“…the revelation of the knowledge of the Mystery (of the Messiah), that Gentiles (“justified by faith” to become Hebrews by adoption, as seed of “Abram the Hebrew”) should be fellow-heirs of the redeemed Messianic remnant of Israel and therefore, of the same prophetic Hebrew body …now made known to all Gentile nations by the Scriptures of the Prophets according to the commandment of the everlasting God (calling the nations to obedience to the faith), for their obedience of faith” to eventually hasten the exaltation of Israel as chief of nations through full reconciliation and unification of Jew and Gentile in the House of Jacob (indisputably the mother church), through the New Covenant of the House of Judah and the House of Israel (collectively, the House of Jacob)” (Deut 33:26-29; Is 2:2-24; 46:13; 49:6; 56:1-8; Jer 31:31-34; Matt 5:17-20; Lk 1:32,33; 2:32; Jn 10:16; Acts 7:38; 17:26-32; 1 Cor 7:19; Gal 3:8,9; Rom 1:5; 2:6-26; 11:11; 15:16-18; 16:25,26; Eph 2:15; 3:4-6).
As a covenant debt within the Redemptive Plan of God for the Jewish people to receive mercy from the nations, redeemed Gentiles are to “provoke the Jewish people to envy” (Rom 11:11,31),
1) of the intimacy of their personal relationship with their God through the washing of New Covenant regeneration in the Messianic mikvah (baptism) of repentance for the remission of sins, through which they have received the adoption through their renewal by sanctification by the Holy Spirit (Eph 1:4,5; Titus 3:5); and
2) of their love for the Torah (the Father’s Instruction to His nation, for the nations) awakened by the Spirit, and by the manner it was fully preached (expounded in greater depth and application) by Yeshua (Matt 5:17-20; Acts 24:14; Rom 2:13-26; 11:11,31),
Scripture informing us that “the Gospel (was) preached beforehand to Abraham” (Gen 12:3; Gal 3:8,9,27-29; Jn 8:56), describes former Gentiles (“in time past, Gentiles in the flesh”) as now being “in thee”|in the ancient fold of Abraham (whose household is the church of antiquity) now presided over by his Seed, the Messiah through Whom we’ve been grafted into the commonwealth of Israel as adopted seed of ”Abram the Hebrew,’” in Christ – Gen 12:3b; 14:13 | Gal 3:8b,9,27-29; Eph 2:11, the identity of whose household of faith is unquestionably the “one (sheep)fold” of the eternal House of Jacob – Gen 18:18,19; 28:14; Is 51:1-11; 56:1-8; Lk 1:33; Jn 10:16; Eph 2:11,12,15,19, Abraham’s eternal, covenantal, Dynastic line.
So for your salvation’s sake, never forget that just as there’s no election outside of Christ, there’s no adoption outside of the House of Jacob which is forever, the Household of the Living God (Lk 1;33; Eph 1:4,5; 2:11,12,19)
DON’T PLAY GOD WITH THE SABBATH, “MADE FOR MAN” AS OUR ‘FIRST IMITATION OF GOD’ WHO KEPT IT
First things first. If we’re not prepared to “prove what is acceptable” in order to be followers of Deity by imitating the priorities and fine example of Father and Son, we’re in jeopardy, as fools not walking circumspectly (Rom 12:1,2; Eph 5:1.10,14-17).
Shabbat is proof that time is holy (Gen 2:2,3). Shabbat was “made for man,” to be his anchor and refuge in the holiness of time (Mk 2:27,28). Even in the seventh millennium, the weekly Shabbat of antiquity which is the seal of YHWH”s Authorship and Rule of Creation, will be the presiding Appointment between the Bridegroom and His Bride (Is 66:22-24). The “first day of the week” has never had such a role, nor will it ever.
‘IntraDynasty,’ which is a prophetic metaphor for the multi-generational, covenanted patriarchal household of the fathers Abraham; Isaac; and of Jacob, the heir of the birthright of the firstborn (Gen 25:21-23; Heb 12:23) within whose household (as heir of his grandfather’s and father’s legacy) the Holy Spirit began and will complete the full plan of salvation (having fulfilled prophecy to Abraham that his “great nation” would be brought out of Egypt as a type of New Covenant salvation by “Christ our Passover”), testifies that from Genesis to Revelation, Shabbat is the everlasting covenant sign that the church down the ages, has always belonged to the nation of Israel as the ekklesia of the House of Jacob (Gen 2:2,3; Ex 31:13,16,17; Lk 1:33; Acst 7:38; Rev 14:12).
The House of Jacob (which pre-incarnate Yeshua the Messiah followed in the wilderness as the spiritual Rock of the congregation of the House of Jacob, from which they drank; the general assembly; people of inheritance; household of faith; household of prayer for all nations; “special treasure” and “kingdom of priests and a holy nation,” by the election of grace) was constituted and incorporated as the church (ekklesia) by Covenant Agreement to the terms of the Ten Words of the marriage covenant at Sinai (Ex 4:22,23; 19:5-8; Acts 7:38; Rom 11:17-29; 1 Cor 10:1-4; 1 Peter 1:13-17), its continuity confirmed to Mary by Gabriel in Lk 1:32,33, and later, to us all through the testimony of Paul’s Gospel about the mystery of the Messiah in Ephesians and Colossians being the Gospel preached beforehand to the Gentiles, and by the Book of Hebrews, in Heb 12:23, making it impossible for any entity other than the eternal House of Jacob, to be the mother church.
It’s significant that Shabbat, which amongst many other things is a rehearsal for the wedding supper of the Lamb, preceded the marriage covenant (Gen 2:2,3, 24,25).
First principles and “first works,” working together with the ‘law of first mention,’ have a special place in the Heart of our Creator-Redeemer, and in accurate interpretation of covenant theology. None more precious than His gift of His Shabbat to mankind (His first mention of holiness in the Bible, and the only mention of holiness in all of Genesis), a gift of unspeakably great grace (as the foretaste of millennial bliss), that is forever to be ‘remembered’ by “labouring to enter” into the covenant it represents (Ex 31:16,17), to enter its rest by making every endeavour to keep it holy (Ex 20:8; Is 56:6-8; 58:13,14; Mk 2:27,28; 2 Cor 5:9-11; Heb 4:9,11; Rev 2:4,5).
Shabbat was included in the codification of God’s laws at Sinai (confirmed in Matt 5:19) in order to be more easily and universally ‘remembered’
When Israel unanimously entered into the covenant agreement ‘(ketubah,’ or marriage covenant) by concertedly affirming that they would do “all” that YaHWeH had spoken, in order to be obedient in order to be regarded by Him as His “special treasure above all people,” and as “a kingdom of priests and a holy nation” (Ex 19:5-8; 24:7,8), they were binding all future generations of believers in the God of Jacob, to uphold the Ten Words and their derivatives, as they would in time to come be expounded in greater depth by the Messiah (Deut 18:18,19; 29:12-15; Acts 3:22,23)
As the backstop to idolatry, Shabbat is the most liberating precept in the Bible, best equipped to help safeguard us from defilement by sin.
Far from being a reason to dismiss Shabbat as irrelevant to the “Way of YHWH” which dates back to Abraham (Gen 18:18,19; 26:5), and which has been entrusted to the Messianic Nazarene branch of the faith of Abraham simply called “the Way” (Acts 24:5,14; Eph 4:5), its appearance in the Torah is the ultimate endorsement of Shabbat as pivotal to honouring all the will of YaH, since Yeshua would later magnify the Torah as the Law of Christ (Matt 5:19; Is 42:21).
The notion that Shabbat was ever displaced or replaced (impossible according to Matt 5&6; Rom 3:31), is the stuff of fantasy and fraud, to prop up a counterfeit of the Hebrew household of God (Eph 2:11,12,19) and of the kingdom of God (promised to c0-heirs of the House of Jacob), to divert attention from the inalienable primacy of the House of Jacob (due to their irrevocable calling and gifting) in the complete Plan of Redemption (Rom 11:25-29), to develop a version of the faith under a false mother church identity, which bears little or no resemblance to what would have been recognized as truth and righteousness, in the Gospel as it was originally ministered to the church while it was under direct Hebrew Apostolic supervision (Jude vs 3).
