IS WATER BAPTISM VALID IN THIS AGE OF GRACE?

By Dr. Henry C. Kinley, D.D., Ph.D. From Volume II of Elohim the Archetype (Original) Pattern of the Universe,

"The Prophetic Birth and Mission of John the Baptist and Yahshua the Messiah (Jesus Christ)"

(© 1961, 1969 The Institute of Divine Metaphysical Research, Inc.)

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Also See: Carnal Ordinaces

Introduction

This volume expounds my understanding of the Missions of John the Baptist, and Yahshua the Messiah, written according to the Scriptures, and is dedicated to every honest hearted "Seeker" of attested Truth on the earth plane. This volume is written in plain, simple language that even a child can understand without too much difficulty. It is also my earnest and sincere appeal to the honest hearted, Truth Seeking people of Yahweh, imprisoned in Babylon, or so-called Christendom; beseeching them to forsake the erroneous Doctrines, Customs and Traditions received from and taught by Satan and his ministers. It implores the prisoner to return to the True Gospel of Yahshua the Messiah; which teaches "Salvation" by the Grace of Yahweh, through Faith; and not "Salvation by any Works of Righteousness," which we ourselves have done.

If I seem to be somewhat repetitious at times, it is only for the sake of emphasis, and is always done with devotion, and love in my heart for the people that I want to help. I'm like a good surgeon, which loves his patient, but hates the malignant tumor that has grown in his body; He, after making a full diagnosis and taking X-ray pictures of the infected part, then proceeds working with extreme caution and care, to completely remove the long neglected, overgrown tumor with a major operation, hoping to save the patient from certain death. This is exactly what I am now trying to do for prisoners Of MYSTERY BABYLON (Rev. 17:5), or so-called CHRISTENDOM.

My brethren are seriously afflicted with the same Satanic Malady as the Jews were in the time of the Apostle Paul, namely: their belief in "Salvation by Works," that is, their continued indulgence and participation in the "Carnal Ordinances," which Yahshua the Messiah fulfilled and removed by His death, burial and resurrection, all of which were under the Dispensation of the Law; from which the great Apostles, strove to liberate them. Listen to, his words, "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to Yahweh for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of Yahweh, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of Yahweh's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of Yahweh (which is by Grace, through Faith in Yahshua). For the Messiah is the END OF THE LAW FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS TO EVERY ONE THAT BELIEVETH (Rom. 10: 1-14)." "For by Grace ye are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of Yahweh; NOT OF WORKS, lest any man should boast (Eph. 2:8-9)."

Peter calls all of these forms of so-called Christian Doctrines, damnable (destructive) heresies (2 Pet. 2:1); Paul calls them, Doctrines of Devils (1 Tim. 4:1). Hence, the Satanic inspired BELIEF that Salvation can be obtained by the "Good works of the Law," that is to say, through the re-establishment, and continued practice of Carnal Ordinances, along with all the rest of it's Satanic invented Appendages, such as, the superficial Eucharistic fallacies, so-called Christian Water Baptism, Foot Washing, Toe Kissing, and to further add insult to injury, Indulgences and Purgatory.

The prophetic birth date of Yahshua the Messiah and John the Baptist

In order to fully explain the Mission of John the Baptist and Yahshua the Messiah, we must first show their prophetic births in logical Sequence. For the sake of clarity and simplicity of explanation we shall discuss the prophetic birthday of the Messiah first, even though He was born six months after John the Baptist.

It has already been explained elsewhere in this book under the caption of "THE PROPHETIC BIRTH OF THE MESSIAH AND HIS WORK," that Messiah was born into the world and accomplished His work according to the prophetic time-table set up by Daniel's prophecy of seventy weeks (Dan. 9:24), but the exact birth date of the Messiah was not explained at that time. In this particular treatise, we will pin-point Messiah's birthday according to the Law and Prophets (lsa. 8:20) so that there will be nothing lacking in a full explanation of the exact date that He was born.

Needless to say, there has been much speculation and guesswork on the part of theologians and Bible scholars the world over as to the exact date of Yahshua the Messiah's birthday, and although December 25th is now celebrated as the date, no satisfactory explanation or proof can be offered by those who celebrate this date, that it is correct. Even a novice in Bible study would find fault with the December 25th date for he would immediately see that the shepherds who were watching their flocks by night when Messiah was born certainly would not find much grazing pasture in the dead of the winter to say nothing about the possibility of having to sweep snow away in order to have their sheep to graze.

Nevertheless, we find that our theologians who have been academically trained in Bible study make the same mistake over and over again, for they fail to heed the admonition of the Prophet Isaiah who wrote by Divine Inspiration, "To the Law and to the Testimony, if they (Israel's teachers or today's theologians) speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." If we obey the Divine chastisement of Isaiah and go to the Law (the first five books of the Bible) and to the Prophets (the books of prophecy, e.g. Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc.), we find that Yahweh set up a Divine or sacred calendar for Israel to follow. He spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt before He delivered them and the Israelites from the bondage of Pharaoh, "This month (Abib or Nisan) shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall b6 the first month of the year to you. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel saying, in the 10th Day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house -- your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the First Year: Ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats (Ex. 12:2-5)." This first month of the Jewish sacred calendar, Abib or Nisan, corresponds with our English month of April (see Jewish calendar, Volume 1 of this book under caption, "THE COMPARISON OF THE SACRED AND CIVIL CALENDAR"). After Israel had offered up the Pascal Lamb on the evening of the 14th day of Abib (April 14th), they began to journey from Rameses and Python in Egypt toward the Red Sea and on the 3rd day were miraculously delivered through the divided waters of the Red Sea into the Wilderness of Sinai. They continued to journey until they came to Mount Sinai in the THIRD MONTH which is the Jewish sacred month of Sivan (which corresponds to our English month of June). Moses wrote in Exodus 19:1-2, "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the Wilderness of Sinai, for they were departed from Rephidim and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the Wilderness; and there Israel camped before the Mount."

According to Yahweh's time-table Israel was right on time for He had told them, "Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before Yahweh-Elohim, the Elohim of Israel (Ex. 34: 23; Ex. 23:17)," and keep a feast unto Him (Ex. 23:14). These three times were the Feast of Unleavened Bread beginning the evening of the 14th day of Abib or Nisan (the Passover) and lasting for a week, the Feast or Harvest or Firstfruits which began on the day after Israel had numbered to themselves 7 weeks of sabbaths (49 days) which was the 50th day or Pentecost (Deut. 16:9-10), occurring in the 3rd month or Sivan (which corresponds to our English month and day of June 6th) and the Feast of Indwelling which took place in the end of the Sacred year beginning on the 15th day of the seventh month (Tisri or Ethanim) which was the Feast of Tabernacles and lasting 7 days (corresponding to our English month and day of October 15-21). There were actually 7 feasts that the Israelites observed annually (Lev. 23rd chapter).

So with Israel gathered around the Mount, He called Moses, Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the Elders up into the Mount, and they saw (in a Vision) the Elohim of Israel in the shape and form of a MAN (Ex. 24:9-10). Moses and his minister Joshua were then instructed to come up into the Mount to receive the Ten Commandment Law on Tables of Stone. Now the Cloud which had led Israel all the way from Egypt, abode upon Mount Sinai and covered this Mount for six (6) solar days (Ex. 24:16-17) and Moses entered into this Cloud (which symbolised his entering into the Realm of Eternity), and it was during the time that he was in this Cloud, and the Cloud was covering the Mount for six (6) days that he witnessed Elohim creating the physical man, Adam (Gen. 1:26-31), and the Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 5:14 that this first man, Adam, was a Figure of Him who was to come (or of Yahshua the Messiah). Hence, we see Adam being born out of Virgin Mother Earth on the sixth (6th) day (of Moses' Vision while the cloud covered the Mount Which was in the third (3rd) month Sivan or June). The physical man, Adam, was therefore conceived of the dust of the earth; (which was first without shape and form -- see Outer Court of the Tabernacle Pattern) took on shape and form, and Elohim breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and he became a living soul (see Holy Place of Tabernacle Pattern), and then Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden (see Most Holy Place of Tabernacle Pattern). Please bear in mind that this first physical man, Adam, is a Figure of Yahshua the Messiah (Rom- 5:14), and also remember that Yahshua the Messiah said that He came to Fulfill the Law and the Prophets (Matt. 5:17-18), consequently He has to faithfully carry out everything contained in the scriptures, even to His birth date, His conception, etc.

The Prophet Isaiah, wrote "Therefore, Yahweh-Elohim Himself shall give you a sign; behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel, which by interpretation means, 'Elohim with us' (Isa. 7:14)." Here we see the Prophecy confirming the Law for in the Law (Book of Genesis) we see how Adam was born of Virgin Mother Earth and Father, Yahweh Elohim. The physician, Luke states, "And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from Yahweh unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a Virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph of the House of David; and the virgin's name was Mary, and the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favor with Yahweh, and behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Yahshua the Messiah; the Holy Spirit (Elohim) shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore also that Holy Thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of Yahweh (Luke 1:26-35)." This sixth month was the Jewish month Elul, which corresponds with our English month of September and this was the time that Messiah was conceived in the womb of Mary while she was in Nazareth of Galilee. Every physician and woman knows that it takes forty weeks or nine calendar months or ten lunar months for a child to reach full maturity or to take on shape and form in the womb of its mother, so when one counts 40 weeks or nine calendar months forward from September (Elul) one finds that the birth of the Messiah would have to fall somewhere in the month of June (or Sivan, the Jewish third month). We have therefore pin-pointed the month of Yahshua the Messiah's birth date; now it remains for us to determine the exact day of the month. We recall that Adam was born on the sixth day according to Moses' Vision of the creation, and Adam was a figure of Him (Messiah) who was to come, so it goes without saying that Messiah was also born on the Sixth (6th) Day, and we have already determined the month which is June, and we also recall that Israel was gathered around the Mount Sinai in the third Sacred month (which corresponds to our English month of June) on the sixth day of the month figuring fifty-three (53) days from their exit out of Egypt and their crossing through the parted waters of the Red Sea, when Moses was called into the MIDST of the Cloud to see the Creation of the Heaven and Earth in THE, DAY (Gen. 2:4) or the ETERNAL DAY of Yahweh or the Realm of Eternity.

Furthermore, this Messiah who was born was Yahweh manifested in a fleshly body (Heb. 10:5; 1 Tim. 3:16) whom we have already shown is Pure Spirit which is inconceivable, incomprehensible, inscrutable, etc., but is within itself the totality of everything (compare with the shapelessness and formlessness of the Cloud which covered the Mount). Yahweh in taking on a shape and a form, moved from Pure Spirit to Super Incorporeal Form (Elohim) which was the birthing of that shape and form, and then later He moved into a physical body and was manifested on the earth. Yahshua the Messiah being the fullness of the Supernal Nature of Yahweh in Bodily Form (Col. 2: 9), the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit must fulfill all three of these states of spiritual being by His birth into the world. Hence, He is conceived in Nazareth of Galilee (corresponding to the Cloud or Pure Spirit, Most Holy Place, Luke 1:26). He is born in Bethlehem of Judea (Luke 2:4-7, as the Super Incorporeal manifestation or the Holy Place) and then He is taken by Joseph and Mary into Egypt (Matt. 2:13-15, physical manifestation or Outer Court). If one can just appreciate the workings of the Divine Spirit which moved Joseph and Mary from one place to another according to pre-arranged circumstances, then one can discern the manifold Wisdom of Yahweh! Just as Yahweh moved from Pure Spirit to Super incorporeal Form, Joseph, and Mary moved from Nazareth of Galilee to Bethlehem of Judea, and as Yahweh moved from Super incorporeal Form to physical form, then Joseph and Mary moved from Bethlehem of Judea to Egypt This Divine ordering follows the Pattern for it is exemplified by the High Priest being in the Most Holy Place where the Cloud dwelt on the Day of Atonement and his descent from the Most Holy Place to the Holy Place, and then on out into the Outer Court with him also changing his garments in the Holy Place as he descended (Lev. 16:23-24).

After Joseph and Mary had stayed in Egypt for twelve (12) years (fulfilling a year for each of the twelve tribes of Israelites in Egypt), until the death of Herod, they returned back to the land of Israel (Matt. 2:21), and later departed for Nazareth where Messiah grew up until the time of His ministry (Matt. 2:.23; Luke 2:51). This return back to Nazareth of Galilee, the place of His conception, is the same as Messiah returning back to Yahweh or Pure Spirit from which He was conceived; hence the whole round trip from Nazareth to Egypt and back to Nazareth portrays the round trip that Yahweh took from Pure Spirit to Physical manifestation and back to Pure Spirit. Yahshua later went to Jerusalem with Joseph and Mary to celebrate His first Passover at the time that He became of age (12), called Barmitzvah (Luke 2:40-46).

