One New Humanity….?

NOW BEFORE WE BEGIN, PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CONTENT OF THIS BLOG IS ABOUT A CATHOLIC SYSTEM OF WORSHIP AND IS IN NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM MEANT ABOUT CATHOLIC PEOPLE--WHO ARE COMPLETELY INNOCENT OF ANY WRONG DOING IN THIS MATTER. MY OBJECTION IS WITH THE SYSTEM--AND IN NO WAY THE PEOPLE WHO SELF-IDENTIFY AS CATHOLIC CHRISTIANS.

Ariel

Ephesians 2:15:"15 by setting aside in his flesh the [Levitical] law [of Ritual Purity and Atonement] with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, [Between the House of Israel scattered among the Nations of the World and the House of Judah--the Jewish people today] 16 and in one body [The unified Commonwealth of Israel] to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. 17 He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. 19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners [Goyim = Gentiles] AND strangers [GERIM = Strangers living among the Israelites] but fellow citizens with God's people and also members of his household [ The United Commonwealth of Israel ], 20 built on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the Chief Cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22 And in him you too [ also ] are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit…..Apostle Paul's letter to the Messianic Community of Ephesus……

Recently with the secular new year and Hanukah ending, I have been thinking a great deal about this verse. It would come to me in the morning and late in the evening and throughout my day at various times. This verse is key to understanding the lie of the enemy of God and His people the United Commonwealth of Israel--which is made up of those who were born in the family and those who moved close to learn the ways and those who live in their changed status.

The changed status is what I wish to challenge you about today. When Jews view Christians--regardless of their own self-identification as Baptists or Charismatic or Assemblies of God all they hear is "Catholic." Yet the average reader who identifies as a Christian would say "Hey, I am no Catholic! In fact I am ___________(A Baptist, Charismatic, Lutheran, and Mormon) fill in the appropriate blank.

So this made me think that we should do a little test; so please bear with me as we ask the following questions from the "Game of Life:

1. Do you celebrate Christmas and Easter as the two Holiest days per year?

2. Are you free in Christ to eat anything that you wish because all things are acceptable to those who believe?

3. Do you believe in a Trinity--God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit--the separate but equal members of the one true and everlasting God?

4. Do you go to Church? And if so, do you consider Sunday to be your Sabbath Day of rest?

5. Do you celebrate the Fall Festivals and the Spring Festivals of Israel at their appointed times?

6. Have you committed to eat according to the instructions of Leviticus 11?

7. Do you believe that God is one?

8. Do you keep the Sabbath of Israel from Friday night sun down to Saturday night at sun down?

EXTRA CREDIT--

Is the first day of your working week Sunday or Monday?

TEST ANSWER KEY FOR CATHOLIC'S

1. Do you celebrate Christmas and Easter as the two Holiest days per year?

YES

2. Are you free in Christ to eat anything that you wish because all things are acceptable to those who believe?

YES

3. Do you believe in a Trinity--God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit--the separate but equal members of the one true and everlasting God?

YES

4. Do you go to Church? And if so, do you consider Sunday to be your Sabbath Day of rest?

YES

EXTRA CREDIT

Is the first day of your working week Sunday or Monday?

MONDAY

TEST ANSWER KEY FOR ISRAELI'S

5. Do you celebrate the Fall Festivals and the Spring Festivals of Israel at their appointed times?

YES

6. Have you committed to eat according to the instructions of Leviticus 11?

YES

7. Do you believe that God is one?

YES

8. Do you keep the Sabbath of Israel from Friday night sun down to Saturday night at sun down?
YES

EXTRA CREDIT

Is the first day of your working week Sunday or Monday?

SUNDAY


Now that we have tested the issue--we can safely state that if you are practicing any form of Christianity--you are a Catholic. You have bought into a system of rule and thought that was illegal until 325CE until the Roman Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity and made it the official State religion of all Rome and Romans throughout the world.

But Yeshua of Nazareth and who lived in Israel along with Paul, Peter, James, John, Stephen, and the rest could not answer in the affirmative to anything that you can today. For example they would not understand a life that ignores the Friday Night to Saturday Night Sabbath; they could not understand believing in a 3 headed version of One God; they could not understand the foods mentioned in Leviticus 11 could ever be considered food by followers of Yeshua.

NOW YOU MAY SAY--"THE LAW APPLIED TO THE APOSTLES UNTIL YESHUA DIED BUT NOT THERE AFTER?"

To which I would say that ALL the Apostles we read about today in the New Testament did not start writing the letters that make up the New Testament until around 50CE--with Paul's writings being the oldest by farm and the cannon which is in your modern New Testament not coming into place until 396-397CE. Now putting into work the fact and Yeshua was glorified and ascended between 27 and 33 of the common era; and the Temple not being destroyed until the war with Rome from 67-70 CE--this means that the Apostles continued to practice Temple Worship and Sacrifice until the Beit Hamikdash--the 2nd Temple restored by Ezra and Nehemiah fell and Rome drove all Jews from the Empire.

So we are to believe that highly observant lifelong Jews just stopped their entire way of life after 27-30 and lived like non-Israelites--in Jerusalem--among the Patrician Class Academic Aristocracy made up of the Pharisee's and the Sadducee's for almost 40 years; oh yeah--the leaders of the group, Shimon Kepha: Peter, Yochanan HaKohen: John the Priest, and Yeshua's oldest younger brother Ya'akov the Just: James the Just all lived in Israel outside the lifestyle of the entire living community practicing an outlawed religion that would not be referred to as "Christianity" until Antioch around 47-50CE. And, further, they did this with only their Torah and Tanak--the 1st 5 books and the remainder of what is mistakenly called the "Old Testament" today? All while being hunted by a pre-conversion Paul --and others like him and writing what would become known as the New Testament almost 350 years later?

SO WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN?

What is a WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHING?

Is it a MAN who leads others astray? A preacher of ill--repute? One who mistreats the Sheep?

To know for certain we must define the word SHEEP as Yeshua understood it. Let's look at Yeshua in John 10: 11-18 which says:

11 "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13 The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 "I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. 17 The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father."

So according to Yeshua--Sheep can be qualified by these traits:

The Sheep are SCATTERED

Some Sheep Were IN ISRAEL

The Sheep KNOW MESSIAH'S VOICE and HE KNOWS THEM

The Sheep MUST BE GATHERED TO ISRAEL

There shall be ONE FLOCK OF SHEEP

Now what about the WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHING? WHO OR WHAT IS THAT?

According to Roman folklore, Rome was allegedly started by two competitive Twins named ROMMULUS and REIMUS who were abandoned at birth in the forest and were raised by a WILD WOLF who suckled the twins and gave them life. The Symbol of Rome always was the WOLF suckling the TWIN BOYS. Look at this startling photo:

Yeshua said THE WOLF comes only to STEAL--KILL AND DESTROY; meaning its DOCTRINE will only allow you to be robbed--killed and destroyed. Thus there is a WOLF who will come IN and will ATTACK --THE FLOCK. It won't be A PART OF THE FLOCK. Yeshua said " Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it.." Yeshua came to seek and to save that which was lost--so the ANTICHRIST MESSAGE will come from a BEAST ( a Man ) who will KEEP ISRAEL SCATTERED and NOT GATHERED!!!

The Wolf is ROME and its STATE RELIGION CALLED CATHOLISM--or--CHRISTIANITY. In a figurative way the Wolf sent in WILL ATTACK THE FLOCK. ISRAEL IS THE FLOCK and those who have been born again have been GRAFTED INTO THE FLOCK called ISRAEL.

LOOK AT THIS POPE AND HIS FRIEND:

Look at the Yarmulke--looks like a member of THE FLOCK but not with friends like this one!!!

NO ONE with the Spirit of Yeshua could shake Hitlers hand! He was God's Enemy and the Enemy of Jews everwhere.

If you are honest with yourself--you can see that this is the Spirit of the Anti-Christ and not the JEWISH MESSIAH that you are serving.

