313 Return to YHVH, return to David

Return to YHVH; return to David; return to the temple.

The book of Hosea is a prophecy about the way the house of Israel forsook YHVH their Elohim, but also David their king and Temple worship or Torah. To determine what went wrong with the ancient nation of Israel, we need to look at the time immediately prior to King Solomon’s death. Most believers know that ancient Israel’s problems really started before King Solomon’s death, when he appointed Jeroboam over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph, as recorded infirst Kings 11: 26 – 28,in this way: ‘Then Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, Solomon’s servant, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also rebelled against the king. (27) Now this was the reason why he rebelled against the king: Solomon built the Millo (or citadel), and closed up the breach of the city of his father David. (28) Now the man Jeroboam was a valiant warrior, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious, he appointed him over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph.’ Because King Solomon was a very wise man he saw that even though Jeroboam was rebellious, he had other good qualities.

However, when reading the rest of the account fromfirst Kings 11, we see from verses 29 – 39, that it was Elohim who specifically chose Jeroboam to take the rulership of the house of Israel away from the house of David, as follows:‘And it came about at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had clothed himself with a new cloak; and both of them were alone in the field. (30) Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces. (31) And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces; for thus says YHVH, the Elohim of Israel, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and give you ten tribes (32) (but he will have one tribe, for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel), (33) because they have forsaken Me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon; and they have not walked in My ways, doing what is right in My sight and observing My statutes and My ordinances, as his father David did. (34) Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of My servant David whom I chose, who observed My commandments and My statutes; (35) but I will take the kingdom from his son’s hand and give it to you, even ten tribes. (36) But to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant David may have a lamp always before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen for Myself to put My name. (37) And I will take you, and you shall reign over whatever you desire, and you shall be king over Israel. (38) Then it will be, that If you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight by observing My statutes and My commandments, as My servant David did, then I will be with you and build you an enduring house as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you. (39) Thus I will afflict the descendants of David for this, but not always.’’ Notice the only proviso Elohim gaveJeroboam to rule the house of Israel, was to obey YHVH the Elohim of Israel the way King David did before him.

King Solomon’s son Rehoboam started ruling in Solomon’s place after his death. King Solomon ruled all twelve tribes of Israel for forty years, during which time the nation lived peacefully,because he demanded heavy taxes from the citizens, allowing themto dominate their neighbors economically and militarily. However, this heavy tax burden caused significant resentment among the citizens of Israel and because of Jeroboam’s effective administration over the forced labor in Israel, the nation requested him to be their spokesman to try and lighten the tax burden under King Rehoboam. We pick up the account in 1 Kings 12: 4, where Jeroboam said to Rehoboam, “Your father made our yoke hard; therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.” Rehoboam required some time to consider the nation’s request through Jeroboam and consulted with the elders who served under his father, who advised him in verse 7 of first Kings 12, saying: “If you will be a servant to this people today, will serve them, grant them their petition, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.” But,Rehoboam did not listen to the counsel of the elders, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him. The young men’s counsel to Rehoboam is recorded in verses 10 & 11, as follows: “Thus you shall say to this people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, now you make it lighter for us!’ But you shall speak to them. ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins! (11) Whereas my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’” When the nation of Israel saw that Rehoboam did not listen to them they answered the king, saying in verse 16 of first Kings 12:‘“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.’ We see further from verse 20 that Israel subsequently made Jeroboam king over all Israel and only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David.

Rehoboam immediately assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin to fight against the house of Israel. Even so, we read from first Kings 12: 22 – 24, ‘But the word of Elohim came to Shemaiah the man of Elohim, saying, (23) “Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin and to the rest of the people, saying, (24) ‘Thus says YHVH, “You must not go up and fight against your relatives the sons of Israel; return every man to his house, for this thing has come from Me.”’” However, we see that despite of YHVH informing Jeroboam that He has chosen him to rule over the ten tribes of Israel, Jeroboam feared that if the house of Israel returned to Jerusalem to keep Elohim’s Feast days, they will want Rehoboam to be their ruler once again. We read from verse 28 – 33 of first Kings 12, how Jeroboam went off the track, because of his fear motivated by jealousy, as follows: ‘So the king consulted, and made two golden calves, and he said to them (the house of Israel), “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt.” (29) And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. (30) 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 of 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.’

