The Scriptures teach that the visible things we can see are revealing to us eternal spiritual reality which we cannot see. This is why all men are without excuse at the throne of judgment!
Romans 1:20 – “For His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.”
With this in mind – I want to ask you – are you at least vaguely familiar with the royal family of the British empire? Are you familiar with Prince William and Princess Kate? I have recently been sharing with my beloved daughter and my little brother about this royal couple as a living illustration of what we can see here in the temporal – to better understand what we cannot see in the eternal.
The now royal couple became engaged October 20th 2010 and their engagement was announced to the world about a month later on November 16th 2010. Their royal wedding ceremony was held April 19th 2011 at the Westminster Abbey.
In theory – the future king of England could have chosen any eligible female out of tens of millions to choose from to be his wife and the future queen of England. However, for whatever reason(s) – he chose Kate to be the princess and the future queen.
A LIVING PICTURE OF GRACE
Why do you suppose that William chose Kate to be his bride out of all the other eligible women on earth whom he could have chosen?
What could Kate have possibly done to earn or deserve the position of the future queen of England?
In addition, what did Kate have to offer the future king by comparison to what he had to offer her? He was offering her a crown, a kingdom, a title, a vast fortune, a legacy of royalty, etc. Have you ever thought about it? In an honest comparison – she had next to nothing at all to give the prince versus what she would receive by becoming his wife.
By now I’m pretty sure you understand exactly where I’m going with this line of thought and questioning.
The true and only rightful King over all the earth has taken for Himself a bride whom He has betrothed forever! Ephesians 5:31-32 declared plainly whom that bride is!
31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to the Messiah and the set-apart assembly of the saints.”
In the exact same way – no person on earth can do anything whatsoever to earn the right to be the bride of the Messiah Yahoshua nor could we ever deserve it. The plain reality is – He has everything to offer and we have nothing to offer by comparison and He chose us by His favor – similar to how prince William chose Kate.
4 “But when the goodness and kindness of Elohim our Savior and His love for mankind appeared [in human form as the Man, Yahoshua haMashiach], 5 He saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we have done, but because of His own compassion and mercy, by the cleansing of the new birth (spiritual transformation, regeneration) and renewing by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out richly upon us through Yahoshua the Messiah our Savior, 7 so that we would be justified [made free of the guilt of sin] by His [compassionate, undeserved] grace, and that we would be [acknowledged as acceptable to Him and] made heirs of eternal life [actually experiencing it] according to our hope (His guarantee)” – Titus 3:4-7
After the engagement was announced – let’s hypothetically suppose Kate (the future queen of England) decided to go out on the town with her girlfriends on the weekends and party at the clubs – dancing with other men and drinking and having “nothing but a good time”.
What do you think? Would the prince continue to keep the engagement or would he break it off for shaming him and his family by her ongoing inappropriate behavior?
Isn’t it wild how much “the church” teaches and preaches religion and their particular rules and not personal relationship using the natural to reveal the spiritual? It’s incredible how easy it is to understand the eternal when we look at the temporal that is fading away.
Continuing with this line of thinking – would Kate cease to be a citizen of the U.K. if the engagement was broken? Would she be arrested and thrown into prison for her profane behavior? No! Of course not – however, she would forever live with the shame as the woman whom could have been the future queen of England but carelessly threw away her life’s future as royalty for a few moments of “throwing caution to the wind” and “sowing her wild oats” as we Americans say in an idiomatic expression.
For certain – in this hypothetical illustration – Kate would be banished from the presence of the prince and the royal family forever – with weeping and gnashing of teeth out of the bitterness of her heart.
Most born again believers today and tens of millions whom have called themselves Christians besides have falsely believed they could continue on in their sin without consequence. They have never been taught the rewards of the kingdom and they do not understand what it means to be engaged to the prince of Peace!
They have never heard preached or taught – if they do not conduct themselves as the future queen of the soon coming King and His kingdom they will lose their reward(s) and inheritance forever. They will still be citizens of the kingdom and children of Elohim but they will not be the bride whom rules and reigns with Him (with a Rod of iron as it says in the Revelation of Yahoshua given to John) because they did not do the will of the Father and continued in their sin (as defined by Scripture alone!)
“Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.” – 1John 3:4
THERE ARE NO REWARDS FOR DISOBEDIENCE
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Master, Master’ will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father who is in Heaven. 22 Many will say to Me on that day [when I judge them], ‘Master, Master, have we not prophesied in Your name, and driven out demons in Your name, and done many miracles in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them publicly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me [you are banished from My presence], you who act wickedly [disregarding My commands].’ ” – Matthew 7:21-23
The key word in the above passage is the word “knew”. This exact same word is first used in Genesis 4:1.
“And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from Yahovah.”
This word knew is the Hebrew word – Yada.
Strong’s H3045 – yāḏa – יָדַע
In context – it is the coming together in sexual intimacy between a husband and wife in the covenant of marriage.
The very people whom appear before the throne of the King – claim to have preached in the Savior’s name, cast out demons in the Savior’s name, prophesied in the Savior’s name and to have done mighty works in the Savior’s name.
Whom do you know who does this? Do Muslims do this? Do Hindus? Do you know of any religious people Yahoshua could have possibly be talking to in the very near future besides those whom have been born again, blood bought, spirit-filled “Christians” whom had become “the sons of Elohim” by the spirit of adoption?
He doesn’t banish His people to hell – He simply states as a matter of fact that He did not know them as His bride on the day He took her into the wedding chamber to consummate their union forever at the rapture.
Yes! Despite the lies you have been told all your life – there are more than likely three separate raptures – resurrections unto life – in the Scriptures at the end of the time of the gentiles – one for His bride the year before He comes and then one for the “sons of the devil” and one for the children of the kingdom at the time of His appearing. Matthew 13:36-44 & 47-50 Study to show yourselves approved!
Just like princess Kate – these men and women whom were born again and did not leave their sin behind by the power of the Holy Spirit – will leave His presence weeping and gnashing their teeth – forever knowing they were once chosen to rule and reign with Him but instead chose to use the grace they found as a license to live a licentious life.
14 “For sin will no longer be a master over you, since you are not under Law [as slaves], but under [unmerited] grace [as recipients of Elohim’s favor and mercy]. 15 What then [are we to conclude]? Shall we sin because we are not under Law, but under [Elohim’s] grace? Certainly not! 16 Do you not know that when you continually offer yourselves to someone to do his will, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, either [slaves] of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness (right standing with Elohim)? 17 But thank Elohim that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient with all your heart to the standard of teaching in which you were instructed and to which you were committed. 18 And having been set free from sin, you have become the slaves of righteousness [of conformity to Elohim’s will and purpose]. 19 I am speaking in [familiar] human terms because of your natural limitations [your spiritual immaturity]. For just as you presented your bodily members as slaves to impurity and to [moral] lawlessness, leading to further lawlessness, so now offer your members [your abilities, your talents] as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification [that is, being set apart for Elohim’s purpose]. 20 When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness [you had no desire to conform to Elohim’s will]. 21 So what benefit did you get at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? [None!] For the outcome of those things is death! 22 But now since you have been set free from sin and have become [willing] slaves to Elohim, you have your benefit, resulting in sanctification [being made holy and set apart for Elohim’s purpose], and the outcome [of this] is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of Elohim [that is, His remarkable, overwhelming gift of grace to believers] is eternal life in the Christ – Yahoshua our Master” – Romans 6:14-23
IF WE ASK THE WRONG QUESTION – WE WILL INEVITABLY ALWAYS GET THE WRONG ANSWER
All of my life I have heard the saints debate “once saved always saved” versus “you can lose your salvation”. However, not once have I heard a pastor or teacher explain you can and will lose your eternal reward and position as the bride of Heaven and co-heir with the Messiah if you continue in your sin or return to it once you’ve left.
In the natural – do you know of even one earthly father who rewards his child for disobeying a direct command? Then why do born again believers whom call themselves “Christians” choose to believe they will be rewarded for disobeying the direct commands of the Father and the Son – written explicitly in Scripture? The correct question simply stated is –
“Does the most High reward willful disobedience?”
20 ‘For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world by [personal] knowledge of our Master and Savior Yahoshua the Messiah, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, their last condition has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have [personally] known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to have turned back from the set-apart commandment [verbally] handed on to them. 22 The thing spoken of in the true proverb has happened to them, “The dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “A sow is washed only to wallow [again] in the mire.” ‘ – 2 Peter 2:20-22
It is plainly obvious in His message to each of the seven assemblies and throughout the Revelation that rewards are for those who are hold onto their testimony in Christ and are obedient to His commands. Rewards are strictly for those whose works are approved in the eyes of the Master and His Father!
It is plainly obvious in His message to each of the seven assemblies and throughout the Revelation He gave to John “the beloved” that eternal rewards are for those who are hold onto their testimony in Christ and are obedient to His commands. Rewards are strictly for those whose works are approved in the eyes of the Master and His Father!
“To the angel (divine messenger) of the church in Sardis write: “These are the words of Him who has the seven Spirits of Elohim and the seven stars: ‘I know your deeds; you have a name (reputation) that you are alive, but [in reality] you are dead. 2 Wake up, and strengthen and reaffirm what remains [of your faithful commitment to Me], which is about to die; for I have not found [any of] your deeds completed in the sight of My Elohim or meeting His requirements. 3 So remember and take to heart the lessons you have received and heard. Keep and obey them, and repent [change your sinful way of thinking, and demonstrate your repentance with new behavior that proves a conscious decision to turn away from sin]. So then, if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you. 4 But you [still] have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes [that is, contaminated their character and personal integrity with sin]; and they will walk with Me [dressed] in white, because they are worthy (righteous). 5 He who overcomes [the world through believing that Yahoshua is the Son of Elohim] will accordingly be dressed in white clothing; and I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, and I will confess and openly acknowledge his name before My Father and before His angels [saying that he is one of Mine]. 6 He who has an ear, let him hear and heed what the Spirit says to the assemblies of the saints.’ ” – Revelation 3:1-6
THE KINGDOM OF OUR LORD
Returning to our hypothetical illustration – using princess Kate as an example – let us suppose that once engaged – the queen of England (the late queen Elizabeth) summons the potential future queen to a private meeting to discuss with her the royal traditions, the royal protocols of the court and of state, the immense responsibilities as well as everything else that is expected of the future queen in how she behaves and conducts herself both principle and in practice.
Now, imagine if Kate replied – “I’m not really interested in learning about all those things your royal highness – I just want to be married to the prince, to be a princess and wear the crown. I just want to live my life in love with prince William and to be his wife and to raise our children. I am not the least bit interested in learning and doing the things that are expected of royalty.
How long do you think the engagement would last with that kind of attitude? Do you think Kate would ever be allowed to rule and reign as queen? Even if William decided to keep the engagement – do you think he would still be allowed to keep his position as the future king or would he have to forfeit his right to ascend the throne as other royals have foolishly done “for love” abandoning their duties and responsibilities altogether.
PREPARING TO BE HIS BRIDE FOREVER
Have you ever noticed in the Scriptures that the patriarchs, prophets, priests and all tribes of Israel almost always marry someone from the same family tree / tribe? This is a shadow picture of the eternal Groom and His elect bride. All of His bride will come out of the family of Elohim whom held onto the testimony they had in Yahoshua and kept the commandments of Elohim. However, not every child of Elohim will one day be His bride. Insolent children whom have willfully refused to be transformed daily by His Word convincing them and the Spirit convicting them and whom refused to walk in obedience to His eternally established authority and covenant – will not be the bride of His kingdom – period – full stop!
We are all without excuse from day one till this very day!
“For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.” – Acts 15:21
The council of the disciples agreed in Acts 15 that brand new born again believers would go to their local assembly of faith every seventh day on the Sabbath of Elohim and learn what was required of them to do and not do as fellow citizens of Israel and Elohim’s family. (Ephesians 2)
These are the very exact words of Yahoshua – Listen!
