Parasha Mishpatim 5784 (2024) reading:

Shemote (Exodus) 21:1-24:18
Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 33-34:
Yochanan (John) 10

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Shalom and welcome to Nazarene Israel. My name is Norman Willis. And we wanted the focus of this parasha series to be the Genesis 35:11 Alliance, and what both houses must do to get ready for the coming reunification of Ezekiel 37:16 and Hoshea (Hosea) 1:11

Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 37:16
16 “As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: ‘For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.’ Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.’ ”

Hoshea (Hosea) 1:11
11 Then the children of Judah and the children of Israel Shall be gathered together, and appoint for themselves one head; and they shall come up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel!

It sounds like a democratic election. So, both houses will still be tainted by the Mystery Babylonian system at this early date. (And then later Elohim will re-establish the house of David and the Millennial theocracy.)

And the house of Ephraim shall come up out of the land (whether Judah likes it or not [and he does not yet.]), for great will be the day of Jezreel (or the great seeding, or the Assyrian diaspora).

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 10:22 remnant

Well right now, according to Tanach prophecy, we are still two big wars and two or three more generations away from the ingathering. Judah needs to build anti-Yeshua temple and kill off 90% of Joseph. My job is to help you and your family be part of the 10%. And that starts by being real with ourselves, and especially with Elohim, and His Spirit.

Yeshayahu 10:22
22 For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, A remnant of them will return; The destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

And if we think that we are going to make it without surrendering to Elohim and His Spirit, and defecting back to Elohim’s team, then we do not know anything, and we will not make it! So, forgive me for talking straight, but my job is to help you to make it. And the standards are very much higher than the 90% will want to accept.

Ma’asei (Acts) 15 requirements

Ok, so what are we doing about this? And why do you need to know if you want to survive? We are doing a parasha (midrash) each week to fulfill the requirements of Ma’asei (Acts) 15:19–21.

This passage tells us that:

• If you believe on Yeshua,
• And you are one of the few who are serious about salvation,
• And you are willing to abstain from the four abominations that will get you cut off from the nation of Israel:

1. No idolatry [or spiritual immorality],
2. No sexual immorality (according to the standards in the written Torah),
3. No strangled meats,
4. And no issues of blood [meaning no consuming blood, and also issues of niddah, (a sister’s monthly purification)],

…then you can come into the synagogues, where the written Torah has been read each week since ancient times.

Ma’asei (Acts) 15:19-21
19 “Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to Elohim,
20 but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.
21 For Moshe has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

The idea was that as you hear the written Torah spoken aloud, and then you are also responsible to memorize it as best you can, and to do what it says as best you can. (“As if” you fear Him!)

After a year or so, you should have heard the commandment of physical circumcision, and obeyed it. And so, after about a year (or two at the most), you can attend the Pesach, if all your males are physically circumcised, and everyone is doing the fullness of what the written Torah says.

And after about three months, it is like with any church, or any civic organization. After about three months, you must make a decision if you like it, and want to stay, or not. And if you do like it, then you should start contributing to the cause, because the kingdom does not grow itself! It is a crowd-funded activity, and we are the crowd!

The wide path of Mystery Babylonian Esav

And now here is where all the problem comes in. Because what we are supposed to be paying to support is a Melchizedekian priesthood that maintains all of Elohim’s standards. The problem is that almost no one cares about maintaining Elohim’s standards. The people want to minister to lower standards. And the ministers go ahead and lower Elohim’s standards, to let the people come in, so they can collect more donations!

Luqa (Luke) 13:24
24 “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.”

So, what happens is that it becomes a broader and easier road that takes almost no discipline to keep. And this is how people like it.

And the vast majority of Joseph that I have met does not care. And what happens is that people go to use Paul to explain away the words of Elohim. And we do not play that here. Those people are all going to die. So, it does not sound nice, but just to be realistic, we want nothing to do with them. We need to set ourselves apart from them.

Now, what happens is that if your heart is still in Esav’s house, then you are going to want to make up different standards. You are going to want to relax the standards (or water them down), or come up with a different conception of your own that is more pleasing to you, but which enrages Elohim. That is what Esav does. And that is what the majority of Ephraim also does.

Restoring the house of Ephraim

So, as we will see in the Abraham Accords series, the recovery of the house of Joseph is still really in its early stages. The first wave began to be recovered around 5760, in-between the first and second intifadas, (between about 1996 to 2000 CE.)

As we will see, we are just prior to the start of the recovery of the second wave. And the movement is supposed to grow a lot starting in about two years. And I would love to be making videos for brother Judah at this point. Because that was the command at the end of the three visions (about 10 or 11 months ago, or whenever it was).

The commandment was to, “Make friends with (brother) Judah.” And you know, mister autism does not always understand things. I just must obey. And I need to be making videos for brother Judah right now.

