At The Time That God Told Moses

At the time that God told Moses to make the Mishkan (the Tabernacle)…

…he (Moses) came and told Bezalel, he (Bezalel) said, "What is the purpose of the Mishkan?" He (Moses) answered, "That God may allow His Presence to rest within it, and thereby teach Torah to Israel."

Bezalel said to him, "Where will the Torah be placed?" He answered, "After we build the Mishkan we will build the Aron (the ark of the covenant).” He said, "Moses, our master, this is not honor for the Torah, rather first we should make the Aron and then make the Mishkan. Therefore the Aron was called in his name." [Shmot Rabbah 50:2]

Above quote: On Bezalel - Aish.com

Yehoshua is that Torah. First he is “placed” in the “ark” which is made for him by his people, Israel, that is, the place of his tomb, the place of the transformation of this world into the eternal world, the “black hole” of the heavens and the earth, that is Beresheit, Source-of-Beginning.

Then the Tabernacle of Israel’s full embrace is built around his empty tomb, where the Presence of G-d dwells, even unto the ends of the earth and the heavens.

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Messianic Notes On Colossians One and Two

Colossians TNIV (adapted)

Chapter ONE

1. Paul, an apostle of Mashiach Yehoshua by the will of God and Timothy our brother...

apostle - The office of apostle is here distinguished.  It is the office of Paul but not of Timothy, although Timothy is united by Paul's own address to the Colossians in one authority with Paul.

6. (...true word of the gospel), which has come to you.  In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world — just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God's grace.

God's grace - What is Paul's unique apostolic testimony?  It is the testimony of the "veil removed".  This is the removal of the veil which will come to All-Israel through the working of God's grace, especially through the testimony of Paul among the goyim.  Know and understand that the apostolic testimony of the twelve disciples/apostles is the testimony of the portion referred to by the words, "as many (of his own) as received him", John 1:12.  But Paul's testimony is of the portion, "he came to his own and his own did not receive him".  But in the case of Paul first, this testimony is the testimony of this same portion who after they have not received him will receive him.  This unique apostolic testimony of Paul is the testimony of this portion of Israel who will be converted from enmity toward Yehoshua to Torah love for Yehoshua HaMashiach.

Thus, Paul's calling and ministry is to the goyim for this very reason, to further the conversion of his own "hard of hearing and seeing" portion of Israel, not to a different Faith, but to the blossoming of their own Faith according to the Scriptures.  But the calling and ministry of the twelve disciples/apostles is to the Jew who is called as one of the remnant of those who have or will receive Yehoshua from the very start.  And this includes, as will be shown in the day of Adonai, also any soul which is from the twelve tribes but now lost among the goyim, who receives Yehoshua from the start, from first hearing of him and being drawn to him.

For as to the gospel, the division in Israel is no longer between the one tribe of Judah, which was preserved for the sake of David and for the sake of Jerusalem and the promise made to David, on the one hand, and the eleven other tribes, on the other hand.  For in the worlds above, which rule over all worlds, there is now no separation between the tribes.  For all twelve tribes are one in the risen Mashiach, who sits at the right hand of God.  At this time, the division in Israel is the division of those in Israel who are immediately given to him as a remnant and those who at first do not receive him (like Paul) but who will later will receive him.  For All-Israel will be saved.

12. "...and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his people in the kingdom of light.

the inheritance of his people - While Paul's unique testimony is indivisible from that of the twelve, who are the apostles of the remnant of Israel, (who immediately received or receive Yehoshua), Paul's testimony is as of one born out of due time, (1 Cor. 15:8).  The time of the corporate conversion of that spiritual portion of Israel which did not and does not receive Yehoshua was to come only at the time of Yehoshua's open revelation to the world, (see Rev. 11:13-19).  But Sha'ul, who was spiritually apportioned to this same spiritual part of Israel, would be born from Above at a time much earlier.

Paul's calling would be to the goyim as goyim and not specifically to lost Israelite souls, (or Jewish souls), among the goyim.  For his calling would be to bring the hidden blessing of the atonement made by Mashiach for Israel upon the nations, in order that a called out portion of the nations might be a prophetic evidence to Israel of the truth of Yehoshua.  Out of all the apostles, therefore, Paul's calling is and remains (alone) to the goyim as goyim, to testify that the corporate atonement for Israel is accomplished.  It is this calling of Sha'ul as Paul which is now allowing for the qualification of the nations, that due to the blessing of Abraham the atonement made for Israel should result in the nations being included "in the inheritance of his people," the kingdom of light — "the kingdom of the Son he loves."

