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Understanding Christian Faith Roots

[Music] how many of you can pinpoint a moment a defining moment where something happened that radically changed your life for some of you this message is that moment as christians we've always been told that our faith starts in the new testament and so our entire lives have been fashioned from that idea but what if new evidence has come forth that shows how a major prophetic event in the old testament reveals the real roots of our faith and the revelation of this event changes everything originally the kingdom of israel was 12 tribes and one kingdom but under king solomon because of israel's disobedience to god's law they were split into two kingdoms the house of israel in the north with ten tribes and the house of judah in the south with two tribes then in 586 bc the southern kingdom of judah goes into captivity into babylon for 70 years they come back and resettle jerusalem which is the only reason why the jewish people exist today because their ancestors came back the northern kingdom continually broke the law of god and they too were taken into captivity into assyria from here just as the bible foretold they assimilated into the nations would lose their identity as the northern house of israel they would be pushed into all four corners of the then known world which would eventually be the four corners of the earth today the asteroids the rubinites the danites all the other tribes where are they they don't exist today because they never came back god said that at the end of time the lost tribes would be found amongst the gentiles and their identity would be revealed this is the mystery that paul talks about that is finally being discovered in these last days and is by far the most important prophecy that has ever been told jeremiah 31 31 says behold the days are coming says the lord when i will make a new covenant with the house of israel and the house of judah [Music] ladies and gentlemen there is no house of gentiles in this passage or anywhere in the bible for that matter and since there is no slaver free and no jew or gentile in christ and it's not about bloodline anyway then how do the gentiles fit into the new covenant all of the analogies of the new testament the bride the grafting into the olive tree in romans 11. the one new man of ephesians 2 if we do not understand the greatest prophecy and mystery that brought us the new testament three quarters of the bible will be completely shut to our understanding for generations and generations and generations millions and millions of people that have been scattered to the four corners of the earth the northern house of israel has never come back [Music] with your permission i would like to pray and ask the father to bless and anoint this and let him do what he does best amen all right so father come before you on behalf of abraham isaac jacob and all of the descendants god that came from their loins that you gave them in promise and a covenant in yahweh i just asked that you would move upon your word tonight like never before father as this message goes out on the torah portion week god where jacobs wrestles with an angel and his name is changed lord in his identity and mission and purpose forever become a new but i pray that your people will begin to struggle with you as well and come to the place o god where they meet their destiny 2 000 years removed from them lord i thank you for your word and i thank you that you allow us to mine your word for the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth and lastly god i pray that the truth will only do one thing and that set your people free amen all right let's begin do you ever feel like this do you ever feel like when you're hearing god you hear his voice and you have every you you can't figure out exactly which direction that he's coming from is it left is it right you pull up to the stop sign and the sign tell you you can't make any direction matter of fact you can't even turn around a lot of people feel like this in their spiritual walk this is where we are today people don't know which direction to turn or maybe you feel like this where you can't even read the signs it's so frustrating because you're not sure exactly where god is what he's wanting you to do how many of you out there right now today are feeling the sense of there's got to be something more you've had it in your spirit for all these years there's got to be something more what you are about to watch tonight this message that you're about to to view i believe is that missing link that's going to connect your heart your mind your soul your emotions the front of the book and the back of the book tonight and i also want to challenge you tonight that most people they say on on google analytics they watch a video for about six and a half minutes and then they tune out i want to challenge you that every one of us go to theaters every one of us go to movies and we watch two and a half three hours of movie and we don't even want to get up to go to the bathroom i want to challenge you to say that this message might very well rock your world to such a degree that if you watch it from beginning to end it will challenge you inspire you it will bring you to a point of a new understanding of the scriptures like you have never seen before it will it will mark and it will uh create a motion inside of you that will connect you to the lord god i believe that's what his word will do so i want to challenge you watch this whole thing and see if god doesn't change you or at the very least challenge you to struggle with the most high god we are at the place where god wants to help us understand the signs he wants us to understand his language because it's only when we understand the language that our mission changes barna group one of the nation's largest christian polling agency says this half of all adults 50 percent argue that a growing number of people they know are tired of having the same church experience 71 percent say they'll develop their own slate of religious beliefs rather than accept a package of beliefs promoted by a church or a denomination and only one third 34 of christians today believe in absolute moral truth 34 ladies and gentlemen of believers today believe in absolute moral truth the problem quote facing the christian church they say is not that people lack a complete set of beliefs the problem is that they have a full slate of beliefs in mind which they think are consistent with biblical teachings and they are neither open to being proven wrong nor to even learning new insights it goes on to say it may well be that spiritual evaluation is so uncommon because people fear that the results might suggest the need for different growth strategies or for more aggressive engagement in the growth process no matter what the underlying reason is the bottom line among both clergy and laity was this indifference toward their acknowledged lack of evaluation let me re give give that uh you know another spin what they're basically saying in a nutshell is that god's people have come to a place where they feel like they've learned everything they're ever going to learn and they are completely indifferent and not interested in learning anything else or even even entertaining the idea that they might possibly be wrong about anything related to their religious beliefs when we come to a place where we put the car in neutral ladies and gentlemen it goes down the hill it can only go when gravity to where gravity takes it and i suggest in christianity today that's exactly where we are we're at a place where no one wants to reevaluate and i want to say that this is a martin luther moment the 21st century is built god in this day has built his people to start to ask the question there's got to be something more i'm missing something now is the time and today is the day that god's people begin to ask the questions and demand answers identity theft it's going a different direction for just a second out of the top five consumer complaints in america the number one complaint is identity theft 14 of all consumer complaints are related to identity theft today now you might say pastor jim what does that have anything to do with what you're talking it has everything to do with it because if you're new watching this then you've probably never heard me say this before but i say this all the time whatever happens in the physical realm there is a spiritual message behind it they parallel one another just as when moses was building a tabernacle on earth where did he get the pattern from in the heavenly realm so whatever happens in the earth realm there are prophetic hidden shadowistic [Music] messages that are built into our lives everywhere the problem is is we don't know them we don't see them we don't have the spiritual eyes to know that when you jesus when yeshua as i like to call him in his hebrew tongue when he cursed the fig tree we don't even know why we don't understand because we don't see in the prophetic realm we don't see in the supernatural realm we don't see the things that when that when he walked along the sands of shore the the the sands along the shoreline when he called the disciples we don't even understand why they dropped their nets and followed him we don't know the culture we don't know the idiomatic hebrew expressions in the first century we don't know our bibles and today i believe that god's trying to give us a prophetic wink that your number one consumer complaint is identity theft and what you don't know in the spiritual realm is the number one consumer complaint amongst god's people even if they don't know it is identity theft someone stole their identity and they don't know it and this message today i believe is going to unpack where we went wrong in our history and our history beliefs because today we have 41 000 denominations according to the center of study of global christianity at gordon conwell theological seminary 41 000 when i originally did this message back in 2009 there was 38 000. let's count 39 40 41 000 more denominations have been added ladies and gentlemen i don't know where you live what your language is and how you're watching and where you're watching but i can tell you this that if you just take this one thought into consideration 41 000 denominations when christ came to bring unity to the body of uh as a whole puts us in a crisis this is by nature puts us in a crisis the fact that we've got 41 000 different sects of christianity tells us that we've got some problems because we're not going down we're going up in our crisis first things first we have to know who we are if you know who you are then you will know your mission then you'll be able to read the signs you see i'm going to suggest something to you up front prove it to you as we move along and at the very end for some of you that are watching for the very first time it's going to overwhelm you it's the more bible that you know right now the more this message is going to impact you because the more that you understand who you are as you read through the scriptures and we unpack what the real identity of god's people are the scriptures are going to come alive and you're going to see signs everywhere that you never saw before or signs that you thought were for a different people group that are now for you and it changes everything so if you're afraid of change you need to probably change the channel because this is not a message that is going to make you feel good this is a message that is going to heal you and make you who you were originally meant to be listen how important is this is how you define yourself determines which direction you go in your life how you define yourself how many of you without without raising your hands have let your parents or let someone else tell you evil things about you and defined your life some traumatic thing happened in your life it radically changed your identity and it radically changed the direction that you went i'm here to tell you that it's real not just a psychology it's real not just in relationships it's real with your walk with god you can actually be walking north and not be walking true north in a compass there are two norths there is there is regular north and then there is true north true north is exactly perfectly north how many know that if you just take a piece of paper draw a line across it we start in the middle and we go in and one line goes directly perpendicular to that page that line straight up and another goes just one degree off to the right they're both going north one is going perfectly north so if you add 2 000 years since the the dawn of our messiah that third day and you just go off just a little bit 2 000 years later we've got 41 000 denominations every one of them north but how many have actually hit the destination that the messiah intended tonight we're going to evaluate that and we're going to back up our destinies to this sign and we're going to make sure we read the sign correctly there's lots of identities in the bible let's just walk through them we have obviously the jewish people there are gentiles in the bible there's the israelite identities there's an identity called the house of israel there's the house of judah we're going to talk about those pagans and heathens how many know the difference pagans are people that serve other gods heathens don't care and then you have christians well now there's a lot more identities in this there's no way for me to go through the hittites jebusites and all the parasites but i can tell you this there these are the main identities that we find in the bible that we're going to walk through because how you define these identities completely determines how you define a lot of scriptures that are attached to them but from genesis to revelation hands down no matter where you go what you do when you read the bible there is one singular singular identity that stands out more than every other one and that is israel israel is the single most um talked about the entire bible is about this small little tiny nation the size of new jersey around the mediterranean sea israel and so let's just let's find out what we're going to discover in this teaching we're going to answer some questions because here's what you're going to discover in this teaching number one we're going to really finally understand what the one new man is we're going to find out what the olive tree is of romans 11. it wasn't just a metaphor paul wasn't making it up we're going to find out why was adam first created with eve inside of him you may never even have thought of that question but we're going to answer it tonight the entire prophetic timeline of israel from genesis to revelation we're going to answer the deeper reason why jesus or yeshua really came and by the way if this if this is the very first time that you've ever watched this you may never even heard of the term yeshua before yeshua is jesus hebrew name it's the original name that his mother called him his father all the disciples yeshua in hebrew simply means salvation go figure god of the universe gives his own son the name salvation when you think of israel what do you think of i ask this question to people all the time when you think of israel what is your thought process so i wrote down the most common answers the jews a country in the middle east jacob of the old testament the church christians what are you what do you most likely think of when you think of israel of one of those four or five things we're going to go through those and we're going to find out what is really the biblical definition what is israel who is israel what is it all about but first we've got common myths that we want to talk about number one christians have replaced israel as the chosen people of god that's called replacement theology i'm going to define that for you tonight i'm going to unpack that for you because it is the most misunderstood and unfortunately the most held to belief when it comes to biblical theology of replacement of israel and who is israel most people unfortunately fall into that definition of replacement theology israel of the bible another myth is only comprised of the jewish people we'll talk about that the torah which simply in hebrew means instructions of god was given only to the jewish people and no one else we'll find out if that's true and the feast days of the bible such as passover and pentecost and so on and so forth that the disciples kept our jewish feast days we'll talk about that as well but first and foremost let's talk about the first myth which is replace excuse me replacement theology it is the belief that the christian church supersedes or replaces the israelites in god's plan and that the new covenant nullifies the biblical promises made to the children of israel including the abrahamic covenant the land covenant and the davidic covenant in this view the jews who reject jesus as the jewish messiah are consequently condemned by god forfeiting the promises otherwise due to them under the covenants that's according to wikipedia i love what dr michael brown has to say dr michael brown is one of the leading messianic jewish apologists and theologians in the world today he's written over 21 books and some of his most popular books are helping jewish people or combating the idea that jesus cannot be the messiah because being a jewish person himself he knows how they think and being a messianic jew he wrote multiple books on how jesus or why jesus really is the messiah so he understands this topic significantly of replacement theology and i love this quote he says this let's