Only, I cannot right now, because Ephraim is still a rebellious total mess. 99+% are not doing either what the written Torah says to do, or what the Brit Chadasha says to do. We are disobeying both Yahweh, and Yeshua. So, how am I supposed to lecture the rabbis? Am I supposed to tell the Sanhedrin and the prime minister and the Knesset that they are supposed to learn to be disobedient, and rebellious, just like us?

What Judah does right now, is he “gives the nod” to the written Torah as an excuse to do whatever he wants, in the Talmud. And what most of Ephraim seems to want me to tell Judah is that if they will embrace the Brit Chadasha (or the Renewed Covenant), then they do not need to obey either the Tanach, or the Brit Chadasha, right? Because Ephraim claims both books, but he does not follow either one!

I want to say this in as much love as I can, but people keep telling me I am “too academic“, and that I am “talking over people’s heads”. So, I am going to try to do everything in a more “homey” way, so that people can understand.

Basically, Ephraim is completely oblivious to the situation he is in, and he is living in a fool’s paradise of his own making. And right now, I would say more than 99+ percent of them are on their way to Sheol! And what we are hoping to do in the next 30, 40, or 50 years is to bring that destruction rate down to a flat 90%. And it is basically Ephraim’s last chance for romance with the King’s Son!

And to try to help get the message across, that means that right now today, 99+ percent of Ephraim is ignoring the road signs that he is on a highway to Hell right now! He is on the road to Yeshayahu 10:22 destruction.

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 10:22
22 For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them will return; the destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

Big talk and no commitment

Ephraim is lukewarm, and he thinks he is hot! He thinks he is on fire, when the reality is “heap big smoke and no fire!”

And you read the comments and the emails, and it is still excuses for not doing what our King says. And I am not going to fight with people. Either you love Yeshua enough to put Him first, or you worship someone or something else.

You know those things at the top of your priority list? You know those things you spend your time and money on? Those are the things you worship. And if that is not Yeshua, then it is a lie to say that you love Him. (And He does not like liars!)

And I want to say this in as much love as I can, but I do have to say it. Even if Mattityahu 24 was not already busting down the door, and even the southern house was not actively working a plan to exterminate us all, Yeshua is the one who will either vouch for us in the day of judgment, or not!

Mattityahu (Matthew) 24:45
45 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?”

So, it is kind of stupid to look for excuses not to do all that He asks! (But you know about excuses, right? When you want an excuse, any excuse will do!)

And I am being a little emphatic, brothers, because I am literally afraid for your lives, and the lives of your families! I am afraid for the 10% that need to survive, but do not qualify today. And it is a fool’s gamble to sit back and do nothing when the ones who do nothing are guaranteed destruction!

Yahweh allows us to choose slothfulness

It is like Ephraim forgets that if we are not diligent to be filled with His Spirit, Elohim will give us a different spirit, so that we go to destruction. And that Elohim is completely righteous in doing so!

Do not believe me? In Matthew 13:14-15, Yeshua says that “in the vast majority of the people (in the 4,000 and the 5,000 and the myriads and the multitudes and the crowds and the throngs (I will let you do the math), the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled.

Mattityahu (Matthew) 13:14-15
14 And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘HEARING YOU WILL HEAR AND SHALL NOT UNDERSTAND, AND SEEING YOU WILL SEE AND NOT PERCEIVE;

15 FOR THE HEARTS OF THIS PEOPLE HAVE GROWN DULL. THEIR EARS ARE HARD OF HEARING, AND THEIR EYES THEY HAVE CLOSED, LEST THEY SHOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES AND HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, LEST THEY SHOULD UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEARTS AND TURN, SO THAT I SHOULD HEAL THEM.’

Yahweh is saying, “Hearing you will hear, but you shall not understand, and seeing you will see, but still not get the need to give your life to Him, and dedicate yourself by surrendering to Him and to His Spirit! Because the people say that they care, but they do not behave like it. And their hearts have grown dull. They do not really care if they build a kingdom for their King, or not!”

“Their spiritual ears are hard of hearing, because they do not want to hear what I or My Son said to do. And their eyes they have closed, because they do not want to read what I want them to do for My Son. And the whole human race is in rebellion against Me to start with!”

“And I am a war Elohim! So, if they do not care about Me or My Son, and if they continue in their rebellion against My voice, then I take no delight in fools! (What do I want lukewarm fools for?)”

“So I am going to hand them over to another spirit, lest they should read with their eyes what My Son said to do, and hear with their spiritual ears the voice of His Spirit in each moment, and they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them. Because if they do not care enough to obey Me and My Son, then they are a waste product!”

“Flush it!”

The wrong perception

In Joseph, we think so much about fluffy, little lambs! Maybe we forget that Yeshua is the Son of King David? And do we realize that His Father gave Him a mission to end our rebellion from the Garden of Eden? And to bring the earth back into subjection to Himself and His Spirit? And that if we do not care what He wants, that He will purposefully send us the wrong way? And that He is completely righteous in doing so?

