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Remember that in Matthew 15:24 Yahshua stated in the clearest possible
terms that he was sent for no one except the lost sheep of the house
of Israel. Notice He did not state that He came for Gentiles or Jews.
He did not come only for Jews because Jews are Judahites physically
descended from the two southern tribes that made up the Kingdom of
Judah. He also has no interest in Gentiles. Why? Because those who
respond to Yahshua's love, and come back to the restored Tabernacle of
David, may look like Gentiles, act like Gentiles, behave like
Gentiles, eat pork and break the Shabbat like Gentiles, but are in
fact nothing more than the lost physical sheep of the house of Israel
who became the Gentiles and have been living like Gentiles for 2700
years. Obviously when they come back they are not going to look like
Israelites who practice and are faithful to Torah. Either you are
going to believe Yahshua and scores of other prophets or you are going
to make up your own theology. He said I have come only for all the
lost sheep of the House of Israel. This includes the Jews but also
includes the other house of Israel, who are my brothers in the flesh.
Of course Paul, Peter and others were sharing the gospel with Gentiles
because where else are you going to find the seed of Ephraim, except
among the Gentiles filling the globe. Amos 9:9 tells us that though
scattered among the Gentiles, not one grain or person will fall to be
destroyed. In other words they will not disappear from the earth, but
will mix and literally become the peoples of the earth, only to be
brought back to Yahweh in the end times, on an individual basis. The
Great Commission (Matt: 28 18-20) therefore is nothing more than a
world wide search for the seed of Ephraim the sand of the sea, dust of
the earth, the teeming multitudes of humanity. Part of that search of
course will be to look for the dispersed of Judah as well. Yaakov
(James) testifies to this truth by reminding the Jerusalem Council
that Yahweh was just visiting the Gentiles nations through the
preaching of the gospel, not to live there, but to rescue and pull out
His people called by His Name ( Acts 15:14-17). Through this rescue
James reminds us that Yahweh is rebuilding The Tabernacle Of David
made up of all the twelve tribes of Israel. Since He is Israel's
Elohim, He is pulling out and rescuing Israelites from the "outcast
status" that had been their inheritance due to their disobedience to
Torah. These people are Israelites regardless of whether they
themselves realize it or not! Is not that what it means to be lost?
Lost spiritually as well as physically!
Is it not fascinating that after three and a half years of Yahshua's
earthly ministry as He is about to ascend back to heaven from the Mt.
of Olives, all remaining eleven talmidim come to Him and ask Him the
same exact question. This is almost unimaginable since these eleven
rarely agreed on anything and were always fighting and asking
questions, seeking to bolster their own agenda. Yet in total unanimity
they all had the same final question. Master, will you at this time
restore the kingdom to Israel? (Acts1:6) That is what they were
concerned with. Not the creation or building of a separate entity
called "the church" which has sought to replace, annihilate and often
destroy the Judahite people. Let it be clearly understood that the
word "church" is nothing more than the ekklesia or assembly of the
Tanach. It is the same assembly that was receiving Torah on Mt. Sinai
(Acts7:37-38). There is one New Covenant assembly, called Israel by
Rav Shaul (Galatians 6:16). There is no such thing as a separate
entity called "the church", with a separate Shabbat and a separate
holy day schedule. In Spanish and Portuguese and almost every language
ekklesia meaning those "called out ones" maintains the basic idea of
an assembly. Only in English do we have this "church" (derived from a
pagan circular blood ritual called "kirch") word that appears to be
teaching that Yahshua build something new called "the church", when
all He was doing was rebuilding the mikra or assembly of the Tanach
and filling it with power. When the Septuagint translation of the
Tanach was translated from Hebrew to Greek around 175 B.C.E., every
translator translated the word mikra into ekklesia and that is exactly
what Yahshua Himself claims to have come to build (Matthew 16:16-19)!
The oldest New Covenant manuscripts in our possession today and
written in Aramaic (a dialect of Hebrew), confirm the absence of the
word "church" again using in its place the word "assembly." Because of
Ephraim's jealousy and hatred of his brother Judah, along with an
ongoing addictive attraction to anything pagan or foreign to Torah
(like father like son), he decided to become a separate man-made
entity known as "the church" totally divorced from Jacob's family and
it's rich Hebraic roots, which explains why today the "church" as it
mostly stands is absolutely unrecognizable to both Jews and often to
Yahweh Himself! This self-desired divorce from Israel has left "the
church" without any tools with which to provoke Judah to jealousy. She
is a man-made self willed religious divorcee from the covenant people
of Israel!
