Shabbat Shalom Israel Welcome to the new covenant congregation of Israel the
tabernacle Elohim The convocation of the mighty Elohim YAH who has commanded us to
keep this sabbath day Holy because it is a sign and I repeat it is a sign between him
and us for a perpetual covenant throughout all of our generations So again,
I want to welcome everyone here to this To this place of convocation to this place of
worship and Service where we come together to learn how to serve this great deity
according to his will Not according to our will but according to his will Today's
class is titled the Nazarene Today's class is titled the Nazarene The objective of
today's class is to understand what name was applied to the people of the new
covenant who followed Yahshua and
What was the theology or doctrine that they studied and practiced?
How do they compare to the sect of the Christians?
Are they the same group or a totally different group of people with a totally
different set of practices?
What happened to the Nazarenes?
And how did the early church fathers of Christianity feel about them?
What was their perspective on this group called the Nazarenes?
What were the feelings of the Nazarenes towards their early Christian church
fathers?
This and much more will be covered in today's discussion titled The Nazarene.
I would like to state to our visitors and listeners that the form that we use for
teaching is based upon comparatives.
We merely take what's in the Bible as a word of the highest Elohim and compare it
with the doctrine and practices of the world.
Yes, mainly Christianity and other applicable religions if necessary.
Our belief is one cannot understand the truth unless the lie is also being
presented.
And one cannot see a lie unless the truth is shown.
So please understand we're not judging anyone or any organization but merely
speaking the word and comparing it to what Christianity and other religions in this
world teaches.
Today's reader will be Brother Yishmael of NCCI Charlotte.
Let's go ahead and begin our discussion at Acts chapter 9 verses 1 through 2.
This is... we have a lot of scripture to go through as well as a lot of secular
information.
So certainly if you have questions, you know, please chime in.
If you'd like to interject, please chime in.
Give us a second to get to you so you can speak into the mic so those that are on
the outside of the sanctuary will be able to hear you and be edified as well.
It's very important that if you have comments, it's very important.
If you have questions or, you know, if you'd like to interject anything,
it's very important that you do so.
You know, this is the form that we have.
So everybody can be edified, including myself.
Okay, let's pick it up at Acts chapter 9 and we're going to read verse 1 through 2.
Acts chapter 9 verse 1 through 2.
Again, the title of this class is the Nazarene.
And so yet breathing out threatenings and slander or slaughter against the disciples
of the master went unto the high priest and desired of him letters to Damascus to
the synagogue that if he found any of this way...
Well, what's this way?
What's this way?
If he found any of this way, he didn't say if he found any Christian.
He didn't say if he found any Nazarene.
He said if he found any of this way.
Go ahead.
Whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
Okay, Acts 19, 8 through 9.
Acts 19, 8 through 9.
Acts chapter 19, 8 through 9.
Today we will have a very clear and a very clean understanding of what the
practitioners of the new covenant were called.
What were they called?
Were they called Christians or were they called something else?
Were they called Muslims?
Go ahead.
And he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for the space of three months,
disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of Elohim.
But when divers were hardened and believed not, but spoke evil of that way before the
multitude, he departed from them and separated the disciples, disputing daily
in the school of one Tyrannus.
Okay.
But when some were hardened and believed not, but spoke evil of that way,
spoke evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them and
separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
Okay, go ahead and pick it up at verse 21 through 23, please.
After these things were ended, Saul purposed in the spirit when he had
passed through Macedonia to go to Jerusalem, saying, after I have been
there, I must also see Rome.
So he sent into Macedonia two of them that minister unto him, Timothy and Erastus.
But he himself stayed in Asia for a season.
And the same time there arose no small stir about that way, about that way.
And in some of your secular material, you're going to see way is capitalized,
right?
It's a proper noun.
Okay.
Way.
All right.
And the same time there rose no small stir about that way.
There is a Christian denomination called followers of the way.
And followers of the way, how many of you familiar with denominator followers of the
way?
Does anybody know their, their theological beliefs and practices?
Anybody familiar with it?
Okay.
It's not according to the way we find here in this book.
I can tell you that.
Okay.
They hold to the same central teachings of the Catholic Church.
Okay.
All right.
Let's go ahead and pick it up at Acts 22, 1 through 4.
Acts 22, 1 through 4.
Men, brethren, and fathers, hear you my defense, which I make now unto you.
And when they heard that he spoke in the Hebrew tongue to them that kept the more
silence.
And he said, I'm verily a man, which I'm a Jew.
Now he said I was a Christian now.
Okay.
He says, I'm a Jew.
Go ahead.
I am verily a man, which I'm a Jew born in Tarsus, a city in Sicilia, yet brought up
in this city at the feet of Gamaliel and taught according to the perfect manner of
the law of the fathers.
And taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers.
Just keep that in your mind.
And taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers and was zealous
towards Elohim.
How many of you are zealous towards Elohim?
How many of us are zealous towards Elohim?
Do we even know what it means to be zealous towards Elohim?
And was zealous towards Elohim as you all are this day.
And I persecuted, what?
Persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering it to prisons,
both men and women.
Okay.
Let's see what this way is called.
Let's go to Acts 24, 1-5.
And after five days, Ananias the high priest descended with the elders and with
a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Saul.
And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that
by you we enjoy great quietness and that very worthy deeds are done unto this
nation by your providence.
We accept it always and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness.
Notwithstanding that I be not further tedious unto you, I pray you that you
would hear us of your clemency a few words.
Right.
Okay.
Now go here.
For we have found this man.
Now who's this man now?
Saul.
Saul is this man.
For we have found this man.
A pestilent fellow.
He's a pestilent fellow.
And a mover of sedition.
A mover of sedition.
Among all the Hebrews.
Throughout the world.
And a ringleader of the sect.
Of the Nazarenes.
Right?
Now watch.
Watch what Felix says.
Or watch what Luke writes about Felix.
Go and read verse 22.
So we're bringing a Nazarene, okay, to be judged.
Right?
We're bringing not just a Nazarene, but a ringleader of the Nazarenes.
Okay.
To be judged.
