Parasha Midrash B’shelach 5784 (2024) reading:

Shemote (Exodus) 13:17 – 17:16
Shophetim (Judges) 4-5
Mattityahu (Matthew) 5

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Shalom and welcome to Nazarene Israel! I am Norman Willis! And welcome to our Genesis 35 Alliance parasha series, where we focus on what it will take for Judah and Joseph to stop their respective rebellions and acknowledge the de-facto Genesis 35:11 alliance in preparation for the coming Jewish millennial reign.

And as we will see in our upcoming documentary for the prime minister and the Knesset, this biblical sode-level Genesis 35:11 alliance already exists! It is what causes the great nation (of Judah) to lead a company of not Esavite Christian nations, but Josephite Christian nations in tow!

B’reisheet (Genesis) 35:11
11 Also Elohim said to him: “I am Elohim Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body.”

And this is what we call the Genesis 35 alliance, and it is the basis for the generally more positive political relationship between Israel and the protestant Christian nations!

There is a lot we will say about that in future videos. But if Judah and Levi will look, they might find that, while the relationships stand a lot of room for improvement, there is still a generally much more positive political climate in the Protestant nations than in the Esavite Christian nations (which have an orientation more toward Rome). And this generally more positive political relationship between Israel and the Protestant Christian nations is because of B’reisheet 35:11 (or Genesis 35:11).

Talmud replacement theology error

And this is where Judah’s mind starts to melt, because Judah ironically venerates the human “wisdom” of the rabbis in the Talmud over the wisdom of Yahweh Elohim Tzavaot in the Tanach!

“My son, be careful to fulfill the words of the Sages [soferim] even more than the words of the Torah. For the words of the Torah include positive and negative commandments, and even with regard to the negative commandments, the violation of many of them is punishable only by lashes. Whereas with respect to the words of the Sages, anyone who transgresses the words of the Sages is liable to receive the death penalty,”
[Talmud Tractate Eruvin 21b, Sefaria]

And Judah tells the people not to read Elohim’s words!

“We do not learn Tanach in our schools because it is very deep, and things can be misinterpreted. So, they do not teach us Tanach. We learn Talmud, we learn what we call “Oral Law”. So, if I want to go into Yeshayahu, what you call “Isaiah”, I would go to my Rabbi and I would ask him to teach it to me, like everything I do not understand and ask him to teach to me. But things I was not taught in school because I was told that it is deep to understand, I for sure would not just read texts…”
[Orthodox Jews REACT to Messianic Jews Sharing ISAIAH 53, So Be It, 1:24-1:30]

To Joseph, this is like the most insane thing ever!

“For sure, we will not read Elohim’s words!” “For sure, we will only read man’s words that replace and invert the words of Elohim, which lead us to break Genesis 12:3, which tells us not to curse other Israelites!”

B’reisheet (Genesis) 12:3
3 “I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

But you think there are no more Josephite tribes! Because you do not believe Elohim’s words, right? You only believe in your own words, right? Meaning, you worship yourselves, rather than Elohim, right?

[Rabbi Chaim Richman Tells Christians you already worship one Jew, you should worship every one of us]

Listen, Esav did not want us reading Scripture in his house! And we left! We made that decision over 500 years ago! And now we see Judah getting ready to exterminate Joseph because he refuses to recognize the difference between Joseph and Esav!

And this is just like you refuse to acknowledge that Daniel 9:25-26 tell us that Mashiach Nagid had to come at the end of the second temple period! And verse 26 tells us that Mashiach Nagid had to be cut off before the second temple was destroyed in 3830 (or 70 CE)!

Daniel 9:25-26
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.
26 “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, and till the end of the war desolations are determined.”

But you just cannot let yourselves see that, can you? Because what would that mean for your sacred Jewish traditions in the holy Talmud?What would it mean if you had to acknowledge that the Tanach tells us that there are two different kinds of Christians (Esav and Joseph)!

The coming Millennial reign

Later we will see how Hoshea 2:2 (or 1:11 in Notzri Bibles) says that the day is coming soon when the Almighty will gather the children of Judah and the children of Israel (or Joseph) together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head (meaning one government leader). And they shall go up out of the land; for great shall be the day of Jezreel (referring to the great seeding of the great Assyrian Diaspora back in 3038, or 722 BCE)!

Hoshea (Hosea) 1:10-11 [2:1-2]
10 “Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ there it shall be said to them, ‘You are sons of the living Elohim.’
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!