simplify things to all those who reject the term replacement theology do you believe that the national promises made to israel in the old testament still apply to the jewish people as a people if not you hold to a form of replacement theology even if you don't even like the term okay and so we're going to dive into this and discover exactly what this is first of all we deal with the abrahamic covenant promise or the guarantee god guaranteed to abraham that his descendants would be blessed period guaranteed this is an unconditional irrevocable promise for as long as they live on this earth romans 11 28 says it this way concerning the gospel they are enemies sake for your sake but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers for the gifts and calling of god are what irrevocable now we get confused on the reason why uh replacement theology is there primarily is because they've never seen this message theologians do not understand the front of the book and how it relates to the back of the book as i like to call it but there are scriptures like this where we're dealing with let's say salvation and we all know that you cannot inherit the kingdom of god unless you believe in yeshua through grace unless you have the faith to believe that he was sent by god was died for our sins and rose from the dead three days later you cannot be given that eternal grace everybody knows that inside of christianity both messianic and gentile alike and that's where the confusion gets in is because the abrahamic promises have nothing to do with salvation nothing let me ask you if you are a firstborn son 2 000 years ago 3000 years ago a thousand years ago and almost in every culture when your father passes away what do you receive you receive an inheritance do you know why because you have the same last name it's not because you're a good guy it's not because you're a bad guy not because you're indifferent it's because of who you know and who you're related to it's because of the promises of the forefathers beforehand and the traditions passed down where yahweh made god made a promise to abraham that your descendants will be blessed period no way to get out of it there was a land there was blessed there was land blessing there was other blessings and it was a blessing that they would bless the earth it had nothing to do with eternal life out of both kingdoms of the house of judah in the house of israel which we'll talk about it is judah that can physically trace back their lineage to abraham today there's no one else that can trace back their lineage to abraham than the jewish people today so what i'm going to do is i'm going to show you and prove to you the blessings that god's people from the old testament have on their mark is incredible matter of fact i love to tell a story that a friend of mine tells he has a jewish cpa one day he walked into his office and he said jewish cpi i have a question for you and he says you have christians and jews both on your books right as clients he said of course he said which one is more wealthy your jewish clients are your christian clients and the cpa laughed out of sarcasm and said well my jewish clients 10 to one actually 10 times more wealth than the christian clients and so my friend said well what what is it that makes them so uh so wealthy what is the wealth where did the wealth come from uh why are they so much more wealthy than than the christian clients and he says he says he picks a bible up off of his desk and he says it's real simple you christians read the back of the book the new testament and all the financial principles are in the front of the book that's why we're more wealthy something to be said about that but let's walk through all these incredible accomplishments and find out exactly if this is true this abrahamic covenant of without reproach did you know one quarter of one percent or 13 million of the entire population of the world are jewish one quarter of one percent are jewish yet of the 660 nobel prizes ever given 160 were jews not only that albert einstein i'm just going to go through some names because this blew my mind albert einstein these are all jewish people sigmund freud adam sandler doesn't matter what you think art gunk art garfunkel beth midler barbra streisand barbara walters billy crystal billy joel bob dylan david copperfield dustin hoffman dr ruth again doesn't matter what you think elizabeth taylor elvis presley fred astaire gene simmons gene wildler george michael harrison ford henry kissinger jerry lewis jerry seinfeld jerry springer springer for sure does not matter what you think judy garland kirk douglas levi strauss marilyn monroe the marx brothers mel brooks neil diamond some of you are already singing songs in your head paul newman paul simon paula abdul peter green peter falk roseanne barr sean penn steven seagal steven spielberg and woody allen under president obama ben bernanke is the federal reserve chairman rahm emanuel the white house chief of staff david axelrod the president's political advisor and dan shapiro the top middle east expert on national security council judge ruth bader ginsburg is the associate justice of the united states supreme court and jack lew is secretary of treasury every one of those are jewish we're not done yet vanity fair 2010 said out of the top 100 most powerful people 51 were jewish now get this one quarter of one percent of the world's population do you get this 13 million out of out of out of six and a half billion and this is the percentages that they're making up in the most influential 20 of the top billionaires are jewish and sergey brin i think that's how you say it founder of google bet you didn't know that mark zuckerberg founder of facebook michael bloomberg mayor of new york city and u.s house majority leader eric cantor all of them here are some inventions that the jewish people have given us the light bulb i'd say this pretty decent one lasers pacemakers defibrillators genetic engineering gmos oops okay look you know it's not all that bad they did give a stainless steel how about e equals m c squared that's kind of important cholera and bubonic plague vaccines the polio vaccine nuclear weapons capitalism the pill cam did you know that your genes were invented by the jews how many are wearing jeans right now raise your hand praise god for levi strauss lipstick the ballpoint pen contraceptives instant coffee that should get a round of applause traffic lights boo scotch guard the flexi straw could be useful in the great tribulation you never know all of hollywood tv sitcoms the long plain record and most of your favorite woodstock any movie that has sound videotape color television it doesn't end pretty much most of the world i think instant photography holography walkie-talkies the blimp fax machines fiber optics computer sandisk all of these invented by the jewish people and by far the most important invention ever made by the jewish people according to every husband in every household is the remote control what would we do without it the bottom line is this the jewish people are hands down the most blessed people group worldwide they have been more of a blessing to society than any other ethnic group per capita in modern history period the physical guarantee of the covenant blessings are regardless of the spiritual condition christianity cannot replace what is already being quoted and deemed as irrevocable god said it we believe it we better back off god blesses who he wants to bless amen abraham must have been one unbelievable guy because he blessed millions and millions of millions of people in his prodigy just because of his faithfulness let me ask a question how many tribes were at the base of mount sinai there were 12 tribes some of you that don't know this there are 12 tribes under the patriarch jacob he had 12 sons they became the 12 tribes of israel when god brought them out of the land of egypt through moses he brought them across the reed sea he brought them over to a place called mount sinai and at the base of that mount sinai was all 12 tribes now you might say jim why is that so important why are you stressing that it's really important when we get to understanding this question this myth israel is only the jewish people now if you are jewish today i understand that just the question that i'm asking is offensive i'm asking you to put your emotions aside for just a moment and let's let the bible define itself let's take ourselves out from the year 2014 let's take us out from modern day theology and religious circles and go back to the bible during the time when those definitions were given and let the bible define itself according to wikipedia the origin of the word jew is this after the splitting of the united kingdom of israel and judah into two the name yehudi was used for the southern kingdom of judah it thus ultimately originates in the biblical hebrew word yehudi meaning from the tribe of judah from the kingdom of judah or jew and so in other words the word jew comes from the southern kingdom and we'll talk about that southern kingdom in the extensity as we move forward so as we go here that was all introduction to bring us to this point where we're now going to walk through history we're going to go back in time and we're going to go through the history of israel starting with abraham and we're going to work our way all the way through the book of revelation and we're going to unravel this mystery this identity crisis that has been spread worldwide first of all we start off with abraham and i titled this slide father abraham the gentile because there are not very many people in the world that that would consider abraham anything but a jew but abraham was not jewish he wasn't even an israelite he was a gentile genesis chapter 11 verse 31 says this terah took abraham his son and lot the son of haran his grandson and sarai his daughter-in-law his son abraham's wife and they went out together from er of the chaldeans in order to enter the land of canaan he is a chaldean abraham is a polytheistic background he's a pagan gentile living in the land of pagans god calls from the land of pagans what would soon be a special people a royal priesthood watch this in genesis 14 13 it says then a fugitive came and told abram the hebrew this is the first time in the bible that we get a clue of who abraham is they considered him a hebrew so this particular person that was from beyond the euphrates river they called a hebrew and it means to cross over or the crossed over one now let's connect this to the brit hadashah or the new testament and find over find out if we've got a connection here john 5 24 says most assuredly i say to you he who hears my word and believes in him who sent me has everlasting life and shall not come into judgment but has passed or crossed over from death to life so the moment that abram believed in the lord god why was he called righteous by the way because it said he believed in god the moment that you believe in god not intellectually but the hebrew the word believe means to trust and obey there's two concepts in hebrew for belief excuse me there's one concept in hebrew for believe two in greek in greek you can believe intellectually but never actually do anything about it so you can say i believe in god that's why james says well i'm glad that you believe in god even the demons believe in god and they shudder in hebrew the concept to believe is i prove my belief intellectually by what i do if you believe something intellectually but you do something different what is that called a hypocrite this is what the pharisees were they were saying with their mouth what they believed in their head but their lives did not line up with that so what god says is that if you actually believe in me and instead of staying in egypt you actually come out of egypt and instead of staying there in fear i'm going to test you at the at the river excuse me at the red sea and you actually cross over the red sea you're a new creation that's that word is hebrew your crossed over one that's what abraham was before there was anything christian baptist lutheran there wasn't 41 000 different denominations to choose a title from it literally was i'm a cross over one then we come to jacob remember abraham as i has isaac isaac has jacob jacob on his way to meet his big brother esau and is very afraid because 20 plus years had passed now and since he's stolen esau's blessing esau the last time he talked to him said brother as soon as dad dies i'm taking you down off with your head so he knew this so he's about to meet esau sends everybody on the other side of the of the river he stays on this side and and a man shows up which we know to be elohim himself in the form of an angel yahweh savaot is what it is in the hebrew the lord of hosts shows up all over the old testament as a form of an angel he struggles with god and in this struggle the angel touches his hip which in hebrew is connected to authority because whenever someone had a major oath or covenant that they were going to make they would take the side of that right hip right underneath that thought that thigh where the sword was and that was the the sword of authority they were taking the thigh the authority that's when abraham remember the servant of abraham took abraham's thigh and swore that he would find a bride for isaac the angel who could have destroyed jacob in any moment waits till the very end and touches his thigh what is he doing he's touching his authority he's breaking his authority because he's a terrible authority what authority would send all of his family across the river and leave himself on this side so that he doesn't die he makes him understand what real authority is by touching his hip making him limp for just a moment and then blesses him with something that he doesn't even understand the greatest blessing he could ever get is a changing of his name because at the moment that his name has changed his mission changes because in hebrew every name has a mission it has a meaning so if you change the name from yaakov which means a deceiver a subplanter one who pulls the carpet out from people and you change it to israel which means one who struggles with god rules with god you see nobody gets to rule in god's kingdom unless they struggle first and so i want to suggest to you this is why james tells us to consider it pure joy because he was here he understood this he was here in this concept that when you struggle with god you get a new name you get to rule with him it is pure joy to struggle with the living god amen all right so that's on that timeline so from there they're in the land of canaan then they end up in egypt for 400 some odd years and then they're making their trek back to egypt excuse me back to canaan back to the promised land it's the same biblical pattern over and over again we start in the garden we get kicked out of the garden and god's intent is to bring us back to the garden garden egypt egypt back to the garden in your life today that's what god is doing he's taken you from the place of which you originally were called in your destiny in your spiritual life of which you may not know what that is you're in egypt and he's trying to pull you out of egypt to get you back to what you originally called to do you are walking the same road as the israelites some of you are still in the desert your mouth is dry you have no leadership you doubt your leadership you don't even know where you're at some of you think you're in canaan if you were in canaan why are you so hot and sunburned so we're standing at the jordan river on this timeline this is where our story truly begins at the jordan river is where this most prophetic statement is made by god himself that determines the entire future of not only the israelites but you let me read it for you deuteronomy chapter 28 verse 15 says this and following but it shall come to pass if you do not obey the voice of the lord your god to observe carefully all of his commandments and his statutes which i command you today that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you then the lord will scatter you among the peoples from one end of the earth to the other and there you shall serve other gods which neither you nor your fathers have known wood and stone in deuteronomy 21 29 1 says these are the words of the covenant which yahweh commanded moses to make with the sons of israel in the land of moab besides the covenant which he made with them in horeb so he's making a covenant with the sons of israel right here at the jordan river before they enter this is 40 years have gone by they're standing at the jordan river they're about to enter into what their parents never could see and he says this 13 verses later neither with you do i make this covenant and this oath but with him who stands with us today before yahweh our god and also with him who is not here today so he says i'm not going to make this covenant just with you the sons of israel but i'm going to make this covenant with someone else everyone else that's not here today what's he saying those that are not alive yet those that are in your loins sons of israel he says i'm making this covenant with not just you but all of your progeny that comes after you and who are those the sons of god those are of the promise they're the children of the promise they're defined the sons of god or the sons of israel are just are called the children of the promise they're also called the children of the covenant it says all the sons of israel which included this deuteronomy 12 29 10 here's the definition of all those that aren't there your leaders and your tribes and your