Right?
Okay.
Now watch what Felix equates to be a Nazarene.
Go ahead.
And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way.
Of that way.
The way of the Nazarenes.
Not the way of Christianity.
Right?
Why?
Because it never appeared in your Bible.
It never appeared in your book.
Until the Gnostics, okay, translated.
From Hebrew to Greek.
Okay.
And they inserted.
Right?
Christian in the book.
Under the directive.
Okay.
Or guidance, if you will.
Of Ignatius.
He was the first one to use that term.
Go ahead and pick it up at verse 22.
And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way.
He deferred them and said.
When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your
magic.
Okay.
Alright.
That way is a unique way.
The way of the Nazarenes.
And today we are going to attempt to have an exhaustive study on the sect of the
Nazarenes.
Okay.
Let's see who the Nazarenes were.
Let's see who they are today.
And let's see who is heir to the kingdom.
Okay.
Alright.
Let's go ahead and pick it up at our first bullet, my brother.
The word does not occur in the Bible.
That's right.
In Greek, christianism, Christianity was first used by Ignatius.
This was after the death of the apostles.
Okay.
After the death of the apostles.
Go ahead.
Ignatius, also called Theophorus, Hothophorus, born in Syria around the year
50.
That's right.
Died at Rome between 98 and 117.
Bishop of Antioch.
And what you are going to find in Luke's epistles is that they were called
Christian first at Antioch.
They were not called Christians first at Antioch.
Okay.
Christian was a term that was created and used by everyone after Ignatius.
They were called followers of Meshiach.
Right.
Followers of the anointed.
Okay.
At Antioch or Nazarenes at Antioch.
Okay.
Now go ahead and pick it up at our second bullet.
Let's see what a Nazarene is.
Nazarene, a native or inhabitant of Nazareth.
Go ahead.
A member of a sect of early Christians of Jewish origin who retained many of the
prescribed Jewish observances.
A member of a sect of early Christians of Jewish origin.
Okay.
Y'all just might as well strike that out of your mind.
A member of a sect of early Christians of Jewish origin.
Of Jewish origin.
Now notice what it says here.
Who retained.
This is what the Nazarenes did now.
Who retained many of the prescribed Jewish observances.
Excerpted from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English language.
Next bullet please.
Nazarenes.
Religion.
In the New Testament, see Bible.
Followers of Yahshua the anointed.
Acts 24 and 5.
The earliest Christians were sometimes referred to as Nazarenes.
Particularly by their Jewish contemporaries.
In later church history, the term was applied to a sect of 4th century Jewish
Christians who observed Jewish rituals.
Okay.
No such thing as a Jewish Christian which we will learn a little bit later in this
discussion.
Okay.
Next bullet please.
Thus a new Jewish sect arose known as the Nazarenes.
Thus a new Jewish sect.
Not no Jewish Christian.
A new Jewish sect arose known as the Nazarenes.
Under the leadership of James.
Based on the belief in.
And they have Jesus here.
Continued Messiah ship.
The Pharisees did not regard the sect as a heretical.
Is that right?
Barack?
Heretical.
Okay.
Indeed, the Nazarenes were regarded as being within the Pharisee party.
Regarded as being within the Pharisee party.
In other words, strong similarities.
This is from Revolution in Judea, page 168.
Next bullet please.
Actually, the name Nazarene only occurs about a dozen times in Talmudic
literature.
Uh-huh.
In all but two of these instances, it refers to Jesus the Nazarene.
Uh-huh.
Half of these passages were censored in the Middle Ages.
Either by Christian editors or Jewish editors for fear of them.
Okay, I will tell you that it was edited by the Christians.
That's what I will tell you.
And I will be able to substantiate that momentarily.
The censored passages were restored to the Talmud by R.N.N.
Rabbo Navasi-Gitscher, what we just call him Rabbi, from older MSS.
From references to the early Nazarenes from various sources, we have learned a
number of vitally important things about them.
For example, we have discovered that they used both Old and New Testaments,
believed in the resurrection of the dead, had a knowledge of Hebrew and read the Old
Testament, and at least one gospel in that language, believed Elohim is the creator
of all things, believed in one Elohim and his son Yahshua the anointed.
Nazarenes never believed that Yahshua was the almighty God, but they did believe
that he indeed was the son of God, which is verified throughout the epistles,
throughout all of the epistles.
Believed in one Elohim or one God and his son, Yahshua the anointed, observed the
law of Moses, had a high respect for the writings of the apostle Paul.
All right.
We're talking about the sect of the Nazarenes.
Now let's go and read what the Christians wrote about them.
Not what Nazarenes wrote about Nazarenes, but what about, but let's go and read what
Christians wrote about Nazarenes.
First bullet, please.
Church confessions, a history of anti-Semitism.
You got that right.
Epiphanius.
We shall now especially consider heretics who call themselves Nazarenes.
These heresies passing over the name of Jesus did not call themselves Aesians.
We didn't call ourselves right after Jesus.
Go ahead.
And did not keep the name Jews.
They did not call themselves Christians.
That's correct.
But Nazarenes.
Go ahead.
Taking this name from the place Nazareth.
Now this is Epiphanius.
Okay.
One of the early church fathers.
Okay.
You know, who was talking about these Nazarenes in his epistle.
Okay.
Go ahead.
They are mainly Jews and nothing else.
They make use not only of the new Testament, but they also use it in a way
of the old Testament Jews.
For they do not forbid the books of the law, the prophets and the writings so that
they are approved of by the Jews for whom the Nazarenes do not differ in anything.
And they profess all the dogmas pertaining to the prescriptions of the law and to the
custom of the Jews, except they believe in the Messiah.
Except they believe in the Messiah.
The difference between one of the old order and the new order, right?
The new order practices the precepts of the old order with the exception they
believe in Yahshua as a son of Elohim.
Okay.
Go ahead.
They preach that there is but one Elohim and his son Yahshua, the Messiah.
Well, they are very learned in the Hebrew language.
For they like the Jews read the whole law than the prophets.
They differ from Jews because they believe in the Messiah.