Grandpa always said "If it WALKS like a DUCK and quacks like a DUCK then it is not a RABBIT my friends……………………but really A DUCK!

THE WOLF IS THE ROMAN CHURCH AND HER DOCTRINES--TRINITY versus the ONENESS OF ECHAD, COMMUNION versus KIDDUSH, AND SUN GOD DAY WORSHIP versus SHABBAT. All copies of Israel's ways--just like the Popes Yarmulke--but not real.

THE TRUE FLOCK IS THE UNITED COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL.

I SET HEAVEN AND EARTH BEFORE YOU THIS DAY THAT I HAVE GENTLY AND FAIRLY WARNED ALL WHO FOLLOW THE WAYS OF THE BEAST SHOWN ABOVE--THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE--WE WILL SERVE THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.

THE FINAL QUESTION REALLY IS THIS………DID YOUR BORN AGAIN EXPERIENCE LEAD YOU TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE--THE WAYS OF ISRAEL AND THE ISRAELI MESSIAH? OR ARE YOU STILL LIVING SEPARATED FROM YOUR MEMBERSHIP IN THE TRUE AND HOLY FLOCK THAT YESHUA CAME TO GATHER--THE SHEEP FROM ANOTHER SHEEP PEN--OR ARE YOU THE SHEEP OF ISRAEL THAT HEAR THE SHEPHERDS VOICE--THE VOICE OF TORAH AND THOSE WHO WILL BE SAVED BUT NOT AS THOSE SNATCHED OUT OF THE FIRE.

Again, it is not the Catholic people or even Christians who disagree with me--they are 100% innocent. However, you know there is a reason why nothing you've ever been taught seems to really work--each and every time the way it is presented on Sundays. Now you know why.

SHABBAT SHALOM

Ariel Ehrmantrout

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MRS. JUDITH CATHERINE CAMPBELL

On December 15th, 2008 in the early morning hours, my Mother Mrs. Judith Catherine Campbell passed away after a serious battle with brain aneurisms and strokes. There are no words that could describe my Mother accurately or give you any real picture of who my Mother was--as She was so many things to so many people that mere words would seem to do her blessed memory a disservice.

But with that said, I can tell you that She loved baseball and out fished any man I have ever known. She loved a good cold beer after a long hard day. She was mildly adventurous on her own--but how Brian Campbell ever got her talked into going "White Water Rafting" for their honeymoon is a story left for the grandchildren to hear Brian tell--as this was no little feat indeed.

My Mom was always cold--She wore coats and sweaters even in the summer, and her little hands never seemed to find the peace of staying warm for any length of time. Far from defenseless, those little hands made more than one grown man scream and run for cover as their icy anointing was sneakily placed against the small of our backs and we would screech and run for cover! She loved her dogs, and complaining about the 30 pound "mountain lion" She called a Cat. I say "mountain lion" because I often told her that that beast was way to big to be a normal house cat--something that always made her chuckle and wistfully remark "he is just misunderstood."

Mom was allergic to the Sun, and hated the cold and She loved the comforting warmth of a good pair of socks; and any glimpse She could get of "Ichiro Suzuki" who was her favorite Seattle Mariner, which She often referred to as "My boyfriend;" this after her long and arduous healing process after the Mariners traded her first boyfriend "Ken Griffey Jr" to the Reds. She was larger than life and She was one of the most precious souls to ever live.

My Mother is survived by her Husband of many years Mr. Brian Patrick Campbell, who by all accounts of her last days, heroically and selfishlessly cared for our Mothers every need up until the day of her passing and beyond. I will always be indebted to Brian Campbell for how He loved and cared for my Mother for the duration of her illness.

Mom is also survived by her 2 Sons, a single Daughter and her Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren; and her two older Sisters and their families.

Judith Catherine Campbell lives on now in the hearts and minds of my family, and we will always cherish her memory; always having wished that we were closer while She was alive and looking forward to the promised resurrection where we will see Mother again.

I have but one thing left to say to and about my Mother to any and all who read this posting:

THANKS MOM FOR EVERYTHING


A MOTHER'S LOVE

A Mother's love is something that no on can explain,
It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain,
It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may
For nothing can destroy it or take that love away . . .

It is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking,
And it never fails or falters even though the heart is breaking . . .
It believes beyond believing when the world around condemns,
And it glows with all the beauty of the rarest, brightest gems . . .

It is far beyond defining, it defies all explanation,
And it still remains a secret like the mysteries of creation . . .
A many splendoured miracle man cannot understand
And another wondrous evidence of God's tender guiding hand.

~Helen Steiner Rice~©









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A TALE OF TWO BROTHERS

Toldot: “Generations”
Genesis 25:19-28:9
Today’s Reading Genesis 25:19-
“A Tale of Two Brothers”

Genesis 25:19-34 “19 This is the account of Abraham's son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac, 20 and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebeccah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean. 21 Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebeccah became pregnant. 22 The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of the LORD. 23 The LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger." 24 When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. 25 The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau. 26 After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebeccah gave birth to them. 27 The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was a quiet man, staying among the tents. 28 Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebeccah loved Jacob. 29 Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. 30 He said to Jacob, "Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I'm famished!" (That is why he was also called Edom.)
31 Jacob replied, "First sell me your birthright." 32 "Look, I am about to die," Esau said. "What good is the birthright to me?" 33 But Jacob said, "Swear to me first." So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob. 34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright.



1. This story is a very important story to us today as we live out the Biblical fulfillment of this prophetic part of the Torah. In this story we find several things that mirror our lives today. We find the “Death of Abraham”--a type and shadow of way that many in the Church have abandoned the ways of Father Abraham for the pagan idolatrous ways of the world around us; we also find Esau and Jacob--the twin sons of the dynamic union between the SON OF THE COVENANT PROMISE--who is represented by Isaac and the COVENANT BRIDE OF THE PROMISED ONE--who is represented by Rebeccah--and she represents US in our walk today as the BRIDE of the promised Messiah! We also see that Esau--who is the true firstborn son--and who has the BIRTHRITE which is a reference to the ROYAL PRIESTHOOD and the BLESSING of firstborn--which gave him RULERSHIP as KING of the family of Abraham--forsakes his position for the love of the World around him. This is a type and shadow of the condition in the heart of the body of Messiah today and these two brothers represent the two natures that are in us. One is "wild" and the other is "obedient." Whatever has control over you will determine the result of the days of your life. If you love the Torah-God's Teaching and Instructions for a successful life--then you will end up like Jacob--with the BLESSING of the COVENANT--but if you live more like ESAU--and love the ways of THIS WORLD--the pagan ways that surround you--you will end your life outside the blessing--and "hated" by the Lord --meaning one who is destined for eternal punishment.

1 John 2:15-16 says “15Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. 17The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God [Torah] lives forever.

