Parasha Tetzaveh 5784 (2024) reading:
Shemote (Exodus) 27:20-30:10
Shemuel Aleph (1 Samuel) 15
Marqaus (Mark) 4:35-5:43
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Welcome to Nazarene Israel. My name is Norman Willis, and this is our parasha midrash series for the members of the Genesis 35:11 Alliance, whether they want to hear it or not.
And you should know who you are. Because in B’reisheet 35:11, we see the kingship house of Judah at the core, surrounded by a company of legacy Protestant Christian nations.
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 what this shows us is what the Orthodox Sanhedrin also knows, which is that the Lost Tribes of Ephraim are lost inside of Protestantism, and Messianism (among other places). And their job is to come out of Christianity, and the Roman-amphitheater style Church system, and come back to the original Nazarene-Jewish sect that it speaks of in places like Ma’asei 24:5.
Ma’asei (Acts) 24:5
5 For we have found this man a plague, a creator of dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
The original Jewish faith
And I think what trips Ephraim up is that it is no longer a Christian faith. It is a Jewish and Israelite faith. And it looks and operates completely differently. and that fact is not well understood either by Judah, or by Ephraim. And we know from places like Yeshayahu 10:22 that 90% of Ephraim will fail to make the switch back, and that they will perish in the Dispersion.
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.
Our prayer for Ephraim is that you will decide to pray, and then take decisive action, to make sure that you and your family are walking the same way Yeshua walked. And our prayer for brother Judah is for them to start studying the prophecies in the Tanach.
We see your death rate in the Land as being even greater than that of Ephraim. And Yahweh does not like it when we ignore His words. Start studying with Jeremiah, because as we will see later, the situation is the same as today.
And we strongly encourage brothers Judah, Levi, and Benjamin to stop breaking B’reisheet 12:3 by continually cursing Joseph to death, as they do 18 times each week in the Birkhat HaMinim, or the daily antisemitic death curse over Ephraim.
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.”“The Birkat haMinim (Hebrew: ברכת המינים “Blessing on the heretics”) is a curse on heretics which forms part of the Jewish rabbinical liturgy. It is the twelfth in the series of eighteen benedictions (Shemoneh Esreh) that constitute the core of prayer service in the statutory daily ‘standing prayer’ of religious Jews.”
[Wikipedia, Birkat haMinim]
And you guys in Judah know it is us, because of Rabbi Rivlin’s Kol Hator, and the fact that you hijacked my computer, as a house.
[Rabbi Rivlin’s famous treatise on Kol Hator]
So, if you have this knowledge as a house (including the prime minister’s office), then what are you guys playing games with Elohim’s words for?
We are very concerned for your safety and your survival unless and until you go back to Elohim’s words in the Tanach. What? Is the Talmud the equal to the Word of Elohim? Are we to now compare ourselves to Elohim? Achim, mah qara? (Brothers, what do call that?)
We also need to encourage those of both houses to take seriously the words that we read, or else we will pay the cost for disregarding the words and the majesty of Elohim.
Return to the Tanach
Now Rabbi Schmuley Boteach, this is the most out of touch thing I have ever seen. You are seriously asking openly if Elohim is an antisemite? Seriously?
I ask you this in respect, have you read Jeremiah? Or Job, perhaps? Do you recognize that the patterns are exactly the same? Do you realize that the Tanach is given for our instruction, and our refinement?
Meaning, the image you get from reading Jeremiah is the same as the image that you get from looking at brother Judah’s Talmudic walk today? It is like nothing has changed.
And the reason I ask is that Rabbi Tuly Weisz of Israel 365 lets us know that you do not need to read the Tanach even once to become an elite rabbi, who edits the Tanach.
“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]
And that is because Orthodox Judaism is not based in the Tanach at all. The Word of Elohim is treated like a throwaway document. So, I ask you seriously: have you read Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah)? Or Iyov (Job)?
Turn back to Elohim’s words in the Tanach, brothers. We are very concerned for you. You do not have the power and strength to ignore Elohim’s words, and survive. No created being has that power. (Not even the kingship tribe.)
Proverbs 31 Bride
And for Joseph, brothers, do not just assume that you will be credited with fulfilling the Melchizedekian Torah, when all you are doing is reading what you are supposed to be doing! Because to him who knows what Elohim, (and One like Moshe) command him to do, but does not do it, to him it is reckoned as lukewarm vomit.
And you can take that to the bank or to the grave, take your choice.
People keep telling me that I am still talking over people’s heads, and that I need to make things more relatable, so I am just going to try to talk with the future 10% who will want to make a commitment to Elohim.
We know that the 90% are not going to listen, but that there will be a 10% remnant that wants to know their Husband Yeshua much better. And that there will be a 10% remnant that will realize that it costs everything, but that it is worth it to become a bride without spot, wrinkle, or blemish.
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.
Becoming a Proverbs 31 bridal candidate is no easy task. It is not something you can squeeze in on the side. We must literally put Him and His kingdom mission first in all things, or else He and His kingdom mission is not first.
We must seek first (as in, “first!”) to build Yeshua’s kingdom—but the transformation begins inside each one of us, so that is where we need to begin.
Let us just dive in because there is too much to talk this week! Because we are talking about transformation. And I am just going to try to talk with you (like I am being encouraged to do). And let us see what all of this has to do with cultivating our own soil.
Set-apart garments
First let us hit the commandment to make garments for the Levite Aharon and his sons. Because that is going to be much more important than anyone in Ephraim thinks. (Judah gets it, but Ephraim has probably never even considered it.) And Judah, we are going to focus in on Ephraim’s needs this week, but stay tuned, because it pertains to you also, as we will see in the end.
Shemote (Exodus) 28:2
2 And you shall make set-apart garments for Aharon your brother, for glory and for beauty.
Shemote 28:2 is a Levitical standard. There is nothing wrong with dressing up if you have clothing, but an ancient times your average Israelite only had one or two changes of clothes. They were rough garments because people were farmworkers, and you put on your clean one for Sabbath and Feasts. (And hopefully, it did not have any holes.)
Merchants in the city and officials probably had finer garments, but your average person did not. And Yeshua did not have fine clothing.
In Luqa 7:25, speaking about Yochanan HaMatbil (or John the Immerser), Yeshua says that those who are gorgeously appareled and live in luxury are in kings’ courts. (Not in the fields. And not doing carpentry.)
Luqa (Luke) 7:25
25 But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Indeed those who are gorgeously appareled and live in luxury are in kings’ courts.
Yeshua was sent not only to those in the blue-collar classes, but you can bet He has a heart for the blue-collar workers, and the poor, like His Father Yahweh has a heart for the poor.
And He wants their lives administered to by His words, not the Talmud and not man’s laws. His laws, which He gave to Moshe, who wrote it down, for the Levitical Order to teach forever.
(Ephraim, you cannot just hear it, and then it goes in one ear, and sails right clean out the other. You have to do it, or it is no good.)
Priestly garments
Okay, all of that notwithstanding, the Levitical priests are to be dressed for glory and for beauty, because they represent Yahweh. And as we saw last week, King David served not as a Levitical priest, but as a Melchizedekian priest.
And King David was probably also dressed for glory and for beauty, as we saw last week that he wore a linen ephod, which was one of the garments commanded in verse 4.
Shemote (Exodus) 28:4
4 And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a skillfully woven tunic, a turban, and a sash. So they shall make set-apart garments for Aharon your brother and his sons, that he may minister to Me as priest.
But Yeshua was not dressed well, so even if you do dress up for the assembly, do not let your eyes be influenced by clothing, or you might mistake a great prince for a pauper.
Letting your eyes not be influenced by clothing is difficult to do. Clothing is by nature for protection, but everyone knows, it also serves secondarily as a status symbol. And it can also be for flirtation and other unclean things.
“Dressing up” to go to the Kehilah or the Beit Mikra is like “not being yourself”, and “putting on airs”. But at the same time, there is nothing wrong with dressing up if you are representing Elohim, which each one of us is. The point is not to be self-conscious about our clothing, but just to be aware, it does have an impact.
Law, order, and unity
What we are going to see this week is that it has a much bigger impact than Ephraim thinks, because there is a role for garments in the Order of Melchi-Tsedek, for anyone who puts himself as a king, or a priest. And yet there is still a requirement for order between them, which is what the unified Foundation of Apostles and Prophets of Ephesians 2:20 is all about.
Ephesim (Ephesians) 2:20
20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Yeshua Messiah Himself being the chief cornerstone,
Prophets are often very roughly dressed because they do not really care what anyone but Elohim thinks, anyway. So, there are these conflicting requirements. And the biggest requirement is that we all submit to Yeshua’s Spirit, and with His Spirit we can all find the place where we can be of the most service to Him.