And from the Christians in that they are to this day bound to the Jewish rights
such as circumcision, the Sabbath and other ceremonies.
They have the good news according to Matthew in its entirety in Hebrew.
Right.
Go ahead.
For it is clear that they still preserve this in the Hebrew alphabet as it was
originally written.
Okay.
This is a confession of Epiphanios.
Okay.
All right.
Next bullet, please.
These Jewish believers in Messiah were called Pasagan Indians who are so named by
the Italians from the Latin word Pasagium, meaning passage because of the wandering
unsettled life of these people.
Okay.
Wandering unsettled life of these people.
Wandering and unsettling.
Go ahead.
Gregorius of Pergamo wrote about the Nazarenes, Pasagini in 1250 CE stating.
1250 CE.
So we're talking about what, 800 years ago, around 800 years ago, maybe.
Okay.
Go ahead.
There still remains the sect of the Pasagini.
They teach that the Old Testament festivals are to be observed.
Circumcision.
Right.
Distinction of food.
Go ahead.
And nearly all other matters save the sacrifice.
Except the sacrifices.
See, they teach that you have to keep the synodic covenant.
The only thing that they teach against are the sacrifices.
Okay.
So, I mean, they're called Nazarenes, and then you had Italians, right?
You know, call them Pasagini.
Wanderers, right?
And Nazarene been called a Christian yet.
Go ahead.
Read.
The Old Testament is to be observed as literally as the new.
Right.
We observe the Old Testament as the new, not no old.
And so I think you have history on that.
The division of the Old and New Testament, if you will, was a concept of one of the
early church fathers.
Is this correct?
Okay.
All right.
Let's see.
The Old Testament is to be observed as literally as the new.
Circumcision is to be kept according to the letter.
In other words, 8th day.
Go ahead.
Next bullet.
Justin Martyr in a letter to Diognetus.
Okay.
We had church father Epiphanius.
We have a other church father, Gregorius, right?
A Bergamo.
And let's go and see what church father.
Now, our church fathers are Christians.
They are Christians.
Okay.
And I didn't have this this secular history explained out in any in any depth.
The reason why you have the term Christian that was created.
The reason that the term Christian was created was to create a religious body
that was separate and that was anti-Hebraic.
That was the purpose for creating the term Christian.
Okay.
You can go back and you can verify that.
And some of that will be verified here in our discussion on this Sabbath.
Justin Martyr in a letter to Diognetus concerning Jewish practices.
As for their scrupulousness about meat and their superstitions about the Sabbath and
their much vaunted circumcision and their pretentious festivals and new moon
observances, all of them too nonsensical to be worthy to worth discussing.
Fifth Epistle to Diognetus.
Yes, all of them too nonsensical to be worth discussing.
Right?
We want to talk about that mess, that mess, right?
And then and understand something.
They're talking about the Nazarenes people.
Okay.
They're talking about the Nazarenes.
And here you have a Hebrew that has accused Saul of being the ringleader of
the Nazarenes.
But when we go in and we qualify and define who Nazarenes are, they keep the
customs that the Most High established amongst their fathers.
In other words, they practice the covenant.
That's what the Nazarenes.
The only difference is that they believe that Yahshua, the anointed, is indeed the
son of Elohim and that you have to be purified.
Go ahead and read.
Epistle of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch to the Maxians in 115 CE.
Okay, go ahead.
Now let's see what he wrote to his churches that he was the overseer of.
Go ahead.
To profess Jesus Christ while continuing to follow Jewish customs is an absurdity.
Okay, this is what the first Bishop of Antioch said to profess Jesus Christ while
continuing, while continuing.
Okay, so this suggests that Ignatius was pulling people from practicing what they
call Jewish rights or Jewish rituals while professing the anointed.
Right.
So what is Ignatius doing?
He is removing people from Nazarene theology.
That is what he's doing.
Does everybody follow that?
Because our secular history is going to get very disturbing here in a little bit.
Okay, so we just need to understand what the motive and what these Christian church
fathers are doing.
Okay, go ahead and read.
To profess Jesus Christ while continuing to follow Jewish customs is an absurdity.
Okay, now, you know, John, John the Revelator, okay, was exiled to the Isle of
Patmos.
And we have this epistle in the year 96 CE.
Okay, and we have this epistle being written, okay, to one of Ignatius,
one of Ignatius assembly in Magnesia, okay, and 115 CE.
So not soon after, okay, after the death of the last apostle, the so called last
apostle, do we see this?
Do we see what you call it?
This mess being communicated?
Go ahead.
The Christian faith does not look to Judaism.
Why?
Because it is an entity of itself.
Go ahead.
But Judaism looks to Christianity.
Judaism looks to Christianity.
Okay, go ahead and read.
Tertullian concerning the Sabbath and circumcision.
It follows according that insofar as the abolition of carnal circumcision and of
the old law is demonstrated as having been consummated at its specific times,
so also the observance of the Sabbath is demonstrated to have been temporary.
Demonstrated to have been temporary.
Okay, this is from Tertullian.
Tertullian.
Okay, next bullet please.
Augustine, the true image of the Hebrew is Judas Iscariot.
Okay, the true image of the Hebrew is Judas Iscariot.
Go ahead.
Who sells the master for silver?
The Jew can never understand the scriptures and forever will bear the guilt
for the death of Yahshua.
Okay, all right.
Let's go ahead and pick it up at our next bullet.
Jerome, those who accept the Messiah... In other words, who are the Nazarenes?
Who are the Nazarenes?
Okay, go ahead.
Those who accept the Messiah in such a way... They are those who accept the
Messiah.
They are those who accept the Messiah.
Go ahead.
In such a way that they do not cease to observe the old law.
Uh-huh.
Jerome, Acts 8 14.
Go ahead.
They believe in the anointed, the son of Elohim, born of Mary the virgin.
Uh-huh.
And they say about him that he suffered under Pontius Pilate and rose again.
Go ahead.
And they have mixed faith in the anointed with the keeping of the law.
Okay, let's go and run down some scriptures.
Isaiah 8.
And let's pick it up at 16 and 20.