Romans 9:6-13 says “6It is not as though God's word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. 7Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham's children. On the contrary, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned." 8In other words, it is not the natural children who are God's children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham's offspring. 9For this was how the promise was stated: "At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son."10Not only that, but Rebeccah’s children had one and the same father, our father Isaac. 11Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God's purpose in election might stand: 12not by works but by him who calls—she was told, "The older will serve the younger."13Just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

2. Jacob was very different from his older brother Esau. Jacob was a man of study; he learned from his father Isaac the ways of the Lord--the way of Torah and he learned from his Grandfather Abraham. This was not his natural position by birthright succession--but this became his possession because of the GRACE of his FATHER--a type and shadow of our turning to the Yeshua and the Torah in the last days by grace and studying--while others are following the ways of the pagan idolatrous systems around us. It is always taught that Isaac loved Esau and Rebeccah loved Jacob; but I have never bought that. If you remember, the twins were causing quite a problem for their Mother so she went to inquire of the Lord about this. The Lord told her that "2 Nations would come forth from her womb" and ultimately, "the older will serve the younger." This was a prophecy that the Lord made to Rebeccah and we are to believe that she did not tell Isaac --her husband the one who would issue the blessing--or covenantal rule? No way no how. I would like to propose that rather than a "trick" to fool Isaac--the trick was done to "fool" Esau--who had already shown that He did not care for the ways of the Lord when He took two Hittite women as wives--which the Torah says "greatly disturbed Isaac and Rebeccah;" but what were they to do? Isaac was getting older and his sight was getting very bad, so he was not able to physically control Esau any longer. Esau had defiled the family by bringing in a Hittite as a Wife--and not allowing Isaac to choose a wife for him--as Isaac had done with Rebeccah. Thus, Isaac knew that He could not allow ESAU to be the RULER of the Family--in direct violation of the prophecy the Lord gave to Rebeccah before the boys were born; and as Esau had already traded away the BIRTHRITE--which was the ROYAL PRIESTHOOD for the sake of his belly--to think that He would rule the family in the event of Isaacs death would have been unconscionable. So Isaac--contrary to the way this is normally preached--when we are told that Isaac preferred Esau had worked together with his wife Rebeccah and they had developed a plan that would allow the blessing to go to Jacob--in fulfillment of the prophecy of the Lord, and would allow them to not be killed by Esau when He found out--so Isaac called Esau in and sent him out to gather venison--deer meat. Now remember, Isaac was getting older--and KNEW that Esav was lingering for the day of his death--so he could take the RULERSHIP of the Family--and the covenant blessing; BUT Isaac went on to live MANY MORE YEARS AFTER THIS….so he couldn't have been that far gone. So Isaac sent ESAU out on a set up. Why was it a set up? Well--first of all--Rebeccah was within hearing; secondly the conveyance of the blessing was an act of COVENANT and that required a COVENANTAL MEAL--and NO COVENANT COVENANTAL SACRIFICE OR MEAL was EVER made by offering a DEER--which is what Isaac sent ESAU out after! No--the COVENANTAL MEAL had to be sealed by the offering of A LAMB--and thus Isaac and Rebeccah had their opening to get Jacob in position to receive not only the BIRTHRITE--or PRIESTLY BLESSING OF THE 1ST BORN--BUT ALSO THE COVENANTAL BLESSING OF KINGSHIP AND RULERSHIP!!

This is a type and shadow of GOD sending a strong delusion on the people today --so that they will believe the pagan idolatrous lies of Catholicized religion--it is the same type of ruse as Isaac used for his son Esau and it is the same for those who have the HEART--and LIFESTYLE OF ESAU.

2 Thessalonians 2:7-12 “7For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8And then the lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, 10and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness

1 John 3:4-10 says “4Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. 5But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. 6No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. 7Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. 9No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. 10This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.”


3. Well, we all know the story; there is a test of obedience and Faith--and Trust on the part of Rebeccah and Jacob. To receive the blessing of His Father--Jacob had to OBEY the instructions of his MOTHER which would allow Jacob to RECEIVE THE BLESSING of the FIRSTBORN--which meant RULERSHIP--or DOMINION. So to do we today have to obey the HOLY SPIRIT--the RUACH HAKODESH--which each time it is written in the Bible it is written in a "feminine tense"--thus the HOLY SPIRIT which is the Feminine--or nurturing side of God. If we fail to listen to the Holy Spirit--our spiritual MOTHER--who leads us INTO OBEDIENCE to God's Teaching and Instructions--the Torah--we will never receive the blessing of our Father--just like Jacob; it is the same principle for us today.

Jacob obeys the instructions of His MOTHER and comes in and obeys, and then is sent out among the Nations to His Uncles Laban's home--and as He went Jacob left with BOTH the BIRTHRITE --the 1ST BORN PRIESTHOOD of MALCHI-TZADEK and THE RULERSHIP RIGHT OF KINGSHIP OVER HIS FAMILY which traditionally belongs to the firstborn. Even as you are being sent among the nations with the RIGHT OF THE FIRSTFRUITS FROM THE DEAD--which is the LIFE OF YAHSHUA to this LAST GENERATION.

Now, to receive the blessings of Abraham--we must learn to live the way Abraham did. How was that? By Faith? Absolutely--by faith, but coupled with our faith--we need to add what GENESIS 26:5 says about Abraham--that He "Kept ALL GOD'S COMMAANDS DECREE'S LAWS AND INSTRUCTIONS." Even as Jacob had to put on the goat hair that simulated his brothers ARM and NECK--so to do you--after becoming a Believer--have to put on THE LIFESTYLE WAYS OF OUR JEWISH BROTHERS--the WAYS OF THE ISRAELITES--so that you will receive the BLESSING OF THE FATHER--just like Jacob did. YOU will LOOK LIKE the FIRSTBORN--Yeshua--You will SMELL like the Firstborn--and YOU WILL ACT like the FIRSTBORN SON--but in reality--you will still be the 2nd Born and be just like YACOV--JACOB! This tells us that he who RECIEVES the DOUBLE PORTION BLESSING will LOOK LIKE ISRAEL--KEEP THE FEASTS OF ISRAEL--THE SHABBAT OF ISRAEL--but will never surrender his status AS JACOB--the younger son--it is THIS SON and THIS SON ONLY that RECIEVES THE RIGHT TO RULE AND REIGN--the position of the KING AND PRIEST to this last generation of souls.

Proverbs 28:9 says “9 If anyone turns a deaf ear to the law, even his prayers are detestable.

Proverbs 15:8-9 says “8 The LORD detests the sacrifice of the wicked,[those outside Torah] but the prayer of the upright pleases him. 9 The LORD detests the way of the wicked [those outside Torah] but he loves those who pursue righteousness [pursue Torah]

Isaiah 1:13-17 says “13 Stop bringing meaningless offerings! [Torahless Church Services] Your incense [Prayers and Praise] is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations— I cannot bear your evil [Lawless] assemblies. 14 Your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts my soul hates. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you; even if you offer many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood; 16 wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil [Lawless] deeds out of my sight! Stop doing wrong, [violating Torah] 17 learn to do right! [obey God’s Torah] Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.”


4. When Esau returns--he begins to prepare the meal for his Father Isaac--he has gone out--killed a wild deer--gone through all the trouble of preparing it for His father--only to be rejected as to RECEIPT OF THE BLESSING. There are people today--who love the world--they will tell you that they LOVE the Lord, but their lifestyle is just like all of those in the nations around them--who do not love the Torah--who spread out their hands to GOD each week and their prayers are TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE TO HIM--even as Esau’s offering was unacceptable to Isaac. Why? BECAUSE THEY FAIL TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO OBEY GOD'S WORD which is the DUTY OF THE PRIESTHOOD. Additionally they ignore the Torah--argue it is done away with--"Jesus did it--so I do not have to" is their rally cry whenever they are questioned about why they break the 10 commandments--failing to KEEP THE SABBATH DAY HOLY. They are people who are always IN THE WORLD--WORRIED ABOUT THE THINGS OF THE WORLD--LIVING amidst the CURSED OF THE WORLD--with the IDOLS IN THEIR HEART crying out to them. They follow the pagan idolatrous ways of the NATIONS and not that of the ISRAELITES--the PEOPLE OF THEIR LORD AND KING. They forsake their BLESSING by their HATING THEIR BIRTHRIGHT. FAITH IS THE CAPITAL OF THE PRIESTHOOD OF MALKI-TZADEK and the TORAH is YOUR BLESSING as born again believers. Only by obeying its commands, precepts, laws and instructions--will you forsake the ways of this the DELUSION and receive the BLESSING that comes from THE FATHER.

Hebrews 12:15-24 says “15See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many. 16See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son. 17Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. He could bring about no change of mind, though he sought the blessing with tears.

Matthew 7:21-23 says “21"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.[The Torah] 22Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' 23Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers [TORAHLESS ONES!'”]