elders and your officers and all the men of israel your little ones your wives and also the stranger who is in your camp from the one who cuts wood to the one who draws your water so we have to ask the question theologians we have got to ask the question what is this stranger that he's talking about because we have all been taught that the covenants that were given to israel were given to the bloodline israelites but right here there is an exception because the stranger whose dwelling in their midst is not a native born israelite but he is under the covenant we'll come back to that then they're in the land of canaan we come to the time of the kings so the israelites want a king right so god gives them saul and then david and then solomon and here's where everything went wrong because under solomon these three kings all 12 tribes were governed under one country one nation under god indivisible right 12 tribes one king all together for three kings and three kings only until what until solomon blew it big time so bad here's what god said in first kings 11 31 he said to jeroboam the servant of solomon take for yourselves ten pieces for thus says yahweh the god of israel behold i will tear the kingdom of israel out of solomon's hand and i will give you ten tribes so he's giving solomon's servant ten tribes to jeroboam and rehoboam in the south is going to end up with two tribes this is where the two tri the the ten tribes the twelve tribes get split why does he do this it says because they've forsaken me and worship asteroth the goddess of the sidonians and have not walked in my ways to do what's right in my eyes and keep my statutes and my judgments as did his father david now many of you in this room know this but for for you that are watching online would it interest you to discover that the word asteroth there is the same exact goddess the bare breasted fertility goddess of the east that's called ishtar the wife of the the hated baal of the scriptures of which uh you see god going after throughout the scriptures all the time joshua at mount carmel he is going against the prophets of baal bale's wife ish ishtar and if you follow each star all the way down did you know that the anglicanization the english way of saying ishtar is actually easter that's exactly right i encourage you to get truth or tradition let's keep going the kingdom is split the ten tribes in the north were called the house of israel the house of joseph or the house of ephraim okay why because jacob his son was joseph and from joseph the blessing went to ephraim which we'll talk about a little bit later that's why they're called all three the southern israel the southern part of israel the two tribes that were left judah and benjamin were called the house of judah so you've got the house of judah in the south comprised of benjamin and judah and then you have the northern ten tribes the rest of israel in the north that's called the house of israel house of israel house of judah where it gets confusing is the fact that it's called the house of israel because in our lingo in modern days when we think of israel we think of the jewish people and even if we knew that israel of the bible was all 12 tribes by saying house of israel by we would by default if we didn't know the split understanding we would think of that as all 12 tribes so it's important to understand that that major difference so then we come then we come to genesis chapter 49 where the blessing is split now look you have to understand this in in israel culture there were two major parts to an inheritance you had the kingship preeminence priestly blessing that goes to judah in this case and then you also have the double material portion blessing that goes to joseph neither one were the firstborn reuben was the firstborn but he blew it the next one blew it the next one blew it judah was actually the fourth born son joseph was the firstborn son of rachel his favorite wife the love of his life so the the blessing was actually split between judah and joseph this is paramount to understand the rest of the bible if you don't understand that this blessing gets split right here then you won't understand the rest of the bible it's not possible to understand who israel is and how their timeline changes throughout history and what happens on their timeline because everything is connected to this all the way through the book of revelation even prophecy is built on this statement this blessing so because god's people were warned that if they continue to break the covenant that was given to abraham then no excuse me to adam then noah then abraham and finally written down on tablets of stone they would be taken away into captivity they would be taken away into bondage and this happened in 722 bc the northern kingdom of israel the house of israel was taken into captivity unfortunately judah the house of judah played the harlot she did not learn from her older sister and or his younger brother however you want to take a look at it in around 586 bc they were taken to babylon for 70 years so the the northern house of israel all 10 tribes were taken into captivity in 722 bc and the southern kingdom was taken into captivity into babylon that one is the one that's most talked about so this one is the one that people are most familiar with because it's the entire house of judah even though not every single person was taken into captivity we know this remember the whole story of nehemiah is built on them coming back they were there for 70 years why because they didn't let the land rest on the shemitah years on that sabbath god said you're not gonna you're not gonna keep my sabbaths i'll take you into captivity for the exact amount of years that you didn't keep my sabbath and you let the land rest when the house of judah was allowed to go back to jerusalem most of all the jews came back from babylon they went into jerusalem they rebuilt the walls but the northern house of israel never came back the northern house of israel assimilated into the nations all around the mediterranean area they were pushed they never came back this is why the only people that are part of israel today the jews that we see today if they would not have come back from babylon so many years ago there would be no jewish people today therefore you would not be wearing levi strauss jeans if the jewish people had not come back they wouldn't even exist there would be nothing but gentiles worldwide think of the implications of this why god had to raise up someone like nehemiah if it wasn't for nehemiah this world would look a lot different prophecy would look a lot different let me say this without them coming back from babylon jesus himself doesn't exist the whole lineage is banking that they maintain their identity with the god of abraham isaac and jacob deuteronomy chapter 30 verse 1 says this we're going back to the jordan river it shall come to pass when all these things come to you the blessing and the curse which i have set before you and you call them to mind among the nations where the lord god drives you and you return to the lord your god and you return to the lord your god and obey his voice according to all that i command you today you and your children with all your heart and with all your soul that the lord your god will bring you back from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you again from the nations where the lord god has scattered you if any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven from there the lord god will gather you and from there he will bring you then the lord god will bring you to the land which your father's possessed and he and you shall possess it he will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers and the lord your god will circumcise your heart and your heart of your descendants to love the lord god with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength that you may live you see jesus yeshua was not the first one to say to love the lord god with all your heart mind soul and strength he was saying what he had already written all the way back here at the base of mount sinai god says i put before you blessings and curses blessings if you keep my commandments curses if you don't and like i say all the time sometimes the greatest curse is the blessings that you don't even know you've missed sometimes we go through our whole lives and we make terrible decisions and we say well i'm blessed i'm still blessed god loves me look at my life what you don't know is what you missed what you could have been someone pointed out to me one time and it's radically impacted my life hell fire and damnation would does not scare me near as much is dying and sitting before the judgment scene of the throne of christ and meeting the jim staley i could have been that would be the scariest day in my in my existence is to meet the person i could have been because we're not only ladies and gentlemen we're gonna get get uh judged by the things we do wrong and we get rewards by the things that we do right we are also going to be judged by the difference of who you could have been you say well jim that's not fair no no it is fair because when you hear the voice of the holy spirit say to witness this person and you're in public and you're embarrassed and you know god is pressing it upon your heart to pray with them meet with them you know the waitress comes and you can see the tears thrown up her eyes you know god is telling you to ask her what her name is and if you can pray for something and you refuse to do it and then on judgment day you meet that that person would have become an evangelist that would have led 250 000 people to christ and those 250 000 people could very well be on your head that's the person that you could have become god is telling us in this moment at this place right at the jordan river he tells them he says i'm going to give you a rah-rah when you go into the camp don't forget about me don't forget about the covenant that i gave you don't forget about the covenant of your forefathers don't forget that your fathers and your mothers don't get to come because you have faith but when you go and cross over you're gonna forget and i'm gonna have to scatter you into the four corners of the earth you're going to he's prophesying the northern kingdom going into assyria and the southern kingdom going into babylon he says that i know you're going to forget and i'm going to scatter you everywhere you're going to lose your identity you're going to forget who i am you're not even going to like who i am you're going to forget my commandments you're going to forget my name even but when you remember i will draw you back to myself i will bring you home i will call you by name the trumpet blast and the shofar blast will go out to the four corners of the earth and i will call my sheep back to green pastures amen all right well so now we are back at the jordan river god gives them this prophetic message he gives them this encouragement but quite frankly it's not much of an encouragement if you're if you're telling them hey i'm your god i know you love me this is joshua generation i'm excited for you guys you're going into the ground of canaan i'm going to be with you you're going to see amazing things walls come down giants are going to fall but hey by the way you're going to blow it and we have to scatter you throughout the entire world and your lives are going to fall apart that's pretty much exactly what's happening right here at the jordan river but it gives them this tremendous promise that if you repent i will let you come back so now we come and we have this uh with this concept called scattered sheep because god's people are called his bride they're called sheep and they're called several other things that we're going to talk about because these these names mean something jeremiah chapter 50 verse 17 says israel is like scattered sheep the lions have driven him away directly connected to this prophetic message micah chapter 2 verse 12 amazing amazing book one of my favorite i will surely assemble all of you o jacob i will surely gather the remnant of israel i will put them together like sheep of the fold like a flock in the midst of their pasture they shall make a loud noise be noise because there is so many people so over and over again israel is called sheep scattered sheep ezekiel 34 12 says as a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he's among his scattered sheep so i will seek out my sheep and deliver them from all the places where they've been scattered on a cloudy and dark day i will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries again a direct reference to the northern house of israel and israel in general being scattered into the nations the point i want to bring out here is israel is the only people in the bible called sheep there is no other group in the bible that has this definition theologians and students of the bible it is critical that we do not read from the new testament into the old testament because the new testament was written from the foundation of the old testament and the new testament writers were pulling the theology and the definitions that they were writing from their existing framework within judaism they would not have changed the definitions from the what we call the old testament what they called the hebrew scriptures so i want to ask a million dollar question where are the scattered sheep that he talks about where did he scatter them you know where they are at the bible says they're among the gentiles let's walk through this amos chapter 9 verse 9 you're going to start to make connections already for look i will command and i will sift the house of israel among the gentiles notice right here he says i'm going to sift the house of israel this is really important why i told you earlier you've got to understand the difference between the house of israel in the north and the house of judah in the south there is not a time in the bible where israel all 12 tribes are called the house of israel it is the house of israel in the north in the house of jude in the south so in amos chapter 9 verse 9 he is being very specific and it's for a reason because it's the northern house of israel that was prophesied to be scattered into the four corners of the earth not the southern kingdom some of them were scattered but it was the north that was prophesied to be amongst all of the nations so he says i will sift the house of israel among the gentiles telling us that they're going to be found among the gentiles look at this ezekiel 11 16 says therefore say thus says the lord god although i have cast them far off among the gentiles and although i've scattered them among the countries yet i shall be a little sanctuary the word there's mishkan it i shall be a tabernacle a temple for them in the countries where they have gone let's continue because it's not just a couple they're everywhere psalms 106 47 says save us o lord our god and gather us from among the gentiles to give thanks to your holy name to triumph in your praise ephraim becomes mixed it says in hosea chapter 7 verse 8 ephraim has mixed himself amongst the peoples amongst the nations ephraim is a cake unturned he's half baked aliens have devoured his strength but he doesn't even know it so ephraim the northern which is what the northern house of israel was called scattered throughout the nations he becomes baked he becomes mixed he doesn't even know who he is and he doesn't even know that his strength has been stripped from him he doesn't even know the blessing that he doesn't have hosea chapter 8 verse 8 israel is swallowed up now they are among the gentiles like a vessel in which there is no pleasure the 10 tribes listen a bit listen to this the 10 tribes were taken into captivity and dispersed across all of assyria over time they assimilated into the nations and they became as gentiles they knew their identity this is important they had not lost their identity at this point they knew their identity the entire time that they were amongst the gentiles they knew their genealogy they knew that they were from the tribe of dan i'm a you know i'm from naphtali i'm from asher i'm gad but over time they became indistinguishable indistinguishable in word indeed in other words they may have knew their family genealogy but they acted and talked dressed looked just like the rest of the world they had no idea people had no idea which one was a tribe of dan which one was this person that person from from a greek's perspective this is my friend he's a greek they don't even know now that person knows they know themselves where they come from but most likely no one else did because they assimilated into the culture by the new testament times these next couple slides are so critical listen to me the new testament times most still knew which tribe that they were from and lived across the euphrates river exactly what josephus says he says that they lived by the millions across the euphrates river in the new testament even the jews knew the northern 10 tribes that by the millions lived across the euphrates river they were not allowed to be part of israel and i'll explain that a little bit later this is really important theology to understand but over the past 2000 years they would completely lose their identity completely lose their identity as the house of israel totally fulfilling the prophecy so the northern 10 tribes of israel taken into captivity of assyria scattered throughout the then known world lived across the euphrates river in the first century in the time of christ but over the last 2000 years since the destruction of the temple not only