Nazarene Israelite Two House Congregation of Port Elizabeth
Let us prepare to return to the covenant with YHVH and to join the house of Judah.
The return of the lost ten tribes scattered into the world because of idolatry has been prophesied throughout the Tanach, but also in the Renewed Covenant or more correctly ‘The writings of the Nazarenes’. Nevertheless, since we as returning Israelites are beginning to witness the fulfilment of these prophecies, we need to be ever mindful that the house of Judah remained loyal to YHVH and the covenant that He made with both houses at Mount Sinai, on Shavuot, 50 days after the First Day of Unleavened Bread when they left Egypt by the light of the Full Moon. Yes, they were also taken into captivity for not keeping the seventh year land Sabbath, but remained loyal to YHVH the Elohim of Israel even during their 70 year captivity in Babylon and especially so after Ezra, Nehemiah and Zerubbabel returned with a remnant to the house of Judah to rebuild the Temple and the city of Jerusalem about 2500 years ago.
Starting in the book of Deuteronomy 4: 27 - 31 we see that in agreement with His covenant with Abraham, YHVH who cannot lie, again confirm that He will bring us back to the covenant relationship we made with Him at Mount Sinai, saying: “And YHVH will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where YHVH shall drive you. (28) And there you will serve gods, the work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. (29) But from there you will seek YHVH your Elohim, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. (30) When you are in distress and all these things have come upon you, in the latter days, you will return to YHVH your Elohim and listen to His voice. (31) For YHVH your Elohim is a compassionate Elohim; He will not fail you nor destroy you nor forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them.” This is obviously also what Yahshua the Messiah, who came specifically to bring the lost ten tribes back to the covenantal relationship we had with Elohim together with the house of Judah, taught in the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15: 11 – 32. As may be understood from this parable, our Jewish Brothers will not readily accept us back when we return, since we have been in captivity by Esau or more specifically the Roman Catholic Church for almost 1800 years and have lost our culture, faith and language and became just like the Gentile nations amongst whom we were scattered. We accordingly exchanged Elohim’s ordained Sabbath and Set-apart Days for those instituted by the Roman Catholic Church. Jews through their knowledge of prophecies in the Tanach are fully aware that the good news of the coming Kingdom of Elohim means a major fall for the Roman Empire, which has been ruling mainly the western world for more than 2000 years, just as the prophet Daniel foretold king Nebuchadnezzar during Judah’s captivity in Babylon many years ago. The house of Judah is also fully aware that proclaiming the gospel of the coming Kingdom of Elohim has to do with the lost ten tribes fighting and overcoming pagan Rome to eventually rejoin the house of Judah in the commonwealth of Israel, with King David’s descendant ruling it as one United Kingdom of Israel once again. However, the misunderstanding caused by the anti-Judah teachings of Christianity that Jews lack the Set-apart Spirit of Elohim and remain unrepentant has created great bitterness in the relationship between these two groups.
But, if we from the house of Israel are prepared to reread some of the Renewed Covenant portions which used to be twisted to convey just the opposite of what really happened in for example Acts 2, where the Jews attending Shavuot/Pentecost actually received the set-apart Spirit with the 120 disciples of Messiah and when later members of the house of Israel enquired what they should do to also receive the Set-apart Spirit, Rav Kepha explained in verses 36 – 39 of Acts 2, saying to them:“ Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that Elohim has made Him both Master and Messiah—this Yahshua whom you crucified (by your disobedience to Torah, without realizing it and without ever coming to repentance).” (37) Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Kepha and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?” (38) And Kepha said to them, “Repent, and let each of you be immersed in the name of Yahshua Messiah for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Set-apart spirit. (39) For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far off(meaning all from the house of Israel, as per the definition given us by Daniel in Daniel 9: 7 in his prayer for both houses of Israel), as many as YHVH our Elohim shall call to Himself (and not the ones we would like to save from amongst our friends and family).”
