HEBRAIC VIEW: PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS
 (By: Eddie Chumney)

     Is it important that you study the Hebraic Roots of Christianity? Yes! Do you need to study the Hebraic Roots of Christianity to be saved? No! However by NOT studying the Hebraic Roots of Christianity you will MISS out on BLESSINGS which come to those who are ALREADY saved / redeemed in Yeshua the Messiah

THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS IS ABOUT THE END OF DAYS

KJV Matthew 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

KJV Matthew 25:1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

KJV Matthew 25:13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

 First, we need to realize that the parable of the Ten Virgins is a parable of end of days and the second coming of Yeshua.

 In this context, we need to realize that the foolish virgins were unprepared and missed the second coming of Yeshua.

 WHY DID THE FOOLISH VIRGINS NOT UNDERSTAND THE SECOND COMING OF YESHUA ?

The answer is simple. They didn't follow Torah and didn't have a Hebraic view of the second coming of Messiah. How is this so?

COMMENT BY JERRY: Eddie, this answer that you gave is not as simple as you say it is. There are many, many in this world who proclaim that they are Torah observant, but are in denial of Yahshua the Messiah. Yahshua is the door, the way, the light, the truth, and the life. He is the Torah personified. The people of Yahshua understand and realize this. There are many who are Torah observant, but they are only establishing their own righteousness. Their Torah observance is counted as filthy rags by Yahweh. In these last days, anyone’s righteousness must be as a result of the Spirit of Yahweh leading them to Yahshua the Messiah, Who is their Righteousness. In other words, Eddie, the days are over concerning those who promised to keep the Torah and then sought to fulfill it under their own strength and power ( the power of the flesh and the spirit of man). Israel promised and failed. I know that you teach a renewed covenant, but nothing could be further from the truth. We are under the promise of a New Covenant, which is instituted and upheld only by the Word of Yahweh and His Spirit because man failed and always will fail. You see, we have a new Passover Lamb (Yahshua), a new High Priest (Yahshua) and priesthood (Melchizedek). We have a new tabernacle (men, living habitations), not a tabernacle nor temple made by the hands of man. We have a new circumcision, of the heart, not made by hands of man. Since Yahshua’s one sacrifice fulfilled all of the sacrifices, we not only have a new sacrifice (Yahshua), but the priesthood offers the sacrifices of praise, the fruit of our lips, as well as our service to Yahweh, Yahshua, the kingdom and their word.

Yahshua is the stone cut out without hands. (Dan. 2:34). His ministry is a ministry performed by the Spirit of Yahweh and not by the hands nor the spirit of man.

  EDDIE CONTINUES: THE FOUNDATION OF THE PARABLE

The Torah prophecies about the ingathing of the exiles in the end of days.

KJV Deuteronomy 30:1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,

KJV Deuteronomy 30:2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice [follow Torah] according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;

KJV Deuteronomy 30:3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.

KJV Deuteronomy 30:4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:

KJV Deuteronomy 30:5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

  The ingathering of the exiles of Israel (Northern Kingdom / Southern Kingdom) or (Ephraim and Judah) is associated with doing you good and "multiplying you ABOVE your fathers". When is this? This is the dawn of the Messianic Era.

YESHUA IS THE GOOD SHEPHERD WHO GATHERS THE EXILES OF ISRAEL

Yeshua died on the tree to gather the exiles of Israel. Yeshua explicitly states this in John 10.

KJV John 10:14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

  In Ezekiel 34:1-10, YHVH condemns the 'shepherds of Israel' for not 'feeding the sheep' (teaching them Torah). As a result, YHVH declares that HE (through Yeshua the Messiah) will be the good shepherd who gathers the exiles of Israel.

  COMMENT BY JERRY: You should say, “Teaching them Torah as it applies to Yahshua the Messiah.” Yahshua is the Lamb of Elohim. He is also the true bread from heaven. His flesh is food. His blood is drink. Through Him we receive the waters (Spirit) from heaven. Our focus should be upon Him and His fulfillment of the Torah, not on our own righteousness. He is our food, our clothing, our everything. Too many simply focus on the Torah in order to go out and establish their own righteousness. Those who belong to Yahshua are to be witnessing of and declaring Him.