At the outset, then, it must be said that since the above “one new man” vision of a remnant of redeemed humanity unified in Christ by joint-membership of the House of Jacob for uncompromising adherence to the “one faith” in submission to the easy yoke of the laws of heaven under the Sovereignty of the One-and-only God, Israel’s God (Matt 5:19; 11:27-30; 6:9.10; Lk 1:33; Eph 4:5,11-14), is the plan that will bring humanity full circle, from historic Eden to prophetic Eden on a timeline regulated by the LORD’s Appointed Times (Lev 23; Is 56:6-8; Rev 21&22), it is imperative that believers wanting to appropriate the complete and perfect eternal patriarchal inheritance, must repair the serious breach of the original Seventh Day Shabbat of the Fourth Commandment (Is 58:12-14 – Friday sunset to Saturday sunset – “and the evening and the morning” in Gen 1&2 meaning that the span of all Biblical days is measured from sunset to sunset, not from midnight to midnight), which, if it continues to be neglected (as the covenanted, appointed day of assembly), which shows contempt for the Spirit of grace (Heb 4:9-11; 10:25,29), will disqualify many from the prize of the crown of righteousness, for not “keeping the faith” as both Father and Son did, as a double testimony against those who deny and disparage Their Shabbat, which on Judaism’s own admission (disclaiming ownership of Shabbat, in their Book of Common Prayer, the ‘Siddur’) “comes around every seventh day independently of the Jewish people and the calendar” (Gen 2:2,3; Ex 20:11b; Matt 12:8; Mk 2:27,28; Lk 4:16: 2 Tim 4:3-8; Heb 4:4)
There is ample proof throughout the Bible that the Fourth Commandment (Ex 20:8-11) (which is inseparable from the Fifth – Ex 20:12, and upon which all other commandments are dependent) is not fulfilled by keeping Sunday as a human tradition.
To treat Sunday as anything other than “the first day of the week” (‘Yom Rishon,’ the ‘head’ of the six working days of the Economy of Zion [or Sabbatical Economy] of which the nation of Israel is the outstanding role model), makes it the mother of heresies.
Nowhere in Scripture is a weekly ‘Resurrection Day’ authorized, nor is it authorized as a substitute for the Holy Shabbat which is forever the amalgam of the “one new man.” Just as nowhere in the Bible is the expression, “the LORD’s Day” or “the Day of the LORD,” or “the Holy of YHWH” reserved for any day other than the Holy Seventh (Ex 16:23-30; Is 58:13) or for the dread Day of Judgement (which is a span of time, as recounted in Revelation, prompted by Rev 1:10).
Trying to elevate and ‘shoehorn’ Sunday into descriptions of Shabbat, is a deception worthy of eternal death, by corrupting the text and polluting Shabbat as a consequence (Is 56:6-8).
As the sign of our sanctification by the everlasting covenant, and of Israel’s perpetual election as adopting nation (Ex 20:8-11; 31:13,16,17; Lk 1;33; Eph 2:11,12; Heb 13:20,21), the sanctified and blessed Shabbat (Gen 2:2,3), the unique portal to the deepest possible understanding of the covenant (Ps 25:10,14), is the ‘golden thread,’ or the ‘pearl chain’ of ‘pearls of great price,’ which the Almighty has ‘threaded through’ the cycle of His three annual Feast Seasons (Passover; Shavuo’t/’Pentecost’; Tabernacles) to help ensure hermeneutical (doctrinal) continuity and consistency, from beginning to end (from ‘alef to tav’), to make “the unity of the faith” in “the unity of the Spirit” attainable by a remnant purged of error and unbelief to be of pure motive and understanding, even as our Master is pure (1 Cor 1:10; Eph 4:1-5, 11-14; 1 Jn 3:3-10).
The rest of the church’s convocations are self-appointed (the sin of Jeroboam) and therefore, neither sanctified nor blessed.
The net effect of this tampering with YHWH’s organization of cyclical and linear time, which has deflected and desynchronized the body of Christ from the Divine patterns, is an astonishingly extensive distortion of the entire formulation of the full counsel, which is why, in the interests of genuine reformation and transformation, it would have been irresponsible not to raise this subject first.
Moreover, if we consider the fact that breach of Shabbat by the church in the nations strikes at the heart of the unity of the House of Jacob (Yah’s household) amongst which former Gentiles are grafted in (Ps 133; Is 56:1-8; Lk 1:33; Rom 11; Rev 21:12); and is most likely (according to the sages’ interpretation of “the ordinance”) the spiritual root of the disruption and deterioration of Creation (Is 24:5; Rom 8:18-22); and furthermore, taking into account that it can be derived from Scripture, that Abraham and his household kept Shabbat, as we know the early church did, acknowledging its Hebraic Abrahamic identity (Gen 14:13; 18:18,19; 26:5; Gal 3:8,9,29), it is impossible to exaggerate the importance of Shabbat
LET”S DIVE DEEP INTO FRANK EXAMINATION OF FURTHER INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Except in the days of Noah, of which our day is fast becoming a mirror image (Matt 24), never has there been more urgent need for warning to be given to humanity to have a vision of redemption from the oncoming calamity, of which we’re already experiencing severe “birthpains”
“write the Vision and make it plain on tablets, so that he who reads it, may run (and also herald it)“
(Hab 2:2-4; Acts 26:15-23; Eph 3:2-11)
The victory of God-given vision, mission and commission depends on discernment which only the eagle vision of His Holy Spirit (accessed by waiting on Him), sent to indwell us to teach us “the Way,” to assure that victory, can provide (Prov 29:18; Jn 16:1-16; Acts 24:14; Ro 8:4-18).
There is no greater vision than the hope of Zion (the perfection of the beauty of holiness) through the success of the calling and mission of the dynastic House of Jacob, through which the Gospel of the Hebrew New Covenant will glorify Zion’s God in the eyes of the world (Ps 50:2; Is 46:13; Jer 31:31-34; Joel 3:16; Zech 14:9; Lk 1:33; 2:32; Gal 3:8,9)
Consider the following excerpt from Isaiah 43, very, very carefully
Isa 43:-121 “But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob (the sons and daughters of Zion), and He that formed thee, O Israel (the nations comprising the Twelve Tribes of the House of Jacob), Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called [thee] by thy name; thou [art] Mine…For I [am] the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt [for] thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee…Since thou wast precious in My sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee (Deut 4:37; Rom 11:25-29): therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life (ultimately, deliverance from Armageddon – Zech 14, and Gog and Magog – Rev 20:6, to never cease to be nation before Me, irrespective of durations of their two Exiles, as confirmed by the Hebrew New Covenant – 2 Sam 7:18-29; Ps 105:8-11; Is 29:22,24; 51:1-11; Jer 31:31-37; Amos 9:11-15; Rom 15:8)…Fear not: for I [am] with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;…I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; [Even] every one that is called by My Name: for I have created him (Jacob and his seed) for my glory (Is 29:22-24; Lk 1:33), I have formed him; yea, I have made him…Ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and My covenanted servant (nation) whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe Me, and understand that I [am] He: before Me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after Me. I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and beside Me [there is] no Saviour…I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when [there was] no strange [god] among you: therefore ye [the remnant of Israel in every generation then and since] are My witnesses (by their mere existence against all odds, whether saved or not, to YaH’s only MonoTheism as “God of the spirits of all flesh” – Nu 16:22; Deut 6:4,5; Mk 12:28-34), saith the LORD (YHWH), that I [the I AM, YHWH, alone] am God” (Ex 3:3-18; Is 43:1-12; 44:1-8,24)
It is the calling of “Gentiles (“ordained to eternal life” – Acts 2:39,47; 13:46,48; 15:14-17) granted repentance unto life” through a good confession coupled with the Messianic baptism of repentance for the remission of their sins, augmented by the Holy Spirit given as a gift to be received by faith through the laying on of hands (Mk 16:16; Acts 10:43-48; 11:18; 22:16; Rom 6:1-7; 10:9-13; Gal 3:27; Col 2:12,13; Titus 3:5), to be joined to the House of Jacob through spiritual ingrafting, to be joint-witnesses with God’s ancient people Israel, whose latter day Gospel calling and mission is out of Zion, as Israel’s very own (Jn 4:22; Heb 12:22) through ratification of their New Covenant of the House of Judah and the House of Israel, through Yeshua the Messiah suffering grievously to confirm Israel’s corporate mandate, by confirming the promises to the fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – which is why the Gentile nations are warned in the severest terms, not to “boast against the natural branches” whose redemptive work has only just begun (Is 2:2-4; 4;1-6; 27:6-9; 28:5,6; 37:31 [prophecies with more than one fulfilment]; 42:1-9; 44:1-8; 49:5-8; Jer 16:19; Zech 8:21-23; Jn 4:22; Rom 9:4,5; 11:11-15,17-29; 15:8-12; Rev 7:4-8).
In the journey of development of our faith and character, certain guidelines should always be kept in mind:
- Identity (correct identification of ourselves and of whatever it is that we relate to) is an all important guide to, and safeguard of truth, insofar as not believing we are Hebrews by adoption has made so many Christians prey to Replacement Theology (Gen 14:13; Lk 1:33; Rom 11; Gal 3:29)
- Agreement on the meaning of words; on definitions of terms (especially first principles); and unanimity of understanding of sound doctrine (e.g. Ex 19:5-8; 24:7,8; Eph 4:11-14), settle great controversies and questions of fact (1 Cor 1:10);
- Honouring context, ensured by use of the infallible Berean test, does the same (Acts 17:11; 24:14; 2 Cor 13:1,5; 2 Tim 3:14-17);
- Prophecy can have several fulfilments (e.g. Matt 24:15-22), just as principles, general or particular, can be expounded more fully over time (Eph 3:4-6), such as the “mixed multitude” in the wilderness church being the pattern in the Passover and Exodus narrative, for the New Covenant’s “one new man” by adoption in the House of Jacob through the Blood of “Christ our Passover”(Gen 12:2,3; Ex 12:38; Lk 1:33; Acts 7;38; 1 Cor 5:7,8; Gal 3:8,9; Eph 3:4-6); and
- For the sake of all concerned, Vision must be approved of God, ideally confirmed by two or three witnesses, as being “from His Mouth,” the meaning of which would include Personal Encounters with Him, as Paul clearly had through his vision of Jesus’ visitation in Acts 26:15-23, where the LORD said: “…for I have appeared to you for this purpose” (vs 16).