15. The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

The Son - Paul speaks here of Yehoshua in accordance with the Torah and prophetic Writings as the King of his Kingdom, extolling and describing him as who he is, as the one able to extend the inheritance of Israel as the kingdom realized in him and through him over all the earth — over every nation and, indeed, over all worlds, (see verse 20).

23. ...If you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel.  This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

The Gospel - Paul speaks in the prophetic absolute sense: the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah was being , is being and will be preached to every creature under heaven.  That this should be so is itself the power of the Kingdom!

25.  I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness —
26. — the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to Adonai's people.

it's servant - In serving the gospel, Paul serves God by serving the Great Assembly, Knesset Israel — all things created in Mashiach gathered into one in Israel redeemed in heavenly places, (see Eph. 1:10).  And this gathering all things together in one is by Mashiach's blood shed for Israel, in fulfillment of the commandment spoken to Adam, first fulfilled by Mashiach in the aspect of the corporate sentence of death, the penalty of the commandment carried and decreed upon Adam, should it be transgressed.  For by the obedience of this sacrifice the righteousness of the commandment given to Adam was fulfilled, and its sentence was mitigated for corporate Israel by the prayer of the Righteous One for Israel.  Paul desired it to be known that he served no other word and no other gospel than this.

27.  To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Mashiach in you, the hope of glory.

this mystery - and this is the mystery of all ages which is made known by Mashiach being made known to due time to Israel, through the living Mashiach being revealed to them.  For when they shall see Mashiach living in the midst of the nations then they shall know that their salvation has been accomplished by him!

28.  We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Mashiach.

fully mature - And so shall it be that these things are made fully known when all those having received the testimony of Paul in truth are presented in spiritual maturity to the saints in Jerusalem, to be set under their authority for the witness of the Good News of Yehoshua HaMashiach!


Chapter TWO

2.  My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Mashiach.

Mashiach is the mystery of God.  That he should be called, Christos, Christ, is indicative of the mystery.  For like Joseph in Egypt he is first hidden from his people amongst the goyim before he is revealed to his people amongst the goyim.  Mashiach is the mystery of God, "in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge".

In 2nd Corinthians 5:21 we read that Mashiach was made sin for us.  That is, he was made to be accursed for Israel.  Seeing him in that position Israel rejects him as possibly being the one to bring the rule of the Torah to the whole world and salvation to Israel.  Rambam says of him, "May his bones be ground to dust".  But Yehoshua responds: "Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing".

Indeed, in bringing Israel down into the dust of death in Egypt and the nations he has no sin.  For it is he who brings the Shekinah there with them, that the very shards of the shattered Creation, which was unable to withstand the judgment of God based on His strict justice, might be raised up with Israel in the mercy of God's Torah.

All Creation shall stand up and rejoice with Israel, all things shall rise up out of corruptibility with Israel and shall sing with Israel a new song unto the God of Israel!  For all eternity the whole Creation shall see itself standing with Israel at Mount Sinai receiving the Gift of God!  Therefore, let those now already reborn in the Mashiach of Israel rise up and walk in him!

He Came To His Own

This is the Good News about Israel and Yehoshua, who is called Jesus, her Messiah. 

He came to his own and his own did not receive him but he prayed for his own and died for his own, praying for his own, and was raised again from the dead for his own, and his own began to believe in him he gave his own the right and the power to call themselves the offspring of God. Believe this Good News about Israel and her Messiah and you will attach your soul to the soul of Israel and you will be counted among Yehoshua's own. 

Yehoshua's Conversation With The Samaritan Woman

The following is from Yochanan/John chapter 4:

Then he (Yehoshua/Jesus) came to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Yaakov/Jacob gave to his son Yoseph/Joseph. Now Yaakov’s/Jacob's well was there. Yehoshua/Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat at the well. It was about the sixth hour.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water  Yehoshua/Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink".  (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to get supplies.)  Then the woman of Samaria responded to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, are asking me for a drink when I am a woman of Samaria?

COMMENT:  It is and always has been common for people everywhere, especially in non-urban areas, to recognize people from surrounding areas by their dress.  Here the Samaritan woman expresses no doubt in identifying Yehoshua/Jesus as a Jew, most likely due to the tsitsit he is wearing.

Yehoshua/Jesus answered and said unto her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, Give me a drink; you would have asked to receive from him, and he would have given you living water.

