah as outlined by Moses.
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