Matthew 24:45-50 says “45"Who then is the faithful and wise servant,[Torah obedient Servant] whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. 47I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 48But suppose that servant is wicked [LAWLESS] and says to himself, 'My master is staying away a long time,' 49and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. 50The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. 51He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, [those whose CONFESSION and CONDUCT DO NOT MATCH] where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth

Repent and turn from your heart of Esau--and live in obedience by faith to the Lord Yeshua Messiah; it is not too late, if you repent today. Do not be like "Godless Esau" who took for granted his BIRTHRITE--PRIESTHOOD AUTHORITY--which cost him the BLESSING TO RULE AND REIGN IN THIS LIFE. Yeshua Messiah--the same, yesterday, today and forever.

Have a wonderful week!

Ariel

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"Lech Lecha: Get Yourself Out.."

What exactly is the faith of Abraham?

Was Abraham a Torah obedient individual? Or was Abraham a sinful man, full of rebellion and disobedience towards G-d who somehow found favor with G-d because of his faith apart from works?
Or was Abraham a man of faith because he believed the Word of G-d to be truth, and showed his faith through his obedience to Torah?
How was this different from Lot his nephew?
What does it say to us today?

Genesis 17:1-5
1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless. 2I will confirm my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers." 3Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, 4“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. 5No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.”

Genesis 17:6-9
6I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. 7I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 8The whole land of Canaan, where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God." 9Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.”

Background

YHVH is going to make his covenant with Avraham, and through this covenant YHVH promised to make Avraham the “father of many nations.”
Why does the word "nations" have an “s” on the end and what does this indicate?
The covenant is not just for Ephraim and Judah, but for every nation that wishes to be grafted into Israel. (Romans 11)
What is foundational to this covenant that would bless the “nations/gentiles?”

Genesis 26:1-5. 1Now there was a famine in the land-besides the earlier famine of Abraham's time-and Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar. 2The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live. 3Stay in this land for a while and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. 4I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, 5because Abraham obeyed me and kept my requirements, my commands, my decrees and my laws."

What? Abraham had the Torah? What will my theologian say about that!

Even thought the modern theologians of our day, our versions of Pharisees and Sadducees, have told us for years that the law of G-d did not come for 430 years after the promise made to Abraham they misquote Rabbi Sha’ul.
Yet we see in this passage very clearly that all nations on earth will be blessed, 5“because Abraham obeyed me and kept my requirements, my commands, my decrees and my laws."

'Peat, 'peat and repeat- Mt. Sinai

Abraham knew G-d's Torah, his Teaching and Instructions long before the Israelites reached Mt. Sinai.
This may come as a shock to our religious system, but Mt. Sinai is a retelling of the Torah by the time Moses gets there.
You good talmadin may ask “how can this be?”
Mt. Sinai was a reintroduction to the Teaching and Instructions of G-d that was lost when the Israelites were in slavery in pagan Egypt!

How?
Up to the day of Joseph and his brothers, your ancestors, Torah was passed on from father to son, mother to daughter by word of mouth!
This “oral” hibachi, or telling of the Torah, was lost when they became slaves following the death of Joseph, victims of cultural assimilation.

Why? There are two primary reasons:

One, because when the people of a nation become slaves to another nation, they are stripped of their identities, their heritage, their customs and their culture and are forced to adopt the customs and religious practices of their masters.
Just think how much America has changed in your lifetime with no slavery, culturally forced assimilation, no printing presses, just image over 400 years!
Secondly, when Joseph’s brothers went into Egypt they were only 70, after slavery there were over 500 thousand men, and adding women and children there were over 3 million when they left.

Oral traditions are better kept in small group, hunter gatherer (roughly 25-30 people), or “big man” (up to 1000 people) social structures.
Add to this the identity destruction that results from slavery and it is easy to understand and you will come to see more clearly how conditions of the covenant made with Abraham are the same ones made with Moshe (Moses) and the children of Israel.

So what is different?

Though there are two covenants, the latter made at Mt. Sinai, and the former made with Jerusalem up above which is free, Galatians 4:21-31, you will find that they contain the same law, the Torah, and that the only thing that is different is not the Torah, but how the administration of atonement for the remission of sins is carried out. That is the only change!

Rental Property

It is like renting an apartment; you have to sign a covenantal contract to move in. When you have fulfilled the contract you move out.
Say a new family moves in the same apartment, they would have to sign the same covenant agreement. It is separate from the 1st family’s rental contract, but identical in its rights and responsibilities.
So it is with this covenant of Abraham and the covenant of Moses. It is a renewal with the new tenants at Mt. Sinai.
Because there were millions of tenants now, a sophisticated priesthood was empowered to make atonement for the sins of the entire nation, not just one family!


Genesis 17:10-12
10This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. 11You are to undergo circumcision and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you. 12For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner-those who are not your offspring.

Tutor

Thus the tutor mentioned in Galatians (a sophisticated priesthood that was empowered to make atonement for the sins of the entire nation, not just one family!) Was added 430 years later to the covenant to attend to the issue of sin until Messiah Yeshua could come.
Galatians 3:16-19.

Members of Abraham’s Covenant

People love to claim their part of the Abrahamic covenant. Yet when they come against circumcision they almost always say, “the law is done away with,” thinking it is part of the Mosaic covenant.

They do not realize it is part of the Abrahamic covenant and was given to “BLESS ALL THE NATIONS THROUGH IT.”

Abraham’s covenant sign is circumcision. All covenants are sealed with a “SIGN.”

Things that make you go hmmmm …
Isn’t it interesting that the covenant requirement for the covenant that most “faith” preachers teach as your key entitlement to financial reward requires circumcision as a stipulation for ALL time?
Most pastors today call you a legalist if you ask for a strict rendering of what the Bible says.
Legalist versus what? an illegalist?

Abraham the legalist!
By today's standard, anyone who wishes to obey the Torah, G-d’s Teaching and Instruction, is considered a legalist or one who puts people in bondage.
Yet these same theologians get on TBN and claim the promises of Abraham’s covenant.
But if circumcision, or any other act of obedience to Torah, constitutes “legalism” then Abraham would have to be declared a legalist.

Abraham, legalist or man of faith?
Abraham was a man of the faith, a man who believed and looked forward to the coming of Messiah, but the faith that our father Abraham displayed was everything that the theologians speak out against today as legalism.

A real life example to ponder

Let’s put this into contemporary terms. Imagine yourself driving 20 miles over the speed limit and you discover yourself being pulled over for speeding.

As the police officer writes out the ticket you turn to him and state, “excuse me Officer, don’t you think you are being a little legalistic? After all, Officer, I am under grace, not under the law, right?”

This would be a very unwise thing to say to a police officer, wouldn’t it?

Yet many say it about YHVH’s Word every day!


Watch out for that angry cop!

Every time we call someone a legalist for simply wanting to obey YHVH’s Teaching and Instruction we are like that lawbreaker who was trying to make the cop look bad for their own irresponsible behavior!

Was Abraham under grace?
Both Abraham and Moses were under G-d’s grace as well.
Hebrews 4:2 says, “For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did.”
They heard the gospel and knew the grace of G-d even as we, yet Abraham knew and obeyed the Torah. And Moshe (Moses) likewise, heard the gospel and knew the grace of G-d and knew and obeyed the Torah. And these two men are the two greatest men of faith presented in the Tenach (the “Old Testament“) of scripture.

Hey… did they know something we ought to know?

The scriptures are clear that being under the grace of G-d did not mean that Abraham and Moshe (Moses) were free to violate his Torah (his law).

Being under grace and not under law, does not mean the law is done away and to speak such heresy is to speak against Yeshua himself who stated emphatically that not the least stroke of a pen contained in the Torah would pass away until the heavens and the earth pass away.

Psalm 119:172
172May my tongue sing of your word, for all your commands are righteous.

G-d commands Abraham to go
Notice that G-d does not tell Avram “where” to go; only that he will show him.
G-d speaks things that are not as though they are and he expects Abram to believe YHVH’s promise of future provision and obey his command.
Abraham does believe, trusting faithfully “Emuwn.”
He leaves his father’s house with his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot and all their possessions (no parachute).