He then described what readers with deep understanding of the covenant would recognize as the Father’s Vision of Zion as the perfection of the beauty of holiness of a remnant of humanity reconciled to and united with God and one another, in “the unity of the one faith” “under the Ensign of the Messiah” as “Ruler of the House of Jacob, forever” (Ps 50:2; Is 11:10-12; Lk 1:33; Eph 4:5,11-14), a vision which is steadily being fulfilled despite a great “falling away” as the age draws to a close (2 Thess 2:3-15), by the joining (the “making or joining affinity” with Zion, proved by ingrafting, “contrary to nature”) of saved Gentiles to the House of Jacob as “the mystery of the Messiah” through which the fullness of the harvest of, and the maturing of a remnant of former Gentiles in foundational Torah wisdom (Is 14:1; 49:5-8; 56:1-8; Acts 24:14; Eph 2:11-13; 2 Tim 3:14-17) will be a catalyst for Zion’s soon-to-be celebrated rise to global pre-eminence (Jer 31:7; Micah 4:1-8; 8:7-20).
That elevation of a remnant of God’s ancient people to everlasting excellence of dignity and power (a dazzling work to be “cut short in righteousness”) as their irrevocable firstborn order-in-election and calling as the “firstfruits” of the Gospel harvest – Jer 2:2,3; Rom 11:25-29) is meant to be contributed to, to some degree, by us “provoking the Jew to envy” by our zeal for Torah knowledge of the Way (halacha) (Rom 2:6-3,26; 11:11,15; 2 Tim 3:14-17), for Israel’s ultimate exaltation as “Israel My (latter House) Glory” (Deut 26:16-19; Is 46:13; Haggai 2:7-9; Lk 2:32) which will be clinched through Jewish faith in their God through their own Gospel (Jn 4:22), through recognition of “the One Whom they pierced” in ignorance, as God foresaw, for the Master Yeshua’s Sacrifice as the Lamb of YaH by Roman Crucifixion on Passover to provide the Ransom by Sprinkling, and the sanctifying “baptism (into Yeshua’s substitutory Death) of repentance for the remission of sins” for the transformational regeneration and supernatural heart circumcision which alone can save a remnant of humanity from total destruction by returning to sin (Is 52:6,7; 61:1-3; Jer 31:31-34; Zech 12; Lk 4:14-24; Rom 6:1-3; 1 Cor Heb 8-10; 1 Peter 3:18-22; 2 Peter 2:4-9; 3:3-18)
As a ‘Hebrew of Hebrews’ born within the household of faith of the master dynasty (of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob the prince and his seed forever – Gen 32:28) through which human destiny is being shaped, by the Holy Spirit having verified the ‘genesis’ of New Covenant salvation history by tracing the genealogy of the offer of “everlasting salvation” (for all who comply with what it means practically speaking to “call on the Name of the LORD” to attain final redemption through faith & faithfulness – Jn 5:24; 6:40; 15:3-15; Acts 22:16; Rom 2:6-13; 10:9-13; 8:4-14,23; James 1:22-25) across the 42 (14×3) generations from “Abram the Hebrew” who as a prophet “saw My Day and rejoiced” (Gen 12:1-7; 14:13; Jn 8:56) to the Messiah Yeshua, the Seed of Abraham and Son of David (Matt 1:17-23); and by knowing the end from the beginning from his intimate knowledge of the Torah and the Prophets (which contain vital information on the endtimes, not deducible by only reading the Gospels and the Book of Revelation), the Apostle Paul, called to help bring the world to its senses (Acts 17:6; 26:17), received that vision of human and cosmic redemption as he was being saved from his sins by the risen Saviour to become Apostle to the Gentiles (Acts 22:12-16; 26:14-20; Rom 8:18-23).
A careful search of Scripture, allowing the Spirit of God to connect the dots, reveals that that master vision is the overarching vision of Zion (of which the Messiah in us by YaH’s Spirit, is the hope of glory – Col 1:25-29, and out of which salvation from sins, then only national redemption for Israel at the second coming – Is 59:20,21; Rom 11:23-27, has come to earth from Zion above in the Person of the Davar Elohim incarnate as Yeshua the “Arm” and “Branch of YaH” – Ps 4:2-6; 14:7; Is 52:13-15; 53:1-12; Jn 1:1-14,18; 17:1-8) as “the perfection of the beauty of holiness” ( to which “The Way of Holiness” leads in order to lead to eternal life – Is 35:8-10; Matt 7:13-17), as God’s chief righteous cause by having established and promised to reward Israel (“My son, even My firstborn”) as His elect adopting nation to be the vehicle, as the natural olive tree (Rom 9:4,5; 11:17-29) for salvation for mankind, through their Messiah (Ex 4:22,23; Ps 50:2,5,23; Ps 74:2,22; Is 60-62)
“Whereupon (upon hearing the vision explained) O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the vision from heaven“
(Acts 26:19)
Of this cause, Paul said: “I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision” (Acts 26:19) because that vision of the Gospel is the only guarantee of the “repair of the world and the improvement of the Universe” (“tikkun ha olam”), which the unchurched world dream of, and of which the Jew is appointed to be the spearhead in the body of believers in the Messiah. All who accept the terms of the Gospel (of righteous requirements of the New Covenant “enjoined | prescribed to you”) by submitting, by faith, to the work of sanctification (personal holiness) necessary to be eligible for the eternal inheritance, will escape the nightmare scenario that lies immediately ahead, by helping fulfil the vision of Zion by being conformed to the image of the Messiah (Rom 8:29).
In other words, Paul was not disobedient to the vision of the plan and the provision (personal, corporate and cosmic) which has been made for our escape from the second death (Lk 21:36; Rev 3:10; 20:6), because he “fully preached” the Gospel and warned spiritual leaders not to handicap their congregations by defiling them by corrupting the Scriptures by preaching less than “all the will of God” (Deut 12:32; Acts 20:25-32; 1 Tim 4:16).
So it is the fulfilment of the vision of the perfection of the beauty of Zion (Ps 50:2; 2 C0r 7:1), the vision of a remnant of humanity’s perfection by spiritual adoption ”within the dynasty’ (hence the term ‘IntraDynasty’) of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob which would be the result of acceptance of the redemption offered through “the salvation which has come out of Zion” (Ps 14:7; Jn 4:22) which is the call to faithfulness to pursue personal sanctification through the Gospel of the New Covenant, which provides abundant “grace for grace” to achieve that goal, from one act of faith, to another (Rom 1:16,17), until we are not only fully versed in the Ways of the Kingdom of YaH, but are competently and promptly obedient, to “reveal His righteousness” from “precept to precept” as covenant-keepers, to reap the promise of rest, refreshing and true freedom, along with the promise of an eternal inheritance (Is 28:9-12; Jn 1:16; 8:31-36; Heb 12:14,15,28; 13:20,21)
The novel word ‘IntraDynasty,’ an inspired doctrinal prompt given as a pearl of Divine Intelligence, which describes identification with and membership of the Hebraic body of believers (Lk 1:33; Eph 2:11,12,15,19) who will escape Judgment and the Second Death in the Lake of Fire (Rev 20:6), is a strategically coined watchword and guiding principle (to know when and with whom to fellowship – Ps 42:2,4) received by waiting on the LORD, for His response to prayer for a memorable term or expression with the potential to singlehandedly expose heresy and bring order to our understanding of the full counsel, by containing a universe of meaning.
