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by Your servant, Dan
The Division
– Understanding Israel and Judah as a separate people
We need to understand a little about
the complex makeup of the people of Israel.
We call them all Jews today but it is much more than that. The complexity in the divisions of the
Tribes, the spite, North and South, the captivity periods, the seeming
disappearance of the Northern ten tribes, the Roman dispersions, not once but
twice. In many ways the term “Jew” means
as much about a religion as it does a people, but this term is used generically
in reference to all people of Israel. As
a religion it is as divided as the Christian religions, with sects and cults,
customs that don’t agree in dress or manners.
Still, our Bible, accepted as coming from our Creator, tell us that the
whole House of Israel is going to one day be resurrected. More on that later, for now let’s have a
brief look at this anomaly we call Israel.
Israel
is to be restored as well as the tribe of Judah, once again the two separate
ancient divisions, the Northern tribes divided from the Southern tribe bound up
together as one (Eze 37:16-17). The
world at large sees the modern state of Israel as the Jews occupying what some
refer to as Israel. It is taught by most
Christian Churches that the Israel of today, in the news almost daily, is the
Israel of Bible prophecy, this is only partly true. The fact is most of the Israelite people in
modern Israel today are of the tribes that made up the southern portion of the
Kingdom of Israel, Judah, along with three other tribes, all called Jews as
they are known today. The House of
Israel is all of the tribes; all of the people that entered the
promise land, all twelve tribes are the HOUSE.
Twelve
Tribes or Thirteen
With
the tribe of Joseph receiving a double portion through his two sons Ephraim and
Manasseh there are actually thirteen tribes, and you could count even higher
than that if you count in the division of the Priesthood (more on that later). The nation of Israel eventually divided north
and south. The Northern Kingdom called
“Israel” and the Southern Kingdom, Judah.
Judah, at the time of separation, amounted to four tribes: The Levites, a priestly family in service to
the Temple at Jerusalem, although they possessed no land as such, were given
thirteen towns and adjoining pasture land in the southern province. The four tribes in the south, encompassing
Jerusalem and the Temple were Judah, Benjamin, and Simeon – three sons of Leah,
Rachel’s handmaid and Benjamin, son of Rachel. The tribe of Benjamin, a tribe
that always seemed to be at odds with the other tribes, finding sanctuary
around Jerusalem and being closer to Judah than his brother Joseph’s sons,
Ephraim and Manasseh, Benjamin’s tribal nephews, located to his immediate
North. Next is the Tribe of Simeon
positioned to the southern boundary, and of course, Judah the dominate figure
of these people occupying the area that housed the city of Jerusalem and the
Temple, and the Kingdom throne. Judah is seen as a composite of these
four tribes, or clans, while the remainder occupied the Northern
territory. These clans of the North became known as Israel, the
"Lost Ten Tribes", as they came to be known.
All
Jews are Israelites but not all Israelites are Jews – the total “House of
Israel” is all of the people, all of the tribes, the northern and the southern
tribes combined. Judah, technically is
representative of only four tribes, mention before, the total of the whole
house of Israel was fathered by one man, two wives and two handmaidens. Rachel’s handmaid, Bilhah and Leah’s
handmaid, Zilpah, each mothering two tribes each. Dan and Naphtali, sons of Bilhah and Gad and
Asher, sons of Zilpah and all four of these named tribes went with the
breakaway Northern tribes. There was a
small mixture of Israelite (Northern 10 tribes) people defected from the
North at the time of the break away, preferring to stay with the original
Temple Order located in Jerusalem, but this was a very small minority, but
still, a representative of some of the Northern tribes.
Eventually the Northern Tribes were overrun
by the Assyrians, taken captive, removed from the land into slavery by the
Assyrians and their cities turned over to another people. The
rise of the Babylonian Empire replaced and displacing the Assyrians,
ultimately leading to the dispersion of the Northern Tribes along with the
Assyrians, into the uncharted parts of the world, mostly the area we call
Europe, their identity, for the most part, becoming lost to history. There seems to be some historical evidence
for the mysterious appearance of those called Celts with the Israelite
people. The Celtic history, however,
seems to come from the time of Israel’s leaving Egypt. About this time the Celts seemed to appear in
Europe. They are a mystery people,
seemingly appearing out of nowhere.
