Christians actually believe he violated or disobeyed the Torah and taught his followers to do likewise.  So, on the one hand, it is claimed he was “perfect” and a “sin sacrifice without blemish” and on the other hand he disobeyed the Creator and taught rebellion.

In this case, it has been explained to me, he “had compassion” on the woman and would not condemn her wrongdoing, the compassion, of course, somehow justifying the teaching of the people to rebel against the commandments of Yhwh.  Christians explain that Jesus must have written on the ground the various sins of the religious leaders and their consciences smote them and they left one by one.  Hmm, interesting.  Funny that their consciences didn’t seem to bother them when they were planning how to get rid of him, and yet here, they have him in a trap and just let him get away because their consciences bothered them.  That doesn’t make much sense…they must have been real dummies, huh?  (I have run into MANY Christians that think they were.)

The Christian Jesus may have done as Christians believe, just as the figment of the imagination of anyone’s mind is under the control of the mind that imagined it; however, the real Jewish messiah would never promote or teach lawlessness.  The real Jewish messiah, Yahushua [Yah is salvation], believed what his name claimed, and he would have known that the words of the Creator bring LIFE.  To ignore or disobey those words brings death.  He would NEVER have taught the people to disobey and ignore what brings life.

Along with the first “explanation,” I have also heard it said that he must have written specific sins with the religious leaders’ names by them, showing them that he could “see” into their “hearts.”  All of these explanations are nonsensical, however.  For him to be perfect, as Christians claim, he would have to have obeyed the Torah, remembering Christian doctrine teaches we don’t have to obey the Torah because he did it for us.  And so the woman should have been stoned, right?

Wrong!  This is why knowing the Torah is so important.  What is immediately obvious to someone who has studied the Torah is that the scribes and Pharisees were proposing a violation of the Torah.  That’s right!  Where was the man caught in adultery with the woman?  The Torah states “they shall BOTH surely be stoned.”  So while Christians are busy explaining how the Jewish messiah was so overcome with compassion for the woman that he was willing to wink at sin and not condemn her for it, others who have studied the Torah see a Messiah who upheld the Torah which provides for justice fairly exercised without partiality.

Rather than try to make the Messiah fit to Christian beliefs handed down by unlearned men, why not study the Torah and see what Yhwh’s standard is, the standard that the Jewish messiah claimed he upheld and intended to fulfill.  Then there is explanation of what the Messiah was doing.  Indeed, the trap was a clever one and was meant to snare someone unlearned in the Torah.

Yahushua was an interesting man to say the least.  Rather than argue anything with them verbally and since he knew the Torah and the Prophets, commonly called the scriptures, he was well-prepared to deal with the situation in such a way that the people would be taught a far-reaching lesson and their belief in him as the Jewish messiah would be strengthened.  All he needed to do was write the commandment in the dust.  ALL the people standing around could see what was up and the scribes and Pharisees would have been exposed.  They were attempting to have the Torah violated.  After writing the commandment, a simple verbal sentence would have fit the occasion, “He who is most without error among you be first to cast a stone.”  They had just that moment set themselves up to violate the Torah (those who do are known as sinners) if they should attempt to stone her, and so those attempting to set a snare were trapped!

After writing the commandment and speaking, he could have bent down and written again, this time something from the Prophets.  He would have likely selected something that fit with what was going on at the time.  Chapter 7 of John tells what had been going on in Jerusalem at the time all of this transpired.  It was at the time of the Feast of Tabernacles (Booths) which celebrates Yhwh dwelling with his people and looks forward to the time when He will dwell on earth with His people after the Messiah has set all things in order on the earth.  This celebration was always a time of year when the expectations of the people were high.

At the end of the feast week, the water oblation is performed.  A custom was followed that was to illustrate the faith and expectation of the people for the upcoming winter rains (known as the latter rain), which was essential to replenish the land.  In addition, expectations for the messiah were especially high.

According to the custom, the high priest, on the last great day of the feast, which was the eighth day (eight representing new beginnings), would take a water pitcher down to the Pool of Shiloach and dip it in the water, carrying it back to the Temple.  Crowds of people would form a huge processional behind the priest, dancing, singing and chanting the hallel [which means “praise” and halleluyah means “praises to Yah” found in Psalms 113-118 as they entered the temple mount.  The highlight of the ceremony would come when the priest would dramatically pour out the water at the altar of the Temple.  The response of the crowds was reputed to be immense and became known as Simcha Bet Ha-sho-evah, “the rejoicing of the house of drawing water.”