The truth is that the scripturally ordained requirement and possibility of repentance is deeply ingrained in the house of Judah, who remained loyal to YHVH and His Torah and we from the house of Israel should thank YHVH for the fact that they preserved the Torah for us whilst we became pagan to the core. The house of Judah who remained Torah observant does not believe in proselytizing anyone, but will assist those who come to them for guidance in the way of Elohim. In addition those who are strictly observant are so deeply involved in their walk with Elohim that they do not have the time to try and convert outsiders to follow them. They need to be totally aware of whatever they do, eat and say to ensure that it conforms to Torah, in order to be the example they ought to be for their children and the world around them. We from the lost ten tribes need to be mindful that Yahshua who was a Jew by birth and remained so until His dying day, came to bring a remnant of ten tribe believers in Him back to the covenant relationship we made with YHVH, together with the house of Judah at Mount Sinai. Nevertheless, those members of the lost ten tribes who have returned to YHVH and His Torah through Abraham’s one seed Yahshua, cannot be expected neither will they ever deny Yahshua who redeemed their portion of the Promised Land that they lost due to idolatry, as well as paying the penalty due to them for being disobedient to Elohim’s Torah teachings. Fact remains that all those logically thinking and searching Renewed Covenant believers will ultimately find themselves standing with Judah, as RavShaul explained in Ephesians 2: 17 – 19, saying: ‘AND HE CAME AND PREACHED PEACE TO YOU WHO WERE FAR AWAY (the house of Israel), AND PEACE TO THOSE WHO WERE NEAR(the house of Judah); (18) for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. (19) So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and are of Elohim’s household.’ They will realize that since the house of Judah remained Torah observant and have been given the role of Elohim’s lawgiver until Messiah comes to rule the commonwealth of Israel and ultimately the world from Jerusalem, that they are able to learn from them as the prophet Zechariah also prophesied in Zechariah 8: 23 saying: “Thus says YHVH of hosts, ‘In those days ten men (meaning the lost ten tribes)from all the nations will grasp the garment of a Jew saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that Elohim is with you.’”
Returning members of the lost ten tribes should see the ‘Writings of the Nazarenes’ as the fulfilment of the ancient Jewish vision, mission and hope of the ingathering of the lost ten tribes. But it is also a connection to assist them to return to Elohim and His ways and to become part of the commonwealth of Israel ruled by a descendant of David once again, as RavYaa’cov aptly explained (quoting from Amos 9: 11 & 12) in Acts 15: 15 – 18, saying: “And with this the words of the Prophets agree, just as it is written, (16) ‘AFTER THESE THINGS I WILL RETURN, AND I WILL REBUILD THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID WHICH HAS FALLEN, AND I WILL REBUILD ITS RUINS, AND WILL RESTORE IT, (17) IN ORDER THAT THE REST OF MANKIND MAY SEEK YHVH, AND ALL THE GENTILES WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME (the house of Israel – Elohim’s covenant people),’(18)SAYS YHVH, WHO MAKES THESE THINGS KNOWN FROM OF OLD.”In fact the mysteries of the Kingdom of Elohim cannot be understood by the Romans or Christianity for that matter, since it is something they fear as Yahshua explained in Luke 8: 10, saying to His disciples (but also us His modern day disciples): “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of Elohim, but to the rest it is in parables, in order that SEEING THEY MAY NOT SEE, AND HEARING THEY MAY NOT UNDERSTAND.” The good news about the coming Kingdom of Elohim, with a Messiah coming to rule both houses of Israel from Jerusalem, is something every Jew is looking forward to, since it has been prophesied to happen throughout the Tanach. Every Jew knows that the Sages taught of a heavenly Jerusalem and Temple, just waiting to become a reality on earth. However, Yahshua knew that His identity will remain hidden from them, until His return, when as He told them in Matthew 23: 39, saying: “For I say to you, from now on you shall not see Me until you say, ‘BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF YHVH.’”
Judah is totally aware that the ‘Writings of the Nazarenes’ has been put into thousands of languages, thereby making it possible for billions of people to become conscious of the Hebrew Scriptures, One Elohim, and a Messiah that will bring redemption to Israel and to rebuild the Temple that will ensure world peace and true prosperity, after 6000 years of mankind’s misrule. But this does not reduce those aspects of Christianity which is still stuck in pagan confusion that troubles them. Nevertheless, this is irrelevant forthe returning remnant of lost ten tribe Israelites who are slowly but surely discovering and rejecting these pagan ideas. The house of Judah believes firmly that HaShem is near to all who sincerely call on His name, as King David wrote in Psalm 86: 5, saying: ‘For Thou, Adonai, art good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon Thee.’ In addition all Jews know that the Temple benefitted all of mankind and that it was a ‘House of prayer for all peoples.’ But there are a number of problems that are presently keeping the joining of the two houses of Israel into one. It is as Rabbi Feld wrote in his book, ‘Jewish Secrets Hidden in the New Testament’ (on page 273) which I urge all who are able to read/buy a copy via info@kolhator.org.il ,saying: ‘It should be expected that numerous hurdles will be put in the way of reconciliation and unity. It is only a test, a challenge, an illusion which is put before us to see what we are really made of. It is to separate the sincere and refined from the chaff; to demonstrate to the world and to the ’accuser’, that we have the true inner qualities of faith and fortitude to return. Just as Joseph merely tested his brothers and G-d merely tested Avraham to show that he indeed had such depths of faith. The Talmud tells us that this testing process also purifies and brings atonement and merits to all of us.’
