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A "Bible Revelations" Presentation - Created Nov. 2000, updated April.16, 2008
End-Time Joining together of the Two Houses of Israel
This page will bring you the relevant Scriptural details and updated News and Reviews in this amazing Drama of the fulfillment of Prophecy which is taking shape right before our eyes! If the Return of Judah (the Jews) to their ancient Homeland was a Divine Miracle (which is so violently being opposed in the Middle East today), then the fulfillment of this second and final leg of Prophecy, the awakening of what was assumed until now to be "Gentile Israel", will be even more amazing! Once again, in typical Divine style, this Miracle is revealing itself in totally paradoxical style:
Index - Resistance against "Rabbinic Judaism" - Should "re-Identified Israel' convert to Judaism?
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Ezek. 37:15
"The Word of
YHVH was addressed to me* as follows: 'Son of Man, take a stick and write on
it, "Judah and those Israelites loyal to him:. Take another
stick and write on it, "Joseph, the wood of Ephraim and all the House of
Israel loyal to him." Join one to the
other to make a single piece of wood, a single stick in your hand.
And when the members of your nation say, 'Tell us what you mean';
say. 'The Lord YHVH says this: I am taking the stick of Joseph ...
and I am going to put the stick of Judah with them. I shall make one
stick out of the two, and I shall hold them as one ... I am going to take
the sons of Israel from the nations where they have gone. I shall
gather them together from everywhere and bring them home to their own
soil. I shall put My Spirit in them -
... they shall no longer form two nations nor be two separate
kingdoms ... My Servant David will reign over them ... they will follow My
Observances, respect My Laws and practice them. They will live in
the Land that I gave My servant Jacob ... I shall make a Covenant of Peace
with them, an Eternal Covenant ... I shall settle My Sanctuary among them
for ever ... I shall be their God, they shall be My people. And the
nations will learn that I am YHVH the Sanctifier of Israel, when My
Sanctuary is with them for ever." (also Jer.
3:18) Note: ref. also to the foregoing chapters in both
refs. NOTES: * '
Both Houses were exiled
from the Land.
Each stick represents one
section of the divided Israel
God promises to re-unite
the 2 houses but only after the
ingathering - which started for Judah since World War 1. The State
of Israel (consisting of the returned House of Judah & Benjamin)
was declared in 1948 . The 10 Tribes
totally lost their Identity as they probably migrated to new countries
across the globe. To date, they have not yet been identified and has
not returned to the Land of Israel.
The re-identified 10 tribes, will
return to Israel, as Judah did. They will be re-united with Judah
and will also accept and abide by the Laws of God, which had been
protected throughout the centuries by Judah (the Jews), even in
exile.
 
Source credit: http://www.psalmist.biz/Lost%20tribes.htm
After King Solomon (970 - 931 BCE)
the ancient Kingdom of Israel split into 2 opposing sectors:
'Israel' - the Northern sector, 10 Tribes, Main City Schechem; and
'Judah' - southern kingdom, 2 Tribes, Main City Jerusalem. 720 BCE, the apostised 10 Northern
tribes conquered, deported and the land repopulated with
foreigners. Gradually lost their identity over the next 5
centuries. 587 BCE, the southern Kingdom of
Judah deported to Babylon by king Nebuchadnezzar; after 70 year prophesied exile,
Judah (and Benjamin) return and rebuild Jerusalem. 70 CE, Jerusalem destroyed by the
Romans. Jewish survivors exiled as slaves. The next 1900 years (to
1948) saw the gradual engulfing of the exiles across the globe into
every country and nation on earth. Since World War 1, the Jews
gradually trickled back to Israel from across the world. The
international Balfour Declaration (1917) recognized Palestine, as the
ancient Jewish Homeland. 1948 State of Israel
declared. Millions of Jews return over the next few years, many
from the death camps of Hitler and the Holocaust. Israel built up,
within a decade, to one of the strongest armies in the world and a
technologically advanced economy. Jewish population count in
Israel, year 2000 - 6 million. 1980's and 90's - increasing
awareness amongst earnest Christian Bible scholars (mainly from the USA
and Western Europe) discovering their 'Hebraic' roots in an awakening
which could be the dawn of the re-identification of "The Lost
House of Israel". Increasing awakening and acceptance of,
and observance of 'Jewish' Sabbath, Festivals and other customs by
individuals and small study clusters under the common banner of 'Hebraic
Roots Restoration Movement', Sacred Name Movement and Messianic
'Jewish' Movements. Millions of pro-Israel Christians show
solidarity with Judah and call for the rejection by Israel of the Oslo
Peace Accords. Year 2000 - Increasing
identification by individual members of the above movements, with
Judah in its 'time of distress', as world pressure and secular, leftist
Israeli powers barter Holy Land for 'Peace' with the Palestinians.
