WHO IS ISRAEL?
The Honor of Kings
1. The Basic History
1.1.The nation of Israel is comprised of Twelve Tribes:
Reuben
Simeon
Levi
Judah
Dan
Naphtali
Gad
Asher
Issachar
Zebulun
Joseph
Benjamin
1.2.Two Houses Formed.
Because of Solomonβs (son of David) disobedience to the Holy Covenant, in going after strange gods, Israel was split into two kingdoms. Judah and Benjamin joined together and formed Judea (Judah), in the south with Jerusalem remaining as their capital, and the other 10 tribes formed the Northern Kingdom, in the north with Samaria as their new capital. These two kingdoms, or two houses, are referred to as the house of Judah, and the house of Israel. (two sticks/two olive trees)
1.3.The Split Was Prophesied To Happen.
In Deuteronomy 4:27-31 we see the first prophecy that Israel will be exiled from the promised land and scattered from one end of the earth to another, where there they will worship other gods. (π π°ππ).
27.And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the Lord shall lead you.
28.And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29.But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
30.When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
31.(For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
In Deuteronomy 28:63-64, Moses gave this prophecy again in the same speech he delivered regarding the curses that would come with disobedience to the covenant.
63 And it shall come to pass, that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
64 And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
Later, in Deuteronomy 32:26 God reminds us of this prophecy which shall come to pass and tells us again that not only will Israel be scattered to the four corners of the earth, but moreover, their identity will be lost.
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
We see the same loss of identity mentioned again in Psalm 83:4 (speaking of the other nations).
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
1.4.It Came To Pass That Israel was Indeed Scattered.
First, in 722 BC, the northern kingdom was sent into exile in Assyria.
See 2 Kings 17:5-6 (remember Samaria was their capital).
5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Assyria is the country that we call βTurkeyβ today, just north-west of the land of Israel. Itβs also important to know that the northern kingdom never returned to the land. We will get into the prophecy of their return later with scripture.
1.5.The First Exile Of Judah.
After the northern kingdom was sent into exile, only the southern kingdom was left in the land. 2 Kings 17:18.
18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
In 605 BC The first wave of Judah was exiled into Babylon, we see an account of this in 2 Kings 24:10-16.
10.At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
11.And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
12.And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
13.And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, as the Lord had said.
14.And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
15.And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
16.And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
In Daniel 1:1-4 we learn more:
1.In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.
2.And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.
3.And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes;
4.Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.
At this point Judah learned the ways of the Chaldeans in Babylon. This is where the evil Talmud was written and where Judah learned the ways of the sunset-to-sunset sabbath. Much bad tradition and doctrine came out of Babylon. This is why Yahusha so sharply rebuked the Pharisees, calling them of their father the devil, dead men's bones, etc. The Pharisees worshipped according to false Babylonian traditions and taught the rest of Judah to do the same. The Chaldeans were a rich nation, and they took the most cunning and skillful out of Judah and became even more powerful. Descendants of Chaldeans still run the world today, we call them the βFreemasonsβ or the βIlluminatiβ - The Oculus Cult.
1.6.The Second Exile Of Judah.
`In 586 BC, we see accounts of the final exile and destruction of the temple in 2 Kings 25:8-12, 2 Chronicles 36:15-21, and Jeremiah 52:12-14. Letβs just read the Chronicle account for now:
15.And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
16.But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
17.Therefore, he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
18.And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
19.And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
20.And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
21.To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate, she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
Two important details: Judah became servants to the Babylonians. And it was to be for a length of time given as βuntil the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate, she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.β
Understand there is a weekly Sabbath given by God, made for man (Isaiah 58:13), the one in the 10 commandments. This weekly Sabbath is part of the Holy Covenant which we are still under today.
Exodus 31:16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
There is also an annual Sabbath (Leviticus 25) as part of the sacrificial law given by Moses, added because of transgression to the 10 commandments (Galatians 3:19) until the refreshing of the Holy Covenant. In this annual Sabbath the land and animals within were to gain rest for the entire year, every seven years.
So, God says, βYou wonβt keep my instructions? You won't listen to me? Alright, off you go.β So, this passage here that we just read in 2 Chronicles 36:21:
21 To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate, she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
Is quoting that which Jeremiah already prophesied of in Jeremiah 25:11-12. (Threescore and ten years is just KJV language for 70 years).