Some may say, “Oh no… He would not do that!” Oh, no? Mishle 8:36 says that whoever sins against the voice of the Spirit “wrongs his own soul; and that all those who hate the voice of the Spirit love death”.

Mishle (Proverbs) 8:36
36 “But he who sins against Me wrongs his own soul; all those who hate Me love death.”

Where are we at in this picture, brothers? Because we need to tell ourselves the truth if we want to live! And I am scared for those who think, “Yahweh would never do that!” Because He is doing that right now! That is where the 4,000 and the 5,000 come from! Hello? Is Ephraim-body home?

Thessaloniquim Bet 2:9-12 tells us that the coming of the Torahless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders. And with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth (which is the written Torah), that they might be saved.

And for this reason, Elohim will send them strong delusion, that they should believe Satan’s lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe (meaning practice) the truth (or the written Torah) but had pleasure in unrighteousness (meaning “Torah breaking”, or “Torah pretending”).

Thessaloniquim Bet (2 Thessalonians) 2:9-12
9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this reason Elohim will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Ephraim makes excuses for not keeping the wedding contract

I do not want that for any of you! But reading the comments, we still see people seeking to make excuses. And we already know that everyone who makes excuses to get out of doing everything that Yahweh, Yeshua, and/or the Spirit say is going to die!

So, because I love you, I am going to insist that we make sense. I am going to insist that we do everything that is written in the Tanach, and in the Brit Chadasha, so that we are not liars, fools, and hypocrites. Because does not it seem hypocritical for Ephraim to claim to be doing better than Judah, when we are not really doing either what Yahweh or Yeshua say to do, as a house? (Granted, Judah is doing the wrong thing, but how does that excuse Joseph from doing the right thing?)

And I am just concerned, brothers, because I see so many excuses. And when you want an excuse, any excuse will do! But Elohim is not going to listen to excuses for not getting involved and not committing ourselves to the Great Commission struggle to establish His Son’s kingdom. If we do not care to struggle for Him, it means we do not really care. Do you know what I am saying?

Mattityahu (Matthew) 28:20
20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amein.

All you guys who are looking for excuses to get out of doing what Elohim said, why are you writing me? Do I have the authority to let you out of the wedding contract? And let us ask the real question: if you are truly His bride, then why do you want out of doing your utmost in the wedding contract? Is that the kind of bride you want for you, is someone who makes excuses for supporting you?

This will not sound nice, and you will not like it, but you are on your way to eternal damnation, and your blood is on your own head! Think about that before you go to ask me to give you a pass. Because I do not have any passes to give. Nor would I even think about giving them, if I hypothetically did have such an ability–because it is not the best thing for you! It is bad for you! Do you get it?

Mariage requires commitment

Returning to Ma’asei 15, in verse 21, the idea was that once you receive the true Spirit, and had a true desire to lay down your life in this world (forgotten concept), and dedicate yourself to building Yeshua’s kingdom, if you agreed to abstain from the four abominations, then you could come in and hear the Torah being read, because you would not be defiling the synagogue.

Ma’asei (Acts) 15:21
21 “For Moshe has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

I have not looked into the timelines, but I am just guessing that this was still before Levi instituted the Birkhat HaMinim (or the daily death curse) over the sect of the Nazarenes, and over returning Ephraim, to keep us from coming home.

“For the apostates [meaning anyone who has left Orthodox Judaism, such as Yeshua (or Jesus), and everyone who follows Him] let there be no hope! And uproot the kingdom of arrogance speedily and in our days! May the Nazarenes and [all] the [other] sectarians [or the other “minim”] perish, as in a moment!  Let them be blotted out of the Book of Life, and not be written together with the righteous! You are praised, O Adonai, who subdues the arrogant!”
[Wikipedia, Jerusalem Talmud-Birkat haMinim]

And verse 21 tells the new converts to go into the synagogues, so they could hear the Torah being read in every city since ancient times. And then, as they heard the words of the living Elohim, they should have fear, to take these words to heart, and to do them. And to live by them.

Ma’asei (Acts) 15:21
21 “For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

And no one in Ephraim (outside of Nazarene Israel) does this that we can see. Everyone else is making excuses for why they do not need to fear Yahweh and obey His words. And what that will look like in the judgment is the lake of fire!

And we mentioned this so that you will not make the mistake of going the same way as the future 90% of the Ephraimite movement. We mention this so that you will go the way of the future 10% that survives, because they have learned what it means to truly fear Yahweh, because they take His words to heart and are diligent to do them!

Do not boast against the branches!

I hope that someday we will have our own house in order, so that we can make videos for the prime minister, and the Sanhedrin. But for Ephraim to be exalting himself over Judah when Judah is working, and Ephraim is lounging–that just is not right!

Do you think I am making it up? Shaliach Shaul (the apostle Paul) speaks to this in Romim chapter 11, starting in verse 13.