There’d never have been such a confusing proliferation of denominations and minefield of suspicious doctrine, had the truth been honoured that the church has forever belonged to the House of Jacob (Lk 1:33), because its roots are in the Sinai covenant (where the House of Jacob was constituted as the wilderness church) confirmed by the New Covenant (Ex 19:5-8; Matt 5:19; Acts 7:38; 1 Peter 2:9,10)
By symbolizing the great arc of the Plan of Redemption from the call of “Abram the Hebrew” (Gen 12:1-7; 14:13) to the final harvest of Israel (Rom 11:23-29), and their final national redemption and exaltation as chief of nations (Deut 26:16-19; 28:10-14; Is 46:13; Jer 31:7; Zech 14; Lk 2:32), joined by ingrafting in their good olive tree (Rom 11), of a sanctified remnant from the nations (Is 14:1; Lk 1:33; Rom 11; Eph 2:11,12) with whom they (the House of Jacob) will share the New Jerusalem (Rev 21:12), IntraDynasty sums up the hope of a redeemed and sanctified remnant of humanity (called to comprise the visionary “one new man” – Eph 2:15) being delivered from the coming wrath of the Tribulation through the Gospel as the endtime ‘Ark’ (the parallel of salvation of Noah’s family of eight), for former Gentiles (who ‘glorify God for His mercy in extending salvation to the nations’ – Rom 15:8,10-12) to receive an eternal inheritance in the Kingdom of the Messiah along with the believing remnant of God’s people Israel in the eternal House of Jacob (Lk 1:33; Eph 5:5), all because the cleansing Blood of “Christ (the Messiah) Crucified” that ratified the New Covenant of the House of Judah and the House of Israel (Jer 31:31-34; Lk 21:25-36; Heb 10), was sprinkled on the mercy seat of the Temple in heaven when Yeshua (Jesus) as “Christ our Passover” first ascended to His Father after His Resurrection (Is 53; Jn 20:14; 1 Co 5:7,8; 1 Peter 1:4; Heb 9:11-15,24; Rev 11:19; 15:5)
So we’re going to put the meaning of the phrase “the same body,” and of being “within it,” on trial, to dispel misconceived ideas about the all important identity of the church, since it was from the transitioning Hebrew Church (Acts 7:38) which Jesus as Stone and Shepherd of Israel (Gen 49:24) followed in the wilderness journey defined by the lessons associated with their 42 encampments (Nu 33) as the spiritual Rock from Whom Israel “drank” during their Exodus (1 Cor 10:4), that a believing Jewish Messianic Apostolic remnant emerged (branching from mainstream Judaism as the Nazarene faith called “the Way,” called a sect by Judaism – Acts 24:5,14) which is now indisputably “the body of the Messiah” attributed to THEIR New Covenant (Jer 31:31-34), for prophecy to Abraham to be fulfilled, that believers in the nations would become the seed of Abraham’s dynasty and would therefore be joined to the House of Jacob (Gen 12:2,3; 17:4-6; 28:14; Gal 3:29).
This was clear as day to Abraham who, as a prophet, saw “Yeshua’s Day, and was glad and rejoiced” (Jn 8:56)
Though it will be too much for the world to digest just at the moment, we have an obligation, if we’re to make wise disciples of nations (for them to “observe all things whatsoever I have commanded YOU” – Matt 28:20) as tribulation intensifies and “the terror of the LORD” begins to exact its terrible toll (Ps 2:12; 2 Cor 5:11; Rev 6:12-17), to make it known that mankind’s only hope, through faith in Israel’s Messiah, is a civilization (the coming Theocratic millennial Kingdom of David) through which the keeping of the truth and righteousness of Hebrew precepts (including the Ten Words and the four Levitical fellowship entry-requirements derived from them – Ex 20:1-17; Acts 15:20) “to serve God acceptably” (on the proven ancient “paths of righteousness” which are “the Way of holiness” – Ps 23:3b; Is 35:8; Zech 8:8; Matt 7:13-27; Rom 2:6-13; 15:16-18; Heb 12:14,28), will ensure a principled world with the stability and benefits of “everlasting righteousness” (Is 51:1-7; Dan 9:24) to make a “world without end” “like days of heaven on earth” – like Eden recovered (Deut 4:5-8; 11:21; Is 2:2-4; 65:17-25).
It is for this purpose (“that Thy Way may be known upon the earth”) that we from the nations have been “surnamed for God’s servant Jacob’s sake,” to abide in Y’shua the Vine amongst the noble vines of the House of Jacob (Ps 80:7-19; Jer 2:21; Jn 15) to “sow to ourselves in righteousness” by walking lawfully after the Spirit, by learning righteousness by using the law lawfully to learn what sin is, to “rejoice in working righteousness” to create an incorruptible new world order (Ps 67; 106:3-5; Is 26:9,10; 29:22-24; 45:4-6,17-25; 51:1-7; 64:5; Hosea 6:1-3; 10:11; Acts 10:35; Rom 3:20,31; 1 Tim 1:8-11; 2 Tim 2:5; Heb 10:16; 1Jn 3:4).
Obviously, the only faith and only church that can make that possible is the universal faith and church which was accepted in the Book of Acts as the fulfilment of the promise to the Hebrews of one eternal Messianic Hebrew fold (Gen 12-35; Is 56:6-8; Jn 10:16; Rev 21:12), due to “the one faith” being “the faith once (i.e. as it was originally) delivered to the saints” without Greek or Roman manipulation and modification (Jude vs 3), to preserve the purity of YHWH’s doctrine and operation of the Holy Spirit without limit.
Col 2:16,17, by affirming the Hebrew traditionary law (which is Strong’s definition of the “traditions” [paradosis] as the ordinances of YHVH’s perpetual Holy Convocations, in the parallel text in 2 Thess 2:15), gives us a powerful confirmation of Ephesians 2:11-19 and 3:6 which make it clear that Israel in the wilderness was the START-UP CHURCH to whose New Covenant remnant we are joined through our justification by faith, to VINDICATE the beauty and truth of those Convocations (“Holydays/Feasts, New Moons and Ex 20:8-11 weekly Sabbath Days”) by keeping them by faith in obedience to the authentic Gospel (Is 56:6; Rom 3:31; 15:16-18; 16:26; 1 Cor 11:1,2) as an essential part of our sanctification (as the primary responsibility of firstborn males to safeguard), hence the endtime warnings in Gal 4:8-11 and 2 Thess 2:13-15, not to forsake them for counterfeits from the nations.
Col 2:17 should read: “(which are a shadow of things to come) NOW (that the) [NOT “BUT the”] BODY (of believers/congregation of the people of YHVH, referring back to Acts 7:38) is of the Messiah/Messianic (Lk 1:33; ), hence “the same body” in Eph 3:6.
The PROPER NOUN and PLACE-NAME ‘Palestine,’ a play on Plishtim (the Philistines) and a figment of political imagination vainly conceived to try to quash the everlasting covenant by engineering state capture from the Hebrews; and the COMMON COLLECTIVE NOUN ‘church,’ are examples of the most propagandized use of language in history, which have mutually reinforced one another to curse Israel.
If Israel is not the church (Acts 7:38; Lk 1:33) and Palestine is not Israel, salvation is voided (theoretically, at least) because the best any other church can do is to produce “a different Jesus,” because like the chosen nation itself, the Nativity, the Crucifixion and Resurrection and the Second Coming would be stateless, and therefore prophecy unplugged, out on a limb.
Perverse use of these nouns has resulted in GEOGRAPHY and RELIGION playing the harlot, for generations.
The ‘whoredom’ of this incessant disinformation about the nation of Israel; their Landed birthright; the pre-eminence of their Messianic Church; and the Oneness of their God, the one and only Creator and Saviour (Is 44:24; 45:17-25: Mk 12:29), has polluted the understanding of the entire world (Rev 17:15); has grievously affected Jewish morale, well-being and property (Zech 1:13-18); and has robbed the church of powers it once widely exercised to help make the Gospel irresistable when, under direct Apostolic leadership, there was as yet no schism because it was obvious that YHVH’s set-apart, Messianic, Spirit-filled “General Assembly and Church of the firstborn (Jacob)” was HEBREW, its doors open wide to warmly receive Gentiles whose hearts are purified by faith, to be obedient to the one faith, and who KNEW they were ‘running to Israel’ to be glorified in THEIR church, rather than Jews running to them, as Catholicism and Protestant denominations vaingloriously like to believe about themselves (Is 14:1; 49:5-8; 54:3; 55:5; Acts 15:9,14-17; Rom 1:5; 11; Eph 2:11,12; 4:5).
Those who will not “come out of…” this fornication with the occult (Rev 18:4,5), choose the broad path which seals one’s fate in the lake of fire.
Palestine is not non-Jewish (because Canaan became Israel directly, with no ‘Palestine’ to leapfrog – Gen 17:8,19-21; Deut 12:28-32) any more than the concept of ‘salvation’ or ‘church’ is of the “Greek” (Jn 4:22; Acts 7:38; Rom 1:16; 9:4,5).
Until we start comprehending that the Messiah’s prayer in Ps 2:7-12 is His plea to His Father to fulfil Is 49:5-8 and 54:3 to unify a remnant from the nations WITH remnant ISRAEL as a Hebrew commonwealth of “one new man,” to perfect Israel as the church of YHVH (Lk 1:32,33; Eph 2:11-19; 3:6; 5:26,27), to be heir and curator of the worlds, we’ll continue fumbling through doctrine by muddling facts, and doing a disservice to His Jewish people.
What WE define as the ‘church’ profoundly affects what DOCTRINE we’ll accept as truth; and since rejecting the doctrine of the Messiah in any way can make the difference between faithfulness and loyalty and disobedience and rebellion, even putting our salvation in jeopardy (Heb 5:9; 2 Jn vs 9-11), we should all be acutely aware of how Scripture interprets the common noun, ‘church,’ which we make so much of, usually without consulting the patterns and precedents which are given to us, to settle questions of fact.