And the discipline part is that we have to be real about everything, first and foremost with Him, and then with each other, to the point of actually building Yeshua a kingdom that unifies itself by the fivefold purification of Ephesians 4:11 thru 16, to purify and unify itself on a single foundation of apostles and prophets.
Ephesim (Ephesians) 4:11
11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
That is pretty much the only thing that Esav got right, is the fact that he realized the need for unity. Theirs was an emperor Constantine thing. Emperor of Constantine said that they had to forge a single body, or else.
That is pretty much the only thing Esav got right, is that you do need to have doctrinal unity, because a nation forges itself about a doctrine. Because in Scripture, your religious sect (or your religious cult to use the technical term) is your nationality.
To state it more directly, your actual physical Halacha is your nationality. The way you actually practice each week is who you are. And you can self-identify as a Nazarene all you want. But if you are not actually practicing as He practiced, then you are not actually walking as He truly walked, are you?
Yes or no? And that is the question each one of us needs to ask himself each week on Shabbat. (And now we see if anyone fears Elohim?)
Separating from Esav
Yahweh saved my life in a miracle in 5759 (or 1999), and I have been blessed with the ability to study Scripture full time since then, with the focus of study on how to restore and reestablish what was the original first-century faith, through entering in.
I looked around for a PHD program at that time that did not require the Trinity, and I could not find any. So, then I looked for someone to disciple with, but there was always a difference in doctrine between what they believed, and what I read.
And as I practiced more and more carefully what Messiah the Prince of Daniel 9:25–26 says to do, and I have gotten farther and farther away from my brothers and sisters in Ephraim, as close as I got to Judah so far was that they asked me to be the anti-messiah.
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.”
It is kind of a dubious honor. And now they are pretending it never happened, which is just like Judah. They are the kingship tribe, and the kingship tribe focuses on war. And sadly, right now the southern kingdom has a very real war going on against all of Joseph, both Manasseh and Ephraim.
They especially want to destroy the United States because they call the United States Esav. (Which to Talmudic Judah means ‘dog-whistle’ for any and every kind of Christian, both Catholic and Protestant). But the point is that this is the true impetus behind the global onslaught on the United States, is Judah trying to destroy Ephraimite Christians.
And it is not a joke. It is deadly serious. And we are not complaining, because as we show in our study on Revelation and the End Times (or Revelation Simplified on YouTube) we have a chapter study as to why we believe America is the land of Babylon of Jeremiah 50-51).
We believe the kingship tribe will be successful in their prayers and their actions to bring down the United States of America, as the temporary rest stop for the lead tribe of Ephraim, the lead tribe in the greater, overall global house of Ephraim. (Which has the ten tribes and their colonies, plus many from Judah, Benjamin, and Levi sojourning inside of the house of Ephraim together.)
Yirmeyahu 3:18 tells us that after the USA has been destroyed, and Elohim’s people of both houses come to their senses, and realize that you actually have to obey Elohim, and then they will finally want to come home.
Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 3:18
18 “In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given as an inheritance to your fathers.”
(I would go home right now, except Judah has a death warrant out on all Nazarenes of all types, which is codified at Talmud Tractate Berakhot 28b-29a. Which requires killing all Nazarenes, and they lump all Messianics, and Christians and the Catholics (Esav) in with us in Joseph.
“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]
(We of course protest being identified with Esav, but they do not listen to Joseph, as a matter of Mystery Babylonian faith.)
The United States in Bible prophecy
Things are on the worst possible collision course imaginable, and we recommend strongly getting out of the United States.
In our study on the “Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan”, we show that united Europe was built on the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, and that plan calls for collapsing western Europe as a first step towards collapsing the United States of America. [Note: this study requires the free registration and log-in.]
And I wish I had saved it, but when they were shutting down ISIS in the middle east, there was some news report that came out that the Jihadis were all being told that Canada was going to be opened for refugee immigration for the region. (If you have that article please send us a link).
We would recommend leaving the northern hemisphere and the Anglo world in general, because in Yirmeyahu 51:49-50 we learned that Yahweh credits the land of Babylon as having caused the slain of Israel to fall.
I can tell you from experience, if you have never truly lived outside of the United States, you do not have a good picture of the way the country looks like from the outside. And Yahweh never told his people to settle down and get comfortable in Babylon.
If you have never seen the United States from the outside, it may be difficult to understand how verse 49 tells us that “as Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon the slain of all the earth shall fall.”
Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 51:49
49 As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, So at Babylon the slain of all the earth shall fall.
Some will not heed Yahweh’s warnings to flee the land before the destruction, so they will have to live through the destruction before they can go home.Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 51: 50
50 You who have escaped the sword, Get away! Do not stand still! Remember Yahweh afar off, And let Jerusalem come to your mind.
In Jeremiah 3:18 we read:
Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 3:18
18 “In those days the house of Judah shall walk [we hope this means the Halacha] with the house of Israel [meaning Nazarenes], and they shall come together out of the land of the north [the “hidden” side of the hill, thus it is a secret to most right now] to the land that I have given as an inheritance to your fathers.”
Spoiler alert! The house of Ephraim and the house of Judah dwelling together with him (in the USA especially) will probably survive WW3 for the most part. But they will get nuked hard in WW4. And then they will finally get to go home, but only after they have repented, and returned from their spiritual captivity to democracy and the Mystery Babylon forms of Yahweh worship.
Assyria got swallowed up by Babylon, and now the land of the Mystery Babylonian system is to get knocked out, because it is hampering Judah from establishing the millennial reign. That is because the United States is also the temporary rest stop for the tribe of Ephraim, which is the lead tribe of the house of Ephraim.
Now is the time to get serious
It is a lot going on, but to speak to the few who are wise, it would be wise to leave the United States of America, and continue His work.
Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 51:45
45 “My people, go out of the midst of her. And let everyone deliver himself from the fierce anger of Yahweh.”Proverbs 27:12
12 A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself; The simple pass on, and are punished.
If you are not doing all that the Tanach and the Brit Chadasha say, there has never been a better time to beg Yahweh to help you commit to Him and His Son, so that He might bless you like He wants to. He will take anyone who will humble himself to ask in Yeshua’s name.
Yeshua was not flashy, and He was not dressed like a priest. But when He returns He will be dressed for the occasion.
Identity through garments
So, the reason I bring all of this up is this. We frequently get questions about garments, and they are good questions, and there really is a lot to say. I was talking with One Orthodox rabbi one time, who knew we were Ephraim, and he wanted to help us come home as Ephraim, (but of course he wanted us to give up Yeshua).
He was kind of a fringe rabbi, and Nasi Weiss put no credence in him, but he did say that there were many Jews who would not mind Joseph coming home, as long as they could distinguish between our children and their children. Because they wanted to be able to tell if they wanted to let their children play with our children, and the sense was kind of like, we would have to let each Jewish family decide for themselves, but you know how that goes.
But I was shocked to hear an Ultra-Orthodox rabbi say that there were other Orthodox Jewish families who would not mind having Joseph live next to them, if we would just get a garment to identify ourselves.
I am not sure I believe it would work. And the laws are completely against it. And the Sanhedrin would absolutely nix it. But still, I just wondered what would happen if Ephraim had his own patterns that comes through our own heritage, that is obviously different than the way the Orthodox (or the Prushim) dress.
And they will complain about head coverings and tzitzit, because they say that we are “stealing their garments”. And brother Judah just needs to wake up and read the Tanach prophecies and realize that we are Joseph. And Joseph needs to wake up and read the Brit Chadasha, and realize that Yeshua will not discipline us, but He expects us to discipline ourselves, to serve Him.
(I always figured that He is hanging back a little, to see who comes to Him, and decides to get organized, so that they can help Him build the kingdom that His father sent Him to get us to build for Him, in His absence. And those will be the ones He will take for His bride. But that calls for organizing, and working together with really a lot (and lot, a lot) of discipline.)
We do not have time to unpack it all here, but there is a lot to the garments and the heritage and heraldry, and all of that. It is important, but it is too much to unpack here.
I have been researching garments for a long time now. We have a lot of research on the website that is a “project in progress”, so to speak. You can see one of my early experiments in the first part of Revelation Simplified.
We wanted to come up with a pattern that works for Ephraim. And Judah and Levi will cry no matter what you do, because they think the whole world is just for them. And they will try to say that we are “stealing their clothing”, and it is kind of true. So, we wanted to come up with a pattern that says Ephraim, that also conforms to the research.
We do not have time to cover it right now, but if you search the website, you can find our garment studies. But we wanted a pattern for Ephraim to wear that conforms to the requirements to wear tzitzit (or tassels) as our ancestors would have known them. And something practical, because not everyone works in an office job.