Jerome brought this up as he was expounding on Isaiah 8 and 14.
Okay.
Nazarenes have the perfect understanding of the will of the Most High.
And the will of the Most High is to be obedient.
Okay.
To his code of ethics.
Okay.
And to have the testimony of his son, Yahshua.
Uh, to accept him as a propitiation for our iniquity and to accept him as the
mediator as the intercessor and as, uh, as the king, as the king over all of
the earth to fulfill the prophetic statement that he will sit on David's
throne and will establish a theocracy upon the face of this earth.
Okay.
Uh, Isaiah 8 and let's go ahead and finish with, uh, Jerome's, uh, discussion
regarding 14, 15 and 16.
Go ahead.
Bind up the testimony, bind up the testimony, seal the law among my
disciples.
Okay.
The law among my disciples seal the law among my disciples seal the law among my
disciples verse 20 to the law and to the testimony.
If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them to
the law and to the testimony.
If anyone who speaks to you does not speak according to the law and to the testimony,
it is because there is no truth in them.
Matthew chapter 7, 21 through 23.
We want to understand what is Nazarene theology?
One of the reasons why, uh, Hebraic assemblies, and I can certainly speak for
this Hebraic assembly feels uncomfortable with saying, well, we practice Nazarene
theology is because how many churches Christian churches do, you know,
call church of the Nazarenes.
They are loaded and they all on Sunday worship.
They do not observe the law.
Okay.
The law has been fulfilled, right?
They use Jesus Christ a whole not.
And this is what we're going to see.
If this is what the Nazarenes did, according to the Bible, according to the
scriptures, Matthew chapter 7, 21 through 23.
Not everyone that says unto me, master, master shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven, but he that does the will of my father, but he that does the
will of Jesus go here, but he that does the will of my father.
Okay.
But he that does the will of Christ go here, but he that does the will of my
father, which is in heaven, many will say to me in that day, master, master,
have we not prophesied in your name?
That's right.
And in your name have cast out devil.
And in your name done many wonderful work.
Okay.
Let's make sure.
Okay.
Now let's just go ahead and, and, and, and go through our elimination.
Okay.
A process here.
Okay.
Muslims, you can throw them out.
Okay.
Allah and Muhammad, right?
Not Yeshua, not a Mashiach, not Christ, anything of that nature.
Hindus throw them out.
Buddhists throw those guys out.
Uh, Shinto isms and, uh, me isms and I isms throw all that stuff out.
Okay.
So we are left with two groups, two ecclesiastical units, Nazarenes and
Christians, Nazarenes and Christians, all secular information points to the fact
that the Nazarenes practice the synodic covenant with the exception of the
sacrifices.
In other words, they kept law.
They practice law.
The Christians, the Christians stated that law was not to be observed.
They had that it had been a null promulgated right on Mount Sinai.
Okay.
But what's fulfilled in the blood of the Messiah.
Okay.
All right, go ahead.
And in your name done many wonderful works.
And then when I profess unto them, I never knew you.
Now this is the time of refreshing.
This is the time of judgment.
And Yahshua is going to say something very specific to them.
Go ahead.
Depart from me.
You that work iniquity.
Now, how many of you have a marker by iniquity in your books?
Okay.
And, uh, what does it say in your book?
Lawlessness.
Yahshua says, depart from me.
You that work lawlessness.
Notice what he says.
He says, and then when I profess unto them, I never knew you depart from me.
You that work lawlessness.
In other words, this is their practice.
Keep in your mind, work lawlessness.
They don't even acknowledge the law.
They don't acknowledge the law.
The law does not exist to them.
And the very last day they say, or Yahshua will say, get away from me.
You who have not observed law.
Okay.
Let's continue Matthew 13 and 41.
Let's, uh, let's bring Yahshua on back to, to, to, to this earth and let's see what,
what takes place.
The son of man shall send forth his angels and they shall gather out of his kingdom.
All things that offend.
I'm trying to find what do we offend against?
I mean, what do we against?
I mean, he shall gather out of, uh, he shall gather out of his kingdom.
All things that offend, offend, go ahead.
And them, which do iniquity and them that, and them, and them, which do iniquity.
How many of you have a marker by iniquity?
Lawlessness.
Okay.
So let's backtrack the son of man shall send forth his angels and they shall
gather out of his kingdom.
All things that offend and them, which them, which do not practice law.
Okay.
Let's, uh, go to, uh, Matthew, excuse me.
Let's pick it up at Luke chapter 16, nine through 31, Luke chapter 16,
19 through 31.
We want to understand exhaustively who the Nazarenes are, who they were, uh,
what, what MO, what was the MO?
What, what, I mean, what was their method of operation?
Okay.
You know, uh, RP, their religious practices.
Okay.
You know, their TO their theocratic ordinances.
Okay.
Uh, let's go ahead and pick it up at, uh, Luke 16, 19 through 31.
The so-called doctrine arose out of Nazareth because Yahshua was the Nazarene
Yahshua of Nazareth.
Right.
And so what we have is some correction.
Okay.
Um, in the, in the writings as where you would find many scholars, okay.
Uh, states that it really should have been, uh, not Yahshua of Nazareth,
but Yahshua, the Nazarene.
Okay.
Go ahead.
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared
sumptuously every day.
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate full
of sores and desiring to be fed with the crumbs, which fell from the rich man's
table.
Moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores.
And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into
Abraham's bosom.
The rich man also died and was buried.
And in hell, he lift up his eyes being in torments and sees Abraham afar off and
Lazarus in his bosom.
Okay.
Now this is where the Christians come and quote that you go off to heaven.
He's been good.
And you go up to hell if you've been bad.
Right.
And you said, well, we'll know that that's, you know, that's really not,
not true.
This is a parable.
No, it was not a parable.
Okay.
All right.
Hold your place right here.
And let's go over to John the third chapter and pick it up at John chapter
three, verse 13.
Okay.
Let's go ahead and put, let's go ahead and put the poor man in heaven.
John three and 13.
And no man has ascended up to heaven.
Okay.
No man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven,
even the son of man, which is in heaven, how can, how in the world can he be in
heaven?