In the Abraham Accords series, we will talk about the new Davidic government that will unify all twelve (or thirteen) tribes of Israel in the land of Israel. (No matter what the Talmud says!)

And once we have obeyed to establish the Jewish millennial reign together, then we will finally be in a position to help Cousin Ishmael! (And Esav will have to defect, or there is no saving him!)

As we will see in the documentary, there is so much to do to prepare for this monumental biblical reunion that is coming! And get ready, because it is coming in only 2 to 3 more generations, and after 2 more big wars! And get ready, because it will be here before any of us knows it, and before any of us are ready!

Administrative announcement

Now, before we head into the parasha, we have a brief administrative announcement. Some viewers have asked about what happened with our previous English parasha presenter.

We are trying to not say anything publicly, because we are still in prayer for the situation, and for Elohim’s perfect will—and we thank you for your prayers. And we do not feel right sharing too many details publicly at this early stage.

However, it is a fair question, and if people have it, then for the sake of those who want to know, please let us explain as briefly as we can. But it is an involved answer, and it will take some time, but it is a very important and timely subject. And this will not be popular with men, but Elohim commands us to speak the truth in love, so that Elohim will like it.

Ephesim (Ephesians) 4:15
15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Messiah—

Messianic and Babylonian church system

For those of you who have followed Nazarene Israel for some time, you know that we are adamantly not Messianic. We take great pains to set ourselves apart from the rest of the messianic and Ephraimite movement. And that is not because we are trying to be “holier than thou”, or anything like that. It is because what we see is a different spirit.

What we see in our studies is a vast majority of Isaiah 10:22 Messianics and Ephraimites who are still basically in the Babylonian church system. They are still part of Esav’s camp, and most of them seem unwilling to know it.

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.

Meaning, when you try to tell them, they are not interested to find out. Because we cannot offer them a broad, easy road, but only a narrow and afflicted path to life. But they do not want it, because others are promising them a broad, easy road with less obedience.

Mattityahu 7:14
14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

We will let you do the math. But in our estimation, we are talking about 99+% of the Ephraimites and Messianics we have met. And that is very simple because they say they are Yeshua’s disciples, but then they take no discipline with His words. Is that not really what they call “living a lie”? Because they want to claim to be Yeshua’s disciples, but they are not willing to discipline themselves to all that He said. And to make matters worse, then they go shopping for a minister who will tell them that it is ok.

We are going to have to talk a little bit about this (spoiler alert!) on the second chapter of the upcoming documentary series for the prime minister and the Knesset. And that is that there are two different kinds of Christians.

You have a tiny Josephite minority who strive to do 100% of everything that Yeshua and the written Torah say to do.

Jude 1:3
3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

And then you have the vast majority who just pretend. And for this excuse and for that excuse they live a lie, and play games with Yeshua’s words. And 99% of Ephraim seems to think posing is good enough for the son of the living Elohim.

Two types of Christians
1. Josephite minority
Strive to do 100% of everything Yeshua and the written Torah say to do.

2. Esavite majority
99+% of Christians
Not committed to doing 100% of everything Yeshua and the written Torah say to do.
Living a lie.

These 99+% seem to think that being a poser is going to stand you in good stead with your intercessor in the day of judgment. (We think it is just going to get you killed (like with Korach’s rebellion), and we do not want to be there when it happens.)

Bemidbar (Numbers) 16:1
1 Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men;

We believe this strongly enough to separate and to set ourselves apart from the vast majority of the Ephraimite and Messianic movements. We believe they are on the wrong road, and that they need to change course unless they want to be punished, or 9/10ths of them will be killed for having a wrong spirit.

Drunkards of Ephraim

You know, Judah subverts the written Torah of Yahweh by full-on replacing it with the Talmud. And Ephraim knows what to do, but he just ignores any requirement that is not easy, or free.

“My son, be careful to fulfill the words of the Sages [soferim] even more than the words of the Torah.”
[Talmud Tractate Eruvin 21b, Sefaria]

And we will let you do the math, but we are talking about people who say that they are imitating Yeshua, and they say that they want to walk (or to worship) even as Yeshua walked and worshipped, but then they do not do it.

Yochanan Aleph (1 John) 2:6
6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

It is like you took the immersion, but you did not want to submit to His spirit, so it never alit.