Abraham arrives in Canaan: modern day Israel
Abram is only 75 when he leaves his country, his brother, and his father’s house.
When Abram arrives, YHVH covenants with him to have the land for ALL generations.
Abraham is blessed beyond his wildest imagination just like all who fully submit to G-d’s Teaching and Instructions by faith!

What about Lot?

Lot in this portion is very much like the modern organized traditional Christian Church and the lost tribes of Israel that believe they have replaced the covenants of the houses of Judah and Ephraim!

Lot started out in biblical trusting and faithfulness with Abraham who was moving out with his family member. That represents Judah (as did the organized traditional Christian Church and their Israelite brothers the lost tribes of Israel.) They started as one with Judah under King David's unified tent.

Lot gets to Canaan (the Promised Land), goes to Egypt (places of confinement), then back to Canaan getting wealthy along the way (as do organized traditional Christianity and the lost tribes of Israel).

His employees end up fighting with Abraham’s (as do organized traditional Christianity and the lost tribes of Israel with their brothers in the tribe of Judah).

So Lot strikes out on his own

Lot decides in his own power to move and set up his tents toward Sodom, a wicked pagan place. This symbolizes the movement of the organized Christian Church and Judaism away from the Torah, YHVH’s Teaching and Instruction done by faith!

Abraham asks of YHVH and G-d gives him the Promised Land by faith. This represents the Judeans that DID receive Yeshua as Messiah and enter into their rest while keeping Torah, the remnant and their Christian brothers and sisters who kept all YHVH's instructions by faith.

Lot gets taken hostage

Sodom is such a pagan place. There is violence and perversion everywhere. Lot and all he owns are taken into bondage. This is where the “body” is to this day, in bondage with NO real power!

But YHVH had a plan to redeem Lot from the pagans that had captured his family. Abraham and his 318 men trained for war attacked the enemy stronghold and freed Lot and his family.

Genesis 14:14-16
14When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan. 15During the night Abram divided his men to attack them and he routed them, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus. 16He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people.
It is time for the sons of Abraham to arise for battle!

In the last days the scripture calls for a reawakening of those sons of Abraham who are called of the L-rd.

We have to go get those who are stumbling off to their death.


Jeremiah 16:19-21
19O LORD , my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, worthless idols that did them no good. 20“Do men make their own gods? Yes, but they are not gods!" 21“Therefore I will teach them- this time I will teach them my power and might. Then they will know that my name is the LORD.”

The awakening
There is a worldwide revival of people turning back to the Torah.

EV FREE, CGGC, AOG, BAPTISTS, WORD OF FAITH, and 7TH DAY ADVENTISTS all have active messianic congregations that are growing!

People are seeking more than the cotton candy prosperity only messages. They are seeking a real life change.

Micah 4:1-2
1In the last days the mountain of the LORD's temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and peoples will stream to it. 2Many nations will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths." The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 33:24-26
Then the word of the LORD came to me: 24"Son of man, the people living in those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as our possession.' 25Therefore say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Since you eat meat with the blood still in it and look to your idols and shed blood, should you then possess the land? 26You rely on your sword, you do detestable things, and each of you defiles his neighbor's wife. Should you then possess the land?'”
Are you living in ruins?

Have you been keeping G-d’s teaching and commands?

Or like righteous Lot have you placed the opening of your tent (your heart) toward the pagan sinful world?

Have you been carried away from the truth by false doctrine and held powerless, full of religion?

Do you want to live like Abraham really did in blessing, and power and prosperity?

You must die to your flesh and obey G-d.

YHVH’s covenant with you -G-d’s side of the covenant

Genesis 26:4-8
4 "As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. 5No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. 6I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you and kings will come from you. 7I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 8The whole land of Canaan, where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God."
Abraham’s results require Abraham’s actions! -your side of the covenant

Genesis 26:9
9Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.”

Jesus said in John 15:10-11,
10If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. 11I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

Doing the covenant means death to the flesh
A dead person has no reputation! Philippians 2:7
A dead person seeks not his own. 1 Corinthians 13:5
A dead person does not fight back. Exodus 14:14
A dead person is never tempted. 1 Corinthians 10:13
A dead person is never vain. Psalm 24:4
A dead person is never offended. Matthew 11:6
A dead person never opens their mouth! Isaiah 53:7
A dead person never argues or needs to win one! Colossians 3:13
A dead person has no agenda! John 8:50; 1 Corinthians 13:5

Remember

Father Abraham sacrificed his past by leaving all he had known to obtain G-d.

He was willing to sacrifice his future by offering his only son because he knew G-d was faithful to keep his word.

Power in this last revival will be held by those who are obedient to ALL YHVH’s Word.

Not just the parts that we like.
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The Regathering....

Jews and Christians--One United Israel: The Regathering

In Genesis 13:14-16 Our Heavenly Father promised Abram the land of Canaan as well as a promise of physical multiplicity of his zera or his seed (sperm). Abram was told that this promise of physical multiplicity will be so vast and so extensive that the entire earth will literally be full of his zera. Verse 16 reminds us that at the time that this promise is literally and physically brought to pass it will be absolutely impossible for mankind to even count it, or in any way census it, since mankind is totally impotent and unable to count the dust of the earth. This promise is straightforward, needing absolutely no interpretation or explanation. That same seed will inherit the land eventually to be known as Israel.

In Genesis 15 verses 1-6 we see Abram willing to help God fulfill the promise of Genesis 13 by prematurely and incorrectly choosing Eliezer, a Gentile, who is not a physical offspring of Abram's own sperm or “zera,” to be the one through whom that promise would be brought to pass. However God rebukes Abram and makes it clear to him that His promise of physical multiplicity that would become a number that man would not be able to number would not come through an adopted Gentile or a second class choice. No! Our Heavenly Father ordained that this promised heir would come from Abram's own body. He would not be adopted but he would be a physical descendent of Abram. It is through this physical descendent that God once again promises Abram that his physical offspring will be more than the stars of Heaven. Obviously through modern science we know that our solar system has trillions of stars and of course that other solar systems have many more trillions. These stars in totality produce a number that mankind cannot even fathom.

God challenges Abram's lack of ability in counting the stars with the words "if you can" in verse five. It is because of Abram's pure faith and trust in God that he receives imputed righteousness as a result of his believing and trusting in God's promise. Notice there is only one promise not many promises. Abram was declared righteous by faith in God's one promise. Whoever this physical seed would turn out to be it would literally have to be more than the dust particles of the sea and the visible stars of heaven. This promise must be taken extremely and solely on a literal face value. Any tendency to somehow spiritualize this promise is a lack of faith in God's literal Word. That would be the very opposite of the faith of Abram himself.


This promise of physical multiplicity and blessing is renewed in Genesis 17 verse 4 where Abram is told that this promise will establish him as a father of many nations or "hamon goyim". This term "hamon goyim" is also found in verse 5 and literally means a noisy multitude of Gentile nations. This physical seed that will literally fill the globe will not be a silent group of religious folks, rather they will be a great and noisy multitude making a great noise and tumult about God and His gospel love for humanity. Verse 6 of Genesis 17 promises Abraham that through this seed of promise, kings would be manifest. This of course is talking about the kings that would one day make up the royal House of David through whom Messiah would come to His throne. In verse 7 God reassures Abraham that this promise of greatness through physical multiplicity would be unconditional and everlasting.

After the testing of Abraham's faith in Genesis 22, God renews the promise, due to Abraham's great obedience in the binding of Isaac on Mt Moriah. In verses 17&18 God reminds Abraham that it is he that will inherit the physical promise of physical multiplicity when his seed one day becomes more than the stars of heaven and the dust of the earth. In verse 18 we see that from this earth filling seed, will come one (Messiah), through whom all of the earth's families will be
blessed through unification. In Genesis 24 verse 60, Rebecca's family prophetically prays over her in order that her children may become "a myriad's of peoples" and rule over their enemies.