And he's sitting back here talking to Nicodemus.
So he's speaking prophetically.
Okay.
But he says, no man has ascended up to heaven.
So that took care of Enoch and that took care of Elijah.
Okay.
And that also takes care of your poor man.
No man has ascended up to heaven.
How about those who have descended into hell?
Well, let's go to revelations and let's pick that up.
Go over to revelations and pick it up at revelations chapter 19 and pick it up at
verse 20.
And the beast was taken and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before
him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them
that worshiped his image.
These boys were cast alive in a lake of fire, burning with brimstone.
Okay.
All right.
So we just threw them over in the lake of fire.
With the rich man.
So let's go over here and read revelations chapter 20 and pick it up at verse 10.
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone,
where the beast and the false prophet are and the rich man, where the beast and the
false prophet are and the wealthy and the beast and the false prophet are and shall
be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Okay.
And then we have three entities over here in the lake of fire.
Where the rich man, where the rich man, let's go back to Luke chapter 16,
Luke chapter 16.
Everybody missed the, you know, the, the nation, 68% of the world
population, four out of six, okay.
Missed what Yahshua was talking about because they were so eager to do away with
the Hebraic culture.
So eager.
And you know, it is, it is, you know, the Gnostics took, I mean, created
opportunities, literally created opportunities, found some opportunities to
try to paint a picture that the law no longer exists.
Go ahead.
And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into
Abraham's bosom.
The rich man also died and was buried.
And in hell, he lift up his eyes being in torment, sees Abraham afar off and Lazarus
in his bosom.
That's right.
And he cried and said, father, Abraham have mercy on me and send Lazarus
that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am
tormented in this flame.
Like a little bit of water going to satisfy that, right?
I mean, just look at this now.
But Abraham said, son, remember that you and your lifetime receive as your good
things and likewise Lazarus evil things.
But now he is comforted and you are tormented.
And beside all this, between us and you, there's a great gulf fixed so that they
which would pass from hence to you cannot.
Neither can they pass to us that would come from thence.
Then he said, I pray you, therefore, father, that you would send him to my
father's house.
For I have five brethren that he may testify unto them.
Least they also come into this place of torment.
Go ahead, Yishmael.
Abraham said unto him, they have Moshe and the prophets.
Let them hear them.
Read 29 again.
And Abraham said unto him, they have Moses and the prophets.
They have Moses and the prophets.
Remember in the book of Isaiah, the spirit of Elohim said, seal the law
amongst my disciples.
Then he says to the law and to the testimony, the testimony of the prophets,
to the law and to the prophets.
If they don't speak according to the law and the prophets, there is no truth in
them.
Yahshua is bringing everybody back, everybody back to the basic foundation of
the truth.
And that's the law and the prophets.
And he said, nigh, father Abraham.
But if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
And he said unto him, if they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they
be persuaded.
The one rose from the dead.
If they don't hear Moses and they do not hear the prophets, neither will they be
persuaded.
Although one rose from the dead, the moral of the story, brothers and
sisters, is that you've got to what?
Keep the law.
You have got to have your spiritual foundation rooted in the law and the
prophets.
There's nothing new in the New Testament.
That is Christian rhetoric.
Okay.
All right.
Let's go to Acts chapter 2.
Now, these are the things that Yahshua said.
Okay.
Let's go ahead and pick it up at Matthew chapter 5.
Go ahead and pick it up at verse 17.
Matthew chapter 5.
And let's pick it up at verse 17.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets.
Don't think that I've come to destroy the law or the prophets.
Go ahead.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets.
I am not come to destroy but to fulfill.
And he's come to fulfill the prophets, right?
The prophecy speaks of two advents, his first coming and his second coming,
right?
Yahshua came to fulfill his first advent, his first coming.
And he did that, right?
But we are left with the prophetic fulfillment of his second advent that has
yet to be fulfilled.
Go ahead.
For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jolt or one tittle,
shall a no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
To all be fulfilled.
The prophecies speaks of a theocratic kingdom that has not yet been fulfilled.
The prophecy speaks of Yahshua reigning on his father's throne, David, that is yet to
be fulfilled.
Go ahead.
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach
men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven.
But whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the
kingdom of heaven.
All right.
Okay.
Now let's go ahead and springboard.
Let's go ahead and springboard in the New Testament, right?
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John is the Old Testament.
So let's go ahead and go into the New Testament.
Let's go to the book of Acts and let's pick it up at Acts chapter two,
verse one through 15, Acts chapter two, verse one through 15.
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, there were all with one accord in
one place.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven.
And my question is why you have 120 people, you know, on the day of Pentecost,
all in one place.
And all of these are disciples on the day of Pentecost, right?
Which is what we're going to be having this evening.
Okay.
And all of us are going to be in one place on one accord.
Okay.
Now, how many Christians, how many Christian bodies will be keeping will be
keeping Pentecost this evening?
Okay.
Y'all tell me one.
Tell me one.
You got one, brother?
You don't have one?
Can you make up one for me?
Okay.
None.
All right.
Go ahead and finish reading.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven.
Now, the point I'm bringing out is that now we have Hebrews, okay, that have been
purified in the name of Yahshua.
Okay.
Yahshua has now ascended into heaven.
Okay.
He ascended to heaven 10 days ago.
Okay.
10 days ago, he ascended into heaven.
Okay.
And they're hanging around.
Okay.
They're observing Pentecost.
Okay.
Go ahead.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind.
And it filled all the house where they were sitting.
And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as a fire.
And it set upon each of them.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other
tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
And we know that all of these are angels.
Go ahead.
And the angels spoke.
Go ahead.
And they were dwelling at Jerusalem, Hebrews, devout men out of every nation
under heaven.
Now, as this was noised abroad, the multitude came together and were
confounded because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
Go ahead.
And they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold,
are not all these which speak Galileans?
And how here we every man in our own tongue wherein we were born?
Go ahead.
Parthenians, Medes, Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea,
Cappadocia, and Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, and Egypt,
and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Hebrews,
and Proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the
wonderful works of Elohim.
