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Deception?

One of the biggest problems with the religions of the world, including Messianic Judaism and in many cases also Nazarene Israelite/Jewish and like-minded believers is that they are even at this time totally oblivious of Messiah’s main purpose for coming to earth. They are completely unaware of the fact that Yahshua, who was a Jew by birth, came specifically to bring the lost ten tribes back to the faith into which He was born, which is essentially a covenant relationship Elohim made with ancient Israel at Mount Sinai, after bringing them out of Egypt. This is in fact validated by the prophet Isaiah in Isaiah 49: 5 & 6, in this way:‘And now says YHVH, 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 YHVH, and My Elohim 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 of Israel; I will also make You a light of the nations so that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth.’Yahshua also confirmed this in Matthew 15: 24, when he answered the Canaanite woman who asked Him to heal her demon-possessed daughter, saying: “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” If this was indeed Yahshua our Messiah’s main purpose, why is this not also one of the main tenets of the faith of those who say they believe in Him?The reason why this knowledge was not known a decade ago, is because it is essentially part of the end time knowledge spoken about by the prophet Daniel in Daniel 12: 4, as follows: “But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until the end time; many will go back and forth, and knowledge will increase.”

Many Nazarene Israelite/Jews and like-minded believers realize that we have to return to Judaism, but insist that they should return to a so-called ‘Biblical Judaism’ which seemingly to them is different from Rabbinical Judaism. Because many have forgotten that the house of Judah to which King David belonged has never rejected the original covenant relationship theytogether with the house of Israel made with Elohim, even though they were also taken into captivity for not keeping the land Sabbaths, they have returned with Ezra, Nehemiah and Zerubbabel to rebuild the walls around Jerusalem as well as the Temple, about 2,500 years ago. In fact the Scriptures trace Messiah’s genealogy back to Zerubbabel, one of the Jews who returned from Babylon in the first chapter of Matthew as one of His mother Miriam’s forefathers.Many of Messiah’s parables attest to the fact that the house of Judah remained with the Father, whilst the house of Israel is the one that is ‘far off’. One example being the parable of the lost sheep (meaning the ten lost tribes) in Luke 15: 1 – 6, in this way: ‘Now all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming near Him to listen to Him. (2) And both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble, saying, ‘This man receives sinners and eats with them.” (3) And He told them this parable, saying, (4) “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture, and go after the one which is lost, until he finds it? (5) And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. (6) And when he comes home he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!”’ Another parable attesting to Judah’s loyalty to the Father is the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15: 11 – 32. So whether we like it or not, Yahshua authenticated the Jews of His day, as well as today, as the ones who have retained the oracles or way in which to worship Elohim.

Yahshua warned His disciples about false teachers in Matthew 7: 15 -16 and 19 – 24, saying: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. (16) You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles, are they? (19) Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. (20) So then, you will know them by their fruits. (21) Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Master, Master’, will enter the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. (22) Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Master, Master, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’(23) And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; ‘DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’ (24) Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine, and acts upon them, may be compared to a wise man, who built his house upon the rock.” And who is the rock? We read the answer in 1 Corinthians 10: 4 where talking about our forefathers, the ancient Israelites, it reads: ‘and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Messiah.’ Messiah is the foundation stone upon which He is busy building the Temple of Elohim, as He told Kepha in Matthew 16: 18, and as understood and explained by Rav Kepha in first Peter 2: 5 – 10, in this way:‘You also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to Elohim through Yahshua Messiah. (6) For this is contained in Scripture: “BEHOLD I LAY IN ZION A CHOICE STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNER stone, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM SHALL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.” (The quoted section in higher case, is from Isaiah 28: 16) (7) This precious value, then, is for you who believe. But for those who disbelieve, “THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE VERY CORNER stone,” (8) and, “A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE”; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word (they read right over or contradict truths such as Messiah’s main purpose and His authentication of the Jews as having the oracles of Elohim), and to this doom they were also appointed.(9) But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR ELOHIM’S OWN POSSESSION, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.’Those of us who like Rav Kepha accept Yahshua as being the foundation stone of the Temple that He is busy building, the Rock of our salvation, YHVH in the flesh, are already a royal priesthood, chosen by YHVH as much as He has chosen the house of Judah.