Their legends, however, paint a picture of having crossed the southern
seas (Mediterranean). Clearly these were
not Egyptian. What may make sense is
that these people, either a mixture of some Israelites and other slaves took
the opportunity to escape Egypt under the on slot of the plagues. At any rate, when we examine the linage of
those called Israel or descendants of Israel they are a mixture of people. We are not told what race the handmaidens,
Bilhah and Zilpah were. Each hand maid
was given to Rachel and Leah by their father when they left their home land to
go with Jacob. It is quite possible
these two handmaids were also Hebrews as indentured servants. This would make all of the sons of these four
women from the same blood lines.
The
Jews, the four-tribe union, Judah, Levi, Benjamin, and Simeon has always
maintained its identity under the banner of Judah and are the composite of what
we see as the state of Modern Israel. It
is no accident that the territory Modern Israel occupies today is basically the
same land area the tribe of Judah, along with Simeon and Benjamin, and Levi
occupied before they were taken captive by the Babylonian Empire and later
dispersed by the Roman Empire many, many years later. The tribe of Levi
possessed no claim to any territory as did the other tribes and were obviously
assimilated into the other three tribes, as were a mixture of their descendants
from the Northern Tribes that stayed with Judah when the split occurred, as
well as the Kohathites of the priestly, kin to the tribe of Levi. When
taken by the Assyrians (Salmaneser V, pretty much putting an end to the
Israelite Northern Tribes around 725 B.C.).
The Assyrians were eventually displaced by the Babylonian Empire and
were pushed out of the territory they held and in this dispersion the people of
the Northern tribes went as well.
One might assume that some intermixing with
Assyrian blood would only be natural as both groups escape the oppression of
the new power of Babylon. The Assyrians were a fierce people and enjoyed being
masters of the Fertile Crescent, an area that swept from Persia (We call Iran
today) over Babylon (the Area we know as Iraq today) up into the north (Turkey
of today) falling south over the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea to engulf
Egypt. There was one small hold out in the middle of the Assyrian
Empire, Jerusalem and the immediate area around Jerusalem amounting to the state
of Judah. Not for lack of trying, at this time in history, but by a
miraculous defeat (2 Kings 19:32-37) Jerusalem and Judah are saved from the
fierce Assyrians for a time.
The
next Super Power to rise up and displace Assyria would be the Babylon Empire
under King Nebuchadnezzar II.
Around 597 B.C. Jerusalem was taken and the Temple was torn down.
By this time no one is speaking of Israel, the Northern Tribes, they are gone
and seem to have disappeared from history. The Babylonian Empire defeats
the Assyrians and the Egyptians and over a period of about 20 years pulled the
people of Judah out of their home land. Daniel and some other young men
of Jerusalem were taken to Babylon in 605 B.C, and the Temple sacked in 597
B.C. then a mini revolt by Zedekiah causing the Babylonians to return putting
an end to their Jewish problem in 586 B.C. Zedekiah watched as his
sons were killed in front of him and then he was made blind by his captures but
allowed to live out his days at the kings table.
Israel Today and Tomorrow
Okay,
enough of a history lesson, not my strong suit, but it needs to be
understood, even in a minor way, in order to understand the prophetic
future of Israel and Judah apart from one another. Especially today when everyone is calling the
Jewish nation, Modern Israel, as though this is the “House of Israel” and
it is not, it is but a small portion of the “Greater Israel”. There is a recognized division; however, a
division that will one day be healed as the two will be brought back into a
single union, not by men but by God Himself.
(Jer
23:3-4) I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them
and will bring them back to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and
increase in number. I will place
shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or terrified, nor will any be missing," declares the YHWH.
(Jer
23:4-6) The days are coming, declares the YHWH, "when I will raise up to
David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and
right in the land. In His days Judah will be saved
and Israel will live in safety. This is the
name by which he will be called: YHWH Our Righteousness.
(Jer 23:7-8) So then,
the days are coming, declares the LORD (YHWH), "when
people will no longer say, 'As surely as the LORD (YHWH) lives, who
brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,' but they will say, 'As surely as the LORD (YHWH) lives, who brought
the descendants of Israel up out of the land of the north and out of all the
countries where he had banished them.' Then
they will live in their own land." MKJV
Do
we see this today? Some say we do but look; this speaks of the whole of Israel not some little patch
work of a secular population pulled from different parts of the World.
