In my recent blogs I have told you about the Lost Jewish Gospel known as the Gospel according to the Hebrews. In my last blog, I made the case that this lost Jewish Gospel was actually the original source Gospel for Matthew, Mark and Luke (and to a lesser extent John).
In two recent blogs (here and here) I have shared with you sayings of Yeshua from this lost Jewish Gospel, both in English and with the original Hebrew restored.
Restoration of this original Jewish Gospel, the Gospel according to the Hebrews, is going to be an important part of the Scripture Restoration Project, as we restore the original Hebrew of the four Gospels with which you are all familiar. This last days restoration of Scripture was prophesied long ago by Enoch the Prophet:
But when they write down truthfully all my words in their languages, and do not change or diminish ought from my words but write them all down truthfully –all that I first testified concerning them. Then, I know another mystery, that books will be given to the righteous and the wise to become a cause of joy and uprightness and much wisdom. And to them shall the books be given, and they shall believe in them and rejoice over them, and then shall all the righteous who have learnt therefore all the paths of uprightness be recompensed.’
(1Enoch 104:10-13)
And it will play an important part in the restoration of Israel as prophesied by Isaiah. The time is near at hand in which “the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.” (Isaiah 29:18)
Today, on the eve of Yom Teruah, I want to share with you a very special teaching of Yeshua, one that has inspired me and guided me, from this lost original Jewish Gospel. This fragment was preserved in the writings of Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 A.D.–c. 215 C.E.) who wrote:
Even, in the Gospel according to the Hebrews is written the saying, ‘he that wondereth shall reign, and he that reigneth shall rest’. (Stromateis i. 9. 45)
and:
For those words have the same force as these: He shall not cease from seeking until he find, and having found, he will be amazed, and having been amazed will reign, and having reigned will rest. (Strom.) v.14.96.
The Greek (as quoted by Clement) is:
ου παυσεται ο ζητων, εως αν ευρν
ευρων δε θαμβηθησεται
θαμβηθεις δε βασιλευι
βασιλευσας δε επαναπαησεται
This saying of Yeshua has also turned up in Coptic in the Gospel of Thomas.
The restored original Hebrew behind this Greek quotation is:
הַמְּבַקֵּשׁ לֹא יָנוּחַ עַד מָצְאוֹ
וּמֹצֵא יִתְמַהּ
וְתֹמֶהּ יִמְלֹךְ
וּמֹלֵךְ יָנוּחַ
He who seeks, will not rest until he finds,
and having found he will be amazed,
and having been amazed he will reign,
and having reigned he will rest.
What can we learn from these beutiful words? The following is my personal commentary on these words:
How are we to understand “He who seeks”?
By this we are to understand he who seeks the wisdom of the Torah, for seeking is wisdom.
And how are we to understand “having found”?
The one who finds is he who understands the Torah, for having sought the wisdom of Torah he finds understanding of Torah.
And how are we to understand “having been amazed”?
The amazement is in the knowledge of Torah, for seeking the wisdom of Torah and finding the understanding of Torah one is amazed through the knowledge of Torah.
And how are we to understand “having reigned”?
By this we are to understand the faith that comes from knowledge for he reigns over his evil inclination through this faith.
And how are we to understand “rest”?
By this we are to understand the joy that is brought forth in our hearts through faith when we rule over our evil inclination.
We must raise $300 by the end of the day today or our account will go in the negative (plus we are short on groceries)
We need your help to continue the ongoing work, bringing the message of Messiah to the Jewish people, and bringing the message of Torah to the world. We need your help with the ongoing work of Scripture Restoration, as restore the original Hebrew of the “New Testament” books, a project which will bless all mankind, especially the Jewish people of Israel.
As you know my wife has never fully recovered from her 53 day hospitalization in late 2018 when she went into septic shock. In addition to other medical problems, she now has two abdominal hernias from six abdominal surgeries since 2015. Due to a condition the surgeons call “hostile abdomen”, she is not a candidate for surgery. Hernias do not heal on their own, they get larger but not smaller. Eventually one of these hernias will get large enough to be life threatening, at which time she will be rushed into emergency surgery without very good odds on the table. In the meantime, she now lives every day in pain. Pain from the surgery and from the septic shock that has never been resolved, and more importantly pain from the two hernias which she cannot have repaired. I have been her caregiver since she left the hospital. She has Medicare and Medicare part D, however she is on several expensive medications. This month she hit what they call the “gap” or “donut hole” in her Medicare drug coverage, and her copay for her cost for her expensive medications just skyrocketed! Just one of her medications has gone up to about $200 for a one month supply, we are still suffering sticker shock when we try to refill one of her meds, so I don’t know her total monthly drug costs yet, but another is $350 for a three month supply… We are finding ourselves in a position of choosing whether to pay our basic bills and groceries, or pay for her medications. Any donation will help, and any donation is better than no donation.
In these uncertain times, we need your support more than ever. The time is short, and there is much work to be done. As you might imagine, donations are low. If you can, please donate. This is no time to pull back from the great work in front of us!
Help us to continue to do important work, like posting important Hebrew and Aramaic texts at Scripture Nexus
As you know we have been digging ourselves out of a budget shortfall. As I have said to you many times, I look on this work as a co-operative one with me, and all of you combining our resources together in order to get the job done of helping to teach this great truth to all in the world who will listen. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for your continued support, you are the ones who make it all possible by your contributions and your prayers for our work. I truly appreciate your help in every way.
If you can make a one time donation of $500 or $1,000 dollars to support this work.
Donations can be sent by paypal to donations@wnae.org.
Donations can also be made out to “Nazarene Judaism” and sent to:
Nazarene Judaism
PO Box 471
Hurst, TX 76053