Matthew 7: 24 quoted before informs us to believe in and follow in Messiah’s footsteps, since He is the rock of our salvation. Yahshua admonished His followers in John 15: 4 to remain close to Him if we want to remain in the faith once delivered to the saints at Mount Sinai, saying:“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in Me.” We are told in 1 Corinthians 1: 24, that Yahshuaisboth the power and wisdom of Elohim. In fact this is what He told His disciples before giving them the great commission, in Matthew 28: 18 – 20, saying:‘And Yahshua came up and spoke to them saying, “All authority (power in the KJV) has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. (19) Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, immersing them in the name (singular) of the Father and the Son and the Set-apart Spirit, (20) teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” He was essentially saying that we should follow in His footsteps and teach new believers whom we immerse what He taught His disciples.It is important that those who continue to teach Messiah’s modern day disciples meet the following requirements:

He does notcontradict what YHVH or Yahshua taught in the Scriptures?
He is aware of Messiah’s main purpose for coming to earth?
He strives to remain Torah obedient?

Speaking to all of us, but specifically to teachers of Torah, Rav Shaul says in 2 Timothy 4: 1 – 5:“I solemnly charge you in the presence of Elohim and of Messiah Yahshua, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: (2) preach the word; be ready in season and out of season (during the Feast Days of YHVH and other times); reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. (3) For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires; (4) and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths. (5) But you be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.”Talking about those teachers whosay that they believe in Him, yet deceive Elohim’s people, Yahshua said in John 5: 43 – 47:“I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another shall come in his own name you will receive him. (44) How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another, and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only Elohim? (The last two verses are saying that we accept the teachings of ‘clever’ ministers and teachers who teach their own doctrines, such as two (YHVH)’s; or different Feast Days to the Hebrew Calendar based on their own calculations; or that Yahshua did not partake of the Passover, but do not accept what Yahshua taught when He was on earth.) (45) Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope. (46) For if you believed Moses you would believe Me; for he wrote of Me. (47) But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” These two verses was addressed to the Jews of Yahshua’s day, but He is also saying to us, that we are even today required to believe in the Torah of Moses, to be able to believe His teachings. Some like to ridicule those who believe in the Torah that Moses wrote, but should be made aware of Elohim’s own wordsto Moses in Exodus 19: 9, saying:“Behold, I shall come to you in a thick cloud, in order that the people (Israel) may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe in you forever.”

If Yahshua’s main purpose was to bring the lost ten tribes back to Judaism, believers in Messiahcan twist turn as much as they like, the Jews have the Oracles of Elohim, as He also confirmed. They preserved the Hebrew language, the Torah, including the Sabbath and the timing of the annual Feast Days of Elohim for us. Yes, some of them were also lacking faith, but their unbelief does not negate the faithfulness of Elohim as Rav Shaul wrote in Romans 3: 3 & 4, saying:‘What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of Elohim, will it? (4) May it never be! Rather, let Elohim be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written, “THAT THOU MIGHTEST BE JUSTIFIED IN THY WORDS, AND MIGHTEST PREVAIL WHEN THOU ART JUDGED.”’ Even, so we see that YHVH is pleased with the Feast Days that Judah iskeeping, saying in Nahum 1: 15, ‘Behold on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace! “Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; pay your vows. For never again will the wicked one pass through you; He is cut off completely.”’The Feast Days of Elohim are linked to the coming Kingdom of Elohim, in that it teaches us Elohim’s plan of salvation for all mankind. It is therefore very important that we make sure that we keep these Feast Days at the correct times, as we are warned in Malachi 2:1 – 8 as follows: “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, saysYHVH 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 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,” saysYHVH 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 reveredMe,and stood in awe of My Name. (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,” saysYHVH of Hosts.” We as believers need only two or three witnesses to proof anything in the Scriptures. Besides the three Scriptural witnesses given here, I attach at least 13 additional Scriptural witnesses to the Jews having Elohim’s oracles, as an endnote[i].