Romim (Romans) 11:13-16
13 For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am a shaliach [apostle] to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry [to lost Joseph],
14 If by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh [Judah], and save some of them.
15 For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruit is set-apart, the lump is also set-apart; and if the root is set-apart, so are the branches.

(And Ephraim says, “I knew it! we are qodesh!”)

Romim (Romans) 11:17
17 And if some of the branches [in the southern kingdom] were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree [in the lost tribes] were grafted in among them [because early on we were still going to the same synagogues before they hit us with the Birkhat HaMinim], and with them you have became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree,

Romim (Romans) 11:18-20
18 Do not boast against the branches. [Which is what was going on in some earlier parashiot!] But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
19 You [some clever Ephraimites] will say then, “[The southern] branches were broken off so that I [from the north] might be grafted in.”
20 Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.

(Because haughtiness like we see in the comments section is arrogance, and pride. And he does not want that. That is an instant reject!)

Romim (Romans) 11:21-22
21 For if Elohim did not spare the natural branches, He might not spare you either.
22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of Elohim: on those who fell [in Judah and Levi], severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.

And this is exactly what we saw in the comments section, is haughty, lost Joseph exalting himself over brother Judah. And we do not have any reason to be haughty!

Is Judah to imitate slothful Ephraim?

Judah is organizing! Judah is tithing in support of his Talmudic kingdom! Judah is collecting money for the poor! Zera is going undercover generationally to take over the Muslim, Catholic, and Christian worlds. (And you can bet for sure that he has got agents in this movement also!) Peretz has a plan to extend the Talmudic kingdom over the whole world, and to kill off Joseph!

What does Ephraim do? Besides eat lunch at his friend’s house, and they have a little ear tickling Bible study to reinforce what they think they already know? (And this serves as their excuse not to really study the word for what Elohim is trying to tell us or get us to do!)

Ephraim is living in a fool’s paradise! And time is running out to show Elohim that we care!

How can I make videos for brother Judah, and tell them to imitate the stick of Ephraim in anything, when we are not even a stick?

Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 37:16
16 “As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: ‘For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.’ Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.’ “

How can I tell the Sanhedrin that our way is better, when we are not doing all that either the Tanach, or the Brit Chadasha say to do? “Come and hear! If you believe in Yeshua like Ephraim, then you get to disobey both the written Torah, and our Rebbe Yeshua?”

I empathize with the problems. But that is not an excuse, not to get involved in Yeshua’s struggle. That is what we are called to, is to lay down our priorities for our lives, and get involved in Yeshua’s struggle to help Judah come back to Tanach. And that is a ministry we are chomping at the bit to do! But we cannot have a bunch of backslidden, arrogant comments, because those all witness the wrong spirit.

Continual need to walk by the Set-apart Spirit

In Mattityahu 12:43-45, Yeshua tells us what happens when an unclean spirit goes out of a man.

Mattityahu (Matthew) 12:43-45
43 “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.
44 Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.
45 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.”

When we reject the set-apart Spirit because it costs too much, and it takes too much of our time (and it is not convenient to wear a wedding garment like that), the same thing happens.

Most Ephraimites I know never receive the Spirit because they are not willing to hand over the steering wheel and the google maps. And they stop asking, seeking, and knocking. They do not welcome in and invite His Spirit through true dedication, right actions, and right works.
So, the set-apart Spirit leaves, and Elohim sends another spirit that inhabits 99%+ of the house of Ephraim. And it is a mocking, lying spirit of Mystery Babylon that pretends to keep Torah, but does not. Just like brother Judah. And we do not do what Yeshua says.

Yeshua called out hyprocrisy

We say, “I keep Torah”, and then we do not. And Judah is not fooled. And if Judah is not fooled, then is Yahweh? Do we think Yahweh is a chump? Or, through our actions, do we make it seem as if we believe that Yahweh is a chump?

Because that is the way Yahweh looks at things. He listens to our words, and then He looks at what we do, and if those two things are not the same, then we are hypocrites! And we win an all-expense paid vacation with a one-way ticket to the lake of fire! Because Elohim does not want liars, or scam artists!

Now have we covered it? Or are we going to get more excuses and requests for a pass to get out of the wedding covenant in the comment section? Or are we going to get more arrogant comments exalting the house of Ephraim over Judah when we are still in the same disobedience to the Torah that got us sent into the Assyrian diaspora in the first place? As long as we are not obeying the full marital covenant, we are not keeping it! People need to pray about that!

Maybe someday (when Ephraim humbles himself), maybe we will be able to do a regular parasha for brother Judah. But in the meantime, moving on.

How the Firstborn Priesthood should operate: firstfruits

About our existence as created beings, as we will see in the Abraham accords series, the big idea is that we were created to form a single-family team that takes care of His planet and each other while listening for His voice.

B’reisheet (Genesis) 2:15
15 Then Yahweh Elohim took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.

