counterfeiting is against the law

[Shmanu YAH]

shalom l'kulam, baruk h'shem YHWH! - I pray the peace of the Most High be on you.

This short message I'd like to point out something we cant hide from the most high YHWH - the "real" from the "fraudulent".

We must be mindful, where ever there is a counterfeit... there must first be a original!

Lets start back in the book of b'resheith \ Genesis in chapter 4:2-5, dealing with the offering to the most high by the brothers Qyn and Habl aka Cain and Abel, 2 ..... And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto YHWH, 4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And YHWH had respect unto Abel and to his offering: 5 but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. ....~ Now right off the back we wonder what's wrong with a offering to YHWH?... well to offer a offering to the most high to atone for anything, a basket of fruit or vegetables just wont cut it! (had to be blood!) That was no doubt his own decision to do things his way as opposed to YHWH's required way which his brother Abel did.

As we all know nothing good happened between them after this. This fraudulent offering of Cain was against the law \ command of YHWH.

Lets read and learn from this that if we praise or worship or keep the laws and command of YHWH the correct way even our own family verbally or otherwise could smite us to death. Even a counterfeit following the torah is against the law as we saw in Lev.10:1-2, And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange fire before YHWH, which he had not commanded them. 2 And there came forth fire from before YHWH, and devoured them, and they died before YHWH. .....~ Now look at this fraudulent offering, what were they thinking? Lets examine what they did wrong: They offered to Elohym something profane because it was not sanctified or made set-apart, something ordinary and unconsecrated.... bad move! we don't read about the command to put in censors until Lev.16:12 also they "presumed" to do something in worship \ shachah before Elohym which Elohym had NOT commanded them to do. (can you say free-styling?). We then read the fire came forth and they became their own fraudulent sacrifice..... poof!

Their counterfeiting was against the law! Now lets fast forward to some other "religious elites" in the new testament who's zeal of torah proved to be fraudulent. In John 8:2-9, And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.3 And the scribes and the Pharisees bring a woman taken in adultery; and having set her in the midst, 4 they say unto him, Teacher, this woman hath been taken in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such: what then sayest thou of her? .....~ Now hold up a minute, lets look at that law they are referring to: Deut. 22:22, If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away the evil from Israel., Now according to this law they were trying to use to get mashiach to shed her blood, it required both man and woman be put to death. At that time they were under Roman rule so they couldn't put anyone to death without Roman permission so they wanted him to either break the torah or break the law of the Roman government, either way it was a set-up!

In their counterfeit attempt at torah they failed to bring the man to be put to death as required so these frauds themselves broke torah. Continuing in John 8:6-9, And this they said, trying him, that they might have whereof to accuse him. But Yahshua stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground 7 But when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. 8 And again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. 9 And they, when they heard it, went out one by one, beginning from the eldest, even unto the last: and Yahshua was left alone, and the woman, where she was, in the midst. .....~ Their counterfeiting was against the law!

Now note how the 10 Commandments given to Moses was written by the finger of ELOHYM in stone and this "refresher course" was written by the finger of h'mashiac on the very ground aka substance which man came from.

In another instance lets look at what has been recorded in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Gospel of Peter: The presented counterfeit son of the Father that was surely against the law >>> "Bar-abbas". This name is aramaic meaning bar = son and Abbas = Father, a man that was a renown wicked robber and murderer.

The insecure religious elite wanted the true "son of the father" Yahushua destroyed so bad they voted to release a murderer even against the better judgement of the Governor Pilate as we read in Matt. 27:21-25, But the governor answered and said unto them, Which of the two will ye that I release unto you? And they said, Barabbas. 22 Pilate saith unto them, What then shall I do unto Yahshua who is called Mashiyach? They all say, Let him be impaled 23 And he said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out exceedingly, saying, Let him be impaled. 24 So when Pilate saw that he prevailed nothing, but rather that a tumult was arising, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man; see ye to it. 25 And all the people answered and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. < - HOW STUPID aka BAD CAREER MOVE!

also in Mark 15:14, And Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out exceedingly, impale him. also in Luke 23:3-4, And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest 4 And Pilate said unto the chief priests and the multitudes, I find no fault in this man. also in John 19:4, And Pilate went out again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him out to you, that ye may know that I find no crime in him. .....~ The point I'm making here is clear If you really understand the law \ torah as given in Exodus 20:13, Thou shalt not murder ... obviously they broke torah and if you re-read Matt. 27:4 & 25 as Judas returned to the Priest with a confession - 4 saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou to it". 25 And all the people answered and said, "His blood be on us, and on our children." they had a zeal towards this lawlessness.

Did these folks not understand Deut. 30:19, "I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed." these foolish leaders cursed themselves and their own seed by not knowing the importance of life through Yahushua vs. death by being anti-mashiac nor the importance of separating their leadership insecurities from right ruling thus making them counterfeit torah keepers. Their counterfeiting was against the law!

In our daily walk to draw closer to the most high YHWH lets make sure we keep all things "100" (percent) real and NEVER try to counterfeit,

selah and shalom