4 “But I have this [charge] against you, that you have left your first love [you have lost the depth of love that you first had for Me]. 5 So remember the heights from which you have fallen, and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek Elohim’s will] and do the works you did at first [when you first knew Me]; otherwise, I will visit you and remove your lampstand (the church, its impact) from its place—unless you repent.” – Revelation 2:4-5
“Fear nothing that you are about to suffer. Be aware that the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested [in your faith], and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful to the point of death [if you must die for your faith], and I will give you the crown [consisting] of life.” – Revelation 2:10
“14 “But I have a few things against you, because you have there some [among you] who are holding to the [corrupt] teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, [enticing them] to eat things that had been sacrificed to idols and to commit [acts of sexual] immorality. 15 You also have some who in the same way are holding to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.16 Therefore repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek Elohim’s will]; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war and fight against them with the sword of My mouth [in judgment].” – Revelation 2:14-16
19 ”‘I know your deeds, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your last deeds are more numerous and greater than the first. 20 But I have this [charge] against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess [claiming to be inspired], and she teaches and misleads My bond-servants so that they commit [acts of sexual] immorality and eat food sacrificed to idols. 21 I gave her time to repent [to change her inner self and her sinful way of thinking], but she has no desire to repent of her immorality and refuses to do so. 22 Listen carefully, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her [I will bring] into great anguish, unless they repent of her deeds. 23 And I will kill her children (followers) with pestilence [thoroughly annihilating them], and all the assemblies will know [without any doubt] that I am He who searches the minds and hearts [the innermost thoughts, purposes]; and I will give to each one of you [a reward or punishment] according to your deeds. 24 But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not explored and known the depths of Satan, as they call them — I place no other burden on you, 25 except to hold tightly to what you have until I come. 26 And he who overcomes [the world through believing that Yahoshua is the Son of Elohim] and he who keeps My deeds [doing things that please Me] until the [very] end, to him I will give authority and power over the nations; 27 and he shall shepherd and rule them with a rod of iron, as the earthen pots are broken in pieces, as I also have received authority [and power to rule them] from My Father.” – Revelation 2:19-27
3 ‘ “To the angel (divine messenger) of the church in Sardis write: “These are the words of Him who has the seven Spirits of Elohim and the seven stars: ‘I know your deeds; you have a name (reputation) that you are alive, but [in reality] you are dead. 2 Wake up, and strengthen and reaffirm what remains [of your faithful commitment to Me], which is about to die; for I have not found [any of] your deeds completed in the sight of My Elohim or meeting His requirements. 3 So remember and take to heart the lessons you have received and heard. Keep and obey them, and repent [change your sinful way of thinking, and demonstrate your repentance with new behavior that proves a conscious decision to turn away from sin]. So then, if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you. 4 But you [still] have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes [that is, contaminated their character and personal integrity with sin]; and they will walk with Me [dressed] in white, because they are worthy (righteous).’ ” – Revelation 3:1-4
10 “Because you have kept the word of My endurance [My command to persevere], I will keep you [safe] from the hour of trial, that hour which is about to come on the whole [inhabited] world, to test those who live on the earth. 11 I am coming quickly. Hold tight what you have, so that no one will take your crown [by leading you to renounce the faith]. 12 He who overcomes [the world through believing that Yahoshua is the Son of Elohim], I will make him a pillar in the temple of My Elohim; he will most certainly never be put out of it, and I will write on him the name of My Elohim, and the name of the city of My Elohim, the new Jerusalem, which descends out of Heaven from My Elohim, and My [own] new name. 13 He who has an ear, let him hear and heed what the Spirit says to the churches.’” – Revelation 3:10-13
14 “To the angel (divine messenger) of the church in Laodicea write: “These are the words of the Amen, the trusted and faithful and true Witness, the Beginning and Origin of Elohim’s creation: 15 ‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold (invigorating, refreshing) nor hot (healing, therapeutic); I wish that you were cold or hot. 16 So because you are lukewarm (spiritually useless), and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of My mouth [rejecting you with disgust]. 17 Because you say, “I am rich, and have prospered and grown wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked [without hope and in great need], 18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold that has been heated red hot and refined by fire so that you may become trulyrich; and white clothes [representing righteousness] to clothe yourself so that the shame of your nakedness will not be seen; and healing salve to put on your eyes so that you may see. 19 Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I rebuke and discipline [showing them their faults and instructing them]; so be enthusiastic and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek Elohim’s will]. 20 Behold, I stand at the door [of the church] and continually knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him (restore him), and he with Me. 21 He who overcomes [the world through believing that Yahoshua is the Son of Elohim], I will grant to him [the privilege] to sit beside Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down beside My Father on His throne. 22 He who has an ear, let him hear and heed what the Spirit says to the churches.’” – Revelation 3:14-22
“Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of Elohim and their faith in Yahoshua ” – Revelation 14:12
All throughout the Old and New Testament the message is the same – love for the Father and the Son is equal and the same to obeying His commandments.
In the natural – if the newly engaged Kate said “Yes” to everything she was asked or instructed to do as she was learning the protocol of the royal family and all the duties and responsibilities of being the future queen but then seldom or never did what she agreed to do – would you say she truly loved the prince or that she didn’t truly love the prince?
If this is true in the natural – how come we have such a difficult time connecting it to that which is true in the eternal?
REMEMBER QUEEN VASHTI
Many know the story of Queen Esther but forget all about her predecessor Queen Vashti’s story. Queen Esther’s story. And the king whom was married to them both and loved them are all shadow pictures of the unrepentant whore of Revelation 17 whom sits as a queen, the true bride of the true coming King and the true King.
In the story found in the book of Esther – we discover that queen Vashti refused to come at the time the king appointed for her to present herself. She forgot whom she was and disregarded the voice of her direct authority and her husband of covenant and refused to come to his feast and chose instead to host her own separate feast and entertain her own guests.
5 When these days were completed, the king held a banquet for all the people who were present at the citadel in Susa [the capital], from the greatest [in importance] to the least, a seven-day feast in the courtyard of the garden of the king’s palace. 6 There were curtains (draperies) of fine white and violet linen fastened with cords of fine purple linen to silver rings and marble columns. The couches of gold and silver rested on a mosaic floor of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and precious colored stones. 7 Drinks were served in various kinds of golden goblets, and the royal wine was plentiful, in accordance with the generosity of the king. 8 The drinking was carried on in accordance with the law; no one was compelled [to drink], for the king had directed each official of his household to comply with each guest’s wishes. 9 Queen Vashti also held a [separate] banquet for the women in the palace of King Ahasuerus. 10 “On the seventh day, when the king’s heart was joyful with wine (in high spirits), he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus [as his attendants], 11 to bring Queen Vashti before the king, wearing her royal crown (high turban), to display her beauty before the people and the officials, for she was lovely to see. 12 But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command, which was delivered [to her] by the eunuchs. So the king became extremely angry and burned with rage.
As a direct result of queen Vashti’s disobedience to the delegated authority of the king (the seven eunuchs) – the queen lost her position forever. The seven counselors of the king advised him if he did not act swiftly and permanently then her rebellion would be known and affect / infect the entire kingdom with the spirit of rebellion / witchcraft!
13 “Then the king spoke to the wise men who understood the times [asking for their advice]—for it was the custom of the king to speak before all those who were familiar with law and legal matters— 14 and who were close to him [as advisors]: Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven officials of Persia and Media who had access to the king and were ranked highest in the kingdom. 15 [He said,] “According to the law, what is to be done with Queen Vashti because she did not obey the command of King Ahasuerus which was conveyed by the eunuchs?” 16 And Memucan answered in the presence of the king and the officials, “Vashti the queen has not only wronged the king but [also] all the officials (royal representatives) and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus. 17 For the queen’s conduct will become known to all women, causing them to look on their husbands with contempt (disrespect), since they will say, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, but she did not come.’ 18 This [very] day the ladies of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s refusal will speak [in the same way] to all the king’s officials, and there will be plenty of contempt and anger. 19 If it pleases the king, let a royal command be issued by him and let it be written in the laws of the Persians and Medes so that it cannot be repealed or modified, that Vashti is no longer to come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal position to another who is better and more worthy than she. 20 So when the king’s great decree is proclaimed throughout his [extensive] kingdom, all women will give honor to their husbands, from the great to the insignificant.” 21 This statement (advice) pleased the king and the officials, and the king did what Memucan proposed. 22 So he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, saying that every man should be the master and rule in his own home and that he should speak [in the household] in the language of his own people.” – Esther 1:13-22
In a striking parallel – those who fully expect to rule and reign with the King of kings will be sent away from His presence forever because they did not come at the time He called her to appear at His feasts. Born again believers have been taught to worship (meaning obey) the anti-Christ and attend the feasts of the great whore – which were appointed by the counterfeit husband – the pope!
They reject the seventh day Sabbath of Yahovah (which He gave as a sign of the marriage covenant forever to His bride) and they reverence the Sun-day of the popes. They reject and despise the annual feasts of the King – Passover, Shavuot (Pentecost) and Sukkot (Tabernacles) – and instead reverence the feasts of the New Year, Easter & Christmas (and much more) of the popes.
They reject and despise the annual love feast of remembrance of the wedding vows of betrothal and practice a ritual of communion learned from the papal mass and not from the Scriptures and the traditions which were passed down from the first disciples. They honestly believe every abominable morsel is magically turned into food that is blessed for consumption by their Creator and Savior!
Peter warned us that the men would completely twist the words of Paul because they didn’t understand his writings in the context of the Torah, Prophets and Writings and they would continue in the delusion of the lawless as a result of doing so. That’s exactly what we have witnessed happen over the last 1900 years. Most Christians have learned to “call evil good and good evil” because they have let their religious experience(s) and “leaders” define what sin is and what sin isn’t and not the authority of the Scriptures alone! This is exactly what Peter warned would happen.
14 “Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by Him without spot or blemish, and at peace. 15 And count the patience of our Master as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. 17 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.” – 2Peter 3:15-17
The delusion of the lawless is very simple. If you fully believe that you are the bride of Christ and you do not do the will of the Father and justify your lawlessness it’s simply because your religion has made you retarded. No one will rule and reign with Him in His kingdom except His bride who did the will of the Father and kept the commandments – exactly as He said almost 2,000 years ago!
For more information on this all important subject of the Groom and the Bride and the Royal Wedding of the Ages – a good place to start is the study I wrote – The Elohim and King of All Favor found in both audio and written versions on this website.
Over 18 years the counter-reformation of the black magic Jesuits met for the sole purpose to defeat the Protestant reformation and to return everyone under the supremacy of the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican’s authority. Two doctrines were born out of this effort that would deceive the masses and destroy the one true faith as a result.
The Jesuit Alcazar is the true father of preterism and the Jesuit Ribera is the true father of futurism, dispensationalism and modern Zionism. Believe it or not both use Daniel 9:24-27 as the foundation for their thesis with both of their respective thesis resulting in the same outcome. Either born again believers are indoctrinated to believe almost all of the prophecies were fulfilled completely by 70 A.D. or they believe in an unknowable future date when almost all of the end time prophecies will be fulfilled in the final seven years before the Millenial reign of Christ begins.
At the time of the counter reformation called the Council of Trent – the black magic practicing Jesuits were faced with the seeming impossible task of stemming the systemic hemorrhaging due to the prophetic and powerful preaching that knowing Christ was through favor by faith alone and the anti-Christ would occupy the seat of the Vatican power over the nations for 1260 years using the day-for-year principle revealed to Moses and Ezekiel.
It was this same principle that they used to correctly understand the day and month the Ottoman empire would fall and the Vatican power would come to an end and the USA power would rise! Up until the turn of the twentieth century the go to commentary of all born again believers on the Revelation given to John was “Honorae Apocalyptae”. Even the famed Charles Spurgeon recommended this reading to all of disciples.
Neither the Yahudim nor modern Christianity correctly understand “The Sign of Yonah” or “Daniel’s Seventy Weeks” today. Sadly, most believers who are presently “discovering” the Hebrew roots of the one true faith have also been led astray; and therefore do not recognize the intended meaning of either prophecy or their amazing fulfillment(s). The intent of this paper is to explain the source of all the confusion for both Yahudah and Messianic believers in Yahoshua (Yisrael) as well as to enlighten all parties concerning the correct understanding of Daniel’s Seventy Weeks. If you have not read “The Sign of Yonah”, I would like to encourage you to take the time to do so as soon as possible:
Our brother Yahudah does not understand the seventy weeks of Daniel because previous Rabbi’s have conspired against him and have forbidden him to read and understand the prophecy of Daniel 9: 24-27.
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Rabbi Samuel B. Nachmani said in the name (of) Rabbi Jonathan: ‘Blasted be the bones of those who calculate the end. ’Some of our Rabbis (in a further attempt to keep us from Daniel) even state that Daniel was wrong.
Alfred Edersheim, a Talmudic scholar who would come to know Messiah said, ‘later Rabbinism, which, naturally enough, could not find its way through the Messianic prophecies of the book, declared that even Daniel was mistaken’.