The “Branch raised up” is recognized as YaHshua, but look – His day has not come yet, He is not
ruling over Israel today, but that time is coming but is not here yet. This is speaking of a people that will call
on Him, and will see Him as their God, not like today where 90% of the Jewish
populations, within Modern Israel, claim no god at all – this was reported by
the Jerusalem Post some years ago.
The House of David Resurrected in the Flesh
We
see from the above quoted verses a “Righteous Branch” is raised up from the
Line of King David. This is, of course,
recognized as our Savior, but not only Our Savior but the Savior of Judah also. The context is certainly speaking of when the
Messiah has returned to rule and to save not only Judah but Israel as
well. Israel, all of Israel united and
“brought back to life” to meet our Lord Yahshua, not only our Savior but theirs
also. Just as we read in Jeremiah, they
will no longer be remembering the day they were (as a people) brought up out of
Egypt but will be remembering the day YaHshua brought them all back, the “whole
house of Israel”.
King
David will sit again as a ruler over Israel, a “resurrected Israel and Judah”,
united as one. His whole house will be
raised to live again as you will read in the following verses.
(Ezekiel
37:24-28) “My servant David will be king
over them (Israel), and they will all have one shepherd (the Messiah). They will follow my Laws and be careful to
keep my decrees. They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the
land where your fathers lived. They and
their children and their children’s children will live there forever, and David
my servant will be their prince forever.
I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting
covenant. I will establish them and
increase their numbers, and I will put my sanctuary among them forever. My dwelling place will be with them; I will
be their God, and they will be my people.
Then the nations will know that I YHWH (the LORD) make Israel holy, when
my sanctuary is among them forever.” NIV (Read Revelation 21- 22)
This
is an astounding quote from the pages of your own Bible especially when you
consider this was written more than four hundred years after King David’s
death. The timing of the above quote can
be placed at the time of our Messiah’s return to this Earth. Notice, “… I will put my sanctuary among
them forever”.
“I did not see a
temple in the city because the Lord God Almighty (The Father) and the Lamb (The
Messiah, Yahshua) are its temple.”
(Revelation 21:22, NIV)
This
verse goes with a full description found in Chapter twenty-two of the new
heaven and new earth and it can be seen that the “sanctuary” is the Father and
the Son. There is to be a restoring of
Israel and it will not come by the acts of men but by the power
of the Living God. He is the sanctuary
and in the finish of all prophecy the Father and the Son will be the
Sanctuary. HOWEVER, the period of
Israel’s physical resurrection and being totally brought back to the land will
be directly after YaHshua/YHWH’s return as King of Kings. I repeat – as KING of KINGS.
“The LORD (YHWH) will
be king over the whole earth, on that day there will be one LORD (YHWH), and His Name the only name.” (Zechariah 14:8)
“It will be inhabited
(Jerusalem); never again will it be destroyed.
Jerusalem will be secure. This is
the plague with which the LORD (YHWH) will strike all the nations that fought
against Jerusalem. (verses 11-12)
Read
this whole chapter it is fascinating.
The Mighty YHWH/YaHshua is going to strike the nations with a plague of
horror and fear and Judah is not going to escape this event. “…Judah too will
fight at Jerusalem”. This makes it
plain that descendants of Judah are to be located at Jerusalem, as they are to
this day. This would have been a word of
prophecy had you read it prior to the Jews returning to their home land
– remember, not all Israel. Who would
have thought, before World War II, that the Jews would be able to get back to
the Land of Palestine, let alone establish for themselves a modern nation? This is a small word of prophecy fulfilled, a
partial fulfillment, a set up for the things still to come. Modern Israel is not the Israel that is to
live at peace under the protection of the Almighty – today’s Israel does not
rely on the God of the Bible to protect them but in making false treaties and
deals with other nations, but the day is coming when this will change and they
will trust in YaHWeH/YaHshua and will stop trying to make treaties with nations
bent on wiping them out – modern Israel is relying on their own diplomacy and
treaties with men for their protection.