11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
6 Judah Returns To The Land.
The only reason there are ethnic Jews in the country that we call Israel today is because their ancestors returned. Remember they picked up that evil Talmud and still observe Babylonian calendar; they still keep the Chaldeans traditions. That is why Jews are renowned for their belief in their ethnic supremacy because their Talmud tells them that anyone not an ethnic Jew is like unto cattle and basically to go ahead and abuse them. They believe that gentiles will be their slaves in the new kingdom. However, there is a remnant of Judah that is not like this and they know their brothers and sisters (Northen Kingdom) are still scattered and are trying to find them as Yahusha instructed them to do.
We see the return of Judah in Ezra-Nehamiah, specifically in Ezra 1:1-4, Ezra 3:1-3 and Nehemiah 2:17-18. Let's just read Ezra 1 for the sake of completeness.
1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he hath charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.
4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.
1.6 The House Of Israel Never Returned To The Land.
There is no account of the northern kingdom returning to the land in scripture. There is not even any serious debate over this matter in terms of the worldly historical view. There is no evidence of a return, this is almost universally accepted. In fact, if you do a bit of research, you will even find that the Assyrians carried out a policy of forced population displacement.
But more importantly we do see many scriptures telling us that in the time of Yahusha, they were still scattered. Yahusha tells us that he came for ONLY the LOST sheep of THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL in Matthew 15:24.
24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
For now, understand that Yahusha himself said that he came only for those scattered sheep.
2. Israel Dispersed
2.1.The Jews Knew That Their Brothers and Sisters From The Northern Kingdom Were Scattered.
When Yahusha told the Jews that he was going someplace they wonβt be able to find him, we know that he was talking about the kingdom of God. But we see that the Jews thought in John 7:35 that perhaps he was talking about going to βthe dispersedβ.
35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
Strong's concordance shows that Gentiles just means Nations and that βdispersedβ literally means scattered, from the root Greek word βSownβ. This is the same word Paul and Peter use when they address their letters; written to the scattered.
2.2. Paul describing the βGentilesβ
Ephesians 2:11-12
Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world
βBeing aliensβ from the commonwealth of Israel means to be βestrangedβ according to Strongβs Concordance, which by default means that they were, at one time, part of the commonwealth of Israel. By the time Paul was sent to them they had completely forgotten the Holy Covenants and had no hope because they were without God.
2.3.My People, Which Were Not My People - The Divorce
When Paul says in Romans 9:24-25 that God has called the Jews and the Gentiles, heβs saying Judah, and the house of Israel who were dispersed into the Gentiles and therefore are now called Gentiles.
24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As he saith also in Hosea, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
Moreover, let's see what he was quoting there in Hosea, its Hosea 1:1-11
1.The word of the Lord that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
2.The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord.
3.So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.
4.And the Lord said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu,π and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.π
5.And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.
6.And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.
7.But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
8.Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
9.Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
10.π Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
11.Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel. π
The Father will call those who were not his people (because they were divorced), His people again. Or as Hosea puts it: the sons of the living God. The only people who were His people, prophesied to one day be His people again, are the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
3. Only Israel Get Saved
3.1.The Only Gates To Heaven Are Those With The Names Of The 12 Tribes Written on them.
John saw Heaven and he saw only 12 gates, with the 12 tribes' names on them. Revelation 21:10-13.
10.And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
11.Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
12.And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
13.On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
There is no Gentile gate. There is no Church gate.
3.2.The White Stone.
Messiah says that he will give to those who overcome a white stone with a new name written on it in Revelation 2:16-17. That stone has the name of the tribe that we have been grafted into; the gate through which we will enter into the kingdom.
16.Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
17.He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
3.3.The Seven Churches That Revelation Was Written To Are All In Assyria.
In Revelation 1:11, Yahusha instructed John to write to seven churches in Asia, which is Asia Minor, previously Assyria, or the landmass that we call Turkey today.
11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
Google those places and we can see this is, where they all are:
This is where the northern kingdom was initially scattered (2 Kings 17:5-6) before their descendants fulfilled prophecy by spreading to the four corners of the earth.