But Judaism’s greatest Rabbi, Rambam(1135 to 1204 C.E.) in his Letter to Yemen wrote, ‘we cannot assert that Daniel was wrong in his reckoning’.In the same paragraph, Rambam tells us that it was for our own good that the curse was pronounced:
‘Daniel has elucidated to us’ ‘the knowledge of the End Times. However, since they are secret, the Wise, may their memory be blessed, have barred the calculation of the days of the Messiah’s coming so that the untutored populace will not be led astray when they see that the end times have already come but there’s no sign of the Messiah. For this reason the Wise, may their memory be blessed, have decreed: “Cursed be he who calculates the End Times.” But we cannot assert that Daniel was wrong in his reckoning.’
Rambam was concerned that we would be ‘led astray’ if we figured out Daniel’s time for the coming of the Messiah. He wrote that the End Times had already come, but no Messiah.
Even Rabbi Yehuda the Prince, simply known as ‘Rabbi’ because of his written compilation of the Mishnah around 220 C.E. said of Daniel’s time frame for Messiah that, ‘These times were over long ago.’ So where is Messiah?
WHAT DOES CHRISTIANITY SAY?
Most Christians earnestly believe that the seventy weeks prophesied in Daniel 9 are either somehow directly related to the Messiah’s ministry or His death, burial and resurrection. They contend this is the reason the Rabbi’s have conspired against Yahudah to forbid them from reading and understanding the prophecy of Daniel 9. However, is that the full truth of the matter?
I think I can safely say (and prove throughout the remaining part of this study) that there is probably no more misunderstood and maligned passage of the Scriptures than Daniel 9:25-27. Here is this passage of Scripture as it is faithfully translated in the Revised Standard Version.
Daniel 9:25-27 ~ “Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time. 26 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war; desolations are decreed. 27 And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week; and for half of the week he shall cause sacrifice and offering to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.” (RSV)
I purposely used this translation of these four verses because after much research and prayer, I am absolutely convinced it is the most faithful translation of these four verses.
I believe the translation found in the Moffat Bible is also worthwhile:
“Know then, understand, that between the issue of the prophetic command to re-people and rebuild Jerusalem and the consecrating of a supreme high priest, seven weeks of years shall elapse; in the course of sixty-two weeks of years it shall be rebuilt, with its squares and streets; finally, after the sixty-two weeks of years, the consecrated priest shall be cut off, leaving no successor; the city and the sanctuary shall be destroyed along with the consecrated priest, and then ruin shall pour in with a flood of warfare to the very end.” (Moffatt)
CONTEXT! CONTEXT! CONTEXT!
Over the last four centuries, many scholars (and thus, those who have been taught by them) have been deceived to believe the main focus of these verses is the coming of the Messiah or His death, burial and resurrection. Either reckoning can only be understood from the end of the sixty-nine weeks of years (i.e., 483 years total) from the time of the decree to rebuild the temple. The mental gymnastics men will willing engage in to justify this belief is simply mind-boggling. Fortunately, it is simply not necessary.
Let’s return to the Scriptures and see with our own eyes what is the exact context of this prophetic revelation?
“In the first year of his reign I, Dani’ĕl, observed from the Scriptures the number of the years, according to the word of יהוה (Yahovah) given to Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) the prophet, for the completion of the wastes of Yahrushalayim would be seventy years.” ~ Daniel 9:2
What is this Word, which Daniel was so keenly interested in understanding, which was first given to YirmeYahu (Jeremiah) the prophet? Maybe we should start our journey of discovery there.
“The word that came to YirmeYahu (Jeremiah) concerning all the people of Yahuḏah, in the fourth year of Yahoyaqim son of YoshiYahu, the sovereign of Yahuḏah, which was the first year of Neḇuḵaḏretstsar sovereign of Baḇel, which YirmeYahu (Jeremiah) the prophet spoke to all the people of Yahuḏah and to all the inhabitants of Yahrushalayim, saying,” ~ YirmeYahu (Jeremiah) 25:1-2
“Therefore thus said יהוה (Yahovah) of hosts, ‘Because you did not obey My words, see, I am sending and taking all the tribes of the north,’ declares יהוה (Yahovah), ‘and Neḇuḵaḏretstsar the sovereign of Baḇel, My servant, and shall bring them against this land and against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and shall put them under the ban, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and everlasting ruins. ‘And I shall banish from them the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. ‘And all this land shall be a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the sovereign of Baḇel seventy years.” ~ YirmeYahu (Jeremiah) 25:8-11
“For thus said יהוה (Yahovah), ‘When seventy years are completed, at Baḇel I shall visit you and establish My good word toward you, to bring you back to this place.” ~ YirmeYahu (Jeremiah) 29:10
By the plain, literal understanding of both of these passages, it is obvious that Daniel understood that when the seventy years prophesied was almost over, then the people of Yahudah would be able to leave Babylon and return to Yahrushalayim.
Seventy years of captivity was decreed upon the people of Yahudah and seventy years of desolation was decreed upon the city of Yahrushalayim. The people and the city. This is the full context and primary focus of Daniel 9:24.
“Seventy weeks of years are decreed concerning your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.” (RSV)
Daniel would have immediately recognized that the seventy weeks prophesied were a direct inference to the seventy years (which he was presently praying about). He would have further recognized that in the same way seventy years were decreed upon the people of Yahudah and the city of Yahrushalayim by the prophet YirmeYahu (Jeremiah), that another seventy weeks of years were now being decreed upon the people of Yahudah and Yahrushalayim by the Heavenly-sent messenger, Gabriel. This would have been 100% obvious to Daniel and he would not have tried to understand this prophecy in any other way.
This plain meaning and understanding of the prophetic intent of Daniel 9 was clearly understood by most believers in Messiah Yahoshua until approximately four hundred years ago. That is when the King James translation of these Scriptures was first published. Compare the King James translation to the RSV rendering. (It is important to note I am not endorsing one translation over the other. As a matter of fact, in most instances, I believe the King James Bible is the superior English translation. However, there is no such thing as an infallible translation. And anyone who says otherwise is not being intellectually honest.) We will discuss the possible motivation of distorting these verses in the KJV translation later on in this study.
Even though the events of Daniel 10 took place many years after the events of Daniel 9, I have personally come to believe that they are intimately connected to one another by Providential arrangement. I believe Daniel was a greatly burdened man (as were most true prophets of Yahovah) who was mourning for his people and his city because of the revelation he had received in Daniel 9. This is simply my opinion and observation.
Now that we know the focus of Daniel’s revelation is the 490 years decreed upon the people of Yahudah and the city of Yahrushalayim and not the ministry or death of the Messiah, let us read with eyes anew exactly what the prophecy says. Next, let us believe in the words of the prophecy and not our previously held vain imaginations!
“Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks.”
Rather than try to add all the years together (as modern Christianity has erroneously taught us to do), why don’t we just examine the numerical sequence of the plain rendering of the text? Why is it that most people never think of doing this? Why is it we have all been brainwashed to add up all the various numbers together, rather than to ever think that they were originally revealed in a Providentially arranged and broken sequence?
The simplest answer is context, context, context!
Thirty-nine times mashiach (pronounced “mâshı̂yach”) is translated in the KJV from the original language(s). Thirty-seven times the translators chose to translate this word as “anointed”. The only two instances the translations are rendered “Messiah” is in Daniel chapter 9:25-26.
Why is this? Could it be a deliberate attempt to deceive the reader? We will examine the evidence of this possibility a little bit later in this study.
However, (whether this was done intentionally or unintentionally) we will soon discover the plain reality that if we stick with the context of this passage, it cannot possibly be speaking of haMaShiach, (Yahoshua the Messiah). As we have already seen, the context of the other thirty-seven passages of the Scripture demand that we render a translation of “anointed” for mâshı̂yach.
For example: “Thus saith Yahovah to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;” ~ YeshaYahu (Isaiah) 45:1
Obviously, Cyrus was not Yahoshua haMaShiach. The translators correctly translated mâshı̂yach as “anointed” because of the easily recognized context of the usage. Up until about four hundred years ago, “anointed” was easily recognized by every single translator as the correct usage by the context of its usage alone in Daniel 9:24-27. Unfortunately, due to this most grievous error in translation due to Jesuit infiltration, most are left in bondage to a great demonic deception / delusion.
From this point in this study, I am simply going to give the correct understanding of Daniel 9:24-27 and then attach two very scholarly works to verify that everything I have stated is true.
THE FIRST ANOINTED ONE
From the time of the decree “to restore and rebuild Yahrushalayim”, an “anointed” one would be recognized as the ruler of the people in the 49th year of the prophecy. History and the Scriptures record that this prince was none other than NehemYah (Nehemiah). In the 49th year (which was also a Sabbath year), NehemYah returned to Yahrushalayim and restored the set-apartness of the seventh day Sabbath; the set-apartness of the priesthood; the financial provision for the maintenance of the temple; and the land of each clan to its rightful owners. Thus, everything was in order for the Jubilee (Yobel) of Yahovah in 374 / 373 BC.
Did you notice the prophecy doesn’t say anything at all about the temple being rebuilt? Why is it, then, that almost everyone counts their Messianic reckonings from the date of the decree to rebuild the temple? The prophecy does not concern itself with the temple whatsoever! Could it be they are doing this to make the math fit their belief system, doctrine or denominational creed?
The only part of the prophecy which concerns itself with the temple is, “and to anoint the Most Set-apart”. Every rabbinical source which I am personally aware of agrees 100% that when the 2nd temple was rebuilt, the Most Set-Apart place was never properly anointed and rededicated. The most commonly-held belief (why the most Set-Apart place was not anointed and properly dedicated) is because the Ark of the Covenant was never present in the second temple.
If this sixth part of the prophecy, which is recorded in Daniel 9:24, concerns itself with the literal 2nd temple; and not the temple “not made by human hands”, then the prophecy has, in fact, failed. This is actually one of the primary reasons why the rabbis do not believe the prophecy has been fulfilled. However, as Messianic believers, we do not have a problem because we recognize the Most Set-Apart place of the prophecy was anointed and dedicated by Heaven on Shavuot (Pentecost) A.D. 30, (1Corinthinas 3:16-17).
THE SECOND ANOINTED ONE
“Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time. 26 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing;”
Once again, the plain rendering of this text tells us that after another sixty-two weeks (of years) another anointed one will be cut off. Just so we will not miss the main concern of the prophetic intent of this entire passage, we are now given more additional details about the rebuilding and restoration of Yahrushalayim. Once again, it does not say anything about the reconstruction of the temple!
Now, if we simply add 434 more years to the first 49 years then we will arrive at another remarkable date in history, A.D. 62 / 63. This was the very year that Ya‘acov (“James the Just” – Yahoshua’s brother), who was the bishop of the assembly at Yahrushalayim (Acts 15:13) was assassinated by the intensely jealous temple priesthood.
The greatly corrupted temple priesthood had every reason to be jealous of Ya‘acov (James). He was the senior pastor over more than 250,000 Messianic Yahudim living in Yahrushalayim at that time.
In addition, he was held in great esteem by millions of Messianic believers all over the world. History records that he did not enrich himself as a result of his position of great influence; and thus, he left nothing behind when he was killed. Other translations read “but not for himself”. Even this variant reading is still 100% applicable to “Ya‘acov (James) the Just”; because he died as a martyr for Yahoshua haMaShiach, and not for himself.
WHOSE PEOPLE WILL DESTROY THE CITY?
“and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war; desolations are decreed.”
Because of all the gross distortions of the different translations (as well as the vastly differing interpretations of this prophecy), most scholars try to make the prince of Daniel 9:26 the focus of their understanding. Thus, they teach this prince is the anti-Messiah of Daniel 7 and Revelation 13. As we will soon see, the prince is not the subject, but the people of the prince.
Whether you interpret this prince to be Nero Cesar, Titus, or someone else altogether is almost completely irrelevant to the correct understanding of this prophecy. The plain reality is, it was the Roman army that destroyed Yahrushalayim in A.D. 70; and that is really all we need to know for the purpose of correctly understanding the rest of the seventy week prophecy.
Note: Even though it is not the subject of this study, it is still fascinating to know that two of the Roman legions (armies) which destroyed Yahrushalayim were made up of the Yahudim hating Arabs. Perhaps this additional information helps to explain why the temple was completely destroyed against General Titus’ direct orders.
WHO MAKES COVENANT?
v.27 “And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week;”
Most believers have been brainwashed forever and a day that this prophecy concerns a certain future peace treaty the coming anti-Messiah will soon make with the nation STATE OF YISRAEL. This heretical teaching teaches that the anti-Messiah will only be recognized as the anti-Messiah because he will break this agreement after three and a half years.