  EDDIE CONTINUES: KJV Ezekiel 34:11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.

KJV Ezekiel 34:12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

THE EXILES OF ISRAEL ARE GATHERED IN THE 'CLOUDY AND DARK DAY'

      In Ezekiel 34:12, the 'good shepherd' of Israel PHYSICALLY gathers the exiles of Israel during the 'cloudy and dark day' or the tribulation period. The tribulation period is the end of days.

YESHUA DIED ON THE TREE TO GATHER THE EXILES OF ISRAEL

        After stating that He is the 'good shepherd' (alluding to Ezekiel 34:11ff) who gathers the exiles of Israel, Yeshua teaches that He needs to die on the tree in order for this event to come to pass.

KJV John 10:16 And other sheep I have (Northern Kingdom / Ten Tribes / Ephraim), which are not of this fold [Southern Kingdom: House of Judah]: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice [follow Torah]; and there shall be one fold [the unification of Ephraim and Judah] and one shepherd [Yeshua the Messiah].

KJV John 10:17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life [die on the tree] that I might take it again.

YESHUA DIED ON THE TREE TO GATHER THE EXILES OF ISRAEL

We are also told in John 11:49-52 that Yeshua died on the tree to gather the exiles of Israel.

KJV John 11:49 And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,

KJV John 11:50 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

KJV John 11:51 And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation [Southern Kingdom: House of Judah - Jews]

KJV John 11:52 And not for that nation only [but also for the Northern Kingdom: Ten Tribes / Ephraim] but that also he should gather together in one [unified Ephraim and the Judah] children of God that were scattered abroad [exiled into the nations of the world].

SUMMARY OF POINTS TO DATE

#1)  The Messiah of Israel 'good shepherd' gathers the exiles of Israel (physically) in the end of days known as the tribulation period

#2) Yeshua died on the tree to ultimately gather the exiles of Israel (physically) from the nations of the world where they have been scattered

#3) The setting of the 'Parable of the Ten Virgins' is the second coming of Yeshua and the end of days (Matthew 24:3, Matthew 25:1, 13)

WHY TEN VIRGINS?

'Virgins' describe the ingathering of the exiles in the end of days.

KJV Jeremiah 31:4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

KJV Jeremiah 31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.

KJV Jeremiah 31:9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

KJV Jeremiah 31:10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.

KJV Jeremiah 31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

KJV Jeremiah 31:21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

     Ephraim (Jeremiah 31:9) (known as the TEN tribes) are being gathered as a 'shepherd does his flock' (Jeremiah 31:10). The exiles who are being gathered as called, 'virgins' (Jeremiah 31:4 and Jeremiah 31:13).

Therefore the TEN VIRGINS represent the ingathering of the Ten Tribes / Ephraim in the end of days.

  COMMENT BY JERRY: Only Ephraim? What about Judah? Just because many in Judah may be Torah observant, if they deny Yahshua, He will deny them. They don’t get a pass simply because they are Torah observant.

You should know that the number 10 represents ordinal perfection or perfection of order. There are 10 toes on the image in Dan. 2 along with 10 horns on the beast of Dan. 7. There are also 10 horns on the beast of Rev. 13. There are 10 commandments. Do these represent Ephraim (the lost ten tribes)? Absolutely not! The number ten simply represents the final perfection of the order. While the number 10 does represent the final order of the beast kingdoms and the final order of believers, the fact of the matter is that half of the believers may think that they have the Messiah, but don’t.

Christianity follows a messiah, but have been deceived to inculcate paganism into their worship which has taken them down a wrong path. Judaism, on the other hand, is Torah observant, but deny Yahshua as the Messiah, however, they look for a coming messiah. Both groups have been deceived. The overall preponderance of Rabbinic Judaism has erred just as grievously as Christianity. In accordance with the parable concerning the Pharisee and the Publican, the self-righteous (Torah observant) Pharisee will not be able to understand why he has been rejected and needs to repent, but the sinning Publican will be able to be corrected and justified because at least he knows that he is a sinner. (I don’t mean to justify sin here at all, but a person who realizes that he is a sinner is much easier to deal with than a self-righteous hypocrite.)