And His voice includes all His written commandments. And we will talk about the progression of this (and it is a long and vitally important story). But after the exodus from Egypt, Yahweh decided to establish an internal priesthood for Israel.

This is before the Levitical order. And because Yahweh took the first-born males of Paro, we were to give our first-born male children to Yahweh, to serve as His priests.

And we will talk about the sin of the Golden Calf. But before we get there, let us look at Shemote 22:20.

Shemote (Exodus) 22:20
20 “He who sacrifices to any elohim, except to Yahweh only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

If we are willing to receive it, this is why Yahweh plans to let Levi and Zera destroy the United States (and all of the Christians worldwide), is that they worship the way they feel comfortable, rather than disciplining themselves to find out what Yahweh wants us to do, and do that instead.

Who and what are we worshipping?

So, funny thing. If you worship “the Lord”, you probably worship a standard accepted way in Christendom, that is not what Elohim said to do in the Tanach. And if you worship “Hashem”, and “Adonai”, you probably worship a certain standard accepted way in Talmudic Judaism, that is not what Elohim said to do in the Tanach. And if you worship “Jesus”, you are probably keeping days of worship that Esav in Rome decided, rather than doing what Yeshua said to do.

(And someone will say that Yeshua is a false elohim also, except what do you do with Daniel 9:25–26, which tells us pretty clearly that Mashiach Nagid had to come right before the end of the second temple period?)

Daniel 9:25
25 “Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince, there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times.”

Let us just be clear about this. There are a lot of messy antics who will wag the finger at you all day long, “His name is not Jesus. His name is Yeshua!” But they do not do what He said, and they are expecting a pass. And they are going to get a failure! Ephraim is going to get an ‘Eph’ minus!

Just because you use Yeshua’s name, that does not excuse you from keeping the rest of the marital covenant. I mean come on. Just because you call your husband by His name, does that mean you do not need to do what He says?

That is what the bulk of Ephraim is doing. “I called you by Your Name. That is why I do not have to do what You said to do! Now you need to intercede for me with Your Father!”

(No, He does not!)

He is dealing with a bunch of rebels and traitors from the original covenant in the Garden. You do not pardon traitors who continue to refuse to obey your authority, after they know what to do. You just off them. And that is what is coming up.

Ephraim pretends to put Yahweh first, but does he, really?

Shemote‬ ‭(Exodus) 22‬:‭29‬‬‬‬‬
29 “You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe produce and your juices. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me.”

We do not give for firstborn of our sons anymore, after we defiled this original agreement, and after the sin of the Golden Calf. And we do not give our firstborn of our sons in the Order of Melchi-tzedek, either. But the concept of firstfruits is still for today. Because Elohim wants us to love Him so much that we are eager to do all that we can to help establish His Son’s empire.

Judah understands that this takes money and work. And Judah gets the financial blessings. So, what is wrong with Ephraim? Ephraim does not want His blessings? Or is it that Ephraim has no faith? Is it that Ephraim thinks Yahweh is a bum? And that we are going to give to Yahweh, and He is not going to bless us even more than what we did for Him? Judah does not have this problem. But Ephraim does. Why, brothers?

We have seen that both Judah and Levi have some severe character flaws. Judah and Tamar and their son Zera have some real sexual issues and incest issues. And they like to replace Yahweh’s words with their own words (exalting themselves above Elohim). It is like Judah and Levi think they are demigods and demiurges whose words are more important than the words of Elohim. These are big bad hits in the written Torah. But does Ephraim have no problems?

Joseph was a hard worker, and he was dedicated, and faithful. But it is like Ephraim is also a hard worker, and doubly fruitful, but he is not faithful to Yahweh. It is like he got that part from Asenath. Because he is not faithful to do everything Elohim says in His word.

Firstfruits are hard! They cost money! Firstfruits speak of a narrow and afflicted pathway that leads to life!

Luqa (Luke) 13:24
24 “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.”

But Ephraim does not want it! He does not think he needs it! He does not see the need! He does not see the benefits of obeying Yahweh. And death is approaching!

If you think giving three tithes, plus firstfruits, plus gifts, plus offerings is hard, think about giving up your first-born! Think about that! What would it take for you to give your first-born son to Yahweh?

B’reisheet (Genesis) 22:2
2 Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”

Avraham put Yahweh first! Are we the seed of Avraham?

Can we see this as a continuation of the sacrifice that Avraham made with the binding of Yitzhak? And since we are Avraham’s children, is not this just a natural extension of the trial that Yahweh gave to Avraham? Do we have the same kind of faith that Avraham had? And if not, then how do we count ourselves as children of Avraham?

And when Yeshua says in Matthew 5:17-20 not to think that He had been sent to do away with even the least of the requirements, do we believe him?

Mattityahu (Matthew) 5:17
17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.”

Do we take these requirements to heart?