This understanding could not be more false, for a plethora of reasons. (I have already covered this subject in great detail in the teachings, “Anti-Messiah Unmasked” ~ parts 1 & 2). I have provided the links below for your convenience.
https://revelation1910.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/anti-christ-unmasked-part-2/ How is it that believers in the Messiah of every persuasion / denomination have gotten so far off track in their understanding of this prophecy? How come almost every Messianic believer (the most notable exceptions being the Seventh Day Adventists and the members of the Catholic Church of God (www.ccg.org) thinks it is correct to sever the seventieth week of Daniel 9 and place it sometime in the unknown future? Could it be we have all been lied to and that we are all the hapless victims of one of the greatest demonically- inspired conspiracies of all time? YES!!!
LIED TO ON PURPOSE!
To understand the motivation of this lie, we have to go back to the time of the Protestant reformation. All of the Protestant fathers unanimously agreed on (and openly preached and taught) two primary beliefs from the authority of the Scriptures alone.
The first belief was that every man was saved by Heaven’s favour alone through Scripturally-defined faith alone; and not by any good work, doctrine, or creed of any church or religion.
The second belief was that the Papacy was, in fact, the exact, detailed fulfillment of every anti-Messiah prophecy – as found in all of the Scriptures.
Because of the two-edged sword of this message, the RCC was left decimated. Over half of its adherents had left the church in less than 50 years’ time. At this incredible rate of decline, the Pontiff, the Roman Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church knew that its time would soon be over and gone. It was out of this very crisis that “The Council of Trent” was born. This council would meet over the next 18 years for the purpose of defeating the Protestants – or much more accurately, the Protestant message.
The Vatican knew they could not defeat Protestantism directly. So, instead they would have to mount a very cleverly-devised and implemented indirect assault. Ultimately, they would succeed at doing this, by offering “Christianity” masterfully disguised counter-interpretations to the prophetic Scriptures – especially Daniel 9:24-27. The Jesuit priesthood would eventually and successfully integrate them into every Protestant, Baptist, and Christian seminary in the entire world.
Here are three excellent online resources for further studying this specific deception in great depth and detail. (Note: In the world we are presently living in, I feel as though I have to offer up this disclaimer every time I share anyone else’s teaching / web-site. I am not endorsing anything to you except the article(s) and the primary content of the articles, which I am presently referencing. I could not possibly substantiate the doctrinal belief(s) or the validity of any other teaching(s) by every web-site and / or their contributors.)
Now back to the original (as of yet, unanswered) question, “Who makes covenant?”
Daniel 9:5 tells us the answer. Are you ready to be completely blown away?
“And I prayed unto Yahovah my Elohim, and made my confession, and said, O Yahovah, the great and dreadful El, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep His commandments;”
Yahovah! The answer is Yahovah! Yahovah makes, confirms, and strengthens, His covenant with His people! All three of these terms are used by most of the English translations of Daniel 9:27 in circulation today.
Q. Why would Yahovah confirm His covenant for exactly seven years, at the time directly subsequent to Ya‘acov’s (James’) death?
A. It is because His covenant (which is found in His Torah) has two sovereignly- ordained purposes, which He has ordained from the beginning. The first purpose of His covenant is to bless all those who will listen to and obey His Torah with His provision and protection. The second purpose of His covenant is to curse all those who will not listen to and obey His Torah by withdrawing His hand of provision and protection.
In A.D. 62 / 63 Yahovah confirmed His covenant to perform both of these purposes by the time the 70 weeks of Daniel culminated in A.D. 70.
“and for half of the week he shall cause sacrifice and offering to cease;”
Right in the midst of the last seven years, Yahovah made all sacrifices and offerings to cease for all Messianic Yahudim as well as greater Messianic Yisrael; thus strengthening the covenant He had made with them by the Name and shed blood of Yahoshua.
How did He do this, exactly? We find our answer in Luke 21.
“And when you see Yahrushalayim surrounded by armies, then know that its laying waste is near. “Then let those in Yahuḏah flee to the mountains, and let those who are in the midst of her go out, and let not those who are in the fields enter her. “Because these are days of vengeance, to fill all that have been written. “And woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing children in those days! For there shall be great distress in the earth and wrath upon this people. “And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Yahrushalayim shall be trampled underfoot by the gentiles until the times of the gentiles are filled.” ~ Luke 21:20-24
Immediately after Ya‘acov was killed, the Roman general Vespasian besieged the city of Yahrushalayim with the armies under his command. His siege of the city would continue until A.D. 66. History and NASA space scientists both record numerous signs, prodigies, and portents are seen in the land of Yahudah at the outset of the rebellion in A.D. 66. Included in those recorded by Josephus, armed hosts and chariots in the clouds are seen flying over the land of Yahudah; a light at night makes the temple appear as though it were on fire and Haley’s Comet is recorded as appearing as a sword of judgment as it flies over the region. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says that the closest approach of the comet that year was in March, immediately prior to the Yahudim revolt in A.D. 66.
History records that the Roman Procurator Florus demanded 17 talents from the Temple treasury. This was the triggering insult for the Yahudim to begin their revolt. The Roman garrison in Yahrushalayim was overrun by rebels who took control of the city. The rebels cause cessation of all sacrifices to the Roman Emperor; thus challenging Rome head-on. Florus cannot handle the situation; so the (Roman) Syrian Governor, Cestius Gallus, is called in to subdue the rebellion. He attacks Yahrushalayim, gets up to the walls of the city; then unexpectedly withdraws, suffering heavy losses in retreat. All of this uprisal, conflict and the ensuing Roman retreat is recorded as ending in September A.D. 66.
This is absolutely amazing! This is exactly half-way between the time when Rome besieged Yahrushalayim in A.D. 63 and the second siege of Yahrushalayim – which began in March of A.D. 70. This is exactly what was foretold in Daniel 9:27. All those who believed in Yahoshua by favour, through faith, regarded His words – as recorded in Luke 21:20-24. They left Yahrushalayim and fled to the mountains as one man. They would never return to Yahrushalayim!
Thus, Yahovah caused “sacrifice and offering to cease” for a full three and one half years for all of His people who were redeemed by the name and shed blood of Yahoshua, just as the prophecy foretold!
Most scholars agree that it was right around this time that the Pharisee (Acts 23:6) Shaul (the apostle Paul) wrote the scroll of Ibrim (Hebrews). He wrote this letter to encourage all the Messianic Yahudim that they did not need Temple service to accentuate the finished work of Yahoshua in their lives. Shaul’s words were of great comfort to all the Messianic Yahudim, as well as to greater Messianic Yisrael. They knew by the word of Yahoshua that they could never return to the land of Yahudah.
At the exact same time, Yahovah confirmed His covenant for good to all those who professed Yahoshua as their Master and Messiah. He also watched over His covenant for evil to all those who rejected Yahoshua as their Messiah. The people of Yahudah had crucified their Groom of betrothal; thus nullifying their covenant with Him (Romans 7:1-3). They compounded this error by cursing themselves and their children forever (Matt 27:25).
According to the Torah, this covenant of death is binding. Yahudah’s Groom, Yahoshua, kept silent and did not nullify it in the day that He heard it (Bemidbar (Numbers) 30:10-11).
Yahoshua told Yahudah He would only give them one sign that He was their Messiah, which was “the sign of Yonah”. The people of Nineveh were given exactly 40 days to repent of their sin. By correctly applying the day / year principle, Yahudah was given exactly forty years to repent. “The sign of Yonah” was fulfilled when every non-believer in Yahoshua ha MaShiach was judged guilty at the Pesach celebration in A.D. 70.
The Roman General Titus shrewdly let all the Yahudim into the city for their Pesach celebration. Once the city was completely filled with a multitude of celebrants, he ordered the gates shut and the city besieged. More than 1,000,000 men, women and children would be murdered during this siege. In addition, the temple would be completely destroyed and the city would be left in ruins.
The historian Josephus tells us that during this siege, over 500 Yahudim were crucified by Roman soldiers every day. The only reason this barbarous practice came to an end was because they ran out of wood. In the exact same way that the black widow had her Groom of betrothal put to death, she was likewise put to death. Covenants of death will always return to the place of origination, and they will always manifest in the same / similar way they were originally established.
“The sign of Yonah” and the seventy weeks of Daniel are mutually exclusive and independent signs that Yahweh watches over His Word to perform it! Both prophecies were fulfilled in the destruction of the people of Yahudah and the city of Yahrushalayim. The completion of “the seventy weeks of Daniel” bears witness to the fulfillment of “the sign of Yonah” and vice versa.
It is very interesting to note: On the morning of the first of Aviv, the Pesach season of A.D. 70 began with a full solar eclipse over Yahrushalayim. The ancient sages taught that a solar eclipse portended evil for the entire world. I do not think I would get much argument that the world has witnessed great evil from A.D. 70 until the present. I believe it could be very effectively argued that it was this very event that was indirectly responsible for the dark / middle ages of history.
There are a few Yahudim scholars who purport the temple was destroyed in A.D. 68 and not A.D. 70. Obviously, those who hold to the A.D. 68 destruction date have never heard of the “Seder Olam”. In addition, Josephus records that on the 9thof Av A.D. 71 (exactly one year later), the Roman army returned to Yahrushalayim and plowed under all the land of Yahudea with salt. The “Seder Olam” is an important (but certainly not infallible) witness concerning ancient chronology. It is also called by the title of “the Large Chronicle of the World”; and it is an ancient Yahudim Talmudic study of world chronology as seen through the eyes of the Yahudim.The Seder Olam is the key to determining what year the temple was destroyed as well as which year in the Sabbatical year cycles this event is recorded as transpiring.
To answer the question of the year the temple was destroyed, it is necessary to examine the relevant passage in SO [Seder Olam] 30 with some care. Here is Guggenheimer’s translation:
“R. Yose says: A day of rewards attracts rewards and a day of guilt attracts guilt. You find it said that the destruction of the First Temple was at the end of Sabbath, at the end of a Sabbatical year, when the priests of the family of Yehoiariv was [sic] officiating, on the Ninth of Ab, and the same happened the second time.” Wacholder translated this same passage as follows:“Rabbi Jose says: ‘Favorable judgment forbode favorable days and guilty judgments guilty days. You find it said: When the Temple was destroyed for the first time, that happened on a day after the Sabbath (Sunday), during a post-Sabbatical year, and during the Watch of Jehoiarib, and on the ninth of Ab; and so also when the Second (Temple was destroyed).’”
NOTE: The 9th of Av 3828 (AD 68) is on a Tuesday by the Hillel calendar reckoning and it is on a Thursday by the first light of the moon, making it impossible that the temple could have been destroyed in A.D. 68.
The above contradicting translations tell us that on the 9th of Av in the year in which the temple was destroyed, fell on either a Sabbath or the day after the Sabbath.
In A.D. 70, the 9th of Av falls on a Sabbath day by the concealed moon calendar. The 9th of Av falls on a Sunday by the sighting of the crescent moon (or one day after the Sabbath) i.e., the first day of the week.
In 587 B.C. (3174 ~ Hillel), the 9th of Av falls on a Sabbath day by the concealed moon calendar. It falls on a Sunday, by the 1st light of the moon.
Personally, I hold to Guggenheimer’s translation; and I have every reason to believe that A.D. 70 was, in fact, a Sabbath year. From all the research I have done previously, which of course, I believe to be true, 374 / 373 B.C. would have been a Jubilee year. A.D. 27 / 28 would have also been a Jubilee year, as well as A.D. 77 / 78. I am fairly certain that I can circumstantially prove, beyond all reasonable doubt, that the Yahudim kept the calendar by the concealed moon up until the second temple was destroyed.
If A.D. 77 / 78 is indeed the year of Jubilee, then A.D. 76 / 77 would be a Sabbath year. This would mean that A.D. 69 / 70 was, in fact, a Sabbath year. If 374 / 373 B.C. was, in fact, a Jubilee year; then 574 / 573 B.C. would also be a Jubilee year. The year of Jubilee falls every 50th year (Way yiqra / Leviticus 25:10). This reckoning would mean 575 / 574 B.C. would be a Sabbath year. The next two previous Sabbath years would fall from 582 / 581 B.C. and then 588 / 587 B.C. For those who do not know, the first temple is recorded as being destroyed on the 9th of Av in 587 B.C.
How could Rabbi Jose possibly have known that both temples were destroyed on the very same day of the week, 655 years apart, in a Sabbath year? They did not have the ability we have today to mathematically verify and ascertain this information by the click of the mouse. If he was lying (or if he was guessing), we would be able to easily prove him wrong.