99% of Ephraim are still on the bottle. They say “Torah! Torah! Torah!” But then they only do what is easy. They want to make free sacrifices for Yeshua. But if we believe the written Torah and the Brit Chadasha (or the Renewed Covenant), it is not ok to be lukewarm for Yeshua, or His Great Commission.

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 28:1
1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower which is at the head of the verdant valleys, to those who are overcome with wine!

So, we need to move away from Korach and his men. (If you get my meaning.)

And if you read the comments section on our YouTube channel, you will see Ephraimites trying to get us to approve of their reasons and their lazy entitled excuses as to why they are special. And why they should not have to do all that Yeshua and the Renewed Covenant say to do (like it is some kind of a burden). They want us to agree that they do not need to do everything that Yeshua and the written Torah say.

Just as we will see time and again in this series, Judah wants to make his own standards, but 99% of Ephraim seems to want to relax the standards. They do not want to keep Elohim’s standards. (So, are we back in the Garden, being tempted by the snake? Or what?)

Let us be clear. You do not need to keep or guard Elohim’s standards. You do not. But He does not need to take any of us for His bride, either!

It is a cooperation contest! But the way most of Ephraim behaves, 99% of Ephraim seems to think it is already a done deal and a sure thing! Most of Ephraim seems to think that his salvation is guaranteed, and that he does not need to work out his salvation in fear and in trembling, as Philippians 2:12 says to do.

Philipim (Philippians) 2:12
12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

We reap what we sow

But brothers, can we be real? Not even doing the minimums counts as discipleship! The day of judgment is going to be a “Little Red Hen” situation! We shall reap what we sow! But what if we sow nothing? Or what if we sow less than what he said we should sow?

Galatim (Galatians) 6:7
7 Do not be deceived, Elohim is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Brothers, how do you even expect to keep your job as a hired hand on a farm if you sow less in a day than what your master said to sow? Why would the King above all kings be pleased with Ephraim’s carelessness, or sloth?

We have picked on Levi and Judah a lot. (And the reality is, they need it, because most of them have never even read Elohim’s book!) Not even the rabbis!

“The No.1 thing”, he said, “I edited the commentary on the entire Tanach from beginning to end, which was my first time going through all of Tanach!” [Jerusalem Post interview, Rabbi Tuly Weisz]

But this week, it is Ephraim’s turn, because Ephraim has a golden opportunity to show Him how much we care! We have what could be called a “once-in-a-house-opportunity” to establish the Jewish millennial reign through the Great Commission! But it seems like 99% of Ephraim is content to let someone else do all the hard kingdom-building work! And they plan to enjoy the fruits of everyone else’s labor afterward, right?

So, from Yahweh’s perspective, you have a bunch of lazy, shiftless Yeshayahu 10:22 slackers who are expecting a retirement check when they never applied themselves.

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.

They think they are going to get a big reward for building the kingdom when they are leaving the kingdom-building work and the cost for someone else to bear! And this is why we say, Ephraim treats the great commission like it is a great big joke. But is Yahweh laughing at the death of His son?

Is Yahweh laughing that His son died to take our sins, and give us renewed life, and restore us to the commonwealth of Israel? And that He died so that we might build His kingdom for Him, in his absence, while He goes to receive the kingship, and then return?

Kepha Aleph (1 Peter) 2:24
24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.

So, Ephraim is going to blow off Yeshua’s minimum standards, and then expect a reward for not really helping to establish his Master as King? But what happens if you do not help establish the King or His armies? (We will talk about that in the Brit Chadasha section.)

Levi is building the wrong kingdom right now—but at least Judah and Levi are diligent about it! But what does Ephraim do? Ephraim reads Elohim’s words in the Tanach and the Brit Chadasha, but then he only does the easy stuff. He blows off anything hard, right? And then he expects a reward is coming, right?

And that is nothing like what we see our forefathers doing in the Torah portions each week, right? Because! Ephraim has Yeshua! So, that is why Ephraim’s disobedience to the minimum standards of the eternal marital covenant is excused, right? But is not that the same as what Esav teaches?

(And you must know that Yahweh is sitting back to see who does what—and He has scribes recording everything in His book!)

To speak the truth in love, the problem is that you have a bunch of Yeshayahu 10:22 Ephraimites and other associated Messianics who think they are cool! But the reality is that they are playing silly stupid games with their eternal salvation. You have a bunch of Joseph’s sons with gross entitlement issues! They seem to think Yahweh owes them a pass for disobeying Yeshua, and for doing less than their best.