This phenomenal truth about Messiah’s main purpose, puts new emphasis on the fact that He authenticated the congregation of the Jews as the sheepfold to which He will bring the lost sheep from the house of Israel, when He returns one day to come and rule the world from Jerusalem, thus uniting the two houses of Israel once again as the kingdom of Elohim over Israel. It was for this very reason that He told the Jews on Chanukah[1] in John 10: 16, saying: “And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they shall hear My voice; and they shall become one flock with one shepherd.” This is further confirmed in Ezekiel 37: 22, in this way: ‘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.’ We need to make sure that we do not twist the Scriptures to suit our own agenda, as we read in 2 Timothy 2: 15 ‘Be diligent (use your time to study) to present yourself approved to Elohim as workman who does not need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth.’ We read further in this regard from 2 Peter 2: 1 – 3, as follows:‘But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. (the word denying here is translated from the word ‘arneomai’ in Greek, which also means ‘contradicting’ – this is in fact what these false teachers do to the words of Yahshua our Messiah: Paraphrased, in Matthew 23: 2 & 3 Yahshua said that the Pharisees (Orthodox Rabbis of today) have seated themselves in the chair of Moses; therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds.) (2) And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; (3) and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.’ A second witness to people who contradict Yahshua is found in Jude 4, as follows: For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our Elohim into licentiousness (permissiveness) and deny (contradict) our only Master and Lord (Teacher), Yahshua Messiah.’These false teachers are greedyand seek a large following to make them feel important, without compassion for those whom they deceive.

Rav Shaul in 2 Thessalonians 2: 3 talking about the coming day of YHVH, warns about the great falling away that will precede it, saying:‘Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.’Don’t let people lie to you about what sin is. Sin is the transgression of the law or lawlessness, as may be seen in 1 John 3: 4.Yahshua being the mirror image ofElohim was a perfect example of how we should live according to the will of Elohim. In Revelation 22: 12- 14 Yahshua said: “Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done. (13) I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”(14) ‘Blessed are those who wash their robes (keep the commandments of YHVH), that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city (the New Jerusalem).’The churches in the world teach heresies such as:

‘Just believe and you will be saved’ – yet we read from James 2: 24: O yes, we are saved by grace, but we prove our love to our Father, by keeping His commandments.’
‘The commandments were nailed to the cross’– yet we read in Colossians 2: 14: No, it was not the law that was nailed to the cross, but our certificate of debt, that was nailed to the cross.
‘YHVH knows what I mean when I call him by names like G-d’. But, we read in Exodus 23: 13: We read further from Isaiah 52: 6, Those who claim to worship YHVH will know and use His Set-apart name during prayer and worship services.

Rav Shaul wrote in Romans 8: 2, saying:‘For the law of the Spirit of life in Messiah Yahshua has set you free from the law of sin and death.’ Even though Messiah set us free from the penalty of sin, He definitely did not abolish the Torah, since it can never be abolished, as Rav Shaul wrote in the first part of Romans 7: 14, saying:‘For we know that the Law is spiritual.’ Being made free from sin, we have become servants of righteousness, as Rav Shaul wrote in Romans 6: 18, saying:‘and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.’ How do we know that we are servants of righteousness? We read in 1 John 5: 2 & 3 ‘By this we know that we love the children of Elohim, when we love Elohim and observe His commandments. (3) For this is the love of Elohim,that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.’ Yes, we establish the law through faith, as Rav Shaul wrote in Romans 3: 31, saying:‘Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law.’ Rav Shaul continued on the subject in Galatians 4: 3, saying:‘So also we, while we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental things of the world.’ Note this does not say ‘in bondage under the Law’. Rav Shaul clarifies this in Galatians 4: 9, saying:‘But now that you have come to know Elohim, or rather to be known by Elohim, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?’ It follows therefore that this does not mean the Torah, but the lifestyle that we followed before coming into the truth.

The Laws of Elohim and the penalty that we earnedfor breaking the Law, i.e. sin and death are two different things. We read accordingly in Galatians 3: 13 “Messiah redeemed us from the curse (penalty) of the Law, having become a curse for us – for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.’” We have been redeemed from the penalty or judgments due to breaking Elohim’s commandments, and are reconciled to the Father and are once again made heirs of Abraham, through faith in Messiah (as recorded in Galatians 3: 26 – 29), provided we obey Elohim’s commandments, statutes and judgments as Abraham did (as witnessed in Genesis 26: 5), then we shall inherit the Promised Land (or Kingdom of Elohim) promised to him and his descendants forever. If we now read Colossians 2: 20 – 22 we understand it much better: ‘If you have died with Messiah to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, (21) “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!” (22) (Which all refer to things destined to perish with the using) – in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men?’Having been immersed in Yahshua’s name, we have died with Him to the elementary principles of the world. Continuing in verse 22, we see that verse 21 is not talking about the Torah, which tells us not to touch the unclean, but about manmade commandments of some Christian groups; who insist that their followers should only eat fishon Fridays (instead of meat) and forbid their priests to marry.We need to forget the pagan ways we used to follow and keep the commandments of Elohim, knowing that Yahshua made us free from the penalty of breaking the commandments, by dying in our place on His execution tree.

