An Introduction to Chapter 2:
Uriel ben Mordechai begins
this chapter with a very simple but profound analogy. He powerfully presents
the reality that most within Christendom have only seen the ‘movie’ about the
Messiah from over half-way through, and that, not only have the missed the
foundational narrative needed to properly set the stage for the entry of the
Messiah, but someone has messed with the rest of the movie as well!
Christianity, has for around 1900 years, through to this very day read the Bible from 2/3rds of the way through. That is, Christianity continues to hear and share a damaged and altered incomplete ‘movie’, and worse they have viewed this ‘movie’ with Hellenistic rather than Hebraic glasses on.
Uriel goes on to relate the story (his story) of how the public declaration of his fully Jewish monotheistic perspective led to a great rift within the Christian and Messianic movement that he was apart of. The incredible over-reaction of his former so-called Messianic brethren is shocking in it’s ferocity, but also, as Uriel relates, almost as if these Christian leaders within Israel, were trying to thwart the birthing of the prophecy of HaShem that the Torah, the word of the Almighty, would go out from Jerusalem and Zion (Isaiah 2:3).
To begin to reveal the foundations of the ‘movie’ in this chapter, Uriel starts with some of the foundational premises that are revealed in the Tanakh. These include the indivisibility of G-d; the indivisibility of ONE; that G-d does not change; the distinction between G-d and His Messiah; and the centrality and meaning of the She’ma of Israel.
This leads Uriel into a discussion of the 10 Words (the Ten Commandments) and in particular a fascinating look at the 2nd Commandment.
Uriel points out that the phrase עַל-פְּנֵי (Al Panai) has been mistranslated as ‘before me’ or ‘over me’, wherein fact, the phrase should be translated as ‘upon the face of’. This phrase occurs in Genesis 1:2 for example and is translated as ‘upon the face of’.
He shows that a more accurate translation of Exodus 20:3 is “You shall have no other gods before me” or better still “There shall not be for you another G-d of Israel upon My Face’.
He then goes on to explain that the Almighty is making it clear that the Jewish people were called to never, ever place a face of any being, man, animal or spiritual entity onto the image of God. No being with a face of any sort can fully be YHWH.
“.. we are forbidden to ASSIGN OR ATTACH ANY (visible) FACE, ON OR UPON THE FACE OF GOD’.”
Therefore, this commandment means “You shall not regard another persona imposed upon My Face, as the G-d of Israel’.
What a prophetic statement! How many have tried to place
a ‘face’, a persona upon the Face of the God of Israel and tried to call
someone else the Creator and King of the Universe?!
This chapter continues to build the foundations of a truly Biblical worldview that recognizes that “… the existence and the rise of Israel is not just a Jewish event. It is a signal to the whole world. Which reveals where G-d is taking all of mankind, and that, at this very moment, He is preparing us for the arrival of the Messianic Age.”
This chapter continues to build the foundations of a truly Biblical worldview that recognizes that “… the existence and the rise of Israel is not just a Jewish event. It is a signal to the whole world. Which reveals where G-d is taking all of mankind, and that, at this very moment, He is preparing us for the arrival of the Messianic Age.”
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