Shemote‬ ‭23‬:‭2‬‬‬‬‬
2 You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice.

Meaning, it is not supposed to be majority rule.‬‬‬‬ It is not supposed to be ‘voting’!

Do not follow the broad path!

In the Abraham Accords series, we will see that voting is the political arm of Mystery Babylon. We will talk about the Mystery Babylonian church system. And we will talk about the Mystery Babylonian Talmudic synagogues. And we will talk about the Mystery Babylonian mosques. But the point here is, we are not supposed to follow after the majority. We are not to follow the herd blindly off the cliff.

Orthodox Jewish man: “I for sure would not just read texts…”
[Orthodox Jews REACT to Messianic Jews Sharing ISAIAH 53, So Be It, 1:24-1:30]

Judah is zealous for his own words. Judah and Levi go crazy for their own commentaries on commentaries, on commentaries, on commentaries, on commentaries! (It is like they think that once they get enough levels of commentaries, you do not need to pay any attention to Elohim. And most of them are going to pay for it with their lives!)

But Ephraim is no better! Once Ephraim breaks free of Esav’s house, he reads all the right books. He reads the Tanach and the Brit Chadasha, and then he just does not do what they say! He figures they can be safely ignored just so long as he has read them! (Talk about foolish!)

Finish this sentence.
“To him who knows what Elohim says to do and does not, to him it is….”

Ya’akov (James) 4:17
17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

What are the wages of sin? Romim 6:23 tells us that the wages of sin is death.

Romim (or Romans) 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of Elohim is eternal life in Mashiach Yeshua our Master.

Do we believe that?

What are Ephraim’s problems?

Ephraim only has two problems–a lack of faith, and a lack of commitment. And those bad hits, brothers! Those are death penalty hits!

Shemote‬ ‭23‬:‭19‬‬‬‬‬
19 The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your Elohim. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

This is not so the priests can live fancy. This is so the priests can have enough to build His kingdom according to His instructions. And this is one of the areas where Ephraim has the most excuses. And we all have been burned by bad leadership. I have been stolen from. I have been lied to. (Kind of like a Linda Ronstadt song.)

For full disclosure, in addition to the autism and the scoliosis, I had a parachute crash in the army, and I still suffer issues from that. So, I do get a medical pension. And I dumped the whole thing right into the work. And maybe about 1/3 of that gets spent on me, and my upkeep. The rest of it goes to the work.

That is because we are not a bunch of harlot hireling book-and-DVD salesmen here. I am spending all my gold and my fine gold of Ophir on the true riches of His kingdom. And then you get insulting comments that people are so afraid that if they give to Elohim, they might get stolen from.

And it is the same old thing. When you want an excuse, any excuse will do. But do not try the excuse that I am going to spend the money on myself, because I do not. I spend all my money on Yeshua–and I have been doing this for the past 25 years, since I got called. Because I want to be not just called, I want to be chosen.

Mattityahu (Matthew) 22:13-14
13 Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
14 “For many are called, but few are chosen.”

And I want you to be chosen! But you must live the Great Commission in order to be chosen! And I am asking you to show Yahweh your faith by doing what He says!

I am spending all that I have, to give you an example so that you can do what Elohim asks of you. And if a broken up, autistic man with a closed head injury can do it, you can do it!

So, do not give me your excuses. They are an insult to Yahweh Elohim. I will not give you a pass to get out of eternal life with Elohim. So, stop asking for one! Because you are not going to get it! There is no way to “slide one over” on Elohim! (And it is idiotic to want it!) And that is what Elohim is asking us to do, is to stop making excuses, and start doing what He asks!

Does Ephraim have such little faith?

Brothers, why is this so hard? Why is there such a lack of faith in Ephraim? What do we even say, if we do not want to help our King get His kingdom? We know we are supposed to help, but we do not help, because we think there is nothing in it for us?

Let us get this straight. We do not want to give up our time or our money to help build Yeshua’s kingdom, because we think there is nothing in it for us to help our Husband get what He wants? (Wow… there is some faith for you!) Is that why we are not giving? Because we do not have true faith?

Ephraim is not giving to His kingdom because we do not have faith that if we help our Husband Yeshua get His kingdom, that we are going to benefit? Is that right? The bride sees nothing she wants in helping her Fiancé the Prince get His kingdom? He promises to make us His queen, and we are so stupid that we cannot see any benefit in helping our Fiancé get His kingdom?

That is what it seems like. And to speak the truth in love, that is one of the dumbest, stupidest things we have ever heard! If you were Yahweh, would you want to marry your Son to you? Or to someone like Shaliach Shaul, or Yaakov, or Kepha? This is not brain surgery, brothers. This is basic.

And it does not sound nice, but right now, from what we can see, most of Ephraim is headed for the trash heap. Most of Ephraim is headed for the lukewarm vomitorium. Because they knew what Elohim wanted, but it did not seem worth it to them to give back to Elohim what He asked for, in exchange for eternal life.