A testimony against us
The tallit gadol garment that brother Judah wears today did not exist in Yeshua’s time. That was created when brother Judah adopted worldly garments because they were being kicked out of the land of Israel after several failed revolts.
Rome said, “Get out!” So, now they had to adapt. But no, they did not have the tallit gadol in Yeshua’s day. And no, the tallit gadol is not the wedding garment of Mattityahu 22:12.
Mattityahu (Matthew) 22:12
12 So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.
That wedding garment is called ‘loving and total submission’ to Mashiach Nagid’s Spirit, so that we do all of His commandments in love. And not coincidentally, that is the meaning or the commitment of wearing tzitzit.
It is like immersion. It is a highly symbolic act. Yes, you must physically do it, but in the war Elohim’s eyes, it is kind of like wearing a uniform. It is supposed to represent something. And it is supposed to mean something. Right now, Ephraim just throws on tzitzit, and he thinks he is cool.
Material for tzitzit
In later parashiot we will unpack the tassels (or tzitzit), and also the gedolim (Devarim 22:12). But in Bemidbar 15:37-41 we are going to see that the tassels signify a commitment. They are a testimony against us. Do you hear what I am saying?
Bemidbar (Numbers) 15:37-38
37 Again Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying,
38 “Speak to the children of Israel: Tell them to make tassels, [or tzitzit] on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners.”
As we explain in our studies, we believe in either a natural indigo or really any dark blue. (Preferably linen and a natural blue dye, but any blue. Linen is best, but it is not the only material, especially if you work a manual labor type job.)
We will talk about this, but many people believe that when Israel went down into Mitzraim (Egypt), that they continued to wear their tassels even on their loincloths. They just adapted the principle or the precept to the clothing that they had to wear in that environment.
Belt-loops are not the best, and hopefully we will talk more in a little bit about the projects we are working on to make things better for our people. And later we will also talk about the gedolim of Deuteronomy 22:12, because they perform the same function, which do not present as much of a work hazard. And a lot of Ephraimites work manual labor jobs.
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 22:12
12 “You shall make tassels on the four corners of the clothing with which you cover yourself.”
Judah and Levi are the elite beneficial parasite classes, so they have office jobs, and jobs in the king’s courts. In contrast, Ephraim has a lot of hard-working blue-collar people, and long tassels will just get torn—or they can even cause an injury (or even death, if they get caught in machinery and pull you in). That is just the reality of life for Ephraim.
The purpose for tzitzit
The real point that we need to focus on here is the marital commitment the tzitzit represent.
Bemidbar (Numbers) 15:39
39 Yahweh says, “And you shall have the tassel [tzitzit], that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of Yahweh and do them, and that you may not follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined, [which is exactly what 99% of Ephraim does, and right now, 100% of Judah].
That is the mystery Babylonian system, is when you do something other than the worship of Yahweh and then dress it up as if it is the worship of Yahweh. And Judah, Levi, Joseph, Ishmael and Esav are all guilty of this. (Esav the most.)
Esav needs to repent. And the house of Ephraim needs to leave the USA. And those who are awake in western Europe should leave before the Coudenhove-Kalergi collapse. (We have an article on the website that everyone needs to know.)
And remember, sometimes they close the gates before they begin the slaughter. (I am not saying they will and I am not saying they will not, because I do not rightly know. But in this day and age of Covid and the plagues of Revelation, they like closing borders. And they like destroying food supplies, and they want to shut down irrigation. So, it is best to be in an area with plenty of rainfall.)
Bemidbar (Numbers) 15:40-41
40 “And that you may remember and do all My commandments, and be set-apart for your Elohim.
41 I am Yahweh your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your Elohim: I am Yahweh your Elohim.”
[That is how He says it when He really means it!]
Walk worthy of the garments
He reminds us of the relationship, because He knows it is going to be hard for us, and He wants to emphasize this one, and drive this one all the way home.
Bemidbar (Numbers) 15:40
40 “And that you may remember and do all My commandments, and be set-apart for your Elohim.
It is like Yeshua says in Yochanan 14:15
Yochanan (John) 14:15
15 “If you love Me, then keep My commandments.”
He does not say, “Then keep all of my commandments”, but if we understand that this is Mashiach Nagid, Messiah the Director, One like Moshe, then we should understand that we should never play games with what comes out of His mouth.
You know, Ephraim laughs at Judah for not being able to see Yeshua. Do we in Ephraim see Yeshua the Son of the Jewish King David, who is on a mission to get His people to wake up, and build the kingdom for Him in His absence? Or do we see the Greco-Roman Jesus Christ, who hugs us and gives us everything, as we do nothing for Him or His Father?
Are we adult brides? Or are we still child brides who continue living in Disneyland? It is embarrassing, brothers.
Yochanan (John) 14:15
15 “If you love Me, then keep My commandments.”
Let us turn that around.
“If you keep all of My commandments according to My Spirit, then you do love Me.”
(HalleluYah!)
He knows it is hard, but it demonstrates trust. Because we did not deny ourselves in the Garden, and so that is how we got into this whole mess to start with. If we had just thought and obeyed inside of His box, everything would still be going great in the Garden today. But He really wants the submission. He really wants the complete transformation.
I hate to be the one to have to tell you, but if you are called but not yet altered, and not yet continually working on your sanctification by His Spirit, and you are not yet operating in conjunction with the rest of Yeshua’s body, working to build the true kingdom on the unified Foundation of Apostles and Prophets, then are you sure you are getting it? Are you sure you are His bondservant? And you are sure you were bought with a price? Do you behave like it?
It is an honor system. (And He is watching, and has His court recorders and scribes working!)
So, we would like to make this pattern available to all, but we need people to understand that it represents a real commitment. It is not just that you say a prayer, and throw on your tzitzit. It is like immersion. Maybe one in seven thousand or so really gets it, but if you get enough real disciples working together, you can do some amazing things for Him. But people need to be walk worthy of the garments.
Producing garments
A lot of people like to hand-sew their tallits. You can do that in the biblical sense, but the Jews I know laugh at the way Ephraimites look. They think it makes a terrible witness. And I agree.
Judah has developed their own garments, and these garments are used in their worship rituals. So, for people who are asking about garments, you are asking great questions.
Really, Ephraim needs our own garments. We have an established pattern, but we do not have anyone we can trust with a loom who will work on a piecework basis, or who will guarantee their work. We were working with one woman in Chile but this garment has a couple of small flaws that I had to fix by hand.
Basically, these garments are a working prototype. We do not have the funds to make a minimum batch of 100, and we do not want to be involved in the middle of shipping and distribution.
It is hard to work with linen, especially finer linen. the Jewish artisans do splendid work to high-quality, but we do not know any who wants to do piecework in linen for Nazarenes.
I am ok with garments for me and others in the priesthood, but it is such a pity that Ephraim does not seem to understand (it is like they do not seem to have any inkling of what we as a house, and we as a people are missing out on by not pulling together Yeshua’s family team, operating according to His halacha.
Obviously, not everyone is going to want to meet the standards, but that does not mean there should not be a pattern for the house. It just means that people need to know that when you wear tzitzit, you are making a promise to do all His commandments.
Ephraimite pattern
To answer good questions from the comments, right now we are not under the Levitical Order, so the temple service regulations do not presently apply to our house. And the southern kingdom has us under the Birkhat HaMinim death curse, and they are serious about it, so we recommend sitting this next temple out, so to speak.
But we know it would be a good witness if this pattern became known as the pattern for returning gentile Ephraimites. It would tend to witness of us as a people.
We tried some earlier cotton garments with a weaver in Bogotá and she does okay with cotton, but not perfect. With fine linen her work was very bad, because fine linen requires attention to detail, especially on the edges. Now we are trying some simple wool garments with some local weavers. But it is not possible to describe how busy it is here, so we have not had time to get the yarn to the weaver.
So, maybe someday we will have reliable garments available, but I would not hold your breath, because many people are wanting many things from us, and we are very heavily loaded, and we do not have time to get in the middle of shipping.
If someone wants to make an investment, we will give you all the details and you can sell them or however you want to do it. If someone wants to do a hand loom, it takes attention to detail on the edges. Or if someone wants a small cottage industry, I am not sure but I believe you can get a good loom for maybe six or $7,000 for good production quality for linen and fine linen.
If you go online and search for Judaica, you get pages and pages and pages of tallits, kippot, and all sorts of things that are done according to a different spirit.
