Page 21 - Attractive Deception - The False Hope of the Hebrew Roots Movement

Isaiah 14:13-14
But you said in your heart, “I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God,
and I will sit on the mount of assembly in the recesses of the north. I will ascend above the heights
of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

Is it not “independence” that Lucifer was seeking? He did not want to be ruled by God. He wanted
to be equal to God, choosing his own way, ruling his own life. This same attitude is being taught in
this passage from the Talmud. Rabbi Joshua argues that the answer to questions on the Law cannot
be found in heaven, they must be resolved by man. “We don’t need to pay attention to a heavenly
voice.” We see a great contrast in the life of Christ. He was always beholding the Father. He only did
what He saw His Father in heaven doing, and He only spoke the words His Father commanded Him
to speak.

John 5:19
Yahshua therefore answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do
nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does,
these things the Son also does in like manner.”

John 5:30
“I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not
seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.”

John 8:28
Yahshua therefore said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and I
do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me.”

John 8:42
Yahshua said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me; for I proceeded forth and have
come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me.”

John 12:49
“For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me
commandment, what to say, and what to speak.”

John 14:10
“Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I
do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.”

Though Yahshua was equal with God, He did not seek independence. He stated “As I hear, I judge.”
What a great contrast this is to the teaching of the Talmud. The Talmud tells the Jewish people to
ignore the heavenly voice. It instructs them that they are on their own. They are to “grow up” by no
longer looking to God to inform them about sin, and righteousness, and judgment. This is the
cunning of Satan. This is the spirit of antichrist. The Son of God did not come to lead men to
independence from His Father. He came to draw men unto Him. Yahshua consistently declared the
need of God’s people to be dependent upon, and in communion with, God through the agency of the