Luke 10:20 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Nevertheless, don’t be glad that the spirits submit to you; be glad that YOUR NAMES HAVE BEEN RECORDED IN HEAVEN.”
Philippians 4:3 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“I also request you, loyal Syzygus, to help these women; for they have worked hard proclaiming the Good News with me, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers WHOSE NAMES ARE IN THE BOOK OF LIFE.”
Exodus 32:32 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Now, if you will just forgive their sin! But if you won’t, then, I beg you, blot me out OF YOUR BOOK WHICH YOU HAVE WRITTEN!”
YESHUA already knows who is written in the Book of Life and will live for eternity, just as Moses and Paul knew about the Book of Life and that their names were recorded in it! ELOHIM knows from the beginning what choices each human will make. This message will confirm the truth and add more witnesses and parallels to the message I did called “2nd Exodus End Times Remnant! The True Way: YESHUA-Nazarenes-Qumran-Paul”. https://youtu.be/bwQn-_liPY8?si=He-oTVzuseBqnHH1
Damascus Document 2:4-8 (The Dead Sea Scrolls a New Translation by Wise, Abegg, and Cook) page 53.
“He is very patient and forgiving, covering the sin of those who repent of wrongdoing. But Strength, Might, and great Wrath in the flames of fire with all the angels of destruction shall come against all who rebel against the proper way and who despise the law, until they are without remnant or survivor, for ELOHIM HAD NOT CHOSEN THEM FROM ANCIENT ETERNITY. BEFORE THEY WERE CREATED, HE KNEW WHAT THEY WOULD DO. So He rejected the generations of old and turned away from the land until they were gone.”
As we see the Zadok priests in the Qumran Community understood that ELOHIM already knows from the very beginning WHO WILL CHOOSE HIM AND HIS WAYS which includes accepting His Son YESHUA and walking in the original Nazarene doctrine! He already knows WHO WILL NOT walk in His Ways and those who would be seekers of smooth things and He already knew that there would be atheist who would deny His existence! Nobody can blame ELOHIM on Judgment Day for what they CHOSE to do with their free-will.
Community Rule 2:2-6 The Dead Sea Scrolls A New Translation by Wise, Abegg, and Cook) page 118
“Then the priests are to bless ALL THOSE FOREORDAINED TO ELOHIM, who walk faultless in all of His ways, saying, “May He bless you with every good thing and preserve you from every evil. May He enlighten your mind with wisdom for living, be gracious to you with the knowledge of eternal things, and lift up His gracious countenance upon you for everlasting peace.” The Levites in turn shall curse all those FORORDAINED TO BELIAL.”
Oxford languages defines foreordain as of “(ELOHIM or fate) or decree something BEFOREHAND. Synonyms are predetermined, preordained, ordained, predestined, destined, fated.”
We see that there are those who are foreordained/predestined to serve YAHWEH and there are those who are foreordained/predestined to Belial aka Satan. Jude, the half-brother of YESHUA and a Nazarene, says the same thing that the Zadok Priests at Qumran said.
Jude 1:4 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“For some sons of man came in among them – of those who WERE ALREADY WRITTEN UP FOR THIS CONDEMNATION – and they were WICKED ONES, and hindered the steadfast-love of YAHWEH in arrogance, and they did not believe in YAHWEH and in His Mashiach.”
Jude 1:4 (Lamsa Aramaic Peshitta)
“For certain men have falsely entered among you, and these were FORORDAINED FROM THE VERY BEGINNING TO THIS CONDEMNATION; they are unrighteous men, turning the mercy of ELOHIM into lasciviousness, and denying the only YAHWEH ELOHIM and our Master YESHUA HA’MASHIACH.”
This is why YESHUA said that the Pharisees who opposed Him by rejecting Him as Messiah and walking in their manmade Oral Torah were the children of Satan, because YESHUA already knew WHO THEY WOULD CHOOSE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING!