Our own tallits would testify of the movement. And we have white for Shabbat and Feasts, and natural for weekday. So, it is a practical thing. We would also like to bring back the ancient simlah that was in use in King David’s day. It was a rectangular garment that the tallit gadol was modified from.
FAQ on garments
Now, to answer some good questions, sometimes you will see people wearing their tzitzit on belt loops. This is a modified practice that you can find support for. For example, in how Israel acted when they were in Egypt.
(If you go to the Wikipedia commons, you can search for what are called the Hyksos.) This is a picture of Ibscha from the tomb of Egyptian King (and I am guessing) Khnumhotep II, showing semitic traders (and they think probably the Hyksos) coming to Egypt approximately 4000 years ago.
But notice that when they were wearing basically only a loin covering, they adapted the tassels to that loin covering.
I guess if you want to, you can use that as a historical precedent, if you really want to. But it is kind of embarrassing that Judah thinks poorly that we do not care enough to establish our own garments, so we borrow their garments. But from a War Elohim’s perspective, that seems like infiltrating.
A Chabad rebbetzin told me this one time, I have not had time to verify it. But she said that, at least according to legend, in ancient times each one of the tribes had their own tzitzit tying pattern. Kings could have special clothing.
And anyway, it is embarrassing that we do not have our own look. So, if anyone wants to make an investment in the future of the movement, we can tell you all the specifics. But brother Judah really does not like it when we borrow his clothing (and it is not appropriate). And it would just plain be a great witness if we had our own look.
Unity as a body
I do not know if anyone has seriously considered the value to Yeshua of supporting a standing priesthood like it says in Ma’asei 6.
Ma’asei (Acts) 6:4
4 “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
But it is distressing to us here to watch the so-called “Hebrew Roots Movement” claim the Torah, and then they ignore the requirements of the book of Acts, Ephesians, Titus, Timothy… it is just mind-boggling. It is like, does anyone have any real fear of Elohim in Ephraim? Because sad to say, you cannot really tell, just by looking.
Have people thought about how it puts you on the map if you are willing to support a real priesthood? Do people value the concept of corporate prayers? Do people value the concept of realistic bodily unity, which is what a priesthood provides for?
Basically, it comes down to the question of whether people are serious or not. Because both Yahweh and Yeshua call us to “put our money where your mouth is.”
Right now, most of Ephraim is in the “talk is cheap” category. They need to wake up and realize whom they serve. And that He kills unproductive servants, because He considers them to be perpetual rebels who continue to flout His authority. And He is determined to make a complete end of it among His people. He plans to treat this kind of rebellion like a plague, to be stamped out.
Are there profitable servants in Ephraim?
I pray hard for our people. We pray hard that Elohim will raise up true disciples for Yeshua, who want to walk in His Spirit and accept no substitutes.
If you go on Etsy, you can find many skilled Jewish weavers. Is there an Ephraimites who wants to make truly fine quality (priesthood quality) garments for our people? For a nation of kings and priests! Is Yeshua worth it to us, for us to put Him on the map like that? Is He worth that much to us?
A good loom like that should be a skill that that you can take anywhere. I would look for a place where they get enough natural rainfall that irrigation is not necessary. And remember, they are trying to drop rainfall. They are doing weather modification, and all the Americas, both north, central, and south are getting much drier.
They expect to lose about 50% of their moisture over the next 40 or 50 years. So, look for a place where you have plenty of rain. (And do not fool yourself about how much you are going to want water.) Pray about everything.
We would be thrilled to meet some real disciples here, but we get so much correspondence from people who do not seem to begin to understand the standards, and the level of commitment involved.
I am so sorry, this is not going to sound nice, but to speak the truth in love, we just simply are not set up to receive indigent parties, or newcomers looking to be helped. We saw back in Parasha Yitro that Moshe had a heart to serve each and every Israelite himself. But it just does not work like that.
Sorry, I know that does not sound nice, and maybe it might offend some Ephraimite ears, but if Ephraim is looking to fight, that is how it is, and we are required to speak the truth in as much love as we can.
You know, I have had people send me 600 page books, and ask me to read it, and get back to them on what it says, because they are having a discussion on some forum, and they expected somehow it is my job to digest this for them, so that they can build a single, unified fivefold body on a single foundation of Apostles and Prophets how? Or have they ever thought about what Elohim wants in all of this? (Concept!)
The stick of Ephraim
Please pray for our people. Please pray for renewed dedication in this era of the dry bones of Yehezqel 37. Yehezqel 37:16 tells us that we need to take a stick for ourselves.
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.’”
The word in Hebrew is ‘etz’, Strong Hebrew Concordance H6086. עֵץ
H6086
עֵץ
‛êts
ates
From H6095; a tree (from its firmness); hence wood (plural sticks): – + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
And we look up the reference at 6095.
H6095
עָצָה
‘âtṣâh;
a primitive root; properly, to fasten (or make firm).
When you think of a stick (or a tree) or a 2 x 4, you are talking about something that is firm. You are talking about something that has structure and something that has shape. You are talking about something that can be used to build a space for worship.
Judah has that, and he has a State. Esav has that (and he has lots of states.) Ishmael has that (and he has many states.) But poor Joseph cannot be bothered. It is a prophetic milestone that must be reached before we can go home, but Joseph cannot be bothered, right?
We do not think we need to. Because we know that we are already ‘called’. That is why we think we are already ‘chosen’, and that there is no need to work out our salvation in fear, or in trembling. Because Ephraim is under the dispensation of grace.
So, that means as long as we intellectually know that Yeshua is the Messiah, we do not need to do anything, right? We are already cool!
It does not matter what I want, but I dream of the day when Ephraim has a float in the ICEJ parade (not that they will give us a pass), and we have Ephraimites in our colors, so that the people can see who we are. And so that Judah can see that we are a real stick, with real firmness, and not just sawdust and splinters scattered all over the place.
I am sorry to have to be the one to tell you, but it is so embarrassing, I do not know how to tell you. I go to talk with Orthodox rabbis and rebbetzins, and they laugh at how we look. And no one is willing to spend money to make a really nice garment. We must do some silly hand-sewn things, because no one is willing to pay for proper weaving. And we cannot get enough interest to get them commercially done, to bring the cost down.
So, I have this fear that a bunch of Pink horse Messianics are going to wear our colors, and profane them. If you want to make garments for a rebellious people who do not want to obey their Elohim, so they can form a stick, and maybe learn to treat Elohim with some real respect, please let us know. We will be happy to help you get set up, if that is a tribal business opportunity you would like to develop.
And there are a lot of room for expansion in there, but there are certain rules that we must follow. And just because Ephraim chooses to be ignorant of the rules of heraldry, and very important and enduring value in forming us as a nation, and as a stick, garments are a set-apart profession, for a person who wants to do it right.
Yahweh hates the Mystery Babylonian system
Now, let us take a step back, and get some big picture perspective. Let us ask ourselves, “Why are we doing all this?” “What is the point?”
Why are we building a portable Garden of Eden, and making fancy garments for the priesthood? If the Mystery Babylonian Church system tells us that all we ever must do is just know who Messiah is, and know intellectually what He tells us to do, then… what is the point?
Shemote 28:30 says they were supposed to do all these things, and dress our priesthood up, and we are all sorts of special jewelry that Elohim wants His bride to wear for Him (for reasons we do not have time to unpack here).
But Shemote 28:29 tells us that our special designated representative is supposed to bear the names of the sons of Israel on the breastplate of judgment that is over his heart, when he goes into the set-apart place, as a memorial before Yahweh continually.
Shemote (Exodus) 28:29
29 “So Aharon shall bear the names of the sons of Israel on the breastplate of judgment over his heart, when he goes into the set-apart place, as a memorial before Yahweh continually.”
Would that be important? To have a special representative to represent us to Yahweh? Or is that something we can afford to blow off?
Verse 30 says that the special clothing and the special jewelry will be on our representative when he goes into represent us to Yahweh. And so, Aharon shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel over his heart before Yahweh continually.
Shemote (Exodus) 28:30
30 And you shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be over Aharon’s heart when he goes in before Yahweh. So Aharon shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel over his heart before Yahweh continually.
Would that be important? Judah says ‘Yes!’ Because Judah recognizes the benefits of organizing, and putting a representative before Yahweh. (Too bad he does not do all the things Yahweh says to do in His word, and only the ones that will build Skynet.)
Ephraim says ‘No!’ Ephraim says, “Now, if I can pick up the phone and dial direct, how come I want someone to represent me?”
“When I vote, that is kind of like dialing direct. And if I get mad enough, I can pick up the phone and I can call my senator, or I can even call the White House if I want to. So I just pick up the phone and dial Elohim direct. What is wrong with that?”