This movement from Pure Spirit where the conception takes place to incorporealization and then into fleshly manifestation also takes place in a very convincing and confirming way in the physical body of a pregnant female, for conception usually takes place in the upper portion of the Fallopian tube (Most Holy Place), and then the fertilized egg moves to the womb (Holy Place) and then later on down into the vagina (Outer Court) and out into the world. In an ascent fashion, the newly born child is later placed at the breast for feeding (back to the Holy Place), and finally up to the mother's face in an embrace (Most Holy Place).

Now, with the birth date of Yahshua the Messiah fixed on June 6th according to the Law and the Prophets, one can readily see that by the time of the next Passover (April 14th) in the year following His birth, He would be the male Lamb of the First year without spot or blemish which was to be offered up for the transgressions of Israel (Ex. 12:5) for that was His Purpose for coming into a fleshly manifestation.

Last, but not least is the confirmation of this date of June 6th by the manifestation of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost on the Israelites and Apostles gathered together in the upper room at Jerusalem. Seeing that Messiah was offered up (crucified) at the Time of the Jewish Passover (Luke 22:1-8) which is the evening of April 14th, and counting fifty (50) days after He arose from the grave (40 of which He tarried on earth) then one sees that the Holy Spirit was born into the hearts and Souls of men which is their TRUE SAVIOUR just as Yahshua the Messiah was born into the world to be the saviour of men. And just as Messiah came into the world by blood, water and spirit such as any child is born into the world in this fashion, likewise, it takes a Spiritual rebirth by blood, water and spirit (not physical) to see the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Apostle Paul says, "And ye are complete in Him which is the head of all principality and power: in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Messiah; buried with Him by immersion wherein also ye are risen with Him through the faith of the operation of Yahweh, who hath raised Him from the dead. And you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses (Gal. 2-.10-13)."

Now let us turn our attention to the birth date of John the Baptist to see how it relates to important roles in the Purpose and Plan of Yahweh, and if one is to understand b-is place in the scheme of things, it is vitally necessary and important that his birth date, according to prophecy be known. He was to be the forerunner of the Messiah and his work of water baptism was intimately related to the Mission of Yahshua the Messiah.

We will not deal too much with John's Mission, as this is explained in complete detail in another section of this particular treatise. We only want to show the relationship of John's birth date with the role that he was playing as the one who was sent to bury the 'dead' Israelites by water baptism into Messiah's death, so that they might be in the likeness of His resurrection (Rom. 6:1-5).

We have already related how that the angel which appeared unto Mary in the sixth month (of the Jewish year which is Elul, or September according to our Gregorian calendar) told her that she would conceive a son of the Holy Spirit. She was also told by this same angel the following, "And behold, thy cousin, Elizabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the SIXTH month with her, who was called barren (Luke 1:36)." This reference to Elizabeth who was the wife of Zacharias the High Priest is in regards to her being pregnant with John the Baptist. Let us keep in mind that both Zacharias and his wife are of the Tribe of Levi, the priesthood tribe to whom Yahweh gave commandment to minister in the Tabernacle. Thus, we find that Elizabeth is six months pregnant with John the Baptist in the month of September according to our Gregorian or English calendar. This would mean that she would have three months to go before she delivered, which would place her time of delivery in the month of December, or six months before Mary would deliver in June.

It is necessary at this point to bring out that John the Baptist was to play the same role as Moses for as Paul put it, "Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the Cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the Cloud and in th6 sea (1 Cor. 10:1-2)," likewise all Israel had to be baptized unto John the Baptist in the River Jordan (Matt. 3:5-6). Moses was of the Tribe of Levi, and he was carrying out his duties as 'high priest' in the greater and more perfect tabernacle which was the Universe (see Migratory Pattern) and the Red Sea was the Laver in this situation. So as the High Priest who was a Levite, buried the slain sacrifices in the Brazen Laver in the Tabernacle of Moses, so did Moses baptize or bury Israel in the Red Sea. Therefore, John's mission would have to be one of burying -- in this case, the dead Israelites for each one had to admit that he was sinful and sought repentance, before John would baptize (immerse or bury) them in the water of the Jordan River.

According to our Pattern, when Elohim made the Sun and the Moon and gave them to rule over the day and night and for signs and seasons, we find that the month of December would be one in which everything would be buried in, or covered up with snow. This would correlate beautifully with the burial in the Brazen Laver in the Outer Court. Then, seeing that Moses was hid for THREE months after his birth to keep him from being put to death according to the commandment of Pharaoh (Ex. 2:2), we can thus appreciate why John the Baptist had to remain hid in his mother's womb THREE months after the angel informed Mary of her cousin's (Elizabeth) pregnancy.

The time of John the Baptist's birth also coincides with the usual seasonal planting of the Israelites, for after their harvesting of their crops in October and early November, they would commence the planting of their seed, so that they would be in the ground by the time of the former rains (the latter rains came in the first month, Joel 2:23). Thus, John the Baptist was Planting the Israelites (the seed of Abraham) when he was baptising them in the physical water of the Jordan River.

Thus, we have established that John the Baptist, being six months older than Yahshua the Messiah, was born in the month of December, in the winter season, to correlate with his mission of interment while Yahshua the Messiah, whose mission was to resurrect mankind, was born on June 6th, in the spring of the year.

Isn't it interesting to note that Christendom erroneously has chosen Death rather than Life for in the winter season, everything is dead and lifeless!

It was absolutely necessary that the birth date of John the Baptist and the birth date of Yahshua the Messiah be exactly 6 months apart, and at diametrically opposite ends of the calendar year to portray the whole Purpose of Yahweh from beginning to end. It was according to Yahweh's preconceived Purpose and Plan that all men would be concluded under the Adamic transgression (Rom. 5:12-14) so that all men might be saved by the Righteousness of one man, Yahshua the Messiah. It was also purposed by Yahweh that this physical and material creation would remain for 6000 years, as evidenced by his vision to Moses of the 6 days of the creation, and using Yahweh's time-table of one day being equal to a thousand years, and a thousand years equal to one day (Psalms 90:4; 2 Pet. Considering further that this physical realm is ruled over by the Satanic spirits cast out of heaven with the Mark or 6 6 6 on them (Rev. 13:18), we come up with a 6 for the Ante-Diluvian Age, a 6 for the Post-Diluvian Age, and a 6 for the Present Age which equals 18 (6 + 6 + 6 a 18). John the Baptist, therefore, with the Holy Spirit in him at his birth, and considering his role of burying or baptising Israel in the River Jordan would be the same as Yahweh concluding or immersing (baptising) all men in the Adamic Transgression; and the 6 months (same as 6 days or 6000 years) intervening between John's birthday and the Messiah's birthday (6 X 30 - 180 days) would be figurative of the three ages (6 + 6 + 6 - 18) at the end of which all things shall be resurrected or returned back to the Father or Pure spirit (1 Cor. 15:24-28). As the Messiah said to John when he came to him to be baptized and John forbade, "Suffer it to be so now, for thus it becometh us (Elohim in Yahshua and the Holy Spirit In John) to fulfill all righteousness (Matt. 3:15)," so the birth dates of these two men had to be seasonally and chronologically coordinated to carry out the Will of Yahweh. Thus, we have established December 6th as the birth date of John the Baptist.

It is true that the Jewish Scribes and Elders were expecting the coming of Elias, the Prophet not realizing that John the Baptist was he (Matt. 17:10-13), who was to prepare the Way of the Messiah, according to the Prophecies of Isaiah and Malachi (Isa. 40:3; Mal. 4:5-6).

If we are to got a true understanding of the Purpose of Yahweh for sending John the Baptist, born of his Levitical Priesthood parents, Elizabeth and Zacharias (Luke 1:11-13), into the world to prepare ye the Way of Yahshua the Messiah, with his "Mission of Water Baptism of Repentance" (to the Jewish Nation), and the Yahweh-Elohim revealed 'identification' of the true Messiah among the chosen people of Yahweh (John 1:29), then it is absolutely necessary that we go back to the creation and fall of the first man Adam, and the Penalty of DEATH and BURIAL, which is the real root of our subject. It is the Divine, inspired writings of the Scriptures, contained in the Law and the Prophets, from Genesis to Malachi that contain allegories presenting symbolical and historical events in the material realm, to convey Spiritual Principles.

Physical water baptism is an immersion or burial

This is the definition of Water Baptism taken from Merrian-Webster Dictionary, as it is interpreted and traditionally and customarily practiced by so-called Christendom.

Baptism - A sacrament by whose reception one becomes a member of a Christian Church.

Baptize - To immerse in water, or to pour water on, as part of a religious rite admitting a person to a Christian Church. To Christen.

The above definition, is NOT the True, Divine Etymological meaning of Water Baptism. To eliminate theological debates, quibbling and confusion about the Mode and Purpose of Physical Water Baptism in this particular case, every student of Scripture, so-called Jew or Gentile, knows that the Virgin Mother Earth from which the vegetable and animal kingdoms were created, including the first man Adam, was first completely 'Immersed or Baptized' in the waters that surrounded it. This is a true Baptism or Burial of the inanimate and inorganic Earth in Water. Hence, every physical cell, protozane, atom, fiber, molecule, tissue, sinew, muscle and bone that formed the first man Adam's body, was once totally immersed in water before Elohim formed his inanimate, physical body and breathed into his nostrils the Breath of Life and he became a LIVING SOUL, in the Sixth Day of the creation. In Genesis 1:1-3 the scriptures do say that, "In the beginning Elohim created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Elohim moved upon the face of the waters, and Elohim said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And Elohim called the dry land earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and Elohim saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the Third Day." (This is the true scriptural record of the earth's physical Water Baptism).

Eve was immersed in Adam - a type of baptism

Again we should be able to see that the Rib from which Elohim formed the physical body of the first woman Eve, was completely 'BAPTIZED OR IMMERSED' in the structure of Adam's physical body. After Elohim had breathed the Breath of Life into Adam's nostrils and made him a LIVING SOUL, the scriptures say in Genesis 2:8,18,21-24, "And Elohim planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed. And Elohim said, it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."

"And Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam (completely IMMERSING or BAPTISING him AGAIN under the influence of the Spirit of Yahweh), and he slept and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which Elohim had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." (The first Adam was a type of the second Adam, Yahshua the Messiah - Rom- 5:14).

As Eve was of the Body and also the Bride of the first Adam, so also is the Church the Body and Bride of the second Adam, Yahshua the Messiah (Col. 1:24; Ephes. 5:31-32). This indeed is a great Mystery, but it shows beyond a question of a doubt that when John the Baptist burned Israel and Yahshua by Water Baptism, he was as Paul said in Romans 6:3-4, "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Yahshua the Messiah, were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Yahshua was raised from the dead by the Glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." Hence, when Yahshua was baptized by John, all the human race was baptized in water by him, in that he baptized Yahshua the Messiah.

The Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 11:12, "For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of Yahweh." that is to say, Yahweh is the Father of the first man Adam, whom He created from the Virgin Mother Earth and the Virgin Mary was the Mother of Yahshua, the physical body in whom Yahweh (who is Spirit, John 4:24), was manifested as the second Adam (Yahshua), who was conceived by the Holy Spirit. After Yahweh's manifestation in the flesh or in His son, Yahshua the Messiah (1 Tim. 3:16), the Apostle Paul states (Gal. 4:26), that Jerusalem above is the Mother of us all. These are figures of physical and spiritual Baptisms or Immersions.

Since we have at this time discussed the Father Yahweh, and the Mother, the Virgin Mother Earth, we should also remind the reader that there is one other Father, Satan or the Serpent, the Father of Lies (John 8:44), and Babylon (confusion), the Mother of Harlots (Rev. 17:5), which is also involved in our explanation of the Purpose of Yahweh in relation to Adam, Eve, Noah, Abraham, Moses, John the Baptist, and his mission of water baptism of repentance in correlation to the mission of Yahshua the Messiah, the second Adam, and also the Satanic Church and the baptism of its members by the ministers of Satan (2 Cor. 11:14-15).