King Jeroboam’s personal agenda led to spiritual mistakes that would bring untold misery on the house of Israel and their descendants. Soon after taking over the leadership of Israel, Jeroboam led the nation away from worshipping YHVH the Elohim of Israel, in the way that He prescribed in the Scriptures. Jeroboam’s counterfeit worship, with its own festivals and priesthood was the primary reason for the house of Israel’s downfall. Jeroboam like us was specifically chosen by Elohim to rule His people, but he failed to use the opportunity given him by Elohim. Similarly today, there are some leaders whom YHVH specifically called to lead His people, by teaching them to keep His weekly and annual Sabbaths specified in the Scriptures, but because of their personal agendas, motivated by fear and jealousy of other leaders, and or because of anti-Semitism, they contradict what the word of Elohim teaches. Elohim pronounced a sobering judgment against Jeroboam, through Ahijah the prophet in 1 Kings 14: 7 – 10, as follows: “Go, say to Jeroboam, ‘Thus says YHVH Elohim of Israel, “Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over My people Israel, (8) and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you—yet you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only that which was right in My sight; (9) you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger, and have cast me behind your back— (10) therefore behold, I am bringing calamity on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male person, both bond and free in Israel, and I will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone.” Because of Jeroboam’s sin, YHVH also rejected Israel as is recorded in verses 14 – 16, in this way: “Moreover, YHVH will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam this day and from now on. (15) For YHVH will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking YHVH to anger. (16) And He will give up Israel on account of the sins of Jeroboam, which he committed and with which he made Israel to sin.”

The major reason why Messianic Jews (who are mostly from the tribe of Benjamin) are wrong in their effort to proselytize the house of Judah, is if they truly believed what Yahshua the one they say they came to believe in taught, they will realize that the House of Judah are the ones who remained close to YHVH and His Torah, and are not the ones needing to be saved. If they like many in Christianity fully understand what Yahshua taught, they will concentrate on proclaiming the Gospel of the coming Kingdom of Elohim into the world as a witness, specifically toreach the lost sheep of the house of Israel and not to Judah. We see Yahshua’s own words to the Canaanite woman who asked Him to heal her demon-possessed daughter, saying to her in Matthew 15: 24, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” In addition when Yahshua sent out His disciples the first time in Matthew 10: 5 – 7, He said to them: “Do not go in the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter any city of the Samaritans; (6) but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.(7) And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’” Yahshua also told the Pharisees who asked His disciples why He eats and drinks with tax-gatherers and sinners, saying in Luke 5: 31 & 32: “It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick. (32) I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”

It is vitally important for those of us from the lost ten tribes of Israel to understand that we are the ones spoken about in Daniel’s prayer in Daniel 9: 7 as being far away from YHVH, in this way: “Righteousness belongs to Thee, O YHVH, but to us open shame, as it is this day – to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the countries to which Thou hast driven them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against Thee.” We see from Ephesians 2: 11 – 19, that Yahshua came to reconcile us to the Father, but also to Brother Judah, as follows: ‘Therefore remember, that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “Un-circumcision” by the so-called “Circumcision,” which is performed in the flesh by human hands— (12) remember that you were at that time separate from Messiah, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel (meaning the commonwealth of Israel consisting of both houses, which were ruled by King David), and strangers to the covenants of promise[1],having no hope and without Elohim in the world.(13)But now in Messiah Yahshua you who formerly were far off (this is talking to us from the lost ten tribes who lost our faith in YHVH and the covenants that He made with our fathers in the faith) havebeen brought near by the blood of Messiah. (14)For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one, and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, (15)by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace, (16)and might reconcile them both in one body to Elohim through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity. (17)AND HE CAME AND PREACHED PEACE TO YOU WHO WERE FAR AWAY, AND PEACE TO THOSE WHO WERE NEAR; (18)for through Him we both have 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.’