John 8:44-45 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“YOU ARE THE SONS OF HA-SATAN YOUR FATHER, therefore you take pleasure in doing the WILL OF YOUR FATHER He was a murderer at the beginning, and DID NOT ABIDE IN TRUTH, FOR THERE IS NO TRUTH IN HIM. For everything which he speaks is a lie; he speaks that which is nigh to him; for he is its father, and he is a liar. But if I speak TRUTH TO YOU, YOU DO NOT BELIEVE ME.”
Just as YESHUA already knew that Judas would betray Him!
John 6:70-71 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“Then YESHUA answered them, “Did not I, I choose you twelve? ONE OF YOU IS AN ADVERSARY!” And he said this of Yehudah Ish-Qeriot (Judas Iscariot))- that this one would betray Him, who was one of the twelve.”
John 17:12 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“While I abode with them, I kept them in Your Name. Those whom YOU GAVE ME, I have kept and none of them is missing, except THE SON OF DESTRUCTION – IN ORDER THAT THE SCRIPTURE MAY BE FULFILLED.”
The beautiful contrast to this is that those who are predestined for eternal life have chosen the ways of ELOHIM and will hear YESHUA’s voice and reject all falsehood!
John 10:23-30 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“As YESHUA was walking in the Sanctuary in the porch of Shelomo (Solomon), the Yehudim (Jews) surrounded Him and said to Him, “How long do you hold our breaths? If you are Mashiach, tell us plainly!” YESHUA answered, “I do tell you, but you do not believe! The works which I do in the Name of My Father, they bear witness of Me. But you do not believe in Me because YOU ARE NOT OF MY SHEEP. MY SHEEP OBEY MY VOICE; AND I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW AFTER ME. And I give them everlasting life, and they will not perish for eternity. And no other can tear them from My hand. My Father who gave them to Me, is greater than everything – and no man is able to tear them from the hand of My Father. I and the Father, we are echad.”
John 6:35-40 (Hebrewgosels.com)
“Then YESHUA said to them, “I am the bread of life; whosoever comes unto Me will not be hungry, and whosoever believes in Me will not have thirst in eternity! But this I say to you because you saw Me and yet you did not believe in Me. EVERY ONE THE FATHER GAVE ME COMES TO ME, and he who comes to me I will not cast out. For I, I descend from the heavens, not in order to do My will, only the will of Him who sent Me. And this is His will, that all these which He gave Me, I should not let any of them be destroyed, but that I should raise them up in the last day. For this is the will of the Father who sent Me --- that every man who CHOOSES THE SON AND BELIEVES, WILL HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE; and I will raise him up alive in the last day.”
Which is why YESHUA said this to Paul because He already knows who His sheep are!
Acts 18:9-10 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“One night, in a vision, The Master said to Paul, “Don’t be afraid, but speak right up, and don’t stop, because I am with you. No one will succeed in harming you, FOR I HAVE MANY PEOPLE IN THIS CITY.” So Paul stayed there for a year and a half, teaching them the word of ELOHIM.”
Acts 18:9-10 (Good News Translation)
“One night Paul had a vision in which The Master said to him, “Do not be afraid, but keep on speaking and do not give up, for I am with you. No one will be able to harm you, for MANY IN THIS CITY ARE MY PEOPLE.” So Paul stayed there for a year and a half, teaching the people the word of ELOHIM.”
Our job is to plant the seed for ELOHIM’s people to hear (Also see 1 Corinthians 3:6-8 and Romans 10:9-15)! YESHUA’s lost sheep need to hear the message and then they will respond to the truth that they were predestined to make! And a perfect example of this is the next scripture!
Acts 13:48 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“The Gentiles were very happy to hear this. They honored the message about The Master, and AS MANY AS HAD BEEN APPOINTED TO ETERNAL LIFE CAME TO TRUST.”
