📜 The Gospel of the Ebionites — The Hebrew Way Preserved

📜 The Ebionites — The Followers Rome Tried to Erase

🔹 Who Were the Ebionites?

The Ebionites were the original followers of Yeshua — Torah-keeping, Hebrew-speaking, and fully loyal to Yhwh alone.
The name comes from Hebrew אֶבְיוֹנִים (’evyonim) — meaning “the poor ones” (humble, faithful).

• They formed after 70 AD, fleeing to Pella before Jerusalem was destroyed (Eusebius 3.5.3).
• They obeyed the Torah, rejected Paul, rejected Roman power, and preserved the truth of The Way.

🔹 Origins

• Formed after the destruction of the Temple (70 AD)
• Followers of Yeshua the Nazarene who:
• Kept the Torah
• Rejected Roman theology
• Obeyed Yhwh alone

📖 Eusebius (Church History 3.5.3) confirms:
They fled Jerusalem to Pella before the Roman siege — obeying Yeshua’s warning.

🔹 What Did They Believe?

• ✅ Yhwh is the only true God — no Trinity, no dualism
• ✅ Yeshua was a man — not divine, not born of a virgin
• ✅ He was chosen and anointed by Yhwh, not pre-existent
• ✅ No blood sacrifice — Yhwh desires mercy, not death
• ✅ Salvation = repentance + obedience, not rituals
• ✅ Paul is false — they rejected his letters entirely
• ✅ Torah is still active — Sabbath, feasts, clean living

They lived according to Genesis 1:29 — eating plant-based foods and refusing meat, sacrifice, and temple blood.

🔹 Their Gospel: Not the Church’s Matthew

They used a Hebrew Gospel of Matthew — sometimes called the Gospel of the Ebionites or Gospel of the Hebrews.

• ✍️ Written in Hebrew or Aramaic — not Greek
• ❌ No virgin birth
• ❌ No baptism to receive the Spirit
• ❌ No “Son of God”
• ❌ No blood atonement
• ✅ Yeshua taught Torah and came to end sacrifices, not become one

📖 Quoted by Epiphanius (Panarion 30.16.5):

That line is not found in the Greek Gospel — it was removed.

🔹 Vegetarian Lifestyle — No Blood

• The Ebionites refused to eat meat or blood
• They said John (if he existed) ate “cakes in oil” — not locusts
• They followed Genesis 1:29 and rejected animal sacrifice

📖 Hosea 6:6 — “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.”

📖 Jeremiah 7:22–23 — “I did not command your fathers concerning sacrifices, but to obey My voice.”

They understood this deep truth:
Yhwh never wanted blood — He wanted obedience.

🔹 No Greek Baptism — No Church Initiation

• They did not practice Greek “baptism” (βαπτίζω)
• They understood that Yhwh commands washing, not dipping
• No one can wash you — you wash yourself in obedience

📖 Leviticus 15 — “He shall bathe himself…”

• ❌ No man dips you
• ❌ No salvation by water
• ❌ No initiation into a church

The Greek church used John and baptism to create a new pagan ritual for joining their religion — not from Torah.

🔹 Why They Were Erased

The Roman church hated the Ebionites because they:

• Rejected the Trinity
• Rejected Paul’s letters
• Rejected Jesus as a god
• Rejected blood theology
• Rejected Roman control

So they burned their scrolls, rewrote their gospel, and left only hostile quotes behind — from Epiphanius, Irenaeus, and Jerome.

But even their enemies admit:
These people followed Yeshua… and kept Torah.

✅ Final Truth

The Ebionites were not heretics — they were the remnant.

• The ones who never turned their back on Yhwh’s commandments.
• The ones who saw Yeshua as a man of righteousness, not a Roman god.
• The ones who knew:
  ❗ Obedience is greater than blood.
  ❗ Yhwh alone is our Redeemer.

📜 The Ebionites Knew — No Sacrifice Was Needed

🔥 They Understood the Covenant

The Ebionites preserved what Israel forgot:
Yhwh never needed blood to forgive.

🐄 The Golden Calf — A Rebellion, Not a Pattern

When the people made the golden calf at Sinai, they broke covenant immediately after hearing Yhwh’s voice. It was rebellion — but it was not the beginning of a sacrifice-based religion.

• That judgment was for unrepentant sinners only.
• Those who repented were spared.
• ❌ Their guilt did not pass on to their children.

🩸 Sacrifice Was Never the Goal — Obedience Was

The sacrificial system came after rebellion — not because it pleased Yhwh, but because the people had hardened hearts.

The Ebionites understood:

• ✅ Sacrifice was a temporary system for a rebellious generation
• ✅ Once in the land, obedience was the true offering
• ✅ Sacrifice was never needed when hearts were right

📖 The Prophets Repeated This Truth

• “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” — Hosea 6:6
• “To obey is better than sacrifice.” — 1 Samuel 15:22
• “Cease to do evil, learn to do good.” — Isaiah 1:16–17

The Ebionites followed this — rejecting blood atonement and teaching repentance, justice, and covenant faithfulness.

🏞️ Entering the Promised Land — Time to Obey, Not Sacrifice

Once in the land:

• Yhwh gave His Torah
• He set judges, not priests with knives
• He called for justice and mercy — not altars and death

⛔ 70 AD: Yhwh Removes the Altar

The Ebionites saw the Temple destruction as final proof:

• They did not rebuild the altar.
• They returned to the prophets.
• They trusted Yhwh alone to forgive — through repentance, not blood.

📌 Final Truth

• The golden calf sin did not pass on
• Sacrifice was never the goal
• Yhwh forgives the repentant
• Obedience is what He always wanted

The Ebionites preserved that truth — and that’s the same truth you teach today.