We from the lost ten tribes of Israel are the ones Yahshua mentioned to our Jewish Brothers in John 10: 14 – 17, but especially in verse 16, when He said to them: “I am the good shepherd; and I know My own, and My own know Me, (15) even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. (16) And I have other sheep, which are not of this (Jewish) fold; I must bring them also, and they shall hear My voice; and they shall become one flock with one shepherd. (17) For this reason (to reconcile them to the Father, but also to you— meaning Judah) the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.” Yahshua died to reconcile us back to YHVH, by paying the certificate of debt against us for breaking Torah orthe marriage covenant that He made with us and our forefathers at Mount Sinai. Accordingly, we are also the ones who should be immersed into Yahshua’s saving name for the forgiveness of our sins, as Rav Kepha also explained in Acts 2: 38 & 39, saying: “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 that this is only for the lost ten tribes, who have stopped obeying YHVH and His Torah), as many as YHVH our Elohim shall call to Himself.” This is saying that we should only immerse those from the lost ten tribes, plus some Gentiles who are truly called by the Father, who come to believe in Yahshua because of the Good News about the coming kingdom of Elohim that we are commissioned by Yahshua to proclaim – as a witness into the world.

Think for a moment – what have we just said? If Yahshua came to bring us back to the faith of the fathers in the faith, and we know that He was Jewish, it should be clear at this point; that He came specifically to bring us back to Judaism – meaning faith in YHVH. Yahshua did not start a new religion, but as is recorded in Acts 2: 8 – 11 the people who attended the first Pentecost or Shavuot after His ascension to heaven, were mostly Jews or converts to Judaism, as follows: ‘And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born? (9) Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, (10) Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya around Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, (11) Cretans and Arabs – we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of Elohim.’ The people whom Rav Kepha was talking to in Acts 2: 39, were people who used to worship and know YHVH, who eventually moved far away from the land of Israel, but also from their original faith in Him – those Rav Kepha and Rav Shaul referred to as ‘all who are far off.’ We see further from Acts 15, that Messiah’s disciples, who were at that time already sent out to proclaim the good news about the coming kingdom of Elohim, included some from the sect of the Pharisees who believed in Him or what He taught (verse 5). We see further from verses 19 – 21 Rav Yaa’cov’s recommendation regarding new believers, including returnees from the house of Israel and some Gentiles who come into the faith for the first time, who were not yet circumcised, saying: “Therefore it is my judgment that we do not trouble those who are turning to Elohim from among the Gentiles, (20) but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood (not eating meat with blood in it, as well as complying to the Torah laws regarding childbirth and menstruation). (21) For Moses(meaning what is written in Torah)from ancient generations has in every city those who preach him, since he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath.” It is vitally important for us to realize that this ruling of Rav Yaa’cov is endorsing the return, restoration and establishment of the 12-tribe kingdom of Israel based on the Torah of YHVH as taught by the Levites (the Rabbinical Jews) in the Jewish synagogues today.

We read about the house of Israel from Deuteronomy 32: 15 – 17, “But Jeshurun (a pet name for Israel) grew fat and kicked— you are grown fat, thick, and sleek— then he forsook Elohim who made him, and scorned the Rock of his salvation (the same rock Yahshua mentioned in Matthew 7: 24 & 25; and 16: 18). (16) They made Him jealous with strange gods; with abominations they provoked Him to anger. (17)They sacrificed to demons who were not Elohim, to gods they have not known, new gods who came lately, whom your fathers did not dread.” As mentioned before Yahshua who was a Jew, did not come to start a new religion at all. The way of the Nazarene only meant the wayYahshuaas a JewishRabbi interpreted Torah, as may be read in Matthew 5, 6 & 7. Yes, His way of walking out Torah was in fact stricter than the Jews of His day, but he did not come to do away with Judaism at all, as He also said in verses 17 – 20 of Matthew 5, in this way: ‘Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. (18) For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Law, until all is accomplished. (19) Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments and so teaches others, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (20) For I say to you, that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.’The reason why Messiah’s interpretation of Torah was stricter than that of the Jews of His day was not because their interpretation was less strict or wrong, but because He knew that the returning Israelites were prone to idolatry and fornication, as Rav Yaa’cov also showed in his ruling in Acts 15.