The woman answered him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from where then would you get that living water?  Are you greater than our father Yaakov/Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, together with his children, and his cattle?"

Yehoshua/Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever drinks of this water shall thirst again. Whoever drinks of the water that I give them shall never thirst.  The water that I give them shall be in them a well of water springing up into everlasting life."

The woman said to him, "Sir, give this water to me, that I never thirst, neither have to come here again to draw.

Yehoshua/Jesus replied to her, "Go, call your husband, and then return here."

The woman answered and said, "I have no husband.”

Yehoshua/Jesus said to her, "You have answered well, saying, 'I have no husband'.  For you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband.  You have spoken honestly.

The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.  Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and you say that Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

COMMENT:  The author of the book, Yochanan/John, does not claim to have heard this conversation.  He states for the record that none of the disciples of Yehoshua/Jesus were present.  In this way he indicates quite clearly that Yehoshua/Jesus himself repeated this conversation to him and, no doubt, the other disciples.  In other words, the author of the book is indicating that this is the way that Yehoshua/Jesus, and not a later source, wanted this dialogue to be recorded.

Every teaching that purports to be based in the Torah of the G-d of Israel, (that purports to be Biblical), is read either with the mindset of an outsider or of an insider.  The commentators through the ages on this conversation between Yehoshua/Jesus and the Samaritan woman have read it almost always with the mindset of outsiders listening in, outsiders from a greater or lesser distance.  As such, they have heard it as being a conversation primarily about Yehoshua/Jesus and who he might be.  While not dismissing this audience, it is also possible to read the conversation in a way to understand it as an insider, ( like the Jews and Samaritans involved in the story), might have understood it. Insomuch that one may have the very same Biblical awareness and concerns as those Jews and Samaritans represented here, it is even possible to listen to the dialogue as being oneself an insider.

Listening as an insider, we can understand that the person relating the conversation, and it is indicated here that this person is Yehoshua/Jesus himself, wants it to be understood that the central subject of the conversation is the relationship of Jews and Samaritans.  And what is said about that subject is not immediately expressed in the question of how it is that a Jewish man might be talking to a Samaritan woman, but is brought out in its most immediate and pronounced form in the question that is evoked in the Samaritan woman’s mind, which goes back to the division of the twelve tribes in relation to the house of David, and which she articulates:  "Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and you say that Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

Yehoshua/Jesus answers her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming, when you shall neither (be able to) worship in this mountain, nor worship the Father at Jerusalem."

COMMENT:  Yehoshua/Jesus begins teaching her, as he promised he would if she were to ask him, speaking of the coming great galut/exile.

 "You worship you know not what.  We know who we worship.  For salvation is of the Jews."

COMMENT:   This statement is a definitive statement of Yehoshua's/Jesus' faith. We find it recorded in a conversation he had with a Samaritan.  We are pressed by this to give attention to the question of why the record of Yehoshua's life provided by his talmudim/disciples, and then subsequent history, shows so much association between the Jew, Yehoshua/Jesus, and the nations.  In response to that pressure we can look at the conclusion of the dialogue between Yehoshua/Jesus and the Samaritan woman and see how it might inform us about this. Speaking to the Samaritan woman, Yehoshua/Jesus continues:

“The hour is coming, and has already begun, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

COMMENT:  Yehoshua/Jesus continues to inform her that there will be a way in the coming galut/exile that it will still be possible to worship the Father, even though it will not be possible during that time to do so in complete fulfillment of the commandments to go up to Jerusalem.  He does not correct her in saying that as a Jew he holds to the commandments and that G-d will ultimately be worshiped in Jerusalem.  Rather, he indicates to her that there is a rectification of the human heart that needs to occur and that in the great galut/exile there will be a redemptive effect upon the heart to purify the worship of G-d.

 The woman then said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming. When he comes, he will reveal all things to us.”

Yehoshua/Jesus said to her, "I who am speaking with you am he.”

COMMENT:  Yehoshua/Jesus does not say this to make himself the subject of the communication.  He does so in order to respond to her implied doubt concerning the teaching he has offered her.  Indeed, we have here the question before us of why he would say directly to a Samaritan woman that he is the Messiah that she has been taught to expect but to his own people, the Jews, whether Judean’s or Galileans, he refuses always to state this.  