In Genesis 26 verse 4 we see this promise of physical increase being renewed with Abraham's son Isaac. He is told that his Seed—or “zera” will be more than the stars of heaven. Sound familiar? Isaac becomes the heir of this promise not Ishmael. Therefore when God brings to pass this great and precious promise it will not be through an adopted Gentile like Eliezer or a child of the flesh like Ishmael, but rather through the child of promise (Isaac) the heir proceeding from Abraham's own body. Galatians 4:28 confirms that only Isaac is the child of promise. What promise? The promise of physical multiplicity that would fill the earth, yet still possess the land of Canaan as it own homeland.

Genesis 28 verse three finds Isaac blessing Jacob and prophesying that the promise that God gave Abraham and Isaac would now be bestowed upon Jacob and not Esau. We see that in verse three Isaac prays that Jacob's Seed or “zera,” would be blessed and become a "kehilat goyim" or "assembly of peoples." For the first time in scripture we get a glimpse of God's plan for filling the earth with the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Hebrew term found in verse three is "kehilat goyim" or a called out assembly of nations or even better an "assembly of goyim". Somehow the Father will fill the earth with the physical seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob by putting together an assembly of goyim. Verse 4 confirms that what Isaac is bestowing upon Jacob is none other than the blessing of Abraham.

It is absolutely crucial for us to understand that there are not many promises to Abraham. There are not some that are spiritual and some others that are physical. Rather there is one promise and that one promise contains two aspects of physical blessing. One is The Seed who would bless the nations, that being Messiah Yahushua--Jesus Himself, the other being merely a promise of physical reproduction and multiplicity. In Genesis 28 in the account of Jacob's ladder we find God telling Jacob that his seed will be spread out as the dust of the earth and will break forth to the four corners of the globe. In other words his offspring would find its home in Canaan land, but would somehow through God's divine plan break forth and find its way to the four corners of the earth. This promise is none other than the bestowing upon Jacob of the promise and blessing of Abraham.

The Hebrew term used in Genesis 28 verse 14 is the term "parats" meaning to break forth. It literally means to jump out and spread quickly. This promise
of physical multiplicity must come through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
therefore nullifying any claims by Islam and Ishmaelites or any other
misguided Bible scholars claiming that this promise is fulfilled in
adding the Jews and Muslims together. That is wrong since this promise
must come through Isaac and Jacob not Ishmael and Esau. The
Ishmaelite, Arab and Muslim peoples are the physical descendants of
Abraham alone, not of the promised heirs Isaac and Jacob. They do not,
I repeat do not, meet the standards set down by God when He stated
that the promise of physical multiplicity would come through Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob. The faith of Islam is not the faith of Abraham
because in order to have the faith of Abraham one must believe it was
Isaac not Ishmael who was the chosen seed!

We find God elaborating on this promise to Jacob in Genesis 35:verse 11 where He declares to Jacob that he would no longer be known as Ya’akov—or Jacob--but as “Israel.” Israel means one who as a Prince struggles with God and prevails. It is as Israel that Jacob will produce seed that will lead to the establishment of a nation and a company of nations. The nation of course is destined to be the Jewish people and the company of nations will be the "kehilat goyim" or the assembly of nations (former Gentiles) that will proceed from his own body.

As we jump forward in time we find Israel the great patriarch dying in the land of Goshen in Egypt and he summons all his sons to his bedside as he is dying. He somehow finds enough strength and leans on his staff and begins to prophecy through the Ruach HaKodesh the events that will befall his sons in the last days. The Brit Chadasha (Renewed Testament) refers to these death bed prophecies of Israel as an act of “worship.” In Genesis 48:5 he adopts Joseph's children born in Egypt, Ephraim and Manasseh as his own. He is declaring his last will and testament right there in front of Joseph. He officially adopts these two boys so that Joseph his most beloved son can receive a double portion of blessing through both his sons (verse 22). In verse 16 of Genesis 48 he calls these two grandchildren "Israel", since he not only adopts them but prophetically declares that the physical promise of physical global multiplicity will come through them. After stating "let my name be called upon them," meaning they are the same status of Israel's children, he prays that they will become a multitude. The Hebrew term used here for multitude can be read as a "teeming multitude of fish". It is interesting to remember that it was none other than our Messiah Yahushua—Jesus Christ--who declared that He would make us fishers of men. Could many of the men he was referring to be the "teeming multitude” proceeding from Ephraim and Manasseh?

As Israel is about to pronounce blessing he lays his right hand on Ephraim instead of Manasseh who was Joseph's firstborn. The right hand is symbolic of the blessing of the first born and should have rightfully fallen to Manasseh. However above the protests of Joseph, Israel crosses his hands and place the right one on the second of Joseph's sons Ephraim. When Joseph objects Israel tells him not to worry that he knows exactly what he is doing and that while Manasseh will become a great nation, Ephraim will be greater than him. In Genesis 48:19 we have one of the most fascinating and important prophecies of scripture. In blessing Ephraim over and above his brother, Israel declares that the “seed” or “zera” of Ephraim will become the "maleh goyim", or the "fullness of the Gentiles". In other words the physical seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that was promised to one day literally fill the earth as the sand and dust of the earth and stars of heaven, will now come to pass in and through Ephraim. Ephraim will be the vehicle though which the great and precious single promise of physical multiplicity will literally come to pass. In English the words "maleh hagoyim" can best be translated as the "fullness of the Gentiles". If that term sounds familiar it should. It is a quotation from Romans 11:25 by Rabbi Sha’ul (The Apostle Paul) as the method and means by which all Israel would be saved. The only other time this word maleh is used in Tanach is in Psalm 24:1, where the psalmist declares that the earth is God's and the fullness thereof. In other words the earth is full of peoples, places and things that belong to God and there is nothing found in the earth that does not belong to God. In like manner there will be virtually no one in the earth that is not somehow belonging to the seed of Ephraim since it is the seed of Ephraim where all the blessings of physical multiplicity will be found. More on that later.

Not only do we see Ephraim receiving the birthright of the first born over and above his older brother Manasseh, but Israel also removes it from Reuben in Genesis 49:3 & 4 since Reuben defiled his father's bed and was sexually impure regarding the privacy and intimacy of Israel's marriage bed. So in reality Ephraim is moved ahead of Reuben, Joseph and Manasseh to receive the blessing of the firstborn of Israel. First Kings 5:1-2 and Jeremiah 31:9, confirms this essential truth. There is however some needed insight at this point. In all ancient Mideast cultures the right of the firstborn was essential in establishing lordship over the house of the dying father. With the birthright went power, authority, respect, grandeur and the right to enact all family business and transactions pertaining to its sustenance, care and well being. In essence the birthright was the permission to the firstborn to take over and rule the fathers' house in the fathers absence through death. Isaac received this right from Abraham even as Jacob received it from Isaac, albeit deceitfully. With the birthright went power and therefore it was coveted greatly in that culture.

When Israel gave Ephraim the birthright, however, he gave it to him with one major reservation. We read about this in Genesis 49:8-10, where Judah is given the pre-eminence or power to rule and reign royally over the House Of Israel! In verse 9 it states that all Israel's children will bow before the royalty of Judah and verse 9 states that the pre-eminence will cause all Israel to pay homage to the “Lion of Judah” whom verse 10 refers to by the Messianic title of “Shiloh.” Shiloh means the "sent one" or the anointed King Messiah from the kingly line of Judah who would be manifest in the natural through the tribe of Judah. Hebrews 7:14 makes it clear that Yahushua--Jesus was Shiloh and it is evident that He sprang forth from Judah. What a mess!

