They teach that Jesus’ death on the cross renewed the Mosaic Covenant (Old Testament), and that an understanding of the New Testament can only come through a Hebrew perspective. According to this movement, Christians must keep the Torah (be Torah-observant), including its dietary laws, keeping the Sabbath on the seventh day of the week (Saturday), and observing the Jewish feast and festivals.
In the HRM the Law overwrites the Grace and the atoning work of Jesus Christ on the Cross. In other words, Law trumps Grace. It is also true, according to Hebrew Roots Movement followers, that those who are truly born of God will not continue in sin (1John 3:9), therefore, if you are not moved to keep Sabbath or keep dietary restrictions, you must not truly be born of God.
They claim Christians can't fully understand the Scripture until we understand the Torah. But the opposite is true. You will not understand the Old Testament until you have both the New Testament and the Old Testament working together in unison. While the Old Testament is great is for pointing to the foreshadowing of the coming Messiah it is not to be our schoolmaster. We are living under the New Covenant of the New Testament.
The Hebrew Roots Movement itself is riddled with false teachings and misrepresentations of the essentials of the Christian faith under the teachings of the New Covent of Jesus Christ which we are under today.
Perry Stone’s Ministry is another that has HRM aspects. At voe.org which stands for voice of evangelism we read this: One word from God can change your life! The Voice of Evangelism was founded for the purpose of bringing a fresh Word from God to the Body of Christ and winning souls for the Kingdom of God. God has grown us from a local church revival ministry into an international evangelistic outreach, ministering to thousands. Using our weekly television broadcast, Manna-Fest, the ministry is reaching around the world with powerful Hebraic and End Time Bible Prophecy teaching. Below is a video where Perry Stone is advertising a book he wrote called Breaking the Jewish Code.
is advertising a book he wrote called Breaking the Jewish Code.
The comments in this video are not in accordance with God's Word. We are New Testament Christians and are not to be living like Jews.
Another ministry to discuss is that of Rod Parsley’s. This is from his website back in September 2015.
Days of Awe Teachings - 10 Days to Build Your Faith
The next few days are some of the most sacred on God's calendar.
As we prepare to celebrate the freedom, victory, healing, blessing, peace, and dominion that Christ our Redeemer provisioned for us by the atoning work of His cross during a special service on the Day of Atonement - Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 7pm Eastern Time - the Holy Spirit has given me specific instruction to encourage your faith to believe for miracles in this anointed season - a season marked with celestial clues and prophetic indicators!
Every day, beginning Monday, September 14, Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of Trumpets, through Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement - a period the Hebrew people traditionally observe as the 10 Days of Awe - I want to send you an email with a specific teaching that God has deposited in my spirit for this year... for this season... for you.
I want to pray with you every day to annihilate strongholds the enemy may have built up in your life and connect my faith with yours to believe God for your miracle.
Don't delay - sign up TODAY to receive all 10 days of my devotional teaching emails!
Then another link at his site has this:
We are approaching the Day of Atonement. This has been God’s special day of connection with His people, every single year, for thousands of years. In addition, this year’s Day of Atonement also signals the Year of Jubilee -- the end of a 50-year cycle on God’s calendar -- when He commands freedom, release, and forgiveness of debts! Plus there is more: This year’s Jubilee is marked by the last of a series of four Red Blood Moons -- a heavenly sign that will not occur in conjunction with the ordained feasts for another 500 years!
THE 2015 DAY OF ATONEMENT! It has supernatural significance. There has never been such a moment in your entire lifetime. Do not miss this opportunity for blessing!
Based on his years of studying God’s Word, Pastor Parsley believes the Rapture will take place some year during this very season ... the season of Atonement! Jesus is coming!
But each year before the Rapture, during this season of Atonement, God gives His people a divine bonus as they obey Him: seven blessings, in DOUBLE PORTION!
You’ll receive a double portion from the Lord (Joel 2:23) ... TWICE the power of every blessing!
You’ll experience financial overflow (like the threshing floor of Joel 2:24)!