And maybe Ephraim has forgotten a lot since moving to Democracy. But try doing less than your best for King Richard the Lionheart, and see how long you live!

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.

But somehow, we have Ephraim thinking they can disobey Yeshua’s minimums, party-hearty with their minas, and still expect a reward for doing less than their best for their king! What is it called, brothers? What do you call that?

A long time ago, I was talking with a ranger company commander at Fort Lewis, Washington. And he was telling me that sometimes his soldiers snivel about the long hours, and the mountain of hard work and hard conditions.

“Why do we have to get up at 4:30 am all the time?”
“Why do we have to do this?”
“Why do we have to do that?”

And he would always say to his troops, “You do not have to do any of those things. But you do not have to be a ranger, either!”

And that is what Ephraim needs to understand. You do not need to convert to white horse. You do not need to leave Esav’s house. You do not need to do all you can for Yeshua. But He will not take a substandard bride, either. You are not going to pull one off on Him! You can build on the sand. He will let you. Because He only wants to keep the wise ones who obey him completely. (He does not need anyone else.)

Mattityahu (Matthew) 7:27
27 ” and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”

Committed disciples

And Nazarene Israel is looking for that less than 1% who truly wants to do all that they can for Yeshua, by His Spirit, out of respect and love for him.

If you want to do your part in love, then please contact us. And if you are not that way, then stop this video, and take it to prayer, right now. Because none of us really knows if we are going to have a tomorrow.

And I will guarantee you that the 4,000, the 5,000, the myriads, and the multitudes, the crowds, and the throngs all thought of themselves as disciples. But they were not even willing to do the minimums. Whereas a disciple wants his minimum to be his maximum. How many in Ephraim care like that?

Yeshua did not spend much time with the 4,000, the 5,000, the myriads, the multitudes, the crowds, and the throngs. He spent the vast bulk of his time with those few who were doing their utmost to help Him start His spiritual-military campaign to bring home the lost sheep of the house of Israel (or Joseph, or Ephraim).

Mattityahu (Matthew) 15:24
24 But He answered and said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

But what everyone misses is that Yeshua established certain protocols for us to follow. You have heard of the protocols of the elders of Zion? These are the unified fivefold protocols that Yeshua Himself established in Ephesians 4:11-16.

Ephesim (Ephesians) 4:11
11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

And in Ephesians 2:19-21 He also established a single foundation of apostles and prophets for the nation to unify on. And we will see later that this is still for today.

Ephesim (Ephesians) 2:19-21
20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Yeshua Messiah Himself being the chief cornerstone,

And you must know that they are going to write a Third Testament, and a Third Chronicles. Do you want to help the kingdom become established, brothers? Or would you prefer that your name be recorded as sitting on the sidelines, and living your life in the world, rather than laying it down?

What does Yeshua’s bride look like?

Yeshua is grieved over everyone who does not love Him enough to do what He says to do. But at the same time, He wants the weeds out! He does not want a lot of impure childish brides. He only wants a pure one!

How are we to show Him what a pure bride looks like, unless we start eagerly and gladly doing all that we can for Him, and encouraging others to strengthen their weak hands and feeble knees, and do the same? And we expect leadership to be at the forefront of setting the example.

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 35:3
3 Strengthen the weak hands, And make firm the feeble knees.

It is the end-days, brothers. We never did have time for foolishness. But now we really do not have time. And if you cannot see Matthew 24 knocking on the door, then I do not know what to say for you.

Mattityahu (Matthew) 24:13
13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

And I wish I could help you to know how grievously sad it makes us that approximately 85-90% of Ephraim will not make it. Because they did not think that they needed to bring their A-game for Yeshua.

But rather, they tried to game Yeshua and His father, by pretending to be disciples when they did not discipline themselves to do everything that He says.

And Ephraim, help us with this. How can you be a disciple of Yeshua’s when you will not discipline yourself to do everything that Yeshua says to do? It does not compute but Ephraim practices it. And he thinks he is doing the whole Torah, even though he knows he is not!
(Just read the comments section.)

“I do not think I have to do what Yeshua says because…blah blah blah.” (Good-bye…. have a nice time in Sheol!)

Keeping the whole of Torah

You know, I am trying to tell you something here, to help save your lives! Can you imagine what it might be? Both for Ephraim, and for Judah and Levi, Nazarene Israel has gone to great lengths through the years to set ourselves apart from the Messianic and Ephraimite movements, because we see them as impure.