  EDDIE CONTINUES: THE TEN VIRGINS TAKE LAMPS

KJV Matthew 25:1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

THE TORAH IS LIKE A LAMP

  COMMENT BY JERRY: “Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path,” Psa. 119:105. Yahshua is the Word (Jn. 1:1-14). He is the Light (Jn. 12:35-36, 46; 3:19; 8:12; 9:39). Moses and His five books speak of Him (Jn. 5:37-43) The Jews of His day were very Torah observant, but they were blinded and couldn’t see the truth right in front of their face.

  EDDIE CONTINUES: The Torah requires that the 'lamp' be burning always with oil.

KJV Exodus 27:20 And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.

KJV Psalm 119:105 NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

KJV Proverbs 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

The lamp is to be burning with oil always. The Torah and the commandment of YHVH is a lamp.

FIVE WERE WISE AND FIVE WERE FOOLISH

FIVE WISE = Those who followed Torah

FIVE FOOLISH = Those who didn't follow Torah

Of the TEN VIRGINS (the return of Ephraim / Ten Tribes), the WISE are those who followed Torah (made themselves ready for the coming of Yeshua) and the FOOLISH didn't follow Torah (and were unprepared for the second coming of Yeshua).

  COMMENT BY JERRY: The word utilized for “foolish” is “moros” which means to be dull, stupid, and/or heedless. Of course, those who don’t obey Yahweh are stupid, but those who seek to follow the Torah, but are in denial of Yahshua the Messiah are also dull, stupid, heedless. The Torah, the prophets, the Psalms, the evangels, the epistles, etc., all witness, testify of Yahshua the Messiah. To supposedly be Torah observant, but to not pay heed or attention to this fact, only makes one righteous in his own eyes.

Actually, the “olive oil” was a type of the Holy Spirit (Ruach HaQodesh). The foolish not only don’t take enough oil for their lamps, they are probably Torah observant, but are in denial of Yahshua. They are looking for the Messiah, but foolishly deny Yahshua as the Messiah.

So we have 10 virgins. Five are wise because through the Holy Spirit, they are able to detect the One of Whom the Torah witnesses and take that witness forth to the world. But the foolish, even though their light is the Torah, they deny the One of Whom the Torah speaks (Yahshua). The light of the Torah may be shining in them, but when Yahshua returns, their light will burn out because they were foolish in thinking that they were Torah observant and would know the Messiah when He arrives. But because they denied Yahshua, their light begins to flicker out.

The wise go into the marriage, but since the foolish didn’t know Yahshua, neither will He acknowledge them, “Verily, I say, I know you not.”

  EDDIE CONTINUES: FIVE represents the FIVE books of Moses (Torah)

  COMMENT BY JERRY: Five is the number for “GRACE.” Notice that John says, “For the law (Torah) was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Yahshua the Messiah,” Jn. 1:17. Eddie, I am afraid that you don’t understand what this means. The Torah, the law, the commandments has made all men to be sinners. No matter how Torah observant they may be, it is useless if done under one’s own strength and power. Paul wrote of his struggle against sin in Ro. 7. Do you not understand this?

  EDDIE CONTINUES: WHO ARE THE WISE?

WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING IS FOLLOWING TORAH

KJV Proverbs 3:13 Happy is the man that findeth WISDOM, and the man that getteth UNDERSTANDING.

KJV Proverbs 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

KJV Deuteronomy 4:5 Behold, I have taught you STATUTES and JUDGMENTS, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.

KJV Deuteronomy 4:6 KEEP therefore and DO them; for this is YOUR WISDOM and your UNDERSTANDING in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these STATUTES, and say, Surely this great nation is a WISE and UNDERSTANDING people.

KJV Deuteronomy 4:8 And what nation is there so great, that hath STATUTES and JUDGMENTS so righteous as all this TORAH, which I set before you this day?

 These verses tell us that KEEPING and DOING the TORAH is done by a WISE and UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE.

WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING IS FOLLOWING TORAH

  COMMENT BY JERRY: True wisdom and understanding is following Yahshua. True wisdom and understanding is to understand how powerless we are to fulfill Torah without Yahshua. Israel had the best opportunity of any peoples or nation to fulfill Torah and failed to do so.

  EDDIE CONTINUES: KJV 1 Chronicles 22:9 Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.