Well in the first place, you brain surgeon, you are operating inside of a Babylonian democratic political framework that Elohim hates! Elohim does not do democracy. He hates it! He sees it as a rebellion against Him and His Son’s authority. (Hello?) He is the greatest King ever, and He sits on His throne, and our one and only viable option is to come before Him exactly the way He says.
Do you remember when Ester came before the king in Ester 4:11? And she had to do just exactly as the king said, or she would die?
Ester (Esther) 4:11
11 “All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that any man or woman who goes into the inner court to the king, who has not been called, he has but one law: put all to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, that he may live. Yet I myself have not been called to go in to the king these thirty days.”
And Ephraim thinks he is going to go busting’ into the Qodesh HaQodeshim (or the Holy of Holies)?
Using set-apart language
Just to say this here, I guess we are probably always going to have comment snipers, and people who do not know what they are talking about, just popping off in the comments section. And it is really embarrassing.
So, if I use the term “Holy of Holies” at times to explain what the term Qodesh HaQodeshim means, do not write us and say “Oh my poor ears! You said, “Holy of Holies! I cannot listen to pagan words while I am speaking a pagan language!”
Ephraim just needs to grow up on this. I am one of the hardest core sacred namers you are ever going to meet. What I would like to be doing is to be learning Hebrew, but I do not have time right now, because our people have zero discipline. And you must break stuff down for people, or they just do not get it.
And please let me recommend to you one of the best books I know of on the sacred subject, Come Out of Her My People, by the late Dr. CJ Koster. We want to expand on Dr. Koster’s work in the Abraham Accords series.
Dr. Koster did some excellent work basically showing how Esav follows a Mystery Babylonian variation of the faith called Catholicism, and he shows the elements of sun worship that was basically practiced in disguise at the time of the tower of Babylon, and how that “sun solarization” was brought into Catholicism, and then was handed down first to Protestantism. And what most Messianics do not realize is that it then got passed along into Messianism.
And both your Messianics of the house of Judah and also of the house of Joseph benefit greatly from the former injection of Mystery Babylon.
If I get time I want to re-read this book, in preparation for the Abraham Accord series, and the Four Horses series. But time is hard to get. There are a few small issues with the book. First, I disagree with his substitution of the term “Messianics” for “Christians” in Ma’asei (Acts) 11:26 and Kepha’s writings. I understand why he makes those assumptions, but it is not correct.
I also disagree with his use of the term “impale” for the term “crucified”. I understand the definition of stauros, but I think people who get wrapped up in this argument are straining out a gnat, so they can swallow a camel. I do not have a problem with the concept that Rome is going to attempt to put to death the Son of Elohim on the cross, which is an image of their god Tammuz (who is basically a son god).
And just to say this, I am one of the hardest core sacred name people I know. But another problem I have with this book is that Ephraim tends to go overboard with the specific pronunciation. It is like people think that the sound of the name “Yeshua” is like a magic spell, or something like that.
We have written many studies on the importance of the names, and we need to use the right names.
The Set-apart Names
The Messiah’s Name v1
About the Pronunciation of ‘Yehovah’
The Divine Name (video)
The fact is that in Hebrew, a name refers to your reputation. It refers to your fame. You can do something in someone else’s name without ever speaking their name.
So, it gets a little ridiculous when I go to use a term like “war Elohim”, and then someone mentions that I should translate what it means for newcomers, so one time in the last presentation I use the term “war God” trying to be a evangelical, and help people understand what is being said.
And silly, silly Ephraim writes in English (which is a completely pagan tongue to start with), to complain that I use the term “war God”, when I was using it because other people complained that I am supposed to help people understand what the terms mean.
If you were one of the brilliant 99% that is watching this video because you already know more than me, may I recommend changing the channel. Or, let me make you a deal.
I will not use the term “war God”, if you will do the rest of what you are reading in Scripture. How is that? Because if you will do the rest of what you are supposed to do in Scripture, I will not need to use evangelical language anymore.
Excusephraim strains at a gnat, and he swallows a camel. “I cannot hear evangelical language even though I am in the dispersion, speaking of pagan tongue.” (If you have ever gone way out of your way to try to help someone, and then they have criticized you for trying to help them, then maybe you can understand what I am talking about here.)
One day, both houses will be back in the land, speaking Hebrew, and everyone will be doing what they are supposed to be doing, and I will not need to make parashiot anymore, because I will be too busy making doctrinal studies (which I cannot make enough progress on, because I am busy doing this). So, Eph, when someone is trying to help you, it is unwise practice to bite the hand that is feeding you. (Which is what most of the people are doing.)
Ephrebellion thinks he will not have to pay for abusing Elohim and His goodness. (And you can try to abuse His servants. Because part of being His servant is that you get to learn how to deal with taking abuse from people who are still putting themselves on the throne, so that you can continue washing their feet. And that is how you learn to appreciate the few [the very few] who are truly trying to do the right thing.)
Yes, Ephraim, the details matter
People would do well to remember that 90% of us are going to the trash bin. And that will be down from the 99+ percent of us that are headed for the trash bin right now. And Ephraim needs to wake up, and realize just how serious this is.
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.
We rebelled against a war Elohim. He wants us to defect back. Not only did He make us, He paid for us, to redeem us with His Son’s blood. And He is telling us that He wants us to organize as we saw already in Parasha Yitro, and establish representatives to lead the people by example, and also to judge them with just judgment. And one of the things that we are supposed to do as His people is to put a representative for our people in front of Him.
Shemote 28:38 tells us we are supposed to put a representative with fancy clothing in front of Yahweh in a portable safe date space tent.
Shemote (Exodus) 28:38
38 So it shall be on Aharon’s forehead, that Aharon may bear the iniquity of the set-apart things which the children of Israel sanctify in all their set-apart gifts; and it shall always be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.
The reason we must do this is precisely so that the high priest may bear the iniquity of the set-apart things which the children of Israel set-apart in all their set-apart gifts. And the jewelry always needs to be on his forehead whenever he is inside of the set-part place, so that we might be accepted before Yahweh.
(And Ephraim says, “Hey, do you suppose that might maybe possibly be important for some reason, that we obey all of these difficult instructions, so that we might be accepted before Yahweh?”)
In the Nazarene Israel study, we show how it was that, in Ma’asei chapter 21:24 we see Apostle Shaul separating a Nazirite vow (see Bemidbar chapter 6), and he is paying for the sacrifices for himself and for other men. And as you see in the Nazarene Israel study, one of those sacrifices was a sin sacrifice.
Ma’asei (Acts) 21:24
24 Take them and be purified with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads, and that all may know that those things of which they were informed concerning you are nothing, but that you yourself also walk orderly and keep the law [the Torah].
Here we have the leader of the assembly, the nasi (or the prince) Yaakov HatZaddik, (or James the Righteous [hopefully no one will unsubscribe because I translated the name? Ephraim needs to grow up.]) telling Shaliach Shaul to obey the temple sacrificial law, including sin sacrifices–and this is many years after the death, burial and resurrection.
And if you believe that, you might be of Joseph. And if you do not believe that, then I am sorry brother, you are still in the house of Esav. And we are hoping to get 10% of our people to defect back to the war Elohim, and His Son. As witnessed by their fruits.
There is no broad-narrow road
Ephraim keeps looking for a way to be set-apart, without producing fruits worthy of repentance. And he keeps looking for a broad and easy narrow and afflicted path where he can make free sacrifices, with free sheep.
In Shemote 29:7 Yahweh just told us to wash Aharon and his sons, and to put all these fancy maitre’d head waiter garments on Aharon, dressing him all up for the big date place. And the anointing oil goes on all sorts of items in the restaurant.
Shemote (Exodus) 29:7
7 And then you shall take the anointing oil, pour it on his [the kohen HaGadol’s] head, and anoint him.
In next week’s parasha, Ki Tisa, we will see that all the ingredients of the anointing oil (except for the olive oil itself) are psychoactive, if that tells you anything.
For example, in Shemote 29:21, the blood and the anointing oil gets sprinkled both on the high priest (our special representative), and his garments, and on his sons and his sons’ garments. (More on that next week.)
Ma’asei (Acts) 29:21
21 Take them and be purified with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads, and that all may know that those things of which they were informed concerning you are nothing, but that you yourself also walk orderly and keep the law [the Torah].
But the point is that we do all this stuff, to show Elohim that, yes, we do value Him. And yes, we do want to obey Him, even if it is difficult. Even if it costs time. Even if it costs money. Even if it means we must really, truly put Him first, ahead of ourselves in our own wants and desires, so that we can truly be loving helpers to Him.
That is what any king wants is eager help that cares about him. Because when you are in charge, nobody loves you. Just your wife, and your closest, most hard core supporters. (Does anyone hear what I am saying?)