And they were all amazed and were in doubt, saying one to another, What does
this mean?
Others mocking said, These men are all full of new wine.
But Simeon standing up with the eleven lifted up his voice and said unto them,
You men of Judea and all you that dwell at Jerusalem, be this note unto you and
listen to my words.
For these are not drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the
day.
Uh-huh.
Okay.
Now I wanted to pick that up because you have Christians who say that Yahshua and
the apostles and people, they did not drink, you know, they did not drink
fermented wine.
They drink unfermented wine.
Okay.
And wine is wine in the scriptures.
Okay.
You know, and that is a wine of intoxicants, if you will, or the ability
to intoxicate.
So here we have the term new wine being used, which would suggest new wine is
basically grape juice.
Okay.
Now, uh, one of the ways that you can, um, um, one of the ways that you can
refute and rebut that scripturally is if new wine is grape juice, then why do we
have here in verse 13, the people saying others mocking said, these men are full of
new wine.
Then Simeon comes back and says, uh, Simeon standing up with the 11 lifted
up his voice and said unto them, you men of Judea and all you that dwell at
Jerusalem, be this known unto you and hearken to my words for these are not
drunken.
As you I've never, ever seen anybody get drunken off grape juice.
Never ever seen that before.
Okay.
All right.
But again, that's people in that that's people in their Christian state.
All right.
And we're going to, and we're going to deal with that.
Right.
Um, there are doctrines that does not make any sense whatsoever, and you can't even
make it make sense.
All right.
Go ahead and pick it up.
Acts chapter four.
So the very first thing that we see, um, those which are associated with
Nazarenes, they are observing, okay.
Shavuot, right?
They're observing Pentecost.
That's the first thing that we see.
Okay.
All right.
So that's your highlight number one.
And what you do is this, you just ask, uh, your friends, your associates,
your devout, uh, you know, Christians and pastors and religious leaders,
you know, explain to me the events of the first 30 years of the church.
Explain these events has taken place the first 30 years of the church, right?
Event number one, why do we have 120 some odd people together on Pentecost?
Why?
That's the question.
Okay.
All right.
Now let's move on to number two.
Acts four, 10 through 12.
Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of
Yahshua, the anointed of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom Elohim raised
from the dead, even by him does this man stand here before you hold.
Go ahead.
This is a stone which was set at nought of you builders, which has become the head of
the corner.
Neither is there salvation in any other.
Neither is there salvation in any other name.
Go ahead.
Well, there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be
saved.
Okay.
Acts 26, 12 through 15.
We see that in the prophecies, in the book of Zechariah, we have the
brothers coming out of Babylonian captivity and one Yahshua.
Okay.
And he became the symbol of the promised Messiah, right?
Called the branch and called by name Yahshua.
So this was the prophetic statement that was made as it relates to the Messiah's
name.
This is the reason why the angel Gabriel told Mary she had to name him Yahshua,
Yah's salvation.
That name had to be given unto him at birth because the angel Gabriel said it's
already been spoken.
Go ahead and read.
Whereupon, as I went to Damascus with authority, I mean, you know, people say,
you know, well, what's in a name?
You know, y'all call him Yahshua.
I'll call him Jesus, right?
Well, then why not baptizing Leroy?
I mean, what's in a name?
What's in a name are instructions, instructions that those within the divine
order gave.
Okay.
The most I gave specific instructions on what should be done in this name.
Go ahead.
Why?
Because this is how the most I received his glory.
Yahshua, Yah saves.
Go ahead.
Yes, sir.
Hold on one second.
We got we got a mic here.
The Messiah said, if one will come in his own name, him you will receive.
Absolutely.
Right.
And so we had somebody came in the name of Jesus and everybody received that.
Right.
Yeah.
Okay.
Acts chapter 26 and verse 12.
Whereupon, as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief
priest, at midday, O King, I saw on the way a light from heaven above the
brightness of the sun shining round about me and then which journey with me.
And when we all were fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me and
saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecute you me?
And what tongue?
In the Hebrew tongue.
Go ahead.
It is hard for you to kick against the pricks.
And I said, who are you, master?
And he said, I am not sure whom you persecute.
So then let me ask you something then, Yishmael.
So then he spoke to him in the in the Greek tongue, in the in the in the in the
Latin tongue.
He says in the Hebrew, the Hebraic tongue.
Then why do you have Jesus here?
Huh?
Jesus.
There's no J in Hebrew.
Right.
And in the 16th century, when they created a J, right in this period, they were
calling they had a name, Isis, which was a pagan god of healing.
OK, so it's impossible to say Jesus in a Hebrew tongue.
Right now.
How many of you watch passion?
Passion, right?
They clearly said Yeshua, but at the bottom, OK, they had Jesus.
OK, all right.
The apostles, the apostles delivered, OK, unto the people a Hebraic name by
commandment.
And when you go back and you look at your secular sources, your historians,
your theologians, right?
Your scholars will tell you Yeshua was never called Jesus in the day,
a day in his life was never called Jesus.
OK.
All right.
Let's go ahead and pick it up.
Acts 10, 24 through 28.
Jesus was a name that was created by the Gnostics in order to appeal to the Greeks,
OK, in order to convert these people under a name that they would be able to be under
a name that they would be able to be familiar with and accept.
OK.
All right.
Acts chapter 10, 24 through 28.
And the more after they entered into Syria and Cornelius waited for them and had
called together his kinsmen and their friends.
And as Simeon was coming in, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and
worshiped him.
And Simeon took him up saying, stand up.
I myself also am a man.
That's right.
And as he talked with him, he went in and found many that will come together.
And he said unto them, you know how that it is unlawful that it is an unlawful
thing for a man that is a Hebrew to keep company or come unto one of another
nation.
Why would Simeon be concerned with Hebraic law?
Why would he be concerned about going into a Gentile's house, right?
A house that typically would be classified by our ancestors as being unclean because
the people were uncircumcised, you know, till they probably had,
you know, pig feet in the refrigerator or something like that.
You know, why would he make this statement?
You know that it's unlawful for he who was a Jew, right, to come unto or keep company
of one of another nation.