I believe that the reason for this is be found in the spirit of G-d’s answer to Samuel concerning Israel’s desire to have a king like unto the rulers of the nations.  It is, as I understand it, as though G-d said to Samuel, “It is alright.  I will deal with it. It is not you they have rejected. It is me.  It is to be expected. I have already said through Moshe that this would happen, but also that I will be hidden from them just enough for them to know what they have lost and ultimately turn to me in pure, whole-hearted faith.”  For me, this is the messianic message of Yehoshua, that Israel, like Adam broke the special, sanctified relationship that G-d chose to have with her, but he, in turn, will never break it with her, but instead will turn her very wanderings into her salvation.  And for this very reason Yehoshua expressed his message throughout the Galilee region, then culminated it in Judea and Jerusalem, sending it out then to Samaria and to all the ends of the earth, wherever the tribes of Israel wandered.  

Read more notes and commentary on the Book of Yochanan/John here.

The Baptism To Come

Rashi:

And there shall be a highway: in the midst of the water for the remnant of His people

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Concealment and Revelation of Mashiach

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The Concealment and Revelation of Mashiach and The Good News

After that Yehoshua made atonement for his own people Israel who did not receive him, he was taken up into heaven and concealed there from the world.  This concealment is the aspect of grace which is created in his offering for Israel and continues on.  Read more...

Thoughts On Monotheism and Conversion

A person can conclude that there must be a God

and yet not know God.

Unless a person walks with God like Adam did at first in the garden, or talks person to person with God like Moses, unless a person trusts God personally like Jesus did when he went up to Jerusalem to become the object of the hatred of his brothers and sisters, or like Joseph did when he went out to his brothers to be hated and afflicted by them, like Abraham did when he obeyed God and offered up Isaac, who was his only hope, a person's possible belief can be a belief in monotheism without being a saving belief in God.

A person can believe that there is a God while at the same time not believing God.

A person can believe that there is a God and also believe God but yet only believe God very imperfectly.

When a person believes that there is a God on their own there is a self-referential aspect to their belief.  That is, the authority for their belief that there is a God is the process of their own thinking.

Only when a person walks with God like Adam did at first in the garden, or talks person to person with God like Moses did, only when a person trusts God personally like Jesus did when he went up to Jerusalem to become the object of the hatred of his brothers and sisters, or like Joseph did when he went out to his brothers to be hated and afflicted by them, and like Abraham did when he obeyed God and offered up Isaac, who was his only hope, does the authority of their belief become God and not the process of their own thinking.

We know that a person can obey the commandment of God what seems to be exactly, and yet it is in form only, without the obedience being in the heart.  If a person does not even believe that there is a God and yet performs the commandments in perfect form it cannot be said that there is any obedience at all.  If a person believes that there is a God and the only authority for their belief is the process of their own thinking, so that it is their opinion that God exists, they might obey the commandments out of fear, but how will they obey them out of love of God?

If it is a person's opinion that monotheism is true and that God exists and furthermore they reason that if God exists he has a will to be obeyed, then if they hear from someone that God's will is expressed in this commandment or that commandment, and they trust the person who tells them this, they may convince themselves logically that the only possibly right way to live is to obey such commandments.  However, if they do not hear God himself saying to them, "This is the way of Truth walk in it and live!" how will they be saved?