As the Battle for Jerusalem intensifies and builds up to an Armageddon
scenario, this support for Israel develops into a search by
awakening 'Israel', for definite projects to realize active
emigration of 'non-Jewish' settlers to the Land of Israel.
Additional reference
material
Jerusalem - Final
Countdown to Armageddon
Revealing the Lost Ten
Tribes of Israel
Other
Links A
Rabbinic view on the history of the Jews versus the Return of
10-Israel
AMAZING DEVELOPMENT TAKING PLACE
IN ISRAEL
An amazing development is
currently taking place in Israel.
There are millions of persons
across the world, who believe they are from the ancient non-Jewish House
of Joseph or Ephraim, from the Northern Ten Tribes.
Biblical Prophecy is clear
and emphatic, that not only the Jews (House of Judah) would return to the
Land of their forefathers (as we have seen happening since the Balfour
Declaration in 1917 and the re-establishment of the State of Israel in
1948), but also the exiled Northern Kingdom must return. The latter, who
began assimilating into Gentile cultures shortly after their exile to
Assyria in 722 BCE, will in the 'End Time' be re-identified
and re-united with the House of Judah into one nation, according to these
Prophecies (Ezek. 37:15).
The Tikkun (or repair) of this
3,000-year old unreconciled rift between these two families have been
addressed by several Messianic visionaries who came to Jerusalem since the
year 2000, believing that they personally had the Divine Mandate to enter
into negotiations with the Rabbis of Jerusalem. Unfortunately, these
claiming representatives of Ephraim and Yoseph expected the Rabbis to
consider such Tikkun on their own terms and conditions, mainly to retain
their non-Judah identity, which caused these negotiations to fail
miserably. In compliance with Prophetic Scripture, any such negotiations
should aim at bringing exiled 10-Israel back into line with the Original
True Faith as proclaimed and guarded by Judah throughout the ages,
according to the Divine Mandate of Gen. 49:10: "The Scepter shall not depart from Judah until Shiloh come
..."
NEW STUDY LINKING 20% OF EUROPE TO A SINGLE MID EASTERN ANCESTOR
CNN. COM EUROPEAN WEB PAGE reports - November 10, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Around 80 per cent of European men are descended from a single primitive hunter, according to a new study. Researchers analysing the Y chromosome taken from more than 1,000 men from 25 different locations in Europe found a pattern that suggests four out of five shared a common male ancestor about 40,000 years ago.
Peter Underhill, a senior researcher at the Stanford University Genome Technology Center and co-author of the study, said the research supports conclusions from archaeological, linguistic and other DNA evidence about the settlement of Europe by ancient peoples.
The study, co-authored by Underhill and more than a dozen researchers from Stanford and Europe, appeared on Friday in the journal Science.
Underhill said the researchers used the Y chromosome in the study because its rare changes establish a pattern that can be traced back hundreds of generations, thus helping to plot the movement of ancient humans.
The Y chromosome is inherited only by sons from their fathers. When sperm carrying the Y chromosome fertilises an egg it directs the resulting child to be a male. An X chromosome from the father allows a fertilised egg to be female.
The Y chromosome has about 60 million DNA base pairs. Changes in those base pairs happen infrequently, said Underhill, but they occur often enough to establish patterns that can be used to trace the ancestry of people. He said that researchers looking at the 1,007 chromosome samples from Europe identified 22 specific markers that formed a specific pattern of change. About 80 percent of all European males shared a single pattern, suggesting that they had a common ancestor thousands of generations ago.