Although the Holy Land of Israel has a population of about 6 million people, there are only about a million practicing, observant Jews in Israel and about a similar number in the diaspora, at this time. The people of Israel today are faced with the reality of either embracing the promises and protection of Elohim, by insisting on taking possession of the land regardless of what the world outside Israel wills or wants, or becoming a secular nation like any other, assimilating so much that they will never be recognized as ‘The people of the Bible’. As a result Jewish continuity in Israel is on a slippery slope of reduced detectable numbers. However, it is Elohim’s promises regarding the future restoration of the lost ten tribes that hold the key to Israel’s otherwise insolvable demographic problem. The house of Judah or the Jewish people has reached a point where they have to decide to either lose the Promised Land to their many enemies, or consider the possible chance of the re-awakening and return of the lost ten tribes as prophesied throughout the Scriptures. If increasing numbers of settlers in the Land of Israel is a problem for Judah to settle the territories promised by Elohim to Israel, then we need to be mindful of the prophecies that tell us the land is too small for the returning millions in Zachariah 10: 6 – 10, stating: “And I shall strengthen the house of Judah, and I shall save the house of Joseph, and I shall bring them back, because I have had compassion on them; and they will be as though I had not rejected them, for I am YHVH their Elohim, and I will answer them. (7) And Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will be glad as if from wine; indeed, their children will see it and be glad, their heart will rejoice in YHVH. (8) I will whistle for them to gather them together, for I have redeemed them; and they will be as numerous as they were before. (9) When I scatter them among the peoples, they will remember Me in far countries, and they with their children will live and come back. (10)I will bring them back from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, until no room can be found for them.” If it is Elohim’s will to identify the members of the lost ten tribes at the time of the end and to unite them with the house of Judah once again, then Judah, the present occupants are obliged to recognize us and accept and start cooperating with the restoration when it takes place.
Let’s therefore start preparing for the day when Messiah will facilitate the joining together of the two houses of Israel when He as the greater King David will start ruling the commonwealth of Israel, as the Kingdom of Elohim on earth, in true Scriptural faith. Now, as we all know faith is based on (1) knowledge of truth[1], (2) trust that Elohim will deliver His many promises that He made to His people, and (3) as a result of trusting in Him, obey all His Torah instructions to us. We need to be aware that if we want the re-unification of the two houses of Israel to happen in our day, we need to have living faith, proving our faith by our works and start obeying Elohim and His will for us, without any doubt. This is exactly why the ancient Israelites did not enter the Promised Land, as RavShaul wrote in Hebrews 3: 16 – 19 and 4: 1, saying: ‘For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? (17) And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? (18) And to whom did He swear that they should not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient? (19) And sowe see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief (resulting from disobedience). (1) Therefore, let us fear lest, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.’YHVH our Elohim has a plan to bring about the reunification of all twelve tribes and you and I need to fully trust the prophecies that He gave us in this regards. It is as Sir Winston Churchill told the British people before and during World War II: ‘Ours is not to reason why; ours is to do or die.’ So let’s again consider some of the most encouraging prophecies regarding the re-gathering of the two houses of Israel into one, just prior to Messiah’s return to take charge of the rulership of this world.
We see from Jeremiah 50 that the actual re-gathering of the house of Judah and the house of Israel will take place immediately after Babylon the great, the mother of harlots have been destroyed by an army coming from the north, as prophesied by Jeremiah in verses 1 – 5, in this way: ‘The word which YHVH spoke concerning Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet:(2) “Declare and proclaim among the nations, proclaim it and lift up a standard. Do not conceal it but say, ‘Babylon has been captured, Bel (or Baal) has been put to shame, Marduk has been shattered; her images have been put to shame, her idols have been shattered.’ (3) For a nation has come up against her out of the north; it will make her land an object of horror, and there will be no inhabitant in it. Both man and beast have wandered off, they have gone away! (4) “In those days and at that time,” declares YHVH, “the sons of Israel will come, both they and the sons of Judah as well; they will go along weeping as they go, and it will be YHVH their Elohim they will seek. (5) They will ask for the way to Zion, turning their faces in its direction; they will come that they may join themselves to YHVH in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.” ’We see from the Tanach that YHVH will for His own interest and purpose gather and return the lost sheep of the house of Israel to their own property in the Promised Land. We also see that YHVH will clean the remnant of the lost ten tribes as well as the Promised Land from their uncleanness and its contamination with idols. As a result these returning members of Israel will be disgusted with themselves, exactly the way we are at this time.