Isaiah 30
[New Living Translation]
Judah’s Worthless Treaty with Egypt

1“What sorrow awaits my rebellious children,”
says the LORD.
“You make plans that are contrary to mine.
You make alliances not directed by my Spirit,
thus piling up your sins.
2For without consulting me,
you have gone down to Egypt for help.
You have put your trust in Pharaoh’s protection.
You have tried to hide in his shade.
3But by trusting Pharaoh, you will be humiliated,
and by depending on him, you will be disgraced.
4For though his power extends to Zoan
and his officials have arrived in Hanes,
5all who trust in him will be ashamed.
He will not help you.
Instead, he will disgrace you.”
6This message came to me concerning the animals in the Negev:
The caravan moves slowly
across the terrible desert to Egypt—
donkeys weighed down with riches
and camels loaded with treasure—
all to pay for Egypt’s protection.
They travel through the wilderness,
a place of lionesses and lions,
a place where vipers and poisonous snakes live.
All this, and Egypt will give you nothing in return.
7Egypt’s promises are worthless!
Therefore, I call her Rahab—
the Harmless Dragon.a
A Warning for Rebellious Judah
8Now go and write down these words.
Write them in a book.
They will stand until the end of time
as a witness
9that these people are stubborn rebels
who refuse to pay attention to the LORD’s instructions.
10They tell the seers,
“Stop seeing visions!”
They tell the prophets,
“Don’t tell us what is right.
Tell us nice things.
Tell us lies.
11Forget all this gloom.
Get off your narrow path.
Stop telling us about your
‘Holy One of Israel.’”
12This is the reply of the Holy One of Israel:
“Because you despise what I tell you
and trust instead in oppression and lies,
13calamity will come upon you suddenly—
like a bulging wall that bursts and falls.
In an instant it will collapse
and come crashing down.
14You will be smashed like a piece of pottery—
shattered so completely that
there won’t be a piece big enough
to carry coals from a fireplace
or a little water from the well.”
15This is what the Sovereign LORD,
the Holy One of Israel, says:
“Only in returning to me
and resting in me will you be saved.
In quietness and confidence is your strength.
But you would have none of it.
16You said, ‘No, we will get our help from Egypt.
They will give us swift horses for riding into battle.’
But the only swiftness you are going to see
is the swiftness of your enemies chasing you!
17One of them will chase a thousand of you.
Five of them will make all of you flee.
You will be left like a lonely flagpole on a hill
or a tattered banner on a distant mountaintop.”
Blessings for the LORD’s People
18So the LORD must wait for you to come to him
so he can show you his love and compassion.
For the LORD is a faithful God.
Blessed are those who wait for his help.
19O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem,
you will weep no more.
He will be gracious if you ask for help.
He will surely respond to the sound of your cries.
20Though the Lord gave you adversity for food
and suffering for drink,
he will still be with you to teach you.
You will see your teacher with your own eyes.
21Your own ears will hear him.
Right behind you a voice will say,
“This is the way you should go,”
whether to the right or to the left.
22Then you will destroy all your silver idols
and your precious gold images.
You will throw them out like filthy rags,
saying to them, “Good riddance!”
23Then the LORD will bless you with rain at planting time. There will be wonderful harvests and plenty of pastureland for your livestock. 24The oxen and donkeys that till the ground will eat good grain, its chaff blown away by the wind. 25In that day, when your enemies are slaughtered and the towers fall, there will be streams of water flowing down every mountain and hill. 26The moon will be as bright as the sun, and the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days in one! So it will be when the LORD begins to heal his people and cure the wounds he gave them.
27Look! The LORD is coming from far away,
burning with anger,
surrounded by thick, rising smoke.
His lips are filled with fury;
his words consume like fire.
28His hot breath pours out like a flood
up to the neck of his enemies.
He will sift out the proud nations for destruction.
He will bridle them and lead them away to ruin.
29But the people of God will sing a song of joy,
like the songs at the holy festivals.
You will be filled with joy,
as when a flutist leads a group of pilgrims
to Jerusalem, the mountain of the LORD—
to the Rock of Israel.
30And the LORD will make his majestic voice heard.
He will display the strength of his mighty arm.
It will descend with devouring flames,
with cloudbursts, thunderstorms, and huge hailstones.
31At the LORD’s command, the Assyrians will be shattered.
He will strike them down with his royal scepter.
32And as the LORD strikes them with his rod of punishment,
his people will celebrate with tambourines and harps.
Lifting his mighty arm, he will fight the Assyrians.
33Topheth—the place of burning—
has long been ready for the Assyrian king;
the pyre is piled high with wood.
The breath of the LORD, like fire from a volcano,
will set it ablaze.

Footnotes:
a 30:7 Hebrew Rahab who sits still. Rahab is the name of a mythical sea monster that represents chaos in ancient literature. The name is used here as a poetic name for Egypt.

Then the End Shall Come...

In Matthew 24 Yehoshua is recorded as teaching his students that all the calamities of the world will escalate more and more but the are not the calamities of the final period of time simply because they are escalating more and more.  They are a part of what prepares the world for that final period of time, which is a period of the most severe judgments.  They are only one part of the escalating patterns that prepare the world for its final end.  Such things as hatred and immorality will also increase exponentially.  But it is the Good News itself, according to Yehoshua, which will bring about the final end of the natural time and life of this world.

How does this work?  First of all the Great Commission being fulfilled is not simply a marker, the ultimate sign of the end time and Mashiach's return.  Nor is it simply a case that it is a technical matter of giving every sinner a chance to repent and be saved.  This good news that is spoken of is itself the channel of the Eternal World penetrating and infiltrating into this temporal world.  This is the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah.  It is an utter mystery to this world, but it will be announced and it will be made clear and indisputable in the final hour – as a result, the end shall come.