Did Jacob make a major error? Did he go to all the trouble of establishing Ephraim as the firstborn with the firstborn birthright only to give him a title without authority and without preeminence over his brothers? Did he make Ephraim a puppet ruler with just a paper title much like the modern day Queen of England? One thing we know for sure. He brought a split into and among the sons of Israel since one son had a birthright but the other son Judah had the right to rule! What good is a birthright without the authority that goes along with it? The children of Israel would submit to Judah's seed not Ephraim's, yet Ephraim's seed would become the fullness of the Gentiles. Judah would rule over the House Of Israel, but Ephraim would bring forth the promised zera that would fill the globe with the promise to the patriarchs of physical multiplicity. Of course Israel knew what he was doing since he was ministering through the Ruach HaKodesh—Holy Spirit. He split the authority and blessing between the two brothers who would continue to wage war over the fullness of the blessing that would ultimately be played out in a battle royal over the title of who is Israel? How ironic that according to Genesis 49:10 it will be the Lion of Judah (Messiah Yahushua—Jesus Christ), that would gather the goyim or nations of the seed of Ephraim back into the House Of Israel! After Israel died and his children waxed great in Egypt this promise of physical multiplicity began to trouble a Pharaoh who knew not Joseph.

Of course he enslaved the Hebrews and it took Moses our great deliverer to rescue Israel from the house of bondage. As history teaches us Moses took the twelve tribes out of Egypt to Sinai where they received Torah and the twelve tribes settled the land of Canaan. After a period of diverse judges and after King Saul, David was anointed King over all Israel. In the days of David the King, we see the house of Judah ruling and reigning over a united Israel with 12 tribes under David's monarchy. All was well until Solomon, David's' son, began whoring physically as well as spiritually and God revealed to Solomon that the kingdom would be broken in the life of his son Rehoboam because of Solomon's sins. (First Kings 11:11-14). God further revealed to Jeroboam an Ephraimite, one of Solomon's talented craftsman, that he would receive ten tribes resulting from this split in the kingdom of Israel after Solomon's death. This prophecy was acted out in front of Jeroboam by Ahiyah the prophet. The glory days under David was the last time that the kingdom belonged to all Israel, made up of all twelve tribes. In approximately 921 BC the ten northern tribes broke away from the House of David and called themselves “Israel” making Samaria its capital. The southern tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi made up the southern kingdom under Rehoboam with Jerusalem as its capital (Read First Kings 11:26-43).

As Rehoboam prepares an army to retake the ten renegade tribes in the north, God forbids it in First Kings 12:24 by telling Rehoboam that this split in the House Of David is from Him and that they should not fight against their brothers. This split in 921 BC was simply the literal fulfillment of the prophetic unction's pronounced by Jacob over his sons when he split the family so to speak. He split the birthright between Ephraim and Judah and that is why God says in First Kings 12:24 that this family split is from Him. He ordained it and desired it so that He could bring to pass the promise He made to the patriarchs. Specifically the promise of physical multiplicity. The means by which our Heavenly Father chose to do this is through this split in David's House. We will see why later! What began with Jacob now was being played out in the natural. The Northern kingdom of ten tribes began to adopt pagan practices, holidays, customs, false worship and unfortunately Jeroboam became the father of Ephraimite pagans. In First Kings 12:26-33 we see the evil heart of Jeroboam son of Nebat at as he devised a scheme for the ten tribes collectively known as the House of Israel or Ephraim to begin to practice a false religion designed to keep Ephraim separate from Judah and separate from Judah's Elohim (God). As we will shortly come to realize this House of Ephraim would one day become hidden as individuals within the Christian Church through God's program of the regathering of Ephraim through Messiah Yahushua—Jesus Christ and would adopt all of the ungodly pagan practices of Jeroboam. This system of Jeroboam had as its basic design the creation of a separate entity from the House of David consisting of the ten tribes in the north.

This separation unto debauchery and unto Ephraim's departure from the family of Israel resulted in God's judgement in approximately 721 BCE when Hashem send Tilgat Pilsger III, the Assyrian king to utterly destroy the House Of Ephraim or the ten northern tribes. Since Ephraim played the harlot and lifted her skirt to every foreign deity, God declared that he would in like manner sift her and cause her to be naked before the Gentile nations, by bringing an end to the northern kingdom, of Israel. This stern punishment would be enacted by the dispersing and swallowing up of these ten tribes by the world's pagan nations. Since Ephraim's lust, penchant and desire for paganism was so great God permitted the ten tribes to become the very thing that they so desperately and so wickedly craved to be! Thus we find that the children of Israel experienced their first holocaust in 721 BCE when ten tribes seemingly disappeared and became lost spiritually as well as physically. Thus was born the ten lost tribes of Israel.

As we are about to discover this breakage was the method by which God chose to fulfill the family split caused by Jacob himself as well as to fulfill the promise of physical multiplicity to the patriarchs. Are the ten tribes really lost? Can they be found? Have they been destroyed or somehow preserved? Did the Messiah come to restore the Tabernacle of David which had fallen in 920 BCE? Did the ten lost tribes of Israel become Gentiles later to be regathered back into the House of Israel by the ministry of Moshiach? Is it possible that the ten tribes became the "maleh goyim" or the "fullness of the Gentiles" that we read about in Romans and that was promised to be the physical Israelite seed through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Ephraim? Let's find out!

The prophet Hosea is a great place to start our definitive search for the other house of Israel, the House of Ephraim. From this point forward the key to understanding prophecy related to the restoration of the twelve tribes into the House of David is to understand that after the split in 921 BCE God almost never ever refers to one house but to two houses of Israel! When He speaks to the North (10) tribes He speaks of Israel or Ephraim. When He speaks to the South He speaks of Judah. He always separates these two entities and unless you learn to do likewise you cannot and will not understand any prophetic writings or prophecies given by any of Israel's prophets after the split of the House of David. Get it fully settled in your minds that after 921 BC there was and still is two separate houses of Israel!! If you can comprehend this truth you are well on your way to being an instant prophecy expert!

In Hosea chapter One the prophet sent to the northern kingdom of Israel is told to take a wife who is a whore since that would give him a pretty good idea what the ten tribes have done to God. After cohabiting with Gomer, Hosea calls their daughter "Lo-Ruhammah" (verse 6), meaning “no mercy or compassion”. In verse 4 of Hosea One we see God putting an end to the northern House of Israel and in verse 6 He promises to never again show Israel in the north any mercy. In verse 7 God stated that unlike Israel, He will show mercy to Judah in the south. The couple conceived a son in verse 9 and God commands Hosea to call his name "Lo-Ami" for you are not my people and I am not for you. When God is against you the party is over. Israel or Ephraim is called Lo-Ami, not my people. No more mercy, no more my people, no more a kingdom, and God fighting against you.

We see clearly the end of the ten northern tribes as a nation before God.
A total divorce and rejection has taken place. Hosea 7:8,8:8,9:11,9:17,10:1,12:1 and other passages confirm that Ephraim's plight is to become Lo-Ami, swallowed up among the Gentiles. Yet in verse 10 we see a startling declaration.
Despite a death sentence for the ten tribes as an identifiable kingdom or nation, miraculously they reappear and are born-again so to speak in the last days. Verse 10 of Hosea One begins with the words "Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the seashore.” Here we have a kingdom totally destroyed and swallowed up among the Gentiles, miraculously reappearing as the former children of Israel and are even called the sand of the sea! Sound familiar? It should! This is the sand of the sea promise made to the patriarchs and to Ephraim. This verse further reveals to us just where we are going to find the ten lost tribes or the sand of the sea that cannot be counted.

The ones who call themselves and are called by God children of Elohim! Do you know any modern day group of people that run around referring to themselves and claiming themselves to be children of the living God! You got it! The born-again community of Gentile believers is nothing more than the former dispersed House Of Israel. God further states in this verse that when Ephraim is gathered they will be His people or His Ami and He will be their Elohim (God) since they have become sons of the living Elohim by grace though faith (Hosea 2:21-23). This cannot possibly be made any clearer. A nation that has come to an end, disappeared or become lost if you will, all of a sudden showing up as sons and daughters of God in the last days! Elohim Himself reminds us in verse 10 that this group in nothing more than the former House of Jeroboam or House of Israel. In verse 11 of Hosea One we see this return of the ten lost tribes coming back into the House of David in the days when these former lost Israelites appoint for themselves the same head that Messianic Jews are appointing for themselves.