Whether you agree with my position or not, according to archaeological science, A.D. 68 is not recognized as a Sabbath year; nor is it after a Sabbath year. Also, the 9th of Av does not fall on a Sabbath or the day after a Sabbath, by any reckoning of the first of the month – whether by the concealed moon calendar or by the first light of the crescent moon.
Not only does A.D. 68 not agree with this historian’s reckoning in the Seder Olam, it also does not agree with any of the known Sabbath years before or after this year (which all agree with each other in the seven-year sequence). How come neither the days nor the years agree with the year A.D. 68 as being the year the temple at Yahrushalayim was destroyed? As a side note, the discerning mind can easily recognize this historical data easily disproves any notion of a lunar Sabbath. All such thinking is, in all reality, lunacy!
I triple-checked the above information against three independent sources, just to be absolutely sure this information is correct. I encourage you to please verify this information for yourself. I prefer the three calendar search engines linked below, for conducting any independent date research.
“The sign of Yonah” is still very much in effect today, as is “the seventy weeks of Daniel” at the Drash or hidden level of the prophecies. The whole world will continue to witness greater and greater evil(s) until all is fulfilled. I have already taught on the revelation level of “the sign of Yonah” in great detail on my blog entitled, “Numerical Themes and Patterns of Scripture” – so I will not revisit this topic at this time. Here is the hyperlink for those who are interested in this study. Below is an accompanying time line chart.
HOW THE JESUITS CHANGED THE MEANING OF DANIEL 9:25-27 AND DECEIVED THE WHOLE WORLD
THE FIVE CHANGES
First – They deceived the people to believe the prophecy about the decree to rebuild the temple was the beginning of the fulfillment of the prophecy instead of to rebuild and repopulate the city as stated.
Second – They convinced the people the prophecy was about the Messiah of Israel and not the two anointed ones who would rebuild the city and restore all things over the 49 years (Nehemiah) and the anointed one who would die a martyr 434 years later in early 63 A.D. (James the Just – Jesus’ brother and the bishop at Jerusalem) Prior to the King James translation there was no translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that read anything other than anointed. There is no direct article predicate of the Hebrew letter “hei” designating any of the 39 times the word MaShiach is used as haMashiach or “”the Messiah versus simply “anointed”.
Third – They convinced the people that the prophecy was only possible to figure out if you added the 7 and 62 together (which isn’t even necessary if it’s strictly about Jesus – correct?) and then separate the last 7 and move it to the end of time. Name one other prophecy (or second witness) where math is required to add and divide to understand the end sum and figure out the meaning of the prophecy. Fourth – They convinced the people that the anti-Christ was the one whom would make / strengthen / confirm the covenant with the people when Daniel 9:4 tell us it is Yehovah who makes / confirms / strengthens the covenant. His covenant which He gave the Israelites in the plains of Moab from Deuteronomy 5-28.
His covenant to bless and curse those who obey and disobey with life and death. At the time James was martyred the armies of Rome surrounded the city of Jerusalem to make it desolate fulfilling the word of Jesus.
Matthew 24:15-20 – “So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel , standing in the holy place (let the-reader understand), 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house, 18 and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak. 19 And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! 20 Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on Sabbath.” Luke 21:20-24 – “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. 21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it, 22 for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill nall that is written. 23 Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and wrath against this people. 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.“
Luke is plainly speaking of the same prophetic events as recorded in Matthew and Mark only he is revealing by the Holy Spirit that the desolation is going to come with the Roman armies made up of the nations they had conquered.
Fifth – They convinced the people it’s the anti-Christ who takes away the sacrifice in a future temple yet to be built. When the Roman armies withdrew after a 3 & 1/2 year siege in the fall of 66 A.D. – immediately after the fall feast of Sukkot – all those who heard and obeyed the voice of the Master fled the city to the mountains of Pella. All those who rejected the Messiah stayed and were destroyed when Titus returned and seiged the city on Passover A.D. 70 and crucified 500 men on crosses outside the city. The sacrifice was taken away from the saints of the most High because they were obedient to the word of the Master to flee the city!
It is my humble opinion – that the letter to the Hebrews was written at this time to comfort those mourning their voluntary, permanent exile with the promises of a better city, a better temple, a better priesthood, a better sacrifice and better promises.
This message is part three of the teaching series – the seven baptisms of the Scripture. This is not a dispensational message. There are in fact seven different distinct baptism in Scripture and each one is teaching us the message of salvation / deliverance through the finished work of Y’shua haMashiach!
THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVENTY NATIONS (PLUS THE TWO ETERNAL WITNESSES) OF ISRAEL BY GRACE – NOT BY RACE
This is probably the strangest prophecy study I have ever written as it’s absolutely the strangest revelation I have ever received in all my years of life and ministry and yet it’s all 100% true!
From the very first Passover the Scripture teaches the children of Israel were born again by grace through faith from the 70 nations (plus two witnesses). YES!!! You read that correctly – the children of Israel delivered out of Egypt were made up of mostly men, women and children (over 98% of them) that prior to the night of PASSOVER – 3400 years ago were not Israel by ancestral relations but rather through the spirit of adoption.
THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS IN THE QUESTION
When I was around 30 years old I was taught how to read the full counsel of Scripture by seven divisions – by the late Mrs Billy Graham – which completely changed my understanding of the Scriptures forever. As I would read each chapter from each division of the Scriptures – I never again got bored and quit reading any section of the Scriptures (like when you read through the genealogies) and was able to quickly make connections of how the divisions were all connected to each by divine Authorship and read through all the Scripture multiple times year round which I probably had never done previously even one time in my entire 25 years of knowing the Father through the Son by His Spirit.
As a result of reading the full counsel of Scriptures by seven divisions every day – I learned to love the portions of Scriptures I had previously found mundane and boring and I began to notice how important every detail was to seeing the whole glorious picture being painted by the painting brush of the Master artist and Author and Finisher of our faith! One of the details that puzzled me was the comparing the genealogy of the sons of Levi in Exodus 6 and the numbering of the Levites in Numbers 3.
How was it possible the number of the sons of Levi were only about 300 people maximum according to the numbering given from Levi to Phineas (if no one died up until the time of the Exodus) which we know didn’t happen according to the text – then how is it possible just one year later the number jumped to 22,273 males – one month and older (Numbers 3:43)? Where on earth did the additional 22,000 plus Levites come from if they were not the natural born sons of Levi?
BACK TO GENESIS
In Genesis chapter 11:1-9 we read the account of how 70 nations (plus the two eternal witnesses) were created in a day when the languages were confused by the hand of Providence. In His judgment – our Father was merciful to give the 70 new people groups a completed – spoken and written language. Naturally, those who understood each other assembled in differing geographic locations as – “birds of a feather flock together.”
Through the prophet Isaiah the Author and Finisher of the one true faith – almost sarcastically asks,
“Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children.” – Isaiah 66:8
The Creator of all things made 70 nations in day (plus the two eternal witnesses) in Genesis 11 – and in the time of prophet Isaiah – He had already birthed the nation of Israel in a day – not once but twice out of those same 70 nations (plus the two eternal witnesses) by His grace through faith in His Word and He was surely going to do the exact same thing one more time over seven hundred years later and will do it yet again at the time of His return in just a few short months as the present six thousand years since the fall of man draws to a dramatic conclusion and the beginning of the true golden age.
REMEMBERING JOSEPH – THE SUPREME SLAVE MASTER OF THE WORLD
In Genesis 37 & 39-50 – we find the extraordinary account of how a young man named Joseph became the second in command in all of Egypt. What is not so obvious is that the famine of seven years was felt throughout the entirety of the 70 nations centered around that part of the world at that time and affected more than just the immediate family of Joseph.
“So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouse and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.” – Genesis 41:56-57
Just as Jacob and his family settled in the land when they realized the famine was going to continue for another five years – the nations of the world also began to stay where the food security was for the next five years. During the next five years all the people of the earth ran out of silver to buy grain so they sold Joseph their livestock. When they ran out of livestock by which to buy grain they sold Joseph all their land. When they had nothing else to sell Joseph – they sold themselves into perpetual slavery as indentured servants of Pharaoh.
The only people who flourished during the time of the famine of seven years were Jacob and his family, those who were provided for as part of the royal family and the priests of Egypt and their families.
YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY
“Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine. And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain that they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house. And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone.” And Joseph answered, “Give your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, if your money is gone.” So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys. He supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year. And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent. The herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land. Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe on them. The land became Pharaoh’s. As for the people, he made servants of them from one end of Egypt to the other. Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land. Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. And at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households, and as food for your little ones.” And they said, “You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh.” So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh’s.” – Genesis 47:13-26
WE ARE ALL SLAVES
Did you happen to notice that the Holy Scriptures defines slavery as paying an annual tax of 20% on your wages / income? One has to seriously ask – are we really free in the west or are we all experiencing a shared delusion of indentured servitude via taxation – while professing to be free?
THE BOOK OF JASHER
Have you ever heard of the book of Jasher as casually mentioned in Joshua 10:13 & 2Samuel 1:18? While not regarded as Holy Scripture and definitely not completely trustworthy as a historical document when compared to the Scriptures – there are times when its definitely worthwhile reading as it gives in depth back story and much depth of meaning to the narrative of the first five books of Scripture as well as aspects of covenantal understanding of that time period and rich type and shadow pictures of the Lord Jesus Christ brought into even greater clarity of meaning.
From the book of Jasher – here is the “rest of the story” as to how and why the Pharaoh hired Joseph to be the number two man of his kingdom and was supported in that decision by his royal council – confirming his ministry to feed the seventy nations (plus the two eternal witnesses) and how he received from them everything they owned and even themselves as perpetual slaves to Pharaoh for all generations to follow.