If We Walk In The Spirit

There comes a time when followers of the Spirit of Israel's Messiah can no longer walk in the Spirit each in their own way.  When the Shepherd of the sheep has gathered all the strays into one place, into the one flock, the Spirit no longer leads the sheep separately but leads only the flock as a whole.  The Shekinah leads the whole camp of Israel through the wilderness, not separate tribes separately, certainly not separate individuals separately.  But there was a great scattering and all the sheep who were able to hear the voice of the Shepherd had to be called back into one flock.  The time of the testimony in the wilderness is the time of the testimony of unity.  The time of the testimony of unity is the time of the testimony of the whole house of Israel to Yehoshua HaMashiach, which is a testimony in mystery and with a plot of suspense.  For it is the testimony of a people who are whole and not whole.  They are whole because they are one but they are not whole because they are yet in the wilderness.  For they are the people whose land is the land of the new creation of the heavens and the earth.  This testimony, therefore, is a narrative, a story of a journey of a people with their God and toward their God, a people who as one walk in the Spirit and do not fulfill the lusts of the flesh for a kingdom of a few days.  For when the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah, the Good News of the Kingdom of God, is announced unto the ends of the earth, then the end of the kingdom of a few days will come.  The kingdoms of the proud giants will fall and Israel will enter her land.

When Will The Remnant of Israel Speak on Her Behalf About Mashiach?

I will soon post a series of notes here about how the great training work, the training of the nations in our generation, must begin.  This is the training work that will need to be done in obedience to the great assignment that Mashiach has given us.

If you are moved to read these notes by a spirit longing for and seeking the Mashiach of Israel, I would guide you to read and study first my series on the relationship of the judgements in Egypt and the judgement upon the world as a whole as revealed in The Book of The Revelation of Yehoshua HaMashiach.  That series is posted on the Hearing Seven Thunders site.  You might want to read the following post there first, and then go from there back to the first posts in the series and work your way forward from there.  Here is the link to the post where you might want to start coming from here:

Hearing Seven Thunders: Little Book Rev. 10 – Exodus-Revelation Judgements

On Christian Zionism

As things stand, affirmation of the State of Israel on the basis of holding the position that the Jewish people will have the veil of blindness removed from them when they finally turn to the Lord is a kind of infinitely self-complicating proposition.

The idea, as it now stands, is that the Jewish People turning to the Lord means their turning to a Christianity that is presented as an alternative to the very Judaism that sustains them as the Jewish People.  It means the Jews would have to turn away from all that articulates the promises that Christian Zionism turns to for support for its own belief in Zionism.

What is called for is an understanding of the Jewish People's turning to the Lord that is the expression of their Judaism, rather than the alternative to it, even though this would mean the reconstruction of historical Christianity.  

But even as this fully mature turning of Judaism to the Lord would mean the fulfillment of the promise of Judaism, so it would actually mean, at the same time, the fulfillment of the promise of Christianity. This alone, the fulfillment of the promise of both, when once this had occurred, would present the promise of both together as one promise, and this one promise is the promise of the coming of Mashiach to Jerusalem in the glory of the embracing love between the king and his city.

This is the work, to bring about this love, this is the great assignment given to those who are called by the spirit of Israel's Mashiach from among the nations, to disciple all nations with the hope of Israel, in order to make the heart of Jerusalem burn with desire.  

First we need to understand this good news clearly and maturely.  Then Asher will be reunited with Gad* and will dip his foot in the oil of gladness, for together they will be reunited with Judah.

*Look for studies in Mellow Wolf Publications about the Camp of Israel and the Chariot of G-d.

"No Eye Has Seen..."

This is a resource study supporting my On Zion = Israel #2 study.

Quoting Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson:

"Our Sages teach: [Berachos 34b] 

The prophets all prophesied about the Era of Mashiach alone, but with regard to the World to Come, it is said, "No eye has glimpsed it, but You alone." Isaiah 64:3

This theme is the foundational theme of the whole record of the Good News of Israel and Mashiach as given by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John 
- as in for example Matthew 12 on plucking grain on the Sabbath.

MMS teaches that "No eye has seen..." refers to Eden and the revelation of Eden, that is to say, the "Era of the Resurrection,"  The World To Come.

In relation to this we have these references and teachings:

1 Cor. 2: 6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

Read More:
"No Eye Has Seen..." a note in maxcarlkirk's Springpad

God, Death and Atheism

The Great Assignment is to prepare the ends of the earth, from Jerusalem to Bolivia, for the reign of the Messiah of Israel upon the earth.  The first obstacle to doing this is the turning of all the idolatry of Humanity now toward atheism.