KJV 1 Chronicles 22:12 Only the LORD give thee WISDOM and UNDERSTANDING, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest KEEP the TORAH of the LORD thy God.

KJV 1 Chronicles 22:13 Then shalt thou PROSPER, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.

Therefore, a person who is WISE and has UNDERSTANDING will follow the TORAH and will PROSPER.

  COMMENT BY JERRY: Solomon was the wisest man who ever lived (besides Yahshua, of course). Yet, Solomon departed from Yahweh later in life. Why? Because man, at his best state, is altogether vanity. Solomon was a type of Yahshua the Messiah. Solomon’s kingdom was a type of the kingdom of heaven on earth. But it was only a type that was soon done away because the wisest man who ever lived fell away from Yahweh and embraced the paganistic, heathen deities of his many wives. It is the kingdom of heaven under the rule of Yahshua the Messiah that will bring about true peace and will endure for ever.

  EDDIE CONTINUES: WHAT IS WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING?

KJV Job 28:20 Whence then cometh WISDOM? and where is the place of UNDERSTANDING?

KJV Job 28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the FEAR of the LORD, that is WISDOM; and to depart from evil is UNDERSTANDING.

KJV Psalm 111:10 The FEAR of the LORD is the beginning of WISDOM: a GOOD UNDERSTANDING have all they that DO his COMMANDMENTS: his praise endureth for ever.

  COMMENT BY JERRY: This is true, but the only way for us to return is through repentance, baptism in the name of Yahshua the Messiah of Nazareth and then to follow the commandments. But even then we must be careful to not become too self righteous in the application of the commandments. We are commanded to not sin (1 Jn. 2:1), but we also must understand that there is a law of sin in the flesh, which causes us to fail in our application of Yahweh’s commandments. When we fail, we have an Advocate with the Father, Yahshua the Messiah the Righteous. We will never be totally free of sin until the day that we are changed from the mortal, corruptible body to the immortal, incorruptible one.

  EDDIE CONTINUES: WHO ARE THE FOOLISH?

The foolish don't follow Torah.

  COMMENT BY JERRY: Torah observance, yet denial of Yahshua, is foolishness.

  EDDIE CONTINUES: KJV Proverbs 9:6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

  COMMENT BY JERRY: Yahshua is the way.

  EDDIE CONTINUES: KJV Psalm 119:34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

  COMMENT BY JERRY: None will ever be whole-hearted until they are changed through Yahshua the Messiah.

  EDDIE CONTINUES: The foolish don't follow 'way of understanding' (follow the Torah)

KJV Proverbs 14:7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

KJV Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God ...

The foolish man doesn't speak the 'lips of knowledge' (Torah).

  COMMENT BY JERRY: The Torah witnesses of Yahshua the Messiah. (Jn. 5:37-43) Therefore, the end result is that the Torah observant who deny Yahshua are just as foolish as a person who is non-Torah observant.

  EDDIE CONTINUES: KJV Proverbs 21:20 There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

The wise have oil (follow Torah) and the foolish have no oil (don't follow Torah).

  COMMENT BY JERRY: The oil is the Ruach HaQodesh, which burns brightly revealing Yahshua the Messiah, Who is our Master, our Righteousness, our Redeemer and our Salvation. Even a Torah observant person must be redeemed from his sins.

  EDDIE CONTINUES: KJV Jeremiah 5:4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

KJV Psalm 119:1 ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

The foolish know not the way of YHVH (follow Torah)

KJV Jeremiah 5:21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

KJV Psalm 119:34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

The foolish are without understanding (don't follow Torah).

KJV Psalm 119:53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

 The wicked (foolish) forsake the law (have no oil).

 THEY SLUMBERED AND SLEPT

While the Bridegroom tarried (the time between the 1st and 2nd coming of Yeshua) BOTH the eventual 'wise' and 'foolish' slept.

 SLEEP IS SPIRITUAL SLUMBER (NOT FOLLOWING TORAH / EXILE)

KJV 1 Samuel 3:3 And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;

The 'lamp' went out and Samuel 'slept'.

KJV Isaiah 6:9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

KJV Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes ...

KJV Isaiah 29:10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.

'Sleeping' is not following Torah.

