10:21 Brother shall deliver up the brother to death
―(21) And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise
up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death‖
The prophet Micah spoke of this in His day: ―For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up
against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own
house‖. (Mic 7:6)
The Talmud also connects such family disloyalty to the time of Messiah:
Soncino Talmud 49b: ―In the footsteps of the messiah, insolence will increase and honour dwindle; the vine
will yield its fruit [abundantly] but wine will be dear; the government will turn to heresy and there will be none
[to offer them] reproof; the meeting-place [of scholars] will be used for immorality; Galilee will be destroyed,
Gablan desolated, and the dwellers on the frontier will go about [begging] from place to place without anyone
to take pity on them; the wisdom of the learned will degenerate, fearers of sin will be despised, and the truth
will be lacking; youths will put old men to shame, the old will stand up in the presence of the young, a son will
revile his father, a daughter will rise against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a
man's enemies will be the members of his household; the face of the generation will be like the face of a dog,
a son will not feel ashamed before his father. So upon whom is it for us to rely? Upon our father who is in
heaven‖.
10:22-23 But he that endureth to the end shall be saved (The deceitful theory of once saved always
saved)
―(22) And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
(23) But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have
gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come‖.
There is no "one time fix" in the Jewish view of salvation – no teaching of, "believe these things in your heart
and you're saved for life‖. You can willfully turn away and be lost. It should be noted that Paul does teach in
several places that nothing can take you away from YHWH. However, he is not addressing free will choice of
turning away in any of those verses.
This did not change with Y‘shua or His disciples. Many attempts are made by certain groups (who do not
understand the Hebrew interpretation of Scripture) to teach doctrines such as "once saved, always saved‖.
This spiritually arrogant concept is alien to the Judaism of Y‘shua which goes against YHWH's Torah, the
teaching of Y‘shua and His followers. The theory of once saved always saved is not Scriptural, period.
Great feats of theological gymnastics often occur when explaining away the simple message of Torah-based
verses such as these:
―For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were
made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to
come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the
Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame‖. (Heb 6:4)
―Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; Let him know, that he which converteth
the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins‖. (Jam
5:19-20)
Paul did not take his salvation as a "sure thing‖. See comments to verse 10:39 below.
10:24-25 If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub
―(24) The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. (25) It is enough for the disciple
that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub,
how much more shall they call them of his household?‖
Y‘shua goes so far as to say that those persecuting the ones that follow Him (and therefore are correctly
following the Torah) will think that they are the ones that are being true to YHWH. It is a tragic fact of the
times we live in that those who are now coming to a Torah-based faith in Y‘shua are being persecuted by
others who claim to be "God's people‖. The latter even go as far as claiming that the modern day return to