This great rejoicing was not only due to an expectation for winter rains, but an expectation illustrated in this ceremony, a ceremony that had been founded in Isaiah 12:3.  “With joy you shall draw water out of the wells of salvation,” salvation in Hebrew being y’shua.  It continues, “And in that day shall you say ‘Praise Yhwh!” and make mention that HIS name is exalted.”  Yah is salvation!  More than the outpouring of temporal water in Israel, the Simcha Bet Ha-sho-evah was to prophetically illustrate the days of messianic redemption when the water of the Ruach haKodesh (aka holy spirit or literally spirit that sets apart) would be poured out upon all Israel.  It is the time of remembering and celebrating the promise of Yhwh that He will ultimately build his habitation with his people when the kingdom is established under Messiah’s rulership.  This was a joyful time, indeed.

In John 7 we find, “On the last day, that great day of the feast, Yahushua stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." And this he spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in him would receive; for the Ruach HaKodesh was not yet given, because Yahushua was not yet magnified.”

So how fitting then for him to write a second time in the earth something from a prophesy highlighting the expectations of Israel and connected to the plans of Yhwh for His anointed one (messiah).  Just such a fitting thing is found in Jeremiah 17:13 which says “O Yhwh, the expectation of Yisrael, all who forsake You are put to shame.  ‘Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yhwh the fountain of living waters.’”

So, according to this account in John which, incidentally, is bracketed in the NU text as not original and appears only in this gospel and is one of the nearly 300,000 discrepancies found in the so-called “new testament,” Yahushua bent and wrote a second time.  It would have been fitting if he wrote one by one in the earth the names of those trying to trap him.  Considering the time of year and the celebration that had just transpired and all that was represented by it and considering Yahushua’s calling out in the temple, a clear statement that he believed he was the anointed of Yhwh, an anointed man who was believed by the people to be the expounder and administrator of the Torah to Yhwh’s people Israel, is it any wonder that these actions of Yahushua exposed the religious leaders as those who had departed from Yhwh for refusing to obey his commands, or at the very least, as those trying to get around them or twist them.

How could they cast a stone which would have been sin to do so since it would clearly break the commandment regarding PERSONS caught in adultery.  They had just celebrated a feast that highlighted all the people’s expectation in Yhwh, their expectation for His promised one, the Messiah, no less.  Could they have done anything other than what they did after he wrote on the ground a second time?  For it states that when “they heard it [to “hear” is a Hebrew idiom meaning to have understanding], being reproved by their conscience [which would happen after understanding the meaning of his actions], went out one by one, beginning from the older ones [those more learned in the scripture so they grasped the meaning quicker] until the last had left.”

After they left, Yahushua asked the woman where her accusers were.  No one was there to accuse her, not even her husband who was the only one, according to the Torah, who could have accused her at that point.  And so Yahushua would not condemn her, as an observant Jew and upholder of the Torah, and so he told her to “go and sin no more.”  He labeled her behavior what it was…sin.  It was condemned.  It is obvious he considered her a sinner that must repent [turn away from it].  Though the wages were not paid at that moment, if she continued, they would surely be paid.  As one who believed the words of Yhwh, so he warned her.

There are many other examples of a lack of understanding of the times and seasons and the Hebrew scripture, the gospels, and the letters of Sha’ul in the Christian church.  A lack of knowledge of history, cultures, and even language and a hatred of the Jews begun many years ago has resulted in a group of people who have developed and continue to develop and perpetuate a religious system that is not rooted in an understanding of the nature and thoughts of the Creator, Yhwh.

So, who have you believed?  You will never KNOW if you don’t first ask the question and then get the answer.  When one has done THAT, only then can a person lay claim to Abraham as his father and be RIGHT.

Ps 119:160

The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.

NKJV

Ps 119:97-105

Oh how I love YOUR Torah! It is my meditation all the day.  You, through your commandments, for they are ever with me, have made me wiser than my enemies.

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for YOUR testimonies are my meditation.  I understand more than the ancients, because I keep YOUR precepts.  I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep YOUR WORD.  I have not departed from YOUR judgments, because YOU have taught me.

How sweet are YOUR words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!   Through YOUR precepts I get understanding: therefore, I hate every false way.

YOUR word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

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