  COMMENT BY JERRY: The Apostle Paul reveals that only a few in Israel were given knowledge of the truth and the rest were blinded. (See Ro. 10-11). He has purposely blinded Israel so that He can also have mercy on the rest of mankind, grafting them into the true Olive Tree, Yahshua the Messiah. Even the natural branches (Israel and Judah) must be grafted into Yahshua.

  EDDIE CONTINUES: A CRY WAS MADE AT MIDNIGHT

'Midnight' is a term for the tribulation of the end of days. The 'cry' that is made at 'midnight' is the sound of the shofar which is sounded to gather the exiles of Israel.

KJV Isaiah 27:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

  COMMENT BY JERRY: It was at midnight that the death angel went throughout the land of Egypt to slay all of the firstborn of the Egyptians. The Israelites had come under the protection of the sacrifice and blood of the Passover Lamb and were in the process of eating its flesh and watching when the death angel passed through the land. In these last days, we must come under the sacrifice and blood of the true Passover Lamb, Yahshua the Messiah, we must be eating His flesh and drinking His blood with knowledge of how the Torah speaks of Him if we are going to be received into the marriage supper of the Lamb and eternal habitations.

  EDDIE CONTINUES: LESSON SUMMARY

#1)  The exiles of Israel return to the land of Israel at the dawn of the Messianic Era (Deut 30:1-5)

#2) The Good Shepherd (Yeshua the Messiah: John 10:14) gathers the exiles of Israel (Ezekiel 34:11) in the end of days (Ezekiel 34:13)

#3) Yeshua died on the tree to gather the exiles of Israel (John 10:16, 11:49-52)

#4) The setting of the 'Parable of the Ten Virgins' is the second coming of Yeshua and the end of days (Matthew 24:3, Matthew 25:1, 13)

#5) The Ten Virgins refer to the return of the Northern Kingdom / Ten Tribes / Ephraim in the end of days

#6) Five is a number for the books of the Torah

#7) Wisdom is following Torah. Foolishness is not following Torah.

#8) The five wise virgins followed Torah

#9) The five foolish virgins didn't follow Torah

#10) The exiles who are gathered in the end of days are called, 'Virgin (s)' (Jeremiah 31:4, 13, 31)

#11) Sleep / Slumber speaks of the exile and not following Torah

#12) Midnight speaks of the tribulation period or the time when the exiles of Israel are gathered in the dark and cloudy day (Ezekiel 34:12)

#13) A 'cry' or the sound of the shofar gathers the exiles of Israel (Isaiah 27:13, Mattew 24:31)

#14) The wise virgins (those that followed Torah) were READY and prepared to marry the bridegroom (Yeshua the Messiah)

#15) The foolish virgins (those that didn't follow Torah) were rejected by Yeshua to come to the wedding of the bridegroom

  THE LAND OF ISRAEL IS BEING DIVIDED AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE A HEBRAIC VIEW OF THE END OF DAYS THEN YOU ARE A CANDIDATE TO BE A FOOLISH VIRGIN !!!          

  COMMENT BY JERRY: Eddie, as I have read through your presentation here, I see where you are falling short in focusing only on Torah observance and not on Yahshua the Messiah. You are looking at everything from a Hebraic standpoint, but in Yahshua’s day, the Pharisees, Scribes, Sadducees, Rabbis, etc., and modern day Judaism were/are all looking at everything from a Hebraic point of view. But when Yahshua appeared, they couldn’t understand His words. Yahshua called the unlearned and ignorant of His day (see Acts 4:13) in order to reveal that just because a person is schooled in the Scriptures, especially the Torah, that doesn’t mean that they can recognize Him as the Messiah. The woman at the well was a Samaritan who had had five husbands and the sixth man she was cohabiting with wasn’t even married to her. Truly, she wasn’t following the Torah, but she was allowed to recognize Yahshua as being the promised Messiah. I think that you need to begin re-examining the New Testament and allow it to be your primary guide, so you can begin to understand from a Spiritual standpoint concerning Yahshua the Messiah and the New Covenant that is available through Him.

  EDDIE CONTINUES: PLEASE DON'T BE A FOOLISH VIRGIN !!!! 