About 8,000 years ago, said Underhill, a more advanced people, the Neolithic, migrated to Europe from the Middle East, bringing with them a new Y chromosome pattern and a new way of life: agriculture. About 20 percent of Europeans now have the Y chromosome pattern from this migration.
The researcher said that archaeological digs in European caves clearly show that before 8,000 years ago most humans lived by gathering and hunting. After that, there are traces of grains and other agricultural products.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. © 2000 Cable News Network. All Rights Reserved.
SATELLITE PHOTOS REVEAL CONFIRMATION OF EPHRAIM'S RETURN WRITTEN IN JERUSALEM MOUNTAIN FORMATIONSVendyl Jones, famous for his archaeological discoveries in Israel, published the following amazing satellite photo and confirmation of who the Land of Israel belongs to, on his Web Page http://www.vendyljones.org.il/whose_land_is_israel.htm
"This Land belongs neither to the Jews nor
the Arabs. I have a title deed here that shows to whom it belongs." I took
out a photograph of the above satellite image and pointed out the perfect
Hebrew words "Ki-Luz-HaShem-Efraiyim." The accountant was aghast. "How did you
make that?" he inquired. When I had to explain that these were just
the shadows of the mountains and that the words were written there since
the creation, he was dumbfounded. He took the picture and showed it to
everyone in the garage. These words can stand alone or have a
combination of connotations. The point is that the shadows form Ki,
meaning because or for the sake of. Luz can mean to turn, to coil, to bend
or to twist. Luz is also the name of the top vertebrae of the spine,
sometimes called the "resurrection bone" because it remains even after all
the other bones of a body have decomposed. Luz was the name of the place
where Jacob had his vision of the ladder reaching into heaven [Genesis
28:18-19]. Jacob called the same place Beth-El. The name Luz is formed in
the shadows precisely over the location of present-day Beth-El. Beside and just north of Jerusalem, is that
majestic, holy, ineffable, unutterable Name of HaShem (God), YHVH.
Coincidental is it not? "Rather, only at THE PLACE that HaShem,
your G-d, will choose from among all your tribes TO PLACE HIS NAME shall
you seek out His presence and come there." [Deuteronomy 12:5] This
commandment was given to Moses 449 years before the Shechinah filled the
Holy House of Solomon in Jerusalem. Yet, etched forever in the hills and
valleys just north of Jerusalem is the name of HaShem, YHVH, existing
there since the day of creation. Although the name of HaShem was forever
written there, no one has ever noticed His name inscribed there until our
generation. Living in the space age, HaShem has granted us the privilege
of looking down upon the earth from HIS perspective and seeing the
spectacular marvels of HIS creation. Were this, the holy name of YHVH, the only
inscription seen on the ridges in the land of Israel, one might say that
was sufficient. Dayenu! At that moment each day, in HaShem's time, the
quill of the sun dips silently into the inkwell of shadows between the
hills and inscribes that unspeakable name YHVH on the face of the earth.
"The rocks cry out! The hills clap their hands! They leap like lambs! They
shout together!" Yet, all their sounds are inaudible and imperceptible to
the deaf ears of mankind. The final word seen by the satellite imagery is Efraiyim, or Ephraim. It appears at the lower left, below YHVH. Just as Luz is located exactly over present-day Beth-El, which was originally called Luz, the name of Ephraim begins precisely where the borders between Benjamin and Judah on the south and Ephraim on the North were located. Ephraim is the name designating the ten northern tribes that broke away under Rehoboam. The Holy Name of the G-d of Israel forever rests between the northern and southern kingdoms. They had forsaken Him, but He never forsook them.
Source: Vendyl Jones Web Site http://www.vendyljones.org.il/whose_land_is_israel.htm
BIRTH PANGS, RESISTANCE AND CONTROVERSIES
SHOULD 'RE-IDENTIFIED ISRAEL' CONVERT TO JUDAISM?
This matter of the re-discovery and uniting of the 2 Houses is certainly coming to the fore on many fronts in the world - with disturbing effects of disharmony amongst the 2 Houses and a spirit of escapism by some of those claiming the Benefits of the "Restored One House".