The penalty for disobedience of the law or command of Yahweh was death

We are told that Elohim gave Adam and Eve permission to eat of the fruit of all of the trees in the Garden of Eden, EXCEPT the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (Gen. 2:16-1?) which was in the midst of the Garden, the penalty for disobedience of this 'Law, or Command' being DEATH (Gen. 3:3). The Serpent or the Devil which was cast out of Heaven (Rev. 12:9) was more subtle than any beast of the field which Yahweh-Elohim had made (Gen. 3:1). It was here in the Garden of Eden that the Serpent deceived the woman (I Tim. 2:14), causing her to 'Touch and Eat' of the forbidden tree and she gave to her husband, and he did eat (Gen. 3:6).

For Adam's disobedience he was instantaneously "CONDEMNED" in his CONSCIENCE or DIED that solar day, which caused his expulsion from the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:23). Finally at the age of 930 years, he died physically that (thousandth year) day with Yahweh (Gen. 5:5). Note, Psalm 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:.8 reads thusly, "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with Yahweh as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day," in which he had appointed him to die (Heb. 9:27), or 70 years before THE DAY with Yahweh-Elohim was ended. Consequently, Adam's BURIAL or return unto the ground from whence his physical body was taken (Gen. 3:19), followed his true or conscious DEATH. Therefore, the Adamic sin, death and burial is the direct cause for the Mission of John the Baptist and Yahshua the Messiah.

Here it is worthy to note that Yahweh-Elohim's first and ONLY CREATED SON, ADAM, had sinned and was driven from the Garden of Eden. His expulsion was the end of the Edenic Dispensation and the beginning of the Dispensation of Conscience. Thereafter, Adam's first BORN son, Cain, with his jealous and corrupt 'Mind' slew his brother Abel, the second son of Adam. Eve, Adam's wife and the mother of Cain and Abel, after the birth of the third son, Seth, stated, "For Yahweh, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos; then began men to call upon the name of Yahweh (Gen. 4:25-26)." This calling upon the name of Yahweh did not last long, for the heart of men grew more and more desperately wicked. For this reason Yahweh had decreed the destruction of the world by water.

The human race was drown or baptized in the flood

Yahweh manifested Himself to Noah, giving him the Divine specifications and instructions to build an Ark for the END of ALL flesh had come. Whereas, 120 years thereafter Noah had finished building the Ark and gathered into it all of the seed of the Zoological kingdom necessary to replenish the earth again after the Flood, according to Yahweh's command. Whereupon, Yahweh opened up the fountains of the deep, and sending the rain from above for 40 days and 40 nights, drown (BAPTIZED OR IMMERSED) every living creature in whose nostrils was the breath of life but Noah and his immediate family, numbering eight souls altogether, who were saved by water (Gen. 7:1-24; 1 Pet. 3:18-22). THIS WAS THE END OF (the 1656 years of the Ante-Diluvian Age or) THAT WORLD, 2348 B.Y.

By Faith Isaac was (Psychologically) crucified, buried (Baptized) and resurrected in Abraham's Mind. Yahweh chose Abraham to establish the Dispensation of Faith, under Melchizedek, King and High Priest of Salem, 427 years after the Flood. Yahweh made a Covenant with Abraham (430 years before the Mosaic Law of Commandments and Sacrifices were given) that in his seed (Yahshua), He would bless both Jew and Gentile by Faith, after the fulfillment and removal of the Mosaic Law, by the giving of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, after the 'Resurrection of Yahshua the Messiah. "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith rot, as of many; but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Yahshua (Gal, 3:16)." Suffice us to say here that Paul said, "By Faith, Abraham when he was tried, offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, THAT IN ISAAC (not Ishmael) SHALL THY SEED BE CALLED: Accounting that Yahweh was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence HE RECEIVED HIM IN A FIGURE" (Heb. 11: 17-19).

Notice, in the above quotation of the Apostolic statement, how by faith, Abraham's (psychological) crucifixion, burial (baptism) and resurrection of Isaac took place in a figure, typifying that of Yahshua, so that Isaac might become the father of Jacob, and Jacob in turn might become the father of his twelve sons, who constitute the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Joseph, the eleventh son of Jacob was sold by his brethren to the Egyptians. Later Jacob and the rest of his sons went into Egypt; There Yahweh multiplied the Israelites insomuch that the Egyptians made slaves of them. But when the fullness of time had come, Yahweh-Elohim sent Moses to deliver the Israelites out of the hands of Pharaoh and the house of bondage. After the

pouring out of the ten plagues, and the institution of the Feast of the Passover, Yahweh-Elohim by the Phenomenal 'Cloud' and the hand of Moses brought the Israelites out of the Land of Egypt, through the Miraculously Divided waters of the Red Sea (IMMERSING or BAPTIZING them in the cloud and in the Red Sea, 1 C-or. 10:1-2), overthrowing the pursuing Pharaoh and his host therein (Psa. 136:l5), and bringing the Israelites into the Wilderness, about six hundred thousand of them, not counting the women and children (Ex. 38:26; Num. 1:46-47).

The Israelites disobeyed the law of Yahweh and died As Adam disobeyed the law of Yahweh and died

Shortly after the Israelites had been "Baptized in the Cloud" and in the Red Sea, they came into the Wilderness of Sinai. It was here in the Wilderness that Yahweh-Elohim gave them 'three days to wash their clothes and assemble themselves around Mount Sinai. At this time (about 1490-1491 B.Y.) a thick Cloud formed upon the Mount and Yahweh, introducing Himself, gave Israel the Law of Commandments, which Israel had agreed to keep (Ex. I9th and 20th chapters). This was the First Church (Acts 7:38), which means "congregation or assembly." The true Yahweh of Heaven and Earth was speaking.

Thus, we see that Israel after being baptized in the Cloud and in the sea, did receive the first Covenant of the Law of Yahweh, often referred to as the Law of Moses, being as Paul said, ADDED BECAUSE OF THE ADAMIC TRANSGRESSION (Gal. 3:19). The Israelites broke or disobeyed the first Covenant or the Law of Yahweh and DIED IN THEIR CONSCIENCE (Dan. 9:11), which made the fulfillment and removal of the first Covenant necessary (Matt. 5:17), through the Missions of John the Baptist and Yahshua the Messiah (Matt. 3:13-15), before the establishment of the New Covenant (Jer. 31:31-34; 2 Cor. 3:1-3). Hence, the Israelites had nothing to boast about because they were as "GUILTY and DEAD" in trespasses of Sin as Adam was when he "Touched and Ate" of the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (Gen. 3:6). Therefore, John was sent to Bury or Baptize the Dead Israelites.

John the Baptist with his Mission of Water Baptism of Repentance, figuratively Buried the dead Israelites. Adam and the Israelites both had sinned, for the wages of sin is 'Death' (Ron 6:23). Therefore, according to the scripture, Elohim sent John the Baptist (in the ending of the Post-Diluvian Age or World) with his Mission of Water Baptism of Repentance to prepare the way of Yahshua, which required John to demand that the Israelites (and Proselytes) confess their sins (which means that Israel was dead), after which he 'Buried' them by Water Baptism of Repentance, before the Death and Burial of Yahshua the Messiah, the second Adam. For as Paul explained in Romans 5:12-14, "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and DEATH BY SIN; and so DEATH passed upon all win, for that all have sinned; (for until the Law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is NO LAW. Nevertheless, DEATH reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the FIGURE OF HIM (Yahshua the Messiah) THAT WAS TO COME."

Since John was figuratively burying the dead Jews and Proselytes (NOT THE GENTILES) by Water Baptism into Yahshua's death and burial before He (Yahshua) was crucified and buried in Joseph's new tomb, being sealed therein by the stone rolled up to the entrance. Paul asked of the Gentiles, "What shall we (the Jews) say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? By no means! How shall we, (the Jews) that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us (the Jews) as were BAPTIZED INTO YAHSHUA THE MESSIAH WERE BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH? Therefore, we are buried with Him by BAPTISM INTO DEATH: that like as the Messiah was raised up from the dead by the Glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. In the 11th verse Paul is referring to the Gentiles NOT TO BE BAPTIZED IN WATER, BUT TO RECKON YE also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, BUT ALIVE UNTO ELOHIM THROUGH YAHSHUA THE MESSIAH (Rom. 6:1-4,11)." That is to say that the Gentiles were blessed and grafted in or stood by Faith Only in the seed of Abraham or Yahshua, instead of by (Circumcision and Water Baptism, etc.) the WORKS OF THE LAW.

The whole human race died and was buried (baptized) by the Messiah's baptism

Before the final closing days of John the Baptist's Mission of Water Baptism, Yahshua went to him to be baptized, but John forbade him, saying that I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? But as Yahshua, the True Seed of Abraham and the Sacrificial Lamb of Yahweh that taketh away the Sins of the world (John 1:29), said to John when he went to be baptized of him, suffer it to be so now, BECAUSE IT BECOMETH US TO 'FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS' (Matt. 3:13-15). This means that the whole world or human race from Adam through Moses to Yahshua, and including the present generation and all the generations that shall follow thereafter, were Baptized IN WATER when John baptized the physical body of Yahshua and the Jews before the Messiah died for the S-ins of the world. The Gentile's CIRCUMCISION and WATER BAPTISM WAS COMPLETE by the circumcision of Yahshua, eight days after His birth, and in that John baptized the physical body of Yahshua (Col. 2:11-12). This allowed the Gentiles to be blessed or grafted into the Spiritual body of Yahshua, or the Church through Faith, by the Holy Spirit (Rom. 11:17-20). Therefore, this was the FINAL and COMPLETE END of all modes and forms of physical water baptism, according to the Purpose of Yahweh. For this reason, Paul said that Water Baptism, which was the foundation of repentance was a 'Dead Work, to the Jews or Hebrew nation' (Heb. 6:1-2). Therefore, in this present Dispensation of Grace, the first of the Gentiles BEGAN IN THE SPIRIT (at Caesarea, Acts. 10:44-45), that is to say, Elohim gave the Gentiles the Holy Spirit without 'Circumcision or Water Baptism' (Gal. 3:3).

However, many theologians believe and refer to the conversation which Yahshua had with Nicodemus to justify their contention for water baptism in this present Dispensation of Grace when He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of the water and of the spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of Yahweh (John 3:5)." The conversation of Nicodemus and Yahshua took place under the Dispensation of the Law at the time during which John the Baptist was baptizing the Jews with the Baptism of Repentance. It is important to note that although Nicodemus was a Pharisee and ruler of the Jews that he, like all the other Jews, had broken the Law and was dead. He was no greater than Yahshua, the Master of Israel and the rest of the Jews who were baptized for the dead (1 Cor. 15:29). Therefore, Nicodemus was also required to be baptized by the baptism of repentance into the Messiah's death that he might be in the likeness of the Messiah's resurrection (Rom. 6:4-5), being redeemed and born again of the Spirit on the Day of Pentecost.

John's Water Baptism of the Jews and Yahshua "COMPLETED HIS MISSION," for he was the last of the Prophets to appear and Prophesy, before the manifestation of Yahshua, the True Messiah, Prophet and King of Israel (Deut. 18:15-18). For this reason Yahweh suffers or permitted King Herod to behead John so that John could appear with Moses (in A.D. 32) at the Transfiguration of Yahshua (Matt. 17:1-13). It was necessary for Moses and John the Baptist, both of whom were dead and buried, to appear with Yahshua in the VISION of the Transfiguration, before the three witnesses, Peter, James and John, in fulfillment of the VISION OF the Elohim of Israel in Incorporeal Form of a Man, before Aaron, Nadab and Abihu in Mount Sinai with Moses (Ex. 24:9-10). For the scriptures saith, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall the matter be established (Deut. 19:15; Matt. 18:16)." John the Baptist alone did not baptize all the Jews that came unto him to be baptized, for Yahshua made and baptized more disciples than John (through Yahshua Himself baptized NOT, but His disciples) -- John 4:1-2.

The complete end of physical water baptism

When John had finished his Mission of Water Baptism of the Jews (and Proselytes) and had baptized Yahshua, borne witness and announced that Yahshua was the Son of Elohim (John 1:34) and the Lamb of Yahweh that taketh away the sins of the world (John 1:29), physical water baptism, so far as the Purpose of Yahweh was concerned, had come to A COMPLETE and FINAL END. That is, all religious MODES, and FORMS of physical water baptism known to mankind was finished according to the Purpose of Yahweh. Why? Because when John baptized the physical body of Yahshua in water, all of the Adamic family or human race on earth (which includes the Gentiles also), was physically baptized THEN, NOW and FOREVER, in physical water, by the baptism of Yahshua. As Paul said in Romans 6:1-11, to the Jews who had been baptized with Him (Yahshua), this was a figure, signifying their baptism into His death and burial, so that they being planted together with Him (Yahshua) in the likeness of His death, might also be in the likeness of His resurrection. That is to say, they were resurrected when they received the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, which day was the beginning of the Present Dispensation of Grace.