More witnesses from the Dead Sea Scrolls:
Songs of Shabbat Sacrifice Fragment 2 verse 26-27 (The Dead Sea Scrolls a New Translation by Wise, Abegg, and Cook) page 469
“Then in the Name of His set-apartness all the chief princes will bless in unison the ELOHIM of divine beings with all their sevenfold appointed words of blessing. They will also bless those PREDESTINED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS and all those blessed of…”
The Coming Melchizedek 11Q13 Column 2:5-8 (The Dead Sea Scrolls A New Translation by Wise, Abegg, and Cook) page 592
“…and they are the inheritance of Melchizedek, who will return them to what is rightfully theirs. He will proclaim to them the jubilee, thereby releasing them from the debt of all their sins. This word will thus come in the first week of the jubilee period that follows nine jubilee periods. Then the “Day of Atonement” shall follow at the end of the tenth jubilee period, when He shall atone for all the SONS OF LIGHT and the people who are PREDESTINED TO MELCHIZEDEK…”
Time of Righteousness 4Q215a verses 6-7 (The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls) page 410
“Every…shall bless Him and every man shall prostrate himself before Him. And they shall have one heart. For He knows their recompense BEFORE THEY WERE CREATED AND HAD ASSIGNED THE SERVICE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AS THEIR BOUNDARIES…in their generations.”
The Ages of the Creation 4Q180 verses 6-7 (The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls) page 553
“Interpretation concerning the ages made by ELOHIM, all the ages for the accomplishment of all the events, past, and future. BEFORE EVER HE CREATED THEM, He determined the works of…age by age. And it was ENGRAVED ON HEAVENLY TABLETS…the ages of their domination.”
These heavenly tablets are the same ones we see in Jubilees that were shown to Jacob and recorded on them was his entire life in advance.
Jubilees 32:21-24
“In a night vision he saw an angel coming down from heaven with SEVEN TABLETS in his hands. He gave them to Jacob, and he read them. He learned everything that was written in them--- WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO HIM AND HIS SONS THOUGHOUT ALL AGES. After he had shown him everything that was WRITTEN ON THE TABLETS, he said to him, “Do no build up this place, and do not make it an eternal temple. Do not live here because this is not the place. Go to the house of your father Abraham and live where your father Isaac is until the day of your father’s death. For you will die peacefully in Egypt and be buried honorably in this land in the grave of your fathers—with Abraham and Isaac. Do not be afraid because EVERYTHING WILL HAPPEN JUST AS YOU HAVE SEEN AND READ.”
We already see that the Zadok Priests of the Qumran community and other writings in the Dead Sea Scrolls knew about predestination, which again matches the teachings of YESHUA! And the rest of the Nazarenes understood this as well and these witnesses will follow next!
Romans 8:28-30 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Furthermore, we know that ELOHIM causes everything to work together for the good of those who love ELOHIM and are called in accordance with His purpose; because those WHOM HE KNEW IN ADVANCE, HE ALSO DETERMINED IN ADVANCE WOULD BE CONFORMED TO THE PATTERN OF HIS SON, so that He might be the firstborn among many brothers; and those WHOM HE THUS DETERMINED IN ADVANCE, he also called; and those whom He called, He also CAUSED TO BE RIGHTEOUS; and those whom He caused to be considered righteous He also esteemed.”
Romans 8:30 (Lamsa Aramaic Peshitta)
“He knew them in advance and He MARKED THEM with the likeness of the image of His Son that He might be the first-born among many brethren. Moreover, those WHOM HE MARKED IN ADVANCE, He has called, and those whom He has called, He has DECLARED RIGHTEOUS, and those whom He has DECLARED RIGHTEOUS, He has esteemed.”
YAHWEH knew in advance and “MARKED” those who belong to Him! An example of marking the obedient is:
Exodus 31:13 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“YAHWEH said to Moshe, Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘You are to observe My Shabbats; for this is A SIGN between Me and you through all your generations; so that you will know that I am YAHWEH, who sets you apart for Me.”