The gospel is not merely a proclamation of personal salvation. It is a
message of national restoration to Israel from a divided family which
manifested itself in two still separate houses of Israel. Matthew
24:14 reminds us that the gospel is the gospel of the Kingdom. In
Matthew chapter 12 Yahshua speaks of the principal of a divided house
without any ability to withstand the fiery darts of Satan! What
kingdom? The kingdom of Israel. In Luke 24:21 the talmidim were very
disappointed since they fully and rightfully expected the twelve
tribes to be resorted under Yahshua the Moshiach. Where would they get
that idea from? Jeremiah 23 verses 3-6 Yahweh declares that He will
bring Israel and Judah back from global dispersion in the days that
Messiah arrives. In verse 5 and 6 it states that Judah shall be saved
and Israel shall dwell safely. We see the reunification of both houses
under the Messiah or the reunification of all twelve tribes all living
in the land of Israel. Remember that in order for the House of David
to be fully restored and rebuilt it has to be composed of the same
composition that left Egypt, received Torah and made up the glory days
of King David. All twelve tribes! Any revival or restoration movement
that does not include the full restoration of all twelve parts of the
family and merely focuses in on two parts of the twelve parts, is not
flowing in a full vision of restoration. Messianic Judaism in order to
continue to experience the full last days blessings of Yahweh, must
expand it's vision to include all of Israel. The vision does not have
to be changed at all and should be of no threat to Messianic Judaism's
leadership, once it determines the truth of Israel's two houses and
demands that Ephraim renounce all paganism and embrace the fabric of
Israelite living and holiness which is Torah. The future of the last
days revival of Israel and the very fabric and survival of the modern
Messianic Jewish movement depends on a leadership ready to re-evaluate
the preservation of Ephraim for 2,700 years amongst and as Gentiles.
That is the final "Tikun HaOlam" (restoration between Judah &
Ephraim), spoken of in Ezekiel 37:11-28! It is wrong for bible
students & Messianic leaders to teach and believe that Judah, Ephraim,
and Israel are all the same and are really analogous or synonymous
interchangeable terms, whose usage varies, depending upon what mood
Yahweh is in. That is historically inaccurate as well as theologically
deceptive and if Yahweh is able to differentiate between the two still
divided houses after 720 BCE, why can't we?
Go back now and read your Bible, understanding that when Yahweh refers
to the ten tribes it is always Ephraim or Israel and when He refers to
the two southern tribes it is always as Judah. Try it! Your eyes will
be open to the true, everlasting and final Tikun HaOlam. If you refuse
to read your Bible without that foundational premise, then you are
bound to find an Elohim who is repetitive, confused and throws terms
around referring to two nations when there is really one. Of course
based on this faulty reasoning Yahweh is not too swift at identifying
and locating the outcasts of Israel (Ephraim) either! Do you really
believe that? Of course not! You and I may not know where to look for
the ten tribes but rest assured Yahshua does, and that is exactly what
He has been doing for two thousand years right under our collective
nose, since that was His assignment according to Isaiah 49:5-6. During
that same time period we were all busy fussing and fighting as two
brothers engaged in sibling rivalry!
What it all boils down to is, whose report will you believe? An Israel
made up of two tribes or one made up of twelve which Yahweh Himself
vowed to fill the earth with. Since He is faithful you can rest
assured that almost everyone on this planet has a drop if Israelite
blood since Yahweh' blessing of physical multiplicity would fill the
globe through Ephraim's banishment and subsequent intermarriage and
assimilation. If the earth is full of Israelite blood how much room is
there left for any other types of peoples without some Israelite
blood? If this promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob has been literally
fulfilled only through the Jewish people alone, who continue to number
only 16 million and can easily and readily be counted, censused and
numbered, then the promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is an outright
lie! Yahweh lied! Sixteen million Jews does not constitute a multitude
that cannot be numbered! Sixteen million or so Jews could all fit
nicely into the land mass of the state of Florida. The promise of
physical multiplicity was not fulfilled in Judah alone! That is a
numerical and practical impossibility! The question before you is not
can everyone on earth really have at least a drop of Israelite blood?
The question before you is did Yahweh lie and speak in half truths?