We see further from Ezekiel 36: 16 – 35, how YHVH will accomplish this cleansing, as follows: ‘Then the word of YHVH came to me saying, (17) “Son of man, when the house of Israel was living in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. (18) Therefore, I poured out My wrath on them for the blood which they had shed on the land, because they had defiled it with their idols. (19) Also I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the lands. According to their ways and their deeds I judged them. (20) When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of YHVH; yet they have come out of His land.’ (21) But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went. (22) Therefore, say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says Adonai YHVH, “It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My Set-apart name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went. (23) And I will vindicate the holiness of My great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. Then the nations will know that I am YHVH,” declares YHVH Elohim, “when I prove Myself holy among you in their sight. (24) For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands, and bring you into your own land. (25) Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. (26) Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new sprit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. (27) And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances. (28) And you will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so you will be My people, and I will be your Elohim. (29) Moreover, I will save you from all your uncleanness; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I will not bring a famine on you. (30) And I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, that you may not receive again the disgrace of famine among the nations. (31)Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and your abominations.(32) I am not doing this for your sake,” declares YHVH Elohim, “let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel! (33) Thus says YHVH Elohim, “On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt. (34) And the desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passed by. (35) And they will say, ‘This desolate land has become like the Garden of Eden; and the waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.”
The main reason that YHVH will allow the house of Israel to return to the Promised Land in the latter days is the honoring of His Set-apart name, since they have been desecrating His name during the past 2730 years of their exile. What returning members of the lost ten tribes must remember is that the restoration of the Set-apart Names is a great concern for the house of Judah, since they regard the way the remnant of lost ten tribe Israelites use these Set-apart Names as a serious desecration – an issue which actually hinders reconciliation at present. Those of us who are returning to the covenant relationship we once had with Elohim, need to realize that we are blaspheming if we use the Sacred name whilst not fully obeying Elohim’s Torah, as the prophet Malachi clearly showed in Malachi 2: 1 – 8, saying to the teachers in the house of Israel: “And now, this commandment is for you, O priests. (2) If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to give honor to My name (We give honor to (YHVH)’s name by doing what and how He tells us to, not by using His name whilst we do our own thing.),” says YHVH of hosts, “then I will send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; and indeed, I have cursed them already, because you are not taking it to heart.(3) Behold, I am going to rebuke your offspring, and I will spread refuse on your faces, the refuse of your (own ordained) feasts; and you will be taken away with it. (4) Then you will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that My covenant may continue with Levi (who are presently only to be found amongst the house of Judah, since the house of Israel rejected their authority after King Jeroboam made priests from among all the people who were not of the sons of Levi),” says YHVH of hosts. (5)“My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him as an object of reverence; so he revered Me, and stood in awe of My name. (this is perhaps what returnees from the lost ten tribes should learn from the Levites among the Jews.) (6) True instruction was in his mouth and unrighteousness was not found on his lips; he walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many back from iniquity. (7) For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth; for he is the messenger of YHVH of hosts. (8) But as for you, you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble by the instruction; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says YHVH of hosts.’
We also see that those of us from the lost ten tribes will only at the time of our return to join the house of Judah, get rid of all our many false beliefs that we learnt from the nations amongst who we were scattered as we read from Ezekiel 37: 15 – 24, in this way:‘ The word of YHVH came again to me saying, (16) “And you, son of man, take for yourself one stick and write on it, ‘For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.’ (17) “Then join them for yourself one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. (18) And when the sons of your people speak to you saying, ‘Will you not declare to us what you mean by these?’ (19) Say to them, ‘Thus says YHVH Elohim, “Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them with it, with one stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand.”’ (20) “And the stick on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes. (21) And say to them, ‘Thus says YHVH Elohim, “Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; (22) and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations, and they will no longer be divided into two kingdoms. (23) And they will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people and I will be their Elohim. (24) And My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances, and keep My statutes, and observe them.”