Following are two contentious issues that have become prevalent within the ranks of awakening Israel believers. These differences which cause such great division and disharmony, revolve around:
- whether the re-unification of the 2 Houses of Israel would occur before or after Mashiach comes. Those who believe that the 2 estranged Houses would re-unite only after His Coming, by His own doing, maintain that would-be settlers should not 'endanger their lives' by going to Israel now, with threatening War and great tribulation so imminent. Those on the other side emphasise, that the Land and the Cause vitally need their active participation and support in the face of the world's predominantly opposing attitude.
- whether full conversion to Orthodox Judaism is required for compliance by would-be settlers who want to come to Israel. Those against such conversion, feel that they would forfeit their individual tribal identity by "joining Judah".
The first reasoning above, smacks of the same 'escapism' which underscores the 'Rapture' theory.
Why should Judah always suffer alone? Anti-Semitic 'believers' maintain that "they deserve it". On the other hand, there has of late been an increasing measure of a spirit of physical support for Judah's Biblical Mandate to "settle the Land", from amongst a section of awakening 'Israel'. As they are progressively discovering their 'Hebrew Roots", there is an increasing awareness to share in Judah's tribulations and to identify with Eretz (the Land of) Yisrael and its 'Judah' population in physically support - to be part of them in the approaching "Gog & Magog" final Tribulation. Yes, this means a preparedness to physically die with Judah, if necessary, if that is the price required to establish the Land of Promise!
This, most likely, is the Divinely intended re-uniting Process. Yes, Judah is proud and refuses spiritually motivated assistance from 'strangers'. Many centuries of persecution (even to death) of Jews by Christian forces, have left Judah highly suspicious of any support by strangers. Add to this the culturally destructive affects off centuries of zealous Christian proselytizing, historically even under the threat of death. But, imagine when Judah is forced to face the Wall in the Coming Catastrophe, and then ... in steps 'brother Yoseph and Ephraim' to support them with blood and their physical supporting presence? Imagine a 'Settlers Occupation Move' by re-awakening Israel, to claim and settle the Land - which is the only option left for Judah in the current Battle for Jerusalem, in order to reclaim the Land. They need settlers, settlers and more settlers - and those numbers simply do NOT exist within their own ranks! Not evangelizing, 'testifying settlers' (zealously striving to 'save' Judah's soul), but settlers who have subjected themselves to the otherwise highly unpopular 'Levetical' System, by physically joining Judah.
Zecharaiah 8:22,23 "And many
people and great nations will come to seek YHVH Sabaoth and to entreat the
favour of YHVH ... in those days, ten men of nations of every language
(10 Tribes?) will take a Jew by the sleeve and
say, 'We want to go with you, since we have learnt that God is with
you.'"
Surely if re-settling
the Land is a Divine Prophetic pre-requisite for the Kingdom to be
set-up, then it is illogic that only Judah will have to spill their
blood, sweat and tears to reclaim the Land from the Usurper? Is this
not perhaps why Lost Israel is to be awakened, in order to physically
('spiritually' is an inseparable part anyway) assist Judah?
Must Judah do all? -
and Mashiach do all? - and 'Gentile-Israel' or Messianic Israel simply
collect and gloat of Divine Blessings?
When Prophecy claims
that the 2 Sticks will become ONE - we should ask: "One what?" A
non-Judah stick? A Christian stick? A Torah-by-selection-only
stick? A prejudiced stick? An opposing-of-Judah stick?
In the New Kingdom
era, which of the Mitzvot (Laws) that 'Hebraic Roots Israel' (or
Messianic Israel) today discard as 'an unnecessary burden placed on
believers', will be operating, and which will be discarded by the
King in His Kingdom?
The answer should be
logic, but logic does not count with most - for it is too obvious!
Our foundational
Scripture portion quoted above, confirms this re-unification of
the 2 Houses. It explicitly confirms that 'lost Israel' at the time
of their re-identification, will be brought back into the
Covenant.' (Ezek. 37:15-28, and specifically verse 24,
read with the foregoing ch. 36:17 onwards).
