In 97 B.C.E., a prominent teacher in Israel was charged with heresy and banished from Israel. He led a group of  fellow believers into the wilderness of Trachonitis where they began the formulation of the most important religious movement in the history of Israel. This man has no name remembered by history, but the for sake of giving him a name we will call him Yehudah. The Prophet Yoel in his book promised that a Teacher of Righteousness would arise just prior to the coming of the Messianic age. (2:23). He would be like the early rains in Israel that got the plants started.

Yehudah wrote some of the documents that have come to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. He collected many more of the documents and founded a movement that we shall call the Religious Opposition. We do not know exactly how the various different views of Scripture arose out of this movement but we do know that the movement was more or less united in their support of this one family descended from the Teacher of Righteousness. There were four religious dogmas that came from this movement. The first and best known was a religious dogma that said the Scriptures were clear on their face and all we had to do was interpret them correctly. A person with common intelligence and a heart attuned to G-d could understand what the requirements of the Torah were in order to find oneself ready for eternal life.  This movement was called the Zaddoki (Sadducees) and was a movement of priests who opposed the appointed high priesthood in Jerusalem and the Hasmonean, Herodian, and Roman authorities.

The second group that has become well known is the Essenes. They were a religious group that not only believed in the religious dogma of the Zaddoki, but also believed that if one separated themselves from the distractions of the world and lived in a strict community of believers, then it would be much more likely to enter into eternal life in a state of grace.

The third group is called the Nasoreans. They believed like the Zaddoki that the Holy Spirit would teach one how to keep the Torah. They believed like the Essenes that one should separate themselves from the unbeliever, but they believed that one still had to be of the world although not a part of it. Thus they were called nasori, the separated ones

The last group is called the Zealotes. They believed that the kingdom of G-d would not just be established by being holy. One had to help the kingdom come into existence. One did that by trying to overthrow the hated foreign authorities.

These four movements within the Opposition united behind three men in the period from 25 to 30 CE. These three men have become known to history as Jesus of Nazareth whose name was really Yeshua; James the Just, his brother, whose name was Ya'akov; and John the Baptist, Jesus and James' cousin, whose name was Yochanan and who was a priest. The movement believed that Yochanan would become the new High Priest in the re-established kingdom of Israel. The movement believed that Ya'akov would be the Prophet of G-d that would announce his true teachings. Finally, the movement believed that Yeshua was in fact the heir to David's Throne, the temporal Messiah. With the death of Yochanan, Yeshua reformulated the direction of the movement and took personal control of it. He taught that there would be one Messiah and that he was that messiah, uniting Prophet, Priest and King in one person. He reformulated the concept of the High Priesthood by seeing that he was a High Priest not according to the Order of Aaron, but rather according to the Order of  Melchizedek whose High Priesthood was superior to Aaron's High Priesthood.

We all know the story of Yeshua's death, parts of which have been reformulated to meet the early churches expectations. However, most of us do not understand the significance of Yeshua's appearance to Ya'akov that Paul recounts in 1 Corinthians 15:7. The passage in its final form gave the justification for Ya'akov to assume authority over the Church with support of the Apostles and the appointment of a triumvirate, like the originally conceived triumvirate of  Jesus, James, and John. Ya'akov became the Mebakker of the Communities just as conceived of by the Rule of the Community from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Mebakker is the word for overseer in Hebrew. Overseer in Greek was Episcopos which in German becomes Bishop. John becomes the Prophet and Cephas, Peter, becomes the Chief Rabbi, the spiritual teacher.

Ya'akov ruled the Church form 33 C.E. until his death in 62 C.E. He was the first Pope. He was succeeded in 62 C.E. by his brother and the brother of Yeshua, Shimon who ruled the Church until 70 C.E. when Jerusalem was destroyed and he has left to us the first Constitution of the Church, which is called in Greek, Didache. The early church adopted this constitution as its modus operandi.

The Church after the destruction of Jerusalem moved its headquarters to the village of Pella in the Decapolis on the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee. It prospered and grew. It is estimated that by 132 CE the Church had one million members in a world with only 200 millions and in an Empire with 80 millions. Then Bar Kochba arose and claimed to be the Meshiach of the Jews. The Nasoreans could not agree and ultimately were slaughtered through the intercession of the Pauline Christians and the Rabbinical Jews by the Roman government and an estimated 980,000 died. During the Hadrianic persecution subsequent to the Second Jewish Revolt, the remnant of the Nasorean Church fled to Beroea in Coele Syria near modern day Aleppo. 

Rumors of this church persisted. Its ideas resurfaced in Spain in the Fifteenth Century and there the Nasoreans were called Marranos. By order of the Inquisition and the Spanish monarchs, they were murdered for heresy and it is estimated that 400,000 died on the rack or at the stake.