So what were the new gods who came lately spoken about in Deuteronomy 32 above? J*e*s*u*s* who is definitely different tothe Yahshua we have just read about in Matthew 5, who did not abolish any of the commands given in Torah and is one of the new gods who came up lately. Yahshua’s mother or His disciples did not ever call Him by the name J*e*s*u*s* and to say that it is merely an English translation of the name Yahshua is a gross understatement. A person’s personal name is never changed from one language to another. The name of Vladimir Putin of Russia remains the same in any language; else people in other parts of the world would not know who you are talking about. In the same way is Bill Clinton known throughout the world. Yes, most English speakers know that Bill is short for William, as much as believers in Messiah know that Yahshua is short for Yahushua or Yehoshua the same name of the book of Scriptures immediately following Deuteronomy, which has been shortened to Joshua, which also means salvation (as does Hosea).Because Israel lightly esteemed the name of Elohim, He rejected them, as we read in Deuteronomy 32: 15 and as Nehemiah wrote about them in Nehemiah 9: 26 - 29, saying in his prayer to YHVH: “But they became disobedient and rebelled against Thee, and cast Thy law behind their backs and killed Thy prophets who had admonished them so that they might return to Thee, and they committed great blasphemies. (27) Therefore Thou didst deliver them into the hand of their oppressors who oppressed them, but when they cried to Thee in the time of their distress, Thou didst hear from heaven, and according to Thy great compassion thou didst give them deliverers who delivered them from the hand of their oppressors.(28)But as soon as they had rest, they did evil again before Thee; therefore Thou didst abandon them to the hand of their enemies, so that they ruled over them. When they cried again to Thee, Thou didst hear from heaven, and many times Thou didst rescue them according to Thy compassion, (29) and admonished them in order to turn them back to Thy law. Yet they acted arrogantly and did not listen to Thycommandments but sinned against Thine ordinances, by which if a man observes them he shall live. And they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck, and would not listen.’It is for this reason that YHVH sent the house of Israel a strong delusion, as Rav Shaul wrote in 2 Thessalonians 2: 11 & 12, saying: ‘And for this reason Elohim will send upon them a deluding influence so that they might believe what is false, (12) in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth (which is Torah according to Psalm 119: 142), but took pleasure in wickedness.’

But J*e*s*u*s* is one of a number of new gods that came up in the latter days. J*e*s*u*s* was never the name of the Messiah Yahshua – it is a made-up name which is false! This is why the prophet Hosea wrote in Hosea 13: 1 – 4, saying: ‘When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but through Baal (the Lord) he did wrong and died. (2) And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves molten images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. They say of them, “Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves!” (3)Therefore, they will be like the morning cloud, and like dew which soon disappears, like chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor, and like smoke from a chimney. (4)Yet I have been YHVH your Elohim since the land of Egypt; and you were not to know any god except Me, for there is no savior besides Me.’ Yes, Yahshua is not a second person in the so-called trinity, He is the image of the invisible Elohim; He is YHVH the word (or form) of Elohim who became flesh! Yahshua was the image of Elohim, sent specifically to bring the lost ten tribes back to their original covenant relationship with YHVH – to Judaism – the faith of David and their other fathers in the faith. But because of Israel’s sins another strange god came up lately, despite YHVH warning us in Revelation 18: 2 - 4 to come out of Christianity, the religion which J*e*s*u*s* the C*h*r*i*s*t* supposed to have started. This is the false church spoken about in Revelation 17 and was in fact the same religion that Nimrod started in Babylon when they built a tower to reach heaven and said in Genesis 11: 4, “Come let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name (for our god to worship – despite the fact that by then believers in YHVH already called on His correct name as may be seen from Genesis 4: 26); lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” What these people feared most happened to them; but the same also happened to the house of Israel, when Jeroboam rejected YHVH, David and the Temple or Jewish way of worshipping Him. We read from Daniel 9: 11 why yet another god has been allowed to come up after the start of Christianity, in this way: “Indeed all Israel has transgressed Thy law and turned aside, not obeying Thy voice (or word, Yahshua); so the curse (allah in Hebrew) has been poured out on us, along with the oath which is written in the law of Moses the servant of Elohim, for we have sinned against Him.”The prophet who prophesied about Yahshua in Malachi 4: 4 – 6, wrote: “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 (this was talking about Yochanan the Immerser who came before Yahshua as we are also told in Luke 1: 13 – 17, but since there is duality in operation throughout the Scriptures, this is also talking about those of us who are again teaching returning Israelites that YHVH is our Elohim). (6) And he will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children (the faith of our father’s in the faith), and the hearts of the children to the fathers (meaning to teach returning Israelites to return to the faith of our fathers in the faith, namely Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, but also King David), lest I come and smite the land with a curse(meaning allah).”