And we will talk about this in the Abraham Accords series, but we see the Esavite church as a transitional vehicle for true Ephraim, and as a big seductive trap for Manasseh and the vast majority of Ephraim, who are lost in the Messianic movement.

The problem is that they will not purify themselves to do all that the written Torah and Yeshua say. And while Ephraim does not decommission the Tanach in favor of Talmud (like Judah does), they nonetheless do not obey it.

Mattityahu (Matthew) 7:23
23 “And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ ”

And for reasons we will explain in the Abraham Accords series, and in our studies on the Four Horses, Nazarene Israel needs to permanently and completely sever all ties with Esav (and those in his camp) at literally all costs.

No matter what it costs, and no matter how many people we lose, Nazarene Israel cannot associate with the Messianics because they behave just like Esav. Many of their doctrines are functionally the same. (And I am talking about Sabbath-and-Feasts Ephraim. These are people I have spent sukkot with.)

And as long as the money is coming in, no one says anything. They keep practicing their different replacement-theology version of what Yeshua said to do.

But funny thing. Somehow, no one even talks about building Yeshua the kingdom that He asks us to build for Him in the Great Commission.

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

And no one even talks about the requirements of unity in Ephesians chapters 2 and 4, when that is the primary mission that Yeshua came to set in motion.

And it does not look like the first century, and Ephraim does not care! They think they have found a broad, easy road that leads to salvation.

Ephesim (Ephesians) 2:20
20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Yeshua Messiah Himself being the chief cornerstone,

Knock, Knock! Is Ephraimbody home? There is a reason Jude 3 says that it is necessary to practice the original Halachah.

Jude 1:3
3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

And there is a reason Yeshua Himself gave the fivefold protocols in Ephesians 4:11-16.

Ephesim (Ephesians) 4:11
11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

And there is a reason Ephesians 2:19-22 calls for unity on the foundation of apostles and prophets (which is the Beit Din Gadol).

Ephesim (Ephesians) 2:20
20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Yeshua Messiah Himself being the chief cornerstone,

It is because these are the things that can unify Ephraim as a nation in these end times. And if you are going to be Yeshua’s disciple, then do not expect to water down the standards! Because that is what Esav does! (And that is what the vast majority of Ephraim does, sorry to say!)

That is why we must set ourselves apart, is to put a stop to Esav’s creeping crud.

So, please let us leave it there while we continue praying—and we ask you please to pray that all of Judah and Ephraim might understand the need to maintain Elohim’s standards in the Tanach. And not to replace the Tanach with Talmud, as Judah does. And not to replace the standards of Yeshua, as Esav does. And not to forget the standards of Scripture, as Manasseh does. And not to ignore the standards of Scripture, as the vast majority of Ephraim presently does. (Because it is an insult to say you believe in Yeshua’s great sacrifice, and then you behave like Esav!)

Errors of rejecting Yahweh’s standards:
1. Replacing Tanach with Talmud (Judah)
2. Replacing Elohim’s standards (Esav)
3. Replacing Scriptural standards (Manasseh)
4. Ignoring Scriptural standards (99+% of Ephraim)

And we do not care if no one tithes. Nazarene Israel will not have a replacement or a relaxing of Elohim’s standards, because it is His standards that we are here to uphold.

Now, if that is enough detail for you all, let us move on to the parasha. And we are running over time this week, but these are things that apparently need to be said.

Torah portion

last week in Parasha Bo, we skipped over Shemote 12:48-49, because we wanted to talk about it this week (because we thought we would have more time this week). And the subject is physical circumcision, which is what you might call one of the hard commandments in the written Torah.

One Law!

Shemote 12:48-49 tells us that there is only to be one Torah for Judah and Joseph. (So, throw your Talmud out!)

Shemote (Exodus) 12:48
48 “And when a stranger [or a ger, in this case Ephraim] dwells with you and wants to keep the Pesach to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as a native of the land. For no uncircumcised person shall eat it.”

In other words, if you want to eat Easter uncircumcised, go ahead! (Leave us out of it!) But do not eat the Pesach if any male in your house more than 8 days old is not physically circumcised.

(And if you are a Christian, and you are confused about that, please read the Nazarene Israel study, and also the Pesach study.)

Shemote (Exodus) 12:49
49 “One law shall be for the native-born [Judah] and for the stranger [ger, Ephraimite, or the returning Gentile stranger] who dwells among you.”