Peter agreed with Paul, that John's Water Baptism of Repentance was like the DEATH of the wicked in the Flood, and the Deliverance of Noah and his family to the believing Jews, that were baptized with water into His death, before Yahshua the Messiah died. 1 Peter 3:21-22 reads thusly, "The like figure whereunto even BAPTISM doth also now save us (the Jews) not the putting away the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward Yahweh, by the resurrection of Yahshua the Messiah; WHO IS GONE INTO HEAVEN, and is on the right hand of Elohim; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto HIM."

The mission of Yahshua the Messiah

Yahshua the Messiah, fulfilled the Law of ALL CARNAL ORDINANCES, NAILING THEM TO THE CROSS according to the Law (Matt. 5:17-18; Col. 2:14) and Prophets (Isa. 8:20). Yahshua was born of the woman (the virgin Mary), born under the Law, to redeem them that were under the Law (Gal. 4:4-5). The Gospel according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are Biographies of Yahshua in the days of His flesh, still under the Law, fulfilling the Law and Prophets. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John ARE NOT THE NEW COVENANT or NEW TESTAMENT, for where a Testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the Testator, for A TESTAMENT IS OF FORCE AFTER MEN ARE DEAD (Heb. 9:16-17) and NOT BEFORE. The Mosaic Law, which included ALL CARNAL ORDINANCES. given to the Jews ONLY, was added because of transgression of the first Yahweh-given Law to Adam. As Adam disobeyed the Law, being weak through the flesh, likewise the Jews broke the Mosaic Law. Yahshua said, "My doctrine is NOT MINE, BUT HIS THAT SENT ME. If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of Yahweh, or whether I speak of myself (John 7:16-17)."

For as the Scriptures (which were written before Yahshua was born is the Doctrine) hath said, "Then said I, Lo I come in the volume of the book as it is written of me to do thy will, 0 Yahweh (Psa. 40:7; Heb. 10:7)." That is, as He said to the Jews, "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are they which testify of me (John 5:39)." "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to FULFIL. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till ALL BE FULFILLED (Matt. 5:17-18)." When He had FULFILLED all that was written of Him during His life time, or when He hung on the cross He said, "IT IS FINISHED (John 19:30)." That is to say, HE FINISHED FULFILLING all that was written in the Law and Prophets concerning Himself, before He died (Luke 24:44). In that He was nailed to the cross, Paul says in Colossians 2:14, ALL CARNAL ORDINANCES, which include Circumcision, Ceremonies, Water Baptism, Suppers, Sacrifices, Law of Commandments and Sabbath Days were ALL NAILED TO THE CROSS, or had become 'Dead Works' from then on (see Chart on Carnal Ordinances. Volume 4, page 54). That is they were not to be practiced in this PRESENT DISPENSATION OF GRACE.

To the Jewish nation or the Hebrews, the Apostle Paul said, "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of the Messiah, LET US GO ONTO PERFECTION; NOT LAYING AGAIN THE FOUNDATION OF REPENTANCE FROM DEAD WORKS, and OF FAITH TOWARD YAHWEH, OF THE DOCTRINE OF BAPTISMS, and of laying on of hands, and of RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, and OF ETERNAL JUDGMENT (Heb. 6:1-2)." In other words, water baptism, the foundation for repentance was a 'DEAD WORK' to the Jewish nation, to say nothing about it being a 'LIVE WORK' to the Gentiles.

To the Gentile nation, and also the Jews, after the death, burial. and resurrection of Yahshua the Messiah, no one, Jew or Gentile could be buried by physical water baptism into his Death and Burial. Why? Because he is not DEAD and BURIED. HE HAS RISEN. Since He has risen, it is NOT BY PRACTICING WATER BAPTISM, or any other CARNAL ORDINANCE or works of the Law, B U T by F A I T H, in His death, burial and resurrection for we are saved by the Grace of Yahweh through Faith, and that not of yourself, for it is the FREE gift of Yahweh (Ephes. 2:8). Again Paul states to the Corinthians, "For by ONE SPIRIT (not water) are we all baptized into ONE BODY, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into ONE SPIRIT (1 Cor. 12:13)."

Is so called Christian (physical) water baptism valid?

The answer to the question posed in the caption is, N0 . If we baptize a person in physical water before he received the Holy Spirit, this is the Baptism of Repentance (not a Christian Baptism) for this is exactly what Yahweh sent John the Baptist to do BEFORE Yahshua was crucified and buried. Or if we baptize a person in physical water AFTER he has been baptized with, or received the Holy Spirit, then we bury him by water baptism AFTER he has been made ALIVE by the Holy Spirit, and FOR THIS WE HAVE NO SCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY. That is to say, there wasn't anything written in the scriptures to this effect before Yahshua was born, pointing to physical water baptism AFTER the Holy Spirit was received. For Yahshua Himself said, "John truly baptized with water; but ye shall BE BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT not many days hence (Acts 1:5)." Be it known unto the world that Yahshua the Messiah came into the world to FULFILL and REMOVE the already existing Carnal Ordinances and NOT TO INSTITUTE more CARNAL ORDINANCES to replace those He died to remove.

It is claimed by those who teach and practice so-called Christian Water Baptism, that it is an outward manifestation of inward Grace. We say that on the part of those who teach such an erroneous concept, or doctrine it is an outward manifestation of inward ignorance and a misunderstanding of the Purpose of Yahweh so far as the real truth, revealed by the Holy Spirit is concerned.

In the 10^th chapter of Romans, Paul speaks of the Jews being ignorant of Yahweh's Righteousness and going about to establish their own Righteousness, likewise, WE HAVE NOT submitted ourselves unto the Righteousness of Yahweh, which is by Faith. It is with the heart that man believeth unto Righteousness. If we believe in our hearts or minds in the actual participation of Water Baptism, then we believe that The Messiah IS NOT RISEN, BUT DEAD (that is to bring Yahshua up from the dead) then we are back under the Righteousness of the Law and have not submitted ourselves to the Righteousness of Yahweh, which is by Faith. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5: 17, "Therefore if any man be in The Messiah, he is A NEW CREATURE: OLD THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY (which means ALL CARNAL ORDINANCES.); BEHOLD, ALL THINGS BECOME NEW."

For there isn't any such thing as a physical "Christians Water Baptism" mentioned in the Scriptures as an outward manifestation of inward Grace. Neither did Yahshua the Messiah give to His disciples any such "Great Commission" to go into all of the world and baptize by physical water, Jews, Gentiles, Sinners, Believers or Christians. Why? Because the whole Adamic family or human race was already DEAD from the fall of Adam, and BURIED (in a figure) by John's Water Baptism of Repentance of the Jews and of Yahshua, for he was made to be sin for us (2 Cor. 5:21) or the Lamb of Yahweh that taketh away the sins of the world, who is also called the second Adam. What was necessary thereafter was a resurrection from that state of death (through the sin of Adam) by the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, NOT A BURIAL.

Baptism in the name (recorded by Matthew) is not by water But by preaching Yahshua the Messiah by the Holy Spirit

If physical Water Baptism is not to be practiced in this Dispensation of Grace, the question would naturally arise in the minds of those who have taught and practiced it, why did Yahshua INSTITUTE IT by telling His disciples (or apostles) in the Great Commission to "Go ye therefore, and teach ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit: teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever I have commanded you: and, Lo, I AM WITH YOU ALWAY, even unto the end of the world (or age) 11 (Matt. 28:19-20)." We have copied the exact words of Yahshua in the above quoted statement. Take a good look and read carefully and see if he said for the disciples OR APOSTLES to BAPTIZE IN THE WATER or BAPTIZE IN THE NAME. To baptize in THE NAME does NOT MEAN to repeat in ceremonial form, the exact words of Yahshua and then dip, pour, sprinkle or plunge a person or candidate into physical water.

We will let Yahshua the Messiah, Himself explain what He meant by saying, "BAPTIZE THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, and IN THE NAME OF THE SON, and IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY SPIRIT." Yahshua said, "For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT (NOT WATER) not many days hence (Acts 1:5.)." When He said unto His disciples or apostles "Go ye into all of the world and baptize all nations, IN THE NAME of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit," He could not have meant with or in water, because the Jews and Yahshua, were already baptized in water by John. Therefore, He did not mean that the Jews would have to be baptized in water AGAIN. Yahshua knew the words He spoke in the "Great Commission," to Baptize IN THE NAME would be misunderstood. For He had previously said, "But the comforter, which is the Holy Spirit, WHOM, THE FATHER WILL SEND IN MY NAME, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your REMEMBRANCE, whatsoever I have said unto you (John 14:26)."

This is Yahshua's spiritual explanation of how He meant to baptize IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, SON and HOLY SPIRIT. Yahshua said, "He that believeth on me as the scripture hath said, OUT OF HIS BELLY SHALL FLOW RIVERS OF LIVING WATERS." The Apostle John, being the last one to write his gospel in A.D. 90, and having seen the MISINTERPRETATION of the "Great Commission" (Matt. 28:19), recorded the 39th verse of the ?th chapter of John, which is written in parenthesis, explaining what Yahshua meant when He said to baptize IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, SON and HOLY SPIRIT. John wrote ("But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Spirit was not yet given; because that Yahshua was not yet glorified").

According to the scriptures it was the Father Yahweh, that sent the Son Yahshua, and the Holy Spirit, which He sent after Yahshua's resurrection and ascension, IN THE NAME OF YAHSHUA THE MESSIAH into their hearts or minds (Jer. 31:31-34; 2 Cor. 3:3; Gal. 4:6). After which they were to go into all of the world and teach all nations these things according to the scriptures (which were written about the Messiah, by Moses and the Prophets, before he was born); which means that all nations, including the Jews that believed in Yahshua as the apostles taught or preached the gospel IN THE NAME of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit (in other words, the "Godhead", Col. 2:9), according to the scriptures, were being BAPTIZED IN RIVERS OF LIVING WATERS (NOT IN PHYSICAL WATER), as Yahshua had commanded them to do in the Great Commission (Matt. 28:19).

Mark confirms our interpretation of Matthew

Let us continue our investigations and exegetical analysis of the writings of the Apostles and their companions on this particular phase of Baptism in the NAME OF THE FATHER, SON and HOLY SPIRIT. John Mark, who WAS NOT one of the twelve Apostles, but the companion of the Apostle Peter and Paul (1 Pet. 5:13; Acts 12:25; 2 Tim. 4:11) wrote of Yahshua the Messiah and of his Great Commission to the Apostles. After the Messiah's resurrection, these are His words, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to EVERY CREATURE. He that believeth and IS BAPTIZED" (Yahshua recognizing by his spoken words that the whole Adamic family had been baptized with Water when John baptized His (Yahshua's) physical body, said, "he that believeth and IS BAPTIZED, that is with the Holy Spirit) shall be saved; but he that believeth NOT shall he damned: and these signs shall follow them that believe; IN MY NAME shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up Serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover (Mark 16:15-18)." Notice carefully, that Water Baptism was not one of the Signs that would follow them that BELIEVED, as an outward sign of inward Grace as taught by so-called Christendom. After Yahshua had given them the Great Commission, it is to be understood that they were to tarry at Jerusalem after He ascended, and they were yet to be baptized with the Holy Spirit, before they were to go and preach the gospel (Acts 1:4-8). Or should we ASSUME, that Yahshua meant that the apostles themselves were to receive the Holy Spirit first, and then BAPTIZE THEM IN WATER AGAIN, and that they should speak in Ritualistic Form and Ceremonial Order over the heads of each person the following words: "In obedience to the Command of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, I baptize thee, our Brother, John Doe, In the Name of the Father, 'God' and in the Name of the Son, 'Jesus' and in the Name of the Holy Ghost ?" The answer is N0 . Why? Because as we have already stated, Yahshua did not say go and Baptize them again, or anyone else thereafter IN THE WATER, BUT IN THE NAME. Read the Great Commission carefully (Matt. 28:19), and see if he mentions the word W A T E R in it. (AS we have already explained, Yahshua said, "He that believeth on me as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of LIVING WATER. But this spake he of the Spirit (John 7:38-.39)." This is how baptism in the "Name of the Godhead" was to be performed, according to the words of Yahshua concerning the Great Commission.