The human arrogance that once wanted to invent gods now does not want to believe in God.  It seems to the human mind that there is no proof of God.  The nature of this problem can be understood by the following analogy.   When a person's sight or hearing is failing the effect can be for them that the light or sound is weak.  So it is with the human mind.  The light of God is more than abundant but the human ability to perceive that light is like old and weak eyes.  One is wise to be patient with the old and with the weak - even when they are still stubborn and defiant of death.

On the Issue of The Virgin Birth

Matthew 1:22-23 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which 
was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall 
be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

We read in Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin 
shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. That is the King James Version.  
In the Jewish Publication Society translation we have: Therefore the Lord Himself 
shall give you a sign: behold, the young woman shall conceive, and bear a son, and 
shall call his name Immanuel.  
The Hebrew is: לכן יתן אדני הוא לכם--אות  הנה העלמה הרה וילדת בן וקראתשמו עמנו אל ...  We are led to the following considerations:

Continue reading from the Mellow Wolf Matthew Files:

Link > Chapter 1 ˙Commentary and Notes on vs. 22-23

Matthew

Chapter 1 Text

Rending The Veils

                      Opening The Book of Isaiah
The veil of darkness must be rent before the veil of light can be rent…

Isaiah 60:2
כי הנה החשך יכסה ארץ וערפל לאמים ועליך יזרח יהוה וכבודו עליך יראה

2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.


Through the good news of Israel and Her Messiah it is revealed that neither the darkness nor the light need blind us. The darkness is human impenetrable darkness toward God. The light is the infinite light of God toward Israel, which comes to all the world.

As in: Genesis 38:14ff
14 And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.

The blinding veil of the darkness of the sale of Yoseph came and manifested in a physical form as a dark veil to cover Tamar's face.  This was because it already covered Yehuda's heart.  Only when it was torn open through Yehuda's repentance was the veil of light that covered the mercy of God toward Israel in the concealment of Yoseph in Egypt also, in due course, torn open.  And this is the explanation of the mystery of the tearing open of the veil of the Temple at the death of Mashiach.  The veil of Moshe is a veil of light upon Israel and the veil of Tamar is a veil of darkness upon the nations and when both of these veils are torn open Mashiach, who is concealed behind them, will be revealed unto all.

The Harvest of The Goyim

               The Wailing Place
Everything Shaul (Paul) did and said was about the work of planting and harvesting a testimony among the nations, a testimony that the promise made by God to Abraham has been fulfilled in Yehoshua (Jesus) the Messiah.  All of this work is now about to be finished.

When it is finished there will be no more adversity coming to the Jew in the name of Christianity.  There will no longer be an anti-Semitic Christianity in the world.  Instead, it will be  acknowledged by everyone who has any interest in Yehoshua (Jesus) at all that he was claimed only to be a Jew of the tribe of Judah of the line of David.  He was not reported by anyone to be of the tribe of Benjamin, for example, nor of Levi, nor of any other tribe or people.    If he was Messiah he was the promised Messiah of the Jews, not of the Romans, not of the Persians, not of the Arabs nor others.  When the work of the testimony among the Goyim, (the nations), is finished everyone, friend and foe, will admit to the importance and truth of this.

It will be admitted by all that if he was the promised Messiah he was giving new revelation to the promise of the Messiah in Israel.  He was revealing himself as a Messiah who would be rejected and would freely lay down his life, rather than forcing himself on his beloved bride, Jerusalem.  It will be admitted by all that if he is the Messiah he gave himself over to death in order that God might keep His promise to Abraham, the promise He made by covenant with Abraham.

It will be agreed that if he is the Messiah he is the Messiah because he was sent by God to be the Prophet like unto Moses to lead Israel into the perfection of obedience to the Torah.  It will be acknowledged  that if he is the Messiah he is the Messiah because when he was rejected by his own, rather than condemning his people for rejecting him and his Father who sent him he laid down his life.  It will be recognized that if he laid down his life, he laid down his life freely in an act of eternal justification and forgiveness toward Israel.  And then the testimony will be clear that he did this in order that God might keep and fulfill His covenant with Abraham, to bless him and his family and all the nations of the earth through him.

It will be admitted by all that if he is the Messiah he will come again to his own when his own are prepared to receive him.   For this is truly the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah, the corporate salvation in heavenly places of God's chosen nation, through Yehoshua, her Messiah and Redeemer.