Not long before Derek Prince went home to be with the LORD on a Feast of Trumpets, he made the following profound remark as a prophetic warning:
“The RETURN of Israel (from Second Exile – Is 11:10-12) is the greatest test of the CHARACTER of the nations.”
He was referring to both the church in the nations AND to the nations themselves, for neither has an excuse for disputing Israel’s birthright, given the powerful ways YHVH has revealed Himself in history as “the Portion of Jacob” (and visa versa) and “Israel (the House of Jacob), the rod (and lot) of His inheritance” with respect to legal succession to all the territory of the kingdoms of Canaan (Lev 21:22-24; Deut 3:32-40; 7:6-12; 12:18-32; 32:8-14; Ps 78:51-55; Is 10:16,25; 11:60:12).
To Derek Prince’s formidable proclamation, we should add:
“The restoration of the New Covenant church IN ISRAEL (the heirs of “the Way” which Judaism labels as heresy due to Judaism’s rejection of Y’shua, still calling it the Nazarene sect – Acts 24:5,14) is the greatest test of ALLEGIANCE of the church in the NATIONS to “the Israel of YHVH” (“for they are not all Israel who are Israel” – Rom 9:6) which is the believing remnant of the (mother) church, the House of Jacob over which Y’shua the Messiah will reign forever on the soon-to-be-restored Throne of David” (Lk 1:32,33; Acts 7:38; Rom 11; Gal 6:16).
The fully consecrated members of the church of Israel (the “Israel of YHVH”) which Y’shua “the Branch” (Is 4:2) has made the all-righteous branch of Judaism through the righteousness which is by faith, worked out line by line, precept by precept (Is 28:9-13; Matt 5:19; 12:50; 19:16-29; Acts 24:14; Phil 2:12,13), are the LEGAL SUCCESSORS to the nation of Israel and “the coming Kingdom of our father David” (Is 9:6,7; Ps 50:5,23; Heb 5:9).
All roads lead to Zion (Jerusalem, Israel, church of Israel) (“ALL my springs are in thee”), not to a Gentile capital (Ps 87:7; 102:13-18; 129:5; 146:10).
The relative number of Jews saved over the generations (relative to unsaved Jews or to saved Gentiles) is IRRELEVANT to the election of the ETERNAL House of Jacob as the church (Is 1:9; 2:2-4; 56:6-8; Rom 11:25-29).
In the metaphorical language of Scripture, the Messiah is AS synonomous with Israel His “vine” (Ps 80), as are Israel and their covenants, with His natural olive tree (Rom 9:4,5; 11:1-32).
Many born again “wild olive shoots” (Gentiles) who claim to “see” the Kingdom on the strength of Jn 3:3b, don’t see it the way the LORD does because they are ‘disinclined to want to know’ (are wilfully ignorant of) the “mystery” of the “good” olive tree (in Rom 11:23-29, which expands upon the “mystery of the Messiah” in Eph 3:1-10), to know the implications of Israel being “beloved for the FATHERS” sakes as touching the (order and purpose of their irrevocable giftedness and call and their) election (as firstfruits of YHVH’s harvests) (Deut 3:35-38; Jer 2:3; Rom 11:25)
Two of those implications are that they also are to obtain mercy through OUR mercy to them by our reciprocating for the mercy by which WE were redeemed THROUGH them (Jn 4:22; Rom 9:4,5; 11:11,30,31); and that the appointment by the Lamb slain before Creation, of the salvation which would “come out of Zion” “of the Jews,” to join believers from the nations TO THEM and to no other entity, is because it is decreed, for our greatest benefit, that the spiritual “riches” we obtained through the DIMINISHING of Israel through their hardening in part, be greatly magnified in FELLOWSHIP together with the remnant of the Jewish people in “their fullness” which we’re told will be “like life from the dead,” which is why we are warned not to become spiritually conceited and alienate our affection for Zion (to which apostolic succession belongs) by defecting to any other institutionalized arrangement (apostolic ‘see’/bishopric) claiming to BE the universal (‘catholic’) “Church (kahal, ekklesia) of YHVH” (Rom 11:11-15,18,25; 2 Thess 2:3-15).
As we’ll see further on, since the self-styled Creator-God of JACOB created all the world as His offspring (Acts 17:28,29) for families to call on His Name BY THAT TITLE, for “the whole family in heaven and earth” to ultimately be ruled by Himself “in JACOB, to the ends of the earth” (Ps 2:7-12; 59:13; Mal 1:5; 1 Cor 15; Eph 3:6,15), the concept of ‘intra dynasty’ usefully highlights the call to every family in the nations through the Gospel, to call on the Name of the LORD in repentance for justification by His Son’s Blood, AND to seal their identity as heirs of the God and King of Jacob (Is 41:21,27; Rom 8:17) by ‘declaring affinity with’ (joining and cleaving to) the eternal House of Jacob as the “General Assembly and Church of the firstborn” (Jacob) (Gen 25:23; Is 14:1; Acts 17:26-28; Heb 12:23).
This is to save us from “correction, with judgment,” for potentially behaving detrimentally to God’s people Israel in thought, word and/or deed by misconstruing the paramount rôle of the House of Jacob as heirs of the world, and as YHVH’s Household, in the shaping of our character by His Spirit conforming us to His Son’s image (Rom 8:29; Col 3:9,10), and by shaping our citizenship of the age and world to come as joint-heirs with the Messiah amongst the Twelve Tribes (Is 10:23-25; 66:22-24; Rom 4:13; Eph 2:11,12,19; Col 1:28; Rev 21:12).
We need to get this through to people everywhere, to sow seeds of truth that will help end anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, because it’s hard to be anti-Semitic and deny the Abrahamic land covenant (Gen 12:1-7; 15:7-21; Ps 105:8-11; Rom 15:8) when your salvation depends on your adoption in the commonwealth of Zion/Israel through their New Covenant, their church and their promises (Gen 27:29; 28:14; Jer 31:31-36; Lk 1:33; Eph 2:11,12).
In this context, we shouldn’t overlook the fact that the Abrahamic promise of protection (“cursed be everyone that curses THEE, and blessed be he who blesseth THEE”) conveyed to Jacob by inheritance in Gen 27:29, is to covenant- keepers who are joined to (grafted in) the House of Jacob (implied by being “in thee [Jacob]”) by adoption, which is what we’re taught in Is 56:6-8; Lk 1:33; Jn 10:16 and Gal 3:29.
If you’re disowning the House of Jacob by claiming membership of a different household by a different Jesus of a different church, you can hardly expect the Blood to provide the sought-for covenant benefits.
This is not just a technicality. It goes to the heart of “the one faith” and to our faith in our connection to YHVH through His Son, by His Spirit working in the church AS it is SCRIPTURALLY DEFINED as the renewed or regenerated House of Jacob (Jer 31:31-34).
It’s only as bona fide joint heirs of the Messiah Y’shua AS HEAD OF THE HOUSE OF JACOB (Lk 1:33; Eph 2:11,12,15; 3:6), keeping “The Way” which they (the Jews) called the Nazarene sect (Acts 24:5,14), to OBEY the Author of eternal salvation to die the death of the righteous (Acts 10:35; Col 4:12; 1 Tim 6:11-14; Heb 5:9), that death cannot rob us of our inheritance of the world, and the immortality promised by bodily redemption as His purchased possession.
Is 56:6-8; Lk 1:33 and Jn 10:16 teach us that it is by adoption as the redeemed of the House of JACOB (not the church of the city of Romulus and Remus), that WE TOO have become YHVH’s “witnesses” (Is 43:1-11; 44:1-8; 49:5-8).
That, after all, is the ultimate purpose of the calling and mission of the House of David (Israel’s first family) to which Y’shua’s miracle conception was given as a sign (Is 7:13,14); and the reason why the Atonement and Resurrection are defined in Is 55:5 and Acts 13:32-39 as “the sure mercies of DAVID” after whom the coming Kingdom of the Messiah Who will reign over the House of Jacob, is named (Is 9:6,7; Mk 11:10; Lk 1:32,33).
Knowing that, joins the dots to ensure a Biblical worldview and sound understanding of the true “everlasting salvation” of Is 45:17-25 in which redemption of our BODIES is DEPENDENT upon our sanctification by the truth (Jn 17:17,19), by the Spirit (2 Thess 2:13,14), to be a “wholly sanctified” as a PREPARED bride, through purification of our souls by obedience to YHVH’s ways, because sin is breach of the law (Acts 20:32; 26:18; Rom 2:13; 3:31; 8:4,6,7,14; 1 Thess 5:23; 1 Jn 3:3-10).
Our joint-inheritance in, amongst and with His set apart nation through their New Covenant, along with their dispersed saints still awaiting repatriation to Israel, is unquestionable (Ex 19:5-8; 1 Peter 1:1; 2:9).
Gen 35:11, Ps 68:26, 74:2, 89:7 are an identikit of the pivotal identity texts, Lk 1:33 and Heb 12:23.
