All I want to know is if a believer in Jesus the Messiah goes to hell if he is aware of Numbers 15 but does not make tzitzit for his garments.
Simple question, right?
Of course I'd like to know why or why not it is binding, and why or why not faith in the Lamb has nothing or everything to do with being condemned to hell, whether such a thing as tzitzit is able to nullify His atonement.
But it's basically yes or no. They write 5000 paragraphs in scoffing, accusatory response but they don't simply say yes or no.
Strange.
Well all I can do is speak as to what I believe. I’m going to state some basic beliefs before I directly answer it. I want to give a full answer as to not have others misunderstand me or accuse me.
So what I believe is;
that the Law of YHWH is still valid to the believer and follower of Messiah;
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Mat 5:18, "I say to you; Unless heaven and earth passes away, one yodh; the smallest of the letters will in no way pass from the Law, until all things are perfected."
Revelation 21:1, "I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away." [/FONT]
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Mat 24:35, “Heaven and earth may pass away, but My teachings will not pass away.”[/FONT]
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Luke 16:16-17, "The Law and the Prophets were until John, since that time the Kingdom of YHWH is preached, and every man is pressed to enter it. But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one yodh of the Law to fail."[/FONT]
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that we are to follow this Law under the authority of Yahshua the High Priest after the order of the Messenger of Righteousness, not any Levites or human priest;[/FONT]
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Hebrews 4:14-15, "Seeing then that we have a great High Priest Who has ascended into the heavens: Yahshua the Son of YHWH, let us hold fast our profession. For we do not have a High Priest Who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all ways tempted as we are--yet was without sin."[/FONT]
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Hebrews 9:11-12, "But the Messiah came near as a High Priest over the righteous things to come, with the great and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation; Nor through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once, for all, having obtained eternal redemption."[/FONT]
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Hebrews 7:23-28, “For they indeed became priests without an oath, but He became Priest with an oath by Him who said to Him, “[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
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has sworn and shall not regret, ‘You are a priest forever according to the order of Malkitseḏeq. By as much as this [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
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has become a guarantor of a better covenant. And indeed, those that became priests were many, because they were prevented by death from continuing, but He, because He remains forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. Therefore He is also able to save completely those who draw near to Yah through Him, ever living to make intercession for them. For it was fitting that we should have such a High Priest – kind, innocent, undefiled, having been separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens, who does not need, as those high priests, to offer up slaughter offerings day by day, first for His own sins and then for those of the people, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. For the Torah appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the Torah, appoints the Son having been perfected forever.”[/FONT]
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that there are some sins unto death and some sins not unto death;[/FONT]
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1 John 5:17, "All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not unto death."[/FONT]
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Deuteronomy 21:22-23, “And when a man has committed a sin worthy of death, then he shall be put to death and you shall hang him on a tree. Let his body not remain overnight on the tree, for you shall certainly bury him the same day – for he who is hanged is accursed of Yah – so that you do not defile the land which [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
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your Strength is giving you as an inheritance.”[/FONT]
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that Messiah took that curse upon Himself to be applied to THOSE IN HIM;[/FONT]
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1 John 3:24, “And the one guarding His commands stays in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He stays in us, by the Spirit which He gave us.”[/FONT]
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1 Peter 2:24, "who Himself bore our sins in His body on the timber, so that we, having died to sins, might live unto righteousness, by whose stripes you were healed.”[/FONT]
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Isaiah 53:4-5, “Truly, He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains. Yet we reckoned Him smitten·, stricken by YHWH, and afflicted. But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our crookedness. The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.”[/FONT]
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Revelation 22:11-15, “He who does wrong, let him do more wrong; he who is filthy, let him be more filthy; he who is righteous, let him be more righteous; he who is set-apart, let him be more set-apart. And see, I am coming speedily, and My reward is with Me, to give to each according to his work. “I am the ‘Aleph’ and the ‘Taw’, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last. Blessed are those doing His commands, so that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of life, and to enter through the gates into the city. But outside are the dogs and those who enchant with drugs, and those who whore, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and all who love and do falsehood.”[/FONT]
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So to directly answer, while Tzitzits are commanded, they are not a sin unto death as far as I am aware, so not doing it is not worthy of death. This is not excuse to commit any sin not unto death but there is a difference. Now I know some people mock tzitzits but think wearing a cross is wonderful, I condemn nobody but want to say, tzitzits are directly from the mouth of YHWH and thus a very right thing IMO. Personally when I think about Tzitzits I think about the Law of YHWH and the healing in the wings of Messiah as prophesied and fulfilled. So to me they are a wonderful reminder of the Messiah and His Commands.[/FONT]
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Now about faith in the Lamb being nothing or everything, I would say it is everything, but it is belief and works, belief in Messiah and doing what He said. The word faith in Hebrew is not simply to believe but to be steadfast and morally sound.[/FONT]
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Revelation 14:12-13, “Here is the endurance of the set-apart ones, here are those guarding the Commands of [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
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. And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Master from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, in order that they rest from their labors, and their works follow with them.”[/FONT]
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Habakkuk 2:4, "Behold the proud, his soul is not right in him; but the just will live by faith."[/FONT]
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'emunah (em-oo-naw') [shortened], 1. (literally) firmness., 2. (figuratively) security., 3. (morally) fidelity.[/FONT]
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[feminine of H529], KJV: faith(-ful, -ly, -ness, (man)), set office, stability, steady, truly, truth, verily. , Root(s): H529
“faith” is word #H530 Hebrew Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar) 1) firmness, fidelity, steadfastness, steadiness
“faith” #H530 Brown-Driver-Briggs (Old Testament Hebrew-English Lexicon)
Feminine of H0529; literally firmness; figuratively security; moral fidelity:—faith (-ful, -ly, -ness, [man]), set office, stability, steady, truly, truth, verily.
Strong's (Hebrew & Chaldee Dictionary of the Old Testament) #530. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]
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emunah (53c); from 539; firmness, steadfastness, fidelity[/FONT]
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John/Yahanan 12:48, "He who rejects Me, and does not follow My words has One Who judges him. The word that I have spoken, the same will be used to judge him in the last day."[/FONT]