Why?
Nazarenes, as our secular information stated, right, Nazarenes, right,
continue to keep the synodic covenant.
The only thing that changed with them was they put down sacrifices.
But let's see.
Let's go ahead and pick it up at Acts chapter 11, 1 through 4.
Let's see if this was just Simeon or if there were any other apostles.
I mean, it's very interesting to me.
You spend three and a half years with Yahshua and Yahshua doesn't communicate
any of these things to you about, well, you know, no, you can go ahead and
eat anything you like.
Well, you know, what we're going to do after our into heaven, we're going to go
ahead and change that Sabbath day to Sunday.
You know, as a matter of fact, you can, you know, you can defile
yourself.
It doesn't matter.
You get all that stuff because after I send to heaven, I'm going to do away with
all that.
None of that stuff was ever communicated.
The only thing Yahshua communicated during the three and a half years that he was
evangelizing, you know, he said, worship the father, believe on me,
keep the commandments, love your brother.
That's all he said.
And the apostles and brethren that were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also
received the word of Elohim.
And when Simeon was come up to Jerusalem, they, there were other circumcision
contended with him.
And when Simeon was come up to Jerusalem, they, there were other circumcision,
uh, circumcision contended with him saying, you went in to men uncircumcised
and did eat with them.
They had a big issue with this, a big issue.
Why?
Because this was not Hebraic culture.
This was not a part of, uh, uh, uh, this was not clean.
This was an act of uncleanliness.
And the apostles expressed a concern to Simeon about this action.
Okay.
Keep your mind on that.
Go over to Acts chapter 12, one through four.
Now about that time, Herod the King stretched forth his hands to vex certain
of the assembly.
And he called and he killed Yaakov, the brother of Yohanan with the sword.
And because he saw it pleased the Hebrews, he proceeded further to take Simeon also.
Then were the days of unleavened bread.
Okay.
Now Luke is writing to Theophilus and he's saying to Theophilus, he says,
Theophilus, when this took place, right, you know, then were the days of
unleavened bread.
These were the days of unleavened bread.
Right now, Theophilus, a Christian.
Okay.
And we, we got commentary on these Christians and so forth.
Right.
Why would Theophilus even know, be concerned about an unleavened bread?
I tell you what, you go and you ask the average Christian today about an
unleavened bread.
Ask him, you know, you know, have you ever observed unleavened bread?
Let me tell you something, the average Christian will tell you, I don't know what
that is.
Okay.
Go ahead and read.
And when he had, and when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison and
delivered him to four Caturians of soldiers to keep him, intending after the
Passover to bring him forth to the people.
Until after Passover to bring him forth to the people.
Okay.
Passover and unleavened bread.
All right.
Let's go ahead and pick it up.
Acts 13, 42 through 45.
Why would Luke write to Theophilus?
Okay.
In a manner that Theophilus could not understand.
Theophilus understood Passover, Pesach.
He also understood unleavened bread.
Why?
Because they were practicing it.
Acts chapter 12 and go ahead and pick it up at verse one through, uh, well,
we just read that.
Go ahead and pick it up at, um, Acts chapter 13, Acts 13, 42 through 45.
And when the Hebrews were going out of the synagogue, the Gentiles, but saw that
these words might be preached to them the next Shabbat.
Uh-huh.
Now, when the congregation was broken up, many of the Hebrews and religious
proselytes followed Saul and Barnabas, who speaking to them, persuaded them to
continue in the grace of Elohim.
Watch this.
And the next Sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of
Elohim.
Okay.
The next Sabbath day, they came together, right?
The next Sabbath day, they weren't meeting on Sunday.
In order to hear the word of Elohim, they knew that they need to show up on the
Sabbath day.
On the Sabbath day, the ecclesiastical units that were established, okay,
were overseen by Hebrews, apostles, mainly who were the circuit overseers and
disciples.
Okay.
Uh, that may have been placed in a, uh, in an overseeing, uh, position,
but they knew that the doors open on the Sabbath day.
And the Gentiles, if the Gentiles, if the Indo-Eurasiatic people and any
other nationality or ethnic group were going to hear the words of Elohim,
they would have to show up on the Sabbath day, not Sunday.
You can sit around somebody's synagogue on Sunday.
You'll just be sitting on a doorstep because the doors did not open on
venerable day and open up on the Shabbat.
Yes, ma'am.
Excuse me.
Okay.
So you just teasing me.
Okay.
All right.
We have a question back here.
You mentioned about the order in the church among the apostles.
You said there was someone who's established the church and then he set
someone else up.
In essence, there was a definable order.
How is that reflected in this assembly?
In this assembly here?
In this assembly?
Well, in this assembly, I'm the overseer and I have an assistant overseer,
if you will, or someone to take, um, my stead in the position, um,
um, or in, in, in, in a time where I'm not able to perform.
Is that, is that, is that your question?
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Go ahead and pick it up at, uh, Acts chapter 13 and let's pick it up 42
through 45.
Okay.
We just read that.
All right.
Go over to Acts chapter 15, 18 through 22.
No, not to Elohim, all his works from the beginning of the world.
Wherefore, my sentence is that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles
are turned to Elohim, but that we write unto them that they abstain from pollution
of idols that's found in the law code that they abstain from pollutions of idols.
Go ahead.
And from fornication and from fornication, that's also in the law code.
The law states that if you lie down with a woman, you should endow her to be your
wife.
Go ahead.
And from things strangled and from things strangled.
Okay.
The law states that you should not eat any animals that dive itself.
Go ahead.
And from blood and there should not be any bloodletting or blood consumption.
These four things are found written in the law code.
Okay.
And this is what the brother of Yeshua James, the overseer of the assembly in
Jerusalem stated to the apostles.
Okay.
At this council, as it relates to the Gentiles coming into the new covenant
assemblies to worship.
What are we going to do about these people who are coming into the assembly whom the
Pharisees have raised up a good case that they need to be circumcised and keep all
of the law of Moses.
So what do we do?
And the law states that a Gentile or a stranger must be circumcised.