did they they we have no idea who they are they don't know who they are josephus says this a jewish historian in the first century wherefore there are but two tribes in asia and europe subject to the romans while the ten tribes are beyond the euphrates till now and are immense multitude and not to be estimated by numbers what is he telling us the first century historian is telling us that israel of the first century was comprised of judah and benjamin the two tribes right there two tribes right there the other ten tribes are across the river that's why it was jews that were part of the sanhedrin there was no tribe of dan and dan by the way was a judge so there's no other tribes that's why paul says he's from which tribe benjamin okay because that's what israel was comprised of no one else was allowed to be part of israel unless you converted to the first century rabbinical form of religion called judaism in the first century then you could be part of israel but you had to convert to the southern kingdom does that make sense okay if not hit stop rewind from modern jewish scholars the captives of israel exiled beyond the euphrates did not return as a whole to palestine along with their brethren the captives of judah at least there is no mention made of this event in the documents at our disposal in fact the return of the ten tribes was one of the great promises of the prophets and the advent of the messiah is therefore necessary necessarily identified with the re the epic of their redemption what is he saying the reason why i'm showing you this is because a lot of the jewish people today will tell you that they've returned from captivity that israel is the jewish people jewish people is all of israel and the ten tribes have returned but the rabbis and the academics and the scholars will tell you no we know that there's a difference whether or not that difference actually gets passed down to the laity inside of judaism in the synagogues is one thing but at the top of the scholastic academic theological food chain in judaism they know that there are two houses they know that israel today is only of the two tribes in the south they know that the ten tribes are still lost matter of fact the orthodox pray for the the ten tribes three times a day and so we can't say that anybody has returned from the 10 tribes that the 10 tribes have returned because the prophets say that it hasn't happened yet and even modern scholars say it hasn't happened yet even in the mishnah which is a compilation of jewish history and writings and holocaust there is uh writings in the mishnah of of two rabbis and rabbi akiva his view is this on the ten tribes the ten tribes will not return for it is said and cast them into another land as it is this day just as the day goes and does not return so they too went and will not return so rabbi akiva says about the 10 tribes he says they're not going to return now the reason why i'm showing you this is to show that this is after the time of christ this is hundreds of years later and they're still talking about whether or not the tribes should return so it could not have happened in the first century or judaism itself would not even be having this this conversation because rabbi eliezer says in response as this day just as this day darkens and then becomes light again so the ten tribes even as it went dark for them so will it become light for them so the point is is that we've got written record of two rabbis going at it saying i don't believe they're gonna come back i do believe they're gonna come back so what by default can we deduct from both of those they're not back even the israel ministry of foreign affairs the imfa says this the exile to babylonia which followed the destruction of the first temple in 586 bc marked the beginning of the jewish diaspora do you realize how important this is for the imfa to make this statement because the northern kingdom was exiled 130 years earlier by default they're admitting that the first dispersion was not the jewish people but the house of israel for you gentiles this may not be an important message but i know for my jewish brethren this is an important slide because you have all been taught generically that the jewish people were dispersed and that was all 12 tribes but even your own organizations again at the highest levels of academia admit that the first dispersion of the jewish people was 586 bc going to babylon because that's the house of judah let's get into the new testament a little bit and let me ask this paramount question have you ever wondered why pagan gentiles who hated the jews anti-semitic as they come would so readily accept a jewish messiah so a rabbi paul rav shaol in his hebrew tongue is going around to different cities and he's supposedly preaching to pagans and a hundred thousand people convert to christ in just the city of ephesus all of these are polytheistic pagan gods sun god worshipers they got a thousand different gods they don't even need another god much less a jewish god of which they can't stand to begin with why would they accept a jewish messiah i'm going to suggest to you something because many of these gentiles were not pagan gentiles they were israelite gentiles let's dig into this and find out if this crazy theory is true peter says this in verse one now you have some definitions from the tanakh the old testament we can actually unravel some incredible mysteries in the new testament peter an apostle of jesus christ to the strangers scattered throughout pontius galatia cappadocia asia bithynia elect according to the foreknowledge of god the father right off the bat where paul peter is using terminology that he's not making up every one of his jewish brethren knows that the word scattered comes from the prophecies of scattering the northern house of israel there's only one people in the entire bible that are called the elect and that is israel of the old testament now some of you that might bother you but let me finish what i'm going to say we've been talking for hundreds of years now trying to figure out this whole doctrine of election books have been written calvinism arminianism you know one saved always saved you know you can all these things the doctrine of election is very simple and predestination is very simple god elected his people scattered them predestined for the elect to come back that is the definition of predestination right there in a nutshell you can't look at it from your 21st century western greco-roman post-catholic backgrounds in english but if you dive into the original the original scriptures and you dive into the tanakh and the old testament and the hebrew scriptures and the concepts that are there it's god's people are elect he moves them into captivity and a select elect those that obey his voice in his his commandments and his ordinance and so on and so forth become the remnant that are predestined to come back and that's what we see in the new testament and i want to point out something else here that's really interesting peter tells us that the scattered are throughout pontius and what galatia you bible students should be asking yourself oh my goodness who is the book of galatians really written to it's not just these pagan gentiles could it possibly be that part of the israelite gentiles that are found among the gentiles that lost their identity that know who they are but have forgotten their god that this is part of the people group that's in galatia could it be possible that when paul walks into galatian city that the reason why they accept the message so fast is because they've heard part of it before they just haven't had the solution or the mystery solved they knew the mystery but they knew there was no solution and i'm going to share with you a little bit later why they got so excited by the thousands to come to christ because they knew the problem they knew there was no solution and the apostle paul comes around with good news we're going to talk about what that good news is james says this in his book first verse first chapter james the servant of god on the lord jesus christ to the 12 tribes who were scattered abroad his book is to the 12 tribes bible students listen to what i'm saying it's not written to gentiles he's telling us who it's written to he's writing to the tribes of israel all 12 in fact gentile israelites john chapter 7 verse 33 let's get crazy for a second jesus therefore said yet a little while i am with you and i will go to him who sent me you will seek me and you will not find me and where i am you cannot come the disciples of those listening are a little bit confused at this moment because they're thinking where is he going that we can't follow him and that's exactly what they said they said the jews therefore said amongst themselves where is this man gonna go that we're not gonna find him will he go to the dispersion amongst the greeks and teach the greeks you see we look at this and we go is he going to go talk to the gentiles is he going to go teach the greeks because we don't read the front of the book to understand what the dispersion amongst the greeks means there's a prophecy about the northern house of israel being dispersed amongst the greeks so they're saying in effect is this man going to fulfill prophecy and go and speak to the northern house of israel from which by the way we've created a man-made tradition and doctrine of law within our own religious system that says you can't do that you've got to know the cultural history to know there was a law on the books that you could not talk to the dispersion or a gentile you could not eat with them why do you think peter gets in trouble for going to cornelius's house it's not a biblical law it's a jewish oral law in the first century they're basically saying the jews amongst themselves are saying he would not dare go there that's why he says by the way where i'm going you won't go you won't find me because you'll never think to look there now we know who the sheep are watch this because all these verses are going to pop out like 3d john chapter 10 verse 3 says the watchman opens the gate for him and the sheep listen to his voice he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out when when he has brought out all of his own he goes on ahead of them and his sheep follow because they know his voice now every one of us have grown up in church have always read these scriptures because when you get saved where do they start you john at the back of the book that's like handing you a novel and saying go to chapter 13 and start there you'll learn everything you need to know but like my friend says god is so smart that he knew we were going to send everybody to john chapter 1 verse 1 which is why it starts out saying sane in the beginning he's trying to tell us something go back to the beginning don't start here and if you go back to the beginning what you discover as the only definition of we as we have explained the only definition of sheep in the entire bible from the this author's perspective these jewish authors perspective is the sheep are equal to the tribes of israel so when you get to the new testament and yeshua jesus is giving these analogies and these parables and these stories about sheep who do you think he's talking to and referring to and look what we have done in our third grade education in theology as christians worldwide according to theologians by the way is we have read into the new testament scriptures oh we are the sheep actually not even knowing what we're really saying john chapter 10 verse 7 another one therefore jesus said again i tell you the truth i am the gate for the sheep if you know the bible this should start to get excited if you think i'm fired up now you wait till the end because what is yeshua saying there's a pen there's a there is a cage if you will there's a fence and there are sheep that are outside the fence they're scattered throughout the nations and he says guess what i'm the gate for them to come back you jews say that they can't come back you southern kingdom say it's not possible for them to come back and you actually have chapter and verse to back it up which we'll talk about a little bit later but i'm telling you right now i'm the gate for the sheep i'm the eastern gate to the holy of holies i am the temple itself and the eastern gate he says there's only one way to get to the father and that's through me let's continue who is peter talking about when he says this in chapter 2 verse 9 of his own book he says but you are a chosen generation a royal priesthood a holy nation who once were not a people but are now the people of god who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy i encourage you if you're watching this online do not shut this off we are about to get to some of the most exciting things that you have ever seen in your word in the bible because ladies and gentlemen we start off new believers in the book of john we do not even understand that he is quoting this entire verse these two verses from the prophets and you've got to know this prophet statement you've got to know the scriptures that he's quoting from because if you don't go back to the scriptures he's quoting from you're going to miss who he's really talking about because again i'm going to suggest you because of our 41 000 denominational backgrounds and because we don't know the front of the book we're never told to run the fun of the book we're told that they're bible stories for children all the way up to 10 and after that they're only good for bedtime stories it's just history it has no prophetic meaning we put no value on it even though in the book of timothy it says that all scripture is worthy for correction for doctrine for reproof and ways and right ways of righteousness and did you know when that was written there was no new testament the only scriptures he was talking about were the torah the saints and the prophets and he considered that worthy for all doctrine so let me ask our seminary students and theological students today and professors that are watching this right now can we be just intellectually honest and say today in christianity we put this much value on the new testament and we put this much value on the old testament when the apostles when they wrote the new testament put this much value on the old testament and they didn't even consider this new testament does that make sense but we all want to be like acts chapter 15. we all want the power of god we want the apostolic anointing but we don't use the anointing that the apostles had and used we don't even use the same book that they used the new testament is no doubt inspired but listen like someone told me once the new testament is simply the old testament revealed and the old testament is the new testament concealed if you don't know the old testament and these prophets you're going to miss right through this so let's find out exactly what this means what is this once people that were not a people it does sound like the gentiles doesn't that sound like the christian church you were not a part of god and now you are part of god you didn't have compassion and you now have mercy sounds nice sounds spiritual even sounds uh theologically sound let's test it because he's actually quoting from somewhere exodus 19 6 has another exact quote and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests this is part of the scripture he's quoting and a holy nation these are the words which you help you shall speak to the children of israel so in the bible there's a law called the law of hermeneuticals excuse me the hermeneutical one of the hermeneutical principles is the law of precedent and it says that the first time that something is used tells you the definition it tells you how it's used the rest of the scriptures so this is telling us that the kingdom of priests in a holy nation phrase he's speaking to the children of israel hermeneutically speaking and seminary students will tell you this you can't change it it's illegal you cannot change what god said is this is the definition if god said that the uh the the children of israel are likened unto uh blossoms in a garden you cannot say they're rocks you can't do that whatever he says is what it'll always be so if he says that the children of israel are a kingdom of priests and a holy nation then any time that you see the new testament authors use that you have to ask yourself where did they get that from they didn't make it up they're quoting scripture because they're trying to make a case to the jewish people that jesus is the jewish messiah so they're going to use their own scriptures against them let's continue but more powerfully by the way i want to go back to this scripture and i want you to remember this in verse 10 of first peter 2 which we're going to talk about is this phrase i just went over a royal priest in a holy nation showed you how it's connected to the children of israel but what i want to focus on is this phrase that you were not a people but now you are a people watch where that comes from a little bit later many of the people whom paul preached to were from the northern house of israel no questions asked that the majority i believe of the people that paul is actually preaching to when he says that i'm the apostle to the gentiles of course there are pagan gentiles or heathen gentiles and gentiles that are real gentiles that were never israelites to begin with but i'm here to tell you as the sky is blue that our bible tells us in the language that paul is using what he actually means my apostle to the gentiles and who he is really talking to is the scattered northern house of israel that the