Hitgalut (Revelation) 3:16
16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

It is not worth it to serve and obey the One who died a miserable, cruel death to ransom us from the grave. And all He asks is that we truly put Yeshua’s Great Commission in first place. That is all he wants. We get to live, and work for Him. That is a marvelous deal! How come Ephraim does not want it?

That is what firstfruits are, is when you love Him so much that you cannot wait to give the very first and finest of what He gives you, back to Him, in an act of devotion and love.

Husbands and wives do this all the time. The husband will bring home something good, and the wife will make something good of it to give to her husband, to make him happy. But we do not love Yahweh like that, do we, Ephraim? We do not love Him enough to bring Him the very first and the best of what He gave us in love and devotion, do we?

Shemote (Exodus) 23:19
19 The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your Elohim. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

We do not have a heart to bring our best to help Him get His kingdom, do we? Because we cannot see the benefit in helping our Husband get His kingdom? Because there is nothing we want in that?

We are cool with being queen, but not if it takes work, right? If it costs “our” money, or “our” time to do anything good for our Husband, then no way! Talk about a lazy, worthless, selfish Ephraimite bride that is not going to make it! (Is the shoe fitting yet?)

First-century examples of the Original Faith

The heroes of Ivrim 11 did not just sit and read. They worked for Elohim.

Ivrim (Hebrews) 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to Elohim must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

In Philippians 3:12, Shaliach Shaul did not think that he was already done applying discipline to himself. He did not think he was too cool for Sheol. He took it seriously until his dying breath. Anybody here think he is running the race as well as Shaliach Shaul? (I do not.)

Philipim (Phillipians) 3:12
12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Mashiach Yeshua has also laid hold of me.

What will Yahweh say to us at Judgement?

Does it occur to us that one day we are all going to get to the Judgment, and we are going to watch the video dubstep remix of our lives? I do not know, but I just imagine that He is going to ask,

“Do you remember when you asked Me for this in My Son’s name, and I gave it to you? And you remember when you asked me that in My Son’s name, and I gave it to you? And do you remember all those other things you asked for in My Son’s name, and I gave all those things to you as well?”

And we say, “Yes. Uh-huh.”

And then He asks,

“So, if you knew I was real enough to ask Me for things in My Son’s name, and you had faith that I would give them to you, why did you not have faith that I was real enough, to do what I asked you? And why did you not do the things that My Son asked you?”

“I only saw you with the kind of faith that takes– and I am not hitching My Son up with a taker, or a slacker, or a user. I am only hooking My Son up with a dedicated giver who showed us His love.

Luqa (Luke) 19:16
16 Then came the first, saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned ten minas.’

Because I want to hook My Son up with someone dedicated, who loves Him, and wants to help Him. Because a bride is described as a helper, and the only way I know if someone is a giver or a taker is to give My son a great big job to do, and then see who comes to help Him.”

“Did you read the parable of the minas? He needs a helper, not a moocher! He does not need a lead weight, or a ball and chain. Do you know what I am saying?”

Luqa (Luke) 19:20
20 “Then another came, saying, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have kept put away in a handkerchief.”

And if we still think eternal life is too expensive, maybe we have not realized what we are getting.

Yeshua and Moshe speak Yahweh’s word

Now here is the most important part.

Shemote‬ ‭(Exodus) 23‬:‭20‬-21 ‭‬‬‬‬‬‬
20 “Behold, I send a messenger before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
21 Beware of Him and obey His voice; do not provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgressions; for My name is in Him.”

Oh. Who could that be? (Yeshua = “Yahweh saves”, or “the salvation of Yahweh.”)

Shemote (Exodus) 23:22
22 “But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.”

Yahweh’s voice is in Him, and He speaks Yahweh’s words. (Who could it be?) For Ephraim, when you do not keep all of the written Torah, did you realize you are disobeying Yeshua as well as Yahweh?

Shemote (Exodus) 24:1-4
1 “Now Yahweh said to Moshe, “Come up to Yahweh, you and Aharon, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar.
2 And Moshe alone shall come near Yahweh, but they shall not come near; nor shall the people go up with him.”

3 So Moshe came and told the people all the words of Yahweh and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words which Yahweh has said we will do.”
4 And Moshe wrote down all the words of Yahweh…”

Shemote (Exodus) 24:7
7 Then Moshe took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that Yahweh has said we will do, and be obedient.”

For Judah, it is a written covenant.

Shemote (Exodus) 24:12
12 Then Yahweh said to Moshe, “Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the Torah and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them.”

Hello? Earth to Levi? Moshe was not to make up his own teaching! Moshe was supposed to teach the words that Yahweh gave him to teach! And not to replace it with man-made Talmud!

Shemote (Exodus) 24:17-18
17 The sight of the glory of Yahweh was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
18 so Moshe went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And Moshe was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

So, what did they talk about? Nothing? This is where the rabbis make-believe the idea of a so-called “oral Torah”. But the point is that any time there was something important for us to know, Moshe wrote it down.