“The survivors from
all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to
worship the King, the LORD (YHWH) Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast of
Tabernacles.” (Zechariah 14:16, NIV)
“The nations will walk
by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.”
(Revelation 22:24, NIV)
“If any of the peoples
of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD (YHWH)
Almighty, they will have no rain. If the
Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The LORD (YHWH) will bring on them the plague
he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of
Tabernacles.” (Zechariah 14:17-18)
When
the Kingdom of David is established with David again sitting on the physical
throne over the resurrected Israel (Zech 12) and the Sanctuary of the Father
and Lamb is established in Jerusalem the “nations” will be required to come up
to worship the King of Kings and to and pay tribute. The Feast of Tabernacles is the time of recognizing
the Millennium rule of the Messiah and a time to bring him a monetary tribute
of your gain. The Feast begins at the
end of the harvest of the crops, after the harvest is taken into storage, then
the Feast and this Feast is celebrated over a seven day period. These verses leave no wiggle room for their
timing and place – this will be at the very time the Messiah, YaHshua rules
from Jerusalem – a time when the people of Israel (all of the people) will be
raised in the “flesh” and be “restored” as proof to all of the Word of the
Living God.
Whole House of Israel
Make
no mistake, Israel, the “whole House”, meaning Judah too, is going to be
brought back to life in the flesh. At
this time the Saints of the Messiah, that would be believers in YaHshua as
Messiah, are looking forward to the resurrection not of flesh but the
“quickening” into a spiritual beings and eternal life. The house of Israel, however, will be raised
back into the flesh and be given a new attitude, a new heart. You see, YaHshua, their creator wants them to
succeed. His plan has never been to
destroy the House of Israel, but ultimately save them. There is more than this one witness to this
event. Ezekiel is given the vision of
this raising of Israel back to life, in the flesh.
Ezekiel
Vision
Ezekiel
is taken by spirit into a valley full of bones and then watched as these bones
had the flesh restored to them. YaHWeH,
the Creator God is able to restore what has been lost or what has turned to dust
or dissolved in salt water, He has that power and is going to bring Israel back
– He, “gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they
were” (Romans 4:17). In other
words, He can call things into being that did not exist before as well as raise
the dead back to life; the latter should be much easier than the former, if
there is anything to be compared hard or easy for Him?
Then He said to me:
‘Son of man, these bones are the whole
house of Israel. They say, ‘Our
bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off. (Ezekiel 38:11)
Yes
indeed, things look hopeless for the House of Israel. Their history is filled with rebellion
against their Creator. They are a
supreme example of misplaced righteousness and rebellion against the only true,
Living God (Romans 10:1-3). Israel’s
failures are an example for us to learn from (1 Corinthians 10:5-11). YHWH did not allow Israel and Judah’s rebellion
to go unchecked. He is not done with
them, He is determined to make something out of their failure that will point
to the only true God – so there can be no doubt -- YH and His Son, YaHshua are
the only true and Living God. Israel is
coming back to life, back to the flesh to face their Savior whom they crucified
(Zech 12:9-10).
“Therefore prophecy
and say to them: ‘This is what the
Sovereign LORD (YHWH) says: O my people,
I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you
back to the land of Israel. (Eze 38: 12)
This
verse demonstrates that the valley of bones is not just about the Israelites
that have died in the land of Israel but the world over. The “bringing” back to the land would
indicate this, the people of the House of all Israel; this includes the people
of Judah that we call the “Jews”. They
are going to be gathered up, united, no longer divided or hidden and will all
have the opportunity to meet the Messiah in all of His Glory and come face to
face with their sin.
“Then you, my people,
will know that I am the LORD (YHWH), when I open your graves and bring you up
from them. I will put my Spirit in you and you will live,
and I will settle you in your land. Then
you will know that I the YHWH (LORD) have spoken, and I have done it, declares
the YHWH (LORD). (Eze 38:13-14)
Wow,
how wonderful is that? If you will read
your bible with this knowledge tucked into your head you will see scriptures in
nearly every book pertaining to the return of Israel to the land, a land
“given” them by the YHWH. Believe me,
this land is not the small Modern Israel seen in today’s news. Certainly the people of Judah had to be in
Jerusalem for certain prophecies to begin to reveal themselves, but Modern
Israel is not the “House of Israel” that the Great Creator God is going to
bring back to the Land. Modern Israel is
mainly the work of men and with the help of other nations the Jews were
delivered back to a small area of the land given to the children of Abraham,
the land of Jacob.