  Yes, Eddie, don’t be a foolish virgin and mislead yourself and Yahshua’s sheep into a way that Rabbinic, Torah observant Judaism, to this very day, cannot understand.

  Eddie, I received your study here, but I hope that you look at all of the comments that I have made and take them to heart.

Blessings,

Jerry Healan
Elder/Evangelist
Yahweh’s Evangelical Assembly
Atlanta, Texas 

Feb. 17, 2006

FROM EDDIE: Jerry,

  Salvation is by grace through faith in Yeshua the Messiah. That is a given.

AFTER that, Yeshua focuses on HOW WE LIVE OUR LIVES (John 14:15) and the END OF DAYS coming of Yeshua Matthew 24:2, 15:1, 13)

This is the subject of the parable. Unless you make an effort to understand the end of days from a Hebraic Viewpoint and seek to follow Torah AFTER you are saved (Romans 3:31) , you are a candidate to be a foolish virgin.

 Eddie Chumney

  Feb. 18, 2006

  FROM JERRY: Eddie,

Yahshua is your Savior, your Redeemer, Your King, Your High Priest, Your Elohim, Your Head, Your Light, Your Life, Your Food, Your Drink, Your Door, Your Sacrifice, Your Passover, Your Truth, Your Way, Your Mediator, Your Husband.

Moses was Yahweh's servant, Yahshua is His Son. If your focus is on how you can fulfill Torah, then you have and are missing the boat. Just a little advice and warning. You are the one who is being foolish.

I understand that we are to keep the law of Yahweh, but you must understand that you are mortal and corruptible with a law of sin in the flesh. Your fulfillment of the Torah will get you nothing if it is not done through the Spirit of the Messiah.

Jerry Healan

  FROM EDDIE: Jerry,

  He who thinks he knows all ... in truth knows nothing.

Eddie Chumney

  FROM JERRY: Shalom Eddie,

I honestly and truly hope that what you have just written and charged me with, doesn’t come back to haunt you.

Blessings,

Jerry

  FROM EDDIE: Jerry

Feb. 18, 2006

  I hope that you don't end up being a foolish virgin. There is still time to be a wise virgin but the window is closing.

 Eddie Chumney

  Feb. 20, 2006

  FROM JERRY: Eddie,

I think that you are overlooking the importance to focus primarily on Yahshua. Peter encourages us to "Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Sovereign and Savior Yahshua the Messiah. To Him be glory both now and forever," 2 Pet. 3:18.

Yahshua told His disciples, "But when the Comforter is come, Whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, Which proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of Me: and ye also shall bear witness because ye have been with Me from the beginning," Jn. 15:26-27.

In another place He said, "These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the Law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning Me." Then opened He their understanding that they might understand the Scriptures, and said unto them, 'Thus it is written, and thus it behoved the Messiah to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things. And, behold, I send the promise of My Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high," Lk. 24:44-49.

Our message should be the message of the ineptness and incapability of man to fulfill Torah. Israel couldn't and didn't do it. They were destroyed and cast out of the land because of their failure to do so. As I wrote, which is from the Scriptures written by Paul/Saul/Shaul or however you want to spell and speak his name, we, in the flesh are corruptible and mortal (1 Cor. 15). We have a law of sin in the flesh (Ro. 7). It isn't possible for us to fulfill Torah without Yahshua. He is the One Who has power over it and that is the promise of the New Covenant made through Him. Paul reveals the struggle between the spirit and the flesh in Galatians 5 and Romans 7. He goes so far as to say that he serves the law of Yahweh with the mind, but the law of sin with the flesh (Ro. 7:25).

Now, I do understand your situation because you allowed the Rabbis to deceive you and to cause you to circumcise your flesh by the hands of man. You were led away from trusting in Yahshua, the stone cut out without hands (Dan. 2:34). The ministry of this Stone is a ministry that doesn't trust in the works of the hands of man. Yet, you, in accordance with Paul, have fallen from grace, because of your submission to circumcision by the hands of man, and are now a debtor to keep all of the Torah under your own strength and power. As you should know, it is impossible for even the most Orthodox Jew to keep all of the commands of the Torah in this day and age.

Our focus should be primarily on the 10 commandments. They are what describes or defines sin to us. Ye