465 Gospel - restoration Commonwealth

The true gospel is about the restoration of the commonwealth of Israel 1.

Yaakov Coetzee: Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Our heavenly Father used the split in the commonwealth of Israel in 921BCE as the literal fulfillment of the prophetic words that Jacob pronounced over his sons when he split the birthright of the family between Ephraim and Judah. It was for that very reason that HASHEM declared in 1 Kings 12: 24[1] that thesplit in the commonwealth of Israel was from Him. HASHEM ordained this to happen so that He could bring about the promise He made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We see from 1 Kings 12: 26 – 33[2] that Jeroboam son of Nebat devised a plan for the ten tribes known as the house of Israel to begin to practice a false religion intended to keep Ephraim and Judah separate.

This eventually resulted in G-d’s judgment on the house of Israel and between 721 and 718BCE, the Assyrian King destroyed the house of Israel and took them into captivity, after which HASHEM scattered them into the nations of the world to seemingly disappear and became known as the lost ten tribes of Israel. Over the next 2700 years the lost ten tribes became the ‘fullness of the gentiles’ (transliterated as ‘melo hagoyim’ in Hebrew)that we read about in Roman 11: 25 and that was promised to Abraham through Isaac and Jacob in Genesis 17: 5. After 921 BCE HASHEM never spoke about the previously united Israel as a single entity any longer, but started referring to them as the two houses of Israel. Hosea a prophet sent to the northern kingdom of Israel was told in Hosea 1 to marry a wife who was a whore, since that would give him a good idea what the ten tribes have done to HASHEM, how He would scatter them into the nations (‘Jezreel’), how He would no longer have mercy or compassion for them (‘Lo-ruhamah’) and finally how they would become known as not His people (‘Lo-ammi’) any longer. However, the word of HASHEM also informs Hosea in Hosea 1: 7, saying: “But I will have compassion on the house of Judah and deliver them by HASHEM their G-d, and will not deliver them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horse-men.” The house of Israel or Ephraim has become ‘Lo-ammi’ not G-d’s people and He had no mercy for them any longer.HASHEM rejected the house of Israel and divorced her as recorded in Jeremiah 3: 8 and she became swallowed up among the Gentile nations of the world. However, we read the startling declaration from Hosea 1: 10 & 11, as follows: ‘Yet the number of the sons of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered; and it will come about that, in the place where it is said to them, “You are not My people,” it will be said to them, “You are the sons of the living G-d.” (11) And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one leader, and they will go up from the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.’The phrase ‘like the sand of the sea’ should ring a bell, since that is what HASHEMpromised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob their descendants would become like. In addition HASHEM said that when Ephraim is gathered they will become His people and He will be their G-d once again.

This is when the house of Israel will go back to the house of David, when both houses will appoint for themselves one leader, meaning the head of the body of Messiah, Y’shua. After Y’shua returns for the house of Israel, which will be His first coming for the house of Judah, the dead in Messiah will be resurrected when the house of Judah accepts Him as their Messiah(as per Romans 11: 15) and those (believers) who are alive at His coming will be changed into Spiritual children of G-d (as per 1Corinthians 15: 50 – 53). Yes, by that time a remnant of the house of Israel will have been reconciled to the Father through Y’shua the Messiah and will have joined their Torah observant Jewish Brothers to form the commonwealth of Israel, they will remarry Messiah as His bride made ready when HASHEMwill enter into a New Covenant with them at His return (as witnessed in Jeremiah 31: 31 – 33). That is when Ephraim and Judah regenerated and gathered into the rebuilt Tabernacle of David will recognize each other as blood brothers and equals in every respect. We need to be aware that Y’shua stated very clearly in Matthew 15: 24 that He was sent only to bring the lost sheep of the house of Israel back into the covenant relationship they made with HASHEM, together with the house of Judah at Mount Sinai. Y’shua did not come for the Jews or the Gentiles during His first advent. Even though those who respond to the Father’s call to return to Him through Y’shua the Messiah might look like and act like Gentiles, and even used to eat pork and break the Sabbath like Gentiles, they are in fact nothing but physical lost sheep of the house of Israel, who became like the Gentiles amongst whom they were scattered and lived for the past 2730 years. However, since their return over the past number of years they slowly but surely became Torah observant and some who have been around for a number of years have become more and more like their Jewish Brothers. The re-gatheringof the lost sheep of the house of Israel will continue until the number required by the Father is fulfilled, at which time all Israel (from both houses) will be saved as per Romans 11: 25 – 27.