The Jews are a small representation of the
whole House of Israel. The modern Jews
are mainly of three tribes of the House of Israel, the other ten tribes have
lost their identity but the Creator God knows who they are. Also, there is no dispute that thousands upon
thousands of the House of Israel have died and turned to bones and dust in the
“land”. While Jerusalem (Yerusalayim, or
YH’s peace) is destined to be the capitol of the whole earth the “land of
Israel”, as given to Abraham, will encompass a far greater area of real estate
than is seen today.
Note: The name “Jerusalem” was originally seen as “Urusalim” and
it is suggested that it meant “the foundation of the god, Salem”. It is seen from the earliest writings (2400
BC) as Salim and later, around the 19th century BC in Egyptian texts
as “Rushalimum”. Genesis 14:18 mentions
the King of Salem and Hebrews 7:1 mentions the King of Salem, so we can see
that this name is a very old name indeed and the fact of this is supported by
the New Testament reference.
Understanding that the “J” in Jerusalem should be the Hebrew “Y” we can
see the Name of YHWH added to the front of this ancient name – Y’ rusalem, or
Y’ Urusalim or Y’ Rushalimum. It wasn’t
until after the Bible had pretty much been finished when Rabbinic and Christian
writings began to refer to this name as meaning “City of Peace”. (1 king 11:36 the place He choose to put His
Name). Further information on this can
be found in Harper’s Bible Dictionary and Eerdman’s Dictionary of the
Bible. (The Problem with the teachings of these and other Biblical sources
is that they do not always agree with the Scripture. Consider Paul's
writing to the Hebrews in the Book of Hebrews 7:2 where Paul makes reference of
the "king of Salem" translated "King of Peace". This
is a remarkable statement from Paul, well before the authorities of knowledge
gave us the meaning of this translation -- city of Jerusalem, meaning, city of
Peace. Paul reveals this truth hundreds
of years before its final acceptance).
Greater Israel
Genesis
15:18-21 In the same day the LORD (YHWH) made a covenant with Abram, saying,
Unto your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great
river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the
Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And
the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Break
out a map and have a look at this area – it is nothing like the area, the land
mass, Israel occupies today. Modern
Israel is but a speck of what it is to be.
The restored, “resurrected” Israel will have plenty of room and all
under the protection of their “Redeemer”.
Nations will marvel at this and wonder at how this all comes about. Many will say, “Let’s go up to the Jews and
have them teach us about their God”. The
people of Israel will be “restored” to a position of honor and praise among the
Nations.
Micah
4:1-2 In the last days the mountain of the LORD's (YHWH’s) temple will be
established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills,
and peoples will stream to it.
Many
nations will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD
(YHWH), 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 (YaHWeH/YaHshua) from Jerusalem (Y’rusalem).
Zephaniah 2:20 At that time I will gather you; at
that time I will bring you home. I will give you honor and praise among all the
peoples of the earth when I restore your fortunes before your very eyes,"
says the LORD (YHWH/YaHshua).
The
declaration to Abraham concerning the land is repeated for Jacob, the father of
the Israelites. There is no mistaking
the wording:
Gen 35:12
And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and to your
seed after you I will give the land.
Ezekiel
37:26-28 And I will cut 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 their midst
forever. And My tabernacle shall be with them. Yea, I will be their God,
and they shall be My people. And the nations shall know that I YaHWeH sanctify
Israel, when My sanctuary shall be in their midst forever.
Israel has a wonderful future ahead of her but
she will have a lot to go through, as will the Nations around her and any
Nation that comes against her.
Jeremiah 31:31
Behold, the days come, says YaHWeH, that I will make a new covenant with
the house of Israel, and with
the house of Judah: 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, says YaHWeH: But this shall be
the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says
YaHWeH, 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.
Israel is
not the only Nation to enjoy the protection of YaHWeH when the “restoration”
begins. The enemies of Israel will have
been crushed and then an event will take place that will truly demonstrate the
will of our Savior.