southern house of israel called wild dogs and gentiles paul says this let me just prove this because i know some of you are crossing your eyes romans chapter 9 verse 24 even us whom he called not of the jews only but also of the gentiles now watch this bible students watch this i will i will call them my people who were not my people so he just defined he says that god's not going to call just to us jews only but also to the gentiles because he says i will call them my people who were not my people and her beloved who was not my beloved and that shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them you are not my people there they shall be called sons of the living god and that may not be mean a whole lot to you right now but if you knew that that was a direct quote from hosea chapter 1 verse 10 then you would go there and we would find out exactly who are the not my peoples because that's who's being talked about that's who paul is directly referencing is the people who were called not my people and he defines those as gentiles and i can assure you paul who stuttered un studied under gamaliel and was the most zealous of all he says students of gamaliel and just to study under gaumoliel you had the entire torah memorized this is the elite of the elite of the elite let me ask you a question paul was chosen by the most high god on his way to damascus to kill christians was he not does god need to choose the highest academic theological student of the entire first century to go talk to pagans that don't know come here from sikkim do you have to choose thomas edison to teach first grade math there's a reason why god chose the genius paul because he is commissioned to prove something theologically to both the jews and to these israelite gentiles who know their background and know that they cannot be part of israel and god chooses him because he knows more of the scriptures and has a pizzazz and a zeal and a tenacity about him that he won't ever quit he'll never give up and even when i throw him in chains he will see the vision and he will continue to go after my scattered sheep that's why paul was chosen but let's go back to this in hosea chapter 1 verse 4 and let's read it because this is where paul is quoting from and the lord said to him name him jezreel for yet a little while i will punish the house of jehu for the bloodshed of jezreel and i will put an end to the kingdom of the house of israel there we go the prophecy again i'll put an end to the kingdom of the house of israel for i will no longer have compassion on the house of israel remember that he said those who have had no compassion but i will have compassion on the house of judah and deliver them by the lord their god he goes on to say five verses later for you house of israel are not my people and i am not your god yet the number of the sons of israel will be like the sand of the sea which cannot be measured or numbered and in the very place where it is said to them you are not my people it will be said to them you are the sons of the living god what you have just heard with your own ears is what paul says in the new testament is the mystery how can the sons of the living god be his people then he says they're not going to be my people i'm not going to be their god anymore and then he says in this very place that i'm telling them they're not going to be my people and i'm not going to be their god in that very place they'll become sons of the living god now if you don't have the rest of the bible that is a little confusing that's why they call it a mystery keep going on this let's read it again romans chapter 9 verse 24 it says this even us whom he called not of the southern kingdom only but he called of the gentiles and he says in hosea i will call them who's them referring to in paul's context the gentiles i will call them my people who are not my people and her beloved who is not my beloved and it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them you're not my people in that place you'll be called sons of the living god so what paul is saying is if if paul is not referring to the house of israel every bible student that went to the seminary knows you've got to throw out every two-thirds of the new testament has to be thrown out because he's breaking hermeneutical principle you cannot change what god says you don't change definitions this is how we end up with 41 000 denominations we change definitions if you if paul can change the definition of what hosea says is the people that are not my people that will be my people then you can change the name of the messiah because it doesn't end you can change everything every prophecy that's written can be changed nothing can be trusted when god defines what the entire messiah is going to look by look like you can throw it out and change it and everyone will do whatever is right in his own eyes and i suggest that is exactly what we have done this is why 70 some odd percent of our young people by the end of their first year in college deny christ because we're not giving them any standard no foundation all the definitions have changed they see right through it it's not right the anointing of god is not on anything but his own word and when you change it there's a curse according to my bible we better start interpreting the bible and letting the bible interpret itself and this is right here the bible but if this was only one scripture jim you know i think you're stretching it let's find out because this is critical let's go to hosea chapter two by the way the entire book of hosea is about the northern house of israel go back and read it all 14 chapters every chapter is about the whole entire house of israel so if you want to find out about the scattered sheep that book has more almost more information about it than anything so we're going to walk through all the scriptures in the whole book say to your brothers ami and your sisters ruhama contend with your mother contend for she is not my wife and i am not her husband then i will give her vineyards from there and the valley of acor as a door of hope and she will sing there as in the days of her youth as in the days when she came up from the land of egypt what's the whole book of hosea about hosea does what gets a word from god that he has to marry a prostitute named gomer has three children and those three children are prophetic of the northern house of israel and their journey and he says that he's going to divorce the northern house of israel she's not my wife hosea 2 23 says i will sow her for myself in the land i will also have compassion on it so even though i'm going to get rid of her even though i'm going to divorce her because she's prostitute it's the whole prophetic story i will have compassion on her who had not obtained compassion and i will say to those who are not my people the children of gomer the divorced wife you are my people and they will say you are my god so this is a future event where the children of the house of israel that were divorced are going to come back into covenant and they're going to say you are my god and there's going to be a revival so in the last days this is awesome chapter 3 verse 5 of the same book says afterwards the sons of israel will return and seek the lord their god and david their king and they will come trembling to the lord and to his goodness in the last days this is a prophetic timeline given to us that at the end of time is when this scripture is going to happen at the end of time is when remember they were at the river getting that message that not so good cheerleading message that when you go into the land you joshua generation you're gonna blow it i'm gonna scatter you out all the kingdoms and all the nations of the earth and the four corners but you're gonna hear my shofar blast and i'm going to gather the house of israel i'm going to gather the lost sheep of the house of israel and i'm going to bring them back we now know when that happens the last days this has not happened yet so why were they divorced hosea 4 6 my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge look what how he defines knowledge by the way because you've rejected knowledge i also will reject you from being my priest since you have forgotten rejected the law in in hebrew that's torah of your god i also forget your children so he says that knowledge of god is directly related to his law you forget the law you have no knowledge because i am the law i am the word made flesh you don't know me because you don't read moses and the prophets lazarus in the rich man's story oh but god it's hot down here if you if you if you just let me go talk to them or let my brother i will tell my brothers that this is real he said look if they don't if they don't know about me they're never going to know about me because moses wrote about me they have moses and the prophets let them read the moses and the prophets it's all about me what's he saying they don't have any knowledge because they don't know my law don't forget it he says i'll forget your children. for the lips of a priest should keep knowledge and people should seek the law from his mouth malachi 2 7. i only put that in there to make a connection a little rabbi a little rabbi trail for just a moment that the knowledge of god according to the scriptures and all through the book of proverbs go back and look at proverbs and do a word search on just the word knowledge and you'll be blown away that knowledge is connecting to connected to seeking god's law his commandments knowledge is knowing who he is knowing who he is is knowing right and wrong on the third day watch this hosea 6 1 credible book come and let us return to the lord for he has torn but he will heal us he is stricken but he will bind us up after two days he will revive us and on the third day he will raise us up that we may live in his sight let us know let us pursue the knowledge of the lord let's go back to what we forgot his going forth is established in the as the morning he will come to us like the rain like the latter and former rain to the earth hosea 8 1 says this set the trumpet to your mouth he shall come like an eagle against the house of the lord because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my torah israel will cry to me my god we know you israel has rejected the good talking about his law the enemy will pursue him now what i want to do is i want to connect this to a statement that's found in matthew compare this with matthew chapter 7 verse 22 many will say to me in that day on judgment day lord we have not prophesied in your name have we not cast out demons in your name done many wonders in your name and then i will declare to them i never knew you depart from me you who practice lawlessness now let's go back to hosea 8 1 when it says my god israel will cry my god we know you and god says you've rejected my law your lawlessness do you see the connection do you think that it's just coincidence that the writer of matthew here that this chapter yeshua is telling us it's just not connected at all or could he possibly be connecting these two scriptures hosea 8 10 again yes they have hired among the nations now i will gather them i have written to him the great things of my law but they were considered a strange thing to the house of israel the torah is a strange weird thing that's what the prophecy is going to be if you haven't noticed already we're walking through the book of hosea in 9 17 it says my god will cast them away because they did not obey him and they shall be wanderers among the nations among the gentiles but in chapter 12 he says this in verse 6 so you by the help of your god return observe mercy and justice and wait on god continually and in the last chapter he says this in the first verse o israel return to the lord your god for you have stumbled because of your sin your iniquity those who dwell under his shadow shall return they shall be revived like grain and grow like a vine and so the whole book of hosea is about the northern house of israel getting divorced and being scattered in the nations and coming back it's good news the mystery is how is that going to happen so now we're going to go into romans chapter 11 one of the most misunderstood chapters of the new testament verse 24 for if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree how much more will these who are natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree so we've got an olive tree we've got a wild olive tree we've got a cultivated olive tree and we've got from the olive tree we've got broken branches and other branches being grafted in that's what's going on we got an agricultural example going on here so what is an olive tree a good bible student would say where's paul getting this concept from where is he getting this idea of an olive tree is he making that up why wouldn't he say peach tree he could have said anything he said olive tree it's one reason and one reason only the same reason why god chose him because he's a genius and he knows the word of god and he knows prophecy and how it all lines out because you go back to jeremiah 11. it's the only place in the bible that tells us the definition of an olive tree from god's perspective speaking about his people israel the lord called your name green olive tree lovely and of good fruit with the noise of a great tumult it was kindled fire on it and its branches are broken this scripture i even think it's interesting that it's jeremiah 11 and it's connected to romans 11. it's the same scriptures broken branches of an olive tree all israel all 12 tribes were called an olive tree and there were branches that were broken so we have the two trees this one tree is split into two trees and interestingly enough this becomes the symbol that the prophet sees as the seal or the actual national identity of israel is a menorah flanked by two olive trees this is the actual flag of israel if you will the identity symbol of israel according to the scriptures is the menorah which is the seven branched candlestick that stood in the holy place which represented the word of god that is is light for the two olive trees that are the two houses of israel we turn to ezekiel 37 to add a little bit of weight to this verse 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 then join them one to another for yourself into one stick that word there by the way is tree in the hebrew and they will become one in your hand that's why the writer puts the word stick there because he he is assuming that the reader is going to cross his eyes if he writes that on one tree write judah on another tree right ephraim and make the two trees come together in the hand only one hand can't hold two trees together in one and that's why they put stick in your bible but i'm gonna tell you that the man that he's talking about created the heavens and the earth his hands big enough to hold two trees they should have put trees because it's two olive trees one with judah one with joseph the two come together and become one again verse 21 then say to them thus says the lord god surely i will take the children of israel from among the nations again i am beating this into the into the ground because it's so critical and i will make them one nation in the land one king will be king over them all they shall no longer be two nations nor they shall ever be divided again into two kingdoms and david my servant shall be king over them talking about yeshua jesus and they shall all have one shepherd they shall all work or walk in my judgments and observe my statutes and do them the nations also will know that i the lord sanctify israel when my sanctuary is in their midst forever this is a millennium messianic prophetic scripture it hasn't happened yet and right here we've got a scripture telling us that not only are the two sticks going to come together the two nations are going to come together the house of israel the house of judah led by jesus himself but it says that everyone's going to walk in my torah that's in the millennium now i know that's a whole other topic but that's what it says they're going to walk in my judgments that's for a whole nother discussion verse 25 for i do not desire brethren that you should be ignorant of what this mystery of how they come together lest you should be wise in your own opinion that blindness we're back in romans 11 in part has happened to israel speaking of the israel that existed in the first century because that was the definition in the first century to the jews was they were the only israel that existed until the fullness of the gentiles come in and so it says that blindness in part has happened to the southern kingdom until the fullness of the gentiles have come in let's keep going have you ever wondered why it says this and so all of israel will be saved as it is written the deliverer will come out of zion and he will turn away ungodliness from the house of israel from jacob why would he say how all of israel is going to be saved i always grew up thinking well all the jewish people are finally going to get saved that's great it's about time they get on board how arrogant we don't even know the bible paul's excited here and he's talking about the mystery of the two sticks coming together in the two in the one hand of the messiah that's the mystery and when that happens it says all israelis all 12 tribes will be saved there's a whole other message that's built into this that paul understands he's trying to explain it why do you think he said they say that that the things that paul says is hard to understand he's a theologian trying to unpack some of the most incredible prophecies of all time that no one