We should ask
ourselves here:
"Which Covenant will apply to the Lost Tribes of Israel? -
if not the same Covenant as that which Judah is still
under?" "Who must change - Israel or Judah? To what? -
Israel's or Judah's position?"
If Judah is still
under the Covenant and has to suffer for the re-establishment of the
Kingdom in Jerusalem, should 'Israel' then be excluded from the Final
Tribulation even after it has been brought back into the
same Covenant? WHAT gives Israel that exclusion
benefit?
And all this points
to the logical conclusion that Israel's physical joining of
Judah should in fact be that re-uniting process of the 2
Houses of Israel
Obviously, such a
process will be greatly opposed by the evil one. Logically also, such
re-uniting will be opposed both from within Judah and from within
'Israel'.
That is
what true believers should free themselves from - the inclination to
resist the "Jewish System", which is nothing short of resistance against
the Torah - the Law of God. This is 'The Gospel of the
Kingdom' which we should be proclaiming - not to Judah, but to the world
out there, who are not under the Covenant or who misinterpret the Terms
and the Purpose of this Covenant. (Refer: http://www.revelations.org.za/Gospel.htm
)
Finally, let us
confirm, straight from the N.T. itself, this
essence of the 'Gospel' which Messiah established, thereby bringing both
10-Israel (as well as the Gentiles) into physical Judah,
Eph 2:11 (Adapted here with Sacred Names restored by editor of
BIBLE REVELATIONS, and editorial comments appearing in black print. Read this portion
attentively first in your own Bible before carefully considering this presentation
here)
"Do not forget, that there
was a time when you who were pagans physically, termed the Uncircumcised
(that is non-Jews, but specifically the rejected House of the Northern
10 Tribes of Israel, exiled amongst the nations where they lost their
Israel identity .... do
not forget that you had no Messiah (before) and were excluded
from membership of Israel (cut off from the
Covenant by God and exiled amongst the pagan nations. So, something had
to be arranged to make you members of Israel again) aliens
with no part in the Covenants with their Promises. You were
immersed in this world without Hope and without
God (no longer part of the Covenant. So, you had to be reconciled,
brought back into the Covenant - like Judah is - with YHVH).
But
now in YAHU'SHUAH
Messiah, you that used to be so far apart from us (the
authors of Eph.2 - i.e. Jews), have been brought very close by the Blood of Messiah
(You
have been bought at a very high Price). For
He is the Peace (Restoration) between
us (Jews and rejected
10-Israel)
and
has made the two (Jews and reconciled 10-Tribers)
into
One (what?) and
broken down the barrier(?) which
used to keep them apart, actually destroying in His own Person the hostility
(rebellion)
caused by the rules and decrees
of the (Jewish. Levitical) Law (This
rebellion by 10-Israel and pagans against the Law was the barrier that kept them apart
from Jews. This scripture is twisted by Grace-only's, to imply
that Messiah did away with the Law itself, rather than that He removed
the rebellion against the Law from the hearts of the receiving
pagans, as confirmed in Jer. 31:31-33 and Ezek 11: 17-21, placing His Spirit
in them, thereby instilling a love for obedience to the Law on their hearts
and minds). This was to create One Single
New Man ("Adam" restored, abiding to 'Jewish' Law)
in
Himself (Who
meticulously kept the Law) out of the two
of them (Judah and 10-Israel)
and
by restoring Peace, through the Cross, to unite them both in a Single
Body (Is this Body
Christian or Jewish? If a 'Christian' Body, then He failed
miserably, because there are few, if any, Torh observant Jews in Christianity, just an unbridgeable void.