Contrary to what those in Churchianity believe, after three and a half years of Y’shua’s ministry on earth, as He was about to ascend to heaven from the top of the Mount of Olives, His eleven remaining disciples in one mind asked Him in Acts 1: 6, saying, “Master, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom of Israel?” Yes, they were concerned about the reestablishment of the Kingdom of G-d over Israel, not the creation or building of a separate entity called the ‘Church’, which was supposed to replace the Jewish people as G-d’s chosen people in 31CE.It must be understood that the word ‘church’ is an incorrect translation from the Greek word ‘ekklesia’which simply means an assembly of called out people. In fact it was the same assembly that received the Torah on Mount Sinai, as witnessed in Acts 7: 37 & 38, as follows: “This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘G-D SHALL RAISE UP FOR YOU A PROPHET LIKE ME FROM YOUR BRETHREN.’ (38) This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness together with the angel who was speaking to him on Mount Sinai, and who was with our fathers; and he received living oracles to pass on to you.”We need to remember there is one New Covenant assembly, referred to by Rav Shaul as ‘the Israel of G-d’ in Galatians 6: 16. There is no such thing as a separate entity called ‘the church’ with separate Sabbaths and Holy Days to what HASHEM ordained for all Israel. Because of Ephraim’s extreme jealousy and hatred of his Jewish Brothers, together with his attraction to idolatry and unclean foods, he decided to become a separate man-made entity called the ‘church’, completely divorced from Jacob’s family and its roots. This self-inflicted divorce from the commonwealth of Israel and HASHEM has left the church without any means with which to provoke Judah to jealousy.

The Great Commission that Y’shua gave His disciples in Matthew 10: 5 – 7[3]; 24: 14[4]; and 28: 18 – 20[5] therefore was nothing more than a world-wide search for the children of Ephraim scattered throughout the world because of idolatry.Y’shua told His disciple to teach the Israelites who were scattered into the world to observe allthat He commanded them. What did Y’shua command His disciples? We read some of what Y’shua commanded His disciples from Matthew 5: 17 – 20, as follows: “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill (meaning to keep it fully Himself and to make it more binding as can be seen from verses 21 – 48). (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 the Pharisees, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.” We see that Rav Yaa’cov testified to this truth in Acts 15: 14 - 17, reminding the Jerusalem Council that the disciples who were at that time known as apostles were just visiting the Gentile nations, preaching the gospel there to rescue G-d’s people from amongst the Gentiles into which they were scattered, saying: “Simeon has related how G-d first concerned Himself about taking from among the Gentiles a people for His name. (15) 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 I WILL RESTORE IT, (17) IN ORDER THAT THE REST OF MANKIND MAY SEEK HASHEM, AND ALL THE GENTILES WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME.’” Once HASHEM has restored David’s tabernacle which has fallen, the rest of mankind will learn from G-d’s chosen model nation how to live and serve Him, as He planned from the time that He gave Israel the Torah at Mount Sinai. HASHEM is pulling out all stops to rescue Israelites from their ‘lost status’, which also lost their portion of the Promised Land through idolatry. This is another reason why Y’shua came as the Son of Man to become our kinsman redeemer, to buy back our portion of the Promised Land which we lost.