The etymology for the word “Sign” is H226 for “Oth” and defined by Brown-Driver-Briggs as 1)(sign, signal 1a) DISTINGUISHING MARK 1b)banner 1c( remembrance 1d)miraculous sign 1e)omen
As explained, YAHWEH already knew from the beginning who would choose His Son and obey His commandments which includes the Shabbat Day (Saturday) and He marked them as His!
Paul said in Romans 8 that those who ELOHIM knew in advance He caused to be righteous, matches what we read earlier from the Dead Sea Scrolls in Songs of Shabbat Sacrifice and Times of Righteousness!
Songs of Shabbat Sacrifice Fragment 2 verse 27 (The Dead Sea Scrolls a New Translation by Wise, Abegg, and Cook) page 469
“They will also bless those PREDESTINED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS and all those blessed of…”
Time of Righteousness 4Q215a verses 6-7 (The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls) page 410
“Every…shall bless Him and every man shall prostate himself before Him. And they shall have one heart. For He knows their recompense BEFORE THEY WERE CREATED AND HAD ASSIGNED THE SERVICE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AS THEIR BOUNDARIES…in their generations.”
Ephesians 1:4 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“In the Messiah HE CHOSE US IN LOVE BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE to be set-apart and without defect in His presence. He DETERMINED IN ADVANCE that through YESHUA the Messiah we would be His sons – in keeping with His pleasure and purpose – so that we would bring Him praise commensurate with the esteem of the mercy He gave us through the Beloved One.”
Colossians 1:12 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Giving thanks to the Father for HAVING MADE YOU FIT TO SHARE IN THE INHERITANCE OF HIS PEOPLE IN THE LIGHT.”
2 Timothy 2:19( Lamsa Aramaic Peshitta)
“Nevertheless the foundation of ELOHIM stands firm, having this seal: YAHWEH KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE HIS, and He will save from iniquity every one who calls upon the Name of YAHWEH.”
1 Peter 1:1-2 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“From: Kefa (Peter), an emissary of YESHUA the Messiah To: ELOHIM’s CHOSEN PEOPLE, living as aliens in the Diaspora --- in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, the province of Asia, and Bythinia --- CHOSEN ACCORDING TO THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF ELOHIM THE FATHER AND SET APART BY THE SPIRIT FOR OBEYING YESHUA THE MESSIAH AND FOR SPRINKLING WITH HIS BLOOD.”
Peter said to OBEY YESHUA and the sprinkling of His blood, which again matches what YESHUA said:
John 10:27 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“MY SHEEP OBEY MY VOICE; AND I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW AFTER ME.”
1 Peter 5:10 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“You will have to suffer only a little while; after that, ELOHIM, who is full of mercy, the one Who CALLED YOU TO HIS ETERNAL ESTEEM in union with the Messiah, will Himself restore, establish and strengthen you and make you firm.”
Peter and Paul who were Nazarenes both knew about predestination; and Clement also knew where they were both going.
The 1st Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians 5:26-31
“Let us set before our eyes the illustrious apostles. PETER, through unrighteous envy, endured not one or two, but numerous labors and when he had at length suffered martyrdom, DEPARTED TO THE PLACE OF ESTEEM DUE TO HIM. Owing to envy, PAUL also obtained the reward of patient endurance, after being seven times thrown into captivity, compelled to flee, and stoned. After preaching both in the east and west, he gained the illustrious reputation due to his faith, having taught righteousness to the whole world, and come to the extreme limit of the west, and suffered martyrdom under the prefects. Thus was he removed from the world, and WENT INTO THE SET-APART PLACE, have proved himself a striking example of patience.”
Clement knew that they both departed from this world and are currently in the righteous place in sheol awaiting their eternal reward.