In Shemote 29:42 He says that if we do all this stuff just exactly as He says, and make Him sacrifices together (not just as individuals, but as an organized nation), that is when He will be pleased with us, and He will meet with us by the door of the tabernacle, to speak with us.
Shemote (Exodus) 29:42
42 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet you to speak with you.
This is because we are acting in concert as a nation. This is not 600,000 men on foot, everyone “dialing direct” (as in a mob). This is 600,000 disciplined men on foot, everyone seeking to establish a single nation by means of a single organization, and a single plan for unification–His. And when we do all these things, and He meets with us, then the meeting place will be set apart by his glory.
Shemote (Exodus) 29:43
43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by My glory.
If we as His people do everything He tells us to do, the way He tells us to do it, that is when He will dwell among us again, and be our Elohim.
Shemote (Exodus) 29:45
45 I will dwell among the children of Israel and will be their Elohim.
And Ephraim keeps asking, “Would that be important? Why do we need to do everything, in order for Him to come dwell with us?”
“Does not Yahweh realize that we are under the dispensation of grace now? Does not Yahweh realize that we are just supposed to read about what we are supposed to do, and there is nothing to do now?”
“What is wrong with Him anyway? Who does He think he is?”
Okay, we cannot perform the ceremonial law right now, because we do not have a cleansed altar (or cleansed priesthood), and the altar and the priesthood that are coming are anything but clean. But that does not matter, because we are not under the Order of Levi right now.
We are under the order of Melchi-Tzedek. (And do not unsubscribe if I call it the Order of Kings and Priests.) But we must behave like kings and priests. And not like a bunch of lazy, self-entitled, spiritual children.
There is a [big] job to do!
For those who actually want to please Elohim, the principles and the precepts remain the same. And you can say it until you are blue in the face. There is a big job to do, as Mattityahu 28:20 says.
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.
We are supposed to organize, so we can find the remnant of true disciples in all nations and teach them to do everything that Yeshua said to do. Because that is how you build His kingdom. That is how you use your mina wisely, so that come the day of judgment you are deserving of life, rather than death. And it is not easy, and it is not free.
You hate to disappoint the 99%, but it is not a broad or an easy road. And it does not do itself! And you do not get credit for doing something that you think does itself.
Ephesim 2:20 tells us that we are supposed to unify all those new disciples on a single Foundation of Apostles and Prophets, so that we form one single body of Messiah worldwide.
Ephesim (Ephesians) 2:20
20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Yeshua Mashiach Himself being the chief cornerstone,
Jude verse 3 tells us that we are supposed to practice the exact same faith that the Messiah practiced, exactly the way He practiced it.
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 that even though you might be saved, and even though you might have a relationship with Yeshua, if you are not following His program, and you are not contributing to the establishment of the kingdom that His Father sent Him to get us to build for Him in His absence, then you are not getting it. You are missing the boat. (Hello? Is Ephraimbody home?)
Ephesim 4:11 tells us that there are five major ministerial gifting (and a whole bunch of other gifting that operate in support), and we are supposed to use these fivefold gifting to forge unity within our body, which is His body if we want to take things seriously.
Ephesim (Ephesians) 4:11
11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
Verse 12 then tells us that this is how the body is to be built up.
Ephesim (Ephesians) 4:12
12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Mashiach,
But Ephraim does not want to do that, because he does not really want to take a stick for himself, unless it is easy, or free. (So there goes the 90%.)
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.
Verse 13 tells us that this is how we will come to the unity of the faith (at least for the 10% who wants to live).
Ephesim (Ephesians) 4:13
13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of Elohim, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Mashiach;
Verse 14 tells us that the reason we need to do this is so that we are no longer spiritual children like we are right now, being scattered about the yard like sawdust, being blown to and fro all over the yard, by every wind of doctrine that comes along, because we do not know what good is.
Ephesim (Ephesians) 4:14
14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
And the book salesman make a bunch of money by fragmenting the body into a whole bunch of little, small feudal lordship, instead of banding together to form the single true ministry that Elohim wants.
Verse 15 tells us that the point is that we speak the truth in love, to the purpose of growing up spiritually, and taking spiritual adulthood on ourselves, so that together we might do the job that our redeemer is calling us to do for him (if we want to survive what’s coming).
Ephesim (Ephesians) 4:15
15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Mashiach—
And verse 16 tells us that it is going to cost.
Ephesim (Ephesians) 4:16
16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
For the future 10% who want to live, this is how we all contribute to the grassroots movement to raise up the kingdom structure that our Redeemer asks us to raise up for Him.
Does anyone just want in? (Like, no matter what it costs, your eager to pay that cost, because you want to please your Redeemer, and your Intercessor, who is going to be the One to stick up for you (or not) on the day of judgment?) Does anyone want in like that? (Or are you not interested? Or do you want to get a second opinion?)
We are going to see that King Shaul wanted a second opinion.
Haftarah portion:
Let us go to our Haftarah prophetic reading in Shemuel Aleph chapter 15.
King Saul’s dis-obedience
Shemuel Aleph (First Samuel) 15:1
1 Shemuel said to King Shaul, “Yahweh sent me to anoint you king over His people, over Israel.
Now therefore, heed the voice of the words of Yahweh.”
Shaul was not a prophet most of the time, so he could not hear Yahweh’s voice. So, for that reason, that is why he needs to do what Shemuel says, because Shemuel can hear Elohim’s voice. That is how it works.
(But most of Ephraim is like, “I do not hear His voice, and I do not need to listen to those who do. I just dial direct for whatever I want, whenever I want it. And I tell my servant Yeshua to wash my feet while I sit on His throne.”)
Shemuel Aleph (First Samuel) 15:2-3
2, “Thus says Yahweh of hosts [or Yahweh of armies]: ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt.
[I said I was going to punish Amalek, and I am!]3 “[Israel, you are My armies] Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. [I do not want you to spare any of them, because they are of the world, and they are hostile to you.] But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
It sounds brutal (and it is). But the reality is, if you do not get them first, they are going to get you and your children.
(Kind of like the Mystery Babylonian Black horse has a Tractate Sanhedrin 69a, in which the Talmudists want to do bad things to your children, and even marry them at 3 years and one day. (Because the hymen is supposed to magically form exactly at 3 years of age, so if anything happens to her before that, well, it does not count.)
“Rabbi Yirmeya of Difti says: We learn in another mishna (Nidda 44b) as well that one follows the majority even in cases of capital law: A girl who is three years and one day old whose father arranged her betrothal can be betrothed with intercourse, as, despite her age, the legal status of intercourse with her is that of full-fledged intercourse.”
[Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin 69a, Sefaria]
And Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin 59a tells us:
“And Rabbi Yoḥanan says: A gentile [meaning a Josephite or an Ephraimite] who engages in Torah study is liable to receive the death penalty; as it is stated: “Moses commanded us a law [torah], an inheritance of the congregation of Jacob [which is another name for the house of Judah]” (Deuteronomy 33:4), indicating that it is an inheritance for us, and not for them. “The Gemara answers: There, in the baraita, the reference is to a gentile who engages in the study of their seven mitzvot. It is a mitzva for a gentile to study the halakhot that pertain to the seven Noahide mitzvot, and when he does so he is highly regarded.”
[Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin 59a][And he cites Deuteronomy 33:4, indicating that it is an inheritance for us in the southern kingdom, and not for them. (Reminiscent of Parasha Vayeshev.)]
King Saul’s denial
But now let us take special note. King Shaul thinks that he obeys Yahweh to the letter, but he does not. (Do we know perhaps a couple of houses like that, brothers? Judah and Joseph, are you listening?)
King Shaul and the people spared King Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them.
Shemuel Aleph (First Samuel) 15:9
9 But Shaul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.
They were willing to destroy everything despised and worthless, but not the good stuff, like Yahweh the Commander of Armies said to do. It is like gross dereliction of duty. Yahweh of Armies says this, and King Shaul does that, and thinks he did things exactly perfectly. And it is what in the army we used to call, “attention to detail.”
But, what about the house of Judah today? And what about Ephraim? Do we follow His written words exactly? (Be honest!)
If we say we believe, why do we not do it?
We had a good question come in, “How do I know if Elohim wants me to do the things that are written in the Scriptures?” Which I interpreted to mean, “How do I know that those are for me today?”
And that is a very good question, and the answer is, you know that it is for us to do today because it is written for us. It was not necessarily written to us (meaning it was not addressed to us), but it is for us.
Timotheus Bet (2 Timothy) 3:16-17
16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of Elohim, and is profitable for doctrine [your Halachah, how you walk], for reproof, and for correction, for instruction in righteousness [obeying the commandments that our Commander gave us to obey Him in].