What is the curse mentioned here? People, this is telling those of us from the lost ten tribes of Israel who in our recent past espoused Christianity, to come completely out of the Babylon of confusion! Yes it is as Yahshua told Yochanan to write in Revelation 18: 4 & 5, in this way: ‘And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you may not participate in her sins and that you may not receive of her plagues; (5) for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and Elohim has remembered her iniquities.”’ What we see happening in the western world today, is exactly what YHVH warned us will happen if we do not return to the original faith of our fathers in the faith, which Yahshua reintroduced to the lost sheep of the house of Israel as Nazarene Judaism, a sect of the Pharisees . YHVH does not want us to continue to espouse Christianity with all its paganism and false ways of worshipping Him. Fact is they may worship YHVH as sincerely as they are able, as long as they are not doing it the way He prescribes in Torah, they are sincerely wrong! In addition, the prophecy in Malachi clearly tells us if we do not return to Torah, He is going to send us the curses described in Torah – or more specifically allah!

Despite Yahshua telling His disciples in Matthew 19: 17, saying in the second part: “But if you wish to enter into (eternal) life, keep the commandments”, Christianity insists that Torah is not applicable to them any longer. Whereas most will agree that 2 Corinthians 3: 14 is talking about our Jewish Brothers regarding the identity of the true Messiah (as also witnessed in Romans 11: 5), verses 15 – 17 are definitely talking about Christianity (even though they will vehemently deny it), as follows: ‘But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart; (in fact I would like you to try this yourself: Read a portion from Leviticus 11 regarding Kosher food to a very good Christian, and observe their reaction) (16) but whenever a man turns to YHVH (Christianity will tell you that the word Lord here refers to C*h*r*i*s*t* – however we will see in the next verse where John 4: 24 is quoted that the Lord here refers to YHVH our Elohim in Yahshua’s own words[2])the veil is taken away. (17) Now YHVH is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of YHVH is, there is liberty.” This is the same liberty used by Rav Yaa’cov in James 1: 22 – 25, saying: ‘But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. (23) For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; (24) for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. (25) Butone who looks intently at the perfect Law, the law of liberty (the law that set us free from sin, if we obey it), and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man shall be blessed (and not cursed) in what he does.’Why did YHVH allow the Church of G-d to slowly but surely disappear? Even though I believe they were responsible to call many from the lost ten tribes back to follow YHVH in the way He prescribes in the Scriptures, they attempted to reform the Catholic Church and insisted to be part of Christianity, the false religion that YHVH wants us to come out of. They also did not do what the original believers in Messiah did (i.e. study both the Torah and Haftarah (Prophets) portions, together with a regular teaching of exhortation) every Sabbath, even though we as Nazarenes are not allowed in Jewish synagogues any longer, as is witnessed in Acts 13: 14 & 15, in this way: ‘But going on from Perga, they arrived at Psidian Antioch, and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down. (15) And after the reading of the Law and the Prophets the synagogue officials sent to them, saying, “Brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it.”’ Yes, even though I still believe that their members are fellow Nazarene believers in Messiah with us, I believe that YHVH wanted them to go back to the faith of our fathers in the faith and become part of the returnees of the house of Israel. Although, we as Nazarenes need to get back to the covenant we made with Elohim at Mount Sinai through Yahshua and cannot attend local synagogues yet, I hope and pray that despite our faith in Yahshua the Messiah, we (including our brethren from the now almost defunct Church of G-d) will one day become one sheepfold with our Jewish Brothers, before Messiah returns.