Jeremiah 1:4 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Here is the word of YAHWEH that came to me: “BEFORE I FORMED YOU IN THE WOMB, I KNEW YOU; BEFORE YOU WERE BORN, I SEPARATED YOU FOR MYSELF. I HAVE APPOINTED YOU TO BE A PROPHET TO THE NATIONS.”
YAHWEH knew that Jeremiah would serve Him from the womb and even though Jeremiah said he would not speak in His Name anymore, he could not help himself.
Jeremiah 20:8-9 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Whenever I speak, I have to cry out; I shout, “Violence!” and “Destruction!” Thus the word of YAHWEH becomes for me the cause of reproach and derision all day! But if I say, “I won’t think about Him, I won’t speak in His Name anymore,” then it seems as though a fire is burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I wear myself out trying to hold it in, but I JUST CAN’T DO IT.”
Just as YAHWEH already knew Jeremiah would serve Him from the womb and thus appointed him to be a prophet is the same way He knew what the wicked would choose from the womb!
Thanksgiving Hymns, Hymn 7 (The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls) page 256
“Thou alone did create the just and ESTABLISH HIM FROM THE WOMB FOR THE TIME OF GOODWILL, that he might hearken to Thy Covenant an walk in all Thy ways, and that Thou mightiest show Thyself great to him in the multitude of Thy mercies, and enlarge his straitened soul to ETERNAL SALVATION, to perpetual and unfailing peace. Thou wilt raise up his esteem from among flesh. But the WICKED YOU DID CREATE FOR THE TIME OF THY WRATH, THOU DID VOW THEM FROM THE WOMB to the Day of Massacre, for THEY WALK IN THE WAY WHICH IS NOT GOOD. THEY HAVE DESPISED THY COVENANT AND THEIR SOULS HAVE LOATHED THY TRUTH; they have taken no delight in all Thy commandments AND HAVE CHOSEN THAT WHICH THOU HATEST.”
Again, we see that those who do not delight in the commandments of YAHWEH and loathe His law, the seekers of smooth things, are categorized as wicked!
2 Esdras/4th Ezra 7:70 (Syriac translation)
“And he answered and said to me: And when the Most High made the world, and Adam and all that came from him, He first PREPARED the judgement, and the things which pertain to the judgement.”
There is a footnote for the word judgement that says “Note the PREDESTINARIAN idea, and cf iii.6.”
Matthew 25:34 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“Then the King will say to those who are on the right, ‘Come in, blessed ones of My Father, an possess the kingdom that was PREPARED FOR YOU FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD UNTIL NOW.”
It is up to you to choose, but will you choose rightly? Will you be a Nazarene? Or will you be a Pharisee walking in rabbinical Judaism? Will you delight in YAHWEH’s Torah to obey all His commandments? Or will you be a seeker of smooth things? Will you believe YESHUA is EL the Son, The Creator, Who died for His creation? Or will you deny it? Will you obey the Torah? Or will you say “It’s done away with?” Whichever you decide, ELOHIM already knew what decision you would make and therefore be predestined to Him or predestined to Satan! Choose wisely!
Deuteronomy 30:19 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“I call on heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have presented you with LIFE AND DEATH, the blessing and the curse. Therefore, CHOOSE LIFE, SO THAT YOU WILL LIVE, you and your descendants, loving YAHWEH your ELOHIM.”
2 Esdras 7:129-131 (Syriac translation)
“Because this is the way of which Moses, while he was alive, spoke to the people, and said to them: Behold, I have set before you to-day, life and death, good and evil; choose you, then, life that you may live you and your seed. And they RESISTED and believed HIM NOT, Nor the prophets after him, and even Me who have spoken with them. Therefore shall there be no grief over their perdition, as there is joy over the life of those who have believed (footnote says OR OBEYED).
John 6:40 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“For this is the will of the Father who sent Me --- that every man who CHOOSES THE SON AND BELIEVES, WILL HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE; and I will raise him up alive in the last day.”
As always may YAHWEH bless you in YESHUA’s Name!