ever up until now ever put together and he's putting it together and he's helping people that's why they're getting saved for this is my covenant with them when i take away their sins what sins what sins let's talk about the one new man all right the one new man let's dig into the one new man this has been a mystery for so long books have been written if you go to your local christian bookstore you will find multiple books written on what is the one new man with everything that i have shared with you and taught you thus far this evening the one new man is going to make all the sense in the world but i'm not just going to theoretically put it together for you i want to actually dive in deep to the to the actual scriptures in ephesians chapter 2 so that we can discover what the one new man is all about ephesians chapter 2 verse 11 and follows says this therefore remember that you once gentiles in the flesh who were called uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision made in the flesh by hands that at that time you were without christ being aliens from the commonwealth of israel meaning that you could not be a part of the commonwealth of israel and strangers from the covenants of promise that are part of israel having no hope and without god in the world right now before we go on on the next slide i want to point out something the emphasis of the writer of ephesians in chapter 2 is telling us that you are gentiles you've not been able to be part of israel you can't be a part of her covenants of promise you can't be part of the commonwealth up until now do you see that that's his point you could never be part of israel until now and he's talking about the gentiles that's really important verse 13 but now in christ jesus you who were once far off have been brought near by the blood of christ for he himself is our peace who is made both one and has broken down the middle wall of separation what's the middle wall separation the southern kingdom of judah because of the divorce of the northern kingdom created a hostility wall of separation between the jew and the house of israel gentiles that were living among the gentiles saying that you can never be part of the commonwealth of israel because you guys were divorced you guys were gomer you're gomer's children you're not allowed to be a part of our club so there was a enmity a wall of hatred between the two and what yeshua did was he came and literally destroyed it having abolished in his flesh the hatred remember that he abolished the hatred that was contained that is the law of commandments contained in ordinances so as to create himself one new man from the two making peace and that he might reconcile both kingdoms to god and one body through the cross thereby putting to death the hatred no more hatred going back to zechariah chapter nine verse nine we see this rejoice greatly o daughter of zion shout o daughter of jerusalem behold your king is coming to you he is just and having salvation lowly and riding on a donkey occult the fall of a donkey exactly where yeshua came in the first century i will cut off the chariot from ephraim and the horse from jerusalem because they're fighting each other the horse from from ephraim or the from jerusalem and the chariot from ephraim the battle bow shall be cut off he shall speak peace to those nations his dominion shall be from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth there'll be no more fighting that's the prophecy that ephesians 2 is talking about so when you get to verse 17 it says this and he came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near now you will probably not find an english version of your bible that has these words in all caps which tell you that it's a direct quote from the old testament because if you go back and you actually take this quote back to where paul is referring it from and quoting it from what you find is it comes right from isaiah chapter 57 18-19 when it says i have seen his ways and i will heal him i will lead him also and restore the comforts unto him and to his mourners i create the fruit of the lips peace peace to him that is far off and to him who is near says the lord and i will heal him if you read it in context it's talking about the northern kingdom of israel is far off he says i've sent him far off into the nations judah is near because she came back from babylon and she started keeping the commandments so god says they're near to me old testament israel jude is near ephraim is off in la la land wandering around so now if you go back to the book of ephesians it makes a lot more sense when you come to verse 18 for through him we both have access by one spirit to the father now therefore you gentiles you northern house of israel you're no longer strangers and foreigners but your fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of god what's he saying he's saying that you gentiles and look i want to make this very clear i'm not saying that the word gentiles means house of israel i'm saying that the house of israel was comprised of gentiles they became gentiles there's no doubt there was a mixed multitude remember when israel came out of egypt what happened there was a mixed multitude it was the northern house of israel it was the southern house of israel at that time it was all 12 but eventually it would become both so you have the house of israel the house of judah but then there was also the mixed multitude that came out from egypt the smart egyptians that said you know what after 10 plagues i'm following that god moses goes to yahweh and says you know hey god it's mo what do i do all these mixed multitudes these egyptians are coming up with us what should we do should we send them back what do we do and god says no if they'll circumcise themselves and they'll make themselves part of israel and follow my covenant there'll be no difference they'll be like a native born they'll be grafted in so some characteristics of ephraim they're from the northern ten tribes they were dispersed into all the nations after their captivity they live amongst the the gentiles and they have forgotten the name of their god jeremiah 23 27 says that the northern house of israel will actually forget the name of their god it also says they are a wealthy people genesis 49 22 they do not know or understand the law of god and they do not keep it i wanted to put this scripture out there just so you know it hose 8 10 so you believe me yes though they have hired among the nations now i will gather them and they shall sorrow a little because of their burden of the king of princes i have written for them the great things of my torah which is what the law is in hebrew but they were considered a strange thing so in other words i wrote the law but because they assimilated the nations and the gentiles they don't even know what it is it's confusing to them it's strange to them more characteristics of ephraim they're called not my people sons of the living god hosea 2 23 those that are far off and lost sheep characteristics of judah they have the law of god they're called those that are near they did not lose their identity because they came back after their captivity and they are the jewish people of today so who did the messiah come for really strap in here we go matthew chapter 15 verse 24 says this and he answered and said i was sent i was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of israel now ladies and gentlemen this is your messiah this is jesus yeshua hamashiach jesus christ making this statement do you think that he is just throwing words into the air i came only for the lost sheep of the house of israel or do you think that the one who wrote about the lost sheep of the house of israel knows exactly what he's saying when he says i came for the ones that were scattered now you might say well wait a minute john 3 16 jim every baseball game they hold up the little sign behind home plate john 3 16. for god so loved the whole world that he gave his only begotten son that ever believed upon him will have eternal life right john 3 16 the whole world but who were the captains that were supposed to be sent into the world but the twelve disciples but the twelve tribes they were sent to the rest rest of the nations they didn't do their job they dropped the ball they took god's law they took god's commandment which god says is a light to the nations david king david a man of god's own heart says in in chapter 119 he says that it is god's commandments that are a light to his path they kept the light to themselves and then they got rid of the light and took somebody else's light from another nation they started serving other gods so he he got rid of the northern house of israel scattered them throughout the four corners of the earth and he says i'm gonna bring them back remember all those scriptures that you thought i was just beating into the ground when he said i'm gonna scatter them and then i'm gonna bring him back how do you think he's going to bring him back this is the guy that was sent to go get him watch how he does it john 10 16 and other sheep this is incredible i have which are not of this fold which fold judah he's talking to the jewish people the house of judah i have other sheep which are not of this fold this kingdom them also i must bring and they will hear my voice and they will be one flock and one shepherd john 11 51 says now this caiaphas probably one of the most incredible prophecies in the new testament that you will never hear about most likely caiaphas under the inspiration of the holy spirit did not say this on his own authority but being high priest that year he prophesied that jesus would die for the nation the jewish israel of the first century and not for that nation only but also that he would gather together in one the children of god who were scattered abroad ladies and gentlemen it's everywhere you can't get away from it even caiaphas the high priest prophesied that yeshua is not just going to die for the jewish people he's going to die for the children of god scattered abroad which we now know from 110 verses are the house of israel the lost sheep are you ready for the greatest love story of all time here we go the north was divorced we've already established that jeremiah 3 8 just to put an exclamation point on it and i saw that for all the adulterous adulteries of faithless israel i sent her away and gave her a rid of divorce yet her treacherish sister judah did not fear but she went along and was a harlot also but she did not get divorced the house of israel gets divorced because she hoard among the nations then it goes on to say in jeremiah 3 1 they say if a man divorces a wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife may he return to her again would not that land be greatly polluted but you have played the harlot with many lovers yet returned to me says the lord folks this is a huge problem big problem this is why this is the mystery because god himself is saying all throughout the prophets in the torah that i'm i'm going to get rid of the northern house of israel i'm going to scatter you out to all four corners of the earth but when you hear my voice and you come back to me anybody that knows the torah knows that can't happen once you divorce once god divorces his bride she can't come back that's why it says in jeremiah 3 1 if a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife which is what israel was doing may he return her to her again can she come back would not her land be polluted she's defiled but he says but you've played the harlot with many lovers yet returned to me says the lord big problem because deuteronomy chapter 24 gives us the torah commandment against this when a man takes a wife and marries her and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her talking about fornication and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts her in and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man's wife and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife then the former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her back again since she's been defiled for that's an abomination before the lord so guys picture yourself you're jewish in the first century you're paul you studied under gamaliel you've have this scripture memorized so when you come across all of the scriptures and the prophets where god says i'm divorcing the northern house of israel there's no way for her to come back it's not possible it's done out the door over the shoulder don't let the door hit you on the way out this is why in the first century the northern house of israel which josephus says is by the multitudes across the euphrates river why you don't hear about them why they're not allowed to be part of israel because the judah the judaites or the short form the jews which comprise of of modern-day israel in the first century won't let them because they know the torah you can't be israel you lost your identity you guys blew it we blew it we went to babylon we paid our penalty but we came back you guys assimilated to the nations and you never came back and god divorced you for it you can't come back it doesn't matter how bad you want to come back and by the way we'll let you come back but you've got to convert to the southern kingdom how many you think did that no way why because it was hatfields and mccoys when you had the northern and southern kingdom that were in existence back in the you know after solomon they were always fighting one another no way was it was the israelite from the northern kingdom gonna convert to judah not going to happen they have their own tribal identity very few did this more of them were pagan gentiles that were not israelites that actually converted to judaism than and then ever an israelite from the northern kingdom so we have a major problem because this becomes the mystery that paul talks about there's several mysteries but the large mystery is how does god solve this because he invites them to come back which seems to be against his own law so you come to romans chapter 7. one of the most incredible chapters of the entire bible guys this is the chapter that says and the things i don't want to do i do and the things that i i want to do i don't do and the things i do and i do and it don't do and all those things this is that chapter it starts off in a bizarre way listen how it starts off romans chapter 7 verse 1 paul says this or do you not know brethren for i speak to those who know the law stop you cannot read the rest of this chapter unless you know the law of god why do you think he's saying that because he's saying what i'm about to say is only found in the torah and if you don't understand the torah what i'm about to say is going to be completely confusing and you're going to read right into it you're baptist you're lutheran you're charismatic christian catholic whatever you want to call yourself all 41 000 of you you will read into this scripture what is not there so i'm going to help you out and tell you read the torah first before you read romans 7. because he says the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives why because the law was given to man so if you die you're not subject to the penalty that the laws give for the woman who has a husband who just read the scripture is bound by the law to her husband as long as the husband lives but if the husband dies she's released of the law of her husband so then if while her husband lives she marries another man where do you think he's getting this from deuteronomy chapter 24 that's why it says you better know the law she'll be called an adulteress but if her husband dies she's free from that loss she can't be an adulteress if she's not married if she is if her husband dies she's free to marry another man but if her husband's still alive she's an adulteress by the way side note the only way she can not be an adulteress is if she gets a certificate of divorce a lot of confusion in the messianic community about that if you get a certificate of divorce and you marry someone else you're not an adultery back then there were two forms of of divorce if you will the certificate of divorce which is formal which means you could marry someone else or if you're put away if they put you away without a certificate of divorce then you are actually still married and you are committing adultery which is why the next husband most of them would not marry someone unless they could show them legally that you've been divorced because they didn't want to walk into adultery either so back to our scripture here therefore brethren verse 4 you have also become dead to the law through the body of christ what law are we talking about the law of adultery he's giving us deuteronomy chapter 24 he's showing us the prophecy right here you're married you went and hoarded among the nations you can't come back he says that therefore my brethren you are also dead to the law through the body of christ the alive body or dead body the dead body of christ that you may be married to another to him who's raised from the dead that we should bear fruit to god ladies and gentlemen let's put it all together who is israel's bridegroom yahweh god was israel's bridegroom why did he divorce her adultery according to deuteronomy 24 could an adulteress come back to her first husband no what is call what's it called if you cheat on your husband adultery according to romans 7 what is the only way that a woman can be freed from the law of adultery the death of her first husband the only way is for her husband to die guys the bridegroom died for his bride this is the good news this is the mystery that paul has been