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TheOriginalFaithBy Norman B. Willis

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The Original FaithCopyright Nazarene Israel, 6011 (2011)

Good use permitted.May be freely copied and distributed if in full.Adapted from the Nazarene Israel study.

Unless otherwise noted, all quotations areadapted from the New King James Versionwith the original Hebraic names restored.

For questions, comments, suggestions, ordonations, please contact:

Nazarene IsraelP.O. Box 787Anderson, CA 96007USA

Email: [email protected]


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Authors Notes:

Some want to know what English version I use. Itypically begin with the New King James Version, andcorrect the names to the Hebraic forms. Wheneverthere is a question, I try to display the source textsalongside the English, so you can check things out foryourself. The Hebrew is from the Hebrew MasoreticText. For the Aramaic I have copied the PeshittaAramaic in BibleWorks 8, using a Hebrew block letterfont, noting also the English translation used.

Some want to know why I reference Greek texts when Ibelieve in a Semitic inspiration. Simply, while I believethe Renewed Covenant was inspired either in Hebrewor Aramaic, the two extant Aramaic texts (Peshitto and

Peshitta) cannot be the originals, as there are just toomany corruptions. I may yet use them in future works,but since the Greek texts are older, they are generallymore valuable for textual analysis.

I believe that Scripture is the highest and best authorityon all matters of doctrine. I have tried simply to showwhat YHWHs Word states, and then provide only

enough commentary to show how the verses relate toeach other. My hope is that you will focus on Yahwehswords, rather than my own.

If you have suggestions for making this study better,please email me at [email protected].

May Yahweh lead us all into His perfect truth.

Norman Willis

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Table of Contents

What Was the Original Faith? 7

Why the Same Days of Worship? 14

Reclaiming Your Israelite Heritage 34


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Yehudah (Jude) 3

3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write toyou concerning our common salvation, I

found it necessary to write to you exhortingyou to contend earnestly for the faith which

was once for all delivered to the saints.

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And the saints shall be given into his handFor a time and times and half a time.

As we will see later in this study, this is precisely what

the Catholic Church did. It changed the appointedtimes of worship and also persecuted the saints of theMost High (i.e., the Nazarenes) who kept the originalfestival times and the Law. But isnt it a sin to changeScripture like that?

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Why the Same Days of Worship?

The Roman Christian calendar tells us that the daybegins at midnight (i.e., the witching hour). Scripture,however, tells us that the day begins at evening.

Breisheet (Genesis) 1:31b31b So the evening and the morning were thesixth day.

Leviticus 23:32 confirms that Yahweh defines a day aslasting from evening to evening (i.e., from sunset tosunset), rather than from midnight to midnight.

Vayiqra (Leviticus) 23:32b32b On the ninth of the month at evening,from evening until evening you shall celebrateyour Sabbath (i.e., rest day)."

The Sabbath discussed in Leviticus 23:32 (above) isthe Day of Atonement, but the weekly Sabbath alsolasts from evening to evening. Luke 4:16 tells us thatYeshua (Jesus) also kept this Sabbath, which lastsfrom sunset to sunset.

Luqa (Luke) 4:1616 So He came to Nazareth, where He hadbeen brought up. And as His custom was, Hewent into the synagogue on the Sabbath day,and stood up to read.

The Apostle Shaul (Paul) also continued to go into the

synagogues on the Sabbath day even many years afterYeshuas resurrection.


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