It is for this reason that the gospel of the Kingdom of G-d (or heaven) is not only a proclamation of personal salvation, but it is a message about the national restoration to the commonwealth of Israel from a divided family, who were separated into two distinct houses of Israel. Y’shua our Messiah spoke in Matthew 12: 25 about the concept of a divided kingdom without the ability to withstand the attacks on it by Satan, saying: “Any kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and any city or house divided against itself shall not stand.” The question is, to what kingdom was He referring to? He was obviously talking about the united kingdom of Israel. We see from Luke 24: 21[6] that Y’shua’s disciples were disappointed, because knowing the Scriptures, they were expecting Him to restore the twelve tribes of Israel at that time. They simply recalled such Scriptures as Jeremiah 23: 3 – 6, where Jeremiah was inspired to write: “Then I Myself shall gather the remnant of My flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and shall bring them back to their pasture; and they will be fruitful and multiply. (4) I shall also raise up shepherds over them and they will tend them; and they will not be afraid any longer, nor be terrified, nor will any be missing,” declares HASHEM. (5) Behold, the days are coming,” declares HASHEM, “when I shall raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land. (6) In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘HASHEM our righteousness.’” This is the same restoration spoken about in Ezekiel 37: 15 – 28 and it was incorrect for Christianity and Messianic Jews to assume that Judah, Ephraim and Israel are all interchangeable names for the house of Judah. This is not only historically inaccurate but is also theologically deceptive and has been used as a tool to separate the bride of Messiah from the Bridegroomas much as the false doctrine, that mankind goes to heaven as the reward of the justdoes. Isaiah prophesied about Messiah’s main purpose in Isaiah 49: 5 & 6, saying: ‘And now says HASHEM, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, in order that Israel might be gathered to Him (for I am honored in the sight of HASHEM, and My G-d is My strength), (6) He says, “It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones (Nostrim) of Israel; I will also make You a light of the nations so that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

We need to understand once and for all that HASHEM is at this time only dealing with two chosen families or houses. Notice that the promised New Covenant spoken about in Jeremiah 31: 31 – 34 talks about HASHEM entering into the New Covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, never once mentioning the making of a covenant with Christians or Gentiles, as follows: “Behold, days are coming,” declares HASHEM, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, (32) not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares HASHEM. (33) But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares HASHEM, “I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their G-d, and they shall be My people. (Notice here that HASHEM will only have to write His Law on the hearts of the house of Israel, since the house of Judah remained Torah observant all along.) (34) And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know HASHEM,’ for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares HASHEM, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”Y’shua also promised His twelve disciples in Matthew 19: 28, saying: “Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”

Instead of discussing the letters that Y’shua’s sent out disciples who by then were referred to as apostles, sent to the congregations of called out believers in different parts of the world, let’s reveal from their writings, to whom these letters were addressed. We start by reading from James 1: 1 in this way: ‘James, a bond-servant of G-d and of the Master Y’shua Messiah, to the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad, greetings.’ The point is, if the ten tribes of Israel were truly lost, why would Yaa’cov write to them and refer to them as brethren in the faith in verse 2? In 1 Peter 1: 1 Rav Kepha wrote to the chosen people who live as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia. We see that even though HASHEM chose the house of Judah instead of the house of Ephraim or Israel in Psalm 78: 67 & 68[7], He is once again during these latter days also choosing ‘a remnant according to G-d’s gracious choice’ from the lost sheep of the house of Israel, who used to believe that they were Gentiles. Turning to 1 Peter 2: 8 – 10, we see that Rav Kepha was quoting from Hosea chapter 1, saying: ‘And, “A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE”; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed. (9) But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR G-d’s OWN POSSESSION, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; (10) for you once were NOT A PEOPLE, but now you are THE PEOPLE OF G-D; you had NOT RECEIVED MERCY, but now you have RECEIVED MERCY.”Rav Shaul fully understood the re-gathering of the twelve tribes of Israel through Messiah and wrote accordingly in Romans 9: 22 – 28, saying: ‘What if G-d, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? (23) And He did so in order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory. (24) even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles (those Israelites who became like Gentiles). (25) As He says also in Hosea, “I WILL CALL THOSE WHO WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, ‘MY PEOPLE,’ AND HER WHO WAS NOT BELOVED, ‘BELOVED.’” (26) “AND IT SHALL BE THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM, ‘YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE,’ THERE THEY SHALL BE CALLED SONS OF THE LIVING G-D.” (27)And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “THOUGH THE NUMBER OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL BE AS THE SAND OF THE SEA, IT IS THE REMNANT THAT WILL BE SAVED; (28) FOR HASHEM WILL EXECUTE HIS WORD UPON THE EARTH, THOROUGHLY AND QUICKLY.”