Luke confirms our interpretation of Matthew and mark

Luke, the beloved physician, was not one of the twelve Apostles, but had a profound knowledge of all that Yahshua began both to DO and TEACH, until the day he was taken up (Acts 1:12). He was a companion of the Apostle Paul (2 Tim. 4:11). Luke confirms our interpretation of Matthew and Mark by taking the plain statement that Yahshua said (after His resurrection), that REPENTANCE and REMISSION OF SINS SHOULD BE PREACHED IN HIS NAME (NOT IN THE WATER), beginning at Jerusalem (Luke 24:44-47). Luke also wrote the Acts of Apostles, and in this record he said that the Holy Spirit, speaking through Peter the Apostle, had preached that Yahshua, whom they had crucified, had risen from the dead and sent them to preach the gospel. He repeated the words of the Great Commission, "Repent and be Baptized everyone of you in the NAME OF YAHSHUA THE MESSIAH (NOT IN THE WATER) for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38)."

The gospel according to John

John tells us that Yahshua, speaking to Martha, said, "I am the RESURRECTION, and the LIFE: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" (John 11:25-26). After Yahshua Himself had died and risen from the dead, He appeared unto His disciples and said, "Peace be unto you: as My Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when He had said this, he BREATHED ON THEM, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit (John 20:21-22)." This was done, that it might be proven or manifested that The Messiah appearing to His disciples in an Incorporeal Body, was the same Elohim that BREATHED into Adam's nostrils the BREATH OF LIFE and he (Adam) became a living soul (Gen. 2:7). And manifesting further that he was as he said, THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE. NO MAN cometh unto the Father, but by me (Yahshua) John 14:6. And as Yahshua had previously said, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake He of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him would receive (John 7:37-39)." Please note, that no where in the Gospel of John did Yahshua tell His disciples to go into the world and BAPTIZE WITH WATER, after he had risen from the dead, and they had received the Holy Spirit.

In repetition, the reason Yahshua did not tell His disciples to baptize with water, after he had risen from dead was because John the Baptist, in baptizing him (Yahshua), the Jews and Proselytes had already (according to Paul's statement in Romans 6:1-11) baptized them into His (Yahshua's) death, that they might be in the likeness of His resurrection. Therefore no one, Jew or Gentile, could be baptized into His death AFTER His resurrection. According to John, Luke, Mark and Matthew, Yahshua spoke the words of the Great Commission, AFTER He had risen from the dead and the graves were opened and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after His resurrection and went into the Holy City, and appeared unto many (Matt. 27:52-53; Ezek. 37:1-14; Acts 2:31-32). Thus as Paul said, Yahshua, abolished death and brought Life and Immortality to light through the Gospel or the Power of Yahweh to raise Him (Yahshua) from the dead (2 Tim. 1:10). THEREFORE HE THAT BELIEVETH (that his salvation is complete in The Messiah, Col. 2:9-10) and IS BAPTIZED (with the Holy Spirit) SHALL BE SAVED.

As Paul explains in lst Corinthians 2:12-15, "Now we (the Apostles) have received, NOT THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD, but the SPIRIT WHICH IS OF YAHWEH; that we might know the things that are FREELY GIVEN TO US OF YAHWEH. Which things also we speak, not in the words which MEN'S WISDOM TEACHETH, but which the Holy Spirit TEACHETH; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. BUT THE NATURAL MAN receiveth not the things of the Spirit of Yahweh: for they are foolishness unto f him: neither can he know them because they are SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED. But he that IS SPIRITUAL (not carnal) judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of NO MAN." So-called Carnal minded Christendom, not having the Holy Spirit, does not understand the difference between spiritual baptism and water baptism.

Water baptism after Pentecost?

There were many things that the apostles and their associates had written during their life-time in their manuscripts, namely: the so-called four gospels (which are the biography of the life of Yahshua, under the Law, fulfilling the Law and the Prophets, while He was in the flesh. The Acts of the Apostles is a historical document along with the other Epistles of instruction, encouragement and admonishment, all of which are incorrectly labeled, the New Testament), that have continued to confuse and divide the so-called dignitaries and intellectuals of early and latter Day so-called Christendom into many factions, after the DECEASE of the Apostles. For example, if all CARNAL ORDINANCES, including Water Baptism, was under the Old Covenant and practiced by JEWS ONLY in all its miscellaneous, sacrificial and ceremonial forms or modes, were ACTUALLY Abolished AT THE CROSS (Col. 2:14) and were a 'DEAD WORK' to the Jews (Heb. 6:1-2) not to mention the Gentiles, then the three most important questions are as follows:

(1) WHY then did Philip, the deacon, dispersed from Jerusalem, go into the water and baptize the Ethiopian Eunuch, after the crucifixion of Yahshua and after the Day of Pentecost? (Acts 8:38).

(2) WHY then did the Apostle Peter command Cornelius, the Gentile Centurion, and his household to be baptized in water after they had received the Holy Spirit seven years after the Day of Pentecost? (Acts 10:47).

(3) Why then did a Jew named Apollos, continue the practice of John's Water Baptism of Repentance after Pentecost? (Acts 18:24-25).

We will give the true Apostolic explanation to the questions mentioned above, as stipulated in THEIR OWN EPISTLES of instruction or interpretations of the Scriptures, as revealed to them by Yahshua the Messiah and the Holy Spirit, after we have discussed some of the fundamental details of the Acts of Apostles, leading to the confusion of so-called Christendom and their misunderstanding of the Great Commission, originating in Matthew 28:19. In other words, the Great Commission Is misunderstood because Water Baptism, after Pentecost, is mentioned in the Acts of Apostles, as shown by the three questions.

Acts of the apostles, written by Luke is an historical document and not a doctrinal epistle

These questions and the misunderstanding concerning Water Baptism that have plagued so-called Christendom through the centuries, are found in the Historical Document, better known to is as "The Acts of Apostles," which was written by Luke while he was in Rome, about A.D. 61-63 (Acts 28:16-30; 2 Tim. 4:11). If Luke had not written the Acts of Apostles,' Christendom would not have any record of the "Practice of Water Baptism" after the crucifixion of Yahshua, and after the Day of Pentecost to which they could have referred to establish the erroneous, Carnal Minded interpretation of the Great Commission of Yahshua the Messiah. Paul did not continue the Practice of Water Baptism because he said that Yahshua sent him "NOT TO BAPTIZE, but to preach the gospel (1 Cor. 1:14-17)." Luke sent this historical document to his excellency Theophilus, a person in high official position (Luke 1:3; Acts 1:1). In writing the Acts of Apostles as it is called it is apparent that Luke has no intentions whatsoever of writing an authoritative or apostolic: pastoral epistle; nor did he address it to anyone of the Churches or Congregational Assemblies, established by the Apostles in local or foreign territories. He wrote a TRUE RECORD OF PAST OR CURRENT EVENTS in defense of Yahshua the Messiah, His Apostles in the ministry, the Jewish and Gentile disciples or converts, and sent it to Theophilus, hoping to relieve them of further or continued persecution for preaching the gospel of The Messiah. In A.D. 43, Herod the King stretched forth his hand and killed the Apostle James and imprisoned Peter, but the angel released Peter (Acts 12:7-10). In A.D. 61-63, when Luke wrote the Acts of Apostles, He HAD SPENT MANY YEARS with Paul, Peter and others in the ministry. He also engaged in communication with them in the Apostolic Councils held at Jerusalem and Antioch. Therefore Luke KNEW and UNDERSTOOD the True Doctrine of Yahshua the Messiah as taught by word of mouth by ALL of the True Apostles of the Messiah. Moreover, he UNDERSTOOD the principles of the Doctrine taught in their epistles (revealed to the Apostles by the Holy Spirit which Yahshua the Messiah Himself promised they would receive after His departure) without another "Water Baptism." For as Yahshua said, "John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the HOLY SPIRIT (NOT WATER) not many days hence."

As you read Luke's reference to Water Baptism in the Acts of the Apostles concerning Philip, Peter and Apollos, recognize that so-called Christendom, many years after the decease of the Apostles, has used this Historical Document instead of the Doctrinal Epistles of the Apostles to re-establish John's Water Baptism of Repentance under the disguise of Christian Water Baptism to represent the Great Commission, which Yahshua gave to the Apostles in Matthew 28:19, or the Washing of Regeneration by the Holy Spirit (compare John 7:38 with John 13:3-17; Ephes. 5:26 and Titus 3:5). In other words, after the decease of the Apostles, Christendom has confused John's water baptism of repentance with the Great Commission by using the Acts of the Apostles, instead of using the doctrinal epistles of the Apostles themselves.

All three of the previous questions posed, as related to the continued practice of "Water Baptism," can be answered and clearly understood by returning to the teaching of Yahshua the Messiah and His last conversation with the eleven Apostles (not Deacons) who were "Hearers and Eye Witnesses" of all that He (Yahshua) had spoken and that which had taken place up to and including the time of His Ascension. For example: Yahshua said, just before His ascension, "For John truly baptized with water (first, after which) ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit (not water) not many days hence."

Yahshua said that the APOSTLES (not the Deacons) shall be WITNESSES unto me BEGINNING at Jerusalem, and then in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth (Acts 1:5-8).

Yahshua, in His teaching, had told His disciples or the Apostles (not deacons) before He died, "These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name (Yahshua the Messiah), He shall teach you all things, and BRING ALL THINGS TO YOUR REMEMBRANCE, whatsoever I have told you (John 14:25-26)."

Now when Yahshua had finished fulfilling the Law and the Prophecies, He was crucified, and as the Apostle Paul said, ALL CARNAL ORDINANCES (INCLUDING CIRCUMCISION and WATER BAPTISM) WERE NAILED TO THE CROSS (Col. 2:14).

It is also vitally important that we notice with extreme care that Yahshua the Messiah Himself DID NOT WRITE and leave any kind of a written document or epistle of instruction to be used as a guide by the Apostles after His ascension. Why? Because of Two Basic and Fundamental Reasons, which are as follows:

(1) The reason he did not write is because he came to fulfill that which was already written of him in the Law and Prophets. The Scriptures, which were revealed and written by Moses and the Prophets many years before Yahshua was born, said, "Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering (or Carnal Ordinances) thou would est not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is (already) written of me,) to do thy will, O God. He taketh the First to establish the Second."  Therefore instead of Yahshua adding thereto by establishing or instituting more Carnal Ordinances, He came to REMOVE THOSE WHICH WERE UNDER THE FIRST COVENANT, IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THE NEW COVENANT WRITTEN IN THE HEART (Psa. 40:6; Heb. 10:5-9). He (Yahshua), Himself, said to the Scribes and Pharisees while He was in the flesh, "Think not that I am come to destroy the Law and Prophets, but to FULFILL and Verily, verily, I say that ONE JOT or TITTLE of the Law or Prophets shall in no wise pass away UNTIL ALL SHALL BE FULFILLED" (Matt.5: 17-18)." When He was nailed to the cross, He said, "IT IS FINISHED (John 19:30)." That is, He has FINISHED FULFILLING ALL THAT WAS (already) WRITTEN IN THE LAW and PROPHECIES (and not to INSTITUTE). Therefore, after He had risen from the dead, He appeared to the Apostles and explained to them that it was NECESSARY for Him to FULFILL ALL THAT WAS WRITTEN in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and in the Psalms (Luke 24:44-46). Yahshua DID NOT INSTITUTE ANY CARNAL ORDINANCES AT ANY TIME while in the flesh. He came to FULFILL the Law and Prophets, which testified of Him, written in the Scriptures before He was born.