If he has been bought with your money or born in your house, this is when he must
be circumcised.
So here we have Gentiles.
Okay.
Not born in a house or bought with our money, specifically dealing with the
assemblies that are being established in Antioch and Asia minor.
What are we going to do with these people who are designed to come into a new
covenant assembly?
And this is what they will agree upon.
Go ahead and pick up a verse 21.
For Moshe of old time has in every city, them that teach him being read in the
synagogues every Shabbat day.
Mm hmm.
Go ahead.
Then pleased it the apostles and elders with the whole assembly to send chosen men
of their own company to Antioch with Saul and Barnabas, namely Judah, surname
Barthabas and Silas chief men among the brethren.
Okay.
For Moses of old time.
All right.
Moses of old time, not Moses of today, your uncle Moses, your cousin,
Moses, Moses, the drunk, right?
We're talking about Moses of old time has in every city them that preach him being
read in the synagogues every Shabbat day.
So when this was communicated, we then have Luke writing, then this
pleased the apostles and elders with the whole assembly to send chosen men of their
own company to Antioch with Saul and Barnabas.
Okay.
Let's pick it up at acts chapter 16, 11 through 13.
So what are we saying?
Again, we see laws that are still being adhered to that is being extracted.
Okay.
Obviously from the Torah being expounded upon and people are being held accountable
to it.
That's number one.
Number two, the rest of the laws are going to be communicated to those who are
seeking to understand the will of the most high on the Sabbath day by the teachers of
Moses.
Right.
Okay.
Go ahead.
Let's continue with that.
Therefore, losing from choice, we came with a straight course to some of
Isiah and the next day to Neapolis and from fence to Philippi, which is the chief
city of that part of Macedonia and a colony.
And we were in that city abiding certain days.
Okay, here we go.
And on the Sabbath, we went out of the city by riverside where prayer was want to
be made.
And we sat down and spoke unto the women which resorted there.
Okay.
And what you're going to find in the days of old, if there were not funding for an
assembly for people to meet, to hold a convocation, they generally met by
riverbanks and different areas where they had a convocation on the outside.
And this is exactly what we see.
Read verse 11 again, please.
Therefore, losing from choice, we came with a straight course to some of
Isiah and the next day to Neapolis and from fence to Philippi, which is the chief
city of that part of Macedonia and a colony.
And we were in that city abiding certain days.
And on the Sabbath, we went out of the city by riverside where prayer was want to
be made, where prayer was customary on the Sabbath day.
And we sat down and spoken to the women which resorted there.
Okay, let's go ahead and pick it up at Acts 18, one through four.
What we're doing is we are seeing what the Nazarene's practices were.
We're seeing what their practices were, what the Nazarene's practices were.
And then we're going to expound on what the Christian's practices are.
Okay, let's go ahead and pick it up at Acts 18, one through four.
After these things, Saul departed from Athens and came to Corinth and found a
certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy with his wife,
Priscilla.
Because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome and came unto
them.
And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them in wrath.
And for by their occupation, they were tent makers.
And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded the Jews and the
Greeks.
The Jews and the Greeks.
It did not say the Jews and the Grecians.
It specifically said the Jews and the Greeks, the Hebrews and the Europeans that
were meeting in the synagogues, okay, that were practicing the old
covenant.
And Saul was persuading them, okay, to come under the new covenant.
And this is what the Nazarene's did.
Okay.
All right, let's continue.
Acts 18, 18 through 21.
And so after this, tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the
brethren and sailed thence into Syria.
And with him Priscilla and Aquila, having shorn his head in Synchrea,
for he had a vow.
And he came to Ephesus and left them there.
Here you have Paul and Nazarene.
He shaved his head because he had a vow.
This is number the sixth chapter.
This is found in the Torah.
This is found in the law book.
Okay.
So he takes a Nazarite vow, okay, separates himself unto Elohim.
What's your time step on this?
What?
54 AD.
Okay, go ahead.
And he came to Ephesus and left them there.
But he himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.
When they desired to him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not,
but bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that
comes in Jerusalem.
But I will return again unto you if Elohim will.
So here we have 12 years after the death of the Messiah.
Saul is taking a Nazarite vow.
Nobody forced him to take a Nazarite vow.
Okay.
Found in Numbers, the sixth chapter.
And then he says to the assembly at Ephesus.
Okay.
He says, I must go to Jerusalem to keep this feast.
I must go to Jerusalem to keep this feast.
And Paul is a ringleader of who?
Sect of the Nazarenes.
Okay.
Let's go ahead and pick it up at Acts 20 verse six.
Acts 20.
We want to have a biblical and a historical understanding of the practice,
the practices of this sect, the group that's called the sect of the Nazarenes.
Acts 20, and let's pick it up at six.
And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread.
Why, why would they sail away from Philippi after the days of unleavened
bread?
Can anybody tell me?
Can anybody tell me where's my mic?
Go ahead.
So why would they sail away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread?
Go ahead.
Because it's commanded for them to keep these feast days.
So they were keeping the seven days of unleavened bread outside of Jerusalem.
Why?
Because the Nazarenes were not under the sacrificial ordinances.
But yet they continue to keep the convocations wherever they were.
After the days of unleavened bread, then they sailed.
Okay.
All right.
And what's your time stamp on this?
59 AD.
All right, go ahead and pick it up at verses 13 through 16.
And we went before... So here we have 26 years after the death of the Messiah.
26 years keeping seven days of unleavened bread.
Seven days of unleavened bread.
Go ahead.
And we went before to ship himself unto Assos.
They're intending to take in Saul, for so had he appointed minding himself to
go afoot.
And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in and came to Mithilene.
And we sailed thence and came to the next day over against Chios.
And the next day we arrived at Samos and tarried at Troglion.
And the next day we came to Miletus.
For Saul had determined to sail by Ephesus because he would not spend the time in
Asia, for he hasted, if it were possible for him to be at Jerusalem the day of
Pentecost.
The day of Pentecost.
Okay.
All right.
We're going to go ahead and take a 10 minute break here.
And we're going to come back and pick up the second part and the conclusion of our discussion.