In Ephesians 2: 11 Rav Shaul proclaims that those who were called as Gentiles in the flesh, are no longer Gentiles. According to verse 12 they have a new identity as citizens in the commonwealth of Israel, meaning that they are Israelites, since you cannot be part of the commonwealth of Israel if you are not an Israelite who returned through Abraham’s one seed namely, Y’shua the Messiah. In Galatians 3: 29 Rav Shaul talks about believers whom HASHEM has called out of the religions of the world through Y’shua, as Abraham’s offspring. It was for that reason that he wrote in verse 28 that there is neither Jew nor Greek, men or women, but only Abraham’s physical descendants that has been redeemed and should be known as new covenant Israel. This is also why Y’shua told the Jews in John 10: 16, saying: “And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold (or of the assembly to which the Jews belonged); I must bring them also, and they shall hear My voice; and they shall become one flock with one shepherd.” Y’shua did not say He will create a separate flock called the ‘church’ made up of Gentiles with different ways to serve G-d, no He said that He had two folds, and that He was sent to bring the lost sheep in, and they will once again become part of the commonwealth of Israel. Rav Yochanan also knew that Y’shua died and made atonement for both the nation of Judah, but also for the lost sheep of Israel scattered abroad because of Idolatry, when He recorded Caiaphas’s prophesy about Messiah’s death in John 11: 49 – 52[8]. We know that Yochanan was referring to the lost tribes of Israel here, since they were scattered abroad between 721 and 718 BCE before Messiah’s birth. We need to understand that even during Messiah’s time, people began to understand the truth about the family feud perpetuated by Jacob and widened by Rehoboam and Jeroboam, and was exacerbated during the past two millennia by the battle between the church versus the Jews over the title of who is Israel. Only once this is fully understood will the hatred, bitterness, arrogance and pride between the two houses come to an end. Because Messiah came specifically to bring the lost sheep of the house of Israel back into the commonwealth of Israel, He knows who we are and where to find us, and as our shepherd He is going to join us with our Jewish Brothers at His return, as Zechariah prophesied in Ezekiel 37: 24, in this way: “And My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd (the good shepherd, Y’shua); and they will walk in My ordinances, and keep My statutes, and observe them.”

As those of us called out of the churches of the world, we as Nazarene Israel should perform the commission Messiah gave us before He ascended to heaven. Yes, we need to start proclaiming the good news about the coming kingdom of G-d into the world, in order to make sure that the Israelites who were dispersed into the nations of the world get to hear about the better world that Messiah will soon come to establish here on earth. We need to tell those people who believe they are going to heaven after they die, that Y’shua is coming to rule the earth for a thousand years, changing it into paradise once again. Even when reading about the coming kingdom of heaven in Matthew 5: 3, 10, 19 & 20, some incorrectly assume that it means that they are going to heaven at death, and despite the fact that in the gospels according to Mark, Luke and John it is referred to as the Kingdom of G-d, they remain of the same opinion still, because they have been taught that the reward of the saved is presently in heaven. But Y’shua gives us the answer to this misunderstood subject in Matthew 6, where He taught His disciples a model upon which to base their prayers, saying in verses 9 & 10: “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. (10) Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Yes, according to the many prophecies in the Tanach,Y’shua is soon coming to earth to establish the Kingdom of G-d on earth, as it is presently in heaven. This is also why we read from Psalm 37: 34, ‘Wait for HASHEM, and keep His way, and He will exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are cut off, you will see it.’ We read further from Psalm 115: 16, ‘The heavens are the heavens of HASHEM, but the earth He has given to the sons of men.’ As mentioned before, Rav Kepha did write in 1 Peter 1: 4, saying: ‘To obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you.’ But, he did not say or mean that we will eventually go up there to get it. It is presently simply kept in a place where no earthly harm can come to it, like a Swiss bank account. It is for this reason that Rav Shaul wrote in 1 Corinthians 15: 23, 50 – 53 that when Messiah returns, He will resurrect those of us who have died in Messiah, before He will change those alive, so that we will all become Spiritual children of G-d, who will according to Revelation 20: 6 and 5: 10 become a kingdom of priests, ruling under Y’shuaupon the earth during the millennium and beyond.