(Isaiah 19:22-25) And
YaHWeH shall smite Egypt: He shall smite and heal it: and they shall return
even to the LORD, and he shall be entreated of them, and shall heal them. In
that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian
shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
In
that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a
blessing in the midst of the land: Whom the YaHWeH of hosts shall bless,
saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and
Israel mine inheritance.
Our Creator, our God and
God of Israel (YaHshua John 1:1) is going to restore Egypt, Assyria and Israel,
each a third of the Empire YaHshua is going to build. Some have said Assyria is modern Germany, but
this cannot be, at least in the meaning of these verses. Assyria in this understanding, being a third,
along with Israel and Egypt would suggest that this Assyria will be the Syria
and possibly Turkey united and restructured under the Kingdom of God
structure. A highway will be connecting
the three like a main artery and all of these territories will be under the eye
of YaHshua as Lord of Lords and King of Kings.
(Isaiah 49:26) And I
will feed them that oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken
with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I
YaHWeH/YaHshua is your Saviour and thy
Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
(Isaiah
49:14-16) But Zion said, YaH/weH has forsaken
me, and YaHWeH has forgotten me. Can a woman forget her suckling child, that
she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I
have carved you on the palms of My hands; your walls are forever before Me.
The Redeemer and Holy One of Israel has not and will not forget
Israel (Isaiah 49:7; 48:17; 47:4). He is
not only our Savior and theirs but He has a special relationship with them, a
relationship He is going to recognize again:
(Isaiah
54:5) For your Maker is your
husband; YaHWeH of Hosts is His name; and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; the God of the whole earth shall He be called. For YaHWeH has
called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when
you were rejected, says your God. For a
little moment I have left you; but with great mercies I will gather you.
And again:
(Isaiah
54:5-7) For your Maker is
your husband-- the LORD (YHWH the) Almighty is his name-- the Holy One of Israel
is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth. The LORD (YHWH) will
call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit-- a wife
who married young, only to be rejected," says your God. For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with
deep compassion I will bring you back.
NIV
(Isaiah
54:5) For your (Israel’s) Maker is your husband-- YaHWeH Almighty
is His Name-- the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of
all the earth. NIV
Israel has a future, a great and wonderful future, once again
being taken as the wife of their Redeemer.
And as a New Testament believer, just whom do you think their “Redeemer’
is? Good guess, YaHshua, “and they
will look on Him whom they pierced”
John 19:37 And again another scripture
says, They shall look on Him whom they pierced
Zechariah
12:10 And I will pour out on the house of David and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on
ME, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an
only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
He is the Way and the Future of us
All
(Isaiah
53:5-7) But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our
iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was on Him; and with His stripes we
ourselves are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each
one to his own way; and YaHWeH has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He was
oppressed, and He was afflicted; yet He opened not His mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter;
and as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.
(Note: This appears to
suggest YaHWeH and our Savior are separate but when we understand the Father’s
Name being shared with our Savior – a Name given our Savior at birth, bears the
Father’s Name just as out Creator, YaHWeH also bears the Father’s Name. YaHWeH is identified as the Savior, YaHshua,
in His Glory and as Creator of all things -- John 1:1=3. And when we read verses like John 1:18, we
know that the Father was not seen nor heard, until YaHshua revealed Him, Mat
11:27, and putting two and two together it becomes obvious that YaHWeH, while
representing the Father and His Name the YaHWeH of Israel was seen, was heard
and came in the flesh as YaHshua, also in the name of the Father whom no one
knew about.)
He is the reason we can be forgiven all our sins – imagined
and real. He is the way and the solution
to all of the problems we see on this Earth.
He is going to raise Israel back to life as His Wife once again. Israel will be given a fleshly heart and will
see their Savior, and their vow with their God will be renewed. Israel will be restored – the One they
rejected will be accepted, that is His plan.
We see the Bride of the Messiah coming down out of Heaven,
prepared to receive those once abandoned.
How do we know it is Israel that John sees in his vision in the Book of
Revelation? The Bride is identified as a
city whose foundation is built upon the Apostles (all Jews) and whose gates are
named after the tribes of Israel – not one mention of any Gentiles, believers
or not.
Revelation
21:9-14 One of the seven
angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to
me, "Come, I will show you the
bride, the wife of the Lamb."