(For Levi, notice that it does not say, “One Talmud for Judah, and death and slavery for the Bnai Noach slaves and sex slaves!” As in, what are you thinking?)

At our King’s service

Ephraim is all up in arms, “Treat us the same! Treat us the same!” But then Ephraim does not do the same. Let us compare Ephraim’s walk to Judah’s. (It is a horror show!)

Judah’s walk:
1. Judah pays all three tithes.
2. Judah organizes.
3. Judah raises money for the poor.
4. Judah goes under-cover generationally. (That is how dedicated he is to his wrong book!)

What does Ephraim do? As an Ephraimite, please let me say that when I compare Judah’s walk with Ephraim’s, it is like Ephraim is a bunch of punk teenagers demanding to be treated like adults when they do not even behave like adults! And He thinks he is special! (That is Joseph’s over-privileged son!)

But how is Judah supposed to tell the difference between Joseph and Esav if Joseph behaves all undisciplined, like Esav?

Last week we saw in Shemote 12:51 that Yahweh brought us out of the land of Egypt according to our armies. Meaning, He wants us to behave as His armies, because He has a kingdom for us to establish!

Shemote (Exodus) 12:51
51 And it came to pass, on that very same day, that Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their armies.

Judah gets this in spades! They are doing the wrong thing with it, but at least they get it! And at least they are doing something with it! What is Ephraim’s problem?

Guess what, Ephraim? Our ancestors grumbled because life in His army is not convenient! We no longer get to do what we want. (Surprise!)

Shemote (Exodus) 16:2
2 Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

It is kind of like how Ephraim grumbles when you ask him to organize, tithe, and support the Great Commission work.

It is not convenient! You do not get to do what you want with your time, and your money anymore! Now you must live your life as a literal servant who reports to Yahweh!

Mattityahu (Matthew) 10:39
39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.

You are a slave princess! And Ephraim does not like that! Ephraim is busy reading Yeshayahu 28 while drinking. And he does not see the need to leave the spiritual bar! Spirits upon spirits upon spirits. Are any of them His Spirit?

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 28:1
1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower which is at the head of the verdant valleys, to those who are overcome with wine!

And how do we know that these are our ancestors? It is because they behave just like us. The sniveling, disobedient fruit is exactly the same.

In Shemote 17:7, the place was called “Massah” (meaning bitter) and “Merivah” (meaning strife or contention), because we strove with the requirements of life in Elohim’s army.

Shemote (Exodus) 17:7
7 So he called the name of the place Massah and Merivah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they tempted Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us or not?”

Instead of trusting that Elohim will provide for us if we will just submit to His voice, and discipline ourselves to be His faithful troops, we rebel against His standards. Can anyone see parallels to today’s times?

Shemote 17:16 tells us that we will have war. (“Oh, but we do not like war…. are you sure we cannot just ignore this?”)

Shemote 17:16
16 for he said, “Because Yahweh has sworn: Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”

We will have war with Amalek from generation to generation? Meaning what? Meaning, we need to organize, and defend ourselves, like both the Torah and Yeshua say to do! (“Ohhh! But that takes work and time and money if we are going to do anything real! Ohhh!”)

So, Judah is busy doing the wrong thing, targeting Ephraim. And most of Ephraim is looking for excuses as to why they should be allowed to keep all their time, and their money for themselves.

Haftarah:

Where are the men of Yahweh?

And in the haftarah prophetic portion, in Shophetim 5:8, Devorah is talking, saying that our forefathers in Israel had chosen new gods (elohim) for themselves. And because there was a general peacetime mentality, (when there was war in the gates), not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel.

Shophetim (Judges) 5:8
8 They chose new elohim; then there was war in the gates; not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel.

Why? Because they had other priorities than building Elohim’s kingdom! They thought other people would be the ones to make all the sacrifices! (Those sacrifices were not free, or easy, so our forefathers were not interested!)

In Shophetim 4:9, Devorah was clear that it was not a good thing that there were not any men who wanted to stand up and lead the war.

Shophetim (Judges) 4:9
9 So she said, “I will surely go with you; nevertheless there will be no glory for you in the journey you are taking, for Yahweh will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.

An Elohim of order

Forget “Where’s Waldo?” Where is Ephraim? How many men in Ephraim have a peacetime mentality regarding the Great Commission? For how many of Ephraim is it the Great Omission?