17 that the man of Elohim may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
We have a study on the website about Inspiration and Scripture. And what this really says is not that all Scripture is inspired.
For example, in Iyov (Job) 2:9, Job’s wife said to him, “Why do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse Elohim and die.”
Iyov (Job) 2:9
9 Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse Elohim and die!”
That is not good for instruction in righteousness. And for another example, when Satan talks with Elohim, we do not follow those words.
But we are told many times in the Torah that we are supposed to obey everything Elohim’s voice says. And the record of what He says forms for us in the written Covenant. (Because He spoke, and His creation is supposed to obey His words.)
The dispensation of grace error
It is a very good question. But it is a basic foundational concept that Esav teaches against. Esav teaches that all that obedience stuff is past, and we are now in the era of grace (or the “dispensation of grace”.)
And you start to realize what a lie that is when you realize that the next chapter 21, the leader of the Foundation of Apostles and Prophets (Yeshua’s half-brother Yaakov HatZaddik [or the Apostle James, who was the nasi (president, prime minister, prince) of the Nazarene sect, ordered Shaliach Shaul to pay for the sin sacrifices of himself and for other men. We are talking about 15 animals here, and five of those sacrifices would have been for sin.
Ma’asei (Acts) 21:24
24 Take them and be purified with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads, and that all may know that those things of which they were informed concerning you are nothing, but that you yourself also walk orderly and keep the law [the Torah].
This is what happens as we get raised up in the Mystery Babylonian replacement theology Church system (which hails from Nimrod and his wife). And then we can read what is written right there on the page.
And Esav loves it! “Mission accomplished! I kept Ephraim from obeying the bridal covenant. So now he has no more bridal garment!”
King Shaul is having an attack of, “Do not want to, do not need to, and you cannot make me!” It is a silly little game both houses play with the war Elohim. (“How do I get something for nothing? How do I chump my creator?”)
Shemuel Aleph (First Samuel) 15:1111 [Yahweh says] “I greatly regret that I have set up Shaul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments.” And it grieved Shemuel, and he cried out to Yahweh all night.”
Why? Because he was not careful to perform Elohim’s commandments just exactly as Elohim said. In the army, I only worked with a Two Star. And I did not dare disobey the Two Star. I mean, what has Yahweh got, like, 70 stars? 77 stars? And we do not feel like we need to obey Him to the letter?
Both houses commit King Shaul’s mistake
It is a two-house phenomenon called The Stupids. And you cannot fix the Stupids, because that kind only goes out by prayer and fasting. Meaning, you truly must want to change.)
Shemuel Aleph (First Samuel) 15:13-14
13 Then Shemuel went to King Shaul, and Shaul said to him, “Blessed are you of Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”
[“I did what Yahweh said to do exactly!”]
14 But Shemuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?”Shemuel Aleph (First Samuel) 15:15 [DGV]
15 And Shaul said, “Do not you understand we are on the dispensation of grace right now?”
Oh, no, wait. (How many Ephraimites follow the Dispensation of Grace version?)
Shemuel Aleph (First Samuel) 15:15
15 And Shaul said, “They [the people] have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen to sacrifice to Yahweh your Elohim; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.”
“Do not you know that the people want to sacrifice to Yahweh? But if they do it this way, then it does not really cost them anything. Because they get to make sacrifices with free sheep.”
“And you know, as king, I have to give the people what they want under democracy, do I not? Do not I need to pander to the wishes of the people, in order to remain in office?”
“Democracy! Democracy now! Because you have to give the people what they want under representative democracy!”
In verse 18, Shemuel said, “You know, what are you, an Ephraimite? Yahweh sent you on a mission, and He was very clear! He said, “Go and utterly destroy the sinners who break My covenant, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed. Until they are completely eradicated, and wiped out!”
Shemuel Aleph (First Samuel) 15:18
18 Now Yahweh sent you on a mission, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’
“I did not say to pronounce a death curse over Joseph in the Birkhat HaMinim. You do not get to mix and match Elohim’s instructions however you want! What do you think this is? Do you think this is some kind of a game?”
Verse 20, Shaul said, “But I did! I did obey the voice of Yahweh! Because I did part of what He commanded me to do! Kind of, sort of, not really the way He said to do it.”
Shemuel Aleph (First Samuel) 15:20
20 And Shaul said to Shemuel, “But I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, and gone on the mission on which Yahweh sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.”
“But the people wanted to make free sacrifices, just like they will want to do 2000 years after Mashiach Nagid arrives! So, I am just lowering the standards now, for when Judah and Ephraim want to do their own thing in Your name, and have you show up to bless them for disobedience!”
Shemuel Aleph (First Samuel) 15:21
21 “But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to Yahweh your Elohim in Gilgal.”
“Is not that what Yahweh wants, is that we do our version of what He commands, and then offer Him something that does not cost us anything?”
And in verse 22, Shemuel says, “What we have here, is a failure to communicate.”
Shemuel Aleph (First Samuel) 15:22
22 So Shemuel said: “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offering and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.”
Does any husband prefer that his wife go out of her way to do something to make it up to him when she did not pay attention to what he said to do in the first place? What would you rather have, a bridal candidate on the one hand who listens carefully for your voice, and studies your words, and then goes out of her way to do everything that you ever said?
Or on the other hand you could have a bridal candidate who does not listen for your voice, and does not really try to conform herself to your words, and then she picks and chooses what parts of your instructions she wants to do, and what parts or your instructions she is going to blow off?” Does anyone get the parallel?
Shemuel Aleph (First Samuel) 15:23
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, He also has rejected you from being king.”
When you are not careful to listen to the words of your Commander, so you can diligently obey them, and do everything that He said to the very best of your ability, that is called rebellion in Scripture. And you never think that you are trying to be rebellious. You just are not careful to do everything Elohim says, the way He says to do it.
“Oh, no. But that is not rebellion against Yahweh, is it?” Yes! That is exactly what rebellion is in Scripture.
Rebellion is when your Elohim tells you to listen carefully for the sound of His voice (or if you cannot hear His voice, listen to His prophet), and then be careful to do everything His voice says to do (including His written words, because we are responsible for all of that also)—but then you do not do it. Or else you do part of it (like King Shaul), because the people want to make free sacrifices that do not cost them anything.
Anything sounding familiar? Does the shoe perhaps fit? Yes?
Cleaning house
When is Ephraim going to realize that this is not a game? When is Ephraim going to wake up and smell the Day of Judgment? And when are brothers Judah and Levi going to realize that their diligence in attempting to establish the millennial kingdom is amazing, and exemplary!? You just need to go back to obeying Elohim’s words diligently, and not your own words, diligently!
It is the same message over and over and over again, just different facets of the same 7,000 carat diamond. We must take pains to purify and to straighten our insides. We must clean up our own backyard, and make sure that we take the log out of our own eyes first, so we can see the narrow and afflicted path that He wants us to walk. We must ask Him to put a burning hot coal to our lips, so that it purifies what we speak.
Brit Chadasha: What is our relationship with Elohim?
And if we go to our Brit Chadasha portion, we come to Marqaus chapter 4, starting in verse 3. And Yeshua talks about the Holy Spirit (or the Ruach HaQodesh) going out to scatter opportunities for eternal spiritual life, together forever with Elohim.
Marqaus (Mark) 4:3
3 “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.”
And in the parable, in verse 4, the agricultural worker is a ‘he’. But in Hebrew, the Spirit is a ‘she’ (a feminine).
The wayside: no interest in the Word
And it happened, that as the Spirit sewed opportunities for the kingdom and eternal life in many, many, many people’s lives, all over the world, that some of the seed fell by the wayside, and the birds of the air came and devoured all that seed.
Marqaus (Mark) 4:4
4 And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds of the air came and devoured it.
[If you are watching this video, that is probably not you.]
Stony ground: no root or commitment
Marqaus (Mark) 4:5
5 Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth.
If you know anything about agriculture, or if you know anything about gardening, when the plant runs out of food or water, it tries to go into seed mode whether the conditions are right or not. Because it must reproduce, even though it does not have what it needs to reproduce.
It is a bad scene, and you see it all the time. New people come to the assembly, but they do not do the reading, and eventually they stop coming, because their children need to go play t-ball on Saturday, to bolster their self-esteem, so they can fit in with the other children in the world.
And there is really nothing you can do for them except talk with them and try to help them get some seriousness to their lives. But as leaders, there is nothing you can do, if the people are not willing to till their own garden soil, and to improve their own agricultural growing conditions for eternity’s finest seed ever.