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and
showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem,
coming down out of heaven from God.
It shone with the glory of God, and its
brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as
crystal. It had a great, high wall with twelve gates and with twelve angels at
the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. There were three gates on the east, three on
the north, three on the south and three on the west. The wall of the city had
twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the
Lamb. NIV
What about us? What
about the Christians of the New Covenant?
Where are we in all of this. If Israel is the bride and wife then who
are we? Oh, we will be there, but we
must not make the mistake of taking that which belongs to Israel for ourselves
(Rev 3:9) This is a bad habit of the
Christian Church from the 4th Century AD , as they have claimed the
promises made to Israel, even claiming to be the New Israel. Some in support of the false doctrine of
humans going to Heaven use this vision of John 88888 that this is the Mansion
of God and made up of the Church. ?????
This vision, however, makes no mention whatsoever about this Bride, this CITY,
as it comes down from Heaven has any more than the Names upon which this CITY
is representative and marking whom will take possession of the Spirit City when
it arrives as the Bride of the Christ, who, we see, is on Earth gathering
people for the wedding Feast. Also, it
should be recognized that this Bride, this Holy City does not come to this
Earth until after the Millennial rule of YaHshua, after the flesh and blood
resurrection of Israel, after our Quickening as the first fruits to follow,
with YaHshua being the First Fruit.
To repeat, for emphasis: We, believers in YaHshua as Savior, will have
been resurrected too and our mortal shells quickened into pure Spirit and we
will be like Him, our Savior on that great Day – (1 John 3:2). The people of Israel, from the first of their
creation, will be in a flesh and blood resurrection and given the opportunity
to see and learn from our Savior, their Messiah. Our hope is in the first resurrection as
“first fruits” with our Savior, YaHshua.
Being in the first resurrection to “eternal life” the second death will
have no power over us.
Revelation
20:4-6 I saw thrones on
which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the
souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and
because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and
had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life
and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (The rest of the dead did not come to
life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy are those who have part in
the first resurrection. The second
death has no power over them,
but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.
Yes, those in the first
“resurrection” will rule with the Messiah for the 1000 years. Our future is set, as is Israel’s. Everyone else, from the foundation of the
world’s beginnings will be decided in the Second resurrection and the second
death.
Our Savior’s plan and that of our Father in Heaven has always
been to save Israel. Why else would
Satan be trying so hard to rid the world of the Jews? There is a curious thing about the Heavenly
City, that Heavenly Jerusalem, coming down to this Earth – it has no Temple
because the Father and the Son are the Temple (verse 22) and we see that the timing
of this Heavenly City is after the 1000 years (Verses 1-3). This proves without a doubt that it is the
pleasure of our Savior and our Heavenly Father to restore the people of Israel
– why else would the names of the Israelite families and those of the Apostles
be found on this City coming out of Heaven to this Earth? Israel has a great future in helping the
world to learn about their God and the world will seek them out as teachers,
and we have a future to be co-rulers with the Messiah. But we must not forget, this Bride, this City
coming out of Heaven is AFTER the 1,000 year rule of the Christ here on
Earth. King David will sit, in the flesh
again, on the throne over a raised Israel.
Our Savior YaHshua will be here as the King over all Kings, a Spirit
being in His full Glory along with His first fruits and a myriad of holy
Angels, living on the Spirit side, directing and giving direction.
There is so much more that could be written on this but then
why should I have all the fun. I have
given you enough verses to do a research of your own. Go to your own bible and read the verses
associated with the verses I have given and make your own chain of events
involving the people of Israel. You will
see right away that the majority of the prophecies concerning Israel are not
past but future and you will see that much of it concerns an Israel not yet
seen. Certainly an Israel has to be in
place for events to begin, the prophetic statements concerning Israel’s
protection and deliverance by the hand of YHWH and the return of Israel from all
the lands of this earth is still in the future.
Modern Israel is but the tip of the events yet to come. Be prepared and understand that much of
prophecy is not understood until after it happens. It is then that the Bible student will be
able to see the full truth of the Word of the Living God, the God of Israel, YHWH. Before the full
revelation, which is the fulfillment, we see as through a fog.
Peace to you and yours.
servant@yahshuaservant.com
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