Are we to take him at his literal word? This teaching of the two
houses submits the truth that Ephraim plus Judah with a few true
Gentiles (?), equals billions of human beings and from those billions
(5 or 6 billion), a remnant Israel is being saved from all twelve
tribes and are being reconciled to Yahweh through the precious blood
of the one who declared "I came only for the lost sheep of the house
of Israel"! Whose report will you believe? Those promoting separate
entities and thus two Israels, one physical and the other spiritually
adopted, or Yahweh who has only one physical Israel, that is spirit
filled and led, taken from all twelve tribes, with no one being
adopted into physical Israel, but requiring everyone Jew and non-Jew
to be adopted into Yahweh's family! The choice is yours! Is it
possible that the real reason behind the reason of saved Judah's
carefree, careless attitude towards trying to discover where in the
world the rest of his lost physical family really is, is nothing more
than a colossal case of a self centered mindset! In Judah's defense it
is perhaps possible that Judah is too busy trying to survive the
diaspora then to be concerned about finding his brother's whereabouts.
Regardless of the real reason, Yahweh only deals with these two chosen
families in the earth (Jeremiah 33:24).
Is it not interesting that the promised New Covenant of Jeremiah
31:31-34 talks about Yahweh cutting a covenant with the House Of
Israel and the House of Judah never once mentioning cutting one with
Gentiles or Christians. The House of Israel mentioned in Jeremiah is
Ephraim those born-again non-Jews. Remember that all Jews are
Israelites but not all Israelites are Jews. In the heavenly Jerusalem
of Revelation 21:12 notice that all those born again folks planning on
having everlasting life must enter the city through one of 12 gates,
one for each of the twelve tribes. Isn't it funny and strange how
Yahweh forgot to make a gate for Christians or "saved Gentiles". The
reason is that everyone in New Covenant Israel from both sides of the
physical family is a blood descendent of Israel with some few
exceptions. Even those exceptions become Israelites according to
Torah! I'll discuss more on that in the next issue.
In Jeremiah 31:3-22 we read detailed descriptions of Ephraim (ten
tribes) returning to the land. Any aliyah or any program of returning
Jews to Israel to live must and will include all Israel including
Ephraim. In the verse mentioned above we see the ten tribes being
replanted on the mountains of Israel. Do you have a problem with that?
Yahweh doesn't! You see our vision is too small. Our vision must be
the vision of Yahshua and the 12 disciples and must include a revival
among all Israel, not just 2/12th's of Israel!! It was Yahshua Himself
who promised the twelve talmidim a millennial rule over twelve
verifiable and recognizable tribes of re-gathered millennial Israel
(Matthew 19:28). Zechariah in chapter 8:22-23, specifically refers to
ten men representing the ten returning tribes grabbing the tzitzit
(fringes) of a Jew who has come to know Yahshua personally and
declaring that they will also return to Zion and Torah. Notice that
these ten returning men speak all of the world's known languages. In
this passage we see the ongoing return of all Israel, to Israel!
In Yaakov (James) 1:1 Yaakov writes his epistle to the 12 tribes
scattered abroad. Obviously James knew that the body of Yahshua that
he was writing to was nothing more than the re-gathered 12 tribes of
Israel that had been redeemed through Yahshua and he addressed them as
such! If the ten tribes remained lost and nowhere to be found why
would James write to them and call them brethren of faith in verse 2
of James chapter One? Obviously he had no problem with the body of
Yahshua being New Covenant Israel made up of all twelve tribes and
perhaps some very few exceptions. Have you ever written a post card to
people that had disappeared from the earth or didn't exist? Obviously
they had to exist in order to be written to and to be addressed.
Was it just Yahshua & James that had this revelation? In I Peter 1:1,
Keefa writes to the chosen people living in the Diaspora. The Jewish
Diaspora did not happen until 20 years after this epistle was penned
in about 50 AD. Yet he refers to these other ten tribes' descendants
who have come to faith as "the chosen people". Could it be that
Ephraim is just as chosen as Judah? Does that burst your bubble? Poor
thing! You thought that only two tribes (Jews) were chosen. The
scriptures never once calls the Jewish people chosen. Rather it calls
all Israel, of which the Jews are but two parts, the chosen people!
Jeremiah 33:24 confirms this truth. Yahweh states that he has chosen
two houses or two clans or two nations! Got that! That is the House Of
Israel and the House Of Judah and Peter wrote to the re-gathered House
of Israel when addressing his epistle! You want some more New Covenant
proof texts that these folks calling themselves Christians are nothing
more than the physical descendants of the ten lost tribes? No problem.
In First Keefa (Peter) chapter 2 verses 8-10 we see Peter quoting
Hosea chapter One. The people who are a royal priesthood a chosen
generation and a holy nation are identified by Keefa as nothing more
than the former lo-ami and lo-ruhammah of Hosea chapter One! In verse
11 of First Keefa chapter 2, Peter says: You who are now New Covenant
Priests and New Covenant Israel once were not a people (lo-ami) and
had not obtained compassion and mercy (lo-ruhammah).But now through
Yahshua you are restored to a people called ami and receiving
ruhammah. This is a clear and direct reference attributing and
labeling the body of Yahshua as containing much of the old northern
kingdom of Ephraim returning because of Yahweh's favor through the
blood of Messiah.