“And the king said unto them, Behold you have seen and heard all the words of this Hebrew man, and all the signs which he declared would come to pass, and not any of his words have fallen to the ground. You know that he has given a proper interpretation of the dream, and it will surely come to pass, now therefore take counsel, and know what you will do and how the land will be delivered from the famine. Seek now and see whether the like can be found, in whose heart there is wisdom and knowledge, and I will appoint him over the land. For you have heard what the Hebrew man has advised concerning this to save the land therewith from the famine, and I know that the land will not be delivered from the famine but with the advice of the Hebrew man, him that advised me. And they all answered the king and said, The counsel which the Hebrew has given concerning this is good; now therefore, our lord and king, behold the whole land is in thy hand, do that which seemeth good in thy sight. Him whom thou chooses, and whom thou in thy wisdom knowest to be wise and capable of delivering the land with his wisdom, him shall the king appoint to be under him over the land. And the king said to all the officers: I have thought that since God has made known to the Hebrew man all that he has spoken, there is none so discreet and wise in the whole land as he is; if it seem good in your sight I will place him over the land, for he will save the land with his wisdom. And all the officers answered the king and said, But surely it is written in the laws of Egypt, and it should not be violated, that no man shall reign over Egypt, nor be the second to the king, but one who has knowledge in all the languages of the sons of men. Now therefore our lord and king, behold this Hebrew man can only speak the Hebrew language, and how then can he be over us the second under government, a man who not even knoweth our language? Now we pray thee send for him, and let him come before thee, and prove him in all things, and do as thou see fit. And the king said, It shall be done tomorrow, and the thing that you have spoken is good; and all the officers came on that day before the king.And on that night the Lord sent one of his ministering angels, and he came into the land of Egypt unto Joseph, and the angel of the Lord stood over Joseph, and behold Joseph was lying in the bed at night in his master’s house in the dungeon, for his master had put him back into the dungeon on account of his wife. And the angel roused him from his sleep, and Joseph rose up and stood upon his legs, and behold the angel of the Lord was standing opposite to him; and the angel of the Lord spoke with Joseph, and he taught him all the languages of man in that night, and he called his name Jehoseph. And the angel of the Lord went from him, and Joseph returned and lay upon his bed, and Joseph was astonished at the vision which he saw. And it came to pass in the morning that the king sent for all his officers and servants, and they all came and sat before the king, and the king ordered Joseph to be brought, and the king’s servants went and brought Joseph before Pharaoh. And the king came forth and ascended the steps of the throne, and Joseph spoke unto the king in all languages, and Joseph went up to him and spoke unto the king until he arrived before the king in the seventieth step, and he sat before the king. And the king greatly rejoiced on account of Joseph, and all the king’s officers rejoiced greatly with the king when they heard all the words of Joseph. And the thing seemed good in the sight of the king and the officers, to appoint Joseph to be second to the king over the whole land of Egypt, and the king spoke to Joseph, saying, Now thou didst give me counsel to appoint a wise man over the land of Egypt, in order with his wisdom to save the land from the famine; now therefore, since God has made all this known to thee, and all the words which thou hast spoken, there is not throughout the land a discreet and wise man like unto thee. And thy name no more shall be called Joseph, but Zaphnath Paaneah shall be thy name; thou shalt be second to me, and according to thy word shall be all the affairs of my government, and at thy word shall my people go out and come in. Also from under thy hand shall my servants and officers receive their salary which is given to them monthly, and to thee shall all the people of the land bow down; only in my throne will I be greater than thou. And the king took off his ring from his hand and put it upon the hand of Joseph, and the king dressed Joseph in a princely garment, and he put a golden crown upon his head, and he put a golden chain upon his neck. And the king commanded his servants, and they made him ride in the second chariot belonging to the king, that went opposite to the king’s chariot, and he caused him to ride upon a great and strong horse from the king’s horses, and to be conducted through the streets of the land of Egypt. And the king commanded that all those that played upon timbrels, harps and other musical instruments should go forth with Joseph; one thousand timbrels, one thousand mecholoth, and one thousand nebalim went after him. And five thousand men, with drawn swords glittering in their hands, and they went marching and playing before Joseph, and twenty thousand of the great men of the king girt with girdles of skin covered with gold, marched at the right hand of Joseph, and twenty thousand at his left, and all the women and damsels went upon the roofs or stood in the streets playing and rejoicing at Joseph, and gazed at the appearance of Joseph and at his beauty. And the king’s people went before him and behind him, perfuming the road with frankincense and with cassia, and with all sorts of fine perfume, and scattered myrrh and aloes along the road, and twenty men proclaimed these words before him throughout the land in a loud voice: Do you see this man whom the king has chosen to be his second? all the affairs of government shall be regulated by him, and he that transgresses his orders, or that does not bow down before him to the ground, shall die, for he rebels against the king and his second. And when the heralds had ceased proclaiming, all the people of Egypt bowed down to the ground before Joseph and said, May the king live, also may his second live; and all the inhabitants of Egypt bowed down along the road, and when the heralds approached them, they bowed down, and they rejoiced with all sorts of timbrels, mechol and nebal before Joseph. And Joseph upon his horse lifted up his eyes to heaven, and called out and said, He raiseth the poor man from the dust, He lifteth up the needy from the dunghill. O Lord of Hosts, happy is the man who trusteth in thee. And Joseph passed throughout the land of Egypt with Pharaoh’s servants and officers, and they showed him the whole land of Egypt and all the king’s treasures. And Joseph returned and came on that day before Pharaoh, and the king gave unto Joseph a possession in the land of Egypt, a possession of fields and vineyards, and the king gave unto Joseph three thousand talents of silver and one thousand talents of gold, and onyx stones and bdellium and many gifts. And on the next day the king commanded all the people of Egypt to bring unto Joseph offerings and gifts, and that he that violated the command of the king should die; and they made a high place in the street of the city, and they spread out garments there, and whoever brought anything to Joseph put it into the high place. And all the people of Egypt cast something into the high place, one man a golden ear-ring, and the other rings and ear-rings, and different vessels of gold and silver work, and onyx stones and bdellium did he cast upon the high place; every one gave something of what he possessed. And Joseph took all these and placed them in his treasuries, and all the officers and nobles belonging to the king exalted Joseph, and they gave him many gifts, seeing that the king had chosen him to be his second. And the king sent to Potiphera, the son of Ahiram priest of On, and he took his young daughter Osnath and gave her unto Joseph for a wife. And the damsel was very comely, a virgin, one whom man had not known, and Joseph took her for a wife; and the king said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and beside thee none shall dare to lift up his hand or his foot to regulate my people throughout the land of Egypt. And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh, and Joseph went out from before the king, and he became the king’s second in Egypt. And the king gave Joseph a hundred servants to attend him in his house, and Joseph also sent and purchased many servants and they remained in the house of Joseph. Joseph then built for himself a very magnificent house like unto the houses of kings, before the court of the king’s palace, and he made in the house a large temple, very elegant in appearance and convenient for his residence; three years was Joseph in erecting his house. And Joseph made unto himself a very elegant throne of abundance of gold and silver, and he covered it with onyx stones and bdellium, and he made upon it the likeness of the whole land of Egypt, and the likeness of the river of Egypt that watereth the whole land of Egypt; and Joseph sat securely upon his throne in his house and the Lord increased Joseph’s wisdom. And all the inhabitants of Egypt and Pharaoh’s servants and his princes loved Joseph exceedingly, for this thing was from the Lord to Joseph. And Joseph had an army that made war, going out in hosts and troops to the number of forty thousand six hundred men, capable of bearing arms to assist the king and Joseph against the enemy, besides the king’s officers and his servants and inhabitants of Egypt without number. And Joseph gave unto his mighty men, and to all his host, shields and javelins, and caps and coats of mail and stones for slinging.” – Jasher 49:2-44
Again, while not Holy Scripture – I personally find it amazing the wondrous details of this account adding to the substance of the Genesis account. The details of this record also helps to show how its very possible and indeed very probable that some souls from every one of the seventy nations came to Joseph to buy grain during the time of the famine.
Further – the account of Jasher also expands on the extent of the famine and how Joseph’s storehouses of grain fed all the earth.
“And all the inhabitants of the land of Canaan and the Philistines, and those beyond the Jordan, and the children of the east and all the cities of the lands far and nigh heard that there was corn in Egypt, and they all came to Egypt to buy corn, for the famine prevailed over them. And Joseph opened the stores of corn and placed officers over them, and they daily stood and sold to all that came. And Joseph knew that his brethren also would come to Egypt to buy corn, for the famine prevailed throughout the earth. And Joseph commanded all his people that they should cause it to be proclaimed throughout the land of Egypt, saying, It is the pleasure of the king, of his second and of their great men, that any person who wishes to buy corn in Egypt shall not send his servants to Egypt to purchase, but his sons, and also any Egyptian or Canaanite, who shall come from any of the stores from buying corn in Egypt, and shall go and sell it throughout the land, he shall die, for no one shall buy but for the support of his household. And any man leading two or three beasts shall die, for a man shall only lead his own beast. And Joseph placed sentinels at the gates of Egypt, and commanded them, saying, Any person who may come to buy corn, suffer him not to enter until his name, and the name of his father, and the name of his father’s father be written down, and whatever is written by day, send their names unto me in the evening that I may know their names. And Joseph placed officers throughout the land of Egypt, and he commanded them to do all these things. And Joseph did all these things, and made these statutes, in order that he might know when his brethren should come to Egypt to buy corn; and Joseph’s people caused it daily to be proclaimed in Egypt according to these words and statutes which Joseph had commanded. And all the inhabitants of the east and west country, and of all the earth, heard of the statutes and regulations which Joseph had enacted in Egypt, and the inhabitants of the extreme parts of the earth came and they bought corn in Egypt day after day, and then went away. And all the officers of Egypt did as Joseph had commanded, and all that came to Egypt to buy corn, the gate keepers would write their names, and their fathers’ names, and daily bring them in the evening before Joseph. And Jacob afterward heard that there was corn in Egypt, and he called unto his sons to go to Egypt to buy corn, for upon them also did the famine prevail, and he called unto his sons, saying, Behold I hear that there is corn in Egypt, and all the people of the earth go there to purchase, now therefore why will you show yourselves satisfied before the whole earth? go you also down to Egypt and buy us a little corn amongst those that come there, that we may not die.”– Jasher 50:30-51:2
THE FIRST CENTRALIZED BANK
According to multiple credible witnesses – the whole of the populated earth entire was enslaved to the Pharaoh who had migrated to Egypt in a time of world wide food insecurity because of the security they found there. Just like our Patriarch Jacob and his family – they had relocated to where the food was because they knew the famine was going to last another five or six years longer. They were not going to travel back and forth in hazardous conditions and dangerous terrain each time they ran out of food when they could conveniently move to where the food supply was secured by Joseph.
This is similar to how the FEDERAL RESERVE BANKING system, the IMF and the BANK OF INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS has conspired to enslave the population of the whole earth in modern times today!
DIRECT TAXATION IS THE RUSE CENTRALIZED BANKING USES TO PERMANENTLY ENSLAVE US ALL
It’s interesting to note that theologians know and teach that Egypt represents the whole world entire in a picture but I do not think they ever meant that to be taken 100% literally. When people migrate to the United States of America – even though they have come from every nation on earth – eventually, they no longer call themselves by the nation they migrated from – they identify as Americans. In a similar way – when the people of the seventy nations migrated to Egypt they were identified with their new home country as Egyptians.
It is also interesting to note – when the first pilgrims from Europe came over to the shore of what became the united States of America – they would soon begin calling many of the communities after the names of the towns, cities and villages found in the Promised Land. However, if you pull out your map of the fifty states and you look closely at the northern and eastern regions – you will notice that many of the cities were named after the cities and territories of Egypt as well. In recent times – Memphis (originally a city of Egypt), Tennessee even went as far as to build a professional basketball venue in the shape of a pyramid.
The parallels between ancient Egypt and Israel and the modern U.S.A. are truly very interesting and seemingly prophetic in these last days. I have enjoyed reading the works of rabbi Jonathan Cahn over the last couple of decades as the Father has given him very unique insights in the modern masterpiece – “The Harbinger” and “The Shmitah” as well as other books he’s written and messages he’s shared.
Everyone of those from the seventy nations who lived in Egypt during the time of the famine became perpetual indentured slaves except the priests of Pharaoh and the household of Jacob (the two eternal witnesses of the northern and southern kingdoms) and they were all identified inclusively by the Author as Egyptians except for Jacob and His family! This slavery of the seventy nations would continue for well over 300 more years!
IS TAXATION SLAVERY OR MERELY THEFT OF YOUR LIVELIHOOD
Most people today would not consider paying a 20% tax on all of their wages or income as a very big deal. However, it was a very big deal in Egypt when all the people of the land became forever indebted to the king of the land as they had traded their freedom for their security and their very lives – just like the people of the united States have done over the last 125 years and most especially since September 2001. As the Exodus account begins we read all the Israelites were also made slaves by a Pharaoh who did not know Joseph.
However, as we read the entirety of the narrative of the Exodus account with the perspective that the seventy nations became Egyptians and then would eventually become the children of Israel – it would make perfect sense that the Author is once again using inclusive reckoning to tell the story of all the Israelites (both natural born and adopted) as the Israelites (and not Egyptians) who would come out of the Exodus who were all indentured slaves at first and then full blown slaves.
NATURAL BORN AND FREE ISRAELITES
“These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt. Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation. But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them. Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.” – Exodus 1:1-14
At the beginning of the narrative of the Exodus – I have zero doubt that the Author was speaking strictly of the natural born sons of Jacob and all those who dwelled in his tents (i.e. Genesis 34:27-29) for they were the only ones who lived in the entirety of the land of Egypt whose land belonged to them. Joseph placed them in the very part of the land under Egyptian control that was actually covenanted by Yahovah to Abraham and his SEED! Most born again believers are never taught the children of Israel were living in the land of Promise all along – from the time they migrated to Egypt to the time they were delivered from slavery at the Passover.
“And Yahovah appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto Yahovah, who appeared unto him.” – Genesis 12:7
“On that day Yahovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.” – Genesis 15:18
FREE MEN ARE ALWAYS A THREAT TO TYRANTS AND DICTATORS
According to the Genesis account and also the extra-Biblical accounts – the children of Israel were the only ones who lived under the dominion of the Pharaoh who owned their own land and whom did not pay twenty percent taxes on their wages as generational indentured servants. Of course the Pharaoh whom did not know Joseph personally would have felt extremely threatened by these free and independent, shepherd-warrior-kings of great renown! Unlike the Sunday school depictions of the early Hebrew people – both the Scriptures and the extra-biblical accounts reveal all the Hebrew people knew how to fight and win and their exploits were legendary – starting with general Abraham and his epic battle to free his nephew Lot and his household as recorded in Genesis 14 and Jasher 16.
Free and fiercely independent men such as the children of Israel – who were not polytheistic in their faith and practice but rather followed the monotheistic and unseen Elohim – Yahovah – were surely considered to be an imminent threat to the Pharaoh and his established absolute reign over all the earth and thus had to be crushed and rendered powerless whatever the cost! That is the foremost reason why he thought to make an example of them to do the hardest, back breaking work in the entire kingdom.
Through fear and the threat of violence – tyrants throughout the ages have managed to keep the masses in line and quell their desire for a better life. What better way to make sure all the indentured servants keep working tirelessly and grateful they only have to pay twenty percent of their wages than to make an example of the children of Israel. No longer would the people of the land envy the free and independent children of Israel – instead they would be forever grateful that they were not numbered among the Israelite slaves!