What must also be remembered is that the lost ten tribes did not end up as a bunch of primitive bush-dwellers, but as Yair Davidiy and other scholars have demonstrated, the lost ten tribes ended up being the dominant forces among the nations. They had the blessings of Abraham given to each one of the lost ten tribes by Jacob in Genesis 49 and by Moses in Deuteronomy 33 and according to the promise YHVH made to Abraham, these Israelites blessed every nation with whom they got in contact with. According to the blessings in the two sections of the Torah mentioned, they were to rule over other nations, become very prosperous and possess vast natural resources. In addition Kings of several of the nations where they were scattered came from them. Each tribe possessed the qualities given in the two Scriptures in the Torah, by Jacob and Moses. From some of the blessings given to the ten tribes, it is easy to identify most of the nations where the lost ten tribes are to be found during the last days. Today, we face conditions which the world has never experienced before. After World War II, the nations of the world started developing weapons of mass destruction which can erase all life from our planet. Most nations are in deep financial trouble, and their citizens suffer from many incurable diseases. Soon a world-wide famine caused by natural disasters and inclement weather will result in millions starving to death. The major powers of the world, which used to turn to Science and Technology for help in the past, cannot find solutions to their problems any longer and have no-where to turn to. Even those who turn to the Scriptures cannot find the answers, because they believe the Scriptures to be outdated and only offered solutions to the ancient nation of Israel. In fact a large portion of the prophecies in the Scriptures were never written for the ancient nation of Israel, but is about the people and nations alive today. We are also able to see from many of the prophecies in the Scriptures where the people of Israel will reside before Messiah’s return and the coming exodus back to the Promised Land, picturing them in captivity and slavery. Speaking first of ancient Israel, YHVH says in Ezekiel 20: 10 – 12, “So I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness. (11) And I gave them My statutes and informed them of My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live. (12) And also I gave them My Sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am YHVH who sanctifies them.” Nevertheless we read in verse 21 of Ezekiel 20: “But the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, nor were they careful to observe My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live; they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the wilderness.” Therefore, we see according to verse 23 that YHVH scattered ancient Israel in national captivity and slavery. Instead of becoming the model nation that YHVH wanted them to be, ancient Israel became trapped in the worshiping practices of the pagan nations around them.
We as returnees to the covenant relationship with Elohim, need to familiarize ourselves with the events that led to the split in the commonwealth of Israel by reading the scriptural history about it in 1 Kings 12: 16, as follows: ‘When all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; to your tents, O Israel! Now look after your own house, David!” So Israel departed to their tents.’ It was after the house of Israel, rejected the house of David that Jeroboam became the king over the house of Judah. It was because of jealousy that he immediately made two golden calves and told the house of Israel, that these calves brought them out of Egypt and he set one in Bethel and one in Dan in the north of Israel. We see from 1 Kings 12: 30 – 33, how he caused the entire house of Israel to follow him in idolatry, which eventually resulted in YHVH scattering them into the nations of the world, in this way: ‘Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan. (31) And he made houses on high places, and made priests from among all the people who were not of the sons of Levi. (32)And Jeroboam instituted a feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is in Judah, and he went up to the altar; thus he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made. And he stationed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made. (33)Then he went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised in his own heart; and he instituted a feast for the sons of Israel, and went up to the altar to burn incense.’ We will therefore not see any signs of redemption until we repent and ask for all three components of worship that we rejected as the house of Israel at that time, namely:
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As Hosea the prophet tells us in Hosea 3: 5, saying; ‘Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek YHVH their Elohim and David their king; and they will come trembling to YHVH and to His goodness in the last days(which essentially refers to the Temple - Yalkut Shimoni 2 - 106).’
You and I should feel very honored that we were actually chosen from amongst millions of the lost ten tribes to join Brother Judah as kings and priests under Messiah, provided we qualify to rule the world from Jerusalem. Not one of us understand the tremendous value Elohim placed on us, by choosing us, not from the best or cleverest people of the tribes to ultimately become the body of Messiah with our Jewish Brothers who remained loyal to YHVH ever since we made the first covenant with our forefathers at Mount Sinai. We should therefore stop relying on our own intelligence when interpreting the Scriptures, and might gain a better understanding if we obtain Scriptural information from our Jewish brothers, as we’ve read earlier from Zachariah 8: 23. Let us start by doing our part to make ready a people prepared for the Master, as Malachi prophesied in Malachi 4: 4 – 6, saying: “Remember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel. (5) Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of YHVH. (6) And he will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse.” Let’s teach our children and new believers about the faith of our fathers in the faith. Think about it!
[1]Yahshua Himself identified truth as being the word of Elohim, when He was on earth and in His prayer recorded in John 17: 17 talking about His disciples (but also about us His modern day disciples), asked Elohim to: “Sanctify them in truth, Thy word is truth.”