3.4.Letters Addressed To The Northern Kingdom.
1 Peter 1:1-2 is addressed to the ELECT strangers SCATTERED throughout nations in Asia Minor also.
1 Peter, an apostle of Yahusha the Messiah, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Yahusha the Messiah: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
All these nations were where the northern kingdom was scattered to as well, noting Galatia, again, the northern kingdom dispersed into the Gentiles, who are Gentiles.
James 1:1.
1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Yahusha the Messiah, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
James wrote to the 12 tribes. No one else.
Remember, the dispersion, the lost brothers and sisters, the lost sheep, were known to be in these northern nations at the time, John 7:35 which we read earlier is the evidence for that.
3.5.The New Covenant Is Only For Israel.
Jeremiah 31:31 tells us clearly that the new covenant, which is what the Almighty will give us, being new hearts when in the kingdom, is only made to Israel (which is both houses).
βBehold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:β
This hasnβt happened yet but is to come. Jeremiah 31:32-34:
32.Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:
33.But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34π And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.π
We know this new covenant made only with the house of Israel and the House of Judah hasn't begun yet. Three reasons:
Reason 1) Which two commandments did the Messiah elevate in Matthew 22:37-40?
37.Yahusha said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38.This is the first and great commandment.
39.And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
40.On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
And what was he quoting? Deuteronomy 6-8 for Loving God, and Leviticus 19:15-18 for loving your neighbor as yourself (James calls this the royal law in James 2:8-9).
8.If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
9.But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
Without reading Deuteronomy chapter 6 to 8 to see what it means to love God with all your heart, mind and soul, (which we absolutely must do), it means to keep his commandments. For Israel at the time, this meant the 10 commandments (the Holy Covenant), as well as the sacrificial law which was added because of transgression thereof. For us, now that Messiah refreshed the Holy Covenant, this simply means keep the 10 commandments.
And loving your neighbor as yourself IS LIKE UNTO IT and means to rebuke and forgive your neighbor when they break the 10 commandments. Leviticus 19:15-18
15.Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.
16.Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor; I am the Lord.
17.Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him.
18.Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the Lord.
Yahusha could not have meant anything else in Matthew 22:37-40, because if God changes the definition of something later, then he is the author of confusion. Let scripture define scripture, when something is defined in the bible the first time, that is its definition. We donβt get to redefine things to fit our deceitful heart's desire.
The church is now apostate; corrupt. The church will say that the new covenant started with Yahusha's resurrection. Messiah taught us to teach your neighbors not to sin. In the new covenant we will not need to teach your neighbors because everyone will naturally live sinless.
Reason 2) The new covenant says: βfor they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of themβ. Do ALL know the Creator today? Absolutely not. We still live our lives surrounded by atheists and agnostics, even the Apostate Christian church itself has over 50,000 denominations. So, if the new covenant is in effect now, that would make God a liar.
Reason 3) The house of Israel is still lost, so how can a lost house receive a new covenant?
The new covenant is for the millennial reign, where only then will the house of Israel be gathered, and Judah and the house of Israel will united and receive the new covenant.
The new covenant hasnβt happened yet. When it happens, it only is given to Israel, the reunited northern and southern tribes, not to a house of Gentiles. Therefore, be grafted into Israel and be partakers of the kingdom.
4. You Must Be Grafted into Israel To Be Saved
Only Israel (both houses - all 12 tribes) make it into the kingdom. But the northern kingdom has been dispersed and lost their identity in the world. What's the plan for the lost sheep of the house of Israel? Graft into the tree.
4.1.What It Means to be Grafted In.
Jeremiah 3:8 tells us that backsliding Israel (the house of Israel) has been divorced by the Almighty.
8.And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
But just before that in Jeremiah 3:1, God says βyet return to meβ.
1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord.
But Deuteronomy 24:1-3 tells us that if you commit adultery, you can't be re married.
1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
4 Her former husband, which sent her away, πmay not take her again to be his wifeπ, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the Lord: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
That's a problem, right? The solution starts in John 17:9-10 where Yahusha says:
9.I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
10.And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
Keep that in mind now when we read Romans 7:
1 Know ye not, brethren, π(for I speak to them that know the law,)π how that the law hath dominion over a man πas long as he liveth?π
Even stopping there, Paul is saying, βIβm only talking to those who know the lawβ so go back and read the part of the law heβs talking about. We already did just now but you see that's the clue, you have to keep your eye out for these things when you read scripture.