AND NOW FOR THE REST OF THE STORY
“It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.” – Proverbs 25:2
For centuries scholars have debated if there was really three million souls in the wilderness or not. However, archeologist discovered the evidence that such a significant number was actually camped around the base of Mt Sinai in Arabia. And further evidence was discovered that three million souls could have easily crossed the natural land bridge discovered under water at the Gulf of Aquaba.
However, up until now – to the best of my knowledge no one has come forth with a theory supported by Scripture of where those numbers came from. When you realize that the Author used inclusive reckoning when speaking of all the nations and called them Egyptians when they were all living in the land of Egypt in the Genesis account and then the same Author called them all Israelites and Hebrews in the Exodous account during and after He redeemed them as He was identifying them by their true and eternal identity it all makes perfect sense.
If you disagree with this revelation – I am always open to hearing anyone else’s ideas – with the caveat that you are not nay-saying without a plausible theory as to how the numbers of the children of Levi added around 22,000 more living male souls one month and older – only one year later – as recorded in Numbers 3. The fact remains that with Levi as our base number with an exaggerated round number of 300 males – the 12 sons of Jacob would have no more than 3,600 males on the day they came out of Egypt and that’s if nobody died!
“And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years. The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families. And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years. And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations. And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years. And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri. And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites. And Eleazar Aaron’s son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.” – Exodus 6:16-25
“And all the firstborn males, according to the number of names, from a month old and upward as listed were 22,273.” – Numbers 3:43
596,400 MORE MEN + WOMEN AND CHILDREN
“And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds. And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves. The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years. At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. It was a night of watching by Yahovah, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to Yahovah by all the people of Israel throughout their generations.” – Exodus 12:37-42
AND NOW FOR THE REST OF THE STORY!
When Moses began to confront his younger brother the Pharaoh about the will of the Father to let His people go – it was most likely on behalf of his 3,600 (estimated) near uncles, cousins brother and their families by blood relation. However, as the power of the God of Israel – Yahovah – was made manifest through the 10 plagues the people of the land began to believe in Moses’ God and repent of their belief in the false gods of Egypt. Many people do not know or have ever understood that the ten plagues were actually a direct confrontation of the one true God showing Himself supreme over all the gods of Egypt.
THE TEN FALSE GODS – YAHOVAH DEFEATED
Water Turned to Blood (Hapi)
Frogs Coming From the Nile (Heket)
Lice From the Earth’s Dust (Geb)
Swarms of Flies (Khepri)
Death of Cattle and Livestock (Hathor)
Ashes Turned to Boils and Sores (Isis)
Hail in the Form of Fire (Nut)
Locus Sent From the Sky (Seth)
Three Days of Complete Darkness (Ra)
Death of the Firstborn (Anubis / Pharaoh)
When the river Nile turned to blood and all the potable water of the land also turned to blood for three days and nights – the people of the land knew the water god Hapi was powerless to stop Yahovah from destroying their water supply. And they also knew if He had not been merciful to return their drinking water after the third day – they would have surely perished from dehydration.
“Then Yahovah said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go. Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water. Stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that turned into a serpent. And you shall say to him, ‘Yahovah, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness.” But so far, you have not obeyed. Thus says Yahovah, “By this you shall know that I am Yahovah: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood. The fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will grow weary of drinking water from the Nile.”’” And Yahovah said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone. Moses and Aaron did as Yahovah commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile turned into blood. And the fish in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts. So Pharaoh’s heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as Yahovah had said. Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart. And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile.” – Exodus 7:14-25
Yahovah then preceded to show Himself powerful to defeat their false god – Heket – through the second plague. This was the second time the sorcerers of pharaoh’s court were able to counterfeit a true miracle with their magic. “And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.”– Exodus 8:7
A DEGREE OF SEPARATION
However, for the next eight plagues the magicians could not replicate / duplicate a similar feat with their black magic spells – starting with the plague of lice. From this third demonstration of Yahovah’s power they recognized their power was limited and Yahovah was the one true Elohim above all their “mighty ones” whom they served religiously.
“And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast. Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as Yahovah had said.” – Exodus 8:18-19
A SECOND DEGREE OF SEPARATION
After the first three plagues the power of Yahovah the Elohim of Moses and of Israel – made a providential distinction between the Israelites dwelling in the land of Goshen and all the rest of the people living in the land of Egypt.
“And Yahovah said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith Yahovah, Let my people go, that they may serve me. Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are. And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am Yahovah in the midst of the earth. And I will put a division between my people and thy people: tomorrow shall this sign be.” – Exodus 8:20-23
It was this heavenly arranged separation and distinction that would soon convert the people of all the nations over the course of the last seven plagues as they witnessed the power of their polytheistic worship system completely destroyed and the land decimated while the Israelites were sovereignly protected by their Elohim – Yahovah!
THE MULTITUDE OF THE MOB
As a result of this destruction and complete decimation of the economy and the land – there was a multitude of tag-alongs who went with Israel – whom were not of Israel whether natural born or adopted! Three days later – they were also baptized with the three million children of Israel even though they were never born Israel or born again Israel by favor through faith at the first Passover!
“And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.” – Exodus 12:38
I would like to propose to you that it was this multitude of the mob of non-Israelites that escaped Egypt in fear for their lives whom were the instigators of much of the complaining and mobs against Moses and the Elohim of Yisrael that ended up causing the death of the first generation of the children of Israel in the wilderness twenty-one years and older!
“They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt? Is not this what we said to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” – Exodus 14:11-12
“Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them, coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night without one coming near the other all night. Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahovah drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. Thus Yahovah saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.”
TO ISRAEL BELONGS THE ADOPTION!
“They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption!” – Romans 9:4a
This was true at the Red Sea crossing – this was true when Jacob adopted all the widows, virgin women and orphans into his own family – when his sons Simeon and Levi ruthlessly slaughtered their husbands and wives during the cover of night on the third day after they were circumcised in the flesh. (Genesis 34) This is still true today! True Israel has always been by grace alone! Through saving faith alone! By the Word of Yahovah alone! In Christ alone! For the glory of God alone! This is the fullness of the glory of the twelve facets of the whole of the covenant doctrine revealed in the new covenant Christ ratified by His own blood!
NOT ALL WHO ARE CALLED ISRAEL ARE ISRAEL
“But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named. This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.” – Romans 9:6-8
“On the third day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and came against the city while it felt secure and killed all the males. They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house and went away. The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. They took their flocks and their herds, their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field. All their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all that was in the houses, they captured and plundered.” – Genesis 34:25-29
THE SEVENTY ELDERS OF ISRAEL
From the time of the tower of Babel – the seventy nations were numbered according to the seventy watchers (principalities / rulers) over the nations.
“When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when He divided mankind, He fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.” – Deut 32:8
“This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.” – Daniel 4:17
This council of the elohim in Heaven over the seventy nations above was also established on earth by Yahovah in His presence at the covenant meal the seventy elders of Israel shared at the mountain of Sinai in the wilderness of Arabia. “Then he said to Moses, “Come up to Yahovah, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar. Moses alone shall come near to Yahovah, but the others shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him.” – Exodus 24:1-2
“Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness. And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank.” – Exodus 24:9-11
THE NEW COVENANT
Like myself – most people who were raised as church going, Christian believers were indoctrinated to believe the front of the book was for Israel and the back of the book was for the gentiles and that we were in fact blood bought, born again, spirit filled gentile-Christians by His favor through saving faith! However, when you read the translation of the Hebrew Bible in the Greek Septuagint which was originally translated by seventy (plus two witnesses) of the sons of Aaron of the Levitical priesthood a much different reality appears.
Most pastors, priests and preachers of the Good News are never taught that the whole of the front of the book uses the exact same words in the Greek Septuagint of the Hebrew equivalent as the front of the book. Words common to the venacular of the Greek New Testament like “the ekklesia” (the church), “christos” (Christ), “aposotlos” (apostle), “charis” / “eleos” (grace / mercy). As a matter of absolute imperical fact there is not one word in the entirety of the Holy Scriptures that doesn’t originate from the three letter, parent root word found in the first four chapters of Genesis!
THERE IS NOTHING NEW! ONLY TRUE!
“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.” – Ecclesiastes 1:9
Always remember and never forget – “If it’s new it cannot be true and if it’s true it cannot be new!”
Do not let anyone anyone persuade you otherwise with their fancy schmancy, pin headed, theological nonsensical, arguments!
THE COVENANT MADE NEW
“Behold, the days are coming, declares Yahovah,when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares Yahovah. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares Yahovah: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbour and each his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahovah’, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares Yahovah. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” – Jeremiah 31:31-33
For reasons that any reasonable person could not possibly logically explain – the average blood bought, born again, spirit filled believer almost universally misses the reality that the new covenant prophecy is strictly and specifically to the whole house Yisrael both the southern kingdom of Yahudah and the northern kingdom of Yisrael! No matter how great a reward I were to offer – nowhere in the full counsel of the Holy Scriptures can you find a covenant made with any nation other than Israel!
Note: By the full counsel of the Scriptures the gentiles is everyone from the 70 nations who are separate and from and distinctly not Israel!
TWO WITNESSES
“For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. For He finds fault with them when He says: “Behold, the days are coming, declares Yahovah, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in My covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares Yahovah. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares Yahovah: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall not teach, each one his neighbour and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahovah’. – Hebrews 8:7-11
“And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying, “This is the covenant that I will make with them (the whole house of Yisrael – both Yisrael and Yahudah) after those days, declares Yahovah: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds”, then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” – Hebrews 10:15-17
IS THE NEW COVENANT ACTUALLY NEW ?
Because of the futuristic tense of Jeremiah’s prophecy and also because the greek-western mind set is linear, one-directionally focused and not cyclical – like the Hebrew mind and the mind of our Father and His only begotten Son almost everyone who read the Scriptures does not know or understand that the new covenant Jeremiah is prophecying was actually written down by Moses in Deuteronomy 5-28 amd is actually referred to as such in Deut 29:1.
“These are the terms of the covenant that Yahovah commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab; all this was in addition to the covenant which Yahovah had made with them at Mount Sinai!
Unlike the covenant at Mt Sinai – this covenant made with the whole house of Israel in the plains of Moab was not written on tablets of stone at all but was actually to be written upon their heart!
“The command that I am giving you today is not too difficult or beyond your reach. It is not up in the sky. You do not have to ask, ‘Who will go up and bring it down for us, so that we can hear it and obey it?’ Nor is it on the other side of the ocean. You do not have to ask, ‘Who will go across the ocean and bring it to us, so that we may hear it and obey it?’ No, it is here with you. You know it and can quote it, so now obey it.” – Deuteronomy 30:11-14
Does this sound somewhat familiar to you? Have you heard this somewhere before? Did you think like I did that Paul wrote these words to the saints of Rome and didn’t know he was actually quoting Moses?
“But what the scripture says about being put right with God through faith is this: “You are not to ask yourself, Who will go up into heaven?” (that is, to bring Christ down). “Nor are you to ask, Who will go down into the world below?” (that is, to bring Christ up from death). What it says is this: “God’s message is near you, on your lips and in your heart” — that is, the message of faith that we preach.” – Romans 10:6-8
THE NEW COVENANT WAS ALWAYS A MATTER OF THE HEART
“Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahovah God of your fathers giveth you. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Yahovah your God which I command you.” – Deut 4:1-2
“Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons.” – Deut 4:9
“But if from thence thou shalt seek Yahovah thy God, thou shalt find Him, if thou seek Him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.” – Deut 4:29
“Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that Yahovah He is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.” – Deut 4:39
“O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!” – Deut 5:29
“And thou shalt love Yahovah thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart.” – Deut. 6:5-6
“And thou shalt remember all the way which Yahovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep His commandments, or no.” – Deut 8:2
“And now, Israel, what doth Yahovah thy God require of thee, but to fear Yahovah thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul.” – Deut. 10:12
“Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.” – Deut. 10:16
“And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love Yahovah your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul…” – Deut. 11:13
“Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.” – Deut. 11:18
“This day Yahovah thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.” – Deut. 26:16
“And shalt return unto Yahovah thy God, and shalt obey His voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.” – Deut. 30:2
“And Yahovah thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Yahovah thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.” – Deut. 30:6
“If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Yahovah thy God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto Yahovah thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.” – Deut 30:10
“But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.” – Deut. 30:14
“But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of Yahovah charged you, to love Yahovah your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.” – Joshua 22:5
“Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Yahovah, my strength, and my redeemer.” – Psalm 19:14
“The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.” – Psalm 37:31
“I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.” – Psalm 40:8
“Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.” – Psalm 119:11
“Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart.” – Proverbs 3:3
“He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.” – Proverbs 4:4
“Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.” – Proverbs 6:21
“Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.” – Proverbs 7:3
Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. – Isaiah 51:7
“Circumcise yourselves to Yahovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart,ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.”– Jeremiah 4:4
“Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Yahovah God of hosts.” – Jeremiah 15:16
“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars.” – Jeremiah 17:1
THE NEW COVENANT WASN’T RATIFIED FOR ALMOST 1500 YEARS
I don’t know why I never noticed it before but the new covenant (Deut. 29:1) written down by Moses in Deut. 5-28 was never ratified by the blood of animals anywhere in Scripture! It wasn’t until the cross of the anointed one of Israel that the new covenant was ratified!