Did Rav Shaul (Paul) also understand the re-gathering of the twelve
tribes of Israel through Yahweh's Son? Was he able to identify
"Christians" in Rome as nothing more than the former House of Ephraim?
You bet he did. In Romans chapter 9 verse 24 Rav Shaul states that
Yahweh calls Jews and Gentiles to make up His body as heirs of eternal
life. Then in verse 25 of Romans 9 he quotes Hosea chapter One and
identifies the born again redeemed Gentiles of his day as the Old
Covenant House of Israel (Ephraim). He quotes the lo-ami passage of
Hosea One and attributes this to "saved Gentiles". Verses 25 & 26
boldly declares this. Finally in verse 27 he puts the icing on the
cake and declares that these "saved Gentiles" not only are the former
house of Israel that became the "fullness of the Gentiles", but he
even quotes Isaiah stating that out of the entire "sand of the sea"
promise to Ephraim regarding physical multiplicity only a remnant of
Israelites from all twelve tribes will be saved. Wow! Notice the
transition and progression as the saved Gentiles of verse 24 in Romans
9 wind up being identified by Paul as the former house of Israel (ten
tribes) spoken of by Isaiah, in the next two verses.
In Ephesians 2:11 Rav Shaul declares that those who got saved as
Gentiles are no longer Gentiles! They have a new identity, and that
identity is according to verse 12 a citizenship in the commonwealth of
Israel. They are Israelites! You cannot be a citizen of a spiritual
entity known as "the church" or any other spiritual entity. In order
to be a physical citizen of the commonwealth of Massachusetts you have
to be a physical being. In order for former Gentiles who by virtue of
their acceptance of Messiah have become physical citizens of the house
and commonwealth of Israel they must be and in fact are physical
Israelites from a different side of the family then Messianic Jews.
Verse 19 nails this down for us as Rav Shaul declares that these folks
are no longer strangers to the house of Israel but fellow citizens.
Citizenship always has been and always will be something on the
physical plain. In Galatians 3:29 Rav Shaul refers to born again non
Jews as the seed or sperma of Abraham. Now let me ask you an honest
question! Does the Greek word for seed (sperma), from where we get the
English word sperm, sound like something spiritual or something very
physical? Therefore if you belong to Messiah through the new birth,
regardless of who you think you are, you are Abraham's sperm! That's
why verse 28 says there are no Jews, Greeks men or women there is only
Abraham's physical seed that has been redeemed and should be known as
new covenant Israel!
Further proof is found in Galatians 4:18 where Rav Shaul refers to non
Jewish believers as being exactly like Isaac -- the heir of the
physical promise of multiplicity. Was Isaac a physical being or just a
spiritual being? He was a spirit-filled-and-led physical being!
According to Rav Shaul, that is exactly who the non-Jewish believers
are in the New Covenant! In First Corinthians 12:1 Rav Shaul reminds
saved Ephraimites that they were once Gentiles, but not any longer. He
reminds these non-Jewish Israelites that their fathers (Hebrews) who
were led out of Egypt went through the Red Sea and eventually met the
Rock (Messiah) just as they had (First Corinthians 10:1-4). In First
Corinthians 5:7-8 we see these Ephraimite Israelites keeping Pesach!
Only the people of Israel celebrate the Feasts Of Israel!
There are man-made teachings and teachers that place the word
"spiritual" in front of the word "fathers" in First Corinthians 10:1
as well as Galatians 3:29 where they add the word "spiritual" before
the word "seed", to make it seem as if Christians are only some kind
of spiritual seed, or worse yet something called "spiritual Jews." May
I remind these teachers that adding to the Word of Yahweh is a capital
offence punishable by death (Proverbs 30:5, Deut. 4:2, Deut.12:32, Rev
22:18). Apparently there are some who either do not understand this
truth or who do understand it, but desire to continue to suppress it
so that they can keep "saved Ephraimites" in perpetual second class
adopted chains worshiping at the throne of Judaism instead of His Son.
If non-Jewish believers were totally honest with themselves, most of
them carry a deep desire and therefore inner jealousy to be Jewish.