If this 'Single Body' refers to the Jewish Body, then it is confirmed by those Messianic believers,
the Hebraic Restoration movement of late, who are discovering their Hebraic Roots
and who go all the way to joining up fully with the Body of Jews into ONE
Body) and reconcile them (both)
with
God. In His own person He killed the hostility (against
the Law - not the Law itself or the Body!) Through Him, both of us (Jew
and reconciled 10-Triber or converted pagan)
have in
the One Spirit our Way to come to the Father. So, you (reconciled
ones)
are no longer aliens or foreigners
(non-Jews);
you are citizens like all the
Tzadikim (righteous Jews) and
part of God's Household
(12-Israel,
as represented by custom and religion in Judaism) (3:5) This Mystery that has now been
revealed ... was unknown to any men in past generations. It means
that pagans (including degenerated and lost
10-Israel, now non-Jews)
now
share (together with Jews and as Jews) the
same inheritance (- the inheritance was not
taken away from Jews - it is now SHARED by pagans also!). They
are part of the SAME BODY (of Judaism /12- Israel)
and
the same Promise (as
had been made unto 12-Israel of old) has been made to
them (the pagans and lost Israelites) in
Messiah, through the Good News! (that He, God in the manifested shape of
man, will sacrifice His Life in order to reconcile them into Covenant
relation with all its Divine Blessings)"
NOTE:
The Covenant Promise of Eternal Life in the Kingdom of YHVH, is based on
the Condition that the candidate for citizenship upholds the Law of YHVH
(which is the embodyment of His Divine Will - the Torah).
Is that not the basic
requirement for emigration by any government in the world? Is it
unreasonable to expect from a citizen that he/she conforms to the Law of
that country?
The Ten Northern
Tribes of Israel lost its Identity for 2700 years for the very reason that
they slid into paganism, having discarded the Torah and its Instructions
for Life. They rebelled against and rejected the Divinely mandated
authority of Judah, who continued to cling to the Torah, being
Divinely appointed to be the Carriers of the Divine Oracles (Genesis
49:10, Romans 3:2; Psalms 60:7; Matthew. 23:2 and
5:17-22).
Let us read the
Scripture to see what these Oracles were:
Acts
7:38b "... it was he (Moses) who was
entrusted with the living Oracles to pass on to us." This refers to the Laws,
Statutes and Precepts that Moses received directly from YHVH on Mt. Sinai
with the Divine Injunction to teach the nation of Israel
accordingly. From Israel's observance of this 'System', the nations
would then know what God's Requirements are.
Paul, to whom
the conveying of the Gospel to the Gentiles (Christians) are credited,
makes an amazing statement regarding the value inherent in the "carrying
of these Oracles".
Rom.
3:1,2 ":What then, is a Jew better
off? Is there any advantage in being circumcised? A great
advantage in every way (for) first, the Jews are the people to whom God's
Oracles were entrusted."
Thus, because they
were entrusted with the Oracles, they have an advantage / it is better to
be a Jew for that reason.
Is it any wonder
then, that man's carnal inclination is opposed to the idea of subjection
to the Law? Is this not the same spirit of rejection that Adam and
Eve reflected right at the start in Paradise? Was that not the very
same inclination that Satan, through the figure of 'the snake' and
being a Rebel against YHVH and His System himself, addressed and
steered them away from?
It is these Living
Oracles which the spirit of rebellion in man, knowing that it is the
foundational requirement underlying the eternal Blessings of the Divine
Covenant, opposes to this day.
Restorers of the
Hebraic Faith who have 'rediscovered' YHVH's Law - the Sabbath, Feasts,
health laws, etc. should therefore seriously question that spirit of
opposition against accepting the 'full package' of Judaism and the Oracles
they carry! Is it not still the same spirit of the Garden of
Eden? Is that not why there is such a resistance against Judaism and
its 'Rabbinic' system? Should this 'Levetical legalism' not rather
be seen and accepted as the 'Key rules to abundant Life, here and
hereafter', than as 'a burden of restriction placed on believers'?
Are not all rules and regulations in the world, at some time or more
often, seen as 'restrictive' on our freedom?
These
Oracles (the Law), form the foundation of the New Covenant for YHVH states
that "I shall make a New Covenant with them - I
shall write My Laws no longer on the Tables of Stone but on their hearts -
I shall put My Spirit in them, so that they will keep My Laws and respect
My Observances and put them into practice - they shall no longer form two nations, I shall make them One
nation - then they shall be My People
and I shall be their God" Jer 31:33; Ezek 11:19 and
36:27.
Is there any reason
left why awakening Israel should not physically and spiritually join
Judah?