Matthew 10 and The Great Assignment

 First Page of the Gospel of MatthewMatthew 10:
1 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
Note: This is the spirit of prophecy, as in the resurrection of Mashiach the prince of this world is cast out.


2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these;
Note: If one knows why there are twelve tribes of Israel, one knows why there are twelve apostles/emissaries. As the whole soul of Israel must be born from Above, so the soul of each tribe must be born from Above - and this is by the revelation of the word of the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah.
 The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;
3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;
4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
9 Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,
10 Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
11 And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
12 And when ye come into an house, salute it.
13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
16 ¶Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
18 And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
40 ¶He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
41 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.
42 And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

Doing All Thinking In Prayer

 THE SCENT ESSENCE OF JERUSALEM

In II Corinthians 10:5: We read of "overthrowing arrogant opinions and every defence that towers high in defiance of the knowledge of God."  We read of  "carrying off into captivity every thought to bring it into subjection to Messiah".

Our objective is to reach that place where we do all our thinking in prayer.  We seek the place in our spiritual journey where we "pray without ceasing," I Thess. 5:17.  It is only in this place of our spiritual development that we will be able to fulfill the Great Assignment.

In order to accomplish this we must pray always according to the will of God.  I John 5:14: "And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us."  This is not talking about knowing the details of God's will for every step of our private lives ahead of time before we make requests of Him.  It is talking about praying according to the knowledge of the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah, the plan of redemption for the world, which He has revealed in Israel.

It is only through maturing in the faith that God has provided eternal redemption for Israel, and thereby for all the world, in Yehoshua the Messiah of Israel can we enter into that place where we do all our thinking in prayer.

In Matthew 10:1 we read: "Yehoshua called his twelve students to him and gave them authority to drive out evil forces and to heal every disease and sickness."  This is the introduction in the education and training of Yehoshua's twelve talmudim to the Great Assignment that he would give to them.  Paul's statement cited from II Corinthians 10:5 can be linked directly to this teaching.

How To Announce The Good News of Israel and Her Messiah Today

For a long time now the Gospel has been announced as a replacement gospel - not the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah but good news, as it were, that even though Israel lost the promise of the Good News (according to replacement theology) you, whoever you are, as an individual could choose to receive Christ, to believe in his death and resurrection for you as an individual human being and so the Good News would be yours.  You would replace Israel as the recipient of the Good News.  Now it is time to correct that misrepresentation of the Gospel of God.  How is this to be done?  How is the Good News to be presented to a sinner convicted by the Spirit of God of their need of salvation?

There are differences between the generation when the great assignment of announcing the Good News was given and the present generation - however, there are things that are unchanged.  When the confusion of replacement theology is removed, we can see the things that have not changed and begin there.  To begin with the Good News is about Yehoshua (not about our lives as its subject).  The Good News is that he came to his own and while they did not receive him he gave himself in prayer for them, and until this day his prayer remains and is heard for Jerusalem and for Israel, and his desire is ever more toward his people and will be until his nation is filled with the joy of salvation and of her Good News.

When we are announcing the Good News today, we are not called to speak to an individual sinner, whether they are found alone or as a member of a group or an audience, primarily about their personal life. Rather, as from the beginning, we are called to speak to them primarily about the story of Yehoshua and how God made him to be both Lord and Messiah of Israel.  We are called to do this in a general way or in a detailed way, depending on the circumstances.  When speaking to a sinner we are not being called to be saying to them by the manner of our address, "You are special" in contrast to anyone else.  Yes, everyone in the world is 'special' to God who created them, but we are not to speak to them in a way where they are bound to misinterpret our saying so as being an element of the Good News itself.  For the truth is that no matter how special any sinner is to God because He created them, this alone will not save them, nor will it ever be the cause that causes God to save them.  The death of Yehoshua declares unto us that the death of every sinner is indeed the result of God's judgment.  A sentence from God of death and not of life must and will be carried out upon every sinner.  The fact that they are special to God who created them does not change this.  There is one cause and one cause only for salvation coming into the world.  It is the grace of God.  It is that God chose to love the world through the gift of His only begotten son.  This is the way that God loved the world.  In announcing the Good News to the hopeless and desperate sinner we are to speak about Christ alone, that is about the Messiah of Israel, who God raised from the dead.  For by this news there is a revelation of a new humanity to bring hope to all Humanity in all the world.