(And you know that the so-called “oral Torah” is fake, because it conflicts with the written Torah everywhere!) It says Joseph no longer exists. And it is 100% a lie.

Yahweh’s Marital Covenant is required for the marriage

And I hate to do this, but we are going to skip the Haftarah prophetic portion and the Brit Chadasha portion this week, because that is all the time we have. But we will touch on Lamentations chapter 5. And then, father willing, hopefully we can get back to some more balanced parashiot next week.

Please pray for Ephraim to humble himself, to realize that he is a created being, and that we were not created to do our own will, but rather, we were created for obedience. And if we forget how to obey, what use are we to Him? What good is salt that has lost its savor?

Luqa (Luke) 14:8
8 “When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place, lest one more honorable than you be invited by him;”

If we are not even willing to do the minimums for our marital covenant, what makes us think we are going to get married? What makes us think that we are not headed for the outer darkness, where there will be much weeping, and gnashing of teeth?

I say these things to you because I love you, and I want you to succeed. I want you to make it. And what that means is, I want to make standards. Because Esav does relaxes or replaces Elohim’s standards.

Brothers, if you are not sacrificing for Him, then how are you pleasing to Him? If you are not enduring hardship as a good soldier of Yeshua Messiah, walking a narrow and an afflicted path How do you know you are saved? How do you know you have a reward coming? Because the Bible I read says, you do not.

Do you believe Elohim and His words? Or do you believe what you want? And if you believe what you want, what is the difference between you, and the Talmudists?

I ask you to pray and ask Elohim to help you make a commitment to Him, that He might want to choose you for His Bride in the day of Judgment. Beloved, it is the last chance for romance with the King’s Son!

These last days before the coming threshing is the time to be one of the five wise virgins, who is faithful, and who is busy preparing oil for her lamp. Because if Mashiach tarries (and He is going to tarry big time!), we are going to need that oil for our lamps!

Mattityahu (Matthew) 25:4-5
4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
5 But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

Please close your eyes and pray with me for all you are worth, like I do each day.

Let us pray

Dear Father Yahweh, thank you for sending Your Son to take our death penalty for disobedience, to bring us back to Your covenant. Please do not let us be part of the 90% who will continue to disobey Your marital covenant, even though they know Your will.

Please help us to discipline and dedicate ourselves to be good brides, and wise virgins, who use every moment to prepare for the coming day of Judgement. When You will decide if we are part of the 10% that You will keep, or if we will be part of the 90%, who received Your call to prepare oil for our lamps, but who gave in to Satan’s enticements to enjoy our lives in the world, and to revel in unrighteous pleasures.

Mattityahu (Matthew) 25:4
4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

Dear Master Yahweh, please save us from ourselves and our fleshly evil inclination. Please give us renewed faithfulness to You, and Your Son, who died to give us this last and final chance to put You and Him first in our lives.

Please do not let us fool ourselves, Yahweh, because Satan and his false ministers serenade us daily.

We are like lost sheep, Yahweh. Please save us from the wolf and the bear ministries, and the hirelings and false tripwire ministers who have half a heart to do your work, and who woo us all into sin.

Prayer of Lamentations

Ekah (Lamentations) 5:8
8 [Because of our sins and the evil things we have chosen, democratically elected] servants rule over us; [hirelings teach us], and there is none to deliver us [Ephraim] from their hand.

Ekah (Lamentations) 5:14-17
14 The elders have ceased gathering at the gate, and the young men from their music.
16 The crown has fallen from our heads. Woe to us, for we have sinned [against you and your bridal covenant].
17 Because of this our heart is faint; because of these things our eyes grow dim;

Ekah (Lamentations) 5:18-20
18 Because of mount Tzion which is desolate, [with Talmudic replacement theologists] foxes walking about on it.
19 [But they will pass, Master, because] You alone, o Yahweh, remain forever; Your throne alone abides from generation to generation.
20 Why do You forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?

[It has been more than 2,750 years, and counting, Yahweh! It has been more than 3/4 of our recorded history as a nation for replacing Your Torah. It has been 77% of our days as your people, and we cannot deliver ourselves.

Ekah (Lamentations) 5:21-22
21 Turn us back to you, o Yahweh, and we will be restored; [please] renew our days as of old.
22 Unless you have utterly rejected us, and are very angry with us [for not taking Your word or Your Son’s horrible death seriously]!

Ekah (Lamentations) 5:21
21 Turn us back to you, o Yahweh, and we will be restored.

Please renew our days as of old! And please give us the will to be faithful unto the death this time, as Your Son was faithful unto us. Please change us from being abusers of Your great bounty, and of Your Son’s death to give a new chance to us all. Please help us to choose life and discipline in You and in Your Son.

In Yeshua’s name, amein.

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