Torah prophecy over the Abrahamic dynasty in Genesis, and the great number of confirmations of the future of Jacob’s inherited household in the Psalms, variously describe this ancient Abrahamic church of the House of Jacob (Acts 7:38) into which by God’s mercy we’ve been grafted to “rejoice with His people Israel” (Deut 32:43; Jer 31:7; Rom 15:10-12), as “the congregations from the Fountain of Israel”; “Thy congregation which Thou hast purchased…the rod of Thy inheritance which Thou hast redeemed”; “the (general) assembly of the saints”; “a nation and a company (commonwealth) of nations” (Eph 2:11,12); a “congregation of peoples” (the house of prayer for all nations) (Is 56:6-8), ALWAYS premised on the irrevocably elect Hebrew nation (Rom 11:25-29) being the vehicle for the redemption of Creation through their Messiah.
The raising up as FIRSTFRUITS of the New Covenant, of a harvest of the Twelve Tribes of Jacob (e.g. Acts 21:20) as a precursor to the glorious late harvest of Israel in Is 45:25; 46:13; Zech 12; Lk 2:32 and Rom 11:12b,15b,23-26, signalled that they were the REDEMPTION PRIORITY, by the Messiah being sent AS THE NEW COVENANT OF ISRAEL (Is 42:6; 49:8b) to His nation, FIRST (Is 49:6a; Acts 3:25,26; Rom 1:16).
This was to ensure the continuity of the church of Acts 7:38, from the Passover that released Israel as firstborn nation (Ex 4:22,23) into their destiny through a New Covenant-foreshadowing baptism in the Sea of Reeds AS THE CHURCH and ancient bride-elect (Is 54), to the exaltation and installation of Israel as heir of eternity in Messiah, in Rev 21:12, which couldn’t more clearly advertise WHOSE Gates the New Jerusalem’s are, in fulfilment of the promised exaltation of Israel AS A NATION – “Israel My glory” (Deut 26:16-19; 2 Sam 7:32-36; Is 46:13; 60-62; Jer 31:7).
So it’s only fair that if we warn others to “come out of HER” (the entire system of harlotry/ deception/unwisdom – Rev 18:4,5), we help direct their path into “the fellowship of the mystery of the Messiah” (Eph 3:1-10) which is done by being conscious of joining the Hebrew “one new man” to gratefully cleave to “the same body” which Scripture defines through the Abrahamic covenant as the House of Jacob, through faith in the Messiah Who is the “Sceptre out of Israel” and “Star out of Jacob” (Nu 24:17; Rom 11; 15:8-16).
Over the better part of two millennia, the common noun, ‘church,’ has acquired connotations which disassociate it from the challenging BIBLICAL doctrine of salvation and from the precepts of “the doctrine according to Godliness” both of which have come out of Zion.
Seeing OURSELVES and our membership of the body of the Messiah anchored in “the same body” in which Abraham, Isaac and Jacob obtained salvation (Gen 18:18,19; Is 51:1-7; Eph 3:6), puts an end to vain imaginings about the relationship between Israel and the church which have been deliberately exploited, to Hellenize both.
We receive grace in vain and call on the Name of the LORD in vain if we dispute the centrality of the House of Jacob in the repair of the world and the restitution of all things in the coming regeneration.
‘Hanukkah’ (the late November or December Feast of Dedication also known as the Feast of Lights) (Jn 10:22) is an annual reminder of Israel’s inevitable bounce-back from idolatry – soon – to their “fullness” in Messiah, reconciled to YHVH through YHVH in Him (Rom 11:12; 2 Cor 5:19), to exemplify “the Way” which they’ll regret having vilified as “heresy” and as the “sect” of the Nazarenes, because of their misjudgment of the glory of the Testimony of the One they slander as “THAT man,” Testimony which is by the Spirit of prophecy by which He was sent to save them from wrath as “the man from Heaven.” When they recant and fall at His Feet, His love for them because of their fathers will transfigure the Universe (Ps 104:30) and at last we’ll understand the endless love described Deut 4:37,38 & Rom 11:28.
There is no greater proof that HOUSEHOLD salvation (for which INDIVIDUAL salvation is the means) is the priority of the God of Jacob, the Saviour (Is 41:21,27; 45:15,21,22), than the preservation of the House of Jacob against all odds, dating back to the salvation of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to establish the household of YHVH WITHIN THEIR DYNASTY (Joshua 24:15; Ps 125; 131:12-18; 137:5,6; Jer 10:25; Matt 8:11,12; 22:28-33; Lk 1:33; Rom 11; Eph 2:11,12,19; Gal 3:29; Rev 21:12).
As it is written: “As touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by YHVH, saying, ‘I Am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the LIVING”
THEY live in sleep because Y’shua lives (Jn 11:25; 14:19), because they became the principal heirs of the righteousness which is of faith, to provide the GENERATIONAL family (a perpetual dynasty because it is synonomous with the gift of eternal life) WITHIN which salvation is procured by grace through faith by all who call on the Name of the LORD.
There is such weight of evidence that the church belongs to Jacob/Israel, that it’s astonishing that deceitful teachers have succeeded for so long in smothering and suppressing the truth.
According to Is 29:22-24, Jacob has an enormous vested interest in our three-part sanctification through obedience to the Gospel (Jn 17:17,19; 1 Thess 5:23; 2 Thess 2:13-15), because fulfilment of the promises to his grandfather, father and to himself (Rom 15:8) DEPEND on our integrity as professing believers, to keep “the Way of YHVH” in which these fathers walked before YHVH, to be perfect (Gen 17:1-6; 18:18,19; 26:5; Acts 24:14; Col 4:12).
At the very least, Gen 28:14; Is 29:22-24; 49:5-8; Lk 1:33 and Rom 11 should be required reading in every foundation course, to properly define the church and thereby, our relationship with the Jewish people in “the fellowship of the mystery of the Messiah” (Eph 2:11-19; 3:1-10).
In Is 29:22-24 we read about ourselves included as sons adopted “in thee” (i.e. in the church of firstborn Jacob/Israel – Gen 28:14; Ex 4:22,23; Lk 1:33; Rom 11; Heb 12:23) as the work of YHVH’s hands in the midst of the elect House of Jacob, learning sound doctrine (2 Tim 3:14-17) to hallow the Holy One of Jacob in the Fear of the God of Israel.
Through corruption of the Scriptures by the distortions and vileness of Replacement Theology, we lost our connection with the PRACTICALITY of the concept of “the HERITAGE of our father Jacob” (Ps 16:6; 61:5; Is 58:14; Deut 33:4; Rom 3:31) and the vastness of YHVH’s unbounded promise to him and his seed (which we are), by our rejection of the Holy Sabbath which Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the Twelve Patriarchs kept long before it was codified by Moses (Gen 2:2,3; Ex 20:8-11; Is 56:6-8; 58:12-14; 66:22-24; Mk 2:27,28)
In the natural, in the absence of male heirs and assuming that daughters marry, the father’s family name would normally expire; whereas in the spiritual, the redemption of a family name by the existence of born again heirs and by the purification of the bloodline to set about building upon and enhancing the best of one’s forebears’ legacy (Lev 26:40-44), gives it the status of an everlasting dynasty in its own right, WITHIN the dynasty of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Historically this makes the “Glad Tidings” of the New Covenant of the House of Judah and the House of Israel (together the corporate House of Jacob) the greatest endorsement of HERALDRY.
The Almighty takes a keen interest in “pedigree” (lineage) and the perpetuation of both Jewish and saved Gentile households, distinguished by the ‘colours’ of proud but upright ancestry and by good expected future prospects (through the grace which is never bestowed in vain upon the FAITHFUL), beneath the banner of the love of the Messiah as “the Ensign of Israel” as eternal Head of the House of Jacob (Nu 1:18,52; 2:2; Ps 60:4; Is 11:10-12; 14:1,2; 49:5-8; Zech 2:10-12; Lk 1:33; Rom 11; 1 Cor 7:19; 15:10).
These passages are given to us to VISUALIZE our adoption which by calling on the Name of the LORD has made us AS Hebrew as Abraham himself (Gen 14:13).
It is in THIS household, under THIS “Ensign,” the AUTHENTIC Messiah, that once saved, we are given a “charge” (exhortation; delivery of a solemn injunction or commanded task) to lay hold on eternal life by fighting the good fight of the obedience of faith to absorb the sanctity of “the Way” “according to the doctrine of Godliness,” by learning righteousness, to walk as He walked, by keeping the commandmenT to keep the commandmentS “without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our LORD Y’shua-Jesus the Messiah” (Acts 20:25-32; 24:14; Rom 6:26;1 Tim 6:3,11-14; 2 Tim 5:3-8; 2 Jn vs 5&6).
