RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

COMMENTARY - ENDNOTES
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Because he was a priest and could not defile himself with the dead. That’s also the reason John the Beloved was
well-known by the High Priest of Yisrael.
5198
Only after Peter became defiled, and so John was not defiled, since contact with the dead had already been
made.
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Isaiah 53:10-11 and Psalm 16:10.
5200
See Updated First Response Nazarene/Messianic Handbook pages 136-138 at:
http://restorationscriptures.org/link11.htm
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See Home and Garden at: http://restorationscriptures.org/link12.htm
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He had not yet ascended to offer his blood in the Most Set-Apart Place in the heavens, and as such could not be
ceremonially defiled by sinful flesh.
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Note that Yahshua Himself has an Eloah, and even after His ascension into heaven, He has The Father as His
Eloah, as seen throughout the Book of Revelation. Regardless of the approach one takes, one is always left with the
eternal truth of YHWH the Greater, and YHWH the Lesser, being one for all eternity.
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One must be very careful here to understand this in the light of all of Scripture, including Yahshua's admonition
to Yisrael to forgive all men 70 times 7. This declaration can be understood only in terms of evangelism and sharing
the Good News (glad tidings) of eternal life in Messiah. When we proclaim as we are sent by YHWH, and men
respond to the Good News of Messiah, that person has been forgiven by us personally, in the sense that we were
the ones delivering the message. Likewise, when we do not deliver the message of the only One by whom man can
be saved, we do not allow for forgiveness to flow through us. Thus in essence, we don’t forgive others their sins.
This declaration is all about delivering the message, and not about the establishment of a religious hierarchy that
has power to send people to a second death.
5205
Future generations.
5206
The right side is symbolic of mercy in the understanding of a Hebrew, and the phrase “right side,” or tsad
hayamin, has a numeric Hebrew value of 204, the same as the word tzadik, or “righteous one.” Here at the command
of the “Righteous One” in a sea of mercy, fish will be caught. The fish of course are Yisrael (see Gen. 48:16) and the
sea of course is the nations.
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Bringing the scattered fish of lost Yisrael back to the land of Yisrael.
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Genesis 48:16 where Yisrael is prophesied to be like multitudes of great fish in the earth’s midst.
5209
153 is the numerical value of the name Betzalel, the maker of the wilderness Tabernacle after the pattern received
from YHWH. This means the children of Yisrael would be made into YHWH’s image and pattern, into a renewed
congregation, after the disciples drew them out of the sea of nations. For more details see:
http://restorationscriptures.org/link13.htm
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Mar-Yah in Aramaic, improperly translated in Greek simply as “Lord,” instead of “Master-Yah.”
5211
This conversation took place in Aramaic. As such, unlike the Greek, there are three different words used in
verses 15-17 for sheep, or lambs. The first reference is to amrea, or young sheep, or young disciples, the second to
male adult sheep with the term aerba, and the final reference to sheep is niquia, a female word used to refer to His
adult female disciples. The Aramaic challenges Peter to look after all three categories of His disciples, thus
explaining the repetitive nature of Yahsha’s questions.
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By hanging bound hand and foot upside down. Then this prophecy was fulfilled.
5213
For more information on John being one of the two end-time witnesses see: Is Yochanan the Beloved Still Alive?
at: http://restorationscriptures.org/link46.htm
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The four evangels are summations of the major events of Messiah's life. Were all His teachings and miracles
actually recorded, that would entail the finite and the mortal, capturing in words the infinite and immortal Son of
YHWH, which is beyond human limitation and possibility. But enough has been recorded, so that mankind is without
excuse, real, or imagined.
ACTS
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See note on Luke 1:3.
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Aramaic Peshitta.
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When there is togetherness in believing Yisrael, the main concern will be the restoration and regathering of the
two houses. These folks hardly agreed on anything, but with one accord were concerned that Yahshua was
returning to the Father without Efrayim and Judah first being joined again as one in YHWH’s hand. This question set
in a future tense, is valid and ample evidence that the restoration was paramount in Yahshua’s ministry, and
moreover had never fully taken place previously, at the time of the Jews’ return from Babylonian exile, nor in
Hezekiah, or Josiah’s days, as some erroneously claim.
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Yahshua answered them in the future tense in verses 7-8, illustrating that His Father had not yet revealed the
exact future timing of the full restoration to anyone. The question posed by the disciples and Messiah’s answer,
forever dismisses any attempt to contrive, or fabricate some supposedly well-known, past reunion of the two
houses, five hundred years before Yahshua came in the flesh.
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Note the plan for regathering Yisrael clearly outlined. In context, this commission is given in response to the
disciples’ question on how to restore Yisrael. He told them that they could not know when it would be fully
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