2 πFor the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.π
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Paul who knew the law and is explaining to us that a woman canβt remarry so long as her husband lives. However, if her husband dies she is free to remarry and is no longer an adulteress.
Recall that in Romans 9:24 Paul (quoting Hosea 1) said that God has called not only the Jews but the Gentiles. And in the next verse he calls this group of Gentiles βmy people, which were not my peopleβ. Well in Hosea 2:23 we get even more detail.
23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
YAHUSHA DIED FOR YOU TO ABLE TO BE REMARRIED WITH THE ALMIGHTY. This is what dying for your sins means. Israel sinned (with idolatry/spiritual adultery) and was divorced. Yahusha died for those sins so we could be remarried again, be born again, and become one with him.
That's the gospel. Yahusha came to end sacrificial law and refresh the Holy Covenant (a.k.a the 10 commandments). This allows us to be married again if we keep that covenant. The gospel isnβt that the Messiah came so that you could do whatever is right in your own eyes, forsake the perpetual covenant and enter the kingdom anyway. That's the apostate church version, and itβs exactly what the devil wants you to believe.
This is why the Jews today donβt care to get the lost sheep of the northern kingdom. They don't believe in Yahusha the Messiah. They don't think the northern kingdom is allowed to come back (because they have been divorced) despite the many scriptures even in the Old Testament saying otherwise. They don't understand that Yahusha's death is the way that the house of Israel can return.
Being grafted in means we become spiritual Israel, we inherit Israel's instructions, covenants, as well as the promises, and curses thereof.
4.2.Be Grafted In to The Olive Tree
In Romans 11:11-27 Paul likens Gentiles who repent and are obedient to what the Messiah taught, unto branches being grafted into an olive tree.
11.I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12.Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
13.For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14.If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15.For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16.For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17.And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18.Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19.Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20.Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21.πFor if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.π
22.πBehold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.π (OSAS debunked).
23.And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24.πFor if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?π (Judah can be grafted in also).
25.For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26.And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27.For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
We see that because of the Messiah's sacrifice, we can now be grafted into Israel and enter the kingdom and new covenant. Donβt be arrogant, because if he cut off the natural branches, how much sooner will he cut off the unnatural branches that were grafted in? Donβt do what the northern kingdom did in 2 Kings 17 (π π°ππ) otherwise we will be thrown into the fire.
4.3.Yahusha Is The Olive Tree
Yahusha is the olive tree; we see that in Isaiah 11:1.
1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots.
King David the son of Jesse.
Zechariah even saw this vision long before the Messiah came. Zechariah 4:1-3.
1 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.
2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
3 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
And this is the real flag of Israel, it's not some 6-pointed star like the one you put on your christmas tree of remphan (Acts 7:43) which belongs to moloch.
43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
In John 15:1-6 Yahusha uses a parable of a vine.
1.I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2.Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3.Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4.Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5.I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6.π If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.π
We must abide in Yahusha or we get cast into the fire. John 14 tells you how to abide in Yahusha. John 14:15-21 says:
15.If ye love me, keep my commandments.
16.And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17.Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18.I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19.Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
20.At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
21.He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
To abide in Yahusha, to love Yahusha, means to keep his commandments. What commandments? To love Yahusha means to keep the 10 commandments.
4.4.Ezekiel's βSticksβ
Ezekiel 37:15-28 tells us yet again, that the two houses will one day become one again.
15.The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
16.Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17.And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
18.And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
19.Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
20.And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
21.And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22.And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
23.Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24.And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25.And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26.Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27.My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28.And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
And the word translated as βstick/sβ here is βTreeβ. The lying pen of the scribes doesn't want us to make the connection to the olive tree.
4.5.The Wise and Foolish Virgins
The church must realize that we are the 10 virgins from Yahusha parable in Matthew 25:1-13.
1.Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
2.And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
3.They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4.But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
5.While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
6.And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
7.Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
8.And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
9.But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
10.And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
11.Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
12.πBut he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.π
13.πWatch thereforeπ, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Compare those last couple of verses to what Yahusha says again in Matthew 7:22-23.