In closing,
please click here and read THE SCRIPTURAL
STATEMENT underlying the Miracle of Lost
Israel's re-identification once more. It should make a lot more
sense now.
For a full Scriptural
exposition of the Covenant, Click here:
Refer also:
RESISTANCE AGAINST "RABBINIC
JUDAISM"
There generally is a very great
resistance amongst Messianic Hebraic Roots Restorers and their leaders
against what is labelled "Rabbinic Judaism", "Levitical Judaism",
"oral man-made laws" or "legalism". The traditional Rabbinical Torah
interpretations (Halacha) are often regarded as "an unnecessary burden"
placed on Messianic believers. In this respect, the reasoning of
these teachers are no different from the general Christian interpretation
and resistance against the Law as contained in the Torah, much as they
profess to be "Torah observant" and to distance themselves from this
Christian interpretation.
The seeds
for this concept of the Laws of God "being a special burden laid on Jews
only", are sown by the NT in Acts 15 in a conference decision of the early
Messianic (Jewish) leadership when confronted by certain Messianic
believers amongst the Pharisees who insisted that Messianic believers also
keep the Laws of Moses (verse 5). In their wisdom, and "as decided
by the Holy Spirit and themselves"" (v. 29), it was ruled by the
Messianic convention that, in stead of "making things difficult for
non-Jews who turn to God" (v. 19), and in order not to "saddle them with
any burden beyond the essentials" (v.29), they would only have to
abide by some of the Mosaic Laws - and 4 categories of these were
specified (v. 20,29), i.e.
-
abstaining from food sacrificed to idols
-
abstaining from blood
-
abstaining from the meat of strangled animals
-
abstaining from fornication
Now these
4 abstentions had their roots in what is termed by the Rabbis as the
"Noachide laws which are applicable only for non-Jews who wish to observe
Torah". Without going into depths of this topic here, suffice it to
state that the publishers of BIBLE REVELATIONS find no foundation for this
reasoning in the entire Torah or Tanach (OT) itself. These
Scriptures are very clear, all over, that the entire Law System of God, as
enshrined in Torah, is intended for the Blessing and Success for all
mankind, with Judah being Divinely appointed as guardians of Torah - as "a
Light unto the nations". It should therefore also be clear (as
stated repeatedly in this Web Site and on the BIBLE REVELATIONS Forum),
that the Return of 10-Israel will be vindicated by a return to full Torah
observance. As such, the re-unification of the 2 Houses should be
firmly based on the foundations of Torah observance. It was the
rejection of Torah and of Judah's spiritual leadership, after all, which
were the main reasons why 10-Israel of old were rejected and evicted off
the Land by YHVH.
This spirit of rejection against
'Rabbinism' becomes more evident and intense when the Torah opposing
Messianic teachers turn their vindictiveness towards the "Rabbinic
writings" or "Oral Torah" in an endeavour to 'expose' the 'errors' and
'anti-Gentile' statements in ancient Jewish writings like the
Talmud. In this way, they try to dissuade their followers from
following their new found spiritual inclination to convert and join
Judaism. In doing so, they actually side with and endorse the
venomous accusations of anti-Semites through the ages. Yet, they
profess to 'love' Judah - the Jews, or their "brothers from the 2nd House
of Israel".
It would be presumptuous and vain
to attempt to disprove the existence of such derogatory remarks or
teachings in certain Jewish writings. For purposes of conveying the
Divinely approved spirit of forbearance that would be required from true
believers and contenders for the Kingdom of God, let us therefore assume
and accept that these derogatory statements do exist in the Talmud and
other Jewish commentaries.
The first issue we have to
settle if we work from this preposition, is whether this changes
anything in YHVH's election of Judaism as part of, or totally, His
'Election' of them? Did the Messiah Himself not condemn them for
many issues anyway, without ever intimating that He totally rejects
the nation which He chose to be born into? Are these 'vile
doctrines' which Judaism, according to those writings, seem to display,
any worse than those things which God disapproved of in them throughout
the ages?
If YHVH has not rejected them, how
dare we?
These accusers will attempt to
justify themselves by claiming that they do not reject the Jews but 'love'
them, though their interpretations and accusations are in no degree
any less anti-Jewish in spirit, than even the most vehement anti-Semitic
writings. It conveys the same spirit of rejection than do their
anti-Semitic 'revelations'.