(2) The reason Yahshua DID NOT WRITE Apostolic instructions with per and ink during His life time was because, after His ascension or from Pentecost, He, being a LIFE GIVING SPIRIT (1 Cor. 15:45) or the Holy Spirit WRITTEN IN THE HEARTS AND MINDS of the Apostles, would bring ALL THINGS TO THEIR REMEMBRANCE that He had told them while He was YET WITH THEM in the flesh. (This, of course, is not understood by "Carnal Minded" so-called Christendom,(l Cor. 2:13-14) even unto this day, A.D. 1969). Yahshua, before and after His crucifixion, explained thoroughly, "These things have I spoken unto you, being YET PRESENT WITH YOU. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My Name, He shall teach you ALL THINGS, and bring ALL THINGS to your REMEMBRANCE, whatsoever I have said unto you (John 14:25-26)." After He had risen from the dead, He explained again that John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT not many days hence, after His ascension (Acts 1:5-9). This statement of Yahshua's was called to Peter's REMEMBRANCE, after He had commanded Cornelius (the Gentile) to be baptized in water, after Cornelius and his household had been baptized with the Holy Spirit (Acts 11:15-16). The Holy Spirit or Elohim, again called this to Peter's REMEMBRANCE or ATTENTION because it was contrary to the Promise which Elohim had made to Abraham Acts 1:4; Gal. 3:16-18; Gen. 12:5), for Peter or anyone else to Baptize the Gentiles in water BEFORE or AFTER they had received the Holy Spirit. Simultaneously, with Peter's command to Baptize the Gentiles or Cornelius and his household, the Holy Spirit again brought back to Peter's REMEMBRANCE that "John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT (Acts 1:5)." For this reason Peter, himself, object and withdrew the command for them to be baptized WITH WATER, as he, thereafter, explained in his own words, among the other Apostles and Elders at Jerusalem and Antioch to which THEY ALL AGREED with him, and as we will finish explaining later under the caption below. (Acts ll:l6)

The mission of Yahshua the Messiah in manifestation of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost

On the 50th day after His resurrection, or on the 10th day after His ascension, being the Day of Pentecost, the Apostles did receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues in the upper room at Jerusalem, as Yahshua the Messiah had said they would do when they received Him (Acts 2:1-4). It was here, at this time (A.D. 3336), that the Holy Spirit spoke through the Apostles, preaching Yahshua according to the Scriptures, and the RIVERS OF LIVING WATERS began to flow from their belly, or their mouth, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME and NOT IN PHYSICAL WATER (Joel 2:28). (For Divine and Apostolic confirmation see John 38-39). The Day of Pentecost was the end of the Dispensation of the Law, which stood ONLY in meats and drinks and divers washings and carnal ordinances (Circumcision, Feasts or Lord's Suppers, Baptism, Rites or Ceremonies, etc.) imposed on them until the TIME of REFORMATION, at which 'TIME' (A.D. 33)6) they received and were REGENERATED by the Holy Spirit (Heb. 9:10; Titus 3:5).

This was the 'BEGINNING' of the Dispensation of Grace, when the New Covenant or New Testament was to be written in the Heart or Mind (Jer. 31:31-34; 2 Cor. 3:3; Heb. 10:16-17). The New Covenant or New Testament, DEDICATED BY HIS BLOOD, became effective or of force AFTER (not before) Yahshua arose from the dead (Heb. 9:16-17) and ascended into Heaven, establishing a Baptism of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, in the Name of Yahshua the Messiah, written NOT with pen and ink, NOT in tables of stone, BUT in the Heart and Mind, as the Apostle Paul wrote in his epistle to the Corinthians.

It was here, in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost that the Apostles, filled with the Holy Spirit or Elohim in them (Acts 2:14-41), began to "BAPTIZE IN HIS NAME OR PREACH THE GOSPEL OF YAHSHUA" to the whole house of Israel who, as Peter said, had participated in the murder of Yahshua the Messiah (which also included those that John had baptized with water), not actually knowing that Yahshua was the True Messiah, for he had told the disciples or apostles BEFORE and AFTER the Transfiguration to tell "NO MAN" that He was the True Messiah until AFTER He had risen from the dead (Matt. 16:20; Matt. 17:1-9). For as the Apostle Paul said in lst Corinthians 2:6-8, "Howbeit we speak WISDOM among them that ARE PERFECT: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: BUT WE SPEAK THE WISDOM OF YAHWEH IN A MYSTERY, even the HIDDEN WISDOM, which Yahweh ordained before the world unto our glory: Which NONE OF THE PRINCES OF THIS WORLD KNEW: FOR HAD THEY KNOWN IT, THEY WOULD NOT RAVE CRUCIFIED THE ELOHIM OF GLORY." Thus, it is understandable why the House of Israel and the men of Judaea were pricked in their hearts, when they heard Peter and the rest of the Apostles preach on the Day of Pentecost about Yahshua the Messiah, whom they had crucified and that He has RISEN FROM THE DEAD and He was BOTH KING and PRIEST. This brought about the Great Question, "WHAT SHALL, WE DO?" And Peter's reply was "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Yahshua the Messiah (not water) for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the GIFT bf the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:37-38). For the PROMISE (Elohim made to Abraham, Gen. 12:7; Gen. 17:1-7) is unto you (the Jews), and to your children, and to all (the Gentiles) that are afar off, even as many as Yahweh our Elohim shall call. And with many other words, did He testify and exhort, saying Save yourselves from this untoward generation. Then they that gladly received his word (about the Messiah) were baptized (not with water., but the Holy Spirit): and tile same say there was added unto them about three thousand souls (Acts 2:38-41). The Apostles continued to PREACH OR TO BAPTIZE IN THE NAME OF YAHSHUA THE MESSIAH (NOT WATER) and ELOHIM added to the Church (Congregation or Assembly) daily such as should be saved (Acts 2:47).

In those days when the number of disciples were multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians (Jews) against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the DAILY MINISTRATION. Then the Apostles called the multitude of disciples unto them and said, IT IS NOT REASON THAT WE SHOULD LEAVE THE WORD OF YAHWEH, and serve tables. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you SEVEN men of honest report, full of the Holy Spirit and Wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. This pleased the multitude and the Apostles appointed the Deacons, namely, Stephen, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas and Nicolas (Acts 6:1-5).

Luke tells us, the Word of Yahweh increased, and the number of disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly, and a great company of the PRIESTS were obedient to the faith. And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen. And they were not able to resist the WISDOM and the SPIRIT by which he spake (Acts 6:9-10). This resulted in the stoning to death of Stephen, one of the SEVEN Deacons (Acts 7:54-60). Saul was consenting unto his (Stephen's) death. And at that time (A.D. 34) there was a GREAT PERSECUTION against the Church which was at Jerusalem; and they were scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea Samaria, "EXCEPT THE APOSTLES" (Acts 8:1).

The absolute necessity of universal apostolic confirmation (not deacons)

Here, under this caption we will discuss the absolute necessity of Universal Apostolic Confirmation. It was absolutely necessary that the Apostles (not deacons or apostolic disciples) chosen by Yahshua the Messiah were to be His eye WITNESSES to all that He began both to DO and TEACH, BEFORE and AFTER His resurrection. Therefore, Yahshua the Messiah said to the Apostles before He ascended, "John truly baptized with water, but ye should not depart from Jerusalem before ye have been baptized with the Holy Spirit, after which THEY WERE TO BARE WITNESS UNTO HIM both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth (Acts 1:4-8)."

After the Apostles had been baptized with the Holy Spirit, and during the time of the Great Persecution in A.D. 34, the Apostles REMAINED IN JERUSALEM and continued to preach the gospel of The Messiah while Philip, one of the dispersed deacons, went down to the city of Samaria and PREACHED YAHSHUA UNTO THEM. "And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. And there was GREAT JOY IN THAT CITY. Now when the Apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of Yahweh, they sent unto them Peter and John: Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit: (FOR AS YET HE WAS FALLEN UPON NONE OF THEM: ONLY THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF YAHSHUA THE MESSIAH). - Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit (Acts 8:6-8,14-17)."

Remember that Yahshua the Messiah had previously told the Apostles (not the deacons) that they were to be "His Witnesses," both in Jerusalem, Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth (Acts 1:8). Yahshua the Messiah POSITIVELY meant what He had said to the chosen Apostles. Therefore, it made no difference how many people were baptized, healed or how much REJOICING there was in the city of Samaria, because of Philip's preaching; NO ONE in that city (or elsewhere at that time, A.D. 34) COULD RECEIVE the Holy Spirit before the Apostles, Peter and John, who, "BEING HIS WITNESSES," went down to Samaria and "CONFIRMED" what Philip, the deacon, had said when he was preaching Yahshua unto them.

Continuing the story about Philip, (in connection with the three questions on page 15) in the 8th chapter of Acts, beginning with verse 26, Luke said that Philip, guided by the angel of Elohim, departed from Samaria, and He traveled towards the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. Therein, he beheld a man (a Jew) of Ethiopia, a Eunuch (see Isa. 56:3-5 and compare with Deut. 23:1 and Matt. 19:12) of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians , who had charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship (Yahweh); was returning and sitting in his chariot reading Esaias the Prophet.

EXPLANATORY NOTE: We say the Eunuch was a Jew from Ethiopia, because Luke states that they which were scattered abroad (because of the Persecution, which arose about Stephen), Philip being one of them, traveled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, PREACHING THE WORD TO NONE BUT THE JEWS ONLY (Acts 11:19). Moreover, the Apostle Peter, beginning at Caesarea, was the first person to preach the gospel to the Gentiles, SEVEN YEARS AFTER THE DAY OF PENTECOST or in A.D. 41 (Acts 10:28-45; Acts 15:7).

Now, turning our attention back to the 8th chapter of Acts, in reference to Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch, Luke states that the Spirit said unto Philip, "Go near, and join thyself to this chariot, and Philip ran thither to him and heard him read the Prophet Esaias, and said, Understandeth thou what thou readest? And the Eunuch said, How can I, except some man guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him."

The place of the scriptures which he read was this; "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? For his life is taken from the earth. And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the Prophet this? of himself, or of some other man? Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the SAME SCRIPTURE (Isa- 53:7-8), and P.REACHED UNTO HIM YAHSHUA." (That is, Philip told the Eunuch the whole story about John the Baptist, baptizing Yahshua and His ministry, His crucifixion, resurrection and ascension).

And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch (not Philip or the Holy Spirit) said, See, Here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Yahshua the Messiah is the Son of Yahweh. And he commanded the chariot to stand still: And THEY WENT DOWN INTO THE WATER, both Philip and the eunuch; and HE BAPTIZED HIM. And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of Elohim caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way REJOICING. Notice that Luke did not say that the eunuch had received the Holy Spirit any more so than the people of Samaria, before Peter and John had arrived in Samaria. But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea (Acts 8:26-40). Caesarea was the home of Philip and his family (Acts 21:8-9).

Continuing the story about Peter in connection with the three questions, Caesarea was also the same city where the Apostle Peter SEVEN YEARS AFTER PENTECOST or in A.D. 41, being the FIRST ONE OF THE APOSTLES to preach the gospel to THE FIRST GENTILES, Cornelius and his household, at which time they received the Holy Spirit while Peter was yet speaking or preaching to them. Nevertheless, Peter, having FORGOTTEN what Yahshua had said about John baptizing with water, commanded them to be baptized with WATER (Acts 10:47-48). But after Peter had given the command the Holy Spirit called to his REMEMBRANCE what Yahshua had said, "John truly baptized with water; BUT YE SHALL BE BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT (Acts 11:15-16)." This caused him to withdraw his command (Acts 15:7-9).

Continuing the story about Apollos in connection with the three questions, in further reference to John's Water Baptism of Repentance in the Acts of the Apostles, Luke mentions the name of Apollos. He says in Acts 18:24-28, "that a certain Jew named Apollos, born in Alexandria (Egypt), an eloquent man, mighty in the, scriptures came to Ephesus. This man was instructed in the way of Yahweh: and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently, the things of Elohim, KNOWING ONLY THE BAPTISM OF JOHN. And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue; whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and EXPOUNDED UNTO HIM THE WAY OF YAHWEH MADE PERFECTLY, And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which HAD BELIEVED THROUGH GRACE; For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publicly, shewing by THE SCRIPTURES that Yahshua was the Messiah."

"And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus and finding certain disciples, He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Spirit since ye believed? And they said unto him, WE HAVE NOT SO MUCH AS HEARD WHETHER THERE BE ANY HOLY SPIRIT. And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, UNTO JOHN'S BAPTISM." Then said Paul, "John verily baptized with the Baptism of Repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Yahshua the Messiah. When they heard this, they were baptized in the Name of Yahshua the Messiah. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied. And all the men were about twelve (Acts 19:1-7)."

We have now written in this book some of the most important detailed instances of Water Baptism recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, which has led Early and Latter Day so-called Christendom to error in their UNDERSTANDING by the continuation of practicing "Carnal Ordinances," most particularly as pertaining to the so-called Sacrament of Christian (physical) Water Baptism. Now with this detailed information written in this book for reference at hand, we will proceed with the answers and explain the three question posed which are as follows:

If "Carnal Ordinances," which also includes PHYSICAL WATER BAPTISM in all of its miscellaneous forms and modes WAS ABOLISHED OR NAILED TO THE CROSS:

(1) Why then did Philip, the deacon dispersed from Jerusalem, go into the water and baptize the Ethiopian Eunuch after the crucifixion of the Messiah and after the Day of Pentecost?

(2) Why then did the Apostle Peter command Cornelius, the Gentile Centurion and his house

hold to be baptized in water after they had received the Holy Spirit seven years after the Day of Pentecost?