It’s so obvious – it’s hard to believe this eternal truth isn’t proclaimed everywhere, every time the Good News is proclaimed! Not only was the New Covenant ratified by the blood of animals but it also completely refutes the doctrine of substantiation propagated by apostate Israel called the Roman Catholic and Church.
“But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. Therefore He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood. For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.”And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.“ – Hebrews 9:11-22
Note: My dad seriously considered becoming a Roman Catholic priest when he got right with the Father and stopped running from the call on his life to be a minister of the Good News of Jesus Christ over fifty years ago. However, when he read the letter to the Hebrews he immediately understood the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church concerning the role of the priesthood was in fact a lie and it always has been and will forever be a lie of Apostate Israel.
THE NEW COVENANT MEAL
Just as the first covenant in stone was followed by a covenant meal in the presence of Yahovah by the representatives of the seventy nations – so the new covenant meal would also be forever memorialized by all the elders of the nations on the evening of the Passover of Yahovah!
“And when He had given thanks, He broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of Me. In the same way also He took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” – 1Corinthians 11:24-25
BORN AGAIN – AGAIN
Believe it or not – all the children of both houses of Israel were born a nation in a day for the third and final time by favor through faith on the very same day they were given the first covenant written on stone at Mt Sinai. As recorded in Acts 2 – the men of Israel were gathered from all the 70 nations to Jerusalem on the high Sabbath of Pentecost!
Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Yahudim, devout men from every nation under heaven. And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language. And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language? Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.” – Acts 2:5-11
FIRST TO THE YAHUDIM
For the first twenty-five to thirty years of being a born again believer in the Good News of Jesus the Christ – I literally had no idea why the Good News was really Good News indeed! And then all of a sudden – one day my eyes opened to the reality that the Good News was really Good News to everyone who was forever separated from Yahovah, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the covenants, having no hope and without God!
“Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands — remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.” – Ephesians 2:11-12
There is only one group of people in all of history and the Scriptures who fit the description of those who were forever separated from Christ, alienated from Israel, strangers to the covenants, with no hope and without Elohim and that was the ten tribes of the northern kingdom called – Israel – separate and distinct from the southern kingdom of Judah!
HEAR THE WORD OF YAHOVAH
Yahovah said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the whore? And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. – Jeremiah 3:6-8
“She conceived again and bore a daughter. And Yahovah said to him, “Call her name No Mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.” – Hosea 1:6
“When she had weaned No Mercy, she conceived and bore a son. And Yahovah said, “Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.” – Hosea 1:8-9
“Plead with your mother, plead — for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband— that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts; lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and make her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst. Upon her children also I will have no mercy, because they are children of whoredom. For their mother has played the whore; she who conceived them has acted shamefully.” – Hosea 2:2-5a
The ten tribes of the northern kingdom of Israel was especially and distinctly divorced by the King of the Universe and according to His own Torah He could not lawfully take them back to Himself as wife forever as it would be an abomination to Him!
THE TORAH OF DIVORCE
“When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, and if she goes and becomes another man’s wife, and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before Yahovah. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that Yahovah your God is giving you for an inheritance.” – Deut 24:1-4
“If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares Yahovah. – Jeremiah 3:1
THE MYSTERY OF THE AGES
“It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.” – 1Peter 1:12
“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.” – Romans 11:25
“Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began.” – Romans 16:25
“Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints. To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” – Colossians 1:26-27
“But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.” – Galatians 4:4
What is the mystery of the ages the angels desired to look into and why it was in the fullness of time – Yahoshua had to die? The primary reason He had to die was to redeem Israel (the kingdom of the North) from the curse of the law – which prevented her from returning to Him as her husband forever as it would be an abomination to Him and the land would forever be defiled! However, as the apostle Paul writes to us in Romans 7:1-4 – when the husband dies – the marriage and the covenants of marriage die with the husband and only then is the wife free to remarry and it is not a sin to do so.
“Or do you not know, brothers— for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.” – Romans 7:1-4
In the previous chapter (Romans 6) – Paul writes to us that everyone of us whom have been saved by favor alone by saving faith alone in Christ alone by hearing of the Good News alone to the glory of Elohim alone – died vicariously with Christ on the cross, was buried with Him in the grave and rose with Him on the third day! This is why Paul boldly declares to us that we who are born again – Israel – are a new creation in the Messiah Yahoshua!
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” – 2Corinthians 5:17
Further, Paul wrote to us that the personal bill of debt owed (i.e. the certificate of divorce given to the ten northern tribes of Israel) was nailed to the cross and His own blood blotted out the record of it!
“And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.” – Colossians 2:13-14
“The record of debt that stood against us” is called the cheirógraphon in the Greek, khi-rog’-raf-on; neuter of a compound of G5495 and G1125; something hand-written (“chirograph”), i.e. a manuscript (specially, a legal document or bond (figuratively)):—handwriting.
The certificate of divorce Yahovah gave to Yisrael was the debt she could not pay to be able to return to the covenant! Through the cross – the Husband of the old covenant became the Husband of the new covenant and the bride of the first covenant became the bride of the better covenant! And the new covenant is the marriage covenant of the Husband and His eternal bride – Israel!
THE BLACK WIDOW
If you remember – the southern kingdom of Yahudah transgressed the covenant even more than her sister the northen kingdom of Yisrael – however, Yahovah only divorced Israel not Yahudah! On the day of Passover – Wednesday, April 5th, 30 A.D. – the Husband of the covenant died! It was never purely metaphorical that Yahovah was the Husband of the covenant and that the covenant was always the marriage covenant of the Groom and Bride of the Scriptures.
Why would the apostle to the nations say to them they were “separated from Christ” – if in fact they never were separated by a certificate of divorce and put out of the land? The only people who were ever separated from Yahovah (the Husband of the first and new covenants) anywhere in Scripture was the ten northern tribes of Israel. The apostle to the nations clearly understood this and wanted to make sure the bride of the new covenant also understood this.
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the assembly of the set-apart saints.” – Ephesians 5:32
When the Husband walked the earth – His bride did not recognize Him as their Husband and in the end decided to put Him to death on the cross – with one voice!
“And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!” – Matthew 27:25
The plain reading and meaning of the Scripture is that the remaining bride (Yahudah) became a black widow on the day her Husband cried out – “It is finished!” – with His last breath. At 3:00 pm Jerusalem time – Yahudah was forever left a desolate widow and Yisrael remained a desolate divorced spouse with no hope for either bride to return to the Husband of their youth – who was now dead and buried! However, the third day of the feast of Unleavened Bread was coming and after three days and nights the Husband of the marriage covenant would rise from the dead and make all things new!
ONE NEW MAN – THE BRIDE FOREVER
This is the fullness of the mystery of the one new man and the two sticks becoming one! This is not some future prophecy yet to be fulfilled as many have been deceived to believe – mainly through the error of Zionist propaganda and the mass formation psychosis of dispensationalism with the introduction of the King James Bible – with the much lauded “Scofield” notes. Notes – not written by Scofield whatsoever but rather written by noted Jesuit scholars – Wescott and Hort whom hated their two avowed enemies – those who held to the Protestant faith and knew their Holy Scriptures and the Holy Scriptures faithfully translated from the best and most reliable manuscripts.
From the Scriptures and from extra-biblical accounts there was over two million spirit-filled, born again believers that were born again – Israel – whom were originally born of the twelve tribes of Israel or converted to the faith through the proselytizing of the pharisees (Matthew 23:15) whom identified primarily with the Yahudim of the first century. They were the last ones left desolate and without covenant due to the cross of their Husband and they were the first ones whom received the power of the resurrection at the preaching of Shimon bar Jonah at the Pentecost of Acts 2.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.” – Matthew 23:15
“Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves know.” – Acts 2:22
“Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” – Acts 2:36-38
In addition to those whom were of the remnant of the twelve tribes in the first century – tens of millions of those who were dispersed / divorced Israel numbered among the nations for over seven hundred years as well as those who were of the seventy nations whom wanted to join themselves to Israel by receiving the ratified new covenant by favor alone, through saving faith alone, in Christ alone, to the glory of Yahovah alone! This was made clear over and over again throughout Acts, the epistles of Paul and the Revelation of Jesus Christ to John! You really have to be spiritually blinded by the great end times delusion not to see it!
“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” – Galatians 3:28
“Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.” – Colossians 3:11
“For He Himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in His flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that He might create in Himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And He came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through Him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.” – Ephesians 2:14-18
Shalom, shalom in the name of Yahoshua ha Mashiach – Robert A. McDuffie – Gal. 6:14 941-227-5433 revelation1910@proton.me
Part 2 of this study will be published soon – THE MYSTERY OF APOSTATE ISRAEL
Everyone seems to be talking about Israel these days but which Israel are they talking about?
In order to have an intelligent conversation about Israel you first have to know there are three very different and distinct groups of people called Israel found in the front and the back of the book we call the Holy Bible!
In the full counsel of the Holy Scriptures we find –
Israel is forever true by faith and practice…
Israel is forever apostate by faith and practice…
Israel is forever counterfeited by faith and practice…
This is found all throughout both the Old and New Testaments of Scripture.
Once your eyes are open to see the three distinct people groups and that they are all called Israel but only Israel of covenant by favor alone through saving faith faith by the Word of Elohim alone is true Israel in the eyes of Heaven then (and only then) will the full counsel of Scripture makes sense.
Has the 7th day Sabbath really been changed to the first day of the week? Has Yahovah changed? Has His covenant changed? Has the sign of His covenant changed? No Scripture will be left out of the teaching and no Scripture will be taken out of context. I hope you’ll join us on this monumental journey of revelation and truth! Shalom, shalom, Robert A McDuffie – Gal. 6:14
THE ETERNAL SIGN OF THE COVENANT! Has the 7th day Sabbath really been changed to the first day of the week? Has Yahovah changed? Has His covenant changed? Has the sign of His covenant changed? No Scripture will be left out of the teaching and no Scripture will be taken out of context. I hope you’ll join us on this monumental journey of revelation and truth! Shalom, shalom, Robert A McDuffie – Gal. 6:14
This message is part one of the teaching series – the seven baptisms of the Scripture. This is not a dispensational message. There are in fact seven different distinct baptism in Scripture and each one is teaching us the message of salvation / deliverance through the finished work of Y’shua haMashiach!
This message is part one of the teaching series – the seven baptisms of the Scripture. This is not a dispensational message. There are in fact seven different distinct baptism in Scripture and each one is teaching us the message of salvation / deliverance through the finished work of Y’shua haMashiach!
You can continue to believe in the traditions of men or you can believe the Scriptures. From Genesis – Revelation the full counsel of Scripture reveals who Israel was and is and will be and yet 99.99 percent of Christians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims and More – refuse to hear the plain teachings of the Word of Life and instead have been indoctrinated to believe one of the greatest end time deceptions of all!
Even those who have identified as Messianic, Hebrew Roots, etc. have exchanged one lie for another because for the last 120 years – we have not learned recent events in history but rather propaganda and all the earth has been indoctrinated to believe in false interpretations of Scripture and counterfeit fulfillment of prophecies. I too was once a victim of this deception as it’s pervasive and believed as fact by atheists, agnostics and people of faiths alike. The love of the truth is a life long journey of unlearning lies and then learning the truth. The bigger the lie – the more often the lie is repeated – the more people will believe it!
Time is running out – this final chapter of the sixth thousand year period is less than three years from being finished and almost nothing is going to happen the way we were programmed to believe.
Shalom, Shalom in Yahoshua’s name – Robert Arthur McDuffie – Gal. 6:14
Come Yahoshua, Come and take Your rightful place upon the throne of Your servant David!
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