Does that mean that YHVH wants us
to overlook Judaism's many glaring faults? No! The point
is, that if He does not reject them or smear them, how dare we? If
He loves them and blesses them in spite of their faults - why not
us? In fact, He warns: Gen. 12:3 "I
will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you".
As a footnote to those ever
accusing Messianics, who justify themselves by saying that
they do indeed love and bless Jews while they vehemently reject Judaism
and 'Rabbinism' and much of what it entails - please note: - the
original Hebrew text uses two different Hebrew words in the above text,
both translated as 'curse' in most popular Bible
versions. The popular verbal version of this Divine Statement,
which most of us use, almost exclusively renders 'curse' in both
instances.
A review of the actual Hebrew original will
show how this Divine admonition has been watered down, in that way
becoming almost a 'license' to 'bad mouth Jews - "as long as a curse is
not pronounced"! The word selection in the original Hebrew, holds a
serious reprimand for many:
the first, meaning 'curse'
indeed - as in persecute; the second, 'mekalal'
meaning: revile, speak lightly, despise'. Thus, God will curse those
who speak lightly of Judah, or who bad-mouth Jews. The same root
word kalal is used in Gen 16:4 where it is translated
'despise', viz. Hagar despised Sarah after she Hagar) conceived by
Avraham, Sarah's husband. We are also reprimanded from not
denouncing even Satan (Jude v. 9).
Ezek chapter 20 contains the proper
guidance for us in this matter - if we wish to follow in His foot
steps: "I , YHVH, resolved to
discharge My anger on them, and exhaust My Fury against them, to destroy
them ... but respect for My Own Name kept Me from allowing it to be
profaned in the opinion of the nations among whom they were
living." This Divine statement is repeated some 5 times in
the chapter, referring to various stages in Israel's history, since Egypt,
right to date and into the future. It continues:
"Go on, all of you
(Israel), worship your idols, but I swear that you will hear Me in the
end.... through you, I intend to display My Holiness for all the nations
to see ... then you will learn that I am YHVH, when I treat you as respect
for My Own Name requires and not as your wicked behaviour and corrupt
actions require!"
Whether we wish to apply this
Divine Statement to the one House (10 Tribes) or to both Houses of
Israel, it is pertinently important that we leave the Judgment to
Him. That we bless Judah irrespective of whether they deserve it or
not. That we stop delving into their rejectable words, writings and
attitudes. That we uphold them to the nations (how much more to the
believers of Restored Truth!!) irrespective of their rejectable remarks,
attitudes and behaviours. That we delve for the multitude of revelatory
interpretations in their traditional writings. Yes, that we love
them irrespective of all! Love sees no harm, is patient and
long-suffering, does not accredit evil to wrongdoers! Love forgives
even evil! If that were not so, if YHVH was not the personification
of this Love, then no one has any chance whatsoever to inherit a place in
His Kingdom!
It is amazing that 'Hebraic Roots
Restorers', the '2-House' proclaimers, etc. who aspire to sharing the
Blessing with Judah, refuse to follow through with conversion to
Judaism all the Way, according to YHVH's Intention of making ONE
House of the two. They persist in rather pursuing and fuelling the
hatred amongst the 2 Houses since antiquity!
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the great Stumbling Block that
evangelizing of Jews presents in the
Reconciliation Process for the End
Time, prescribed in
Prophecy between Judah (Jews) and
Messianic 10-Israel and the
extensive damage done to the Jewish
people over the centuries by
attempts to convert them to
Christianity.
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activities, either historically or
currently. and declares its
commitment to teach against the
proselytizing or evangelizing of
Jews, or the influencing of Jews in
any way whatsoever to abandon their
historic and correct faith.
Rather,
BIBLE
REVELATIONS
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to influence Messianics and
re-identifying 10-Tribers to return
to the Hebraic Roots of the Original
One True Faith, to Torah and to
Jewish Halachah and Rabbinic
authority.
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The Sceptre shall not
depart from Judah until Shiloh comes
Are
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Is the
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