trying to solve this is what the patriarchs are trying to solve this is what the angels are we're trying to solve when they're standing up in the heavens i would imagine and god said i'm divorcing you but you're going to come back and they look to each other and say who wants to tell him that they can't do that no one says anything for thousands of years but god already knew how he was going to solve this if you ever wondered why the lamb had to come and die this is it it's to free the bride from adultery now the next question is this why did he have to raise from the dead because there's no sacrifice in all of the law of god that requires the animal to come back together and rise for the propitiation of sins because the propitiation of sins is found in the blood not in the breath so the moment that god that jesus died was the moment that we for we are forgiven according to the law of god why did he have to raise from the dead he rises from the dead because he's creating an eligible bachelor for his bride to marry that is why he rises from the dead he says here here pick me choose me don't go amongst the nations anymore i've broken the curse the curse for the northern house of israel is they could never come back and the jew knew that so when paul goes to the elect to the ones scattered in galatia in ephesians and all across that known world of the mediterranean and he walks into the cities where do you think he's going to go first he goes to the jew in the synagogue and then he goes out to the gentiles he goes out to the northern house of israel into their streets and says gather around all of you danites naftalites all you gentiles that have lost your identity and don't even care i got some good news for you you can come back and here's why because the god of the universe who divorced your brethren your forefathers for their sin and you know as well as i do you can't come back but he sent his only begotten son that bridegroom died rose from the dead broke that curse and you are free to move about the cabin hallelujah ladies and gentlemen this is what the marriage supper of the lamb is all about this is why the marriage supper of the lamb exists this is why it's called a marriage supper and not a end of the time supper it's not a millennium supper it's a marriage supper who do you think he's marrying he's marrying his bride and his bride has always been called israel the new covenant starts right here jeremiah chapter 31 this is all going to make sense behold i'll bring them from the north country and gather them from the ends of the earth talking about the house of israel hear the word of the lord o nations and declare it in the isles of far off and say he who scattered israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd does his flock theologian listen carefully this is the chapter that we've all been told is the new covenant chapter we're going to get to it but we're starting early in the chapter to establish that who is he talking about bringing into the new covenant those who are scattered further down in verse 18 i've surely heard ephraim bemoaning himself you've chastened me you've chastised me and i was chastised like an untrained bull restore me and i will return for you are the lord my god jeremiah 31 20 is elohim my my dear son is he a pleasant child for though i spoke against him i earnestly remember him still therefore my heart yearns for him i will surely have mercy on him says the lord there we go mercy again compassion back to the story of hosea with whom is the new covenant made jeremiah 31 verse 31 says behold the days are coming says the lord when i will make a new covenant with the house of israel and the house of judah you'll notice there is no house of gentiles not according to the covenant that i made with their fathers in the day that i took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of egypt my covenant in which they broke see there was nothing wrong with the covenant it was something wrong with them though i was a husband to them this is the covenant that i will make with the house of israel after those days says yahweh i will put my torah it's what it says in hebrew in their minds and i will write it on their hearts i will be their god and they shall be my people and so just so you know at mount sinai is when he first said this and he says now i'm giving you all my commandments i've given you my laws my decrees my ordinances now i want you to write it on your heart you're a bride i want you to do it from your heart i don't want you to make it obligatory i want you to make a bunch of laws and commandments when i tell you to love your neighbor it's not out of obligation i want you to be i wanted to come from your heart ladies what what wife out there does not want her husband to love her from the heart they can tell when we're doing it just to check it off our list and they can tell when it comes from our heart god wants it to come from our heart so he says no more is the house of israel going to fall fall away from me and fall away from my commandments because i'm going to write it on their heart they're going to want to do this and i'm going to send a helper called my spirit so then we go to romans for the connective verse for when the gentiles who do not have the law because it was strange to them by nature do the things in the law these although not having the torah because you guys won't let them be a part of your club they're all to themselves who show the work of the torah written on their hearts he's connecting this to jeremiah 31 if you haven't figured it out now by now ladies and gentlemen as a follower of jesus you're part of israel you are part of israel you're not separate from israel it is not israel the gentiles and the new covenant with the house of israel house of judah and the new covenants with the gentiles our own theology doesn't work it says that the new covenant is only with the house of israel in the house of judah you've been grafted into the commonwealth of israel and have been made partakers in the covenants of promise so this begs the question am i saying that the 12 tribes of israel the descendants of israel are the only ones that can be saved that is not what i'm saying at all i'm not saying that the only people that can be saved are the ones that are the 12 tribes of israel i'm not even talking about a bloodline the bloodline doesn't exist this is spiritual salvation has never been by bloodline how many times in the as the patriarchs got skipped over the first born gets skipped over to go to the second born proving that god is not concerned about the bloodline only there's something greater romans 10 12 says this for there's no distinction between jew and je in greek for the same lord over all is rich to all who call upon him for whoever calls upon the name of the lord will be saved in god's eyes there is absolutely no difference between jew and gentile when it comes to salvation the gentiles join his people israel watch this 12 49 of exodus says one law shall be to him that is homeborn and unto the stranger that sojourns among you isaiah 56 3 let no foreigner who is bound to the lord say the lord will surely exclude me from his people also the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to the lord to serve him and to love the name of the lord to be his servants everyone who keeps from defiling my sabbath and holds fast to my covenant even them i will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer do you see that he's talking about end times if the even if the nations want to come and be a part of me they can as long as they keep my sabbath hold fast to my covenant and they call me the god of abraham isaac and jacob and they follow after me do what i say even them i will make them my people and i will bring them into my house of prayer zechariah 2 says this many nations shall be joined to the lord in that day and they shall become my people i will dwell in your midst and you will know that the lord of hosts has sent me to you and the lord will take possession of judah as his inheritance in the holy land and will again choose jerusalem this is a messianic uh scripture going into the millennium watch this in the millennium 47 22 of ezekiel says it shall be that you will divide it by a lot as an inheritance for yourselves and for the strangers talking about the land you're going to divide up the land who will dwell among you and who bear children among you they shall be to you as native born among the children of israel they shall have an inheritance with you among the tribes of israel and it shall be in that day that whatever tribe the stranger dwells there you shall give him his inheritance says the lord god do you see this in the millennium even the gentiles even those that are not part of israel at all when they come back to god he grafts them into israel and tells everybody that knows who they are because remember in revelation there's 12 000 from every tribe so at some point we don't know how but at least 144 000 know which tribe they're from and to make sure that they don't get arrogant he says all those that come back to my covenant that don't know which tribe they're from they get to choose whatever tribe they want to be a part of and you have to accept them and that's going to be their inheritance i'm claiming gaza strip right now because if you know gaza it's on the beach i'm sure it'll get rebuilt a little differently look at this immigration i want to give you an example when someone comes to the united states let's say from china or from australia they're no longer chinese they're an american this is what makes this nation of the united states of america so incredible is that we are made up of every nation you're not still chinese just because you came from china you're a chinese-american you're an australian american you're a german american you see a common denominator here so when someone comes into israel and follows the god of israel they're no longer a gentile they're a gentile israelite they're gentile hebrew they're part of the commonwealth of israel and by default they are part of that inheritance no one can keep or separate us from the law from the love of god and his love is found in his inheritance there's a myth that says that god's law is only for the jews did you know of god's law listen christian if god's law is only for the jews then there is no inheritance for us because the inheritance is directly connected to the covenant of abraham isaac and jacob so many will say the gentiles should not keep the covenant laws of israel they only have to keep the noah high laws we've all grown up with this we've all lived this learn this let's test it for a moment numbers 15 15 for the assembly there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns are with you a statue forever throughout your generations you and the swordjointer shall be alike before the lord one law and one rule shall be for you native-born israelite and for you you stranger that sojourns with you so let's dive into the word stranger because from an academic perspective this is where they're going to fall on we better define what stranger is that hebrew word is ger in the greek it's proselytos so we're going to do a little homework because there is a there is uh a contention that the sojourner is not a gentile but one who is converting to judaism so let's let's figure that out some say strangers were those that were converting to judaism let's actually put that argument to a test the prosolutos argument the greek septuagint now i know this is the theological part but this this message is going out to a lot of people and this has got to be proved so let's talk about this for a second the greek septuagint all right so the the greek version of the old testament gives us insight into how the apostolic community would have understood and interpreted the passage by the way this is coming from first fruits of zion one law and the messianic gentile so the jewish messianic community by and large believes that the uh the gair or the sojourner is not a gentile that is a part of israel but someone who is converting to judaism even though judaism didn't exist when that scripture was given under the influence of the lxx which is the septuagint they would have interpreted numbers 15 15 and 16 to read as follows as for the assembly there shall be one statute for jews and for the proselyte a perpetual statute throughout your generations as a jew as a jew is so shall the proselyte be before the lord there is to be one torah and one ordinance for jews and for the proselyte who sojourns with you so what they're saying basically is that the torah cannot be kept by the gentile because there's no scripture that telling a gentiles to keep the torah and they use this scripture to say that this sojourner because this is the danger if gere actually means a real gentile and not someone that's converting to judaism but actually making himself part of israel and her covenants then that means the gentiles are all under the law of god so they don't want the gentiles to keep the law of god you know what i give them credit rightfully so all we do is mess on ourselves everywhere we go so if we come in and start keeping the torah by default we blow it we'll do it wrong we'll do it our way and they won't have control over us and that's exactly kind of what happened in the first century is a bunch of gentiles came into the synagogues messed up the whole thing and uh and and off to the races we went so israelites let's find out let's go back to exodus chapter 22 verse 21 and it says this exact same word a prosolutist is used in this context you shall neither mistreat a proselytist nor oppress him for you were strangers in the land of egypt so if their definition of stranger is one converting to judaism then prosolutis has to mean converting to to to something so are they saying that the israelites were converting to egypt well this scripture if interpreted that way would simply mean that the strangers are are are converting in the land of egypt certainly they were not converting in the land of egypt here's another one also you shall not oppress a stranger for you know the heart of a stranger because you were strangers in the land of egypt again i'm giving you just a a a pattern here that the word proselytos cannot possibly mean convert otherwise you have the israelites converting to egypt and they were not converting to egypt they were living in the land of egypt and also this is even my favorite leviticus 25 23 for you are also proselytos are strangers and sojourners with me they saying that you are you're converting to god no what he's saying is that you were strangers and sojourners with me you were not of me you were you were strangers with me you didn't know who i was but you were following along with me you're strangers just the word in english is the best word from god's perspective galatians 3 28 there is neither jew nor gentile there is neither slave nor free man there is neither male nor female for you were all one in christ jesus and if you belong to christ then you are abraham's descendants heirs according to the promise the entire point of the new testament is that there is no jew or gentile there was never supposed to be two kingdoms it was always the children of god follow god and what he says and this is the covenant of what he says if you don't like the constitution try to rewrite it that's what we've done nope god says if you don't like the constitution you're not part of my kingdom because my kingdom is run by my constitution it's a bad conversion formula first corinthians 7 18 was anyone called while he was circumcised let him not be uncircumcised was anyone called while his uncircumcised this is a very misunderstood scripture circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing but keeping the commandments of god is what matters this is a this is an oxymoron this can't happen he's saying that the only thing that matters is keeping god's commandments yet circumcision is one of the commandments and he says it's nothing or is he not actually talking about physical circumcision it's an idiom paul's not talking about physical circumcision they were talking about physical circumcision what he was talking about is judaism because judaism was called the circumcision acts 10 45 and those of the circumcision of the jews who believed were astonished as many as come with peter because the gift of the holy spirit had been poured out among the gentiles also there was called the circumcision party and the circumcision party had a seven step process to convert to judaism with circumcision decision being the very first step you could not be saved in first century judaism unless you were circumcised and paul and the disciples were arguing this fact that no the first step is not circumcision the first step is faith circumcision means nothing without faith so if you want to compel my converts to get circumcised then then it means nothing because you're telling them to do something for their salvation rather than to have faith works comes later circumcision is a general term referring to a segment of judaism so when you go back to first corinthians 7 18 this is what it really is saying was anyone called whilst jewish let him not be a gentile was anyone called while gentile let him not become jewish being jewish is nothing and being a gentile is nothing what matters is if we keep the commandments of god does that make more sense so there's a certain first century jewish sect believe gentiles must convert to judaism via their rabbinic formula which included getting circumcised their way as a prerequisite to