THE MODERN SECT

The history of Modern Nasoreanism begins on January 1, 1900. On that day in Topeka, Kansas, the Holy Spirit opened the floodgates of grace and descended in power on a small group of Presbyterians. From that descent, a charismatic renewal occurred on Earth. Christians began to study their past. The major areas of study were the first century, the lost tribes of Israel, the gifts of the Spirit, the chosen people and the nature of Jesus. Sabbatarian movements were draw in. The Pentecostal experience was a rich field that had another important event occur to plant seeds that would grow. In 1947, in field in Egypt at a place called Nag Hamadi, a farmer found a library in jars preserved in the desert sand. That library was a library of new gospels, acts of the apostles, and writings from very early Christians. It had a dramatic impact on our view of the Christian writings often called the New Testament and most especially our view of the gospels. The second event even more dramatic was the discovery that in caves lose to the Dead Sea there was library from a sect of Judaism unlike any that we had previously knew.

The Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hamadi started an intense reassessment of the truth. Scholars began to wonder about many things that they had been taught. Several scholars have been central in understanding the first century and the truth about Nasoreanism. Dr. Robert Eisenman, Dr. Michael O. Wise, Dr. Geza Vermes, Dr. James Tabor, and Dr. Michael Sanders have been foremost in this process. Finally, in 1983 the Messianic Jewish movement arose. These Christians were trying to deal with the fact that Yeshua had specifically said that the law was not abolished. How were they to deal with that fact and the Pauline lies that they had been taught? The Reverend J. David Davis led his congregation out of Christianity and became the first leader of the B'nai Noach movement, the G-d-fearers of old renewed and attached to Judaism. From him, there arose a middle group, a group that reaffirmed their belief that Yeshua was in fact the Meshiach, but that he was not G-d nor was the Holy Spirit G-d. This group split into two groups. The first centered in Ra'ana, Israel believes that we are to accept as much of the Talmud as we can within the framework of the Gospel of  Matthew. We are the second.

The Nasorean Orthodox Qahal grew out of the teachings of a very well educated lawyer and teacher in Kansas City. He had centered his searches on the first century and had received the Holy Spirit in its fullness. He had received a revelation in the form of book called Climbing Jacob's Ladder: A  Lay Guide to Holiness. He had been called by a Catholic Priest to return to Judaism and search his roots. Finally in 1985, the community that he led ordained him its first Rabbi. The Nasorean Orthodox Qahal reaffirms the basic principle of the Teacher of  Righteousness, we need no fence around the Torah,  but the Spirit within us. The Spirit will teach us how to keep the Torah.

CENTRAL PRINCIPLES OF THE NASOREAN SECT

The Nasorean Sect believes that Yeshua ben Yotzef, Jesus son of Joseph, was the Messiah promised at the end of the last age by the Messianic Apocryphon, a book written by the Teacher of Righteousness and found at the Dead Sea.The Nasorean Sect believes that the Torah was given to Moses by the Archangel of the Presence on the Mountain and that it was written completely on the stone tablets.The Nasorean Sect accepts all of the Tanakh, plus the extra books found in the Septuagint, plus Enoch, Jubilees and other intertestatmentary documents. It accepts the Gospel of Matthew in its Hebrew form, the book known as Hebrews, James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1, 2, 3 John, Jude, and Revelation. It accepts the Didache and Thomas. It recommends that all writings be studied for the value that they may add to our faith. However, the Nasorean Sect rejects the inerrancy of any scriptures for any purpose but reproof, correction, and training in holiness and further rejects the idea that the scripture is closed. Lastly, it believes that reliance upon a well-informed understanding of the Voice is more important than the Scripture.The Nasorean Sect believes that Jews must keep the Torah in its completeness. The Nasorean Sect does not believe that the Gentiles have to keep any portion of the Torah not specifically bound upon them.The Nasorean Sect believes that one must have faith in the Melchizedekian sacrifice of bread and wine as sufficient for the forgiveness of sin. We believe that when sacrificed with the proper faith this bread and wine become the Lamb of G-d that takes away the sins of the world. In accordance with the tradition since the beginning, the Nasorean Sect rejects the authority of the so-called Oral Law and the subsequent rulings of the rabbinical Jews as any more than opinions. We accept circumcision, Shabbat, Sabbath rest, and the feasts of the Scripture. 

The Nasorean Sect is true Biblical Judaism.

DIFFERENCES WITH CHRISTIANITY

We oppose the idea of second forgiveness. A person with the holy spirit and faith in the Torah who rebels against G-d is damned and there is no hope for forgiveness.

We do not believe that one can be saved until one is dead. One must walk the Path, do the good works of the Torah, and have faith in the Voice and Yeshua ha Meshiach to be saved and one is not saved finally until one dies.

Bishops and Deacons must be elected by the show of hands of the people.