That includes heeding first principles, proving our membership of the one Hebrew fold by remembering the Fourth Commandment, the original, one-and-only SEVENTH day Sabbath, to acknowledge YHVH as our Sanctifier by keeping IT holy (Gen 2:2,3; Ex 20:8-11; 31:13,16; Is 56:6-8; Jn 10:16; Heb 4); learning the three Pilgrim Feasts of YHVH (Ex 23:12-17), His chief holy convocations which together with the weekly and Feast Sabbaths are the chief markers on the narrow path of Spirit-led sanctification by the truth to finish the course by keeping the faith (Rom 8:4,14; 2 Thess 2:13-15; 2 Tim 4:3-8); and that we learn the reason for the three prescribed daily times of sacrificial prayer famously modelled by Daniel and others, to humble ourselves to draw near to the Godhead at His appointed times, for YHVH to draw near to us in recognition of our delight in Him and in walking circumspectly according to His perfect law of liberty (Rom 2:13; 7:22,25; Eph 5:15-17; James 1:22-25; 2:12; 4:4-8).
So we see that the Master Dynasty of mankind with its roots in primeval history, “hewn from the Rock” to “follow after righteousness,” was “called (originally out of Ur of the Chaldees)…ALONE” in the person of “Abram the Hebrew,” and was vastly increased to RETAIN its identity as an HEBRAIC sanctuary in Messiah (congregations like a latter days of Noah ‘ark’), to uproot idolatry and bring civilization to perfection through purification of our souls, to create a Messianic world in Messiah’s image, under the sovereignty of the Hebrews’ One God (Gen 14:13; Is 49:5-8; 51:1-7; 66:22-24; Zech 14:9; Matt 24:37; Lk 1:33; Rom 9:4,5; Gal 3:29; 1 Tim 6:11-14).
Israel’s recognition and coming exaltation as a nation as YHVH’s peculiar treasure with incorporation of the redeemed from the nations, which will crown these dreadful latter days of Noah with MANIFESTATION of the hope of their Gospel (Ex 19:5-8; Deut 26:16-19; 28:1-14; 33:26-29; Is 9:6,7; Jer 31:7,10,17,31-36; Amos 9:11-15; Micah 7:8-20; Acts 15:14-17; Mk 11:10; Rom 11:11-15,25-29) will be fulfilment of YHVH’s promise to Noah as “the God of Shem,” that He would “ENLARGE Japheth” to “dwell in the tents of Shem” (Gen 9:27).
By revelation, Balaam noted the same phenomenon of the one new man as “the camp of the saints” in his poetic endtime visions (Nu 23:9,10; 24:3-23; Rom 11; Eph 2:11,12,15,19; 3:6; Rev 20:9).
The promise to SHEM was the later promise to Israel that the nations would be their inhertance (Is 54:3) through the integration and assimilation of a mixed multitude (first in the Exodus, then through the Gospel) into a sanctified S(h)emitic “olive tree” (a parallel image to the vine in Ps 80:8-19) through which the purpose of history would be fulfilled by Israel being heirs of the world accompanied by “others” in their Hebrew “house of prayer for all nations” (Is 56:6-8; Jn 10:16) who in good faith towards THEM as “chief of nations,” would SHARE that promise, in the Messiah (Jer 31:7; Rom 4:13,16; 15:10-12,15)
We are the fruit of YHVH’s acknowledgment of Isaac (“your only son”) and Jacob (“the older will serve the younger”) as firstborns for the purpose of defining the lineage of salvation.
We are retroactively in Zion by virtue of being “in Abraham,” “in Isaac” and in particular, “in Jacob” (i.e. in their jointly-owned dynasty – Gen 28:14 KJV; 35:11; Lk 1:33; Eph 2:11,12) by being registered as Heaven’s citizenry by receiving the gift of reconciliation to “the God of the Hebrews” through the sprinkled Blood of “the Messiah our Passover” (1 Cor 5:7,8; 1 Peter 1:2b) to be joined to HIS Hebrew household THROUGH THE GRACE OF ADOPTION, which is through baptism for the remission of sins (Ex 3:13-18; Gal 3:29; Heb 3)
“And of Zion it shall he said: this and that man WAS born in her…YHVH shall count, when HE writeth up the people, that this man WAS BORN THERE” (Ps 87:5,6). This is confirmed by Heb 12:22,23, which also confirms Lk 1:33, that the church of the firstborn in Heb 12:23 is the “general assembly and church” of Israel (the House of Jacob), distinctly defined as YaH’s son, “even My firsrborn” (Ex 4:22,23), meaning that our mother church is forever the Messianic congregations of the House of Jacob, “from the Fountain of Israel” (Christ as Fountain of Living Waters – Ps 68:26; Jer 17:13,14
In other words, Hebrew CITIZENSHIP in Zion in heaven and in earth (Ps 87; Heb 12:22) is imputed to us through adoption, along with upfront imputation of the fruit of sanctification, as righteousness, purity and consequently the gift of innocence which is perfection, all of which the gift of the righteousness of YaH confers when baptized (Heb 10:10-14), namely, a state of grace for us to maintain, at all costs, by studying how to be righteous, in the Fear of YHVH (Rom 3:20b,31; 1 Jn 3:3-10), in order to “go and sin no more” by living a life of continuous repentance and conversion from error and unbelief (Jn 5:14; Heb 2:1-3; 9:14; 10:26-39; 1 Jn 1-3).
This joint-identification by SINCERE Gentile converts (“the uncircumcision” who are wholeheartedly consecrated) with Y’shua’s ancestral house, Israel, YHVH’s firstborn (Ex 4:22,23), is magnified by the revelation in Rom 2:6-13,25,26 that a Gentile male saved by grace, who thereafter accepts the instruction in Jn 15:3,4 to stay clean by abiding in the Vine by keeping covenant, precept-by-precept, to walk in the light as righteous Abraham did as the father of faith and of faithfulness (’emunah’) to heed the light of Torah wisdom and pass it on to us (Gen 18:18,19; 26:5; Ps 119:96-105; Prov 7:1-3; Is 28:9-13; Jn 15:1-15; Heb 10:16), shall be reckoned circumcised in the FLESH (obviously, if not already circumcised, because their parents weren’t informed about the purpose of 8th day circumcision – Gen 17:6-14, which you’ll see in verses 12&13 is a perpetual ordinance for Jew and Gentile grafted in the natural olive tree, “contrary to nature”), thereby vindicating the statements in Rom 2:25 and 3:1,2 supported by Matt 5:19 and Rom 3:31 that since Galatians deals only with a believer’s physical circumcision, because Paul never argues against eighth day circumcision, there IS most definitely still profit in eighth day circumcision for Israel and Israel’s co-heirs alike as a token in the flesh of all Zion’s sons, of Israel’s legal succession to all of Canaan by Divine Title Deed to the House of Jacob – see Gen 17:8-12; and of the call of every male in particular, as future heads of households, and royal priests in the making by instruction by parents in the ways of the LORD – Prov 22:6; Eph 6:4b, to be an example of the viability of the perfection of holiness – Ex 19:5-8; Lev 19:1-3; Heb 12:14,15,28; 1 Peter 1:13-17,22; 2:9,10), just as there is obviously great value in imputed circumcision (by exception, for grown up Gentiles in the circumstances described above), PROVIDED one walks-out “the Way” by being doers of God’s laws from the heart, led by the Spirit (Rom 8:4-14) as proof of HEART circumcision (crucifixion of the sin nature) (Acts 24:14; Rom 2:13; 8:4; Heb 8:8-12; 10:16; James 1:22-25; 1 Jn 2:3-6).
Since this post is written for those who have a love for detail, to verify the truth of the above remarks for yourself note the use of the word “stranger” in Gen 17:12; Nu 15:15 (like Gen 17:12, “an ordinance forever“) and their corroboration by Eph 2:12 (which is proof that Gentiles appointed to be redeemed – Acts 13:44-48, are joined to Israel) which, if you consider Rom 2:26, makes it clear that the everlasting, statutory Abrahamic covenant requirement for infant circumcision (Gen 17:13) is fulfilled in an uncircumcised Gentile by the provision of Rom 2:26’s special dispensation for Gentiles without prejudice to the calling and mission of the nation of Israel, because that imputation of virtual circumcision, to a Gentile who, by spiritual adoption is considered native-born in Zion (Ps 87), is restricted to those redeemed former Gentiles who share the zeal of Israel (Acts 21:20) for the wisdom of Torah which is the Biblical Constitution of Israel as the foundational pattern for future righteous civilization
Rom 2:25-27 “For circumcision truly (definitely) profiteth, if thou keep the law (the Way of YHWH) (Rom 2:13-15; 3:1,2,20b,31; 8:4): but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. Therefore, if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law (Rom 8:4-14), shall not his uncircumcision be counted for (regarded as) circumcision? And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
1 Cor 7:18 “Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised”
Isn’t that marvellous proof that through the wisdom of the New Covenant of the House of Judah and the House of Israel (Jer 31:31-34; Heb 8-10), the “everlasting covenant” is an extraordinary symmetrical product of the mercy of God and the Mind of the Messiah about Whom Moses wrote, namely, “the Shepherd: the Stone of Israel, out of the Mighty God of Jacob” (Gen 49:24; Jn 3:13) Who followed the church in the wilderness from which the Messianic faith of Israel (which we share) branched, for the Law of the Messiah (as predicted: Yeshua raising the bar of holiness through deep exposition of Torah – Matt 5-7 because that’s now attainable through the enabling power of the indwelling Presence of the Holy Spirit) to stand on the shoulders of the eternal foundational teachings of righteousness, given through Moses in the Torah, and through the Prophets? (Deut 18:18,19; Jn 5:46,47; Acts 3:22,23; 7:38; 24:5,14; 1 Cor 2:16; 10:1-4; 2 Tim 3:14-17; Heb 13:20,21)
When a Gentile receives the “salvation (from sins) which is of the Jews” (Matt 1:21; Jn 4:22) through justification by faith through repentance and remission of sins through baptismal regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit (Mk 16:16; Jn 3:5-7; Rom 6:1-3; Titus 3:5), he or she is instantly reckoned a Hebrew by “surnaming” (adoption – Is 45:4) (a ‘Hebrew’ meaning one who has “passed over” from death to life – Jn 5:24), called to ‘a life of Torah (Instruction in righteousness)’ (a life dedicated to learning “the Way” of YHWH – Gen 18:18,19; Acts 24:14; Lk 20:21). by “living for righteousness,” to be righteous as Yeshua is righteous- Rom 3:31; 1 Jn 2:28,29; 3:3-10), whether or not this supernatural adoptive change of status is recognized by the new convert.
