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Further Proof that the Trinity does away with Torah

For years, I was willing to leave the door open to Trinitarians. It seemed like a nonsense doctrine, an attempt to harmonize Christianity with Greek and Roman philosophical notions. I might add, that I found these philosophical notions absurd, unprovable, and laughably nitpicky. I appreciated the apostle Paul, who felt the same way, warning people to stay away from Greek and Roman philosophy. But at the end of the day, I thought the Trinity doctrine was mostly harmless. Then I was led to the smoking gun, showing that the Trinity is a major doctrine to keep people from keeping Torah. And it has. Read the discovery here: Smoking Gun Found; Real Reason for the Trinity. Today I present further proof that the Trinity is a road block to keeping Torah.

I was reading an article on end-times prophesy by Steven M. Collins today. Steven wrote the British Israel smash best seller, The "Lost" Ten Tribes of Israel … Found!

In Steven's article, New Look at Prophecy, he makes the following statement:

Most readers likely believe that Jesus Christ was the pre-existent God who made the Old Covenant with Israel at Mt. Sinai and led them in the Wilderness (I Corinthians 10:1-11). When the God of Israel "emptied himself," became flesh and died in a crucifixion (Philippians 2:4-11), the Old Covenant ceased to be binding as one party (the pre-existent Christ) to that contract had died. After his resurrection, Jesus Christ made a New Covenant into which not just Israelites but all makind was invited. The "blessing and cursing" terms of the Old Covenant, which included "breaking the pride of Israel's power" statement, are no longer binding today, just as the obligations of a wedding covenant are no longer binding after one party to that covenant dies! Paul referred directly to this fact in Hebrews 9:14-17. The entire relationship between God and the tribes of Israel changed dramatically after Jesus Christ died. Just as animal sacrifices, mandatory circumcision and the Levitical Priesthood were abolished when the Old Covenant ended, so were the "blessings and cursings" of the Old Covenant. Indeed, long before the Old Covenant was made at Mt. Sinai, God had already prophesied in Genesis 49:22-26 that "the latter days" would be a time when he would give immense blessings and "strength" to Israel, especially the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. Since that prophecy predated the existence of the Old Covenant, it was not affected by either the creation or the demise of the Old Covenant between God and Israel.

However, as readers of this article likely realize, the end of the Old Covenant between Israel and God did not abolish God's immutable laws which had been in effect since Creation and are often referred to in the Bible prior to the Mt. Sinai COvenant. Even though the New Covenant replaced the Old Covenant, Jesus Christ himself affirmed that this action would not abolish either the Law or the Prophets (Matthew 5:17-18) The terms of the Abrahamic covenant are as binding today as they ever were, as they predated the Old Covenant and were not affected by its abolition. Therefore, while biblical prophecies are still valid today, Leviticus 26's "cursings and blessings" section was not technically a "prophecy." It simply outlined God's conditional obligations toward Israel under the terms of the Old Covenant. When the Old Covenant ended, those conditional obligations also ended. This fact is affirmed in the world around us as God is clearly not dealing with "latter day" Israel according to the "cursings" chapter of Leviticus 26, even though the nations of modern Israel are increasingly disobedient to God's laws. To the contrary, God has been pouring out on the nations of latter-day Israel the great blessings he promised to them in Genesis 49. Significantly, these latter-day prophetic blessings of Genesis 49 flow from the Abrahamic Covenant, which was not dependent on the obedience of Abraham's descendants.

— fair use excerpt from page 5 of New Look at Prophecy by Steven M. Collins

Did you catch that? If God himself died, then none of the covenants he made are binding any more. Steven says that only the "Old Covenant" was done away with. But think this through. What about the covenant with Abraham? What about the covenant with Noah? Those get thrown out too. Why does Steven think the Abrahamic covenant is in force, while the Mosaic covenant is not? Didn't God die? If Jesus death abrogated one of God's covenants, then it abrogated all of them. God is now free to kill all life on earth by means of a Great Flood, the sign of the rainbow notwithstanding. Have you seen a rainbow lately? I have.

Steven makes an even bigger mistake. He says that the curses of the Old Covenant are now done away with, and are not in operation in our modern world. WOW! If you listen to any of George Gordon's lecture series on the Mosaic Law, you will know that all the curses and penalties outlined in Deuteronomy 28 are in FULL FORCE TODAY. We are just too blind to recognize that the social, political, financial, and health woes of our society are exactly identical to what was promised by God himself as the punishments for our neglect of Torah. How can this be if the "curse was abolished"? Steven, can you answer that?

To his credit, Steven says that the abolishing of the "covenant" did not abolish the "law" which is immutable and was in place since creation. But this opens up a can of worms. How do you tell the "Covenant" apart from the "Law"? This takes us right back into Seventh Day Adventist territory, where they piously claim to keep the Ten Commands, but not all those "ceremonial laws" because those are rubbish now, done away with by Jesus. Unless you practice sacrifice and incense burning, how can you understand anything that relates to sacrifices? You will only be guessing and assuming. We all know the old saw that assuming makes an ass out of you and me.

Steven M. Collins

Steven M. Collins himself shows where this thinking leads. He put a photo of himself on the front page of his website, which you can see to the right of this paragraph. Perhaps Steven thinks that the tassels (tzitziyot) were part of the Covenant but not the Law. He must think that the shaving of beards is ok under the "New" Covenant, because his face is as smooth as a babies.

Steven M. Collins is a great researcher, and I recommend his books on Israel's history. The only book of his I don't recommend is the one on the modern day identity of each tribe of Israel. I don't find his modern day identification of the tribes of Israel to be very reliable. He says that Issachar is the people of Finland. But I read good material showing that the Finnish and Laplandish people are pure Canaanites, the ancestors of many of the Siberian and North American peoples. You can read it here, on the Hope of Israel website: The Story of the Algonquian Indians!

Later in his article, Steven says:

If the churches could rally around an urgent prophetic message (such as the latter-day warnings of Ezekiel 38) they would regain a common focus that would override the petty differences which now divide them.

Alas. Rallying around an end-time theology is an old and tired out trick. Every Fundamentalist, Born-Again, Evangelical, Jehovah's Witness, Baptist, and Seventh Day Adventist group have done it, and are still doing it. It doesn't lead to any good! Worrying about the end time is a waste of time for most people. The only message that has the power to strengthen and restore the church in a meaningful way is the one true message that Jesus himself preached: Repent, for the Kingdom has arrived; the lame are walking, the blind see, the deaf hear, and the sick are being healed. Sinners cannot enter the Kingdom. Now, if the churches of God would preach that message, they would see their dry bones restored to life very quickly. But they are stuck with their doctrine of a Binity (the Armstrong replacement for the Trinity) and they still reject whichever laws suit their fancy. How many people build a parapet around the roof of their houses? Oh, I know the usual whining; they build houses with peaked roofs that don't need parapets. Silly Christians! If God says build a parapet, maybe he had more reasons than just the ones he told you about. Did you ever consider that a flat roof with a parapet makes a very good defensive position? And also a good position for watching the approach of distant armies? Or for observing the host of heaven, and all the starry signs that God placed there? And a good place to pitch your booth for the Feast of Tabernacles?

Peace, Steven Collins. I hope you can start teaching the full Gospel now that you have so ably traced the history of the Israelite diaspora.