Apostles and Prophets are the foundation of the Church.

The descendants of Yeshua, the so-called desposynoi, should be give preference in positions of authority within the Church. We accept that certain descendants of Yeshua can still be determined. 

In order to be saved one must have the Holy Spirit and demonstrate the works of the Holy Spirit which are mentioned in the Longer Ending of Mark.

Yeshua commanded us to keep the Torah and all the feasts. He re-established the sacrifice of Melchizedek. There can be no forgiveness for sin of any sort without the spilling of blood. Only the Blood of the Lamb is sufficient to forgive sin today.

We reject the teachings of Paul as those of a demented traitor bent upon destroying the work of Yeshua. Only a fully qualified Rabbi or the Sect in its Great Assembly can pass on which of Paul’s teachings are valid for the Sect. 

DIFFERENCES WITH RABBINICAL JUDAISM

One must have sacrifice in order to be free from sin.

The only fence we need around the Torah is the conscience of the believer as formed by the Voice within. There is no Oral Law. 

The dietary laws are a huge fence erected by man and having no basis in Torah.  Only the directions on what to eat found in the Torah have any basis for man.

One may not place ones faith in reason alone. Only the Voice can interpret the Torah.

A rabbi must have children, be married in accordance with the law, have the marks of the Believer, and disciples sent by the Holy Spirit in order to be recognized as such by the Nasorean Sect. 

CHRISTOLOGY OF NASOREANISM

Nasoreans believe that there was a man who was the Teacher of Righteousness. He was prophesied by Moshe in Deuteronomy 18:15 and Joel 2:22. He would be a Law-Giver like Moshe who would reinterpret the Torah for the Jewish nation. We believe that he came in 97 B.C.E. and established the Essene sect of Judaism. We believe that he was a Cohen (Priest of Aaron) and the Melchizedek High Priest of G-d. He rejected the Temple as profaned. He wrote many books in the Dead Sea Scrolls. 

Nasoreans believe that his great grandsons were Yeshua and Ya’akov bar Yotsef and Yochannan ha Mikveh, who had been chosen High Priest by the Temple at Heliopolis in Egypt. We believe that the normal government of the Community or Church is to be in the hands of three Pillars representing the Priest, Prophet, and King. These three were the three Pillars of a coalition formed to combat Rome at that time. 

Yeshua assumed full control as the Melchizedek High Priest-King of Yisrael after the death of Yochannan ha Mikveh. He showed forth all the proofs of that authority as prescribed by the Coming of Melchizedek, a prophecy found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. 

Yeshua was born of Maryam and Yotsef, but the Ruach that descended upon him at his birth was that of the Archangel of the Presence, known in Jewish tradition as Metatron or YHVH. In that since, he was the Son of G-d. He was the son of the supreme Archangel of Heaven, and of two very special earthly parents, Yotsef the Tzaddik and Maryam called by the Archangel Gavriel, Most Blessed among Women. 

Yeshua was groomed and prepared for his role from his birth and held within the bosom of the Essene community although his parents were Nasoreans, that is, they were members of a sect that believed one should like the Essenes be separated, but should live as part of the world. Yeshua was therefore called a Nasorean. 

At the Pesach Seder, celebrated according to solar calendar of the Essenes, in the year 33 C.E. Yeshua reinstituted the sacrifice of Melchizedek, bread and wine, which play key parts in the Seder meal. He rejected the sacrifice of the Temple and broadened the sacrifice to include all the world. He was after all the High Priest of all the world, as was Melchizedek before him. The law required that this change be accomplished by the shedding of blood. Yeshua gave his own blood in atonement for the change of sacrifice. The blood he shed was captured by the Archangel Raphael at the foot of the cross and taken to heaven where it was offered on the heavenly Mercy Seat in atonement for sins. It is an eternal fountain poured out when we celebrate the kiddush on Friday evenings to welcome the Shabbat. 

Yeshua was raised from the dead within the 72 hour period in which the Ruach is still attached to the Neshamah and Nephesh. He appeared to James and made him head of the Sect and Mebakker or Bishop of Jerusalem. Forty days later Yeshua ascended into heaven where his body remains as the Ark for the Ruach of the Archangel of the Presence and his Ruach assumed its place on the Throne of Heaven. He continues to minister for us at the High Altar of Heaven before the Ain Sof, the One and Only True G-d. 

In reality, Yeshua is the Son of G-d, created by Ain Sof in the beginning and begotten by the Archangel in time. He is joined by the Holy Spirit, the descending Light. Neither he nor the Spirit are themselves the very G-d, but they are our G-ds and rule over the other Archangels in the Assembly of G-ds.

Yeshua continues to mediate sin for us this day and offers to us the Voice to guide us on the Way in accordance with Exodus 23:20 and John 10:3-5.

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