22.Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23.And then will I profess unto them, πI never knew youπ: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
The church are gentiles, and if they keep covenant, are grafted into the commonwealth of Israel. Paul even says don't become proud, don't do the same things the ancient Israelites did in 2 Kings 17 because you will get plucked out even quicker than they did because you arenβt even the natural branches. But they don't listen, and are proud. They even think they have replaced Israel and can go and do pagan witchcraft and lie to their children about it because they are βonce saved always savedβ. NO, they will get cut off.
The church does not realize they are the 10 virgins, and some will be wise and some will be foolish. People celebrating christmas and easter, not keeping the covenant from Horeb, are the foolish ones who are building their houses on sand which will fall GREATLY.
Matthew 15:21-28 This is the passage where Yahusha says he only came for the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Let's read around it.
21.Then Yahusha went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
22.And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
The coast of Tyre and Sidon, where is that? The North.
23.But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
24.But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
25.Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
26.But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
27.And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
28.Then Yahusha answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
See this all happened to prove the point that gentiles, the lost sheep of the house of Israel, can be grafted in. It was only after the woman showed her faith that her child was made well.
5. How To Be Grafted into Israel
5.1.You Must Keep The 10 Commandments To Be Grafted Into Israel
Isaiah 56:3-7 tells us this:
3 π Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.π
4 πFor thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;π
5π Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name (white stone), that shall not be cut off.π
6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
To be grafted into Israel, and the Almighty's kingdom, you have to keep the Holy Covenant. Hosea 4:6 tells us if we reject knowledge, we will be rejected.
6 π My peopleπ are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject
thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Remember βmy people, which were not my peopleβ are those who are grafted into spiritual Israel.
The question begs, what is knowledge (from the root Hebrew word βyadaβ, which means βto knowβ)? Let's keep reading, in Hosea 6:6-7 we get more detail.
6 For I desired πmercy, and not sacrificeπ; and the πknowledge of Godπ more than burnt offerings.
7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Yahusha himself even told you to go and learn what this means in Matthew 9:13 when he says:
13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
So clearly knowledge has something to do with mercy, so what is the mercy Yahusha was speaking of? How do we obtain this mercy? Look at Deuteronomy 7:9-10.
9 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which πkeepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generationsπ;
10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
Deuteronomy 5:9-10 tells us the same thing. We must read this whole chapter. Because this is the same chapter where he tells us the covenant at Horeb is the 10 commandments.
9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
10 πAnd shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.π
To be grafted into Israel, it is simple. Keep the 10 commandments. Yahusha tells us that his yoke is easy and his burden is light in Matthew 11:28-30:
8 Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29.Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30.For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
He tells us to learn of him, learn what this easy yoke and light burden is.
Proverbs 19:16.
16 He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.
Matthew 7:21-27
21.Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22.Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23.And then will I profess unto them, πI never knew youπ: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
24.Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a πwise man, which built his house upon a rock:π
25.And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26.π And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27.And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.π
The wise man builds his house on the rock, which is the rock of Horeb and keeps the commandments given there in Deuteronomy 5. The foolish man is the apostate church, prophesied to fall, who know the true gospel, but forsake it to go off and commit spiritual adultery (π π°ππ).
5.2.After You Have Received Knowledge, Don't Turn Back
Once you receive the truth, you have to stay in it. Hebrews 10:26 says:
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins.
Matthew 10:37 puts it another way:
37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Yahusha says in Matthew 19:29:
29.And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Hebrews 6:4-6 also tells us:
4.For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5.And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6.πIf they shall fall awayπ, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
But the church won't show us that verse, or if they do they will twist it away to tickle your ears.
Don't be like Lot's wife in Genesis 19:24-26.
24.Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
25.And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
26.But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
When we come out of spiritual Sodom, donβt look back, we canβt drink from both cups. 1 Corinthians 10:21:
21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
Proverbs 26:11:
11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, So a fool returneth to his folly.
And remember what happens to foolish men, who build their house upon the sand? They fall.
Review the parable of the seed sower in Matthew 13 to see what Yahusha has to say about this matter.
6. God Is Calling Us to Do Exactly That - Be Grafted In
6.1.Come Out Of Her My People!
The Creator wants us to come out of the apostate church which is a harlot according to the book of Revelation.