Jacob prophesied about Ephraim’s seed in Genesis 48: 19, saying that they would become ‘a multitude of nations’andRav Shaul used the same phrase in Romans 11: 25 when he talks about ‘the fullness of the Gentiles’ indicating that all Israel will be saved once a remnant of these ‘former Gentiles’ have returned through Messiah. Whilst our patriarchs had gone or sent emissaries to another land to find brides for their sons, they were still from the same family. Similarly, Y’shua’s ‘foreign Gentile’ bride turns out to be from the seed of Abraham, and therefore not totally foreign after all. Many of those responsive to (HASHEM)’s calling from the churches of the world, are in fact from the lost ten tribes of Israel and therefore also from the same family as Y’shua our Jewish Messiah. HASHEM told Jeremiah to prophecy In Jeremiah 31: 10 saying: ‘Hear the word of HASHEM, O nations (goyim), and declare in the coastlands afar off (the phrase used for the Israelites who were scattered into the world because of their sins, by Daniel in his prayer for the two houses of Israel in Daniel 9: 7), and say, "He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.” Both Isaiah 52: 7 and Nahum 1: 15 reads similarly: ‘How lovely on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace and brings good news of happiness, who announces salvation, and says to Zion, “your G-d reigns!’The peace spoken about in these two verses is transliterated as ‘shalom’ in Hebrew meaning peace, but also unity (and has to do with the reunification of both houses of Israel). Nahum 1: 15 also add‘Celebrate your feasts, O Judah.’ The reason for mentioning this is because the gospel of the coming kingdom of G-d is directly linked to the Feast Days of G-d, kept by Judah. The future King of kings who comes from Judah will be ruling over the re-established commonwealth of Israel and will not lay heavy burdens onthe other tribes as He testified in Matthew 11: 30, saying: “For My yoke is easy, and My load is light.”But as we ponder over the great commission given to His disciples (including us His modern day disciples), we need to be aware of the prophecy by Hosea in Hosea 5: 15 – 6: 4, as follows: ‘I will go away and return to My place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction (meaning the great tribulation) they will earnestly seek Me. (6: 1) “Come, let us return to HASHEM. For He has tornus, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bandage us. (2) He will revive us after two days; He will raise us up on the third day that we may live before Him. (3)So let us know, let us press on to know HASHEM. His going forth is as certain as the dawn; and He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.” (4) What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes away early.’

What is the guilt that Ephraim have to confess? We read the answer from Jeremiah 16: 17 – 21, in this way:‘For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity concealed from My eyes. (18) And I will first doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable idols and with their abominations. (19)O HASHEM, my strength and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of distress, to Thee the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood, futility and things of no profit.” (20)Can man make gods for himself? Yet they are not gods! (21)Therefore behold, I am going to make them know – this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is HASHEM.’Let us all therefore confess in unison regarding the falsehood taught us by our forefathers, who were as deceived as we were, during the forty days of awe commencing on September 4, 2016. In addition we should do everything in our power to proclaim the kingdom of G-d into the world as a witness to all nations, and then the end shall come. Think carefully about it!

[1]1 Kings 12: 24, ‘Thus says HASHEM, “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”’

[2]1 Kings 12: 26 – 33: ‘And Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to the house of David. If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of HASHEM at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will return to their master, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”So the king consulted, and made two golden calves, and he said to them, “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.” And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan. And he made houses on high places, and made priests from among all the people who were not of the sons of Levi. 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. 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.’

[3] Matthew 10: 5 – 7: ‘These twelve Y’shua sent out after instructing them, saying, “Do not go in the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter any city of the Samaritans; but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’”’

[4] Matthew 24: 14, “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a witness to all nations, and then the end shall come.”

[5] Matthew 28: 18 – 20: ‘And Y’shua came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, immersing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Set-apart Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”’

[6]Luke 24: 21 , “But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, it is the third day since these things happened.”

[7] Psalm 78: 67 & 68: ‘He also rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim, but chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loved.”

[8]John 11: 49 – 52: ‘But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish.” Now this he did not say on his own initiative; but being the high priest that year, he prophesied that Y’shua was going to die for the nation (of Judah), and not for the nation only, but that He might also gather together into one the children of G-d who are scattered abroad (namely the lost sheep of the house of Israel).’