It is a command, right? And you know that Ephesians 2:19-22 requires us to be unified on a single foundation of apostles and prophets (or apostles and elders), right?

Ephesim (Ephesians) 2:20
20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Yeshua Messiah Himself being the chief cornerstone,

And that this is what we see in Acts 15:2 is that everyone came to the Nazarene Sanhedrin or the Nazarene Beit Din Gadol so that there could be a single ruling so as to maintain a single organization, right? (Or do we conveniently forget that part?)

Ma’asei (Acts) 15:2
2 Therefore, when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and dispute with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them should go up to Jerusalem, to the apostles and elders, about this question.

The question is, brothers, how many men in Ephraim have other priorities than doing the bidding of their Master and King? Do we understand that Yeshua will be the one to intercede for us in the day of judgment? And that many are called? And that only a small minority of those who are called will be chosen?

Mattityahu (Mattew) 22:14
14 “For many are called, but few are chosen.”

It is like Yeshayahu 28:1 says. Ephraim is on his babbling lips while the Great Tribulation and the day of judgment approach. And he thinks he is going to be ok to blow off Yeshua and the written Torah! Because there has never been a day of judgment before where all those who blow off Yeshua will get cast into the outer darkness before! (“No need to get serious! Just take another hit off of Esav’s spiritual bottle!”)

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 28:1
1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower which is at the head of the verdant valleys, to those who are overcome with wine!

You know, jumping off the Empire State Building is fun. And there is no harm to it! It is just that sudden stop at the bottom that will kill you! And that is what Ephraim needs to be thinking of when we investigate our Brit Chadasha (or our Renewed Covenant) portion.

Mattityahu 5

The least and the greatest

Here we go to Mattityahu (or Matthew) 5. And we could talk for hours on this, because Ephraim is not doing it. Ephraim excuses himself from physical circumcision, and pretty much anything he does not feel like doing. Is that how you are with your boss? (You only do the easy stuff?)

Let us just get right to the root here, because we are way over time. In Mattityahu 5:17-20, we have the most ignored and misapplied passage in all of Scripture. And this is at the start of Yeshua’s ministry! And everything else that Yeshua ever says needs to be interpreted in light of this passage!

In verse 17, Yeshua warns us not to think that He came to destroy the Torah or the prophets, because He did not come to abolish or destroy them, but only to fulfill the first part of the prophecies.

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.”

Verse 18. Yeshua says that nothing will pass away from the written Torah that was given through Moshe until all of what is prophesied has been fulfilled.

Mattityahu (Matthew) 5:18
18 ” For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.”
[For example: The return of Joseph, the Genesis 35 alliance, and the restoration of our twelve tribe nation.]

Verse 19.

Mattityahu (Matthew) 5:19a
19a “Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven;”
[For example, tithing, organizing, helping to build Elohim’s kingdom, little stuff like that?]

Is that Ephraim’s goal is to be called the least in the kingdom of heaven? If so, most of you are on track!

But whoever does and teaches the need to build a Jewish millennial reign for Yeshua according to all of His protocols, and all of His Halachah, “he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”

Mattityahu (Matthew) 5:19b
19b “but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”

Any men out there in Ephraim who want that for themselves and the families?

In verse 20, the One who will (or will not) intercede for us says to us, “Unless our righteousness (or our commandment keeping) exceeds the commandment keeping of the scribes (Karaites) and the Pharisees (Orthodox), you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Mattityahu (Matthew) 5:20
20 “For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.”

If you are not keeping His commandments, then you are by no means building the kingdom of heaven that Yeshua said to build. And if you do not believe and practice this verse, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

Mashiach Nagid

We saw before in Daniel 9:25-26 that Mashiach Nagid, (Mashiach the Teller, Mashiach the Director) had to come in the late second temple period. Verse 26 specifies that Mashiach had to be cut off before the destruction of the second temple.

Daniel 9:25-26
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.
26 “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, and till the end of the war desolations are determined.”

So, you have the Sanhedrin thinking that I am the Mashiach. But I was not born in Beit Lechem. I was born in Bellevue, Washington. (Not far from Bill Gates. I had friends who went to school with him.) The Sanhedrin thought I came as Mashiach Nagid near the end of the second temple period, or something like that?

Beware of leaven

And how many do we have in Ephraim who are taking doctrine from the Talmud? And how many do we have in Ephraim who are taking doctrine from the Karaites?