Revelation 18:1-5
1.And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
2.And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3.For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4.And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, π Come out of her, π my peopleπ, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.π
5.For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Hosea 12:6
6.Therefore turn thou to thy God: π keep mercy and judgmentπ and wait on thy God continually.
And Yahusha already taught us what mercy means, so this could read: βTherefore turn thou to thy Creator: keep the 10 commandments and royal law and wait on thy Creator continually.β
That is what we are supposed to hear. That is why Isaiah 28:10 tells us to read scripture in this manner:
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little
Hosea 14:1
1 O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
In Isaiah 57:16-21 we see prophecy of entering the kingdom if we have a contrite and humble spirit toward God:
15.For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
16.For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
17.For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on forwardly in the way of his heart.
18.I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
19.I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace πto him that is far off, and to him that is nearπ, saith the Lord; and I will heal him.
20.But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
21.There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
When Yahusha was talking to Judah, he even told them he had sheep that were not of their fold that must return in John 10:14-16.
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 π And other sheep I have, which are not of this foldπ: them also I must bring,π and they shall hear my voice;π and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
We know from Matthew 15:42 which we read earlier that Yahusha only came for the lost sheep of the House of Israel. This passage in John speaks to Israel.
6.2.Get Your Brothers and Sisters as Well!
Not only are we called to be grafted in, but Yahusha tells us that itβs not good enough to just return ourselves, but to also go and get others of his flock. That's why he asked Peter three times if he loved him, and then every time he said βGo, feed my sheepβ in John 21:15-18.
15 So when they had dined, Yahusha saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.
16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Yahusha saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
This is a command, a requirement. We cannot feed your own belly. If we love Yahusha, we will love his sheep. Let's compare what we just read there with John 14:15-21 again.
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
John tells us plainly in his first letter (1 John 5:1-3):
1 Whosoever believeth that Yahusha is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
2π By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandmentsπ. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
This is exactly what we are trying to do with this presentation. What will you choose to do?
Yahusha said this in Matthew 22:14.
14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
6.3.When Did Israel's Punishment End?
This is a bit of speculation, but there is some evidence in Ezekiel 4:1-6 that Israel's punishment might have ended in 2008. We see Ezekiel laid on his left side for 390 days for each year of Israel's iniquity.
1.Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
2.And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
3.Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
4.Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
5.πFor I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.π
6.And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
Israel went into captivity in 722 BC and Ezekiel received this prophecy where he was to lay on his left side for 390 days, a symbol of the punishment for the northern kingdom. The northern kingdom did not repent, they didnβt turn back to God, and God had already said long before in Leviticus 26:13-21 that if they donβt repent he will punish them seven times more.
13.I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
14.But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
15.And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
16.I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17.And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
18.πAnd if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.π
19.And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
20.And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
21.And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
7 times 390 = 2730 years. If you subtract the date of exile, 722, you get the year 2008 AD. Interestingly, around this time and after, a lot of people started to wake up to the true gospel and come out of the church.
Again, this is a bit of speculation, but we know also from Hosea 6:1-2 that the Messiah will tarry for two days before his return.
1Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
And from 2 Peter 3:8 that:
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
If Yahusha died between 28-33 AD, and we add 2000 years for the two days, before subtracting
3.5 years for the great tribulation as per Revelation 12:14 (time, times and a half) and Revelation 13:5 (42 months), the sixth seal could open as early as spring time in 2024 and as late as 2029.
We must QUICKLY keep the covenants of promise as listed in Ephesians 2; Horeb Covenant and Rainbow Covenant. Please go to the Covenants of Promise tab for more information.
7. The Second Exodus
The northern kingdom will return to the land in the second exodus. So great will be the Second Exodus that no one will even mention again the first one out of Egypt. Jeremiah 16:14-15:
14.Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be said, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
15.But, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
Jeremiah 23:7-8.
7.Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that they shall no more say, The Lord liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
8.But, The Lord liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
The church knew this before it went apostate. The apostacy prophesied to happen in many places:
2 Thessalonians 2:1-3, 1 Timothy 4:1, 2 Timothy 3:1-9, and Daniel 11 to name a few. They used to have a hymn from Isaiah 51:11.
11 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.