What you’ve lost will be restored (Joel 2:25)!
Jesus will return in the Rapture OR you’ll experience an explosion of miracles in your life (“wondrously,” Jesus says in Joel 2:26)!
The divine presence of Jesus Himself will be in your midst (Joel 2:27)!
Increased revelation knowledge will pour into your life, and angels will camp around your children (Joel 2:28)!
What has stopped or blocked you will be banished -- you’ll be delivered (Joel 2:32)!
Please get this: The Day of Atonement is God’s holiest day of the year -- come to Him with a heart of repentance AND an offering -- this is a commanded offering. Do not come empty-handed.... Sow a seed of $100 or more, and he will also send you a genuine Jubilee shofar. This is identical to the type of horn God commanded the children of Israel to use on the Day of Atonement; it’s the sound of freedom -- Jubilee! This beautiful, 12- to 14-inch shofar from Israel will be a constant reminder of God’s blessings upon your life!
It is absolutely heartbreaking to see our precious Savior and the price He paid on the Cross for our sins, being pushed to the side in favor of focusing on man-centered activities. And, then we see the Word of God being pushed to the side, or only certain books being read, because as was mentioned in the above broadcast, most involved in this movement denigrate Paul’s writings or misappropriate and misinterpret them. I pray any who have become interested in any of these teachings, or who may have started following any of the ministries mentioned, or any other HRM ministries will repent and turn from these things today. The Lord is gracious and kind to forgive. I pray that any who have relatives or friends who may be caught up in these practices will be able to share the truth of God’s Word with those who have been deceived.
It is on the core issues of the simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that belief systems stand or fall. Who Jesus Christ is, what He did, and that He instituted the New Covenant in His Blood, making a way for all men, through faith in Him, to have relationship with God – these are core issues that are muddied by those in the Hebrew Roots Movement/Messianic Judaism streams of thought.
Some key results from those muddied issues:
Jesus for them becomes the Living Torah, not the Living God.
The New Covenant becomes the Renewed Covenant, a complete misuse of the language of both the OT and the NT, and indicating a turning back to Mosaic Covenant Law when the Gospel requires nothing of the sort.
A perversion of the word repentance, again saying that it is a turning back to God in the form of turning back to Mosaic Covenant Law, not in a turning away from sin and to the Cross and the New Creation that God desires us to become in Christ!
It’s always a Jesus + equation, as I mentioned at the beginning, for the Law ‘keeper’ . . . for them it is believe on Jesus (Yeshua or however they choose to spell the sacred name at any particular moment), and then there are things you MUST do. If you don’t, you at best will be called least in the kingdom, at worst, be utterly cast out.
They are Torah-centric, not Christ-centric, resulting in obvious idolatry.
Some resort to mystical interpretations of the Scriptures, using Talmudic sources and methods, not realizing where those things are rooted. If they do become aware of the mystical roots of such sources and methods, by that point they no longer care, as they are so tied to the Law.
The veil is by then firmly in place (2 Corinthians 3). Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Another ministry to discuss is that of Rod Parsley’s. This is from his website back in September 2015.
Days of Awe Teachings - 10 Days to Build Your Faith
The next few days are some of the most sacred on God's calendar.
As we prepare to celebrate the freedom, victory, healing, blessing, peace, and dominion that Christ our Redeemer provisioned for us by the atoning work of His cross during a special service on the Day of Atonement - Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 7pm Eastern Time - the Holy Spirit has given me specific instruction to encourage your faith to believe for miracles in this anointed season - a season marked with celestial clues and prophetic indicators!
Every day, beginning Monday, September 14, Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of Trumpets, through Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement - a period the Hebrew people traditionally observe as the 10 Days of Awe - I want to send you an email with a specific teaching that God has deposited in my spirit for this year... for this season... for you.
I want to pray with you every day to annihilate strongholds the enemy may have built up in your life and connect my faith with yours to believe God for your miracle.
Don't delay - sign up TODAY to receive all 10 days of my devotional teaching emails!