joining god's people this is why paul says i wish they'd just emasculate themselves in the book of galatians because all they talk about is is circumcision not understanding that the first circumcision that god talks about he says is of the heart paul opposes the theology and taught that gentiles become part of god's people by grace faith first through faith in yeshua which is then made evident by keeping god's commandments that's why james says what don't look into the perfect law of liberty and then walk away and forget what it looks like don't be a hearer of the be a doer of the word what's the only word in the first century there is no new testament that's why it says the perfect law of liberty the law of liberty is the torah without the traditions and doctrines of man that's the definition to the first century disciple wasn't no it wasn't a new law listen if god's commandments are only for people that are converting to judaism and only for the jewish people is john contradicting paul who says you don't have to convert to judaism when he says this in first john 5. by this we know that we love the children of god when we love god and we keep his commandments for this is the love of god that we keep his commandments and his commandments are not burdensome if the law of god was only for the jewish people as we've all been taught then there's no way for us to love god because the disciple is telling us this is the definition of loving god is doing what he says and what do you think the commandments were there's no other commandments of god let's talk about being led by the spirit versus being led by the flesh romans eight verse five we're almost finished i promise for those who live according to the flesh who wants to live according to the flesh oh come on you guys are not very good telling the truth spiritual people in here for those according to the flesh set their minds on things of the flesh so listen we're going to let bible define what bible says let's find out what flesh is and living by the spirit is but those who live according to the spirit the things of the spirit for to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and peace because the carnal mind is in hatred towards god it's an enmity against god for look look listen it is not subject to the law of god do you realize what that just said no you don't let me say it again the spiritually minded is life and peace to the carnally minded it's death because the carnal mind is enmity against god for it cannot be subject to the law of god nor indeed can it be what this is saying my friends is that the carnal mind does not subject itself to the law of god the spiritual minded person does there's no way to get around this it says this and only this there's only one interpretation being spiritually minded is following the law of god now i know this brings up a huge can of worms of of what does this look like i'm not going into that can right now i have tons of material that do i'm just showing what we've been missing as covenant israel and partakers of the covenants of promise that the covenants of promise with an s is the law of god that gives us the blessings because it says that if you keep my commandments you're blessed led by the spirit verses led by the flesh walking in the spirit is subjecting yourself to the laws of god walking in the flesh and being carnally minded is not submitting to the laws of god this is why jesus said in matthew he says not one jot our tittle will pass away from the law of god until all of the heavens and the earth are disappeared are removed well the last time that i checked the heaven and the earth is still here and it says that if anyone teaches against the law of god you'll be least in the kingdom of heaven that's what it says and it says the whole world is under the law of god and i know our jewish brethren say that the law of god is only for themselves they do not want us keeping it their agenda is pure i understand because when we keep it we blow it but the whole world is under the law of god according to romans 3 it says now we know that what things so ever the law says it speaks to them that are under the law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be brought under the judgment of god because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight for through the law comes only the knowledge of sin what's he saying here the whole world is guilty before god why because they transgressed they're under the law of god they under the law they're under this penalty of the law how can you be under the penalty of something that you're not even subjected to how can i get in trouble for breaking a law that's not for me if the law of god is not for everybody then how is the whole world guilty what are they guilty of breaking what this is our problem if you do away with the law of god there's no definition of sin if there's if no there's no definition of sin there's no curse if there's no curse then what do you need a savior for why are we spending a billion dollars a year telling people in africa about jesus and telling them that they're in sin when the very definition of sin is transgressing the law of god and here it is right here in the print first john 3 4 sin is the transgression of god's law the northern house of israel transgressed the law of god and roman says what the wages of breaking my law is what death and in that case it was a certificate of death no longer to come back you're dead according to me the law doesn't have to go over after someone who's dead because they're already dead isn't that what jesus says says don't worry about the world they're already condemned what do you think they're condemned by the very law that they broke condemns them the dna of the remnant i love this in revelation it says and the dragon was wroth with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed which keep the commandments of god and have the testimony of jesus christ in revelation the very definition of the saints of god are those that that that are following jesus christ and that testimony but they also keep the commandments they don't have a religion that is weak they have a religion that's did not that's not denying the power of god the power of god is found in his very word and the word of god according to the word of god and david and every prophet is the law of god he even says i'm outside it is my life to you i'm giving you my life in the millennium watch this isaiah 2 verse 3 many people should come and say come and let us go to the mountain of the lord to the house of god to jacob he'll teach us his ways and we shall walk in his path for out of zion shall go forth the law the torah and the word of the lord from jerusalem this is in the millennium god is so it's so impressed to him to teach us because he wants to bless us there's not a christian alive today that thinks that if you can break the ninth commandment and commit adultery that you're going to be blessed you're cursed where do you think the idea came from that you're cursed if you commit adultery because if you break god's law you're under a curse the problem is we only believe in a few well what if god says that he actually meant what he said when he said keep the sabbath day holy and it's one of the top 10. a whole nother discussion zechariah 14 we're almost done in the day that his feet will stand on the mount of olives he shall come to pass that everyone who is left are the nations which come against jerusalem shall go up from year to year and worship the king the lord of hosts and shall keep the feast of tabernacles we know from zechariah 14 that you've got to keep all of the feasts and if you don't he cuts the rain off this is in the millennium so theologian student don't ask me how i'm telling you what the bible says is we got to do it it's our inheritance and i shouldn't even say we got to that's like looking at your wife and saying i have to love you we get to love them we get to love god we get to be part of the inheritance there's so much my friends that have been stolen from us just look at the feast days alone all of them are about yeshua they're divided into two the spring feast days and the fall feast days he died on passover was put into the grave during the feast of unleavened bread when they're getting all of sin out of their house the holy spirit breathes life into jesus he raises from the dead on the feast of first fruits coincidence the holy spirit comes down on the feast of shavuot and greek pentecost fulfilling the first coming of yeshua but the second coming of yeshua is connected to the last four the last three feast days the feast of trumpets it's it's not a coincidence that it says that at the sound of a trumpet the dead in christ will come first it's not just a stroke of genius it's a stroke of truth because he's coming for the coronation of the king at the feast of trumpets and then there is the feast of atonement which is what judgment day yom kippur national day of atonement and last but not least the feast of sukkot the feast of tabernacles which is the marriage supper of the lamb all of those happen in the fall all of those happen in the second coming of the messiah we've been stripped of our inheritance stripped of the curriculum and we're trading the very curriculum and calendar of god in the holy days of god for holidays of man and we fight to hold on to the man-made tradition and mark 7 is coming true again when jesus said and you do many things like this trading the traditions and doctrines of the commandments of god for the traditions and doctrines of men so in closing is it really all about israel the chosen people look at this 12 tribes with one king 12 disciples with one king 12 baskets left over full of bread not coincidence my friend jesus said in matthew 19 28 assuredly i say to you that in the restoration when the son of man sits on the throne of his glory you will have followed me also sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of israel in the millennium the 12 tribes of israel are what's being judged we've just started yeshua heals a girl that's twelve he starts teaching in the temple at what age 12 coincidence right he says that that there are 12 hours during the day 12 months in a year in revelation there's 12 000 from each tribe that are sealed 12 angels 24 elders two from each tribe 12 gates with 12 pearls each 12 constellations in the heaven that tell the gospel story from a to z a tree of life in revelation that produces 12 fruits for each of the 12 months for the 12 tribes that come through the 12 gates the story of the 12 spies how many came back with a positive report how many came back with a negative report do you think that was coincidence ten tribes had a negative report and were divorced they could not cross the jordan river hello only the two tribes in the south were considered near ten commandments written on two tablets of stone the two witnesses in revelation guess what one is from the northern kingdom and one is from the southern kingdom it's everywhere my friends look at the parable of the prodigal son the prodigal son two sons under one roof with one father and one son goes astray into the into the land into the gentiles to degree i even think it's funny that he's eating and sleeping with the pigs he becomes as unkosher as you can possibly get and what happens in the depth of his despair and his unkosherness and his uncleanness he realizes who he really is i will go back to my father and i am the son of my father and if i go back and just be a servant in his kingdom maybe he would accept me and the father see the humility of the house of israel i'm not worthy you see the mistake that some people make when they understand this concept is they're arrogant and they go back to judah and they say i have an inheritance this is who i am no that is not how we're supposed to act we're supposed to come back as the humble servant and say maybe god would just take us as servants in his kingdom and yahweh says no no i'm going to kill the fatted calf i'm going to kill the lamb you never killed a lamb for me so the lamb gets killed for who the house of israel do you think it's coincidence that there was only 10 lepers that were healed on the road there's 10 that get healed why was there 10 because the northern house of israel were lepers and if you know about torah if you know what the law of the lepers are they're put out of israel yeshua was going for the ten lepers prophetically saying i'm coming except for the lost house sheep of the house of israel to bring them home it's everywhere the two sticks of ezekiel 37 the one new man of ephesians 2 and the best example is this is a husband and a wife can you come on up here with your wife please i want to show you the most incredible prophecy of the bible the very first one i believe the prophetic picture that god gives us is in the garden you have adam and eve could you stand behind your husband please this is how adam was created in the garden it was adam and eve together matter of fact a better way to say this because i do a lot of marriage counseling she's got your back because eve is looking the other direction this is how adam was created adam is israel he's the child of god he is the first seed of god it's all 12 tribes are inside of adam the two kingdoms are one and then what happens is a wife or a woman separated when adam and eve sinned they were pulled apart if you will eve was taken from the side of adam prophetically saying that at some point in the future the two kingdoms are going to be separate but if they will join hands under their maker the two shall become one flesh a husband and a wife underneath the god of abraham isaac and jacob is actually a beautiful prophetic picture of israel and all the prophecies about her this is why they fight so much too but this is why they love each other so much is because they understand that although we may be different although i may be different from my jewish brethren of the southern kingdom although you may be different as a husband and wife you're still one you're still family and your love comes from that which is above give them a round of applause ladies and gentlemen there's one god stand with me please his name is yahweh there's one covenant that gets renewed at the end of time no doubt about it there's one law one messiah yeshua and there's only one people and that people's name is israel israel is the people of god you are the people of god this doesn't take anything away from our messianic jewish brethren they are the people of god it doesn't take anything away from the jewish people that do not believe in yeshua they have the covenants under abraham irrevocable can't take them away but eternal life and the eternal kingdom is given to those who follow the god of abraham isaac and jacob and the one he prophesied would come and talk and bring salvation to the gentiles that would be yeshua himself and through the salvation to the gentiles come salvation to the rest of the world that's what he says to the jew first yeshua came then he sent out to the northern kingdom of israel doesn't it make sense he's got to unite the clans first in order for the rest of the world to be saved that's what the disciples were doing they would naturally go to those who had a framework of the scriptures first then they would go out to the uttermost parts of the earth first start with your warm blood the cousins from the north and they did that i suggest to you my friends that the day has finally come when we will learn our identity that we have learned our identity and it will change our purpose it'll change our mission i know this is going to mess with a lot of people's theology god is that's what god does he messes with man-made theology to get us back to the garden to get us back to the truth because the truth can only do one one thing and that's what set us free i encourage you to go back and watch this again dissect it look at it see if it is not the truth if it does not resonate in your heart that there's a reason why you love israel it's because it's part of who you are it's not just because you love the jewish people you love them for a reason you're the only people on earth that love the jewish people and there's a reason it's because they're your brother and until we understand who we are we will never be able to stand by them the way that god intended for us to do so let's pray father god i come before you in the name of your son jesus yeshua the messiah who shed his blood father so that we could come back into covenant so that we could come back into inheritance i pray that you would lift the blindness from benjamin and that joseph and benjamin will embrace so the rest of the family can be healed father i pray that you would take this message god around the world challenge everyone god to come back to come back into the covenants of promise through your son father forgive us for our blindness forgiveness for being deaf not wanting to listen for considering your law strange thing you sent your son to fish them out and in the last days you will call out the hunters let now be the time that we return and repent and begin to do bible things and bible ways putting aside the foolishness of our youth of the traditions and doctrines of men may it be known this day that your shofar has hit your lips and your frequency and sound is reverberating around the earth calling out to the lost sheep of the house of israel father i ask you to not make this word void but i pray that you would use it to call your people from wherever they may be found in every tribe and every tongue and all of god's people said amen [Applause] [Music] you