We need to get beyond basic beliefs such as: When does the Sabbath begin? Which calendar do we follow? Anddid Yahshua partake of the Passover, etc. This is exactly what Rav. Shaul taught in Hebrews 5: 12 – 14 saying:‘For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of Elohim, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. (13) For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. (14) But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.’ We need to practice Torah and have our senses trained by doing our own bible study. Without proper guidance by a teacher who has gone through the same discipleship program, started by Yahshua our Messiah and regular self-study, we willbe tossed to and fro, by every wind of doctrine as Rav Shaul taught in Ephesians 4: 14 & 15 saying:‘As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves, and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; (15) but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head even Messiah.’ We have in the past been deceived by people who were deceived themselves; but as we are getting closer to the end of this age, more and more truths are being revealed to those who obey Elohim’s commandments, statutes and judgments. But similarly knowledge is being taken away from those who do not understand the mysteries of the kingdom, as Yahshua told His disciples in Matthew 13: 11, 12 and the first part of verse 19 , saying: “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted. (12) For whoever has, to him shall more be given, and he shall have an abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him. (19) When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart.”

The two house doctrine really comes to life, when we consider Messiah’s main purpose to establish the Kingdom of Elohim, and bring us from the lost ten tribes back to the covenant that YHVH made with both houses of our forefathers, and that He will renew the Covenant as is confirmed in Jeremiah 31: 31 – 34, in this way: ‘Behold, days are coming, declares YHVH, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house 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 YHVH. (33) “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares YHVH, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.”’ (34) And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know YHVH,’ for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares YHVH, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”’ Notice here, even though YHVH/Yahshua will have to make a New Covenant with both houses, because He divorced the house of Israel, and He died, He will have to remarry both houses again. But, also notice that He will only have to write His Torah on the hearts and minds of the house of Israel, as the house of Judah has been Torah observant all along, and retained the oracles given to both houses at Mount Sinai, which we have forgotten.

If we never get to know the Scriptures to back up what we believe, we will never be strong enough to withstand false teachers who make doctrinal statements without backing it up by two or three scriptural witnesses, or by misquoting parts of the Scriptures as to lead many astray. Let’s determine not to lose our faith, by getting to know YHVH and His word much better – so that we may not be so easily deceived and be able to back up whatever we believe with at least two or three Scriptural witnesses. Think about it!

[1]It was during Chanukah as shown in verses 22 & 23 of John 10, as follows; ‘At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem; it was winter, and Yahshua was walking in the temple in the portico of Solomon.’