This one head is the head of the body made up of nothing more than Judahites and Ephraimites with perhaps some true Gentiles, now restored to God as
redeemed individuals from both houses and are learning to trust and lean on the same Head by appointing that Head (Yahushua--Jesus) as personal
Elohim (Lord) and Savior! Verse 11 goes on to say that when individual
Ephraimites and Judahites are making this personal appointment of
Yahushua as king of their lives it will not be a day to build something
called the "Roman Church" where they replace the Jews as God’s chosen people, rather it will be the day of “Jezreal.” Jezreal means the replanting of those who were scattered! Praise God.

Notice the very next verse in Hosea 2:1, where both Judahites (Jews) and Ephraimites (Christians today) who appoint Yahushua as their head (in the day of Jezreal's regathering and replanting into David's rebuilt Tabernacle), will no longer look at their brothers and sisters as only “Spiritual brothers or sisters” only, but will see them in a new light. What light is that? As "ami!" Which means “my own people.” Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. When Ephraim and Judah are individually regenerated and regathered into the rebuilt Tabernacle of David then we will begin to recognize each other as blood brothers, as physical Israelites from different sides of the same family that have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb!

Author Unknown, 2004

I think this is one of the better summations I have ever read on this subject--I hope you enjoy it as well!

Ari

COULD WE BE SEEING THE ANTI-CHRIST

Okay, now that I have your attention....I really was impressed this morning in my prayer time that this Global Financial Meltdown will continue with huge ripples throughout the World. Should this continue I believe that we will be able to see the beginning of the rise to power of the Anti-Christ.

Think about, tonight at sundown starts the great fast called "Yom Kippur" or the "Day of Atonement." Jews worldwide will be repenting for the last years failures, and Christians will be applying the blood of Yeshua to our interactions over the last year. This culminates the 10 days of Awe--or the 10 days that Jews and Christians believers take to reflect on the past year; it begins with Rosh Hashana and ends on Yom Kippur.

What makes this important is that when Yeshua came the first time in fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy in Chapter 53--He fulfilled all the Spring Feasts of Israel....He IS our Passover Lamb, and he Is our Unleavened Bread, and He IS our Shavuot--our Day of Pentecost. Yeshua's promise to return has to do with fulfilling all the Fall Festivals of the Israelites.....First is Rosh Hashana--the Biblical Feast of Trumpets, sounding the alarm calling all believers to enter into repentance. Secondly, is Yom Kippur, also called the Day of Atonement or the Day of the "Great Judgement" which will seal all who will live in the next year--those who will die in this next year, and those who are in the valley of decision. Thirdly, is the Feast of Sukkot, or the Biblical Feast of Tabernacles, where Jewish and Christian believers from all over the world dwell outside for 8 days, taking all meals outside, which is a mirror of what Christians call the "Marriage Supper of the Lamb." Forth, is the Festival called "Simchat Torah" or the "Joy of receiving the Torah: God's Teaching and Instructions" which is the Word of God--Jesus Christ!

Jesus will return with the mighty blast of the Rams Horn called a "Shofar"--the Feast of Rosh Hashana. He will judge all who have not called upon His Name to be saved and will save those who have--the Day of Atonement. When Jesus sets up His millennial Kingdom--this is Sukkot--God dwelling in a Tabernacle with His people while having celebratory meals. Lastly, when Jesus returns for His Bride, it will be the Most Joyous return of the living Word of God--Jesus Christ.

Now I could take time to prove from Genesis to Revelation what I am going to say here--but for time I will be brief. The fulfillment of the rebirth of the Nation of Israel and it's inhabitation by the Jewish people and Christian people, started the final prophetic clock. The Bible says that one generation will not pass from the rebirth of Israel until ALL THINGS are made complete........this includes the Fall Festivals being kept by Yeshua. The clock began in 1948 and will not be a day longer than 7o years.....now please do the math, 1948--plus 70 years [the time of one generation] is.......you guess it..........2018.

Now if the final macro [large] time period is a mandatory 10 years, mirroring the 10 days of Awe, then this means that the beginning of the end of days as we know them today has begun with Rosh Hashana in 2008--meaning some 9 days ago. and this means that in just 3 and one half short years, there will be a war--or financial drought of Epic proportions.....which is what we see happening now all over the global economic crisis. French President Nicholas Sarkosy has already publicly stated that "from this crash--a new world order will appear." [See the Drudge Report, October 8th, 2008 http://www.drugereport.com] A new world order?? Is that not the rally cry of the Anti-christ spirit? Of course it is.

Today there is great fear, depression and unrest, and whoever comes up with the plan to "save the world" will be someone who is the anti-one chosen to lie about saving the world, when he has no intention to do anything but destroy. Whoever solves this crisis will be someone that the WHOLE WORLD will admire.....and will be willing to follow. Now insert Putin in Russia, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Pakistan, India, Turkey and little old Israel; and what you have is the War of Gog and Magog that will most likely be the last true World War.

It is prophesied tat 2/3rd's of Israel's inhabitants will be killed in this epic battle; and there will be a Man who will rise up from the ashes of world conflict to bring all nations to "Peace and Safety;" a period to last 3 and one half years in which the 3rd Temple will be rebuilt right beside the Muslim Mosque [God Forbid] and Jerusalem will be names as an "International City" where all Nations will put their foreign Embassies. Be aware that this is the Bush Doctrine, the Obama Doctrine and the McCain Doctrine in Israel.

Sacrifices will once again be offered in the Third Temple--in violation of the Scripture--which says "Do not make offerings anywhere you please--but only in the place where I CHOOSE TO PUT MY NAME say the Lord." God has chosen to put His Name in Human Temples of the living God.....but the pressure for peace and the lure of prosperity will allow it to happen.....but why---what would be the lure of prosperity--when we are told this bail-out will work and that bailout will work--but it does not. ONLY a Man who restored prosperity BEFORE, one who has the trust of the free market system.....will have the ability to garner that kind of faith from a cynical and jaded public.

Whoever solves this economic crisis--for the reasons that I have argued above, will most likely be the beast that rise to power--that we call the Anti-christ......the one who promises salvation but instead brings destruction of the 3rd Temple in just 6 short years from now. This is all laid out in the story of Joseph in the Bible--His Brothers thought He was dead--but He was not--just like Jesus. He went into Prison--just like Jesus went into Death, Hell and the Grave...and Then He rose to be the 2nd in charge of all the Good Pharaoh's property.....and much later another Pharaoh rose to power--just like the antichrist will rise to power, and will begin to place people in "slavery" to fear, abandonment, the economy.....then God will raise up a Moses--one drawn out of "water" or "out of the sea"--which is a Hebraic idiom for "people groupings and groups of people"--meaning from among the Nations.......to lead captivity captive.

The new Pharaoh--whoever solves this financial crisis which seems unimaginable......will chase after the Moses figures--those who have put on Christ......but the weight of the Sea (again--"people groups and groups of people") which was separated...which is a picture of the Biblical House of Judah or the Jewish People today and the Biblical House of Israel which are the Christians today, which is described in Ezekiel 37:15-28........our reunion will bring an end to the wicked Pharaoh....the Antichrist. I think you can see that all things are in place......so now you know what you are looking at and perhaps what is happening.

Will this all take place? only God knows for certain--but I do guarantee you that many of these things I have illustrated will surely come to pass.......so watch and pray and rejoice for our salvation has never been closer. "FEAR NOT LITTLE FLOCK, FOR I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD" saith Jesus Christ of Nazareth--and He also said constantly DO NOT BE AFRAID-FOR IT IS "I" --the Holy One of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who has overcome the world--and he also promised to "NEVER LEAVE YOU OR FORSAKE YOU--EVEN TO THE END OF DAYS!!"

Be watching................

Pastor Ariel