(3) Why then did a Jew named Apollos continue the practice of John's Water Baptism of Repentance after Pentecost?

(We will answer and explain these three questions as they appear in numerical order above, the answers and explanations will appear in alphabetical order below).

(A) To put it bluntly, Philip, the Deacon, baptized the Jewish Eunuch from Ethiopia for two reasons. (a) The Eunuch, judging from what Philip had said to him about John baptizing Yahshua, and arriving at a place where there was water, asked Philip "what doth hinder me" from being baptized (in water in exactly the same way John baptized or immersed Yahshua) without Phillip suggesting that he should be baptized. So Philip, after qualifying the Eunuch's conviction of Yahshua, baptized him. (b) Philip himself, not being of the chosen Apostles to whom Yahshua had said, "John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit," did not know at that time (A.D. 34) that Carnal Ordinances including Water Baptism had been abolished. Moreover, Luke does not say that Philip or the Congregation in Jerusalem ever heard the Apostles repeat the spoken words of Yahshua to them about John's Water Baptism. Therefore, the Holy Spirit would not have anything to call to Philip's REMEMBRANCE about Water Baptism being abolished BEFORE he baptized the Eunuch. Neither did Luke say that the Eunuch received the Holy Spirit, after he had been baptized anymore so than the REJOICING people of Samaria, to whom Philip had preached the Messiah.

(B) Peter commanded Cornelius and his household of Gentiles to be baptized with water AFTER they had been baptized with the Holy Spirit. Peter gave the command because the incident took place seven years AFTER the resurrection and the Day of Pentecost, and he (Peter) had FORGOTTEN the words of Yahshua, which says, "For John truly baptized with WATER; but ye shall be baptized with the HOLY SPIRIT not many days hence." For this reason the Holy Spirit, whom Yahshua also said was the "Teacher" (John 14:25-26), had to call these words to Peter's REMEMBRANCE again (Acts 11:16) AFTER Peter had commanded the Gentiles to be baptized with water, that he (Peter) might learn that Elohim, according to HIS Promise (Gen. 12:3; 17:1-8; Joel 2:28; Acts 2: 16-17), had given them the Holy Spirit or lead Grafted the Gentiles into the Body of the Messiah or the Church 'BY FAITH,' while Peter was YET SPEAKING, instead of giving him time or allowing him (Peter) to Bury or Plant them by John's Water Baptism, which had taken place and ended under the previous Dispensation of the Law; Also, that Peter might again be reminded that Water Baptism in any mode or form was not to be continued or practiced among the Jews or Gentiles in this Present Dispensation of Grace. It might also be well to mention here, at this time, that while Yahweh was teaching Peter another lesson about the Great Commission (Matt. 28: 19) which says, "Go ye therefore into all the world and teach ALL NATIONS" (which means both Jews and Gentiles). Peter, in commanding the Gentiles to be baptized with water "forgot" the spoken words of Yahshua, he also had forgotten the words which the Holy Spirit had spoken by his (Peter's) own mouth on the Day of Pentecost.

On the Day of Pentecost Peter rose up and said, "These men are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the Third hour of the day, but this is that which was spoken by the Prophet Joel; and it shall come to pass in the last days, saith Yahweh, I will pour out of my SPIRIT upon ALL FLESH (which means Jews and Gentiles): and your sons and your daughters -shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams (Acts 2:15-17)." Now, if the Apostles and others who had been baptized with John's water baptism had received the Holy Spirit and it was not necessary for them to be baptized with water AGAIN, why should it be necessary for Cornelius and his household or the Gentiles to be baptized with water after Yahweh had given them the Holy Spirit? To look at the question from the other side, that is, if it was necessary according to the Purpose of Yahweh for the Gentiles to be baptized with water, why did not Elohim send John the Baptist to baptize them when he was carrying out his mission? Then Peter would not have had to ask them that went with him from Joppa to Caesarea, if they could forbid the Gentiles to be baptized with water.

According to Luke's testimony (in the Acts of the Apostles) Peter, having learned his lesson in Caesarea, never "Forgot" thereafter that Yahweh DID NOT INTEND that the Gentiles should be baptized WITH WATER, but He (Yahshua) through the Holy Spirit DID and WOULD CONTINUE to graft the Gentiles into the Church or Body of the Messiah by "Faith." For when the second controversy arose about the Gentiles being circumcised and keeping the Law of Moses in A.D. 52, the Apostles and Elders being present in Jerusalem for to consider this matter, "Peter rose up (in the Council) and said unto them, "Men and Brethren, ye know how that a good while ago (A. D. 41) Yahweh made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and Believe. And Yahweh, which knoweth the hearts, bare them WITNESS, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as He did unto us on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2:4); and putting NO DIFFERENCE between us (that had been circumcised and baptized with water), PURIFYING THEIR HEARTS BY FAITH. Now therefore why tempt ye Yahweh, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? (Acts 15:6-10)." This pleased all of the Apostles and Elders, with the whole church, and the Holy Spirit also (Acts 15:22-29). For further proof and harmony among the Apostles on this issue, see Apostolic Epistlemological Summary.

(C) Apollos preached in the synagogue at Ephesus in A.D. 55 or 56. Luke said, Apollos, being a Jew from Alexandria (Egypt) was mighty in the Scriptures, but did not know other than John water baptism of repentance at that time (Acts 18:24). That is to say, he did not Understand or Know about Yahshua baptizing with the Holy Spirit, which was spoken of by John the Baptist, himself (Matt. 3:11). The Baptism of the Holy Spirit did begin to take place on the Day of Pentecost and has continued up to this present time. For Yahshua, in the days of His flesh, was the Personification of the Holy Spirit (John 7:39; John 16:7). Neither had Apollos heard anything about the present dispensational so-called Christian Baptism.

Aquila and Priscilla, a man and his wife, after hearing Apollos speak to the congregation, discerned that he DID NOT KNOW the Present Dispensational Truth about Yahshua and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Aquila and Priscilla took Apollos unto themselves and taught or expounded unto him according to the Scriptures the gospel or the Power of Yahweh (Rom. 1:16), in a more clear and perfect way. That is to say, Aquila and Priscilla explained to Apollos that Yahshua had been Crucified, Buried, and that Yahweh had raised Him from the Dead, and He had Ascended into Heaven, according to the Scriptures. Yahshua the Messiah WAS NOW, preaching Him (Elohim) through the Apostles; baptizing with the Holy Spirit as John the Baptist, in Matthew 3:11, had said he would do (Acts 18:24-28).

In Acts 19:1-7 Luke says, "And it came to pass, that while Apollos was at Corinth (in A.D. 58), Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus and finding certain disciples, he (Paul) said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Spirit since ye believed? And they said unto him, we have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Spirit. And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's Baptism. Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on Him which should come after Him, that is, on Yahshua the Messiah. When they heard this, they were baptized in the Name of Yahshua (not water). And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied. And all the men were about twelve."

In "interpretation" of Luke's statement in the above paragraph, many Theologians believe that Paul re-baptized with so-called Christian Water Baptism, those whom he found at Ephesus that had been baptized with John's Water Baptism of Repentance, and that Paul in so doing, gave them to UNDERSTAND that he was obeying the "Great Commission" by baptizing them AGAIN in WATER, in the Name of Yahshua the Messiah. However, this cannot be so. Why? Because in the true sense of the word, "Christian," no one is considered to be a Christian BEFORE he has received the Holy Spirit, and Paul certainly did not Baptize them AGAIN the third time in the Name of Yahshua, AFTER they had received the Holy Spirit.

It is also to be REMEMBERED that in the city of Ephesus where idolatrous people dwelled (in Asia, Rev. 2:1-8) is the place wherein Apollos had preached in the synagogues the things of the Messiah, knowing only the Baptism of John, to a mixed and divided congregation of Jewish and Gentile believers and unbelievers, or to those that BELIEVED in being circumcised and keeping the Law of Moses, those that believed in Yahshua and those Gentiles that believed in the Idol Goddess, Diana (Acts 19L351. The Apostle Paul and the elders had quite a serious problem in that city trying to reconcile the UNBELIEVERS unto Yahweh by preaching the gospel of Yahshua to them (Acts 19:24-28 and compare with Rev. 2:1-8).

This concludes our direct comment on some of the things that Luke was endeavoring to convey to his excellency, Theophilus, by writing the defensive document, better known to us as the Acts of the Apostles. For this reason we will start our Epistemological Summary (excusing the explanatory note) with Paul's epistle to the Ephesians.

Apostolic epistemological summary

If we are to EXPOSE and AVOID this predominate, "Latter Day Deception," by so-called Christendom's re-establishment and continuation of the practice of Ceremonialism and carnal Ordinance, whereby they are denying that they were abolished by the crucifixion of Yahshua, then the reader is requested to closely observe and take in account several basic and fundamental, Sacred Historical and Doctrinal factors that govern our conclusion which are as follows:

(1) Beginning at Jerusalem, on the Day of Pentecost which was June 6th, 33 A.D. at 9:00

A.M., on Sunday, which was the first day of the week, this was the exact Day and Hour whereupon

the Holy Spirit was received, first by the Apostles and thereafter by others, in fulfillment of

the "Promise Elohim made to Abraham" and the New Covenant or New Testament, which He made with Israel and became EFFECTIVE upon all of those (Jews) who exercised FAITH IN YAHWEH, through Yahshua the Messiah, with the Holy Spirit presiding over this first assembly, which Day and Hour marked the Beginning of this Present Dispensation of Grace. Therefore, it is proven that the Washing of Regeneration, and the Renewing of the Holy Spirit takes place in the heart and mind, according to the Promise, by exercising the Invisible Principle of Faith in Yahshua the Messiah, and also that the New Covenant or New Testament (Jer. 31:31-34) is written in the Heart and Mind by the Holy Spirit, and NOT WITH PEN AND INK ON PAPER (2 Cor. 3:3) by the Apostles, Elders and other Disciples. Likewise, without CIRCUMCISION or WATER BAPTISM, the Gentiles at Caesarea, seven (7) years later or in 40 1/2 A.D. received the Holy Spirit as did the Jews on late Day of' Pentecost, seven years BEFORE that time (Acts 11:15). The seven years interval between the Jews and Gentiles receiving the Holy Spirit through "Faith" in the resurrected Spirit Body of Yahshua, thus abolishing the FLESH or breaking down the middle wall of partition between them (Jews and Gentiles, Ephes. 2:13-10), and their being baptized into THE ONE SPIRITUAL TEMPLE OR BODY OF THE MESSIAH (John 2:19-21), was PREFIGURED by Solomon's Temple (or House of Yahweh) that took seven years to build, in which were both Jews and Gentiles (1 Kings 6:38).

(2) In 40 A.D. after the Gentiles, who were at Caesarea had received the Holy spirit WITHOUT being circumcised or baptized with water, which was according to the PURPOSE, and PROMISE of Yahweh, and after Peter had returned to Jerusalem, they of the circumcision accused him for going in unto the Gentiles. But Peter, defending his action before the council of the circumcision or the rest of the Apostles and Elders, rehearsed the matter in routine order from the very beginning of the Vision in Joppa and what actually took place in Caesarea. It is apparent that Peter's dramatic appeal before the COUNCIL in his own defense and for the "Uncircumcised Gentiles" did not fully settle this matter at that time or in 4016 A.D. For eleven or twelve years thereafter, or in 52 A.D., the last known Biblically recorded Apostolic Council was held at Jerusalem for the same Purpose with all the Apostles and Elders of the Church present (except the Apostle James, Acts 12:2), to make a final decision on whether the Gentiles were to be circumcised and keep the Law of Moses. At this council the Apostles and Elders with the Holy Spirit in them and the whole Church was pleased and agreed that the Gentiles were NOT TO BE CIRCUMCISED and KEEP THE LAW OF MOSES (Acts 15th chapter; Gal. 2nd chapter), as shown thereafter in ALL, of their writings and epistles, all of which they wrote after this Council in 52 A.D., or nineteen years after the Day of Pentecost, which confirms that the New Covenant is written in the Heart and in the Mind. But Carnal Ordinances and the Carnal Mind which manifest Death (Rom. 8:1-8) do work together.

In the Epistemological Summary below, notice that Peter, the Apostle of the CIRCUMCISED, agreed with Paul, the Apostle of the UNCIRCUMCISED, that both the Jews and Gentiles were saved by Grace through Faith in the death, burial and resurrection of Yahshua the Messiah, and not the continued practice of Carnal Ordinances or keeping the Law of Moses (see and compare Acts 15:12-24 with Gal. 2:7-9).

PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS: Moreover, in 64 A.D. Paul told the same saints at Ephesus, or the Ephesians (among whom were many Gentiles), that "There is ONE BODY, and ONE SPIRIT, ever as ye are called in ONE HOPE of your calling: ONE ELOHIM, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM (the baptism of the Holy Spirit, not water), ONE IS YAHWEH and FATHER OF ALL, WHO IS ABOVE ALL, and through ALL, and IN YOU ALL," (Ephes. 4:4-6; Rev. 2:1-7).

PAUL'S FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS: As for the question of Paul baptizing WITH WATER in his first epistle to the Corinthians in A.D. 59, he said that he DID BAPTIZE Cripus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, Gaius, and the household of Stephanas, and besides them he DID NOT KNOW whether he had baptized any other, "FOR YAHSHUA DID NOT SEND HIM TO BAPTIZE, BUT TO PREACH THE GOSPEL (1 Cor. 1:14-17)." Now, if Yahshua, after His resurrection, DID NOT send Paul to baptize, that is, WITH WATER, it certainly does stand to reason that Yahshua DID NOT SEND the other eleven Apostles to baptize with water. "For by ONE SPIRIT (NOT WATER) are we all baptized into ONE BODY, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free: and have been all made to drink into ONE SPIRIT (1 Cor. 12:13)." Why not re-read the "Great Commission" again in Matthew 28:19 and see for yourself if Yahshua even mentioned the word WATER IN IT.

PAUL'S SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS: In A.D. 60, wherein he again makes reference to Yahshua, who, through His crucifixion, abolished the FLESH and the discontinuation of the practice of Carnal Ordinances by saying, "Wherefore Henceforth know we NO MAN (Jew or Gentile) after the flesh, yea, though we have known Yahshua after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we Him no more. Therefore, if any man be in Elohim, he is a New Creature; old things (Carnal Ordinances that were under the Dispensation of the Law) are passed away; behold, all things are become NEW (2 Cor- 5:16-17)."

PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE COLOSSIANS: All of the Apostles and Elders at the Council at Jerusalem (A.D. 52), having agreed that it was not necessary for the disciples or converts to be (physically) CIRCUMCISED and keep the Law of Moses, verify and confirm Paul's statement that Yahshua fulfilled and removed ALL CARNAL ORDINANCES, which, as we have already said many times, also includes physical water baptism as explained in ALL of his epistles. For example, Paul, the CHIEF APOSTLE OF THE UNCIRCUMCISED GENTILES, taught &nd warned them at Colosse, "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Yahshua. For in HIM DWELLETH ALL THE FULNESS OF THE SUPERNAL NATURE. And ye are COMPLETE IN HIM, which is the head of all principality and power: In whom also ye are CIRCUMCISED with the CIRCUMCISION MADE WITHOUT HANDS, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the CIRCUMCISION OF YAHSHUA: Buried with him in BAPTISM, wherein also ye are RISEN WITH HIM THROUGH THE FAITH of the OPERATION OF YAHWEH, who hath raised Him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the UNCIRCUMCISION OF YOUR FLESH, hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses; BLOTTING OUT THE HANDWRITING OF ORDINANCES THAT WAS AGAINST US, WHICH WAS CONTRARY TO US, and TOOK IT OUT OF THE WAY, NAILING IT TO HIS CROSS; and having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it (Col. 2:8-15)." "Wherefore if ye be dead with the Messiah from the rudiments of the world, WHY, as though living in the world, are ye SUBJECT to Ordinances (Col. 2:20)." Did you notice as you read Paul's statement to the Colossians above, how he said those accepted the Messiah BY FAITH were CIRCUMCISED WITHOUT HAND, Buried with Him in baptism and raised with Him from the dead by the OPERATION OF THE SPIRIT, ALL, WITHOUT HANDS?

PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS: This Epistle was written in A.D. 58 or six years after the General Apostolic Council at Jerusalem concerning CIRCUMCISION AND KEEPING THE LAW OF MOSES (Acts 15:1-35; Gal. 2:1-9). Paul said, "O Foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the Truth, before whose eyes Yahshua the Messiah hath been evidently set forth crucified among you? This ONLY would I learn of you, received ye the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by the HEARING OF FAITH? Are ye so foolish? HAVING BEGUN IN THE SPIRIT, are ye now made perfect by the FLESH? Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the HEARING OF FAITH? Even as Abraham BELIEVED YAHWEH, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that Elohim would justify the heathen (the Gentiles) THROUGH FAITH, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, in thee shall all nations be blessed. So they which be of FAITH are blessed with faithful Abraham."

"For as many of you as have been baptized into Yahshua have put on Elohim. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye ARE ALL ONE IN YAHSHUA THE MESSIAH. And if ye be the Messiah's then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the PROMISE (Gal. 3:1-9,26-29)." "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith the Messiah hath made us free, and be not entangled AGAIN with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that IF YE BE CIRCUMCISED, YAHSHUA SHALL PROFIT YOU NOTHING. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised (or baptized), THAT HE I& A DEBTOR TO DO THE WHOLE LAW. Yahshua is become of no EFFECT unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the Law; YE ARE FALLEN FROM GRACE (Gal. 5:1-4)."

Paul's Second Epistle To The Thessalonians: In this epistle written in A.D. 54, the Apostle KNEW that Satan would try to reestablish, in this present Dispensation of Grace, the Mosaic Law of Ceremonialism and Carnal Ordinances which Yahshua the Messiah fulfilled and removed, in an effort to DECEIVE the true (Gentile) believers in the Messiah. Hence, Paul admonished them by saying, "Let NO MAN DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS: for 'I'HAT DAY shall not, come, except, there come a falling away first, and 'I'HAT MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, the son of' perdition: Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called Yahweh, or that is worshipped; so that he as Yahweh sitteth in the temple of Yahweh, shewing himself that he is Yahweh. Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth (preventeth) will let (prevent), until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom Yahweh-Elohim shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness or unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause Yahweh-Elohim shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness (2 Thess. 2:3-12)."

Paul's Epistle To The Hebrews: In this epistle, written in A.D. 64, to the Hebrews or Jewish believers in Yahshua the Messiah that had been baptized with John's Water Baptism of Repentance and thereafter baptized with the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, Paul said unto them, "Therefore leaving the Principles of the Doctrine of Yahshua, let us go on unto PERFECTION; not laying AGAIN the Foundation of Repentance from DEAD WORKS, and of Faith toward Yahweh, of the DOCTRINE OF BAPTISMS (this is, all physical modes and ceremonial forms), and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this will we do, if Yahweh permit. For it is IMPOSSIBLE for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made PARTAKERS of the Holy Spirit, and HAVE TASTED THE GOOD WORD OF YAHWEH, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of Yahweh afresh, and put Him to an open shame" (Heb. 6:1-6). Remember Yahweh granted the Gentiles repentance unto life, "Without Physical Circumcision or Water, Baptism (Acts 11:16; Acts 15:7-11)."

If the Jews or Gentiles (at Caesarea or elsewhere) had been baptized again after they received the Holy Spirit, they would be crucifying the Messiah AGAIN or AFRESH and putting Him to an open shame, by returning to 'DEAD WORKS.'

Peter's First Epistle: This epistle was written to the Hebrews or Jews, scattered abroad (James 1:1-2). Peter, in this epistle, written in A.D. 60, is explaining to the Jews, as did the Apostle Paul in his above epistle, that they, being the elect according to the foreknowledge of Yahweh, were saved by the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Yahshua the Messiah. Wherein he said, "Peter an Apostle of Yahshua the Messiah, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect according to the foreknowledge of Yahweh the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the BLOOD of YAHSHUA THE MESSIAH: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Savior Yahshua the Messiah, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us AGAIN UNTO A LIVELY HOPE BY THE RESURRECTION OF YAHSHUA THE MESSIAH FROM THE DEAD, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the POWER OF YAHWEH THROUGH FAITH UNTO SALVATION ready to be revealed in the last time (1 Pet. 1:1-5)."

PETER'S SECOND EPISTLE: In this epistle, written by Peter to the Gentiles in A.D. 66, it is recorded, "Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Yahshua the Messiah, to them (the Gentiles) that have obtained like precious Faith with us (the Jews) through the righteousness of Yahweh and our Saviour Yahshua the Messiah: Grace and Peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of Yahweh, and of Yahshua our Saviour, according to His Divine Power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the KNOWLEDGE OF HIM that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious PROMISES: that by these ye might be PARTAKERS of the DIVINE NATURE, having escaped the CORRUPTION THAT IS IN THE WORLD THROUGH LUST"(2 Pet. 1:1-4)." In the second chapter of this epistle the Apostle, warning the Gentiles against False Prophets and Teachers, CHIEFLY THEY THAT WALK AFTER THE FLESH AS NATURAL BRUTE BEASTS, THAT WOULD ARISE AMONG THEM, WHO PRIVILY WOULD BRING IN DAMNABLE HERESIES (or try in this Present Dispensation of Grace to re-establish the Mosaic Law of Ceremonialism and Carnal Ordinances) even denying the Saviour that bought them (with His own blood, Acts 20:28; 1 Cor. 6:20), and bring upon themselves swift destruction. "But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understood not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption" (2 Pet. 2:1,12). In the third chapter of this epistle, the Apostle Peter shows that HE AGREES with the things that the Apostle Paul had told the Gentiles and Jews in all of his epistles concerning False Teachers and Carnal Ordinances by saying, "And account that the longsuffering of our Saviour is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also IN ALL HIS EPISTLES, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the OTHER SCRIPTURES, unto their own destruction (2 Pet. 3:15-16)."

As expressed IN ALL OF THE EPISTLES written by the Apostles Paul and Peter and others, they with all other True Yahshuans of Apostolic times, had already discerned the methodical routine working of Satan. Satan himself, transformed into AN ANGEL OF LIGHT or the Anti-Messiah, in a sly, deceiving effort to DENY the Power of Yahweh, even at that time, was trying to re-establish Carnal Ordinances, Sacrificial Ceremonialism and man-made traditions as a form of Holiness. Likewise, his ministers had transformed themselves and posed as the ministers of Righteousness or Doctor's of Divinity (2 Cor. 11:14-15). Thus, Satan and his ministers "DENIED" the Power of Yahweh, manifested in Yahshua, who fulfilled the Law and Prophets and COMPLETELY REMOVED the Old Covenant, which stood ONLY in meats and d-rinks and divers washings and carnal ordinances, IMPOSED ON THEM UNTIL THE TIME OF REFORMATION (Heb. 9:10), or UNTIL THEY WERE REGENERATED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, which took place on the Day of Pentecost, and has continued throughout this Present Age.

Whereas, after the decease of the Apostles, Satan with his ministers immediately began to re-establish the ministration of death and thereby (2 Cor- 3:7-9) they have BEGUILED MANY, MANY UNSTABLE SOULS (2 Pet. 2:14), in this Present Dispensation of Grace. They also changed the Truth of Yahweh into a lie, and worshipped and served the CREATURE more than the CREATOR, who is blessed for ever (Rom. 1:25). Thus, Satan, the father of LIES (John 8:44) and Mystery Babylon, the mother of harlots, and the abomination of the earth (Rev. 17:5), had become established. Wherefore, Yahshua had said, before it came to pass, "When ye therefore shall see the Abomination of Desolation spoken of by Daniel, the Prophet stand in the Holy Place, (whoso readeth, let him understand (Matt. 24:15)." This condition, not only exists at this time, but as Yahshua also said, "Not every one that saith unto me, Rabbi, Rabbi, shall enter into the Kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven. MANY WILL SAY TO ME IN THAT DAY, Rabbi, Rabbi, have we not prophesied IN THY NAME? and IN THY NAME cast out devils? and IN THY NAME DONE MANY WONDERFUL WORKS?" (That is, baptized many converts with water, eaten the Lord's Supper in the Church, washed one another feet, made many saints, saved and reserved many Old Relics and Statues, "IN THY NAME"). "And then will I profess unto them, I never KNEW YOU: DEPART FROM ME, YE THAT WORK INIQUITY (Matt. 7:21-23)."

"These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts, and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Saviour Yahshua the Messiah; how that they told you there should be mockers in the LAST TIME, who should walk after their own wicked lusts. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, HAVING NOT THE SPIRIT. But ye beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy Faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the Love of Yahweh, looking for the mercy of our Saviour Yahshua the Messiah UNTO ETERNAL LIFE. And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present' you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, TO THE ONLY WISE EL OUR BOTH NO'W AND EVER (Jude 16 through 25)."

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