That jealousy either causes them to want to convert to any kind of
Judaism, even those forms that force a recanting of faith in Yahshua's
finished work, or historically the jealousy has and can still turn
into raging hatred against the Jew they can never become. Those days
are over! This is the day divinely decreed for the restoration of all
things (Acts 3:20-21). When Ephraim begins to believe that they are
part of physical Israel they will act like Israelites and return to
Shabbat, kashrut, moedim, Zionism and aliyah, and will cease to be
jealous of the Jews (Isaiah 11:13-14). According to these same verses
the day is coming when Jews will recognize Ephraim as their physical
brothers in much the same way that all Jacob's sons came to recognize
Joseph in Egypt. They thought he was a Gentile and all the while
Joseph was an Israelite. Whether Judah recognizes born-again non-Jews
as Ephraim does not change the fact that they, like Joseph, are
unrecognizable to their brothers. Yet still like Joseph, Ephraim is
Joseph's son and Jacob's grandson and is in fact an Israelite
experiencing the same lack of recognition that his father Joseph
experienced in Egypt. Joseph knew them but they knew not Joseph. Today
large segments of Ephraim recognizes chosen, born-again Judah, yet
Judah cannot and often will not recognize born-again Ephraim! Yahweh
declares that this vexation of Ephraim by Judah will come to an end
through Messiah (Isaiah 11:13-14), when He gathers the outcasts of
Israel and the dispersed of Judah from all the earth. Notice how Judah
was never outcast like Ephraim, only dispersed.
In Yochanan 10:16 Yahshua said "other sheep I have which are not of
this fold. I have to bring them in as well. And they shall hear my
voice and there shall be one flock and one shepherd". Notice that
Yahshua had another Israelite flock that were still His fold even
before He died and rose again. He did not say that he will create a
new and separate fold called "the church" made up of pagans with
separate practices replacing Torah sometime after His resurrection. He
said that He already had two folds -- that He was sent to bring them
in, and they will become one flock or one united house.
John (Yochanan) knew the same truth by virtue of his writings in
Yochanan (11:49-52). John stated that when Ciaphas prophesied that it
was good that Yahshua was dying for Judah, John added that Ciaphas was
prophesying that Yahshua would not only die for that nation (Judah),
but also the former house of Israel that were scattered abroad 721
years prior to Yahshua's birth! We know this is a reference to the
House of Israel (ten tribes) since he calls them a nation (physical
people), as well as children of Elohim! They were called children of
Israel because Elohim is the Elohim of Israel and they were Israel or
children of Elohim even before Yahshua went to the tree of Korban!
Notice that the Father's' revealed plan in verse 52 of chapter 11 of
John is to gather both nations or houses into one. Even at the time of
Yahshua, people's eyes and hearts were being opened to the truth about
the family feud perpetuated by Jacob widened by Jeroboam and Rehoboam
and in the last two millennia inflamed by the Church vs. Jewish battle
royal over the title of who is Israel! The question is fully answered
when one realizes that there is only one people of Israel with one
Elohim of Israel and one Messiah of Israel and one Torah of Israel and
that both houses need to follow the same blueprint for the restoration
of all Israel on a level playing field of common ground. Only with the
full understanding of the divided two houses of Israel, will the
hatred, bitterness, pride and arrogance of Christendom and Judaism
towards each other come to a quick and deserving death. Any other
solution to the Church vs. Jewish debate will result in more
misunderstanding between brethren and the perpetuation of the family
feud started by Jacob splitting the birthright between Ephraim and
Judah though both were physical and spiritual Israel.
It is comforting to note that according to Isaiah 49 verses 1-6 the
Messiah is promised to all Israel and is even referred to as Israel,
since Israel's restoration is the personification and primary purpose
of His mission. Hosea 11:1 also calls The Messiah, Israel! In Isaiah
49 verse six, we see the Father asking Him if He is prepared to raise
up the twelve tribes of Israel by bringing back into the fold those
who, though scattered and lost as a nation, would be individually
preserved in and amongst the Gentiles in the four corners of the earth
for the Messiah's ministry. He did come. He did go looking for
preserved individuals physically descended from Ephraim and Judah and
has in fact restored these preserved ones. Though these preserved ones
may not know who they are, though they may look, act, smell, behave
and conduct themselves with all of their father Jeroboam's filthy
ways, our Messiah knew where to locate them. He has located them and
He has brought them back to the fold on an individual basis not a
national basis, as of yet. Interestingly enough the Hebrew word for
preserved ones in Isaiah 49:6 is Notzrim or Nazarenes, which is the
modern Hebrew word for Christians. It is these preserved born again
Ephraimites that would be re-gathered in to the rebuilt Tabernacle of
David and would return to the fold of Israel as Nazarenes. Let us
recall that the entire early Messianic communities were known as The
Nazarenes (Acts 24:5), the preserved ones of returning repentant
Israel!
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