Because in verse six, when the sun is up in the middle of the day, and it is hard working for Yahweh, and the pathway is narrow, and hard-pressed, they do not want to walk that way.
Marqaus (Mark) 4:6
6 But when the sun was up it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away.
They do not even really get started, because they never really had a true root of commitment, so their commitment withered away. And along with it, withered their opportunity for eternal spiritual life forever and a day with Elohim.
Cares of the world: no concern for the kingdom
Marqaus (Mark) 4:7
7 And some seed fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no crop.
Verse seven is what we see the most of here. You see people and they have their house, and their car, and their vacation plans, and some of them even have retirement plans. I have met more than one person with an airplane, and they have hobbies, and they take trips, and they have things they enjoy doing more than serving Elohim.
More than helping their future Husband. More than pressing oil for their lamp, in case the Bridegroom gets delayed (and you can almost guarantee He is going to get seriously, seriously, seriously delayed). But they do not always fall away. Sometimes they form movements (like the Messianic movement or like the Ephraimite movement.)
And then you get supporting cast ministers with Saturday Night Live tv shows, and church knock offs, and synagogue knock offs, and pastors, and rabbis. And they are all like King Shaul, because they all think they are being faithful to what Elohim says to do, when they are not being careful to do everything that is recorded in the Word, the way it says to do it.
Just like King Shaul, they do the parts of what Elohim says to do that are convenient and easy for them. Instead of supporting the true ministry work, they keep their money in their pockets, and then they go to their friends’ house, and they hold the Bible study. And then everyone shares about how they have been drinking from all the different fountains, rather than trying to establish which one is the true fountain of Elohim, and then organizing, so that we can bring everyone to it.
The good ground: Where Yahweh’s Word flourishes
Marqaus (Mark) 4:8
8 “But other seed fell on good ground and yielded a crop that sprang up, increased and produced: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”
And I wish that since there are four kinds of seed that you could say 25% of the people will be the fourth kind of seed. But I just do not believe it, brothers. I will keep telling you again and again. I have been blessed to be able to study the Word full-time since 5759 (or 1999 CE) with the express intent of reestablishing the Original First-Century Faith that Jude 3 tells us that it is necessary to walk.
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.
Even if we are already saved, even if we are already in relationship with Yeshua, if we want to be in a ‘good’ relationship with Yeshua, then do not we need to worship like He worships? Or what are we going to do, when He goes to worship, worshiping some other way?
Does anyone think about that? Does anyone spend any time thinking about what our Emperor wants? You know, worrying about what your Emperor wants is a good long-term strategy for survival and success! (Just saying.)
But what is going on with this gardening thing here? Do you ever walked past someone’s house, and they do not have a garden? Or do you walk past someone’s house, and they have a garden that has gone to seed? Or it is all overgrown with weeds? And then you go buy some other houses, and they have been cultivating their soil.
They have gotten all the rocks pulled out on one side, or they make a little pathway with the rocks, but the plants do not have to fight the rocks. Maybe they invest in their soil. Or maybe they added compost, or organic matter, to improve the tilth and the fertility and the life bearing capacity of the soil.
In verse eight we see that when the best seed ever lands in soil like this, the seed takes route, and it finds good soil, and it gets the nutrition it needs to overcome the elements, and survive, and thrive, and produce a real crop for the owner of that ground. And if he takes good care of his soil, some of the seed produces a crop that is 30 times as much, some of it 60 times as much, and some of it 100 times as much!
Marqaus (Mark) 4:8
8 “But other seed fell on good ground and yielded a crop that sprang up, increased and produced: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”
And what this means is that if we really work on cultivating our insides, so that the good seed of the Word can take hold, and take in us, and we water it, and nurture it, and pull out the weeds, and protect it from predators and pests, we could get a really good crop out of this. We could really come out of this in good shape.
Me ministries or His kingdom?
Marqaus (Mark) 4:9
9 And He said to them, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
Yeshua says, “Do you hear it? Do you want to lay down your life in this life, so that you can cultivate your Master’s soil, so that you can be of noble use to him?” (Or you do not care that much?)
The thing most people do not seem to understand is that this is an everyday decision. This kind of decision happens every day for us.
I got an email from a Christian brother I used to know back in the army, and he says, “Did you catch the last season of Vikings?” And I say, “No, I try hard not to live my life in the world.” And he says, “What?”
Another brother thinks he is in ministry because he goes ride his motorcycle all around town. He does not have a sign, he does not have jacket, he has nothing. But he rides his motorcycle all around with his buddies, and then they stop somewhere, and they eat a bunch of lunch. And that is his ministry, is riding his motorcycle all around with his buddies, so they can eat it various restaurants.
And I know a couple of Messianic Jewish brothers who think they have nothing better to do than to go on other people’s videos, and see how much trouble they can cause in the comments section.
And you have basically a bunch of rotten children playing a bunch of wicked games thinking that they are doing what the Renewed Covenant says just because they rest and read on Sabbath.
I know people with fancy cars, and horses, and 401(k) retirement plans, and plenty of things on their mind other than Yahweh.
And do not we always forget, in verse 10, that Yeshua was talking to dedicated disciples here? Because as verse 11 says, when you are dedicated to the kingdom, and you have handed over the steering wheel and keys, that is when you are given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of Elohim.
Marqaus (Mark) 4:10-11
10 But when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parable.
11 And He said to them, “To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of Elohim; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables,”
When you serve, and when you discipline yourself to do the fivefold unification, there is so much refinement in that. You learned so much by actually entering in the way our Husband says we are supposed to enter in.
(If you are not a giver, you probably do not believe what you are going to get in return. Because you are not going to out-give Elohim, okay? That does not happen. One way or another, He will give you much more than you give to Him. He will see to it because His reputation is at stake.)
But in verse number 11, He says to those who have dedicated their lives to Him, and entered into right relationship with Him, they get to know the mysteries.
Marqaus (Mark) 4:11
11 And He said to them, “To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of Elohim; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables,”
The others do not. But Yah Elohim will send them a strong delusion. So that the lazy ones among us (meaning the 90% of us), should see, but do not understand.
Marqaus (Mark) 4:12
12 so that ‘SEEING THEY MAY SEE AND NOT PERCEIVE, AND HEARING THEY MAY HEAR AND NOT UNDERSTAND; LEST THEY SHOULD TURN, AND THEIR SINS BE FORGIVEN THEM.’”
We hear, but we did not get it, because we were not really listening for how to further Elohim’s kingdom, were we?
And we are clueless, because we did not make the simple decision to put Him truly first, and ourselves last. We did not make the decision to pay close and careful attention to everything that He said to do, so that we could build everything according to the pattern that He Himself established for us on the mountain.
And people blink twice and they say, “I do not do that. That does not apply to me.”
“I do not have a spirit of delusion. I just do not do what Elohim says carefully. I just do the parts of His word that are easy, and then I ignore the rest.”
“That is not rebellion against His authority.” That is the obedience of King Shaul. So you see, I do qualify for the order of kings and priests.”
“Yeshua will be pleased with my disobedience, just like he was with King Shaul’s!”
Does anyone hear it?
You mean, Yahweh wants something back?
People have asked me how to study the Bible and there are all different ways. But the main thing we must do when we are studying the Bible is to remember to apply it to ourselves. And not to kid ourselves, or fool ourselves that we are walking a lot more worthy than we think we are.
In Romim 12:3, Shaliach Shaul tries to warn us according to the favor that was given to him, that we should not think of ourselves more highly than what we ought to think. But rather, that we think soberly, as Elohim has given each one of us a measure of faith. And that means you need genuine faith to be sober.
Romim (Romans) 12:3
3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as Elohim has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
And we will talk about this more next week, but let us not forget Yeshayahu 28:1, where we read about the spiritual drunkards of Ephraim.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 28:1
1 “Woe to the crown of pride, to the spiritual 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 spiritual wine.”
And we are whining about this. And we are whining about that. We just cannot stomach the fact that Yeshua died to bring us back to the full covenant. We just cannot believe that Yeshua and His Father Yahweh want us to obey the marital contract. Those mean, rotten, dirty guys!
Do you mean we do not get something for nothing? Do you mean we do not get to make free sacrifices? Do you mean we do not get to pick and choose which parts of the commandment we want to keep, and ignore the rest?
And we laugh at Judah and Levi for replacing Elohim’s words with their own words, so that they can feel good following them. But have you seen what backsliding Ephraim is doing? She knows exactly what Elohim says to do, she just does not want to do it.
And she expects that she is chosen, because Elohim called her to the test! And only 10% are going to make it! But she is convinced, she does not need to change.
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.
He that has ears, let him hear.
Shabbat shalom.
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