[i]Matthew 23: 1 – 3: ‘Then Yahshua spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, saying, The Scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses; therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things, and do not do them.’ The chair of Moses means the authority of Moses as given him by YHVH in Leviticus 23: 1, 2 & 4, as follows: ‘YHVH spoke again to Moses, saying, “Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, (YHVH)’s appointed times which you (Moses or those sitting in his seat) shall proclaim as holy convocations—My appointed times are these. These are the appointed times of YHVH, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at the times appointed for them.”’
John 4: 22, ‘You worship that which you do not know; we worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews.’
Zechariah 8: 23: “Thus says YHVH of hosts, ‘In those days (a phrase used in the Scriptures to mean the latter days during which we live today) ten men from all the nations (meaning members of the lost ten tribes scattered into the nations) will grasp the garment of a Jew saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that Elohim is with you.”
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.” This verse should be read together with Romans 11: 25 – 29, in this way: ‘For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own estimation, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel (meaning Jewish Israel) until the fullness of the Gentiles (those from the ten tribes of Israel who have come to believe that they are Gentiles, including some real Gentiles with no Israelite blood) has come in; and thus all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, “THE DELIVERER (meaning Yahshua) WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB. AND THIS IS MY COVENENT WITH THEM, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS.”From the standpoint of the gospel they (Brother Judah) are enemies for your sake (so that you and I who were lost ever since Israel was taken captive by Assyria during 721 – 718 BCE.), but from the standpoint of Elohim’s choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers; for the gifts and the calling of Elohim are irrevocable.’ The fact that YHVH chose Judah and is now also choosing some of us from the lost ten tribes, including a number of real Gentiles who become Israel through faith in Messiah, is irrevocable.
Hosea 11: 12 (KJV) Correct translation: ‘Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah yet ruleth with Elohim, and is faithful with the saints.’
Psalm 60: 7 (& 108: 8) (KJV): ‘Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my Lawgiver.’
We read about Moses in Acts 7: 37 & 38, in this way: “This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘ELOHIM SHALL RAISE UP FOR YOU A PROPHET LIKE ME FROM YOUR BRETHREN.’ “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 (Yes all Israel received the living oracles from YHVH, and even though both houses were taken captive for idolatry, only Judah remained faithful to YHVH and returned 70 years later with Ezra and Nehemiah, to continue keeping the correct Feast Days of Elohim since then. We know that the house of Israel were however scattered into the world and YHVH is only now {since the early 1900’s} beginning to call us out of the world, to return to Torah observance like Brother Judah).
Romans 3: 1 & 2: ‘Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? Great in every respect. First of all, thatthey were entrusted with the oracles of Elohim.’ Together with Romans 9: 3 – 5 ‘For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Messiah for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh, who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons and the glory of the covenants and the giving of the Law and the (timing of the) temple service and the promises, whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Messiah according to flesh, who is over all, Elohim blessed forever. Amein.’
Genesis 49: 10, ‘The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.’
Psalm 147: 19 – 20 ‘He declares His words to Jacob, His statutes and His ordinances to Israel. (the whole nation of Israel under David’s rule) He has not dealt thus with any nation; and as for His ordinances, they have not known them. Praise YHVH!’ After the nation split in two after king Solomon, Jeroboam the king of the house of Israel started changing the Feast Days of Elohim as per 1 Kings 12: 28 - 33.’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. 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.’ Once Jeroboam started ruling the house of Israel, only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David (1 Kings 12: 20).
Nehemiah 9: 14 ‘So Thou didst make known to them Thou holy Sabbath, and didst lay down for them commandments, statutes, and the law, through Thy servant Moses.’ (Judah returned 70 years after their captivity by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and continued keeping Torah until today).
Deuteronomy 33: 8 – 11; ‘And of Levi he said, “Let Thy Thummim and Thy Urim belong to Thy godly man, whom Thou didst prove at Massah, with whom Thou didst contend at the waters of Meribah; Who said of his father and his mother, “I did not consider them”; and he did not acknowledge his brothers, nor did he regard his own sons, for they observed Thy word, and kept Thy covenant.They shall teach Thine ordinances to Jacob, and Thy law to Israel. They shall put incense before Thee, and whole burnt offerings on Thine altar.O YHVH, bless his substance, and accept the work of his hands; shatter the loins of those who rise up against him, and those who hate him, so that they may not rise again.’ Also Deuteronomy 17: 8 – 12 ‘If any case is too difficult for you to decide, between one kind of homicide or another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and between one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your courts, then you shall arise and go up to the place which YHVH your Elohim chooses.So you shall come to the Levitical priest or the judge who is in office in those days (the Sanhedrin), and you shall inquire of them, and they will declare to you the verdict in the case.And you shall do according to the terms of the verdict which they declare to you from that place which YHVH chooses; and you shall be careful to observe according to all that they teach you.According to the terms of the law which they teach you, and according to the verdict which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left.And the man who acts presumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands there to serve YHVH your Elohim, nor to the judge, that man shall die; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.’
Zechariah 12: 7 – 14: ‘YHVH also will save the tents of Judah first, in order that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be magnified above Judah.In that day YHVH will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like Elohim, like the angel of YHVH before them.And it will come about in that day that I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. (This is clearly when Yahshua returns on Yom Teruah.) And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him, like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.In that day there will be great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo.The land will mourn, every family by itself; the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself and their wives by themselves;the family of the house of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself and their wives by themselves;all the families that remain, every family by itself and their wives by themselves.’ This tells us that when Yahshua returns on Yom Teruah (or Rosh Hashanah) one day in the near future, He will go to the tents of Judah first; and when they see His hands, He will save them first when they accept Him, the same way His disciple Thomas did after His resurrection, when he saw Yahshua’s hands in John 20: 28, saying to Him, “My Master and my Elohim!” We see further from Romans 11: 15, that when the Jews accept Yahshua, the dead in Messiah will be raised.