A major problem arises if acknowledgment of our patriarchal Abrahamic identity, lineage and calling to hear, know and obey “the Way of YHWH” by following the Messiah’s fine example of obedience to the covenant (Gen 18:18,19; Deut 6:4-6; Mk 12:28-34; Rom 8:4-14; 1 Jn 2:3-6), as our “reasonable service” (Rom 12:1,2) as our reasonable response to the obligations and duties of the set apart household, is not forthcoming.
The Ceremonial Tribal Gates of the “New Jerusalem” will be the final testimony in the spirit of prophecy (Rev 1:1; 19:10), of the ownership of the future by the House of Jacob as heirs of the world, as heirs of Zion’s God (Ps 146:5,10; Rev 21:12).
The descent of the “New Jerusalem” (for the Tabernacle of YaH to be with men) upon the covenant territory of Greater Israel (Deut 11:18-25) will be the dramatic culmination of the epic salvation Plan for a remnant of humanity to be the “body of (believers in) the Messiah” through their incorporation by adoption within the dynasty (intra-dynasty) of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, which is why Jacob’s name “remains” forever (Is 66:22-24; Lk 1:32,33) as a reminder that the elect nation of Israel, “Yah’s son, even (and evermore) His firstborn” by irrevocable purpose and order of election (Ex 4:22,23; Rom 11:25-29), will never be superceded as YaH’s first-to-be born again remnant “people of inheritance,” His firstfruits, as a constant, enshrined in Divine law, and therefore a fixed Apostolic procedural principle for the church to uphold, as the congregations of the House of Jacob (which are from Yeshua, the Branch, Who followed Israel as Shepherd of the wilderness church, as their spiritual Rock from which they drank, as the Fountain of Israel, the Well of salvation of the Fountain of Living Waters) (Deut 4:20; Ps 68:26; Is 4:1-6; 12; Jer 17:13,14; Acts 3:22-26; 7:38; Matt 6:9,10; Lk 1:33; Jn 7:37-39; Rom 1:16; 2:9-13; 1 Cor 10:1-4; Eph 2:11-19; 3:6)
Consequently, there is no greater urgency, for a remnant of humanity to survive these increasingly perilous latter days of Noah (Zech 14:16-19; Matt 24; 2 Tim 3:1-5), than the need to replicate “pillar” households (conformed to the image of the Messiah, exemplary in character and in the ways of the kingdom – Rom 8:4,29; 2 Peter 1:1-15) grateful for the Son sent to bear our sin for the Blood of the Cross and baptism to save them (Mk 16:16; Acts 2:38-40; 1 Peter 3:20,21; Rev 1:5-8), and well taught to navigate the trying transition to eternal life, in the knowledge of “the Way” inspired by the vision of Zion (Ps 50:2; 1 Tim 3:15,16; Rev 3:10-12; 12:17; 14:6,7,12)
[For the text in this image, elaborating on the meaning and significance of IntraDynasty, see the footnote]
For it is these households, who like Noah’s family of eight who condemned their scoffing, disobedient generation by the faith of their response in the righteous Fear of the One-and-only God (Is 44:24), to warnings about coming Judgment (1 Peter 3:20-22; 2 Peter 2:4-9; Heb 11:7), who will either be crowned with the Spirit of God and glory through martyrdom or overcome the plagues of Revelation, to be those who at the Resurrection to life of the faithful (Jn 5:28,29; Rev 20:4), will reset civilization by pioneering the blessed kingdom millennial age of shalom-shalom, in “everlasting righteousness” and therefore, “true holiness” (Eph 4:23,24; Dan 9:24)
It has always been the vision of Zion, that through sanctification of a remnant, the eternal House of Jacob would inherit the New Jerusalem in fulfilment of the promises to Abraham and his dynasty that through the Everlasting Gospel “preached beforehand to Abram” (Gen 12:3; 14:18-20; Gal 3:8,9; Rev 14:6,7,12), the future for a faithful “one new man” holds “days of heaven upon the earth,” of which the millennial kingdom age (David’s second kingdom) will be proof positive (Deut 11:21; Lk 1:32,33; Eph 2:11-13,15,19; 3:6; Heb 5:9; 10:36; Rev 21:2,3,10-13)
Therefore, after ‘Armageddon’ (the penultimate battle for Jerusalem, the prize to be fought for by the nations in vain at Har Megiddo), it’ll be in the millennial age prior to the dawn of the New Heavens and New Earth (Is 66:22-24; Rev 20:4-6), that Jerusalem, restored in far greater than her former glory as “Princess of the Provinces” (Lam 1:1), no longer the tail and not the head, will have become the acclaimed Hebrew Capital of the world (Is 60-62), with Yeshua the Messiah, the Archetype of “the Sun of Righteousness risen with healing in its wings” (Shiloh of Gen 49:10,24; Mal 4:2) ascended to the Throne of his father David to fulfil “the sure mercies of David” (Is 9:6,7; 55:1-5; Micah 5:2; Mk 11:10; Acts 13:32-39).
For this reason, both the Messiah Yeshua and His Father’s City, in which He has chosen to put His Name forever (Matt 5:35), will bear the Title: YHWH TZVAO’T, “the LORD our RIGHTEOUSNESS” (Jer 23:3-8; 33:14-26), to reinforce the fact that Deity (true Mono-Theism) belongs only to Israel’s ELOHIM, the Echad (Oneness) of which is the Mystery of the Godliness of a Unique Indivisible Uni-Plurality of Father, Word (which became flesh as the prophesied Branch and Arm of ELOHIM – Is 4:2; 7:13,14; 11:1; 52:13-15; 53:1-12; Heb 10:5-14; 1 Tim 3:16; 1 Jn 5:7) and Holy Spirit, to Whose imputed “image and likeness” mankind will finally have been restored, through the Atonement, forgiveness and sanctification mercifully provided by the “Everlasting (Hebrew) Gospel,” for entrance into the “Everlasting Kingdom” of YaH (Gen 1:26; Acts 5:31.32; Rom 8:29; Heb 1:1-13; 1 Jn 5:7; 2 Peter 1:1-15; Rev 14:6,7,12). HalleluYaH
Footnote:
The text of the descending New Jerusalem image, above, reads as follows (now with amplification) for readers to research the comprehensive supporting references for themselves, to confirm the truth of the statement:
As Hebrews by surnaming and adoption by the God of Jacob through the Jewish Gospel, the former Gentiles who have become seed of “Abram the Hebrew” in the Messiah, are the inheritance, through faith in Yeshua the Messiah, of the believing remnant of the Twelve Tribes, of what, through the ratification of their New Covenant, is becoming the more glorious latter (day) House of Jacob; and “co-heirs of the world” with Israel’s true Messianic remnant, as “one new man” within (Intra) the Abrahamic household of the joint Dynasty of our spiritual fathers “Abram the Hebrew” and king David, for access to the “Tree of Life” through the “Twelve [ceremonial] Gates” of the Hebrew “New Jerusalem,” for Yeshua, “the Messiah in us” being “formed in us” through our “transfiguration,” to be “conformed to His image” (i.e. being restored to the “express image of ELOHIM” lost through Adam) to be “the hope of [“Israel, YaH’s”] glory” (Gen 1:26; 14:13; Ps 2:7-12; Is 14:1; 45:4; 46:13; 49:5-8; 54:3; 55:1-5; 56:1-8 | Jn 10:16; Jer 31:31-34; Haggai 2:7-9; Lk 1:32,33; Rom 4:13,16; 8:4-14,29; 11; 2 Cor 3:18; Gal 3:27; ;4:19; Eph 2:11-19; 3:6; 5:26,27; Col 1:25-29; Heb 1:1-3; 8-10; Rev 21 & 22)