If some are too anti-Semitic to even contemplate that from happening, we need to be aware of Elohim’s warning through Isaiah in Isaiah 24: 1 – 6, saying: ‘Behold, YHVH lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface, and scatters its inhabitants. (2) And the people will be like the priest, the servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor. (3) The earth will be completely laid waste and completely despoiled, for YHVH has spoken this word. (4) The earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away. (5) The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant. (6)Therefore, a curse (allah) devours the earth, and those who live in it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.’Yahshua came specifically to bring the house of Israel back to worshipping YHVH or Judaism so that the kingdom of Israel, with David ruling us once again under Yahshua, may be established eternally. However, the house of Israel like the whole world have been deceived by Satan, to believe in a false messiah who abolished his strict old father’s law and have started worshipping the host of heaven. It is for this very reason that YHVH have sent us another false god,namely Allahin these latter times[3], so that if it is still possible, we will see the error of our ways and return to YHVH through Yahshua our Messiah. But also return to King David’s united Israel and worship YHVH at the times that He showed those Israelites who remained loyal to Him, namely our Jewish Brothers. Yes, we from the lost ten tribes of Israel have to return to worshipping YHVH as our Elohim, but we also need to return to studying and obeying Torah (on a weekly basis) once again. When king David ruled Israel, he confirmed that YHVH revealed to them (including us) the way to worship Him in Psalm 147: 19 & 20, in this way: ‘He declares His words to Jacob, His statutes and His ordinances to Israel. (20) He has not dealt thus with any nation; and as for His ordinances, they have not known them. Halleluyah!’ This is obviously talking of the time during which David ruled the united Israel consisting of both houses of Israel. But as we’ve seen before, the house of Israel lost all knowledge of YHVH and His ways, when He scattered us into the nations of the world, because of idolatry and keeping different Set-apart Days to the ones kept in Judah. The warnings regarding the curse that YHVH will unleash upon us is already happening, because even though numbers of believers have answered Elohim’s call to come out of Christianity, many have not returned to the faith of David, where some are even now following calendars that are different to the one observed by our Jewish Brothers.

The second false god that came up lately will continue at an ever increasing pace, and because this false religion is not like any other, in that they will not tolerate any other religion, but their own – you and I will either accept it at their preaching, or be killed! Our only weapon against them is to return to YHVH, to David and to Temple worship – the way the united nation of Israel used to do under King David’s rulership! It is like Hosea wrote in Hosea 14: 9, saying: ‘Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of YHVH are right, and the righteous will walk in them, but transgressors will stumble in them.’HalleluYah!

[1] The covenants of promise include, (1) the promise made to the Fathers in the faith Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – that they and their descendants will inherit the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession and that YHVH will be their Elohim (essentially entailing eternal life in the Promised Land) ; and (2) the promise that YHVH made with David as we read from Psalm 89: 3,4, 34 – 37, in this way: “I have made a covenant with My chosen; I have sworn to David My servant, I will establish your seed forever, and build up your throne to all generations (also meaning eternally). My covenant I will not violate, nor will I alter the utterances of My lips. Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David. His descendants shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me. It shall be established forever like the moon, and the witness in the sky is faithful.”

[2] John 4: 24, “Elohim is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

[3] It is estimated that within the next twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the USA, Britain, Canada and Australia to elect their own heads of government.