Mattityahu (Matthew) 16:11
11 “How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?—but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

And I am not talking about learning from, I am talking about taking doctrine from, because they forget the dangers of drinking from all the fountains? Because if you cannot see Yeshua in Daniel 9:25-26, then what do you really know that Yeshua did not know?

Daniel 9:26
26 “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, and till the end of the war desolations are determined.”

What is it that you know that is so much smarter than your King Yeshua, that you get to disobey His command? And how much reward is there for disloyalty to the commandments of Yeshua? And to the prophecies of Elohim?

If you are not doing everything Yeshua said to do, or if you are doing things that Yeshua said clearly not to do, then do you think you are smarter than Yeshua? One like Moshe?

It kind of seems like most of Ephraim thinks he is smarter than Yeshua, because most of Ephraim is finding excuses for not doing exactly what Yeshua said. (Those must be some pretty smart fellers! Must be a mighty high IQ score for them!)

You know, you get people who think they are disciples, and then they justify watering down the standards that Mashiach Nagid established. And omitting the Great Commission.

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

Feel-good, Babylonian ministries

And I do not know how many Messianic leaders and teachers I have seen who know they are not helping to re-establish “THE faith once delivered to the saints”, and they do not seem to care, because nothing changes!

They keep on watering down standards, to build a tithing base for themselves! And as long as the tithing base comes in, the elder does not care about the Great Commission, or the Fivefold Ministry, or the Foundation of Apostles and Prophets, or standards, or anything of that sort. It is all for him, and none for Elohim. (Small detail?)

And the knife twist is that is exactly what Esav does! Esav teaches enjoying our lives in the world (because of Ie-Zeus, or Iesous).

In our wonderful human wisdom, most of us in Ephraim are still completely ignorant of the fact that Ephraim is basically in a dire position of needing to show Judah that he is not Esav. And that the Protestant Reformation actually meant something! And so what do we do? We continue to behave like him.

We will talk all about it in the Abraham Accords series, but while some things truly are better in Protestantism, other things truly got worse. And it is so bad that the majority in Ephraim even get excited about voting!

As we will see in the Abraham accords series, voting comes straight out of Babylon! It is the political branch of the Mystery Babylonian system. (Kind of like how you have the Israeli Knesset giving money to the Talmudists, so they can continue studying how to enact global pedophilia and Josephite slavery in the Talmud!)

“Rava said that this is what the Mishna is saying: An adult man who engaged in intercourse with a minor girl less than three years old has done nothing, as intercourse with a girl less than three years old is tantamount to poking a finger into the eye.”
[Talmud Tractate Ketubot 11b, Sefaria]

Surviving the end-times

Not just Amalek is trying to knock us out, brothers! Babylon is trying to knock us out! Satan is trying to knock us out! Judah and Levi want to kill or enslave us so that they can have their way with our women and small babies! It will be a like a civilized Isis with tuxedos!

“Since a nine-year-old boy is fit to engage in intercourse, he also imparts ritual impurity as one who experienced ziva. Ravina said: Therefore, with regard to a female gentile child who is three years and one day old, since she is fit to engage in intercourse at that age, she also imparts impurity as one who experienced ziva.”
[Tractate Avodah Zarah 37a, sefaria]

“Strictly business, old chap!” And if you do not like it, then you are anti-Semitic! Right?

Ephraim. Men and brothers. How do we expect to survive the coming wrath when we continue to justify not obeying even the minimum standards that both the written Torah and Yeshua say to obey?

Well, we will really be righteous in the judgment, will we not? Will we hear, “Well done, good and faithful servant?” Or will we hear, “Why did you not do everything that My Son and I said to do?”

“You say that you love Him. Why did you not do all that you could for Him? If you loved Him, why did you not keep His commandments? Why did you not build His kingdom with all your heart, according to His word?”

Yochanan (John) 14:15
15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments.”

1. Choice one:
Mattityahu (Matthew) 25:21
21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your Master.’

2. Choice two:
Mattityahu (Matthew) 25:30
30 ‘…cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

That is more than the time I was supposed to go on, but I had to say it. I must discharge my duty as a watchman on the wall. The burden for your blood is now on your own head.

Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 33:4
4 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be on his own head.

Prayers for real change in the hearts of Judah and Ephraim

I pray with all my heart that you will make the right choice for yourselves, and your families before Yahweh Elohim.

Shabbat shalom.

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