Then another link at his site has this:
We are approaching the Day of Atonement. This has been God’s special day of connection with His people, every single year, for thousands of years. In addition, this year’s Day of Atonement also signals the Year of Jubilee -- the end of a 50-year cycle on God’s calendar -- when He commands freedom, release, and forgiveness of debts! Plus there is more: This year’s Jubilee is marked by the last of a series of four Red Blood Moons -- a heavenly sign that will not occur in conjunction with the ordained feasts for another 500 years!
THE 2015 DAY OF ATONEMENT! It has supernatural significance. There has never been such a moment in your entire lifetime. Do not miss this opportunity for blessing!
Based on his years of studying God’s Word, Pastor Parsley believes the Rapture will take place some year during this very season ... the season of Atonement! Jesus is coming!
But each year before the Rapture, during this season of Atonement, God gives His people a divine bonus as they obey Him: seven blessings, in DOUBLE PORTION!
You’ll receive a double portion from the Lord (Joel 2:23) ... TWICE the power of every blessing!
You’ll experience financial overflow (like the threshing floor of Joel 2:24)!
What you’ve lost will be restored (Joel 2:25)!
Jesus will return in the Rapture OR you’ll experience an explosion of miracles in your life (“wondrously,” Jesus says in Joel 2:26)!
The divine presence of Jesus Himself will be in your midst (Joel 2:27)!
Increased revelation knowledge will pour into your life, and angels will camp around your children (Joel 2:28)!
What has stopped or blocked you will be banished -- you’ll be delivered (Joel 2:32)!
Please get this: The Day of Atonement is God’s holiest day of the year -- come to Him with a heart of repentance AND an offering -- this is a commanded offering. Do not come empty-handed.... Sow a seed of $100 or more, and he will also send you a genuine Jubilee shofar. This is identical to the type of horn God commanded the children of Israel to use on the Day of Atonement; it’s the sound of freedom -- Jubilee! This beautiful, 12- to 14-inch shofar from Israel will be a constant reminder of God’s blessings upon your life!
It is absolutely heartbreaking to see our precious Savior and the price He paid on the Cross for our sins, being pushed to the side in favor of focusing on man-centered activities. And, then we see the Word of God being pushed to the side, or only certain books being read, because as was mentioned in the above broadcast, most involved in this movement denigrate Paul’s writings or misappropriate and misinterpret them. I pray any who have become interested in any of these teachings, or who may have started following any of the ministries mentioned, or any other HRM ministries will repent and turn from these things today. The Lord is gracious and kind to forgive. I pray that any who have relatives or friends who may be caught up in these practices will be able to share the truth of God’s Word with those who have been deceived.
It is on the core issues of the simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that belief systems stand or fall. Who Jesus Christ is, what He did, and that He instituted the New Covenant in His Blood, making a way for all men, through faith in Him, to have relationship with God – these are core issues that are muddied by those in the Hebrew Roots Movement/Messianic Judaism streams of thought.
Some key results from those muddied issues:
Jesus for them becomes the Living Torah, not the Living God.
The New Covenant becomes the Renewed Covenant, a complete misuse of the language of both the OT and the NT, and indicating a turning back to Mosaic Covenant Law when the Gospel requires nothing of the sort.
A perversion of the word repentance, again saying that it is a turning back to God in the form of turning back to Mosaic Covenant Law, not in a turning away from sin and to the Cross and the New Creation that God desires us to become in Christ!
It’s always a Jesus + equation, as I mentioned at the beginning, for the Law ‘keeper’ . . . for them it is believe on Jesus (Yeshua or however they choose to spell the sacred name at any particular moment), and then there are things you MUST do. If you don’t, you at best will be called least in the kingdom, at worst, be utterly cast out.
They are Torah-centric, not Christ-centric, resulting in obvious idolatry.
Some resort to mystical interpretations of the Scriptures, using Talmudic sources and methods, not realizing where those things are rooted. If they do become aware of the mystical roots of such sources and methods, by that point they no longer care, as they are so tied to the Law.
The veil is by then firmly in place (2 Corinthians 3). Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.